Zhou Wu didn't understand Li Hao's purpose of doing this, so he subconsciously refused!
"Captain, they don't need to go back!"
"Although he was injured, it was only a minor injury. He can still fight on horseback!"
"If we take them out, there will be only about 40 people left in the cavalry battalion. How can we fight?"
Xiao Yuan already understood Li Hao's thoughts and immediately interrupted: "Old Zhou, execute the order!"
"The regiment commander is doing this for the good of the cavalry battalion. We have to fight here for three days. No one can guarantee that nothing will happen to us! With these lightly wounded soldiers returning to the base, plus the horses and equipment they brought back, even if
We all died, and the cavalry battalion can be rebuilt in their hands!"
Zhou Wu suddenly reacted: "I understand, they are the seeds for forming a cavalry battalion in the future!"
"Captain, I will carry out the order and pull them out as soon as possible and send them back to the base after dark!"
Li Hao continued: "Not only the cavalry, artillery, guard companies, and commandos must all be sent back to the base area! We don't need too many people, but they must be able to shoulder the heavy burden!"
Just as a few people were about to leave, communications platoon leader Zhou Liang rushed in!
Seeing Zhou Liang holding the telegram in his hand and seeing the complicated expression on his face! Li Haoxin suddenly raised his throat, fearing that some bad news would suddenly come out!
After reading the telegram quickly in more than ten seconds, Li Hao's heart slowly relaxed, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth!
"Captain, is this good news?" Xiao Yuan saw some clues from Li Hao's face and asked immediately!
"One good news and one bad news!" Li Hao didn't hide it!
Xiao Yuan was puzzled. Looking at Li Hao's expression, it didn't look like he had received bad news at all, so he quickly asked!
"Then why are you so happy, Captain? There are both good and bad news. Shouldn't it be mixed?"
The smile on Li Hao's face became thicker and he explained directly: "For others, this is bad news! But for me, this bad news is not bad at all. On the contrary, it will bring us many unexpected things."
benefit!"
"Let me tell you the good news first!"
"Yesterday afternoon, Chongqing recognized our military exploits for killing more than 2,000 Japs in Lingqiu City. Although the reward was very small, the small mosquitoes are still meat!"
"What reward!" This time Zhou Wu couldn't help but asked, staring at Li Hao with his eyes shining!
The cavalry battalion suffered so many casualties and needed to be replenished urgently!
If there is a reward, according to the style of the regiment leader, the cavalry battalion will definitely be replenished first!
"Twenty-five thousand yuan. The order given to us by the headquarters made it very clear. As long as the war zone distributes this money, they will not take a piece of the money and give it all to our garrison!" Li Hao did not hide anything and answered readily!
Seeing Li Hao shut his mouth after saying this, Zhou Wu continued to ask: "Only 25,000 yuan! No other rewards?"
"What else do you want? Twenty-five thousand dollars is not enough!" Li Hao retorted angrily!
Anger clearly flashed across the faces of Zhou Wu and Xiao Yuan, and then they cursed: "Chongqing has gone too far. It is a slam dunk for our Eighth Route Army!"
"If the Central Army kills so many little Japs on the battlefield, they will reward not only more than 20,000 yuan, but also 100,000 yuan, and they will definitely expand the troops participating in the war and replenish equipment!"
"When we come here to the Eighth Route Army, such a huge military exploit is just spent 25,000 yuan. It's so unfair!"
"alright!"
Li Hao stopped Zhou Wu who wanted to continue scolding!
"It is unprecedented for Chongqing to be able to give out more than 20,000 yuan. Everyone regards this money as an unexpected blessing. With this money, the financial pressure we need to pay for the fallen soldiers will be much less in the future!"
"Everyone has heard the good news, and now comes the bad news!"
"Last night, we and the city defense troops commanded by the Chief of Staff took the initiative to attack and caused a lot of damage to the Japanese army! In order to completely kill us in Lingqiu, annihilate us and ensure their own strength advantage! The Japanese raided the troops and troops from the front line early in the morning.
The rear has dispatched four brigades to attack Lingqiu!"
"The two brigades deployed by the front-line mopping up troops have the main force of the military region responsible for intercepting, and they will ensure that they will not reach Lingqiu within three days!"
"But the military region has no troops in the direction of Datong!"
"Although the guerrillas and local troops we have developed along the way will take some action, due to their limited strength, they will certainly not be able to play a big role!"
"The headquarters has judged that the Japs from these two brigades will be able to reach Lingqiu before dawn tomorrow!"
"Two thousand more people are coming!" Zhou Wu gasped and shouted!
Xiao Yuan also showed a worried expression on his face, and asked anxiously: "Captain, with so many Japs attacking Lingqiu City together, Chief of Staff, how can they persist for such a long time!"
"Not only the Chief of Staff, we also went into the city to assist the Chief of Staff in defending the city!" Li Hao answered in surprise!
This decision is too sudden for everyone!
Before dividing the troops, I made it very clear that in addition to constantly harassing the Japanese attacking troops, killing and injuring them in large numbers, and reducing the combat pressure on the defending troops, the external troops also had a very important task: to cooperate with the defending troops to cover the breakout!
