"Why!" Hong Linfeng asked subconsciously, and his brows furrowed.

Li Hao was silent for a moment and asked, "How many little devils we killed in the village yesterday afternoon, remember!" ”

"There are 524 little devils with corpses, 29 puppet soldiers, 139 captured puppet soldiers, and the captain of the Captain Guang squadron has killed two, which can be said to be a battle in which our independent battalion formed and killed the most little devils!"

"By the way, nine heavy machine guns were also captured!"

"The devil only has one heavy machine gun squadron of twelve heavy machine guns, and he lost three-quarters of his equipment at once, and directly turned into a machine gun squad!"

Speaking of this, Hong Linfeng paused, his tone became significantly heavier, and continued.

"But we also paid a very heavy price!"

"At the beginning, a squadron and a squad that entered the village were easier to fight, and we concentrated our superior forces and firepower, plus we were familiar with the terrain, and it didn't take much effort to kill them!"

"The two infantry squadrons and the heavy machine gun squadron that came in from behind were much more difficult to fight."

"The superiority in troops, the superiority in firepower, are all gone, and the only thing that can be relied on is the terrain advantage, so the casualties are a bit big!"

"After statistics, the five main companies participating in the battle plus the baggage company, nearly 500 people before the war, after the battle, there were more than 290 people plus the wounded, 216 people were directly sacrificed, and 42 seriously wounded people lost their combat effectiveness, and they have been handed over to the baggage company and sent back to the station together with the prisoners!"

"Excluding the baggage company, there are only 174 troops left in our hands that can still fight!"

"The worst thing is the second company, plus the company commander Zhao Yun still has 21 people left!"

"The other four companies are not much better, there are only more than thirty people left, just one platoon!"

When it came to casualties, Li Hao's face was not good-looking, and he replied calmly: "Blood debts must be paid with blood, and I will find this Watanabe brigade sooner or later to settle this account!" ”

Then he changed the conversation and continued: "Let's discuss the problem first! ”

"Yesterday afternoon, the Japanese army was killed by us more than 500 people, almost all of them combat troops. Let me ask you one more question, how many combat units were in the hands of the Watanabe Brigade of the Japanese Army! ”

"Four infantry squadrons plus a guard corps, the total strength is less than nine hundred!"

Speaking of this, Hong Linfeng suddenly reacted: "I understand, battalion commander, you mean that the little devil has no troops to fight with us!" ”

"Yes, the little devil still has at least four hundred combat troops in his hands!" Li Hao shook his head and replied.

Hong Linfeng was puzzled: "Then battalion commander, why did you just say that the little devil and we are desperate is not so simple!" ”

Li Hao smiled and explained: "The ability to fight with us does not mean that they will fight with us!" ”

"You have forgotten the real purpose of the little devil Watanabe Brigade leaving Lingqiu County!"

Hong Linfeng finally understood, and suddenly shouted, "This time I really understand!" ”

"If the little devils continue to fight with us here, they won't have the strength to continue to sweep our base area!"

"Sweeping the base area and besieging the army division headquarters is a unified action of tens of thousands. No matter how big Watanabe's burden is, it is impossible to directly disobey the military order. ”

Speaking of this, Hong Linfeng reminded him with a whim: "Battalion commander, you said that the little devil set up artillery with such fanfare outside the village, could it be just a bluff!" ”

"Let's get a round of artillery fire first, and then take advantage of the chaos to kill Dongtian Village!"

"Possibly!" Li Hao thought for a while and did not deny it.

Hong Linfeng became anxious again, and began to ask for battle at that time: "Then we must not be able to let the little devil go through Dongtian Village so easily!" ”

"I propose to pull all the troops up and lurk in the yard next to the road!"

"If the devils are really bluffing, then we will use the yard next to the highway to clean them up, and kill one more devil if we can!"

"If the devils still plan to continue attacking us, that's right, although we only have more than a hundred people left, I am confident that we will fight at least two hundred more devils through street fighting!"

"Battalion commander, give the order!"

Li Hao didn't speak, his brows continued to twist, and he was thinking about the pros and cons in his heart.

After a few minutes, he shook his head and replied, "The devil is not that stupid!" ”

"If they really plan to bluff and take the opportunity to cross the village of Dongtian, they will definitely use shells to smash the houses on both sides of the road into rubble!"

"The little devil suffered such a big loss in the street battle yesterday afternoon, and the same mistake will not be made again!"

"Now you take people into the village and lurk in the houses next to the road, or you will be blown up and killed!"

"We can't take this risk, the casualties of the troops are already large enough, we must be cautious in every next battle and try to reduce the casualties as much as possible!"

Hong Linfeng shouted unwillingly: "Then let's just watch the devils pass through Dongtian Village under the cover of artillery fire!" ”

"Eggs can't be packed in one basket!" Li Hao quickly made a decision!

"You take one company, three companies, enter the village immediately, and disperse and lurk in the village in squads!"

"If the devil wants to pass through the village by road, he will definitely stop the shelling and march through the village with artillery!"

"All you need to do is to quickly move closer to the highway after the shelling has stopped, attack them, and kill one of them!"

"If the devil doesn't leave, he would rather disobey the military order than fight us to the end, that's right!"

"Two companies will catch up at once, slow down their advance, and then I'll bring the remaining two companies to reinforce them!"

"In this way, we can minimize accidents and hit the little devils with minimal casualties!"

"Woooooooooo......oo Boom Boom Boom ......"

Less than five minutes after Hong Linfeng led the people, the scream of cannonballs crossing the sky sounded, and the explosion followed in the village, shaking the ground, and then rising up a cloud of orange-red fireballs mixed with a large amount of black smoke.

"Something is wrong~"

Seeing the distribution of fireballs in the village, Li Hao's already frowning brows wrinkled even deeper at this time.

Artillery was dispatched to cover the entire village, and Li Hao's first reaction was that the devil did not plan to run away.

Otherwise, their shells would have been concentrated on both sides of the road, razing the houses and yards on both sides of the road, leaving the independent battalion without a place to hide, and there would be no way to sneak up on them!

"Could it be that the little devil really plans to continue to fight with himself here, and he was thinking too much about what he just thought?" Li Hao frowned and muttered to himself.

But he soon rejected the idea!

The independent battalion was able to eat more than 500 of them through street fighting yesterday, and it will definitely be no problem to eat more than 300 of them today with the same fighting style!

The Watanabe Brigade could not afford to lose any more than 300 people, and if it lost more than 300 people, the entire Watanabe Brigade would exist in name only, leaving only a group of technical soldiers. Not to mention attacking and sweeping base areas, even self-preservation is a problem!

What's more, the Watanabe Brigade may not be able to eat itself if it loses more than 300 people.

As a battle-hardened mid-level commander of the Japanese army, Li Hao is sure: Watanabe must have guessed this result.

Knowing that he would suffer a big loss, and even lead to the annihilation of the entire army, he still insisted on doing so.

Li Hao didn't believe that there were so many shells in the hands of the devil that there was nowhere to fight, so he deliberately smashed into the village, there must be a conspiracy behind this shelling that he didn't know!

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