The night is getting deeper and deeper, the weather is slightly cooler, and Xiao'an Town shrouded in darkness is completely dead.
In peacetime, this was an ordinary town half the size of Peach Blossom Land.
If you put aside the layers of darkness, you will soon find that the Japanese army that occupied this place has long been built into a military powerhouse like an iron barrel.
The town is at the core, and the outside is like an onion, surrounded by layers of fortifications and defensive buildings.
On the outermost side are three towers of masonry structure.
The turrets are arranged in an arc. Each turret has a similar structure, with a total of three floors. The turret in the middle is obviously much larger than the turrets on both sides. The highest floor has a wide viewing angle. The Japanese installed searchlights on it to use it at night. Inspect the situation around the blockhouse.
A few dozen meters beyond the blockhouse, there was a barbed wire fence pulled up by the Japanese as usual, paired with trenches, and the trenches were filled with water to prevent sneak attacks by armed forces behind enemy lines.
In addition, the insidious Japanese also planted some landmines around the iron fence.
Some guerrillas once passed through the iron mesh area outside Xiao'an Town and accidentally stepped on a landmine. They suffered a lot of casualties. If they had not retreated quickly, they would have been wiped out by machine gun fire from the turrets.
The machine gun firepower set up in the Japs' turrets can almost cover the entire outer fortification area. If there is the slightest sign of trouble, the Japs' firepower will pour in.
Behind the turrets are the peripheral fortifications of Xiao'an Town. As Kong Jie discovered, there are five heavy machine gun fortifications on this periphery alone as fire support.
After passing the barbed wire fence, gun towers, and peripheral fortifications, we finally came into contact with the core area of Xiao'an Town, where the Japanese defenders finally deployed.
This is also the reason why the Japanese regard Xiao'an Town as a hub of transportation lines, but the Eighth Route Army has never dared to act rashly.
There are too few troops dispatched to capture Xiao'an Town, and too many troops are dispatched to defeat Xiao'an Town for a while. Japanese reinforcements will definitely arrive. Once the scale of the battle expands, no one can say where it will develop.
In addition, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army were too poor, and the artillery fire they had on hand was simply not enough to blow up the Japanese gun towers, even if the gun towers were only made of masonry.
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A group of "japs" quickly passed through under the cover of darkness.
After approaching Xiao'an Town, they looked at the searchlights on the three gun towers from a distance. It was their first time to attack the gun towers at night. The soldiers of the new regiment couldn't help but sweat in their hearts.
Even before anyone got close, they could already feel the tight defense of Xiaoan Town.
"These three gun towers are indeed a big trouble. The road to Xiao'an Town opens between the two gun towers on the right. With such a gun tower as a fire strike point, the Japanese can provide a steady stream of ammunition. They want to attack Xiao'an head-on during the day. Town, even if we don't consider the Japanese reinforcements, I think it's quite embarrassing." Ding Wei couldn't help but shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Kong Jie cursed in a low voice: "The little devil is bullying us because we don't have large-caliber artillery. These gun towers are only made of masonry. If we have artillery, even a Type 92 infantry cannon, the little The devils don’t dare to be so arrogant.”
Ding Wei smiled and said: "Lao Kong, don't be so upset. If we have infantry artillery on hand, do we still need to make a sneak attack? I will lead the troops directly to attack. Later, we will capture Xiao'an Town. First, we will take down the three Japanese artillery towers from Let’s wait until the inside explodes.”
"good!"
"Old Ding, I have the most experience in attacking the Japanese artillery towers at night. The required intelligence information has been explored in the past two days. Brothers, I know it by heart. You ask the soldiers of your regiment to follow behind." Kong Jie said.
"No problem." Ding Wei said, but he was also a little curious. He had heard that Kong Jie had formed a commando team. When they attacked the Changpo stronghold, they were able to take down the gun towers silently. It was said that this was the commando team. The team did it.
But this is the first time Ding Wei has seen a commando take action.
