On the spy company side, Yang Yuanshan led more than 300 selected elite soldiers to rush to the Huting stronghold, and finally arrived in less than half an hour.
However, everyone was running out of breath.
Even the horses responsible for dragging the three cannons were soaked with sweat and wanted to kneel on the ground.
Seeing the cavalry platoon leader Li Youqiong feel distressed, he kept whispering in Yang Yuanshan's ear:
"Company commander, this war horse cannot be used to pull cannons. If you pull it a few more times, this war horse will be useless!"
In response to his muttering, Yang Yuanshan answered him casually:
“If it’s abolished, it’s useless. If it’s abolished, it’s time to kill and eat meat.
It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten horse meat, and I really fucking miss it. "
Hearing this, Li Youqiong couldn't help but twitch his face a few times. He quickly ran back, untied the horses, and pulled them to the hillside to eat grass.
He didn't dare to whisper to Yang Yuanshan anymore. He knew that his company commander would really kill the war horse and eat its meat if he disagreed!
…
After ordering everyone to hide on a hillside one mile away from the Huting stronghold, Yang Yuanshan used a telescope to observe the soldiers guarding the stronghold, and found that almost no Japs were seen, but only two Japs. He was immediately happy.
Knowing that the Huting stronghold is indeed empty of troops now, it shouldn't be difficult to capture it.
However, since Li Yunlong, the group leader, was here, he still had to go to Li Yunlong as a routine to show respect.
So he ran to ask Li Yunlong, who was also observing the stronghold with a telescope:
"Captain, we're here, how should we fight?"
“How you fight is your business, I don’t care.
I only have one request: take down this stupid Huting stronghold within an hour!
In two hours at most, we have to retreat!
Understand? "
Li Yunlong's face was solemn.
His keen sense of battlefield was giving a frantic warning. Now the secret service company was in a very dangerous situation. We could not waste any more time and should retreat quickly!
But he was reluctant to give up eating the fat meat of Huting stronghold, so he gave Yang Yuanshan an hour.
When Li Yunlong didn't interfere, Yang Yuanshan suddenly felt happy and hurriedly patted his chest and said:
"Captain, don't worry, it'll be an hour!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he ran to the artillery and ordered Wang Gensheng:
"Wang Gensheng, use artillery right now to knock down the turrets of this stupid stronghold, blow up the walls, and use the fastest speed to shoot out all our 74 artillery shells!"
"yes!"
Wang Gensheng was already numb to Yang Yuanshan's inhumane orders and quickly agreed.
In fact, Yang Yuanshan had no choice but to do so.
If he has time, he can also test out the enemy's firepower points bit by bit, and then use mountain cannons to destroy them one by one, and then let the soldiers charge, so that the casualties will be much smaller.
But now, it is a race against time, and there is no way to adopt this safe plan. We can only be more radical, fight for a wave of flow, and push this stronghold to him!
After arranging the artillery, Yang Yuanshan called the machine gun platoon leader Feng Shuanglin:
"Shuanglin, when the cannon fires, comrades will charge.
We are pressed for time this time and cannot destroy the enemy's fire points one by one. When the time comes, your heavy machine guns must suppress the enemy's fire points. Do you understand? "
"Don't worry, company commander, we have twenty heavy machine guns. Not to mention this small stronghold, even if the Japs come to reorganize a brigade, we won't be afraid.
But company commander, we don't have many bullets. If we use full firepower, I'm afraid our fire suppression won't last ten minutes! "
Hearing this, Yang Yuanshan didn't care at all.
"ten minutes?
enough!
Later, as long as our comrades can get closer to about 400 to 500 meters inside the stronghold, they can use grenades to suppress the enemy's firepower points, and the mission of our machine gun platoon will be completed. "
When the troops were first divided, Yang Yuanshan asked Han Yang to bring 10 grenade launchers.
In addition to launching special grenades, this thing can also directly launch little devil's grenades.
