The troops of 5,000 men walked in the night, and there was no movement except for the sound of steady footsteps.

At this time, Liao Fan was in his own headquarters, looking at the battle plan and action plan submitted by the other three division commanders, and after confirming that there was no problem, he signed the order, and then asked the signal corps to go to the various units to give the final order.

Everything is going according to plan, the soldiers of the artillery brigade have also begun to pull out, and the artillery brigade is acting with a regiment of Liu Chundao's division, and the artillery brigade is heavy, so it is necessary to set off in advance to arrive at the designated place.

"Fanzi, I'm leaving!" Liao Jundong saluted Liao Fan.

"Brother, pay attention to safety, I will join you with the soldiers of the guard regiment in two days!" Liao Fan said to Liao Jundong.

The soldiers of the artillery brigade walked in front of Liao Fan with cannons and shells, this is the strongest hole card in Liao Fan's hand, more than 300 artillery pieces of various types, this is already all the belongings in Liao Fan's hands.

Liao Fan sighed in his heart, two years ago they only had some light mortars, and the shells were not enough, after two years of development, they already have such a powerful artillery unit, which has undergone earth-shaking changes, and with such a powerful army, why worry about the little devil will not be destroyed.

The results of the actions of the other three divisions were constantly summarized to the military headquarters, and Liao Fan firmly remembered the position of each unit under his command.

Just three days after Hu Guoshan's troops surrounded the county town of Pingding, the troops of the three divisions had already arrived at the established positions, waiting for the final order to attack. Liao Fan rushed to Xinzhuang Township on the last day with the guard regiment, but Liao Fan never received news from Political Commissar Liu.

"Have the three division commanders and two brigade commanders arrived?"

"Brother Fan, it's all here!" A communications corps report.

Liao Fan walked into his front-line headquarters, and the five people were already waiting for Liao Fan inside.

"By the way, it's 8:32 p.m.!" Liao Fan said to the four division commanders, "At 11:50 p.m. tonight, all the troops launched an attack on the Japanese army according to our plan. ”

"Understood!"

"Alright, you three division commanders return to their respective command positions!" Liao Fan continued, "My brother and Huang Changsheng stayed! ”

"Brother, the artillery brigade is divided into three parts, one part is arranged in the Dragon King Temple, and it is ready to support Liu Chundao's division, which lacks heavy weapons! Part of it was arranged to Beiyu, and the remaining part stayed around the military headquarters, ready to listen to the dispatch! ”

Liao Jundong nodded, left the headquarters, and went to arrange his troops. As for the soldiers of the special operations brigade, they had already been arranged behind enemy lines, and only one squadron of special operations soldiers followed Huang Changsheng's side, so this time Huang Changsheng could only follow Liao Fan as a staff officer.

On the eve of the New 33rd Army's attack on the Jingcheng area, Hu Guoshan's troops of a brigade had already surrounded the county town of Pingding for four whole days, and he successfully attracted the attention of the little devils.

"Division commander, it's been four whole days, why haven't you let us launch a general attack?" The brigade commander asked Hu Guoshan that if they had launched a general attack earlier, maybe they would have entered the county seat of Pingding.

Hu Guoshan did not answer his question directly, but asked: "How is the battle in the direction of Xiyang County?" ”

"The news came from the communications corps before dark that the Japanese troops in the city demanded surrender, but our troops refused to surrender according to your orders!" The brigade commander replied.

"Arrange for the communication soldiers to tell the new seventh regiment to shout to them once tonight, asking them to open the city gate tonight, lay down their arms and surrender, if they don't open the city gate and lay down their weapons when the sun rises tomorrow, they will never have a chance to surrender again!"

On the first day of the siege of the New Seventh Regiment, the troops in Xiyang County were about to surrender, but according to Hu Guoshan's order, the commander of the New Seventh Regiment refused to surrender. On the third day of the siege, Hu Guoshan learned that the troops in the city were all puppet soldiers, and those Japanese soldiers were also pretending to be puppet soldiers, so he understood why these "Japanese troops" did not have the slightest will to resist.

But in order to cover the action goals of the large army, Hu Guoshan kept dragging them and refused to surrender any troops in the city.

But tonight is different, the troops attacking the Jingcheng area will launch a full-scale attack this night, and the puppet army in Xiyang County can be regarded as having completed their historical mission, so Hu Guoshan is willing to accept this group of prisoners.

Because Pingding County is the gateway to Yangquan, the little devils in Xiyang County are ready to let it out, but they have no intention of opening the door of Yangquan, once Pingding County is lost, Yangquan will be directly exposed to the attack of the Chinese army, if Yangquan is lost, the Chinese army can march west along the western section of the Zhengtai Railway, threatening Taiyuan.

Although the total number of Japanese puppet troops in Pingding County was only four or five hundred, the Japanese troops from Xiyang County still spared no effort to go south to support Pingding County, but were blocked by Hu Guoshan's troops 20 miles away from Yangquan and could not move forward.

The two sides had been fighting for three and a half days twenty miles away from Yangquan, but Hu Guoshan still did not order a decent attack on the county seat of Pingding.

"At 11:50 p.m. tonight, it is the time for Brother Fan and them to attack, we will delay for ten minutes, and at 0:00 o'clock this evening, we will shell the Japanese troops defending the city in Pingding County, and after the shelling, the troops will cover the attack alternately! Strive to take Pingding County before dawn! Hu Guoshan ordered to his brigade commander.

Hu Guoshan's task before the battle has been completed, and now he only needs to do what he wants to do, just like Liao Fan said when he arranged the task in Beitai Peak, you Hu Guoshan just led the troops to take Taiyuan down, and no one cared about it.

