At one o'clock in the morning, the gunfire in the city completely fell silent!
Li Hao's hanging heart was completely relieved!
The casualties of the troops are too great. If we can't take them down tonight, even if the Japanese lose their heavy mortars, after tonight's battle, the Secret Service Battalion and the Independent Battalion will completely lose their offensive capabilities and will be unable to continue the fight!
Fortunately, lady luck is on his side tonight!
"Captain, we won!" Hong Linfeng shouted with excitement as he rushed in!
"Let's go directly to the city and see what good things the little devils have prepared for us in Lingqiu City!" After fighting for several days, Li Hao became anxious and wanted to take full advantage of the victory as soon as possible!
At the same time, let’s take a look at the fact that the garrison team paid such a high price to capture Lingqiu City. Is the loss worth it?
As soon as he reached the gate of the city, Sun Jiawu rushed over with a smile on his face!
"Captain, we are rich!"
"We captured all the ammunition depots and material warehouses in the city, and the Japanese didn't have time to destroy a single bullet!"
"Also, during the battle we also captured all the horses of the Japanese Cavalry Brigade!"
"At the end of the battle, the Japs were out of soldiers. All the cavalry gave up their horses and switched to infantry fighting! There were hundreds of war horses, and only about twenty Japs defended them! We captured all these horses without much effort!"
"We also captured the Japanese warhorses used to transport mortars and ammunition!"
"They were so extravagant. In order to ensure the marching speed, they even used war horses to transport them. Including those captured by the cavalry troops, the total number exceeded a thousand!"
"Let's go... take me to see these treasures!" Li Hao ordered anxiously with a smile on his face!
Next to the Japanese garrison headquarters, Li Hao heard the neighing of war horses from a long distance away!
When I opened the courtyard door, I was shocked!
The small yard was actually crowded with nearly a hundred war horses, one next to the other, and everything within sight was densely packed with horse legs and heads!
"Captain, there are a total of twelve yards, and they are all filled with war horses. The exact number is still being calculated, but it must be more than a thousand!" Sun Jiawu pointed to the war horses in the yard and introduced, his words full of uncontrollable excitement.
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The smile on Li Hao's face became thicker and thicker, and a big plan related to these war horses came to his mind!
But now is not the time to talk about this. He looked at Sun Jiawu and continued to order: "Take me to the ammunition depot and the kid's material warehouse!"
"For several months, the Japanese have been transporting supplies and ammunition to Lingqiu City every day. There must be a lot of good stuff in there!"
Walking into the ammunition depot, Li Hao realized that he had far underestimated the Japanese army's determination to eliminate him!
The Japanese army not only operated Lingqiu City as an isolated city, but also regarded it as an advance base for troops to attack the garrison in the future!
It not only stores nearly half a year's worth of combat supplies for three night fighting brigades, but also nearly a month's worth of combat supplies for a brigade!
However, these weapons, ammunition and food are now on your mobile phone, all of which are cheap for the defense team!
Excited as he was, Li Hao did not lose his mind!
Lingqiu City was reoccupied by themselves, and mountains of weapons and ammunition were also seized. With the style of the Japanese army, they would definitely not remain indifferent!
They won't retake Lingqiu City for the time being, and they don't have that many troops!
But they can still do this by destroying the weapons and ammunition just captured by the troops and preventing them from growing the garrison!
He immediately ordered: "Chief of Staff, although Lingqiu City has been captured, there is another thing that is as important as capturing Lingqiu!"
"You immediately organize the infantry and all local troops and guerrillas outside the city, and seize the time to rush to transport supplies!"
"Weapons and ammunition are the first priority, followed by food, and finally other supplies. All must be transported out of Lingqiu City before dawn and scattered and hidden outside the city!"
"Didn't we capture more than a thousand war horses? Let's use them all!"
"After dawn, the Japanese will definitely send planes to bomb ammunition depots and material warehouses!"
"The treasure that was obtained at such a high price must not be blown up by the little devil before it is warmed up!"
In Laiyuan territory, the situation of the third battalion of the garrison regiment is very bad!
Especially the actions of local cadres have almost reached a deadlock!
Inside the battalion headquarters, the orderly soldier of the Seventh Company was reporting to Huang Sheng the latest situation facing the troops, with a serious look on his face!
"Battal Commander: Our company commander asked me to report that the local work team sent by the battalion headquarters to Dongzhuang today was attacked by unknown armed forces. A total of five comrades, two were killed and two were seriously injured!"
"When the company commander led the troops to the battlefield, the enemy had already retreated. After entering the village, the people did not cooperate with us. The troops did not get any useful information from them!"
Huang Sheng quickly knitted his brows into a big "Sichuan" sign, then looked at his partner and asked: "Instructor, what do you think?"
The instructor had a very ugly expression on his face. He thought for a moment and replied: "It's the same way as yesterday when a work team in the Eighth Company Defense Area was attacked by surprise. They just hit and ran without asking about the result, and they couldn't get any useful information from the people nearby!"
"I judge that these sneak attacks are premeditated by the enemy!"
"If these enemies are not killed as soon as possible, more work teams will definitely be attacked next!"
Huang Sheng nodded and affirmed: "I was very confused about something a few days ago. If I guessed correctly, now I have found the answer I want!"
"Battal Commander, are you talking about the fact that all those traitorous spies disappeared overnight?" the instructor asked thoughtfully!
Huang Sheng nodded and replied: "Not bad!"
"Our judgment at the time was that they retreated into Laiyuan City with the Japs, but now it seems that they have not retreated!"
"And they are hiding around us, popping up from time to time to attack us, preventing us from establishing a base here, and threatening their status in the local area!"
"Think about it, who are the people who can make people keep silent?"
The instructor also reacted at this time, and replied with a look of realization: "A local snake, and a local snake with a gun, which can pose a threat to them!"
"They know the people well enough to hide in the dark and stare at everyone! No matter who it is, as long as they do something detrimental to them, they will immediately come out to take revenge!"
"After several incidents of revenge spread, even if the people know who the person we are looking for is and where he is hiding? In order to avoid revenge for himself and his family, we can only remain mute and pretend not to know! This must be the case!"
Huang Sheng's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he replied with a long sigh: "If they really did these things, it would be troublesome!"
"The common people dare not show their faces, and those traitorous spies are local snakes. We are unfamiliar with the place. It will definitely be harder than climbing to heaven to catch them and kill them!"
The reason why the Eighth Route Army was able to be at home on the battlefield, familiar with the terrain, and supported by the common people, these two points were crucial!
Now these two advantages are gone, and they are still in the hands of the opponent. The one is ebbing and the other is ebbing. It is indeed very difficult for the garrison to kill them!
But the work team cannot ignore it!
Without a work team, a base area cannot be established!
Without a base area, the army cannot form guerrillas, local troops...
This is a chain reaction, and no link in the middle is missing!