After listening to Li Fei's report to Chen Heng through the radio equipment, Li Yongji told them to continue to be on standby and not to act rashly, he immediately reconvened the operational meeting and listed the new situation at the meeting.

"Now it seems that our policy of luring the enemy to attack may not work." Li Yongji said first, "So, since the mountain doesn't come to me, I can only go to the mountain, I am ready to change the plan and change the defensive counterattack to the active attack." Staff Officer Zhou, if I plan to attack directly, does your staff have any detailed backup plan for this? ”

"Absolutely." Zhou Shengjun, who was named, first stood up straight and nodded to Li Yongji, and then quickly raised his head and replied, "Our General Staff Department has always adhered to the instructions of the chief and designated more than three sets of combat plans for each combat target. The defensive counterattack is only plan A, and if it is a direct attack, plan B can be executed. ”

"Plan B? Then tell me about your plan B. Li Yongji asked with a smile.

"Yes." Zhou Shengjun nodded again, then walked to the big map, picked up the teaching pole and pointed to the location of Zhangjiatun, "According to the information provided by the chief, Zhangjiatun is a village with a simple earthen wall, the place is not big, there is no moat, and there is a flat land nearby. On the surface, it seems that the nearby Pingchuan is advantageous to the defending side, but due to their lack of heavy artillery, it is actually easier for us who are equipped with heavy artillery to attack this place directly. ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Shengjun continued: "If the other party really has no cavalry, or there is not enough cavalry, we can directly send troops over, and then let the infantry defend from a safe distance, and then bombard it with heavy artillery, and directly use cannonballs to bombard the stockade and the enemy troops inside."

Of course, although this plan is the most secure, it is more consuming with shells, if you feel sorry for shells. It is also possible to collapse a city wall, and then let the snipers come forward to provide sniper cover, and then the assault infantry with assault rifles will follow up the assault, and the ordinary soldiers of the first division will follow up to expand the results, which can also be done quickly and effectively, but the casualties will definitely be higher.

After all, the other side is not a demoralized Qing army, but a Russian armed with firearms, and neither weapons nor will to fight can be underestimated.

So, if you don't feel sorry for the shells. It is the best way to blow up the small village directly, if you feel sorry for the shells and carry out a soldier assault, you must be prepared to have a certain number of casualties, but no matter which plan, our advantage is too great, no matter how you look at this battle, it will be won, it depends on whether the casualties are big or small. ”

"Good." Li Yongji nodded, "Then have you ever thought of a way to besiege it?" Or do you want to send reinforcements? ”

"Yes." Zhou Shengjun nodded. "Of course, the siege is also a good way, but I am afraid that there will be many dreams at night, after all, there are few of us, if we all use it to besiege this house. It wastes our time, and we can't make it into the city of Beijing.

If we divide our forces, let some of them pin down the enemy here, and the other part continue to advance. and feared that there would be a shortage of manpower, so they would take advantage of the loopholes.

We are not afraid of anything else, but we are afraid that they will fight guerrilla warfare with us. In that case, although we are not afraid, the trouble will not be small, at least the casualties will be higher, and it will also be a threat and harassment to our logistics troops, which will increase the burden on the logistics troops. ”

"Well, yes, yes, you can think of this, it's already good, it seems that there is no research in vain." Li Yongji nodded, "Okay, since that's the case, then let's stop playing tricks, don't they want to shrink the defense?" Then let's go directly with the whole army and pull out this stockade! ”

This shows the advantages of well-trained troops, because all of them are Class A troops, there is no drag of a large number of logistics troops, and the training is relatively good in peacetime, so the order is given, the entire Jingwu army moves very quickly, and in just half an hour, it changes from a defensive formation to a marching array, and then all of them ride horses or bicycles, and march towards Zhangjiatun in a mighty way.

The standard marching speed of the bicycle unit is 10 to 15 kilometers per hour, but because the road conditions here are good, you can go directly to the official road, and the distance is not far, so the speed is slightly faster, reaching an average speed of 17 kilometers per hour.

In other words, it only takes less than an hour for the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Jingwu Army to arrive in Zhangjiatun!

Only an hour and forty minutes had passed, and the large force of the Jingwu Army had already launched an attack formation three miles outside Zhangjiatun and was ready to attack.

