The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

The Japanese and puppet troops on the side rushed to rescue the people, and retreated after carrying the two wounded.

"Da da da……"

The familiar sound of machine gun fire suddenly sounded from their flanks, and the bullets flew over in a fan shape, and the three Japanese and puppet soldiers fell to the ground.

The other devils rushed to the ground.

The wounded they were carrying was already seriously injured, but now they were thrown again, and the screams came from their mouths like pigs.

"Da da da... papa papa..."

The little devil who was lying down immediately launched a counterattack, and the rifles fired together, instantly hitting the position where the gun was fired just now.

The leader of the devil squad nodded again and again, very satisfied with the quick response of his subordinates.

Just when he was about to send people to outflank the Eighth Route Army's firepower point and wipe it out completely, several black spots suddenly flew towards him.

He was so scared that he threw his head on the ground again, shouting loudly.

"Baga, it's a grenade, quickly hide..."

"Boom boom boom..."

Explosions echoed across the battlefield following his orders.

The closest grenade hit him at his feet.

In the violent explosion, both feet lost feeling immediately, and it took several seconds for the heart-pounding pain to spread throughout the body.

Turning his head and looking at his feet, his face turned pale.

The grenade exploded at close range, below the knees, the calves and both feet were blown away, and the white bones were clearly visible in the bright red flesh...

In addition to the grenade that hit his feet, several volleys exploded.

They bring more lethality.

Fragments fell from the sky.

The Japanese and puppet soldiers lay on the ground and had no choice but to let the grenade fragments get into their bodies from their backs.

Looking around, there were at least five soldiers lying motionless on the ground.

…………

The underground headquarters of the Junpei garrison regiment, where the results of the battles from the ground are continuously gathered here.

Wang Lin lay on the table to count the results of the battle, barely moving for half an hour.

After seeing the latest battle report sent by his subordinates, he suddenly stopped, and walked quickly to Huang Yu: "Regimental Commander..."

"Report from the captain of the special operations team."

"The counterattack force commanded by Battalion Commander Wei has suffered more than half of the casualties..."

"If the fight continues, it is very likely that they will be wiped out on the ground."

"We have wiped out more than 800 Japanese and puppet troops. I hope the regiment headquarters will consider ending the battle."

Huang Yu stared at the tunnel design drawing on the table and said, "It's almost there."

"There are more than 4000 people from the devil's middle road raiding force. We killed more than 1000 people yesterday, and now we have killed another [-] or [-] people. There are at most [-] people left."

"Subtracting the artillery, heavy soldiers, and machine gunners, it would be good to have 400 combat infantry."

"With the addition of the infantry protecting the artillery, we can divide up to 800 people and continue blasting the tunnel."

"The speed is definitely not as good as yesterday."

"The remaining tunnels in Pingyang Town are enough for us to survive for another two days."

"Immediately send a retreat signal to the front-line troops and ask Wei Dayong to move to the tunnel entrance."

"The sneak attack troops stepped up their offensive and covered the counterattack troops to retreat to the tunnel."

…………

The ground battle ended very suddenly.

The Eighth Route Army disappeared without a trace in front of their eyes in an instant.

The Japanese and puppet troops who participated in the war were not happy at all.

Each of the infantry squads is fully staffed, and the remaining 30 to [-] people are considered to have played well.

Many infantry squads were beaten down to a dozen or so people, and even the squad leader was killed.

There were corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers everywhere in the town, and only a few scattered corpses of the Eighth Route Army could be found.

The devil's chief of staff walked up to Major General Fujita with his head down: "General..."

"The damage of the blasting team has been counted..."

"Sixteen reinforced squads and three engineering squads participated in the battle. A total of 816 people were killed and 103 seriously injured..."

"Four companies of the Royal Association Army participated in the battle, 267 people were killed and 34 people were seriously injured..."

"In just half an hour of chaos, we killed more than 100 people."

Major General Fujita has long been mentally prepared for heavy casualties.

Although he was angry after listening to the report, he didn't get angry. Instead, he looked at the chief of staff and asked with anticipation.

"What about the Eighth Route Army..."

"The ground combat advantage is ours."

"It's daytime again, they have nowhere to hide, they don't even have a place to hide."

"As long as the troops successfully hit the Eighth Route Army in Pingyang Town, I can accept these losses."

The chief of staff's head was almost down in his crotch, and he really wanted to turn around and leave immediately, not to mention the remaining data in the battle report.

But the head of the brigade was standing in front of him, and he had nowhere to go if he wanted to escape, so he could only bite the bullet and report.

"The Eighth Route Army lost very little..."

"We only found 76 corpses of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, and the rest were all the corpses of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army."

"At the end of the battle, I saw a lot of Eighth Route Army retreating into the tunnel."

"We don't know the exact location of the entrance and exit of the tunnel, and we can't block it even if we want to."

"Please brigade commander, please calm down..."

Major General Fujita was so angry that he turned into an angry lion on the spot, asking angrily, "Calm down..."

"It took so many troops to kill the Eighth Route Army."

"How can you calm me down with such a big loss ratio?"

