The radio operator ran to Kong Jie and Huang Yu with a happy face: "Commander, deputy chief of staff..."
"The battle report has just been sent from the front line."
"Our countermeasures are working."
"The little devils who were scattered around our base area did not dare to fight with our pursuing troops. They were chasing the entire base area behind the backs of the common people and the local troops pretending to be the main force."
"And their running direction is exactly the same as the deputy chief of staff judged. They are all based in the hinterland."
"As a result, he crashed into the tunnel we dug in the hinterland of the base area."
"Because the base area is expanding too fast, tunnels have not yet been dug in the newly occupied base area due to time constraints."
"The hinterland of the base area is our old base area, and every village and town has tunnels."
"As long as these scattered little devils dare to enter the tunnel, one or two of our guerrillas will dare to fight against one of their infantry squadrons."
"Commander, good news..." Before the operator could finish speaking, a correspondent rushed in from the outside and reported excitedly when he saw Kong Jie.
"The fifth main regiment just sent good news..."
"The Zhangwan Town guerrillas cooperated with the main force of the first squad and successfully eliminated more than 60 Japs by using the tunnels in the town. They also held back the remaining Japs troops to buy enough time for the main force to encircle them."
"The group of little devils who attacked our Zhangwan Town have been eliminated by us."
"The troops are marching quickly to kill another little devil."
Kong Jie turned to Huang Yu and sighed: "You are right..."
"The human heart is not enough for a snake to swallow an elephant..."
"Okamura Neiji wants to rely on these thousands of people to destroy our base area. The best way is to carry out massacres in the hinterland of the base area."
"The people there have great support and trust in our Eighth Route Army. Once this trust is destroyed, our Eighth Route Army will lose its roots. Even in its own base area, we will not be able to live like a fish in water. In the end, we can only move towards desperation step by step."
"But Okamura Neji forgot."
"Not only do the people in the old base have absolute support and trust in us, but our Eighth Route Army has occupied it for so long and has done nothing."
"The previous counter-mopping operations involved tens of thousands of people. The influence of the tunnels in the battle was minimal, so no one paid attention to it."
"But it doesn't mean that tunnels have no role in combat."
"In small-scale battles, the tunnel can definitely be called the enemy's devil."
"In this way, the other little devils who are scattered around our base area don't have to worry too much."
"As long as they enter the hinterland of the base area and get caught in the ubiquitous tunnel fighting, there will be no escape. Sooner or later they will be wiped out by us."
Huang Yu suddenly turned his attention to the map: "Commander..."
"Since the little devils in the base area are no longer worth mentioning..."
"Baoding City also has an independent brigade to attack. Should we start attacking Xiong County..."
"As long as these two important military towns are taken down, there will no longer be any Japanese and puppet troops in Yizhong that can threaten us."
"Okamura Neiji wants to restrict our development and can only mobilize troops from the Pingjin area. Then we will have the opportunity to raid the Tianjin dock."
Kong Jie nodded immediately: "Okay..."
"We still follow what we said before: you take the main force of the 1st Brigade and the remaining troops of the Special Regiment to Xiong County and directly command the entire siege battle."
"I stayed in the base area and commanded several independent regiments to eliminate the remaining enemies and protect the base area."
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Baoding North Gate.
The closed city gate was suddenly opened. About a small group of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the city gate first and formed a fighting formation outside the city gate, forming a huge semi-encirclement.
Then puppet troops began to appear at the city gate, escorting the people and carrying shovels and hoes out of the city gate.
Half an hour later, these ordinary people appeared on the road from Baoding to Shijiazhuang. Under the supervision of the Japanese and puppet troops, they wielded shovels and hoes to destroy the road.
This scene happened to fall in the eyes of the commander of the Independent Brigade Cavalry Battalion.
"Battal Commander, the enemy only has a small group of Japs and a company of puppet troops. Do you want to eat them..." The commander of the first company of the cavalry battalion immediately showed an eager expression.
"What's the rush..." The battalion commander shook his head.
"This is the fat meat that the Japanese army puts on our lips. We can't run away even if we want to."
"In the past, we used to slow down the march of the Japs by destroying roads. I didn't expect that one day it would be the other way around."
"The Japanese army definitely wants to use this method to prevent us from returning to the base area to support us."
"But they never imagined that the real purpose of the independent brigade was not to return to support the base area, but to besiege Baoding City."
"Even if they destroy all the roads from Baoding to our base area, it will not affect our ability to besiege Baoding."
"First use the radio to report the news to the brigade commander and see if he has any other orders."
"If not, we will send troops to eat up this Japanese and puppet army."
"Although there are not many little Japs over a hundred, our cavalry battalion can kill them all in one surprise attack."
"But if these Japanese and puppet troops are allowed to defend Baoding and rely on city defenses to block our siege troops head-on, it will be very difficult to eliminate them."
In less than ten minutes, the reply from Li Yunlong reached the hands of the cavalry battalion commander.
The commander of the first company of the cavalry battalion immediately asked: "Battalion commander..."
"What does the brigade commander say? Do you agree with us eating this Japanese and puppet army?"
"I just looked at it. Maybe it's because this place is too close to Baoding. The Japanese and puppet troops outside the city are very low on vigilance. They are only equipped with four light machine guns and no heavy machine guns."
"We can dispatch at most two cavalry companies and kill them all."
Seeing the battalion commander nodding, the company commander was afraid that the other three company commanders of the cavalry battalion would take away the task, so he raised his legs and walked towards the army. As he walked, he gave orders to the battalion commander: "I'm going to organize the troops now..."
The battalion commander quickly called him back: "What's the hurry..."
"I haven't finished speaking yet..."
"The brigade commander agreed that we would eat up the puppet troops outside the city for more than a hundred days, but we can only dispatch one cavalry company in this surprise attack, and all other troops will remain stationary. They can neither participate in the battle nor expose the target."
After hearing this, the first company commander took back his steps and asked with confusion on his face: "Why..."
"Although there are not many enemies, there are still four machine guns."
"Sending two cavalry companies to attack from the front and back to disperse the enemy's firepower will definitely end the battle at the minimum cost."
"Although one cavalry company can kill them, the offensive pressure will definitely be much greater, and the troop casualties will be greater than two cavalry companies attacking at the same time."
The battalion commander smiled and replied: "This is the brilliance of the brigade commander."
"If we dispatch two cavalry companies at a time, we might just be able to kill more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops in front of us if we stay outside Baoding City for a day."
"But if we only dispatch one cavalry company to attack, we may kill more Japanese and puppet troops."
The first company commander immediately reacted: "I know, show weakness... The brigade commander wants us to show weakness to the Japanese and puppet troops in Baoding City."
