At three o'clock in the morning, the entire three battalions had reached the designated position and entered the fortifications being excavated one after another. Yang Longfei hid in the woods 600 meters away from the turret and used binoculars to observe the enemy's movements, and he found that most of the enemies patrolling outside the pillboxes, bunkers, turrets, and various firepower points and commanding heights were puppet soldiers, and after looking for a long time, he only saw three Japanese military policemen, one of whom ran out of the turret to pee, and the other two Japanese soldiers were leisurely smoking cigarettes and standing in front of a bunker chatting.

He was looking into a daze, and Cao Guang, the commander of the third battalion, suddenly ran in front of him. Yang Longfei handed the telescope to him and said, "Damn, the little devils are enough to save trouble, they rest in the stronghold and let these puppet soldiers keep vigil?" Dog-day little devils, you're going to have to pay for your carelessness......"

Cao Guang said humorously: "Alas, regiment leader, these two devils Qiu Ba are still building a stove, hey!" Fuck, I'm not afraid to support myself by lighting a fire to eat in the middle of the night...... Regiment commander, if you want me to say let's not wait for dark, just five or six hundred meters, I will rush over with the soldiers while it is dark! Why wait until dawn? ”

"No, Lao Tzu is fighting a positional battle with the devil this time, don't pout* look at the sky, don't take these five or six hundred meters seriously. I'll bet you, as soon as your battalion charges, the devils on the turret will immediately notice it, and then the machine guns and cannons will be completely finished as soon as they greet you. This 500-meter radius is all open land, and if you really want to let the devil's machine gun get wet, it won't be finished if you don't make it into a sieve. ”

"Regiment commander, I have all the grenadiers in our battalion, a total of ten people, twenty each*, do you want to take a look?" Cao Guang suggested.

Yang Longfei patted the dust on his hands and stood up: "Let's go, go and see ......"

The ten grenadiers were all personally selected by Cao Guang, and they had worked in the field of throwing before joining the army, including grazing cattle and sheep with branches and stones for the landlord's family; There are open-air shops playing rings; There are also a few old Red Army soldiers who participated in the jute riots and threw pike darts. Yang Longfei was happy, but he didn't expect that his subordinates were really full of talents! He looked at the ten grenadiers standing in front of him with a smile, and joked wittily: "You are all baby bumps in my hands Yang Longfei, and they are very valuable!" Speaking of which, each person has nearly twenty pounds of * hanging on their bodies, can this not be worth much? ”

Hearing Yang Longfei's words, the soldiers burst into laughter and applauded.

"I guess it will be light in two hours, and I won't talk to you haha, let's get straight to the point! It is no exaggeration to say that the ten of you are the main factor that will determine the success or failure of this battle. If your battalion commander hadn't told me that he had you guys in his hands, I wouldn't have given the main attack to the third battalion. I don't have a high demand for the ten of you, and when the battle starts, you can do anything, whether it's smoking, or relieving yourself, just lying down in the pit and sleeping soundly. But there is one thing, as soon as you receive the signal, you must immediately take up your position according to the established plan and wait for the order to attack! When the time comes, you will take * aimed at the enemy's machine gun hole and muzzle and blow up his son of a bitch! As long as the enemy's machine gun holes and muzzles are eliminated, the rest will be handed over to the first echelon! When the battle is over, I'll open a small stove for you, and I'll invite you to drink!" Do you understand everything? ”

"Got it!" The warriors roared in a low voice.

Yang Longfei took two packets of unopened "Three Forts" cigarettes from his pocket, handed them to two of the soldiers and said, "Give this cigarette to the brothers...... I just pulled out my pocket, and I really didn't have anything to handle, all I had left was cigarettes! I have to grieve the brothers, I, Yang Longfei, please everyone! ”

"Salute!" Cao Guang gave an order, and the ten soldiers raised their right arms together to salute Yang Longfei as a sign of respect. Yang Longfei also returned with a military salute to express his solemnity.

