There are two major difficulties for the Eighth Route Army in attacking artillery towers and bunkers. First, the enemy's fortifications are strong and difficult to break without heavy firepower. Second, the Japanese reinforcements will arrive at any time.

Now act in a unified manner. Once the battle begins, the Japanese reinforcements will only come from nearby garrison troops, and enemies from other directions will have no time to pay attention to this place.

In other words, they would not be attacked by large reinforcements, but Zhang Yunfei was still very cautious. There were many gun towers and strongholds that the Eighth Route Army had not been able to capture for several years, and he did not want to fall into trouble himself.

However, the current situation was imminent and had to be launched. Zhang Yunfei summoned the cadres of the third battalion to discuss countermeasures.

"The current situation is that the Second Battalion is conducting an attack in the Fangjiashan area on the southern line, while the regiment headquarters and the First Battalion are on the east and front lines to the north of us. In other words, they help us block the reinforcements from the direction of Pingchuan and Qingling at the same time.

, but we also need to make a quick decision, and the time given to us will not be too much."

Although this battle was fought everywhere and beacons were everywhere, it was only targeted at the Zhengtai front-line battlefield. The main function of these peripheral containment troops was to contain the Japanese troops.

What is called containment is to pull in a large number of monsters. In other words, you and others are like a subordinate, and you have to fight against the enemy's superior enemy, and you are likely to fall into a situation where the enemy is surrounded and suppressed by heavy troops.

If their new group destroys the road from Qingling to Pingchuan, they will first be besieged by the garrison troops from these two directions.

The Japs in the two counties can make do with hundreds of Japs and thousands of puppet troops. This force is much stronger than their new regiment.

"Of course, the Japanese and puppet troops now also have a big problem. Their large troops are still swept in. In addition, they need to fortify various strongholds. They cannot concentrate too many troops at a time."

"After we start, we don't have to worry about enemy reinforcements from the north and south for a short time. We can concentrate our forces to deal with the enemies in the stronghold at the Dongshun River Bridge entrance in a short period of time."

"Now that the enemy's troops are insufficient, our troops are divided into three groups. The Ninth Company will attack from the north of the bridge, and the Seventh Company and Eighth Company will attack from the south of the bridge and attack from both sides of the road respectively."

"The fire platoon assists the 7th and 8th companies in the attack. It must attract the enemy's firepower. Lao Wei, yours and the reconnaissance platoon advance covertly from the river and blow up the bridge."

Zhang Yunfei has always had a headache on how to capture the Dongshun River Bridge stronghold. His head was about to explode thinking about it, and he came to the conclusion that there seemed to be no other way except a forceful attack.

No matter how good a method you have, but you don't have the conditions to implement it, it's all in vain. But he suddenly figured something out.

The raiding battle seems to be different from the Duanbao Tower, and I seem to have gone into a misunderstanding.

When talking about raiding warfare, we always talk about how many enemies have been destroyed and how many gun towers and strongholds have been demolished. In fact, people often ignore the purpose of launching a war.

Their operational purpose is to destroy the enemy's transportation lines and block the enemy's north-south transportation lines. That is to say, the ultimate goal of their third battalion is not to capture the Japanese and puppet army's gun tower stronghold at the bridgehead, but to blow up the east

Shunhe Bridge.

Many times, in a raiding battle, the enemy's gun towers must be destroyed first before they can carry out wanton destruction of roads and railway lines.

As for their combat mission this time, they could actually complete the attack without taking down the gun tower stronghold.

It is not impossible to be stubborn and take down the enemy's strongholds first and then blow up the bridges, but the casualties of such a strong attack will be too high, so it is better to be lazy.

This is called building a plank road openly and attacking Chencang secretly. Who would have thought that their ultimate goal in launching a violent attack was to blow up the bridge.

Not to mention the Japanese's surprise, even after Zhang Yunfei arranged the combat mission, everyone in his hands was dumbfounded. Does this count as completing the mission? It's nonsense when you think about it.

Even they themselves didn't expect such an operation, and it was certainly impossible for the Japanese to think of it.

"Again, our main task this time is to attract all the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops and make them think that we are going to attack their gun tower stronghold. If you don't have any other opinions, just start taking action."

"Captain Zhang, is this really possible?" He Jicheng asked with doubts on his face when he saw everyone leaving with strange expressions to prepare for the war.

