The Jinshan position is located on the north mountain of Barnyard Zigou Village on the outskirts of Heihe Province of the Puppet Manchurians, with an altitude of 281 meters above sea level, close to the Heihe-Handaqi Highway, and is an important part of the "Seventh National Frontier Position." The position was dominated by howitzer positions. The ground force is the first infantry squadron, which mainly serves the artillery positions and is responsible for field service and defense in peacetime.

At this time, there was not a single Japanese soldier on the Jinshan position, but a group of soldiers wearing gray military uniforms, Meng Qingshan and others were closely protected by a guard battalion equipped with submachine guns, and after arriving here, they did not take any rest and came to the temporary combat headquarters that was set up.

"Did Qingshan take this position? Is there any abnormality in Aihui's main position? ”

"No, we acted at one o'clock in the morning yesterday, when we quietly came to their position, except for a Japanese patrol and a few sentry posts, the rest were sleeping in tents, after twenty minutes of fighting, the little devils on the entire position have been all eliminated by us, we all solved it with bayonets this time, without guns, and the little devils went home in their sleep because they slept too deeply."

"What about the casualties?"

"Except for the five people who were slightly injured here, the rest are fine." Shen Qingshan patted his chest proudly and said.

"Qingshan, don't be careless, this is just the periphery of the Heihe Fortress, but there are rat holes dug by the Japanese army inside, tell the troops below for a while, you are not allowed to act alone, and the company is the unit when you act, and the violators will be severely punished." Meng Qingshan said solemnly.

Shen Qingshan knew that Meng Qingshan's words were not a joke, so he hurriedly saluted and ran outside to convey the order.

The reason why Meng Qingshan set the goal this time was this Aihui fortress under construction, Meng Qingshan wanted to destroy this Japanese fortress project. And not just because of the laborers who rescued the fortress. More importantly, the geographical location of this fortress is extremely important and special, like a nail pierced in the rear of Beiman. always made Meng Qingshan feel like a needle, so that Meng Qingshan did not dare to use all the strength of the Anti-Japanese Federation to fight forward. Every time the troops left at the junction of the Black River, there were nearly 10,000 troops, just to prevent them from sneaking up on their backs. This is a great threat to the future operations of the United Nations.

If you don't knock out this fortress, even if you open up a straight line with the Soviet Union, it is difficult to ensure that this communication channel is unblocked, not to mention that now the rear of the entire base area is very close to Heihe Province, once Meng Qingshan leads the main force to fight the Japanese army, the Japanese army here sends troops to attack Meng Qingshan's rear, so that Meng Qingshan can't take care of each other, then the anti-union is in danger, and Meng Qingshan has also moved the base camp to Nenjiang. It's too close to the Black River. If Heihe Province can be successfully captured, not only can the Anti-League have one more strategic support point, but also Heihe can be used as a rear supply base for the Anti-Alliance.

It was precisely because of such a strategic intention that Meng Qingshan chose the first target this time on the Aihui Fortress, which was almost completed by the Japanese army. According to the history known to Meng Qingshan, although this Xingshan fortress was close to completion at this time, the Japanese army had not yet begun to garrison. Its so-called Sixth and Seventh National Border Garrisons have just been formed, not to mention that they have fought several battles with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the casualties of the Japanese army are not small, and they have been cut off from supplies by the Anti-Japanese Federation and have no soldiers, Meng Qingshan remembered that later generations reported that the Heihe Fortress was less than 15 infantry squadrons at its peak. The strength of 7 artillery squadrons and 1 engineer brigade, but that was in 1945, and now Meng Qingshan estimates that it is less than five squadrons of infantry, three artillery, and one engineer brigade.

If you don't take advantage of the emptiness of the army at this time. There was only a small number of Japanese garrisons guarding laborers and a small number of puppet Manchu military police, a rare opportunity to take this large Japanese garrison fortress once it was restored to combat effectiveness. Then the Anti-Japanese Union should be counterattacked by the Japanese army.

"Comrade Hua Peng, tell me the information you know." Meng Qingshan said to a man in a Japanese military uniform.

