"What did you just say?" Li Hao suddenly appeared from behind several puppet soldiers and stared at them and asked.
"Hello, Commander of the Red Army... We, we didn't say anything?" The middle-aged man looked nervous and quickly denied it.
Subconsciously, he thought that Li Hao heard the words he just asked everyone to listen to him, act according to the situation, and prepare to escape!
Although the Eighth Route Army treated prisoners preferentially, if they were dishonest and wanted to escape after becoming prisoners, they could treat them as enemies and possibly shoot them!
Li Hao immediately comforted him: "Don't be nervous, I heard everything just now... You said that more than an hour ago, the Japanese took a small road to Lingqiu County and asked the Japanese army in the city to send troops to meet them. Is this true?
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The middle-aged prisoner breathed a sigh of relief.
He quickly replied: "It's true. In order to prevent accidents, a total of ten little devils went over, led by Captain Cao~"
"If you march quickly and take a small road, you can reach Lingqiu in two or three hours. Judging from the time, it should be about the same!"
"Commander of the Red Army, I suggest you retreat immediately and get out of here!"
"These ammunition are too important to the Japanese in the county. They will definitely send heavy troops to respond!"
"If they know that these ammunition fall into your hands, they will definitely come to hunt you down and take back the ammunition!"
"Then I will eat them!" Li Hao's face was not only not nervous, but also confident.
Then, regardless of the shocked expression on the faces of the puppet soldiers, he turned to the guard platoon leader Xiao Yuan behind him and ordered: "Inform the deputy company commander and several platoon leaders to come over immediately, there is a combat mission~"
Hong Linfeng was the most impatient and belligerent. He rushed over and chased Li Hao and asked, "Company Commander, there are enemies there, where should we fight?"
Li Hao did not hide anything and directly told the information he had just heard from the prisoners.
Then he judged with a serious look on his face: "I estimate that the troops deployed in Lingqiu City are at least one infantry squadron of the Japanese army and one company of the puppet army!"
"The Japanese army is responsible for escorting, and the puppet army is responsible for transporting ammunition and baggage!"
The excitement on Hong Linfeng's face disappeared and he asked solemnly.
"Company Commander, you don't want to attack the Japanese and puppet troops, do you?"
"No?" Li Hao asked with confidence on his face.
Hong Linfeng shook his head and replied: "It's not impossible, it's because the disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves is too great!"
"You just judged that Lingqiu County will send at least 300 troops to respond to them!"
"Although each platoon of our independent company is still there, the casualties are very high! I made statistics before. The guard platoon, first platoon, third platoon, fourth platoon, and fire platoon had a full strength of 200 people before the war, but now we can't fight
There are only about a hundred people left!"
"Especially for the three main platoons, not only half of the combat troops suffered casualties, but the entire squad also died!"
"We need troops to guard the prisoners and escort them back to the assembly area!"
"Reducing them, the maximum number of troops we can actually use for combat is seventy!"
"There are more than 300 puppet troops, and there are 200 Japanese alone. Their strength is several times ours. How can we fight?"
"Also, although we have dozens of light and heavy machine guns, the firepower of the machine guns is definitely several times that of the Japanese. But the casualties of the troops are too great, and we simply do not have the force to operate those light and heavy machine guns!"
Li Hao frowned and fell into deep thought, but it only lasted for a few seconds before his face showed an extremely determined expression.
"Fight, we must fight!"
"If you don't eat the fat meat that comes to your mouth, you won't eat it for free!"
"Also, if we can kill one more of their infantry squadrons, then the Watanabe Brigade will only have two infantry squadrons left!"
"With this small force, even if they regain ammunition supplies, their combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened!"
"It will be much easier for us to drag them inside Lingqiu then!"
Hong Linfeng frowned and asked the most critical question: "How to fight? How can we kill them with the few troops we have!"
"Let the artillery come in!" Li Hao made a decisive decision.
"Don't forget, in addition to three mortars, we also captured three mountain cannons just now!"
"As for the Japanese and puppet troops who came over from Lingqiu County, in order to speed up their march, they definitely did not carry heavy weapons. They could only be beaten passively in front of our three mortars and three mountain cannons."
"I don't ask for annihilating them all in this battle, as long as they can be severely damaged at the minimum cost."
"Three mountain cannons and three mortars are the best weapons to severely injure them!"
Artillery platoon leader Yuan Qingfeng was very excited, but it only lasted for a few seconds, and then reminded him with a worried look on his face.
"Company commander, although the mountain artillery is very powerful, no one in the entire artillery platoon knows how to shoot!"
"I can!" Li Hao replied.
"I'll control one myself, you'll be responsible for operating one, and then send out a gunner to control the other. I'll just teach you!"
"Three mortars and three mountain cannons fire together. No matter how powerful the little devil is, he can't withstand the explosion!"
"Lao Hong, take the guard platoon, platoon one, to escort the prisoners and ammunition trucks back to the assembly area and stand by!"
"Third platoon, fourth platoon, fire platoon, artillery platoon, follow me!"
"Didn't we seize a lot of mules and horses just now? Keep them all, and now I will teach the artillery platoon how to dismantle and transport mountain artillery, and then take enough artillery shells and head towards Lingqiu County!"
"In order to prevent the Japanese from becoming suspicious and to catch them off guard, the battlefield must be chosen closer to the county seat!"
More than 20 roads away from Lingqiu City, a mountain ridge is like a dividing line, dividing the road into two sections.
To the west of the mountain ridge is an endless plain, to the east are hills, and then slowly turn into mountains!
"Let's fight the Japanese right here!" Li Hao ordered.
The third platoon leader Zhao Wen was stunned for a moment, then pointed to the east of the mountain ridge and replied: "The terrain here is hilly. Although it is not as good as the mountainous area, it is also a good place for an ambush!"
"Company Commander, how do we arrange it? How big should the pocket array be?"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "We will not ambush!"
"The Japanese and puppet soldiers are outnumbered, and we don't have enough troops. We simply can't deploy such a large pocket array to accommodate all the supporting troops!"
"See the mountain ridge in front of you! We relied on the mountain ridge to block the attack. Three platoons, four platoons, and fire platoons immediately entered the position to build temporary positions!
"The artillery platoon stays here to set up artillery positions, and the mortars can be easily transferred. You can fire freely to attack the Japanese and puppet army gathering areas!"
"Three mountain cannons are aimed at the area fifty to one hundred meters in front of the formation to attack the Japanese and puppet attacking troops!"
"We will start setting up now. The soldiers in charge of the mountain artillery will all obey my orders and prepare to arrange the gun positions and adjust the shooting of Zhu Yuan~"
"The devil is coming soon, we must hurry up!"
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