At about five o'clock in the morning, the sky was slightly brighter, and the stove set up in the middle of the night had been blown out by the morning wind, and there were still a few fire points on the burnt firewood. Most of the puppet soldiers in charge of the vigil fell asleep in the open space and by the wall outside the stronghold, and after several days and nights of endless vigil, their energy was on the verge of collapse.

A Japanese soldier who had just woken up staggered to the top of the turret as he straightened his clothes, ready to turn off the searchlight's button. When he reached the edge of the turret, an astonishing scene was presented in front of him, revealing itself:

Dense and criss-crossed ring of fortifications like blood vessels had been built at a distance of 200 meters from him, as well as foxholes and fire support points scattered in various locations. Bastard, what's going on here? In just one night, there were suddenly so many artificial tunnels and hidden spots around the Yuxian stronghold, who did this?!

The Japanese soldier shouted as he picked up the binoculars placed on the battlement and looked at the opposite side, only to see that many soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were lying in dense circles in the tunnel, and it seemed that they were still sleeping. This made him feel very angry, and rushed downstairs like a gust of wind, and the moment he picked up the microphone, he found that the phone line had also been cut! The Japanese soldier flipped the table in front of him to the ground like crazy, and then used the * of his rifle to gouge into the stomachs of several other Japanese soldiers who were still sleeping soundly in the turret, and he roared: "Bastard, all get up! There are dirt eight roads, quick, get up! Prepare for the offensive ......"

After hearing the shouting, the Japanese soldiers jumped up from the ground one after another, like grasshoppers after autumn, and rushed out of the turret with their rifles leaning against the wall. The fortifications on the other side were as quiet as usual, and they did not look like people.

They didn't care about that, in their opinion, whether there were people in the fortifications or not, they were going to blow up this area that shouldn't exist. Who dares to have such courage? I actually dug the ring fortification to the foot of the Yuxian stronghold!

The Japanese artillery quickly removed several mortars and grenadiers from the turrets and pillboxes, and they were not professional gunners, but simply loaded the approximate amount of money and began to drop bombs. After a round of bombardment, a puff of gunpowder smoke rose from the position of the Eighth Route Army.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were hidden in the fortifications, opened fire one after another, and on a high slope more than 800 meters away from the Japanese stronghold, several mountain guns and mortars of the Independent Regiment also returned to artillery fire one after another, and the battle began to heat up......

A Japanese signal soldier took off the headset he was wearing on his head and shouted: "Report, Yamamoto Shaosa, I have contacted the headquarters of the gendarmerie stationed in Yangquan!" ”

Yamamoto Shaosa, who was in charge of commanding the battle, walked quickly in front of him and said: "Send a report to Matsuo Nakasa, our army's stronghold in Yuxian has been fiercely attacked by the local army of Shina, and Yamamoto is organizing troops to carry out a stubborn counterattack, and it is now in a state of stalemate. ”

At the same time, Yang Longfei was hiding somewhere in the fortifications and observing the enemy situation with a telescope. Suddenly, a well-dressed warrior ran in front of him like a gust of wind. Yang Longfei turned an eye and saw that this guy also had a briefcase hanging on him, like a correspondent.

"Report to Regiment Commander Yang, the division commander ordered your department to immediately withdraw from the existing position, and withdraw to Miaozhuang in the direction of Yanshipan Road to stand by, this is the document issued by the division headquarters to the independent regiment......"

Yang Longfei took the document in the hand of the communication soldier and returned it to the other party without looking at it a few times, and he snorted angrily and said: "You go back and tell the division commander that our regiment has exchanged fire with the devils in the Yuxian stronghold, and there are also devil reinforcements from the north-south highway line, and the independent regiment is now under attack on three sides and cannot withdraw from the battle." Yang Longfei, the head of the independent regiment, was determined to lead the soldiers of the whole regiment to pull out the Yuxian stronghold and then break through from the front, and that's it! ”

The correspondent was not happy when he heard it: "Then what is it?" Head Yang, didn't you let me follow you to deceive my superiors? You don't know who the teacher is, can he believe you? ”

"It doesn't matter believe it or not, that's what it means anyway. Besides, did Lao Tzu lie? As you can see, the frontal troops of our regiment have already exchanged fire with the devils on the opposite side, and I estimate that it will not be long before the ambush battle in the north and south directions will begin. You report to the division commander according to the actual situation, and he will not do anything to you. ”

"Okay, anyway, I'm here anyway, it's up to you whether to obey or disobey, Captain Yang, take care, I'll go first!"

