Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

What does it mean to be taken care of? It means that when you are marching all the way here, the local comrades have already dug trenches for you, and you just need to get into the fighting position!
The key is that the trenches are constructed very professionally, especially the heavy machine gun fortifications on the ridges, which can form a cross-fire network covering the entire foot of the mountain, and can also maintain the side-firing firepower arrangement!
Of course, there are some things that we can't take into account, that is, the positions of the artillery company of the second battalion and the artillery platoons of each company, which have not been arranged in advance. However, the location of the artillery position on the battlefield must not be easily known to the enemy, so not arranging it for you is also for confidentiality measures.

"This place is great. Our old unit still takes good care of us!" After looking at the terrain, Guo Liandong said to the company commanders, "This hilltop is more than 500 meters long from northeast to southwest, and the hillside on the east has a span of more than meters, facing the ravine on the east. So, this is our main position for blocking!"

"Orders, Sixth Company, Fifth Company, Fourth Company, you three companies build positions on this mountain! Do you see the ditch that runs southward from the east side of the river? Arrange two platoons on the hilltop south of the ditch to block the Japanese who may flee southward. Then, all the rest of our teams will be stationed on the hillside north of the Shicao River, waiting for the Japanese to come! As for the artillery company's position, place it in the north!"

Guo Liandong simply arranged the troops and took the 1st, 2nd and 3rd companies, the reconnaissance company, the special operations team and all the teams to the mountain north of the valley to camp, waiting for the Japanese to come. He also repaired the trench fortifications, arranged the positions of the artillery company, connected the telephone lines and so on...

Everyone naturally had no objection to their captain's arrangement. After all, the positions were planned for you, and it was just a matter of who was in which pit. Anyway, now everyone was not worried about the battle, but what they were worried about was that if the Japanese didn't march according to our ideas and didn't take this road, then all the arrangements and preparations would be in vain!

However, this matter is not something that Guo Liandong and others need to consider. It is something that the military region and the military sub-district should consider.

Time passed by little by little as everyone was preparing. In the blink of an eye, morning turned to noon, but no one saw the Japanese and puppet troops coming. Waiting was naturally painful, but everyone was very patient. Those who really didn't want to wait went to dig trenches on the side. If one single-soldier pit was not enough, they would dig another one. Anyway, it would be useful in the war!

In the south, three companies were arranged in a triangle, relying on a hilltop to build a defensive position; in the north, four companies were lined up in a row, building their own positions on the hilltop in the north with gullies. As for the position of the 82 mortar company, it was placed on a hilltop with the best terrain in the north, overlooking the river valley where the battlefield was located.

Time went on as we waited. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the brigade's radio station received a telegram from the brigade headquarters, informing them that their troops would pass in front of the position and not to lay minefields.

The Second Battalion responded: Everything is safe, there are no minefields!

After a brief exchange, the radio station remained silent again and everyone continued to wait... This wait lasted until after three o'clock in the afternoon, when the comrades at the front finally saw their own team passing by.

The team that passed was small, only about 5 people, and many comrades were still bandaged and wounded. Fortunately, the comrades were able to run, and soon they went west along the river valley and passed the position here. Not long after their team passed, the comrades at the front heard the barking of dogs, and also saw five Japanese soldiers with a hundred puppet soldiers chasing after the dogs.

At the same time, more than 400 meters behind these Japanese puppet troops, there was a large group of puppet troops running out of breath, and there were also small groups of Japanese troops running in the middle. There is no doubt that the Japanese troops came here, or were led here! In fact, the team running in front was the 20th Company of the 9th Regiment. They had been blocking the Japanese troops in a village in front. Because of the radio communication, the 9th Company also knew today's plan, so this morning, after receiving the order to retreat, the 9th Company fought all the way and retreated, and then continued to block and fight in the subsequent villages, and finally brought the Japanese troops here.

In order to bring the Japanese and puppet troops here, the comrades didn't even have time to eat lunch, and they didn't even have time to drink a sip of water.

Now, they had already known the specific arrangements. After running past the hill where the main position was located, they slowed down their pace, and then resolutely turned their guns and aimed at the pursuing Japanese and puppet troops.

However, before they could fire, they saw more than a dozen explosions on the hillside by the river. Countless steel balls burst out and directly covered the pursuing Japanese puppet soldiers, even the two dogs. First they saw the explosions, then heard the explosions, which meant that they had run more than 500 meters.

Of course, this is not the point. The point is that at the moment when the directional mine exploded, the mortars of the 4th, 5th and 6th companies started firing, and then the grenade launchers also launched the first wave of grenades.

Because the Japanese pursuers were far away from the main force in the rear, the frontier positions in the east let them go until they ran to the west and were about to leave the blocking position, and then they were eliminated with directional mines. What? No mines? There are no mines, right? Directional mines are not mines, right?
It was this distance that allowed the Japanese army to be so close to the frontline positions!
The large force of the devils naturally pursued along the river valley, and the span of the river valley was less than 300 meters, which was the best distance for a firefight! Therefore, according to the orders of the three company commanders, the three companies of 12 60 mortars directly bombarded the easternmost part of the devil's puppet army, setting the projection distance to the farthest 1440 meters.

The mortars of the three companies were about 27 meters apart, which was just enough to block the enemy's retreat, or directly blow up the enemy's retreating troops on the spot. The 900 grenade launchers of the three companies followed the convention and first launched a round of pepper bombs into the river. The distance was also the longest, arranged from east to west, directly from 500 meters to meters from the front line.

Regardless of the density of the grenade launcher's grenades, or whether they are accurate or not, what is needed now is to launch enough pepper bombs into the Japanese team and launch a wave of chemical attacks on the Japanese first.

As for the Japanese within 500 meters, the nine heavy machine guns of the Type 9 were set up on the easternmost side and opened fire immediately. Along with the heavy machine guns, all the soldiers of the Sixth Company opened fire, and the two platoons of the Fifth Company also opened fire.

While firing here, the four companies led by Guo Liandong in the north also opened fire on the Japanese, targeting those within 500 meters. Under the attack from both sides, most of the Japanese puppet troops were wiped out without any preparation, and only a dozen seconds had passed. Well, that was the time it took for two shells to hit the ground. (End of this chapter)