Laiyuan City is too big, and the garrison regiment is not strong, so it is impossible to defend against it, and everywhere may become a hiding place for the Japanese, and then sneak attack the garrison regiment from the shadows to attack the troops.

The brigade commander changed the street fighting into a chaotic battle, and the devil's completely lifeless fighting style did cause a lot of casualties to the garrison regiment.

The offensive began at ten o'clock in the evening and continued until four o'clock in the morning, when the chaotic gunfire and explosions slowly thinned out.

When the first rays of sunlight shone down on the earth, the gunfire that had been sounding all night stopped completely.

The brigade commander was very unlucky, he was directly hit by a heavy artillery shell, and his bones were gone, leaving only a command knife representing his identity.

Trimmed with gold, it shines gold in the sun, showing its nobility.

Of course, the garrison regiment also suffered heavy casualties in the battle.

The bombed Laiyuan City was full of corpses, including those of the garrison regiment, some of the devils, and some of the Imperial Army...... It's tragic.

"Regiment commander, the garrison regiment has been wiped out......" Hong Linfeng reported with a painful look on his face when he returned from the battlefield.

"The troops are all gone. The devil was too ruthless, and in the end, he directly took a grenade and killed our attacking troops. ”

"As long as you have a breath left, you have a grenade hidden in your hand, and when our people get close, you will detonate the grenade."

"It was too dark during the battle, the battlefield was chaotic, there were ruins and ruins everywhere, and the attacking troops could not see anything."

"A lot of soldiers were killed and injured by the grenades detonated by the little devils!"

Li Hao replied with a calm face: "I guessed!" ”

"Since the little devil changed the street battle to a melee, I guessed that they would fight us to the death in Laiyuan City, and I guessed that the troops would suffer heavy casualties."

"I have sent a telegram to the political commissar, asking them to prepare medicines and doctors, and immediately rush to Laiyuan City, where we will set up a field hospital to treat the wounded."

"Order the troops, first rescue the wounded, and then clean up the battlefield."

"As long as the wounded still have a breath, we have to find a way to save them."

"The cavalry battalion, the mobile battalion, all went into the city to search for the wounded."

"Notify the guerrillas and local troops in the nearby mountains to also go into the city to search and rescue the wounded, and then clean up the battlefield, and if they can save one of them, they will save one of them."

"The heavy artillery battalion will first take a hidden rest, and after dark, take all the remaining shells and secretly advance in the direction of Hunyuan, and the cavalry battalion will protect them."

"The main force is almost exhausted, and we can't afford to toss anymore, but the little devils in the Datong direction will not necessarily stop attacking us."

"We must find a way to give them a dismount on the Hunyuan side, so that they don't have the courage to continue attacking us."

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the casualties of the four main battalions of the siege were all counted.

Nearly 2,000 people entered the city to participate in the attack, and in the end, less than 300 people left out of Laiyuan City, and all of them were wounded.

More than 200 people were carried out of Laiyuan City and directly sent to the field hospital outside the city for rescue.

The remaining more than 1,400 people were all sacrificed, which is equivalent to a little devil who participated in the melee to fight a garrison regiment before he died.

The heavy artillery regiment used up a total of 1,536 shells, and after deducting the consumption of attacking the garrison outside the city, there were less than 500 shells left.

The Flying Thunder Cannon also used up all the explosives packs it brought.

The arsenal worked overtime and rushed to produce more than 500 mortar shells.

To put it more bluntly, the garrison regiment is now asking for soldiers without soldiers, and for ammunition without ammunition.

If a Japanese army suddenly appeared in Laiyuan City, it would not take too much, just one infantry brigade could wipe out the garrison regiment, or rush into the mountains to fight guerrilla attacks and abandon a large area of base areas outside the mountains.

"Regiment commander, in addition to heavy casualties, the loss of cadres is also very large." Hong Linfeng lowered his head and continued to report.