The team was quickly divided into three parts, with the independent regiment commando at the front, followed by the veterans of the independent regiment who were following the commando this time, and then Ding Wei and others from the new regiment.
Kong Jie took the lead at the front.
Approaching the outer barbed wire fence, Kong Jie suddenly raised his right hand, and the entire team immediately stopped. Then Kong Jie pressed his palm down, and the commando team members crawled to the ground without hesitation.
The veterans of the Independent Regiment were not slow in their movements. Ding Wei had been instructed by Kong Jie in advance to just follow the team in front and make tactical moves.
The new group of soldiers immediately followed suit.
The searchlight light of the Japanese turret slowly passed by, but because Kong Jie and others were still some distance away from the barbed wire fence, the searchlight light fell a few meters ahead of Kong Jie, and no clues were found.
After the searchlight light flashed across, Kong Jie still did not move. He waited quietly, staring at the turret.
Occasionally, I squint and look at the watch on my left wrist in the moonlight.
The watch was seized when the Changpo stronghold was captured. As for the ancestral pocket watch that he had asked to borrow from First Battalion Commander Wang Leihu, Wang Leihu, who had already been detained and searched, took it back.
It was already 1:55 at night, Kong Jie thought silently in his heart. After the ground had cooled down in the middle of the night, there were waves of chills, but it still couldn't stop the excitement and heat in his heart.
The memory seemed to be in a trance in Kong Jie's mind for a moment.
In times of peace, what one learns is limited to fantasy and military exercises. It is true that troops are raised for a thousand days, but they are rarely used for a short period of time.
Kong Jie lamented the fantasy of life. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, he was living in this era full of heroism and tragedy.
Feeling the living martyrs around you, and now being able to share life and death with them and fight side by side, what kind of luck and pride is this?
When you are born in this world, you should be passionate!
... Behind him, Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan couldn't help but look at his regimental commander a few more times.
For a while, the leader remained motionless. Could he have fallen asleep at this critical moment?
The leader can't be so unreliable, right?
Just as I was thinking about it, on the third floor of the leftmost turret on the outskirts of Xiao'an Town, the light of a small flashlight flashed three times slightly farther away from the searchlight.
Immediately afterwards, similar lights flashed on the third floor of the second and third turrets.
Shen Quan and Kong Jie's bodies were shocked.
coming!
Kong Jie glanced at the time again. It was exactly two o'clock in the morning as agreed by both parties. The original words of Shen Quan's report rang in his heart:
"Captain, the puppet company commander Wang An said that their company is responsible for assisting the Japanese in garrisoning the outer gun towers. Each gun tower has a platoon of brothers. Before taking action, he will explain to the three platoon leaders what these three platoon leaders will do. Every platoon leader is also a trustworthy person.”
"It's just that during this period, our independent regiment vigorously developed the puppet army and established the Enemy Industry Department behind enemy lines. The Japanese also got some information, so in the defense of this blockhouse, they were also wary of the puppet army. In the past, the defense of this blockhouse The Japanese lived on the third floor, the puppet troops lived on the second floor, and goods were hoarded on the first floor. However, since the Japanese began to be wary of the puppet soldiers, in order to prevent the puppet soldiers from coming into direct contact with us, the Japanese arranged the puppet soldiers to the third floor. Guard yourself on the second floor."
"There are also Japanese sentries on the second floor who are on duty at night, and there are also searchlights on the third floor. The little Japs can't worry about it. It's their people who are in charge. In addition, the Japanese sentries on the second floor will go up to the third floor every once in a while to patrol."
"This time is about half an hour, so Wang An said that two o'clock in the night is the best time to launch a sneak attack. The Japanese sentry just finished exploring on the third floor. He will arrange for people to secretly kill the Japanese sentry on the third floor, and then use The flashlight transmits the signal, but I hope we can enter the gun tower within half an hour, otherwise the puppet troops on the third floor may not be able to successfully kill the Japanese on the second floor."
After clearing his mind, Kong Jie did not hesitate anymore. With a wave of his hand, the team followed him again...
