"Sir, this news is definitely the best news we've received in this time!" The chief of staff shouted with joy!

"The reinforcements of a brigade, plus the defensive troops we deployed around the garrison regiment and the troops holding on to their hinterland, the Guanghuang Army adds up to more than 13,000 people!"

"With the addition of the Imperial Army, the total strength directly exceeds 20,000!"

"The artillery strength is also unprecedentedly strong!"

"The two field artillery brigades plus the mountain artillery units directly under each unit, the mountain artillery is more than one wing!"

"There are more mortars, almost every infantry brigade has a mortar squadron, ranging from nine to twelve mortars, to provide close artillery support to the imperial army!"

"There is also an independent mountain artillery brigade, a full twelve large-caliber mountain artillery guns with a range of more than eight kilometers, which is definitely a giant for the Eighth Route Army!"

"On the battlefield, as long as they participate in the battle, the Eighth Route Army can only be beaten passively!"

"Even if they are equipped with 150 mm caliber heavy mortars captured by the Imperial Army and secret weapons of their own production, they will only be beaten passively because they have a limited range and cannot reach our mountain artillery positions!"

The more the chief of staff talked, the more excited he became, as if victory was just around the corner, and it was none other than himself!

The commander was also pleased!

Kill the garrison group, and as the direct boss of Nakata Yamalang, he will also make a great achievement!

But he's a lot more sensible!

The Imperial Army has been defeated by the garrison many times, which is enough to show that the garrison is a very formidable opponent!

Even if the superiority in strength and firepower is on the side of the imperial army, it is possible to be defeated, and the previous Lingqiu offensive and defensive battle is the best example!

As a military commander and one of the beneficiaries of this siege, he did not dare to be careless at all.

He must eliminate all the unfavorable factors that may affect this battle, and ensure that the battle is won when reinforcements are in place.

The strength or weakness of the combat effectiveness of the garrison regiment is directly related to the victory or loss of the imperial army and the final price paid!

So you have to find a way to prevent the garrison from forming a combat force!

Raising his eyebrows, he stared at the chief of staff and asked, "Are all the countermeasures I asked you to prepare ready?" ”

The chief of staff's face quickly returned to seriousness: "Ready, there are three plans in total, which are jointly discussed and formulated by the General Staff Department and the Intelligence Section, and they have also been tactically deduced, and the probability of success is more than eighty percent!" ”

It took the commander half an hour to read the three plans against the map, and then after thinking for another five minutes, he finally pulled out one of the plans!

"That's it!"

"Chief of Staff, you personally intervene and command the entire countermeasure operation, and you must drag the garrison regiment and prevent them from forming combat effectiveness!"

"I will immediately give an order to the front-line garrisons, so that they will cooperate with you unconditionally, and they will be soldiers for soldiers, and equipment for equipment!

Outside the south gate of Laiyuan City, nearly 200 soldiers were stationed in platoons, some practicing marksmanship, and some practicing tactical movements, which was very lively.

Li Hao stood next to the training ground and looked at everyone, sometimes frowning, sometimes his expression relaxed, and sometimes showing a very satisfied smile!

Suddenly, Jin Yunian, the instructor of the special agent battalion, rushed over in a hurry, with a solemn look on his face!

"Regiment commander, battalion commander, something happened!"

"I just received a report from the local troops that something happened in Zhou Village, fifteen miles away, and all thirteen members of the village guerrillas, including the captain, were killed last night!"

"The news has spread in the village, and the whole village of Zhou has become panicked, especially the families of those guerrillas, who are overwhelmed with grief, crying and shouting for the garrison to pay for their son's life!"

A dozen partisans were killed overnight, and this was definitely a provocation to the garrison! In addition to the devil, Li Hao couldn't imagine that there were other murderers!

And Li Hao has a hunch that this matter is definitely not as simple as everyone seems!

His face sank at that time, and he ordered very decisively: "Go, go to Zhou Village now!" ”

"Instructor Jin, you should bring a few more political cadres over to appease the families of the guerrillas!"

When Li Hao rushed to Zhou Village with a platoon of guards, the village had already been placed under martial law by the nearest district squadron!

Nearly 100 soldiers surrounded the village tightly, and at least one squad of soldiers at the important village entrances and intersections were guarded with guns, which looked heavily guarded on the surface, and not a single fly could fly into the village!

But Li Hao was not satisfied at all!

Compared to the main force, the proportion of recruits in the local troops is higher!

Except for the cadres who are veterans, the others are all new recruits!

Although more than ten days of training gave them a standing posture, their combat effectiveness was almost zero!

What's more, many of them have a hint of panic and nervousness on their faces!

It must be the dead people in the village, they already know about it!

A guerrilla detachment of more than a dozen people was wiped out, and it was the first time that such close contact was dead, and the shock was too strong for these recruits who had never been on the battlefield!

Although he was very dissatisfied with these troops in his heart, Li Hao had no choice!

The strength of the base area is limited, and the main force has not yet formed combat effectiveness, let alone these local troops, Li Hao is powerless!

"The head of the regiment is a good ......"

At this time, the squadron leader of the district squadron trotted over and reported with a solemn face!

"I've found out everything, a team came to the village yesterday evening, wearing the uniforms of our Eighth Route Army, and the guerrillas took them to the village entrance station to rest, and then this happened!"

"This morning, a family member of a guerrilla came to the guerrilla station to look for him when he saw that his son had not yet returned, and no matter how he knocked on the door, no one answered in the courtyard of the station, and finally he broke open the gate and found the bodies of more than a dozen team members!"

"We found traces of a fight between the two sides at the station!"

"There must have been a player who reacted at that time and wanted to fight back!"

"In addition, the villagers didn't see the specific time when this team left the village, but they heard dogs barking in the village around the early morning, so we judged that this group of enemies left around the early morning!"

"They are definitely not our Eighth Route Army!" Liu Senyun immediately shouted!

"Because of the limited number of military uniforms, at present, only the main force has changed into the military uniform of our Eighth Route Army, and the local troops are still wearing the captured devils and the military uniforms of the Imperial Allied Army! And the main force, except for the reconnaissance squads of each company operating around Laiyuan City, other units are all training in the station, and it is impossible for so many troops to appear at one time! ”

"Also, no matter how foolish our warriors are, they won't kill their own people!"

"It must be a little devil pretending, pretending to be the Eighth Route Army to make trouble and kill people in the base area, not only can it hide people's eyes and ears, facilitate their own transfer and concealment, but also blame our Eighth Route Army, so that the villagers no longer believe in our Eighth Route Army, and hinder us from establishing a base here!"

Li Hao replied with a calm face: "It's definitely impossible to blame!" ”

"The folks have brains, and with their eyes closed, they know that we can't kill our own people!"

"There is no doubt that this team is pretended to be by the Japanese puppet army, and I judge that they pretended to be our Eighth Route Army to kill people in the base area, and one must be to hide people's eyes and ears and facilitate their own activities in our base area!"

"As for another reason, eighty percent is to confuse the villagers, so that everyone can't tell the real from the fake Eighth Route Army."

"In order to prevent ourselves from being retaliated by the Eighth Route Army pretended to be by the Japanese puppet army, in the following days, no matter whether we are really the Eighth Route Army or not, when we see us again, we will have the same concerns as before, how far and how far to hide!"

"Once this situation occurs, all our previous efforts will come to naught, without the support and trust of the people, it will be difficult to establish a base area, and it will definitely be even more difficult to twist all the villagers into a rope!"