successfully persuaded Yang Chongshan to let the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army cooperate with the New Second Regiment to perform a big show this time to occupy the Huting stronghold.

Kong Jie turned around again, dialed the phone with Li Yunlong, and explained the matter to Li Yunlong in detail.

On the phone, Lao Li first reluctantly refused the matter, and even scolded and said, "Damn, why?" Lao Tzu's hard-fought stronghold in the Tiger Pavilion is going to cheapen the 57th regiment of this dog day for nothing?

As for Yang Chongshan's kid, he also deserves to sing with Lao Tzu?

If he really let the 57th regiment rob Lao Tzu's field, will I, Li Yunlong, still be able to mix in this area of northwest Shanxi in the future? ”

The more Lao Li thought about it, the more angry he became, although he understood what Kong Jie said, but after this matter spread:

It was not easy for him Li Yunlong to take down the stronghold of Huting, but he was raided by the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army at night.

I picked the peaches directly!

Li Yunlong is a person who wants to save face, and in his opinion, a miscellaneous army like the 57th Regiment is not worthy of letting Li Yunlong suffer such a big loss, although this loss is only superficial.

As the middleman, Kong Jie had to persuade bitterly: "Lao Li, we have been old comrades-in-arms for so many years, can I still not know what you think in your heart?" It is difficult to take down the stronghold of the Tiger Pavilion, and it is even more difficult to defend it.

Even if it is not given to Yang Chongshan, sooner or later it will have to be snatched away by the little devil. ”

Li Yunlong continued to hum his nose on the other end of the phone.

Kong Jie had to come up with a killer weapon, so he said: "The 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army has also developed strong soldiers and horses over the years, this is a big fat sheep, let's raise him in the Huting stronghold first, and then fatten it and slaughter it in the future, I will share half of you, this is all right!" ”

"Haha, Lao Kong, that's what you said, Lao Zhao and Da Biao are both standing next to me! In the future, you are not allowed to cheat and deny it. ”

On the other end of the phone, Li Yunlong's impatient voice immediately came, as if he was afraid that Kong Jie would regret it.

Kong Jie scolded with a smile: "Okay, you old Li, wait for me here!" ”

Li Yunlong said: "You just say that you don't agree, right?" If you agree, we Lao Li will do this deal, and we should sing and sing, and we don't want to let go of this old face.

Who wants this to be found by you, Lao Kong! ”

Kong Jiele said: "Come on, Lao Li, you have less cheap and sell well, okay, okay, this matter is so decided, count me at a loss, this is always okay, right?" ”

Hahaha –

In the hearty laughter that came from both sides at the same time, the call between the two sides ended.

Li Yunlong was so decided by Kong Jie.

The two planned this matter together, first thinking of laying down the Huting stronghold, and then acting with the 57th Regiment of the Jin Suijun Army, and temporarily placing the Huting stronghold in the hands of the 57th Regiment.

As for how to cooperate, the specific time point and action plan, Kong Jie subsequently arranged a close contact between people and Yang Chongshan.

At the regimental headquarters of the new Second Regiment, Li Yunlong, who hung up the phone, smiled extremely brightly with his whole big face, and his eyes were almost gone.

Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion on the side, couldn't help but say: "Regiment Commander, if Commander Kong really agrees, in the future, the 57th Regiment will be defeated and the equipment and materials will be divided into half with us, which is indeed a profitable deal."

It's just that no one can say what the future holds.

When I thought that the stronghold of the Tiger Pavilion that I had finally defeated had to be surrendered to the Jin Sui Army, I was not happy. ”

Li Yunlong glanced at Zhang Dabiao and said happily: "Da Biao, do you know why this kid Lao Kong has improved so quickly and changed so much in recent years?" ”

Zhang Dabiao was stunned and shook his head.

Li Yunlong said: "Because, this Kong Er is stunned and doesn't learn well, hey, he also learned from our Lao Li, and he also learned the essence of our Lao Li!" ”

He changed his words and continued: "I promised Lao Kong and the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army to sing this play, and finally let the Huting stronghold out.

This is the final situation, as long as this Huting stronghold is lost to the 57th regiment, then what we promised Lao Kong will be done.

But how to do the specific process in the middle, he Lao Kong didn't make a determination for us, right?

Then there are more ways to go, you kid, figure it out for yourself! ”

Zhang Dabiao: "......"

When he left the compound of the regiment headquarters, Zhang Dabiao was still a little distracted, still immersed in Li Yunlong's previous words, thinking about what the regiment commander meant by this.

……

Fifteenth.

Under the command of Li Yunlong, the soldiers of the New Second Regiment quickly mobilized, and with the cooperation of the local army and militia units, they densely blocked all supply lines leading to the Huting stronghold from the outer line of the entire Huting stronghold, including water supply lines, material supply lines, and so on.