"What's wrong with this? Have we completed the higher-level mission?" Zhang Yunfei asked rhetorically.

"This... seems to be completed." He Jicheng said a little unsure.

"It's over now, okay, Lao He, if you have anything, I'll take care of it." Zhang Yunfei comforted him.

"How can this happen? How can you be the one responsible? We made the decision together, and we should also bear the responsibility together." He Jicheng simply quit.

"Okay then, Lao He, let's prepare to be criticized together." Zhang Yunfei sighed.

He Jicheng: "..."

Even if he completes the combat mission with his sneaky behavior, he will never be praised by his superiors.

"Old He, I'm serious. We really need to be mentally prepared for this." Seeing He Jicheng's amusing look on your face, Zhang Yunfei explained with a smile, "I can't help it."

"Look at our soldiers, most of them also join militias or guerrillas in local areas, but there are really not many who have actually been on the battlefield. We can rely on them to fight ordinary battles. In this kind of tough battle, the number of casualties

, it’s not something you or I can bear, I don’t want us to be disabled just to attack this turret, there will be more battles to come, what should we do?”

As a brave soldier, He Jicheng was naturally dissatisfied with Zhang Yunfei's statement, or he had always had problems with Zhang Yunfei's combat style, but they had been working together for more than half a year.

Now that he has a certain understanding of Zhang Yunfei, he is not really the kind of person who cheats and cheats. He does not hesitate to give in even if he fights for his life at critical moments. This he appreciates very much.

"I estimate that this attack will not be over for a while. There are many opportunities to take over the battle. Once we suffer losses, we will not have time to replenish them, so we will not be able to catch up with the next battle. So as long as we complete the mission this time, we will

If it works, even if we get into trouble, there won’t be too many casualties.”

In the end, He Jicheng agreed with Zhang Yunfei's views. He had a much longer military experience than Zhang Yunfei. Even though he liked to fight fiercely, he still understood this point.

Once the plan was agreed upon and completed, the deployment and implementation began immediately. The third battalion and the local district team were divided into four groups and began to secretly deploy to the designated combat position.

At about 10 o'clock on the 20th, each ministry launched a fierce attack on its intended target. Facing attacks from all directions, the Japanese and puppet troops hid in fortifications and gun towers, occupied favorable terrain, and launched a panic counterattack.

This group of Japanese and puppet troops have long been able to deal with the harassment of the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, but this time it was different. There were too many people. They were encountering the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

So the Japanese in the artillery tower sent out a signal for help. Although their climbing tower was strong, they were able to hold off most of the guerrilla attack team.

But facing the main force of the Eighth Route Army, which could kill them even with their numbers, they could only wait for reinforcements.

Zhang Yunfei's tactical deception was very successful. The attack posture he put out was to eat his own posture in one fell swoop. When the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops was distracted, they were completely unaware and another small team took advantage of the cover of the night.

, follow the river to the bottom of the small bridge, and install the explosive pack.

Not to mention that they didn't expect such a naughty operation, even Zhang Yunfei had been thinking about how to reduce it, and suddenly he had an idea and turned the corner.

There was a loud explosion, and the Dongshun River Bridge collapsed. The Japanese and puppet troops were a little confused. The Eighth Route Army was too careless. They promised to attack their gun towers, but the bridge collapsed.

In particular, the two squads of puppet troops defending the north of the bridge could have relied on solid fortifications and the fire support from the Taijun gun tower south of the bridge to hold on.

Now that the bridge has collapsed, it means that their retreat route is completely cut off. The puppet army has no determination to sink the ship or be successful if it fails, and has completely lost its will to resist.

Soon they could not withstand the attack of the Ninth Company and surrendered directly. The battle in Qiaobei ended first.

The puppet army's fighting will rifle, but the Japanese in the turret resisted very tenaciously, and the slope of the bridge itself was not suitable for attack.

The tactical intention was completed very smoothly, and it was so smooth that it was a bit incredible. Even Zhang Yunfei was a little confused, thinking that he was a famous general who had no plan left, and almost got mad and launched a strong attack.

But they finally endured it. According to their number of soldiers, it was certain to storm the artillery building that brought the Japs. However, relying on the current situation, the firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops' two machine guns and a grenade completely blocked their attack.

offensive line.

There is a powerful force that prevents ten thousand people from breaking through. If you want to attack by force, you will not be able to attack this Japanese artillery tower without paying several times the casualties.

