Chapter 212: The Pre-Dawn Raid

The last darkness before dawn was about to pass, and a gentle drizzle was falling, and the morning light in the distant eastern sky loomed over the loud crowing of roosters. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

On the long oblique horse road of the city wall in the east gate of Ganxian County, a patrol team composed of more than 10 officers and soldiers walked up slowly with not very neat steps, and each officer and soldier wore a bamboo leaf hat that was common in the local area, and the hanging gear and weapons on their bodies made a messy and light sound of "clanging" with the steps.

The patrol ascended to the top of the city, and soon passed the brick furnace of Changming, and continued northward, the red and yellow firelight swaying in the wind illuminating the faces of the road.

The cold-faced man with a Browning pistol holster on his waist and a delicate saber hanging on the other side of the team was Li Binghan, the colonel of the Fourth Regiment of the Ninth Division of the Yunnan Army guarding Gan County.

During the year-long stationing time, as long as he could spare time, Li Binghan would lead his guards to inspect the city defense every morning and evening, even if he drank all night, as long as he was not drunk, he maintained such a good habit, so he was deeply respected by the officers and soldiers under his command.

There was silence in the wet city.

The footsteps of the patrol party spread far away, and the sentries who were sleeping under bunkers and awnings grabbed their rifles and climbed up, standing solemnly in front of the guard posts more than 50 meters apart.

Li Binghan, who came out of the Kunming Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, is an officer with a generous personality and strict self-discipline; he is 38 years old this year, and he is an old-school officer in terms of his military habits and leadership style.

More than 90 percent of the more than 1,200 officers and men under Li Binghan's command are from Yunnan Province, far away from their homeland, and the longest time has been more than five years, and the shortest time has been two years.

Therefore, Li Binghan never lightly criticized the officers and men under his command, and whenever he went, in addition to arranging sentry posts and carrying out guards according to the usual practice, military training was basically once every three days. As long as the officers and men stand guard and guard every day, obey the dispatch, and obey the command, they can spend their spare time as they want.

Because of this, nearly half of the officers and men under Li Binghan's command smoked opium, and after standing guard and finishing their work every day, the officers could gather in groups to drink and gamble, or attend various banquets held by the local gentry and elites, and even do business together and make a fortune together.

During their rest time, the soldiers could go shopping, listen to small songs and drink wine in the teahouse in the market, but they had to return to the camp at eight o'clock in the evening, and as long as they could return to the camp on time and the roll call was completed, they could play cards and gamble in the dim light, or lose money and fight.

In the drizzle, Li Binghan led more than ten guards to walk forward along the battlements unhurriedly, and he nodded slightly every time he passed a sentry post, even if the sentry standing in front of the sentry post after walking through it went into the quilt again and slept with his head covered, he had no opinion.

When Li Binghan passed the sentry post in the northwest corner of the city wall, the dim lantern hanging on the inside of the city wall was about to be extinguished.

In the hazy light, the machine-gun fortifications, which were supposed to have two sentries on duty, were empty.

The Makqin heavy machine gun mounted behind the firing port of the sandbag was unexpectedly exposed to the drizzle, and under the dim light of the horse lantern, the lonely, unobstructed, wet cylindrical sleeve reflected wisps of ghostly light.

Li Binghan immediately stopped, his brows furrowed deeply, and the adjutant and chief guard behind him immediately turned on the flashlights to shine around, and soon rushed to the canopy built against the wall bricks inside, lifted the quilt, and punched and kicked the two sentries on duty who got up in a daze.

Screams and begs for mercy broke the silence before dawn in an instant.

"That's it! Write down your name and pay you one month's salary. ”

Li Binghan's good temper was displayed again, he said two sentences lightly, raised his legs and left, bypassed the corner of the wall and walked towards the towering city tower with a faint silhouette on the north gate, the adjutant and the chief of the guard behind him cursed the two unlucky ones in annoyance, and gave the two unlucky ones a few slaps before quickly catching up.

Li Binghan, his adjutants, and the guards didn't know that the kicking and cursing just now not only frightened the sentries on the city wall, but also frightened the dozen or so commandos of the Second Company of the Instructor Special Agents who were crawling under the city wall, and their hairs stood on end and their hearts beat wildly.

Even Zheng Yi, the instructor and division commander, and Wang Huchen, the chief of staff, who were more than 500 meters away from the northwest corner of the city wall, were frightened into a cold sweat, but fortunately, the 2,500 soldiers who were ambushed in various attack directions did not make a mess.

Under the haystack of more than 400 meters outside the north gate, Li Lianshan, the head of a regiment, and Yan Pin, the political commissar, were also frightened.

Knowing that in the hazy darkness, they could only see a little dim light on the top of the city, and they couldn't see the sentries and black firepower on the top of the city, but the two of them still subconsciously took out their binoculars and observed nervously, and finally put away the binoculars in vain, looked at each other, and exhaled a long turbid breath at the same time.

"The dog said that he suddenly came like this, which made Lao Tzu's heart almost jump out, thinking that the two conscienceless cannons that had quietly migrated were discovered."

Li Lianshan was afraid, habitually took out his cigarette, was stunned for a moment and quietly put it back, and smashed his mouth a few times in a row.

Yan Pin beside him couldn't help but smile: "Don't be nervous, the enemy is bright and I am dark, we can't see them, and they can't see our ......."

"The two pine cannons and the demolition team have already been in place, at least a hundred meters from the tower above the city gate, and the place is a roadside grass hut with no one left, unless the fire is lit, the enemy on the city head will not be able to detect it at all."

Li Lianshan nodded slightly: "I don't know what happened to Lao Zhao?" If they had fought first, they might have been able to divert the attention of the defenders in the city. ”

Yan Pin thought for a while: "Actually, you don't need to pay attention to when Lao Zhao's second regiment starts, the key is that we must act quickly, and the boss's request is only one word: fast!" It's a very accurate word, to the point! ”

"As long as it is fast enough, the defending enemy in the city has no time to react at all, as long as the signal flare is lifted into the air, it can immediately launch several rounds of unconscionable cannons, no matter whether a shell of ten catties of explosives can be accurately projected onto the city tower, as long as it explodes, it will be an unstoppable ending."

When Li Lianshan and Yan frequently whispered, the sixteen assault soldiers who were ambushed in the northeast corner of the city wall had quietly erected two bamboo ladders.

The distance between the two bamboo ladders was only about six meters, and the two soaking assault team leaders, biting their bayonets, slowly climbed up, silently climbed over the gap between the battlements like tanuki, and slowly moved towards the two sentries wearing hats and cloak sitting in the machine-gun fortifications.

The two sentries, who had just been beaten, sat on soaked sandbags, smoking cigarettes and cursing in a low voice to the regimental commander's lieutenant and chief of guard.

The sentry near the rear of the fortifications seemed to feel movement behind him, but before he could turn sideways, two sharp soldiers had already pounced, and the sharp bayonet pierced the sentry's neck with a "pop", and the other large hand quickly hugged the sentry's head.

The sentry inside was unresponsive, still cursing incessantly, all voices abruptly halted as the big mouth was suddenly slapped and the slender blade sank into the back of the heart.

After the victory, the two spearheads did not stop, put down the convulsive corpses, immediately bit the bloody bayonets in their mouths, untied the flower machine guns on their backs, and continued to touch the nearest western outpost to the west.

At this time, the other fourteen sharp soldiers also successfully climbed to the top of the city, biting daggers, lined up in a column, and walked to the machine-gun fortifications fifty meters to the south without any scruples.

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