The three of them sat at the table and began to discuss the battle plan, and after half an hour, they still had no clue, and the several battle plans proposed were all rejected, and the command fell silent again.

Liu Hua kept tapping Changde on the map with a pencil, thinking about how to prevent Changde's defenders from reinforcing it, which was the solution that needed to be solved at present.

". Why did I have to take the Shimen Bridge? Liu Hua slapped the table suddenly, and soon a battle plan came to mind.

Sun Xingbang and Zhao Dahe, who were next to them, were suddenly startled by Liu Hua's movements and looked at Liu Hua together. Looking at the puzzled eyes of the two, Liu Hua smiled.

"Lao Sun, I mean we only feint on Shimen Bridge to attract reinforcements from the direction of Changde, we only send reinforcements, not attack, just now we have been thinking about capturing Shimen Bridge, hehe, let us fall into a misunderstanding, Changde is not stationed in two divisions of German people, for Shimen Bridge he sent at most a division of men and horses, and their divisions are not a division, at most 8,000 people are too many, with the strength of one of our divisions should be able to gnaw moving." Liu Hua explained his thoughts to the two. After hearing this, the two suddenly realized.

Immediately, the quiet command resounded with the sound of discussion.

In the end, the three of them finally chose a battlefield 10 miles away from Shimen Bridge, where the terrain is not very suitable for ambush, but there is the most open terrain, and soon the combat mission was divided, Liu Hua and Sun Xingbang took the main force of three regiments and a reconnaissance platoon and two mortar companies to attack the enemy's reinforcements, and Zhao Dahe, the political commissar of the second division, took the guard company reconnaissance company and the mountain artillery company to feint to attack the Shimen Bridge.

After lunch, the troops set off on time and set off for their respective positions, Liu Hua and Sun Xingbang came to the battlefield, and sure enough, like the map of the captured enemy, in the continuous mountains, the terrain here was open. Only a myriad of shrubs grew, and a dirt road ran through the middle of the open field. This distance is enough for 4 miles, looking at such a battlefield, Liu Hua suddenly thought of the plot of Chen Geng's ambush of the Yue army in Shentouling in the later "Eighth Route Army", and a smile appeared on his face.

"Order the troops to dig a trench 30 meters from the roadside, it must be one meter deep, and all the excavated soil must be transported away so that the enemy search team cannot find it." Liu Hua immediately ordered.

"Legion Commander, so close to the road, the enemy won't be discovered!" Sun Xingbang immediately raised his own questions.

"Hehe, Senior Commander Sun, how far did you say that the enemy's search team is generally far from the main force!" Liu Hua asked with a smile.

"Commander, the enemy's search party is generally 500 meters away from the main force." Division Commander Sun still replied to the corps commander's words in confusion.

"Commander Sun, the so-called most dangerous place is the safest place, hehe, we just want to dig trenches in the most dangerous places of the enemy, as long as our soldiers all hide in the ditch, and cover them with straw mats and floating soil, I believe that the enemy will not find out, when the time comes, we will use all the automatic fire and grenades, I don't believe that those central armies are all iron," said and looked at Commander Sun.

Sun Xingbang nodded after hearing this, although he was still a little uneasy in his heart, but he obviously agreed with his regiment commander's statement.

Soon, the three regiments of the first division immediately began to dig fortifications, after all, there were nearly 5,000 people, all of them started to move, some dug ditches, some carried soil, a few hours passed, Liu Hua looked around, two trenches immediately appeared on both sides of the road, looking at the soldiers who were working in full swing below, Liu Hua was more confident in victory.

It was already eight o'clock in the evening, all the trenches had been completed, and the soldiers were so tired that they sat in the trenches and fell asleep. , so that the fighters can rest well.

The next day, Liu Hua saw the two trenches in front of him, and Liu Hua was full of emotion, it was really a lot of strength. Liu Hua discussed with Lao Sun, and immediately took all the straw mats collected here to prepare for camouflage, and after all the soldiers were arranged, the reconnaissance platoon and himself and Division Commander Sun personally inspected them, so as not to show flaws to the enemy.

and immediately sent a report to Political Commissar Zhao, (due to the total annihilation of Zhang Zhenhan's division of the Hubei Army, the radio team of the Seventh Army Corps has been rapidly expanded, and the radio stations of each division have reached two) and ordered Political Commissar Zhao to attack Shimen Bridge immediately. Political Commissar Zhao, who received the order, immediately pulled out the concealed mountain artillery company, and the muzzles of the guns were all aimed at the enemy's artillery positions. Now the Seventh Army Corps has no shortage of artillery, only shells, so it doesn't care about those cannons at all.

Under the order of the political commissar, all six cannons roared, and the six shells accurately landed on the enemy's artillery position, and immediately overturned the two cannons, and before the enemy's artillery could reflect it, the second round of shells fell again. Several rounds of shells fell, and the enemy's artillery could no longer hold on. They fled from the artillery positions and didn't care about the artillery anymore.

After receiving the report of the scouts who had entered the Shimen Bridge in advance, the political commissar Zhao Dahe knew that the enemy's artillery positions had been completely destroyed, and immediately changed the target of the shelling, and the enemy corps headquarters at the Shimen Bridge immediately fell into a sea of fire. Fortunately, the commander of the enemy regiment left early, otherwise he would have fallen into artillery fire.

The commander of the enemy regiment immediately asked Changde for help, and after several rescue telegrams were sent, he finally received a reply from Changde and agreed to send a brigade and two regiments of troops to the rescue. Led by Brigade Commander Wang Bing, the rescue was carried out.

After Liu Hua arrived and came out with the scout's report, he immediately ordered the troops to enter the position for concealment, and even the men and horses of the two artillery companies were all concealed by artillery, picked up infantry weapons, and hid in the trenches. After passing through the concealment of the guard company, almost all traces were swept away, Liu Hua and Sun Xingbang also walked from the road again, conducted an inspection, and revised an anti-shortcoming.

After seeing that he could no longer find a trace of clues, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction, walked to the hidden headquarters, waited for the arrival of the enemy, and imagined the early appearance of the victory in Shentouling, Liu Hua smiled.

When the enemy brigade commander Wang Bing received an order from the headquarters, although he did not want to send troops, it was an order from the headquarters and he had to go. But there is no idea that going to reinforce Shimen Bridge may be able to get some benefits from the guard group. However, Wang Bing was also a good general, and he was afraid of getting into trouble, so he brought enough ammunition, and in order to increase the combat effectiveness of the troops, he also specially strengthened an artillery company and a heavy machine gun company.

Seeing that his firepower was strong and his ammunition was sufficient, Wang Bing had more confidence in his reinforcements for Shimen Bridge, and led all his men and horses except for Changde County.