"Okay, now that the task has been arranged, let's go our separate ways. In addition, special attention should be paid to the reminder of the division headquarters, so that each soldier should carry a gas mask to prevent the little devil from jumping over the wall and using poison gas bombs in the end," the brigade commander Shen Qinghua finally ordered.

"Yes, Brigadier Commander, it's all clear." Both replied at the same time.

"Well, it's getting dark now. After going back, order the troops to hurry up and have dinner, and we will be ready to leave in an hour" Brigade Commander Shen Qinghua nodded with satisfaction.

"Yes, Brigadier General"

An hour later, after a long day's rest, plus a full meal. There were more than 5,000 people in the entire army, all of whom stood in front of the brigade commander Shen Qinghua in high spirits. A stiff light and heavy machine gun, a mortar, all of them were carried on the shoulders of the soldiers, waiting for the order to attack.

"All of them, let's go immediately, target, Zhongyang Town is called the puppet army stronghold" Looking at the 5,000 elite divisions in front of him, the brigade commander Shen Qinghua nodded with satisfaction, and ordered loudly to the two regiment commanders who were waiting for orders.

Immediately, as soon as they had gone to camp in peace, the footsteps of the warriors were heard. More than 5,000 fighters, carrying various weapons and ammunition, lined up in two columns. Like a swimming dragon in the night, it quickly burrowed out of the woods where it was hiding. Heading straight for the stronghold of Zhongyang Town, a few kilometers away.

With the scouts reconnoitring the terrain in advance, it took the entire unit less than an hour to surround the entire Zhongyang Town. As for the several outposts on the outskirts of the stronghold of Zhongyang Town. Although the vigilance was specifically strengthened that night. However, in front of these battle-hardened scouts, these puppet army sentries were almost unable to fight back, so they were touched by the scouts one by one and sent back to their hometowns.

Without the disturbance of the enemy's sentinels, a regiment led by Zhou Guohua, carrying a large number of heavy weapons, under the leadership of the scouts, penetrated directly into the stronghold of the puppet army in the center of the town. However, at this time, the situation in the entire stronghold, as the brigade commander said, the puppet army in the stronghold seemed to have known about the arrival of the soldiers for a long time, and the entire stronghold was brightly lit. On the four-story running floor in the center of the stronghold, four bright searchlights constantly swept around the stronghold, guarding against the sneak attack of the Eighth Route Army and other armed forces.

After quietly surrounding the stronghold, Zhou Guohua took the three battalion commanders of the regiment to quietly lie on top of a private house 200 meters away from the stronghold, quietly observing this stronghold that was ready for battle and was waiting solemnly. Through the binoculars, it can be clearly seen that in the brightly lit base store, there are constantly patrols patrolling back and forth between the various pillboxes in the base. At the same time, in the dozen or so pillboxes around the stronghold, almost every bunker had a black hole in the barrel of the gun sticking out of the firing hole. Looking at the constantly rotating barrel, Zhou Guohua knew that the enemy inside the bunker must be vigilant watching every move outside the bunker. As long as there is the slightest movement outside, in this tense atmosphere, he will definitely pull the trigger in his hand mercilessly.

"Regiment commander, the little devil is heavily guarded, we don't have mountain artillery or infantry artillery in our hands, this hard bone is not easy to gnaw" Looking at the heavily guarded stronghold, the battalion commander beside him shook his head helplessly, and sighed to the regiment commander Zhou Guohua beside him.

Listening to the words of the battalion commander, thinking of his assurance in front of the brigade commander, the regiment commander Zhou Guohua couldn't help frowning, and looked at the battalion commander Zhang of the first anti-aircraft machine gun battalion of the air defense regiment next to him: "Battalion commander Zhang, can the anti-aircraft machine gun in your hand penetrate the bunker of the little devil?" ”

"Head Zhou, I don't know the specific situation. I figured that as long as it wasn't a bunker made of reinforced concrete, the heavy machine gun in my hand would be able to penetrate it. We'll have to try it out before we know. Battalion Commander Zhang looked at the four-story little devil turret in front of him and said.

