After making a detailed combat plan at noon, Zhao Gang sent communications troops to send the plan to the brigade headquarters.
That night, Li Yunlong received a reply from the brigade commander.
The brigade commander personally called Li Yunlong and gave a short and domineering reply: Give the labor and management a hard beating.
On the night of the third day, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang led their troops to advance towards Qi County.
Now that the New Regiment has become rich, Captain Li's character has become much more restrained. He has repeatedly told himself not to do things that violate disciplines such as disobeying orders and killing prisoners, otherwise once the leader's hat is pulled off, the New Regiment will be in trouble.
When someone else's property becomes cheaper, he has no place to cry.
Before the war, Li Yunlong personally went to Liao County to conduct a reconnaissance of the terrain and enemy situation. He talked to ordinary people who were familiar with the situation in the city, learned about the enemy's troop deployment in the city through the local party organization, and sent scouts from the Sword Special Forces Unit to sneak into the city and repeatedly
Field reconnaissance.
Not to mention that he knew the enemy forces and firepower deployment in Liao County very well, but he was pretty much the same.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang also made detailed calculations on the direction, time and route of the possible enemy reinforcements, and dispatched two companies of troops and an engineer platoon to monitor and block the possible attack directions of the reinforcement enemies Yushe and Heshun.
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At eight o'clock in the morning, the stone box stronghold outside Liao County.
Li Yunlong lay on a slope one kilometer away from the stronghold, raised the Zeiss 8x telescope and looked towards the stronghold.
This is a medium-sized stronghold. Under the plaster stands a large gun tower more than ten meters high. There are also jagged crenels on the top of the gun tower, showing the characteristics of the cold weapon era.
Two Japanese soldiers stood upright on the top of the gun tower with 38 rifles on their backs.
There is another small turret six or seven meters high, and two bunkers.
This stronghold was built halfway up the earth slope, guarding and monitoring the highway entering the county from a high position.
The two bunkers are located at the commanding heights on both sides of the stronghold, and there are machine gun positions built with sandbags next to the bunkers.
After all the artillery towers and strongholds on the highway were removed, various Japanese strongholds strengthened their security, widened trenches, added barbed wire, hoarded supplies, and assumed a defensive posture.
The weather was nice today, cloudless. Two thick plumes of smoke came out of the two chimney pipes in the stronghold, and the straight plumes of smoke shot straight into the sky.
Li Yunlong handed the telescope to Zhao Gang and cursed.
"Damn it, the labor and management haven't even had breakfast yet."
"These devils and puppet soldiers are still in the mood to make a living. It really makes me angry."
"Hu Zi, go tell Wang Chengzhu to blow up the Japanese kitchen with mortars."
"Yes, leader!" Huang Erhu bowed and touched the back.
"Zhang Dabiao!" Li Yunlong shouted, "Take your first battalion and start building trenches and foxholes 400 meters ahead based on my place."
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao also turned and left.
After a while, Huang Erhu came to the woods where the soldiers were hiding and found the artillery company commander Wang Chengzhu.
Huang Erhu said: "Captain Wang, the commander asked me to inform you to blow up the Japanese kitchen with mortars!"
"I understand." Wang Chengzhu's face revealed a sinister smile. "Follow me in Class 3."
At that moment, Wang Chengzhu led a mortar squad and filed out of the woods.
When they came to a flat ground at the bottom of the slope, Wang Chengzhu pointed at the flat ground and said.
"Put up the mortar, quickly, quickly!"
The soldiers moved ammunition and ammunition, set up cannons, and got busy in an orderly manner.
Although the artillery battery had more than a dozen guns, it was obvious that Li Yunlong did not want to show all his cards at once. Whoever showed his cards first in the card game would suffer.
At the same time, on the slope.
Zhao Gang set up the Barrett large-caliber sniper rifle.
Load 10 rounds of 12.7 mm bullets, and then press the magazine into the belly of the gun. With a crisp and pleasant click, the magazine is fixed.
Zhao Gang turned the optical sight and adjusted the magnification to the maximum. When he looked through the cross of the optical sight, the Japanese figure suddenly became very large and very clear. It was even clearer than the 8x Zeiss telescope in Li Yunlong's hand.
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Zhao Gang smiled and said: "Lao Li, how about I make a bet with you?"
Li Yunlong's expression changed: "How to bet? What to bet on?"
Zhao Gang said: "I will use this gun to shoot the Japanese sentry on the cannon tower. If I hit him, you are not allowed to drink for a month."
Li Yunlong gave a thumbs up and used the thumb distance measurement method to roughly measure the distance from here to the cannon tower.
"It has to be 1,200 meters. The bullet will shoot out in an arc." Li Yunlong asked, "What if you miss?"
"You can drink as much as you want within a month." Zhao Gang said, "I will never interfere. What do you think? Do you dare to gamble?"
"Why shouldn't I bet?" Li Yunlong snorted, "You can't hit it anyway."
You were lucky a few days ago and hit a tree trunk 1,000 meters away. Labor and management don't believe that you are so lucky this time.
Labor and management are determined to have a drinking binge this month.
Zhao Gang raised the corner of his mouth slightly, took out a slender strip of cloth from his pocket, and tied it to a small tree about the thickness of his thumb. Then he looked at the direction in which the strip was blown by the wind and the arc of the swing. At that moment, he felt
Once you have the bottom, open the safety and then push the bullet into the chamber, placing the butt of the gun against your shoulder.
