Yu Chuan said: "The rest of the situation is in the information, you can take a look first." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, you go back to recuperate first, don't perform any more tasks at this stage." ”

Yu Chuan said: "Thank you Lin Shuai for your concern. After speaking, he walked out of Lin Yuan's house, Lin Yuan began to look at the written materials, and found that this observation station was mainly for the artillery to calculate the target, and 80% of the data was the shooting yuan of various locations, with these things, the artillery behind the Japanese army could directly fire the artillery without calculation.

Lin Yuan thought in his heart: "The main artillery of the Japanese army has been cleaned up by us, and the remaining artillery is only small-caliber artillery, so there is nothing to worry about!" So Lin Yuan continued to look at the follow-up information, and gradually found two more useful ones, one was a statistical table of the number of grain received, and the other was a leave slip for the wounded and sick.

Lin Yuan had already learned from the information that there were 147 Japanese soldiers at the observation post, so he calculated the food ration of each person in the Japanese army according to the statistical table of the number of grain received, and then he found that the daily ration of rice for each person was only six taels, and these rice were not pure rice, but included moldy rice.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Six taels of food a day for a person, this is already a fairly low ration, I don't feel full if I don't do anything, not to mention that the Japanese army has to conduct daily training, so the Japanese army should always be in a state of hunger, and the taste of hunger is not pleasant, it seems that the Japanese army should reduce the amount of training, if the amount of training is reduced, then the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army should be weakened." ”

Lin Yuan then looked at the leave slips of the wounded and sick, only to see a thick stack of various leave slips, and when he opened it, there were all kinds of words written in it that he didn't know, so Lin Yuan checked it and found that these words were all professional terms related to diseases in Japanese, and there was a disease that caught Lin Yuan's attention, that is, scurvy.

This disease is caused by a lack of vitamin C, and has been known by humans for a long time, when humans first began to sail out to sea, people saw this disease, people with this disease have no strength, subcutaneous bleeding, loose teeth fall out, and pain.

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "The Japanese army does not have fresh fruits and vegetables, and the lack of vitamin C is inevitable. Lin Yuan soon discovered another disease: diarrhea, so he thought: "The Japanese army ate moldy rice with good rice, and it is nothing to eat once or twice, but after a long time, there will definitely be problems." ”

Lin Yuan read the information and made a judgment that the Japanese army was already short of food and riddled with diseases, so it was completely possible to attack them, and they should be completely wiped out at a small price.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan came to the headquarters of the First Army, and said to Xiao Yingwu in the headquarters: "We can send a force to strike at the Japanese army in the mountains, if we can quickly defeat the Japanese army, it will also be of great help to our later battles." ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "I think let's let the advance regiment of the Seventh Division fight, the location of their position is the closest to the Japanese army." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Okay, let's let them do it, this time we are a tentative attack, so we need to reformulate an offensive plan, which is the closest position of the Japanese army to us?" ”

Xiao Yingwu took a map, pointed to the map and said: "This is here, we call it the 301 Heights, the Japanese army has built a large number of tunnels and fortifications in the mountains, if we want to lay the 301 Heights, the tunnels and fortifications are what we must fight." ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while and said, "Our artillery can't help the tunnels inside the mountain, but what about the ones outside the mountain?" Can our artillery help? ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "I'm afraid it's difficult, the terrain outside the 301 Heights is complicated, and it is difficult for our tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to get close, and there are several small heights in front of the 301 Heights, which form a dead angle for artillery shooting, and it is difficult for our long-range artillery shells to hit the Japanese fortifications." ”

Lin Yuan said: "In this way, it is difficult for our heavy weapons to provide cover for the infantry? ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "That's right. ”

Lin Yuan said: "This is not good, although the Japanese army is riddled with diseases and lacks food, but the strength to hide in the fortifications and pull the trigger must be there, if we use people to storm the fortifications, the casualties will be not small!" Therefore, it is necessary to attack the enemy's fortifications with heavy weapons, and now the heavy weapons that are convenient for infantry to carry, one is a mortar, and a dragon fist rocket launch system, can these two knock out the Japanese fortifications? ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "The 81mm mortar is very difficult, the dragon fist, it is equipped with armor-piercing shells, whether it can penetrate the Japanese fortress is not to mention, the number of armor-piercing shells it is equipped with is too small, and the Japanese fortresses are all over the mountains, I am afraid it will not be enough." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Let's try to fight with the dragon fist first, don't we still have a flamethrower?" Send them on too! And what about our 240mm mortars? Will it be able to hit the Japanese fortress? ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "From the perspective of ballistics, it is possible, but the 240mm mortar is too inaccurate, and it may not be able to hit the fortress." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Even if we don't hit, we can shock the people in the Japanese fortress half to death!" ”

Xiao Yingwu said: "Okay, I'll let my subordinates prepare." At 4 o'clock in the evening of 10 March, the advance regiment of the 7th Division, under the leadership of regiment commander Lu Xinghua, went to and occupied the 263 heights outside the 301 high school.

At seven o'clock in the evening of March 10, Lu Xinghua gathered the commanders of the infantry battalion and said: "This battle was personally arranged by Lin Shuai, so everyone must fight it well!" The success or failure of our battle will directly affect the conduct of the follow-up operations. ”

At eight o'clock in the evening, the 240-mm mortars opened fire first, and one mortar shell after another crossed the mountains in front of the 301 Heights and smashed directly on the 301 Heights.

In the snow, the soldiers of the advance regiment clearly saw the scene of the shells falling on the Japanese high ground, and each explosion would raise a large cloud of smoke, and then a huge crater was left on the ground, and a shell fell directly on one of the fortifications, which was instantly razed to the ground, but many more were unharmed.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the fire attack ended, three red signal flares rose into the sky, and the three infantry battalions of the advance regiment immediately rushed to the outermost fortifications of the Japanese mountain in three directions.

However, before they could rush to the outermost fortifications, they were attacked like bullets, and it turned out that the fortifications above the Japanese high ground had spotted Lin Yuan's troops who were preparing to attack and opened fire on them.