In mid-August, the new regiment received an order from the division headquarters to maneuver to the roads around Qingling on the southern front, monitor the movements of devils, and wait for an opportunity to destroy the enemy's strongholds along the highways.

The troops received a new combat order, Zhang Yunfei also breathed a sigh of relief, this attack mainly revolved around the Zhengtai Road, their troops moved southward, to put it bluntly, they will not be put into the core of the main battlefield, at least in the first phase of the operation, they are only a supporting role, or even just a trick, of course, with the expansion of the war situation, they will also add drama, this is inevitable.

This highway from Qingling to the north is equally important, connecting northern Henan in the south, southern Hebei in the east, running through the north and south of the province, it is an important traffic artery in the province, and it is normal to be included in the target of attack.

Of course, judging from their movements, their main task is to contain and respond to the sabotage of the large army, which is much easier.

With the current situation of his team, the training is insufficient, and it would be good if the formation did not run apart after a long-distance attack, and it was not expected to exert much combat effectiveness.

Longshan Village, a small mountain village ten miles outside the Qingling Highway, was stationed here by Zhang Yunfei's third battalion at this time.

Their mission was to destroy the section of the road from Qingling to Pingchuan and prevent the enemy from advancing north for reinforcements.

However, it is much more difficult to destroy the highway than the railway, after all, the railway has stripped the rails and sleepers, destroyed the roadbed, and it is almost impossible to reopen it for a while.

The highway is different, even if the roadbed is destroyed, it can barely be opened to traffic with mud pads, and the devil uses the highway as a blockade of the traffic network, so it is impossible to give you a lot of time to wreak havoc on the roadbed of the highway there.

The practice of digging a few big holes on the highway is not a big deal, and it will not achieve the effect of obstruction at all.

Of course, blasting could also be carried out, but with the embarrassing situation of the Eighth Route Army, it was impossible for them to waste explosives on such inefficient destruction of highway pavement.

Even if the potholes are blown up, it is useless, the devil's march is only slower, and the highway has reached the conditions of easy traffic, and it is very quick to rest.

Therefore, the best way to destroy the devil's communication line is naturally to blow up the bridge, but after fighting the Eighth Route Army for so long, it is impossible for the devil's puppet army not to understand the combat style of the Eighth Route Army.

They are very tightly protected at the pass and bridge, and it is impossible to give them many opportunities to take advantage of, even an ordinary small river bridge is guarded by a turret stronghold.

Zhang Yunfei turned his back to the sunset and looked at the sparkling Dongshun River.

"I'm still worried about how to blow up the Dongshun River Bridge." He Jicheng walked over and asked.

Because Yang Junjie was seriously injured, it would be impossible to return to the army for a while, so He Jicheng, the deputy battalion commander, became the new instructor of the third battalion.

To tell the truth, Zhang Yunfei was shocked at that time, although in the Eighth Route Army, among the cadres below the regimental level, there was basically no clear dividing line between political cadres and military cadres.

Even at or above the regiment level, there are not many pure political work cadres, and they can also be transferred to each other.

Although it is said that the cadres of the Eighth Route Army are all all-rounders, Zhang Yunfei still feels that it is particularly unreliable to let He Jicheng serve as an instructor.

Maybe it might be more appropriate for the two of them to switch the division of labor, it seems that after so long, there are really few partners who are satisfied with them, and the most satisfactory partner is Sister Jia.

Looking at He Jicheng who came over, Zhang Yunfei shook his head and said, "No." ”

He Jicheng: "......"

It's not easy to take this head, being this instructor, for He Jicheng, is also a little awkward, being a deputy battalion commander, and gradually getting used to the identity of his subordinates.

But now he has changed his identity all of a sudden, and he doesn't know how to deal with himself all of a sudden, the key is that he doesn't know what the instructor should do, let him and the little devil see that he is good, but let him speak softly to the soldiers, shush the cold and ask for warmth, this is really not good, let him scold his mother.

He didn't know what his superiors thought, he asked the regiment commander and political commissar to react, and was directly scolded, they said that it was because of him that he had to learn more about political work organization work.

"Lao He, dozens of miles from here is Pingchuan." Zhang Yunfei sighed, "It's been almost a year since I left Pingchuan in a flash. ”

"Our soldiers are fighting in all directions, and you will get used to it after a long time." He Jicheng said with a smile.

