The chief of staff next to him affirmed: "Chief of the division, the current strength of the Eighth Route Army is indeed very shocking."

"If such fierce artillery fire were placed a few years ago, only the Imperial Army could have it. Although the artillery fire is still going on now, Bei Yi can already guess that the casualties of the warriors must be very serious!"

Everyone in the command center was praying that the shelling was about to end soon, and the shelling of the heavy artillery battalion was over, but the shelling of mountain cannons, infantry cannons, and mortars had just begun.

Everyone who had just relaxed their nerves tensed up again, and their faces showed a more solemn expression than before.

"Chief of the Division, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning!" The Chief of Staff cursed with gritted teeth.

"First use heavy artillery to destroy the trenches we just dug out, and then use ordinary artillery to strike our soldiers who have lost the cover of the trenches..."

"Heavy artillery and ordinary artillery cooperate with each other, and the losses of the troops must be huge!"

Commander Kato had a calm face and didn't say anything.

But a pair of red eyes have already told everyone the anger and aggrievance in their hearts at this moment.

I don’t know how long it took, but the explosion that enveloped their ears finally stopped.

"Sir, the Eighth Route Army has begun to attack!" As soon as the cannon stopped, a lieutenant rushed in.

"Dadada..."

Not far away, dense gunfire came faintly, everywhere.

"It must be the Eighth Route Army that launched a full-scale attack on us!" Lieutenant General Kato judged with a calm face.

He immediately ordered: "Chief of Staff, send all the reserves in our hands, and the guards will also be sent, leaving only one guard team. In any case, they must withstand the attack of the Eighth Route Army and defend their positions!"

Seeing the Chief of Staff rushing out, Lieutenant General Kato was still worried and ordered: "The baggage unit and artillery unit, immediately dig the second ring fortification five hundred meters behind the existing ring fortification!"

"Once the peripheral ring fortifications cannot be kept, we immediately retreat to the second ring fortification!"

"We definitely cannot withdraw from the Eighth Route Army base and continue to go north. The chances of taking down Linfen City are also very slim."

"So, what we need to do next is to defend our position and cause the biggest casualties to the Eighth Route Army that attacked us, and die as much as possible!"

Kato said this sentence in a very sad and indignant way, but it was also very inspiring.

Many officers at the command center who were still in a glimmer of hope were desperate after hearing this.

After despair, these people became crazy.

Since it is impossible to survive, it becomes ruthless when fighting, and its combat effectiveness increases instead of decreasing, and it increases to the extreme.

"Boom boom boom..."

Suddenly, a dense explosion sounded in the northeast corner of the battlefield.

Lieutenant General Kato's face suddenly turned pale, and then exclaimed: "No, the northeast corner of the ring fortification is the main attack direction of the Eighth Route Army!"

"Go and find the Chief of Staff immediately and draw at least two infantry squadrons from the reserve team to reinforce the northeast corner!"

In less than five minutes, the Chief of Staff came back, with a pale face and a thick gauze tied to his arms. The bright red blood had dyed the gauze red.

He rushed into the command center and reported with a look of despair.

"It's over~ Division Commander, we're over~"

"Two infantry brigades and one guard reserve team suffered heavy losses before they even went to the battlefield!"

"The nearly 2,500 imperial army has only gathered less than 1,500 people to continue fighting!"

"The front-line troops suffered greater losses, and many fortifications in many places were blown up. The entire squad of the troops was killed by heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army. There were defensive gaps on the defense line at the beginning."

"All reserves are on the battlefield to block those gaps!"

"If you don't make a mistake in the judgment, we lost at least two thousand people in the shelling just now~"

"It's the northeast corner. Have troops been sent to the northeast corner of the position been sent? That is the real main attack direction of the Eighth Route Army!" Kato asked anxiously.

The Chief of Staff shook his head and replied: "I have no troops in his hands!"

"But Beizhi had just given an order to the baggage corps, asking them to draw at least 500 people to reinforce the positions on the Northeast front line!"

"That's good!" Lieutenant General Kato breathed a sigh of relief!

It's only three or four hours dark now, and the first half of the night hasn't passed.

If so many people defended the ring fortifications that they did not even hold on in the middle of the night, even if they died in battle, they would become the laughing stock of the Imperial Army.

The tense nerves had just relaxed for less than two minutes, and a violent explosion sounded again in the northwest corner of the battlefield.

"Sir, there is at least one group of artillery troops with a size of more than fifty artillery gunfires to our northwest corner position!" The artillery staff next to him reported with a pale face.

The artillery power exposed by the Eighth Route Army in the past two nights completely subverted his imagination.

In the past, he looked down on the Eighth Route Army and used the Eighth Route Army to bomb and chase them and fight.

At this moment, he didn't even have the capital to counterattack, and could only watch the Imperial Army being bombed by the Eighth Route Army artillery, fleeing everywhere, as embarrassed as a dog in a frustration.

Lieutenant General Kato's nerves tensed up again and subconsciously ordered.

"Chief of Staff, draw 500 people from the baggage corps to reinforce the northwest corner position, right away!"

As soon as the combat staff rushed out of the tent and gave orders, a major rushed in from outside.

There was almost no complete place in a military uniform from top to bottom, and it was pitch black with gunpowder style, and many places were stained red by blood.

There were wounds and red blood everywhere on the arms and face.

Before Lieutenant General Kato could speak, he rushed in and shouted with despair.

"It's over~ Sir, my ninth team is over!"

"The Eighth Route Army's artillery fire was too fierce, and the warriors were killed without even seeing the shadow of the enemy!"

"The position was also broken through by the Eighth Route Army. At least one thousand Eighth Route Army came here to kill. Please transfer immediately by the division commander!"

"Baga!" Kato's eyes quickly turned red and he cursed.

"You still have the face to live without the troops?"

The master shook his head and replied: "I don't plan to live, but the communication soldiers are all dead. I will temporarily handle the communication soldiers. Now the communication soldiers' mission has been completed. I will go back to fight now and meet with the warriors under my command. I will die together!"

After saying that, the master rushed out of the tent and did not give Kato a chance to speak!

"Your Excellency Commander of the Protection Division, transfer immediately!" The Chief of Staff responded quickly and subconsciously ordered.

Then he commanded the only remaining team in the Guard, and despite the opposition of the Kato Division, he forced him to transfer.

When he moved to a temporarily safe trench, all kinds of bad news came one after another, not even a chance to breathe!

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