After some greetings, Wang Ping, who arrived at the brigade headquarters, did not hesitate and directly stated the purpose of his trip.

"Staff Officer Zhang, map!" Cheng Xiao didn't answer immediately, but laid out the map.

"Lao Wang, there is a county seat less than twenty kilometers away from the copper mine, and nearly 3,000 puppet troops are stationed in it. Once the mine is attacked, they will definitely send reinforcements. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to give the Japanese puppet army a ruthless victory! ”

"Since the expansion of the army, there has never been a real battle. I want to take advantage of this opportunity for you to set up a stage for us and fight an ambush for the devil reinforcements~"

"In peacetime, such a big combat mission will definitely need to be reported to the military division, or even the military region. But now that I have the commander to get the Independent Brigade to fully cooperate with your orders, I will have no problem pulling out the entire Independent Brigade! ”。

Not to mention, this is a very bold idea.

Wang Ping's eyes lit up and he asked, "Old Cheng, this is not your style all along. ”

Cheng Xiao had no worries, and replied directly: "If you have questions, I also learned from you, Lao Wang, and I have learned a lot from you, but courage is the most important thing!" ”

After saying a joking sentence, Cheng Xiao pointed directly to the map and asked, "Lao Wang, the devil's strength in the copper mine is very strong. But as long as you have a regiment, there must be a regiment. I plan to give you Zeng Quan's independent regiment, and then a mountain artillery company, a platoon of the reconnaissance company, a company of the guard battalion, and a company of the engineer battalion! ”

"I personally command the rest of the troops, find a place to eat the devil reinforcements!"

"No problem!" Wang Ping replied very quickly.

Knowing that he was going to fight with the old regiment commander again, and that he was directly commanded by the old regiment commander, the more than 2,000 soldiers of the first regiment of the independent brigade were directly boiling.

In the eyes of many people, the old head has never failed against devils.

Fighting with the old regiment leader means victory1, which means military exploits. So, the morale of the top and bottom of the regiment is very high. After the order was given, the troops were assembled in less than half a day, and then waited for the departure time.

After a night of rapid marching, the troops lurked directly in the woods near the coal mine.

Zeng Quan, the head of the first regiment, Zhang Qing, the chief of staff, and Cheng Xiao specially strengthened the reconnaissance platoon commander and guard company commander for himself! A group of more than a dozen people calmly touched a high ground less than two kilometers away from the copper mine and looked down on the entire mine from a high position.

The scale of the mine is very large, more than twice the size of the Bald Ridge Coal Mine that he fell.

Because, in order to facilitate transportation, the devil directly built several smelting furnaces in the mine. The ore transported from the mine is poured directly into the furnace for smelting. In this way, the devil only needs to leave here with the copper ingot, which is very convenient.

On the brightly lit mine, several smelting furnaces with long chimneys are particularly dangerous, and they can enter Wang Ping's field of vision at once.

Next to the stove, dozens of ragged absentees were pouring ore and coal into the feed port under the supervision of the devil. No matter who it is, as long as you move a little slowly, you can immediately attract the whip of the devil.

In just a minute or two, two absentees were whipped.

The absentees dared not speak out, otherwise, with the cruelty of the devils, they would directly stab him into a hornet's nest with a bayonet and throw him outside the mine to feed the wolves.

Wang Ping's face suddenly became gloomy, but he did not speak, holding a telescope and began to search for the fortifications placed by the Japanese army around the mine.

"Old Chief, this is worthy of the location of the little devil's wealth, and the security is too tight. There are more than five machine gun bunkers built with stone and cement alone, and this is still on the surface, and we don't know how many we haven't found! Zeng Quan frowned and said what he saw.

Wang Ping's face also became heavy in an instant.

He had also built the machine gun bunker with cement and stone, and it was very strong, and ordinary mountain artillery would definitely not be able to help it.

The devil has built so many dark forts around the coal mine at one time, if it is attacked, the casualties of the troops will definitely be very large!

With a frown, he ordered: "Lao Zeng, arrange the reconnaissance troops, and try as close as possible to reconnoiter the deployment and firepower of the Japanese army in the copper mine!" It is better to find an absenteeism in the mine, otherwise we will not be able to find out the situation in the mine! ”

At three o'clock in the morning that night, Zeng Quan came over with a solemn face.

"Old Chief, the situation is not good! The Japanese army asked absenteeism to build a total of eleven bunkers around the mine, each of which had a devil handle of no less than one combat detachment, equipped with light machine guns and heavy machine guns! Every bunker is a hedgehog to us, and if we attack it, we won't be able to rely on the big casualties! ”

"Is it possible to touch in from the back of the mine, it's really not good, take the high ground behind the mine, and condescendingly suppress the devils in the mine!" Wang Ping frowned and proposed.

Zeng Quan shook his head helplessly.

"It's difficult, the devil also built two machine gun bunkers in the back!"

"As for the highlands, we thought of it, and the devils thought of it. They built three forts directly on the high ground and stationed a reinforced infantry squad. ”

"A large number of light and heavy machine guns can form a dense crossfire around the bunker, and if you charge hard, no matter how heavy the casualties are, it is impossible to occupy the mountain!"

"Then there is no way!" Wang Ping's brows furrowed, and he shouted dissatisfied.

"I really can't think of any other way than to attack!" Zeng Quan replied helplessly.

"No way!" Wang Ping refused without thinking about it!

"The devil's firepower is so strong, and there is a machine gun bunker, if you rush hard, you won't be able to take the copper mine even if you fight it all!"

"What then?" Zeng Quan was also anxious, staring at Wang Ping tightly and asked.

"Earth tanks, we can use earth tanks to cover the troops to get close to those machine gun bunkers!" Wang Ping's eyes lit up and he shouted.

"But the devil has a cannon, and the earthen tank can block bullets, but it can't stop the shells falling from the sky. One round of shells will blow up no matter how many earthen tanks will be blown into sawdust! Zeng Quan immediately raised the disadvantages of the earthen tank, stared at Wang Ping and asked.

"The devil has a cannon, and we have a cannon!" Wang Ping replied confidently.

"As long as you can block the bullets fired by the devil's machine gun bunker, cover the troops close to the bunker, and I will solve the problem of the cannon!"

Zeng Quan quickly reacted: "Okay, old regiment leader, I'll arrange someone to make an earthen tank!" ”

"Well, in order to prevent accidents, make a few more earthen tanks out!" Wang Ping nodded in agreement.

On the only way from the county seat to the copper mine, the troops of the two regiments of the Independent Brigade have been lurking in the nearby woods under the personal command of Cheng Xiao for almost two days.

Seeing that there was only one day's amount of dry food left in the troops, the political commissar who had just been transferred to the independent brigade couldn't help but remind.

"Brigade commander, do you want to send a telegram to Director Wang to ask!"

Cheng Xiao directly shook his head and refused: "I believe in the old leader, he has never failed to fight devils." If it weren't for that, the current commander of the independent brigade would be him, and it wouldn't have been my turn at all. Send him a telegram now, it will disrupt his thoughts! ”

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