"Well, with your words, I'm relieved. Comrades, as you should all know, the brigade commander gave us the task of annihilating the defenders in the store within an hour with minimal casualties. Now, I'll distribute the specific tasks. The first battalion carried 9 heavy machine guns from a heavy machine gun company and was responsible for attacking from both flanks of the stronghold, attracting the firepower and strength of the little devils. The second battalion, the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion of the anti-aircraft regiment, the artillery, and all the heavy machine guns that remained gave me an attack from the front. The third battalion is the reserve of the entire offensive force, as long as the second battalion opens the breakthrough, the third battalion will rush in immediately, and together with the soldiers of the second battalion, destroy all the little devils in the stronghold. Zhou Guohua looked at the several battalion company commanders in front of him and ordered loudly.

"Yes, Commander, I promise to complete the mission." Several people replied loudly.

Immediately, with the departure of the first battalion, the artillery also began to build artillery positions. Dozens of mortars, lined up throughout the perimeter of the stronghold, were quickly ready for firing. As for the remaining 18 heavy machine guns, they were also lined up at the special request of the regiment commander Zhou Guohua to suppress all possible firing points on the enemy's central running floor. As for the last kind of anti-aircraft machine gun, Zhou Guohua ordered two anti-aircraft machine guns to suppress a firing hole in the pillbox and neatly placed it at the forefront of the position.

Look behind you at the anti-aircraft machine guns, heavy machine guns, and mortars ready to fire. Zhou Guohua, who was still a little worried about completing the task, was full of confidence at this time. You must know that the heavy weapons in front of you are all the belongings of the entire brigade of the column directly under it.

"Order, all artillery fired three rapid shots at the stronghold of the puppet army, destroying all the firing points on the surface positions of the puppet army. At the same time, we should try our best to kill and injure the living forces of the puppet army. "Looking at the artillery behind me that is ready to fire at any time, I am looking at my watch that has passed for more than ten minutes. Zhou Guohua commanded loudly to the messenger behind him who conveyed the order.

Less than half a minute after Zhou Guohua's order was issued, a dull sound of artillery discharges sounded on the artillery position not far behind him. At the same time, the entire artillery position was also illuminated by the flames generated by the ejection of the shell. More importantly, as a burst of dense explosions sounded, dozens of shells that had already flown out of the chambers of the guns had already exploded violently in the stronghold.

In the dark night, the exploding shells, like fireworks, completely covered the entire stronghold. At the same time, in the flames generated by the explosion, one by one unlucky little devils, puppet army. Either they were directly hit and turned into corpses, or they rushed out of the smoke covered in fire, and began to wail and scream on the ground, waiting for their final death

However, what makes people feel regrettable is that although the explosion of three rounds of nearly 100 shells almost destroyed the surface position of the entire stronghold of the puppet army. It was blown up into hell on earth, and there were corpses of soldiers, stumps and broken arms, and corpses of burning wood, but the mortar shells, which mainly killed the enemy with fragments, did not kill the dozen or so strong pillboxes around the stronghold and the several storeys of artillery towers in the center of the stronghold. As the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, more than a dozen bunkers around the stronghold were still intact in front of everyone.

"Regiment commander, if you don't want to hit two more rounds of shells, I don't believe that the little devil's bunker can't collapse." Seeing the dozen intact bunkers in front of him, the artillery king company commander suggested unconvinced.

"No, Company Commander Wang, don't waste any more of our precious shells. These shells are left for a while, and they are of great use. Battalion Commander Zhang, let's look at the 18 anti-aircraft machine guns in your hands. All machine guns were ordered to fire first to cover the attack, and the Demoman was ready to charge and blast the enemy's pillboxes. Zhou Guohua thought of the thousands of little devils he would face when he was a child, and refused the request of the artillery company commander without hesitation. Battalion Commander Zhang, who was waiting for an order from the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion waiting for orders, and all the heavy machine gun companies shouted an order.