"Zhang Yun, the commander of the second battalion, Zhao Wen, the commander of the independent battalion, was seriously injured, the instructors of the third battalion and the special service battalion died, and there were four deputy battalion commanders, five deputy instructors, five company commanders, seven instructors, and fifteen deputy company commanders and deputy instructors who died."

"There are more cadres in the squad platoon, almost a fork!"

"Except for one battalion of the entire garrison regiment, the cavalry battalion is still full, and the other main battalions have been disabled, and only one shelf remains."

Hong Linfeng's head was bent even lower, and his face was full of heartache.

Seeing that Li Hao didn't speak, Hong Linfeng continued: "On the way over just now, I racked my brains and didn't think of a good way for the troops to recover their strength. ”

"The losses of veterans are too serious, and the local troops are all new recruits who have just been transferred from the guerrillas, and they have not yet formed combat effectiveness, and if they directly replenish the main force, it is similar to recruiting new soldiers, and it will also mess up the structure of the local troops and affect the combat effectiveness of the local troops."

"There are also cadres, there is basically only an empty shelf left in several main battalions, many company commanders were promoted in the firing line last night, and some people have never even been platoon commanders, because there are no cadres, they are directly promoted to company commanders, and the command experience is definitely not enough."

"We also have to think about this problem, and we must solve it as soon as possible, and we can't risk the lives of our soldiers."

"Don't worry!" Li Hao replied with a calm face.

"As long as we can force back the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Datong and force them to give up attacking the garrison regiment, at least for half a year, there will be no large-scale battles in our base areas."

Li Hao said as he took out a telegram that the political commissar had just forwarded.

The course of history has not changed because of its own arrival.

The Battle of the Hundred Regiments started on time, and the scale was the same as in history, unprecedentedly powerful.

There were battles going on everywhere throughout North China, and it was certain that the Japanese North China Front must have suffered heavy casualties, and then had no time to take care of the garrison.

The telegram was a war report sent by the headquarters to the base areas, and so far, the various units of the Eighth Route Army have killed more than 10,000 little devils, and the number of captured puppet troops has been even larger.

The battle continues, and the scale is getting bigger, and the losses of the Japanese North China Front are sure to grow.

After reading the telegram quickly, Hong Linfeng's tense nerves finally relaxed a lot.

"Commander, great, as long as the little devil doesn't come to make trouble, we can slowly regain our strength."

Li Hao didn't talk nonsense, and directly began to give orders.

"The instructor who was seriously injured by the battalion commander came up for the time being."

"The instructors who died were directly transferred from the county brigade and directly served as instructors."

"Some of the cadres at or above the deputy company level who have died in the main force will be promoted within the main force, but one principle must be kept in mind, and one must not be overstepped, and then some of the deputy posts will be transferred from the first battalion to be promoted, and the rest will be transferred from the county brigade."

"As for the shortage of the main forces, part of it is replenished with prisoners, and part of it is directly recruited in the base areas."

"You are responsible for this matter, chief of staff, to expand the main battalion to 500 people in the shortest possible time, and then carry out a large-scale training of the whole regiment, and strive to restore part of the combat effectiveness of the troops within three months, and completely restore combat effectiveness after half a year."

"I'll deal with the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Datong, and I've already thought of a way to force them back."

Hong Linfeng didn't move, hesitated and reminded.

"Regiment commander, since we have to recruit troops and have time to train the troops, why don't we expand the main battalion to more than 800 people before the war, and directly restore the garrison regiment to more than 7,000 people in its heyday."

"No way!" Li Hao firmly vetoed.

"The full strength of the garrison regiment cannot exceed 4,000 people, the full strength of the county brigade cannot exceed 3,000 people, and the district squadron cannot exceed 100 people."

"Why?" Hong Linfeng immediately asked, his face full of puzzlement.

Li Hao didn't hide it, thought for a while and replied: "Don't you feel that it hasn't rained in the base area for several months?" ”

"It's raining?" Hong Linfeng looked at Li Hao and was even more puzzled.

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