On the edge of the battlefield, none of the more than a hundred villagers who came from Gongqiao Village were spared. They were all squatting on the roadside and vomiting, their faces pale!
These people will feel better if they keep vomiting out all the food in their stomachs, until there is nothing left to vomit!
The battlefield was so brutal. For ordinary people like them who were on the battlefield for the first time, it was definitely a torture!
"Dad, is this a battlefield? It's so tragic, even the internal organs were blown out!"
In order to make money, Father Zhang and his eldest son came here! After vomiting, he pointed at the corpses and broken limbs all over the road, and asked with a pale face, and he couldn't even speak clearly!
Father Zhang was also frightened and couldn't say a word for a long time!
At this time, an Eighth Route Army soldier next to him suddenly said: "Fellow, it's pretty good here. If you go into the battlefield, it will be even more tragic than this!"
"The little devil died in such a miserable way there. There were no bones left. When he was stepped on, it was either minced meat or internal organs. There was not even a place to stay!"
"However, the little devil brought this upon himself, and he deserves to die."
"Don't stay in your own country. They come to China to burn, kill, loot, and torture us. They make us slaves to them. It's easier for them to just blow them up!"
Father Zhang finally regained his composure, took a deep breath and asked: "Commander of the Eighth Route Army, you really killed more than a thousand little Japs in one battle!"
The Eighth Route Army replied proudly: "Of course!"
"But, fellow soldier, we in the Eighth Route Army don't like to call you "sir", you can just call me comrade!"
"I am absolutely sure to tell you that we killed at least a thousand Japanese in this battle!"
"You have all seen the Japs before. Look at the corpses at your feet, and look at their uniforms and weapons. Are they really little Japs?"
"With so many corpses, it's impossible to fake it even if you want to!"
"In addition, in addition to the Japanese infantry, we also killed more than two hundred cavalry!"
"Everyone has seen the little devil cavalry. They are tall and majestic, and their combat effectiveness is also very strong. On the battlefield, the combat effectiveness of one cavalry is stronger than that of two infantry!"
"And it's very expensive to feed cavalry. The money used to train one cavalry can be used to train at least three infantry!"
"However, no matter how powerful they are, they are still vulnerable to our Eighth Route Army!"
"Otherwise, we wouldn't have killed more than two hundred elite cavalry in one battle!"
"Also, according to the intelligence obtained by our Eighth Route Army, there are less than three hundred cavalry in Laiyuan City. Now we have killed more than two hundred people in one battle, and the remaining dozens of Japanese will not dare to leave the city again even if they are bold one day.
Disaster for everyone!"
"The same goes for the Japanese infantry. There are less than 2,000 soldiers in Laiyuan City in total. We killed more than 800 of them in one battle. The remaining 1,000 men have difficulty even defending Laiyuan City, let alone leaving the city to attack us!"
"So for a long time to come, as long as the Japs don't send reinforcements to Laiyuan, no Japs will come out of Laiyuan City and harm everyone!"
"And even if the Japs send more troops to Laiyuan, our Eighth Route Army will not just sit idly by and watch!"
"I will definitely kill these little devils before they harm the villagers and protect the safety of the villagers!"
"One last good thing! I just received an order from my superiors: Because of the fighting, we killed more than a hundred war horses and nearly two hundred mules and horses used by the Japanese to transport weapons and ammunition. Horse meat, mules and horses meat, add up to good
It’s tens of thousands of kilograms, and the troops will definitely not be able to eat it all!”
"In order to share the victory of our Eighth Route Army with the fellow villagers, the superiors decided that all the fellow villagers who help us today can receive five more pounds of horse meat back home. If they perform well in cleaning the battlefield, they will be rewarded with five more pounds of meat!"
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This time of year is the most difficult time in the village when there is no business, and everyone here is no exception!
I can’t even eat enough food, let alone think about meat!
When the year is bad, you may not be able to eat meat during the Chinese New Year!
Five kilograms of horse meat per person, and five more kilograms of horse meat will be rewarded when it is done. In everyone's eyes, this surprise is no less than pie in the sky!
Enough for the whole family to eat for several days, improve the food!
The dozen or so villagers around him started to stare at the Eighth Route Army in front of them eagerly, waiting for his order to work hard and try to bring back a few more kilograms of horse meat!
At the same time, their concerns about the Japanese are no longer as strong as they were at the beginning!
The corpses of the Japanese were right in front of us, and the number was very large. All this was enough to illustrate the powerful combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army!
Since they can defeat the Japs so easily and trap the remaining Japs in Laiyuan City without daring to come out, then it will definitely be easier to eliminate those two goons who work for the Japs!
Everyone wants to live a good life, but no one wants to live under the occupation of the Japanese and puppet troops all the time, without enough to eat or sleep, and they have to worry at any time that they will be targeted by those idiots and their lives will be in danger!
If the Eighth Route Army can really change all this, they will definitely stand on the side of the Eighth Route Army without hesitation!
We have been exploited by the Japanese and puppet troops before and are used to being bullied. Moreover, they are too strong and think that they are invincible and no one can defeat them!
That’s why I have so many worries about those losers, and I can’t see any hope of living a good life!
Now that they saw more than a thousand Japs being wiped out, they were moved and had hope to stand up and change the situation in which they had been oppressed and exploited!
