The headquarters of the heavy mortar sent by Li Hao left six guns, which had just participated in a battle a few days ago, and the deputy commander-in-chief had witnessed its great power with his own eyes.

Attacking and defending, it is definitely a battlefield killer.

At that moment, the deputy commander-in-chief seemed to see the images of countless little devils being blown away by heavy mortars.

Li Hao sent another 60 doors at once, and the deputy commander-in-chief affirmed that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, especially the ability to attack fortified positions, would definitely be raised to a higher level because of their arrival.

He immediately replied: "Deputy Chief of Staff, immediately organize manpower and material resources to take over this batch of weapons and ammunition, and send them safely to the base areas at all costs to equip the troops." ”

"As for Comrade Li Hao, just do as you say!"

"Send a telegram to the Chongqing office first, and if you can transfer it back, you can transfer it as soon as you can transfer it back, and if you can't transfer it back, you can be seconded, and immediately return to the garrison regiment to preside over the overall situation."

Li Hao personally escorted 2,000 rounds of heavy mortar shells back to the garrison regiment.

As soon as he entered the base area, he felt the tense atmosphere before the battle.

"Commander, you're back." Seeing Li Hao, the happiest person is the political commissar Wang Hong.

The head of the regiment and the political commissar are shoulder-to-shoulder, and he is still competent in normal times.

When encountering such an unprecedented battle, I obviously felt that I was under a lot of pressure and couldn't bear it.

Li Hao quickly entered the state, and he didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Tell me the specific situation first, I felt it when I passed through the enemy-occupied area, and the atmosphere of the Japanese preparing for war was stronger than ours." ”

"The highway is full of military trucks full of supplies. There are obviously a lot more guards, artillery towers, and garrisons in the strongholds along the way than before, and they are heavily guarded, and no pedestrians on the road are spared, and all of them must be checked, especially the common people entering and leaving our base areas, and the inspections are even stricter. ”

"I have a feeling that the Japanese attack on our garrison is about to begin."

Wang Hong nodded: "Our judgment is within ten days." ”

"At the current rate at which the Japanese army is sending supplies to the front line, in another ten days, the Japanese army on the front line will be able to stock up on a sufficient amount of supplies and ammunition and then attack us."

Li Hao frowned: "The situation is even worse than I imagined." ”

"Commissar, what are the various units doing at the moment."

"The main forces are all strengthening fortifications on the front line, and according to your order more than a month ago, each frontal battlefield must build a large fortification three kilometers deep and arranged in echelons."

"Because there are planes cruising above us all the time during the day, in order to avoid exposing the fortifications, the grass and snakes were startled, and several bombs were blown up in advance by the devils, and all our fortifications were built at night, and they were well concealed before dawn."

"By now, the four fortifications directly facing the Japanese army have all been repaired, and the fighters are reinforcing them in the hope that they will be able to withstand the attacks of ordinary mountain artillery and infantry artillery."

Wang Hong took out a drawing and spread it on the table and continued: "This is a fortification map that all the staff officers of the regiment headquarters and several battalion commanders have perfected together, and the four defensive positions are built according to this drawing. ”

"In the whole defense system, a trench is built every 150 meters, and the trenches are connected with the trenches by communication trenches."

"Machine gun firing points, especially heavy machine gun ones, are all arranged in bunkers between trenches to avoid the trenches."

"The bunkers are built of logs, covered with two layers of logs, covered with sandbags and soil layers one meter thick, and finally hidden."

"We experimented with ordinary mortars that only left a crater half a meter deep. Unless ten mortar shells hit one point at the same time, the bunker could not be destroyed. ”

"However, if the little devil uses mountain cannons, he can reimburse a dark fort with only two of them."

"With heavy artillery, it only takes one shell to hit it nearby to destroy it."

"Even if there is no steel and cement, otherwise these bunkers will definitely be able to withstand the continuous shelling of the mountain artillery, and the heavy artillery will not flatten it with a single shell nearby."

Seeing the disappointed expression on Wang Hong's face, Li Hao hurriedly comforted: "Political commissar rest assured. ”

"The reason why you are asked to build so many dark bunkers is that I want to win not by quality, but by quantity."

"There are five machine gun bunkers behind each line of defense, which are equipped with one heavy machine gun or two light machine guns, before the devils use mountain artillery and heavy artillery, as long as one bunker is killed by a little devil, a line of defense is fifty little devils."

"The entire defense system is three kilometers deep, and there is a defense line for every 150 to 200 meters, which adds up to nearly 20 defense lines."

"One line of defense kills fifty devils, and twenty lines of defense are a thousand little devils."

"Coupled with the other people in the army, the devil wants to take down a defense system from us, and he will definitely not be able to do it without the loss of 2,000 people."

"In addition, during the devil's attack, in addition to defense, I have other tricks waiting for them, to ensure that these defense systems will become the Waterloo of the little devils, and turn these places into the graves of the little devils."

Seeing that Li Hao became more and more confident the more he spoke, Wang Hong's tense nerves were obviously relaxed.

He continued to report: "The local troops, the guerrillas, are mainly engaged in the ideological work of the villagers in the base areas. ”

"After the autumn harvest is over, I will take out all the oceans of the garrison regiment to buy grain according to your order, commander, and exchange the sweet potato flour, pork, and eggs produced in the base area as much as possible with grain, and almost buy all the extra grain in the base area."

"The remaining rations in the hands of the villagers were also buried deep under the mobilization of local troops and guerrillas, and only half a month's rations were left at home."

"After the Japanese start their attack, as long as it takes one day, the villagers along the line can move lightly into the mountains, fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, and ensure that the Japanese puppet army will not get a single grain in our base area and will not be able to drink a sip of clean water!"

Li Hao was very satisfied and asked, "How is the storage of weapons and ammunition?" ”

"Heavy mortar shells and heavy artillery shells were sent by the regiment commander, enough to support a large-scale war of attrition."

"The average number of ordinary mortar shells is 150 rounds per unit, and the mountain artillery is a little less, only 60 rounds, all of which are produced overnight in the base arsenals."

"Heavy machine guns can average 2,000 rounds each, light machine guns can average 1,500 rounds, and rifles can average 300 rounds per person."

"In addition, there are more than 20,000 grenades and 500 explosive packs for flying thunder cannons."

Li Hao's brows twisted on the spot: "It's too little." ”

"We all know: the larger and more protracted the battle, the greater the consumption of ammunition by the troops, and the very little capture, unless the battle is all over,"

"I have a hunch that the next counter-sweep will be an unprecedented protracted battle, and in the first half, our ammunition will only be depleted, and there will be almost no capture."

"Therefore, the arsenal must take advantage of the pre-war period to hurry up production."

"Order the arsenal to concentrate on the production of ordinary mortar shells, special explosive packages for flying thunder guns, heavy machine gun bullets, grenades, the more the better."

"Also, find a way to produce a batch of Mauser pistols to pop out, the more the better."

Today's first update is delivered! Ask for a subscription! Collect! Ask for a commuter pass!

"Bookmark for easy reading"