Chapter 125: Operation Autumn Harvest (14)
Seeing that the first batch of assault and siege people's troops successfully climbed the walled wall and arranged their positions, the second group of commandos immediately followed, and at the same time, a group of grenadiers and 60 mortar groups also successfully boarded the wall, and while quickly eliminating the remnants of the bandits on the wall, they killed the wall and developed to the depth of the wall, of course, they did not forget to open the gate of the wall.
At this time, the mortar groups that were engaged in fire interception stopped firing, but put away their mortars one after another, ready to call it a day. In this battle, their mission has been basically completed. Although in the battle in the wall, a certain amount of heavy firepower is also required, but with grenadiers and 60 mortars, it is basically enough.
Luo Yue has been observing the situation of the battle in the command headquarters, and he is also very satisfied with the progress of the battle, because it is the coordination between the infantry and the mortar, it has indeed reached a high level, although the opponent's strength is too weak, there is basically no long-range suppression weapon, but after all, it is on the formal battlefield, and the refining value of the soldiers is not the same as training, even if it is a military exercise.
However, unlike Luo Yue's relaxed and happy mood, Lin Shenwang, Lin Weizheng, Wang Kefu and others who watched the battle in the village were shocked, because the scale of the village was large, and the artillery attacks of the People's Army were mainly concentrated near the wall, so Lin Shenwang, Lin Weizheng, Wang Kefu and others watched the battle from the high-rise buildings in the village, and they were not threatened, and they could better see the effect of the People's Army's artillery strikes, and everyone was shocked by the firepower of the People's Army. At this time, they all believed that what Lin Weizheng said was not wrong at all.
Although Lin Wei had already seen the artillery power of the People's Army when he was in Wohu Mountain, he was at the scene at that time, and although he personally felt the horror of the firepower, it was only a part after all, but now he is looking at the overall situation from a side-by-side standpoint, so he can better appreciate the power of overseas Chinese's artillery fire.
Another person who has a personal feeling is Wang Kefu, who has been his enemy with overseas Chinese for more than two years, although he knows that the strength of overseas Chinese is strong, but how strong it is, he has no concept at all, and now he knows how powerful and terrible his enemy is, if he has not taken refuge in Japan, with the help of Japan's strength to deal with overseas Chinese, it is impossible to succeed at all by relying only on his own strength.
When the People's Army attacked the wall, Wang Kefu said: "Old master, let's retreat quickly, if we don't retreat, it will be too late for the overseas Chinese to come over." ”
Lin Shenwang also nodded and said, "Okay, let's go."
Of course, by this time, the People's Army was already victorious. But Luo Yue still didn't dare to be careless, because the battle was not completely over at this time, and after entering the battle in the wall, the proportion of white-knuckle combat would be greatly increased, which was also the combat side that the bandits were best at, and the advantage of the People's Army in firepower would be greatly weakened, although it could not be said that the bandits could turn the tables, but a little carelessness would cause a large number of casualties, and in addition, it was necessary to prevent the bandits from fleeing outside the city after the defeat, so at this time it must not be relaxed. So Luo Yue ordered the second battalion to also enter the village, assist the first battalion to control the village, and the third battalion stationed outside the village to guard the roads leading to the outside of the mountain, so as not to let the bandits escape.
However, the battle process in the village proves that Luo Yue did overestimate the fighting spirit of the bandits, after all, the bandits are not a regular army, and they are considered regular troops, after encountering such a fierce shelling by the People's Army, it is also difficult to maintain a high fighting spirit, and the bandits have long been frightened at this time, not to mention that even the owner of the village, Lin Shenwang, has fled, so after the People's Army broke through the wall, the bandits sought a way to escape, and they did not dare to engage in close-range white-knuckle combat with the People's Army.
However, there were always some bandits who had time to flee and were blocked by the KPA, so there were still some skirmishes, but the results of the battle between the two sides were still almost one-sided, and the KPA fighters won the victory. First, in the weekday training, the KPA is very strict in training the bayonet skills of the soldiers, and at this time the results of the training are finally manifested, even if it is a white-knuckle battle, it is not at a disadvantage; second, although the KPA's superiority in firepower has been greatly weakened, in some local battles, firepower will still bring some advantages to the KPA, and the squad leader and deputy squad leader of each squad are equipped with Type 96 pistols, which can still play a considerable role in close combat.
Although some bandits evaded the pursuit of the People's Army and fled outside the wall, what was waiting for them were the People's Army soldiers guarding outside the wall, and the result was either killed or surrendered.
