Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 127 On the verge of breaking out

In order for Ren Zhong to pass through the Japanese stronghold smoothly, the brigade commander and his men handed the first battle of the campaign to Li Yunlong's independent regiment, which was equivalent to sending the independent regiment to escort Ren Zhong!
In addition, the mission of the independent regiment was quite flexible. They raided westward from Heyuan and directly broke through the Tongpu Line west of Heyuan! They tried their best to disrupt the traffic lines of the devils in Hongcheng west of Heyuan.

Li Yunlong, who had been holding back for several months, this time sent out all his main forces. He not only asked Zhang Dabiao to pull out the Heyuan Guerrilla 1st Brigade, the old 2st Battalion, but also the nd Battalion and the cavalry company.

Only the 3rd Battalion was left to Kong Jie and Zhao Gang to guard the Yangcun lair and protect the headquarters.

This time, there were more than a thousand people marching westward in a mighty force. Although they were traveling through mountainous areas and the independent regiment encountered large groups of enemies and launched large-scale actions, there were still many small actions along the way. By fighting piecemeal, they wiped out all the Japanese strongholds on the road of more than a hundred miles from Nangou to Xingtang Temple!
More than a dozen strongholds were knocked down as a practice. For the training of mortars, flying thunder cannons, and RPGs, Lao Li felt that it was too wasteful to just bombard them at home, so he held it back until the big raid. This time, he took the opportunity of raiding to the west and directly found the Japanese strongholds for actual combat training!

Because the action was too sharp and the telephone lines were cut short before the launch, Li Yunlong's independent regiment wiped out all the Japanese strongholds within a hundred miles along the way, and the Japanese gendarmerie in the county town was still in the dark.

For two days and one night, the independent regiment's performance shocked Ren Zhong!
There were more than a dozen strongholds in these mountainous areas. The larger ones were garrisoned by a small Japanese squad and a platoon of puppet troops of forty to fifty people, while the smaller ones were garrisoned by a few Japanese soldiers and a dozen puppet troops.

According to normal historical circumstances, if these strongholds had built artillery towers, it would take at least several hours for regular company-level troops to capture them.

But now there is no need to bother at all. Once the telephone line is cut, the RPG rocket launcher will destroy a small artillery tower, and then the commandos will charge up and the battle will be resolved in more than ten minutes! Then the tasks of cleaning up the battlefield and collecting the puppet troops will be handed over to the armed work team following behind!
It didn’t delay Ren Zhong and the others at all!

In this way, they advanced all the way to Xingtang Temple in Hongcheng.

"Old Li, after reaching here, our independent regiment will face a tough battle next." Looking at the villa in front and the gradually getting shorter hills, Ren Zhong, who had been familiar with the terrain in the main world in advance, knew that they would soon cross the mountains and enter the valley.

"Brother Ren, are we going to get out of the mountains now?" Li Yunlong did not ask Ren Zhong how he knew. Anyway, according to the current rough topographic map and the distance he had traveled, he could only roughly know that they were now near Hongcheng.

"Yes, if I'm not mistaken, we'll be out of the mountain in two or three miles." Ren Zhong said with some emotion. He had walked more than a hundred miles in two days and one night, fighting and rushing. Even though he was still riding a horse and not participating in the battle, he still felt a little exhausted.

The area between the legs was also rubbed and became a little red and swollen.

But these are not something that can be told to outsiders.

"Brother Ren, in your opinion, should we attack directly or rest here for a night?" Li Yunlong asked.

It's not that he doesn't know how to fight, but along the way, Li Yunlong found that Ren Zhong was quite familiar with the path here. Ren Zhong chose the places to go and stop, and basically there were no problems.

"Our target this time, Zhaocheng Station, is thirty miles away. It's not far from dark now. Let's rest here and set off at 10 pm. We will arrive at the target in about two hours by marching quickly. As for how to fight, it's up to you, Lao Li. I don't know much about this."

"Okay, let's let the comrades rest and have a meal first. Da Biao, send someone to block the entrance and exit of the village. No one can enter or leave tonight. Shen Quan, send someone to borrow some fire from the villagers and boil some hot water so that the comrades can have a hot meal." After Li Yunlong gave the orders, a team of more than a thousand people entered the village in an orderly manner.

