Looking at the backs of Niu Er and several special forces quietly disappearing into the darkness, Liu Lang's face swelled with a satisfied smile.

Not only did the training team set up more than a year ago play a role, but his order for all battalions and companies to hold monthly strategic and tactical training lectures for officers of the rank of second lieutenant and above also played a role.

The little ensign in front of him, who was just a peasant kid five years ago, can clearly describe his strategic intentions, which shows that his choice of Yu Xiancheng as the captain of the special operations brigade is a very correct choice. Each of these young officers with special operations experience may have the ability to qualify as the commander of a grassroots combat unit.

In the event of a major war, when there are too many casualties among junior officers, they are the most reliable alternate commanders.

This is actually one of Liu Lang's biggest achievements in the past five years.

Soldiers, good moves. In the entire northern part of Sichuan, the county security regiments established with huge financial support are the most powerful source of troops.

However, officers with actual combat experience are rare. It is possible for a tiger to lead a pack of sheep to defeat a pack of wolves, but even if a sheep leads a pack of wolves, the most likely option is to gnaw on the grassroots.

Liu Lang's purpose is to train thousands of officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment into hundreds or even thousands of officers, even if in the future continuous wars, he dies in battle, the battalion commanders are killed, the recruits of the Independent Regiment are exhausted, and the veterans are dead, as long as these officers are still there, the Independent Regiment will not fall.

It is not enough to rely on the spirit of killing the enemy's horse leather shroud, but also to have the ability to compete with the powerful Japanese invaders. The base and arsenal left by Liu Lang in Guangyuan can provide a steady stream of weapons, the gold-absorbing monster of the Chinese business group created can provide a steady stream of military funds, coupled with the ability of these young officers to continue to learn and progress, as long as the two regiments of the Independent Regiment and the Northern Sichuan Security Regiment are not annihilated at one time, the Independent Regiment will always be at the forefront of the War of Resistance against Japan.

Of course, Liu Lang has that self-confidence, and he does not yet have the ability of the Japanese army to destroy two regiments with a total number of 7,000 people in one battle.

Although Niu Er's vision has a lot of limitations, what he said is exactly what he thinks of with Liu Lang.

Tactical deception? Encirclement for reinforcements?

No, the goal of tactical deception is not to attract Japanese troops from the front line of Niangziguan, but to protect as much baggage as possible. The encirclement was not for reinforcements, but for the Japanese troops who abandoned Jingcheng County and fled, as long as they left Jingcheng County, they were a piece of meat on the chopping board, and they could cut it as they wanted.

After receiving Liu Lang's telegram, the 771st Regiment and the 129th Division Headquarters of the 771st Regiment and the 129th Division Headquarters were on a rapid march after receiving Liu Lang's telegram, and after staying in place for a short period of ten minutes, the two infantry regiments turned around on the mountain road, and the whole army was lightly armed, except for carrying six mortars and enough mortar shells, all the heavy equipment was thrown on the mountain road, and along the direction of Shimen in Shiyu Town, under the leadership of local hunter guides, the whole army pointed up their partners and disappeared into the mountain forest.

The rest of the troops continued to rush along the mountain road to Jingcheng County, a large army of nearly 10,000 people, raising torches like a giant dragon, stretching for more than eight miles. If it was Harada Shinichi from Jingcheng County, he would be able to faint in fright.

The strength of the Chinese army, which was the idea of attacking him in Jingcheng County, far exceeded that of an infantry division. More than a dozen times the strength of his men.

More than 2,000 people from the three infantry battalions of the Independent Regiment, plus the Zhuangding Battalion and the Artillery Battalion, all rushed to the area around Xuehua Mountain before 10 o'clock to assemble.

Leaving behind about 400 people from the two Blue Army squadrons of the Zhuangding Battalion to take care of more than 300 three-jumpers, the rest of them all marched on foot towards the county town of Jingcheng, which had been completely blackened six miles away.

The officers and men of the artillery battalion who accompanied the infantry did not use pack horses this time, but carried the mountain guns and mortars that were unloaded in a few pieces by hand, and the shells were handed over to the 400 men of the Zhuangding Battalion, who served as their ammunition men and part-time guards.

This time, the independent regiment was exhausted except for the first battalion of infantry, and there was no infantry to guard them anymore.

The three infantry battalions, the Bayonet Battalion were responsible for the east gate, the Death Battalion was responsible for the south gate, and the Rock Battalion was responsible for the west gate, while the regimental headquarters and the artillery battalion were in the center, commanding the overall situation and providing artillery support to the three attack points.

The small city of Jingcheng, which will never run more than 2 kilometers from east to west, is almost entirely within the range of the artillery battalion stationed on a hill 800 meters from the city gate, whether it is a mountain artillery with a range of 6 kilometers or an 82 mortar with a range of 2,500 meters.

Leaving Zhang Tuan, who was cold again, to sit at the regimental headquarters, Liu Lang took two personal signal soldiers and guard platoons to follow the death battalion to the south gate and arrived in the woods 500 meters away from the south gate.

The Japanese army is wealthy, up to 800 meters wide on the city wall, set up two large searchlights, located at the gate of the city on the left and right, staggered with a huge pillar of light to sweep the ground hundreds of meters away, from the city wall to the woods, although it is not a slight, but if you want to quietly sneak into the effective range of the rifle to shoot at the Japanese soldiers in the fortifications on the city wall, it is an extremely difficult thing.

