Once again, Watanabe overestimated himself and underestimated his opponent.

What's more, this time the price he paid was unprecedented, and there was no chance of recovery.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

In the violent explosion, three large gaps were blasted out of the courtyard.

The remaining two shells flew directly into the courtyard through the gap, hitting Watanabe's last entrenched house.

The shells exploded, and the houses were torn apart in an instant, and then turned into a pile of rubble.

Watanabe died, and the battle in the village ended.

After Li Hao walked into the village that had been beaten into ruins, he did not have any smile on his face when he faced the corpses everywhere.

This battle was fought too fiercely, and the resistance of the Japanese puppet army, especially the combat determination of the puppet army, far exceeded his estimates.

After subtracting the breakouts, there were nearly 500 puppet troops in the village, and less than 100 people finally surrendered and became prisoners.

And in Li Hao's initial plan, as long as the attacking troops killed almost the remaining devils in the village, the remaining puppet army would definitely take the initiative to run out and surrender, and it would definitely be no problem to harvest three or four hundred prisoners in the end.

But the result was just the opposite, almost none of them surrendered on their own initiative!

"Battalion commander, I asked the prisoners who were forced to surrender, it's not that they don't want to surrender, it's really the devil who forced them not to surrender!" Hong Linfeng ran over and reported.

"Originally, there were less than 100 devils in the village who could still fight, and many puppet soldiers were ready to surrender as soon as we came in!"

"But I didn't expect that Watanabe, the old devil, was too cunning, and thought of this in advance, so he directly ordered the cavalry squadron to change to infantry and disperse to the puppet army to supervise the battle, forcing them to fight with us."

The solemn expression on Li Hao's face did not become relaxed, and he shook his head and replied: "It is undeniable that there are indeed factors in it that the Japanese forced them, but I think it is more that the puppet army is no longer the puppet army of half a year ago!"

"They have changed, the fear of devils is deep in their bones, and they don't have a little blood!"

"The devil cavalry squadron is in its early 100s when it is full, and when it is divided, there will be only one devil staring at four puppet troops."

"If this had been put in half a year ago, this would never have been the result!"

"At that time, even if the puppet army had to work for the little devils, at least they still had the backbone."

"Under the threat of death, they will never be at the mercy of the little devils, and the little devils will do whatever they want them to do!"

"It is not very difficult for the puppet army to suddenly attack and kill a devil!"

"The puppet army is different now, they have no backbone at all, and they are afraid of devils to the core, even if four people face a devil and are about to be killed by us, they don't have the courage to fight back, but continue to work for them until they die on the battlefield."

Hong Linfeng's face slowly became solemn, and he took a deep breath and replied, "Battalion commander, I understand what you mean."

"I can probably guess what the reason is!"

"The current puppet army is basically formed by devils from among the common people by catching strong men and recruiting soldiers, and then they are trained by the little devils, coupled with the brainwashing of them by the little devils, it is impossible to be as bloody as the puppet army composed of those prisoners before, not afraid of death, dare to resist!"

Although their combat effectiveness is still much worse than the previous puppet army, for us, they are even more difficult! It's harder to deal with! ”

Li Hao affirmed: "Not bad, so from now on, we must pay more attention to the puppet army than before!"

Seeing Hong Linfeng nodding, Li Hao's frowning brows slowly relaxed.

But it only lasted a few seconds, and the brow furrowed again when the eyes glanced at the watch.

"It's half past seven in the morning, and the devil plane will have the conditions to take off at half past six, judging from the time, their plane should be almost there!"

"Order the troops to evacuate the village immediately, retreat now, and come back to clean up the battlefield after the devil plane is gone!"

"Take away all the weapons and equipment that you can take away, and give up if you can't take them away, and you must leave the village within ten minutes!"

Hong Linfeng and Peng Yunfeng both looked reluctant!

There were thousands of weapons and equipment in the village before, and it would be nice to evacuate the village in ten minutes to take a third of it.

If the remaining weapons and equipment were left in the village and bombed by the planes, many weapons would surely be destroyed.

What the Eighth Route Army lacks most is weapons and ammunition, and now there are so many weapons and ammunition in front of you that you can't take away, and they may be destroyed by aircraft, as a member of the Eighth Route Army, how can you be willing to give up.

Especially Peng Yunfeng, before coming to Lingqiu, he promised the captain that he would definitely bring back the equipment of a reinforced battalion.

If the weapons in the village were gone, Peng Yunfeng didn't know if he would be able to complete the task.

Seeing that the two people did not move, Li Hao continued to order: "Execute the order!"

"Little devil can carry a maximum of six bombs on a plane, the village is so big, even if all six bombs are smashed into the village, there won't be many weapons!"

"Compared with those weapons, the lives of the soldiers are more important, immediately carry out the order, the little devil has not much time left for us!"

Opinions can be reserved, orders must be carried out, this is discipline on the battlefield of separate battalions.

Hong Linfeng immediately replied: "Battalion commander, I will carry out the order and immediately command the troops to retreat!"

"Quick, everyone retreat, withdraw from the village, enter the forest immediately, the little devil's plane is coming!" The village soon sounded the order of the company platoon commander of the province.

"Take these rifles and bullet belts away, time is limited, don't want anything else, retreat immediately!"

"There's a heavy machine gun here, let's retreat with a heavy machine gun!"

"The mountain cannon seems to still work, quickly push it into the corner with me and hide it, and come back when the devils are done bombing!"

The independent battalion and the first battalion fought out of the village, and everyone more or less brought a trophy or two with them, weapons and boxes of ammunition.

Leaving the village, the troops rushed into the woods a few hundred meters away.

Li Hao was the last to evacuate the village, and as soon as he entered the forest with his front foot, the roar of the plane came from his hind foot.

Soon two silver-white planes came into their field of vision.

At first, it was just two white dots, but as the roar became louder and louder, the silver-white figure of the plane was completely exposed.

"The little devil actually sent two planes at once, which is too much to look up to us!" Peng Yunfeng shouted in shock.

He has also fought several battles in the military division, and it seems that there has never been a devil plane to bomb him!

Hong Linfeng replied with a happy face: "Fortunately, we retreated, otherwise the troops would have been bombed by two planes at the same time, and there would have been heavy casualties!"

"It's a pity that there are still weapons and ammunition left in the village. I heard from the commander of the second company, Zhang Company, that they had found the Devil's Mountain Artillery position, and there were still four mountain artillery pieces that could be used! ”

"Because the retreat time is too short, I can only hide them in the corner temporarily, hoping that they can survive the bombing of the planes!"

Li Hao was also a little heartbroken, but he still replied with a serious face: "Don't worry." Even if all the remaining weapons and ammunition in the village are gone, the weapons and ammunition that everyone just brought out will be enough to make up for our losses, and we have not lost this battle! ”

"Don't be idle, the village let the devil plane bomb, we will immediately count the casualties and losses, and by the way, count the weapons and ammunition that the troops just brought out and report to the military subdivision!"

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