"Bang ......"

At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, a sharp knock sounded at the door of the commander's room.

Then the chief of staff was heard with the excited report.

"Sir, the fighter plane has appeared, and the intelligence officers have found the garrison regiment and captured our heavy artillery!"

The commander sat up from the bed as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, put on his military uniform and walked out.

"What's going on? Did the intelligence services send back the exact location of these heavy artillery. Opening the door, the commander stared at the chief of staff as he walked and asked.

The chief of staff hurriedly reported: "When we replenish the troops with new recruits and restore strength, the Eighth Route Army is also doing the same thing. ”

"Intelligence shows that the garrison regiment has formed a heavy artillery battalion using those heavy guns, and it trains every day."

"Some time ago, the intelligence network of the special high school in the garrison regiment base area was too bad, and this heavy artillery battalion has been hiding in the mountains for training, and there is no trace of them, so the intelligence department has not found them."

"Recently, this heavy artillery battalion has finally begun to go out of the mountains to train, and then it has given us an opportunity to take advantage of."

"Last night, they were conducting long-distance heavy artillery transfer training, and they happened to pass by the village where one of our intelligence officers was lurking, and then they were targeted by our people."

"The report said: A total of 12 heavy artillery pieces participated in the training, and there were more than 400 gunners and ammunition men, which is equivalent to the entire heavy artillery battalion not a single left, and all of them participated in the training."

As they spoke, the two men had already walked into the war room.

The chief of staff reacted quickly, pointing to a point on the sand table that had been marked by the combat staff officer and continued to report.

"The current location of the heavy artillery battalion is here, moving from east to west along this road."

"It's still two hours before dawn, and they'll march another ten kilometers at most, and they'll probably reach this position and lurk."

The chief of staff pointed to a spot next to him.

"The terrain in this area is very complicated, with rugged mountains on both sides of the road, and there is not even a single big tree."

"As long as the heavy artillery battalion enters this area, in the face of our air attack, there will definitely be no way to hide, and it can only be passively bombed."

"Sir, these heavy artillery pieces are too much of a threat to us, and this is definitely a great opportunity to destroy them."

"I propose to contact aviation, destroy them."

After thinking for a minute, the army commander asked: "Can you be sure that the artillery that appeared on the road is indeed the heavy artillery we lost, and not the fake artillery arranged by the Eighth Route Army to deliberately confuse us." ”

"Definitely." The chief of staff affirmed.

"Intelligence officers report that the cannon passed by and left deep rut marks on the road, and that each heavy cannon was drawn by four horses."

"If it was a fake cannon, there would definitely not be such a deep rut mark, and there would be no need for so many horses!"

The commander finally made a decision: "Contact the aviation immediately, and as long as there are conditions, immediately attack and bomb these heavy artillery." ”

"Chief of Staff, you are ready, no matter what the results of the bombing of the aviation are, whether the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment has been completely destroyed by us, as soon as the bombing is over, we will announce to the public that the aviation has successfully killed the heavy artillery battalion of the garrison regiment."

The chief of staff didn't understand what the commander meant.

After a moment's hesitation, he reminded: "Do you want to confirm the results of the battle before announcing them?" ”

The commander shook his head and replied very decisively: "No, you will announce the news after the air bombing is over." ”

"Why?"

The chief of staff's eyes immediately widened, and he didn't understand why the army commander was so resolute.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and although I am now confident in the next bombing, no one dares to guarantee that there will be no accidents in the middle.

Once the bombing was unsuccessful, the military headquarters announced that the bombing had been successful.

Two contradictory results not only slapped the military department in the face.

To put it more seriously, it can also involve lying about the military situation, which is a violation of military discipline and must be dealt with by military law.

The commander did not hide his thoughts, and replied decisively: "There are two reasons why I did this. ”

"First, I want to use this bombing as a fuse for our attack on the Eighth Route Army."

"The victory in the first battle will definitely have a great effect on the troops' next operations."

"Second, I want to raise the morale of the troops through this bombing."

"You, the chief of staff, are worried about the twelve heavy guns captured by the garrison regiment, let alone ordinary soldiers."

"If you can tell the soldiers before the battle that the heavy artillery they are worried about has been destroyed by the aviation, the morale of the troops will definitely be very high."

"Soldiers can kill the enemy more bravely on the battlefield, and they no longer worry about a heavy artillery shell suddenly falling on their heads during the battle, and they don't know how they died."

The chief of staff did not deny the commander's analysis, but he also did not approve of it.

It is too risky to boost the morale of the troops with a piece of good news that is not yet certain.

After hesitating for a few seconds, he raised his concern: "Sir, what if the bombing misses?" ”

"We can inform the officers above the brigade level of the real situation and let them take relevant precautions. Officers and ordinary officers below the brigade level will continue to be kept secret, so that they can continue to maintain high morale on the battlefield and fight bravely against the enemy. ”

Faced with this explanation, the chief of staff had nothing to say.

Although he still felt a faint sense of unease, the determined expression on the commander's face reassured him of his doubts and chose to carry out the order.

Chen Quan, commander of the air defense battalion, was guarding a hill next to the road, and there were six antiaircraft antiaircraft machine guns, six heavy machine guns equipped with tall stands, and more than a dozen light machine guns scattered around him.

Nearly two hundred warriors, dressed in camouflage nets, lurked here with the hill as the center.

This hill is one of the highest vantage points on both sides of the road, on which anti-aircraft machine guns are mounted, and the fire coverage is the widest.

Therefore, Chen Quan directly pulled an air defense company and arranged it here, and also asked the main force to borrow a lot of light machine guns to ensure that every height of the combat airspace was covered by special machine guns.

On the other hills in the surrounding area, there is either an anti-aircraft machine gun platoon or a heavy machine gun platoon with a tripod.

Of course, in order to guarantee the density of anti-aircraft fire, an ordinary light machine gun was a must.

Six light machine guns were erected in each position.

They were the last protective cover of the air defense positions.

If there are planes targeting these air defense positions, they will definitely carry out a dive strafing and destroy there.

Ordinary machine guns come into play.

Shoot a dense network of fire into the air to prevent aircraft from diving, and buy time for the transfer of air defense forces.

Of course, if the devil planes carry out ultra-low-altitude bombardment of the artillery battalions on the road at the foot of the mountain in order to ensure the hit rate, these light machine guns can also be transformed into deadly killers of the aircraft.

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