The headquarters of the First Division was located in a small mountain village five miles away from Zengjiazhai, and a large-scale map of the Taihang Mountains was hung on the wall of the war room of the division headquarters. In addition to the two of them and the staff officers who were busy answering the phone, there were two other people in the command, they were Song Zhewu and Xiao Guodong. Because this was the first large-scale operation of the security forces, both of them were a little uneasy, so they followed. However, Zhang Yafei has already been explained, and all the commands are arranged by him, so there is no need to ask them for instructions. At this moment, the two were sitting on the side drinking tea.

A staff officer reported: "Report to the division commander, the commander of the third regiment Sun called, the third regiment is all ready, please ask whether to start the operation." Zhang Yafei looked at his watch, it was exactly 3:10, exchanged opinions with Huang Jiawei, walked over and picked up the phone: "Head Sun, start the action at 3:30, try not to alarm the bandits in Zengjiazhai opposite." He put down the phone and asked the staff officer again: "Is the phone from Deputy Division Commander Xu connected?" "Not yet, I'll go to the communications battalion right away and check it out." After saying that, the staff officer didn't go out to investigate.

Halfway up the hill to the small plateau, on both sides of the path up the mountain, two large pillboxes were built, both of which were built with huge stones, and a large stone house was built on each side of the mountain, and there were no windows on the side facing the mountain, but there were many shooting holes.

Judging from the size of these two bunkers on the mountainside, there should be a class for each of them. The men of the two pillboxes were driven to the side of the mountain road, and in front of each of them was a high pole with a dead wind lamp hanging from it, and under each of the two high poles was a sentry holding a rifle and dozing off with his back against the high pole.

After receiving the order, Huang Dafu, the commander of the first company, discussed with the captain of the special operations team, the leader of the special operations team reassigned the personnel of the squad and sent three teams of five people to touch the other three sides of the small heights. The rest of the people were divided into two groups, and the team leader personally led one group to touch the pillbox halfway up the mountain from both sides of the path.

When they reached a distance of more than 40 meters from the bunker, one of the two groups of people left the team automatically, silently looked for a good shelter place, raised their guns, and aimed at the sentry in front of the bunker. Under the gesture of their respective leaders, two people left the stopped team and crawled slowly and silently towards the bunker. They were very careful in their movements, not only to keep an eye on the reaction of the sentries, but also to the rocks and trees beneath them, and in the silence of the night, the slightest noise would alarm the enemy.

After 10 minutes, the people on both sides came to the shadow behind the bunker, and they only had to take two steps to touch the sentry.

At this moment, the door of the stone house on the mountain rang, and then the flashlight lit up, and the flashlight swayed straight to the bunker. At the same time as the door rang, the two dozing sentries were immediately awakened, and they mustered themselves up and stood with their guns in hand. The flashlight flickered to the edge of the trench behind the pillbox, and by the moonlight, it could be seen that it was a bandit in clothes, and after looking in the direction of the pillbox for a while, the flashlight shook back the mountain. The special operators knew that this was a sentry and that the bandit had several other groups to clean it up.

As soon as the flashlight moved out of the sight of the two sentinels, the sentry on the west side muttered, leaned back on the high pole, and continued to doze off him. The sentinels on the east side took out their cigarettes while snorting, struck matches and lit cigarettes with their bodies in front of the mountain breeze. When he looked up, his eyes widened in horror, and he saw two dark-faced strange men silently rushing out from behind the sentry opposite, one covering the sentry's mouth with one hand, and the other sliding through the sentry's neck with a cold light. The sentry struggled for a moment and then stopped. The other black-faced weirdo nimbly took the rifle that had slipped from the sentry's hand in one hand and gently set it aside. Almost at the same time, the sentinel, who was about to shout, felt that his mouth was also tightly covered, and he only felt a cold neck, and he lost consciousness, and could no longer feel any sound from the outside world.

As soon as they saw that they had succeeded in touching the sentry, the special combat team members on both sides immediately quickly walked around the shadow behind the bunker to the door of the bunker, leaving only 5 team members in front of each bunker, while the others quickly slid into the trench and carefully touched the sides of the trench. After another 10 minutes, the two special operators in front of the bunker gestured to each other, and the two groups of people quickly pushed open the hidden bunker door and rushed into the bunker. After a slight noise came from inside, the shooting hole of the pillbox on the west side lit up with a flashlight covered in red cloth.

10 A few minutes later, Huang Dafu walked briskly to the bunker with two platoons in a company. At this time, flashlights covered with red cloth also lit up at the corner of the stone houses on the mountain, and two groups of special combat personnel opened the way in front, guiding the two platoons of the first company to pounce on the four stone houses on the top of the mountain.

The area of the top of the hill is small and relatively flat, and only the four stone houses have doors and windows open on the village side. Huang Dafu looked around, and saw that the four stone houses were surrounded by his own people, raised the flashlight in his hand, and waved it down fiercely. This was the signal to move, and immediately the sound of "ping-pong" doors falling to the ground and the cracking of window lattices came from all four stone houses, followed by a shout of not moving, mixed with exclamations and screams.

"Smack." A gunshot rang out from the stone house on the south side, followed by two more gunshots. The sound of gunfire was crisp in the silence of the night.

Huang Dafu immediately rushed to the stone house where the gun was fired, and when he rushed into the back of the house, he saw that two bandits had been stabbed to death with bayonets on the bunk in the house, and the rest of the bandits were forced by the soldiers to the wall with bayonets. The second platoon commander came out of the suite and reported to Huang Dafu that there was a suite in this house, and the bandits' company commander lived here, and the outside window was small, and it was difficult to enter through the window.

At this time, the deputy company commander also took several other platoons and a battalion machine gun company to the high ground. Huang Dafu immediately commanded the soldiers to help the machine gun company build a position, and eight 92 heavy machine guns were deployed on the top of the hill facing the side of Zengjiazhai, and 12 82 mortars were placed in the middle of the open space on the top of the mountain.

The gunfire just now had already alarmed the bandits in Zengjiazhai, and at this time, the lights had been lit in many places in Zengjiazhai, and Huang Dafu sent a second communicator to the battalion headquarters to report the situation under the reminder of the deputy company commander. Subsequently, after leaving a platoon to escort the machine gun company, he led the troops to escort the prisoners down the mountain, preparing to participate in the battle of attacking Zengjiazhai.

The regimental headquarters of the three regiments was set up in a ravine not far from Zengjiazhai, where more than a dozen tents were set up, and the largest tent in the middle was Sun Li's headquarters. He also heard the gunfire just now, and after asking the battalion in front of Zengjiazhai Mountain by phone, he knew that it was from a small high ground. Soon he received a call from the first battalion, and the commander of the first battalion reported to him in detail the situation of the capture of the small high ground, as well as the news that the bandits in Zengjiazhai had been alarmed. Sun Li, who had just put down the phone and was thinking about how the bandits in Zengjiazhai would react when they heard the gunshots in Xiaogaodi, soon received a third call from the commander of the first battalion, reporting that the bandits from Zengjiazhai had descended the mountain.