Zhou Wu was determined, but he couldn't be in a hurry to go to this swamp, and he really wanted to fall into it, so he first sent a pathfinder team composed of the brothers of the original Gaoyou Lake who were familiar with the swampy terrain to explore the way, and the large army behind slowly followed.
As soon as he walked into the swamp, Zhou Wu looked at the reeds drifting in the wind next to him, and a large area of the vast sea of clouds, and suddenly felt that he and his brothers were like a flat boat in the sea that encountered a storm, and the luck and evil were undecided, even if they ventured out of this white swamp and rushed to the city of Taizhou, it was still unknown whether they could mobilize the little devils who surrounded and pursued Ding Ning to retreat.
The brothers who explored the road in front cautiously marched hard in the swamp full of dangers and traps, Zhou Wu led the large force of the independent brigade to follow the footsteps of the brothers in front of the pathfinder slowly, although this swamp looked so gloomy, but under the guidance of the brothers who explored the path in front, Zhou Wu and they finally passed through this swamp without danger after an hour.
After the brothers passed through this place, they wanted to lie down on the hard ground to catch their breath, but Zhou Wu thought that there was still a long way to go ahead, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the brothers to get up immediately and set off for Taizhou City immediately.
After a period of hurrying, Zhou Wu and they finally rushed to the outside of Taizhou City before dark in the evening, and met with Huang Shuisheng who had arrived here in advance, Huang Shuisheng saw Zhou Wu and them coming, and hurriedly stepped forward and said to Zhou Wu: "Brigade, the little devils and puppet soldiers in Taizhou City are all shrinking turtles, no matter how we toss and make noise outside the city, they just don't care, so anxious that we can't think about it." ” Zhou Wu looked at the situation under the city of Taizhou, and found that the local armed forces of the New Fourth Army who harassed the little devils outside the city with Huang Shuisheng and them were also helpless against the little devils who relied on the strong city defense.
Zhou Wu asked Huang Shuisheng: "Shuisheng, you see that this little devil doesn't come out, what is the reason?"
"Brigade seat, it's not clear that the little devils are relying on the strong city defense, bullying us for not having the right heavy weapons to attack the city, they just saw that we couldn't help the strong walls of Taizhou City, so they insisted on closing the door, waiting for the main force of those devils outside to eliminate the independent brigade brothers in the encirclement, and then turn around and eat our anti-Japanese forces besieging Taizhou City in a counter-encirclement."
Since Huang Shuisheng followed Zhou Wu again in Gaoyou Lake, he has learned a lot from the experience of fighting and arranging formations, and he immediately analyzed the wishful thinking of the little devil.
Zhou Wu nodded: "Yes, since the last Gaoyou Lake water battle, our independent brigade has lost all the heavy weapons, and now it is almost impossible to find decent siege heavy weapons, and when the New Fourth Army arrives later, I will talk to Chen Guofu and them again, it seems that this Taizhou city cannot be stormed yet, and it has to be outwitted." ” Shui Sheng nodded, agreeing with Zhou Wu's thoughts, and suddenly he suggested to Zhou Wu: "Brigade, when it comes to outwitting, I have thought of a way, I don't know if it's feasible."
"You think of a way, hurry up and talk about it" Zhou Wu looked a little impatient.
"If you want to enter this Taizhou city, it is far from enough to rely on our independent brigade and the New Fourth Army behind, we have no siege heavy weapons, the New Fourth Army is poorer than us, and there are no decent siege heavy weapons, I see that a capable team will be sent, pick some brothers who will climb the wall, fly the eaves and walk the wall, and let them bring grenades and explosives bags, our large army concentrated firepower to attack a gate of Taizhou City, anyway, it is a feint, and ask people to get some firecrackers and foreign oil drums in the village next to it, and fire a few real guns first, Then the firecrackers were lit and put into the foreign oil barrels, the little devils don't know whether this is true or false, as long as the attention of the city guards and the puppet army is attracted to the side of the city gate, then let these brothers who can fly the eaves and walk the wall take the opportunity to climb the city wall in the dark, enter the city of Taizhou, place explosives at the city gate, and blow up the city gate, then we can rush into the city in one fell swoop, and then we can't help but call for help from their leaders. ” Huang Shuisheng said his plan, and when he heard Zhou Wu nodding again and again, he immediately ordered his next company commander to take a platoon of brothers to buy firecrackers in the surrounding villages.
Huang Shuisheng immediately selected more than 20 brothers who were good at climbing the wall among the brothers of the Independent Brigade, and formed a death squad, each with a long rope, and if there was no rope, he would find some green vines in the local area, which was now a rope for climbing the wall, and each brother brought an explosive bag, grenades were naturally indispensable, and they could bring as many as they could, in order to facilitate the movement of the death squad brothers and wait for the fire support after entering the city, Zhou Wu specially equipped each of the twenty brothers with a "flower machine gun", plus a 20-shot box gun, bring enough bullets, and tell these death squad brothers that once they successfully enter the city, immediately detonate the explosives to open the city gate, put down the drawbridge, and don't fight with the devils and puppet soldiers who rushed to stop the attack, opening the city gate is the key to this operation.