As for the little Japs' grenades, one or two hundred were seized when they just wiped out the three hundred or so little Japs, which was definitely enough.
After hearing what Yang Yuanshan said, Feng Shuanglin nodded and agreed, and went down to arrange the heavy machine gunners and ammunition handlers in his platoon.
…
After a few minutes of preparation time passed, the soldiers all took a sip of water and moistened their lips.
Yang Yuanshan immediately ordered:
"Artillery fire!"
Wang Gensheng listened to the order and immediately picked up a cannonball weighing nearly 11 kilograms with his own hands and put it into the barrel, and then pulled the running rope.
"boom!"
There was a loud noise, and the cannon flew out of the chamber, making a scream that cut through the air.
"call out--"
Then it hit the turret of Huting stronghold.
"boom--"
A loud noise immediately alerted the people in the Huting stronghold.
"Enemy attack!"
"Bombardment!"
…
When Yang Yuanshan saw this, he immediately jumped up and shouted:
"Comrades, follow me and charge! Rush into the Huting stronghold——"
He gave the order, and the soldiers of the special agent company rushed out like tigers descending from the mountain.
Feng Shuanglin, on the other hand, led his men, carrying the twenty heavy machine guns, and quickly rushed to a position of seven to eight hundred meters, then set up the heavy machine guns and began to suppress fire.
"Duh duh duh..."
The sound of the heavy machine gun was very dull, but to Yang Yuanshan's ears at this moment, it was very pleasant.
…
Although Yang Yuanshan originally knew that the Huting stronghold was empty of troops and it was a good time to take it, he thought that the stronghold was so large and had gun towers at the four corners. At least a few heavy machine guns should be set up in the gun towers.
When the time comes, the soldiers of the special agent company will inevitably suffer a lot of damage when they fire.
However, what surprised him was that at the beginning of the battle, the Jaap's heavy machine gun only fired for a few minutes before Wang Xikui led several sharpshooters and killed the Jaap's machine gunner.
Since then, those heavy machine guns have never fired again.
In addition to heavy machine guns, the dense enemy rifle bullets that Yang Yuanshan expected did not happen.
Instead, panicked screams came from the stronghold wall:
"Ah! Master Ba is here!"
"Where is the prince? None of the princes are here!"
"Run quickly, Taijun is not here, we are dead!"
"Baye also has a cannon, it's so scary!"
"Run quickly, run from behind..."
…
Along with these screams, sporadic sounds of Sanba Dagai and Hanyang Zao were also heard.
Yang Yuanshan didn't pay attention to these non-threatening gunshots.
When he led the soldiers of the special agent company into the position four to five hundred meters away from the stronghold, Wang Gensheng's artillery finally knocked down the wall of the stronghold.
Seeing this situation, he made up his mind and immediately ordered:
"Comrades, charge in! Launch the grenades with all your strength!"
As the grenade launchers began to fire grenades, the soldiers of the special agent company also rushed into the Huting stronghold through the gap opened by the artillery.
At this time, the two Japs in the Huting stronghold raised their hands and began to surrender.
They had long heard of Ba Ye's policy of not killing anyone without surrendering their guns.
…
As these weaklings surrendered, the spy company took over the Huting stronghold.
The soldiers were ordered to immediately clear out all the rebels in the stronghold. Yang Yuanshan himself immediately found an empty room without anyone, then rushed in and took out a large number of weapons and equipment from the system.
Because he moved too fast, although the soldiers from the guard platoon behind him rushed in, they did not see the weapons and equipment appearing out of thin air. Instead, they saw the room full of boxes.
"Get rich, there is actually a military supplies warehouse here!"
Yang Yuanshan pretended to be surprised and his acting skills were very exaggerated.
But at this moment, no one cared. The soldiers in the guard platoon were attracted by the boxes on the ground.
Then they pried open some boxes and immediately shouted in surprise:
"Company commander, there are so many shells!
We sent it!
This cannonball is so big!
