Xinglong Town is fifty miles away from Meixian County.
There is one gun tower for one mile and one stronghold for ten miles. There are fifty gun towers alone.
The Meixian Public Security Army Reconnaissance Team guards the half close to the county seat, and the Xinglong Town Public Security Army Reconnaissance Team guards the half close to Xinglong Town.
Xinglong Town has a regiment of troops.
The two dozen gun towers and strongholds stationed at the blockade ditch along the Xingmei Highway used up more than half of the troops!
Due to the emergence of concentration camps, the blockade trench to the south has not yet been formed.
Another stronghold was set up and some puppet troops were stationed to prevent the Eighth Route Army from coming out in the mountain.
Since they have to be on duty during the day and night, only one company in the town can immediately go into battle after the gunfire.
Captain Wang received a call from the Imperial Army in the military camp, and the call was disconnected before he could finish his words.
"Hey, hey, hey." The high-tech phone was shaken until it started to smoke, but there was no movement. He quickly jumped into the next room and scolded the mistress in charge of transferring the call.
Only then did he begin to direct his men to go out for reconnaissance.
Let the puppet soldiers who are still sleeping in the military camp next to the town hall get up quickly and deploy defenses.
The company commanders of the puppet army squads and platoons scattered in the artillery building were anxious and roaring into the microphone to ask for orders from the battalion commander in the stronghold.
Although gunshots were fired in the north and south of the town, Commander Wang was not too worried.
Because the imperial army in the east of the town is close to a large group of troops, they will definitely come for reinforcements when they hear the sound of gunfire.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Gunfire began in the town until it was a mess.
Unfortunately, not even the shadow of the imperial army was seen.
None of his men from outside the town came to report the situation, and none of the men he sent to investigate the town came back.
Zhendong was even more silent, and Commander Wang began to feel uneasy.
The observation post lying on the roof was cross-eyed and kept reporting to him the situation in the east: "Report to the captain, there is a lot of dust in the fields to the east, and no imperial army is seen."
Commander Wang was like an ant on a hot pot. He climbed up to the roof angrily, raised his telescope and looked east.
The dust and mist rising from the wilderness covered the sky and the sun, and indeed, as Cross Eyes said, nothing could be seen.
Standing on the roof, he kept giving orders to his puppet soldiers who gathered in the courtyard of the town hall: "Move sandbags, build a machine gun base at the door, and quickly open shooting holes in the wall."
The puppet soldiers lying on the courtyard wall heard clearly that the Eighth Route Army's firepower in the town was not weak. After hearing Tuanquan's order, they all fell off the courtyard wall, took out their bayonets and began to dig out shooting holes in the cracks of the bricks.
Commander Wang was very anxious. The Eighth Route Army had already entered the town, and the two battalions outside the town had not returned for reinforcements. The situation seemed to be good.
in sight.
Eighth Route Army figures began to appear on the rooftops around the town hall.
He took out his pistol and emptied the magazine at those eight-way positions, then quickly slipped off the roof.
As soon as I got down to the first floor and jumped into the house, sporadic gunshots fired at the town hall began to appear all around.
I felt a little regretful, as the distance was quite far, and throwing a grenade couldn't blow up those Tubal Roads.
I was suddenly shocked. The grenade from Tubal Road was probably about to be thrown towards me.
He quickly got through the tightest brick wall in the town hall.
The town hall compound was crowded with people. If a grenade came over, I really don't know how many of his men would be killed.
My heart sank, the situation of the men scattered in the town was terrible.
Being able to be the leader of a regiment, he naturally has some skills, and he quickly ordered: "The guard platoon, immediately bring the machine guns to the roof and seize the commanding heights. The other units dispersed to the prevention and control yard to establish defenses. If you don't see the eighth route, you are not allowed to shoot indiscriminately."
North of town.
Squad leader Wu Shi did not expect that he would arrive at the Ninth Battalion of the Independent Regiment, which he had admired for a long time, from the First Division, and would receive a combat mission on the second day after arriving.
Last night we marched for eighty miles, from the west of An County to Xinglong Town in the south of Meixian County.
Although physically and mentally exhausted, the engineer shovel in his hand was still swinging wildly.
He received the task assigned to him by company commander Chen Chong.
He must lead his ten soldiers to dig a trench three meters wide and one meter deep on the road!
On the road next to him, there were rifles hanging on the rifles he had just received.
He remembered clearly that the new company commander called Zhen Chong, and the company commander personally hung a shell gun on his shoulder.
Among the one hundred and eight soldiers who came with him, he was the only one who had to be punched on the shoulder by the company commander.
He also affectionately called him his nickname: Wu Shitou.
Not even the platoon commander of the acting company commander has this honor.
