Three days passed quickly, and last night, Ma Yunlong finally arrived in Shimen County in time with an antiaircraft artillery unit.

After the troops arrived, they stayed outside the city to rest, and Ma Yunlong took a battalion commander and several other subordinate officers into the city and came to the headquarters to report to Qiao Youhua.

"Commander, the 1st Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion has been ordered to report for duty, please instruct!" Ma Yunlong entered the command headquarters and was the first to take the lead in saluting Qiao Youhua.

Several entourages behind him followed and saluted, Qiao Youhua smiled and waved his hand: "Very good, you arrived in time, you have worked hard all the way, have a good rest tonight, and early tomorrow morning, follow me to attack Jingcheng County." ”

"Yes!" Ma Yunlong replied suddenly: "Then I'll arrange for the troops to rest first." After saying that, he got Qiao Youhua's nod and permission, and turned to leave.

After Qiao Youhua saw Ma Yunlong leave, he turned his head to Wu Ming and said: "You can act first, after you take Jingcheng County, I will take the guard regiment and the air defense regiment to take Jingcheng Pass in one fell swoop!" How, is it necessary to have artillery support from the anti-aircraft regiment? ”

Wu Ming said: "Commander, Jingcheng Pass may not be able to take it for a while and a half, but I am still sure of Jingcheng County, according to intelligence, the main forces of the devils are in Jingcheng Pass, and there are less than 300 Japanese troops in the county, and the rest are puppet troops."

Obviously, the devil also understands that the geographical location of Jingcheng Pass is far more important than that of Jingcheng County, so you and the guard regiment and the air defense regiment should have a good rest and leave the finale for battle! ”

After speaking, Wu Ming took Zhao Youde and others to say goodbye and leave, and the more than 3,000 infantry who had already been assembled plus an artillery battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, totaling about 4,000 people, under their leadership, took advantage of the night, set off overnight, and went straight to Jingcheng County.

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The information obtained by the Dragon Tooth Column and Long Yingwei is not wrong, the total number of Japanese troops in Jingcheng County is indeed less than 300 people, there is only one reinforced squadron, and the six squads are about 2560 people, and in addition, the others are all puppet troops.

There are more than 800 Japanese soldiers and more than 2,000 puppet soldiers in Jingcheng Pass.

In the strongholds of Guanka Town around the outside of Jingcheng County, most of them are garrisoned by puppet troops.

Because they had already made sufficient preparations, the main force of the Dragon Tooth Column had just set off from Shimen, and the Dragon Tooth Scouts who had been lurking near Shang'an Town in advance immediately dispatched decisively and eliminated the devil's stronghold in Shang'an Town.

killed and wounded more than a dozen puppet soldiers, and all the rest became prisoners of the Dragon's Tooth Column.

Having taken control of this outlying stronghold in Jingcheng County, the captured puppet army, under the coercion of the Dragon's Tooth Scouts, all lied and told them that they were safe.

Under the response of the scouts, the main force passed through Shang'an Town at about 11 o'clock in the evening, and went directly to Jingcheng County.

At about two o'clock in the morning, Wu Ming, Zhao Youde and others commanded more than 4,000 infantry, artillery joint combat troops, and took the reconnaissance unit as the spearhead, quietly killed the stronghold and sentry set up by the devils and the puppet army in front, and arrived outside Jingcheng County.

"All infantry companies and battalions immediately followed the original plan and quickly surrounded the county on all sides, and the artillery units immediately built positions and prepared to attack, with the main attack direction being the north gate!" After arriving, Wu Ming immediately made the original plan and issued a combat order.

More than 3,000 infantry soldiers immediately split up and soon quietly moved to the four gates of the county town and set up an ambush.

Because of the cover of the night, their whereabouts were not detected by the puppet army at the head of the city, and as for the devils in the city, they were all sleeping at this time, and they had a tryst with Zhou Gong.

Unless the devils knew in advance that the battle was coming, it would be impossible for these comfortable devils to be still on duty at two o'clock in the morning.

Not long after the infantry units were in position, more than 30 Type 92 infantry guns and 75nn Krupp guns of the artillery battalion were quickly ready for shelling.

The artillery battalion commander ran to Wu Ming and Zhao Youde, saluted them, and said: "Brigade commander, deputy brigade commander, the artillery fire is ready, and the bombardment can start at any time, may I ask, do you want to open fire?" ”

"Immediately open fire, ten rounds of rapid fire, remember, focus on bombarding the city gate and the city, and clear the obstacles for the assault force as much as possible!" Wu Ming immediately ordered.

"Yes!" The commander of the artillery battalion agreed with a bang, and immediately turned around and ran to lead the order to leave.

Wu Ming asked Zhao Youde again: "How is the assault team preparing?" ”

"An infantry assault team of five hundred men is also ready, and there are follow-up troops of eight hundred men behind them, as long as they succeed in raiding the city gate, we can take advantage of the situation to attack the city, stabilize and expand the results." Zhao Youde said.

"Are there more besieging troops outside the south gate? Just in case the devils break through from the south gate! Wu Ming asked.

Zhao Youde said: "I have instructed the deputy battalion commander who led the team, tell him that the south gate is mainly ambushed and does not participate in the attack, they should be rushing to repair the blockade fortifications now, I have equipped them with some more general-purpose machine guns, the firepower is much stronger, intercepting the enemy who may break through, the problem is not big!" ”

Wu Ming nodded and said: "That's good, no matter what, we must gather all the Japanese puppet army defenders in Jingcheng County in the city, and we must not let them escape back to Jingcheng Pass, which will have a very adverse impact on our follow-up attack on Jingcheng Pass." ”

"yes, I see." Zhao Youde nodded and said, "Brigade commander, I beg to let me lead the commando team to charge later!" ”

Wu Ming glanced at him meaningfully, nodded and said, "Okay, I agree, you must pay attention to my safety!" ”

Zhao Youde said happily: "Yes, please rest assured brigade commander, I will definitely do my best to complete the assault mission!" ”

As soon as the conversation between the two ended, the more than 30 guns of the artillery battalion let out a roar in vain.

Dozens of shells were like dazzling fireballs in the dark night, dragging long flames, whistling through the night sky, and hurriedly shooting towards the dark Jingcheng County.

There are torches used by puppet army sentries at the head of the north gate, which provides good support for the artillery to mark the direction and target of shooting, so the artillerymen can accurately lock on to the target and carry out the first round of test firing.

Bang! Boom Boom Boom! A violent explosion immediately erupted, and clusters of dazzling flames rose into the air near the inside and outside of the walls of the North Gate, soaring into the endless night sky.

The firelight almost illuminated the entire night sky, and the huge sound of bombardment and vibration woke up the Japanese puppet army in and above the city.

Especially the puppet army sentries on duty at the head of the city were almost stupid, and when the overwhelming explosion shock wave suddenly came, a few people were so frightened that their faces were like dirt, and they hurriedly fell down, almost peeing their pants!