As for how to attack the Baisha stronghold, Xie Pingcai had already thought about it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since his second battalion was in charge of the direction of Wild Boar Ridge, his first company was assigned to operate on Wild Boar Ridge, and the main task of his reconnaissance platoon, a squad, was to reconnoiter the movement of the Baisha stronghold.

Take the present as an example, Matsushita Shin has been sending troops to strengthen the Baisha stronghold some time ago, and the Japanese army alone has stationed two squadrons, and there is also a squadron of the Imperial Allied Army. At the same time, the fortifications of the Baisha stronghold were also reinforced, and on the hill to the north, several hidden forts were built, and the underground forts were connected by communication trenches on the ground, and there were alternate tunnels underground.

In addition, on the top of the hill, there is also an artillery position of the Japanese army, on which two 92 infantry guns and four mortars are arranged, and its fire range can cover a range of 1,000 meters around the Baisha stronghold.

It can be said that in the event of an attack on the Baisha stronghold, the infantry guns and mortars placed on the hill can provide fire support in either direction.

In the other squadron of the Japanese army, except for one squadron that stayed at the command post of the Baisha stronghold, the remaining two squadrons were guarded in the east and south respectively, and the west was guarded by a company of the squadron of the Imperial Cooperative Army.

Another company of the squadron of the Imperial Association Army was guarding the Qingyang Bridge in Sanlidi, the stronghold of Liubaisha.

Qingyang Bridge is the nearest road from Baisha stronghold to Hefei, Qingyang Bridge is erected on the Qingyang River, the surface of the Qingyang River is about 20 meters long, and the Qingyang Bridge is about 40 meters long.

The two platoons of that company guarded both sides of the bridge, and the other platoon, as a reserve, lived in a compound west of the bridge.

In order to be able to conquer the Baisha stronghold, Xie Pingcai has been racking his brains to think about how to successfully capture it, in addition to keeping an eye on the devil's movements.

When it was dark, Xie Pingcai's second battalion came to the outside of the Baisha stronghold.

"Comrades, this is the Baisha stronghold, where the Japanese army has deployed two squadrons of troops to defend, and in order to facilitate command, Ichiro Kameda, the captain of the 1st Brigade of Matsushita Nobuyuki, personally commands it. This is the northern mountain of the Baisha stronghold, on which the devils not only built strong fortifications, but also arranged artillery positions......"

With the introduction of the battalion commander, several company commanders knew that attacking the Baisha stronghold was a vicious battle, especially the artillery position of the devils in Beishan, if it could not be destroyed, it would bring a serious threat to the attacking troops.

"The situation is understood, now I will start to issue the task, Zuo Guanglong, your company is responsible for the attack on Beishan, remember, as soon as the reconnaissance platoon occupies the devil's artillery position, you will immediately attack Beishan at all costs, and cooperate with the reconnaissance platoon to hold the mountain. Zheng Zhicai, your second company attacked Qingyang Bridge at 11:44 tonight to cut off the devil's reinforcements. Ling Yixuan, after the Beishan Rebellion, your third company will immediately attack the Baisha stronghold from the south. Captain Lin, after the battle begins, your men will launch a feint attack on the Baisha stronghold from the west to contain the enemy as much as possible. Company Commander Qian, your machine gun company is deployed here, once the enemy breaks through from the west, you must stop the enemy, and I will let the guard platoon cooperate with your actions. Company Commander Shu, you set up a position in this position, and as soon as the battle starts, immediately use artillery fire to provide fire support for the third company. Xie Pingcai's face was solemn.

It can be said that in order to take the Baisha stronghold, he has sent all the troops in his hands, even the guard platoon, which he has also sent to cooperate with the machine gun company.

The machine gun company was full of machine guns, and these were all his treasures, so he naturally had to send troops to assist in the operation.

After seeing that everyone had clarified the task, Xie Ping looked at everyone and said, "Everyone go back and prepare separately, national platoon commander, whether you can successfully take the enemy's stronghold this time depends on your reconnaissance platoon." ”

"Please rest assured that our reconnaissance platoon will complete the mission." The platoon commander said solemnly.

His reconnaissance platoon has always maintained reconnaissance of the Baisha stronghold, although the devils are very closely guarding Beishan, but because when the Beishan position was built, the devils forcibly recruited some laborers, including the reconnaissance platoon.

Although the position in the later stage was perfect, and the devils did it themselves, the general situation of the position was still very clear to the national platoon commander.

At the same time, in order to use flash floods to drain when it rains, the devils still built flood drainage facilities on Beishan, although those ditches are hidden, but the national platoon commander knows very well.

After carefully studying the entire situation in Beishan, the platoon commander still found a secret passage that could be secretly circumvented to the artillery position on the mountain. It's just that this secret passage must first pass through the devil's first line of defense.

For this reason, it was natural for Zheng Zhicai's second company to attack Qingyang Bridge first to attract the attention of the devils, and then the reconnaissance platoon took the opportunity to mix up the devils' first line of defense.

