Boom –

The sound of a violent explosion spread from the outer line of the Huting stronghold to the stronghold headquarters, and reached the bottom of the devil Shaozuo Furukawa's increasingly trembling heart.

"Your Excellency Shaozuo, the big thing is not good, the Eighth Route Army is attacking fiercely from all directions, and they even have a sharp weapon that can directly destroy our army's artillery tower.

Nearly half of the outer turret of the stronghold has been uprooted by the Eighth Road! ”

"Nani?"

At this moment, Furukawa, who originally calmly thought that even now, with the help of the geographical advantages and defensive forces of the Tiger Pavilion stronghold, he could still ensure the stability of the tiger stop, and he was completely panicked.

The artillery tower built by extending the stronghold to the outer line is a concrete turret specially built to deal with the fortified artillery of the new second regiment.

Some even add some steel bars when pouring to construct a reinforced concrete structure.

On the one hand, these turrets provide excellent cover for the machine gunners, and use the elevated floors to create the highest fire design points.

Garrisoning a certain number of troops, with abundant firepower, can completely withstand the attack of several times or even dozens of times the enemy's army.

There is no better place to defend than these turrets.

On the other hand, the turrets extend to the outer line, while ensuring that the guard sweeps the wind and grass within the nearly 500-meter radius of the outer line of the shooting.

Be vigilant at any time for a surprise attack by the troops of the Eighth Route Army.

In other words, there are these turrets that serve as guard towers at the same time.

It's just a fly, and it's not so easy to fly into the Tiger Pavilion stronghold.

The Japanese troops in the stronghold will also have a much larger area for the intelligence collection of the Huting stronghold.

This is also the reason why Li Yunlong is bent on uprooting the outer line turret of the Tiger Pavilion stronghold.

But now, even the devil's concrete turret is still destroyed by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

Coupled with the entire Tiger Pavilion stronghold, so far it has not been possible to bring in half a drop of water from the outside.

The soldiers of the new 2nd Regiment completely cut off the water supply line of the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold of Huting.

Even the boreholes of some of the ancient wells on the outside line where the devils could suspend the use of water were directly blown up by the soldiers.

Furukawa, who was a little panicked, once again ordered the Ministry of Communications to continue to contact the higher command headquarters, hoping to get reinforcements and relieve the crisis of the Huting stronghold being blocked by the Eighth Route Army.

The reply is still the same: stick to the tiger stronghold and wait for the situation to change!

Reinforcements?

There are no reinforcements now.

Kong Jie led a team to make a lot of trouble near the three cities of Yangquan, Shouyang, and Tanxian, and the three-stage offensive was in full swing.

In order to maintain law and order in the local area, the little devil is so busy that he has no time to take care of anything else.

Plus this winter is over.

The road routes, which are rarely inhabited in the wilderness, are also covered with snow.

After the units of the Eighth Route Army, which were dominated by the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and the New Second Regiment, took advantage of the winter to carry out sabotage operations on various lines of communication of the local Japanese army.

Even if the devil's reinforcements want to reinforce the Tiger Pavilion stronghold, I am afraid they can only step on the snow with two feet and carry the biting cold wind, and come step by step.

...... "Sir, the command command still tells us to hold on!" ”

The devil communication soldier hung his head and said with a bitter face.

"Hold on, how long will you hold on?"

Furukawa asked angrily.

"It will take at least half a month until this heavy snow melts and our army's communication lines are repaired!" Furukawa muttered.

"But these damn dirt roads that completely blocked the stronghold, and they can't wait to gnaw down the Huting stronghold immediately, can they wait for half of it?"

The Huting stronghold has completely fallen into a crisis of water shortage......

In the face of the Eighth Route Army's advance and attack on the stronghold of Huting from four directions, Furukawa sent reserve troops and artillery units to reinforce them respectively.

In the end, the two sides fought back and forth for nearly two hours.

Towards the end of the evening, Li Yunlong ordered the attacking soldiers to temporarily stop the attack, and temporarily stationed not far from the outer line of the Huting stronghold for repairs.

After another half an hour, looking at the completely dark sky and the dead silence around the entire base, Furukawa breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that today's stronghold was saved.

His heart was very heavy, and the casualties and losses of today's battle were quickly counted.

The adjutant reported the specific situation to Furukawa: "Shaozuo, this operation is unfavorable, the losses of our army are very large, the Xiuhe squadron is completely annihilated, and a total of 153 people are broken.

The casualties of cavalry units, tank squads, and subsequent reinforcements of mechanized combat units were not small, with a total of 145 casualties.

Counting the losses in the next two hours, the Eighth Route Army launched in the four directions of our stronghold.

So far, our army has been reduced by nearly 400 people!

In addition, more than seventy percent of the artillery towers built on the outer line have been completely destroyed by the Eighth Route Army. ”

Furukawa, who listened to the report, was silent, and nearly 400 people were reduced.

And how many people are there in the Imperial Army and the Imperial Allied Army in the entire Huting stronghold?

But more than a thousand people.

This equates to the loss of almost half of the troops.

Coupled with the artillery towers destroyed by the Eighth Route Army on the outer line, the entire Huting stronghold was already in danger.

Furukawa, who had a headache, looked at the dark night, and for a while he didn't know how long this Tiger Pavilion stronghold could hold in his hands.

Who knows when the next offensive of the Eighth Route Army will be?

What's the next offense?

It is absolutely unrealistic to expect this night to be unusually cold and completely freeze to death those dirt roads.

Those damn dirt eight road fighting will, tenacious to make people frightened.

Helpless, Furukawa asked the Ministry of Communications to contact the headquarters of the nearby Ping'an County for the last time, and expressed his determination in the communication:

Swear to live and die with the stronghold of the Tiger Pavilion, and the jade will be broken to repay the emperor!

The next day, it was dawn.

The Japanese command in Ping'an County tried to send a reinforcement force in an attempt to reinforce the stronghold of Huting, but was directly ambushed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army on the way, and fled back to Ping'an County in embarrassment.

Furukawa, who got the news, became more and more desperate.

Time flies.

"Sir, the soldiers haven't had water to drink for two days, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold out for long!"

"In addition, due to the lack of water, we have a lot of war horses, and their health has already appeared!"

The devil officer in charge of logistics rushed to report.

Furukawa asked, "After the water supply line at the base was cut off by the Dohachi Road, didn't I ask you to collect the snow in the nearby base as a short-term water supply?" ”

The logistics officer said helplessly: "Sir, the terrain of Huting is high, the sunshine is abundant, and the snow has already melted a lot, and after we collected the only remaining snow, we didn't get much water. ”

In the end, the logistics officer even said with some shame: "Sir...... Some of the soldiers were so thirsty that they even ...... Even drinking horse urine! ”

Humiliation, this is a great humiliation!

Furukawa clenched his fists in annoyance.

"Water ......"

This military water, which has never been very conspicuous in ordinary times, has become the most troublesome problem at the moment, and even when he said these words, his mouth was so dry that he couldn't even secrete much saliva, and his lips had already dried and cracked due to a slight lack of water.

The terrain of the entire Huting stronghold is too high, and the water seepage situation is quite serious.

The soldiers even dug dozens of large pits in the stronghold, with only occasional wet underground soil, and no water.

The little devils in the stronghold were almost crazy with thirst.

"As for our food, there is still some moisture in the food, and we can always insist on it!" Furukawa asked again.

The logistics officer shook his head: "We have a lot of food in stockpiles, but most of them are rice and noodles, which need water to cook.

As for some vegetables and fruits with sufficient moisture, the quantity is not much, and they have already been eaten up! ”

Furukawa was silent for a long time, he waved his hand and said, "Got it, you go first!" I'll figure it out again. ”

"Hey!"

After the officer left, Furukawa was silent for a long time, he looked at the sky that had not changed much in the past few days, and even looked forward to it in his heart.

"How nice it would be if it could rain a little bit, even if it was a snow!"

Unfortunately, there is no rain in the northwest of Shanxi, and snowfall is not frequent.

This old devil expects heavy snow or rain to fall within three or five days, which is simply unrealistic.

God probably won't sympathize with the invaders either.

It's night!

Furukawa, who decided not to sit idly by, took advantage of the night to send several troops to sneak out of the stronghold from multiple directions, hoping to get some water.

As a result, they were all ambushed by the troops of the Eighth Route Army as expected, and the casualties were quite heavy.

Looking at the disgraced part of the team that fled back, Furukawa was angry and helpless at the same time.

These damn dirt roads, in the face of the bitter cold of the night, also blocked the entire stronghold.

The soldiers simply did not have a chance to break out of the blockade.

The second half of the night.

Most of the Japanese puppet troops in the entire Huting stronghold have been in a state of mild water shortage, dragging their hearts full of exhaustion and falling asleep.

Like an experienced and cunning old wolf, Li Yunlong, who had been waiting patiently for several days, finally gave the order to raid the Tiger Pavilion stronghold at night.

There were no bells and whistles in the specific offensive deployment, and they were directly divided into four lines of soldiers and horses, and with the help of the cover of the night, they approached the four directions of the Huting stronghold at the same time.

