"The first battalion will not participate in the operation this time, Lao Han, you continue to grasp the training of your first battalion, and if there is an accident, your first battalion must be ready for combat at any time."

"Understood."

Han Weimin stood up and saluted, slightly disappointed. Although the first battalion was the largest in number, many recruits were poorly equipped, with less than five rounds of ammunition per person. If you go to the battlefield at this level, you can only send people to the head. The Pioneer Regiment is already broken, and it can no longer afford to suffer unnecessary losses, not to mention that these recruits are the seeds of the development and growth of the Pioneer Regiment in the future.

"The time frame for this action plan is to end in three days, and no later than four days. The cooking class can only prepare four days of dry food for each person, so everyone should pay attention to the time, and if you can't do anything, you can choose to return it first. We're thinking of another way to rescue Staff Officer Xue. ”

Hearing this, Head Lei stood up and snuffed out the cigarette butt, he looked at Yang Chenghu and said in a deep voice:

"Chenghu, your task is very important, only the more resolutely you fight, the more confident the Seventh Company will be to take Staff Officer Xue out smoothly. I don't want what happened today to affect your cooperation on the battlefield, understand? ”

"Report to the head of the group, I, Yang Chenghu, promise to complete the task. Otherwise, I'll see you! ”

"Okay, I won't talk nonsense about the specific tactical arrangements, you are all old stickers, you must know it in your heart.

In terms of ammunition, the special service company and the second company each went to the logistics department to get 10 rounds of ammunition, and those with pistols added 10 rounds of pistol ammunition. Seventh, I've heard that you're very rich, and I'm so poor, so I can only give each of you five bullets, don't be too little. ”

Zhao Shixun smiled when he heard this, and did not object. He was well aware of the current state of the Pioneer Regiment, that is, the special agent company with the most sufficient ammunition, and its manpower did not exceed fifteen rounds. Compared with them, he is already a local tyrant. And this time I am mainly responsible for the task of picking up people, and the demand for ammunition should not be much. However, since the other party gave him five bullets, Zhao Shixun would not refuse, after all, his ammunition was not blown by the wind.

"Do you still have any opinions, if you have a fart, don't go to the battlefield and give me a whole moth."

Seeing that everyone was not talking, Lei Wancheng announced the end of the meeting and asked everyone to go down immediately to prepare, and gather and set off on time at one o'clock in the afternoon.

……

When he returned to the Seventh Company after the meeting, Da Zhuzi had already sent breakfast back to Zhao Shixun. After briefly announcing the combat mission, Zhao Shixun asked the big guy to disband, organize their equipment and check their weapons. When it was almost noon, the old immortal took a few soldiers to bring back the dry food for the seventh company and four days. Looking at the eight coarse black multigrain flatbreads per person, the old immortal sighed and did not speak, but called a few soldiers to turn around and go to the warehouse of the Seventh Company. Before leaving, the old immortal gave each soldier an extra ...... of tortillas.

……

At one o'clock in the afternoon, all three companies on the mission assembled in the open space outside Shipan Village.

At the easternmost end was the spy company, which this time dispatched 110 people, except for those who were injured and sick. In terms of weapons, more than half of the people use 38 big covers, and the rest are medium and formal. The whole company had more than 90 bayonets, and the rest used broadswords. In addition, the special service company is equipped with four crooked-handled light machine guns, two Type 89 grenadiers with eight grenades. In terms of heavy firepower, it is considered the strongest in the whole regiment.

Next to the spy company was the second company, and they dispatched 120 people this time, and they were almost all dispatched. In terms of weapons, the second company is much worse than the spy company. There are only more than 30 38 big covers, and the rest of the intakes are made in Hanyang, and there are even old sleeves. Less than half of the bayonets were assigned per capita, and the rest were red cherry broadswords. In terms of heavy firepower, there were only three half-new Czech machine guns, no grenadiers, and not many ammunition of all kinds.

At the westernmost end of the line was the newly formed 7th Company of the Pioneer Regiment. When the 7th Company came to the Pioneer Regiment, there were only 39 people in the whole body. Therefore, after discussing with the political commissar, the regiment commander transferred some veterans with combat experience from the first battalion to supplement the seventh company, so that the number of the seventh company was restored to forty-six people. In this operation, all the 7th Company was on duty, and all 46 people were dispatched.

Forty-six men of the Seventh Company were lined up in three rows, of which 35 were in full Japanese infantry equipment, and the rest were each armed with a new medium-sized rifle and a bayonet. In addition, the seventh company actually has four machine guns! A Japanese-style steel helmet in each person's hand. You must know that even the best-equipped spy company, the number one hundred and ten has four machine guns. Steel helmets were only available to a few machine gunners and grenadiers. The day after arriving at the vanguard group, Zhao Shixun asked Dazhu to lead people to smuggle back the buried weapons.

For this batch of weapons, Zhao Shixun did not choose to hand them in. One reason is that after the downsizing of the Pioneer Regiment, there was no shortage of weapons, only ammunition. Another reason is that these weapons were earned by the lives of more than a dozen of his brothers, and Zhao Shixun did not intend to hand them over unconditionally.

