Outside Lingqiu City, the special service battalion has begun to attack the Japanese puppet army stronghold outside the north gate!

Unlike the attack on the stronghold outside the east gate, this time the attacking garrison regiment used more artillery and more fierce artillery fire!

In addition to the six mortars and two mountain guns that the special battalion itself equipped, the artillery battalion also strengthened a mountain artillery company for them with a full six mountain guns!

A total of fourteen artillery pieces were fired together, and it took a minute of artillery fire in the first half of the night to blow up the Japanese position!

At this moment, the artillery only fired two rounds of shells, and the assault position selected by Liu Senyun was blown up into thick smoke!

Li Hao half-squatted in the offensive position, although he did not directly participate in the command, but a pair of eyes never left the battlefield from beginning to end!

Looking at it, his stretched brows suddenly wrinkled, and he said in a deep voice!

"Something is wrong, there is a problem with the position of the Japanese puppet army!"

"I've been staring at the shelling area just now, we've been shelling for several rounds, and even if the blind cat hits the mouse, the shells that hit it just hit the trench!"

"But I just didn't see a picture of a little devil being blown out of the trench!"

"If there are little devils in the trenches, how can they be so lucky, and they can't blow up a single one for so long!"

Liu Senyun's brows were also twisted!

Li Hao's reminder made him realize that something was wrong!

frowned and analyzed: "Regiment commander, it won't be the little devil who shrinks his defense and concentrates all his troops on the stronghold!" ”

"The little devil is not a fool, we just hit the stronghold in the east of the city, they must have found some doorways from the middle and knew our tactical tactics!"

"Knowing that we plan to focus on breaking through and taking their stronghold, and continue to divide our troops, that is no different from sending them to death!"

"If I were a little devil commander, I would definitely change my tactics!"

"Not like that!" Li Hao shook his head and replied!

"If the little devil wants to shrink his defense, we will shrink when we attacked the East Gate stronghold just now, and it is impossible to wait until now!"

"Order: Artillery immediately cease shelling...... Smoke one up and go up, boom, what new conspiracy does the old devil have! ”

In less than five minutes, the first circular fortification that the Japanese puppet army had worked so hard to build was trampled under the feet of the test troops!

Ten minutes later, the second ring was also trampled underfoot!

Twenty minutes later, the tentative troops continued to attack, and they even fought all the way to the stronghold!

"Commander, figure it out!" Liu Sen rushed over in a hurry, his face was very ugly!

"The little devil ran away!"

"Not only the three ring fortifications outside the stronghold, but also inside the stronghold, there is no little devil!"

"Also, the little devil retreated in too haste, and the food and a lot of ammunition hoarded in the stronghold were all untouched, and they were piled up in the ammunition depot and material warehouse intact!"

Li Hao's brows furrowed even deeper, and he denied very seriously: "Where is this because they retreated too hastily!" ”

"Obviously I don't want to attract our attention and leave the stronghold quietly, otherwise we wouldn't have wasted dozens of shells in vain just now, and not a single devil blew up!"

"Contact the chief of staff immediately and ask if the little devil in the west has also retreated!"

Zhou Liang, who had been guarding beside him, hurriedly replied: "I'll send a telegram to the chief of staff now!" ”

After waiting for less than ten minutes, Zhou Liang hurriedly ran over: "Regiment leader, your judgment is right!" ”

"The little devils in the Ximen stronghold have also retreated, just like here, they are all quietly evacuating the stronghold, we don't know at all!"

"I only found the clue when I attacked, and then I fought all the way into the stronghold, and when I saw the tail of the little devil's retreating troops, I hurriedly marched all the troops into Lingqiu City!"

As soon as he finished speaking, before Li Hao had time to laugh at the news, a newspaper operator rushed over: "Regiment commander, a battalion is in an emergency!" ”

"Read!" Li Hao frowned and ordered!

It is so strange that the Japanese army suddenly contracted its defenses against the norm!

On the surface, the little devil wants to preserve his vitality and concentrate his forces to defend Lingqiu City!

But Li Hao had a hunch in his heart that things would never be so simple! If their commander had this idea, he would not have been so resolute in guarding the two strongholds in the southeast in the first half of the night, and would not retreat until the entire army was destroyed!

Besides, it's useless to have a flying thunder cannon in your hand!

The little devil has always been worried about him, afraid that the troops will be too concentrated and will be served by the flying thunder cannon!

Could it be that just by losing two strongholds and two reinforced squadrons, their worries will be gone!

This is obviously impossible and does not make sense!

But I can seriously think about the hidden worries in my heart, and there are no thoughts in my head!

His eyes were glued to the operator in front of him, hoping that the telegram in his hand would give him some inspiration and come up with the specific reason why the devil took the initiative to retreat!

"The little devils attacked by a battalion suddenly abandoned their strongholds and concentrated their forces to break through in the direction of Hunyuan County!"

"Because I was in such a hurry, I didn't even destroy the weapons and ammunition that I couldn't take away!"

A touch of shock obviously flashed on Li Hao's face!

If the little devils outside Lingqiu City retreat, they can still boil down to preserving their strength and defending Lingqiu City!

The devils in the direction of Hunyuan also withdrew their troops, and he couldn't figure this out!

Hunyuan is not Lingqiu, before tonight, the entire Hunyuan was occupied by little devils!

It is impossible for them not to know that a battalion entered Hunyuan for the purpose of developing it into a base area of the Eighth Route Army!

Now that he knows that he still took the initiative to withdraw his troops, didn't he give up a large rural area outside Hunyuan City to himself in vain to support the garrison regiment to expand its base area?

Li Hao couldn't figure it out, and the more he thought about it, the deeper his brows wrinkled!

Suddenly, Zhou Liang, the communications platoon commander who had just left, also rushed over with a serious face!

"Regiment Commander, Commando Emergency!"

"The Japanese puppet army they monitored all withdrew from their garrison strongholds and hurried to the nearest county seat!"

"The materials and ammunition hoarded in the stronghold can be taken away, and if you can't take it away, you can blow it up!"

The telegraph operator rushed over again: "Regiment commander, the reconnaissance company is in an emergency!" ”

"Guangling, which they are watching, the Japanese army in Laiyuan has also begun to withdraw!"

"Except for the county seat, all the strongholds are abandoned!"

Li Hao couldn't figure it out!

Hunyuan, Guangling, Laiyuan, and the Japanese puppet army in the three counties all shrank their defensive lines, abandoned all the strongholds outside the city, and defended the county seat!

This means that they intend to give up all the vast rural areas of the three counties to the garrison regiment to establish a base area!

Is it to give up such a large territory and population at one time just to keep those stronghold garrisons?

But the price is too great!

With such a large territory and a population of hundreds of thousands, it has developed well, and the garrison regiment can pull up at least 10,000 troops in these three counties!

This means that if the devils want to kill the garrison in the future, they will definitely pay a greater price, even several times more than the troops they are keeping now!

Or is it a big conspiracy that the little devil is brewing that he doesn't know about?

"Forget it, don't think about it, as long as our own strength is strong enough, we are not afraid of any conspiracy, it's a big deal that the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will cover it!" Li Hao shook his head and threw away the question in his head, and then said to himself!