Zhou Wu listened to the fat man's request, thought about it, felt that it made sense, and hurriedly ordered Zhang Ercheng: "Zhang Ercheng, you take half of the artillery of your artillery company and follow the fat man and them to set off to Shenjiabang, bring enough shells, and you will be the deputy captain of this advance detachment, and the fat man will lure the enemy in, and be able to lead to Binhu Town, which is close to Hongze Lake, since Zhang Ercheng's artillery has joined, I think it is enough for you to use a company of troops, there are many people, it is not easy to maneuver, Collect all the twenty-round box guns and serial weapons of our second regiment and distribute them to your advance team, and remember to pack lightly, except for weapons, ammunition, and necessary dry food and water, and take nothing with you, go and prepare at once, and set off immediately in an hour. ” The fat man hurriedly prepared with Zhang Ercheng, and Zhou Wu immediately ordered the rest of the team: "The second and third battalions, the brothers of the special service battalion immediately enter a state of combat readiness, and set off at any time at any time to obey the order, check the situation of weapons and ammunition, send scouts to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and report it immediately as soon as there is news." ” In view of the sudden arrival of the enemy, they were all busy with their own affairs, and the political commissar Niu and the young director Xia followed Zhou Wu and they were busy in the regiment headquarters, taking advantage of this opportunity to prepare for war before departure, to cheer up the soldiers, publicize the party's anti-Japanese purpose, encourage the brothers to fight against drugs, and do their part for the country and the people.
Just when Zhou Wu was busy in the regimental headquarters behind, the fat man and Zhang Ercheng had already picked out a company of brothers, received the twenty-round box guns and repeating weapons collected by Zhou Wu from the second regiment, prepared enough ammunition and dry food, and set off to Shen Jiabang with more than a dozen 60 mortars.
The fat man and Zhang Ercheng ran all the way with a company and artillery brothers, and after seven or eight hours of continuous rapid marching, everyone was about to collapse, and they were less than two or three miles away from the destination Shen Jiabang; The fat man and the others ran into the scout brothers who had gone to reconnoiter the enemy situation and came back to report.
The fat man hurriedly asked the panting scouts: "What's the situation ahead, what are the movements of those Wang puppet troops?"
"Battalion Commander Liu, a regiment of Wang's puppet army has arrived in Shenjiabang in front, where there was originally a company of the puppet army, and there are strong bunker fortifications, these enemies seem to have received a death order from their boss, and are strengthening the vigilance around them, and sending scouts to reconnoiter the surrounding area, it is estimated that they can meet their outpost scouts some distance ahead."
The enemy situation reported by the brother who went to reconnoiter the enemy's situation made the fat man feel that the situation was very serious, and the troops could not continue to move forward, otherwise they would be discovered by the enemy's scouts, and they would not achieve the hidden purpose of suddenly attacking the Shenjiabang area, but would startle the snake and increase the difficulty of capturing Shenjiabang.
The fat man immediately ordered the team to stop advancing, let one of the scout brothers go back, and quickly report the enemy situation here to Zhou Wu, leaving two scouts who are familiar with the situation of Shen Jiabang to help, and when the time comes to capture there, it will be of great benefit to the fat man to have these two brothers who are familiar with the terrain and enemy situation left.
The fat man said to Zhang Ercheng: "Zhang Ercheng, there are a lot of enemies in front, there is enough strength of a regiment and a company, and these guys also have strong fortifications as barriers, if we have more than a hundred brothers, we will definitely not be able to attack it, and we will have to kill and wound many brothers, we will total, how can we capture that Shen Jiabang and complete the task assigned to us by the brigade" The fat man saw that this task was quite tricky, and hurriedly found Zhang Ercheng to sum it up, and listened to his thoughts.
Zhang Ercheng said: "Fatty, this strong attack is definitely not possible, not only have many casualties, but also may not be able to capture there, the enemy fortifications are built around the bunkers, especially the four big bunkers built on the four corners of the fortifications, I think there are several stories high, according to the scout brothers, it is equipped with heavy machine guns and a platoon of the enemy, in addition to the bunkers around the enemy dug a moat, from the moat to the bunker between a section of about 100 meters of open area, the enemy here laid a large number of mines and obstacles, The searchlights are constantly shining there, and it is very difficult to pass through quickly, and many of our brothers will be killed and injured in this open area alone, not to mention the storming of the bunkers, which echo each other and are each other's horns, once one of the bunkers is attacked by us, the others will definitely support, so that we will be in the predicament of the enemy, and we will all have to stay here. ” When the fat man heard that Zhang Ercheng didn't come up with a solution, he was annoyed just by talking about the difficulties and unfavorable situations: "I know this situation, you and I hurry up and think of a way, is it possible that we will go home tonight."
