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However, before Ishihara Shozo could react, the troops on the front line began to fall into chaos again.

Because the artillery of the two regiments of the 14th Division was combined with the artillery regiment, the Japanese troops on the front line now lacked artillery and had no artillery cover. For a time, the Japanese troops on the front line began to retreat step by step.

The two regiment commanders commanding at the front began to send messengers to ask the division headquarters for tactical guidance.

However, when the messenger arrived at the rear, he saw the command center in a mess. All the division commanders were either unconscious or receiving treatment from the army doctors.

Suddenly I was completely stunned.

When Ishihara Shozo saw the messenger coming from the front, he immediately told the messenger the situation and asked the two regiment commanders in the front to begin emergency covering the evacuation of the division headquarters.

The two regiment commanders who were commanding the attack at the position were also stunned after receiving the news from the rear.

Without time to think, he immediately began to withdraw his troops and prepare to retreat to the rear.

As the situation on the battlefield changed, the soldiers of the six regiments soon began to counterattack the two attacking Japanese regiments.

Only after the Japanese army was driven back to Guanglu did Wu Lin order his troops to withdraw and repair the previous fortifications.

Guanglu.

When Kenji Doihara woke up, he found a bandage wrapped around his head.

At the same time, he was lying on a bed in the makeshift field hospital when he suddenly jumped up in shock.

Immediately ask around what happened.

Kenji Doihara only remembered that the aftermath of the explosion of the artillery position collapsed his command post, and then his eyes went black and he knew nothing.

When the commander of the Quartermaster Corps, Shozo Ishihara, reported the previous situation to Kenji Doihara, Kenji Doihara immediately showed a look of pain on his face.

He kept cursing "Baka!"

Especially when he learned that the artillery regiment was almost completely destroyed and that the entire division's artillery, except for the rapid-fire guns equipped in the regiment, could not even muster a single artillery piece larger than 75mm, he almost fainted.

At this stage, how can the 14th Division continue to attack?

Especially when Kenji Doihara learned that an explosion had occurred at the artillery position of the artillery regiment, the Eighth Route Army troops on the front line began to counterattack the locust army.

And his own division began to retreat in a hurry.

Now they have retreated to the Guanglu area, or the Eighth Route Army stopped pursuing them after reaching Guanglu, otherwise, they would have had to flee back to Handan in a panic.

Now, the entire division has only a little over a regiment of troops available for combat.

The two regiments attacking on the front line also suffered heavy casualties.

Now the entire 14th Division is basically left with a large number of auxiliary troops. If the pursuing Eighth Route Army were to force an attack, I'm afraid I would die here today.

Thinking of this, Kenji Doihara turned to Shozo Ishihara again.

"Mr. Ishihara, your impromptu decision was correct. You should have found out how the Chinese artillery appeared behind the Locust Army. Before that, the Locust Army hadn't spotted any Eighth Route Army troops within a few miles!"

Hearing the division commander's question, Ishihara Shozo thought for a moment and organized his words.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, according to my guess, the Eighth Route Army may have used tunnels to disperse their artillery at various tunnel exits, and then suddenly attacked the Locust Army's artillery positions."

"We thought the Eighth Route Army's artillery was destroyed by us, but I'm afraid it was intentional by the Eighth Route Army."

"It's obvious that they had planned this all along. They even calculated the locust army's artillery positions in advance. The Eighth Route Army's artillery fired directly at the locust army's artillery positions without even mapping them. It's obvious that the Eighth Route Army had already calculated this."