readx; Artillery and communication networks were well protected, and the hills of several of the main positions were almost hollowed out, with several layers of tunnels built. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info machine guns, mortars, and heavy artillery form a dense network of firepower, and the configuration of all weapons and the firing targets have been accurately calculated, which can not only conceal themselves, but also maximize the damage to the enemy.

Fortunately, due to the early launch of the 19th Route Army's attack, the army had not yet had time to complete this huge project, and the reserves of ammunition and food did not reach half of the required requirements. Despite this, it still caused a lot of damage to the [***] team.

At this time, the attacking troops, which were desperately suppressed on the hillside by the firepower of the Japanese army, were in a dilemma: they were unable to break through the fire network of the Japanese army, and retreated, and the road was already covered by the artillery fire of the Japanese army. The various weapons of the army continued to shoot outward from the tunnel, and the attacking troops suffered new casualties every minute! Suddenly, the heavy artillery group hidden behind the mountains roared angrily, and hundreds of shells bombarded the depth of the Xiangshan position one after another, and the dense smoke of gunpowder immediately enveloped the position, blocking the sight of the Japanese army, and the attacking troops took the opportunity to support the wounded and carry the bodies of the war dead and retreated. This attack took only an hour, but the two infantry battalions invested suffered one-third casualties and almost completely lost their combat effectiveness!

As soon as Liao Qirong walked into the former enemy headquarters of the provisional 27th Division, he saw Zhang Qifeng roaring angrily at the two officers in front of him: "Who told you to retreat?" Do you know what kind of punishment is to be punished for retreating? Go and take back the ground for me right now! If you are afraid of death, Lao Tzu will do it himself! ”

The two officers immediately touched their heels and loudly agreed: "Yes!" Then he turned and prepared to leave.

Only then did Liao Qirong see the tragic condition of the two officers: one had an arm hanging from it, the other had a thick bandage wrapped around his head, his body was covered with thick mud, and his cheeks were black and shiny from gunsmoke. He thought: Even the officers are like this, and the troops must have suffered heavy casualties!

Liao Qirong hurriedly walked over and said to the two officers in an unquestionable tone: "Don't act for the time being, go back and wait for new orders!" Then he said to Zhang Qifeng: "Master Zhang, I want to talk to you!" ”

The two officers saluted Liao Qirong first, then glanced at each other, then looked at Zhang Qifeng, and saw that he walked out quickly without saying a word.

Zhang Qifeng looked at Liao Qirong with two eyes, and asked provocatively: "Are you here to see the joke or to reprimand me as the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army!" ”

Liao Qirong knew that his mood at the moment must be extremely bad, so he ignored his provocation and asked unhurriedly: "Senior Commander Zhang, the army is obviously prepared, the fortifications are extremely strong, and even heavy artillery can't be destroyed, do you think you can fight it according to the current fighting style?" Is it worth the sacrifice? Although the brothers all tucked their heads into the waistbands of their trousers to fight, was it too unjust to die in such a way? ”

Zhang Qifeng was stopped by his series of questions, and said reluctantly: "These brothers are all my Sichuan compatriots, don't I feel heartbroken?" But it's not the same to change to another team! We can't let people say that our Sichuan army is pus! He has always been haunted by the humiliation of the Songhu battlefield.

Liao Qirong nodded in understanding, and then said: "The loss of this style of play is too great, it must be stopped, let's discuss it first to see if there is a better way, if it really doesn't work, report the situation here to the headquarters and ask for the cancellation of the operation!" ”

Zhang Qifeng's face showed an expression of disbelief, and he said, "How can the headquarters agree!" Isn't it a joke that so many troops were mobilized, so many supplies were consumed, and nothing was caught in the end! ”

Liao Qirong said solemnly: "The commander will agree!" Then he said, "But before we report, we still have to work hard to see if there is a better way." ”

Zhang Qifeng said dejectedly: "What good way can I do? I guess the little devils must have hollowed out these mountains, they are hiding in the tunnels, and the heavy artillery can't threaten them, but they can attack our army at any time, and there is no way to fight without taking people's lives! Then he said helplessly: "If only we had a 400 mm caliber super heavy artillery!" ”