The battle broke out at around two o'clock in the morning.

Due to the cover of the night, and most of the artillery towers on the devil's outer line were destroyed, the ability to be on guard was greatly reduced, and it was not until the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in four directions were about to break through the outer defense of the Japanese army that the devil discovered the movement.

At this time, the strength of the two sides has already reversed under this loss.

The remaining Japanese puppet army in the entire Huting stronghold was only six or seven hundred people.

In addition, the soldiers have been in a state of lack of water for several days, and their mental condition and will to fight are devastated.

Li Yunlong was ruthless this time, and pulled out all the elites of his four battalions, and the strength of the Communist Party was nearly 1,500 people.

In Li Yunlong's words: "Regardless of priority, all of them are the main attack, which direction is the first to break through the blockade of the devil, Lao Tzu will give him the first credit!" ”

Night, big cold, around three o'clock.

The loud charge horn sounded from all directions, completely enveloping the entire Huting stronghold, and the shouts of killing resounded in all directions, echoing back and forth in the ears of the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold.

Detachment command.

The charcoal fire in the house is blazing, and the lights are bright.

A large battle map was laid out on the small square table in front of him.

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, Political Commissar Li Wenjie, and Detachment Leader Kong Jie, all their eyes converged on the Huting stronghold not far from Ping'an County.

Xu Guoan rubbed his hands, "Lao Kong, half an hour ago, the news came that the new second regiment had launched a final attack on the Huting stronghold.

At this point in time, I estimate that the Huting stronghold has almost been beaten down by Lao Li! ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "That's for sure, a few days ago, the Huting stronghold had already suffered heavy casualties, and after our reinforcements were sent over, we helped the new second regiment destroy a large number of artillery towers in Devil's Outer County."

It is also impossible for the Japanese reinforcements to reinforce it for the time being.

If this can't take a small Tiger Pavilion stronghold, then it won't be the Li Yunlong we know. ”

Kong Jie is now concerned about another matter, "Wen Jie, how is the contact with the 57th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army?" ”

Li Wenjie nodded and replied: "I have already been contacted, according to our tip, the 57th Regiment is advancing in the direction of the Huting stronghold under the leadership of the regiment commander Yang Chongshan." ”

"Looks like everything is going well, then the next thing is to wait for news!" Kong Jie said.

……

The night, the colder it gets.

Around 4:30.

The battle of the new second regiment dispatching the main force of the whole regiment to besiege the stronghold of Huting at night has lasted for more than an hour.

At this point, the battle entered its final end.

In the four directions of the Huting stronghold, the Japanese fortifications have been broken through by the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army.

The remnants of the Japanese army retreated to the central area of the Huting stronghold, and finally put up a stubborn resistance.

The enemy is in the dark.

Li Yunlong was not polite at all, and directly ordered the artillery units of the New Second Regiment to be pulled over, and carried out several rounds of artillery bombardment against the Japanese troops who resisted the last, and then launched the final charge.

The battle lasted less than 30 minutes before it was completely over.

The remnants of the Japanese army were all wiped out, and more than 100 puppet troops directly chose to disarm and surrender.

Seeing that the Huting stronghold could not be held and the general trend had gone, the old devil Furukawa arranged several squads to deliberately burn the military supplies and food hoarded in the Huting stronghold while sending blocking troops.

In addition, it was ordered to concentrate the destruction of guns and ammunition, including the artillery of the artillery squadron.

This is what little devils always do.

It is better to burn the supplies and blow them up than to leave them to the Eighth Route Army.

Fortunately, Li Yunlong had expected this situation.

As Li Yunlong said at the pre-war meeting: "The little devil raised by the son of a bitch is not easy to deal with, in case we burn our ammunition and materials before we die, isn't Lao Tzu busy in vain?"

Therefore, once I broke through the blockade line of the devils and entered the stronghold of Huting, each company arranged a platoon for me in advance.

What for?

Specifically keep an eye on the devil's supplies, ammunition and warehouses, and take the lead in attacking.

It is necessary to get rid of the little devils before they burn the materials and ammunition. ”

That's it.

Although the movements of the little devils are fast, the movements of the fighters are also not slow.

In the end, after Furukawa's order was issued, the devil's destruction of supplies, ammunition and artillery had not yet had time to be completed.

It was only partially carried out, and then it was aborted by the soldiers who were quickly killed.

In the end, the battle ended, and Li Yunlong went straight to the artillery of the devil artillery unit that he was thinking about.

As a result, I learned that only the last two wing guns were left, plus two infantry guns, and the others were all blown up by the little devils......