Although the power of mortar shells cannot be compared with artillery of the same caliber, after all, they are also artillery shells, not to mention that nearly 100 shells have fallen into an area the size of three football fields, and the explosion caused by them is still quite amazing. Moreover, the houses in the village are mainly wooden structures, and the structure is strong and relatively weak, so most of the buildings were suddenly destroyed in the explosion, and even the wall of the village was blown open by 6 or 7 gaps, and the bandits were killed and injured by the explosion, and the village was burned everywhere.

After two rounds of shelling, Ban Xiaowei gave the order to launch a ground offensive. As the battalion headquarters charge horn sounded, the various KPA troops, which had already entered the position and were ready, also immediately launched an attack on the cottage.

At this time, in the cottage of Wohu Mountain, it was already a mess.

It is Lin Shenwang's eldest son Lin Weizheng, who is 35 years old this year, and is in the prime of life and enterprising, because when Lin Weizheng was born, the main village of Mount Tai has become a climate, so he did not experience the hard work in the early days of the creation of the cottage, and enjoyed the glory of the cottage after it grown, and also developed Lin Weizheng's arrogant personality. However, Lin Weizheng is not a gentleman, he has been practicing martial arts under the strict supervision of Lin Shenwang since he was a child, and at the age of 16, he participated in the battle with other cottages for territory and resources.

However, the fight between bandits is mainly based on cold weapons, only a small number of old-fashioned muskets, so Lin Weizheng has not experienced modern warfare, and thinks that fighting is like this. You can win without being afraid of death, this experience has also contributed to Lin Weizheng's self-held bravery, empty-eyed personality, and he doesn't even pay attention to the government, and he has long been dissatisfied with Lin Shenwang's development strategy of avoiding the government, and he is also a young radical in the cottage, and has repeatedly suggested to Lin Shenwang to attack the county seat, even the state capital-level city, in order to obtain more supplies.

But these suggestions were rejected by Lin Shenwang. And Lin Weizheng didn't dare to make his own opinions, and led the army to attack the county seat, one is that Lin Shenwang's Yu Wei is still there; and the other is that with the increase in age, Lin Weizheng also set his sights on the position of the big boss, because he has the competition of the second brother, naturally he does not dare to disobey Lin Shenwang's order, so as not to make the old man unhappy.

And this time to ask for food and materials from Beiya Village, it was Lin Weizheng's suggestion to Lin Shenwang, so he won the support of a large number of radicals, and seeing that the public opinion was difficult to disobey, the cottage was indeed empty, and he also had to test the attitude of overseas Chinese, so Lin Shenwang decided to accept Lin Weizheng's suggestion and handed it over to Lin Weizheng to do, and repeatedly told him not to conflict with overseas Chinese.

After Lin Weizheng received the order, he also breathed a sigh of relief, hoping to do this matter well, so when he inserted an agreement to pay food and materials in Beiya Village, Lin Weizheng was also very happy, not only to solve the urgent need of the cottage, but also to show his ability in front of the old man.

However, yesterday Sun Zhicheng, who was responsible for leading the team to receive food supplies, did not return overnight, Lin Weizheng's heart vaguely felt that something was wrong, today during the day, Lin Weizheng was just about to send someone to Beiya Village to inquire, but at this moment, the little minions patrolling the mountains came to report and found that there were officers and soldiers in front of Dazhai, and it seemed to be the army of overseas Chinese.

Lin Weizheng knew that Sun Zhicheng must have had an accident as soon as he heard it, but he was more excited than surprised in his heart, because he had long wanted to fight with the official army and try the official army's catties and taels, of course, in Lin Weizheng's expectation, he must have defeated the officers and soldiers, but unfortunately he has been suppressed by the old man and cannot be realized. And this time, it was the officers and soldiers who took the initiative to come to the door, but it was not that they disobeyed the old man's order.

Although Sun Zhicheng went down the mountain to pick up food and supplies and brought more than 50 people, and now there are about 170 fighters in the cottage, Lin Weizheng is still full of confidence and firmly believes that he can defeat the official army, and he will have something to say in front of the old man in the future. Of course, in Lin Weizheng's concept, the army of overseas Chinese is equal to the official army. So Lin Weizheng immediately ordered that all the people who could hold weapons in the village were ready to go out of the village to fight.

But the result was far beyond Lin Weizheng's expectations, the overseas Chinese did not open the formation and fight with themselves with knives and guns, but gave themselves a shell bombardment as soon as they came up. After the first round of shelling, almost the entire cottage was washed by shells, most of the houses collapsed, many people were injured and killed, and almost all the village was covered with the corpses of bandits. And Lin Weizheng happened to be standing on the edge of the wall, and when he exploded, his whole person was attached to the wall, so he was not affected much, because the shells were all hit into the wall as much as possible, but after the first round of shelling, Lin Weizheng was completely stupid.

