Luo Yuezhi can also fully understand the mentality of the villagers, and this is also a very normal mentality, it is not easy to gain the full trust of the people, let alone coax the people with a few simple words. Unless it is to do a few things in a down-to-earth manner, the early stage of land reform has won the trust of a group of villagers, but it is not all, I believe that the situation in other areas is similar. Of course, if the bandits are wiped out, it should be about the same.

At this time, Ding Chao called Sun Xianlu to everyone again, told the villagers that there was Sun Xianlu's help this time, and praised Sun Xianlu in public, and rewarded him with ten yuan, and also said that after exterminating this group of bandits, the government would arrange Sun Xianlu's family to live in Jinan City, and arrange Sun Xianlu to work in government agencies, etc.

This statement is also very important, because the whole village knows that Sun Xianlu is the middleman of the bandits, and even he is on the side of the government, of course, it can boost the confidence of many villagers in the government, and it is also to let the villagers establish the system standard of the government's merit and punishment, which is also one of the credibility of the government.

Of course, the next work is to exterminate the bandits, so the KPA immediately interrogated the captured bandits, this time a total of 29 people were captured, including Sun Xianlu, 7 of them were seriously injured, but 22 people were enough to ask for the information that the KPA needed.

Naturally, the interrogation will not be so smooth, there are really a lot of hob meat among the bandits, but the People's Army is not polite, a stick and leather whip, except for a few who are really steamed and cooked, the others are much more honest, and they also tell everything they know.

According to the confession of the captured bandits, the scale of the cottages of Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain is not large, the length and width are about 50-60 zhang, the total area is about the size of three football fields, the wall of the village is mainly a wooden fence, about 1 zhang 2 or 3 feet high, and the lower part is filled with about 4-5 feet high soil and gravel, and the houses in the village are mainly wooden structures, relatively simple. First, because the cottages of Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain have not been established for a long time, only 4 or 5 years; second, Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain are not big mountains, so they cannot be built.

The number of personnel in each village is about 300 people, of which more than 200 are combatants, and the rest are the families of some bandits, of course, they are bandit members with some status, and most of the bandits' families are still in Taishan Village, and the weapons are mainly cold weapons, and there are also a small number of old-style firearms.

In contrast, the scale of the total village of Mount Tai is much larger, the total village is located in a mountain recess in the northwest of Mount Tai, the length and width are more than 200 zhang, almost equivalent to a small county town, and the wall is made of rammed earth and mud mixed stones, and built the city tower and the arrow tower, about 1 zhang 5 feet high, and also dug a trench of more than 3 zhang wide in the periphery, and introduced the mountain stream water, not only one of the water sources in the village, but also a line of defense. In the surrounding area beyond the mountain recess, 4 guard towers have also been built, which can garrison about 20 people, as an early warning for the main village.

There are about 2,000 people in the village, of which 800-900 are fighters, most of whom have settled in the cottage, and about 150 people are from villages around Mount Tai. Because Mount Tai is a famous scenic spot, there are a lot of scattered villages in the mountainous area, in fact, most of them can not be regarded as villages, can only be regarded as a small gathering area, only a dozen or twenty households.

In addition, hundreds of acres of fields have been opened up outside the general village, mainly cultivated by the families of the bandits, and the output is distributed by the cottage, but most of the cash crops such as vegetables and fruits are planted, and some food crops such as sweet potatoes and potatoes are also planted, mainly because the geology in the mountains is not suitable for growing cereal crops. However, on the whole, the output of farmland is far from enough to supply the demand of the cottage, and can only be supplemented or adjusted, so the main source of supply of the cottage still depends on the old business of the bandits.

The reason why Taishan Zongzhai wanted to set up sub-villages in Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain was that on the one hand, the Zongzhai could not accommodate the expanded population size, and on the other hand, it was also because the Lin family was facing a common problem in all Chinese families at this time, the determination of the heir.

Although the old master of the cottage, Lin Shenwang's body is still strong, but after all, he is an old man who is nearly sixty years old, and the eldest son Lin Weizheng and the second son Lin Weixin are both over 30 years old, and they have become the backbone of the cottage, and the age difference is not far away, so it is inevitable that there will be competition, and a group of people have gathered around each other, and let the two go to Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain to establish a sub-village, one is to let the two of them separate, so as to avoid conflicts, and the other is to examine the ability of the two to determine their successors.

In the end, according to the confessions of the bandits, simple drawings of each cottage were drawn. It has also basically achieved the goal of the People's Army.