There are more than 10,000 soldiers, boundless, and the 30,000 army is spread out on the plain, and the momentum is even more huge, at least on the wall of the stockade, the black pressure is full of human heads, and it is false to say that you are not afraid.

However, Li Yongji didn't have time to care whether the other party was afraid or not, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be dark soon, he just wanted to take this village as much as possible, and then let the army have a good rest.

However, when Li Yongji picked up the telescope and looked at it, he frowned, because he saw not only the Russians and the Qing army in the city, but also many ordinary people.

In order to look more carefully, Li Yongji ascended to the line guide to observe the balloon, and then through the balloon observer, he condescendingly looked at the defense situation in Zhangjiatun, and found that there were not many buildings inside, but there were many people, dense, and it seemed that there were at least 10,000 people.

When I got closer to the observation, I found that only half of the people in the stockade were soldiers, and the rest were ordinary people, almost all of whom were tied to their ankles with ropes, and then forced to be escorted to the city wall, which could be used as a meat shield or as a people's husband to transport the rolling wood and thunder stones.

This made Li Yongji a little embarrassed, because if the other party was all Qing troops and Russians, it would be okay to bombard them directly, but if there were still ordinary people and the jade was burned, I am afraid that many innocent people would be injured.

"Zhou Da, Zhou Shengjun, come and see!" Li Yongji called Zhou Da and Zhou Shengjun over, picked up the binoculars, pointed to the head of the city, and said, "There are many ordinary people in the hands of the other party as hostages, how can this battle be fought?" ”

"What's the solution?" Zhou Da immediately said, "The soldiers are in danger, these ordinary people have fallen into the hands of the enemy, I am afraid that they have already suffered, and now they are like this, they can only be sorry." Otherwise, will we take the lives of our soldiers? If this is the case, what if the other party also comes to Tianjin and Beijing in the future? ”

"I also agree with Colonel Zhou." Zhou Shengjun also nodded, "Although the people are pitiful, in terms of value. We are all Class A troops, and it is not easy to train a qualified soldier, and it is too uneconomical to lose our precious soldiers in order to save the other party. ”

"yes, it's not a good deal at all." Zhou Da followed, "And ah, if we just ignore the shelling, they see that the hostages in their hands are useless, and we don't care at all, they should send these people down soon."

To know. As long as we don't care about the common people who are hostages and bombard them directly from a distance, then putting the people who have little combat effectiveness at the head of the city will also be an obstacle to them, as long as they are not stupid, they will not continue to do useless things. ”

"Don't you have any other way?" Li Yongji asked.

"If we have to save these people, I'm afraid we can only fill it with human lives." Zhou Shengjun shook his head, "Even then, the attack is in operation." It is impossible for us not to injure the common people by mistake, unless we stop fighting this stockade. ”

"Understood." Li Yongji nodded, "The whole army will stop attacking and start an encirclement operation." I want you to disperse your troops and surround this stockade completely, leaving no dead ends, and not giving the other side a way out. Got it? ”

"Yes." Zhou Shengjun nodded, and didn't ask much, "Execute the order immediately!" ”

Wait for Zhou Shengjun to leave. Zhou Dacai relied on his old qualifications and began to ask: "Dashuai, what are you going to do?" ”

"I'm going to wait until it's dark."

"It's dark?" Zhou Da was stunned, "If it's dark, the difficulty of attacking will be even greater." ”

"I know, but the difficulty is relative." Li Yongji smiled, "Don't worry, I plan to let my Qianlong Commando Team go out to carry out special operations, and use here to test the effect of special operations, it's really not good, and then follow what you said." ”

"Hidden Dragon Commando?" Zhou Da blinked, although it was the first time he had heard of this name, but he also knew that Li Yongji himself had many secrets, so he finally stopped talking.

That's right, Li Yongji really intends to let his special operations team carry out special operations here.

The so-called Hidden Dragon Commando, ostensibly subordinate to the guard battalion, is actually a special force, a special squad dedicated to carrying out special operations.

So far, there are only 64 people in this hidden dragon commando, and all of them are a group of outlaws under the age of thirty recruited by Wu Shouyun from the rivers and lakes, and they also have certain special skills.

