Chapter 704: Desperate Survival (First Update!) )

Hong Linfeng didn't know what Li Hao was thinking!

But he has his own analysis.

The two battalions of combatable soldiers were less than 500 people, and after the devils had heavy mortars, the artillery superiority of the troops was gone!

Plus the Japanese army reoccupied all the fortifications of the city, and they were ready to fight!

The garrison regiment has completely lost the possibility of taking the garrison regiment!

Continuing to attack makes no sense except to inflict casualties on the troops!

Seeing that Li Hao's face was getting more and more gloomy, but he just stared at the map and didn't speak, Hong Linfeng couldn't help it!

"Commander, I don't think we can fight anymore!"

"Now all the advantages are on the side of the little devils, if you continue to fight, the troops will not take any advantage, and there will be more casualties!"

"Also, I went to the unit just now and talked to the two battalion commanders: their opinion is also to suspend the offensive!"

"Change the attack to be trapped, directly trap the devils in Lingqiu City, cut off their supplies, and force them to leave Lingqiu City!"

"I think it's a good idea!"

"Lingqiu is now a lonely city, surrounded by our base!"

"Coupled with the reinforcements that just arrived yesterday, there are still more than 2,000 puppet troops inside, people eat horses and chew, and the food consumed every day alone is astronomical!"

"Even if the devil hoarded a large amount of materials in Lingqiu City in advance, such a large consumption every day, there would be a time when it would run out!"

"At that time, the Japanese army will definitely send supplies to Lingqiu City, and these supplies must pass through our base area!"

"As long as we stop it, the lack of food alone can force the little devil out of Lingqiu City!"

Li Hao did not deny it: "Surrender the army without a fight, and take Lingqiu City at the lowest price!" ”

Hong Linfeng's eyes lit up and asked, "Commander, you agreed!" ”

"No!"

Li Hao was surprised to deny it!

"In normal times, I would definitely support this, and I won't fight this battle in the first place! But not now? ”

"There's a fatal flaw in your ideas!"

"It takes time, and it's a long time!"

"According to intelligence, since the Japanese army reoccupied Lingqiu, it was operated as an isolated city!"

"I've been stockpiling supplies, weapons and ammunition inside for months!"

"Don't say too much, Lingqiu City's current food reserves, devils must be fine for three months, if you don't eat for half a year, it's enough!"

"Do you think the Japanese army will give us so much time to attack us after we take Lingqiu?"

"There are also three counties of Hunyuan, Guangling, and Laiyuan!"

"The Japanese army took the initiative to abandon all the strongholds outside the city and defend the county seat!"

"Was this a decision they were forced to make, or was it done on purpose?"

"Judging from the events in Lingqiu City tonight, I think the latter is more likely!"

"If the devil really brews any big conspiracy in the three counties, with the strength of the three main battalions, can I deal with it, I don't have any confidence in my heart!"

"What if you can't handle it!"

"The special battalion and the independent battalion can't move here because of the siege of the Lingqiu garrison, even if we know that the three main battalions are in danger, we can't send reinforcements to them, we can only watch them fend for themselves!"

Hong Linfeng's eyes immediately widened, and he suddenly realized and shouted, "That's really the case!" ”

"The devil can send heavy artillery to reinforce Lingqiu, and he can definitely reinforce Guangling, Hunyuan!"

"If the little devils in the three places have heavy artillery reinforcements, they will definitely not continue to defend the county seat!"

"We only have one main battalion in each county, and it is easy to be broken by the devils!"

"In order to prepare for possible accidents, you must have a certain number of mobile troops in your hands to reinforce the battlefield at any time!"

"The special battalion and the independent battalion are the only mobile units we can use, so the two battalions must be liberated from here as soon as possible, restore their strength, and deal with the unexpected situations that may be encountered in the base area!"

Li Hao nodded affirmatively: "Not bad!" ”

"For the sake of the overall situation of the entire base area, we have the conditions to fight in Lingqiu City in front of us, and we must fight if we don't have the conditions, and we must fight quickly and end the battle as soon as possible!"

Hong Linfeng was embarrassed, and replied helplessly: "Commander, now we don't have any conditions!" ”

"There's no chance of winning at all!"

"With this amount of troops and firepower, not to mention taking Lingqiu City, it is very difficult to even get close to Lingqiu City!"

"Also, last night and tonight, the troops have lost two battles in a row, with heavy casualties, and many troops are not left with one out of ten!"

"Because this battle was decided by us on the fly, very suddenly!"

"Before the fight, many troops had only completed half of their training!"

"Those prisoners and absenteeism who had just replenished the troops were frightened, not only demoralized, but also resistant to going to the battlefield!"

"In this case, the troops can't fight at all!"

Li Hao also frowned and fell into deep thought, these questions were all things he had to consider!

The chief of staff is quite right, if these problems are not resolved, there will be no talk about continuing the offensive!

But the difference in strength is there, although Li Hao has decades of historical experience in his head, it is still very tricky to face this problem, and he can't think of any clue when he scratches his head!

"Boom...... Dadada......"

Suddenly, an explosion faintly entered the command headquarters, and there were a lot of gunshots mixed in it!

