Guo Shucheng said firmly: "We can only do this now, we must hold on." "Actually, it's not a pure adventure for us to do this, at least two favorable conditions help us succeed." ”

He raised his index finger and said, "First, the enemy doesn't know how many troops we have, they will only look down on us, and they will never think that we can pull up so many men in their heartland. If we show weakness appropriately, they will be easily deceived, they will easily underestimate the enemy, and they will think that we only have so much strength, which will help us to take them by surprise. ”

Then, he added: "Second, we now have sufficient weapons and equipment, and we have a large number of shells and explosives here to arrange them. Enough for us to bury them on a treacherous road to make it more difficult for them to attack. ”

After listening to Guo Shucheng's words, Zhuang Zongquan nodded and said, "Then do it." If you do this, I won't have to dig trenches and bunkers everywhere, just dig on both sides of the few roads that have been set aside. ”

Guo Shucheng earnestly instructed: "Our arrangement is to be light at the bottom and heavy at the top, just arrange a few machine guns below and lay some mines." Send a small number of troops to defend there, and as soon as the enemy arrives, they will shoot and fire, and when the enemy has rushed past the distance we set, they can evacuate immediately, even if they throw away the machine guns for safety and convenience. ”

Zhuang Zongquan opened his mouth wide and asked, "Throw away the machine gun?" How is it possible, our weapons just can't be so wasted at best. ”

Guo Zhuocheng said disapprerovingly: "It doesn't matter, we have seized a lot of them this time, it doesn't matter how many you throw away." Again. If it wins. We can take it back. If it fails, all the qiē here are theirs, and even our lives are gone, so do you care about sending out a few machine guns in advance? You know, we'd better not die now, try to put on a confident appearance in front of the fighters, as long as we show full confidence and let the fighters know that we threw away the machine guns on their own initiative, everyone's morale will not be low. can also make Gui Jun even more fooled. ”

Although Zhuang Zongquan is still a little reluctant, you must know that the Red Army is poor, there has always been a shortage of guns and ammunition, guns and ammunition have to be taken from the enemy, and sometimes one or even several soldiers' lives have to be paid for a gun. The slogan they shouted was "People are in the guns, guns are lost", how can Guo Zhuocheng be such a loser, even the machine gun can be thrown away? Even the Gui Army and even the Kuomintang-Party Central Committee and the Army could not take the initiative to throw away the machine gun to lure the enemy, because the machine gun is the treasure of the army, the treasure of the treasure.

The two then carefully discussed how to implement these plans. A few minutes later, the two went their separate ways.

Guo Zhuocheng did not participate in the project of camouflaging artillery positions again. Instead, they called a few people who were transporting the baggage, and everyone began to process the branches and trunks left over from the fake cannon with axes or saws. That is, the wood with a large bowl mouth or more than the bowl mouth is cut into about two meters, and then a few pits or gaps are opened in the middle, and a few grenades or a package of explosives are stuffed into it.

Guo Zhuocheng gave them a definition: rolling thunder.

In order to facilitate these "rolling thunders" to roll down the ground, Guo Zhuocheng also instructed the people to cut down a lot of Nanzhu bamboo, and after cutting it, install simple slides in those slightly steep places, just like the slides that children like to play in later generations. These pieces of wood with grenades or explosive packs or shells tied to them are lifted on top of the chutes, and they can be driven down the chutes for tens of meters without much effort on the part of the dropper, as long as they are carried and released on the chutes.

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The Gui army did not let Guo Zhuocheng and them have much time to prepare, and three hours later, five planes began to fly to the top of the mountain where they were, at first it was only a reconnaissance back and forth, and did not immediately drop bombs, and after flying back and forth on the top of the mountain a few times, they left, probably either to refuel or to hang bombs.

As the plane flew around, Guo Zhuocheng commanded a heavy machine gun near the fake position to fire at the plane. I don't know if it was because the heavy machine gunner had little experience in using a flat-firing machine gun for the first time to shoot planes from the back, or because the altitude of the plane was too high, anyway, he fought for a long time, fired a box of bullets, and did not hit the next plane, and the trajectory indicated by the tracer bullet was still far from the plane, which made the pilots of the five planes almost laugh off their big teeth and shake their wings to express their disdain.

As soon as the plane left, the 44th Division led by Wang Zanbin had already urgently withdrawn from the front line of the attack on the ferry and came to the vicinity of Matouling. Wang Zanbin stood on the mountainside of Gulingtou and observed the situation in Matouling with a telescope, and around him and his staff officers were the corpses of Gui Jun, the soil under their feet stained dark red with blood, and filled with an unpleasant fishy smell.

