People are shining their swords, secretly helping the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi

Chapter 261 Attacking the Tiger Pavilion Stronghold
Kazuki Yamamoto is very cunning, even though he has obtained from the intelligence agency that Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun are currently in the independent detachment.

However, he still dispatched an assault team to the independent 48th brigade to launch a combat strike against its brigade headquarters.

The purpose of doing this is that there will be many benefits for the Yamamoto Special Forces to fight in the future.

The Independent 48th Brigade as a whole has strong combat effectiveness. The Independent Detachment has been hit here, and they may rush to help quickly.

Once they rush to help the independent detachment quickly, it will definitely affect the Japanese army's combat plan.

However, an assault team attacking the brigade headquarters of the Independent 48th Brigade can definitely cause chaos and even achieve certain results.

In this way, the independent 48th brigade cannot support the independent detachment in operations, and will also pay certain casualties.

And the first assault team took the lead in attacking the independent 48th brigade, which could also attract everyone's attention.

When the independent 48th brigade troops, the independent detachment troops focused on Lancheng.

The Yamamoto special team quickly raided Kangjia Town, Jingle City, which would naturally increase the chance of success.

After receiving the order, Harada Jiro, who served as the commander of the infantry squadron, quickly agreed.

Harada Jiro began to command dozens of people in the first assault team, and secretly advanced towards the Lancheng area.

At the same time, Kazuki Yamamoto took out the map and continued to explain the attack tactics to other officers.

For him, this battle is of great importance, they can only succeed, they must not fail.

The officers of the secret service team memorized their combat missions in detail, and they kept answering various questions raised by Kazuki Yamamoto.

Kazuki Yamamoto is still capable, and he is fully prepared for this battle.

He also made arrangements for any emergencies.

And these officers, under Kazuki Yamamoto's constant reminders, firmly remembered all the combat plans.

Time passed bit by bit, and at five o'clock in the afternoon on December [-]th, the sky gradually became dark.

The winter in Jin Province is very cold, a gust of cold wind blows through, and the chill comes through the bones.

At this time, the main force of the new regiment had advanced to Xiying Village to stand by, but they were terribly frozen.

The conditions of the Eighth Route Army are well known. Even in winter, they still lack cotton clothes.

Many soldiers were shivering with cold, but they insisted on relying on tenacious willpower.

Adjutant Sun Ming came to Chu Yunfei with a cotton coat several times, intending to put the cotton coat on Chu Yunfei's body.

Chu Yunfei directly waved his hand to refuse, looking at the soldiers of the new regiment nearby from time to time.

Chu Yunfei and Li Yunlong met a long time ago.

At the beginning, the 358th regiment was responsible for the defense of the ferry, and Li Yunlong's new regiment was not included in the eight-way organization list issued by the chief's department.

There was a dispute between the two sides, and Li Yunlong almost hit him with a machine gun that time.

But in the battle at Cangyun Ridge, Chu Yunfei saw the powerful fighting strength of the new regiment.

More than 1000 troops directly confronted the Bantian United.

In the end, the two sides joined forces and completely annihilated the Sakata United.

But the fighting ability of the new regiment left a deep impression on Chu Yunfei.

In the next few battles, the two sides were united, but they had no contact with each other.

Like the most familiar strangers, they have achieved results time and time again.

"Ziyun, if our army is like this, do we still have the ability to continue fighting?"

Chu Yunfei looked at Chen Ziyun beside him, and said with a serious expression on his face.

Chen Ziyun's face was flushed from the cold now, and his body was a little numb.

Looking at the soldiers of the new regiment around him, Chen Ziyun shook his head directly at Chu Yunfei.

There are three infantry regiments under the Independent 48th Brigade, and no infantry regiment can do this to this extent.

Seeing Chen Ziyun shaking his head, Chu Yunfei said nothing more, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

At six o'clock the sky grew darker.

The north wind howled, and the weather became colder.

It was at this time that the reconnaissance troops began to return to report.

The Baijia Village Maintenance Committee has already transported a lot of flour, and the Japanese and puppet troops in the Huting stronghold have also begun to move out quietly.

Obviously, the Japanese puppet army and the traitors planned to set a trap for the new group overnight.

During the daytime on the [-]th, if the Xinyi regiment went to Baijia Village to collect white noodles, they would definitely be ambushed by Japanese and puppet troops.

