The commander stood up from the chair and stared at the door of the war room, wanting to know who brought the bad news.

The captain of the railway garrison rushed into the war room like a god, and rushed to report without waiting for the commander to speak.

"Sir, something happened to the Zhengtai Railway!"

"Beizhi just received several telegrams for help: at least six strongholds and artillery towers in the Yangquan section of the Zhengtai Railway were attacked at the same time. If these six strongholds were captured by the enemy, the Yangquan section would have more than 20 kilometers of railway lines."

"If this section of the railway is completely destroyed by the enemy, the Zhengtai Railway will never be restored and opened to traffic without ten days!"

"The railway garrison has no troops to send, so I can only find here. In order not to cause devastating damage to the railway line, I beg the commander to send troops to reinforce the railway garrison immediately!"

While reporting, the captain marked several attacked strongholds on the sand table.

The commander became anxious after watching it.

Judging from the sand table, the real situation on the battlefield was worse than the report the garrison captain just now.

The attacked strongholds are connected into a line. If captured, not only the railways protected by these strongholds will be captured, but other strongholds on both sides will also be affected.

In case the enemy does not meet this result, they will continue to attack on both sides along the railway line with the railway section controlled by six strongholds. Each time they take a stronghold, they can control a section of railway at least five kilometers long.

By taking two strongholds, you can control the ten-kilometer-long railway, and it will take longer for the Shanxi garrison to repair the Zhengtai Railway.

The smooth operation of the Zhengtai Railway is too important to the Shanxi garrison. It may have a significant impact on three or five days of interruption, not to mention ten or half a month. Maybe even the Front Command will be alarmed!

The commander became more and more anxious as he thought about it. He quickly withdrew his gaze from the sand table, stared at the captain of the garrison and asked, "Do you know who did it?"

"National Salvation Army!" The garrison captain blurted out.

"The enemy attacking the railway line is equipped with a large number of mountain artillery and infantry artillery, and the attack firepower is very strong. Among the Chinese troops in and around Yangquan, only the National Salvation Army can bring out so many artillery!"

After hearing this, the Chief of Staff showed a disbelief expression and frowned and asked, "How is that possible?"

"In order to be incorporated by us, the National Salvation Army has shown goodwill to us more than once. How could it be that it is possible to attack us? Isn't this slap yourself in the face? Would you make a mistake?"

"And the National Salvation Army cannot not know the importance of the Zhengtai Railway. If they really cut off the Zhengtai Railway, they will fall into a situation of dying and never resting. There is no possibility of ease in the relationship between the two sides, and we will never be able to reorganize them."

The commander also showed a disbelief. Even if the enemy attacking the railway line was really a national-savior army, he was unwilling to believe it.

He proposed the idea of ​​recruiting the National Rescue Army, and it has begun to be implemented, and the results are very good.

According to the current progress, it is estimated that it will not take long to see the results.

The National Salvation Army attacked the Zhengtai Railway now, which was tantamount to telling the army commander that they did not want to be incorporated, nor could they be incorporated. Then all his previous efforts would be in vain and would be very slap in the face.

Because in the plan that has been carried out, in order to successfully recruit the National Rescue Army, he not only sold a lot of food to the National Rescue Army, but also transferred all the troops blocking the National Rescue Army, so that the blockade line can be destroyed in name only, and the National Rescue Army can freely enter and exit its own defense zone.

If the plan to recruit the National Rescue Army was abandoned halfway, the behavior of selling food to the National Rescue Army would become a capital enemy, and the strength of the National Rescue Army was increased in disguise. The behavior of transferring troops from the blockade line was also wrong...

If you find out about it by the war zone, you will definitely be very embarrassed, and you may even hold yourself accountable.

The garrison captain was so angry that he was seen by the commander and the chief of staff. He couldn't understand why they valued the enemy's identity so much, so he quickly answered!

"They are sure that they are the National Salvation Army, but it is very strange that all the National Salvation Army that attacked us were wearing imperial military uniforms."

"They definitely want to use this method to provoke our relationship with the Imperial Army, so that we no longer trust the Imperial Army."

"But Beizhi thinks the idea of ​​saving the country is too mentally retarded."

"The Imperial Army even had very little equipment for mortars, let alone mountain cannons and infantry cannons."

"And the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army is very poor, especially when attacking, if you encounter a little setback, you will collapse. As soon as the enemies on the offensive railway line appear, we know that they cannot be the Imperial Army."

"That's why the humble officials dare to be sure that their true identity is the National Salvation Army!"

The commander understood, but soon returned to the war zone to ponder.

Looking at the garrison captain, he continued to ask: "You just said that the National Salvation Army was wearing the Royal Army uniform to attack us. I want to use this style of fighting to provoke the relationship between us and the Royal Army?"

"Hayi!" the garrison captain replied.

"But I think the trick of the National Salvation Army is too stupid, and we will definitely not be fooled!"

"No!" the commander suddenly interrupted.

"You can think of the National Salvation Army wearing the Royal Alliance Army uniforms to attack us. The National Salvation Army itself can definitely think of it, but they did this, which shows that behind this matter, in addition to provoking the relationship between us and the Royal Alliance Army, there are other conspiracies we did not expect!"