The deputy division commander said sarcastically: "What is the use of these poor bastards not breaking through and taking decisive action by not taking advantage of the confusion that occurred because of the loss of one regiment, they will not seize the fighters, and now they are surrounded by us and are still digging trenches there?" Even if we are sleepy, we can trap them. ”

The chief of staff next to him also said: "Their number is not as high as the thousands as the intelligence says, right?" Division, you see that there are only a few of them digging trenches underneath, and there are not even a few machine gun positions. Will this stop us from attacking? Hehe, joke. I believe we can take down their first line of defence with just one charge. ”

Wang Zanbin was also infected by the words of his subordinates, and said: "I don't know who their commander is, maybe they are really frightened by the offensive of our Gui army, and they dare not rush to charge, so they miss the opportunity and dare not take advantage of the victory to chase after annihilating one of our regiments." Aren't they cowering on the mountains like Ma Jian during the Three Kingdoms period? Hehe. ”

A small officer next to him kindly reminded: "Could it be that they are waiting for their 34th Division to rescue them?" Are we sending a part of our troops to the east to guard it? ”

The chief of staff waved his hand without a good voice: "Go, go, we're discussing what you're talking about?" The question you can think of, we can't think of it, and the teacher can't think of it? We are not afraid that their 34th Division will come, but we are afraid that they will not come. If they come, we'll take them to make up for the shortfall we have withdrawn from the front line of the ferry, and we will be able to capture more prisoners and receive more bounties from our superiors. ”

The deputy division commander also smiled and said: "Division, let's just build a yaì to Mr. Bai, and use the communists and bandits on Matouling as bait to attract the surrounding communists and bandits to come to the rescue, so that we don't have to bother to clear the surrounding barren mountains and mountains." ”

Wang Zanbin said: "Okay, don't think about these beautiful things, we are not just to receive the bounty, in the current situation where the defeat of the communist and bandit has been decided, our biggest task is to prevent the invasion of the central army, only by eliminating the bandit army in Matouling as soon as possible, we will ......."

At this moment, a communications staff officer ran up panting and shouted: "Report! ”

Wang Zanbin didn't care that his words were interrupted, he put down the binoculars in his hand and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The communications staff officer exhaled a few breaths, stabilized himself, and then reported: "According to the air force reconnaissance, the bandit army on Matouling is less than 800 people, but there are still about 100 of our captured personnel there, and some of the captured personnel are concentrated around the artillery position. With the exception of the bandits who were guarding the captives, the other bandits built fortifications on the hills, especially the three trenches dug on the north and east sides of the mountain and on the top of the hill. ......, in addition, the Air Force said that they would now fly back to the airfield and would not be able to join the battle until half an hour later. ”

Wang Zanbin nodded, waved his hand, and said, "Spread out the map!" Summoning the deputy division commander, the chief of staff and the three regimental commanders! ”

The Gui army soon agreed on an offensive plan: the two regiments attacked from the southeast, northwest, and northwest in seven directions according to the terrain, of which the four roads in the north and east were feints, and the two roads in the south and the one road in the west were the main attacks. The planes first bombarded the enemy's artillery positions with all their might, and after the enemy's artillery positions were destroyed, they assisted the main attacking forces in the south and west to attack.

The commander of the 145th Regiment, Mo Dehong, asked suspiciously: "Shizuo, isn't it a little strange that this communist bandit behaves, knowing that the terrain to the east is complicated, why do you still spend so much energy there digging three trenches?" ”

The chief of staff replied with a smile instead of Wang Zanbin: "Because they don't have enough manpower, the purpose of his trench here is that he doesn't want to deploy too many troops here, and he doesn't want to arrange them in a balanced manner. ”

Mo Dehong asked again: "Then why are they overhauling the fortifications in the north?" It was flat, and the artillery was transported from there. ”

The chief of staff said: "Isn't this very understandable? Because of the flat terrain, it is definitely conducive to our attack, and if we don't build fortifications, how long can they defend? I believe that they will not only build fortifications here, but also place heavy troops here to defend them. The communists are cunning, false and real, real and false, if you don't think about it seriously, it is easy to fall into their way. ......, now we are arranging our troops like this, it is a-for-tat, let their treacherous plans fail, let them take care of one or the other, and finally have to change their defensive plan according to our attack. Our feints are not feints, the main attack is stronger, see if they can hold on for a few minutes, hehe. ”

Wang Zanbin gritted his teeth and said: "Sue the air force, don't care about those who are captured, and don't let them become a shield for bombing artillery positions." ”

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The offensive of the Gui army was fierce as soon as it came, five planes carrying large bombs were thrown at the artillery positions of the defenders, and the artillery pieces were blown up one by one, and the air waves generated after the explosion of the bombs lifted the artillery into the air, and the soldiers who stayed in the battle positions were also thrown into the air, and the shells of the positions were blown out of deep pits......

It can be said that the bombing effect was very good, and the pilots and the officers and men of Gui who were observing from a distance were very happy.

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