Li Yunlong raised his telescope and stared at the top of the Japanese cannon.
Not long after, Li Yunlong heard a gunshot nearby.
Barrett's muzzle velocity was over 800 meters per second, and at a distance of 1,200 meters, it took less than 2 seconds for the bullet to exit the chamber and reach the enemy's position.
Immediately afterwards, through the telescope, Li Yunlong saw that the head of a Japanese sentry on the top of the cannon building opposite was blown open.
It was really blown up, just like a watermelon hit by a large-caliber rifle bullet, it exploded directly.
The red and white ones splashed all over another Japanese sentry.
The Japanese sentry was stunned, and his companion's head suddenly exploded in front of his eyes, everyone was stunned.
It was not until a few seconds later that the sound of gunfire reached the stronghold, and the Japanese sentry realized that it was an enemy attack, and immediately bowed down and blew the warning whistle.
Dududu——
The rapid warning whistle sounded, and the Japanese and puppet troops panicked and ran toward the stronghold and gun towers in a panic.
Some Japanese were defecating. When they heard the sound of gunshots and whistles, they didn't even bother to wipe their buttocks. They picked up their pants, picked up their rifles, and rushed out.
The two 60mm mortars of the artillery company have also been set up by the artillery.
Wang Chengzhu said: "Target the kitchen of the Japanese stronghold, test fire one round, fire!"
One of the gunners put the shell in his hand into the barrel, and there was a muffled bang.
boom--
The shell landed six or seven meters to the left of the kitchen and exploded, raising a mud mist more than two meters high.
The artillerymen quickly readjusted the mortar's firing parameters according to the impact point.
"Two rapid fire shots, let go!"
Seeing the Japanese's head explode, Li Yunlong looked stunned, a little surprised, and then laughed: "Haha... It seems I have to stop drinking."
Immediately afterwards, a rumble came from the opposite stronghold.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang quickly looked towards the mortar position below the slope. After two muffled thuds, two mortar shells instantly rose into the sky.
The two of them turned their heads and followed the trajectory of the mortar shells across the sky towards the stronghold.
A few seconds later, two shells accurately hit the kitchen of the stronghold. The Japanese kitchen instantly turned into a pile of rubble.
The two loud bangs came after several seconds.
Immediately afterwards, two more artillery shells were fired from the artillery position.
The Japanese kitchen is just an ordinary brick house made of bricks and stones. Just like an ordinary civilian house, it can be easily destroyed by a mortar shell.
The reason why we fired a few more shells was to tell the Japanese and puppet troops that your Eighth Route Army grandfather was here.
Zhang Dabiao led his first battalion to a position 800 meters away from the Japanese stronghold and started digging, making a gesture of planning to besiege the Shixi stronghold for a long time.
In the artillery building, Second Lieutenant Toshio Imai, the leader of the Japanese squad, was observing the situation outside through the firing hole.
A Japanese sergeant ran up from downstairs, paused and said: "Captain, the Eighth Route Artillery shelled the kitchen, and two soldiers were killed!"
Imai Toshio's face turned dark suddenly. Eighth Route Army didn't even let him have breakfast. How arrogant!
At this time, several soldiers carried down the dead sentry from upstairs. When Toshio Imai saw it, his head had been beaten off.
His face suddenly turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
The puppet company commander rolled up from the stairs, shouting and running: "Taijun, Taijun, the Eighth Route Army is here and they are digging trenches outside."
A chubby translator translated the words of the puppet army commander to Toshio Imai.
"Nani?"
"Dig trenches?" Toshio Imai was shocked.
In the past, the stronghold was often harassed by the Eighth Route Army guerrillas. They either came for sneak attacks at night, or they came during the day, fired a few shots and then ran away. This was the case where the Eighth Route Army dug trenches as soon as they arrived. This was the first time that Toshio Imai encountered it. When things go wrong, there must be monsters.
When he ran to the top of the gun tower and glanced at the Eighth Route Army soldiers digging in the distance, Imai Toshio's expression changed slightly.
The sentry on the turret had just been killed, and also by a large-caliber gun. Toshio Imai did not dare to stay on the top of the turret any longer.
At that moment, Toshio Imai bowed his body and returned to the third floor of the turret, and ordered angrily: "Shoot, shoot!"
The Japanese machine gunner in the turret immediately pressed down the weight of the Type 92 heavy machine gun. With the shaking of the gunfire, the firing hole in the turret spurted out tongues of flame.
The small artillery tower, two bunkers, and two heavy machine gun fire points built with sandbags opened fire one after another, and machine gun bullets poured like rain towards the Eighth Route Army's location.
However, at this distance, the machine gun bullets are scattered widely, making it difficult to hit as long as you are slightly concealed, and the power of the machine gun bullets is also greatly reduced.
From the shooting hole, I saw that a round of light and heavy machine gun fire had little effect. I carefully visually inspected the distance and position with the Eighth Route Army. I found helplessly that all the attacks on the stronghold were powerless against the Eighth Route Army. Although the stronghold's light and heavy machine gun firepower was very powerful,
But there is not even a mortar. There are some grenade launchers, but the grenade launchers are simply out of reach at this distance.
"Cunning Tobali!" Toshio Imai felt as if he felt like there were ants crawling on his body.
He walked quickly to the phone, pushed the phone soldier away, grabbed the phone and shook it vigorously a few times, then put the phone to his ear.
"Moxi Moxi, this is the Shixia stronghold, please pick up the Liao County Gendarmerie immediately!"
