"Zhao Shanhe, how are you preparing?"

It is 4:30 in the morning, just before dawn, the darkest time of the day, and the most sleepy time for people.

At this time, the lights were dim and silent in Sanqiao County. Occasionally, a few barkings from dogs seemed unusually clear.

Zhang Qingshan brought the second and third battalions of the assault regiment to the forest about one mile outside the east gate of Sanqiao County. After meeting with the people from the assault company, the first thing he said when he saw Zhao Shanhe was to care whether they were ready to blow up the section of the city wall in front of him. After all, this was related to whether they could directly break through the city wall and whether they could reduce casualties.

"Captain, you have prepared a long time ago, I'll wait for you to say something."

Zhang Qingshan nodded with satisfaction, took out his pocket watch, looked at the time, and ordered Zhao Shanhe: "The feint attack is about to begin, and the enemy will surely wake up. Taking advantage of the cover of the night, the enemy has not yet appeared, and sent people to guard Midaokou, waiting for the order to blow up this section of the city wall."

"yes!"

Looking at Zhao Shanhe who was soon hiding in the night, Zhang Qingshan touched his pocket watch with his right hand, but he prayed that the battle would be successful... The general deployment of the combat plan was: while the Fourth Battalion stayed at Qinglong Mountain, it sent a company of Gezishan people to join the guerrilla brigade of Tongren County and attacked Tongren County at 5:00 this morning. Once the county was captured, the county was handed over to the county guerrilla brigade to manage. The first company of Gezishan people were in the northeast direction, and the only road between Tongren County and Sanqiao County was set up to block the Japanese devils who were defeated by Sanqiao County.

The combat plan to attack Sanqiao County is: Sanqiao County Guerrilla Brigade draws out fifty people and at 4:30 a.m., to attack the north gate of the county town. At the same time, the county guerrilla brigade and 200 people drawn from the militia squads in the county formed a team of 300 people, setting up a road southeast of the county town, blocking both reinforcements and defeated enemies in Sanqiao County.

At 4:50, the first battalion launched a half-true and half-false feint attack on the west gate of the county town - it was necessary to make the Japanese think that they were the main force and were really attacking the county town in order to confuse the enemy and disrupt their judgment.

At about five o'clock, the assault regiment exploded the eastern section of the county town (the original plan was to blow up the eastern gate of the county town, but now it has been slightly modified and changed to the city wall section more than 40 meters south of the east gate of the county town - the secret passage here). Then, the second and third battalions of the assault regiment were the main forces of this battle, rushing into the county town... attacked in three sides, first fake, then half fake, and then real. This was also considered to be the means used by the Japanese to attack Qinglong Mountain. However, the first two were feint attacks, and the last was a thunder attack. Nothing else, it was just to confuse the Japanese and make them unable to tell the real direction of the main attack of the Japanese.

Then, the assault company attacked the northern part of the Japanese military camp (the back gate of the Japanese military camp), and the third battalion attacked the southern part of the Japanese military camp (the main gate of the Japanese military camp). The second battalion attacked the west gate section of the county town, and met with the first battalion that restrained the enemy outside the city... In the end, everyone met at the Japanese military camp.

Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it reached 4:30.

"beat!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

"Ka! Da! Da..."

With a command, gunfire sounds outside the north gate of Sanqiao County County suddenly broke out, instantly breaking the tranquility of the county town.

The county guerrilla brigade was a small number of people, and the rifle sounds were not dense. Instead, the only light machine gun sound was particularly prominent.

Interestingly, because the enemy blocked the north gate, they only sent a small number of troops to be on guard. After hearing the gunshots, they immediately seemed a little panicked. Then, a few guys shouted in Chinese, "The assault regiment is here to attack us, fight back quickly." Then the people on the city wall then panicked. It turned out that the guards on this section of the city wall were all the two Japanese.

However, because of the darkness, the number of people on both sides is small, and there is a sign of tacit understanding when fighting, but it seems that the two sides are fighting very resolutely and lively: If you don’t attack the city, I won’t get off the city. Everyone shoots against each other and deals with it. It’s considered that it’s over. Of course, the second Japanese reported to the Japanese immediately and asked for additional personnel. This will definitely exaggerate the number of attackers from the North Gate.

And there was still a lot of disputes in the assault regiment when the choice between "shocking the snake" and "raid".

The disadvantage of alarming the enemy is naturally that it alarms the enemy and cannot achieve the purpose of a sudden attack.

The advantage is that the Japanese are able to use their sufficient troops as the premise to divert the main force of the Japanese, so that the main force of the assault regiment can attack smoothly.

The advantage of a surprise attack is that it can catch the enemy off guard and achieve the purpose of attacking the county town.

The disadvantage is that although a section of the city wall can be successfully destroyed and thus successfully attacked the county town, according to the fierce fighting style of the Japanese, it will definitely not collapse like the Japanese, without fighting spirit when the city wall is broken. In other words, the main force of the assault regiment will inevitably form street fighting - among all conventional offensive and defensive battles, street fighting is the cruelest and the largest casualty rate.

