blood feud

Zhao Sanbao and Ling Kaishan's Zhangfang Independent Group have not been idle for the past year.

Because the two of them probably had nothing to do, they became landlords and bought a lot of land.Those old local landlords who did not sell their land disappeared without a trace in the end.

Because of this, starting from last autumn, starting from Huoshan Village in the west, going east, passing through Gaojiazhuang, Jiajiazhuang, and Zhangjiazhuang in the east, there are four emerging big landlords in a straight line ten kilometers long. .

These four big landlords emerged overnight, and then began to "construct water conservancy".It seems that there is going to be a big irrigation of farmland or something, but the locals don't understand it very well anyway.Not only the locals don't understand it, but even if water conservancy experts come, they probably won't understand it very well.

Because the four landlords joined hands and hired people everywhere in the winter, they actually built three irrigation canals in one go.It is very common to build irrigation canals on the plains, but the distance between the three irrigation canals is only 100 meters, which is too outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that these four landlords are all great benevolent people.Maybe it was because they were afraid that cats and dogs would fall into the irrigation canals and cause accidents, so they spared no expense to bring back a lot of big trees that could not be carried by one person from the old mountain, and covered all the irrigation canals.

After the four landowners covered the irrigation canal with logs, they brought back the dug-out soil and covered the logs.

In the end, the villagers have learned a lot.

No, the soil has been adjusted, and the four big landlords have planted wheat on the irrigation canal again.After several consecutive heavy snowfalls, outsiders didn't even know that there were three "intensive" irrigation canals underground.

"Toss, but toss hard." The local veteran said angrily with a dry pipe in his mouth: "Although you can save land by building irrigation canals like this, but in order to bring back such a big tree, the money spent is not enough. Don’t even think about earning it back if you don’t have 20 years.”

Time is a good thing, it can make people forget many things.

After the beginning of spring, wheat reappeared in people's sight, and everything was so harmonious.After a long time, people gradually forgot that someone in this land used to build irrigation canals.

Also in this season, the bandits violated the rules and reappeared in the spring, and they were the "Ling Fairy Girls" who made the world change their faces.

The current Lingxian is amazing.

When she came out this time, she didn't rob the common people, but only robbed the train station.Don't grab property, just grab spare rails and sleepers.Start from Gaobeidian Railway Station in the north, then Dingxing Railway Station and Xushui Railway Station.After looting all the spare rails and sleepers, "Ling Xiangu" disappeared again.

The local people were puzzled: "Could it be that the bandits are also building railways now? If the railway in the cottage is built, won't it be convenient for the officials and troops to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress them?"

No matter how the locals couldn't figure it out, anyway, after the sneak attack on the Little Devil's 6th Division, the reconnaissance battalion, machine gun battalion, and cavalry battalion interspersed, and finally all entered the irrigation canal.

Now, the reconnaissance battalion and the cavalry battalion have all gone out, and Ke Yuxin has more than 700 people in his machine gun battalion, and they are now staying in the "irrigation canal".

It turned out that Zhao Sanbao and Ling Kaishan secretly built 75 strong fortresses in the three irrigation canals using the rails and sleepers that Hua Ruyue and Mo Fengjiao's women's barracks had snatched, which are now the heavy machine gun positions.

The firing holes of each bunker are only 40 centimeters above the ground.The "irrigation canal" was built at the beginning, and then the soil was transported back. On the one hand, it was to hide the three trenches, and the other main purpose was to clear the shooting range for the heavy machine gun positions.

After some adjustments, these 75 bunkers are very inconspicuous, forming a gentle slope ladder structure from north to south. The third bunker in the southernmost trench is 50 cm higher than the bunker in the northernmost trench.

After the three trenches were re-buried, there were no migrant workers, so their own soldiers re-constructed and opened up the communication trenches between the trenches.Of course, it is also the soldiers themselves who build the heavy machine gun fortifications every night.

There is a main castle in the middle of each trench, which is also a garrison cave and a command post.All the calls that Wei Chong snatched back from Zhenhai last time were used here.In the third trench, the westernmost bunker is a generator set that provides lighting for the three trenches.

There are 75 bunkers, each with 4 Maxim heavy machine guns, controlling four directions respectively.In other words, in the trenches 10 kilometers long from east to west, a total of 300 heavy machine guns were concentrated, 100 in each trench.

This construction plan was secretly handed over to Zhao Sanbao by Bai Shujie when he came out of Chengde after he was appointed as the head of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment.

As for the heavy machine guns, all of them were bought by Ling Kaishan from "Shanxi Merchants".According to Ling Kaishan: "I worked so hard to rob the house to buy some things, and the boss farted and everything was gone."

"The enemy is still three kilometers away from us. Put two in a row in the first trench. There are 25 bunkers, and two people are placed in each bunker to operate heavy machine guns to form a fire support point."

Ke Yuxin sat in the big bunker in the middle of the second trench, holding a telephone and shouting loudly: "The rest of the people spread out along the trench and use light machine guns to play by ear. Remember, don't let the enemy get closer to 200 meters within, but not too hard on the enemy."

Let's not mention Ke Yuxin's machine gun battalion fighting here.

It is said that Wei Chong's Rao'an Independent Division was all dispatched, and finally after the 6th Division of the Little Devils entered Qingyuan County and announced the occupation of Baoding, they all entered the starting position of the attack in concealment.

