This sentence is proved true again at the critical moment!
Anyway, Sakai is dead. Rather than letting a living person take the responsibility and suffer, it is better to put all the blame on the dead!
The chief of staff understood and replied: "Sir, don't worry, I understand what you mean. I'm going to send a telegram now!"
In Lingqiu City, the battle is over!
The results and losses were gradually collected into Hong Linfeng's hands!
From the moment the first battle report was delivered, Hong Linfeng was so happy that he never closed his mouth!
"Captain, we've got all the statistics! I'm sure this is another unprecedented victory!"
Picking up the summary of the results and casualty reports, Hong Linfeng's smile grew wider and he shouted excitedly!
"The result of the battle was completely beyond my expectation: the commando team had the smallest number, and Gaxiaoyuan only had nine people, but they killed the most Japanese!"
"Nearly two hundred little Japs died directly in their raid, and more than two hundred little Japs were plotted by them and died in fratricidal battles. The commando team itself only lost three members, two were killed and one was injured!"
"The first battalion was next. The surprise attack and the final melee killed more than 300 Japanese soldiers. I lost 39 people, a casualty ratio of almost one to ten!"
"Then the security company, kill about three hundred little Japs!"
"The results of the second battalion and the third battalion were similar. They both killed nearly 300 little Japs!"
"Including those killed by the artillery battalion outside the city, the results we have confirmed tonight alone will be two thousand little Japs!"
"If we include those unknown results of the battle, including the lightly and seriously wounded soldiers taken away by the Japanese, the result of the battle would be at least two hundred more!"
Li Hao nodded, his expression unusually calm!
This result was completely within his expectation!
Although there are only more than 500 people in the garrison, they are all elites from hundreds of battles, veterans who have crawled out of the sea of corpses!
Coupled with the excellent equipment, every five or six soldiers have a crooked weapon, and every rifleman is equipped with a pistol and enough ammunition!
Such strength, in terms of combat effectiveness, is no less than that of more than a thousand people before the war!
On the other hand, the little devils are too tired. Their combat effectiveness and battlefield reaction speed have plummeted. Moreover, the battle just now was a night battle. The garrison has the right time and location for a preemptive strike. If they still cannot win, the garrison will not be able to show up in Lingqiu.
Under heavy siege by the Japanese army, we have persisted until now!
Therefore, Li Hao was not too surprised by this result, and he was not particularly concerned about it!
The troops are going to break through tonight. Although they are suffering heavy casualties, Li Hao believes in himself that it won't take long for the garrison to regain its strength!
To achieve this, veterans are crucial!
At that time, the gap of dozens of veterans may cause the army to regain its combat effectiveness several months sooner!
Thinking of this, he immediately asked the question he was most concerned about!
"How many of us are left?"
"Including the two of us, there are 312 people left!" Hong Linfeng's face looked obviously worse and he answered seriously!
Li Hao felt sad for a while and remained silent for a long time before replying: "The casualties are a bit heavy!"
"After daybreak, even if the little Japs we drove out are unable to launch another attack, they still have planes!"
"With the Japanese style, they will definitely carry out retaliatory bombing on us, and casualties will definitely be inevitable!"
"There will also be a breakout at night. If you fight directly out of the enemy's encirclement, there will definitely be casualties!"
"After the troops broke through, in order not to bring the Japs into the base area and cause trouble to the people, we had to lead the Jaap pursuers in a large circle outside the base area before we could return to the base area. In the process, the troops would also suffer casualties!"
"Calculating this way, out of the more than 300 people who fought all the way back to the base area, it would be good to have 200 people!"
The smile on Hong Linfeng's face disappeared!
There were more than 2,000 people when we were separated from the political commissar. Finally, when we returned to the base area to join the political commissar, the 2,000 people were beaten down to less than 200. The gap between the front and back was too great. It is impossible not to feel heartbroken!
But when he thought of the results achieved by the garrison, Hong Linfeng's frown quickly relaxed!
Looking at Li Hao, he replied: "Commander, our losses are a bit heavy, but the sacrifices of the soldiers are worth it!"
"Not to mention the future, if we compare the losses with the Japanese we have killed now, we can already call it an unprecedented victory!"
Speaking of this, Hong Linfeng suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up and he added: "By the way, Captain, in addition to killing the Japanese, we have another harvest!"
"When the battle just ended, the Japanese retreated in a hurry and were in a hurry to get out of the city! Almost none of the heavy weapons they brought into the city were taken away. Except for the ones that were blown up, we captured all the rest!"
"The troops made statistics and found that there are a total of eleven mountain guns, five infantry guns, 18 mortars, more than twenty heavy machine guns, and a lot of ammunition. They are all packed in boxes. We should pick them up.
The breakout down here is useful!”
The sad expression on Li Hao's face disappeared instantly, and his eyes lit up as he answered: "It's not that it's useful, it's that it's of great use!"
"Chief of Staff, immediately order the troops to hide these artillery pieces and ammunition. They must be dispersed and concealed, so as not to be attacked by Japanese planes!"
