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After hearing this, Zhang Dabiao immediately patted his chest and said, "Captain, don't worry. When has our First Battalion ever let you down?"

"We now have more than 1,800 men in our first battalion, with sufficient weapons and ammunition, well-trained soldiers, and excellent logistical support. In addition, we have built a solid defense line. I have never fought such a rich battle in my life. If we still can't fight well, we will be embarrassed to death by others."

"Let alone three days, even for a week or a month, our battalion can hold out."

"And according to our intelligence, the Sakai Brigade is just an infantry brigade that was formed later, not an infantry brigade under their permanent division. Facing such a second-rate force, our regiment is not afraid at all."

"Oh, right, Commander, I have always had a question in my mind. The Japanese only have one mixed brigade, with more than 7,000 people in total, while our independent regiment, the new first regiment, and the new second regiment, together, have more than 20,000 people."

"We have a 3:1 advantage in military strength. If we plan well, it is not impossible to severely damage or even completely wipe out an entire brigade of the Japanese. If we really achieve such a result, it will definitely impress everyone. This has never happened before."

In fact, Li Yunlong had also considered this matter and even conducted corresponding deductions based on his own strength. There was indeed a great chance of annihilating an enemy field brigade.

When he explained the results of his deduction to his superiors, he was rejected by the commander, and the reason given was very convincing.

The tactic we are implementing now is to boil the frog in warm water and completely annihilate an entire field brigade of the Japanese. This will make too much noise and will easily attract the attention of the Japanese high-level officials. They will then mobilize troops from other areas to join the battlefield in Shanxi Province. By that time, in the chaos, even if we can withstand the large-scale attack of the Japanese, our base will probably be severely damaged.

Although the probability of this happening is very low, we still have to take precautions and it is best to avoid this worst-case scenario.

The commander's task for Li Yunlong was to use the strong fortifications to inflict massive casualties on the Japanese Sakai Brigade, preferably making the Japanese retreat after suffering heavy losses and getting beaten up. This would mean that several counties around Wen County would become our new bases, and our strategic depth would be greatly increased. In fact, this was our main goal.

Of course, there is another reason, which is that enemy aircraft are always a threat. If the scale of the battle is controlled at the wing level, the enemy's aircraft support will definitely not be that strong.

But once a Japanese field brigade faced the risk of being wiped out, Yoshio Shinozuka, who was far away in Taiyuan, would definitely send out all his planes to fight desperately, either for his own considerations or because of pressure from the top.

To put it bluntly, all of our previous air defense measures were just emergency measures. They were barely effective against enemy bombers of less than ten planes. However, once we encountered carpet bombing by hundreds of Japanese bombers, everything would be over.

The Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment are the ace main force regiments of our army. To be established to their current size, they have consumed innumerable supplies. If we suffer heavy losses just to wipe out an entire brigade of the Japanese, and a second-line brigade at that, it would really be a loss.

However, Li Yunlong could not speak openly about these things, so he could only curse again:

"I say, Da Biao, you just need to follow orders, why are you talking so much nonsense? Why don't you come to the regiment headquarters and be the deputy political commissar? Then you, the dog-headed military advisor, can give me bad advice every day."

When he heard the regiment commander ask him to be the deputy political commissar, he was scared to death, so he quickly saluted and ran away.

Are you kidding? How could he give up his position as the battalion commander of the main battalion and become a deputy political commissar? He doesn't have any brains.

However, when he arrived at the position of the first battalion, he specially summoned the eight company commanders and issued the most severe orders, asking them to beat the Japs to death if they attacked, and to vent the anger they had just suffered from the regiment commander on them.

The Japanese regiment commander Ito was also using a telescope to observe our defensive positions at this time, but the more he looked, the more shocked he became. After he finished looking, he became silent for a while, and then ordered his adjutant to call the three captains over to confirm the battlefield situation with him.

After looking around for a while, all the Japanese soldiers present gasped. This defensive fortification was too abnormal.

The captain of the first battalion, Kameda, could not help but exclaimed: "Sir, our opponent's position is very methodical. I can see some traces of Hans country, as well as some shadows of our side. In addition, there seem to be too many light and heavy machine guns on the opposite side."

"According to this standard, each infantry squad of the Eighth Route Army has a light machine gun, plus their heavy machine guns and a small number of mortars. I think we are facing a tough opponent this time."

The captain of the second battalion also took the opportunity to echo: "From the perspective of the defensive position, we can only quickly break through the opponent's position unless we use the brigade's mountain and field artillery battalion and the tank squadron's direct-fire artillery."

Then the other two captains expressed their opinions. To sum it up, this battle was really difficult to fight. We needed to come up with a good tactic and could not just rush in like before.

This is the experience the Japanese have summed up after suffering severe beatings from our troops during this period of time. This was gained at the cost of huge and painful losses to the enemy.

Back when each soldier in our main force had only three bullets on average, the Japanese must have been extremely arrogant. Often a squadron of troops would dare to actively attack the position of one of our infantry regiments.

After all, the ammunition carried by a squadron of Japanese soldiers and stored directly by the squadron headquarters exceeded 30,000 rounds, and our infantry regiment consumed 4,000 rounds of bullets after a battle. If we only seized 3,000 rounds, the regiment commander and political commissar would probably have to conduct a public review, which also meant that our strength would become weaker and weaker.

If a squadron of Japanese devils defends, even if we concentrate ten times our strength, we may not be able to gain a big advantage. Basically, we adopt the tactics of surprise attack to attack the enemy's transport troops. After all, the strength of this kind of Japanese devils is relatively weak, and the captured weapons and ammunition can be used to enhance the strength of the troops.

Next, our soldiers had an average of ten bullets, and they could also frequently receive supplies from the logistics department's factory. At this time, our regiment could fight back and forth with a squadron of Japanese devils, and even if the tactics were right, we could defeat or even annihilate a squadron of Japanese devils.

When our soldiers have fifty rounds of bullets, basically an infantry battalion can compete with a Japanese squadron, and a main force regiment can compete with a Japanese infantry battalion.