"What about our own losses?" Nakata continued to ask.

"The losses are about the same, and there is a draw with the Eighth Route Army." The chief of staff replied.

After a moment's hesitation, he added, "However, the lowly position thinks that we are the real winners. ”

"Among the more than 2,000 people we lost, half of them were the Imperial Army, and the real Imperial Army was only 1,000 people, which was equivalent to the lives of one Imperial Army for two Eighth Route Army."

"If we continue to fight according to this casualty ratio, we will be able to completely wipe them out if we lose two or three thousand more imperial troops."

"Moreover, of the two or three thousand imperial troops lost, only half really belonged to independent mixed brigades, less than two infantry brigades, which were completely within our tolerance."

Nakata Shanlang was surprised and denied: "No, to be precise, we can only be regarded as not losing or winning this battle." ”

After picking up a telegram and handing it to the chief of staff, he continued: "This is some information that the intelligence service has just collected and summarized. ”

"In addition to the main force of the garrison regiment that we want to eliminate, a large number of guerrillas have suddenly emerged recently, as well as a large number of local troops and supplementary troops drawn from their rear base areas."

"The total strength is more than five thousand."

"I'm sure that most of the Eighth Route Army that we wiped out were these local troops and reinforcements."

"It's okay to say that the local troops are all anti-Japanese troops formed by the garrison regiment, but the combat effectiveness is not as good as the main force, and I still think about replacing two of them with an imperial army."

"The most difficult thing for me to accept is the reinforcements."

"Almost all of them were born in the Imperial Army, and they joined the Eighth Route Army after being captured. This is equivalent to the imperial army working hard to train them into an army, and finally paying a huge price to eliminate them. ”

"I lost my wife and broke my soldiers, and I beat myself in the mouth."

"Therefore, among the more than 2,000 Eighth Route Army killed on the front line today, the real main force must not exceed 1,000 people."

"In other words, we paid a huge price of more than a thousand imperial troops and only wiped out less than a thousand main forces of the garrison."

"According to this style of play, the two sides continue to consume, and in the end there is only one result: the fish is dead and the net is broken."

The good mood on the chief of staff's face was gone, his brows were twisted again, and he stared at Nakata Shan Lang and asked anxiously: "General, we definitely can't die with the garrison and die together." ”

"The final victory in this battle can only belong to the imperial army, to our independent mixed brigade."

"Otherwise, our hard work for so long will be in vain."

"And the price is too great to be worth it. If the command of the Front had known that the cost of destroying the garrison was the entire independent mixed brigade, they would certainly not have agreed to our continued fighting. ”

Nakata Yamaro replied confidently: "Don't worry, I will never let the warriors die in vain, and the independent mixed brigade will not be broken with the garrison." ”

"I'm going to see the garrison annihilated by a mixed brigade."

The chief of staff hurriedly asked: "General, you have a way!" ”

Nakata Yamaro nodded with a smile, and then replied, "Not bad." ”

"The breakthrough is in the garrison base area."

"We have sent a total of eleven troops out of our eight strongholds there, and they have already entered the hinterland of the garrison base area."

"They have an empty base of troops. If there are no reinforcements, it will definitely be devastating by our attacking forces. ”

"The base area is the foundation of the garrison regiment, and without the base area, they will become rootless and ethereal, and they will not live long."

"So I judge that after the news of the attack troops entering their base area reaches the ears of those Eighth Route Army troops in our occupied area, they will definitely send troops back to help."

"In this way, these hidden Eighth Route Army will be completely exposed to us, and the front-line sweeping troops can change from passive to active, wait for work, and take the opportunity to eliminate them."

"If they don't come back to help, when our attacking troops destroy their base areas, we can turn their guns, kill back in the occupied areas, and cooperate with the sweeping troops to flank and destroy them."

"So in the next battle, in the face of our tactics of flanking back and forth, no matter how the garrison team makes a move, no matter how clever their commander is, we will win."

At the regimental headquarters of the Laiyuan City Garrison Regiment, Chief of Staff Hong Linfeng stared at the sand table with a solemn expression.

The chief of the operations section stood beside him with an anxious expression.

Just now, the local troops have sent two more battle reports, and both of them are bad news.

Coupled with the bad news he received before, he has accumulated 16 battle reports, large and small.

Seeing that Hong Linfeng had been staring at the map without speaking, he finally couldn't help but remind: "Chief of Staff, up to now, the little devil attack force has burned down 31 of our villages, and almost 20,000 people are homeless. ”

"Get an idea! We can't let the little devils do anything wrong in our base area, or they will burn more villages to ashes. ”

"If that's the case, the entire base area will be destroyed."

Hong Linfeng finally spoke, stared at the chief of the operations section and asked, "Are there any casualties among the villagers?" There are also partisans and local units that cooperate in the operation, and they have no losses. ”

The chief of the operations section thought for a moment and replied: "This is not true." ”

"The villagers in the base area are particularly supportive of us, and with the cooperation of the guerrillas, we can move as soon as we receive the order to clear the wilderness."

