Kiyoshi Kazuki was awakened by a nightmare.

Looking up at the wall clock on the wall, the time was just pointing to 2 a.m.

Just as Kamekawa Kiyoshi was hesitating whether to sleep for a while, a sudden loud knock on the door sounded outside, and then the shouts of the communications chief Mi Igarashi came in.

"Chief of Staff? Chief of Staff!"

Kiyoshi Kazukawa quickly got up with his clothes.

"Igarashi, what's going on?"

Guichuanqing pushed out the door and asked while buckled his clothes.

"The telephone line is broken!" Igarashi Mi said in a deep voice, "The telephone line in Fuliang bandit area has undergone a large-scale failure, and almost all the strongholds cannot make phone calls!"

"Nani?" Qiong Kaguchi's face turned down.

At that moment, the two of them hurried to the communications class of the division and regiment headquarters.

"His Excellency Chief of Staff!" the operator stood up and said, "The telephone line is still blocked!"

"Baga!" Kiyoshi Kaguawa asked Igarashi Mi with a dark face, "Have the telephone maintenance soldiers sent out?"

"Hayi, three groups of telephone repair soldiers have been sent one after another." Igarashi Mi said, "But until now, no group of telephone repair soldiers have returned."

"Damn it must be something happened."

Guichuan Qinghen said in a bitter voice: "There is no need to send troops to inspect and repair them."

Igarashi Mi said again: "Chief of Staff, should you send a force to reinforce?"

"Reinforcement?" Guichuan said coldly, "Which stronghold should be reinforced? Now I don't know which stronghold has a problem. How to reinforce it? Let the reinforcements look for them all the way?"

When Igarashi heard this, she was speechless.

"Wait until dawn." Guichuanqing sighed.

"It's dark now, and the situation is unclear."

"Maybe it's easy to be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army to attack and aid."

"It's better to wait for the air force to ask for support after dawn."

"It's not too late to decide on the next move after you have figured out the situation."

"Hayi!" Igarashi Mi paused her head and asked again, "Do you want to report this to the division commander?"

"Of course." Kiyoshi Kamekawa said without hesitation, "Anything that happened in the Fuliang Bandits Area, no matter how big or small, must be reported to the division commander truthfully and promptly."

"Hayi!"

...

Miyano Dao took a nap and was awakened by a sudden explosion.

After getting up in shock, I realized that it was the engineering brigade that was blasting.

In recent days, the Engineer Brigade has blasted the surface positions of Fuliangshan Fortress day and night.

Here, Miyano Daichi adopted a fatigue tactic. He actually realized that the Eighth Route Army hiding in the Fuliangshan Fortress had at most a few hundred people, and the most elite special forces had only a few dozen people.

He didn't believe that these dozens of special forces were all made of iron.

After a long period of continuous battle, even the elite soldiers will be dragged down.

So Miyano Daoichi gave the Engineer Brigade a death order to fight continuously.

The facts proved that this effect was quite good. The Eighth Route Army could not withstand it. Since last night, the Eighth Route Army's special forces no longer came out to obstruct the blasting of the engineer troops.

It seems that the Eighth Route Army is ready to lie down.

I raised my wrist and looked at the luminous watch. It was already 2:30 in the morning.

Miyanodo simply stopped sleeping, got up in his clothes and came to the front-line observation post.

Although it was at night, the dozen high-power searchlights on the Japanese position still illuminated the surface positions on the east side of the mountain as bright as day, and the beehives were clearly visible.

However, half of the hives have been destroyed.

The blasting of the engineers has advanced to the hillside.

Moreover, the higher the number of honeycombs, the smaller the progress will be, and the faster the progress should be.

According to the current progress, all the beehives on the eastern slope of Fuliang Mountain will be destroyed by tomorrow evening.

With the help of the artillery mirror, Miyano Doichi can clearly see that more than a dozen teams of engineers were transporting yellow explosives in and out of more than a dozen "beehives" at the same time.

If it were before last night, the engineering squad would not have been so smooth.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army will definitely rush out of the tunnel inside the "beehive" to obstruct, and sometimes even snatch yellow explosives.

But now, the Eighth Route Army seems to have given up.