Liao Qirong suddenly remembered something when he heard this, his eyes radiated a light of hope, and he asked eagerly: "Senior Commander Zhang, do you say that the army will still have such strong firepower and so many fortresses on the side facing the Yangtze River?" ”

Zhang Qifeng immediately understood what he meant, and said: "I don't think it's possible to be so strong, but we don't have fleet support, how can we fight from the riverside?" ”

Liao Qirong explained: "We can collect a few fishing boats, quietly transport the attacking troops to the front of the Japanese army position at night, and then touch the top of the mountain, and clear the tunnels and bunkers one by one from top to bottom!" Since it was a sneak attack, the number of people did not need to be too large, and one company would be fine. Equip them with flamethrowers and grenades and you're sure to drive enemies out of their burrows like rats! ”

Zhang Qifeng immediately became excited, and suggested: "If the enemy hides in the tunnel and resists stubbornly, and the tunnel is relatively long, the effect of the flamethrower is not as good as using smoke, or directly seal the entrance and starve the little devil inside!" ”

Liao Qirong shook his head and said, "There must be a lot of vents in the tunnel, and there should be a lot of grain and fresh water storage, and the army can still hold out for a while." ”

Zhang Qifeng said in a relaxed tone: "This is not easy to do!" As long as smoke is placed at the entrance of the passage, it will definitely come out of the vent, and we will find that one is sealed and the other is blocked, and the army will definitely not be able to escape! ”

Zhang Qifeng's method was very practical, and Liao Qirong nodded again and again, and then asked: "If your troops still take the lead, is there a problem?" ”

Zhang Qifeng's eyebrows immediately danced, and he said that there was no problem.

Liao Qirong finally reminded: "I think the target of the attack should be changed: the army in Xiangshan has become a frightened bird, and it will be more difficult to get closer, so it is better to directly attack the Changshan position!" ”

Zhang Qifeng nodded hurriedly and added: "Changshan Mountain is the highest altitude among these peaks, and if you lead it, you can overlook the rest of the positions, so that their every move can be seen, and it will be very easy to fight the others!" ”

Liao Qirong saw that the problem had been solved, so he said goodbye to Zhang Qifeng and prepared to go to the position of the provisional 27th Division to have a look.

Zhang Qifeng immediately gathered several major officers non-stop to discuss the sneak attack plan.

From ten o'clock in the evening, the heavy artillery brigade from time to time to shell the Xiangshan position, the target is the fire point exposed in the daytime battle, the burning fireball constantly rises from behind the mountains, glides through the dark night sky in a beautiful arc, and then ignites a raging flame on the hillside, like a fireworks. At the same time, the divisional artillery regiments of the 1st and 27th Divisions and the 60th Division also fired non-stop at the main positions of Changshan, Zangshanji, and Madang, firmly attracting the attention of the Japanese army to the land.

Less than a few minutes after the shelling began, five fishing boats quietly rowed out of a river in Xiangkou in the lower reaches of Xiangshan, and under the cover of the reeds and shrubs growing on the bank, they went upriver and marched toward the Changshan position. In order to ensure the concealment of the operation, the tall masts were sawn off by the roots, and dozens of bundles of reeds were tied to the sides of the sides and the top of the cabins, making it difficult to distinguish the outline of the ship even from the riverbank. The commandos threw away the rattling oars and replaced them with long pieces of wood that were paddled on either side of the boat, and the fishing boat moved slowly but surely forward.

Commando Captain Li Yong knelt on one knee at the bow of the ship, and beside him were two light machine guns on full standby. Through the telescope, you can clearly see the continuous flames rising on the position of the Yue army, while the side near the Yangtze River is unusually quiet: perhaps the Yue army is completely defenseless, or it may be like a beast with an open mouth coveting its prey in the night.

When approaching the Xiangshan position, the assault team encountered the first obstacle: the Japanese army used searchlights to scan the river every few minutes, and from time to time used light machine guns to conduct fire reconnaissance, and the guard was still quite tight.

