"The terrain of Goujialing is complex and difficult to defend and attack. It's a bit troublesome!"
Heizi was also observing the situation in Goujialing. After looking at the nearby terrain, he frowned and said to Li Qiufan.
"No matter how troublesome it is, we have to fight this battle. It will be even more difficult to take other paths!"
"The only way to go north is to cross the river and go to Kip Shek Town. The enemy will definitely not be stupid enough to let us cross the river."
"If someone blocks the attack on the other side of the river, they will risk filling the river with their lives!"
Li Qiufan shook his head at Heizi. Although the terrain of Goujialing was not good for them, it was better than going too far north.
"Indeed, you have to cross the river to go north and go through the mountains to the south, so Goujialing is the only one left."
Heizi nodded in agreement. Compared with crossing the river and crossing the mountain, Goujialing was much easier.
"I just took a look. The enemy's defense focus is on Goujialing. The defenses of Beiping and Nanping are relatively weak. We can focus on attacking in these two directions!"
Li Qiufan pointed to the direction of Beiping and Nanping and said to Heizi. After hearing this, Heizi quickly looked through the telescope and found that it was exactly what Li Qiufan said.
"Although the defenses in Beiping and Nanping are weaker, if this is the case, will the pressure on the troops in charge of Goujialing be too great?"
Heizi had no objection to Li Qiufan's point of view, but he was worried that the troops responsible for Goujialing would be under too much pressure.
"You're right, it's a bit difficult to focus on two points at the same time, so just choose one of these two points to make a breakthrough!"
Li Qiufan nodded after hearing Heizi's words, and then the two of them took the map and studied where to break through.
After some discussions, it was finally decided that Beiping would be the key breakthrough direction, and the other two positions would be responsible for containing the enemy.
"Order, the fourth column is to contain the enemy forces in Goujialing, the third column is responsible for the direction of Nanping, and the first column is responsible for attacking Beiping!"
"All the heavy artillery of the heavy artillery division were pulled over to the first column to provide artillery support for the first column's attack."
After confirming the direction of the attack, Li Qiufan immediately issued the order and made arrangements for the positions responsible for each column.
And Yizong, who had just changed his clothes, was directly arranged by Li Qiufan to the direction of Beiping.
This newly made knife was just sharpened by the enemy soldiers in Beiping to see if it was sharp or not.
After receiving Li Qiufan's order, each column immediately rushed to the position they were responsible for, and then began to build positions to prepare for the attack.
"Tell Li Xiping and Li Yunlong that their two columns are mainly for containment, so don't act impulsively!"
"If there are heavy casualties in the army then, I'll see if I don't skin them both!"
Li Qiufan and Heizi came to Yi Zong's side. Because this side was the main direction of attack, Li Qiufan wanted to come over and take command personally.
Before launching the attack, Li Qiufan was a little worried about Li Yunlong and Li Xiping, fearing that they would get in trouble and forget their main mission, so he asked Heizi to give them some instructions.
"Start the fight!"
After everything was ready, Li Qiufan directly issued the order to attack, and the three columns began to attack the enemy positions at the same time.
The defenders here in Beiping are a newly formed army composed of the remnants of the First Army and the Sixty-fifth Army. They have already fought against Li Qiufan's troops.
With their previous experience, they were extremely careful in their defense this time.
Eyeliners were deployed on all paths, passages, and other places to prevent the other party from repeating their same tricks and raiding them again.
The two armies reluctantly gathered more than 10,000 people, which was really not enough to face the first column.
Fortunately, they took advantage of the terrain and built their positions on the few highlands, which made the first column's attack more difficult.
"Erhu, have you seen the second high slope on the north side? There is a firepower point for the enemy!
"You immediately send people to attack and capture it, otherwise no matter how many people you send to the main position, it will be useless!"
Li Qiufan had been observing the situation on the battlefield, and as he was being beaten, he discovered something was wrong.
Not long after the battle started, Yi Zong directly increased the strength of the enemy, but several consecutive attacks were repelled.
Logically speaking, although the enemy has the advantage of the terrain, Yi Zong has weapons and equipment that the opponent cannot match, and coupled with the blessing of heavy artillery, the fight should not be so difficult.
However, the reality was just the opposite. The Yizong's attack did not go smoothly. Li Qiufan found that in addition to the difficulty in attacking due to the terrain, the enemy's formation was also different from usual.
Outside the main position, the enemy also controlled seven or eight high slopes, among which several firepower points were set up.
When a column launches an attack on the enemy's main position, these firepower points will cross fire with the main position to form a cross-fire network.
Several attacks by the First Column were defeated in this way. If these firepower points are not removed, it will be difficult for the First Column to attack the main position as long as the opponent has sufficient ammunition supplies.
After discovering this situation, Li Qiufan immediately called Erhu over and made adjustments to the attack direction of Yizong.
Instead of attacking the enemy's main position with all his strength, he first pulled out the surrounding nails and cannibalized the enemy one by one.
After receiving the order, Erhu immediately arranged for several troops to go and execute it and conduct a strong attack on several firepower points.
However, the plan still failed because the enemy's deployment was very sophisticated. No matter which direction the troops attacked from, the enemy forces could form cross fire, making it impossible for the soldiers in the first column to rush to the high ground.
Li Qiufan naturally noticed this situation. After seeing that the enemy troops could form crossfire from any direction, he realized that he had encountered an expert this time.
When he was in Gaojiaya before, he had encountered a unit of the national army, the 36th Army.
At that time, Li Qiufan was a little wary of the commander of this unit. Now looking at the deployment and function of this firepower point, it should be from the same person.
"Inform Lao Ma and ask him to cover those highlands with artillery fire!"
"I still have artillery, but I don't believe you can withstand the heavy artillery bombardment!"
The enemy's crossfire left Li Qiufan a little helpless. The infantry obviously couldn't solve this problem, so he could only place his hope on heavy artillery.
After receiving Li Qiufan's order, Lao Ma immediately ordered the cannons to start adjusting their angles, aiming the muzzles at several highlands around the enemy's main position, and then began shelling.
As the heavy artillery opened fire, explosions began one after another on several highlands, with body parts and mud flying everywhere.
"Erhu, order the troops to charge! Take these highlands for me!"
Seeing that the bombardment was effective, Li Qiufan immediately struck while the iron was hot and asked Erhu to arrange his troops to attack the high ground again.
