Seeing that his subordinates were all looking at him with a confused expression, the brigade commander immediately explained.

"It's eleven o'clock in the evening, and there are just over six hours left the next morning."

"I just pinched the table and calculated, the Eighth Route Army's feint just now took an hour."

"Continue to attack in this way, and if there are five more feints, it will be four o'clock in the morning, and there will be less than two hours at dawn the next day."

"Do you think the garrison is capable of breaking through the fortifications of Datong in two hours? If not, the troops must be withdrawn after dawn, otherwise they will be subjected to a retaliatory strike by the aviation. ”

"One more thing, don't forget, early tomorrow morning, the troops assembled by the military headquarters will attack the garrison base area."

"I don't believe that the garrison would dare to continue attacking us here after learning of the attack on the base area."

"Order the city defense troops, from now on, they must pay attention to protecting themselves and repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army at the lowest cost."

"The most important thing for us now is time, and the longer the feint drags on, the better it will be for us."

"The Eighth Route Army outside the city must not know the news that the military headquarters is preparing to attack their base area, and then they plan to slowly consume us through a feint."

"Then we'll just do what we want, have a good time with them, and it's best to feint against us tonight."

"When the Eighth Route Army receives the news of the attack on the base area at dawn, it will definitely be taken aback, and it will be too late to attack us if it wants to attack us again."

The former enemy headquarters of the garrison regiment in the east of the city, Li Hao stood at the observation port, looking at the battlefield with a calm face.

This is already the third offensive of the troops.

In the first two attacks, the main attacking force lost half a company.

If this had been put in a year or two ago, Li Hao would definitely have been heartbroken for a long time.

It's different now, in the face of half a company's casualties, maybe it's used to it, it's obviously much calmer than before, and you can treat it with a normal heart.

Because he knows that people will die in battle, and no matter how good the tactical methods he uses, he does not dare to guarantee victory with zero casualties.

As for the big battle in front of us, casualties are even more unavoidable.

As a commander, what you need to do is to use your brains to win this battle at the lowest cost.

Don't look at the first two attacks, they lost half a company, but the losses of the Japanese puppet army at the head of the city were even greater.

Being able to trade the lives of one of your subordinates for the lives of two enemies in a siege battle is definitely a good bargain.

Therefore, Li Hao did not have the slightest intention of stopping the troops from continuing the offensive.

Chief of Staff Zhou suddenly walked over: "Comrade Li Hao, I just received news that the next two regiments in the northwest of Shanxi have entered the position. ”

"A regiment redeployed by the commander and two thousand local troops are on their way, and they will be in place before dawn!"

"Do you want to immediately order the troops to change from a feint attack to a general attack!"

Li Hao seemed to be in love with this style of play, shook his head and replied: "Wait a little longer, don't worry." ”

Seeing that the chief looked puzzled, Li Hao immediately explained: "Chief, you said that we are fighting with devils in the city, how much can the casualty ratio between the enemy and us be controlled?" ”

Chief of Staff Zhou thought for a moment and replied very affirmatively: "If you fight in the streets, the enemy is in the dark, and I am in the light, and they are waiting for work, our casualties will definitely be greater than those of the devil!" ”

Li Hao continued to ask: "What about our current attack?" ”

This time, Chief of Staff Zhou didn't think about it, looked at Li Hao and blurted out: "The advantage of machine gun firepower and artillery fire is in our hands, the city defended by the devil can hold bullets and can't block the shells, as long as the artillery fire is fierce enough, our casualties will definitely be smaller than the Japanese puppet army." ”

Speaking of this, Chief of Staff Zhou suddenly reacted: "I understand." ”

"You want to wipe out the Japanese puppet army through a feint."

"When we enter from the east of the city, there will not be many Japanese puppet troops who can withdraw to the other three walls, and the pressure and casualties of street fighting will be reduced."

Li Hao didn't expect the chief to react so quickly.

Amazed, he quickly replied: "I really think so." ”

"Anyway, the danger of the base area has been lifted, and what we have is time and devils."

"Instead of fighting them in the streets of the city, exchanging lives for lives, it is better to spend more time blowing them up on the city walls."

"There are no civilians there, and the artillery can shoot with impunity. Street fighting is not possible, in order to avoid accidentally injuring the civilians hiding in the room, they can only use small arms to fight, and their hands and feet are tied. ”

Chief of Staff Zhou immediately agreed: "I agree, but you must control the rhythm." ”

"No matter how you consume the devils, you must kill Datong before dawn."

"If we don't get in, the news of the attack on the base will come tomorrow morning, and we haven't retreated, the devils will definitely find some clues, and then change the reinforcement plan."

"When the time comes, the Japanese puppet army attacking your base area will retreat in time, and you will lose the opportunity to eat them."

If it weren't for Chief of Staff Zhou's reminder, Li Hao would really want to make a feint attack for one night.

He replied with a grateful face: "Thank you, chief, I plan to let the attacking troops make a feint three more times, and attack on time at three o'clock in the morning, just so that the two regiments that have just arrived at the battlefield can rest." ”

"At three o'clock, attack in four directions at the same time."

"The devil didn't know that we would change the feint attack to a general attack, and he would definitely treat this attack as a previous feint."

"While they are underestimating the enemy, they will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on them with full firepower."

At half past two in the morning, the gunfire on the city walls was still intermittent.

The Japanese command and brigade commanders received all the news that the East Gate repelled the third attack of the Eighth Route Army, the West Gate repelled the fourth attack of the Eighth Route Army, or the Eighth Route Army launched the fifth attack at the South Gate......

Several staff officers are very busy, no matter which city gate repels the attack of the Eighth Route Army, they will report the battle damage here as soon as possible.

What they are doing is counting the battle damage and then reporting it to the brigade commander so that he knows the most real situation on the battlefield.

The deputy chief of staff stood beside him, and every time he received a battle report, his tense nerves were soothed.

After glancing at the watch, it was nice to report.

"General, this is the sixth feint attack of the Eighth Route Army, and judging from the battle reports of the city defense troops, they can withstand at least four attacks of the same scale."

"It's almost three o'clock in the morning, and there will be four more feints, and the sky is just dawning, and the Eighth Route Army that attacked us will definitely retreat."

"When they receive the elimination of the attack on the base area, it is possible to withdraw directly from Datong."

The brigade commander nodded, in a very good mood: "It seems that my previous judgments were all right. ”

"As long as there are no accidents, Datong City must be safe tonight."

"But we can't take it lightly, and order the city defense troops to strengthen their vigilance to prevent the Eighth Route Army from fishing in troubled waters and rushing to the foot of the city wall when it feints."

"Order the baggage team to send them another batch of flares to make sure there are no defensive holes on the battlefield."

"The reserve team should seize the time to rest and recuperate, so that we can still fight a counterattack by the Eighth Route Army after dawn."

Datong City is defended, and there will be no problem with his own safety, and the deputy chief of staff is obviously more energetic in carrying out the task than just now.

Looking at the brigade commander with a look of admiration, he replied: "The general is wise, and he will give orders now." ”

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