The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

In the headquarters of the Duer Regiment, Kong Jieshou paced back and forth in the room, looking at his watch from time to time, with a very anxious expression on his face.

At 03:30 in the morning, a sound of horseshoes suddenly reached his ears, and then the whole person seemed to be on a stimulant. He suddenly regained his energy, grabbed the armed belt on the table and ran to the door.

The guard sent back by Huang Yu just rushed to the door. Before the horse stopped, he turned over and jumped off, and ran towards him in a hurry, almost falling to the ground.

"Reporting to the head of the regiment, our battalion commander asked me to report: the first battalion successfully completed the task of annihilating the enemy, took the Pingyang stronghold on time, wiped out the rapid Japanese troops in Shunping County, captured two infantry guns, five mortars, and four heavy machine gun……"

"Let me also tell you that the troops can start the second phase of the battle plan!"

Kong Jie's tightly clenched fists were instantly released, and a smile flashed on his tense face. He turned his head and ordered to Wang Lin: "Chief of Staff...don't miss this opportunity...immediately give orders to the Second and Third Battalions, and let them use the company's Immediately attack for the unit, go deep into the enemy-occupied area in Shunping to attack the maintenance committees of the villages..."

"The troops have a total of more than 20 hours of action time...return to the base area before dawn tomorrow...how many maintenance groups can be captured, how many spoils can be captured, and how many recruits can be brought back, all depends on the ability of the company commanders themselves!"

"This is also a shameful battle for us... The greater the victory, the greater the devil's battle damage, the longer the recovery time, and the longer our new round of sweeping against us will be delayed."

"By the way, tell the two battalion commanders, to fight this battle well, I will strengthen each battalion with a heavy machine gun platoon..."

"If the results of the battle are big enough, the heavy machine gun platoon will be directly expanded into a firepower company, and each of them will be given the establishment of a main company!"

The Japanese Garrison Headquarters in Shunping County lost contact with the Pingyang stronghold from one o'clock in the morning.

Major Harada was not too worried at first.

The rapid reinforcement troops plus the Pingyang stronghold defenders have a total strength of more than 600 people. They are equipped with two infantry guns, six mortars, and six heavy machine guns. Not only are they more powerful than the first battalion of the Second Regiment, but their firepower is several times stronger.

No matter how you analyze it, it is impossible for them to be defeated by the Duer Regiment...

It must be that the stronghold knew that the telephone line of the county was cut off by the enemy, and the two sides fought bloody battles in the Pingyang stronghold, so there was no way to contact the county for the time being.

When the battle is over, they will naturally find a way to repair the telephone line and report the battle situation to the headquarters...

Now it's 03:30 in the morning...

Major Harada began to feel a little impatient.

The reinforcements set off before one o'clock in the morning. Under normal circumstances, one soldier can reach Yangquan.

Even if there is a little accident on the road and delays some time, we can reach the battlefield before 02:30 in the morning.

With an absolute superiority in troops and firepower, attacking the Solitary Regiment back and forth will definitely end the battle within half an hour...

Based on such an analysis, they should have already won the battle, and contacted the headquarters as soon as possible to report the battle situation...

But now it is 03:30, and the headquarters still has not established contact with the Pingyang stronghold. The reinforcements sent out seem to have disappeared, and there is no news. This is too inappropriate...

Especially the reinforcements, they were equipped with [-] troop carriers, they couldn't fix the phone, and it took an hour to send a troop carrier back, but they didn't do that.

A bad premonition slowly flashed in Harada Shaozuo's mind, but he couldn't figure out what went wrong, so he could only think hard in his mind...

"Sir...do you want me to send someone to the Pingyang stronghold to check..." The adjutant was also very anxious and couldn't help but suggest.

"There are still many messengers who can ride horses in the county..."

"Let them ride there, and they will be able to return to the county in at most two hours!"

Shao Zuo Harada couldn't think of any other solution, so he could only nod his head: "Send more messengers and let them go separately!"

"If there is an accident between the Pingyang stronghold and the reinforcements, the Second Regiment must have arranged a conspiracy outside the city that we don't know about!"

"Let's find a way to contact our intelligence personnel lurking in the base of the Second Regiment... Check to see if the other troops of the Second Regiment are still stationed!"

At 05:30 in the morning, the stronghold at the entrance of the cave was still shrouded in darkness, only a dozen guard posts on duty were yawning, suppressing drowsiness, waiting for others to come to change shifts...

"Look what's there..." A puppet soldier suddenly widened his eyes, pointing at a person outside the stronghold and exclaimed.

The squad leader replied impatiently: "It's almost dawn, even if someone sneaks into the stronghold, they won't come here now, don't make a fuss here and scare people everywhere..."

The sentinel of the puppet army insisted: "Squad leader, there are really people there, I can see it clearly..."

"I really don't want to give up until I reach the Yellow River!" There was a Japanese staring at him, and the squad leader couldn't refute his subordinate's reminder too much, so he could only curse and walk to the side of the searchlight.

While swinging the searchlight, he complained: "Unless the commander of the Eighth Route Army loses his head, he will never attack the stronghold before dawn..."

"I widened my eyes to see if there are any Tibetans there...

The sentinel of the puppet army was stunned, and the squad leader of the puppet army was also blindfolded on the spot. He opened his mouth for two seconds before responding: "Enemy attack, quickly raise the alarm...the enemy is attacking the stronghold...the offensive position has been pushed 200 meters away from the stronghold." Rice!"

"What are you still doing in a daze, get ready for battle right away..."

"Woooooooo..."

The ear-piercing sirens soon sounded at the stronghold at the entrance of the cave, and the soldiers who were quietly repairing the position for the infantry artillery no longer worried about exposing their targets, and at the same time accelerated their speed.

A wall of sandbags more than half a meter high had already been piled up in front of them. Nearly a hundred sandbags were dug and installed by everyone behind them, carried on their shoulders, and quietly sent to the artillery positions to be piled up layer by layer.

The muzzle of the infantry artillery protruded from the gap in the sandbag wall, pointing directly at the two gun towers at the stronghold at the entrance of the cave.

"Get ready to fire..." Huang Yu's order sounded behind the sandbag at the same time.

A few special forces members who can fire mountain cannons immediately crouched behind the cannons and fiddled with them. After a while, they pushed the cannonballs into the barrel, ready to fire...

Inside the stronghold, the leader of the Devil Squadron was just awakened by the sound of the siren.

Jumped up from the bed like a conditioned reflex, put on the military uniform and climbed to the top of the gun tower!

There is the commanding height of the entire stronghold. Standing there, one can overlook the entire stronghold, understand the surrounding battle situation at the first time, and make adjustments.

"What happened, why did you sound the alarm!" The squadron leader asked anxiously before he climbed to the top of the building.

"Report to the Taijun... There is the Eighth Route Army outside the stronghold..." The squad leader of the puppet army reported with a look of panic.

"Boom..."

Before the leader of the Devil Squadron had time to answer, the explosion sounded under his feet, deafening, and the gun towers under his feet were shaken twice in the explosion.

The anxious expression on the squadron leader's face was immediately replaced by panic, and he shouted: "It's infantry artillery. The Eighth Route Army attacking us is equipped with infantry artillery... How is this possible?"