The battlefield was so tragic, and he witnessed it all with his own eyes!
A shell hit a ravine dozens of meters away. After the explosion, a large area of more than 20 meters around the impact point was instantly silent. The sound of gunfire and the screams of soldiers all disappeared!
He could see clearly just now that at least twenty subordinates were scattered and hiding there, and some had already started to fight back with guns!
Now there is no movement, there are only two possibilities!
Either they were all killed, or they were knocked unconscious!
Judging from the power displayed by the explosion, the former is more likely!
One artillery shell wiped out more than twenty of his subordinates. Looking around, there were almost thirty thick white smoke pillars rising from the battlefield that stretched for several hundred meters, and they were scattered on both sides of the road. Does this mean that he didn't even see the enemy's shadow?
More than half of the troops were killed or injured...
The captain dare not think about it!
He shouted to the equally stunned subordinates beside him: "What are you still doing?"
"Send a telegram to the county seat immediately. We were ambushed by the enemy and our troops suffered heavy casualties. We are organizing troops to break out and request air support!"
"Also, tell the commander that the enemy who ambushed us has at least two battalions and is equipped with a large number of heavy artillery!"
The operator quickly took out the radio from his back, put it on the ground and started sending the message!
The captain continued to order: "Didn't you hear the order I just gave? Quickly organize troops to break out and break out from behind toward the county seat!"
"The enemy who attacked us fired heavy artillery and continued to defend here. Before we could get reinforcements from planes, we were all killed by the artillery shells!"
"Break through and retreat immediately. Only by withdrawing from the range of the heavy artillery can we have a way to survive!"
The second round of explosions went off. The captain was very lucky. The screams and explosions kept ringing in his ears, but no shells fell around him!
Suddenly, a huge disc-shaped explosive package suddenly came into view, rolling in the air and hitting him!
The captain was stunned!
This is definitely not a cannonball!
In his military career, he had never seen a cannonball with this shape!
Moreover, the flying speed of the explosive packets is so slow that even the eyes can see clearly!
The explosive pack flew closer and closer, and soon, a look of despair quickly appeared on his face!
Because he saw the white smoke coming out of the explosive package!
"Bagya Road is full of explosives, everyone should take cover..." the captain shouted, and then he threw himself on the ground subconsciously, his mind going blank!
He couldn't understand how such a large explosive package could be thrown into the sky by the Eighth Route Army, and then fly hundreds of meters above his head!
"Rumble..."
He never had a chance to figure it out. The explosion sounded quickly, and the impact point was only ten meters away from the captain!
The powerful shock wave swept through everyone and everything around it as quickly as a storm, and the captain was no exception!
I only heard a thunderous explosion, and then my whole body was covered with heartbreaking pain, and I lost consciousness!
It was the severe pain that spread quickly throughout the body after the internal organs were shattered by the shock wave!
Many people were shocked to death before they even felt it, and fell to the ground bleeding from their orifices!
Telegraph operators are no exception!
The moment the explosion sounded, I subconsciously rushed towards the radio station to protect it!
But the shock wave was so powerful that it directly blew him up from the ground, and then hit him hard on a nearby rock, making no sound!
The atmosphere in the telecommunications room of the Japanese garrison headquarters in Laiyuan City was very tense!
The operator kept pressing the button of the radio transmitting signal, trying to call the attacking troops who had just lost contact, but no matter how he called, there was no response from the other party!
"Bageya Road, haven't you contacted them yet? Why was the signal suddenly interrupted!" the chief of staff stood behind him and asked anxiously!
After the attacking troops left Laiyuan City, the chief of staff stayed here!
The original idea was to report the news that the attacking troops had wiped out the Eighth Route Army to the commander as soon as possible!
Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened in the middle!
According to the normal marching speed, it would take nearly an hour for the attacking troops to arrive at Gongqiao Village, and it would take two hours to find out after the battle that the troops were now on the march. Unless there was an accident, they would never stop and send a telegram to the county!
So when the radio operator said that the other party was an attacking force, the chief of staff had a very bad premonition in his mind!
Sure enough, just halfway through receiving the telegram, the signal was interrupted!
No matter how the operator called, there was no response!
The bad premonition in the chief of staff's mind became even stronger!
Without new information, the half of the telegram that the operator had already received became the only basis for the chief of staff to understand the situation on the battlefield!
Thinking of this, the chief of staff immediately turned his attention to the communications staff officer next to him who was translating the message!
"Sir, the telegram has been translated. It's a request for help from the attacking troops!"
"They were suddenly ambushed by the enemy on the march. The troops suffered heavy losses and are organizing troops to break out..."
At this point, the communications staff member stopped!
The chief of staff’s first reaction was that he heard wrongly!
Although I already had a bad premonition in my mind, I didn’t expect the situation to be so bad!
The total strength of the attacking force is more than 800, and there are three squadrons of infantry alone. Even if they encounter a regiment of the Chinese army, they can easily repel it!
But not only did they fail to defeat their opponents, they suffered heavy casualties, and they had already begun to break out!
The chief of staff knows the commander of the attacking force very well and is very arrogant. He will never choose to break out and retreat unless it is absolutely necessary!
Now that this situation has arisen, there is only one possibility. The attacking troops are really at a critical moment of life and death!
But how long does it take!
If the troops are ambushed, the attacking troops will report it at the beginning!
But the headquarters did not receive the report, and a telegram came up asking for help!
This shows that the ambush battle started not long ago, and the situation got so bad in a short period of time that the commander did not even have time to report!
The Eighth Route Army attacking Gongqiao Village obviously did not have this strength.
Could it be that the Eighth Route Army has sent troops here again?
The idea suddenly popped into the chief of staff's mind!
But this idea was rejected by him as soon as it came up!
The territory is full of Chinese people working for the imperial army. They are all the spies of the imperial army and work for the imperial army! If there is a large-scale entry of the Eighth Route Army, there is no way these local snakes will have no news at all!
The chief of staff doesn’t understand!
He needs more information so that he can make more accurate judgments!
He stared closely at the communications staff officer and asked, "Is there anything else?"
The communications staff officer shook his head and replied: "No, I only received half of the telegram, that's all the content!"
The chief of staff became angry and cursed: "On Bagh Ya Road, the signal is continuous in the morning and in the evening, but it is interrupted when half of the telegram is received. Isn't this deliberately going against the imperial army? There is only half of the telegram here, and there is almost nothing.
Valuable content, how do you want me to report it to the commander?"
