readx;? Wang Haitao, who knew what he knew, called Tang Donglin, the commander of the first battalion of the guard regiment. Wang Haitao pointed to the map and said to Tang Donglin www.biquge.info "Donglin, the reconnaissance team came to report that the Japanese army had built an artillery position on Bijia Mountain outside the city, and there was a squadron of Japanese defense, if we want to capture Tongling City, we must first take Bijia Mountain, otherwise the besieging troops will suffer under the Japanese artillery fire." Now I'm going to hand over the task of taking Beacon Hill to your guard battalion to complete. ”

Tang Donglin has been by Wang Haitao's side for a few years, and he has learned a lot of things, and his personality is also very calm. Tang Donglin was not in a hurry to express his position, but looked carefully at the Bijia Mountain map sent by the reconnaissance team. I watched this for ten minutes, and Wang Haitao didn't urge him. Ten minutes later, Tang Donglin raised his head and said to Wang Haitao: "Military seat, our guard battalion guarantees to complete the task!"

Looking at the confidence and firmness in Tang Donglin's eyes, Wang Haitao knew that Tang Donglin must have already had a plan and was sure to complete it. So he said, "Have you got a plan? Tang Donglin pointed to the map and said: "Military seat, you look at the topography of the peak where the Japanese position is located on this mountain, there is a steep slope on one side and a gentle slope on the other, and the Japanese army's position is on the side of the gentle slope, not to the top of the mountain. Then their attention should be on the gentle slope in front of the position.

I plan to use the strength of two companies to make a feint attack in front of the Japanese position, and when the attention and firepower of the Japanese army are attracted to the troops of the feint, I will use one company to climb to the top of the hill from behind and condescendingly flank the Japanese army, the intelligence of the reconnaissance team says that the Japanese army has only one squadron, and there should be more than 100 people, plus the artillery will not exceed 300 people, and my guard battalion has 500 people, how can I take this position. ”

Tang Donglin's plan coincided with Wang Haitao's idea, so Wang Haitao and Tang Donglin studied the details together. In the end, Wang Haitao asked: "Then how long will it take you to take the Beacon Hill position?" Tang Donglin calculated the time and replied: "Junzuo, you give me three hours, and I promise to take the Beacon Hill position." ”

Wang Haitao looked at his watch and said, "Okay! It's 11:45 a.m., and I'll start shelling the Tongling city wall at 14:45 a.m., and then I'll start a general attack at 15 o'clock." Whether the troops will suffer heavy casualties depends on whether your guard battalion can take the Beacon Hill position on time. Wang Haitao's words undoubtedly increased the pressure on Tang Donglin. After Tang Donglin saluted Wang Haitao, he turned around and left without saying anything.

Looking at the back of Tang Donglin leaving, Tangshan Leopard, who Wang Haitao had been listening silently by his side, said: "Mountain Leopard, Donglin is a good seedling, and he can take over your class after training." Tangshan Leopard only replied: "It's almost hot." After Tang Donglin left the command room, he quickly came to the guard battalion station, and shouted loudly: "All the guard battalions are assembled!"

It only took three minutes, and more than 500 soldiers of the guard battalion, fully loaded, stood in front of Tang Donglin. Tang Donglin said to the soldiers: "Listen, the military seat has just given our guard battalion the task, that is, the Japanese artillery position on Beacon Hill must be taken before 15 o'clock, and I ask you to capture this position before 14:30. Now the whole is out, and the goal is Beacon Hill, and I run forward. ”

Under the guidance of the reconnaissance team, all the officers and men of the accompanying guard battalion ran towards Beacon Hill. It was six kilometers from the station to the foot of Beacon Mountain, and the two Japanese outposts on the road had been touched by the reconnaissance team. It was thirteen o'clock when the whole battalion arrived at the bottom of the mountain. Tang Donglin first asked the soldiers to rest and stand by, and then called the four company commanders to his side.

Tang Donglin only then told the four company commanders his plan, and then arranged: "The first company commander Feng Longcai led the first company to go up the mountain lightly from the back mountain, and the second company commander led the second company to clear the Japanese light and dark posts in front. The rest of the fighters followed the second company up the hill. We will make a feint from the front at 14 o'clock sharp, and a company must attack from behind the Japanese troops at 14 o'clock at 14 o'clock. After the Japanese army was in chaos, they attacked back and forth, and took the Japanese position in one fell swoop. Do you all understand?"

After the four company commanders nodded their heads in understanding, Tang Donglin said, "Act immediately." Feng Longcai, the commander of the first company, immediately led the soldiers of the first company, led by the two soldiers of the reconnaissance team, to the back of the mountain. The commander of the second company led the soldiers of the second company to search and advance to the mountain, and several soldiers of the reconnaissance team and her all cooperated with the second company.

After 40 minutes of searching and advancing, the 2nd Company first came to a 200-meter place in front of the Japanese position and took cover. As soon as the second company arrived at the Japanese position, Tang Donglin also arrived with the third company and the fire company.

Tang Donglin looked at his watch and said, "Ten minutes to prepare, and the attack will start on time at fourteen o'clock." After speaking, he raised his binoculars and looked at the Japanese position 200 meters away. The soldiers under his command quickly set up light and heavy machine guns, and more than 20 mortars of large and small calibers of the fire company were also set up, and the soldiers in charge of aiming aimed their guns at the Japanese firing points everywhere.

