The Japanese army had a radio station, and at six o'clock in the afternoon, the brigade commander received a telegram from the three captains in Lingqiu City!

Mixed emotions and very mixed feelings!

The three-way sweeping troops did not catch a single civilian in the mountains for a day, which is worrying!

The fact that the independent regiment stopped the sweeping troops entering the mountains at all costs is a joy, which shows that the sweeping troops entering the mountains to catch the common people just hit the weak underbelly of the independent regiment, forcing them to come out and fight hard!

But when he saw the casualty figures on both sides, he was not happy.

The casualties of the troops in one day were too great, not counting the Imperial Allied Army, and the casualties of the Japanese alone were tied with the Independent Regiment!

If the Imperial Allied Army is also included, the casualties of the sweeping troops are exactly twice as many as those of the Independent Regiment, and in terms of the proportion of casualties, they are definitely a fiasco!

Chief of Staff Nakasa thought for a moment and reminded: "General, although the casualties are a bit large, we have an absolute superiority in strength, even if we continue to fight according to this casualty ratio, the independent regiment will be completely killed by us!" ”

"And as the strength of the independent regiment becomes weaker and weaker, this casualty ratio will definitely drop!"

The commander of the Major General's Brigade shook his head and replied: "No, even if it is a one-to-one casualty ratio, the casualties we have to pay in this sweep are far more than the troops can bear!" ”

"There are only a few imperial troops in the whole of North China, if we eliminate an independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army, we will lose more than 2,000 imperial troops, then it is impossible for us to destroy the Eighth Route Army if all our troops in the entire North China are exhausted!"

Chief of Staff Nakasa asked thoughtfully, "General, what do you mean to change the battle plan!" ”

"Can't change!" The brigade commander replied resolutely!

"The independent regiment, which had been avoiding the war yesterday, came out desperately today to fight with us, which shows that our action of going into the mountains to arrest the common people is just hitting their soft underbelly!"

"So the big plan of action can't be changed!"

Speaking of this, a sneer slowly flashed at the corner of the brigade commander's mouth, and then he continued.

"However, we can make some minor changes to the overall battle plan!"

"Send a telegram back to the three brigades now: Tomorrow the operation will continue, and the troops will continue to go into the mountains to arrest the common people!"

"But we can't do it at all costs!"

"We want to repair the plank road in the open and dark: on the surface, we will put on a posture of going into the mountains to arrest people, and force the hidden Eighth Route Army out! In fact, it is to eliminate these Eighth Route Army! ”

"Of course, it would be better if we could catch some ordinary people by the way!"

"We wiped out more than 300 people of the Eighth Route Army during the day today, and tomorrow we will kill 300 of them, it will only take five or six days, and the main force of the independent regiment will be almost killed by us!"

"The general is wise, go and give orders now!"

Last night, the main force of the Independent Regiment crossed the blockade line of the Japanese puppet army and hid in the woods, hiding and waiting!

Because of the limited number of independent regiment radio stations, many battle reports could only be transmitted through cavalry correspondents, so it was not until eight o'clock in the evening that Li Hao received the battle report from the political commissar!

After reading it, the faces of Li Hao and Hong Linfeng became very solemn at that time!

The casualties of the independent regiment were far greater than the commander of the brigade of the Japanese major general knew!

The independent battalion and the guerrillas suffered a total of more than 400 casualties, and more than 340 people were directly killed, and the troops of more than two companies were wiped out in just one day!

Li Hao didn't expect the bad news to come so quickly, and he was stunned for a long time before he reacted!

"Commander, the devil is too ruthless, one punch to our soft underbelly!" Hong Linfeng analyzed with a serious face!

"In order to cover the transfer of the people, although they know that they are not opponents, they are still fighting with devils, and many troops are sacrificed in whole rows and platoons, which is really miserable!"

"I don't think we can continue to wait here, if the little devil continues to attack us in the same way tomorrow, the inner line troops will definitely be wiped out!"

