"Battal Commander, are these little Japs crazy? They are attacking us like hell. Comrades can't stand it any longer!" First Company Commander Zhang Cheng shouted to Huang Sheng while commanding his troops to block the Japs charging forward.
"Don't be anxious, hold on!" Huang Sheng was not nervous at all. Instead, he became more and more excited as he fought, staring at the oncoming Japanese soldiers and replied.
"The crazier the little devil is, the greater the results we will achieve here."
"It will definitely be much easier to kill them here than it is for us to attack them mainly."
After saying that, he gave an order to a messenger behind him.
"Go and tell the second company commander to ask their fire platoon to immediately reinforce the first company and be sure to keep the enemy fifty meters in front of us."
The signal soldier who received the order immediately ran to the second company to give the order.
A few minutes later, the three heavy machine guns equipped by the Second Company were carried over, and the number of heavy machine guns used to block the Japanese frontally doubled instantly to six.
Heavy machine guns are powerful, have a long range, and are far more lethal than light machine guns and rifles.
A bullet flies head-on and penetrates the bodies of two Japanese people before it loses its power.
After all the shots were fired, the Japanese offensive was quickly blocked. They stopped at 70 to 80 meters away and could not move forward further.
Huang Sheng did not intend to remain passively defensive, so he seized the opportunity and ordered: "Heavy machine gun cover, other troops continue to advance with me, narrow the encirclement, reduce the scope of the Japanese activities, and strive to drive them all to the Laiyuan Independent Battalion station!"
In front of the enemy headquarters of the garrison, a cavalry correspondent rushed over on horseback.
There was no intention of slowing down when we arrived at the command post.
It's like the signal soldiers are performing stunts, turning over and jumping off the horse, which is thrilling and exciting.
After jumping off the horse, the correspondent did not stop and strode into the headquarters: "Report to the leader, the reconnaissance company successfully completed the assault mission: they captured the Japanese headquarters ten minutes ago and killed the Japanese captain and more than ten officers above the captain."
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"The headquarters radio station was destroyed in the shelling, and all the operators were killed. There was no time to send any telegrams."
"Great!" Li Hao's face beamed with joy at that time.
Looking at Hong Linfeng, he said with emotion.
"Chief of Staff, taking down the Japanese headquarters and killing their commanders will not only make the remaining Japanese and puppet troops leaderless on the battlefield, damage their morale and weaken their combat effectiveness, but also conceal the news that we have completely annihilated the Japanese and puppet offensive forces.
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"You have to do one thing now: organize the thousands of local troops and guerrillas that the political commissar has gathered on the battlefield in the past two days into ten battalion-sized temporary troops, ensuring that each troop has 400 people, and one
A mortar platoon and a heavy machine gun platoon."
Hong Linfeng denied it without thinking: "Captain, this is simply impossible to do."
"It's no problem to organize them into ten teams of 400 people, but you will make things difficult for me with the heavy machine gun platoon and mortar platoon."
"They were not equipped with many heavy machine guns and mortars. In order to kill the Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield, I took away all the ones I could and gave them to several independent battalions."
"Don't talk about heavy machine guns and mortars, they don't even have many light machine guns now."
Li Hao replied: "Don't worry about the equipment for the time being. Let's get the people together first."
"There are more than 5,000 Japanese puppet troops on the battlefield, and they are equipped with more than 50 artillery pieces of all kinds. We can kill them without worrying about heavy weapons."
Hong Linfeng thought it was true and nodded in agreement: "If that's the case, then it's no problem."
But soon his brows furrowed.
Then he showed a puzzled expression on his face, looked at Li Hao and asked, "That's not right! Captain."
"From what you say, you don't intend to let them go to the battlefield. The Japanese and puppet troops here have been killed. Why are you organizing so many local troops? And also forming ten battalion-sized temporary troops at a time?"
"Take the no-man's land!" Li Hao pointed to the no-man's land on the map and answered with his eyes shining.
"In order to attack us, the Japanese army drained all the mobile troops in the no-man's land. There is no better opportunity than now to enter the no-man's land."
"In addition, without the headquarters and radio station, not only the Japs in Taiyuan City don't know that their attacking troops have been wiped out by us, but the Japs in the no-man's land don't know either. They might even think that their attacking troops have entered our base area."
"If the troops attack us now, they will definitely be caught off guard."
Hong Linfeng's eyes began to heat up.
The uninhabited land is a very important means for the Japanese army to blockade the garrison. Because of their existence, the possibility of the garrison continuing to develop outwards is almost zero, and it cannot receive any material support from the outside world.
If the no-man's land can be captured, the Japanese and puppet troops' blockade of the garrison will be broken.
Of course, the Japanese army can also build another no-man's land.
But it takes time and requires a lot of material and military support. The Japanese army has continuously lost a large number of troops and materials on the battlefield, and it is impossible to gather so many things in a short time. Therefore, it is almost impossible for them to rebuild the no-man's land.
To put it bluntly, even if they have this condition, today's garrison is no longer what it used to be, and they will definitely not watch them build another no-man's land.
The more Hong Linfeng thought about it, the more excited he became, and he immediately accepted the order: "I'll make arrangements now!"
As soon as Hong Linfeng left the headquarters, another communications soldier rushed in.
"Captain: The Datong Independent Battalion successfully repulsed a large-scale counterattack by the Japanese army and wiped out more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops."
"At present, the troops have advanced to the vicinity of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion station, and the remnants of the Japanese and puppet troops who counterattacked them have all retreated to the station."
Li Hao was very satisfied with the order: "Go back and tell you, Commander Huang, that the troops must fight steadily and kill the opponent at the minimum cost."
"After the battle here is over, there will be new tasks waiting for you to complete. Be sure to control troop casualties."
"Yes, regimental commander..." After the communication soldier said that, he turned and left the headquarters.
Half an hour later, the battle situation had changed drastically.
For more than 5,000 days, the puppet troops lost more than 1,000 people on the 12 lines of defense of the attacking garrison. Nearly 1,000 people were lost in the first round of attack, and more than 300 people were lost in the second round of attack.
Facing the sudden appearance of the encircling troops of the Eighth Route Army, all the attacking troops chose to break out immediately, but all failed.
Moreover, more than a thousand people were lost during the breakout process.
The surviving Japanese troops finally retreated to the Laiyuan Independent Battalion station and stabilized the defense line. The total strength of the Japanese troops had been reduced sharply to 2,000.
What's more important is that they now have an Eighth Route Army offensive force that is several times their own size outside, and more than a hundred remnants of the Laiyuan Independent Battalion who are tougher than bones inside. They are under attack from both sides.
A major captain volunteered to take over command of the troops.
Faced with the predicament at hand, his first thought was to kill the enemy in his belly first.
Only in this way can everyone concentrate their forces and wait for reinforcements here.
Otherwise, you might be stabbed in the back without even knowing it.
In the barracks area that had been blown into ruins, the sound of firefights rang out again.
The Japanese army launched a desperate attack inside, hoping to kill the Laiyuan Independent Battalion in the shortest possible time.
Otherwise, once the outside attacking troops come in, they will lose the opportunity, be attacked from both sides, and eventually be killed.
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