"Battal Commander, this battle was too thrilling. We must not take such risks in the future! If you hadn't reacted quickly and led the troops to retreat in time, our losses would have been great!" Li Hao introduced the entire action process.
Later, Wang Hong shouted with lingering fear on his face.
"Isn't it safe to come back?" Li Hao answered with a nonchalant expression.
"Besides, the greater the risk, the greater the reward. This is true in business, and it is also true in war, otherwise we wouldn't be able to bring back so many prisoners and seizures!"
Wang Hong replied helplessly: "No more, I can't tell you about this kind of thing anyway!"
"However, there is indeed a lot of equipment captured in this battle, especially heavy weapons. Including those captured in the base area, there are a total of ten mortars and ten heavy machine guns, which can be used to establish a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company.
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Seeing that Wang Hong became more and more happy as he spoke, Li Hao added immediately.
"During the retreat, I led the guard platoon and the reconnaissance platoon to kill a Japanese cavalry squad and successfully captured 42 horses and matching cavalry equipment!"
The smile on Wang Hong's face grew wider, and he added immediately: "Many war horses were also captured in the base area!"
"Originally, not a single war horse was captured in the four ambushes, and I don't know what medicine Watanabe took wrong. Suddenly, more than 20 messengers were sent into our base area. One messenger was matched with one war horse."
"Of course the fat meat delivered to the door must be eaten. Not one of the twenty messengers escaped, they were all killed, and a total of 21 war horses were captured, all intact!"
Having said this, Wang Hong's excited face slowly turned hot, and he stared at Li Hao and asked.
"Battal Commander, there are 63 horses in total, and there are so many weapons. What do you plan to do with them?"
Hong Linfeng's eyes also became hot, staring closely at Li Hao.
Although the independent battalion's heavy weapons allocation ratio is second to none in the entire Eighth Route Army, no one would mind a few more mortars in the army.
In this case, if you encounter little devils in the future, you may not need to attack with infantry, but can just use artillery shells to blow them up!
Li Hao thought for a long time before making a decision: "Each war horse is divided into three groups to facilitate the transmission of orders to each other!"
"The battalion headquarters retains eighteen horses. In addition to the existing war horses of the communications platoon, a total of thirty horses are centralized. The battalion headquarters directly reports to the communications platoon, reconnaissance platoon, and commando team. Whoever has the task will use them!"
"The remaining thirty horses are given to the cavalry company and let them form another platoon!"
"As for the heavy machine guns and mortars, turn them all over to the military division and give them directly to the commander when he gets here!"
"All the rifles captured by the puppet soldiers will be given to the guerrillas in each village. If there are not enough, we will seize them later!"
"We will keep fifty of the thirty-eight pieces captured by the Japanese as backup, and hand over the rest to the military division together!"
"After the light machine guns and grenade launchers replenish the battle losses, five machine guns and five grenade launchers will be left in reserve. Each district team will be assigned one machine gun and one grenade launcher, and the rest will be handed over to the military division!"
Wang Hong and Hong Linfeng both looked stunned.
The expression on Li Hao's face was as if he suddenly didn't recognize him.
Wang Hong was the first to react: "Batalion Commander, did I hear you correctly? When did you become so obedient and you actually know how to take credit for the capture!"
"If I calculated correctly, these are ten mortars, ten heavy machine guns, more than twenty light machine guns, twenty grenade launchers, and more than two hundred 38-guns!"
"Are you really willing to hand it all over to the military division?"
Li Hao smiled bitterly and replied: "You think I want to hand it over?"
"After these light and heavy weapons are used, we can almost form five more companies!"
"Even if it is directly equipped with troops, it is enough to double the firepower of our independent battalion!"
"But, what can I do if I don't hand it over?"
Hong Linfeng also reacted at this time and asked anxiously: "Batalion Commander, you have to think carefully! If you hand over so many light and heavy weapons, you won't come back!"
"Turn it all over!" Li Hao replied firmly without any hesitation!
"Why?" Hong Linfeng asked subconsciously, his face full of reluctance.
"Because we can't afford so many weapons!" Li Hao explained.
"On the battlefield, a heavy machine gun consumes as many bullets per minute as a company, and a light machine gun consumes as much bullets as a platoon."
"Now our company is equipped with seven crooked guns and two heavy machine guns. In any given battle, we will consume three to four thousand rounds of ammunition. If the battle lasts longer, it could be seven to eight thousand rounds."
"If we give them twice as many light and heavy machine guns, their bullet consumption will also double!"
"A company consumes nearly 10,000 bullets in a small-scale battle, and the whole battalion adds up to 50,000 to 60,000. According to the little devil's equipment, if we want to seize so many bullets in one battle to ensure battlefield consumption, we must kill at least six to seven hundred
The enemy must be defeated quickly."
"Do you think we have such strength?"
"Besides, even if our independent battalion has such strength, it is difficult to encounter such an opportunity!"
"If we fight according to the current weapon configuration, the consumption of a battle is about 30,000 rounds, and we only need to kill 300 Japanese to capture it, which is almost a reinforced squadron!"
"Concentrate the entire battalion to kill a strengthened squadron in one battle. We still have such combat power, and fighter planes can easily encounter it!"
Hong Linfeng stopped talking. Although he still looked unwilling, Li Hao's words gave him no reason to refute.
Machine guns consume too much ammunition, especially heavy machine guns.
By continuously pulling the trigger, hundreds of rounds of ammunition can be used up in just one minute, which is enough to consume a whole company of infantry.
More importantly, without bullets, a light and heavy machine gun is no better than a rifle with a good bayonet on the battlefield.
After a long sigh, he replied: "You're right, battalion commander. Our ammunition relies entirely on captured ammunition. The limited bullets are missing every time. We really can't afford so many machine guns and artillery!"
"However, wouldn't it be too much to hand over all these heavy weapons at once?"
"If the main force cannot equip it, we can give it to the local troops!"
"The county brigade will set up a firepower platoon, the district team will set up a firepower squad, and the larger guerrillas will be equipped with machine guns. This should be no problem!"
In the past, Li Hao of the Independent Battalion was a miser. He wanted to keep all the good weapons and equipment he had seized. It was Wang Hong and Hong Linfeng who persuaded him to abide by the discipline and take credit for the seizure. Now we see that the troops are equipped with a large number of heavy weapons.
After gaining strong fighting power, the miser turned into the two of them.
It's not that he hasn't thought about Wang Hong's proposal, but he rejected the idea as soon as it came out.
He shook his head and refused: "It is rare for local troops to participate in a battle. Why give them weighted weapons? Are they just for decoration?"
"Other troops in the military division are fighting against the Japanese on the battlefield to seize a machine gun, but we have many machine guns placed there as decorations. If the brother troops know about it, they will definitely poke our spines!"
"So, in order not to be stabbed in the spine by our brother troops, in order to make full use of these equipment and kill more Japanese, they must be turned in!"
"I agree!" instructor Wang Hong said.
"The battalion commander is right. These heavy weapons can only play their role in the main force. Since we can't afford to support ourselves, then give them to other main forces so that they can kill more Japanese. They must not be put into our hands to survive.
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