At this time, Komal didn't know that the First Brigade and the First Regiment of Lin Fei's troops had rushed to the No. 1 Heights, and he was still dreaming of capturing the No. 1 Heights in one fell swoop.

Komal led his troops all the way forward by starlight, and the night blocked the artillery's view, so the howitzer regiment led by Zhao Menggang could not detect them.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, Komel led his troops to the east side of the No. 1 high ground, according to the classic offensive tactics, when the army attacked the entrenched enemy, it should first find favorable terrain to build an offensive starting position, and then launch an attack on the entrenched enemy from the offensive starting position, the advantage of this is that once the attack is blocked, the attacking troops can retreat back to the offensive starting position, and then use this defense to prevent the enemy from counterattacking.

However, Komal did not do this, he wanted to take the defenders of the heights by surprise, so he did not set up a starting position for the attack, but only scattered his troops and hid in the woods, and then ordered his troops to attack the eastern side of the heights.

At 8:05 p.m., a company of Spanish soldiers, armed with guns, quietly approached the uphill junction on the east side of the heights, just in time to meet the circular defensive position of the 1st Regiment.

The soldiers of the 1st Regiment saw a dark figure in the distance approaching, and immediately realized...... The enemy came, but instead of firing immediately, they waited for the enemy to approach.

The Spanish soldiers walked forward a few dozen meters, and saw the circular defensive position at the upper mountain junction by the moonlight, so they did not dare to go any further, they immediately retreated to the distant woods and reported to Commel: "Colonel, the troops of the Chinese Empire have built a circular defensive position at the upper mountain intersection, and we dare not go any further. ”

Komal was surprised when he heard the report, and hurriedly said, "Let's go, let's go and see." ”

Komal and his subordinates rushed to the vicinity of the uphill intersection, and sure enough, they saw what the soldiers called a circular defensive position, which consisted of a breastwork wall more than half a meter high, with a radius of about fifty meters, and no one could be seen from outside the position.

Cormel looked at it carefully, and then laughed, and one of the officers asked, "Colonel, what are you laughing at?" ”

Komal pointed to the circular defensive position and said: "The radius of that position is only fifty meters, so small, our people can rush over and step on it, the Chinese pigs are really stupid to build such a position, come here, order the first and second companies to quietly approach the position and take it down for me." ”

The first and second companies connected to the command and quietly touched over, and gradually they were only more than fifty meters away from the position, and everyone was just about to rush over at full speed, when suddenly sporadic firelight flashed from behind the ring defense position, accompanied by dense gunfire, and more than a dozen Spanish soldiers were knocked to the ground in the blink of an eye.

The other Spanish soldiers, unaware of the intensity of the defensive fire, were taken by surprise and retreated back into the woods in a panic.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the soldiers of Lin Fei's troops on the entire No. 1 Heights were woken up, and Niu Dalong immediately sent heralds to report the news of the battle on the No. 1 Heights to Lin Fei, and Zhao Menggang's howitzer regiment also took action, but unfortunately, their artillery firing angles were limited and could not directly provide protection for the defensive positions under the mountain.

When Komal's subordinates were blocked from attacking, Komal ordered his subordinates to stop the attack and wait for the arrival of the follow-up troops, and the battlefield returned to calm for a while.

An hour later, at 9:20 p.m., the herald sent by Niu Dalong saw Lin Fei, and the herald said to Lin Fei: "Report to Your Majesty, the Spanish troops have launched an attack on our army's position. ”

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "What is the exact time to launch an attack?" ”

The herald replied, "It's 8:05, and as soon as they attack, Brigade Commander Niu asked me to come back and deliver the news." ”

Lin Fei frowned, and thought in his heart, the battle that was launched an hour ago, now I know it, how can this work? Fighters on the battlefield are fleeting, and they can't afford to delay for a second, so how can an hour's delay be tolerated?

Lin Fei waved his hand and called staff officer He Kaisheng over, and ordered: "Go and call the commander of the division's communications battalion." ”

The predecessor of the division's communications battalion was the communications company founded by Lin Fei, and the original company commander was Tang Yinchun, who is now the captain of the frogman commando, and the new commander of the communications battalion is named Xu Peng, who was originally a platoon commander of the communications company.

