The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

The Japanese army attacked the position, and Major General Hashimoto was going crazy.

The attacking troops started to attack Tan Jiabao 10 minutes ago, and they were about to rush to the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army several times, but they were beaten back abruptly by the Eighth Route Army, which made him shake his head constantly.

Hundreds of dead soldiers had already fallen in front of the blocking position, layer upon layer, without even a place to stay.

In order to block the rain of bullets from the Eighth Route Army, the remaining 400 people in the attacking force had to pile up the corpses of their comrades to form a bunker, hide behind the corpses and shoot towards the blocking position.

"Boom boom boom..."

A new round of mortar shells hit the blocking position again, and in the splashing flames, several Eighth Route Army soldiers were blown away.

Unfortunately, two shells hit the attacking position, several little devils lost their lives in the explosion, and the pile of corpses blocking the attacking troops was blown up at the same time.

Without the cover, the rain of bullets came head-on, taking away the lives of several little devils again.

Facing the bloody battle scene in front of him, Major General Hashimoto's clenched fists almost crushed his bones, and he clucked.

"General..." the chief of staff of the brigade said with a look of reluctance.

"The Eighth Route Army's blocking firepower is too strong, and the attacking troops can't rush through. Let them withdraw. If they don't withdraw, everyone will die there. It's too bad."

"Can't withdraw..." Major General Hashimoto was already red-eyed, and he ordered boldly.

"Taking Tanjiagou is the only way for us to evacuate the Eighth Route Army's base in the middle of the wing."

"The Hashimoto brigade must not be wiped out here by the Eighth Route Army."

"As long as there is a glimmer of life, we must rush out, we must not stay here and wait to die."

"Let the mountain artillery unit join the battle."

"Don't worry about accidentally injuring your own people, concentrate all the artillery, and bombard the Tanjiagou blocking position."

"Mountain artillery is much more powerful than mortars. I don't believe that it can't blow up the Eighth Route Army on the ground."

"A squadron is being deployed to reinforce the battlefield."

"Tell them not to wait for the shelling to end, and launch an attack directly after 1 minute, with artillery fire assaulting their heads, fighting with the Eighth Route Army."

"Even if all the attacking troops are wiped out, I will rush to the Tanjiagou blocking position."

Seeing that the head of the brigade spoke extremely firmly, and there was no room for negotiation in his tone, the chief of staff had no choice but to compromise.

Just as he was about to turn around, the sound of explosions on the battlefield suddenly became denser.

The order for the mountain artillery to participate in the battle has not yet been issued, and it is impossible for them to fire in advance.

There is only one possibility for the sudden dense explosion on the battlefield: the artillery of the Eighth Route Army has joined the battle.

When the chief of staff looked up, he saw more than a dozen groups of flames rising from the center of the attacking troops. At least twenty soldiers were blown up in the explosion, and more soldiers were blown over.

The attacking troops had no trenches for cover, and the only thing they could hide in was piles of corpses.

But it can only block the rain of bullets flying head-on, but not the shells falling from the sky.

The attacking troops seemed to be completely exposed to artillery fire, blowing up a large area.

Facing this scene, the chief of staff decisively turned his head and looked at Major General Hashimoto: "General, it's all like this, do you want to continue to attack?"

"Now the Eighth Route Army has only a dozen mortars participating in the battle, and a round of artillery fire coverage can kill dozens of soldiers in the attacking troops."

"It can kill at least one of our squadrons in one minute."

"When the artillery of the Eighth Route Army continues to participate in the battle, before the attacking troops have time to make a surprise attack, they will all be blown up by a sudden attack of artillery fire..."

"Let's withdraw... If you don't withdraw, they will really be over."

Major General Hashimoto's temperament has changed, like a little old man who has aged ten years in an instant, with no fighting spirit visible all over his body, and his face is full of despair and rascal.

With a long sigh, he said, "Retreat..."

"The whole army turned to defense on the spot."

"The Eighth Route Army's reaction speed was too fast. Once Tanjiazhuang missed, our opportunity to break through Chenjiazhuang by detour was gone."

"Now I can only think of a way to hold on for a while longer. I hope that Your Excellency the Commander has other ways to rescue us."

"Otherwise, the Hashimoto brigade will really be ruined in my hands."

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The Japanese Army Baoding Garrison Headquarters, the deputy chief of staff suddenly approached the war room with a solemn expression.

Neiji Okamura seemed to have expected this scene a long time ago, and before he could open his mouth, he tentatively asked, "Is the way for the Hashimoto Brigade to detour through Chenjiazhuang to break through the encirclement cut off..."

"Ha Yi..." the deputy chief of staff replied with a heavy tone.

"The Eighth Route Army secretly seized Tanjiagou. After the Hashimoto Brigade turned around and retreated from Weizhuang, they fought all the way to Tanjiagou before they realized that their rear was cut off."

"The Eighth Route Army blocking the way has a reinforced battalion with excellent equipment and a strong will to fight."

"The Hashimoto Brigade gathered all the mountain artillery and mortars for artillery preparations, and assembled a reinforced brigade to launch a group offensive. They still failed to take it down, but instead lost troops."

"The Eighth Route Army's pursuers joined the battle at the same time, and launched a side attack on the main force of the brigade."

"In order to prevent the troops from being divided and surrounded by the enemy and being defeated individually, they had to give up the offensive and switch from offensive to defensive."

"Please ask the former enemy headquarters to send reinforcements immediately, otherwise, with the current strength and equipment of the Hashimoto brigade, it will definitely not last long."

Neiji Okamura sighed at the same time: "The battle has ended like this, what else can I do."

"The sweeping troops on the right that are closest to the battlefield are about to break out of the Eighth Route Army's central wing base. Could it be that a force that is almost impossible to rescue returns to the battlefield and traps them too."

The deputy chief of staff also shook his head bitterly.

The troops made a detour to Chenjiazhuang and shot out from Shunping. This method was finally figured out by myself and the commander. I thought it was perfect and could not be destroyed by the Eighth Route Army.

The result is still defeated.

Facing the dilemma of the Hashimoto Brigade, he could not think of any other way to break the situation.

As for sending Youlu mopping up troops back to aid Tanjiagou, don't even think about it.

The three-way mopping-up troops finally withdrew all the way, if they did so, the three-way mopping-up troops might be targeted by the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, and one of them lost his wife and lost his troops.

But it is impossible for him to watch the Hashimoto Brigade being wiped out by the Yizhong Eighth Route Army.

After thinking about it for a while, he proposed to Neiji Okamura: "Your Excellency, Commander..."

"It really doesn't work and the only option is to divide the troops and break through the encirclement."

"Kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred."

"The Eighth Route Army in the Yizhong also suffered a lot of losses in the sweep, and the base area was seriously short of troops."

"As long as some troops break out of the encirclement, they will have the opportunity to escape from the Yizhong base by taking a small path and return to Baoding."

Neiji Okamura did not nod immediately.

Once this is done, it means that the former enemy command has abandoned the Hashimoto brigade.

Dividing the troops will turn the troops into a mess, and the Eighth Route Army only needs to pay a small price to defeat them one by one.

But doing so would bring the flag of the Hashimoto Brigade out of the field.

The battlefield is so big, there will always be one or two fish that slip through the net.

As long as one member of the Hashimoto Brigade returned to Baoding alive, the Hashimoto Brigade's organizational system would still exist, and the Kwantung Army could rebuild this unit at any time without the entire army being wiped out.

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