The Imperial Army engineers allowed to bury explosives in the honeycomb and then blast them, blow up one honeycomb after another, and landfill one tunnel outlet after another.

To be honest, this is a really stupid method.

In fact, the most efficient way is to dig a downward tunnel to penetrate deep into the belly of Fuliang Mountain, and then bury enough explosives to directly blast the entire Fuliang Mountain from the middle. If this does, you can destroy the entire fortress in an instant and bury all the Eighth Route Army hidden in the fortress underground forever. The Eighth Route Army had no chance to escape.

Unfortunately, there are hard granite layers under Fuliang Mountain.

It doesn't make much sense if you dig it in against the granite surface.

Because it is easy to be detected by the Eighth Route Army surveillance at this depth, and there is no suitable blowing point that can blow up the entire Fuliang Mountain in one go.

The sound of footsteps sounded from behind.

Looking back, it was Jiro Onoda.

"Second Commander!" Jiro Onoda paused his head and greeted.

Miyano waved his hand and asked, "Onoda-kun, it's your turn to be on duty tonight?"

In order to protect the engineer troops and prevent the Eighth Route Army from detouring from other directions, besides more than a dozen high-power searchlights illuminate the positions on the surface of Fuliang Mountain, snipers also take turns on duty at the opposite defensive positions. Once the Eighth Route Army sneaks out of other hives, they will be shot and killed by snipers immediately.

In addition to snipers, there are more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns.

The Japanese army's vigilance measures were still very strict.

Jiro Onoda said in a deep voice: "Second Commander, since the end of night yesterday, the Eighth Route Army has given up harassing my engineer troops. Don't you find it strange?"

"This doesn't seem strange." Miyano said, "After all, their troops are limited, and they always feel tired when fighting with high intensity, so they must also need a rest."

"That wouldn't be without a single counterattack."

Jiro Onoda frowned and said, "I always feel that the Eighth Route Army is brewing some conspiracy in secret."

"Conspiracy?" Miyano Dao was shocked, but he was silent on the surface, "What conspiracy?"

"I don't know." Jiro Onoda shook his head, "I just think things shouldn't be that simple."

While he was talking, a rapid footstep sounded behind him, and then a communication soldier hurriedly walked in.

"Teacher Commander." The communications troop paused and reported, "The division headquarters urgently sent a telegram!"

As soon as Miyanoda received the telegram, his face slightly sank after reading it.

"Second Commander." Jiro Onoda asked, "What's the situation?"

Miyano Daoichi didn't say anything, but just handed over the telegram.

After reading the telegram, Jiro Onoda's face changed drastically.

"Nani? All telephone lines in the entire Fuliang bandit area have malfunctioned?"

Jiro Onoda said in a lost voice: "Second Commander, it seems that my judgment just now is correct. Things are indeed not that simple. The Eighth Route Army is indeed planning a conspiracy in secret!"

"It's just a harassment."

Miyano Duochi said coldly: "Cut a few phone lines, or shoot a few cold guns."

When Jiro Onoda heard this, he immediately stopped talking because he could probably understand Miyao Daoichi's mood at this moment, because everyone has a way out, and only Miyao Daoichi has no way out.

What's more, Miyano Dao's words are actually correct.

The Eighth Route Army did not use heavy weapons to attack.

Therefore, the strongholds along the blockade ditch cannot be threatened.

Miyao Doichi said to the communications troop again: "Call back to the division and the regiment headquarters, saying that after dawn, the Frontier Command will send a mobile strike brigade to provide support along the blockade ditch."

"Hayi!" The communication soldier paused and turned and left.

Miyao Ichimoto said to his adjutant Masaki Matsumoto again: "Matsumoto, call the Engineer Brigade and ask them to send more engineer squads to speed up the blasting of Fuliangshan Fortress!"

"Hayi!" Masaki Masaki paused.

...

It's finally dawn.

Toshio Nishizawa flew a Zero reconnaissance fighter and took off from Taiyuan New City Airport. It took less than an hour to fly over the Fuliang Mountains.

This is not the first time Toshio Nishizawa has come to Fuliangshan to reconnaissance.
To be continued...