Chapter 236: The Raid on the Village (Part 1)
Although the instructor's two regiments and two battalions with a total of 4,000 soldiers completely controlled the capital, Zheng Yi did not dare to relax at all, and ordered the city gate to be closed before nightfall, announcing martial law to the people of the city. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The regiments and battalions not only occupied the city gates and the commanding heights of the four city walls, but also set up sandbag fortifications and obstacles such as horse rejection and deer barricades at the main intersections in the city, and patrolled back and forth all night long.
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At two o'clock in the morning of the next day, Duan Xuan, commander of the Third Regiment, and Tian Antai, commander of the guard battalion, led a battalion and two companies of officers and men to arrive at the three-way intersection of Huilongshan, 30 kilometers east of the capital.
The sky is deep and starry.
After a short rest and food for half an hour, all the officers and men began to enter a state of combat readiness.
Tian Antai personally led a company of spies and two military dogs, with the faint starlight, through the three-kilometer-long valley road to the north, continued to travel less than five kilometers, and finally found the enemy troops who had fled from the capital to here.
Just as Chief of Staff Wang Huchen had predicted, nearly 1,000 enemy troops fled five kilometers north of the capital, crossed the Meijiang River, then went all the way north around the mountains, turned eastward, marched more than 20 kilometers in a row before turning south, and finally stopped to rest at Kuantianwei, which was 9.5 kilometers away from Huilongshan.
Counting up, the enemy troops traveled a distance of about thirty-two kilometers in one go.
Such a high-intensity rapid march exhausted the enemy officers and soldiers who lacked systematic training.
Due to the large temperature difference between day and night in the spring and summer transition season, and the fact that Kuantianwei is a small mountain village with only more than 20 households, it cannot accommodate nearly 1,000 enemy troops at all, except for a few officers, the rest of the enemy troops who could not enter the houses to rest plundered the villagers' grain and chickens and ducks.
After the two groups of sharp soldiers figured out the situation, they quietly retreated to the rear of the bamboo forest two miles south of the village, and reported the situation of the enemy army and the general terrain of the village to Tian Antai in detail.
After a short period of weighing, Tian Antai sent two brothers back to the Huilong Pass in the south to inform Duan Xuan, the commander of the third regiment, leaving an eight-person sniper detachment to wait for the arrival of the large army, and then led the 97 elites of the special service company to slowly move forward and turn into the right path about 500 meters away from the village.
The group walked along the edge of the rice field covered with more than a foot of tall grass seedlings, bypassed the village, and successfully reached both sides of the road more than 300 meters north of the village, quietly lurked, and cut off the enemy's escape route to the north.
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At 5:50 a.m., more than 100 officers and men of the 3rd Regiment of the Police Company were the first to arrive, and waited in ambush under the response of the sniper detachment.
Duan Xuan had a brief discussion with the commander of the police company and the leader of the sniper detachment, and ordered the six machine gun teams to advance more than 200 meters and occupy several commanding heights of more than 200 meters southwest of the village.
More than 130 brothers of the police company, led by the sniper detachment, went around to a small bridge more than 100 meters east of the village, and each company of the first battalion, under the guidance of Duan Xuan, slowly approached the village, and finally dispersed on both sides of the road more than 300 meters away from the village.
Several watchdog dogs in the village barked more and more, and the two roosters that had not been slaughtered also crowed loudly, finally alarming some of the sleeping enemy troops.
"Bang Bang Bang-"
Seeing that the enemy soldiers in the village kept waking up, and the shouts and shouts were endless, Duan Xuan finally raised the Colt pistol in his hand and fired three shots at the enemy in the village.
More than 600 soldiers who were lying in ambush in three directions pulled the trigger, and more than 30 light machine guns and hundreds of rifles roared in unison, beating the enemy officers and men gathered around the piles of bonfires into a wolf howl, and the corpses were scattered, and more than 300 frightened war horses and pack horses struggled desperately and kept neighing, and more than 10 of them broke free from their reins and galloped in all directions.
It took a while for the enemy to react, and the platoon commander of the grassroots company of the security regiment led by the team shouted "enemy attack" hoarsely, and then quickly fell to the ground, looking for shelter and cover.
A battalion commander of the Huichang Security Regiment rushed out of the occupied house to observe the situation, and was immediately oppressed by the dense rain of bullets, and retreated into a pit near the house.
Several members of the security regiment with good marksmanship hid in the drainage ditch under the eaves, quietly poked out half of their heads to look out, and prepared to find a target to shoot.
Unfortunately, it was the darkest time before dawn, and it was pitch black all around, but the middle of the village was transparent because of the bonfire, so that it was impossible to see the surrounding situation clearly, and could only vaguely see the light of sparks in the distance, and then the people around him continued to fall.
One of the machine gunners of the security regiment, holding a weapon, jumped into the cellar of a farmer's red lotus, found that there were already four or five people hiding inside, and immediately roared, forcing two of the regiments to assist him to climb up to the mouth of the cellar, just set up the machine gun rack, ready to fire at the stars in the distance, but I don't know where a stray bullet flew from, directly penetrated his eyebrows, and then the top of the head was lifted with a "boom", and the whole person quickly collapsed, blood and white brains overflowed, and several security guards under the cellar screamed in fright.
After a short exchange of fire for five or six minutes, there was no effective resistance in the village, Duan Xuan observed it for a while, and loudly gave the order to advance slowly.
Under the cover of machine guns, the soldiers of the three companies began to reload, and then, led by the squad and platoon leaders, slowly approached the still chaotic village from south to north.
Under the command of Tian Antai, the first company of spies located in the north of the village rushed to the village with flower machine guns and light machine guns, and at a distance of more than 60 meters from the houses, they finally encountered sporadic return fire from the enemy in this direction.
More than 90 well-trained elites immediately lay down, using superior firepower to quickly eliminate all stubborn enemies, and the three startled horses that rushed towards them were also knocked to the ground by dense bullets.
At this time, the sky in the east was bright, and there was gradually a glimmer of light between the heavens and the earth, and the figures could be seen clearly.
Most of the surviving enemy soldiers hid in the houses, and more than a dozen terrified enemy soldiers had just escaped from the west of the village, and before they could run to the edge of the dense forest at the foot of the mountain, they were all killed by the accurate bullets of more than a dozen snipers.
Whoever showed his head would be subjected to a dense rain of bullets, killing and wounding dozens of enemy officers and men.
The encirclement is gradually shrinking, and the density of the blows is increasing.
The officers and men of the first battalion and a company that rushed to the corner of the residential house to the south threw more than a dozen grenades in succession, killing and wounding dozens of enemy soldiers who tried to resist stubbornly.
At this point, the enemy officers and men hiding in the houses finally completely collapsed, shouting "surrender" amid the roars of "surrender without killing," and the entire battle lasted only 28 minutes from the beginning to the end.
Of the surviving enemy officers and men, including the wounded, only about 440 remained, and the remaining 503 people had been reduced to corpses, and 828 rifles, 47 pistols, 4 light machine guns, more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition, and 322 pack horses were captured in this battle.
Seventeen officers and men of each battalion of the three regiments were killed or wounded, and none of the 106 elite soldiers of the special service company were killed or wounded. (To be continued.) )