Immediately, a series of dense machine-gun fire rang out from the heavy machine-gun position. Tongues of fire, under the spurt of the soldiers, accurately shot towards the most central turret of the army. Due to the cover of a total of 18 heavy machine guns and more than a dozen light machine guns, almost every firing hole on the central running floor of the army had to withstand the fire of at least two or more light and heavy machine guns.

Flying bullets, like rain, burrowed into the shooting holes in the turret. And the little devils guarding the shooting hole, the puppet army, were shot and fell in a pool of blood at this moment. Dozens of alternate shooters, under the commander's mandatory order, stood next to the shooting hole, and did not dare to show their heads. However, what makes the puppet army in the running building feel depressed is that even if he doesn't show his head, in the face of the ubiquitous stray bullets inside the running building, he can ask for his surname at any time.

As for the squadron leader of the Yue Army who was guarding the running building, his whole face was immediately pale with fright after seeing the light and heavy machine gun fire outside the stronghold one after another, almost twice as much as his own. You must know that although you have nearly a thousand troops, and you have a strong stronghold to rely on. But all the light and heavy machine guns in his hands add up to no more than 30. Who knows that the dirt road outside can no longer be called the earth road now, there are no less than 30 heavy machine guns alone, and there are dozens of light machine guns.

Seeing this, although the squadron leader had already received the news that the Eighth Route Army could attack, he still had to quickly run to the side of the telephone and rang the phone of the supreme commander of Yangquan County

"Your Excellency Wing Commander, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce, our army can hold out for half an hour at most, ask for reinforcements, please send reinforcements immediately" Listening to the dense gunfire outside the stronghold, the squadron leader shouted loudly into the microphone in his hand.

"Yaga! You must be lying about the military situation, the Eighth Route Army only has a strength of 5,000 people, you have more than 1,000 people, and there are strong artillery towers, how can you not stop it. Order your troops to hold out for an hour and a half. In an hour and a half, reinforcements from the county town will arrive. When the time comes, we will be able to completely annihilate all the Eighth Route Army besieging you. If you can't complete the task, you will apologize directly to His Majesty the Emperor" After a roar from the co-captain, the busy sound of the telephone sounded in the earpiece.

"Baga, Eighth Route Army, I'll fight with you. Yours, fire at me immediately, or you'll die," the squadron leader of the Yue Army, who had no way out, was also angry in the face of the Eighth Route Army, which could attack at any time outside the stronghold. He suddenly drew his command knife and scolded loudly at the two puppet army machine gunners who were hiding under the shooting hole in front of him and did not dare to raise their heads to aim and shoot.

However, the puppet army in the entire turret is still very lucky. As for the three bunkers directly opposite the first battalion, at this time, the three bunkers were like hell. In the small pillbox, dozens of puppet soldiers, after the first round of fire suppression by six anti-aircraft machine guns, the three little devils guarding the firing hole faced the bullets of large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns with a range of several kilometers. The entire body was punched out of the bowl-thick blood holes in an instant. What's more, the powerful bullet after it pierced the first little devil. The power of the entire warhead did not seem to have diminished in any way, and it continued to penetrate the second puppet army behind him, and finally shot into the wall inside the pillbox.

There are even more unfortunate little devils, who are hit by powerful anti-aircraft machine gun bullets. The entire body was directly interrupted by these large-caliber bullets. Viscera and intestines were sprinkled in every corner of the bunker. Just the first round of anti-aircraft machine gun fire, dozens of puppet soldiers in the entire pillbox suffered more than half of the casualties in these few seconds. At the same time, the entire bunker was almost littered with the blood, internal organs, and severed limbs of fallen soldiers

In the face of such a powerful machine gun, the remaining soldiers in the bunker, whether they are little devils or puppet soldiers. Seeing the corpses of soldiers who had been broken by their waists, they all showed expressions of fear. At the same time, they all lay on the ground in the bunker, dodging the bullets above their heads that could leave their bones at any time.

