Jiangsu! Xuzhou!

In late autumn, northern Jiangsu was cold and wet, dark clouds covered the entire sky, and the land without a trace of sunshine appeared even colder.

"Fuck it, what a fuck weather. It's colder than Liaodong! Li Hu held a withered grass in his mouth and wrapped his military coat. The military coat of the Liao army has a lot of cotton. In Liaodong, it is enough to resist the cold of thirty-nine days, but in this wet and cold northern Jiangsu, it is extremely heavy to wear.

"Battalion commander, smoke a cigarette." The orderly handed Li Hu a Red China.

"Fuck off! This is the old woods, you smoke a woolen cigarette. If you get it, it's light to kill you. Li Hu slapped the orderly soldier and continued to chew the grass roots in boredom.

The 1st Division has landed and come to Shandong, and the 3rd Division has quietly moved in the direction of Xuzhou. In order to achieve the purpose of concealment, only two regiments came to Zaozhuang. It was the strength of these two regiments that launched the attack in the first place. Because the purpose of the early stage of the campaign was not to occupy Xuzhou. Instead, the main force of the Nanjing Forbidden Army was attracted to Xuzhou.

Xuzhou, as an important town in northern Jiangsu, is stationed with a division of the Jiangnan Forbidden Army. For a long time, this division and the third division have confronted each other across the provincial border, which is quite a bit of a meaning that the well water does not interfere with the river water.

Li Hu took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, it was five o'clock in the afternoon. The time for the attack was set for 8 p.m., and after dark, its reconnaissance platoon would cross the Shandong border into Xuzhou. Until then, the two sides had not crossed the border.

"Master Tiger! Why don't we go into Zhuangzi to take a rest, there is Taierzhuang in front. ”

"You can't go, you can't startle the snake." Li Hu flatly refused. Li Hu doesn't like this kind of clammy and cold environment, but this is the first time he has led the team, and no matter who he is, he wants to get off to a good start.

It gets dark early in late autumn, and by six o'clock it was already dark. Because it was a surprise attack, it was impossible to have artillery support in advance.

At seven o'clock, Li Hu released the advance reconnaissance platoon. During this time, the border was very calm, in fact, there was only one battalion of Li Hu near the provincial border. The rest of the large army is on standby in Zaozhuang at any time.

More than 20 stick boys in the reconnaissance platoon quickly disappeared into the night, Li Hu held a telescope in his hand, and there was not even a dog barking on the other side. It's damn weather, and the telescope is freezing cold after a while.

With a bull-eared knife in his mouth, Scar quietly touched the bottom of a watchtower.

He was brought out by Li Hao from the Marine Corps, and the fourth Li Hao went to the capital, so he sent Scar to the third brother as a reconnaissance platoon commander. The ruthless Scar soon won Li Hu's favor, and he was relieved to hand over the elite reconnaissance platoon to him.

The watchtower is a watchtower with wolf smoke on it. Despite entering the era of firearms warfare, the Nanjing Forbidden Army still used this primitive method of alarm.

In the pre-reconnaissance, more than a company of the Nanjing Forbidden Army was stationed in the courtyard. As long as there is a disturbance on the border, a wolf smoke bonfire will be lit to deliver the news to Xuzhou. In the townhouse, the sound of laughter can be heard from time to time.

This is a rare leisure time after dinner, and the soldiers on a cold day stay in the house with a road to brag as long as they have nothing to do.

Two guards stood guard at the door, holding guns, walking back and forth from time to time, and two scouts touched him with a wave of Scar's hand. Covering his mouth with one hand, the ox ear sharp knife in the other hand was inserted into his neck. The sharp tip of the knife pierced into the neck and pulled hard with a backhand. The larynx and trachea are cut, and the blood makes a "hiss" and "hiss" sound when it spurts out.

Bleeding quickly, the two sentries didn't have time to scream. The whole body was out of strength, and the body quickly softened.

Watching his men slowly bring down the sentry's corpse, Scar was about to order to continue touching inside.

"Smack!" A gunshot broke Chen Jing's night sky.

A scout who had just been released to the sentry had a blood mist burst out of his body, and his body fell limply.

"!" Scar screamed, and the gunfire was so sudden that no one could see where the gun was fired. The only thing to be thankful for is that the Nanjing Forbidden Army is still using old-fashioned breech guns. You have to reload with one shot!

Through the faint light, Scar suddenly saw the grass not far away swaying wildly. This is someone loading bullets inside, but fortunately they don't have the equipment of the Liao army, otherwise the two men at the door would have died.

"Kill him!" Scar pointed at the swaying grass before drawing his revolver.

The two scouts immediately pounced, and sure enough, there was a secret post of the Nanjing Forbidden Army. The two guys didn't say a word, and the bull ear sharp knife in their hands was a stab at this conscientious secret whistle.

The whistle's mouth was covered tightly, and his legs kicked on the ground. The arms scratched indiscriminately, like a cat that had been overturned.

Scar secretly scolded a fool, and he was already exposed and covered his mouth and dry hair.

Underestimate the enemy! With the experience of being sentinel by the Houjin Eight Banners in Wanghai Village, no matter where the Nanjing Forbidden Army is camped now, no matter how tight the manpower is, there will be light and dark sentry positions on duty. Scar didn't think about this dark whistle at all, and as a result, he suffered a big loss here.

Before the sentry could breathe, a bag of explosives was thrown at the wooden gate. In the dark night, the flames flashed with sparks of "zi" and "zi".