It's just that these traitors don't know that Li Yunlong is a mantis catching cicadas and orioles behind him.

Of course, Li Yunlong would not have expected that there was a poisonous snake hidden behind his oriole.

The Japanese army here is just planning, and they have already expected the combat idea of ​​​​the independent detachment.

"Hey hey, comrades, keep going, the Japanese puppet army will send us cotton clothes right away."

"After this battle is over, we can all wear cotton clothes and have a lot of white flour to eat."

"When we seize the white noodles and go back to let the cooking team make dumplings, everyone will have a big bowl of him."

After receiving the report, Li Yunlong immediately spoke to the soldiers.

Hearing that there will be dumplings to eat after the battle, the soldiers showed expectant expressions one by one.

At this time, even during the Chinese New Year, it is rare to have a meal of dumplings.

Especially the Eighth Route Army, their conditions are very poor.

"Leader, then we have to end the battle early and go back to eat dumplings."

"The commander, that is, the puppet army of hundreds of days, this is not easy to deal with."

"Leader, why don't we wait to go back, and just eat dumplings at the little devil's Huting stronghold."

"Take down the Huting stronghold, let's eat dumplings here, even if the little devils counterattack, we can block their attack."

The soldiers chattered, their morale was high, and they were not affected by the weather at all.

Li Yunlong rubbed his hands, looked towards the Huting stronghold, his eyes showed a murderous look.

The Huting stronghold is the fierce tiger around the independent detachment. Now that he is about to be eliminated, Li Yunlong is inevitably a little excited.

After eight o'clock in the evening, the reconnaissance unit returned to report again.

About [-] Japanese and puppet troops have begun to ambush near Baijia Village!

After Li Yunlong received this report, he immediately made deployment arrangements.

Zhang Dabiao's [-]st Battalion was attached to the Mountain Artillery Company, and advanced directly to the Huting stronghold, making preparations for attacking the Huting stronghold.

Li Yunlong personally commanded the Second Battalion, attached to the mortar company, to deal with the Japanese and puppet troops near Baijia Village, and then rushed to support the First Battalion to fight, and jointly took down the Huting stronghold.

The new regiment began to move, and the two infantry battalions advanced towards different areas.

Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun took the submachine gun platoon and followed Li Yunlong directly.

As for Monk Wei's reconnaissance platoon, they had already left here, and they went directly to the Japanese-occupied area to conduct reconnaissance.

However, the system issued a task, asking Chen Ziyun to assist the independent detachment to annihilate the field observation group.

To annihilate this battlefield observation group, the first thing is to determine their location.

The reconnaissance platoon went to the Japanese-occupied area to search for their location, and then quickly reported it to Chen Ziyun.

On the west side of Jingle City, there are cavalry battalions and artillery battalions under the 358th regiment.

Needless to say, the cavalry battalion has strong mobility.

The artillery battalion also has a large number of horses, which can increase their speed.

These two battalions can rush to help quickly at any time.

In this battle, Chen Ziyun will definitely kill the observation group.

At this time, the Xinyi Regiment was already in action, and the battalions were advancing rapidly.

At nine o'clock in the evening, intensive gunfire began to sound near Baijia Village.

The Japanese and puppet troops were attacked by the second battalion, and they resisted briefly.

Immediately afterwards, the Captain of the Lieutenant and Squadron, who commanded the operation, began to quickly withdraw towards the Huting stronghold according to the previous plan.

About 200 Japanese troops evacuated at the forefront, and the grenades of each of their teams fired smoke bombs from time to time.

Originally, it was pitch black all around, but with the smoke, they could better cover their evacuation.

The three hundred puppet troops were covering behind, and the puppet troops retreated while fighting.

The Second Battalion of the New First Regiment began to make a flank detour, successively hitting the puppet troops.

However, these Japanese and puppet troops were prepared. After ten o'clock, the Japanese and puppet troops withdrew to the Huting stronghold one after another.

And Zhang Dabiao's first battalion has not had time to launch any combat operations yet.

But when he saw that the Japanese and puppet troops were withdrawing, the first battalion launched firepower, which also caused some damage to the Japanese and puppet troops.

As the Huting stronghold began to suppress firepower, the first battalion could not continue to shoot, and could only watch helplessly as the Japanese and puppet troops withdrew to the Huting stronghold.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the surroundings became silent, and there was no fighting.

