Li Hao nodded, pointed to the map and analyzed.

"The reconnaissance company reported: The young men left by the Japanese puppet army in the occupied area were not scattered in every stronghold, but concentrated in a dozen large and small strongholds close to our base area."

"In addition, in order to prevent them from making trouble, all the young men are locked outside the stronghold."

"The purpose of the Japanese is obvious, first to repair the fortifications closest to us, to isolate our base area first, and then to build the no-man's land behind us step by step, so as to completely trap us."

"We use the combat style of the little devil to attack and save it, keep an eye on one of the points, and force the Japanese puppet army to reinforce the other strongholds, and when there are no extra troops in these strongholds to guard these civilians, we can send ambushes to rescue them."

The Gongzhen stronghold was one of the largest strongholds in the confrontation between the Japanese puppet army and the Laiyuan Independent Battalion.

The central turret is built on the hilltop high ground of more than 200 meters east of the town, and is completely made of stone and cement, which is very solid and looks down on the whole town.

The other turrets and bunkers were scattered on all the slopes from the mountainside to the top, and without exception, they were all permanent firing points.

For more than 700 days, the puppet army was stationed here, responsible for the blockade line of nearly 10 kilometers on the left and right sides of the stronghold.

To deal with such a stronghold, if there is no heavy artillery cover, even if you have more than five times the strength advantage to kill it, it will be in vain and you will not be able to gnaw it.

After the Japanese army began to establish a no-man's land, the Gongzhen stronghold was assigned nearly 2,000 young men to build fortifications, dig blockade ditches, and build blockade walls around the stronghold during the day. At night, they lived at the foot of the hill on the side of the area occupied by the Imperial Army, and a company of the puppet army was responsible for guarding them.

The news that their homes had been destroyed and that their families had been driven to the base of the Eighth Route Army by the Japanese puppet army spread among the crowd the day after they were captured.

In their opinion, without food and clothing, even if their families enter the base area of the Eighth Route Army, they will not be able to last long, and they may not be starved to death or frozen to death by now.

So the eyes of these people looking at the nearby puppet army were all full of anger and red.

That night, many people planned to fight with the puppet army who was guarding them in the middle of the night to avenge their families.

But their camp was at the foot of the mountain, too close to the stronghold on the mountain, and the nearest machine gun was less than a hundred meters away from them.

At the beginning, relying on the superiority in numbers, they did use fists, shovels...... All kinds of tools caught the puppet army by surprise and killed more than a dozen people.

But the good times didn't last long.

The movement here alarmed the Japanese puppet army on the mountain.

The devils don't treat them as human beings at all, and the nearest machine-gun bunker is a strafing shot at a crowded place.

The heavy machine gun was so powerful that the whizzing bullets pierced through the bodies of two people in a row before they stopped.

And they were shooting from a high position, and the whole camp was covered by the fire of these machine-gun bunkers.

In less than five minutes, more than 200 people died in the camp......

All the survivors were terrified, and the face of the corpses everywhere created a visceral fear of the Japanese.

Since then, although everyone's eyes are still red and full of anger when they look at the Japanese puppet army, no one dares to make trouble in the camp, and no matter how angry they are, they can only hold back in their hearts.

At seven o'clock in the evening, all the young men ate the multigrain cakes and gruel that could count the grains of rice sent by the puppet army, and then four or five people nested together in the nest to sleep.

In this way, you can maintain your physical strength without consuming the already small amount of food in your stomach, and you can also nourish your spirit to cope with tomorrow's heavy physical work.

If you don't have the strength to do things tomorrow, are lazy, or do something wrong, you will be whipped at the least, and you will be punched and kicked by the Japanese puppet army, and you will not be given food, and you will be hungry to do things the next day.

In the past few days, everyone has seen a few former fellows, who have no physical strength to do things because they are hungry, and finally tortured to death by the Japanese puppet army.

No one wants to follow in their footsteps, so they go to bed after eating.

In fact, this is a conspiracy specially created by the Japanese.

Deliberately not giving everyone enough to eat, this can not only save food, but also prevent these young people from making trouble in the future.

At ten o'clock in the evening, not only did the camp at the foot of the mountain stop moving, but the Japanese puppet army stronghold on the mountain also quieted down.

Except for the constantly shaking searchlight lampposts and the constantly moving guard posts in the turret stronghold, everyone else fell asleep.

"Horn ......"

Three gunshots in a row suddenly broke the silence of the night, and then I saw the three searchlights on the top of the turret go out, and the stronghold fell into darkness in an instant.

"Da Da Da ......"

The Japanese reacted quickly, and the moment the guns rang out, the machine gunners on duty on the turret began to hold fire.

Immediately after, a flare was shot into the sky.

With a "......boom", a burning white light rose in the sky, and the battlefield was instantly illuminated as if it were day.

Then the sentry on duty saw the dense Eighth Route Army lying on the ground a few hundred meters away, approaching the stronghold from all directions.

"Woo woo woo ......"

The central artillery tower of the stronghold immediately sounded a piercing siren, and all kinds of lights in the camp were lit up at the same time, and the Japanese army, the puppet army, with weapons and disheveled clothes, rushed out of the barracks and went straight to their positions.

"Da Da Da ......"

More and more machine guns joined the battle, and the Eighth Route Army, which was densely packed at the foot of the mountain, finally stopped approaching the stronghold under the interception of bullets.

The captain of the devil duty officer breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly rushed to the commander's office.

"Report to the sir, the stronghold was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the foot of the mountain is full of the Eighth Route Army."

The captain stood at the lookout, holding a telescope and looking out, motionless: "I saw it!" The troops were ordered to prepare for battle in accordance with the predetermined battle plan and resolutely repel them. ”

"Hey!" The second lieutenant rushed out of the headquarters like the wind, coming and going as fast as he could.

On a small high ground nearly a kilometer away from the stronghold, Li Hao stood in the semi-underground headquarters that the guard company had just dug out, holding a telescope and looking at the battlefield with a serious face.

"Commander, it's almost!" Hong Linfeng stood next to him and reminded.

"Judging from the distribution of firepower points, the Japanese puppet army has exposed six machine gun bunkers, which is completely consistent with the reconnaissance of the reconnaissance force during the day."

"I think I can let the heavy artillery battalion go."

Li Hao nodded and replied: "Tell Yuan Qingfeng that all the heavy artillery in the heavy artillery battalion are firing at the same time, and I will use the most fierce firepower to blow up the devils on the mountain and make them feel afraid, and then I will ask for help from the nearby strongholds, so as to achieve our goal of diverting the tiger from the mountain." ”

"No problem!" Hong Linfeng replied confidently.

In the Battle of Datong, the Japanese army dispatched eight heavy guns, four of which were blown into scrap metal, four of which were captured by the garrison regiment, and many shells were also captured.

The artillery armament of the heavy artillery battalion was re-increased to four companies of sixteen.

In order to win such a rescue battle, the heavy artillery battalion brought all 16 artillery pieces and captured shells.

Anyway, the little devil was captured, and it didn't hurt if he ran out.

Sixteen artillery pieces fired together, such a picture Hong Linfeng has not seen yet, but it can definitely be described in four words: earth-shattering.

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