At 11:44 p.m., under the command of company commander Zheng Youcai, the second company and a platoon suddenly jumped out of the darkness and launched an attack on the position of the Imperial Association Army on the east side of Qingyang Bridge.

It's a pity that they have been beaten by the artillery bombardment of the second company and can't raise their heads, and finally when the shelling is over, the New Fourth Army will appear in front of them.

The platoon successfully occupied the east side of the bridge, and immediately launched a confrontation with the Imperial Allied army west of the bridge across the bridge.

The company commander of the Imperial Association Army stationed at Qingyang Bridge saw that he was guarding a platoon guarding the east of the bridge, and that there was less than a squad running across the west of the bridge.

It's just that he didn't know that Zheng Youcai's second platoon had crossed the Qingyang River from the downstream of the Qingyang Bridge at that time, and had quietly reached their back.

Hearing the sound in the direction of Qingyang Bridge, a reconnaissance platoon that had quietly gone around to the west side of the devil's Beishan position suddenly launched an attack on the devils defending the west side of the Beishan position.

The devils guarding the north side of the Beishan position couldn't help but look east when they heard the sudden sound of gunfire from the east, and at this time, the soldiers of the other two squads of the reconnaissance platoon, wearing camouflage, climbed into a small ditch against the ground, and then climbed over next to one of the devils' firepower points with great caution.

There was the cover of gunfire and explosions in the west, and because gunshots also sounded in the direction of Qingyang Bridge, the devil was in a panic, and his attention could not help but be attracted.

A few minutes later, when the Japanese squadron leader defending Kitayama received Kameda's order to strengthen his guard, two squads of the reconnaissance platoon had successfully passed the first line of defense of the Japanese army.

As soon as they entered the woods behind the first line of defense of the Japanese army, flares were raised in the sky one after another.

If they are slow to move and enter the woods half a minute late, I am afraid that they will be directly exposed to the eyes of the devils.

The flares were raised, and the reconnaissance platoon to the west immediately stopped attacking, looked for cover and hid.

As the Japanese army became alert, flares were raised everywhere in the entire Baisha stronghold, making it look like daylight, Xie Ping looked at all this, like a statue, his eyes only staring at the direction of Beishan.

When the platoon commander saw that the devil began to shoot flares, he couldn't help wiping his sweat, whispered two words to the soldiers behind him, and then walked around from the woods to the north, and when he arrived at the edge of the forest, he saw a dark fortress not far away with fire leaking out, and immediately signaled the soldiers to stick to the ground, and under the leadership of the two sharp soldiers, they climbed up very carefully.

The place where they crawled was a concave trough-like terrain, extending upwards at an angle of fifty degrees, but the length was only about six meters, and according to the predetermined plan, after climbing up from this trough, they immediately entered the small jungle, and then turned back to the south, walked under a cliff, and climbed up carefully.

The artillery position of the devils is set up on the top of the cliff.

The cliff is about 20 meters high, but fortunately it is not a smooth stone wall, and there are weeds and small trees growing in between.

Finally arrived at the bottom of the cliff, the national platoon commander looked at the soldiers around him, signaled everyone to prepare for battle, and then the two clever soldiers began to carefully climb up against the cliff.

This cliff is just the dead end of the devil's fortifications, and as for the enemy in the hidden fortress, they are mainly guarding against the New Fourth Army attacking from the bottom of the mountain, and they can't see the cliff behind them.

The reconnaissance platoon in the west, which was responsible for creating turmoil, saw that the flares of the devils began to thin out, and immediately changed places and launched an attack on the enemy.

Kameda received a report from the command post that the New Fourth Army was attacking the Qingyang Bridge, and at the same time on the west side of Kitayama there was enemy harassment, but there was no movement in the rest of the directions.

Kameda couldn't help but be a little confused, the New Fourth Army had always wanted to attack the Baisha stronghold, and he had already prepared for this, otherwise, the wing captain would not let him personally sit in the Baisha stronghold.

It's just that he didn't expect Liu Tianshu to be so calm, it has been two months since he arrived at the Baisha stronghold, and the New Fourth Army has not made any moves.

Now the New Fourth Army has finally begun to act, but its actions are unspeakably strange.

The New Fourth Army attacked Qingyang Bridge, which is understandable, after all, Qingyang Bridge is the main road from the Baisha stronghold to Hefei, and if the Qingyang Bridge is captured, it is equivalent to cutting off the connection between the Baisha stronghold and Hefei.

However, there is not only one road leading to Hefei in Baisha stronghold, but other roads are farther away.

It can be said that as long as the New Fourth Army cannot capture the Baisha stronghold, even if the Qingyang Bridge is blown up, it will not make much sense.

And now around the Baisha stronghold, only the shadow of the New Fourth Army appeared on the west side of the Beishan position, but the other directions were calm, what did Liu Tianshu want to do?

While hesitating to send troops to reinforce Qingyang Bridge, he reported the situation of the Baisha stronghold to the wing commander by phone. (To be continued.) )