At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the deputy chief of staff walked in hurriedly, holding a telegram in his hand and looking solemn.
"Boss, something happened!"
"The Japanese Taiyuan headquarters clearly switched on the power. Half an hour ago, their aviation successfully bombed the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison, destroying all the heavy artillery of their independent mixed brigade that the garrison had captured a few months ago."
"Is the news true?" The deputy chief of staff also frowned.
"This is the first heavy artillery unit of our Eighth Route Army. Is it just gone?"
The deputy chief of staff hesitated and replied: "It must be true, otherwise the Japanese army would not have invented coded electrification."
"If it is false, this news is not only a slap in the face, but also involves lying about military intelligence. That is a big problem. The Japanese Army Taiyuan Command should know the seriousness and not make fun of such a big problem."
The deputy commander nodded in agreement.
"Yes, if such a big thing is made wrong, it will not only be a slap in the face, but also affect the morale and morale of the troops, so they will definitely not make a mistake."
"It's just a pity for those heavy artillery."
The deputy chief of staff comforted him: "Boss, although it's a pity, there's no need to feel too heartbroken."
"Although heavy artillery is very powerful, our Eighth Route Army mainly focuses on guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, so it does not apply to us."
The deputy commander nodded and said nothing.
At this moment, the communications staff officer suddenly rushed over, his expression as solemn as the deputy chief of staff's.
"Chief, there's an urgent call from the front line."
"The Japanese and puppet troops who were confronting us suddenly rushed into the base area, and their offensive was very fierce."
"Japanese troops have already entered more than ten kilometers into our base area."
As soon as the communications staff officer finished speaking, the headquarters became lively.
Especially in the telecommunications room, several high-power radio stations sounded the beep of sending and receiving telegrams at the same time.
"Chief, the Taiyue base area was attacked by the Japanese army!"
"Chief, the Taihang base area is under attack."
"Part of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area was attacked by the Japanese army. One of the Japanese troops, under the cover of aircraft and tanks, went directly to the headquarters..."
On the small sand table, one Japanese offensive unit after another was marked and displayed in front of the deputy commander-in-chief.
"I see!"
The deputy commander's solemn face soon revealed an expression of sudden realization.
"The Japanese wanted to launch a massive attack on our Eighth Route Army, and their bombing of the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison was just a trigger."
"The power of heavy artillery is so great that it can be described as a trump card. If it is always in our hands, it will definitely pose a huge threat to the Japanese and puppet troops' mopping up troops."
"If this trump card can be destroyed before the war, it will not only reassure the mopping up troops, but also greatly stimulate the morale and morale of the mopping up troops, allowing them to attack us as fearlessly as before."
"Order all base areas to use our expertise in guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to repel the Japanese and puppet attacks."
Before the deputy chief of staff moved, a communications staff officer hurried in with a complicated look on his face.
"Chief, good news for the garrison?"
When he said this, the communications staff officer himself was full of doubts.
He also received the clear telegram sent by the Japanese Army's Taiyuan Command just now.
The Japanese just said before that they had killed the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment, and they also sent this news in a clear telegram. There must be no doubt about this result.
Now the garrison regiment immediately sent a telegram reporting the victory, saying that the entire bombing operation was a conspiracy laid out by themselves, using the heavy artillery battalion as bait to attract the Japanese aviation force to fall for the trap, and then use the newly established air defense battalion to ambush the Japanese.
Not only was the heavy artillery battalion safe and sound, but four Japanese planes were also destroyed. The result was remarkable.
This result is completely opposite to the result of the Japanese army's clear power supply. The communications staff did not know who to believe.
The deputy chief of staff took the telegram, glanced at it and frowned.
After a long time, he asked the deputy commander: "Boss, the garrison reported that under the command of Comrade Li Hao, they used the heavy artillery battalion as bait to launch an ambush on the Japanese aviation force and killed four Japanese aircraft. The contents of the two telegrams were completely different.
On the contrary, one must be true and one must be false.”
The deputy commander-in-chief replied with certainty: "The telegram from the garrison is true."
"Why?" The deputy chief of staff looked puzzled.
"Look at the sand table!" the deputy commander pointed at the sand table and analyzed.
"The Japanese and puppet troops attacked us in more than ten groups at the same time, but they missed the garrison. Don't you think there is a problem here?"
"It's true!" the deputy chief of staff reacted suddenly.
"There is a big gap here in the garrison. Boss, if you didn't remind me, I wouldn't have discovered it yet. I thought the Japanese and puppet troops here hadn't started attacking yet."
"It doesn't seem to be the case now. It's because they have concerns about the heavy artillery equipped by the garrison, and about the air defense strength displayed by the garrison. In addition, they suffered too much in the last attack on the garrison and have not yet fully recovered.
The garrison can be artificially missed."
"It must be so."
"Chief, if that's the case, we can definitely go tit-for-tat, kill the four Japanese planes with the garrison regiment, announce the results of the heavy artillery battalion's safety, and slap the Japanese Taiyuan headquarters hard."
"No!" the deputy commander shook his head in denial.
"If you announce the news directly, there will be two results."
"One of them is a little devil who refuses to admit it and continues to raid us."
"One of the little devils got angry and continued to raid us."
"As the saying goes, there is no turning back when a bow is fired. It is almost impossible to drive back the Japanese through a piece of news."
"So, announcing this news now would hardly do us much good."
"What should we do?" the deputy chief of staff asked.
"The old method: just use the enemy's tactics and make a fortune in silence?" the deputy commander replied.
"As expected, all the anti-aircraft weapons brought back by Commander Chen from Chongqing are in place. In the base area where the Japanese and puppet troops attacked this time, every brigade-level or above unit has hit and equipped an air defense battalion."
"Since the little devils are so anxious and would rather boost the morale and morale of the army through false news than attack us, then let's practice with these good devils and try the power of these anti-aircraft weapons."
"Comrade Li Hao's telegram to us made it very clear that anti-aircraft machine guns can be used not only to fight aircraft, but also to hit people, armored vehicles, and tanks. They are extremely powerful."
"So I think we can just take this opportunity to experiment and come up with more ways to play."
"The heavy artillery battalion of the garrison will also participate in the battle."
"Didn't the Japanese say that the heavy artillery battalion has been destroyed by them? Then I will catch them off guard with an unprecedented large-scale artillery attack and slap them hard in the face with an actual battle."
"Through the heavy artillery battalion, the newly equipped anti-aircraft machine guns of the troops, and the brave and capable soldiers in each base area, the Japanese were caught off guard on the battlefield, and the little Japanese suffered a heavy loss, thus repelling their attack."