The deputy chief of staff continued to remind.

"But brigade commander, the range of heavy artillery is too long, and if it is set up five or six kilometers away, it can easily hit the shells into Laiyuan City, and we simply don't have artillery that can shoot so far, how can we remove this threat."

The brigade commander thought about it, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Pointing to the map of the city's defenses, he began to give an order: "You immediately draw four garrison regiments and four infantry squadrons from the garrison in the city, go out of the city immediately, and establish a defensive line three kilometers outside the city." ”

"One regiment of the Imperial Allied Army plus one infantry squadron of the Imperial Army defends one direction."

"The range of the mountain artillery and mortars we are equipped with can reach three kilometers, and the defensive line outside the city is three kilometers away from Laiyuan City, which adds up to six kilometers. Unless the garrison regiment places the heavy artillery within the range of the mountain artillery we are equipped, it will not be able to threaten the safety of Laiyuan City. ”

The worried look on the face of the deputy chief of staff did not soothe, and he continued to ask: "Then what about the troops we have deployed outside the city." ”

"Heavy artillery can't hit Laiyuan City, but it can hit them from a distance, and they don't even have a chance to fight back."

The brigade commander confidently replied: "The solution is simple. ”

"We built several more defensive lines outside the city, and the defense lines were separated by a hundred meters from each other, forming a defensive depth, and the troops were divided into troops to defend each defense line, no longer concentrated on one defense line as before."

"If the garrison attacks us, even if they send out heavy artillery, they can only attack one line at a time."

"What the garrison outside the city needs to do is to use these lines of defense, melee with the attacking troops of the garrison, engage them in close combat, and make the heavy artillery useless."

"More than 4,000 Imperial Cooperative Army, 1,000 Imperial Army, even if the three Imperial Cooperative Army exchange the life of one Eighth Route Army in the melee, these more than 5,000 people will consume more than 2,000 troops of the garrison regiment."

"How many of them are there in total, and without more than 2,000 people, do you think they still have the strength to continue attacking Laiyuan City?"

"When the time comes, I don't need them to attack, I will directly lead the remaining garrisons of Laiyuan City to kill them, and fight them while they are the weakest and kill them."

The brigade commander's garrison regiment is very familiar with this style of play, and it has just been used.

In the face of the attack of a main division of the Japanese army, in order to weaken the threat of Japanese aircraft and heavy artillery, the garrison regiment prepared four defensive positions with a depth of more than two kilometers, which not only blocked the devils for two days, but also consumed four or five thousand of them with the depth of defense.

The brigade commander repeated his old trick in front of the garrison, and the result was certainly not much better.

The superiority of base operations was well manifested in this battle.

The common people, the guerrillas, all were the eyes and ears of the garrison.

As soon as the Japanese puppet army began to move, the news reached the headquarters of the garrison regiment.

"Regiment leader, do you want to start attacking now, take the little devil's defense depth before it is built, and catch them off guard." Hong Linfeng said with a look of eagerness to propose.

Li Hao did not deny it: "The current attack can indeed catch the Japanese puppet army by surprise, but it will also bring another problem." ”

"There is no position to defend, will the Japanese puppet army retreat directly after being attacked and return to Laiyuan City."

"Definitely!" Hong Linfeng replied with a frown.

The key to the garrison taking Laiyuan City is whether it can wipe out a part of the Japanese puppet army outside the city and weaken the strength of the defending troops.

If these Japanese puppet troops are driven back to Laiyuan City and continue to shrink in the shell of the turtle, then this attack is not only meaningless, but counterproductive.

As a result, the proposal was rejected before it could be discussed.

"We will attack after the Japanese puppet army has built the depth of the defense." Li Hao suddenly spoke.

This answer was something Hong Linfeng hadn't thought of.

The garrison took advantage of this defensive depth not only to block the joint air-ground attack of the Japanese army, but also to kill a large number of Japanese puppet troops in the battle.

The upcoming offensive of the garrison regiment was certainly not comparable to the combined air-ground attack of the Japanese army.

Even the Japanese can't do anything with this kind of defensive depth, and if they lose their troops in front of it, can the garrison regiment be?

A big question mark flashed in Hong Linfeng's mind!

And the operational policy of this battle was set from the beginning: the massive use of heavy artillery to reduce the casualties of troops on the battlefield.

After the defensive depth of the Japanese puppet army is built, the two troops will definitely be mixed together during the attack, and the heavy artillery will be useless.

Correspondingly, the casualties of the attacking forces will also increase significantly.

The most lacking thing in the garrison regiment now is veterans, and if one dies, there will be one less, so the troops must not be allowed to suffer mass casualties in battle.

In this case, there is no doubt that the decision of the regiment commander is in opposition to the operational policy drawn up from the beginning......

Thinking of this, Hong Linfeng's brows were already twisted into a big Sichuan character, and then he was ready to open his mouth to tell this worry.

But Li Hao didn't give him a chance to speak, and ordered directly.

"Chief of Staff, there are two things that you need to do right now."

"One is to find out the pistols in the regimental headquarters and the pistols we captured in the hands of the devils during this time, whether it is a Mauser pistol, a box gun, or a Wang Ba box,"

"The second battalion, the third battalion, the special service battalion, and the independent battalion will draw out a main company, and each soldier will be equipped with a pistol and fifty matching pistol bullets, and if the number is insufficient, it will be drawn from the regimental headquarters, logistics organs, air defense battalion, and heavy artillery battalion."

"In addition, I also have a requirement for this main force company: the whole company must not have night blind soldiers from the company commander or below, and if there is, they will be directly transferred to other infantry companies."

"The second thing: order the arsenal to take out all the gunpowder in its stockpile, and work overtime to produce flying thunder cannon shells and propellants."

"All the extra gasoline barrels from the logistics department are processed into flying thunder cannons, the more the better."

In the end, a sneer appeared on the corner of Li Hao's mouth.

"The little devil will definitely continue to miscalculate this time."

"Close combat, hand-to-hand combat, can indeed neutralize the threat of heavy artillery and inflict a lot of casualties on the attacking troops."

"But it's not like just pulling out a unit and fighting it."

"Without strong combat effectiveness and a strong will to fight, no matter how good the battle plan is, it will not be able to carry it out."

"If the Japanese army sends out all their own people, or most of them are their own people, I will still be afraid of three points, and I would rather not fight this battle, but also control the casualties of the troops."

"But all of them sent out were the Imperial Army, and only a small part of them were their own people."

"Although the combat effectiveness of these puppet armies is good, they will definitely not fight with us for the sake of devils, they don't have such a strong will to fight, and there are few puppet soldiers who want to be traitors from the bottom of their hearts and give their lives to the little devils."

"As long as the Japanese puppet army on the first line of defense suffers heavy casualties, or is completely annihilated by us, the other Japanese puppet troops will definitely be in turmoil, and then our opportunity will come."

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