"That's the same, it's just that I've been away from Pingchuan for so long now, and I suddenly think of those old people in Pingchuan who don't know what to do now, okay, let's not talk about this, let's talk about how to take the Dongshunhe Bridge stronghold now."

Pulling out the stronghold, without heavy firepower, it is easy to cause huge casualties, there is no need, Zhang Yunfei has always avoided attacking the enemy's stronghold.

This time, their three battalions were responsible for destroying the highway line around Longshan Village, and if they wanted to destroy the highway line, then the turret built at the head of the bridge of this small river had to be uprooted and the small bridge had to be blown up.

This is called Dongshun River, which is not wide, and the small bridge is not big, but the devils still sent more people in this stronghold, at least more than the ordinary turret.

Now this turret stronghold is the biggest difficulty for them to complete the task.

This attack is a limited-time mission, which means that when the time comes, if they don't come up with a way, they can only carry out a strong attack, and if that happens, the casualties will be large.

Although the local armed organizations provided them with some intelligence support, Zhang Yunfei did not command them, and decided to go to the Dongshun River bridge mouth again with He Jicheng to conduct on-the-spot observation and discuss how to eliminate this stronghold turret.

However, every time he observed, Zhang Yunfei's head was a little bigger, and the Japanese puppet army built fortifications on both sides of this small river bridge, coupled with the gun tower standing at the head of the bridge, completely occupied the favorable terrain.

It's summer now, and other places can use the green gauze tent or something, or get close to the periphery, and this kind of open terrain at the bridgehead doesn't have to think about it, it's difficult to get close.

Although I had already roughly figured out the structure of the artillery tower of this stronghold and the number of troops stationed there, when I observed it with my own eyes, it was always a headache and I didn't know how to start.

The scale of the Japanese puppet army's stationing in this stronghold is not too large, and the information provided by the local comrades is only about 20 devils and a platoon of puppet troops.

The number of troops is not too much, but its unique terrain and the surrounding area are quite open, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Because it was a fortification built on the basis of roads and bridges, it was not conducive to the construction of trench fortifications, and only the outside of the turret and fortifications were enclosed with wire.

The bridgehead itself is the commanding height, plus the artillery tower on the ground, completely blocking the surrounding offensive line, there is no dead angle to complete, if they want to attack, they can only attack from the back, they can only attack through the side slope blocked by the turret.

With such terrain, if an attack is launched, Zhang Yunfei knows that he will pay a heavy price, and a machine gun can tell the entire front of the attack, and the blockade will be dead.

Moreover, the artificially repaired fortifications around the perimeter made it inevitable that the attacking troops would be discovered by the Japanese puppet army no matter which direction they approached, and the Japanese puppet army used a turret, relying on the surrounding terrain where it was located, forming a small and complete overall defensive formation.

Looking at the Japanese puppet army fortifications in Dongshun River, Zhang Yunfei's first thought was not to attack, a strong attack under this kind of terrain would definitely be a loss-making deal, and Zhang Yunfei himself would never do it.

However, destroying the communication lines here is the task of the superiors, and they must be complete, which is a headache for Zhang Yunfei and Zhang Yunfei.

But it is very difficult to lure the Japanese puppet army out to fight, why the Japanese puppet army built pillboxes and turrets, it is because they have insufficient troops, and they bully the Eighth Route Army without offensive weapons.

As long as they hid in the fortifications and turrets, they were safe, and they took water directly from the bridge deck to draw water, and supplies were transported directly from the road.

This small bridge is impenetrable by them, and unless the Japanese puppet army is stupid, he will leave their turtle shell.

After the observation, Zhang Yunfei ordered the personnel of Tiedan's reconnaissance platoon to prepare for battle, and he picked up the Type 97 sniper rifle that captured the Devil's Advance Team.

"Battalion Commander Zhang, we haven't reached the time to launch the general attack yet, so it's okay to disturb the enemy like this?" He Jicheng on the side saw him and hurriedly persuaded him.

"Lao He, you're too nervous, it's okay, even if the devils really go out, let's fight with them, and it won't hurt the whole situation." Zhang Yunfei smiled a little.

He Jicheng, a fierce general who dares to fight and fight, is very obedient, and lets them do whatever they want, and generally will not be flexible.