When Xu Peng heard that Lin Fei had personally summoned him, he was flattered, and trotted all the way to Lin Fei's command post, saluted and said: "Report to Your Majesty, Xu Peng, the commander of the division's communications battalion, was ordered to report to him, and if His Majesty has any orders, I will definitely do it." ”

Lin Fei laughed, stood up and walked to Xu Peng, pulled Xu Peng to the front of the map, pointed to the map and said; "See No. 1 Heights? That's where I circled it with a pencil. ”

Xu Peng nodded and said, "Report to Your Majesty, I saw it." ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Then can you guess what I asked you to do?" ”

Xu Peng didn't think about it and said: "I'm the commander of the communications battalion, you came to me, you must have asked me to set up a communication line, and now you show me the No. 1 high ground on the map, you must ask me to set up a telephone line between your headquarters and the No. 1 high ground, right?" ”

Lin Fei's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "I have long heard that the commander of my communications battalion is very smart and has a strong understanding, and when I saw it today, it really deserves its reputation, you guessed it right, I just want you to set up a telephone line between my headquarters and the No. 1 Heights." ”

Xu Peng couldn't help but laugh when he saw that he had guessed Lin Fei's intentions, and Lin Fei said with a straight face: "Since you have guessed my intentions, then I will emphasize the important role of setting up this telephone line." ”

When Xu Peng heard the "important role", he hurriedly put away his smile and looked at Lin Fei intently, Lin Fei said in a deep voice: "The purpose of my operation this time is to completely annihilate the main force of the enemy, and the method of operation is to outflank and detour, so I must grasp the movement of the enemy army at the first time, so that I can send troops to accurately outflank." ”

"Now I am getting the news from the herald of the 1st Regiment of Guò to get the news of the No. 1 Height, and it will take at least an hour for the herald to get from the No. 1 Heights to us, which is a terrible time, so I need a telephone line to grasp the enemy's movements as quickly as possible."

Xu Peng nodded and said: "Your Majesty, I have clearly remembered the importance of this line, and I will definitely live up to my mission and set up this line well." ”

Lin Fei nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "My command headquarters is almost six kilometers away from the No. 1 Heights in a straight line, field communications at this distance require repeaters to amplify voice signals, can your battalion's technical level be completed?" ”

Xu Peng replied loudly: "Your Majesty, don't worry, we usually train fifteen kilometers of telephone line laying, and six kilometers is a piece of cake for us..."

Lin Fei smiled lightly, and then said, "The biggest difficulty you face is actually the enemy army, and I am worried that you will be discovered by the enemy when you are laying communication lines. ”

Xu Peng frowned slightly, the erection of field communication telephone lines is indeed possible to be discovered by the enemy, Xu Peng is not unaware, Xu Peng said loudly: "Report to Your Majesty, our people will be very careful, try not to be discovered by the enemy, as for the telephone line, it is just a thin line, we painted the skin green, I believe that the enemy is difficult to find." ”

Lin Fei stretched out his hand, patted Xu Peng on the shoulder, and said solemnly: "Xu Peng... The telephone lines set up by your communications battalion are related to the outcome of the entire battle, so I order you to complete the task at any cost..."

Xu Peng saluted and said loudly: "Report to Your Majesty, I will definitely complete the task..."

Lin Fei waved his hand and called the herald of the first regiment over, and said to Xu Peng: "This is the herald sent by the first regiment, and he is familiar with the situation on the No. 1 Heights, so you let him take you to the No. 1 Heights." ”

Xu Peng agreed to come down and followed the herald, Lin Fei looked at Xu Peng's back and thought to himself, it was too risky to let his subordinates set up telephone lines, but in order to outflank the enemy army, there was no better way, alas, it would be nice if his troops had light radio communication equipment, and the problem would be solved, but it was a pity that the size of the Blue Bird machine was too large, and the electron tube was still being developed.

When Lin Fei was worried, Xu Peng had already led the signal soldiers to set off, each of them carried a big winding wire winding cylinder, and released the telephone line while running to the No. 1 highland, one end of the telephone line was connected to Lin Fei's command post, and they had to set up a signal relay device at intervals to compensate for the attenuation of electrical signals when they were conducted over long distances.

The night was silent, so no one found Xu Peng and his communication soldiers, everyone ran and wired, and gradually approached the No. 1 high ground, only to see a "bang" sound from the distant sky, the sky was full of smoke illuminated by firelight, and a smell of gunpowder wafted from afar.

The herald pointed to the front with his hand and said, "Ahead is the No. 1 high ground, and it seems that our first regiment is fighting fiercely with the enemy. ”

Xu Peng asked with some concern: "They are fighting fiercely, how can we go up the mountain?" ”

The herald pointed to the west with his hand and said, "The way up the hill is concentrated in the east, north, and south, and there is no west, so the enemy will not attack from the west, and we can go around to the west of the high ground and lay a line there." ”

Xu Peng asked in surprise: "Didn't you say that there is no way up the mountain in the west?" How do we go up? ”

The herald said, "There is no road suitable for a large army, but there is a forest path for us to go up." ”

Xu Peng thought that what the herald said made sense, so he nodded, pointed to the west, and said, "Let's go, let's go." After saying that, he led his men into the woods, but as soon as he reached the edge of the woods, he saw a large group of Spanish soldiers appearing in the clearing between the woods and the No. 1 Heights, many more than his own.

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