After listening to Li Ziyuan's explanation, several people knew that the situation was urgent, and they all went separately to carry it out. Li Ziyuan told Ma Yongcheng to protect the local cadres and the wounded, and then he moved forward with the first battalion. Under Li Ziyuan's advice, the two infantry companies of the second battalion were formed as companies, and cautiously touched the puppet army garrison along the mountains on both sides of the mountain pass.

After the 2nd Battalion began to operate, He Huizhang took the barrels of two captured Japanese-made mortars, instead of carrying the baseplate, gun carriage and a large bundle of rope, and cautiously climbed up the rocky hill on the right flank. Although the mountain is not very high, it is quite steep.

So that the puppet army on the opposite side has no fortification points, and the terrain here can be so good? The mountain is full of craggy rocks, large and small, and from the halfway point of the mountain, there is almost no place to stay. The slopes on both sides of the mountainside can even be said to be seventy or eighty degrees, which makes the climb of He Huizhang quite difficult.

In some places, you can barely get through by crawling. In particular, it is necessary to carry dozens of kilograms of barrels, as well as thirty rounds *. Even the flashlight could not be used, and he could only use the limited moonlight to move forward in the dark, which made it extremely difficult for He Huizhang to travel.

If it weren't for the fact that the situation was quite grim, this mountain would not have been climbed. Even with the help of ropes, before they could climb the mountain, most of He Huizhang's hands and even his knees were bloody. But for He Huizhang, no matter how difficult it is, he and the fighters behind him are also persevering.

The altitude of this building, which is only more than 300 meters above sea level, took He Huizhang nearly an hour to transport two mortars and 30 shells to the mountain. It's just that when he arrived at the top of the mountain and looked at the shooting boundary in the direction of the puppet army, He Huizhang was a little dumbfounded.

It was indeed less than 800 meters away from the camp of the puppet army, and it was within the best range of the two Japanese-made mortars he carried up the mountain. But the problem is that the whole mountain is full of smooth big rocks. Even if there is no base plate and bracket with cannon, there is no way to erect a cannon.

Even the trajectory of the mortar allowed him to fire from the rear side of the hill. But the problem is that in the rear of the hill, there is no place to set up a cannon for him. Behind this hill is a slope of more than 100 meters that seems to be nearly 60 degrees, and only the slope on the facing side is slightly gentle.

Looking at the mountains of stones, He Huizhang took a deep breath. Tie yourself with a rope, let the two fighters pull the rope over there, and under the moonlight, look for a suitable launch position everywhere. It took more than twenty minutes to find a place that was barely suitable for the cannon to sink a little.

Because the bottom plate and brackets are omitted, the construction of the position is avoided. But the problem is that only one cannon can be placed here, and there is really no place to set up another mortar. I can only send someone to use the pickaxe I carry to find a way to widen a crack little by little.

At this moment, time was no longer allowed for him to pry the crack in the stone enough to accommodate the cannon body. Since you can have one to use now, use this one first. Taking into account the fact that the mortar with only the barrel in the hand is accurate, it shoots without a base plate and brackets.

He Huizhang did not use other fighters, but personally held the mortar, which had no bottom plate and no artillery mount. He personally acted as the gun body and bottom plate, and put the bottom of the mortar in his hand with only a body barrel on the recess of the stone to disperse the recoil. While quickly estimating the shooting elements, he kept adjusting the muzzle of the gun.

As for the remaining mortar, He Huizhang ordered the other fighters to expand the stone crack to the width of the body as soon as possible. I really can't wait until it starts, and then I will blow it up with a cluster*. He Huizhang, who was ready for everything, ignored the soldiers around him who wanted to replace him, and just held the cannon body and waited for the signal under the mountain.

It took a lot of effort to erect a mortar. The second battalion under the mountain was cautiously approaching the puppet army camp in front as much as possible. He Huizhang's action efficiency is very low, and in order to avoid waking up the puppet army, the speed of the march is not fast.

Especially when you have to constantly solve the situation of the guard posts and guard positions set up by the puppet army, the speed of the second battalion is even faster. However, at a distance of more than 3,000 meters, the troops moved for more than an hour. Fortunately, the reconnaissance company was trained by Li Ziyuan himself, and he did some work such as touching the whistle and beating the stuffy stick.

Moreover, although the puppet army set up a guard position on the periphery, especially on the hill on the left flank of the mountain pass. But there were not many of them, and there was only one on the ridge and one on the hill on the left flank. The guard post placed at the front is far away, but the number of sentries is not large. The entire defense system is still dominated by the warning fire points on the periphery of the camp.

By the time the vanguard company of the second battalion had arrived less than 500 meters away from the puppet army camp. Because of the fatigue caused by the continuous march, except for the yawning outer sentinels, the entire camp of the puppet army seemed to be silent. All the puppet soldiers were holding guns and sleeping around the fire.

At present, it is not yet time to check the sentry, and Li Ziyuan did not let the soldiers of the reconnaissance company cut the telephone line while touching the puppet army's guard position. Therefore, the periphery of the guard position has been eliminated, but the main force of the puppet army here has not noticed it in the slightest. Even a few of the moving posts haven't moved for a long time.