The whole battle lasted more than two hours before it ended with the KPA fully occupying the cottage. However, sporadic fighting continued for four days, and the scope also spread to the surrounding mountainous area of more than 30 kilometers, mainly in pursuit of fleeing bandits. Although the People's Army did a very careful deployment work before the war to intercept the fleeing bandits, but after all, the number is too small, all of them add up to less than 4,000 people, and the scope of Mount Tai is too large, the People's Army is not familiar with the terrain here, although the main roads are blocked, but there are some hidden trails that do not know, which gives the bandits a ray of life, after all, they are locals, the terrain and roads are familiar. As a result, quite a few people escaped from the KPA through hidden trails.
However, although taking the hidden path can bypass the interception of the People's Army, it cannot completely conceal one's whereabouts, and once discovered by the People's Army, what awaits the bandits is almost endless pursuit.
Although the bandits are all locals, not only familiar with the terrain, but also accustomed to walking mountain roads, but can not escape the pursuit of the KPA soldiers, and what makes the bandits desperate is that the KPA soldiers do not seem to know fatigue at all, although the bandits can take advantage of the familiarity with the terrain and roads, they can temporarily throw off the pursuing KPA soldiers, but as long as they stop to catch their breath, they will be immediately caught up by the KPA soldiers, so they can only run again, and after a few rounds of repeatedly, the bandits are exhausted, and some bandits are even so tired that they can't move on the ground, while the KPA soldiers are still walking like flying, and in the end, I could only watch myself being caught up.
After the battle was completely over, Luo Yue led the personnel of the headquarters into the big village, although the wall was seriously damaged, but the houses in the village were not much damaged, Luo Yue found that the original village was like a small city, there were hundreds of houses, but the layout was a military wall-like appearance, from the gate of the wall, it was a large open space, and at the end was the meeting hall, as well as the residence of Lin Shenwang's family, and the warehouse, etc.; the rest of the personnel lived in the surrounding area of the open land, of course, most of the houses were very simple, not much better than the thatched houses in the countryside。
And at this time, all the residents were driven out of their houses and gathered in an open space in the middle of the village, surrounded by a company of soldiers with guns. It turned out that the villagers were all living in the villages, and some of the bandits could not escape from the village, so they simply hid back to their homes. In the beginning, the KPA soldiers treated them as ordinary civilians and strictly observed military discipline, so they did not intrude on them, on the contrary, they were very polite, and did not even enter the houses, but some of the bandits saw them and felt that they had an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to attack the KPA soldiers, and there were 6 or 7 attacks in a row, resulting in the death of two soldiers. And the murderer didn't know which one he fled into.
After the battalion commander Ban Xiaowei received the report, he was furious, because in the battle of attacking Dazhai, the People's Army did not kill a few people, and he didn't expect that after the overall situation was decided, two more people were killed, how could Ban Xiaowei not be angry, so Ban Xiaowei immediately ordered all the residents to be driven out of the house, and all young and strong men, whether they were bandits or not, were all pulled out of the crowd and guarded alone, and those who dared to resist were killed on the spot. As a result, after killing 6 people in a row, they finally shocked everyone, and they knew that this group of overseas Chinese troops was really not easy to mess with, so they were all honest.
Luo Yue also nodded after listening to Ban Xiaowei's report, and did not blame Ban Xiaowei for violating military discipline, although the military discipline of the People's Army is strict, it cannot be mechanically executed, it still has to be used flexibly, and the residents in the cottage are not ordinary residents, but the families of bandits, so of course they cannot be treated like ordinary residents.
In addition, as the supreme commander of this military operation, Luo Yue knew that after the end of the war, all the residents in the cottage would have to move to other places to settle down, so it was just right to drive out all the residents now, even if Ban Xiaowei didn't do it, Luo Yue would have to do it. So Luo Yue ordered that not only the young men should be kept in solitary confinement, but also the rest of the men and women should be separated, and the children should follow the women, find a few spacious rooms and be kept in solitary confinement, and they should be examined, registered, and filed for future placement management. And send soldiers to clean up the vacant houses, valuable, useful, and easy to transport items are stored in a centralized manner, ready to be transported away in the future, and then all the doors and windows are nailed.
Of course, Luo Yue's headquarters is located in the meeting hall, and the treasury has been guarded by a special person, and it is also being checked at this time. The final result was calculated two days later, with a total of 418 bandits killed, 115 captured, and 1,813 residents, including 107 suspected bandits. However, the seized materials were very limited, only more than 200 taels of silver, about 600 kilograms of grain, 24 horses, 37 livestock, more than 500 knives, guns and weapons, and some clothes, cloth, etc. In short, this is a poor village.
However, Lin Shenwang, Lin Weizheng and other leaders and most of their families escaped, after interrogation, and check the number of people in the village, the gap is between 150-200 people, and a tunnel was also found in the back house of the Lin family, about 3000 meters long, leading to the outside of the village. There are also bandits confessing, it is said that Lin Shenwang has established several secret strongholds outside the village, so Luo Yue concluded that Lin Shenwang, Lin Weizheng and other leaders of Dazhai had a planned and purposeful escape, and also retained a certain amount of strength.