As soon as the correspondent left, Cao Guang, the commander of the third battalion who was directing the battle on the side, leaned over and asked, "Regiment commander, did the political commissar go to the division headquarters to sue you again?" ”

It's okay not to mention Xiao Zhiyuan, as soon as he mentions him, Yang Longfei is angry and doesn't fight anywhere, he picked up the binoculars and muttered dissatisfiedly while observing the battle: "Damn, if you don't say that Lao Tzu can't pee in a pot with him, this kid doesn't know where he learned the problem, he has been a political commissar in our independent regiment for more than two years, and he has to report to his superiors if he is a big fart, and he almost doesn't know what his surname is!" Forget it, don't mention it. Go, call Shen Yuqing, the commander of the engineer company, to Lao Tzu! ”

"Yes!" After Cao Guang agreed, he turned around and ran away.

Within two minutes, Company Commander Shen Yuqing appeared beside Yang Longfei: "What's the matter with me, regiment commander?" ”

"You guys worked hard yesterday, and you were tired enough to dig a ditch and what you were doing, how are the soldiers resting?"

Shen Yuqing opened his mouth and said, "It's okay, I've slept for a few hours, and my spirit is not bad." Commander, do you have any tasks? ”

Yang Longfei turned around and said, "There is something that the soldiers still need to work hard...... When the battle was almost over, I would have the grenadiers rush forward and drop the bombs, but the distance between the enemy and the enemy was too far away, and it was already out of range. I need you to push the fortifications forward one hundred and fifty meters at a time, and as for how much time it will take, you can do it yourself, and try to complete it in two hours. Of course, I'll let the artillerymen and machine gunners cover your movements......"

Shen Yuqing patted his chest and agreed: "It's only one hundred and fifty meters?" How can this take two hours? Commander, just look at it, as long as you have cover here, our sappers can complete the task in an hour! ”

Yang Longfei said with a smile: "Don't talk so much, I have requirements for the earthwork to be carried out by you in the connection, first, you must ensure that the fortifications are curved as much as possible and avoid building in a straight line, otherwise you will have to become the target of the devil's gun." Second, dig the tunnel as deep as possible so that your head can be exposed, and the reason is the same as the first one. On the premise of making sure that these two standards are met, you calculate the time. You go and assemble your troops first, and when the second round of artillery fire is fired, your company will be on board! ”

"Understood, regimental commander, our company promises to complete the mission!"

……

The battle lasted almost an hour, and almost all the fighters of the first and second echelons took part in the battle, although not as bloodthirsty as the previous white-knuckle battles, but it was no less intense, with both sides using almost all the heavy weapons they had. Even the soldiers of the cooking squad and the groom squad were unwilling to be lonely and held a few "Hanyang-made" rifles that had long been eliminated from the warehouse to shoot at the Japanese strongholds, but the ten soldiers of the grenadier group did not move, and were squatting in the fortifications with their backs to the battlefield and smoking cigarettes leisurely......

Several of the cooks were quite dissatisfied with the behavior of the ten men, and then they discussed. A slightly bloated soldier muttered, "It's all a pot of porridge in front, look at a few of them, it's like they're all fine, and they still have the leisure to smoke at this time?" What is it......"

A warrior with a small stubble on his mouth said, "What's the solution?" People have this privilege, what can you do? Alas, do you know who gave them that cigarette? It was sent to them by the regimental commander himself. Our cooking class can't get this treatment for 800 years, they are the baby bumps of the head of the regiment! ”

"What the baby pimple, if you want to say that, the head of the regiment has too many baby bumps. Last year, when our regiment formed an artillery company, the regiment commander also said that it was his baby bump, and I saw that the regiment commander was hot for three days, and after this period it stopped. ”

"Shhhh If you let the head of the regiment know, you kid must eat big-eared patches......"