Li Yong waved his boat to stop, and the commandos immediately stopped their movements, grabbed the reeds next to them with their hands to stabilize the fishing boat, and then the soldiers at the stern of the boat notified the other boats with a few crisp birdsongs, and after a few minutes, the fleet stopped.

The oncoming night breeze already had a faint autumn mood, but it couldn't stop the beads of sweat from sliding down his forehead, Li Yong felt that his heart was beating rapidly, and his throat and eyes seemed to be about to smoke: he had been waiting for half an hour, but the searchlights on the shore were still shining back and forth tirelessly, and there was no sign of stopping! From this point of view, it is impossible to wait for the enemy to relax, only to take risks! Li Yong is well aware of the importance of this mission, in order not to make the actions of the group army in vain, in order to win back face for his troops, he must not give up no matter what!

Thinking of this, he tried to calm his mind, carefully calculating the interval between the searchlight strafs, observing the coverage of the searchlight, and then combining his own speed to guess the possible surnames of the passes.

After coming to a conclusion, Li Yong whispered his plan to the soldiers around him, and then passed it to the stern of the boat, and the soldiers at the back quietly slipped into the water to inform the other boats.

After the equipment was completed, Li Yong gently raised his right hand, his eyes staring at the searchlight of Yue Jun, behind him, dozens of pairs of eyes gathered on his hands, and the sound of people's violent heartbeats could be heard on the fishing boat

Gao Qing's arm swung down vigorously, dozens of improvised oars entered the water at the same time, and quickly rowed backwards, and the fishing boat suddenly started and accelerated to rush forward. The oars rose and fell, and only the heavy wheezing of the soldiers and the soft sound of the oars entering the water could be heard on the boat, and the commandos, including Li Yong, all entered a state of selflessness, just waving their arms desperately.

The huge pillar of light of the searchlight quickly swept back, straight in the direction of the fishing boat, Li Yong's heart suddenly rose to his throat, and the feeling of having lost all his previous efforts suddenly rose in his heart, and the soldiers behind him also reached the limit of speed in an instant!

The pillar of light brushed past the stern of the boat, and the silhouette of a few bushes of reeds clearly appeared on the surface of the river!

It worked! Li Yong's heart fluttered with ecstasy, and he hurriedly suppressed the urge to cheer, and motioned to the soldiers to continue rowing, waiting for the boat behind them in a place where the searchlight could not shine.

The three fishing boats in the back passed the blockade of the searchlights without danger, but the last one had a problem: several fighters were overly nervous and forced, and the oars in their hands were broken, and the fishing boat made a turn in the middle of the river, and as soon as the bow of the boat was adjusted, the searchlight shone straight on the boat!

The warriors all stopped, and the fishing boats came to rest quietly on the water, swaying with the undulations of the waves, casting long shadows on the river.

Unexpectedly, the searchlight did not stop at all, moving directly from the boat and shining on the river in the distance. The warriors who escaped death immediately burst out with amazing strength, and the fishing boats sped forward close to the surface of the water, converging with several boats in front

Li Yong secretly shouted: Bodhisattva bless! Then he commanded the flotilla to move forward and docked on the side of the Changshan position near Xiangshan.

After all the personnel and equipment were disembarked, several planks from the bottom of the fishing boat were pulled out, and the river water suddenly gushed in, and the fishing boat sank rapidly, and there was no trace of it again.

At night, it was so dark that it was like a deep pool where you couldn't see the edge and couldn't see the end.

In the bushes under the cliff, Li Yong concentrated the commandos around him and carried out a simple battle mobilization: "We are alone in the depths of the army, without strong artillery support, and the army is not only condescending and waiting for work, but also has strong fortifications as the backing, so our actions must be swift and decisive -- climb to the top of the cliff from here, crush the enemy on the top of the mountain with lightning speed, and gain a foothold!" After dawn, cooperate with the large army to clear the fortress of the army layer by layer! ”

After saying that, Li Yong immediately instructed the commandos to climb up the steep cliff. A skilled martial arts warrior with a nimble body climbs in front with a rope, and when he finds a slightly flat spot, he hangs down the rope to meet the followers

With the help of the artemisia grass and shrubs growing on the cliff, the commandos successfully climbed to the top from the side of the Changshan position after more than an hour of climbing, and what surprised the commandos was that there was no one guarding the top of the mountain with an area of nearly 100 square meters.

Overjoyed, the commandos hurriedly built a simple circular trench on the top of the hill and waited quietly for dawn to come.

The milky white morning mist drifted gently like a veil, and the east showed a hazy light.

Three red flares rose into the air, and the commandos signaled a charge to the large force. As soon as the signal flares disappeared into the sky, the shells fell one after another on the mountainside, and a loud bang was heard, and waves of gunpowder smoke rose from the Changshan position, followed by violent explosions on several other positions of the Japanese army.

After a short artillery bombardment, the troops hidden at the foot of the hill rushed forward with a shout, and bullets, grenades, and grenades instantly covered the surface of the Japanese army's position, and everywhere there was a dazzling light of fire and billowing smoke. After rushing out of more than 100 meters, the soldiers lay down on the ground one after another, digging improvised bunkers, and the shouts of killing in their mouths became louder, and at the same time, the artillery fired dozens of smoke bombs into the front line of the army's position, blocking the enemy's sight with thick smoke.

Listening to the agitated shouts in front of the position, the army did not dare to be careless at all, and frantically counterattacked, spraying out fire snakes from the tunnels, bunkers, and trenches, interweaving into a huge fire net on the ground, and blocking the route of advance

Li Yong divided the assault team into more than a dozen fire groups, quietly touched down from the top of the mountain, and cleared the exposed fortresses one by one. Whenever they found a shooting hole, the commandos threw a grenade and then used a flamethrower to spray high-temperature flames into it, turning the confined space into a hell of Chengren, and the soldiers who were cowering inside were burned with charcoal in the shape of Chengren before they could scream. The fireteam, which did not have flamethrowers, used the grenade as a bayonet and launched it directly into the bunker, destroying the fortified fortress from the inside. After the loud noise, the fragments of cement and concrete fell like rain.

The battle was carried out cleanly, and in just a few dozen minutes, the assault team had successively destroyed more than 20 bunkers and firing points, and also completely destroyed a 50-meter-long tunnel, and the firepower of the counterattack was significantly weakened.

At this time, the army found that its position had been infiltrated by the [***] team, and began to carry out a frantic counterattack, trying to annihilate the [***] team on the top of the mountain first, and then concentrate all their strength to deal with the attack below the mountain.

The artillery of the Madang Fortress braved the dense shells to push the artillery onto the position, and poured shells on the top of the Changshan position. The shells whistled and exploded around the commandos, and the thick smoke, like a huge black veil, obscured the sun and the blue sky, firmly over the heads of the fighters. Dirt, stones, discarded weapons flew wildly with the screams of shrapnel

The heavy artillery brigade immediately corrected its target and destroyed all the exposed artillery of Madang Fortress with a three-minute rapid fire, and the Japanese troops in the Changshan position lost artillery support.

After the shelling stopped, more than 50 soldiers rushed out of a hidden tunnel, howling and rushing towards the assault team in steps.

Taking advantage of the fact that the army had not yet had time to gain a firm foothold on the ground and had no time to form a battle formation, the commandos struck them with semi-automatic rifles, light machine guns, and grenades, and the bullets rained down on the enemy crowd and jumped around them like locusts. After a short assault, more than 30 corpses lay on the surface of the position, and the soldiers who had escaped by luck fled back into the tunnel.

At this time, the assault team took advantage of the victory to pursue, advanced along the tunnel for more than ten meters, and finally encountered a light machine gun to block it, killing and wounding seven or eight people and failing to beat it, Li Yong immediately made a decision, leaving a fire team to block the entrance to the cave, and the others continued to attack the bunker of the army!

(To be continued)