Finally, Zhang Qingshan made the decision and chose the former because he gave a very firm reason: Can the assault company get into the city? Yes! can blow up a section of the city wall, which also achieves the purpose of attacking the county town... In the end, the assault company naturally chose to be able! Although the assault company has not been mixed up in the city, because of the existence of secret passages, it is more suitable to blow up a section of the city wall. Therefore, the battlefield changes rapidly, no matter how perfect the plan is, it cannot keep up with the change, and no matter how powerful the commander is, it cannot compare to luck. This is why many commanders say: if you win a battle, one-quarter of your strength, one-quarter of your deployment, and one-half of your luck.

Sure enough!

As soon as the gunshots sounded, there was a noise of Japanese and Chinese in the county.

Soon, the originally sparse firelight on the city wall was added several times, making the city wall particularly bright. Zhang Qingshan and others could even distinguish the Japanese on the opposite city wall with their naked eyes. If they had better eyesight, they could see the gun barrels protruding outward from the wall.

Clear four forty!

Just when the defense personnel on the other three walls were glad that the assault regiment did not attack it, and when they were a little relaxed, with Liu Bing's order, the first battalion launched a firepower attack on the west gate of the county town.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Three shells exploded on the wall of the Xicheng Gate... In order to confuse the enemy, not only did they have to create a loud momentum, but also increased the attack strength of the first battalion. Therefore, Zhang Qingshan specially allocated three small steel cannons to the first battalion. In everyone's perception at that time, many people believed that in offensive and defensive wars like this, the landing of the shells was the main attack place of the attackers (although I was also very surprised why people at that time thought so, but many information showed that it was indeed the case. Thinking carefully, it was probably because the shells were precious at that time, and not the real main attack, who would be willing to waste the shells on feint attack? The second reason is that because the shells were precious, the warlords would not easily use shells when they were fighting... This long-term past has created this perception for everyone. After all, when the shells were fired, they were 10,000 taels of gold, which is definitely a true portrayal of the weak national strength at that time.)

Therefore, when the three shells exploded on the city wall, the two Japanese on the city wall immediately became panicked. Some people were at least thirty meters away from the shells, but they were more active than those near them. Some people were obviously not injured by the bomb, but they insisted on pretending to be about to be finished immediately, rolling around and wailing. Not only did they watch people anxious, but they also affected others' resistance. Some squad leaders, basic officers such as platoon leaders, faced two choices with great depression: either be shot to death by their subordinates or take their subordinates to drive together. Especially when the second wave and the third wave of shells fell and exploded, this overview became particularly prominent.

The entire Xicheng section was almost everywhere, wailing and screaming, and figures were running around in a panic... It was like the arrival of the doomsday, which fully reflected the instincts of human timidity, fear, and avoidance. There was a sign that there was no need to attack one battalion again, just climbing up the city wall to capture prisoners, which was a sign of breaking the city.

However, at this critical moment, the quality, ability and experience of the Japanese devils were shown: a team of about 30 Japanese devils climbed the city wall, regardless of the bombing of shells, kept roaring, smashing butt stocks, and hitting and kicking, and dealing with the Japanese devils fiercely, forming a sharp contrast with the Japanese devils' fear of death.

However, I don’t know if it was because the translator on the side shouted, “We have the support of the city wall, and as long as we hide behind the city wall, we can kill them. What are we afraid of?” or the second Japanese fear of the Japanese from the bottom of their hearts. This fear seemed to have been invaded to the core. Under the support of the Japanese, the second Japanese did not dare to play tricks, so they had to hide behind the wall with guns, begging God to bless themselves to live safely.

For a moment, it gradually stabilized. Even though the shells were still blowing up, even if they were so scared that they were deadly, no one dared to escape. It can be seen that these two Japanese devils are so unscrupulous and fear them in their hearts... Of course, this is also related to the large number of Japanese devils who came up later.

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

"Ka! Da! Da..."

After all, it is not the real main attacker. Even if he is assigned three small steel cannons, there are not many shells. He must save some money. After waiting, he has to continue to put bombs on the Japanese head. So, after only a few waves of the small steel cannons, he had to stop temporarily and shoot at the city wall with rifles and light machine guns.

I don’t know if it was because there were too many Japanese around me, because the shells stopped, or because they felt safe hiding behind the walls. Anyway, as soon as the shells of the small steel cannon stopped, amid the roar of the Japanese, and under the sharp gaze of the Japanese beside me, and when the translator cheered everyone loudly, the two Japanese had to extend their guns and fight back outside the city.

After fighting for a while, maybe seeing that the other party did not attack the city directly, they just shot at each other. The two Japanese soldiers actually became more and more stable in their fights, and they felt more and more safe... This was mainly because it was too dark and everyone could not see each other, so they had to shoot at the flames or where the flames flashed. As for whether they could hit the other party, only God knew.

Listening to the gunshots, Zhang Qingshan held his pocket watch with his right hand, and silently calculated the enemy's firepower: an excellent veteran can judge the approximate number of people on the other side by the intensity of firepower.

"Captain, the time is almost over, and we can start."

Zhang Qingshan opened his pocket watch, looked at him, nodded to Zhao Shanhe who was looking at him with a burning gaze, and said, "Start the general attack!"

"yes!"

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Chapter completed!