The cooking squad was chatting hotly, and the grenadier team was not inferior to each other, and the squad leader Zhang Baofu was making the final pre-war mobilization with his soldiers. He took a deep puff of his cigarette and then said, "Brothers, I think you have seen it too, the head of the regiment is kind to us! He didn't talk to us properly, and he gave us his own cigarettes to smoke. It's not easy for us to meet such a good leader, you yourself say, when we should really be on the grenadier group, should we play with our lives? Should the head of the regiment win glory on his face? ”

"The! Should! The warriors shouted in unison. One of the soldiers also waved his right arm: "What the squad leader said is right, if we can meet a good person like the regiment leader in this life, we will accumulate virtue in our previous life!" didn't say it, when it's our turn, no one is allowed to strain, we can't embarrass the regiment commander, even if we die, we have to use our chests to block the devil's bullets! ”

Soon, the Japanese troops stationed in Yangquan and Linfen were dispatched, and they planned to repeat their old tricks and give the enemy who attacked the Yuxian stronghold another internal and external attack and eat the attack on the Eighth Road, but they did not want the Eighth Route to have set up an ambush on the highway line in the north and south directions. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Independent Regiment have been waiting for a long time.

On the communication line south of the Shitai Highway, Xie Dacheng, the commander of the first battalion, was leading the soldiers to ambush on the dirt slopes on both sides of the road, and the bait had been lowered, just waiting for the enemy who came to reinforce to bite the hook.

Coming from the direction of Yangquan were reinforcements from the 3rd Squadron of the Japanese Military Police and the 3rd Company of the Independent Regiment of the 5th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Cooperative Army. Despite their large numbers, their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of local troops.

Soon, this unit appeared in the sight of Xie Dacheng and others, on the curved highway line, the Japanese reinforcements were first opened by five military sidecar motorcycles, followed by ten Japanese 94 military trucks and the infantry of the puppet army.

Xie Dacheng silently lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and casually waved his hand to the soldier beside him, and the soldier understood and pulled the string in his hand back, and then a deafening explosion came to his face. Touched* directly sent the Japanese motorcycles that entered the minefield into the sky, and then it seemed to rain a rain of flesh mixed with steel.

The Japanese soldier Shaozuo, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a truck, couldn't help but be furious, and after jumping out of the car, he gritted his teeth and commanded: "Quick, the sappers clear the mine obstacles as quickly as possible, and we must rush to the Yuxian stronghold as soon as possible to reinforce!" ”

After receiving the order, the Japanese sappers threw themselves into the current demining work with portable mine detectors in their hands, but Xie Dacheng, who was on the hillside, unhurriedly, turned to the side and continued to smoke a cigarette. The soldier on the side asked impatiently: "Battalion commander, the devil is clearing mines, let's fight!" ”

"Fart, where is this? If the little devils are willing to clear mines, let them do so, and according to the density of the mines we have planted in advance, the little devils will be able to walk until dark. You all keep an eye on me, as long as the devil sappers stop to clear the obstacles, you will immediately pull the strings, no matter what, you can't cheap them! ”

"No problem, battalion commander, you can do it......"

The Ishino Squadron of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in Linfen has also moved to the communication line north of Shitai Road, which is a mechanized unit of the Japanese army, and there are dozens of Japanese cavalry at the front of the unit to open the way. Qian Liyuan was not as calm as Xie Dacheng, when he saw the dozens of sturdy military horses, his eyes straightened, and asked the soldiers in charge of pulling the strings not to be in a hurry, and let these dozens of devil cavalry pass through the minefield first, so as not to hurt the military horses under their crotches.

After the Japanese cavalry successfully passed through the minefield, the Japanese convoy that followed was devastated. The sound of explosions resounded in the sky, and countless Japanese corpses and vehicle wreckage lay on the highway line.

