As soon as Commander Chen heard that Zhou Wu asked the fat man's first division to capture Ping'an Town, he immediately nodded and said: "Okay, with Division Commander Liu's first division attacking Ping'an Town, then I think it's appropriate, Li Mi's corps wants to run out of Ping'an Town guarded by Division Commander Liu, then it will be difficult."
Since the 12th Corps was surrounded by East China and the Central Plains regiment near Shuangduiji, Li Mi hurriedly sent such a reinforced regiment to Ping'an Town, this reinforced regiment has three infantry battalions, an artillery battalion, a baggage battalion, plus a company directly under the regiment headquarters, a reconnaissance company, a health company, etc., the number is as many as four or five thousand, almost as much as a brigade in the usual establishment.
When he came to Ping'an Town, Li Mi specially found the little fellow and instructed him: "Ping'an Town is the last retreat of our corps, and our net worth and life will all fall on you, be sure to defend it for me, don't be careless, let the sneak attack succeed."
Regiment Commander Li hurriedly assured: "Commander, rest assured, we will definitely hold there, and we will never disgrace you and the corps."
After arriving at Ping'an Town, Regiment Commander Li hurriedly led his soldiers to deepen the original fortifications and trenches there, forcibly conscripted the local people to do hard labor for them, and in less than three days, they rushed to repair an airport that could take off and land transport planes, and built bunkers and fortifications around the town, covered with barbed wire and obstacles, and mines were naturally indispensable, densely covered all around Ping'an Town.
Gather all the ordinary people in those peaceful towns, force the people to stay in the trenches and bunkers, in order to make the attacking PLA team afraid that there are ordinary people here, and do not dare to launch a large-scale devastating strike, naturally they can't use artillery, there are villagers there, a cannonball will be smashed down, how many innocent villagers will have to die When the fat man rushed to the outskirts of Ping'an Town with the team of the First Division, it was dark at night, and the scout brothers who sent out reported to him: "Division commander, the enemy in front is heavily guarded, there are minefields and barbed wire fences everywhere, the trenches are criss-crossed, the firing points are stacked on top of each other, there are almost no dead ends, and the most fatal thing is that the enemy has forced the local people into their trenches, so it is difficult for us to let go and attack the enemy's position."
As soon as the fat man heard this, his brows furrowed, and he opened his mouth to scold the enemy for being shameless: "Damn the wretched, don't kidnap the common people if you have the ability, what kind of ability is this to threaten the common people to the front line, vainly want to resist our attack, what do you dream of Qingqiu" After scolding, the fat man felt that he couldn't scold Ping'an Town just by scolding people, so he discussed with several regiment commanders under him: "Brothers, tell me, the enemy has forced all the fellow villagers to the forward position, how should we fight to avoid unnecessary casualties of those fellow villagers" The fat man held a Zhuge Liang meeting.
The fat man finally thought for a while, and said to the regimental commanders under him: "I think so, according to the situation reported by the scout brothers, the enemy's defense in the town is extremely tight, light and dark pillboxes are all over, barbed wire and mine arrays are also very nerve-wracking, once suppressed by the enemy's fire in front of the position, the casualties of the attacking troops must be very large, look at the enemy's defense situation in front of you, to take this Ping'an Town, We have to pay the price of two or three regiments, then in this way, we will not have a team to guard Ping'an Town, once Li Mi's regiment escapes from here, then we will not be able to resist the enemy's breakthrough and block this place, then the face of our first division will be lost. ” Speaking of this, the fat man paused for a moment and continued: "I think it is better to use the old method to lure the enemy out of those pillboxes, so as to avoid accidentally injuring those fellow villagers in the trenches, and the enemy has built an airfield near the Hun River to the north of the position, and occupy it first, cutting off the air retreat of the Limi Corps, if you can capture the enemy's planes, it will be better, and it can come in handy directly."
After occupying the airfield, lure the enemy's troops and the main force to attack the enemy at the same time, first rescue those villagers who were forced to stay in the trenches, and then wipe out all those enemies outside the trenches.
As soon as the fat man saw that the regimental commanders under his plan had no opinions, he immediately ordered: "The first regiment will follow me to capture the enemy's airfield, the second regiment is responsible for luring the frontal enemy, it is better to pretend to be decent, quickly change out of your military uniforms, dress up as a local guerrilla, and lure the enemy out, while the third regiment is lurking on the periphery of the position, and when the enemy is lured out by the brothers of the second regiment, immediately send a signal, and the fourth regiment and the artillery battalion will immediately divide and surround and attack the enemy together with the second and third regiments, and strive to capture Ping'an Town within one day."