Especially after walking into the depths of the battlefield and seeing more and more little devils who once showed off their power lying on the ground, turning into cold corpses, their thoughts and hopes to change the situation became even stronger!
The seeds of hope have been planted in their hearts and are beginning to take root!
This means that the road for the defense team to break the situation in Laiyuan is becoming wider and wider step by step!
"Captain, your solution has been accomplished!" Huang Sheng, commander of the third battalion, walked around the battlefield and found Li Hao to report!
“On the way here from Gongqiao Village, the villagers hardly communicated with us!”
"Now that I have seen the battlefield, I can really see the corpses of the little Japanese that we eliminated. Not only did they stop hiding, they also took the initiative to ask us about the Eighth Route Army's policies and asked how these Japanese were eliminated by us!"
Li Hao replied thoughtfully: "It means that everyone is very dissatisfied with the current life and is eager to change!"
"Before, because the Japanese and puppet troops were too strong, they didn't dare to resist!"
"Now we are here, and we have defeated the little devil!"
"Then I saw so many corpses of Japanese soldiers with my own eyes. Just like us, they were carrying a head on two shoulders. They didn't have three heads and six arms. The fear of the Japanese army in my heart was not as strong as before!"
"The fear is gone, and the seeds of hope that they want to change their life status and live a better life begin to sprout in their hearts!"
"However, it will take time to get them to fully support us in a short period of time!"
"They don't know much about our Eighth Route Army. They are afraid that the Japanese will come back in the future and our Eighth Route Army will be defeated and leave them to the little devils again!"
"So take the initiative to find our soldiers and understand the strength of our Eighth Route Army!"
Speaking of this, Li Hao had a new calculation in his mind!
"Captain Huang, let's do this next!"
"Since the people want to stand up, we will push them from behind and eliminate all their worries!"
Huang Sheng also realized that this was a good opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the people, and immediately asked: "Captain, how should we promote this!"
"The first step is the order I have given before: take all the equipment, ammunition, military uniforms, quilts, military caps captured on the battlefield, anything that can represent the identity of the devil, even if it is tattered, and then load it in a cart
, conducting a parade and display in various villages and towns in Laiyuan!"
"Let all the people in Laiyuan know about this victory and know that the little Japs are not weak-minded, so as to weaken the fear of the Little Japs in their hearts!"
"The second step: send troops to conduct an armed parade throughout Laiyuan, especially the larger villages and towns. The troops must go through them all!"
"The parade formation must be large, with light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, as well as mountain artillery and infantry artillery, all carried out, so that the people can see the strong strength of our garrison, and then believe that we have the ability to block the Japanese counterattack.
Keep everyone safe!”
"We captured Lingqiu a few days ago, and with the ambush here, although we suffered heavy losses, we also lost a lot of light and heavy weapons!"
“But the seizure was also huge!”
"Light and heavy machine guns and mortars can completely make up for the losses, and we also unexpectedly gained a lot of heavy mortars and war horses!"
"So I decided to further strengthen the firepower of the troops!"
"The original machine gun squad directly under the platoon has been transformed into a firepower squad. On the basis of the original two arsenal-modified light machine guns, two grenadiers have been added!"
"The two heavy machine guns equipped by the fire platoon directly under the company remain unchanged, and the two grenade launchers are replaced by two 81 mm caliber mortars equipped by the Japanese!"
"The artillery company directly under the battalion is no longer equipped with ordinary mortars!"
"The artillery company still has three artillery platoons, one mountain artillery or infantry artillery platoon, equipped with two mountain artillery or infantry artillery!"
"A heavy mortar platoon, equipped with three 150mm large-caliber mortars that were just captured!"
"A thunder cannon platoon, equipped with six thunder cannons!"
"This way the troops will have both short-range and long-range attack and heavy firepower!"
"In addition, each battalion will form a cavalry company to serve as the rapid mobile force of the entire battalion!"
"Mount your horse and be a cavalryman, dismount your horse and be an infantryman!"
"Laiyuan is so big, and with such a mobile force stationed in the center of Laiyuan, no matter where it is attacked, the cavalry company can arrive within an hour!"
"We captured more than a hundred horses in today's ambush, and I plan to leave them all to you to form a cavalry company!"
"The extra war horses equip all messengers and correspondents to ensure that messages can be transmitted between troops in a timely manner!"
Huang Sheng’s face is already blooming with joy!
Although the commander's order was only a few words, it was definitely a big change for the garrison!
Grenades are assigned to platoons and mortars are assigned to companies. Although they are very luxurious, they greatly strengthen the offensive firepower of grassroots units!
If the two main companies that suffered heavy losses a few days ago had mortars, even if they were besieged by the Japanese army, they could use the mortars to open a hole in the Japanese encirclement, and then use the light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers to cooperate,
If they go out in one go, the casualties will definitely not be that big!
As for the cavalry company, it was a stroke of genius!
With it, you can quickly reinforce any place in Laiyuan, and the pressure on you to defend Laiyuan will definitely be greatly reduced!
The more Huang Sheng thought about it, the bigger the smile on his face became. Then he looked at Li Hao and replied swornly: "Captain, please rest assured, I, Huang Sheng, promise not to disappoint the regiment!"
"With such good equipment, we also have the horses to form a cavalry company, and more than half of the Japanese troops in the city have suffered casualties. I will only be a coward for a long time. If I can't completely control Laiyuan, then my position as the commander of the third battalion will be in vain.