Qian Liyuan immediately ordered the whole battalion to go into battle and attack the Japanese troops down the slope. However, the Japanese army did not love war, but was eager to advance southward, turning a blind eye to the attack launched by the Eighth Route Army on both flanks, and the Japanese infantry who survived by luck broke out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army as quickly as possible while carrying out local blockades. As soon as the front of the 2nd Battalion bit them, the Japanese army threw them away again, and the road was not completed and began to walk on the mountain road. How can Qian Liyuan let them go? With a wave of his hand, brothers, rush up to stop this gang of devils, today is to fight the second battalion out, and this Shiye squadron must be bitten to death on the Shitai line!

The frontal battle continued, and it seemed that the Japanese army had made an iron heart to start a protracted battle with the eight routes outside the stronghold, except for most of the puppet troops who counterattacked in the various sandbag positions, almost all the Japanese soldiers hid in the gun towers, pillboxes, bunkers and fire support points to block the attack. They knew that they were far inferior to this group of eight-way people in terms of numbers and firepower, but there was one thing they had a great advantage for, and that was this impregnable defensive position. An impenetrable wall of fire made up of concealments, foxholes, ring fortifications, chain bunkers and fire support points, no matter how many heads you grow, as long as you get into the range of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, you are dead!

Yang Longfei was not surprised by this, judging from the information obtained from the front-line reconnaissance and the combat experience provided by Xie Dacheng, he had already expected the current battle situation. To put it bluntly, this group of Japanese troops only relied on the advantages brought by the terrain, and in the face of the invading enemy, they only carried out a simple counterattack, and did not pay any attention to strategy and tactics. When you can't hold on, you ask for support from the devils around you.,The next thing to do is to hold on and wait for help.,When the reinforcements arrive.,The devils in the stronghold will bloom in the center one after another.,The battle will naturally end.。

Yang Longfei did not intend to give him this opportunity, he vaguely heard that fighting had also broken out on the road line in the north-south direction, and at the same time, the second round of artillery fire coverage on the devils in the Yuxian stronghold had also come to an end. A soldier ran to Yang Longfei and reported that the engineer company had successfully completed the excavation task, and Company Commander Shen asked for instructions on whether it was possible to withdraw from the existing position? Yang Longfei nodded in agreement and called a messenger, asking him to inform the grenadier group to move closer to the enemy's stronghold according to the tunnel dug by the engineer company and prepare for battle. With a green flare as an order, as soon as the flare is in the sky, the grenadier team will immediately move! Twenty pieces* per person, all of them must be thrown out within three minutes.

The soldiers of the grenadier group, each with 20 "made in the border area"* hanging on their chests, jumped into the fortifications one by one, and slowly approached the Japanese stronghold according to the route of the engineer company......

The Japanese also seemed to have discovered the Eighth Route attempt, and immediately suppressed it with machine guns and mortars. Although the engineer company had dug the tunnel to a depth of one and a half meters, two fighters still fell under enemy fire, but fortunately they only suffered local burns and did not detonate their entanglements*, otherwise the entire grenadier group would have been burned.

Yang Longfei witnessed this tragic scene in the telescope, and couldn't help but be furious, he pointed to the machine gunner on the side and the artillery behind him, and roared: "Artilleryman, are you fucking blind?" Quick, cover the grenadier group, aim at the enemy's point of fire and give me a fucking bang! ”

Under the orders of Yang Longfei, the artillery of the Independent Regiment also opened fire, and although the Japanese stronghold suffered heavy losses continuously, the artillery of the Eighth Route Army never shook it. Yang Longfei stood in the fortifications and pondered: It seems that Xie Dacheng is right, the enemy's turrets and bunkers are extremely strong, and ordinary shells are like tickling, and even large-caliber Japanese mountain artillery and * artillery can only destroy a small part of the foundation.

The guard Li Shenshu ran to Yang Longfei and saluted: "Regiment commander, the grenadier team has arrived at the designated position, and the two wounded soldiers have also been carried down......