At 11:50 a.m., the order to attack was given, and the shells rained down into the little devil's stronghold, and the flames from the explosion rose to the sky.

At the same time, violent explosions were heard from various Japanese strongholds on the Zhengtai Line, and the Japanese puppet army panicked, looking for a place to hide from artillery fire in the dark night.

As soon as the cannon fodder stopped, the troops, led by the company commander, launched an attack on the Japanese stronghold......

Compared with the fierce artillery fire on the Zhengtai line, Xiao Jue went to the Dingzhou line, but it was quiet and terrifying, and the sound of artillery in the distance seemed to be on the other side of the universe. With the sound of artillery in the distance, a shrill telephone rang in the little devil's stronghold, which instantly woke up the sleeping people in the stronghold.

And in the field, where the grass has turned yellow, it is equally quiet and terrible, except for the occasional low neighing of a few war horses, and the insects that are still struggling in the autumn have long since disappeared.

The Japanese troops in Guyue, Donghuishe, Shangsan, Xingtang, Liubaihu and Dingzhou all received calls for help, and the Zhengtai Line was attacked by the Chinese army on a large scale, and they needed reinforcements.

After receiving the call, the Japanese strongholds did not hesitate at all, and hurriedly sent reinforcements to support the Zhengtai line, and then the autumn wind was bleak, and the wilderness was full of murderous atmosphere. Not long after the Japanese troops left their stronghold, the neighing of war horses sounded in the distance.

"Rumble" iron hooves stomped on the ground, and the sound came far away in the darkness, like wild beasts running.

The saber glistened in the moonlight, and a drop of blood dripped on the earth that had long been swept away by the autumn wind, and then the piercing screams echoed in the open field, and the iron hooves were far away, leaving only the stumps and severed arms in the ground.

"Da Da Da"

The sound of machine guns spit out projectiles wildly in the night, it turned out that Li Weimin was not busy letting the troops attack the stronghold of the little devil, but ordered the troops to ambush outside the stronghold, and when Ma Wanzhong led the troops to attack, the little devils asked for help, and Li Weimin beat their reinforcements.

On the flat field, Li Weimin gave full play to the advantages of the cavalry, arranged the cavalry on the flank, and waited for the little devil to come out of the stronghold, the cavalry charged directly from the flank, and handed over the rest to the infantry.

Before the troops supporting the little devils could react, half of their troops were cut off by the cavalry, and then under the strong firepower of the infantry, the little devils' support troops fought and retreated, trying to retreat into the stronghold.

However, Li Weimin had already arranged his troops and quietly infiltrated the rear of the stronghold with a flying thunder cannon.

"Boom Boom"

One package of explosives thrown by the flying thunder cannon was enough to blow up half of the little devil's turret, and the retreating little devil saw that their stronghold became a sea of fire, and hurriedly moved closer to other strongholds. The troops who commanded the attack on the stronghold immediately divided their forces in pursuit.

In just one hour, Li Weimin took four important strongholds of the little devils in this way, annihilated and captured nearly 2,000 Japanese puppet troops, and their casualties were less than 500.

At this time, Li Weimin was on the front line of the upper three levels, and the upper three levels were close to the Hutuo River, although the river was not turbulent, but the Japanese army of the upper three levels still repelled Li Weimin's first attack after losing part of the troops supporting the Zhengtai line.

On the Hutuo River, Li Weimin lost the strength of a company, which wanted to quietly cross the Hutuo River and seize the Japanese positions on the riverbank, but the Japanese still discovered them, and the soldiers of this company were covered by the Japanese army's cross-fire network before they landed on the shore, and all the ships were overturned in the Hutuo River, and none of the soldiers of a company survived.

"Division commander, the little devil has already discovered us, and it can't be attacked like this!" A regiment commander ran into the headquarters, and the one who had just sunk to the bottom of the river belonged to their regiment, and he watched his troops being killed by the little devils.

"How many more ships do we have?" Li Weimin asked coldly.

"Half left!" The head of the regiment replied.

"Let our artillery cover the positions of the little devils on the river bank, and arrange another company to launch a strong attack, and tell the artillery that all artillery fire cannot be stopped until the fighters rush to the position!" Li Weimin was already red-eyed, and since he led the troops, there had not been a single company that had been killed in battle.

"But...... But...... But what about the follow-up troops? The head of the regiment asked.

According to the original plan, if the company just crossed the river, held the position on the riverbank, and covered the withdrawal of the remaining boats, their ships on the north bank of the river would transport all the remaining forces to the opposite bank as quickly as possible.

But now that they had lost half of their ships, if they continued to attack, they would have no ships to transport the remaining troops, and even if the next company could successfully land on the south bank of the river, without a follow-up force, they would only be sent to their deaths.

Li Weimin's chest rose and fell, trying to calm himself down. In order to capture the upper strongholds, they had to cross the river, and now that they had lost half of their boats, there was simply no way to launch a second attack.

This is really a mistake that leads to total passivity.

"Commander...... The division commander ...... "A soldier hurriedly ran into Liao Fan's headquarters.

"What's wrong?" Li Weimin asked.

"Ship...... The ...... of the ship" The soldier gasped and could not say anything excited.

"What's wrong with the ship, you should talk quickly!" The regimental commander who was waiting on the side was in a hurry.

"The river is full of boats!" The soldier finally spoke.

(Actually, you can bypass the upper reaches of the Huhu Tuo River, attack from the west and south sides of the upper three levels, write a story, of course, there is a bit of conflict, thank you readers for your continued support.) ）