Zhang Yunfei didn't think that he could disrupt the entire battle with a casual shot, he didn't have that much butterfly effect ability.

Besides, even now, in the entire North China region, the devils are still sweeping, the guns are constantly ringing, and if you have more guns, you can make a big deal with them, these are too worthy of them.

In addition, these battalion-level cadres only know about the Eighth Route Army's major operation, and they don't know what kind of combat operations they have, but only know the combat tasks assigned to them.

And no matter how much their shot in the southeast of Jindong affects, it will not affect Zhengtai Road.

The sniper rifle left behind, Zhang Yunfei was originally going to use it for Tie Dan, but Tie Dan is a wild sniper, and he can't fight if he uses a scope.

And when it comes to the performance of the 97 sniper rifle, the 99 rifle is much worse, so in the end, this sniper rifle finally became Zhang Yunfei's companion gun.

Zhang Yunfei stopped He Jicheng, who still wanted to persuade him again, aimed at a devil sentry with a scope, and at a distance of 400 meters, pulled the trigger and hit the devil sentry in the chest with a shot.

Zhang Yunfei tried to scare the snake by attacking the grass and snakes, trying to get a reaction to the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold of Dongshunhe Bridge, but the result made him very disappointed.

The devil's crooked machine gun first rang out in the direction of Zhang Yunfei, and then the puppet army machine gun of the bridgehead fortification force also rang out.

Compared with the aimless blind shooting of the puppet army, the devil's crooked trick is quite accurate.

Zhang Yunfei snorted, shrank his head down, looked at the scene of the early leaves flying around him like a strong wind, and said: "Look, I'll just say it's okay, it's impossible for these guys to fight because I fired a shot, let alone call for reinforcements directly." ”

Not long after Zhang Yunfei finished speaking, after the Japanese puppet army messed with a burst of machine guns, they stopped shooting after finding that they had no reaction on their side, but the Japanese puppet army in the fortifications.

He didn't come out to search at all, he just strafed with firepower and then died down, and there was no other action.

The reaction of the Japanese puppet army, in Zhang Yunfei's expectations, was a little unexpected, originally the devil built the fortifications to hold on, which is nothing to say, but it is understandable that he is cowardly like this, and only shoots in the fortifications of the turret stronghold.

But it is still depressing to be so cowardly and go directly into the fortifications, without even sending a single person out to investigate.

What have these guys been through, they have learned so shrewdly, if it was a devil two years ago, it would definitely not be this reaction.

But now that these guys are all in the fortifications, they have no chance to shoot again, so Zhang Yunfei can only reluctantly put away the gun.

Now that the little devils have learned to be shrewd, it is understandable that the puppet army is cowardly, but according to the habits of the devils, it is impossible for them to sit idly by and ignore their pure provocative behavior.

For the firepower configuration of the two machine guns at the muzzle of Dongshunhe, it is not too strong, according to the personnel configuration of the devils reconnaissance by intelligence officers, as expected, there should be a grenadier canister.

The devils are still so rigid in terms of personnel and firepower allocation, as long as you guess roughly, you will know their specific configuration.

But it's one thing to know, and it's really not that easy to do something to them.

According to the orders of their superiors, their main purpose in this operation was to destroy the roads in the Qingling area with local forces.

Responsible for harassing and disrupting the supply lines and transportation lines of the devils heading north.

The highway of Qingling is an important communication route for the devils to go north, after all, the sabotage war that is about to start, and the devils in the south will inevitably go north to reinforce.

Of course, it was not their new regiment that blocked and destroyed this transportation line, there were several regiments that sabotaged the devil's northbound highway in different sections, and their new regiment, which is equivalent to a new regiment, did not take on a heavy task.

There is no dead order, how many such mandatory tasks must be destroyed, but Zhang Yunfei still doesn't want to make a squib with his first shot, he still wants to get off to a good start.

It's a pity that these devils don't give face and can't shrink back, and if they attack strongly, it's not impossible, but there are too many recruits in his three battalions, although he has been emphasizing attacking tough battles recently.

But there is only one most of the time, and if you train them like this, you will not become an elite, and the tactical literacy of the soldiers is much higher in the battle.

It's not that these recruits who can shoot and throw grenades can do it, Zhang Yunfei had to transfer some veterans again, two platoons of guy Tie Dan and Li Da Tobacco Bag, and let them form an assault group.