Lei Jian looked at him with surprised eyes as everyone stared at him, and he continued: "The five bunkers are actually sub-forts surrounding a very hidden mother fort, the diameter of the mother fort is about twenty-five meters, and it looks like a dirt mountain bag on the outside, and it is very hidden.

Just now, the assault company and a battalion and a company, during the attack, the mother fort did not go all out to carry out intensive firepower strikes at the beginning, and under the cover of the fire of the five sub-forts, the attacking cadres and soldiers did not find it, and later, the commander in the mother fort saw that the firepower of the five sub-forts was enough to block the strong attack of our attacking troops, and immediately concealed themselves and was no longer exposed. ”

"This group of cunning bastard devil commanders is too insidious, this is waiting for our large army to launch a general attack, and then the mother fort will suddenly put in firepower, and at that time, it will give our attacking troops the greatest damage, I really didn't expect it." Wang Xiaoliang said angrily.

Lei Jian said to the commanders present in accordance with the lessons learned from the frustration of the attack, combined with the enemy's hidden positions exposed during the strong attack of the troops: "The enemy's stronghold in Yuanshan is well defended, and there are communication trenches between each sub-fort and the mother fort, and the communication trenches are connected to the frontal bungalows of the third line of defense and the three-story turrets on both sides.

our adjusted battle plan; The second and third battalions feinted on the left and right flanks, the three companies of the first battalion and the assault company attacked from the front, and the fourth battalion withdrew from the position of lurking and blocking the enemy, and covertly infiltrated to the north of the stronghold of Yuanshan, taking advantage of the favorable terrain of the cliff wall and covering it with the help of the woods behind the stronghold.

The 4th Battalion had to find a way to eliminate the enemy's firepower behind the stronghold, break through the enemy's fire blockade, insert the stronghold from behind, and echo with the main force attacking from the front, and contain a part of the enemy's strength and firepower, which should destroy the Japanese stronghold in one fell swoop. ”

After the meeting, the battalions returned to their garrisons and immediately convened a meeting of company and platoon commanders to plan a surprise attack on the enemy's stronghold at midnight on the 28th.

Song Chun, the commander of the fourth battalion, led several company commanders to covertly touch behind the Yuanshan stronghold, and saw that the cliff was about five meters away from the enemy's stronghold, and the woods were more than 30 meters away from the enemy's stronghold.

He immediately explained what he had observed to several company and platoon commanders in the woods very carefully, and finally decided: Organize a machine-gun platoon, occupy the cliff, cover the fire at that time, form a sabotage platoon, and cut the barbed wire fence north of the stronghold half an hour before the troops launched an attack.

Just after midnight, Lei Jian postponed the order to attack until 3:17 a.m., and the commanders of each battalion suddenly launched a strong attack on the enemy's stronghold from all sides according to the set time.

The 4th Battalion and 9th Company took up the feint attack, and while the sabotage platoon cut the barbed wire and alarmed the enemy, it attacked the counterattacking enemy with the heaviest firepower.

The enemy found that under the cover of the feint fire of the 9th Company, the 12th Company, which was hidden in the woods due north, bravely killed out of the woods when each company launched a fire attack on the enemy, followed behind the attack platoon, and smashed into the enemy's stronghold.

The devils in the stronghold found that a strong force had been killed from the woods, and they quickly opened the breakthrough and entered the stronghold, and immediately adjusted their firepower to block and kill the twelve companies that entered the stronghold.

At this time, the 9th Company was covered by the fire of the machine gun platoon on the cliff, and some of the devil's firepower was pinned down by the 12th Company, and the feint immediately turned into a strong attack, and soon joined up with the 12th Company that had entered the stronghold and advanced in depth.

The first battalion and assault company, which served as a frontal assault, figured out the fire deployment of the five bunkers and the mother fort of the devil during the day, and the soldiers dodged the frontal fire attack, and quickly approached the bunker and mother fort of the second line of defense in a concealed manner, and with the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice, they stuffed the cluster grenade into the hole of the gun, and the continuous explosion destroyed the five bunkers and the mother fort.

The 1st Battalion and the Assault Company divided into two routes, fought at the artillery positions on both sides of the Zimu bunker, engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the gunners, and soon occupied the artillery positions.

A battalion and a company served as the commando of the whole battalion, six machine guns opened the way in front, followed by soldiers charging with guns, one machine gunner fell, and the deputy shooter immediately picked up the machine gun and continued to spit tongues of fire to cover the attack of the fighters.

The fire of the enemy positions in front of the stronghold was fierce, the enemy's machine guns kept spitting tongues of fire, and the fighters who rushed in front fell one by one.

