Chapter 68: Preparations Before the Shelling

Two days later, the city of Shuozhou was cleaned up by tens of thousands of soldiers, and the corpses of tens of thousands of ordinary people killed by the little devils were buried, and the burned houses were cleaned up.

The people in Shuozhou City also slowly regained their vitality, and began to go out of their homes in twos and threes, and began to come out to do things, and those who did business also opened their doors and started to do business.

At this time, Zhang Yunfei was in the temporary headquarters in Shuozhou City, looking at the huge military map, his face was full of solemnity, and he was carefully thinking about the next move of the troops.

This time, tens of thousands of troops went south from Datong, recovered several county towns in a row, and annihilated thousands of little devils, basically achieving the purpose of the original military training.

But in yesterday's incident, before retreating, the little devil who exterminated people's surnames actually killed tens of thousands of innocent people in Shuozhou City.

This incident made Zhang Yunfei hate the little devil to the bone, and he has been trying to find a way to retaliate against the little devil, China pays attention to blood debts and blood repayment.

Three days ago, the cavalry regiment annihilated an infantry brigade, and more than 1,000 little devils could only be regarded as collecting some interest in advance, and the principal that accounted for the majority had not been collected by the little devils.

Two days ago, Zhang Yunfei sent a battalion of the 1st Infantry Brigade to secretly go out of Shuozhou and reconnoiter in the direction of Xinkou, so as to find out the movements of the little devils and the deployment of troops.

Just as Zhang Yunfei was looking at the map and thinking about countermeasures, Wang Haiyang, the commander of the First Brigade, rushed in the door, Wang Haiyang walked up to Zhang Yunfei with a happy face, and reported: "Division commander, the third battalion in charge of reconnaissance has sent back the news, at present, there are no little devils north of Xinkou, and all the little devils have been withdrawn to Xinkou. ”

Zhang Yunfei took the pencil on the table, drew on the map, drew a few large circles at the location of Xinkou, turned his head to the correspondent and said, "Go and inform the artillery brigade Wang Daquan and ask him to come to see me quickly." ”

Less than five minutes.

At present, Wang Daquan has seven points of respect for Zhang Yunfei and three points of admiration, especially after the artillery brigade is equipped with these 40 large-caliber howitzers, his respect and admiration for Zhang Yunfei have become even stronger.

Wang Daquan walked up to Zhang Yunfei with a smile, and only after standing up straight did he say, "Commander, you are looking for me." ”

"Daquan, I'll give you a difficult task." After speaking, Zhang Yunfei walked to the map, pointed to the location of Xinkou who had been drawn a few circles by himself with the pencil in his hand and said: "Here, the little devil has stationed almost two divisions and built a large number of fortifications, if we attack directly, the troops will definitely suffer heavy casualties, so I will give you a task, which is to use your artillery to destroy the little devil there for me." ”

"Guaranteed to get the job done."

"In addition, the rest of the troops will fully cooperate with your artillery brigade, let go of it, and don't skimp on shells." Zhang Yunfei encouraged Wang Daquan again.

In the afternoon, the troops marched in the direction of Xinkou, and only one infantry regiment remained in Shuozhou.

Two days later, all the troops reached less than ten kilometers south of Xinkou, and at this time, the little devils stationed in Xinkou also discovered a large number of Eighth Route Army in the north.

At this time, Zhang Yunfei did not hide from the little devils, except for the artillery brigade and the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, the rest of the troops were put on the surface, the purpose was to let the little devils know that the tens of thousands of troops of the Eighth Route Army were ready to attack Xinkou.

In this way, the little devil will be forced to enter the defensive position, and the little devil's defensive position, Zhang Yunfei used a telescope to carefully observe.

The little devil's defensive position was built very scientifically and rationally, stretching for more than ten kilometers and two or three kilometers in depth, and a large number of pillboxes and machine gun positions were built on the defensive position.

If the Eighth Route Army really wants to attack, what awaits the Eighth Route Army will be a dense rain of bullets, and the Eighth Route Army will not want to break through the defense line without paying a heavy price.

Such a line of defense, and stationed tens of thousands of little devils, and the little devils are not far from Taiyuan, there are sufficient supplies, there is no need to worry about insufficient ammunition, so the little devils, with enough confidence, can hold here, and turn this place into the grave of the Eighth Route Army.

But whether this is the case or not remains to be proved in actual combat.

When the little devils all entered the defense line, looking nervously ahead, ready to prevent the attack of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, Zhang Yunfei was directing the troops to leisurely dig trenches and build fortifications under the noses of the little devils.

And this fortification was repaired for three days, and the little devil on the opposite side was confused, and the little devil was always thinking, why didn't the eight roads on the opposite side attack? Rather, they are building fortifications, waiting for us to take the initiative to attack.

In the past three days, the little devil couldn't sleep well at night, always worried that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side would suddenly attack, and several commanders of the little devil also gathered together and discussed it several times, but there was no result in the discussion.

What is the Eighth Road on the other side doing?

When the little devil racked his brains in the past few days, guessing what Zhang Yunfei's troops were doing, Zhang Yunfei was indeed not idle at all.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were leisurely building fortifications under the noses of little devils, which was only used by Zhang Yunfei to confuse the other party.

In fact, Zhang Yunfei's real killer weapon is hidden behind, and in the past few days, Zhang Yunfei has quietly transported all the thousands of 155-mm howitzers in Datong's inventory.

At present, there are tens of thousands of shells in the artillery brigade, and most of them are high-explosive shells, which will surely make the little devils drink a pot at that time.

In order to prevent the air force of the little devil Taiyuan from bombing the artillery brigade, Zhang Yunfei transferred another antiaircraft artillery battalion over, and there are currently two antiaircraft artillery battalions, which can completely defend against the air force of the little devil.

According to reliable information, there are only about 70 planes at Taiyuan Airport, of which bombers account for the majority, with more than 40 planes, and a little less fighters, only more than 20.

Zhang Yunfei prepared two antiaircraft artillery battalions for them, and as long as they dared to come, they would definitely be told that they would not return. And now, the fighters have a lot of combat experience, and the two anti-aircraft artillery battalions have found the best position early and hidden.

Camouflage-painted thirty-mm anti-aircraft guns, scattered and hidden in the woods, in the bushes, and even in the thatch, it is impossible for the little devils to look down from a height of several thousand meters.

At that time, it will definitely be able to catch the little devil air force by surprise.

So far, Zhang Yunfei's strategic deployment has been completed, and this time Zhang Yunfei is ready to use the advantage of the cannon to bombard the little devil on the opposite side.

Because, at the beginning, Zhang Yunfei observed it clearly, although the little devil's position was built very large, but due to the rush of time, most of the civil fortifications were built, and there were few cement fortifications.

These civil fortifications could not withstand the shelling of 155-mm howitzers, so Zhang Yunfei ordered the soldiers of several infantry brigades to build fortifications in front of the little devils and confuse the little devils.

In fact, Zhang Yunfei used the past few days to complete the strategic deployment, but fortunately, the little devil was stupid enough to completely fail to see through Zhang Yunfei's strategic intentions.

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