Eighteenth.

The third phase of the offensive of the winter counteroffensive of a detachment is still continuing, and in the entire three cities of Shouyang, Yangquan, and Tan County, and in a large area of the Japanese-occupied area, the devil puppet army is tired of dealing with the attack of a detachment of elusive parties, and has no time to take care of the area around Ping'an County for the time being.

In the afternoon, a transport team of the devils mainly used a large number of water trucks to draw relatively high-quality water from a large river four or five kilometers away from the Huting stronghold to supply water to the Huting stronghold.

Sanjin is located in the north of China, but the location is not particularly northern, but the four seasons are distinct.

During the coldest part of winter, when the water does not freeze, some of the smaller streams can freeze completely.

In the area where the devil takes water, the river is turbulent, and the temperature has risen in recent days, but there is no freezing.

This is a water supply convoy that the devils will transport every three or five days, and there are very few Japanese troops accompanying them, only seven or eight, led by a devil army Cao, and the rest are more than 30 puppet soldiers.

Pushed by the Japanese puppet soldiers, twenty or thirty waterwheels creaked along the dirt-paved road, and occasionally some drops of water splashed out of the full watermill carriages.

The devils and the puppet soldiers thought that as usual, it was another boring trip to deliver water.

As a result, it directly hit the muzzle of the ambush force specially arranged by Li Yunlong.

There was no fierce fighting between the two sides at all.

Such a water delivery team does not have much combat effectiveness at all.

The battle ended completely in only three to five minutes, several little devils were all killed, and most of the puppet army surrendered.

When the devil reinforcements from the Huting stronghold heard the sound and arrived, as far as the eye could see, there was only the river water splashed all over the ground, which was frozen into layers of thin ice under the continuous ravages of the cold current.

There are also the debris of the waterwheel all over the ground, and the ugly bodies of a few little devils who have been stripped of only the crotch cloth.

Tiger Pavilion stronghold.

The Great Japanese Imperial Command System.

The person in charge of commanding and garrisoning the entire Tiger Pavilion stronghold and ensuring the solid defense of the Tiger Pavilion stronghold was a devil Shaozo named Furukawa Shinichi.

This old devil was specially dispatched by the devil's command department recently.

In order to strengthen the defense of the entire Tiger Pavilion stronghold.

In fact, before the first team did not carry out this winter counteroffensive operation, causing the entire northwest of Shanxi to be a pot of porridge.

Although the Huting stronghold is also one of the important military bases of the Japanese army, and it is also the hub for consolidating the county seat of Ping'an, the overall defense force is still valued, and it is far less than the current one.

After all, with the continuous expansion of the areas occupied by the Japanese army, in order to ensure the security and stability of the occupied areas in various places, the little devils with limited troops originally shared a large number of troops, resulting in the emptiness of many security areas.

In addition, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, this situation was further exacerbated.

In general, it would be nice for a small stronghold of the Japanese army to be able to station a squad of little devils.

The devils who stationed a squad in a larger stronghold can't survive a squadron.

Then, with the help of the specially selected and dangerous terrain of the stronghold, with sophisticated equipment and abundant firepower, the defending troops of the Japanese army stationed in the stronghold were often able to block the enemy's attack dozens of times when facing the Eighth Route Army, which was outdated in equipment and scarce in ammunition.

Especially in the absence of offensive artillery in the units of the Eighth Route Army.

It is not uncommon for the little devil No. 35 to be able to block the attack of a regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, the Huting stronghold, which has especially strengthened the defensive strength of the defenders, has grown from the puppet army garrison with one battalion in addition to the two squadrons originally stationed, to the subsequent enhanced mechanized transport squadron, artillery squadron, and even two tank squadrons......

The entire stronghold was simply impregnably defended.

The strength of the defenders was not inferior to that of county towns such as Ping'an County and Shouyang.

From this, Furukawa Shinichi is very sure that

The entire Huting stronghold was defended foolproof, and the Eighth Route Army did not have this ability at all, nor did it possibly pose any threat to the Huting stronghold.

With the help of Huting's unique, dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack excellent military terrain, the entire Huting stronghold is far more calm, light and easy than the defense of Ping'an County.

As a result, the higher-level command of the Japanese army also used the Huting stronghold as the most stable material storage warehouse and a transportation hub for troops and materials.

In order to avoid the heavy losses caused to the Japanese theater by the troops of the Eighth Route Army in the counteroffensive launched by taking advantage of this winter.

The Japanese army temporarily transferred the materials hoarded in various places in a large area around the Huting stronghold to the Huting stronghold and properly resettled.

Even the horse farm of the first brigade was temporarily arranged to spend the winter at the Huting stronghold.

This attracted Li Yunlong's concern.