Regarding the "wealth" of the Seventh Company in terms of weapons, the regiment commander Lei Wancheng did not ask much. After all, it was captured from the enemy by the people themselves, and it was something that they had before they came to the vanguard regiment, and what they did with it was their own business.

Although the number of people in the Seventh Company was small, the "luxurious" equipment still shocked the soldiers of other companies. Especially the steel helmet in everyone's hand, everyone was even more shocked, how did these guys from the Seventh Company fall to the ground, could it be that they are really evil stars?

Seeing that the team was assembled, Lei Wancheng looked at the time, stepped forward and exchanged a few words with the big guy, which was regarded as a warning before leaving.

Soon, the spy company took the lead, followed by the second company and the seventh company, and nearly 300 people drove out of the village and quickly disappeared into the dense forest in the mountains.

……

The next day, at 3:30 a.m.

**On a ridge 200 meters outside the stronghold, Zhao Shixun lurked here with the Seventh Company. This time the task of attacking the stronghold of the puppet army, Yang Chenghu directly took all of them, as if he wanted to teach himself a lesson. Originally, Zhao Shixun proposed that he was responsible for attracting firepower, and the spy company was responsible for the raid. However, Yang Chenghu directly rejected Zhao Shixun's kindness on the grounds that the Seventh Company had few people and lacked training and heavy firepower.

Although Zhou Yu was very unhappy with Yang Chenghu's arrogance and rudeness, he once wanted to reason with Yang Chenghu. But Zhao Shixun stopped Zhou Yu as if he didn't care. His main task in this battle is to pick up Staff Officer Xue from his destination, and the rest of Yang Chenghu can do whatever he wants, anyway, he will not suffer.

Regarding the tactical arrangement of attacking the stronghold, Yang Chenghu didn't bother to discuss it with Zhao Shixun at all, he even felt that it would be redundant to bring out the seventh company, and it was enough to have himself and the second company in this mission. As for why the regiment commander arranged it like this, Yang Chenghu couldn't figure it out for a while, so he simply went his own way, as long as I didn't have a conflict with you.

As for covering the Seventh Company, needless to say, he will do his best without the regiment commander telling him.

On the ridge, Zhao Shixun lay behind the shelter that he had carefully arranged, raising his glasses to look at the situation down the mountain. Since the east has already turned white, the environment within a few hundred meters can be seen with the naked eye.

Under the cover of the darkness before dawn, Yang Chenghu and the spy company slowly touched the north and east sides of the stronghold and lurked.

……

The reason why the ** stronghold in front of everyone is called this name is not the name of the surrounding ** village, but it is related to the terrain here.

Before the construction of this stronghold, it was an ancient mountain road connecting Hengqu County and Jiangxian County. Due to the influence of the mountains on both sides, flash floods regularly wash the mountain roads whenever the rainy season comes. Over time, the rocks and dirt on both sides of the valley were slowly washed away, causing a beam to rise in the middle of the valley. Because of the appearance of Liangzi, the valley was divided into two, shaped like two ravines, so it was called ** by the locals.

After the founding of the Republic of China, Yan Xishan was a warlord who loved to engage in construction, and during his reign, he overhauled roads in Shanxi. Because the mountain road from Hengqu County to Jiangxian County passed by, local officials adapted measures to local conditions, transformed the mountains on both sides so that the flash floods no longer washed the valley, and then filled in the bottom of the two ravines in the valley, directly building the valley into a sandy road.

Because the beam raised in the middle is too large, the people who built the road did not remove the beam, which caused the sand road to divide into two after arriving here, and it only intersected again after stretching for hundreds of meters.

After the Japanese occupied the area, they built a number of strongholds along the road in order to control and block it. And one of the strongholds is cultivated in this **.

Because the raised beams here divide the mountain road in two, and it is the commanding height in the middle of the road. Therefore, the Japanese puppet army adapted measures to local conditions, built a gun tower on the beam that was nearly three meters high, built two rows of barracks next to the north and south of the gun tower, and then built a wall around the stronghold on the beam to isolate this stronghold.

In this way, a stronghold appeared in the middle of the mountain road. According to the old place name here, this stronghold is called **stronghold.

Due to the special location of this stronghold, although it was built in a valley, it did not border the mountains on either side. The stronghold was more than 30 meters away from the mountains on both sides, so it was very difficult to sneak attack. Moreover, the shape of this stronghold is very strange, the two ends are long and thin in the middle, forming a flat oval. Not only that, since the stronghold was built in the middle of the beam, the position of the main turret of the stronghold was very high, nearly three meters from the ground, and with the two-meter-high wall, the actual height of the wall in the middle of the stronghold had reached a height of five meters! If you count the turrets built on the beams, the enemy's firing position can reach a height of more than 11 meters, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack!

However, the only thing that has to be fortunate is that because this place is too remote, only the puppet army is stationed here for the time being, and the defense force of the stronghold is not strong.

…… To be continued.