Zhang Ercheng replied: "Of course not, I mean you can't storm it, only by luring the enemies inside the bunker out, we can solve these enemies outside, and with the weapons in the hands of our brothers, plus the dozen mortars I brought, it is completely able to eliminate these enemies, as long as most of the enemy is eliminated, it is not easy to capture those unguarded bunkers, and it is a trivial matter to be captured" Zhang Ercheng thought of a clever plan to lure the snake out of the hole, and first lure out the enemy hiding inside, even if you can't attract most of the enemies, even if you bring out some, it's easy to do.
When the fat man heard this, he didn't think how clever this strategy was, he asked Zhang Ercheng rhetorically: "I also know this, of course, it is much easier to lure the enemy out to fight, but those Wang puppet soldiers are not your relatives, they will obediently listen to your orders, and stupidly walk out of the heavily defended bunkers and fortifications."
Zhang Ercheng said with a smile: "Of course the enemy will not take the initiative to come out, then it depends on our level of luring the enemy."
Fatty, I knew this earlier, we should have brought dozens of captured devil uniforms from Lao Xu before we set off, and it was just right to come in handy at this time, pretending to be a small team of little devils, blending into the enemy's bunker, and killing the enemy leaders in the bunker with three strikes and five divisions, and it would be much easier to do the rest of those little minions, saving time and effort. ” "You didn't bring anything out, that's not nonsense, hey, Zhang Ercheng, I think this will work, let's go up and attack them later, and then shout, scold them for a while, these dogs and traitors for a while, also out of resentment, over the mouth, if you can provoke some Wang puppet army to come out, it would be good to lead them to a remote area to solve the problem, in letting the brothers put on the dog skin of Wang puppet army, pretending to mix in, isn't it similar to your idea" The fat man's brain is quite bright, as soon as he heard Zhang Ercheng's thoughts, Immediately in my head, there was another plan to mix into.
Zhang Ercheng nodded: "This method is good, I'm afraid the enemy inside is not so easy to be fooled, look at this posture, it must be their boss who gave them a death order, asking them to stick here, so it is estimated that you can't be deceived by scolding them a few words, I think only use my artillery to bombard the nearest pillbox here, the movement is big, the enemy thinks that we are attacking here, and the enemies in several other places will definitely come out to rescue, we can make a fuss about these enemies who come to the rescue, As for how to get the dog skins on those enemies, I think you're better at it than me, fat man.
Zhang Ercheng said a practical plan to deceive the enemy out of the hole, and finally did not forget to flatter the fat man, and the fat man shook his fat head and said: "Okay, Zhang Ercheng, you have a good idea, so it's decided." ” Immediately the fat man ordered his men and horses to divide into two groups, respectively ambushed between the enemy's various pillboxes, once Zhang Ercheng and they opened fire, if the enemies in the bunker dared to come out to rescue, they would be beaten hard, and then the fat man and they pretended to be few and invincible, deliberately retreated backwards, luring the enemy from the fortifications and pillboxes to the remote area and then destroy them.
Zhang Ercheng personally took a few artillery to the front to reconnoitre, although it was at night, it was dark, but the enemy's bunker on the high-power searchlights kept dangling, illuminating the open area in front of a bright spot, Zhang Ercheng carefully looked at the position of the bunker close to his side, and his artillery brothers calculated the distance together, and had a bottom in his heart, hurriedly returned from the original way, planning to order the artillery brothers to load and fire, and beat the traitors of the national army, so that they could taste the power of the artillery fire of the New Fourth Army.
In the past, the Jiangbei detachment did not have so many mortars, and it would be very precious to capture a few grenadiers of little devils on the battlefield, but due to the lack of shells and necessary professional personnel, these captured small cannons would not be of great use.
Today Zhang Ercheng and they are different, they are professional artillerymen, as long as there are shells, they can point where to fight, and never waste ammunition for you, and Zhang Ercheng They will also use their brains, according to the actual terrain and situation, unconventional mortar shells, once in Shanghai, Jiangyin, Nanjing and other places bombarded the little devils to suffer, this time to Shen Jiabang, Zhou Wu is to let Zhang Ercheng and them to play the prestige of artillery, kill these devils as traitors Wang puppet army arrogance, They also know that the New Fourth Army, which was so poor that they couldn't even hold a small steel cannon, also had platoon artillery.
Zhang Ercheng and his artillery brothers had just set up mortars on the position, were calculating the distance and direction, and were about to reload and shoot, when suddenly a soldier in charge of the guard next to him shouted outside: "What are you doing, stop the order" A group of black shadows on the opposite side did not answer this brother's order, but rushed towards Zhang Ercheng and them silently, Zhang Ercheng saw that the situation was wrong, and loudly ordered the artillerymen who were busy preparing to open fire: "Brothers, the enemy has touched it, prepare to fight" At this time, the black shadows on the opposite side opened fire, and the two brothers in charge of the guard were shot on the spot and fell to the ground, the poignant gunfire became louder and more piercing in the night, Zhang Ercheng's heart suddenly trembled, he could hear that this gunshot was the little devil's Wang Ba box, could it be that there was a little devil's army here, if this is the case, then we will have to spend our lives tonight to take down this Shen Jiabang. t1706231537: