"Reconnaissance company report: The young men left by the Japanese and puppet troops in the occupied areas are not scattered in every stronghold, but concentrated in more than a dozen large and small strongholds close to our base area."
"In addition, in order to prevent them from causing trouble, all young people are locked up outside the stronghold."
"The Japanese's purpose is very obvious. They will first build the fortifications closest to us and isolate our base area first, and then they will build the uninhabited land behind step by step to completely trap us."
"We use the combat style of attacking and rescuing the enemy, focusing on one of the points and forcing the Japanese and puppet troops to reinforce the other strongholds. When these strongholds have no extra troops to guard these people, we can dispatch ambushes to rescue them."
The Gong Town Stronghold is the largest stronghold where the Japanese puppet troops and the Laiyuan Independent Battalion faced off.
The central blockhouse is built on a hilltop more than 200 meters east of the town. It is completely made of stone and cement. It overlooks the entire town and is very solid.
Other gun towers and bunkers rely on the mountains and are scattered on all the slopes from the middle of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Without exception, they are all permanent firepower points.
The puppet troops were stationed here for more than 700 days, responsible for a nearly ten-kilometer blockade on the left and right sides of the stronghold.
To deal with such a stronghold, if there is no heavy artillery cover, even if you have more than five times the strength advantage, you will die in vain and you will not be able to take it down.
After the Japanese army began to establish an uninhabited area, nearly 2,000 young men were assigned to the Gong Town stronghold. During the day, they built fortifications around the stronghold, dug blockade ditches, and built blockade walls. At night, they lived at the foot of the mountain on the side of the area occupied by the imperial army.
A company was responsible for guarding them.
The news that their home was destroyed and their family members were driven to the Eighth Route Army base area by the Japanese and puppet troops spread among the crowd the day after they were captured.
In their view, without food and clothing, even if their families entered the Eighth Route Army base area, they would not be able to survive for long. They might have starved to death or froze to death by now.
So the eyes of these people looking at the nearby puppet soldiers were full of anger and red.
That night, many people planned to take advantage of the middle of the night to fight with the puppet troops who were guarding them, to avenge their families.
But their camp was at the foot of the mountain, too close to the stronghold on the mountain. The nearest machine gun was less than a hundred meters away from them.
At the beginning, relying on their numerical advantage, they did use fists, shovels... various tools to catch the puppet soldiers off guard and killed more than a dozen people.
But the good times didn't last long.
The movement here alerted the Japanese and puppet troops on the mountain.
The Japanese didn't regard them as human beings at all. The nearest machine gun bunker fired at crowded places.
The heavy machine gun was so powerful that the flying bullets penetrated the bodies of two people continuously before stopping.
Moreover, they were shooting from a high position, and the entire camp was within the fire coverage of these machine gun bunkers.
In less than five minutes, more than two hundred people died in the camp...
The people who survived all had a look of fear on their faces. Facing the corpses everywhere, they had a heartfelt fear of the Japanese.
From then on, although everyone's eyes when looking at the Japanese and puppet troops were still red and full of anger, no one dared to make trouble in the camp. No matter how angry they were, they could only hold it in their hearts.
At seven o'clock in the evening, all the young men and women had eaten the multigrain pancakes and porridge that could be counted as many grains of rice sent by the puppet troops, and then four or five people slept together in the ground.
In this way, you can maintain your physical strength without consuming the little food in your stomach, and you can also have enough energy to cope with the heavy physical work tomorrow.
If you don't have the energy to do things tomorrow, are lazy, or do something wrong, you will be whipped at least, or beaten and kicked by the Japanese and puppet soldiers at worst, and you will not be given food, so you will work hungry the next day.
In the past few days, you have witnessed with your own eyes several former fellow villagers who were tortured to death by the Japanese and puppet troops because they were hungry and lacked the energy to do things.
No one wanted to follow in their footsteps, so after dinner they went to sleep.
In fact, this is a conspiracy specially created by the Japanese.
Deliberately not feeding everyone can not only save food, but also prevent these young and strong people from causing trouble in the future.
At ten o'clock in the evening, not only was there no movement in the camp at the foot of the mountain, but the Japanese and puppet army strongholds on the mountain also became quiet.
Except for the constantly shaking searchlight poles and the constantly moving security posts in the blockhouse stronghold, everyone else fell asleep.
"Baba..."
Three consecutive gunshots suddenly broke the tranquility of the night, and then I saw the three searchlights on the top of the turret extinguished, and the stronghold instantly fell into darkness.
"Da da da……"
The Japanese army reacted quickly. The moment the gunfire rang out, the machine gunners on duty in the turret began to fire.
Immediately afterwards, a flare was fired into the sky.
With a sound of "Boom...", a burning white light rose in the sky, and the battlefield was instantly illuminated like daylight.
Then the Japanese sentry on duty saw densely packed Eighth Route Army troops lying on the ground a few hundred meters away, approaching the stronghold from all directions.
"Woooooooo..."
A piercing siren immediately sounded from the central turret of the stronghold, and various lights in the camp were lit at the same time. Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers, armed with weapons and disheveled, rushed out of the barracks and went straight to their positions.
"Da da da……"
More and more machine guns joined the battle, and the densely packed Eighth Route Army at the foot of the mountain finally stopped approaching the stronghold under the interception of bullets.
The Japanese officer on duty breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to the commander's office.
"Reporting to the commander, the stronghold was attacked by the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army was everywhere at the foot of the mountain."
The captain stood at the lookout, looking outside with a telescope, motionless: "I saw it! Order the troops to prepare for battle according to the predetermined battle plan and resolutely repel them."
"Hi!" The second lieutenant rushed out of the headquarters as fast as he came. He left just as quickly.
On a small highland nearly one kilometer away from the stronghold, Li Hao stood in the semi-underground headquarters that had just been dug out by the security company, looking at the battlefield through a telescope with a serious look on his face.
"Captain, it's almost time!" Hong Linfeng reminded standing nearby.
"Judging from the distribution of firepower points, the Japanese and puppet troops have exposed six machine gun bunkers, which is completely consistent with the reconnaissance force's investigation during the day."
"I think we can use the heavy artillery battalion."
Li Hao nodded and replied: "Tell Yuan Qingfeng that all the heavy artillery in the heavy artillery battalion will fire at the same time. I will use the strongest firepower to blast the Japanese on the mountain and make them feel scared. Then they will ask for help from nearby strongholds to achieve our goal of moving the tigers away from the mountain."
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"It's definitely no problem!" Hong Linfeng answered confidently.
In the Battle of Datong, the Japanese army dispatched eight heavy artillery pieces, four of which were blown to pieces. Four were captured by the garrison, and a lot of artillery shells were also captured.
The number of artillery pieces equipped by the heavy artillery battalion was increased to four companies and sixteen guns.
In order to win such a rescue battle, the heavy artillery battalion brought all sixteen artillery pieces and all the captured artillery shells.
Anyway, I captured the little devil, so I won’t feel sad if I use it up.
Hong Linfeng has never seen this scene of sixteen artillery pieces firing together, but it can definitely be described as earth-shattering.
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