The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1374: Chain Plan (Second Update)

Facing the slightly anxious look of his subordinates, he replied helplessly: "I also want to arrange troops to go to the battlefield to meet the squadron leader, but do you think we can send more manpower with just the strength of the troops?"

A bitter smile appeared on Cao Chang's face, and he shook his head: "Then what should we do?"

"Could it be that we were guarding the stronghold and watching the squadron leader and the others being attacked by the enemy?"

"What if something happens to them on the battlefield?"

The second lieutenant team leader was not a fool either. He ordered decisively: "Immediately deploy five of the best soldiers from the army and the Puppet Manchuria Army, secretly leave the stronghold, and march quickly to the battlefield to investigate and find out the real situation there."

"If something happens to the squadron leader, we can't do anything with our limited strength. We can only ask the Fuxin Wing Headquarters for help and ask them to send troops to reinforce us."

"If what happened there was just an ordinary encounter and the squadron leader could quickly repel the Eighth Route Army's ambush force, then we would do nothing and just guard the stronghold and wait for good news about the reinforcements."

Because they were worried that there were Eighth Route Army scouts outside the stronghold, the Kwantung Army who stayed behind did not even open the stronghold's gate. They directly used ropes to hang ten soldiers out of the stronghold. Then, in groups of two or three, they quickly disappeared into the night.

At this time, a scene that made the team leader feel desperate appeared.

The ten scouts had just left when the firefight on the battlefield five kilometers away stopped suddenly. No one knew who was the final winner.

The team leader's nerves suddenly became tense, and he quickly sounded the stronghold alarm to prepare the remaining troops for battle.

He was afraid that the reinforcements would be defeated on the battlefield, and if the enemy captured the reinforcements and continued to attack the Raoyanghe stronghold, he would not only be unable to rescue the squadron leader, but he might not even be able to defend the stronghold.

After waiting in fear for almost an hour, a scout finally appeared outside the stronghold with a panic-stricken look on his face.

The team leader was just about to order his subordinates to open the city gate, "Bang bang..." Several gunshots rang out about three hundred meters away from the stronghold.

The two reconnaissance battalions that rushed to the entrance of the stronghold fell to the ground.

The squad leader once again raised his binoculars and looked at the location where the gunfire came from, and his face suddenly turned pale.

Beads of sweat flowed down from his forehead as if for free, and he muttered to himself with a desperate expression.

"How could this happen...how could the reinforcements lose..."

"Sir...what's wrong? What happened with the gunfire just now..."

"Launch the flares immediately..." The squad leader wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and ordered with an anxious look on his face.

"Everyone opens fire to block the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops. They must not be allowed to get close to the stronghold..."

After saying that, he rushed into the headquarters, grabbed the microphone, and asked for help from the Fuxin Kwantung Army Wing Headquarters.

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Fuxin City Kwantung Army Regiment Headquarters.

The commander of the regiment was woken up by his subordinates in his sleep. Before he was fully awake, he heard the bad news that the Raoyang River stronghold was besieged by the Eighth Route Army. The garrison suffered heavy losses and the stronghold could be breached at any time.

The Yaoyang River stronghold is not the ordinary strongholds and gun towers along the railway line.

In the event of an accident, with the Raoyang River stronghold as the center, the more than 20 kilometers of railway lines on the north and south sides may be destroyed, and the Kwantung Army's losses will be huge.

As the superior of the Raoyang River garrison, I will definitely bear a lot of joint responsibility.

The colonel was so frightened that he didn't even put on his military uniform. He grabbed the command knife on the table and ran straight to the war room. As he ran, he asked: "Have you found out how many people of the Eighth Route Army attacked the Raoyang River stronghold? How are their equipment? Are they active? What the Eighth Route Army in Jinzhou did..." The deputy chief of staff on duty who came to report the bad news shook his head and replied: "It is not yet clear how many people there are in the Eighth Route Army."

"The remaining troops only saw densely packed Eighth Route Army troops outside the stronghold, equipped with many heavy machine guns and mortars..."

"And in less than ten minutes, they eliminated two reinforced teams sent by the Raoyanghe garrison, a heavy machine gun team, a mortar team, and two companies of the Puppet Manchurian Army. It shows that their combat effectiveness is also very strong."

"There are only a small group of the Kwantung Army and a company of the Puppet Manchuria Army left behind at the stronghold, and there are no heavy weapons..."

"As long as the Eighth Route Army launches a strong attack, they will definitely not be able to hold on for long."

The commander rushed into the war room and found the location of the Raoyanghe stronghold on the sand table. Then he began to give orders with a stern face: "The stronghold is nearly 20 kilometers away from the county seat."

"Even if we send reinforcements immediately, it will take three hours to defeat them. By then, the Eighth Route Army would have already taken the stronghold, blew up the railway and escaped."

Having said this, the captain of the Colonel-General's already frowning frown deepened.

After staring at the sand table and thinking about it for half a minute, he suddenly patted his head and said: "Bage Ya Road, I actually forgot about the more than 20 transport vehicles equipped by the transport team."

"You can first go to a squadron to stabilize the battle situation and hold off the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops."

"Deploy the main force and slowly rush over to fight the annihilation battle."

After speaking, the captain of the Colonel-General had specific combat ideas in his mind, and his face suddenly became very serious and he gave orders decisively.

"The First Squadron of the First Battalion will assemble immediately. Mr. Tanaka will reinforce them with a mortar team and a heavy machine gun team. They will ride in transport vehicles and march quickly to reinforce the Raoyang River stronghold..."

"The troops must set off within five minutes. The faster the better, otherwise military law will be imposed."

"The remaining troops of the Tianzhong Brigade have completed their assembly at the same time. They will leave the city in ten minutes and march on foot to reinforce the Raoyanghe stronghold and annihilate all the Eighth Route Army that besieged the Raoyanghe stronghold."

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Outside the Raoyanghe stronghold.

Li Yunlong's attention was not on this stronghold that could be taken down at any time. Instead, he pointed at the map and issued new tasks to the several battalion and company commanders around him.

"Comrades..."

"Everyone fought very well in the encirclement and reinforcements just now. The battle was over in less than ten minutes, and the casualties were very small."

"But this battle is just the beginning for us."

"Our real purpose is to capture the Rayang River stronghold and eliminate all the reinforcements sent by Fuxin City to the Rayang River stronghold."

"I also personally led the team in this ambush battle. I brought all the light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenades that we had just captured from the Kwantung Army reinforcements, and used more intense firepower to fight against the reinforcements coming from the county. Try to do the same as before and eat them all in one battle."

"The guard battalion left one company behind to continue the feint attack on the Raoyang River stronghold. The other troops will set off with me immediately..."

"The cavalry reconnaissance platoon has already set off to detect the situation, and we need to speed up. If the Fuxin guys send out vehicles to transport reinforcements, our next ambush will start in half an hour at most. Everyone, hurry up..."

(End of this chapter)