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the door made of thick wooden planks flew up like pieces of broken paper. Before the flames of the explosion had dissipated, several non-commissioned officers of the reconnaissance platoon ran to the door, lay on the ground and shot at everything that moved in the darkness.

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang" ......!

The sound of gunfire was incessant, and screams were heard in the darkness. The advantage of the rate of fire of fixed ammunition was undoubtedly revealed at this time. With a revolver in both hands, Scar took the lead and went into the yard first. Directly blocked the door, and shot at the Jiangnan forbidden army that rushed out.

The two-handed pistol was running out of bullets, and he pulled a grenade from the back of his butt and threw it in. Then the whole body, the fish jumped and hid behind the side of the horse stone. The whole action was completed in one go, and it was completed smoothly.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "More than one scout was doing this, and the grenade explosions were heard one after another. After the explosion, a scream like a pig was heard from inside the house. Maybe the stove was blown over, and smoke came out of several rooms.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! A shrill whistle came from inside the bunker, and it was slow enough.

On the face of the Nanjing forbidden army, while blowing the whistle violently, he personally rushed to the roof of the watchtower. One snatched the torch from the wall and threw it into the firework pool. Immediately lit a bonfire doused with fire oil and faced the roaring bonfire. It was too late to light any more fireworks, so I had to throw them into the bonfire one by one.

Seeing fireworks bloom in the sky, Scar knew that the raid had failed.

Bullets kept coming down from the watchtowers, and several of the scouts were shot. Scar kept rolling and dodging, snatching over the explosive bag on the back of a soldier, and a few jumps and rolls came to the bottom of the watchtower. As soon as the fire rope was pulled, the explosives bag with the spark seed was thrown at the door of the watchtower.

"Boom!" With a bang, the door of the watchtower was blown open. Several scouts immediately rushed in and fired their guns at it. Scar gasped and hid under the wall. While observing the battlefield, he threw off the revolver and filled it with bullets one by one.

The watchtower was constantly firing from top to bottom, and the advantage of the rate of fire of the breech gun was brought into full play. Those Jiangnan forbidden troops only fired one shot, and the other party had already returned four or five shots. The bullet slashed through the company's thigh, severing the major artery. The company commander let out a scream like killing a pig, and blood spurted out of his body.

Before the Nanjing forbidden army could come out, they were blocked in the house by bullets. The window had just been opened, and before the person could jump out, it was beaten into a sieve in mid-air.

Several scouts began pouring oil on the house to set it on fire.

Li Hu finally arrived with the entire battalion, and the compound was surrounded by regiments. All kinds of guns are constantly shooting inside the house! Inside the burning house, there was a heart-rending scream, as if it were hell.

The raid was short-lived! It lasted less than twenty minutes, and screams could still be faintly heard in the burning house. The entire company of the Nanjing Forbidden Army, along with the dogs in the yard, was killed.

Li Hu looked at the chaotic battlefield, the purpose of this raid had been achieved. It is believed that this surprise attack will immediately cause a confrontation between the Southern Ming Dynasty and the Longwu Dynasty. The army that is not afraid of the Nanjing Forbidden Army does not gather around Xuzhou.

"Burn! Set fire to everything you can! Li Hu gave the order.

"Grain burns too?" Someone pointed to the grain depot.

"It's all this time, you have the fucking time to move food? Burn! ”

All the houses were quickly set on fire, in fact as long as there was anything in the compound that could smoke, it was set on fire.

A lot of explosives were placed under the watchtower, and after a roar, the tall watchtower was missing half of the wall base. The tower, which was ten meters high, quickly collapsed.

"Lead the horse and retreat!" Li Hu pointed to a few war horses in the manger. This was the only capture of the raid, and it would be nice to be able to capture a few horses anyway.

A battalion led by Li Hu came and went like the wind, and it came and went as fast as it came. In less than half an hour, a gun tower of the Nanjing Forbidden Army was eliminated, and an entire company guarding the gun tower was completely wiped out. As for Li Hu's men, only three people were killed and ten were injured. Six of them were slightly wounded, and by any means it was a successful raid.

The same raid on Sun Chengzong's grandson Sun Zhihao, Li Hu's old squad leader Hei Niu is also doing it.

In the city of Xuzhou, Liu Jie, the commander of the Seventh Division of the Nanjing Forbidden Army, was like a fertilized donkey, and suddenly rushed onto the city wall.

Inside the telescope, the three watchtowers in the distance were all on fire. Even faintly, you can see the bright light caused by the explosion of ammunition.

"Grandma's! What are the Liao army going to do, are they going to attack Xuzhou? Come on, report to Jinling quickly. Xuzhou is attacked! Liu Jie's first reaction was a large-scale attack by the Liao army. The combat power of the Liao army has always been fierce, and to be honest, the Nanjing Forbidden Army of the Liao Army opposite is a little weak from top to bottom. Seeing the fire, Liu Jie's first reaction was to ask for help.

"Commander, the flying pigeon is faster."

"Then why don't you fucking go?" Liu Jie couldn't wait to strangle this mouthy herald.

"Assemble the whole division and prepare for battle!"

The order was quickly delivered, and everyone was up to action. However, what Liu Jie thinks about now is just relying on Xuzhou's city defense to defend it. I didn't have the slightest thought of going out of the city to see the watchtowers that had been attacked.

Just when Liu Jieshi was busy transporting ammunition and various supplies to the city, Li Hu had already withdrawn to Taierzhuang with his team to roast the fire.