When Meng Qingshan knew about this fortress, he was thinking about destroying this Japanese fortress, not only because the Japanese army had hoarded a large number of weapons and materials inside. More importantly, the geographical location of this fortress is extremely important, like a sharp sword stuck in the middle of the second detachment and the first detachment and the third detachment, just to contain Meng Qingshan's northward passage, which is a great threat to Meng Qingshan's future plans.

If this fortress is not destroyed, even if he can contact Wang Yachen and Li Zhaolin and others in a straight line, it is difficult to ensure that this traffic passage is unblocked. Moreover, Meng Qingshan also had the idea of moving the base camp to this area. The base area of Luobei County has been exposed, the location is also a little southern, and it is too close to Jiamusi, and then the Japanese army has stationed a large number of troops in the Xiajiang area, if the Japanese army ruthlessly mobilizes the troops stationed in the eastern fortress group to attack him, then Meng Qingshan may not be able to hold even if he concentrates all the troops, the most dangerous thing is that it is too close to the sea to make the Japanese Navy like no man's land, and the Japanese army often sends some troops to land in Suibin County to fight the anti-coalition forces, For this reason, Meng Qingshan deployed a brigade of troops north of Suibin County to defend against the Japanese raid base camp, and the last Japanese raid caused a large number of civilians in the base area to be persecuted by the Japanese army.

It was precisely because of such a strategic intention that Meng Qingshan targeted the Hormozhin Fortress, which had already been completed by the Japanese army. According to the history known by Meng Qingshan, this Hormozhin fortress has already been completed at this time, but the Japanese army has not been able to garrison a large number of troops, because the battle of Nomenhan has greatly reduced the strength of the Japanese army, there is no way to send troops to increase the army to garrison Hormojin, a fortress that belongs to the second line, only one garrison brigade is stationed in the fortress, and a wing under the first division of the Japanese army is stationed in Sunwu County, 20 kilometers away from the fortress. In Tongbei County, there was also a Japanese wing in a triangular defensive state, and the Japanese army concentrated its main forces in Dongning, Suifenhe, Banjuhe, and Hutou fortresses in the Xiajiang area to prevent the attack of the Soviet army in the Far East.

If you don't take advantage of the emptiness of the army at this time. There were only a small number of Japanese troops stationed at the time of the fort, and it was rare to have such an opportunity in the future. If you don't take this large-scale Japanese garrison fortress, it will be a nightmare for the Anti-Japanese Union when the Japanese army sends heavy troops to garrison it, and once the Japanese army officially increases its troops, it will be difficult for you to have such an opportunity to capture the fortress. At that time, the Japanese troops stationed here can cooperate with the encirclement and suppression troops sent by the Japanese base camp at any time to advance eastward or southward to cut off the connection with the Anti-Japanese Alliance. On the other hand, if he takes the fortress of Hormozhin, this strong fortress group will provide himself with a defensive barrier in the northwest, and at the same time can connect Li Zhaolin's troops and Wang Yachen's troops in the Daxinganling area, and they can support each other in the face of Japanese encirclement and suppression.

After making the plan, in order to succeed in this operation, Meng Qingshan selected a company or so of the elite of the Anti-Japanese Federation for a short week of training. Meng Qingshan asked the women to voluntarily cooperate with the troops' attack, and when they learned of Meng Qingshan's plan, these women first lowered their heads and remained silent, and after thinking for a while, they enthusiastically participated in the operation.

On November 3, 1939, Meng Qingshan and Yang Jingyu and others secretly set off in the direction of the Hormozhin Fortress with their troops, in order to prevent the troops from being exposed and let the Japanese army be on guard, the troops rested during the day and set off at night.

After three days, Meng Qingshan arrived at the outskirts of Khormozhin with the Guards Brigade, the Artillery Regiment, the Guard Battalion, and Xu Zhe's team. Meng Qingshan led some people to climb a small hill of the Japanese fortress, and was stunned by the large-scale fortress group in front of him. The mere exposure of the mountainous ground and the semi-underground military installations meanders for several kilometers. As for how many underground buildings there are, we can only wait for the battle to be carefully surveyed, and we can see that several turrets, pillboxes, barbed wire, mines and the Japanese guards at the entrance of the fortress form an iron wall, and there is also the fact that there are three barbed wire fences erected on the periphery of this place. There were also several Japanese sentry towers in the mountain, each with a heavy machine gun and a searchlight, and these sentry towers had almost no dead spots. It was difficult to get the troops close unless the towers were broken all at once, otherwise it would be difficult to take them. It seems that if you want to take this fortress, you have to have troops like the big brother of the Soviet Union.

After a morning of observation, Meng Qingshan found that the strength of the Japanese troops stationed in the fortress was about the strength of a garrison brigade, and there was also a squadron of wounded soldiers and some Japanese railway garrisons. Meng Qingshan guessed that this brigade might have participated in the Battle of Normenhan and was sent here to rest and garrison, when Meng Qingshan looked at the back of the fortress with a telescope and found that there should be about thousands of Chinese building something, because a large area of Meng Qingshan densely packed behind was not counted, it seemed that the Japanese army was preparing to continue to expand the building built by the fortress, and it seemed that it was about to be completed.

