"It's true!" Zhao Gang answered.
"Commander Kong not only ordered Zhang Dabiao to march urgently back to the base area, but also sent Zhang Dabiao 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 2,000 grenades, 500 artillery shells, five heavy machine guns, and five mortars..."
After saying that, he stared at Li Yunlong with a surprised look on his face and said, "Old Li, you guessed everything right!"
"Captain Kong is really kind. He took the initiative to send us the ammunition we urgently needed without us sending a telegram..."
"What's this?" Li Yunlong was rarely praised by Zhao Gang, and he said proudly: "Kong Erluzi and I are old comrades from the same class. I have already figured out his little tricks!"
"It's just a bit too stingy. In such a big and victorious battle, you only support me with 100,000 rounds of ammunition, five mortars, and five heavy machine guns, and I don't even have one or two heavy artillery!"
"When we win the counter-mopping up, I will definitely go to the Independent Regiment to have a good talk with him. If I can't be satisfied, I will stay in the Independent Regiment and never leave!"
Zhao Gang couldn't help but joked: "You don't really want to ask Commander Kong for 300,000 rounds of ammunition, do you?"
"Although the Independent Regiment won a great victory, it does not mean that they were able to capture all the equipment and ammunition carried by the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"Maybe the total number of bullets captured by the Independent Regiment on the battlefield is less than 300,000 rounds!"
"Besides, even if Commander Kong really gives us 300,000 bullets, Zhang Dabiao won't be able to bring them back!"
"This is the same!" Li Yunlong said angrily, and then began to give orders: "Call back to Zhang Dabiao immediately: the troops will return to the base immediately!"
"The wounded will stay with the Independent Regiment for the time being to recuperate, and will return to the base after recovery!"
"All the weapons and ammunition given to them by Kong Erlunzhi must be brought back, not a single bullet is missing!"
Yantoupo is a defensive position where the Japanese army separated the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment.
The Japanese and puppet troops that Huang Yu was responsible for tracking were marching all the way straight to here as if they had been beaten to death.
The number of Japanese and puppet troops blocking here has dropped sharply from 2,500 to 2,000, but their overall strength has not decreased.
They have not been idle these days. In addition to blocking the New Second Regiment, they have also strengthened their positions when they have time.
Fortunately, they didn't have any steel or concrete, otherwise they would have built Yantoupo into a military fortress.
They obviously knew in advance that troops were going to cross the blockade.
Not only had the response troops been arranged in advance, but also the rear-end troops were prepared to prevent the Eighth Route Army from following the attack and crossing the blockade together.
"Commander Huang, should we take a small road to cross the blockade and continue to pursue the raiding and mopping up troops!" Second Battalion Commander Xiao Yuanchang suggested with an eager look on his face.
Huang Yu shook his head and said, "We won't go there!"
"There is Captain Li's New Second Regiment on the other side of the blockade. They are also very tough. If the little Japs want to take advantage of them, it will definitely be harder than climbing to the sky. They are not inferior to our troops!"
"Then we won't fight?" Xiao Yuanchang looked at Huang Yu with a hint of unwillingness on his face and asked anxiously.
"Of course we have to fight!" Huang Yu said.
"We will continue to fight until the counter-mopping operation is over for a day..."
Xiao Yuanchang immediately showed an expectant expression, stared at Huang Yu and asked, "Where to fight? How to fight?"
"I heard that the commando battalion wiped out more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops in battle. It would be a lie to say that I am not envious!"
"If there really is a big battle, Staff Officer Huang must not forget the Second Battalion!"
Staff Officer Huang replied seriously: "We still need to discuss with the regiment leader on how to fight!"
"But if there is really a big battle, the second battalion will definitely be the main force!"
At another blockade of the Japanese and puppet troops, Kong Jie just watched the Japanese and puppet troops he was tracking cross the blockade and enter the Independence Regiment base area.
Just when he was worrying about how to provide support to Li Yunlong, Huang Yu's telegram arrived.
Kong Jie spent two minutes reading the telegram, then raised his binoculars and stared at the Japanese and puppet army blockade.
"Duan Yong..." Kong Jie suddenly ordered.
"Here..." the guard battalion commander quickly rushed to Kong Jie and said with a serious look on his face.
"Take out a company, concentrate all the heavy machine guns and mortars in the guard camp, and attack the blockade. I want to confirm how strong the enemy's blocking firepower is!"
"The offensive must be powerful enough, so that all the enemy's firepower can be forced out!"
"But we must control the casualties. If the loss is too great, the mission will not be completed!"
After a while, a company of soldiers came into Kong Jie's sight!
A group of three soldiers, holding guns, formed a skirmish line and fought towards the blockade.
"Boom boom boom..."
The four mortars equipped by the guard battalion joined the battle at the same time, and the shells were dropped on the blockade where people might be hiding, as if they were free.
"Rumble..."
As a result, just after the fifth round of shelling, the Japanese counterattack arrived.
Eight artillery shells roared in, instantly knocking out two gun emplacements of the guard camp, and frightening the gunners on the other two emplacements to move quickly...
"Da da da... dong dong dong..."
Gunshots rang out at the same time, and the quiet blockade suddenly became lively.
"Dongdongdong..."
Six heavy machine guns equipped by the guard battalion joined the battle to suppress the newly exposed firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops.
