"Battalion commander, this battle is really too thrilling, you must not take such a risk in the future! If it weren't for your quick reaction and timely retreat with your troops, our losses would have been great! After listening to Li Hao's introduction of the entire operation process, Wang Hong exclaimed with palpitations.

"Isn't that safe to come back?" Li Hao replied with a look of indifference.

"Besides, the greater the risk, the greater the gain, the same is true for doing business, and the same is true for war, otherwise we wouldn't be able to bring back so many prisoners and captures!"

Wang Hong replied helplessly: "Don't say it, anyway, I can't say anything about you!" ”

"However, there is indeed a lot of equipment captured in this battle, especially heavy weapons, plus a total of ten mortars and ten heavy machine guns captured in the base area, a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company can be established!"

Seeing that Wang Hong was more and more happy, Li Hao followed and added.

"When retreating, I led a platoon of guards and a reconnaissance platoon to kill a cavalry squad of devils, and successfully captured 42 war horses and matching cavalry equipment!"

The smile on Wang Hong's face became even stronger, and he added: "A lot of war horses have also been captured in the base area!" ”

"Originally, not a single war horse was captured in the four ambushes, and I don't know what medicine Watanabe took wrong, so he suddenly sent more than 20 heralds into our base area, and one herald was matched with a war horse."

"Of course, the fat delivered to the door must be eaten, and the more than 20 heralds did not run a single one, all of them were killed, and a full 21 war horses were captured, all intact!"

Speaking of this, Wang Hong's excited face slowly became hot, and he stared at Li Hao and asked.

"Battalion commander, there are as many as 63 horses and so many heavy weapons, what are you going to do with them?"

Hong Linfeng's eyes also became hot, staring at Li Hao tightly.

Although the proportion of heavy weapons in the independent battalion was second to none in the entire Eighth Route Army, no one would mind a few more mortars in the troops.

In this case, if you encounter the little devils in the future, you may not need to attack with infantry, and you can blow them up with shells alone!

Li Hao thought for a long time before making a decision: "Each war horse is divided into three horses, so it is convenient to pass orders to each other!" ”

"The battalion headquarters has eighteen horses, plus the existing war horses in the communication platoon, a total of thirty horses are centrally managed, and the battalion headquarters directly belongs to the communication platoon, reconnaissance platoon, and commando, whoever has a task will use it!"

"Give the remaining thirty horses to the cavalry company, let them form another platoon!"

"As for the heavy machine guns and mortars, all of them will be handed over to the military division, and they will be given to him directly when the commander comes here!"

"All the rifles captured by the puppet army will be given to the village guerrillas, and if they are not enough, we will seize them later!"

"We will leave fifty of the 38 big covers of the captured devils for backup, and the others will be handed over to the military sub-division!"

"After the light machine guns and grenadiers replenish the combat attrition, leave five machine guns and five grenadiers for backup, and each district squad will be divided into one machine gun and one grenadier canister, and all the rest will be handed over to the military division!"

Wang Hong and Hong Linfeng were both dumbfounded.

looked at Li Hao's expression as if he suddenly didn't know him.

Wang Hong was the first to react: "Battalion commander, I heard you right!" When did you become so well-behaved that you knew that the seizure was credited! ”

"If I'm not mistaken, these are ten mortars, ten heavy machine guns, more than twenty light machine guns, twenty grenadiers, and more than two hundred three-eight covers!"

"Are you really willing to hand over all of them to the military division?"

Li Hao smiled bitterly and replied: "You think I want to turn it in?" ”

"These light and heavy weapons can be used well, and you can almost form five more companies!"

"Even if you directly equip the troops, it will be enough to double the firepower of our independent battalion!"

"But, there's no way to turn it in?"

Hong Linfeng also reacted at this time, and asked anxiously: "Battalion commander, you have to think about it!" With so many light and heavy weapons, you won't come back if you turn them in! ”

"Turn it all in!" Li Hao replied very firmly, without the slightest hesitation!

"Why?" Hong Linfeng subconsciously asked, his face full of reluctance.

"Because we can't afford to have so many heavy weapons!" Li Hao explained.

"On the battlefield, a heavy machine gun consumes almost as much ammunition per minute as a company, and a light machine gun consumes as much ammunition as a platoon."

"Now we are equipped with seven crooked handles and two heavy machine guns, and we can consume three or four thousand rounds of ammunition in any battle, and seven or eight thousand rounds may be possible if the battle lasts a little longer."

"If you give them twice as many light and heavy machine guns, the ammunition consumption will also double!"

"A company consumes nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition in a skirmish, and the whole battalion adds up to 50,000 or 60,000. According to the equipment of the little devils, we want to capture so many bullets in one battle to ensure the consumption of the battlefield, at least six or seven hundred devils must be killed, and we must also fight quickly. ”

"Do you think we have that strength?"

"Besides, even if our independent battalion has such strength, it will be difficult to encounter such an opportunity!"

"If we fight according to the current weapon configuration, the consumption of a battle is about 30,000 rounds, and we only need to kill 300 devils to capture it, almost a reinforced squadron!"

"Concentrate the strength of the whole battalion to kill a reinforced squadron in one battle, we still have such combat effectiveness, and the fighters are easy to encounter!"

Hong Linfeng stopped talking, although he was still unwilling, but Li Hao's words gave him no reason to refute at all.

Machine guns are too ammunition-intensive, especially heavy machine guns.

Pulling the trigger in a row can use up hundreds of rounds of ammunition in just one minute, which is enough to consume all the infantry of a company.

What's more, without bullets, a light and heavy machine gun is inferior to a rifle with a good bayonet on the battlefield.

After a long sigh, he replied: "Battalion commander, you are right, our ammunition is completely dependent on capture, and with a limited number of bullets, one less shot, we really can't afford to raise so many machine guns and artillery!" ”

"However, will it be too much to hand in so many heavy weapons at once!"

"The main force can't be equipped, we can give it to the local troops!"

"The county brigade has set up a firepower platoon, the district squad has set up a firepower squad, and the larger guerrillas are equipped with machine guns, so it should be no problem!"

Li Hao of the former independent battalion was a miser, and he was eager to keep all the good weapons and equipment for himself, but Wang Hong and Hong Linfeng persuaded him to abide by discipline and take credit for the seizure. Now after seeing the strong combat effectiveness brought by the large number of troops equipped with heavy weapons, Scrooge has become the two of them instead.

Wang Hong's proposal was not unthought of by him, but as soon as this idea came out, he vetoed it himself.

Shaking his head and refusing: "It is rare for local troops to participate in a battle, what are they doing with heavy weapons?" When ornamental? ”

"The other troops of the military division are fighting the devils on the battlefield in order to capture a machine gun, and we have a lot of machine guns there as decorations, if we let the brother troops know, it will definitely poke our backbone!"

"So, in order not to be poked in the backbone by the brother troops, in order to make the best use of these equipment and kill more devils, they must be handed in!"

"I agree!" Instructor Wang Hong said.

"The battalion commander is right, these heavy weapons can only play their role in the main forces, since we can't afford to nourish independently, then give them to the other main forces, let them kill more devils, and we must not put them in our hands and rust!"

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