The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

"Why are the Flying Thunder Cannons equipped by the New Second Regiment so powerful?" the garrison captain interrupted suddenly.

"The explosive package exploded in the air above our heads. Even if it didn't hit the top of the city, the powerful shock wave would have caused us huge casualties..."

After finishing speaking, he stared at General Yamamoto and asked anxiously: "They caused us [-] to [-] casualties in just one round of shooting. If we continue to defend the city, the Eighth Route Army will continue to throw explosives at the city. Blow us up to death!"

"Sir, do you want the soldiers to retreat behind the city wall? As long as they don't stay on the top of the city, the casualties caused by the explosives can be minimized!"

"Can't withdraw!" The squadron leader of the East City Garrison subconsciously retorted.

After finishing speaking, I realized that I was objecting to my immediate superior, and immediately became hesitant, not knowing whether to continue talking.

After being scolded twice by Yamamoto, the captain of the defense obviously became humble, for fear that he would make some impulsive decisions that he regretted for life.

Seeing the objections raised by his subordinates, his first reaction was that he hadn't considered something carefully.Not only did he not have any dissatisfaction with the squadron leader, but he asked with anticipation: "When is the time, you still hesitate to talk to me, if you have an idea, just say it, it doesn't matter if you are wrong..."

Only then did the squadron leader pluck up the courage to speak out his thoughts: "The Eighth Route Army is lying outside the city, and the nearest one is less than a hundred meters away from the city wall!"

"If we withdraw our troops to the city to avoid the artillery fire, and they suddenly attack, we will have no time to go up the city wall to stop them!"

As soon as the captain of the defense heard what his subordinate said was very, very reasonable, he couldn't find any reason to refute it, but the question he raised was also correct.

If the Eighth Route Army was allowed to continue to use flying thunder cannons to attack the garrison at the head of the city, at most ten rounds of explosives would be able to blow up everyone.

The captain of the defense frowned, racking his brains to think of a way to break the situation, hoping to think of a good way to get the best of both worlds.

In the end, they found nothing, and could only stare at General Yamamoto again with a pair of expectant eyes, hoping that he could relieve everyone in distress.

Dazuo Yamamoto was very entangled and embarrassed.

The worries of the two subordinates are very reasonable, no matter how they choose, they can't achieve the best of both worlds, and he can't think of other ways to break the situation, so he can only retreat to the next best thing.

"Withdraw half of the city defense troops behind the city wall to avoid artillery fire, and the remaining half of the troops will continue to defend the city head!"

"Once the garrison at the top of the city is less than one hundred people, immediately dispatch fifty people from the city to reinforce the top of the city, and ensure that the garrison at the top of the city is no less than one hundred people!"

"This amount of troops should be able to slow down the speed of the Eighth Route Army's assault, and persist until the troops in the city kill the top of the city and join the battle!"

"Isn't this a refueling tactic?" Another question popped up in the defense captain's mind.

Yamamoto was noncommittal: "This is indeed a refueling tactic, but it can make the city defense troops last longer!"

"There are fewer troops on the top of the city, and the limited troops can be further dispersed..."

"The explosive packs thrown by the Eighth Route Army on the top of the city will not be able to cause a lot of damage to us, and we will be able to keep the water flowing and defend for a longer time!"

"That's it, it's done right away!"

"We will go back to the headquarters immediately and send a telegram to all the reinforcements!"

"The New Second Regiment used a large number of flying thunder cannons in the battle, and the city defense garrison suffered heavy losses. Ping'an County can't hold on for too long. Please continue to speed up the march and reinforce us!"

"The city defense forces in other directions should also withdraw half of their troops to the city to avoid artillery fire!"

"In case the top of the city really can't hold it anymore, I agree with them withdrawing to the city to fight street fighting with the new second regiment!"

"As long as the battle in the city is not over, we will have the opportunity to attack from inside and outside with the cooperation of the reinforcements, and completely annihilate the New Second Regiment in Ping'an County!"

The Tudimiao Japanese puppet army attacked the position, and since it got dark, he was so angry that the attacking troops kept cursing him.

"It's been defeated... the captain of the regiment... the main attacking force has taken down the second line of defense of the Earth Temple!" An exclamation suddenly reached Miyamoto's ears, and when he turned his head, he saw a captain under his command, Xing Xing, running towards him in a hurry, while running Side report, very happy!
Colonel Miyamoto didn't think this was good news, and he was so angry that he glared at his subordinates and cursed: "What's there to be happy about!"

"After fighting for so long and losing so many troops, do you think this is a victory?"

"I think it's a total loss!"

"The Eighth Route Army defending the position only added up to two hundred people, and we lost more than four hundred people, which is equivalent to one Eighth Route Army killing two of us!"

"No, it should be an Eighth Route Army who killed three or four of us!"

"When the attacking troops captured the second blocking position, at least fifty Eighth Route Army troops withdrew from the position!"

"It means that the position we just took was given up by the Eighth Route Army on its own initiative, not captured by them!"

"There were [-] people when we set off... Five or six hundred people were killed piecemeal by the local troops of the Eighth Route Army along the way..."

"Attacking the two lines of defense in front of the Earth Temple lost another eight or nine hundred people, and the total force was directly reduced to two thousand!"