But the firepower on the blockade immediately more than doubled.
It is equivalent to one heavy machine gun in the guard camp facing at least two Japanese heavy machine guns. Not only did it fail to suppress the blocking firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops, but it was suppressed on the position by them.
Kong Jie's brows instantly furrowed into the Chinese character "Chuan" and he ordered decisively: "The sheep attacking troops can withdraw!"
The firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade is indeed stronger than we imagined, and they also have a lot of ammunition reserves, otherwise they would not use such fierce firepower just to stop a company! "
"Xiao Huang's judgment is correct. Although there are not many Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade, they are a big piece of fat and oily meat."
"If we take them down, the results will be no less than if we killed the troops who were mopping up the troops along the way, or even more."
"Destroy them, and the backs of the mopping up troops will be exposed to our soldiers. This will also support Li Yunlong on the other hand, killing two birds with one stone!"
Although Tan Ming, commander of the fifth battalion, did not know what Huang Yu wrote in the telegram to the regiment commander, he still got a rough idea from the regiment commander's soliloquy and immediately asked: "Commander, are you saying that Staff Huang suggested that we Set up a blockade and annihilate all the Japanese and puppet troops above to reinforce the New Second Regiment!"
Kong Jie nodded and said: "It's just a suggestion, I haven't made a final decision yet!"
Tan Ming did not think that the troops were fighting again, but instead reminded him with a worried look: "I don't agree to fight this war!"
"I kept staring at the blockade when the guard battalion launched a probing attack..."
"The Japanese and puppet troops above are indeed a piece of fat. They have no less than twenty heavy machine guns, as well as a large number of mortars and light machine guns!"
"In order to hold the blockade, the Japanese army must have stored a large amount of ammunition at the blockade."
"The stronger their firepower, the harder it will be for us to take down the blockade!"
"I also saw a lot of heavy machine guns hidden in bunkers, which shows that the Japanese have also imitated us and built a large number of machine gun bunkers on their positions!"
"We built the bunker first, and no one knows it better than us."
"Besides blasting and bombing, there are almost no other tricks!"
"If we choose to attack the blockade, the troops will inevitably destroy all the bunkers on the position."
"The troops have limited strength. If we take down a bunker and lose one or two infantry squads, just destroying the bunker will cost us one or two battalions."
"This does not include the price paid for destroying other Japanese and puppet troops!"
"Maybe after we finish this battle, the more than a thousand people behind us will be wiped out."
"If the attack doesn't go smoothly and something unexpected happens in the middle, we might even use up all our troops and not be able to take down the blockade!"
Kong Jie shook his head: "You underestimate Comrade Huang Yu!"
"Since he dares to propose attacking the blockade, it means that he already has the idea of taking over the blockade!"
"Based on what I know about him, the cost for us to capture the blockade should not exceed one battalion!"
"This is impossible!" Tan Ming immediately showed a suspicious expression.
"There are so many machine gun bunkers on the battlefield, and the little devils couldn't do anything with those machine gun bunkers back then."
"Our firepower and equipment are not as good as those of the Japs. How can we be better than them? I don't believe it!"
"Then we'll wait and see!" Kong Jie was full of confidence in Huang Yu and looked at him with a determined look on his face.
After saying that, he stared at Zhang Xuelin and began to give orders: "Call Huang Yu back immediately. I agree with his idea and ask him to report the battle plan immediately..."
At the enemy headquarters of the New Second Regiment, Li Yunlong was listening to the reconnaissance company commander's report on the enemy's situation.
"Regiment leader, political commissar..."
"The Japanese and puppet troops did not redistribute their troops after entering our base area... Two sweeps of troops swept towards us, one from the left and one from the right, very fast!"
"Aerial reconnaissance has been ongoing, and two aircraft have been escorting them continuously."
"There are still 4,500 people in the left sweep force, equipped with four 105mm mountain guns, four 120mm mortars, four field guns, four infantry guns, two mortar squadrons, and two heavy machine guns Squadron…”
"There are more than 4,200 mopping up troops on the right, and their heavy weapons are similar to those of the Japanese and puppet troops on the left..."
Li Yunlong was very happy at first!
The Japanese and puppet troops suddenly turned around and rushed into the base of the New Second Regiment. They had the opportunity to fight a big battle. Otherwise, they could only be jealous and watch others fight a big battle.
After listening to the investigation company commander's report, Li Yunlong couldn't stop laughing.
He was jealous that those large-caliber mountain cannons and heavy mortars were still in the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops. Any accident could cause a fatal attack on the New Second Regiment.
In this way, the pressure on him to wipe out all the troops along the way will be particularly great.
But Li Yunlong is not someone who can be defeated so easily.
The more he fights, the braver he becomes. The stronger the enemy, the more motivated he becomes to fight.
Zhao Gang was also frightened by the strength of his opponent, and hesitantly reminded: "Old Li, I think the enemy is too strong..."
"Should we change the combat objective?"
"The minimum strength of the right-wing mopping up force is 4,200, and the majority are Japs..."
"The equipment level is several levels higher than ours, and it is also equipped with large-caliber mountain cannons and large-caliber mortars that we have never seen before!"
"On the other hand, our troops, including the reinforcements brought back by Zhang Dabiao, only have less than 4,000 troops participating in the battle. The disparity in strength between the two sides is huge!"