The calm of Furukawahara's stronghold of Torotei will continue until the end of this winter, until early spring next year.

At that time, His Excellency the Commander will definitely launch a retaliatory counterattack against the major counteroffensive launched by the Eighth Route Army this winter.

There is no doubt that the stronghold of Huting will become a very important forward base, communication station, intelligence station, and transportation hub when the Japanese army launches a retaliatory sweep in the spring.

Play a pivotal role.

For now, this peace has been shattered by a surprise attack on the water transport troops.

After the news reached the headquarters, the old devil Furukawa couldn't sit still.

There is naturally a reason why the Japanese command department will send Furukawa, a young man, to be responsible for garrisoning the entire Huting stronghold.

Furukawa can be regarded as a battle-hardened veteran, and his military sense of smell is extraordinarily keen, and he was keenly aware of it when he was stationed in the Huting stronghold.

The impregnable stronghold of the Tiger Pavilion that seems to be defended actually has a huge flaw that cannot be avoided at all:

Due to the topography and location of the Huting stronghold, the water supply of the entire Huting stronghold must be transported from the outside.

To use an analogy, if the entire Tiger Pavilion stronghold is now surrounded and protected by solid eggshells.

Then this point of water supply is like a small hole opened from the outside of the eggshell that cannot be completely sealed.

After the news came, Furukawa's brows wrinkled directly into a Sichuan zigzag, and he did not hesitate, and then issued a series of orders:

"The cordon in all directions extends three kilometers outward, and the motorized search team strengthens the alert search to ensure the safety of the water supply line."

"Mechanized combat units are on standby at all times to reinforce transport units that may be ambushed by the Dirt Eight Routes."

"Once our army's water supply line is cut off by the Eighth Road, the last thing that can be used as emergency water is the wells on the outer line of the stronghold, and those wells must be guarded in case of emergency!"

"Hey!"

Under Furukawa's orders, the little devils moved quickly.

On the other hand, Li Yunlong made up his mind to eat the big fat meat of the Huting stronghold this time, and the combat troops from all walks of life were originally rushing to cut off the water supply route of the devils, so naturally they would not be idle.

Originally, according to the relevant information collected by the New Second Regiment, the soldiers of various operations this time had already locked on some wells that were often used as water sources for the devils on the outer line of the Huting stronghold.

I learned the news through the mouths of the dozen puppet soldiers who were captured.

After confirming once again the specific location of the wells commonly used by the devils around the stronghold.

The soldiers divided into multiple routes, one step ahead of the little devils, and lurked near some ancient wells that the Japanese army often used as a source of water.

Why is it an ancient well?

The terrain of this tiger stop is peculiar, and its terrain is much higher than the surrounding area, like a small mountain, and the devil has also tried to dig many wells in the defensive area inside the Tiger Pavilion stronghold, if you can get enough water through the well water inside the stronghold, it will naturally be better.

Unfortunately, it didn't work out.

This digging well is also a technical job, the location is well chosen, there is no need to dig too deep, the well water can even be inexhaustible, the groundwater continues to flow, and the supply continues to output.

If the location is not well chosen, that is, digging it for more than ten meters, it can only be a waste of effort.

It's even quite a metaphysical question!

However, in some areas outside the Huting stronghold, there have been some ancient wells dug by the local people, and it is said that there have been some years, but the well water has always been inexhaustible.

After the devils occupied the Tiger Pavilion, large-scale water was transported by waterwheels. Small-scale water is used through some ancient wells on the outer line.

After Furukawa's order was given, the little devils and the puppet soldiers quickly rushed to the vicinity of the three wells on the outer line, and brought a lot of wooden barrels and waterwheels by the way.

Because Furukawa believed that the sudden attack of the Eighth Route Army on the water supply convoy transported to the stronghold of Huting would never be an accident.

Next, it is very likely that Tsuchihachi Road will deal with the stronghold first by cutting off the water supply to the stronghold.

Therefore, Furukawa decided to prepare early, and this time the water supply was cut off by the eight-way ambush, so he immediately took well water from the ancient well on the outer line and stored the water source as soon as possible.

After leaving some guard posts, the little devils and the puppet soldiers quickly moved up, and quickly fetched water through the roller above the ancient well, that is, the rope was hoisted, which was used to put buckets and carry buckets to draw water.

"Fire!"

Boom –

But the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who had been lurking around the ancient well for a long time, how could they watch the little devils fetch water?

The power of the cold gun and cold cannon was highlighted again, and a few shells suddenly burst out and exploded directly at the wellhead.

In a series of explosions, the devils and puppet soldiers surrounding the wellhead were blown up.

"Enemy attack, cover, covert—"

The devil puppet army screamed and hurriedly withdrew from the bare Gujing area.

At this time, under the bombardment of artillery shells, the wellhead of the entire ancient well has completely collapsed......