"Batalion Commander, it is very difficult to capture Rili Tian Village through a forceful attack!" Hong Linfeng expressed his thoughts seriously.
Then he pointed at the sketch and analyzed: "Outside the village are fields, with an unobstructed view. There is not even a bush to hide in. As long as the Japanese and puppet troops put their machine guns on the fence and shoot outside, no matter how many of us there are, we can't rush through.
Their fire interception!"
"The Japanese still have artillery. If they fire when we attack, one cannonball will kill several of us!"
"Unless we have an absolute advantage in artillery fire and a sufficient number of artillery shells, we can use the artillery shells to level Litian Village, blow up all the surrounding areas, and destroy the artillery and light and heavy machine guns equipped by the Japanese, otherwise it will be very difficult to get close to the village!"
Li Kaihu, commander of the baggage company, said: "We have artillery, so there will be no problem in bombing the little Japanese on the battlefield. But it is too unrealistic to use artillery shells to level the village and the entire Tuwei area."
"The village is so big, it definitely can't be done without thousands of rounds of artillery shells!"
"For this counter-mopping operation, the instructor took out half of the artillery shells in our inventory. There are more than 1,800 shells in total. We have used a lot in the past two days. Now we have 1,400 shells left. It is impossible to use them all."
The village was razed to the ground!"
Yuan Qingfeng, commander of the mountain artillery company, hesitated for a long time before replying: "I just calculated that with our current number of artillery, if we want to level the village and Tuweizi, we will need at least 3,000 artillery shells!"
Li Hao spoke and refused very decisively: "Exchanging three thousand artillery shells for more than a thousand days of puppet troops under Watanabe's command is a huge loss. The war cannot be fought like this!"
"Cannonballs are not bullets and are difficult to capture. Every time we fire one, we lose one, so every cannonball in our hands must be used on the edge!"
At this time, Peng Yunfeng, who was sitting on the other side of Li Hao, suddenly spoke.
As a reinforcement, he rarely spoke during the day.
But the issue at hand is related to the success or failure of the entire counter-mopping operation, and whether the troops can end the counter-mopping up as soon as possible and minimize the losses in the base area.
So as soon as some thoughts came to his mind, he couldn't help but say them out, hoping they would be useful.
"Battle Commander Li, I think the biggest problem now is how to rush into the village under the fire interception of the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"Do you think we can do this: Under the cover of night, a small number of troops quietly go to a position 150 meters outside the village, dig a trench, hide the troops in the trench and launch an attack, so that the attack distance can be shortened to
One hundred and fifty meters, greatly reducing our losses in the attack!"
Xiao Yuan, who had been staring at the Japanese and puppet troops during the day, shook his head and objected: "It's difficult to do!"
"Although the Japanese and puppet troops are all huddled in the village, there are also people outside the village, and there are quite a few of them!"
"Before dark, the light commando team found more than a dozen light and dark sentry posts. There must be many more that have not been found, especially the dark sentry posts. There must be quite a few."
"There are so many Japanese and puppet troops, and there are things we don't know about. Even if our commando team and the reconnaissance platoon are dispatched together, I don't have the confidence to kill them all quietly!"
"In addition, the devils still have flares in their hands. After dark, they will definitely use flares to observe the surrounding situation to ensure that no one approaches the village. As long as we show up, a flare will expose us all!"
Peng Yunfeng's brows also wrinkled.
He shook his head and replied: "In this case, I can't think of any other way!"
"I have a way!" Li Hao, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said.
"Just do what Battalion Commander Peng said and shorten the attack distance through civil engineering work!"
"As long as our various units cooperate well enough and plan well, there will definitely be no problem in taking over Litian Village. Let's try to kill this old devil Watanabe in this battle to prevent him from coming out to harm the people again!"
In the woods more than 400 meters away from Litian Village, five main companies of the Independent Battalion, the First Battalion of the Second Battalion of the Military Division, local troops, guerrillas... more than two thousand people gathered here.
The mountain artillery company directly under the battalion headquarters is not here. All six mountain artillery pieces are set up on a high hilltop two kilometers away from here, and they can cover the entire village with artillery fire from a high position.
Coupled with the height advantage, locating the mountain artillery company here can also ensure that the Japanese mortars and mountain artillery cannot threaten them.
The cavalry company lurked on the only way for the Japanese troops to return to the county town. Once the Japanese and puppet troops broke through, they would deal them a devastating blow halfway.
At this moment, Li Hao was holding a telescope and staring motionlessly at the fields outside the forest.
The Japs in the village would launch a flare every ten minutes. When the flare exploded, Li Hao's heart would beat as well. He was more nervous than ever, fearing that the commando team in front of him who had already started taking action would be discovered by the Japs.
Fortunately, after waiting for half an hour, the light finally flashed three times in front of him, the contact signal that Li Hao had been waiting for for a long time.
Li Hao couldn't help but let out a long sigh: "The commando team is formed, the reconnaissance platoon begins to take action!"
"They have cleared all the light and dark sentinels within a hundred meters in front. All you need to do is follow them and dig out individual bunkers every ten meters as planned. Let's go now."
Each of the more than forty soldiers held a shovel in their hands and disappeared from Li Hao's sight like ghosts.
They moved very quickly and made no sound.
Soon, Li Hao's ears heard the sound of slight digging.
Li Hao's nerves that had just relaxed became tense again, fearing that these movements would attract the attention of other Japanese and puppet sentries.
"boom……"
A gunshot broke the tranquility of the night, and Li Hao's heart suddenly rose to his throat.
The thing I was most worried about happened.
Then, without waiting for the Japanese to fire flares, he immediately ordered: "According to the plan, the artillery will concentrate all the artillery fire on me to blast the earth fence directly in front of me. Even if the earth fence cannot be leveled, I will use the smoke from the explosion of the artillery shells to block the sun behind me."
In the view of the puppet troops, the cover and reconnaissance platoon dug out the individual bunkers."
"Boom boom boom..."
A total of twenty mortars fired shells and the Japanese flares fired into the sky exploded at the same time.
The moment the reconnaissance platoon was exposed to the enemy's view, smoke and fireballs produced by the explosion of artillery shells appeared around Tuweizi.
There must have been many Japanese and puppet troops who were killed and injured, but the remaining Japanese and puppet troops were not frightened and responded very quickly.
From the earthen fence less than 200 meters long, five machine-gun fire snakes suddenly appeared.
Under the cover of night, Li Hao could even see the trajectory of bullets streaking through the air, flying towards the investigators who were digging trenches.
Those digging individual bunkers are all reconnaissance platoon soldiers, the most powerful group of soldiers in the independent battalion.
Despite this, the sudden counterattack still killed and wounded several investigators.
The only thing that made Li Hao happy was that each of the investigators dug a small pit of almost half a meter under his feet, and all the excavated soil was piled in front to form a one-foot-high mound. People squatted in the small pits,
Coupled with the cover of the mound in front, there is no problem at all in dodging incoming bullets.
Just now everyone was lying on the ground digging, but now they are squatting in the bunker digging, and the speed of trench excavation has not been affected.
But if the Japanese and puppet troops are allowed to continue firing, their counterattack firepower will definitely become more intense, and bullets may penetrate the mound and cause casualties to the reconnaissance platoon.
What's more important is that under such a fierce counterattack, his follow-up troops have no way to go up!
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