Lin Weizheng had heard of this artillery, and there were several front-loading earthen cannons in the general village, which could only fire stone balls or iron sand, which was not only very clumsy, but also had limited power, so Lin Weizheng didn't think that the artillery was powerful, and he didn't expect that the artillery used by the officials and soldiers had such terrible power, and he couldn't see the artillery outside the village.

And before Lin Weizheng could react, the second round of shelling began again. Fortunately, the surviving bandits had some experience this time, and a few cronies got two door panels from there, and protected them in front of Lin Weizheng, and several people shrank back and leaned against the wall, so that they dodged a lot of shells.

However, a cannonball hit the nearby wall, and the huge shock wave rushed several people out, and Lin Weizheng's body was scratched by scattered shrapnel, stones, and wooden thorns in more than ten places, but fortunately, the injuries were not serious, so they all got up from the ground again.

But after two rounds of shelling, the People's Army launched a ground attack on the cottage, and by this time Lin Weizheng's ambition had already been extinguished, and he hurriedly fled from the trail in the back mountain with more than 10 survivors.

After all, after the first two rounds of shelling, the bandits in the cottage had suffered heavy casualties, and the bandits who were fortunate not to die in the explosion still had fighting spirit at this time, and they all fled from the cottage, but some bandits who had not yet come to their senses actually escaped from the front village, and they happened to meet the People's Army rushing up.

Although the soldiers of the People's Army did not shoot at this time, but put on their bayonets and engaged in white-knuckle combat with the bandits, the bandits were already at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and at this time they had already lost their fighting spirit and were not vulnerable at all, either stabbed to death with bayonets, or were knocked to the ground by the People's Army and captured prisoners, and then the People's Army rushed into the village through the gap in the wall.

Bankwee looked at his watch, the whole battle took only 27 minutes, the KPA occupied the cottage and won the victory, on the whole, the whole battle was still satisfactory, which also shows that the previous stage of training was still fruitful. Of course, since the enemy's strength is not strong this time, it can only be regarded as a training in actual combat, and cannot be used as a reference for measuring the combat effectiveness of the people's army.

However, when Bankway walked into the cottage, he found that the cottage was already a mess, and there was hardly a complete house in sight, the ground was full of stone chips, dirt, broken wood, rags, and the corpses of bandits, and there were fires everywhere, and many places had just been extinguished, and black fire was still bubbling, and the air was full of the smell of burning. It is also conceivable that the two rounds of shelling dealt such a fierce blow to the cottage

At this time, the KPA was extinguishing the flames, cleaning up the battlefield, collecting the bodies of the prisoners, and counting the results of the battle. After a simple count, a total of 146 bandit members were killed and 34 were taken prisoner, but almost all of the prisoners were wounded, and those who escaped from the cottage were about 20-30 people. None of the KPA troops were injured, only six fighters were injured in the occupation of the cottage, but none of them were seriously injured, but since almost all the houses in the cottage were destroyed by shells, it was impossible to count the other materials captured.

And although most of the houses have been destroyed, the frame of the cottage is still there, because of the fact that although the wall of the village has been blown open by 6 or 7 gaps, it is still generally good, if the bandits come back, at most a month, it can basically be restored to the level of 5 or 6 percent, so the cottage must be completely demolished and can no longer be reused, but this project is not something that a battalion of the People's Army can complete.

After Ban Xiaowei contacted Luo Yue, he left a company to garrison the cottage, and he led the other troops to withdraw to Beiya Village, while Luo Yue would organize militias from several nearby villages to assist the remaining troops in demolishing the cottage.

Just when Ban Xiaowei returned to Beiya Village with the remaining troops, there was also good news on the battlefield of Jiuru Mountain, and the People's Army also captured the cottage very easily, and there were no casualties themselves. Moreover, after the identification of the captured bandits, among the corpses of the killed bandits, the body of Lin Shenwang's second son Lin Weixin was found, and now the troops attacking Jiuru Mountain are also on the way back, and bring back the body of Lin Weixin, which is determined by the bandits of Wohu Mountain.

When Ban Xiaowei heard this, he couldn't help but sigh, the luck of the second battalion was so good, he actually caught such a big fish. Two hours later, the second battalion also returned to Beiya Village, and after the identification of the bandits captured in Wohu Mountain, it was determined that it was Lin Weixin. Therefore, it has also become the biggest result of this operation.

In the evening of the same day, Luo Yue summoned the principal officers of the 1st and 2nd Battalions to a meeting to discuss, on the one hand, to sum up the gains and losses of today's two battles, and on the other hand, to discuss the operational plan for attacking the main village of Mount Tai. Because just today, during the day, the Qingdao side had already sent a notice that the battle to attack Mount Tai was still under the command of the Jinan garrison, and the Qingdao side would fully cooperate with the Jinan garrison's action plan. Even if he was authorized by Qingdao, then Luo Yue would also start planning the battle to attack the main village of Mount Tai.