The battle that lasted all night finally came to an end.
Faced with the constant good news from the front line, everyone at the Sixth Army Division Headquarters in the Wings showed long-lost smiles on their faces.
The previous frustration caused by Neji Okamura's initiative to abandon the blockade was also swept away at this moment.
"Damn... artillery is worthy of being called the god of war..." Li Yunlong said with a smug expression as he looked at the victory report in his hand.
"Once hundreds of artillery pieces are launched, no matter how powerful the little devil is, he can only be beaten passively in front of them."
"The six newly expanded main force regiments each fought three battles in one night and wiped out more than a thousand elite Japanese troops. This was something I could never have imagined before. They actually did it!"
Kong Jie was much more rational and replied with a wry smile: "Old Li..."
"Don't even think about how many artillery shells the six main regiments used in one night..."
After saying that, he handed a statistical list to Li Yunlong: "Each main regiment fired almost 600 mountain field artillery shells and 2,000 mortar shells..."
"If they hadn't captured a lot of mortar shells on the battlefield, they would have fired more than 15,000 shells in one night. No matter how rich our family is, we can't afford such consumption..."
"After the final summary, the military division's inventory of artillery shells is still a full 10,000 rounds short!"
"It's worth it..." Li Yunlong didn't care about so much, he stared at the good news in his hand and said with bright eyes.
"On average, one cannonball kills one little Japanese. This is also a good thing that we rarely encounter."
"If we really mobilize a large number of troops to attack Baoding, even the two shells fired by the troops may not be able to kill a little Japanese."
Kong Jie did not reject Li Yunlong's analysis, but Shu Zhang's brows furrowed at this moment, and he answered with a long sigh.
"It would be great if Neji Okamura didn't give up the blockade."
"Let's kill a little devil with one cannonball..."
"Six main force regiments attack continuously on the blockade. They can kill all the tens of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops around the base area in ten days at most. Ningji of Biganmura has to mobilize troops from the Pingjin area..."
"Now Gangcun Ningji has concentrated all the remaining garrison troops on the blockade to Baoding and Xiong County..."
"It is clear that they are forcing us to fight a large-scale decisive battle with them and not giving us the opportunity to continue to raid them."
"If we bypass these heavily defended counties and attack other Japanese and puppet troops, they will be like a nail stuck in our throats. They may send troops at any time to threaten the security of the base area, or even cut off the connection between us and the base area."
"This is the greatness of Okamura Neji."
"We use retreat to advance, and through conspiracy, we are restricted to the base area in the center of the wing, and there is no way to send heavy troops to develop outwards."
"If fewer troops are sent out, there will definitely not be much effect in a short period of time."
"At that time, the North China Front Army had made up for its losses and had enough troops to attack the Yi Zhong base area again."
Li Yunlong suddenly punched the table and said, "Isn't it Baoding and Xiongxian?"
"I think back then I even captured Taiyuan, let alone a small county like this."
"If it doesn't work, we'll bring the special forces with us. With tanks and armored vehicles to help, plus a strong artillery advantage, I don't believe we can't win."
"The reason why we were able to win Taiyuan quickly was to win it quickly."
"A very important reason is that Taiyuan has insufficient troops. All the limited troops in the city are concentrated on the head of Taiyuan City."
"As long as we take down the Taiyuan city defenses and eliminate the garrison at the top of the city, the devils in the city will continue to fight us."
"Baoding is different from Xiongxian."
"Ningji Okamura has assembled a large number of Japanese and puppet troops in the city. Minus the city defenses, there are at least three to four thousand troops in the city."
"They rely on barricades to fight us in street battles. The tanks, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery equipped by the troops will all be useless in street battles, and they may even become targets for the Japanese and puppet troops."
"Although we can also choose to destroy Xiong County to eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops in the city."
"But the Japanese are determined to retaliate. Once the battle between the two sides begins, the people in the city will definitely not be allowed to leave the city easily."
"Instead, the people were locked up in the city as hostages, so that we could not fully use our artillery advantage in the battle."
"Our Eighth Route Army is an army of ordinary people. It is impossible to ignore the lives of tens of thousands of ordinary people just to eliminate a few thousand little devils."
"If we really decide to fight against the Japanese and puppet troops in Xiong County around Baoding, two large-scale street battles will definitely be inevitable."
"During the street fighting, the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light. The initiative on the battlefield is still in the hands of the little devils. We can no longer use heavy weapons on a large scale in the battle. In order to avoid accidentally injuring the people in the city, we will restrain our hands and feet in the battle, which may lead to sacrifices.
Two warriors can't kill a little devil."
"Even if we successfully capture a certain county in the end, our troops will pay a huge price in the battle."
"We were lucky this time. We rescued a large number of prisoners of war from the 100,000 light troops who built the blockade ditch and blockade wall. This allowed the army to recruit a large number of veterans at once, and the army could become combat effective without much training."
"But if our troops pay a huge price again in a certain battle, there won't be that many veterans to replenish the troops."
"If we directly recruit new soldiers, not only will our troops not be able to be tempered in battle, but they will become stronger as we fight. On the contrary, due to the increase in the proportion of new soldiers, the overall combat effectiveness will become larger and weaker."
"Not to mention raiding the Tianjin dock, we might not even be able to defeat Neji Okamura's next big raid against us."
Li Yunlong is a person who refuses to admit defeat.
At first, I didn't really agree with Huang Yu's analysis and felt that Huang Yu was unfounded.
A city as big as Taiyuan has been captured by me, and Baoding City has also been captured by me.
The size of Xiongxian County is less than one-third that of Baoding. No matter how many Japanese and puppet troops are stationed in it, there are only so many places to defend. Why can't they take it? I will subconsciously refute it.
After listening to Huang Yu's entire analysis, Li Yunlong fell silent.
In his memory: No matter whether they attacked Taiyuan or raided Baoding, the siege troops never fought street battles with the Japanese and puppet troops.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't understand street fighting.
In the past, when fighting the Japanese, the superiority in troops and firepower was with the Japanese. In order to weaken these advantages and increase my chances of winning, my favorite way to fight the Japanese was in mobile warfare and street fighting.
Those street fights were led by me and I experienced them personally.
Once the well-equipped little devils enter the street fighting battlefield, they will turn into a group of headless flies, wandering around everywhere.
The troops under his command can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to shuttle back and forth on the street fighting battlefield and use all the killing methods available to them to deal with the Japs.
If the protagonist of the street fighting is changed to the Japs and the attacking party becomes himself, no matter how arrogant Li Yunlong is, he cannot guarantee that his troops will take advantage in the street fighting.