A group of soldiers, Xue Hongjiang, saw that his comrades-in-arms around him kept falling into the machine gun fire of the devils, and he shouted angrily: "Bastard, I will kill the machine gunners of the devils." He bravely pounced on the devil's heavy machine gun position, and he wanted to seize the devil's heavy machine gun.

The little devil in the heavy machine gun position was frightened by the fearless action of Xue Hongjiang who pounced on him, and turned his gun in a panic and opened fire.

Several bullets were shot into Xue Hongjiang's stomach, Xue Hongjiang endured the severe pain in his intestines, jumped at the devil heavy machine gun with all his might, pressed the heavy machine gun under him with his whole body, followed closely by two soldiers, and quickly killed the devil heavy machine gun shooter, but Xue Hongjiang did not get up after falling heroically, he used his young life in exchange for the results of destroying the devil's heavy machine gun position.

There is also a little soldier Liu Gang, who was injured in the thigh by a piece of shrapnel and suddenly fell, but he did not give up the fight, he quickly crawled forward when he couldn't stand up, and handed the grenade with the cover unscrewed to the soldier next to him, when another grenade exploded next to him, Liu Gang died heroically.

Zhao Tianbao, deputy instructor of the second company, led the soldiers to rush to the enemy position, and when he was hit by a bullet, he fell to the ground, tied the grenades of the sacrificed soldiers around him, tied them to his body, crawled towards the enemy position, and when he approached the enemy's forward position, he pulled the grenade on his body and rolled into the enemy's forward position.

The continuous explosions destroyed a position in front of the frontal bungalow, and Deputy Instructor Zhao Tianbao was already blurred with flesh and blood, and used his body to make a safe passage for the follow-up troops.

At this time, the frontal bungalows of the main position of the stronghold and the three-story artillery towers on both sides concentrated their fire on the attacking battalion and assault company, and the attack was again blocked for a while, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

Lei Jian led the spy company and the artillery company to the front-line position, and saw that the first battalion and the assault company were blocked by the fire of the main position of the stronghold, and he ordered the artillery company commander Du Xingdong not to spare the shells and concentrate fire to destroy the frontal bungalows and the artillery towers on both sides.

Company Commander Du Xingdong personally checked the gun positions and strived to hit the target at the impact point of each shell.

When the east was about to break in the early morning, one shell after another, wrapped in sharp whistling and orange flames, fell on the enemy position in an arc, exploded again and again, and finally destroyed the main position of the frontal bungalow devils, and the three-story turrets on both sides collapsed.

Lei Jian issued a general attack order, the first battalion and the assault company advanced in depth from the front, the second battalion and the third battalion attacked from the flank, and the fourth battalion launched a charge from the rear.

Commander Nie of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region listened to a report from Staff Officer Tang: Lei Jian's only regiment was stationed in Daokou Village, southeast of Fuping City, and immediately ordered Lei Jian and Ma Mingshan, political commissar of the regiment, to hold a first-phase summing up meeting at the military region's garrison at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow, 29 September.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the summary meeting officially began, and Commander Nie stood on the stage in the middle of the village and made a summary report on the first phase of the campaign and tactics of the 100-regiment battle to the cadres above the regiment level standing under the stage.

The director of the Political Department made a summary of the work, and finally praised the Yuanshan Campaign of the Only Regiment, and said with emotion: "Our newly formed Independent Regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is a young unit that has just been formed for a short time, from the Battle of Peacock Valley, the attack on the Japanese army in Fudong, and the cooperation with the New Seventh Brigade to break through the blockade line of the Japanese army's highlands.

Since the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the Jingcheng Coal Mine has been conquered, the Tiger Leaping Gorge Bridge has been destroyed, the Lao Ye Mountain has been blocked and reinforced, the Iron Camel Mountain has been held back from the main force of the Japanese army, and the stronghold of Yuanshan has just been destroyed. This young unit has done a good job in campaign deployment, ideological and political work, and surprise training of new recruits and soldiers.

This young army has a clear purpose, that is, there are no guns, no artillery, no clothes and no food, and they all ask the enemy for it, is that good?

It was this young unit that not only the troops were young, but the commanders at all levels were also very young, and they did not feel that the One Regiment was a newly formed unit, and that it was not bold enough to be timid when accepting the task.

Like the veteran units with combat experience, they pick up the broadsword and fight the guns and kill on the battlefield, and we can have such a rapidly growing unit, which is very worthy of our veteran cadres and fighters to learn from their experience. ”

Commander Nie of the Military Region also spoke highly of the only regiment, praised it in a circular, and personally awarded the military flag of the 'Thunder Hero Regiment'.

Lei Jian stepped onto the stage, solemnly took over the military flag of the 'Thunder Hero Regiment', raised his hands, waved back and forth twice, and gave a very beautiful modern military salute to the head of the military region, strode up the battle flag, and led the troops to the second phase of the Hundred Regiments War.

(End of chapter)