The telegram to Chongqing has been sent for almost an hour, but it seems to have fallen into disuse without any response!
Just when the two chiefs could hardly wait any longer, the communications staff finally appeared!
"Chief, urgent call from Chongqing!"
"Give me the telegram!" the boss ordered anxiously!
After receiving the telegram, I started to browse it. The content was not long and it only took half a minute to read it!
Then he handed the telegram to the deputy chief of staff next to him, frowning and lost in thought!
The deputy chief of staff reacted very directly. After reading the telegram, he complained dissatisfiedly: "Boss, Chongqing is too unfair. If any unit of the Central Army achieves such a great success, I am sure that the one in Chongqing will at least give it three consecutive promotions.
Walk to the position of major general and brigade commander in one step!"
"Our demands are not excessive. We only need a main force regiment and give Comrade Li Hao the position of lieutenant colonel leader!"
"They are not even satisfied with this requirement. It is really too much. How can they convince the public if he treats the anti-Japanese soldiers like this?"
The deputy commander-in-chief has a very bad temper. If he had been treated unfairly like this, he would have scolded him long ago!
But not today, and he was surprisingly calm!
Looking at his old partner, he replied: "Don't be angry. Chongqing has wanted to control the establishment of our Eighth Route Army for more than a day or two, so I have already thought of such a result. There is nothing to be angry about!"
The deputy chief of staff exclaimed with a look of reluctance: "With such great credit, maybe our Eighth Route Army will only encounter this once in a few years. In the end, it will be changed to a garrison regiment. This is a big loss!"
"Also, the garrison group is not the main group!"
"Equipment, food, and wages must all be raised by oneself. This is equivalent to Chongqing's award order, which only requires lip service and does not require any payment!"
"Also, I think the establishment of the Lingqiu garrison that Chongqing has given us is definitely not as simple as it appears on the surface. It has sinister intentions inside!"
"The defense regiment has the responsibility to defend the territory and cannot leave the defense area unless absolutely necessary!"
"Our clear telegram has been sent. The Japanese will definitely deploy heavy troops to besiege Lingqiu now. They will either rescue the Major General Brigade Commander from the independent regiment, or destroy the corpses and traces, and kill the independent regiment and the Major General Brigade Commander we captured.
, give them an explanation from above!"
"No matter what the Japanese choose, the reorganized garrison will be attacked wildly by the Japanese army until it is wiped out!"
"After the independent regiment is reorganized into a garrison regiment, they who have the responsibility of defending the territory cannot leave Lingqiu casually!"
"Lingqiu is so big. Even if they successfully break through and leave the county, as long as they are still in Lingqiu, they will definitely be found by the Japs!"
"This is to make it clear that the adapted Lingqiu garrison will defend Lingqiu and eventually be annihilated by the Japanese!"
"This is not a reward at all. It's just a murderous knife. Use the hands of a little devil to kill the independent group!"
The boss shook his head and analyzed: "No, I think the defense team is very good!"
"Although the main force regiment can leave the garrison and fight everywhere, its establishment is fixed, and it is more eye-catching and has no concealment at all! But the garrison regiment is different, because it raises its own military salary, and the establishment is not controlled! As long as there is food
, we have equipment and soldiers, even if I form a garrison regiment and form ten garrison battalions, the higher-ups will not be able to take care of it!"
"As for the responsibility of guarding the territory, you can't leave the station. This can be easily solved!"
"The counties around Lingqiu have been occupied by the Japs. Our garrison regiment sent troops to regain the lost territory from the Japs. I wonder who dares to say that the garrison regiment violated discipline!"
"And the garrison is under the command of our Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army still has the right to move them out of their garrison!"
The deputy chief of staff replied thoughtfully: "Then we will accept this commendation telegram!"
"Accept it, and send a telegram to the Independent Regiment. From now on, the Independent Regiment of the First Division of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region will be officially changed to the Lingqiu Garrison Regiment. It will raise its own military pay and there will be no limit on the number of personnel!"
