The front positions of the Fourth Battalion in Donghui Town, Ding County were pacified, and all the troops that attacked the pacification of Ding County were squatting in the trenches, waiting to cross the Japanese blockade line five hundred meters away in front.

Zhou Cheng lay on the edge of the trench, holding his telescope in his hand and staring at the Japanese blockade line for almost ten minutes.

Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu lay beside him, both nervous and anxious.

The density of the Japanese and puppet army patrols on the blockade line was too high. Every ten minutes, one team was guarding back and forth between two artillery towers less than five kilometers apart.

Although the two artillery towers are two kilometers apart, the searchlights on the roof of the artillery tower are too bright. The long lamp posts swept around the open space between the artillery towers, which can not only illuminate the patrol team, let them see the surrounding situation, but also let the Japanese army in the artillery tower know whether the patrol team is safe...

With such strict vigilance, a small number of elite troops can also seize the gap between patrols and quickly cross the blockade line. There are hundreds of people behind them, their combat power is uneven, and they carry a lot of heavy weapons. They definitely have no chance to cross the blockade line ahead.

But the troops must cross the blockade again tonight and pass through within the next two hours.

According to the combat plan, the troops will attack and pacify tomorrow night. The siege troops must move to the vicinity of the county town to hide and rest for a day so that everyone can have the energy and physical strength to attack the county town.

It takes more than four hours of mountain road from the blockade line to Pingding City. In order to avoid exposing the target, the troops can only slander and advance.

It means that the offensive troops want to move to the county town before dawn to hide, and must cross the blockade before 1 a.m. so as to minimize the risk of troops exposure.

It's already eleven o'clock in the evening, and it's 10 o'clock in the morning. As the chief of staff and the maker of the entire combat plan, Chen Zhengyu must be very anxious.

"Captain, why don't we kill him directly?" Chen Zhengyu couldn't think of other solutions, but was anxious and blurted out a bad idea.

The result was undoubtedly, Zhou Cheng refused without thinking: "No, once we attack here, the Japanese will know that we have heavy troops entering the pacification, and then realize that there is danger in pacifying the city. If they mobilize troops back to the county town? Even if we only go back to one infantry squadron? The difficulty of our conquering pacification will increase a lot."

"It's too risky to cross the blockade line like this, it's not worth it!"

Chen Zhengyu asked helplessly: "But the Japanese patrol density of the blockade line is too high? We have five or six hundred people? Unless we fly from the sky, there is no way to cross the blockade line without disturbing the Japanese and puppet troops."

After hearing this sentence, Zhou Cheng's eyes suddenly lit up and shouted: "Yes, our purpose is not to cross the blockade line quietly? Just make the Japanese feel that there is no large unit of the National Salvation Army entering their occupied area through the blockade line? It doesn't matter whether they are shocked or not!"

Chen Zhengyu didn't understand: "It's not the leader, why can't I understand what you just said..."

"If the Japanese on the blockade line were alarmed, wouldn't they know that we were crossing the blockade line?"

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "That's not necessarily!"

"If the patrol team between the two artillery towers is gone, the searchlights on the artillery tower will be turned off? We will slander and cross the blockade line? No matter how sharp the Japanese and puppet troops in the artillery tower are, they will not be able to see us!"

After saying his thoughts, Zhou Cheng, regardless of whether Chen Zhengyu understood or not, directly began to give orders: "The Third Company of the Fourth Battalion, the Guard Platoon, and the Bailout Platoon? Immediately launch an attack on the strongholds on both sides of our left and right sides. The offensive doesn't need to be too fierce? Just a feint attack, but you must knock down the searchlights on the artillery tower? It's best to make the Japanese mistakenly think that we are training troops with them."

"After the artillery tower is attacked, the Japanese and puppet troops patrolling the artillery towers will definitely withdraw as soon as possible? As soon as they retreat, we started crossing the blockade line? Should we be fast? No chance of responding to the Japanese."

"If the Japanese in the strongholds fight flares, the troops will immediately hide and stop moving forward, and then move forward after the flares are destroyed..."

"The closest large stronghold across the artillery tower is five kilometers away. It takes half an hour for the reinforcements to march to the battlefield."

"The Fourth Battalion retreated after 20 minutes of feint attack, so we must all pass through the blockade line within 20 minutes. It would be safer if we could cross it within ten minutes!"

"Chief of Staff, you are responsible for preventing troops from crossing the blockade line, and the artillery is scattered to several infantry companies, and let the infantry help transport the shells, one connecting with the other through the blockade line."

"In order to better disguise yourself, after encountering a flare, the troops can be integrated with the surrounding environment and not discovered by the Japanese. Each soldier uses thatch to weave a camouflage hat and put a few branches on his back..."

"The siege troops will now start to pretend and start crossing the blockade line at 11:30. The participating troops of the Fourth Battalion will be in place within half an hour, and will launch an attack on time at 11:30. First, turn off the searchlight, and then do something else. You must evacuate the battlefield at 11:50."