Li Hao's brows, which were still twisted just now, stretched in an instant, and his eyes lit up and shouted!

"There's a way!"

"How did I forget about them!"

"Chief of Staff, although the two main battalions of our siege have retreated, the guard company and the guard platoon and reconnaissance platoon of the two battalions that touched the county town during the battle have not retreated!"

"A company plus four platoons, with a total strength of nearly three hundred people, as long as they are used well, they can definitely deal a fatal blow to the Lingqiu garrison!"

"Then attack inside and outside, and cooperate with the main force to retake Lingqiu!"

"I really don't have an idea, an unexpected decision a few hours ago turned out to be the key to whether we can take Lingqiu City!"

"When this battle is won and the troops take Lingqiu, I want to see Li Zhiyong in person!"

"He was the first to send a small force into the county town and take the initiative to attack the little devils by using street fighting, and he was the biggest contributor to our ability to take Lingqiu!"

"Chief of Staff, did Sun Jiawu bring a company of guards into Lingqiu City with a radio?"

Hong Linfeng's eyes also began to glow!

He has absolute trust in the regimental commander!

The regiment commander said that if it can be done, then it must be no problem, and hope was rekindled on his desperate and solemn face, and he immediately replied: "There is a radio!" ”

"In the battle to kill the three brigades of devils, we captured six radio stations at once, and each main battalion was divided into one!"

"Last night, I took two strongholds and seized two more!"

"Although the power is small, there is no problem at all with contact within ten kilometers!"

"Battalion Commander Sun is bringing a low-power radio!"

The confident expression on Li Hao's face became even stronger: "If we can contact Sun Jiawu, then our chances of winning this battle will be higher!" ”

"Let's go in three parts!"

"The first step is to reactivate the Flying Thunder Cannon that we have already mothballed!"

"After the devils are equipped with heavy artillery, the deterrence of the flying thunder cannon against them is gone, even if it is exposed now, it doesn't matter!"

"In that case, let them go back to the battlefield!"

"The special battalion and the independent battalion each strengthened six flying thunder cannons, and immediately launched a feint attack on the Japanese puppet army on the city wall, using the flying thunder cannons and our remaining artillery, a large number of Japanese troops, attracting all their attention to the east and west of the city, and giving our troops lurking in the city a chance to act!"

"The remaining flying thunder artillery will be sent to the three main battalions, one battalion will be divided into six, and a flying thunder artillery platoon will be formed!"

"In addition, remind the special battalion and the independent battalion that you must pay attention to the heavy mortars equipped by the little devils during the attack!"

"Draw out a part of the artillery, especially mortars, and deal specifically with this heavy artillery unit, hold them back, and not give them the opportunity to hit our attacking troops and flying thunder artillery units!"

"The second step, order Sun Jiawu to command all the troops in the city in a unified manner!"

"As soon as the battle outside the city began, it immediately launched an attack on a small group of Japanese troops, important command headquarters, material warehouses, and ammunition depots in the city, which bloomed everywhere and consumed a large number of Japanese troops!"

"Remind Sun Jiawu that you must not fight hard!"

"Be sure to kill as many devils as possible with the least casualties!"

"They killed some of the devils, let's kill some more, plus the ones we have already killed! We're going to eat at least a thousand little devils tonight! ”

"After dawn, if conditions allow, we will continue to fight!"

"The conditions don't allow, let's wait until it gets dark and continue to fight!"

"The third step is to immediately send a telegram to the political commissar, and pull out all the people who are willing to join our Eighth Route Army among the absentees and captives in the base area and send them to Lingqiu! After the battle, these people immediately replenished the independent battalion and the special service battalion, so that they could regain their combat effectiveness as soon as possible! ”

In the east of Lingqiu City, more than 200 Japanese puppet troops are busy on it, rushing to repair the city fortifications that were destroyed by the garrison regiment in the first half of the night!

The squadron leader stood on the ruins of the city tower, holding a telescope, condescendingly looking down at the offensive position of the garrison!

Looking at it, the corners of the squadron leader's mouth couldn't help but smile!

In less than half an hour, the garrison regiment had already carried down more than a hundred people from the offensive positions, both corpses and seriously wounded!

The offensive position stretching for several hundred meters, there are no longer a few Eighth Route Army in sight!

Most of them carried their rifles on their backs, bent down and threw shovel after spade of dirt out of the position, deepening and widening the consumption!

At this time, anyone with a little military common sense can see that in the face of heavy casualties, the garrison regiment has lost its offensive ability!

And the reason why the trenches are still deepening and widening now is probably because they want to continue to besiege Lingqiu, and wait for the strength to attack again in the future!

With this idea, the squadron leader completely relaxed, threw the telescope to his subordinates, and returned to his headquarters to close his eyes and recuperate!

He was also physically and mentally exhausted after half a night of fighting, and needed to rest!

There's a word called upside down effect!

The squadron leader is relaxed, and the troops under his command will definitely not be nervous anymore!

The pace of repairs began to slow down, and the alert troops did not begin to concentrate as much!

At this moment, a troop entered the position like a ghost under the cover of night!

Then start building a flying thunder artillery position relying on the position!