Chapter 1236 Concealing the sky and crossing the sea?
"Guard company!" Li Hao shouted at the top of his lungs as soon as Zhou Liang left.
"Arrived!" Sun Jiawu, the guard company commander, ran over quickly and looked at Li Hao with an eager expression and asked.
"Captain, do you have a mission? The guard company is almost exhausted."
Li Hao nodded and replied: "There are still many remaining Japanese and puppet forces in the city that have not been eliminated, and there are still troops to control the food teams, so the first battalion cannot leave for the time being."
"You take the guard company and set off now, select some locals from the captured puppet troops, let them lead the way, and secretly control all the roads and trails leading to the outside world in the north of Yi County."
"The mission is the same as that of the cavalry battalion. The Japanese and puppet troops are resolutely eliminated. The common people are only allowed to enter but not to leave. The speed must be fast."
"After the political commissar arrives, the First Battalion will be free to replace you."
Half an hour later, Zhou Liang appeared in front of Li Hao again, with a bigger smile than before: "Commander, Commander Liu of the First Battalion has reported success. They have killed the Japanese and puppet troops who were chasing the guerrilla brigade."
"The Japanese garrison commander has also been killed. He was a lieutenant commander. They are currently dividing their forces to occupy the nearby Japanese and puppet army strongholds."
The smile on Li Hao's face became thicker and he immediately replied: "Call Liu Senyun back. The attack speed must be fast."
"Not only must we control all nearby Japanese and puppet army locations before dawn, but we must also block all roads and mountain roads from Yixian County to Baoding. The news of our occupation of Yixian County must be revealed as late as possible."
At five o'clock in the morning, the political commissar, who had been walking all night, finally arrived at the county seat with his grain transport team before dawn.
"Captain, I have brought all the transportation tools that the base area can bring."
"After receiving your telegram, I sent a special telegram to Deputy Commander Luo, asking him to mobilize nearby villagers to stand by at the edge of the base area. The more people, the better."
"We only need to return the captured goods to the base area. After crossing the Japanese blockade, there will be villagers to help. Then the carts and mules can re-enter Yixian County and transport them again."
"Great!" Li Hao exclaimed happily.
"I have been worried about insufficient transportation means just now. If there are people to meet us at the edge of the base area, then our carts and mules and horses can transport them back and forth twice."
"We can definitely move all our gains in Yixian County back to the base area."
After saying that, Li Hao looked at Hong Linfeng and ordered: "Chief of Staff, tell the political commissar how many good things we harvested last night, so that our logistics manager can be happy."
"Yes, leader..."
Hong Linfeng arrived at the county seat two hours early, took out the list he had just compiled, and said with excitement.
"Political Commissar, what you gained last night was far more than we thought. You must be mentally prepared and don't get scared later."
"In the county town, we intercepted a total of 7.6 million kilograms of grain, salt, oil, and other necessary living supplies from the grain transport team left here by the Japanese and puppet troops. 268 carts totaled more than 500,000 kilograms."
"The Japs' arsenal, material warehouses, Imperial Army warehouses, and grain merchants' warehouses controlled by the Japanese totaled 3.65 million kilograms of grain seized."
"In addition, there are nearly 500,000 rounds of various ammunition, nearly a thousand guns, 86 light and heavy machine guns, and 11 mortars. These weapons and ammunition include those we seized from the Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield."
"We have controlled a lot of traitors outside the city. They are all local tyrants and evil gentry. Every household has a large stock of supplies and food."
"Preliminary judgment shows that at least one million kilograms of grain can be harvested from their hands."
"The other big point outside the city is the military column."
"Due to the paralysis of the railway line, there are a total of 13 military trains parked in Yixian. Most of the military trains transport military rations, and some of the military trains transport cotton, cans, military uniforms, medicines, weapons and ammunition and other combat supplies.
."
"We made a rough calculation: military rations exceed 8 million jins, cotton is nearly 200,000 jins, canned food exceeds 500,000 jins, military uniforms, uniforms, and medicines add up to more than 100,000 jins, and weapons and ammunition add up to at least 200,000 jins.
."
Wang Hong almost jumped up with excitement.
He took the list handed over by the chief of staff and read it over and over again. It took him several minutes to believe that it was true. He looked at Li Hao and shouted excitedly: "Captain, these things are urgently needed in the base area and must be shipped back."
"
"Let me think about it: more than 20 million jins of grain, nearly 2 million jins of various materials, and 200,000 jins of cotton. It would take at least two trips with the transportation tools I brought plus the transportation tools captured to transport them.
Send them all back to the base."
"Now the transport team has started loading. If there is no attack, it can make one round trip a day and a night, which means that the troops must occupy Yixian until the early morning of the day after tomorrow."
"There can't be any Japanese sneak attack on the transport team in the middle, otherwise it will take us longer."
"I wonder if the army can buy me so much time?"
"Two days and one night?" The smile on Li Hao's face disappeared, and he frowned and muttered to himself.
Hong Linfeng's face also became serious.
This place is too close to Baoding and Peiping. If the Japanese knew that Yi County was occupied by the garrison, they would definitely send out heavy troops to counterattack.
In order to ensure the safety of the grain transport team, there is only one way: to block them outside Yixian County and forcefully carry all Japanese and puppet troops who want to enter Yixian County.
The main force of the garrison in Yixian totaled less than 2,000 people. They not only had to divide their troops to defend the three directions of southeast and north, but also sent troops to continue to clear out the Japanese and puppet troops in Yixian and protect the safety of the food transport team.
This means that a maximum of five hundred people can be deployed in each direction, and there will be no more.
Using more than 500 people to withstand the attack of Japanese and puppet troops several times larger than our own, and also having to withstand the joint attack of Japanese heavy artillery, aircraft, and tanks, is no different from surrendering to death.
Not only will they not be able to hold out for two days, the troops will also fall into the trap, losing their wives and losing their troops.
"Regiment Commander: I will immediately send a telegram to the three battalion commanders and order them to use the local favorable terrain to build more blocking positions." After thinking for two minutes, Hong Linfeng suggested with a frown.
"If the Japanese and puppet troops really counterattack Yi County, we can stop them at every level and buy time for the political commissars to rush to transport food and supplies, every hour counts."
Li Hao sighed and replied: "This is a last resort."
"Even if we buy enough time for the political commissar in the end, the participating troops will be dragged by the Japanese on the battlefield and unable to retreat, and the losses will be huge."
"The best way is not to fight this battle, block the news, hide the truth, and prevent the Japanese from knowing that Yixian County has been captured by us."
Hong Linfeng shook his head and replied: "The possibility is almost zero."
"Xiao Yuan just sent out a piece of information: when we broke through the city, the Japanese chief of staff sent out all the messengers from the headquarters, and took advantage of the chaos to leave the city and go to nearby strongholds to ask for help."
"We killed some, but there were definitely some that slipped through the net."
"If these people are allowed to join up with the Japanese and puppet intelligence personnel outside the city, even if we block all the roads and alleys, they will still be able to send the news out, but it will just take a little longer."
"The second thing: The Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters attaches great importance to the paralysis of roads and railways in Yixian County, and sends telegrams and calls every day to inquire about the progress of road construction."
"They will definitely contact Yixian after dawn. If they don't receive a reply, they will also become suspicious, and then send people into Yixian to investigate, or directly send military aircraft into Yixian for low-altitude reconnaissance."
"If they notice something, they will not only send troops to counterattack Yixian, but also send planes to bomb our grain transport team."
The second update is delivered today! Please add it to your favorites! Please subscribe! Please give me a monthly ticket!
