Chapter 690 The couch is not allowed to sleep soundly
Li Hao had no intention of hiding anything from Hong Linfeng, his old partner, and asked directly!
"Chief of Staff, don't look at the little devils who are planning for a rainy day, retreating on their own initiative, and building fortifications aggressively, but this is all to deal with the flying thunder cannons!"
"However, in this major counterattack, we have no intention of using thunder cannons!"
"So the kid's idea is doomed to fail!"
"They gathered their forces into large strongholds. Although they increased the defensive strength there, it also made it easier for our garrison regiment to concentrate our forces and defeat them all in one battle. Instead of attacking each stronghold one by one, which wasted a lot of time and had to divide our troops.
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"As for the stronghold where there are too many Japanese and wanton construction of fortifications, the next battle will be difficult to fight... I don't think this is a problem!"
"The original intention of the little devil is to disperse the troops and weaken the damage caused by our flying thunder cannons to them!"
This can indeed reduce troop casualties and allow limited troops to persist on the battlefield longer. It is more conducive to the little devils waiting for reinforcements!
"But there is also a fatal problem!"
"The Japanese defense forces are too scattered!"
"On the battlefield, if we concentrate our superior strength and firepower, focus on a single point and launch a fierce attack, we will definitely be able to tear a hole in the Japanese's weak defense line, and then make a quick decision, attack all the way, and directly enter the Japanese stronghold!"
"Follow up, we will attack from inside and outside, and then give the Japanese a center to bloom!"
"Don't the Japanese want to disperse their forces? Then let's divide them into small pieces before they can regroup, and then annihilate them one by one!"
The confusion on Hong Linfeng's face disappeared and was directly replaced by excitement!
Staring at Li Hao, his eyes were shining and he shouted: "What a good idea!"
"Captain, I think this offensive idea is feasible!"
With the support of the Chief of Staff, Li Hao is more confident to fight this battle!
His face became more and more serious, and then he began to give orders: "Contact the artillery battalion immediately, equip all the artillery they have hidden with the troops, and get familiar with the equipment as soon as possible! If nothing else, they will participate in the battle tonight!"
"Order all the main battalions to replenish the troops as soon as the additional troops are in place, but this must not affect the current combat effectiveness of the troops!"
"At the same time, each battalion quickly completed the reorganization of the troops. The battalion is directly under the artillery company, the company is directly under the fire platoon, and the platoon is directly under the machine gun squad. All light and heavy equipment must be equipped, and then bring enough ammunition and be ready to attack!"
"Tell everyone, please move, don't be afraid of exposing your target!"
"Since the little devil has guessed that our attack will continue and has already begun to make preparations to block our attack, there is no need for us to continue to hide it!"
"In addition, there is one last order: Contact the commando team and the reconnaissance company to immediately find out the distribution of the Japanese and puppet troops in Laiyuan, Hunyuan, and Guangling counties. The more detailed the better!"
"The situation of the Japanese and puppet troops in the four strongholds around Lingqiu County must also be clarified!"
"I don't want the little Japs in Lingqiu City to sneak into our rear and cause trouble when we are attacking and fighting outside, making us timid and unable to concentrate our efforts on expansion!"
Yuan Qingfeng is very excited now!
When the troops moved to war, the artillery battalion commander was directly demoted to the artillery company commander because he had no equipment!
Even so, this artillery company is still in name only!
The whole company is equipped with only two mountain cannons, with no more than a hundred rounds of artillery shells. It may be more appropriate to call it a mountain artillery platoon!
Well now, the mountain artillery company has been re-expanded into a mountain artillery battalion!
Although he doesn't have a single artillery piece under his command, Yuan Qingfeng is not in a hurry at all!
After receiving the order to expand the army, he took the troops, mules, horses, and artillery shells and marched to the place where he hid the artillery a few months ago!
Lingqiu broke out of the siege and moved to Datong, where the artillery battalion also suffered heavy losses!
There are not many old people left who have been following Yuan Qingfeng, and many of them have been assigned to the main battalions to serve as artillery company commanders!
At this moment, Yuan Qingfeng was surrounded by almost all new faces, many of whom were absentees who had been artillerymen!
Seeing Yuan Qingfeng marching hastily with a smile on his face, except for a few old men in the artillery camp, everyone else looked puzzled!
Soon, a picture appeared that stunned everyone!
After walking deeper into the forest for less than twenty minutes, a ravine covered with shrubs and thatch appeared in front of everyone!
Yuan Qingfeng took the lead, holding the saber that had been prepared long ago, and cut a path through the bushes!
Entering the ravine, the thick thatch on the ground was lifted, and things wrapped in raincloths appeared in front of everyone!
"What are you still doing? Move your things out immediately!"
"It's a gun barrel, a mountain cannon barrel!"
A cry of surprise rang out in the middle of the transport team!
As the raincloths were opened one after another, more and more artillery began to reveal their ferocious faces!
There are long barrels and thick artillery wheels...
"Report to the battalion commander that all the artillery parts have been taken out and are being assembled! I just counted them and found that there are a total of eighteen mountain guns and six infantry guns, all of which are intact!" the instructor reported to the battalion commander!
The smile on Yuan Qingfeng's face grew wider: "A total of twenty-four mountain guns and infantry guns are enough for us to form four artillery companies!"
The instructor hesitated and reminded: "But... the battalion commander, the regiment commander only gave us the establishment of three artillery companies?"
"This is not a problem!" Yuan Qingfeng shook his head and replied!
"I will send a telegram to the regiment commander now, requesting to increase the establishment of an infantry artillery company!"
"It would be too wasteful for such a good artillery to rust in a warehouse. It is better to equip the troops directly!"
The garrison regiment is in front of the enemy command.
The Chief of Staff rushed in like a wind. When he saw Li Hao, he reported excitedly: "Commander, Commander Yuan of the Artillery Battalion is calling urgently!"
"The artillery they have hidden in the woods is not eighteen, but a total of twenty-four! In addition to the mountain artillery, there are also six infantry artillery!"
"Battalion Commander Yuan asked for instructions and hoped that the regiment headquarters would give them another infantry artillery company!"
"Agree!" Li Hao replied without thinking!
"With these artillery pieces, our artillery battalion is fully worthy of its name, and it is also very powerful!"
"Now that the artillery battalions are in place, all the supplementary troops of each battalion are in place. In order to seize the opportunity, I decided that the troops will attack tonight!"
"Look at the map: it clearly marks the enemy situation sent back by the reconnaissance company and the commando team!"
"One garrison brigade is stationed in Hunyuan, half a brigade and two battalions of puppet troops are stationed in the county seat!"
"Other Japanese and puppet troops are guarding two strongholds outside the city, at these two locations!"
Li Hao pointed to two points on the map and continued to introduce: "They each have a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army and two companies of the puppet army. They rely on gun towers, bunkers and favorable terrain to hold their positions!"
"In addition, they also used today's daytime to build three ring-shaped fortifications outside the stronghold!"
"Except for these two large-scale Japanese and puppet armies, in other villages and towns there are only maintenance committees controlled by traitor agents. There are a few to dozens of thugs in them. They usually bully the people, distribute food to the people, and serve as dogs for the little devils.
!Working as a pawn for the Japs during the war, collecting intelligence and maintaining the security of the rear area, it can be said that he does all kinds of evil!"
"What I mean is to hand over the Japanese and puppet troops in Hunyuan to the First Battalion to deal with them!"
"First attack the Japanese and puppet troops in two strongholds and kill them with lightning speed! Then the troops are divided into two, one part of them assumes a posture of continuing to attack the county town, and the other part continues to divide the troops to completely kill the traitors in Hunyuan.
Spies, ban all maintenance committees, cooperate with local cadres to establish base areas, and form guerrillas and local troops!"
"Tell He Jun that after taking Hunyuan, I authorize him to transfer a deputy battalion commander, three deputy company commanders, and a certain number of grassroots cadres and political cadres from the first battalion to form a Hunyuan guerrilla brigade on the spot, with a battalion-level establishment.
The total strength is tentatively set at 500, and one battalion will be temporarily managed!"
"But we must remember that if the people are removed, the combat effectiveness of the main force cannot be affected!"
"In addition to the county-level guerrilla brigade, they also need to form district guerrilla squads and village guerrilla squads to establish Hunyuan local troops as soon as possible!"
"Give them the task of maintaining local security and cracking down on traitors and spies. The main force will be dedicated to fighting the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from counterattacking Hunyuan!"
"The second battalion attacks Guangling, and the third battalion attacks Laiyuan!"
"I will personally command the independent battalion, the special agent battalion, and the artillery battalion to attack Lingqiu City and, if possible, take back Lingqiu City from the hands of the Japanese!"
"Once the troops capture Hunyuan, Guangling, and Laiyuan counties and develop this area into our base area, Lingqiu will become the hinterland of our base area!"
"The Japanese troops stationed in Lingqiu City will become a nail, and it will be a nail driven into our hearts!"
"As the old saying goes: How can you allow others to sleep soundly in the same bed?"
"If we don't pull out this nail, our rear area will never be stable, and we will waste a lot of troops watching them to prevent them from causing trouble in our base area!"
"So I decided to take the opportunity to attack Lingqiu again and completely occupy it!"
"Once we do this, the independent battalion and the special agent battalion will be completely liberated and become a mobile force in our hands, ready to respond to possible accidents in the base area at any time! Kill two birds with one stone!"
After more than two months of operation by the Japanese and puppet troops, Lingqiu City has regained its vitality!
However, Lingqiu City now looks more like a military camp!
In the Battle of Lingqiu, the entire county was almost bombed into rubble!
Instead of returning to the ruins to rebuild their homes, continuing to be oppressed and bullied by the little devils, and living in precarious situations, it is better to stay in the garrison base, live in the houses assigned to them by the garrison, and support their families through the land assigned to them by the garrison!
Therefore, most of the people in Lingqiu City finally chose to stay in the garrison base!
Less than a third of the people returned to the county town!
On the ruins of the original Japanese garrison headquarters, the Japanese army rebuilt the headquarters after retaking Lingqiu!
The newly appointed Lingqiu garrison commander is a colonel. He is in charge of two garrison brigades and an Imperial Army Corps, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people!
There is only one reason why such a high-level officer is appointed as the garrison commander and so many troops are stationed in Lingqiu. One day in the future, Lingqiu City will become the bridgehead for the Japanese army to eliminate the garrison. Before the decisive battle begins, they must ensure that
To ensure the safety of this bridgehead, we must also prepare for the main force to encircle and annihilate the garrison in the future!