"There must be no Eighth Route Army in the village now!" the chief of staff analyzed with a stern face.
"A company of troops bluffed in the village to attract us to fight. The main force hid here to ambush us and catch us off guard. What a powerful battle plan..."
"Report..." Another subordinate rushed over and reported while breathing heavily.
"Sir, I just sent a reconnaissance team into Hujiazhuang. No Eighth Route Army was found inside. The ammunition boxes piled in the open space were all empty, and the piles of supplies were all disguised with wheat straw."
The judgment was confirmed, and the chief of staff could no longer laugh at all.
It was too late for me to understand. If I had discovered this conspiracy earlier, half an hour in advance, the losses to the troops would not have been so great. Maybe they could have turned defeat into victory and launched a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army.
But there is no regret medicine in the world. If you lose, you will lose.
He took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and then ordered: "The troops will occupy Hujiazhuang immediately. All the lightly and seriously wounded will enter the village and carry out rescue operations in the village."
"Use the radio to contact the assembly area, and dispatch cars to deliver medicines and doctors."
"We have suffered enough losses in this battle. We must rescue those seriously injured."
"The messenger immediately caught up with the counterattacking troops. The troops stopped their pursuit when they reached the edge of the hilly terrain."
"Our troops are too small, and the aircraft's reinforcement effect in complex terrain is limited. If we rush into the mountains hastily, we will definitely suffer big losses."
At the meeting point of the garrison nearly five kilometers away from the battlefield, Li Hao looked very solemn.
All the response troops that could be sent out were sent out, but there were still not many artillery soldiers rescued.
By eight o'clock in the evening, the last responding force returned to the station with a few mortar parts, indicating that the operation was completely over.
The chief of staff took the results that had just been calculated and reported with a heartbroken look on his face: "Captain, a total of 286 people from the artillery and thunder artillery units participated in the battle, and only 125 came back. 138 people from the guard company participated in the battle, and only 58 came back. The rest
The soldiers were 80% in danger. All the thunder cannons were blown up by the Japanese, and 14 mortars were lost."
"But their sacrifice was worth it. The investigation confirmed that the Japs sent at least 200 seriously injured people into Hujiazhuang, and more than 500 corpses. Adding the casualties of the Japs' pursuit troops, the Japs' losses in this battle must have been 900 people.
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Li Hao's face looked much better: "Without these nine hundred people, the remaining Japanese and puppet troops are unlikely to pose much of a threat to us."
"The troops have a good rest and we will return to Laishui tomorrow night."
At the Lingqiu garrison headquarters, political commissar Wang Hong was in a very good mood.
With the food and materials sent back by Yi County, I am more confident than before.
In the heavily guarded conference room, all the heads of several departments of the defense team gathered inside to report the results.
Deputy commander Luo Yun was the first to speak: "Political Commissar, during your absence, the Japanese sent another 130,000 civilians to our base area. The width of the surrounding no-man's land has reached 30 kilometers. Now it mainly extends to both sides to guard us.
The regiment was completely surrounded."
"According to the plan, these people will be reintegrated on a village basis. Some will be resettled in sparsely populated villages, some will be rebuilt in uninhabited areas, and some will be resettled in empty villages caused by the war."
"So far, no ordinary people have died of freezing or starvation."
He Wenlin, who was in charge of intelligence, reported immediately.
"Political Commissar, during the process of integrating these ordinary people, we found a total of 586 suspicious persons. After confirmation, 175 of them were spies planted by the Japanese and puppet troops."
"We have assigned special personnel to keep an eye on the remaining suspicious persons who cannot be confirmed. As long as they act and reveal their flaws, they will be arrested as soon as possible."
"There are 2,586 people who have fled into no-man's land. They are the most difficult to identify."
"After discussing with Deputy Commander Luo, I decided to place them in villages in the old base area."
"The villagers here are highly aware and vigilant. Several households keep an eye on each household. If someone is a spy, they will definitely not be able to escape their eyes."
"Now the number of times Japanese and puppet agents carry out sabotage in the base area has dropped by at least 70% compared to half a month ago."
"I am confident that it will be reduced to 10% of the original level within half a month to ensure that the development of the base area will not be affected by these spies."
Luo Yun continued: "After we have reintegrated and resettled the villagers, we are organizing everyone to carry out production and self-rescue."
"Tuwozi already has at least one in every household. Now we are organizing everyone to reclaim wasteland, breed earthworms, and dig canals..."
"Working in exchange for food for the family."
"According to current standards: each young and strong person can get one catty of grain a day, and the old, weak, women and children can get half a catty."
"I think this ration is too little. It can only ensure that everyone does not starve to death."
"Normally, a family can cultivate an acre of land in three days. Because they don't have enough food and have no energy, it takes at least five days for a family to cultivate an acre of land."
"Now that we are not short of food, political commissar, please see if you can improve everyone's ration standards. Even if each person increases one or two rations every day, hundreds of thousands of people combined can open up a lot more land."
"Can't increase it!" Wang Hong shook his head and refused.
"This is not only my opinion, but also the leader's decision."
Seeing Luo Yun's confused look, Wang Hong explained: "Although the intelligence department has killed a large number of spies, there must be many others who have slipped through the net."
"If we increase food rations now, it will be like telling the little devils: Our food shortage problem has been solved."
"With food, the large number of people flowing into our base areas will not only not become a burden, but will also increase our strength."
"The Japanese are not stupid. They will definitely change their battle plan and attack us immediately before the hundreds of thousands of refugees have fully settled down, leaving us vulnerable from both sides."
"This is a situation that neither the leader nor I want to see."
"What we need most now is time to completely settle hundreds of thousands of refugees."
"Here are two orders from the head of the regiment to everyone. First: the intelligence department continues to screen the refugees for Japanese and puppet agents, and at the same time spreads a message."
"There is a shortage of food in the base area. In order to ensure food rations for hundreds of thousands of refugees, the rations of the main forces, local troops, and guerrillas in the base area have all been reduced by 30%."
"The second order is for me and Deputy Commander Luo: We will start recruiting troops from among the refugees from now on, add another new company to the main battalion and the independent battalion, and double the strength of the recruit battalion directly under the regiment."
"Once the news that we have seized a large amount of supplies and food from Yi County leaks out, the Japanese will definitely send troops to attack us."
"If we let the refugees join the Eighth Route Army, the families and relatives of these recruits will definitely support us immediately. Under their leadership, other refugees will also quickly support us, and then the base area will be stable."
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