In a mountain fifteen kilometers away from the battlefield, nearly two thousand soldiers were sitting on the ground. Some were eating dry food, while others were resting to replenish the energy they had consumed last night.
In the middle of the crowd, security forces surrounded an open space tightly, preventing anyone from getting close.
Commander-in-Chief Li Hao, Deputy Commander Zhou, and the Chiefs of Staff of the two regiments were sitting around a map, very happy, with smiles on their faces.
Chief of Staff Hong Linfeng took out a statistical list and spoke first: "Commander, Commander Zhou, all the results of last night's battle have been calculated. We killed a total of 1,709 little Japs, including a lieutenant colonel, a major colonel, and eight captains...
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"Six mountain guns, one infantry gun, 9 mortars, 8 heavy machine guns, 19 light machine guns, and 986 rifles were seized..."
"There is a lot of ammunition. Excluding what the troops replenished on the battlefield, there are nearly a thousand rounds of various artillery shells, 20,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets, 450,000 rounds of rifle machine gun bullets, and more than 3,000 grenades, all of which are installed in the baggage train.
On the cart, there are also grains and cans, a total of fifteen carts."
Li Hao's expression was calm.
Such seizures are so common among independent regiments that there is no need to make a fuss.
Commander Zhou and Chief of Staff Chen were stunned. After these seizures were put to use, they could form another main force group.
The independent regiment has already obtained the equipment of a cavalry company. It must not be jealous of other equipment and take advantage of it, so he said quickly.
"Captain Li, the Independent Regiment has taken a big advantage in this battle. You pick the captured ones first and take whatever you like. The rest belong to the Independent Regiment. I have no objections."
Li Hao didn't answer immediately, looked at Hong Linfeng and asked.
"Chief of Staff, are our losses great?"
Hong Linfeng took out another list and introduced: "Captain, don't worry, the casualties are all within the tolerance of the garrison. A total of 129 soldiers were sacrificed, and 21 were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. The others were either intact or slightly injured, which did not affect the combat effectiveness.
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"The equipment lost was three mortars, two heavy machine guns, five light machine guns, and 129 rifles."
Hearing this, a bold distribution plan appeared in Li Hao's mind, and he looked at Captain Zhou to answer.
"Before returning to the base area, the loss of troops in the garrison will definitely not be replenished. In order to ensure combat effectiveness, the only way to make up for the loss of combat effectiveness in each company is to increase firepower."
"I want six heavy machine guns, two of them will replace battle losses, and the remaining four will be supplemented by one for each company. The number of heavy machine guns equipped in each fire platoon will be increased from two to three."
"I want five mortars, three to make up for the battle damage, and the two fire companies will each add one to reach four."
"I want two mountain cannons, and one more for each of the two fire companies."
"After the rifle machine guns have made up for the battle damage, each company will add three more light machine guns to ensure that each infantry squad can be assigned one."
"The number of grenade launchers in each company has also been increased to three."
"That's all for now. All the remaining weapons and equipment belong to the independent regiment."
Captain Zhou was so happy that he could hardly close his mouth from ear to ear.
According to this distribution plan, although the garrison regiment took away most of the heavy machine guns and mortars, more than half of the mountain cannons and rifle machine guns remained.
The independent mortar and heavy machine gun regiments already have a lot of equipment, and adding any more will become a burden.
The independent mountain artillery regiment didn't have any. Li Hao left four of them, plus the infantry cannon, which was enough for the independent regiment to form an artillery company...
After all calculations, the independent regiment took another huge advantage over the garrison regiment.
Looking at Li Hao with a look of disbelief, he asked: "Captain Li, do you really only need this much for the garrison? No other weapons and ammunition?"
Li Hao shook his head and answered with certainty: "That's enough! All the remaining weapons, ammunition and supplies will be left to the independent regiment to form a new unit."
"You are operating under the nose of the Japanese army, you are under great pressure, and you do not have enough supplies, weapons and ammunition reserves, so you can easily suffer big losses."
"And this battle is not over yet. If we really need something, the worst we can do is seize it from the Japanese again."
"Weng buzz..."
The roar of the plane suddenly reached everyone's ears, and the sound became louder and louder from far to near.
"Order the troops to take cover. It's a Japanese plane and it will definitely come to us." Li Hao's face immediately returned to seriousness and he ordered loudly.
The plane flew over everyone's heads and then slowly disappeared.
The troops were well concealed and the planes gained nothing here.
As soon as the plane left, everyone became relaxed.
Everyone thinks it is safe here and the plane will not come again.
But things went against expectations. Two hours later, the huge roar of airplanes sounded in everyone's ears again.
At the same time, the radio station equipped by the garrison also turned on a red light.
Within a few minutes, Zhou Liang came over and reported: "Captain, the commando team sent an urgent message: After the Japanese reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, an infantry squadron suddenly split up and entered the mountain in combat units to search for us."
"They also reported that there were at least three Japanese planes flying above us."
As soon as he finished speaking, the red light of the radio station started flashing again.
Zhou Liang hurriedly handed the telegram to Hong Linfeng, and hurried back to the radio station to receive the new telegram. After finishing the report, he reported: "Captain, this is a piece of information forwarded to us by the political commissar from our superiors. All the Japanese and puppet troops around Laishui this morning were all
Martial law, reconnaissance troops, and intelligence personnel all left their strongholds and county towns to look for what?”
"They are looking for us!" Li Hao made a judgment on the spot.
"We?" Captain Zhou asked in confusion.
"Isn't the purpose of the Japanese to counterattack Laishui? What's the point of spending so much money on us?"
"Why don't the Japanese counterattack Laishui if they can't find us?"
"It's really possible!" Li Hao seemed to have thought of something, with a thoughtful look on his face.
Soon a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and he continued: "I think I probably understand the Japanese idea."
"Last night, we killed more than 1,700 Japanese soldiers in two consecutive battles. We must have frightened the Japanese troops at the assembly area."
"If I were the commander of the Japanese army, I would not dare to attack Laishui rashly without digging out and killing this powerful enemy, exposing my entire back without reservation."
"This is definitely an unexpected surprise, Captain Zhou, we should seize this opportunity."
"Since the Japanese army is digging deep in the ground to find us, they need to solve the trouble first and then attack Laishui. We can definitely use their plan to turn this place into a battlefield and deal with the Japanese in the enemy-occupied area."
"Others in the Independent Group took the opportunity to form an anti-Japanese base area in Laishui and develop underground armed forces."
"When the Japanese army reacts and wants to counterattack Laishui."
"Except for Laishui County, the rest of the place is tightly controlled by us. The devils can't do anything to take it back."
Captain Zhou also understood and agreed very much with Li Hao's proposal. He happily replied: "That's true!"
"Captain Li, there is no doubt about your command ability. I trust your judgment. We will fight how you say."
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