Except for Shen Quan and his men who went to find the villagers' stove, the rest of the soldiers did not enter the villagers' house. Instead, they sat down under a big tree outside to rest and recover their strength.

Ren Zhong and Li Yunlong sat on a drying yard at the entrance of the village and unfolded a wrinkled map. Zhang Dabiao, Shen Quan and Sun Desheng squatted on one side, and Wei Heshang and Hu Zi's men were guarding around them separately. "It takes 2 hours to get to Zhaocheng Station, which is around midnight. At this time, most of the Japanese and puppet troops should be sleeping in the barracks. According to the intelligence previously reconnaissanced by local comrades, there is a squadron of Japanese and a puppet army battalion stationed at Zhaocheng Station, defending 4 artillery towers and two bunkers in the station warehouse respectively. Normally, a squad of Japanese and a platoon of puppet troops are on duty on the artillery tower, and the bunkers in front of the warehouse are defended by a squad of Japanese." Li Yunlong pointed to a hand-drawn sketch, which was obviously the intelligence that the underground party had risked to get.

"Shen Quan, I'll leave the attack on the barracks to your Second Battalion. All six mortars are assigned to you. Make sure they don't get a chance to rush out and enter the station warehouse to set it on fire." Li Yunlong pointed to the approximate location of the enemy's barracks and said to Shen Quan.

"Da Biao, you take the 1st Battalion to hold down the four artillery towers. I will lead the 4st Guerrilla Squadron to knock down the two bunkers in the station warehouse and take over the warehouse! Do you understand?" Li Yunlong pointed to the position of the artillery tower above and turned to Zhang Dabiao and said.

"Understood!" Shen Quan and Zhang Dabiao said in unison.

"Captain, what about our cavalry company?" Sun Desheng looked for a long time and felt a little uncomfortable as there was nothing for him to do.

"Old Sun, your mission is to escort Brother Ren to safely cross the Fen River while we are attacking, break through the blockade on the west bank of the Fen River and enter the mountainous area, then fight back to attack the reinforcements that the Japanese may send. Zhaocheng Station is not far from the county town. You may just catch up with the Japanese reinforcements during your trip. Your cavalry company has a heavy task. Because the Japanese may send a railway armored vehicle. Use the RPG rockets assigned to your cavalry company sparingly, and don't use them up when attacking the strongholds, otherwise you will be dumbfounded when attacking the armored vehicles."

Li Yunlong pointed to the route that Ren Zhong and his team were about to leave, as well as the stronghold on the simple map and said.

Sun Desheng's cavalry company was about to advance 10 miles westward, during which time they needed to break through two Japanese artillery blockades on the west bank and then rush back to fight for reinforcements. It was indeed a difficult task.

"No, the cavalry company is guaranteed to complete the mission!" Sun Desheng said loudly.

"Brother Ren, tonight we brothers will fight and go our separate ways, so please take care of yourself!" Li Yunlong was serious for once, and his words were a bit sentimental.

"Old Li, we will meet again soon, and we will win!" Ren Zhong did not participate in their battle suggestions. He had a clear view of his mission.

After the attack on Zhaocheng Station begins, Li Yunlong and his men will fight with all their might, while he will break through the Japanese blockade and continue westward to carefully select the fire for the upcoming Dawn Plan.

On another front, we fought to drive away the Japanese invaders.

This time, the independent regiment was equipped with 4 RPG rocket launchers, 6 82mm mortars, and 56 semi-automatic rifles were assigned to the squad leader of each squad. Each company had 4 grenade launchers for centralized use.

Their firepower was the strongest among the main forces in the base, so Ren Zhong was not worried that they would not be able to capture Zhaocheng Station.

However, the mission of Li Yunlong's independent regiment was not limited to this. They had to undertake the destruction of nearly 50 miles of railway starting from Zhaocheng Station, which was quite dangerous.

The Tongpu Line, like the Zhengtai Line, is the Japanese's core transportation line. The Japanese's 16th Independent Mixed Brigade is responsible for the security of this section of the railway. Li Yunlong's independent regiment is still very dangerous when facing a brigade.

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