In a forest 20 kilometers east of Datong City, more than a hundred soldiers were hiding in it to rest. There were also many soldiers lurking in the surrounding bushes, and they were heavily guarded.
There was a radio station set up in the middle of the forest. The telegraph operator wore headphones and sat on the ground seriously to send and receive telegrams.
There was a young man standing next to him, his eyes fixed on the radio station that was beeping "Didi...", with a hint of anxiety flashing from time to time on his calm face.
This is the garrison regiment headquarters and guard company rushing back to the base area.
In order to ensure that the command headquarters is aware of outside news at any time and at any time, every hour of traveling, the troops will stop and rest for ten minutes to set up radios and receive outside news.
A few minutes later, the telegraph operator took off his earphones and quickly began to translate the telegram code he had just received.
After a few more minutes, he skillfully handed the telegram to the young man behind him: "Urgent telegram from the regimental commander, political commissar and chief of staff!"
"The Japanese and puppet troops attacking the base area suddenly slowed down their offensive. They were worried that the Japanese army had seen through our plan and would kill us all on the Laiyuan front line after the main force of the regiment arrived."
"Impossible!" the group leader denied without hesitation.
Then he answered confidently: "The Japanese don't have that big of an appetite, and they don't have that much courage."
"We once killed five thousand elite Japs in one battle, not to mention five thousand Japanese puppet troops."
"Eating a cup will make you wiser. The Japanese army will not land on the island twice at the same time."
"If they knew that we had returned to the reinforcement base, they would definitely order the attacking troops to retreat immediately instead of fighting us on the Laiyuan front line and dying in vain."
"Call back to the political commissar: Find out if the Japanese and puppet troops have any intention of retreating. If not, then their purpose of slowing down the attack is definitely not to wait for us, and they don't know that we are on the way back to the base area to support them."
After thinking for a moment, he continued the order: "Contact Chief of Staff Zhou on the Datong front line again. Is there any change in the Datong defenders?"
The two reply calls were delivered to Li Hao an hour later. The first one to arrive was the telegram from Chief of Staff Zhou.
Zhou Liang handed the telegram to Li Hao and reported.
"Regiment leader, the leader said that the attack in Datong went very smoothly. The troops have occupied more than two-fifths of the city of Datong."
"Japanese aircraft came twice. The first time one was destroyed and another was damaged. The subsequent reinforcements were much more honest and had a very limited impact on the war situation."
"It is estimated that there are still more than 1,200 Japanese and puppet troops in the city, and the battle will definitely end tonight."
Li Hao breathed a sigh of relief: "That's right."
"If the Japanese army knows that we have returned to support the base area, but are still attacked so fiercely, they will immediately know that other troops are participating in the attack, Datong City will be destroyed, morale and military morale will also be affected, and thus the combat effectiveness of the troops will be affected."
"However, the remaining Japanese and puppet troops in Datong did not make any changes. They continued to engage in street fighting to delay time as before our retreat."
"This shows that they still have hope for the troops attacking our base area, and still hope that they can force us to retreat and relieve the danger of Datong, thereby saving their own lives."
A few minutes later, a reply from the political commissar arrived: "Captain, the political commissar said that the Japanese and puppet troops who attacked us have no intention of retreating. The follow-up troops are still gathering, and the total strength may exceed 5,000."
"In addition, they learned from the captured agents that the Japanese army was collecting intelligence on local troops and guerrillas in the base area to determine whether they had all gone to the Laiyuan battlefield."
Li Hao understood it immediately and said happily: "I understand the reason why the Japanese army slowed down their offensive."
"They want to wipe out all the local troops and guerrillas in the base area at the Laiyuan battlefield, not us."
"The Japanese army is so calculating!"
"If the offensive troops force a breakthrough, they will definitely be able to enter the base area in a short time."
"But after entering the base area, we will definitely be attacked by local troops and guerrillas everywhere, and we will fall into the vast sea of people's war."
"Not only will it affect their progress in completely occupying our base, it will also pay a huge price."
"If we can wipe out all our local troops and guerrillas in Laiyuan, they can march straight into the base area without worrying about being attacked, and then control our base area with the minimum cost and the shortest time."
"It must have been that after the chief of staff returned to the reinforcement base, in order to avoid attracting the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops, he asked the soldiers to pretend to be guerrillas and local troops to participate in the war, so that the Japanese army temporarily decided to change their tactics."
"Since the Japanese have this idea, let's give them a trick."
"Call back to the political commissar: Order all local troops in the base area to march urgently to the Laiyuan battlefield."
"The Japanese army wants to wipe out all these troops in the Laiyuan battlefield. Then we will fulfill their dream. Seeing that our goal is being achieved little by little, we will be happy before we die. By the way, we can also reduce the pressure on the Chief of Staff."
"When all the main forces of the regiment arrive at the Laiyuan battlefield, the Japanese army will not be able to escape in time, and we will be caught off guard."
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the head of intelligence ran into the commander's office with great news.
"Your Excellency, Commander, were your previous judgments correct?"
"I just received intelligence that in order to block our attack, the garrison is deploying local troops and guerrillas from further away from the base to join the battle."
"More than two thousand local troops and guerrillas have gathered on the Laiyuan battlefield."
"There are nearly two thousand people on the road behind us, and they will all be in place before dawn tomorrow."
The chief of staff looked at the intelligence chief and asked: "The total number of local troops formed by the garrison should be about 5,000, right?"
"Yes, Chief of Staff!" the intelligence chief confirmed.
The chief of staff also smiled, looked at the army commander and said happily: "Your Excellency, army commander, our goal is almost achieved."
"Kill these five thousand local troops, and the garrison base will be completely open to us."
"According to the plan, after the first combat objective was achieved, the offensive force was divided into two: the main force of 3,000 troops marched towards Hunyuan, blocking the back route of the garrison, preventing them from returning to the base area to support them, and blocking them within the territory of Datong."
"The other two thousand people divided their forces to occupy the garrison base and completely control it."
The commander also had a long-lost smile on his face.
But he soon regained his seriousness and looked at his subordinates' orders: "We cannot place all our hopes on the battle of Laiyuan. Although the garrison regiment has transferred all local troops to the front line of Laiyuan, we cannot rule out that some fish will slip through the net.
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"The Eighth Route Army has a saying: A single spark can start a prairie fire."
"As long as the Eighth Route Army is still in the garrison base, they will not let us occupy their base easily, so two thousand people are definitely not enough."
"Chief of Staff, please transfer another 3,000 people from the rear garrison to the garrison base area in batches."
"It can be the Imperial Army or the Imperial Alliance Army to completely control the garrison base area."
"We must pay special attention to the rhythm of the attack on the Laiyuan battlefield. Our victory in encircling and annihilating all the local troops in the garrison is close at hand. There must be no accidents in the middle, which will cause all our previous layouts to fail."
The chief of staff's face also returned to seriousness: "Don't worry, commander, I will send a telegram to remind them soon."
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