Squinting his eyes, lying in the grass, holding a telescope disguised with a camouflage net, adapting to the high brightness of the searchlight, looking at the city wall, Zhou Shiyu's face was a little serious.

The county seat of Jingcheng is a small mountainous town, and its population was only tens of thousands at its peak. Such a small city wall is naturally impossible to compare with some big cities, saying that the city wall is actually just an earthen wall buttress, no more than three people high, even the so-called city gate is not as powerful and domineering as imagined, no more than four meters high, no more than six meters wide, that is, it can barely walk three big cars side by side, two large wooden doors no more than ten centimeters thick can be blown into pieces with a single shot.

Therefore, when the 17th Division defended the county ten days ago, it completely abandoned the defense of the city wall, but took advantage of the mountainous geography and used the small hills south of the city to form a defensive line.

The sand-wrapped firepower points at the gates of the city, which were not very wide, were clearly visible, and although it was impossible to see how many troops were defending on the walls, they were by no means less than one infantry squad.

Some people may think that by sending these firing points into the sky with mortar bombardment, the soldiers can storm the city through this open field, but as a commander who has become more and more mature, Zhou Shiyu would never think so.

The defense on the city wall will never be less than an infantry squadron, which means that the defense in the south gate area will never be less than an infantry squadron. No commander would have foolishly put all his forces on the walls of the city with little defense, and the vast majority of the Japanese troops must have relied on the houses behind the south gate to build a well-established position, and once the assault began, it was not only a question of how many casualties his death battalion would have to pay to pass through this open field with a width of 400 meters, but also a question of how long it would take him to clear the enemy at the south gate.

The combat mission of his death battalion, in addition to breaking through the southern city as quickly as possible to clear the defending enemy, also needs to provide cover for the Niu Er special forces team, so that they can enter the west city and prevent the Japanese army from jumping over the wall from slaughtering civilians or even taking civilians as hostages.

If he wanted to deal with this part of the Japanese army as soon as possible, he had to attack the city wall before they could react, and engage in street battles with the Japanese army with infantry squads and even infantry platoons as units, so that the special forces squad and two infantry platoons could advance along the alleys to Xicheng.

Why did he choose to walk from the south gate instead of the closer West Gate, Zhou Shiyu knew that the West Gate General was destined to become an important place to contain the main force of the Japanese army, and he would only attack but not break through in the short term, and only when he completely broke through the South Gate, the combined attack of the two armies would annihilate the defenders of the West Gate in one fell swoop.

Before coming, Zhou Shiyu, who had studied the map of Jingcheng County many times, had already thought of many plans, using Niu Er's special forces squad to sneak into the city wall and attack, or the infantry squad to carry out a large number of blasts with explosives packs。。。。。 But now, under the two large searchlights of the Japanese army, everything has become a reverie.

The five or six black shadows walking back and forth with the three or eight big covers on the head of the city are not blind, it is easy to solve them at the same time, but the sound of gunfire will also alarm all the enemies, Zhou Shiyu s brows furrowed.

But Liu Tuanzuo on the side looked at his watch for a long time.

The hour hand is already pointing to 11 o'clock.

At this time, in this era when there is no nightlife, especially in such a small mountain town, even if you go to the Qinglou, the pop is over, and basically everyone enters the dream.

Even the Japanese army was no exception.

Even if Shinichi Harada issued a military order for martial law in the whole city before dinner, ordering the defenders on duty to double the number of people, it could not stop the surging sleepiness that accompanied the dead of night.

For example, the Japanese soldier Ushio Huoguo, who was holding a gun and walking back and forth mechanically on the 50-meter city wall, don't look at his walking is very standard, the speed is completely the patrol standard. But it's only when you look closer, you know that this strange Mr. Ushio has squinted his eyes and fallen asleep. It's almost snoring and drooling.

Because the troops are constantly being transferred, but the number of defenders is still so large, the 3rd Squad of the 6th Squadron of the Baggage Wing responsible for defending the South Gate has been defending here at the South Gate for nearly ten days without changing its defenses. Although not as unfortunate as the high-spirited infantry who were sent to the front line to fight the Chinese, the ten-day nervous garrison patrol also exhausted this group of heavy soldiers who only carried and carried materials and rarely accepted combat tasks most of the time.

In particular, the team leader of the squad is very mountaineous, and the captain of the squad who is a native of Nagano Prefecture naturally takes good care of his fellow villagers, and the drudgery on duty at night naturally falls on the heads of a group of soldiers who are regarded as mud-legged turtles such as Ushio in a village on the outskirts of Nagano.

The first class soldier of the cow tail, who had not slept well for several days, used to be a cowherd baby for the landlord's lord, and the cows were grazing on the mountain, and he could lie on the grass and sleep all day, but this lack of sleep cost him a small life. Even if His Excellency Dazuo issued a strict order that if the defense was unfavorable, he would not be able to resist the surging sleepiness that came wave after wave!

What's more, the cattle herding baby in Nagano yesterday took a look at the vacancy and went to the Qinglou in the county seat, and the first-class soldier who was scolded by his own people as a cheap slave every day got the feeling of a super uncle from the woman who sold spring in China, and he didn't have to pay for it, and he had already hollowed out his body for a long time, and he could still insist on patrolling with his eyes closed at this time, which was really a great face for Harada Shindai.

Private 1st class, who could fall asleep while walking, did not know that he might have enough sleep time in the future.

"Order, Sunset Action, Begin." Liu Lang said to the thirteen who were lying on his stomach beside him.

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