(..Reading) Looking at Wang Xiaoming's outstretched hand, Du Kaishan took it without hesitation and said: "Old Wang, you are almost alone in this attack. The Japanese army you are facing is as strong as a division. Be more careful. Although the combat requirements issued by the headquarters are very clear, you must also be prepared to face unexpected events."
"In this way, I will deploy the most complete regiment under me to the front line of Laoheishan, and be ready to respond to you at any time. After you complete the tasks assigned by the headquarters, you will withdraw immediately. Don't be reluctant to fight. There will be many opportunities to fight in the future. , not at this time,”
Wang Xiaoming did not turn a deaf ear to Du Kaishan's instructions. Instead, he nodded solemnly, took the reins from the guard and got on his horse, but did not continue the conversation. This brand new order from the headquarters made him He had to seize the time to adjust his deployment. After Wang Xiaoming mounted his horse, he didn't even say anything about it. He just waved goodbye to Du Kaishan, and the horse rode away at a galloping speed.
Looking at Wang Xiaoming's back, Du Kaishan shook his head slightly, took the reins handed over by the guard, gently stroked the smooth fur of his maroon Japanese war horse given to him by Yang Zhen, and looked behind him. The combat staff officer said: "Let's go back to the Hongshan front line. Also, have the 800 kilograms of high explosives I asked for been shipped yet?"
The staff officer behind him heard Du Kaishan's words and said quickly: "Commander, the headquarters has approved one thousand kilograms of TNT high explosives this time. In addition to the thirty tons of yellow explosives we seized from the Japanese army's Daduchuan munitions warehouse, we The amount of explosives on hand is sufficient now, and engineers are seizing the time to build detonation tunnels,"
After hearing the report from his staff, Du Kaishan got on his horse and said with a smile: "Just bring it here. With these one thousand kilograms of high explosives, plus the captured yellow explosives, this time I want to let these little turtles have a taste of it." Have a taste of what it's like to fly on a ground plane. When you go back, you will mobilize the third regiment and immediately go to Laoheishan to deploy defenses on the front line."
Having said that, Du Kaishan pulled the reins of his horse without stopping, and ran directly to the front of Shenghongshan. After arriving at Shenghongshan, he followed the already dug traffic trenches directly to the forward headquarters, which was less than a kilometer away from the Shenghongshan Fortress. , entered the headquarters, raised his telescope and carefully looked at the entire fortress group, then turned around and said to Sui Changqing, the chief of staff beside him: "Old Sui, how are you doing, how much is left,"
After hearing Du Kaishan's nonsense, Sui Changqing said: "Commander, don't worry, we are now using some of the underground tunnels on the Hongshan front line that the Japanese army has captured, and at the same time, we have deployed an engineer company day and night. We have been working for a full twenty-four hours, and now the blasting tunnel has been excavated to the bottom of the main mountain of Shenghong Mountain,"
"Although the Japanese army blew up the connection between this underground tunnel and other tunnels, the remaining section is just under the mountain. It only needs to correct the position and widen the detonation chamber. Now the engineer company is equipped with two An infantry company is installing explosives,"
"I'm going to fill this place with 500 kilograms of TNT high explosives allocated by the military region, plus 500 kilograms of Japanese yellow explosives we seized. This ton of explosives is enough to blow up half of the mountain, even if it doesn't kill you. They will be shaken to death even if they are shaken.”
"Shenghongshan Fortress is the largest of the Japanese fortresses in this area, and it is also the main fortification here. As long as this Shenghongshan Fortress is destroyed, the remaining Xunshan and Chaori Mountains will be easy to deal with. After the attacks in the past few days, we Although we were not able to capture any of the three major fortress groups, we have almost repaired the surrounding fortifications."
"After discovering our movements, the Japanese army sent out troops from Xunshan and Asahi Mountains to counterattack many times in an attempt to reoccupy this tunnel, but they were repelled by us. Our heavy artillery group also destroyed the ground between these three fortress groups. In terms of transportation contact, Lao Li's reconnaissance brigade also blew up their main underground communication lines. Now for us, we have actually completed the division of the three Japanese fortress groups,"
"By the way, Commander, just when you went to see Commander Wang, we found a labor captain and a Japanese translator who had escaped from the Shenghongshan Fortress Group in the dense forest on the south side of the mountain. These two people were attacking us. At that time, when the Japanese army drove all the Chinese in the fortress into a tunnel and massacred them in order to keep it secret, they hid in the vents and escaped, and then found an opportunity to escape. The workers did not know much about the situation, but the Japanese interpreter knew There are quite a few cases,”
"We learned from their mouths that the Shenghongshan front line controls the water sources of the Xunshan Fortress Group and the Chaorishan Fortress Group, and its internal ammunition warehouses are also mainly located within the Shenghongshan Fortress Group. The most important thing is that the commander of the Japanese First Border Guard Group The headquarters is also located in this Shenghongshan fortress group,"
"As long as we destroy Shenghongshan Fortress, we can not only smash the heads of the two major fortress groups, Xunshan Fortress and Chaori Mountain, but also cut off their water supply. As long as we use firepower to block the nearby water sources for the remaining two fortress groups, Even if they are thirsty, they will die of thirst even without beating them."