The specific deployment is: Cao Renhou's infantry regiment, three fully staffed infantry battalions, 2480 people.The class support firepower is 3 light machine guns and 2 grenade guns, and the regiment headquarters is located in Xiaohouzhuang;

Liu Kuizhong's machine gun regiment (lack of a light machine gun battalion, but also a heavy machine gun battalion and an anti-aircraft machine gun battalion), the regiment headquarters is in Yanzhuang, north of the infantry regiment;

Ding Dakui's artillery regiment (lack of heavy artillery battalion and field artillery battalion, only mountain artillery battalion, mortar battalion, and supply battalion), the regiment headquarters is located in Huangtuo Village, southwest of the infantry regiment.

This time, Cao Renhou served as the commander-in-chief of the main siege force of the Eastern Group, with three battalions of 2480 infantry regiments under his jurisdiction.In addition, the mortar battalion attached to the Ding Dakui Artillery Regiment has three mortar companies with 746 people.Attached to the heavy machine gun battalion of Liu Kui Heavy Machine Gun Regiment, there are 746 people in three companies.

Not including the communications company, plus Cao Renhou's guard company, the total strength of the Eastern Group's offensive force was 4000.His task is to undertake the attack from the south and east of the county seat, and pull out the little devil's stronghold outside the city.

Cao Renhou was the commander of the third battalion under the 129th Division of the former Northeast Army.He wholeheartedly wanted to have a fight with the little devil, but unfortunately he didn't have the chance.Later, Bai Shujie went to Xiongxian, Raoyang, and Anping to suppress bandits. After Cao Renhou broke away from the Northeast Army, he was recruited by Bai Shujie.

Later, when the Rao'an Independent Regiment was formed, Cao Renhou was still only the commander of the third battalion.However, the number of troops under him has changed from the original 340 to 746.When the Rao'an Independent Division was formed, Cao Renhou served as the commander of the infantry regiment.

Cao Renhou is the oldest one in Wei Chong's independent division and the one who has been in the army for the longest time.Therefore, Wei Chong did not appoint Wang Sanju, deputy division commander and chief of staff, as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Group, but ordered Cao Renhou to assume the task of commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

As for the deputy division commander Wang Sanju, he specially coordinated the artillery regiment and the machine gun regiment to go all out and cooperate with the coordinated operations of the attack group.The other is a medical battalion, ready to receive the seriously wounded from all sides.Those who are slightly injured and can't get off the line of fire will not be accepted here.

Wang Sanju is one of Bai Shujie's powerful fighters, he usually doesn't talk much, and is a smiling "smiling tiger".If any bastard refuses to accept the peck and dares to disobey his orders, he will definitely kill first and play later, without mercy.

Cao Renhou was appointed to a heavy duty at the beginning, and he was also able to command the deputy division commander, so his tactical arrangements were even and steady, neither rush nor impatient.

As soon as the front-line cannon fired, Cao Renhou issued the first order: "The First Infantry Battalion immediately dispatched a company to strengthen a mortar platoon (9 mortars) and a heavy machine gun platoon (6 heavy machine guns) to go northward urgently." Kill a squad of devils at the Caohe Railway Bridge and blow up the railway bridge. Then build defensive fortifications on the spot, ready to block the enemy reinforcements on the front line of Xushui."

The second order: "The [-]st Infantry Battalion will not leave a reserve team, and the remaining two companies will strengthen a mortar platoon and a heavy machine gun platoon respectively, one company will capture Yinzhuang in the west, and one squadron will be defended; A company seized Jiaozhuang in the west, and there was a squadron and a brigade headquarters in it. Then they all organized defenses on the spot."

The third order: "The Second Infantry Battalion strengthens a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company, and rushes south to the Qingbao line. With the cooperation of the Shanpao Battalion, annihilate a brigade of little devils in Huangcun. Then go straight to the south gate of the county seat , ready to compete for the city wall and seize the southern gate."

The fourth order: "The third infantry battalion, strengthen a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company. After the first infantry battalion launches an attack, immediately cross the enemy's blocking line and go straight to the moat outside the east gate of the county. Then let the enemy The firepower point of the city wall is exposed, and then call for artillery fire to destroy it and seize the east gate."

The final mobilization is: "Brothers, I sent all the troops out, leaving a guard company to protect the girls of the communication company. Therefore, you must complete your respective tasks. I have no reinforcements here. The commander-in-chief has already said It is very clear that even if the entire independent division is wiped out, it is absolutely not allowed to take half a step back. Execute now."

Four orders were issued, and the troops moved out.Just now Cao Renhou had a large force of 4000 men, but now there is only a guard company, an artillery platoon, and a heavy machine gun platoon, plus more than 100 girls in the communication company, and there are less than 600 people, which is almost the same as a bare-handed commander.

The company of the First Infantry Battalion that captured the Caohe Railway Bridge was the smoothest. It quickly killed a small group of devils, and also blew up the iron bridge, cutting off the reinforcement route on the Xushui line.

After receiving the news, the battalion commander of the First Infantry Battalion immediately ordered the other two companies to attack quickly and launch a "surrounding blocking attack" on Yinzhuang and Jiaozhuang in front of them.

That's right, the two companies wanted to use their own flesh and blood to forcibly tear a hole in the enemy's line that was united as one, and then use a loose encirclement circle to temporarily surround the little devil in two parts.

Because the first task of the First Infantry Battalion is to open a passage for the Third Infantry Battalion so that they can cross the enemy's outer defense line and directly attack the enemy's deep city walls.

In order to buy time, the peripheral battle and the siege battle must start at the same time. This is the battle plan of "the black tiger digs out his heart and strikes to the death" formulated by Cao Renhou.

After all, what happens next, let's see the breakdown in the next chapter.