That night, Li Yunlong ordered the cooking team to prepare dry food for the entire regiment for two days.
Ammunition was distributed to each unit and the soldiers were allowed to sleep during the day to recuperate.
When it got dark the next day, Li Yunlong led the whole regiment and marched quickly towards the Huting stronghold at night.
Although the mountain road was rugged and the cold wind was biting, the commanders and soldiers of the new regiment were running fast with their guns on their backs and their morale was high.
While encouraging the soldiers, Zhao Gang looked in the direction of the artillery battery and the heavy machine gun battery, his eyes burning.
Although he was mentally prepared, Zhao Gang was still shocked when he saw Xinyi Tuan's family background.
The regiment has more than 40 light and heavy machine guns, 15 mortars, and 1 field gun. It has sufficient bullets and artillery shells, and even the grenades used are foreign goods.
The wealth of the new regiment was beyond Zhao Gang's imagination, and he had to admire the regiment leader Li Yunlong.
Although Li Yunlong has some minor problems, he has accumulated such a solid financial foundation less than a year after taking over the new group, which is indeed an outstanding ability.
At least in Zhao Gang's impression and perception, in the entire battle sequence of the 18th Army, no regiment has ever been so broad.
It seems that he still needs to learn more from Captain Li at work... Looking at Li Yunlong's back, Zhao Gang tightened his cotton-padded jacket and took steps to catch up.
It is a full 60 miles from Yangcun to Huting stronghold.
The advantage of having more than 100 military horses is reflected.
Some heavy equipment and ammunition boxes were handed over to military horses and mules to carry them.
This allows the soldiers to move forward lightly, greatly saving physical strength.
In the middle of the night, Li Yunlong led his troops to the vicinity of the Huting stronghold.
At that moment, Li Yunlong took Zhang Dabiao to investigate. Although it was midnight, the lights in the Huting stronghold were still bright.
There was a searchlight shining in every direction.
The Huting stronghold is at the crossroads of the highway. There is a dirt road next to the stronghold, which is the only way to the base area.
So the Japanese built a large stronghold here to guard the main traffic roads and block the roads entering the base area.
The Japanese stronghold and the gun tower defense in this area were connected, and they looked like a tiger at the entire base terrain, and this stronghold was Hutou, so the Japanese named this stronghold Hu Pavilion.
The head of the headquarters ordered the removal of the Huting stronghold several times, but the attacking troops failed to defeat it. This was not only due to the rapid rush of Japanese reinforcements, but also the strong defense and heavy firepower of the Huting stronghold itself.
The Eighth Route Army, which lacked the firepower to attack the enemy, was unable to take the Huting stronghold for a while.
However, the Japanese and puppet troops in the Huting stronghold also had a hard time. The guerrillas came from time to time and fired guns outside the stronghold, making it difficult for the Japanese and traitors in the stronghold to sleep and eat.
But today, Li Yunlong came with Italian cannon.
Li Yunlong lay down behind the slope, raised his binoculars, and stared at the Huting stronghold for a while.
A black shadow came over from the front. Zhang Dabiao held the shell gun and shouted in a low voice: "Who is it?"
"It's me, Cao Jinwang." A deep voice sounded in the darkness.
Zhang Dabiao: "Come here."
Cao Jinwang took the sniper rifle, slid to the back of the slope, and bowed to Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao.
He was the scout sent by Li Yunlong two days ago to keep an eye on the Huting stronghold in case something unexpected happened.
Li Yunlong then asked in a low voice: "Cao Jinwang, has anything happened in the past two days?"
"Report to the leader, nothing happened. The Japanese and the puppet troops have been in the stronghold and have not dared to come out." Cao Jinwang said, "By the way, the Japanese and the puppet soldiers sent food to the Huting stronghold yesterday, with dozens of mule carts."
Zhang Dabiao said: "It seems that it is better to hurry up than to catch up, let us meet."
Li Yunlong also said happily: "Haha... God is going to make us rich."
You can definitely capture more by attacking the Japanese strongholds than by attacking the Japanese transport teams, provided that you can defeat them.
In order to prevent being besieged by the Eighth Route Army for a long time, the Japanese strongholds usually reserve three months to half a year's worth of food, weapons and ammunition.
If a regiment of the Eighth Route Army can take down a medium-sized stronghold, it can make a small fortune.
However, the Japanese strongholds are not that easy to attack, especially for the Eighth Route Army, which lacks the firepower to attack the enemy.
Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao slowly retreated from the slope and walked towards the temporary headquarters.
The three battalion commanders of the new regiment and the acting company commander of the direct artillery company were called to the temporary headquarters.
Immediately, Li Yunlong issued deployment orders to them.
The second and third battalions feigned attacks from two directions on the flanks, while the first battalion and the artillery battery made the main attack from the front.
Li Yunlong wanted to attack from all directions, but there was only one Italian cannon. Even though the heavy machine gun firepower was powerful now, the heavy machine gun firepower could not deal with the Japanese gun towers and bunkers.
The damage of 60mm mortars to gun towers and bunkers is limited, and random attacks will only increase casualties. Li Yunlong will not do a loss-making business.
As the order was issued, the second and third battalion commanders each led their troops to the designated locations.
As early as before, each battalion had dispatched a company to the designated direction to block the attack. Li Yunlong paid special attention to the county direction, sending out a battalion, three companies and an engineer platoon.
The third company is responsible for blocking, and the engineer platoon is responsible for laying mines.
After the Okazaki Brigade received the request for help, it only took an hour by truck to reach the Huting stronghold. The engineer platoon's task was to blow up the Japanese truck.
The first battalion was also ready to attack.
On the artillery battery position, Li Yunlong looked at the Italian artillery and then at Wang Chengzhu: "Zhu, at this distance, can you destroy the Japanese artillery towers and bunkers?"
"Commander, just wait and see how I deal with these devils and traitors." Wang Chengzhu was very confident.
After this period of familiarity and training, Wang Chengzhu finally found the trick to using this cannon, and he could shoot accurately without aiming the gun through a scope.
Next to the Italian cannon, 15 60mm mortars were also set up. The shooting elements were being debugged, and the muzzles were pointed in the direction of the stronghold.
Artillerymen continued to unload shell boxes from military horses and place them behind the emplacement of each gun.
A few hundred meters ahead, Zhang Dabiao was lying almost at the forefront, holding a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, ready to throw his military hat at any time.
Next to Zhang Dabiao, a battalion of soldiers lay densely packed. Wang Xikui, Wang Gensheng, Wei Dayong and others were prominently in the queue.
When all the artillery was set up and adjusted to fire at Zhu Yuan, Li Yunlong shouted: "Fire for me!"
There was a continuous rapid boom-boom-boom sound from the artillery battery position, and then, the scream of artillery shells flying through the air came over the Huting stronghold.
The mortar shells traced an arc visible to the naked eye in the night sky and crashed towards the Huting stronghold.
Since the artillery target was very large, there was no need to test fire at all, and the firepower was all out from the moment it started.
If you are poor, you will strike with precision, if you are rich, you will have firepower...
In Li Yunlong's words, this is a battle for prosperity.
The next moment, violent explosions rang out one after another in the Huting stronghold. Balls of dazzling red light and smoke almost enveloped the entire stronghold in an instant.
Accompanied by the rumbling explosions, the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold immediately became a mess, and screams spread everywhere.
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