Time passed little by little, and the patrol team on the blockade line did not change at all. They patroled back after the searchlight guide, and fired a shot at the surrounding suspicious targets from time to time.

"Dadada..."

At half past eleven, a burst of machine gun fire sounded from the artillery tower on the left, and then the searchlight that was shaking around the artillery tower went out.

Two or three seconds later, the gun began to fire in the artillery tower on the right, and the searchlight on the roof of the artillery tower was also turned off.

Without searchlight lighting, the Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade line became obviously panicked.

There is a flashlight that has a flashlight that has no flashlight that has a torch…

After several seconds, this chaos was stopped by the officer's scolding, and then he rushed towards the stronghold on his left.

The gunshots there were already sounding, and the patrol subconsciously believed that there was the enemy's main target and immediately stepped forward to reinforce.

After the patrol team ran away and there was no Japanese and puppet army on the blockade line, Zhou Cheng ordered decisively: "The spy company will come first and cross the blockade line as fast as possible."

In half an hour, the troops hiding in the trenches had completely changed.

Each soldier wore a thatch ring on his head and branches and thatched on his back. Although he ran shakingly and was particularly eye-catching, if he lay on the ground and did not move, the soldiers would instantly turn into piles of bushes, ensuring that they could not be seen dozens of meters away, let alone the Japanese devils two kilometers away.

With dozens of artillery soldiers, more than 200 people lined up in four columns, carrying rifles, carrying light and heavy machine guns and mortar parts, holding shells, and two soldiers carried mountain cannon parts in groups... They climbed out of the trench and ran towards the blockade line, at a very fast speed.

In the attacked artillery tower, the Japanese squad leader was very annoyed.

After the National Salvation Army attacked himself, they turned off the searchlight and changed their individuals. Except for the machine guns that were as fierce as before, the infantry in charge of the attack were like a group of old ladies with small feet. Not only did the attack speed slow, but they turned around and retreated as soon as the gun tower fired a counterattack.

Every time the light and heavy machine gun fires in the gun tower, it is like a punch hitting cotton, without any lethality.

"Captain, the enemy outside is too different from the regular army, even the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, and they don't seem to want to attack the artillery tower," said Chief Cao, who was standing next to the captain.

"It seems like you are feinting us?" the captain replied with a frown.

But he quickly shook his head and said to himself: "It's not right to have a feint attack. Those soldiers are too bad, just like they have no combat power. If the National Salvation Army really wants to feint attack us and hide any conspiracy, it will definitely not take risks with such troops. If we suddenly fight out, we will definitely catch them off guard. If we are lucky, it will be fine to defeat them."

"Poor combat effectiveness?" Cao Chang frowned and repeated the sentence, and then a very bold idea popped up in his mind.

"Sir, do you think the National Salvation Army will train us?"

"I heard that the National Salvation Army stationed opposite us had just established a fourth battalion, which was formed by acquiring guerrillas and local troops. The combat effectiveness was very poor. Will they let the troops form combat effectiveness as soon as possible through feint attacks?"

"Nani?" The captain was shocked by this bold guess, and then he was replaced by anger and cursed with gritted teeth.

"Bageyalu, your judgment is probably correct."

"The troops attacking our outside the stronghold are too weak. They are obviously recruits, but they are equipped with so many light machine guns. I just felt abnormal, but I understood it as soon as you hear your analysis."

"The National Salvation Army is indeed using us as training targets. In order to protect the safety of those recruits and prevent us from leaving the stronghold to counterattack the recruits, we deliberately transferred so many light and heavy machine guns to protect the recruits..."

The more the team leader said it, the more he felt that this judgment was correct, and he became more and more nervous.

He thought of the scene when his troops were replenishing new recruits.

In order to help the new recruits adapt to the bloody battlefield as soon as possible, the troops often catch some Chinese to train their courage and let the new recruits kill those Chinese with bayonets...

I didn't expect that I would become the target of military training.

Although I don’t need to be tied to wooden stakes to train bayonets for the national rescue army like those Chinese who are accompanied, being a sparring partner is still an unprecedented shame for the Japanese army that is brave enough to win on the battlefield.

He clenched his fist and smashed it hard on the trunk of the artillery tower, gritted his teeth and ordered: "The National Saving Army is so hateful, we must not let their conspiracy succeed."

"Order the troops to stop shooting and wait until the enemy rushes to the outside of the artillery tower before firing. I don't care whether the National Salvation Army is a new recruit or a veteran. Don't go back when I come. This is also the price of asking us to be a sparring training!"

When the Japanese regarded the attack of the Fourth Battalion as training, the siege troops were quickly crossing the blockade line.

Ten minutes later, except for half of the guard company, all other troops crossed the blockade and entered the Japanese-occupied area.

"It's our turn. Remember to marching while sweeping away the footprints left by the troops across the blockade line, so that the Japanese could not find anything!" Zhou Cheng shouted the order and was the first to rush out of the trenches after saying that.

Chen Zhengyu followed closely behind, with dozens of soldiers guarding the guard company beside him, and many soldiers were holding homemade brooms, running around and sweeping the footprints on the ground...
Chapter completed!