The underground regiment commanders have been ordered to go, this time in order to be able to occupy Ping'an Town as soon as possible, the fat man invited Zhang Ercheng of the artillery regiment, let him command his own artillery battalion, Zhang Ercheng is an expert in artillery, with him out of the battle, naturally handy, the fat man set off with a regiment to attack the enemy's airstrip this time, and brought Zhang Ercheng and half of the artillery battalion brothers, Zhang Ercheng dismantled the 75 mountain guns, and those mortars were carried by the brothers, Together with the infantry brothers, they hurried in the direction of the airfield.
The enemy's airport is more heavily guarded, not only there are barbed wire and mine arrays, but also a few pairs of patrols with big wolf dogs are constantly dangling, the fat man sent out a few teams of scout brothers to go to reconnoitre, and he and Zhang Ercheng discussed on the latent position: "Zhang Ercheng, it seems that we have encountered a hard stubble this time, Ping'an Town is not easy to fight, the enemy's defense is very tight, and it is almost impossible to find flaws, it seems that the other party is also a veteran, and it is by no means a cowardly treasure that we have encountered before." ” Zhang Ercheng nodded: "Yes, the enemy also knows that it is important here, otherwise how would they send so many teams to garrison such a small town and the enemy also vilely kidnap the local villagers, let us throw a mouse trap, dare not let go of the attack, if there are no villagers in the trenches, it is not me to brag, my artillery preparation can blow up the light and dark bunkers in the enemy's forward positions, but now I can't have the courage to fire, for fear of accidentally injuring those innocent people."
Zhang Ercheng also gritted his teeth, despising those enemies who kidnapped the people as a shield, which was too bad to beat "Zhang Ercheng, I still have one last trick, if the second regiment can't lure the enemy, then we can only honestly dig a pit, while advancing to the front, while digging the fortification tunnel, advancing layer by layer, and fighting hand-to-hand combat with the enemy" The fat man said helplessly to Zhang Ercheng.
At this time, the scout brothers returned one after another, and the fat man hurriedly asked them: "How is the situation ahead?"
"The situation is not very good, the front is full of mine obstacles, if you don't rule out these things, our team can't pass at all, there are still a few patrols in the barbed wire, there are a few large planes parked in the airport, in addition to those ring fortifications on the periphery, the enemy has a lot of sandbag fortifications around the airport, there are a lot of light and heavy machine guns, the fire is fierce, it is not easy to attack."
The scout brothers also scratched their heads, which showed that the situation at the airfield was not optimistic, and it would have to pay a great price to capture it.
"I know it's not easy to attack, if it's easy to fight, how can the army commander let us have a division to fight, what kind of troops is our first division, it is the main force, no matter how hard the bones are, we have to gnaw down, in front of the airport, did those miscellaneous people bring those fellow villagers over" The fat man is not worried, what he is worried about is the people who were kidnapped and coerced by the Kuomintang army, if there are also a large number of people here who are coerced and kidnapped, it is really not easy to attack, at least when the fight starts, they are tied and can't let go.
"I didn't find any fellow villagers."
Brother Scout replied.
"Okay, if you don't have fellow villagers staying there, it will be much easier, Zhang Ercheng, this time we have to rely on your artillery to open the way for us, first blast off those barbed wire and mines for me, we will step on the landing point of your shells and rush up, tear a hole in the frontal position outside the airport, rush in and grab those big planes" When the fat man heard that he didn't find those fellows who were coerced by the Kuomintang soldiers, he immediately became energetic and hurriedly said to Zhang Ercheng.
Zhang Ercheng nodded: "It's best if there are no fellows at the airport, so that our artillery can let go of their hands and feet, Lao Liu, don't worry about it this time, we have brought a lot of shells, and we are guaranteed to be able to meet your requirements, let's say, when will the fight start" Zhang Ercheng couldn't bear it anymore and hurriedly urged.
"The 2nd Regiment immediately prepared to attack, and fifteen minutes later the artillery fire began to bombard, and the infantry immediately charged the enemy's position," the fat man ordered, and the commander of the 2nd Regiment immediately received the order to prepare to charge Zhang Ercheng immediately issued an order to his brothers to prepare for the shelling, the artillery brothers were busy for a while, and quickly assembled the 75 mountain guns that were disassembled, and this time brought four or five 75 mountain guns, these mountain guns were captured from the Kuomintang army that year, and more than ten 60 mm mortars, most of which were also snatched from the Kuomintang army, Zhang Ercheng's brothers worked very neatly, and in less than a few minutes, they had completed the assembly of the mountain artillery, dug the gun position, and calibrated the shooting Zhu Yuan, Waiting for Zhang Ercheng to give the order to fire.
Zhang Ercheng hurriedly asked the fat man: "Lao Liu, are we ready there, can we fire?"
The fat man looked at his watch, and in less than ten minutes, Zhang Ercheng and the others had already made all the preparations, so he hurriedly nodded and said, "You guys are really fast, wait five minutes, the brothers of the second group are still preparing." ” t1706231537: