Outside Lingqiu City, the spy battalion has begun to attack the Japanese and puppet army stronghold outside the North Gate!
The difference from the attack on the stronghold outside the east gate is that this time the attack on the garrison used more artillery and the artillery fire was more violent!
In addition to the six mortars and two mountain cannons equipped by the special agent battalion, the artillery battalion also strengthened a mountain artillery battery for them with six mountain cannons!
A total of fourteen artillery pieces fired together, and it took a minute of artillery fire in the first half of the night to fill the Japanese position with smoke!
At this moment, the artillery fired only two rounds of artillery shells, and the assault position selected by Liu Senyun was blown up into thick smoke!
Li Hao was squatting in the offensive position. Although he did not directly participate in the command, his eyes never left the battlefield from beginning to end!
As he looked at it, Shu Zhang's brows suddenly wrinkled and he said in a deep voice!
"Something's wrong, there's something wrong with the Japanese and puppet army positions!"
"I have been staring at the shelling area just now. We have been shelling for several rounds. Even if a blind cat kills a mouse, some of the shells that hit it hit the trench!"
"But I just didn't see any little Japs being blown out of the trenches!"
"If there were little Japs in the trenches, how could they be so lucky and not be able to blow up any of them for such a long time!"
Liu Senyun's brows also wrinkled!
Li Hao's reminder made him realize that something was wrong!
Frowning, he analyzed: "Captain, it's not like the Japs are shrinking their defenses and concentrating all their troops on the stronghold!"
"The little devils are not fools. We just attacked the stronghold in the east of the city. They must have found some clues in the middle and know our tactics and tactics!"
"Knowing that we plan to focus on breaking through and seizing their stronghold, if we continue to divide our troops, that is no different from committing suicide!"
"If I were a little devil commander, I would definitely change my tactics!"
"It's not like that!" Li Hao shook his head and replied!
"If the Japs want to shrink their defenses, they have already shrunk when we attacked the east gate stronghold just now. There is no way we can wait until now!"
"Order: The artillery should stop shelling immediately...take a platoon up and blast it. What new conspiracy does the old kid have!"
In less than five minutes, the first ring fortification that the Japanese and puppet troops had worked so hard to build was trampled under the feet of the probing troops!
Ten minutes later, the second ring fortification was also trampled underfoot!
Twenty minutes later, the probing troops continued their attack and actually entered the stronghold!
"Captain, it's clear!" Liu Senyun rushed over in a hurry, with a very ugly expression on his face!
"The little devil has escaped!"
"Not only the three ring-shaped fortifications outside the stronghold, but also inside the stronghold, there is not a single little Japanese!"
"Also, the Japs retreated too hastily. All the food and a lot of ammunition stored in the stronghold were left intact and were piled intact in the ammunition depot and material warehouse!"
Li Hao's brows furrowed even deeper, and he denied seriously: "They retreated too hastily!"
"You clearly didn't want to attract our attention, so you left the stronghold quietly, otherwise we wouldn't have wasted dozens of shells just now, and not a single Japanese bomb was hit!"
"Contact the chief of staff immediately and ask if the little devils in the west have also retreated!"
Zhou Liang, who had been standing by the side, quickly replied: "I will send a telegram to the chief of staff now!"
After waiting for less than ten minutes, Zhou Liang hurried over: "Captain, your judgment is right!"
"The little Japs in the Ximen stronghold also retreated. Just like here, they all evacuated the stronghold quietly. We didn't even know!"
"We discovered the clues only when we were attacking, and then we fought all the way into the stronghold. When we saw the tail of the Jaap's retreating troops, we all retreated into Lingqiu City on a rapid march!"
As soon as he finished speaking, before Li Hao had time to laugh at the news, a radio operator rushed over: "Captain, the first battalion has an urgent call!"
"Read it!" Li Hao ordered with a frown!
Uncharacteristically, the Japanese army suddenly shrank its defenses. This is so strange!
On the surface, the little devil wants to preserve his strength and concentrate his troops to defend Lingqiu City!
But Li Hao had a hunch that things would never be that simple! If their commander had this idea, he would not have been so determined when guarding the two strongholds in the southeast in the first half of the night and would not retreat until the entire army was destroyed!
Besides, I still have a useless thunder cannon in my hand!
The little devil has always been worried about him, fearing that if his troops are too concentrated, he will be attacked by flying thunder cannons!
Could it be that if they just lost two strongholds and lost two reinforced squadrons, their worries would disappear!
This is obviously impossible and unreasonable!
But when I think about my inner worries seriously, I don’t have any thoughts in my mind!
He stared at the operator in front of him, hoping that the telegram in his hand could bring him some inspiration and figure out the specific reason why the Japanese took the initiative to retreat!
"The attacking Japs from the first battalion suddenly abandoned their stronghold and concentrated their forces to break out towards Hunyuan County!"
"Because I left in such a hurry, I didn't even destroy the weapons and ammunition that I couldn't take with me!"
A look of shock clearly flashed across Li Hao's face!
If the little Japs outside Lingqiu City retreated, he could still attribute it to conserving his strength and guarding Lingqiu City!
The Japs in the direction of Hunyuan also withdrew their troops, which he couldn't figure out!
Hunyuan is not Lingqiu. Before tonight, the entire Hunyuan was an area occupied by little devils!
It is impossible for them not to know that the first battalion entered Hunyuan with the purpose of developing it into an Eighth Route Army base area!
Now that he knew it and took the initiative to withdraw troops, wouldn't he give up the large rural area outside Hunyuan City to himself in vain to support the garrison regiment in expanding its base area?
Li Hao couldn't understand, and the more he thought about it, the deeper his frown became!
Suddenly, Zhou Liang, the communications platoon leader who had just left, also rushed over with a serious look on his face!
"Captain, the commando team needs an urgent call!"
"All the Japanese and puppet troops they were monitoring withdrew from their garrisoned strongholds and marched to the nearest county seat!"
"Take away the supplies and ammunition stored in the stronghold if you can, or blow it up if you can't!"
The radio operator rushed over again: "Captain, the reconnaissance company needs an urgent call!"
"The Japanese troops in Guangling and Laiyuan they were monitoring also began to withdraw!"
"Abandon all strongholds except the county seat!"
Li Hao couldn’t understand it even more!
The Japanese and puppet troops in Hunyuan, Guangling, Laiyuan and three counties all reduced their defense lines, abandoned all strongholds outside the city, and defended the county seat!
This means that they plan to give up all the vast rural areas in the three counties and give them to the garrison to establish base areas!
Could it be that giving up such a large territory and population at once was just to keep those strongholds garrisoned?
But the price is too high!
With such a large territory and a population of hundreds of thousands, once it is developed, the garrison will be able to raise at least 10,000 troops in these three counties!
This means that if the Japanese want to kill the garrison in the future, they will definitely pay a higher price, even several times more than the troops they have saved now!
Or is the little devil brewing some big conspiracy that he doesn't know about?
"Forget it, don't think about it anymore. As long as our strength is strong enough, we are not afraid of any conspiracy. At worst, the soldiers will come to stop it, and the water will come to cover it up!" Li Hao shook his head and threw away the problems in his mind, and then said to himself!