Perhaps these puppet soldiers are too confident and think that the Eighth Route, which is already busy under the siege of the three routes, does not have the courage to attack them. Perhaps it is because he thinks that he is strong in combat and that his weapons and equipment are now excellent. Coupled with the fact that it is backed by the main force of the division, even if there is an eight-way sneak attack, there will not be any big problem.

This puppet army obviously seemed a little lax, so that although Li Ziyuan's advance took a lot of time, he still touched the starting point of the attack that was not the best without arousing the detection of the puppet army. But basically it can be said that it is up to the distance of the sprint.

When he found a place 500 meters away from the puppet army's camp, Li Ziyuan crept on the ground and carefully held the binoculars, and carefully observed the puppet army's camp by the light of the fire on the puppet army's side. Shaking his head, he said to the second battalion commander beside him: "This puppet army is still very set, even if it is a camp, it has not relaxed its vigilance. ”

"Crossfire points are deployed throughout the perimeter, and the sentinels are a combination of light and dark sentinels. I reckon that our good fortune is basically over here, tell the troops to keep moving forward, but also be ready for battle. The heavy machine gun even gave me a machine gun, and the gun was fired at the first minute. ”

"But as long as the enemy does not notice it, you continue to touch forward. But be careful when touching forward. Let the scout company hit the outpost, and your troops will be deployed in no time. Several machine gun firing points should be knocked out as soon as they are fired. Grandma's, this puppet army is only a battalion of troops, and there are actually two heavy machine guns and seven or eight light machine guns. ”

After Li Ziyuan finished speaking, the second battalion commander nodded very cautiously. Just before he could answer, in the roundabout direction of a battalion outside the mountain pass, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly sounded. The sound of light and heavy machine gun fire, almost indistinguishable from the dot, was mixed with the sound of mortars and * explosions in between.

Hearing the sound of gunfire over there, Li Ziyuan was shocked. Judging from Zhang Zijian's roundabout time and speed, he has not yet reached the target location. The sound of dense gunfire should have been an encounter between them and the Japanese puppet army in advance. And judging by the sound of gunfire, the first battalion encountered a large number of enemy troops.

Thinking of this, looking at the puppet army camp in front of him that sounded like a bombing camp with the sound of gunfire behind him, Li Ziyuan gritted his teeth and said to the second battalion commander beside him: "There is no time to wait, the plan will be changed immediately." I'm here to concentrate my fire on you, and you attack right away. It is necessary to defeat this roadblock in the shortest possible time. ”

As soon as Li Ziyuan's order was issued, the second battalion commander had already stood up and shouted to the trumpeter beside him, and shouted to Lao Tzu to rush out. His trumpeter was obviously not slow to react, and his shout had not yet fallen, and the loud trumpet immediately resounded throughout the mountain pass.

With the sound of the charging horn, the regimental heavy machine gun company under Li Ziyuan's personal command also fired directly. The sound of gunfire and trumpets was an order, and the second battalion attacked, holding a mortar on the hill on the right flank. Aiming the muzzle of the gun at the puppet army's machine gun position, which had already been aimed, he raised his head and gave the reloading order to the squad leader who acted as a loader next to him.

It's just a pity that because there is no bottom plate and gun carriage, He Huizhang's first shell was crooked. Seeing that the first shell missed, although he was numb from being shocked, He Huizhang did not hesitate at all, and after resting Zhu Yuan for a while, he directly spoke to the squad leader who was a little hesitant beside him.

He gave another order: "Come again, you don't care about anything, just fill Lao Tzu." When the shells run out, when will they stop. Send someone to tell the second class that the action is faster for Lao Tzu. Now there is nothing to taboo, just give Lao Tzu a beating. ”

Hearing He Huizhang's order, the squad leader had tears on his face and loaded another shell towards the muzzle. As the battle progressed at the bottom of the mountain, He Huizhang used himself as a gun mount and bottom plate to accurately hit the position of the puppet army with one shell after another. And the gunner of another mortar behind him, watching the company commander's actions regardless of the danger, blew a crack in the stone slab with *.

A platoon commander held the mortar barrel and gave the same order to the fighters around him. At this time, the cadre's approach was to set an example, and with the issuance of the password, two mortars fired shells into the positions of the puppet army at the highest rate of fire, and bombed the puppet army's camp into a mess.

Although the first shell flew away, it did not fall outside the puppet army camp, but it did not hit the heavy machine gun fire point that was intended to be hit. After adjusting the shooting elements, the subsequent shells became more and more accurate. As soon as the two heavy machine guns carried by these puppet soldiers fired, they were blown up into the sky by He Huizhang's second and subsequent shots*, all of which were carried by people with guns.

The two heavy machine guns were blown up at the first time, and the light machine guns were suppressed by the heavy machine gun company commanded by Li Ziyuan in front, and the heavy machine gun firepower, which had an absolute advantage in numbers. In an instant, the counterattack firepower of this puppet army immediately dropped by more than one notch.

Li Ziyuan's stormy firepower attack when he came up made the counterattack firepower of the puppet army drop by more than one level as soon as it was fired. Most of the intercepting firepower of the puppet army was dumbfounded, and the rest was suppressed by the heavy machine guns under the personal command of Li Ziyuan.