Instructor Wang Hong immediately reacted: "I will go to the sweet potato flour factory to find Huang Shuyun and ask him to expand manpower immediately!"
"Spring plowing has passed, and the prisoners in the prisoner camp have nothing to do. I plan to send them all to the sweet potato flour factory, and also transfer the recruit camp there to protect the safety of the sweet potato flour factory!"
"The commander will come to Lingqiu in half a month. After the inspection, he still has time to report to the military region. Even if the superiors send someone to take over the sweet potato flour factory as soon as possible, it will still be a month later!"
"We work in three shifts around the clock, and we will have no problem producing 300,000 kilograms of sweet potato flour a month!"
"Let me do the math. One thousand kilograms of sweet potato flour makes a profit of five yuan. Three hundred thousand kilograms is one thousand five hundred yuan. With these fifteen hundred yuan, our independent camp will have the confidence to do other things!"
Li Hao answered with satisfaction: "It seems that you, instructor, have also been led astray by me, so that's what we'll do!"
"Even if the superiors take over the sweet potato flour factory, the sales of sweet potato flour in Lingqiu must be in our hands and continue to benefit the families of our independent battalion soldiers!"
"In addition, without affecting the sales of sweet potato flour by our superiors, we can set up a small workshop in the independent logistics office. The scale does not need to be too large. It can produce two to three hundred kilograms of sweet potato flour per day. We can specially produce it for our own consumption and be self-sufficient.
Even if the higher-ups knew about it, they wouldn’t say anything. Who told us that we have so many sweet potatoes in Lingqiu, and our independent camp knows how to produce sweet potato flour!”
"Pa bang bang..."
When two people were planning how to make money for their independent business in the conference room, a rapid knock on the door suddenly reached their ears.
"Come in!" Li Hao raised his head and ordered.
Then I saw Zhou Liang, the communications platoon leader, rushing in with a telegram in his hand and an anxious look on his face.
"Battal commander, instructor, urgent call from the military division!"
"The reinforcements sent by the Japanese to Lingqiu City will set off in two days. They are expected to be on the road for two days and arrive at Lingqiu City in four days!"
After receiving the telegram and just glancing at it, the good mood on Li Hao's face disappeared.
"The little devil is not sending reinforcements to Lingqiu City. He is clearly sending more elite troops here!"
"Two squadrons of new recruits, one squadron of garrison troops, one squadron of cavalry, an armored detachment and a large number of heavy weapons. Once these troops enter Lingqiu, Watanabe's strength will at least double!"
Wang Hong stared at his big eyes and asked: "Armored detachment, the little devil has sent all the armored vehicles!"
"We are just an independent battalion. The Japanese think too highly of us!"
Seeing Li Hao's sullen expression and not speaking, Wang Hong's face became solemn and he continued.
"Although I have never seen an armored vehicle, I have heard of it."
"The whole body is protected by armor, and it is equipped with two or three heavy machine guns and a small cannon. It is very powerful."
"The little Japs are hiding in armored vehicles and attacking us. Even light and heavy machine guns and mortars can't do anything to them. They can be said to be almost equal to us on the battlefield!"
"Besides using explosives to blow them up at close range, our Eighth Route Army seems to have no other way to deal with them!"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "Instructor, I'm not worried about armored vehicles!"
"It is true that the ordinary Eighth Route Army cannot deal with it, but our independent battalion is not an ordinary army!"
"We have mountain artillery. No matter how powerful the armored vehicle is, no matter how thick the armor is, it cannot withstand the direct fire of the mountain artillery!"
"Besides, Lingqiu is mountainous, and armored vehicles rely too much on roads. If the Japs in Lingqiu City send out armored vehicles to deal with us, not only will they not be of much use, but they will become a burden and become a living target for our mountain artillery company!
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"What I'm most worried about are those infantry and cavalry!"
"Including them, Watanabe has six infantry squadrons in his hands, plus the expanded Imperial Army and the special agent team, there are a total of 5,000 Japanese puppet troops!"
Hong Linfeng also rushed over at this time, shouting arrogantly: "Batalion Commander, are you worrying too much!"
"Even if those Imperial Alliance troops were rectified and trained by the Japanese personally, the Japanese are still the Japanese and cannot be compared to the Japanese."
"Five thousand Japanese puppet troops are many, but the county town still needs people to defend it. Watanabe can dispatch at most 3,500 troops to deal with us, and the puppet troops still account for more than half of them!"
"A few months ago, when our independent battalion had only a few hundred people, we were not even afraid of the 2,000 well-equipped Japs. Now that the total strength has expanded to 1,500, how can we not be afraid of the 4,000 Japanese puppet troops?"
Instructor Wang Hong also seemed to be persuaded, and the solemnity on his face was slowly replaced by eagerness to try.
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "Things are different now. It's not that I worry too much, it's that you think too simply."
"A few months ago we had no base and could concentrate our superior forces to fight against the Japanese."
"And if you win, you fight, and if you don't, you run away, without any worries, but it's different now!"
Wang Hong's expression changed immediately, and he suddenly realized and shouted: "Batalion Commander, are you talking about the base area?"
"Not bad!" Li Hao affirmed.
"Now that we have such a large base and have just gained the people's trust, if the Japanese attack and leave them alone, what will the people think of us? Will the people still be with us?"
Wang Hong fully understood and replied firmly: "Batalion Commander, you must not leave a common man in the base area to the little devil!"
"The devils are so ruthless and can do anything. If you leave the people to the devils, you are harming them!"
"It's easy to throw away the people's hearts that have been hard-earned, but it's even harder to get them back!"
"So I say this battle is not as easy to fight as everyone thinks!"
"Although we have more than a thousand people, our troops are too scattered and difficult to concentrate!"
"More importantly, with such a large base area, we have no idea where the Japanese will attack from and where they will deploy heavy troops for defense!"
Wang Hong hesitated and reminded: "We can evacuate the people into the mountains in advance, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, so that the little devils can escape!"
"Lingqiu is full of mountains. Not to mention hundreds of people, even thousands of people are hiding there and it's hard to find them!"
Li Hao's eyes lit up and he seemed to have thought of a solution: "This method is possible, but it is only one aspect!"
"The base area is too big, and everywhere may become the direction of the enemy's attack. If we defend passively, our troops will be too scattered, giving the enemy every opportunity to defeat us. So I decided to take the initiative!"
"As the old saying goes, offense is the best defense!"
"We still use the old method, attack the Japanese reinforcements first, and even if I can't kill them, I will hit them hard so that Watanabe doesn't have enough strength to attack our base!
Hong Linfeng shouted excitedly: "I knew you had a solution, battalion commander!"
"After defeating the Japanese reinforcements, what happens next? Battalion Commander?"
Seeing Hong Linfeng's expectant look at him, Li Hao spread his hands and shook his head and replied: "No more!"
"Even if the reinforcements arrive at Lingqiu, if Watanabe wants to integrate them into combat effectiveness, half a month is the minimum!"
"So, it's too early to talk about the Japs' attack now. The focus of our discussion next is how to severely damage the Japs' reinforcements!"
A flash of disappointment quickly flashed across Hong Linfeng's face, but he still responded immediately: "Of course it's the old method. Send out heavy troops to ambush them. If there's no chance of an ambush, attack them at night. At the very least, use guerrilla warfare to harass them!"
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