Li Yunlong seized some white noodles in Baijia Village, and the traitors of the Baijia Village Maintenance Committee were also punished as they should.

In this battle, they killed more than 100 Japanese puppet troops. Of course, most of those who were killed were puppet troops.

After getting the statistics of the battle results, Li Yunlong's expression was gloomy.

Obviously, Li Yunlong is absolutely dissatisfied with such a result.

After contemplating for a while, Li Yunlong led the Second Battalion and other troops directly to the Huting stronghold, where they reunited with the First Battalion.

"The troops are scattered and hidden, find a place to cook some hot food."

"Wait until three o'clock in the morning, and we will storm the Huting stronghold."

"Now the companies take turns to rest. No matter what, we have to take down the Huting stronghold."

Li Yunlong issued an order, and he was preparing to continue fighting.

For Li Yunlong, taking more than 100 days of puppet troops and capturing some white noodles is definitely not what he can be satisfied with.

The key to this battle is actually to take down the Huting stronghold.

The Huting stronghold is a thorn in the throat for the independent detachment, and it must be resolved.

Secondly, Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun were still watching, Li Yunlong definitely couldn't just end the battle like this.

"Brother Yunlong, if your department needs artillery support, there is our artillery battalion to the west, and we can call it over at any time."

"The Huting stronghold is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If we launch a strong attack, I am afraid there will be a lot of casualties."

"And judging from the battle just now, the Japanese and puppet troops are very vigilant. Now it is probably not the best choice to directly attack."

Chu Yunfei came to Li Yunlong, and he spoke directly.

Li Yunlong is not a face-saving person. If there is a ready-made artillery battalion to support the battle, if there is any advantage, is it still Li Yunlong?

"Hehehe, I would like to thank Brother Yunfei for that."

"Brother Yun, son of the gun god, is here. If I can get support from your artillery battalion."

"Then it won't be easy for us to take down the Huting stronghold."

"Hehehe, originally I wanted to show my hand in front of Brother Yunfei and Brother Ziyun."

"But I didn't expect that the Japanese and puppet troops are so cunning, and now they can only rely on the assistance of brothers Yunfei and Ziyun."

Li Yunlong cupped his fists and agreed without hesitation.

The Huting stronghold was something he had to solve. With the assistance of the artillery battalion of the Jinsui Army, Li Yunlong would naturally not refuse.

What's more, there is still Chen Ziyun here, as long as the artillery battalion comes over, he is fully confident that he can take down the Huting stronghold.

Chu Yunfei smiled, and immediately arranged for the communication soldiers to generate electricity, and directly contacted Li Yang and Sun Xiong's artillery battalion.

Chen Ziyun raised his binoculars and looked towards the Huting stronghold.

Chen Ziyun could vaguely see barbed wire fences, blockade ditches, blockhouses, gun towers, defensive trenches and so on.

Among the system tasks, in addition to annihilating the field observation group, there is also a task of destroying the Huting stronghold.

At first, Chen Ziyun thought it would be easy to destroy the Huting stronghold, but looking at it now, it seems that it is not an easy matter.

The artillery battalion has six Bofors mountain guns and six [-]-type mountain guns.

These 75MM mountain guns are very destructive against ordinary fortifications.

However, it would be a bit difficult to deal with the reinforced bunker towers, such a caliber mountain cannon.

However, considering the combat effectiveness of the new regiment, Chen Ziyun felt that the combination of the two sides had a higher chance of success.

In the following time, Chen Ziyun began to get busy.

He began to inspect the scene and calculate the corresponding artillery data.

At two o'clock in the morning, a steaming steamed bun with white flour began to be delivered to the front line.

Soldiers, finally have a hot meal.

Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun received special care, and there were two side dishes.

After Chen Ziyun quickly ate the steamed buns, he continued to work.

At this time, the Japanese and puppet troops in the Huting stronghold have always maintained a high level of vigilance.

The searchlights on the two gun towers illuminated back and forth, for fear that some troops would launch a surprise attack.

However, there has been no movement from the Xinyi regiment, and the captain of the Shao Zuo who commanded the battle is also full of worry.

After all, they are here to contain these eighth-way troops who are attacking, so as to support the Yamamoto special team to fight.