Li Hao replied with a calm face: "Kill more than 300 of us in one day, this revenge must be avenged!" ”

"The troops have rested for a whole day, and they should have recuperated enough! Order everyone to be ready for battle and go at any time! ”

As soon as the operational staff officer who received the order rushed out of the tent, Hong Linfeng's eyes lit up and asked, "Regiment commander, where are we fighting?" How to fight! ”

Li Hao stared at the map and analyzed with a serious face: "The Japanese puppet army in the base area is too cautious, and there are planes to cover them during the day and they do not divide their troops, and they go out of the mountain after dark, so they don't give us any opportunity to take advantage of, so there is no need to think about fighting them!"

Hong Linfeng quickly reacted: "Then fight Lingqiu City, according to the original plan, give the devil a siege to help!" ”

"Just fight like that!" Li Hao affirmed!

"Chief of Staff, you take a battalion and an artillery battalion to Lingqiu City, give you two hours to rush outside the city and then launch an attack, and then take down all the strongholds and outer defense lines arranged by the Japanese puppet army outside the city in one hour, and hit the shells on the city!"

"I lead the cavalry battalion, the two main battalions, the commando team, and the reconnaissance company, hidden in the road that the devil must pass to reinforce the troops, and is responsible for sending reinforcements!"

"Strive to kill all the reinforcements in one night, even if I can't kill them, I will hit them hard!"

"In addition, in order to ensure safety, regardless of whether our combat objectives are achieved or not, the besieging troops must evacuate the battlefield and enter the mountains before six o'clock in the morning!"

"Please rest assured, the regiment commander, I promise to complete the task!" Hong Linfeng replied excitedly!

He had been waiting for this moment for two whole days, and now it had finally arrived, and he couldn't wait to go to the battlefield now!

On the mountain beam less than a kilometer away from Lingqiu City, a gun tower and three hidden forts are built according to the mountain, and the shooting hole is facing the road, shooting condescendingly, it can definitely block the entire highway tightly, and not a single fly can fly over!

This is the first bridgehead that the Independent Regiment must cross if it wants to attack outside Lingqiu City!

The huge searchlight illuminates the road and the surroundings of the turret, and if you want to get close to the turret quietly and blow it up with explosives, the chance of success is almost zero!

Hong Linfeng took two battalion commanders to hide behind a dirt bag, holding binoculars to reconnoiter the enemy!

"Chief of Staff, the first battle in the county town will be handed over to our battalion, you give me an hour, I promise to take down the turret and dark fort on the beam, and kill all the Japanese puppet troops inside!" The commander of the first battalion, Chen Bing, was eager to try the battle!

Hong Linfeng was surprised to refuse, shook his head and replied: "You only have three mortars, the offensive is too weak, you can't fight the posture that we want to storm Lingqiu City!" ”

"Don't forget that our real purpose tonight is to besiege the city and send reinforcements!"

"In order to let the devil be fooled, we must fight hard enough, so that the devil can't figure out our strength, and then we will be afraid and order the front-line sweeping troops to come back to help, so that we will have a chance to send reinforcements!"

After speaking, Hong Linfeng shifted his gaze to Yuan Qingfeng, the commander of the artillery battalion!

"The first battle is to start the artillery battalion!"

"Battalion Commander Yuan, you transfer a platoon of two mountain guns up, directly blast the turrets and the dark forts on both sides for me, and then a battalion rushes over to cover up and kill, strive to end the battle within fifteen minutes, and beat the little devils in the county town, I don't know how many troops we have, so that they are afraid!"

"Boom ......"

Three hundred meters away, two mountain guns opened fire at the same time!

In less than a second, two flames erupted from the thick brick wall of the turret, and then the sound of the explosion reached Hong Linfeng's ears!

By the time the smoke from the explosion cleared, two large holes had been blown out of the brick wall of the turret, and it was crumbling!

"Two more shells, and then bomb the bunker next to it!" Hong Linfeng's eyes stared at the turret and ordered, his face was full of excitement!

"Battalion Commander Chen, your mortar platoon also opened fire and blew up the Japanese puppet army that escaped from the turret and the bunker!"

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