If all the troops have entered the city, there won't be anyone outside to support them when they break out in three days!
Also, there are only more than a hundred troops in the outer line that can fight, but the Japanese reinforcements have come to more than 2,000 troops!
Even if they all enter the city, the help to the defending troops will be very limited!
Xiao Yuan immediately spoke out all the questions in his mind, and then looked at Li Hao with a puzzled look on his face!
Li Hao raised the telegram in his hand and answered confidently: "Do you know why I said that the bad news in the telegram is actually good news for our garrison!"
"Before I received this telegram, I had been thinking about a question: where should the troops break out in three days to get rid of the Japs and minimize the Japs' impact on the base area?"
"After reading this telegram, I have an idea!"
"My brain was still a mess before, but suddenly a very clear combat idea emerged!"
"Datong?" Xiao Yuan asked thoughtfully!
Li Hao affirmed with a look of admiration: "It's Datong!"
"I've been to Datong, Captain Xiao, you've been there too, and we fought against the Japs there! It's very mountainous there. Once the troops drill into the mountains, it will be difficult for the Japs to catch us no matter how many Japs come!"
"Also, although there are many Japanese troops in Datong, they have to fight against the Shanxi-Sui Army and also guard against our Eighth Route Army's Northwestern Shanxi Military Region. There may not be many troops that can be separated to deal with us!"
"Now that they have sent two more brigade here, there will be even less troops available to deal with us!"
"Tell me again why you want to go to the city!"
"We only have a few people. If we stay outside the city, we can only pose some threats to the Japanese. We can no longer kill and kill the Japanese in large numbers like we did last night!"
"But street fighting in the city is different. Even if we only have more than a hundred people, we can still kill hundreds of little devils!"
Seeing everyone's thoughtful expressions, Li Hao continued to explain!
"Although I have decided to enter the city, not all of us here will fight in!"
"You don't need artillery and cavalry for street fighting, so you don't go into the city!"
Yuan Qingfeng and Zhou Wu were anxious at that time!
The entire regiment was fighting bloody battles with the Japanese in the city, and they were the only ones left outside the city to watch a show. How could this work?
You have to object subconsciously!
But before the words could be spoken, Li Hao spoke again.
"But it doesn't mean that you will be idle these days. Your role outside the city is no less important than inside the city!"
"And if you fight outside the city, it will definitely reduce the combat pressure on the defending troops!"
"The most important thing is to break out of the siege in three days. Whether we can break out under the heavy Japanese soldiers' siege, your response and cooperation are very crucial!"
"I have decided that after dark today I will lead the guard company and commando team into the city!"
"The artillery battalion will recruit fifty gunners to supplement the infantry. Come with me into the city!"
"The remaining soldiers of the cavalry battalion and artillery battalion stay outside the city, cooperate with each other, and continue to attack the enemy!"
"I will leave the radio to you and tell you how to fight through the radio!"
At the Japanese military headquarters outside Lingqiu City, after reading the reply from the military headquarters, Major General Sakai was very reluctant, but the order must be carried out!
He frowned and asked, "How long will it take for the aviation force to arrive on the battlefield?"
"Half an hour!" a major replied!
He hesitated and added: "Yes, judging from the battle yesterday afternoon, even if they come, they won't have much effect!"
"Nani?" The brigade leader looked puzzled!
The aviation force is a big weapon for the Imperial Army on the Chinese battlefield. With them, the Imperial Army will be more confident to fight against any opponent on the Chinese battlefield!
And now his subordinates actually told him that this big killer weapon was useless here!
Just as the major was about to explain, an exclamation rang out from the command post!
"The Eighth Route Army started letting off smoke in the city again!"
The major replied quickly: "General, if you go out and take a look, you will know why the aviation force is not of much use even if it comes!"
Major General Sakai took three steps and then two steps to rush out of the headquarters!
In the blink of an eye, dozens of thick black smoke have risen from Lingqiu City!
Sakai stared at Lingqiu City for just one minute, and more than a dozen jets of black smoke rose up one after another!
"Who can tell me what is going on?" Major General Sakai asked anxiously!
The major who followed quickly replied: "The Eighth Route Army was creating thick smoke in the city yesterday afternoon!"
"In less than half an hour, the black smoke rising from the ground formed a large smoke screen more than 100 meters high, covering the sky and the sun, and shrouding the entire Lingqiu City!"
"After the aviation troops arrive at the battlefield, if they want to carry out precise strikes on the ground, they must fly through the smoke screen at low altitude!"
"And the Eighth Route Army's city-defending troops are equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns. The aircraft fly at an altitude of 100 meters, completely within the range of light and heavy machine guns for air fire!"
"Yesterday afternoon, the Eighth Route Army used this method to kill one of our planes, and then forced other planes to carry out high-altitude bombing of Lingqiu City!"
"Because the accuracy of high-altitude bombing is low, errors of one to two hundred meters are common! Before our troops enter the city, the planes can bomb whatever they want!"
"Once the troops enter Lingqiu City, in order to avoid accidental damage, the planes will stop bombing and turn into decorations, useless!"
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