"If we break through their last line of defense and lose hundreds of people, we won't have any troops to continue to reinforce Ping'an County!"

"Even if we take the rest of the remnant soldiers to Ping'an County, we don't have any troops to besiege the New Second Regiment!"

Another team leader suddenly stood up and proposed: "Sir, now that we don't have air support, it must be more difficult to attack than during the day, and there will be more casualties!"

"The humble job recommends suspending the attack..."

"Either wait until dawn before launching an attack, or find a way to bypass the Earth Temple and reinforce Ping'an County!"

"Anyway, we are not the only team supporting Ping'an County..."

"As long as Ping'an County can withstand the attack of the New Second Regiment and drag them out of the city...it's not a big problem for us to be a few hours late..."

Colonel Miyamoto did not answer immediately, but was obviously moved by this proposal.

Just still a little hesitant.

He received an urgent telegram from Ping'an County more than two hours ago: The New Second Regiment had already shown signs of withdrawing troops.

In case I went late and the Second Regiment took the opportunity to escape, the reinforcements would be empty outside Ping'an City...

The huge price paid by the troops to get here is in vain!

Just when he was hesitating, the telegraph operator appeared in his field of vision again.

"Sir, there is an urgent call from Ping'an County... urging us to speed up our march and try to get out of Ping'an City in the shortest possible time!"

"Did you say the reason?" Colonel Miyamoto asked directly.

"Ha Yi!" The radio operator nodded and replied, "The New Second Regiment suddenly dispatched a large number of flying mines to attack Ping'an County..."

"The city defense garrison has suffered heavy losses, and Colonel Yamamoto is ready to fight street battles with the new second regiment!"

"We are required to go to Ping'an County to rescue them immediately, otherwise it will be too late once the county is destroyed!"

"Nani? How could the situation of the battle change so quickly!" Colonel Miyamoto said with a face full of disbelief, feeling that he had heard a big joke.

"Two hours ago, the Ping'an garrison still swore that they would be [-]% sure of defending Ping'an, worried that the Eighth Route Army would not be able to attack for a long time, so they took the opportunity to slip away...for this reason, they deliberately released water in the defensive battle..."

"How long has it been...Ping'an County is in crisis..."

"Where is the confidence of the city defense forces to defend Ping'an County? Who can give me an explanation!"

The team leader who proposed to suspend the attack just now stood up again: "United leader, the Eighth Route Army attacking Ping'an County should be showing weakness!"

"Daytime is more conducive to the Ping An Garrison defending the city. The Ping An Garrison can also call for air support at any time to destroy the heavy siege weapons of the New Second Regiment!"

"Through showing weakness, let Ping'an garrison have the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy!"

"We can't call for air support after dark, and the new second regiment can gather all the heavy siege weapons to hit the Ping'an garrison by surprise and hit them hard!"

"It's probably like this..." Mr. Miyamoto's mind turned quickly, and his subordinates figured out the reason after explaining it.

Then he shifted his attention to the third line of defense that the Earth Temple hadn't captured yet: "Ping'an County is at stake, we definitely don't have time to wait until dawn to launch an attack, and we don't have time to take a detour to avoid the Earth Temple!"

"Notify the troops to continue the attack, use the fiercest artillery fire, take down the third line of defense of the Earth Temple as quickly as possible, and continue to reinforce Ping'an County.

When Miyamoto gave the order to attack, Huang Yu, who was one kilometer away, was also arranging troops to defend.

There are still [-] Japanese and puppet troops left, and the cavalry company is still under great pressure to launch an assault, and it is very likely that the success will fall short...

Huang Yu decided to use the third line of defense to kill hundreds of Japanese and puppet troops, and then ordered the cavalry to attack when the two sides were in full swing and all the Japanese and puppet troops were staring at the battlefield.

Unexpectedly, they went straight to the artillery positions of the Japanese and puppet troops...

After taking the artillery position, the assault battalion and cavalry company can take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, expand the results of the battle, and defeat the Miyamoto wing.

"Now the devils have no air support... Although large-caliber mortars can destroy the anti-aircraft holes, the number of artillery is limited, and the accuracy is not so high..." Looking at the analysis of the commander of the third company Wang Minghua.

"Your brain is quick, and you are flexible in battle..."

"After the attack begins, be sure to use the remaining six bunkers to repel the devil's two attacks..."

"After the Japanese puppet army's third offensive begins, I will let the cavalry company raid their artillery positions and destroy the devil's only heavy weapon!"

"The remaining troops of the assault battalion will also participate in the battle at the same time. Together with you, we will launch a counterattack against the attacking troops of the Japanese and puppet troops..."

During the battle in the afternoon, Wang Minghua stayed at the command post to watch the battle. He had already figured out the attack methods of the Japanese and puppet troops, and thought of a countermeasure by combining the third line of defense.

As soon as Huang Yu finished speaking, he made an oath: "The Battalion Commander, don't worry..."

"The little devil is not made of iron..."

"I plan to put the six bunkers into use three times...with hand grenades to slaughter the Japanese and puppet attacking troops at close range!"

"If they don't retreat, I will send troops to launch a counterattack!"

"I borrowed the submachine guns and box cannons equipped in the first and second companies to the third company, and forty or fifty submachine guns and box cannons were fired together... It will definitely fool the attacking troops and wipe them out in front of the position.