Since the tactical goal had been achieved, Zhang Yunfei did not need to pay additional casualties. In the end, he was under pressure and acted impulsively, without taking the risk of a strong attack, and retreated according to the original plan.

There was another reason why Zhang Yunfei had to retreat. The early operations were too smooth. According to his plan, if the assault team and demolition team deployed by the local guerrillas and reconnaissance platoon were discovered by the enemy, they would not be able to blow up the Dongshun River Bridge as expected.

Then according to the preliminary plan, the bombing mission will become the mission of the Ninth Company. They will attract enemy firepower south of the bridge. Tiedan's reconnaissance will cooperate with the Ninth Company to eliminate the enemies north of the bridge and then blow up the bridge.

Unfortunately, their combat mission went very smoothly, and they immediately blew up the bridge, which meant that only half of their troops remained in the north of the bridge. Now, if they want to storm the gun tower, they can only attack from the south.

This is where the devils can focus their firepower, so the fools launch an attack now.

Although this battle went very smoothly according to the original plan, there was not even a single accident. Since Qiaonan was a feint attack, except for a few unlucky ones who suffered varying degrees of casualties from stray bullets.

Because the Qiaobei Ninth Company was serious, they sacrificed two soldiers and injured several others. One guerrilla was also injured by a large rock thrown up by the explosion, and his injuries were not serious.

Regarding this situation, Zhang Yunfei was still very helpless. There were too many inexperienced recruits. He just carried out a feint attack and suffered more than ten casualties. If the team were all veterans, the casualties would not be many.

[Update soon] No one did their best to capture the enemy's stronghold, and there were so many casualties in a short battle, which made Zhang Yunfei feel a lot depressed.

Before they returned to the station, an Eighth Route Army soldier ran over in a hurry. His whole body was soaked with sweat, his clothes were dirty, and there was blood.

"Gouzi, are you here like this?"

Zhang Yunfei looked at the Eighth Route Army soldiers in front of him suspiciously.

Gouzi was the correspondent of the Second Battalion. Qi Dajiu didn't know whether it was intentional or not, but their correspondent got into trouble with Gouzi.

"Battle Commander Zhang...that's great...I finally found you. Our Second Battalion needs support." Gouzi said, panting heavily and out of breath.

"Speak slowly, what is going on?" Zhang Yunfei quickly handed him his kettle and said.

Zhang Yunfei said it easily, but his brows furrowed. Qi Dajiu was still very proud. It was not impossible to ask for help, but for him to ask for help, it was obvious that the situation was extremely urgent.

The problem is not about asking for help, but about time. You must know that they fought smoothly, and the time to rendezvous and evacuate only lasted an hour.

And they were more than ten miles away from Fangjiashan in the south where Qi Dajiu was mainly attacking. To be precise, it was nearly twenty miles away. According to the correspondent's pace, it would take at least fifty or sixty minutes.

In other words, Qi Dajiu, a useless snack, started asking for help almost as soon as the battle started, and this would be a big fucking problem.

According to this situation, since the attack was not smooth or failed at the beginning, we should retreat directly.

Although this is a bit embarrassing, at least it is much less embarrassing than asking for help directly. You don't need to think about it to know how bad the situation is for the unlucky kid Qi Dajiu.

And the fact is that this is also the case. According to the tactical deployment, they attacked the Japanese stronghold Fangjiashan, which is located at the junction of Qingling and Pingchuan.

Because his second battalion was the last to be replenished, their troops were deployed at the farthest distance from the two counties, where the security was actually the highest.

Their attack was uniformly ordered by the headquarters, which meant that many units cooperated. Although there were not many regular troops further south, there were still some guerrillas to cooperate with their attack.

However, for the sake of safety, he still sent a team to the south to prevent the Japanese reinforcements from coming from Pingchuan. However, his caution paid off. Not long after they fought, the Japanese reinforcements arrived.

Because his second battalion was the last to be replenished, their troops were deployed at the farthest distance from the two counties, where the security was actually the highest.

Their attack was uniformly ordered by the headquarters, which meant that many units cooperated. Although there were not many regular troops further south, there were still some guerrillas to cooperate with their attack.

However, for the sake of safety, he still sent a team to the south to prevent the Japanese reinforcements from coming from Pingchuan. However, his caution paid off. Not long after they fought, the Japanese reinforcements arrived.
Chapter completed!