But now that the Eighth Route Troops did not come to attack, Captain Shao Zuo was afraid that he would disrupt the deployment of the army headquarters.

At 01:30, Captain Shao Zuo mobilized a hundred puppet troops and began to attack from Huting stronghold.

These one hundred puppet troops are going to search the periphery to see if there is a new group of troops nearby.

Of course, the main force of the new regiment is currently deployed covertly on the periphery. The hundred puppet troops were hit by intensive firepower as soon as they came out.

Not long after, more than 80 of them were killed, and only a dozen of them fled back to the Huting stronghold in embarrassment.

After confirming that there were still Eight Route Troops on the outskirts, the commander of the Sixth Brigade of the Independent Infantry in Huting Stronghold breathed a sigh of relief.

In the next period of time, the Japanese and puppet troops at the Huting stronghold raised their vigilance and prepared to fight at any time.

The soldiers of the new regiment rested immediately after eating and drinking.

At around three o'clock in the morning on the [-]th, the artillery battalion came to the battlefield.

Li Yang and Sun Xiong reported to Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun.

And Chen Ziyun issued a series of orders, and the artillery battalion quickly began to set up artillery positions.

Six Bofors mountain guns and six [-]-type mountain guns set up artillery positions in different positions.

At the same time, Li Yunlong also transferred the mountain artillery company and mortar company directly under the new regiment to Chen Ziyun's command.

Chen Ziyun also arranged for them according to the battlefield situation.

After the artillery battalion set up its position, it was already around 05:30 in the morning.

Li Yunlong looked at the time, he did not organize troops to attack.

The artillery unit began to rest, and it was not until 06:30 that Li Yunlong began to issue combat orders.

Zhang Dabiao's first battalion began to crawl forward, secretly approaching the barbed wire fence in front of the little devil's Huting stronghold.

They began to destroy the barbed wire and prepared for the shock operation.

By 07:30, the sky was gradually brightening, and Li Yunlong contacted Chen Ziyun, requesting shelling support.

Chen Ziyun directly issued an order, and Sun Xiong commanded six [-]-style mountain artillery to start shelling the blockade ditch area.

A round of shells hit the blockade ditch one after another.

With the sound of the explosion, the barbed wire fence on the east side of the blockade ditch was destroyed one after another, and the blockade ditch also collapsed here.

Zhang Dabiao's first battalion, with the help of artillery cover, quickly advanced towards the blockade ditch.

Carrying the ladder they made overnight, they quickly entered the blockade ditch.

The Japanese and puppet troops at the Huting stronghold immediately launched an attack.

The light and heavy machine guns in the bunker group sprayed out a series of tongues of flame.

Crooked light machine guns, Czech light machine guns, Type [-] heavy machine guns, and Maxim heavy machine guns kept firing.

The dense bullets formed a firepower net and hit Zhang Dabiao's first battalion directly.

Some soldiers did not have time to react, were directly hit by bullets, and died on the spot.

But soon, Li Yang's six Bofors mountain guns began to shell.

A round of armor-piercing shells were fired directly from the Bofors Mountain Cannon.

The armor-piercing shells hit the bunker with precision, and as the six Bofors cannons fired, the firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops weakened.

At eight o'clock, all the troops of the first battalion entered the blockade ditch to hide.

The machine gun company also began to set up quickly, ready for cover shooting.

A light machine gun and grenades are also in different areas, ready to start shooting.

Many soldiers are carrying explosive packs and cluster grenades!
Zhang Dabiao, the commander of the first battalion, raised his binoculars to observe, and was ready to command the troops to attack.

At [-]:[-], Chen Ziyun commanded the artillery unit to launch a concentrated artillery attack.

Sixteen mountain cannons of different types quickly shelled, and they directly launched a fierce shelling on the bunkers and gun towers.

By [-]:[-], the six Bofors guns stopped firing their armor-piercing shells and they began firing smoke grenades.

Smoke bombs were fired towards the bunker group and in front of the gun tower.

As layers of smoke appeared, Zhang Dabiao's first battalion quickly launched operations.

Hundreds of fighters quickly moved forward through the blockade ditch.

The light and heavy machine gun grenades erected in different positions are also ready for cover.

And Chen Ziyun commanded the artillery unit, and began to carry out extended shelling, shelling in depth, in order to prevent the reinforcements of the Japanese and puppet troops.

(End of this chapter)