After the telegram with Li Zhaolin of the three detachments before departure, it was good news for Meng Qingshan, since the 3rd Wing of the 1st Division originally stationed in Sunwu County ordered them to encircle and suppress the anti-United Nations troops hiding in the mountains and hiding with the Japanese army when Lieutenant General Kimura led the troops back to Qiqihar City, in order to eliminate this anti-United Nations force at once, the 3rd Wing of the 1st Division and the 3rd Wing of the 1st Division jointly stationed in Tongbei County plus part of the troops stationed in the fortress went into the mountains to encircle and suppress the three detachments. Now three detachments with Japanese troops are playing hide and seek in the mountains.

The garrison of Sunwu County has less than one garrison, and the strength of the garrison is very empty, and it is not capable of supporting the fortress at all, and it will take several days for the main force of the Japanese army to return to help, in order to prevent accidents, Yang Jingyu led the blocking troops to destroy the roads, railways, and even the trails on the mountains within a radius of ten kilometers in Sunwu County, even if the main force of the Japanese army gets the news and wants to return to support the fortress, it will be delayed on the road for a long time.

Now there are not many Japanese guards stationed here in Hormozhin Fortress, as long as Meng Qingshan's plan is successful, then this Japanese brigade is like paper paste, and the rest can completely occupy the fortress as long as the wounded Japanese soldiers and puppet troops who supervise the labor can be completely occupied, of course, if the plan is not successful, it can only be attacked, so Meng Qingshan asked Han Hao to lead the artillery regiment to aim the muzzles of the guns at the fortress's blocking fortifications, and strive to defeat them at once.

After Meng Qingshan finished the reconnaissance, he quietly returned to the hiding place of the Anti-Japanese Federation, and looked at the prepared Xu Zhe's team sitting in the Japanese car captured after the last battle, "Commander, commander, I found a fellow." ”

"Little Huzi whispered, what did you say, you found a fellow, where did this barren mountain and wild country come from, don't be a spy or a secret sentinel of the Japanese army, go and bring him over."

When the person was brought to Meng Qingshan's face, he saw an old man with gray hair in his sixties, at this time his weapons had all been taken away by the guards, Meng Qingshan carefully observed the old man's clothes seemed to be a minority group, and his hands were full of calluses sharpened with guns, it seemed that he must be an old hunter, when he was brought to Meng Qingshan, the old man looked at the Japanese military uniform that Meng Qingshan was wearing, and knew that this time he was dead, his eyes were closed, and his neck was raised, and he was silent.

"Uncle, don't be afraid, we have no malicious intentions, we are the Anti-Japanese Federation specializing in beating little devils, and we want to inquire about the situation with you."

After hearing Meng Qingshan's kind words, the old man opened his eyes and looked at Meng Qingshan, but the old man's eyes still had a hint of vigilance, and he thought for a while and asked: "I don't know what the Anti-Union is, but if you fight a little devil, then you must be a good person, you can ask whatever you want, as long as I know it, I will tell you everything." ”

"Uncle, I want to ask you, do you know the fortress that the little devil built in front?"

"This king, are you talking about a cottage built by a little devil not far ahead?"

"Uncle, I'm not a king, you can call me Qingshan or Xiao Meng."

"That's good, I think it's a little awkward to call you the king, Qingshan, you don't know that this little devil is fierce, I saw them hiding in the mountains, I'm afraid that once they are discovered, they will be caught there to work, how can I move at such an age, I saw the little devils kill a lot of old and young masters in the back mountain, there are several big pits in the back mountain, if it weren't for the old man, I still have to worry, I will kill a few of those beasts if I say anything." The old man scolded angrily.

"Uncle, don't be angry, we came this time to defeat this group of little devils to rescue the old folks, just now you said that you saw them in the back mountain, but isn't there only one way to the little devil fortress? How do you see that, do you always have clairvoyance? ”

"What clairvoyance, haven't you heard that there was a general named Deng in Wei during the Three Kingdoms period?"

"Uncle, the general you mentioned is called Deng Ai." Wang Wennian interjected in front of him and said.

"I know that the general's name is Deng Ai, I just want to test you, since you all know him, then you must know how he destroyed the Shu Kingdom, right?"

"Uncle, is there still a road in this mountain that leads to the little devil's fortress?" Meng Qingshan asked in surprise.

"Qingshan, don't you know that our ancestors have an old saying? Originally, there was no road in the world, but when there were more people walking, there was a road, and that path was also accidentally discovered by me while hunting, and it was very hidden, and several times I relied on it to avoid the search of the little devils. ”

When he learned that there was still a small road leading to the back of the Japanese fortress, Meng Qingshan was overjoyed and asked the old man to lead the way in front, and Wang Wennian led a group of soldiers to follow behind the old man, bypassing the front of the fortress and hiding from behind it. (To be continued......)