The chief of staff was left speechless by the question, and wanted to find a few words to comfort the brigade commander, but he swallowed the words back.

The fact that the blasting team suffered heavy casualties was right in front of them, and no one could refute it.

At this time, a thought of retreat suddenly flashed in his mind.

Although it passed away in a flash, but keep this idea firmly in my heart, maybe it will be useful in the future.

The opponent is too powerful and too cunning.

If the fight continues, no one can judge the future direction of the battle.

In case the mopping up troops in the middle road were really defeated on the battlefield, ended the battle in failure, and turned into a group of bereaved dogs, it would not be too late for them to mention retreating.

Certainly not now.

The head of the brigade was in a fit of anger, and because of his character of vengeance, unless the sweeping troops in the middle had lost their ability to attack, he would keep fighting until he got his revenge.

Whoever opposes this process is against him.

His prestige in the brigade is very high, and he wears small shoes that are light. If he is unlucky, he may be kicked out of the army.

Seeing that the chief of staff kept his head down and didn't answer, Major General Fujita became even more angry, and ordered in a tone of vowing not to give up until he reached his goal.

"What are you still doing here..."

"Immediately set up a new blasting team and continue to destroy the tunnel fortifications in Pingyang Town."

"We don't have enough engineers, so we borrow from the left and right mopping up troops."

"The Pingyang garrison repeatedly humiliated us, embarrassing the Kwantung Army."

"We must drive them out of the tunnel, gather and annihilate them..."

"No, I'm going to chop them alive with my own hands."

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The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Baoding Japanese Army Brigade Headquarters was also reporting the battle damage last night to Neji Okamura.

"Your Excellency, Commander, in addition to the attack on the brigade headquarters, the arsenal was also devastated by the Eighth Route Army artillery attack."

"The weapons and ammunition stockpiled by the Baoding garrison were all destroyed."

"The ammunition reserves of the city defense force are also there."

"Now that the arsenal is destroyed, the remaining ammunition of the city defense force is only enough for them to last for a day."

"My job wants the Air Force to drop ammunition for us."

"This minimizes casualties and losses in infantry transport."

Neiji Okamura replied with suppressed anger: "In a while, I will personally send a telegram to the Aviation Command to drop ammunition to us."

The deputy chief of staff continued to report: "The brigade headquarters was almost destroyed under artillery fire..."

"A total of 118 guards, staff officers, and civilian staff of the headquarters were killed, and 21 were seriously injured."

"The city defense forces were continuously attacked by artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army during the battle."

"More than 900 people were killed and injured in the bombing."

"Artillery lost two infantry guns and 11 mortars."

"From the analysis of the artillery battle before dawn: the artillery of the Eighth Route Army should still have four mountain artillery pieces, two infantry artillery pieces, and more than twenty mortar artillery pieces. The artillery strength is still more than twice that of ours."

"I just don't know where these artillerymen are hiding, otherwise a few bombs from the air force could wipe them all out."

"Your Excellency, Commander, why don't we send some scouts out of the city secretly to find the Eighth Route Army's hiding place."

"If you can find one."

"Send out the air force to destroy it, and Baoding's defensive pressure will be much less tonight."

Neiji Okamura shook his head: "Our opponent is very cautious."

"They withdrew from the battle before dawn. They made it clear that they didn't want us to see their strength and hiding place."

"We must be prepared. No matter how many scouts we send out of the city, it will be useless."

"It's also possible that stealing chickens won't lose money and trap the scouts."

"There are only two brigades left in the Baoding garrison. After deducting the battle damage, there are only one brigade and one infantry squadron left."

"The troops are not enough. If we lose some scouts, the shortage will be even greater."

"Let the city defense troops strictly guard against death. Without my order, no one can enter or leave Baoding."

"Send another telegram to Toshi Fujita and Kawasaki-kun."

"Let them speed up their attack and make a breakthrough within today."

"Press the Eighth Route Army attacking Baoding back."

"I have a strong hunch."

"Tonight will be the key to our confrontation with the Yizhong Eighth Route Army."

"Successfully survive tonight, we will be able to seal the victory and defeat the Yizhong Eighth Route Army."

"If we can't make it through, our big sweep will end in a fiasco."

The deputy chief of staff immediately asked: "Are you worried that the Eighth Route Army will storm Baoding tonight and force us to send troops back to help?"

Okamura Ningji nodded and analyzed: "It must be at this time."

"Almost all the artillery shells equipped by the Eighth Route Army came from seizures, and they couldn't produce them by themselves. Every shot was less."

"Last night they consumed at least a thousand shells."

"The remaining ammunition is definitely not enough to support them to continue with us."

"Apart from a strong attack, there is no other way to severely damage the Baoding garrison and force us to send troops back to help."

"If the raiding force makes a breakthrough before dark, it will severely damage the Eighth Route Army."

"The Eighth Route Army attacking Baoding will divide its troops and return to the base area."

"Our defensive pressure will be much less, and we don't need to send troops back from the front line."

"The Eighth Route Army can attack east and west, and rescue their base areas."

"We can also treat others in the same way as others, and use the same style of play to rescue ourselves and keep Baoding."

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