Yang Longfei nodded and said, "Let's go, follow me to the front line to have a look." I didn't think about it, but I was surrounded by Li Shenshu and Cao Guang of the third battalion, and everyone persuaded bitterly: "No, regiment commander, the front is too dangerous, you can't go!" ”

Yang Longfei went up and kicked Li Shengun to the ground: "Fart, the first echelon is fighting so hard in front, shouldn't Lao Tzu, as the regiment commander, go up and command the battle?" Get out of the way! ”

Cao Guang desperately wrapped his hands around Yang Longfei's waist and shouted: "Regiment commander, calm down, I will go to the front to command the battle, you stay, the devil's firepower is too fierce......"

Until the end, Cao Guang couldn't stop him, and after Yang Longfei broke free, he rushed to the front along the newly built fortifications. It was less than 200 meters from the Japanese stronghold, and although the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Companies of the Independent Regiment in this area continued to attack stubbornly, for a long time they were overwhelmed by the fire network of light and heavy machine guns in the Japanese artillery towers and pillboxes.

Yang Longfei, who was lying behind a few bags of sandbag bunkers, could hardly see the existence of the grenadier group located 150 meters ahead, and it was not difficult to see from the telescope that the eight remaining soldiers of the grenadier group were also stubbornly suppressed in the tunnel by the Japanese army's fire net, unable to get up. Yang Longfei gritted his teeth and creaked, he punched on the sandbag bunker in front of him, and then roared: "Give me the machine gun...... Listen, everyone, don't get entangled with the puppet army outside the turret, give me concentrated fire on the enemy's machine gun holes, and even if I run out of bullets, I must win time for the grenadier group to attack! ”

......In an instant, a dense network of fire composed of five or six light and heavy machine guns strafed the Japanese guns and machine gun holes, and while the Japanese troops were suppressed by firepower, they also turned their guns and fired at the eight-way machine gunners on the opposite side, and the firepower of the two sides could be said to be evenly matched, and it was difficult to distinguish between them in a short period of time.

Yamamoto Shaozo was already pessimistic about the current situation, if it had been before, the reinforcements from the direction of Yangquan and Linfen should have arrived a long time ago, but until now there has been no news. When he again asked Matsuo Hirasaki Nakasa, the captain of the military police stationed in Yangquan, for help, the radio station seemed to be disturbed by some kind of outside world, and the signal appeared and disappeared from time to time, and it was extremely unstable.

In desperation, Yamamoto Shaosa suddenly pulled out the * hanging from his waist, he was ready to make a desperate gamble before the stronghold was conquered, even if he died in battle, he would crush the vitality of the group of eight roads in front of him, he ordered all the artillery in the stronghold to assemble on the roof of the turret.

Three minutes later, three mortars were placed side by side in the center of the roof. Waving the saber in his hand, Yamamoto Shaoza ordered the artillery to adjust the firing angle and carry out artillery bombardment on the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Almost at the same time, a green flame suddenly burst into the sky from the position of the Eighth Route Army——— which was a sortie signal issued by the headquarters to the grenadier group.

The fighters of the grenadier group lying in ambush in the fortifications jumped up from the tunnel, and I don't know who took the lead and shouted "!" The eight warriors threw out the * wrapped around their bodies one by one......

The three mortars of the Japanese army also opened fire, and after only three muffled sounds of "boom, boom, boom......" were heard, three shells of 60 mm caliber burst out, and after crossing three arcs in the sky filled with gunpowder, they smashed head-on into the forward position of the Eighth Road......

Hundreds* smashed into the Japanese stronghold one after another, and the pillboxes, bunkers, turrets and hidden places were blown up inside and out, and the Japanese machine guns also ceased fire in the explosion......

Unfortunately, a * fell straight five or six meters away from Yang Longfei's location, and the flying shrapnel directly hit Yang Longfei's body, and the air wave also swept him into the air, and then fell to the ground like a piece of pig iron. Yang Longfei's body temperature dropped to freezing point in an instant, and he felt that his body was as light and scary as a feather, followed by the darkness of the sky, and in the dark, he seemed to have seen death......