After these people were recruited, after a ceremony to pledge allegiance, they began to conduct closed special operations training, and the training methods and equipment used were all obtained by Li Yongji from modern society.

Don't look at the only sixty-four people, but the equipment of these people is not simple, these people are mainly equipped with night vision devices, G36 assault rifles, AWP sniper rifles with bipods, HK-USP pistols with silencers, Kevlar body armor, Kevlar bulletproof helmets, grenades, flash grenades, tear gas, Type 69 bazookas, sniper crossbows, catapult grappling hooks and other modern weapons.

The captain of the Qianlong Commando is Wu Shouyun, these people originally had a certain foundation in martial arts, and then equipped with modern weapons, trained by the methods of special forces, and quickly mastered the methods of special operations.

In the past, the Qianlong Commando only conducted secret training, and in addition, it followed Li Yongji as an ordinary guard unit, and never really fought independently, and Li Yongji never found the opportunity to test the power of this force, and now, he plans to take out this force and use it.

However, even if Li Yongji plans to use special forces, he still doesn't want more people to know the inside story, so even if it is Zhou Da, he can only tell the other party about his plans, but he will not say specific details.

Soon, under Li Yongji's order, the Jingwu army was fully dispersed with the battalion as a unit, and surrounded Zhangjiatun as a whole, and after that, Li Yongji asked everyone to rest on the spot, planning to wait until it was dark.

After dark, Li Yongji let his troops take turns to carry out intimidating attacks, and also used loudspeakers to play strong noises in a directional manner, so that the opponent could not rest peacefully and carried out exhausting tactics.

After using this tired tactic for two days in a row, the defenders of Zhangjiatun were already in good spirits, after all, they didn't sleep well for two days in a row, and they couldn't stand it anymore.

However, the other party also quickly found a way, that is, to reduce the garrison personnel and let his people take turns to rest, and the other party also thought that he had found the weakness of the Jingwu Army in the past two days, thinking that the other party would not dare to deal with the people lightly, so he escorted more people to the city wall as meat shields.

It was four o'clock in the morning the next night. All the members of the Qianlong Special Combat Team, who had long been recuperating, were all newly equipped, and then began to be reviewed by Li Yongji.

Looking at these members of the special operations force who are similar to the equipment of modern special forces, Li Yongji nodded: "Don't say anything superfluous, your task is to attack from the weakest western city wall of the opponent at night, and then use the advantage of equipment to directly defeat the opponent's command, it is best to capture the opponent's commander, force them to surrender, and if not, kill the opponent." Then cooperate with our peripheral forces to blossom inside and outside to minimize casualties. Okay, that's the task, do you have the confidence to complete the task? ”

"Please rest assured, chief!" Wu Shouyun saluted, "We promise to complete the task, if we don't succeed, we will become benevolent!" ”

"That's not necessary." Li Yongji shook his head, "The value of your life is greater. Therefore, as a last resort, save your life as the first priority. Well, that's it for now. It's almost time, let's go! ”

Listening to Li Yongji's order, all the special combat team members saluted at the same time, and then began to take advantage of the night to find out their own camp.

The members of the Hidden Dragon Commando soon touched the edge of the western city wall of Zhangjiatun. Then the snipers first took a roll call with a sniper rifle equipped with a silencer and a night vision scope, and then brought down the defenders on the city wall, and then followed. The assault group, dressed in night suits, began to quickly run to the city wall, grasped it with a catapult grappling hook, and then climbed up the rope.

While the assault team was climbing the wall with ropes, the sniper team had been carefully observing the movement on the city wall, and as soon as they found something wrong, they would shoot immediately.

As if lucky, the 32 members of the assault team climbed to the top of the city without any danger, and immediately after, they began to stand guard at the top of the city and beckoned the people behind them to continue climbing the wall.

Soon, the 32 special forces in the back also climbed to the top of the city, leaving half of them at the head of the city to facilitate the control of the city gate, and the other half began to move in the direction of the pre-marked headquarters in the city.

Previously, Li Yongji had already used reconnaissance balloons to observe the details of the situation in the city in detail, and several possible command headquarters had also been highlighted, and the direction in which these special operations troops were now going was the most likely enemy headquarters.