It looks amazing! "
Yang Yuanshan immediately ordered:
"Quick, move all these boxes out and transport them away quickly!"
When the soldiers from the guard platoon heard this, they immediately began to carry it honestly.
After they moved out a little further, they were shocked when they saw the two cannons exposed below.
"Company Commander, there are actually two such big cannons here?
This... this barrel is so long!
Still brand new! "
Yang Yuanshan pretended to come over to take a look, and then explained:
"These are two French-made M1897 75mm cannons. These are more powerful than mountain cannons!
Quick, push it out! "
These things were naturally two of the four cannons that Yang Yuanshan rewarded Fu Bu Zhichen for killing him.
Considering the transportation problem, Yang Yuanshan only took out two doors.
The soldiers pushed the two cannons out in a hurry. Yang Yuanshan took advantage of them not paying attention and quickly released several boxes of shells and bullets.
Next, the soldiers in the guard platoon became numb.
They found four more Type 94 37mm rapid-fire cannons, two Type 41 75mm mountain cannons, and up to ten Type 92 infantry guns in this room!
As for cannonballs and various bullets, there are hundreds of boxes!
There are also twenty or thirty light and heavy machine guns, more than a dozen grenade launchers, as well as three boxes of penicillin and three boxes of medical equipment.
With so many weapons and equipment, the soldiers in the guard platoon were all so tired that they had backaches and could not move them all out.
Seeing this, Yang Yuanshan couldn't help but feel a little proud, and asked them to continue moving while he came out to see other conditions in the stronghold.
…
Soon, Han Yang came to report:
"Company Commander, the stronghold has been cleared out. There are only one squad of little Japs, and the others are the second Japs from a battalion. That's why we can succeed so easily."
"What? Just a detachment of little devils?
No wonder it was so easy to get in! "
Yang Yuanshan suddenly realized.
I thought to myself that I really picked a good opportunity.
The persimmon in Huting Stronghold is ridiculously soft right now!
At this time, Han Yang said with some worry:
"Company Commander, there are two telegraph operators hiding in the telegraph room. Although they were killed by a hail of bullets from our comrades, it seems that the news we have typed in has been sent out via telegraph.
Should we evacuate immediately?
I'm afraid the little devil's reinforcements will come soon. "
Yang Yuanshan was not surprised at all that such an important stronghold as the Huting stronghold would be equipped with a radio station.
After all, when they just killed the more than 300 little Japs who left the Huting stronghold, they also seized a smashed radio station.
He nodded:
"Don't worry about them, as long as we retreat quickly, the little devils can't do anything to us.
Once we enter the mountain, even if the little devils come in a division, we are not afraid of them. They are no more afraid of them than Iron Foot, because we are their ancestors! "
Han Yang nodded when he heard this. In the past, even if the Japs were swept away by a large army, as long as our army drilled into the mountains, the Japs' raids would often be in vain.
After all, in this land of the Three Jin Dynasties, the Taihang Mountains are dominated by dragons and tigers, and there are countless deep mountains and old forests. Our army is familiar with the terrain and has the help of the common people. It is not difficult to kill the little devil.
"How many prisoners were taken?"
Yang Yuanshan asked again.
The top priority now is to quickly clean up the battlefield and retreat, but with all the equipment he just threw out, the 300 people from the secret service company can't get rid of it, and they have to rely on the efforts of the prisoners.
“The entire battalion, except for the dozens we just killed and less than ten who escaped, were all captured by us.
These two devils are really useless. They are obviously holding 38 big caps in their hands, but when they see us, they are like mice seeing cats. Many people are so scared that they wet their pants. I am so disgusted! "
"Okay, let these prisoners come over quickly and carry the loot for us. We found a little devil's munitions warehouse here and we have to transport it away quickly!"
Yang Yuanshan confessed immediately.
Han Yang was not surprised by his habit of letting prisoners carry trophies, and immediately nodded in agreement.
…
(End of chapter)
