On the only road from Laiyuan City to Gongqiao Village, an army is quietly lurking here!
They arrived last night, avoiding all villages and towns, traveling day and night, taking mountain roads, and entered the position when they got here!
Everyone is covered with thick thatch, which can not only camouflage and keep warm!
Even if someone walks up to him, he or she will never think that there is an Eighth Route Army soldier hiding under his feet!
In the ravine not far away, eighteen thunder cannons, four ordinary mortars, and ten large-caliber heavy mortars were lined up, with their muzzles pointing diagonally at the sky!
Several soldiers squatted beside each cannon. The shells and explosive packets were placed in the most convenient positions. Their heads were staring at the concealment net. From a distance, it looked like a bush with nothing!
Farther away, there was a tent hidden in the woods. An antenna extended out of the tent and was tied to a big tree next to it!
More than a dozen soldiers surrounded the tent tightly, staring at the surroundings with vigilance, and not a single bird was allowed to come near!
Inside the tent, the signal light of the radio station for sending and receiving telegrams kept flashing. Li Hao was standing behind the operator, watching the operator write a series of numbers on the telegraph newspaper. There were more and more numbers. It was hard to tell whether he was happy or nervous!
After the ticking stopped, the operator put down his earphones and started translating the message!
Within five minutes, he stood up with excitement on his face: "Captain, there is an urgent call from the commando team. It's good news!"
Li Hao took the telegram and quickly read the contents of the telegram at a glance!
He took a long breath and said, "It's done!"
"In the eyes of the little devils, their liaison station in Gongqiao Village is a cicada, our third battalion is a praying mantis, and the little devils in Laiyuan City want to give us a mantis to catch the cicadas and the oriole behind, and they will be the yellow birds.
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"This time, I just went against their will. We were the oriole, they were the praying mantises, and the three battalions were the cicadas!"
Liu Senyun next to him asked with gleaming eyes: "Captain, have the Japanese been fooled?"
"What did the commando say? How many people did they come out with?"
"Three squadrons of infantry, one squadron of mortars, one squadron of heavy machine guns, and six heavy mortars have been reinforced!" Li Hao did not hide anything!
"If I guess correctly, the little devil has taken out all his wealth and plans to completely eliminate our third battalion in one battle!"
"But this time I want the little devil to draw water from the bamboo basket in vain, and lose his wife and lose his troops!"
Liu Senyun is not as confident as Li Hao!
After hearing about the strength of the Japanese attacking troops, the eyes that were shining just now suddenly became gloomy, and the smile on his face was slowly replaced by worry!
My family knows my own business!
As the commander of the special agent battalion, no one knows the current strength of the army better than him!
The total strength is less than 400 people, and more than one-third are artillerymen and heavy machine gunners!
"Excluding them, there are only more than 80 people in each company, and more than half are absentees and puppet army prisoners who have just replenished the troops. They only conducted two days of running-in training on the march!"
"If such a force goes to the battlefield and has to face twice as many Japs, Liu Senyun has no confidence at all!"
Seeing Li Hao's confident expression that he was determined to win, Liu Senyun didn't want to interrupt him at this moment!
But if he doesn't express his inner worries, he won't have the confidence to direct the next ambush!
After hesitating for a long time, he said bravely: "Captain, will the Japanese and puppet troops leaving the city be too big?"
"The troops are more than twice ours, and they are well-trained!"
"Once the battle reaches a stalemate, our few troops are not enough to fill their teeth, and they will definitely be defeated in the end!"
The expression on Li Hao's face did not change. He was still confident as ever, determined to win the next battle!
"Don't worry, I will definitely not let this battle reach a stalemate. I will ensure a fatal blow when the battle begins and not give the Japanese a chance to counterattack us!"
"And it's daytime now. Because we were worried that the Third Battalion would retreat after seeing the plane, the Japs didn't send the plane over for the time being!"
"But once the battle started, they no longer had so many concerns. The plane would definitely arrive at the battlefield as soon as possible!"
"At that time, I will only allow two situations to happen: Either the troops will make a quick decision, the battle has ended, and retreat to the woods to hide! Or they will have an absolute advantage and engage in a melee with the Japanese so that their planes will not have the chance to drop bombs!
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The worry on Liu Senyun's face did not diminish, and he frowned and asked!
"Three infantry squadrons, adding up to nearly 600 riflemen!"
"If you want a fatal blow, you must hit these people hard as soon as possible! Our troops are limited, even if we have a machine gun, it will be difficult to do it!"
"Also, although the Japs are on the road, there are mountains on both sides of the road and there are many ravines!"
"The Japs we want to fight are all elites. If we can't kill them with the first round of firepower and get them off the road and hide in these places, it will be very difficult to kill them again!"
"If there are more little devils hiding beside the road, they can gather into combat units to launch local counterattacks against us, and the battle will become a stalemate!"
Li Hao's expression remained unchanged and he explained directly: "Liu Battalion Commander, those things you raised are not problems."
"What I want to tell you is that the real protagonist of this battle is not your special agent battalion, but the artillery we brought so hard from Lingqiu!"
"Eighteen thunder cannons, ten heavy mortars, one salvo is twenty-eight powerful explosive packets and heavy artillery shells!"
"The Japs are on the march. Even if they hide on both sides of the road immediately after being attacked, as long as they are no more than 20 meters away from the road, they are still within the killing range of thunder cannons and heavy mortars, and the formation is still very dense!"
"By then, even if one explosive pack only kills or injures a dozen Japanese soldiers, the total number will be 400 people!"
"After two rounds of volley fire, there will definitely be no problem in reimbursing five or six hundred little devils!
"And the ammunition I prepared for the little devil is not just two rounds of shelling!"
"Thunder cannons have three explosive charges per gun, heavy mortars have fifteen shells per gun, and there is no limit on ammunition for ordinary mortars. Use the shortest time to knock out the shells!"
"One hundred and fifty rounds of heavy mortar shells and forty-eight explosive packets all hit the road and exploded in just a few minutes. Even if the little devils are made of copper and iron, I will blow them into pieces!"
"What the secret service battalion needs to do is to close the net, kill the remaining fish that have slipped through the net after the shelling, and then quickly clean up the battlefield!"
Liu Senyun thought about it, his face was dumbfounded!
I imagined in my mind what might appear on the highway after the shelling!
Finally, he took a breath and replied: "Captain, I understand!"
"If we fight the Japanese like this, even if there are two more squadrons, we can still swallow them in one gulp!"
"I will go to the battlefield now to urge the troops to continue to strengthen concealment and prevent targets from being exposed in advance. Our secret service battalion will be a spectator in this battle!"