"With these artillery and ammunition, our breakout pressure will definitely be greatly reduced tonight, and the casualties will be much smaller!"
"Especially the ammunition, bring it all with you when you break out tonight if you can't use it up!"
"All the artillery shells in the artillery battalion will be used up tonight. My original plan was to go to war without artillery!"
"After the artillery battalion finished firing the shells, all the artillery was dispersed on the spot and only the artillerymen were taken away!"
"Now that the artillery shells have been captured, there is no need to disperse all the artillery in the artillery battalion!"
"Take two mountain artillery pieces and several mortars, all carried on mules and horses, and join us in the battle!"
"With artillery, especially mountain artillery used for sieges, the pressure on the troops when they move to battle will definitely be much less. We are not afraid even if we encounter bunkers and gun towers, and the casualties will be greatly reduced!"
Hong Linfeng slowly realized the importance of those artillery pieces and ammunition, and replied with a serious face: "Don't worry, commander!"
"I will arrange this myself. I will hide them all before dawn, especially the ammunition. Try to save it as much as possible!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Less than an hour after dawn, Japanese aircraft appeared over the battlefield!
Bombs fell from the sky like rain, and explosions sounded like thunder. They kept ringing in the city, and thick black smoke columns rose up!
More than a dozen planes took turns bombing Lingqiu City from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the afternoon!
Everyone on the battlefield is waiting!
The little devils guarding outside the city are waiting for reinforcements, and then they rush into Lingqiu City again to take revenge!
The garrison dispersed and hid in the cellar, waiting for darkness before breaking out!
The last plane dropped its bomb and flew away, and darkness began to cover the battlefield again!
The devil's face was full of disappointment!
The expected reinforcements are still being dragged by other Eighth Route Army troops more than 30 kilometers away and will not arrive on the battlefield until tomorrow!
Lieutenant Colonel Kimura was the temporary commander appointed by the Japanese army after Sakai's death. The military headquarters gave him only one order: trap the garrison!
If this order had been given yesterday, he would have been full of confidence!
But at this moment, he has no confidence at all!
Several captains were called to their headquarters before dark!
Kimura did not pretend to be the commander-in-chief. Major General Sakai’s lessons were right in front of him. No one knew whether he would end up in this position like them!
As soon as the several captains arrived, they got straight to the point and analyzed: "Everyone saw the clear telegram from the Eighth Route Army headquarters last night. The Eighth Route Army headquarters has issued an order asking the Lingqiu garrison to break out at the right opportunity!"
"Now our strength is greatly reduced, and the reinforcements have not arrived yet!"
"If I were the commander of the Eighth Route Army, I would definitely choose to break out tonight!"
"Otherwise our reinforcements will come tomorrow and we won't have a chance to break through!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a captain supported him: "I also judge that they will break through tonight!"
"Although we were defeated last night and suffered heavy casualties, their casualties must not be small! If they don't break out and fight us, all the troops will really die in Lingqiu City, and there will be no chance to break out!"
Seeing that no one had any objections, Lieutenant Colonel Kimura continued: "The military headquarters gave us a death order last night to trap the garrison in Lingqiu City!"
"If we don't get the job done, let them get away!"
"It is conceivable that in the face of Shangfeng's anger, our captains will definitely follow in the footsteps of Major General Sakai!"
"So everyone is turning their heads and thinking of a way. How to surround Lingqiu City tonight without giving the garrison a chance to break out!"
"Trapped the garrison, everyone is fine! If you can't trap it, everyone will suffer!"
The captains all had solemn expressions!
Kimura Nakasa didn’t scare anyone at all!
Today's garrison has become a thorn in the side of the empire, a thorn in its flesh, so get rid of it quickly!
If we let him escape, it will definitely be difficult to completely annihilate them all!
And for the empire, this is another naked slap in the face!
After taking a deep breath, a brigade captain spoke first: "After dawn, I reorganized the troops. The original four infantry squadrons were reduced to two. The insufficient soldiers were all transferred from the artillery and baggage troops, so that the two infantry squadrons were full.
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"Other troops rushed out from the east gate. Except for a few of your subordinates, I let them return to the team. The others stayed and were organized into an infantry squadron!"
"In total, there are three infantry squadrons available at the east gate!"
"The only problem is that the troops don't have heavy weapons, but I can still block the east gate and prevent the garrison from breaking out from the east gate!"
Another captain immediately stood up and said: "I have two infantry squadrons blocking the west gate!"
"Our three squadrons are blocking the north gate!" the third captain reported!
Lieutenant Colonel Kimura finally spoke: "I also dismantled all the baggage troops and artillery and replenished the infantry. A total of three infantry squadrons were assembled, and the south gate will be blocked by these three infantry squadrons!"
"One of us is responsible for one direction. No matter who is attacked, other troops will send reinforcements unconditionally!"
"We share weal and woe now, no matter which direction the garrison breaks out! As long as they escape, all of us will bear responsibility!"
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