"At the same time, tell Comrade Li Hao that the headquarters agrees with his combat plan and uses the Lingqiu garrison as bait to disrupt the Japanese army's mopping up plan and reduce the pressure on the military and civilians in the base area!"
"However, the garrison must choose an opportunity to break out at a critical moment. I don't want the Lingqiu garrison to be wiped out by the Japanese and puppet troops just after it is established!"
On the battlefield of Zhouzhuang, the defeat is over!
The sound of gunfire that had been ringing for nearly two hours fell completely silent!
The battlefield is full of soldiers of the independent regiment holding torches to clean the battlefield!
The expressions on the faces of Cavalry Battalion Commander Zhou Wu, Third Battalion Commander Huang Sheng, and Artillery Battalion Commander Yuan Qingfeng were very complicated, ranging from excitement to heartache!
Especially Zhou Wu, whose complicated emotions are particularly obvious!
After the battle, more than half of the cavalry battalion suffered casualties. Of the more than 380 cavalry battalions before the war, only less than 190 men are still alive after the battle!
The only thing that made him happy was that the loss of the horse was not big!
There are almost 150 horses left behind after the sacrifice of our soldiers and captured on the battlefield. Given time, the cavalry battalion will definitely be able to regain its strength!
However, the results of the cavalry battalion were also very great. There were more than a thousand little Japs, more than half of their semicircle, and nearly 700 Japs died under their sabers!
More importantly, because of their fast assault speed, the Guizishan artillery squadron, infantry artillery squadron, and heavy machine gun squadron were killed before they had time to destroy their equipment!
Four mountain cannons, two infantry cannons, nine heavy machine guns, and a large amount of ammunition that could not be destroyed in time were all the results of the cavalry battalion!
The artillery battalion commander Yuan Qingfeng's face was full of smiles, and he was already happy!
As expected, the four mountain cannons and two infantry cannons just captured on the battlefield will all replenish our artillery battalion!
With these artillery pieces, the total number of artillery pieces in the artillery battalion has reached fourteen. It is no longer an empty unit, but has truly become a fully manned artillery battalion!
"Captain, after statistics and calculations, we killed nearly 1,300 Japanese and puppet troops in the entire battle. Only less than 200 of the Japs escaped, and they all hid in the nearby mountains!" the third battalion commander Huang Sheng reported!
During the blocking battle and the final attack, the third battalion killed more than 400 Japanese. With these results, Huang Sheng became more confident in speaking!
Killing more than 1,300 Japanese puppet troops in two hours can definitely be called a great victory!
But there was no smile on Li Hao’s face!
Because these Japanese and puppet troops are not worth mentioning at all to the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops that are besieging them!
The pressure faced by the independent group is still very high, and an accident may lead to an explanation here!
After taking a deep breath, he ordered: "Although the results are great, we cannot be happy too early. The enemy is facing us, and the real battle has not yet begun!"
"The real tough battle begins after dawn!"
"Now I order the Third Battalion to take all the captured light and heavy machine guns and grenades and return to Lingqiu immediately to report to the Chief of Staff and assist the Chief of Staff in guarding Lingqiu City!"
"Tell the chief of staff that I agree with him to abandon the city defenses at the critical moment, rely on the buildings in the city to fight street battles with the Japanese and puppet troops entering the city, and hold on until dark at all costs!"
"The commando team will leave the city immediately to meet me!"
"The artillery battalion took over all the captured mountain artillery, infantry artillery, and artillery shells. I will personally command them and wait for them in hiding outside the city together with the guard company and cavalry battalion!"
After finishing all the orders in one breath, communications platoon leader Zhou Liang rushed over, his face full of excitement!
"Captain, good news!"
"The military division forwards the commendation telegram from the Eighth Route Army Headquarters!"
"No, the commendation telegram given to us by the Eighth Route Army headquarters was also forwarded to Chongqing!"
"Chongqing already knows about the military exploits of the leader of the Japanese Major General's brigade that we captured, and they sent us a telegram of commendation!"
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