In addition to the first company, there were more than a dozen snipers in the whole battalion, and at this time they also found their own sniper positions, and their guns were aimed at important targets. Tang Donglin observed with a telescope for a while, but there was no Japanese artillery position and the eight mountain guns mentioned here, so he hurriedly asked the people from the reconnaissance battalion, and it turned out that the Japanese army had set up the artillery position at the rear, and it was not visible from here.

The hands of the watch pointed to fourteen o'clock, and Tang Donglin ordered the attack to begin. First mortar fire of various calibers began, followed by light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, semi-automatic rifles. The Japanese troops on the positions were caught off guard, but after the initial confusion, the Japanese troops on the positions soon began to counterattack.

Because there was the cover of the woods, and it was a feint, the soldiers did not charge, so the Japanese army's return fire basically did not cause much damage to the soldiers in the woods, but because of the firepower exposed by the counterattack, they were constantly hit by snipers. The feint lasted ten minutes, and gunfire rang out high behind the Japanese position, and it was a company of soldiers who rushed behind the Japanese position and attacked the Japanese on time.

The simultaneous attacks caused confusion among the Japanese troops, which was exacerbated by the fact that the squadron leader and several squad leaders of the Japanese army were named by snipers. Tang Donglin saw through the binoculars that the time had come to attack, so he ordered everyone to charge. Although the frontal charging warriors rushed from the bottom to the top, such a gentle slope was not much different from peace for these warriors who had grown up in the mountains since childhood.

In just a few minutes, the soldiers of the second and third companies had already broken through to the Japanese position, and the Japanese troops who were still stubbornly resisting in the position died under the soldiers' guns. The soldiers of the first company charged even more quickly from the top down, and the Japanese also wanted to blow up the eight mountain guns on the position, but they did not even have the explosives installed, and the soldiers of the first company rushed into the position.

At 2:30 p.m., the 1st Battalion of the Guards Regiment eliminated a Japanese squadron and an artillery squadron on the position at the cost of six casualties, 11 seriously wounded, and 26 lightly wounded.

Tang Donglin asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and on the other hand, he reported to Wang Haitao, reporting that he had occupied the Japanese position on Beacon Mountain, completely annihilated an infantry squadron and an artillery squadron of the Japanese army, and captured six intact 75 mountain guns. Wang Haitao received Tang Donglin's good news, shouted two "good" words in a row, looked at his watch, and ordered the heavy artillery battalion to shell Tongling City on time.

At 14:45, 20 German-made 150 heavy guns simultaneously shelled the Tongling city wall. The shelling was aimed only at the city walls and not at the city, taking into account that there were still many innocent people in the city, and the shells could not be allowed to fall on their own people. The 150 howitzers were full of power, and it took only 10 minutes for 20 howitzers to blow up a section of the city wall of Tongling City by dozens of meters.

Seeing that the wall of Tongling City had been blown down, Wang Haitao immediately ordered the chariot to be dispatched, and the 277th Brigade attacked with the chariot. As soon as the order was given, the remaining eighteen light tanks and fifteen light armored vehicles of the light tank battalion on the position formed a torrent of steel and rushed unstoppably towards Tongling City.

Behind the chariot were more than 1,000 officers and men of the 568th Regiment of the 277th Brigade. The tank guns on the tanks were constantly shelling the remaining firing points of the Japanese army, and dozens of heavy machine guns on board tore apart all the enemies who dared to stop them with bullets. Soon tanks and armored vehicles burst into the collapsed city walls, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers with explosives suddenly burst out of the walls.

The Japanese soldiers shouted, "Itaza!" and pulled the explosives bags on their bodies and pounced on the several tanks rushing in front. The moment was too close, and by the time the combat vehicles behind reflected and wanted to stop it with machine guns, it was too late, and a dozen human bombs exploded in several tank cars in front.

The protection capability of light tanks must not be compared with that of heavy tanks, and although these dozen or so human bombs did not bring fatal damage to these light tanks, they also made it impossible for four tanks to continue to advance. Li Chunshan, the commander of the 568th Regiment, hurriedly asked the soldiers to speed up their pace, keep up with the intact chariot, and protect the chariot.

After staying in the gap of the city wall for about ten minutes, the tanks and armored vehicles under the protection of the infantry broke through the city again, Li Chunshan asked the first and second battalions to follow the chariots to advance into the city, while the third battalion charged up to the city, to occupy the city as soon as possible. Half an hour later, the blue sky and white sun flag was raised on the eastern wall of Tongling City, and the Japanese plaster flag fell into the stinky ditch outside the city.

Wang Haitao saw the blue sky and white sun flag rising at the head of the city, and with a wave of his hand, Mu Suzhong, the commander of the 278th Brigade beside him, excitedly ordered the 278th Brigade to start entering the city. Wang Haitao and Tangshan Leopard also entered Tongling City with the 278th Brigade with their guards. As soon as Wang Haitao entered the city, Li Chunshan, the commander of the 568th Regiment, ran to Wang Haitao's side panting and said: "Report to the military seat, the 568th Regiment has occupied Tongling County and is purging the remnants of the enemy. ”