"I understand, they are taking revenge on us, otherwise there would be no need to fight against us in the Royal Army uniform. Is this a waste of time?"

"Revenge on us?"

Hearing these words, the Chief of Staff became confused on the spot, and he couldn't understand why the commander had such an idea.

The commander thought for a few seconds and began to explain: "In order to force the independent regiment to divide the troops, reduce the combat pressure of the frontal sweep troops, so that our offensive troops can defeat each one and eliminate the independent regiment, the military headquarters specially arranged a regiment of the Imperial Army to pretend to be a national rescue army to attack the independent regiment."

"Now these Imperial Army troops who pretend to be the National Salvation Army have been captured by the Independent Corps. The Independent Corps must have figured out their true identities."

"We are not far away from the National Rescue Army in the battlefield of the Independent Regiment. The National Rescue Army should have heard of this matter."

"Although the National Salvation Army showed signs of joining us, the two sides have not reached an agreement yet, and the National Salvation Army has not been officially adapted into the Imperial Army."

"We directly let the Imperial Army pretend to be the National Rescue Army to attack the Independent Regiment without their consent. The National Rescue Army will definitely be very angry after receiving the news. In order to retaliate against us, they deliberately wore the Imperial Army uniform to attack the Zhengtai Railway!"

"Otherwise there is no reason to explain this. Although they pretend to be the Imperial Army to attack us, they don't pretend to be very similar!"

"But their revenge is a bit too cruel. They dare to attack Zhengtai Railway!"

The Chief of Staff figured it out a little, and looked at the commander with a thoughtful look on his face and asked: "Sir, what you mean is that the National Salvation Army attacked the Zhengtai Railway not really wanted to turn against us, but took the opportunity to retaliate against our behavior of pretending to the National Salvation Army to attack the Independent Regiment!"

"It's probably true!" The commander believed in his judgment very much.

"The National Salvation Army is now isolated and helpless. If we are completely angry with the attack on the Zhengtai Railway and give up the idea of ​​acquiring them, we will definitely ask the Front Command for help and draw troops from the entire North China to siege them."

"The National Salvation Army is indeed very powerful. It is no problem to block the attack of two or three times our superior force."

"But their total force is only more than 10,000, and the defense area is only the size of four counties."

"If we make up our minds to destroy him, with the help of the front army, we can not only draw a main division to encircle and suppress them, but also transfer a large number of heavy artillery units and aviation units to participate in the battle to provide fire support to the infantry."

"At that time, no matter how powerful the National Salvation Army is, it will not be able to escape our clutches!"

"So I firmly believe that the National Salvation Army will not dare to attack us when it is isolated and offend us to death, otherwise they will be digging their own graves and killing themselves in battle!"

The commander's analysis was reasonable and well-founded. The chief of staff could not find a reason to refute, so they could only agree: "Sir, since this attack is a revenge of the National Salvation Army on us, they do not want to turn against us, so they will definitely not expand the scale of the battle."

"As long as we send someone to take the initiative to find the National Savior Army and promise to give them some compensation, they will definitely withdraw their troops!"

"Then our Zhengtai Railway will be safe, and from now on, there is no need to worry about the safety of the Yangquan section of the Zhengtai Railway. In this way, the railway garrison can free up a lot of troops to reinforce other railway lines, which is like a kill of three stones."

The commander nodded: "This is beyond doubt!"

"But just in case, we have to act at the same time."

"The intelligence department immediately arranged for people to contact the National Rescue Army, saying that it was an unintentional move for us to pretend to be the National Rescue Army to attack the Independent Regiment and was willing to give them some compensation. At the same time, we asked the National Rescue Army to stop attacking the Zhengtai Railway and evacuate the railway line immediately."

"By the way, two reinforcement brigades were drawn from the middle of the troops of the sweeping independent regiment to reinforce the railway garrison."

"If we make a wrong judgment on the National Salvation Army, the reinforcements must retake the railway line as soon as possible."

"The garrison brigade is ready to repair the railway. As soon as the battle is over, organize people to repair the railway line that has been damaged by the war, so that the Zhengtai Railway will be restored and smooth as soon as possible."

"I'll inform the aviation force again and prepare six planes immediately. I'll dispatch it as soon as it dawns. Three planes will be dispatched in turn to cover the reinforcements to retake the railway."

"If the National Salvation Army accepts our compensation, promises to end this attack and evacuate the Zhengtai Railway Line, and try not to fight with them by the reinforcements and aircraft, because I will continue to incorporate them."

Compared with the county town covered by night, the command center was illuminated brightly.

Correspondents come in and out and report the latest battles on the front line to the Chief of Staff.

Rows of telephones were ringing one after another, and kept ringing, reporting to the command headquarters the latest battle situation of the offensive troops.

On the sand table, three of the six strongholds and artillery towers that were attacked by the National Salvation Army have been stripped away, and there are still three strongholds left to persist, but they will definitely not last long.
Chapter completed!