"Hello regiment commander, the second battalion, the second company and the third company of the cavalry battalion, successfully completed the task, and asked to return to the team." Liu Yutian first saluted Li Hao, and then reported excitedly.

Li Hao responded with a smile: "I can see it." ”

"The team took at least twice as long as it started, and it must have brought back a lot of good stuff."

"Tell us how much you got back from this trip."

Liu Yutian hurriedly replied: "Regiment commander, we fought a total of seven battles during the day today, some cavalry fought independently, and some fought with foot and cavalry, and killed more than 600 little devils in total, more than 700 puppet soldiers, including 514 captured puppet soldiers. ”

"Rescued 1,743 prisoners of the Jin Sui Army, including a regiment commander, 2 deputy regiment commanders, 4 battalion commanders, 16 company commanders and deputy battalion commanders, and 84 deputy company and platoon-level officers."

"In addition, we also captured 59 mules and horses, 4 mountain guns, 19 mortars, 18 heavy machine guns, 57 light machine guns, more than 3,200 rifles, various bullets, and 106 boxes of shells."

"I roughly counted, except for the heavy machine guns and mortars, most of which were captured from the Japanese puppet army, and most of the rifle machine guns were captured by the devils of the Jin Sui army, and then fell into our hands."

The smile on Li Hao's face became even stronger.

Those weapons and ammunition are all real gains, and they can be used when they return to the base area, and even if they don't use themselves, they can support other Eighth Route Army.

The same is true of the captured puppet army, change their minds, encourage them to join the Eighth Route Army, and these people will become the best reinforcements to the garrison regiment to make up for the loss of the garrison regiment in this great war.

As for the rescued prisoners of the Jin Sui army, Li Hao was also of great use.

The losses of the Jin Sui army in this siege battle must have been very large, and if you want to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, in addition to recruiting new soldiers, there is also an indispensable problem.

Allocate enough veterans and low-level officers to the troops.

They are the real backbone of the army, and whether a unit is strong in combat effectiveness, the proportion of veterans and the quality of low-level officers play a crucial role.

The second and third battalions brought back this evening, plus those rescued by the lurking troops last night, must have more than 300 platoon officers.

If they were replenished with troops, there would be low-level officers in two divisions.

There are also thousands of ordinary soldiers and squad leaders, all of whom are veterans of war, and the supplementary troops are the backbone.

If Jin Suijun knew about the existence of these people, he would definitely try to go back and make up for his losses in the Datong battle.

In order to rescue them, the garrison lost a lot of troops, not to mention, but also consumed a lot of weapons and ammunition.

It's no problem to return these people to Jin Suijun, but at least you have to pay errands and compensation, otherwise you have a reason to keep them.

Thinking of this, the smile on Li Hao's face became even stronger.

A decision was made immediately: "Chief of Staff, immediately send someone to return the prisoners and the Jin Sui army we rescued to the base area." ”

"All the officers above the platoon level of the Jin Sui Army were drawn out and managed separately. Then send political work cadres to the ordinary soldiers to propagate and encourage them to join the Eighth Route Army, and pull as many people as they can to join our Eighth Route Army. ”

"But it's important to remember that it's better to have less than to have more."

"To join our Jin Suijun, you must be voluntary, have no bad deeds, and pass our review."

"As for the rest of the soldiers, they will all be returned to the Jin Sui Army in exchange for benefits at that time."

Hong Linfeng is very clear about the character of the regiment commander who only takes advantage and does not suffer losses.

Seeing the confident face of the regiment commander, Hong Linfeng seemed to have seen the picture of Jin Suijun's hemorrhage in exchange for these prisoners.

With a smile on the corner of his mouth, he replied with a comprehension: "Don't worry, head of the regiment, we will definitely only choose the best." ””

Two hours later, the 3rd Battalion also arrived at Cao Ziling.

The prisoners of war brought back, captured and rescued prisoners of the Jin Sui Army, were on a par with the Second Battalion.

It wasn't until eight o'clock the next morning that the Caoziling position, which had been lively all night, quieted down.

Li Hao did not rest, but was brewing a bigger conspiracy.

The Jin Sui army twice sank in the sand outside Datong City, which not only made Li Hao see the strength of the Japanese puppet army Datong defenders, but also let him see the importance of the Japanese army to Datong.

It is certain that after this war, the Japanese army will definitely manage Datong City more carefully.

And the more the Japanese army attaches importance to Datong City, the longer it operates here, the more benefits it will definitely have in Datong City.

Not to mention anything else, the funds alone can make the garrison make a fortune.

As an important coal mining base of the Japanese army in Shanxi, there must be many chaebols in Japan who have set up mines in Datong.

These chaebols have very strong financial resources and will definitely store a lot of liquidity in Datong.

If the garrison regiment can take Datong City, then these funds will be the Eighth Route Army's.

"Datong must be taken!"

Thinking of this, Li Hao smashed his fist on the table made of ammunition boxes in front of him, and said categorically.

"What to take Datong!"

Hong Linfeng was taken aback by Li Hao's behavior, looked at him, and asked inexplicably.

"Of course it's our garrison that takes Datong City?" Li Hao replied.

Hong Linfeng was frightened on the spot.

With your mouth open, it took a long time to react.

"Commander, you're not crazy, are you! This is Datong City, not an ordinary county seat. ”

"Tens of thousands of people in the Jin Sui army have not been taken down, and our garrison regiment is only a few thousand people, how can we fight!"

"I don't agree, even if Datong City is short of troops now, we will be sent to death if we kill it now."

Seeing Hong Linfeng's reaction so big, Li Hao hurriedly comforted: "Don't worry, Chief of Staff, what I said about taking Datong City is not now." ”

"At present, I only have one preliminary idea, and it is still very early to realize it, so don't worry."

"If there ever was such a day, I would have been well prepared."

"Comrades will never be sent to their deaths."

The head of the regiment is a person who will act when he thinks of it, which Hong Linfeng knows very well.

Since he already has the idea of attacking Datong, he will definitely work hard for this goal.

And Hong Linfeng also slowly calmed down from the shock at the beginning.

Because the garrison regiment once had the experience of taking Datong City.

Therefore, what the Jin Sui Army can't do doesn't mean that the Eighth Route Army can't do it.

With this thought, Hong Linfeng began to look forward to the regiment leader's proposal to capture Datong City, and immediately asked, "Regiment leader, what are you going to do?" ”

Li Hao thought for a moment and replied: "Our troops are limited, and if we want to capture Datong City, which is heavily defended by the Japanese puppet army, it will definitely not happen overnight. ”

"I've only thought of the first step now."

"Take advantage of the lack of strength of the Japanese puppet army in Datong, leave a unit, build several guerrilla areas, and develop an armed force of our own in the belly of the little devil."

"If we really want to attack Datong in the future, we will have a force to respond to it, and we will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."

Hong Linfeng's eyes lit up: "Good way, anyway, we got a sufficient amount of weapons and ammunition in this battle." Just stay a little and form our own team in the heart of the devil! ”

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