"Battalion commander, it is very difficult to take Rili Tian Village by storming!" Hong Linfeng said his thoughts very seriously.

Then he pointed to the sketch and analyzed: "Outside the village is a field, with an unobstructed view, and there is not even a bush to hide. As long as the Japanese puppet army puts a machine gun on the earthen fence and shoots outside, no matter how many of us are, we can't rush their fire to intercept it! ”

"The devil still has artillery, if they fire when we attack, a shell can reimburse several of us!"

"Unless we have an absolute artillery superiority and a sufficient number of shells, use the shells to raze Li Tiancun to the ground, blow up all the earth fences, and destroy the artillery and light and heavy machine guns equipped by the devils, otherwise it will be very difficult to get close to the village!"

Li Kaihu, the commander of the baggage company, said: "We have artillery, and there is definitely no problem with the little devils on the battlefield." But it would be unrealistic to use shells to raze the village and the entire earthen fence to the ground. ”

"The village is so big, it can't be done without a few thousand shells!"

"For this counter-sweep, the instructor took out half of the shells in our stockpile, adding up to more than 1,800 shells, and a lot has been used in the past two days, and now there are 1,400 left, and it is impossible to raze the village to the ground!"

Yuan Qingfeng, the commander of the mountain artillery company, hesitated for a long time before replying: "I just calculated, with the number of artillery we have now, if we want to raze the village and Tuweizi to the ground, we need at least 3,000 shells!" ”

Li Hao opened his mouth and refused very decisively: "With 3,000 shells in exchange for more than 1,000 puppet troops under Watanabe's men, this deal is too much of a loss, and the battle can't be fought like this!" ”

"Shells are not bullets, they are difficult to capture, and we have one less shot when we shoot them, so we have to use every shell in our hands on the blade!"

At this time, Peng Yunfeng, who was sitting on the other side of Li Hao, suddenly spoke.

As a reinforcement, he rarely spoke during the day today.

However, this issue at hand has a bearing on the success or failure of the entire anti-sweeping campaign and on whether or not the troops can end the anti-sweeping campaign as soon as possible and minimize the losses in the base areas.

So as soon as some thoughts popped up in his head, he couldn't help but say it, hoping it would be useful.

"Battalion Commander Li, I think the biggest problem now is how to rush to the village under the fire interception of the Japanese puppet army!"

"Do you think we can do this: under the cover of night, a small number of troops quietly touched a position of 150 meters outside the village, dug a trench out, and hid the troops in the trench to attack, so that the attack distance can be shortened to 150 meters, and our losses in the attack can be greatly reduced!"

Xiao Yuan, who had been staring at the Japanese puppet army during the day, shook his head and objected: "It's very difficult!" ”

"Although the Japanese puppet army is all shrinking in the village, there are also people outside the village, and there are quite a few of them!"

"Before dark, there are more than a dozen light and dark posts found by the commando team alone, and there must be many more that have not been found, especially the dark posts, there must be a lot."

"There are so many Japanese puppet troops, and there are still things we don't know, even if our commandos and reconnaissance platoons are dispatched together, I don't have the confidence to kill them all quietly!"

"In addition, the devils also have flares in their hands, and after dark, they will definitely keep lighting flares to observe the surrounding situation to ensure that no one approaches the village. As soon as we show up, a flare can expose us all! ”

Peng Yunfeng's brows also twisted.

Shaking his head, he replied, "I can't think of any other way in that case!" ”

"I have a way!" Li Hao, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Just do what Battalion Commander Peng said, shorten the offensive distance through civil engineering!"

"As long as our various troops cooperate well enough and make a good plan, there will definitely be no problem in taking Li Tiancun, and we will fight for this battle to kill Watanabe, the old devil, lest he come out again and harm the people!"

In the woods more than 400 meters outside Litian Village, more than 2,000 people, including the five main companies of the independent battalion, the first battalion of the second brigade of the military sub-division, local troops, and guerrillas......., gathered here.

The mountain artillery company directly under the battalion headquarters was not here, and all six mountain guns were erected on a hilltop high two kilometers away from here, and the entire village could be covered with artillery fire.

Coupled with the height advantage, the mountain artillery company was also arranged here to ensure that the Japanese mortars and mountain artillery could not threaten them.

The cavalry company lurked on the way back to the county seat for the Japanese army, and once the Japanese puppet army broke through, they would deal a devastating blow to them on the way.

At this moment, Li Hao was holding a telescope and staring at the fields outside the forest.

The devils in the village would fire a flare every ten minutes, and when the flare exploded, Li Hao's heart would also skip a beat, and he was more nervous than ever, for fear that the commando team that had begun to act in front would be discovered by the devils.

Fortunately, after waiting for half an hour, three lights finally flashed in front, Li Hao's long-awaited contact signal.

Li Hao couldn't help but take a long breath: "The commando team is done, and the reconnaissance platoon has begun to act!" ”

"They have cleared all the light and dark sentries within a hundred meters in front, all you need to do is to keep up, dig a single bunker every ten meters as planned, and set off now."

More than forty warriors each held a shovel in their hands, and disappeared from Li Hao's vision like a ghost.

They were very agile and didn't make any noise.

Soon, a slight sound of digging sounded in Li Hao's ears one after another.

Li Hao's nerves, which had just relaxed, tensed up again, fearing that these movements would attract the attention of other sentries of the Japanese puppet army.

"Bang ......"

A gunshot broke the silence of the night, and Li Hao's heart suddenly rose to his throat.

The worst fears came true.

Then he didn't wait for the devil to hit the flare, and immediately ordered: "According to the plan, the artillery will concentrate all the artillery fire on me to blow up the earthen fence in front of me, even if I can't raze the earthen fence to the ground, I will use the smoke from the shell explosion to block the field of vision of the Japanese puppet army behind, and cover the reconnaissance platoon to dig out the individual bunker." ”

"Boom, boom, boom......"

A total of twenty mortar shells exploded at the same time as the flares that the devils hit the sky.

The moment the reconnaissance platoon was exposed to the devil's field of vision, gunpowder smoke and fireballs from the explosion of the shells appeared around Tuweizi together.

There must have been many Japanese puppet soldiers killed and wounded, but the remaining Japanese puppet troops were not frightened and reacted quickly.

Less than two hundred meters long, five machine-gun fire snakes appeared in an instant.

Under the cover of night, Li Hao could even see the trajectory of the bullet from the air, flying towards the scout who was digging a trench.

The soldiers who were digging individual bunkers were all soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon, and a group of soldiers with the strongest combat effectiveness of the independent battalion.

Despite this, the sudden fire counterattack still killed and wounded several scouts.

The only thing that made Li Hao happy was that each investigator dug a small pit of almost half a meter under his feet, and all the excavated soil was piled up in front of him to form a one-foot-high mound. The man squatted in the small pit, and with the cover of the mound in front of him, there was no problem at all in dodging the oncoming bullets.

Just now everyone was lying on the ground and digging, but now they are squatting in the bunker and digging, and the speed of the trench has not been affected.

But if the Japanese puppet army is allowed to strafe, their counterattack fire will definitely become more and more fierce, and maybe some bullets will penetrate the mound of dirt, causing casualties to the reconnaissance platoon.

What's more, under such a fierce firepower counterattack, his follow-up troops couldn't go up at all!

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