"Chiefs. Two months ago, on the orders of the commander-in-chief, our special operations group was divided into several operational groups to penetrate into the enemy's interior to steal information, and my team blended into the labor force. There are about 20,000 laborers in the entire Heihe area, most of whom were recruited by fraud or prisoners of war from the Guannai, and a small number are so-called anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements captured locally. Judging from the tattered uniforms of the Kuomintang, two-thirds of them were Kuomintang uniforms and one-third were our comrades, and we have already made contact with them through our efforts. ”

"Where do you determine the number of laborers?" Cui Shiquan asked.

"Staff Officer Cui, at the beginning, we were assigned to a special place to transport food to laborers, and the Japanese army was extremely strict in guarding this place. We deliver food, and we can only send it to the blockade line in the south. After the blockade, another group of laborers came to transport it. If others enter without permission, they will be killed. I only roughly estimated this number from the amount of grain. ”

Moreover, the Japanese army was extremely cunning, and the rice for the Japanese soldiers to eat was specially transported from Jiamusi by truck, and was never collected locally. As a result, no one knows how many people the Japanese garrison was. The only food we were responsible for transporting was sorghum rice and acorn flour for the laborers, but in the last two weeks, because the Japanese army had been surrounded by us for nearly several months, the Japanese army had run out of food and had to buy food from the locals, and we judged that the number of Japanese defenders was about 2,000-4,000 based on the food. ”

"Comrade Hua Peng, is there another possibility, in order to confuse us, the Japanese army deliberately let people buy a batch of food, so that we think that their troops, in fact, are still hidden troops, you must know that the defenders of the Japanese army in such a large fortress should not be just these people, right?" Yang Jingyu asked.

"Chief, after two months, our special operations brigade has achieved excellent results, because most of us are proficient in Japanese, so we have penetrated into the enemy's interior as Japanese expatriates, one-third of the people have been mixed into the ranks of recruits just recruited by the Japanese army, and one-third of the people have been mixed in with the laborers, and they have gained some prestige among the laborers, and they can riot at any time to fight with the main force, and the remaining one-third of the comrades have been recruited by the Japanese army as puppet Manchurian policemen."

"Through the analysis of the intelligence we have gathered, the number of guards of the Japanese army is not too large. The construction site I am on now is the largest in the entire construction site, with only more than 50 Japanese guards and more than 100 recruited Japanese civilians as overseers for the construction site of more than 3,000 people. ”

"The Japanese guards and supervisors were very strict with these laborers. Workers at different construction sites are not allowed to talk to each other even if they meet. If they were found to be talking, no matter who spoke, both of them would be killed with bayonets or beaten to death with sticks. ”

"Judging from this situation and the size of this fortress, the number of Japanese guards here should not be too large, and it will also be very scattered. After all, it's not just their construction site. Many of the workers he belongs to are workers who have been transferred from other places. ”

However, there is one thing that must be noted, he personally said that the proportion of light and heavy machine guns among these Japanese guards is very high. More than fifty guards alone were armed with two crooked-handled machine guns. ”

After listening to Shi Huapeng's introduction, everyone in the temporary command headquarters nodded, and said to Yang Jingyu beside him: "Lao Yang, no matter how many little devils there are in Heihe, we will eat them too, even if they are fast and hard, we have to chew them up." ”

Yang Jingyu frowned slightly and said, "We have to fight, but we have to discuss how to fight." The most important thing for us now is to find out exactly where the Japanese guards are stationed. How to fight if you can't find the enemy's position? With such a huge project, an area of dozens of square kilometers, we can't look for it everywhere! This makes it easy to drag us here, not to mention that the little devils have dug a lot of tunnels here, and the tunnels here must be in all directions, once they turn in, it will be difficult for us to find them, and we also have to prevent the little devils from mutilating the laborers. ”

"Comrade Hua Peng, you go back first, don't let the little devils find out that you have disappeared, and you inform your captain that you must hide at five o'clock tomorrow, when you hear the explosion, it is the order to act, and the task of your special combat team is to blow up the heavy weapons of the defenders of the fortress and protect the safety of the laborers." Meng Qingshan took out his pocket watch and looked at it and said.

"Please rest assured that the special operations team will ensure that the mission will be completed." (To be continued.) )