"Order the demomen to prepare for the blast and the infantry to prepare for the charge." Through the binoculars, I saw that under the strafing of 18 anti-aircraft machine guns, the puppet army in the three pillboxes all turned into shrunken turtles at this moment. The corner of the regiment commander Zhou Guohua's mouth showed a smile of excitement, and he ordered confidently to the second battalion commander beside him.

With the issuance of Zhou Guohua's order, more than a dozen demomen, holding explosives bags one by one, quickly rushed out of the starting position under the cover of gunpowder smoke on the battlefield and touched the enemy pillbox a few hundred meters away. At a distance of several hundred meters, if in the past, the corpses of countless warriors would have been lying down in order to approach the enemy's pillbox, but today it is different.

Under the frantic strafing of countless firepower, even if the little devil found out, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were approaching him were helpless. Because, even if they have the cover of pillboxes and turrets, but, in front of the powerful anti-aircraft machine guns, as long as they show their heads. Needless to say, the result must be that there must be no bones left to greet you.

Therefore, in the face of the charge of the warriors, no little devil dared to take this risk. Especially so that they end up with no bones, not even a complete corpse left. In the end, the little devil who was forced to be helpless had no choice but to shift the target to the dozen or so remaining puppet soldiers in the bunker. However, when they saw the puppet soldiers who were cowering in the corner of the wall, trembling all over, they gave up

Eventually, a dozen Demomen. Under the cover of intensive fire from anti-aircraft machine guns, at the cost of less than a third of the soldiers' casualties, they rushed to the side of the pillbox

"Boom, boom, boom" With the sound of three huge explosions, the place where the three pillboxes were located was immediately enveloped in billowing smoke from the explosion. As the smoke slowly cleared, the three bunkers that had just stood in front of the warriors had become a pair of ruins. Together with dozens of puppet soldiers in the bunker, they were bombed back to their hometowns.

"Tick Tick Tick Tick Comrades, Rush" As the enemy in front of him who posed the greatest threat to himself was cleared. And the firepower point on the central turret of the enemy's stronghold was also suppressed by the dense firepower network on his own position. The soldiers of the two battalions, with the sound of the loud trumpet of the charge, raised their rifles, which had already been loaded with bayonets, rushed out of their positions and rushed towards the breakthrough that had already been blown up.

As for the puppet army in the stronghold, they also knew what would happen to them if they let the Eighth Route Army rush into the stronghold from the breach. More than 100 puppet soldiers, under the command of a squad leader, rushed out of the central turret and rushed towards the breakthrough. The attempt was to use the trench a few meters wide outside the breach and the favorable terrain inside the stronghold to block the attack of the fighters and block the breakthrough that was broken through by the fighters.

However, every move in the military base store has long been reflected in the eyes of Zhou Guohua, the supreme commander of the battlefield. Looking at the more than 100 puppet soldiers, they screamed and rushed towards the breakthrough they had worked so hard to open, trying to block the offensive of their own troops and plug the gap. The corners of Zhou Guohua's mouth showed a contemptuous smile.

"Battalion Commander Zhang, the puppet army in the building hasn't tasted the power of your anti-aircraft machine gun battalion? Hehe, these more than 100 puppet soldiers want to be sent to death in a hurry, then you let the soldiers send them" Zhou Guohua ordered to the commander of the anti-aircraft machine gun battalion Zhang behind him.

"Yes, Commander Zhou, don't worry, all the soldiers of our anti-aircraft machine gun battalion will definitely send this more than 100 puppet soldiers." Commander Zhang replied loudly, turned back to his command position, and began to command the battle.

(To be continued)