Although there are many torches lit in the stockade, the lighting effect of the torches is limited after all, and four o'clock in the morning is the weakest time for a person to be on guard. If a large force comes to attack, it will naturally be impossible to conceal it, but if it is an infiltration assault carried out by a small detachment, they may not be able to stop it.

Of course, when you advance, you will inevitably encounter the guards of the defenders, but this is not a problem at all for these people who are highly skilled in martial arts.

Not to mention that they have silent and powerful sniper crossbows, and there are five flying knife masters in the assault group, although they dare not say that they are as good as Xiao Li's flying knives, but the 80% hit rate can still be guaranteed.

After a thrilling assault all the way, the members of the special combat team had approached the place where the enemy headquarters was suspected, and then they caught a Qing army alive, and after some surprise interrogation, they preliminarily concluded that this was the enemy's headquarters, or rather, the headquarters and rest place of the Russian commander.

Although he had already received confirmation from the captive, out of caution, Wu Shouyun still whispered to a young man beside him who was thin and only 1.6 meters tall: "Turning the sky harrier!" You go up to the roof, go over the roof, and see if the other person is inside. ”

Listening to Wu Shouyun's words, the thin man nicknamed the Sky Harrier nodded, and then the other party took off his helmet, removed some bits and pieces on his body, only wore a hooded headscarf, quickly turned on the roof with a grappling hook, and then quietly came to the roof of the other party through the roof of Guò, and after that, he carefully uncovered the tiles and began to peek inside.

Soon, the Sky Harrier used the walkie-talkie to start reporting the investigation to Wu Shouyun: "Report to the Xiashan Tiger, there are vigilant troops around the house, and there is only one forty-year-old Mao Zi sleeping in the house, and the clothes next to him are generals' uniforms and command knives, which should be their commander." ”

"Good." Wu Shouyun nodded, then gestured to the people behind him, and the people of the special combat team immediately began to act.

I saw that the special combat team first killed the opponent's defenders with sniper rifles, and then the assault team quickly broke into the door and grabbed the Russian commander who was still sleeping.

After the capture, the special operations forces occupied the house and then reported to Li Yongji while conducting defensive operations on the spot.

At the same time, the special forces, who had long mastered the city gates, quickly opened the west gates, clearing the way for their own attacking forces.

At this time, Li Yongji quickly ordered the soldiers of his guard battalion to start breaking through the west gate, along the open city gate, armed with automatic weapons, and went straight inside to assault.

And after the assault force of the guard battalion, there are the officers and men of the 1st Division, who will also follow the assault force and continue to expand the results.

At this moment, the shouts of killing and gunfire shook the sky, but because it was very dark, the Russian commander had been arrested, and he could not issue accurate and effective orders in time, so the Russians were in a mess, and they could not form an effective defense at all, let alone counterattack.

As for those Han Eight Banners, they are even more useless, they will only run and scream when the guns sound, which adds to the chaos and is more conducive to the troubled waters of the elite army.

In this way, after only two hours of fierce fighting, when the sky was just dawning, the whole of Zhangjiatun was completely occupied, most of the Russians and Qing troops were captured, and less than 1,000 people were killed.

During the whole operation, the Jingwu army was also damaged, but only 35 people were injured by Cheng Dù, but no one died, so it was a relatively brilliant result.

Most importantly, special forces have proven their worth and that special operations are a very effective way of fighting.

For example, in this operation, even if the special forces do not capture the head of the other party, as long as they control the city gate, they can still achieve heavy results, and capturing the opponent's commander will only accelerate the opponent's defeat.

Of course, only special forces are not sufficient, and large units must also cooperate, and this kind of special forces infiltrate behind enemy lines and internalize the interior, and large units respond externally, which has also been proved to have a certain practical value, at least when dealing with targets like Zhangjiatun, it is very useful.

The action was swift, the casualties were not large, and most of the civilians who were taken as hostages were also rescued, all in all, this special attack was a cost-effective tactic, although there were some small flaws in the course of the battle, but Li Yongji was quite satisfied with this, and has decided to continue to expand the establishment of special forces to deal with the more complicated situation in the future.

What Li Yongji didn't know was that it was his decision that created the glory of special forces in advance in this world, especially China's special forces, which have become synonymous with mystery and invincibility, and this reputation has been maintained for more than a century before it was broken. (To be continued......)