After learning about the situation of the bandits, the regimental headquarters decided to use a two-pronged tactic, and also transferred another battalion from Jinan City, and launched an attack on Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain at the same time early tomorrow morning, demanding that these two cottages be taken in one fell swoop, and then concentrate their forces to attack the main village of Mount Tai. This is because the strength of the main village of Mount Tai is stronger, and it is necessary to concentrate troops, and Mount Tai is located in the area at the junction of Jinan and Tai'an Mansion, and Tai'an Mansion is the defense area of the Qingdao garrison, so it is necessary to coordinate and cooperate with Qingdao.

After the decision, Luo Yue immediately ordered the second battalion to be transferred to Beiya Village overnight, preparing to start the operation early tomorrow morning. And this time the plan of the operation will be to carry out infantry and artillery coordinated operations, first using artillery to bombard the cottage, and then the infantry to attack. According to the KPA establishment, a battalion consists of a mortar company with 12 82-mm mortars, a machine-gun company with 12 general-purpose machine guns, and 6 60 mortars in each company, for a total of 18 guns, plus a total of 54 grenadiers for each squad. Now all types of grenadiers and mortars are fully equipped, and the general-purpose machine gun is still under development, so it is temporarily replaced by 6 Maxim machine guns.

After more than three months of training, the grenadiers and mortar gunners of each company and battalion are now very proficient in handling their weapons, and they also have considerable accuracy. This time the battle was not very difficult, but because the bandits were condescending, there were walls to defend, and heavy weapons were also needed to provide fire support, so this battle could be used to test the training results of the grenadiers and mortar gunners, and at the same time practice the coordinated tactics of infantry artillery.

So early the next morning, two battalions of the People's Army set out from Beiya Village and went to their respective destinations. And Luo Yue sits in Beiya Village and is in full command. Because the battalion-level troops are equipped with individual contact equipment, which can ensure communication within 50 kilometers, Luo Yue can receive news from the two fronts in Beiya Village. Although Jiang Haidong went out with a battalion, Luo Yue's guards had already arrived at Beiya Village, and together with the militia in the village, it was completely possible to ensure safety.

Ban Xiaowei, the commander of the first battalion, led his team, and after nearly one hour of marching, he came to the front of Wohu Mountain, and he could faintly see the cottage buildings built halfway up the mountain.

However, Ban Xiaowei did not rush to attack the cottage, but first hid the troops in the woods, and sent scouts to conduct on-the-spot reconnaissance of the terrain of the cottage and check the accuracy of the drawings. Since the maps now in use were based on the confessions of the captives, but had not been surveyed on the spot, and were relatively simple, it was necessary to verify and improve the maps before launching an attack.

An hour later, the scout returned and handed over the verified and improved drawings to Ban Xiaowei. So Ban Xiaowei immediately dispatched troops, held the key roads up the mountain, and broke through to a distance of less than 500 meters from the cottage, and arranged mortar positions, of course, mainly 82 mortars, because the effective range of 60 mortars is only about 1500, and they can only fight with the synchronous troops, but cannot provide long-range strike firepower.

Although Ban Xiaowei knew that the bandits did not have heavy firepower and therefore basically did not pose any threat to the people's army's mortars, he still divided the 12 mortars of the battalion into three positions in accordance with the principle of separating firepower, and stipulated that one round of firing should be four shells, and the position was changed immediately after the fighting, and all the tactical steps were arranged in the same way as in a formal operation.

After all the armies had entered their positions, Ban Xiaowei ordered the artillery to open fire. The three positions first fired one shell each, and conducted a test firing, of which only one fell into the cottage, and the other two were outside the cottage, but they were not far away, basically within 20 meters.

The positions that were hit at the first shot were immediately opened with full firepower, all four mortars were fired at full strength, and the other two positions were corrected and they all opened fire.

For the rate of fire of mortars, 4 shells only took a dozen seconds, although the first round of shelling ended quickly, but for a time the artillery roared, the explosion rumbled, resounding through the mountains. Almost all the shells fell into the cottage, causing a series of explosions, and the entire cottage was almost covered by gunsmoke, and even the wall was blown down in two places.

The first round of shelling, plus the first three test shots, a total of 51 shells were fired, of which 46 fell into the cottage, only 5 fell outside the cottage, if you go to the test firing of 2 rounds, in fact, only 3 shots, the hit rate is more than 95%, which is quite impressive. On the one hand, this is because in the previous stage, the KPA did conduct rigorous training, and now it is also showing initial results, and on the other hand, the scope of the target is too large, and the difficulty is naturally much lower than that in ordinary training, which has created such a high hit rate.

After the first round of shelling, the mortars packed up their weapons and moved away. In fact, just to deal with the bandits, one round of artillery bombardment is basically enough, but considering that the purpose of this battle is mainly to test the team, Ban Xiaowei still decided to still carry out a second round of artillery bombardment, and ordered the infantry to prepare to attack the cottage.