Turning around, I saw the second squad leader digging a ditch in the wasteland about thirty meters away.
He knew the purpose of doing this. If the enemy reinforced him in a while, the ditch in the wilderness would be his position.
There should be more than a dozen ditches like this on the highway between blockhouses!
Company Commander Chen has a good temper and is kind to others.
He didn't like the company commander named Tian Sanqi, because he always had a straight face and even lectured company commander Chen.
Tian Sanqi has two tasks.
The first is the task assigned by the regiment commander, to block the enemies who may come out for reinforcements from the north turret.
Another task was assigned by the old company commander Gao Yidao. After the second battalion passed the blockade ditch, he would provide cover for them to prevent the puppet troops in the nearest artillery tower from coming out to steal the second battalion's retreat.
That idiot Chen Chong actually dug a ditch on the road.
By the way, don’t the puppet troops know how to take a detour through the nearby wilderness?
Correspondents kept coming with news.
Part of the first battalion has already entered the town, and the other part is exchanging fire with the puppet troops who are guarding the people working in the north.
The Third Battalion has already eliminated the puppet troops who were guarding the people in the south of the town, and some of them have begun to organize the people to retreat westward.
Tian Sanqi felt a little unhappy.
He only encountered one platoon of puppet soldiers, and it was the same platoon that came north for reinforcements after hearing the warning shot from the security whistle.
At this time, more than 20 puppet soldiers were squatting in the blocked ditch at his feet with their heads held in their hands. There were more than a dozen naked corpses of puppet soldiers in the wilderness next to them.
"If you want to survive, start filling in the ditch for me now," Tian Sanqi suddenly ordered.
Wu Yan's third company commander faced only two platoons of puppet troops guarding the common people.
It was the main company commander under the pseudo-regiment commander who brought the people out to work.
He habitually divided his only two platoons into three parts to defend the front and left and right wings.
After lying down in the drainage ditch dug by the common people, they lined up their troops.
With more than thirty rifles on the front divided into three echelons, they alternately fired at the attacking battalion and three companies.
Light machine guns placed on both wings provide fire support.
At the same time, he once again shouted to the messenger: "Hurry and go to the town to find out the news."
The platoon pursuing the Eighth Route Army to the north seemed to have stopped moving.
Tian Sanqi stood on the deserted road.
To the southwest of him, the first battalion and the third company were fighting fiercely with the puppet troops.
If he sends out a platoon now, even if he doesn't fire a single shot, he can collapse the pseudo-main company.
But he didn't do that.
His current position is almost connected with Gao Yidao's left wing.
If the Japs coming out of the military camp in the east are blocked by the Second Battalion head-on, the Japs are likely to outflank them from both sides. As long as he stays here, the Japs will not be able to get through even if they are outflanked.
Chen Chong's idea was very simple. He learned from Lao Li that there were not many puppet troops in the artillery building.
There is only one squad in each gun tower, so he is not worried at all that the puppet troops in the gun tower will come out.
As the telephone lines between the blockhouses were cut one after another, the puppet troops in the blockhouses finally panicked.
There were Eighth Route Army digging "holes" between the gun towers. Some puppet soldiers speculated that the Eighth Route Army was preventing reinforcements from the Imperial Army's vehicles. The timid puppet soldiers speculated that the Eighth Route Army was going to capture them and bury them alive?
Outside the town hall.
Wu Yan coughed twice and felt comfortable.
Correspondents kept sending news: "The first squad cleared out the remaining enemies in the southwest of the town." "The second squad cleared out the remaining enemies in the west of the town." "The third squad cleared out the remaining enemies in the northwest of the town."
There were no more gunshots from all directions, leaving only the town hall in the center of the town and a few nearby yards that had not yet been conquered.
Machine gun bullets fired from the roof of the town hall roared intensively through the town, eventually burrowing into earthen walls or ricocheting off the stone streets.
Most of the puppet troops hid behind the town hall wall and fired from the shooting holes.
Perhaps there have been no casualties. The security forces hiding behind the wall slowly began to gain confidence after passing through the panic period.
The shooting also started to be accurate.
A battalion of soldiers besieging the town hall began to suffer casualties.
Wu Yan was angry: "Immediately break through the partition walls of the houses near the town hall, throw grenades close to them, and kill those bastards and enemies..."
He could no longer think about the problem of people's houses being damaged. He had to solve it quickly. The devils from Zhendong could appear at any time.
The company commander under his command suddenly suggested: "Don't the Second Battalion have mortars and grenade launchers? They haven't fought yet. How about asking Battalion Commander Gao to send people back for reinforcements?"
[Additional update to return to Hanjiang Chuxue Tent, brothers threw tickets and eggs at them]
(End of chapter)