"As long as people are safe." Hong Linfeng breathed a long sigh of relief.

Then he replied unexpectedly: "As for the house, if the devils want to burn it, let them burn it, and it's a big deal that we will rebuild it after the war." ”

"But that's too much, isn't it?"

The chief of the operations section stared at Hong Linfeng with a pair of big eyes, and asked with a look of disbelief.

"According to the current speed of the little devil's assault, in three days, the number of burned villages in the base area will definitely exceed a hundred."

"So many houses, how to rebuild!"

Hong Linfeng replied confidently: "As long as we win this battle, the puppet army in the eight strongholds in the base area and the blockade line alone can capture two or three thousand people." Together with the prisoners in the guerrilla zone, it was enough to rebuild the homes of the villagers. ”

"In addition, we won't let the little devils burn a few more houses, so that they won't see the dawn of defeating us, and they won't be at ease to boldly go deep into the hinterland of our base area, and they won't drill into the pocket array we have prepared for them."

The chief of the operations section asked with a look of disbelief: "Chief of staff, what do you mean, we deliberately let the little devils let go of burning the village, so that they can relax their vigilance?" ”

Hong Linfeng affirmed: "This is the result of my discussion with the head of the regiment. ”

"Although there are not many devils who have entered our base area, there are even fewer troops left behind in the base area."

"If you want to annihilate them, in addition to using tricks, there is also a very key point, that is, to make the little devil arrogant and arrogant enough."

"The more arrogant they are, the less vigilant they are, and the more fighters we have."

"In the end, they can be eliminated at the lowest possible cost."

"We will take what the little devils are doing now as their last madness, and when they reach a certain point of arrogance, we will give them a fatal blow and kill them."

"Immediately contact the independent battalion, the motorized battalion, the cavalry battalion, and the three county brigades, and the time has come to close the net."

"I don't care how to fight me, but before dawn, every unit has to kill a little devil with minimal casualties."

"Among them, the independent battalion is the main force, with strong combat effectiveness and sufficient heavy weapons, and they want to kill two troops for me."

"After the battle, pounce directly on the next combat target assigned to them by the regimental headquarters."

Li Hao's former enemy headquarters.

It was pitch black outside the headquarters, and there was no light at all.

Inside the headquarters, the lights are bright.

Li Hao sat at the table and studied the map, although it was already two o'clock in the morning, he still didn't feel sleepy at all.

Zhou Liang, the commander of the communications platoon, personally stood by the radio station and waited for the news, his face was both nervous and expectant.

"Didi...... Tick Tick ......"

The crisp sound of receiving and receiving telegrams suddenly came to mind, and then the radio lights began to flash.

Zhou Liang's eyes lit up, grabbed the headphones and began to manipulate the station.

"Regiment commander, the telegram is from the chief of staff."

Huang Sheng stayed by Li Hao's side, and replied with a long sigh of relief: "There is finally news." ”

"Regiment commander, it must be the chief of staff, they won!"

Li Hao's face was full of expectation: "I hope so." ”

"As long as there is a breakthrough from the chief of staff, we will win this battle."

"According to the plan. Tonight, the main force and local troops left behind in the base area are exhausted, and as long as the battle goes well, it will be no problem to kill the six little devils. ”

"As for the remaining five little devils, whether they continue to plague or retreat in our base area, they will not have a chance to return to their stronghold alive."

"At that time, what the chief of staff needs to do is to take advantage of the victory to pursue, take these strongholds, pull out all the nails planted by the devils in our base area, and then concentrate all the troops to reinforce us, fight two battles of annihilation in the guerrilla area, force the devils back, and win this counter-sweep."

"Good news......

Before Li Hao could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Zhou Liang.

Putting down the headphones, he ran over and reported excitedly.

"Report of the Chief of Staff: The left-behind troops used tactics such as night raids and ambushes to eliminate a total of seven Japanese puppet army attack units, of which the independent battalion fought continuously and eliminated two attack units."

"At present, the remaining troops are rushing towards the remaining four mobile units of the Japanese puppet army, and if possible, they will be eaten before dawn."

Li Hao was frightened by this result.

The results greatly exceeded expectations, and the first reaction of the subconscious was that he had heard it wrong, and asked with an incredulous face: "How can it be so fast?" ”

Zhou Liang hurriedly replied: "The chief of staff said it on the telegram. ”

"The main reason is that the devils are too arrogant, burning down thirty-one of our villages in one day, and there is almost no resistance in the middle, which directly confirms the judgment of the emptiness of our base forces."

"In order to achieve a quick victory, at least half of the little devils did not stop and set up camp after the plane left, but continued to move forward, and finally got directly into the pocket array we prepared."

"In addition, in order to achieve a quick victory, the chief of staff used explosives packs on a large scale to arrange serial mines during the battle."

"For many days, after the puppet army was attacked, more than half of them were killed and wounded."