After listening to Li Yunlong's words, everyone fell into deep thought.
After a while, Gao Hongming nodded: "Brother Li is right. The kid's behavior is indeed a bit weird. It's just that we were misled by our usual impression of the kid. Not all Japanese will die with us."
Fight to the end.”
Li Yunlong looked at Gao Hongming: "Brother Gao, what are you going to do?"
"What to do? Of course we kill him while he is sick." Gao Hongming chuckled: "I immediately ordered the troops to launch a counterattack. I want to see whether it is the little devil who is stronger or my tank!"
The reason why Gao Hongming hesitated before was not because he was afraid of the Japs, but because he was worried that the militia he had trained would suffer too many casualties, especially those precious armored troops, which he had painstakingly selected.
Originally, some equipment and people had been lost in the air raids in the past few days. Although he had replenished the damaged tanks and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns in time, the manpower had become a bit tight. He did not want the armored battalion he had worked so hard to build to still be in use.
If it doesn't grow, it will be consumed.
However, Li Yunlong's words also reminded him that as the saying goes, kindness cannot control troops. Once a fighter appears, you must seize it without hesitation, otherwise you will not be a good commander.
Just when Gao Hongming was about to give orders to Nong Tiancai, Li Yunlong stopped him: "Brother Gao, don't worry. I'm not here to watch the fun this time. If you have any suitable tasks, just arrange them for me."
"
"Arrange for you?"
Gao Hongming looked at Li Yunlong's serious look and understood.
This is a person who looks jovial on the surface, but is extremely proud in his heart. He is telling himself in this way that they are not here to be a general with a hand this time.
"All right."
Gao Hongming nodded slowly and said solemnly: "Since Brother Li wants to help, of course I welcome it. Then I would like to ask, when can the independent regiment go into battle? And whether your troops and weapons are equipped?
Tell me so that I can know better."
Li Yunlong said without thinking: "Our independent regiment has a total of 1,676 combatants, including 1,322 rifles, six Type 92 heavy machine guns, 23 Czech light machine guns, and bullets.
There are more than 62,000 rounds in total, and the four 60 mortars contain 67 shells, which can fully support a medium-sized battle."
Seeing the confident faces of Li Yunlong and the others, Gao Hongming felt inexplicably sad.
There are more than 60,000 rounds of ammunition, which is only about 30 rounds per soldier. This amount of ammunition is at best the same as that of the Central Army, and is still worse than the Japanese army's average of 120 rounds per soldier.
A big chunk.
It is even more incomparable with later generations. You must know that in later generations, an army's bullet reserve was in the hundreds of millions.
Our ancestors fought against the Japanese invaders for fourteen years under such difficult conditions until they prevailed.
Although he was very excited, Gao Hongming didn't show anything strange on his face. He still smiled and said: "Since Brother Li is so confident, I feel relieved. Come, let's discuss how to cooperate..."
"Major, your Excellency, we can't continue attacking like this. If we continue fighting like this, our squadron will be wiped out!" A lieutenant begged Jiro Nakagawa with a sad expression. Since the war started, more than half of his squadron has been lost.
After this, the entire army could only be annihilated, so he found Jiro Nakagawa.
Looking at this squadron leader, Nakagawa Jiro felt uncomfortable. This squadron leader was also his old subordinate and had always been brave in combat. Unexpectedly, he started to cry out in pain today.
He knew that what really made his subordinates despair was not the loss of troops, but the opponent's powerful artillery fire and almost invulnerable tanks.
In the previous battle, almost 60% of the losses of the Second Battalion came from the opponent's artillery fire and tanks.
Especially those tanks. In order to deal with them, countless warriors rushed towards them carrying explosive bags and cluster grenades, trying to die with these tanks, but the results were disappointing.
Not only were the Chinese tanks extremely strong, but they were also protected by infantry. Even if the imperial warriors tried their best to break into those tanks, it was difficult for them to break into them. For this reason, they crushed at least two to three hundred warriors. Even with such heavy losses, they
Even Jiro Nakagawa's eyes twitched when he saw it.
"Mr. Yanagawa, please be patient for a moment. Our losses are only temporary. Under our counterattack, the Chinese have stopped attacking. As long as the Chinese are paralyzed, we will immediately start to retreat. I will let your squadron
The first one to retreat." He could only comfort him.
"boom!"
But as soon as he finished speaking, a cannonball exploded dozens of meters away, and the huge aftermath of the impact pushed the two of them staggering.
"No, the Chinese are having sex again."
"hidden!"
As soon as the two of them finished speaking, more shells fell.
Without saying a word, the two of them fell to the ground in unison, making fists with both hands under their stomachs and protecting their faces.
Just by listening to the sound of the shells breaking through the air, they knew that the other side was bombarding them with that damn heavy artillery again. They had nothing to do in the face of this kind of bombardment, although they had just sent a telegram to the wing commander, requesting the dispatch of the Army Air Forces forward.
came to support, but until now, let alone airplanes, I haven’t even seen a chicken feather.
Following the first explosion, clusters of black and white smoke and orange muzzle flames suddenly appeared on the position of the Japanese Second Battalion, which had been silent for two hours.
The dense sound of artillery seemed to cover the sky and the earth, and connected into an airtight loud noise, accompanied by the scream of the artillery shells, or a somewhat dull whistling sound. In about ten seconds, the Japanese position had turned into a
Bright spots and smoke rising into the air.
Several hundred meters away from the Japanese position, there are countless densely packed figures hidden here. Li Yunlong, Kong Jie and Zhao Gang are standing in a ditch and looking at the fireworks in the distance.
Although Li Yunlong and the others have been dealing with Gao Hongming for a long time, except for Li Yunlong, this is the first time for the other two to witness the attack methods of the vigilante group.
"My dear." Kong Jie took a breath: "What caliber of artillery is this? I'm afraid half the platoon will be gone with one shot, right?"
"This should be a 150-caliber or 155-caliber heavy artillery." Li Yunlong said with certainty: "Other artillery will never be so powerful."
Kong Jie asked again: "Hey...Old Li, when you fought side by side with Captain Gao in Cangyun Ridge for the first time, did you fight like this too?"
"fart!"
Li Yunlong complained, "At that time, Brother Gao only had three to four hundred people under his command, and at most they only had a few mortars. If there had been such strong firepower at that time, I would have surrounded and annihilated the Bantian Alliance."