Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.

Lieutenant General Devil made a decision immediately: "In that case, we will start operating in two days." ”

At four o'clock in the morning, it was dark everywhere, but several strongholds on the edge of the garrison base were brightly lit.

The Japanese army, the Imperial Allied Army, quickly assembled under the orders of their respective commanders, and in less than half an hour, an army of nearly 5,000 people was assembled.

"Departure ......" Dazuo, the devil who led the team, raised his command knife and ordered with an arrogant face.

A reinforced squadron of little devils was the first to kill the stronghold, then a brigade of Japanese troops, followed by artillery, baggage troops, the Imperial Allied Army, and finally a brigade of devils and a regiment of the Imperial Allied Army.

From the time the first little devil walked out of the stronghold, a full hour passed before the last little devil left the stronghold.

As soon as the Japanese puppet army moved, the garrison base area became lively.

The second battalion, the third battalion, and the independent battalion were the first to respond, entering their respective preset positions and waiting for them.

Then there were local troops, guerrillas, who evacuated the civilians around the direction of the Japanese puppet army's attack overnight.

The headquarters of the garrison regiment finally received the message.

"Regiment commander, the Japanese army is starting to move." Hong Linfeng hurriedly walked in and reported.

"The troops were divided into three routes, and they were killed at the three main battalions where we were confronting them. The three battalion commanders asked for instructions: Do you want to use the preset position to fight the devils and use positional warfare to consume some of their troops. ”

"What's the situation with the three-way little devil?" Li Hao asked with a frown.

"There are nearly 5,000 puppet troops on every road." Hong Linfeng replied.

"The Japanese puppet army accounted for half of each other, equipped with an artillery brigade, a different number of heavy mortars and heavy artillery, and there were no tanks and armored vehicles to help the battle, but each little devil carried a large amount of baggage, and the large cars and cars added up to more than three hundred, all of which were full of supplies."

Li Hao shook his head and replied: "The position cannot be defended." ”

"There are too many recruits in the army, and many of them have never even participated in actual combat. Directly send them to the position to confront the devils, and in the face of the combined attack of the devils' heavy artillery and aircraft, it is no different from sending them to death. ”

"The battle has just begun, and the troops must not suffer mass casualties, otherwise the morale and morale of the troops will be heavy, which will not be conducive to our follow-up operations."

"And there are not many little devils in these three-way attacking troops, with the existing strength and firepower of the garrison regiment, the layout is good, it is completely possible to concentrate superior forces and firepower, and severely damage one of the attacking troops, there is no need to withstand heavy artillery and aircraft, and risk fighting with them in positional warfare."

"Order the three main battalions to withdraw from their positions, let the Japanese puppet army enter the positions, and clean them up with guerrilla warfare and movement warfare."

"In this way, it can not only consume the strength and sharpness of the Japanese puppet army, but also train the soldiers, so that the recruits can adapt to the battlefield as soon as possible."

"Mobile battalions, special service battalions, cavalry battalions, heavy artillery battalions, anti-aircraft battalions, assemble at once, ready to participate in the battle at any time."

After Hong Linfeng hurriedly left with the order, the serious expression on Wang Hong's face did not relax.

"Commander, I don't think this attack is as simple as it seems!"

Li Hao didn't show any surprised expression, and replied very affirmatively: "There must be a conspiracy hidden behind us that we don't know." ”

Wang Hongmeng was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted: "You can also see it, head of the regiment." ”

Li Hao nodded and replied: "The little devils are not fools, they just failed the last anti-sweep, how could they make mistakes on the same issue twice in a row?" ”

"Five months ago, the Japanese puppet army had more than 4,000 or nearly 5,000 little devils on every sweeping force, and they were also equipped with heavy artillery, and they were all defeated in the end."

"Among the Japanese puppet army that has been killed now, there are only half of the real little devils, and the reality is not as good as before, if the old trick is repeated, it will give us war exploits for nothing."

Wang Hong immediately asked, "Commander, have you already seen something?" ”

Li Hao wanted to nod and tell the history he was familiar with, but he swallowed back the words when he came to his lips.

Shaking his head, he replied, "I don't know." ”

"And what did you just order?" Wang Hong continued to ask.

"Two reasons: One reason has just been said, to consume devils through guerrilla warfare and sports warfare, and to train troops by the way."

"The second reason is to wait and see what happens, to beat out the plot of the little devils, and then the soldiers will come to block the water and cover the earth."

Li Hao was actually very helpless in his heart, although he knew the general strategy and policy of the Japanese army's next sweep of the base area, but he had not really seen it.

Even if he had a head of historical knowledge and countless combat experiences, he couldn't do anything in advance.

The three attacking forces were like bamboos all the way, and at 11 a.m. they had already penetrated nearly 20 kilometers into the base area.

"Sir, the people in the nearby villages have been transferred by the Eighth Route Army in advance." A Imperial Association Legion Commander found Dazuo and reported.

"It's okay!" Osa replied with a look of indifference.

"This time, we won't leave when we enter the garrison base area, they can hide in the mountains for a day or two, it is impossible to hide for a lifetime, they will come out sooner or later, and it will not be too late for us to clean them up when the time comes."

"Order the troops to continue to advance, postpone lunch, and eat after rushing to Guanshan Town."

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

Three explosions interrupted Dasa's unfinished order, and then he saw three puffs of black smoke rising from the position of the forward squadron.

Immediately after, the gunfire of "Da ......" rang out.

"Dada...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

The forward troops reacted quickly, light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and immediately began to counterattack.

But the exchange of fire did not last long, and in less than half a minute, the gunfire stopped, and the battlefield was quiet again.

A few minutes later, a lieutenant rushed over, panting and reporting.

"Sir, it's still the same as the previous firefight, the Eighth Route Army has mines and machine guns to sneak up on us, and if we fight, we will retreat, and we will not have a chance to counterattack."

"In the battle just now, we lost five more Imperial Troops and eight Imperial Cooperative Troops."

"Run, run, don't pay attention to them!" Da Zuo was already surprised, and ordered without thinking about it.

"As long as we rush to Guanshan Town and build up the fortress, blockade ditch, and blockade wall, the garrison base area will be cut into small pieces by us, and they will not be connected to each other, and then we will sweep in different areas, and they will not be able to escape."

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the exhausted Japanese puppet army finally arrived at Guanshan Town.

After an hour of rest and eating, they began to get busy, whether they were little devils or puppet soldiers, they all picked up sapper shovels and built strongholds and fortifications centered on the high ground east of Guanshan Town.

The news reached the headquarters of the garrison regiment as soon as possible.

Except for Li Hao, Hong Linfeng and Wang Hong were both worried, and they didn't know what tricks the little devils were playing.

"Regiment commander, I suggest that the three main battalions fight tonight to see what the little devil wants to do? Obviously, you can still attack twenty kilometers forward, why did you stop. Hong Linfeng proposed.

"How?" Li Hao did not refuse or agree, but stared at Hong Linfeng and asked rhetorically.

"The telegram made it clear that the little devils were building fortifications within three kilometers of the perimeter with the hilltop high ground as the center."

"There are nearly 5,000 of them, and now there are four or five hours left before dark, which is enough to build a complete fortification."

"Plus they are well-armed, light and heavy mortars, mountain artillery, heavy artillery, all of them, and the number is several times that of each main battalion.

"Our heavy artillery battalion is still hidden in the mountains more than a hundred kilometers away, and it will not be able to reach the battlefield at all in one night. Relying only on the light and heavy mortars and mountain artillery equipped by a few battalions, if you rush to kill them, you will definitely hit your head and break your blood. ”