Speaking of this, Sui Changqing said with a serious expression: "Commander, although I learned a lot of useful information from those two people, there is also unfortunate news. After the Second Column captured Madashan Fortress, the Japanese Army In order to cover up the secrets of the three major fortress groups, a border guard team killed more than 2,000 Chinese laborers inside the fortress, including translators and so-called bosses, with machine guns in a secret tunnel inside the fortress, and this The tunnel was also blown up by the Japanese army,"
"There are now more than 3,000 Japanese in the fortress group. The Japanese border development group in Dongning also ran into the fortress group after we invaded Dongning. Among them, except for the young and middle-aged people, they all In addition to the Japanese soldiers brought to join the war, there are many old people, women and children. In addition, there are more than 200 Japanese and Korean prostitutes accompanying the army. Look, what should we do?"
Du Kaishan was very satisfied with the deployment of his very capable chief of staff, but after careful consideration he said: "Old Sui, seize the time to plant the explosives and don't stop to attack. If you stop, it is very likely that you will be attacked." Expose the intent of our tactics,"
"Also, tell the heavy artillery group not to stop attacking Xunshan Fortress. Especially when we are preparing to blast, we must use firepower to block the support of Xunshan Fortress and Chaorishan Fortress Group to Shenghongshan Fortress. This line The tunnel is very important. Once it is lost, we really can only bite it bit by bit with our teeth,"
Du Kaishan thought for a moment and then said: "The little devil's light railway has been repaired, hasn't it? Tell Ma Qichang to adjust the train cannon to a distance of 10,000 meters in front of the permanent fortifications of the Japanese Xunshan Fortress Group. Let's go over and install the bayonet on the cannon. This time I'm going to bring a heavy cannon with a bayonet,"
"Tell the artillerymen of the Japanese heavy artillery group in Madashan who received the transfer from the second column to set up barrages on Xunshan and Chaori Mountains to cover the train artillery fire at close range. Don't worry about wasting the shells and being tied up. These heavy artillery are difficult to move. It won’t be used in other places, and it won’t be used at this time. There are still shells left to lay eggs,”
Just hearing that there were more than 3,000 Japanese civilians in the fortress group, Du Kaishan scratched his head again. After being silent for a while, he said to Sui Changqing: "Old Sui, don't we have more than a hundred prisoners of the 12th Division in our hands? You pick an officer and ask him to deliver a message to the fortress and tell those bastards that war is a matter for soldiers. If they still remember their so-called bushido spirit, then release all these civilians. Between us soldiers Make a showdown,"
"We have done our best to do this. It's up to them whether they do it or not. Tell the troops that if the little devils don't respond and detonate as originally planned, I really hope those little devils will die and disagree. If you kill three thousand of us, I will have to find some interest,"
Having said this, Du Kaishan looked outside the observation port. It turned out that the dense vegetation all over the mountain had been blown away by artillery fire, leaving only the bare mountain Shenghong Mountain. However, he could not conceal the knowledge in his heart that more than 3,000 workers had been killed and taken away by the Japanese army. The one who came here said angrily: "You little devil's ancestors, more than 3,000 people, were killed like this. I have to turn around and have to scratch my head because of these gangsters. What the hell is this?"
Hearing the anger that could not be concealed in Du Kaishan's tone, Sui Changqing said helplessly: "Commander, according to the translator's confession, when we swept through the periphery of Dongning, the workers we rescued were all so-called peripheral workers, that is, those working in the periphery. They are mainly responsible for manual labor and construction of roads, railways and airports, and do not actually work inside the fortress. In addition to some people in the customs, a considerable number of these people are local residents of the Northeast."
"The reason why we were able to rescue so many at once is that in addition to the huge number of workers enslaved by the Japanese army in Dongning and the fact that we acted quickly and the Japanese army had no time to massacre them, the location of these workers is not top secret, and inside the fortress Even if we don't attack, all the workers will be killed after the fortress is completed to keep it secret,"
"Most of these people are ordinary people who were captured in the pass, as well as anti-Japanese soldiers captured on the battlefield, and even comrades who were captured when we fought against us from last year to this year. As soon as these people enter the fortress, they are destined to fail. There will be no chance to get out again, unless we can enter the fortress to rescue these workers before the Japanese army massacres them,"
"But Commander, this hope cannot be said to be nonexistent, it is almost negligible. We have no drawings and do not understand the internal situation of the fortress at all. The most fundamental thing is that the Dongning fortress group is different from Fengshan and Fujin that we have contacted before. , even Miaoling and Lumingtai fortresses are different,"
"Its scale, internal complexity, and powerful firepower can be said to be the highest among the Japanese fortresses in Northeast China. In front of this kind of fortress, in such a short period of time, Commander, we have basically cleared the perimeter. And by dividing several fortress groups, we have already done a pretty good job."
"As for the workers trapped inside the fortress, it's not that we don't do our best, it's that we can't do anything. The interior of the hills in front of us have been hollowed out, and the underground fortifications are as intricate as spider webs. Although we found There are many hidden entrances and exits, but several attempts to break in failed."
"In the absence of detailed structural diagrams and the inability to follow the clues, we can only fumble and fight. It is simply impossible to rescue these trapped workers in the shortest possible time, and the Japanese army in order to cover up the fortress I won’t be left with too much time to keep the secrets in the world. Commander, we have tried our best, but things may not always change according to our will.”