Zhou Wu and they were hurriedly arranging the preparation room, Chen Guofu led the New Fourth Army forward troops rushed to Taizhou City, and after meeting with Zhou Wu, Chen Guofu took a closer look at the city defense of this Taizhou City, and also felt that it was not easy to fight, especially those city gates have high suspension bridges, under the bridge is a moat twenty or thirty meters wide, if it is a strong attack, it has not rushed to the city gate, the siege troops have to lose a lot of men and horses, and there is no suitable siege heavy weapons at hand, not even a decent small mortar, can not attack hard, can only find a way to outwit.
Chen Guofu's idea and Zhou Wu thought of it together, Zhou Wu told Chen Guofu about Huang Shuisheng's plan just now, Chen Guofu agreed very much, and said to Zhou Wu: "Haha, Brigade Commander Zhou, it seems that your independent brigade's guerrilla warfare in the past few months has not been learned in vain, don't you see that you have to use this method to deal with little devils, our family foundation is too thin, we can't fight a war of attrition with them, our Chairman Mao has a very classic sixteen-character guerrilla trick, every time I use it, it really has been tried and tested, and it is handy." ” When Zhou Wu heard this, he became interested, and hurriedly asked Chen Guofu: "Chen Guofu, you quickly tell me what this sixteen-character guerrilla warfare secret is, and it is also said by your chairman, come and listen to it, so that we can also be taught." ” Zhou Wu looked anxious, and Chen Guofu wanted to laugh, but he couldn't laugh after all, and the bad people also sincerely asked for advice, we can't fool others and chill the hearts of the anti-Japanese brothers.
"Brigade Commander Zhou, in fact, this sixteen-character formula is very simple, that is: "When the enemy advances, I retreat, I chase, when the enemy retreats, when the enemy is stationed, I disturb, and when the enemy is tired, I fight."
"Although there are only sixteen words, we must grasp the appropriate timing in order to fight every guerrilla war and play with the little devils and the puppet army in the palm of our hands.
Just like this feint attack on Taizhou City, your independent brigade has done a very good job, for this kind of fortified city with tall walls, a hard attack will definitely not work, you must find a way to enter the city with a small number of people, and then attack the city gate with a combination of inside and outside, so as to achieve victory with the minimum casualties.
Chen Guofu said to Zhou Wu.
Zhou Wu nodded while listening, and said: "Chen Guofu, I think it is better to concentrate the firepower of your New Fourth Army, first cover the brothers who climb the city wall, and wait until they successfully climb into the city wall and blow up the city gate, and then we will attack Taizhou City in one go, what do you think?"
Chen Guofu agreed with Zhou Wu's suggestion, and immediately ordered all the brothers of the New Fourth Army to follow Zhou Wu and their independent brigade to the east gate of Taizhou City, where the moat is relatively narrow, and there is a small hill bag east of the east gate that can be used as a buffer area before the brothers' attack, unlike the other city gates, which are all bare outside, and there is no cover at all, so it is not easy to assemble a team to attack.
Under the leadership of a company commander surnamed Liu under Zhou Wu, the death squad of the death squad quietly rushed to the west gate of Taizhou City under the city wall, and swam across the thirty-meter-wide moat.
So he moved the searchlight somewhere else.
Although it was only lying on the ground for a few minutes, it was the time when the spring was cold, the breath of spring had a little, and the earth had slowly recovered from the harsh winter, but the cold was still there, just a few minutes, just a few minutes, the brothers who were lying on the ground, and their bodies were still wet and dripping with water droplets when they just crossed the river, and a brother from Shandong shivered and scolded in a low voice: "Damn little devil, wait until I go up to the city wall, and don't blow up your city gate."
I won't go back."
Company Commander Liu heard that this Shandong brother was scolding the devil, and hurriedly booed him to shut up and silence him, the little devil is on the city wall, you are scolding and scolding like this, not only will you not be able to scold the little devil above, if you expose it, you will have to suffer.
Suddenly, there was a dense sound of gunfire in the east of Taizhou City, good guys, the guns were dense and loud, one after another, endless, especially the sound of light and heavy machine gun fire, which could catch up with the scale of a force of tens of thousands of people, Company Commander Liu knew that it was the brigade seat that they launched a feint attack on Taizhou City, and those dense and fierce gunfire sounds were estimated to be caused by the firecrackers bought by the brothers from the village and put into the foreign oil barrels, of course, there were also real guns made by the sound, this time, Can it scare those little devils and puppet soldiers who are cowering in Taizhou City, we just need to wait here, and when the little devils above rush to the east, we can throw the rope and climb the wall. t1706231537: