Chapter 14 Action Planning

Tang Lei just paused a little when he stepped out of the threshold, and finally walked out without saying a word, he knew that Zhang Lan would not tell him his true identity, but Tang Lei himself was afraid that he would not believe a person who only had one side, not to mention that Zhang Lan was still a woman. For Xie Jiaping, Tang Lei is no stranger, when he followed Zhao Zhi to seize Zhangwu County, Tang Lei followed Yan Wudao out to investigate, and he once lived in Xie Jiaping, and Yan Wudao, who was addicted to meat, also stewed a big rooster of the village chief Xie Dazhuo's family.

"Brother, to be honest, I don't know what the woman named Zhang Lan does, I just know that this woman is with a guerrilla force of the Eighth Route Army, I think she should also be a member of the Eighth Route Army" The village chief Xie Dazhuan was with Tang Lei at this time, as the village head of Xie Jiaping, Xie Dazhuan did not know Zhang Lan's actual identity, Tang Lei wanted to inquire about Zhang Lan from him, obviously in vain.

Zhang Lan's anti-reconnaissance training in Yan'an played a role, she only said that she wanted to find the village chief, but did not mention that Xie Jiaping's fortress household was Xie Dazhuan's second son, Xie Changyou, the only stonemason in the village. Tang Lei was only entangled in the issue of Zhang Lan's identity for a short time, because he received a telegram from Zhao Zhi from Xi'an, and the speed of the first legion under Zhao Zhi's strict order to speed up the march, the original two-day journey from Tang Lei will be shortened to 30 hours by Adam, that is to say, at the latest tomorrow morning, Adam will rush to Qingshiyu with the first legion.

Tang Lei and his people are ready to withdraw, before Adam arrives at Qingshiyu with the first legion, they must make all preparations before the attack at the tunnel entrance in the west of the city, the attack on Zhangwu County should be sooner rather than later, Tang Lei can only give Adam's first legion a daytime to recuperate, and the time to launch an attack on Zhangwu County will be set for the day after tomorrow. The information in the county town had been obtained from the military commanders lurking in the county town as early as Tang Lei's first day when they arrived here, and at present, the situation was quite favorable to them.

Zhao Zhi's second attack on Zhangwu County was to use the tunnels arranged in the barracks in the west of the city, Zhao Zhi killed all the Japanese puppet troops stationed in the county seat, and all the remaining living people were sent to the lurker training camp in Xi'an. So the Japanese army that later recaptured the county from the hands of the national army did not know the existence of the tunnel, and now there are more than 300 imperial troops stationed in the barracks in the west of the city, and about a squadron of Japanese soldiers are scattered in the newly built barracks around the city gate.

Firepower deployment is the necessary intelligence to deal with the attack plan, as for the list of traitors, it is purely a benefit that Tang Lei got for his brothers, and confiscating the traitor's family property is the fastest way to get money, as long as it is not too much, Zhao Zhi will generally not interfere. After Zhao Zhiqian took Zhangwu County twice, he got a lot of benefits from those traitors and wealthy people in the city, and this time Tang Lei also had the intention to follow suit, how could he not let these more than 100 brothers return disappointed.

Tang Lei is a man who forgets to eat even when he gets busy, so after receiving Zhao Zhi's telegram, Zhang Lan, who was still lying on the earthen kang, has been completely forgotten by him. Compared with the more than 100 brothers under his command, Tang Lei still values the brothers under him, at least it is his brothers who follow him into battle to kill the enemy and protect his rear wings, not the hypocritical woman.

"Our opponent this time is 300 Imperial Cooperative Army and about a squadron of Japanese troops, the intelligence officer of the military command has found out that this batch of Japanese troops is from Taiyuan, and the 300 Imperial Cooperative Army is transferred from North China, these Imperial Cooperative Army are all hardcore traitors and scum, and they have done a lot of bad things with the Japanese, so don't think that they can take the initiative to surrender, and according to the intelligence officers of the military command, the combat strength of this group of Imperial Cooperative Army is not weak, and the fifth group responsible for cleaning up the barracks should pay attention to this, my opinion is not to leave a living mouth"

"Dongkui, after entering the city at dawn the day after tomorrow, I will take the first and second groups into the city to be responsible for the assault to the city gate, you take the snipers and the brothers of the third and fourth groups to provide us with cover, and the fifth group will stay in the barracks, once the attack is ineffective, we will also evacuate the county seat from the tunnel" There is a small sand table of the county town on the table, and several team leaders under Tang Lei are in the house, and they are deducing the attack plan for Zhangwu County. Pre-war sand table deduction, this is the tradition of mercenary troops, as long as there is time and conditions, the commander in charge of the attack will call his leading officers to do this.

"We only have 150 people, if we are divided into 5 groups, the 2 groups that attack the city gate only have 60 people, and the Japanese troops stationed there have about a squadron, so we are too disadvantaged in terms of strength, right?" Zhang Dongkui was a little worried that Tang Lei only led 2 groups of Japanese troops to attack the city gate, and these 60 people would face more than 200 Japanese soldiers.

The wooden stick in Tang Lei's hand was lit on the open space outside the city gate, "You are all blind and worried, Adam's first army is not all idlers, they will be the feints outside the city gate, and our actions will be carried out at the same time as them." As long as they attract the attention of the Japanese army at the city gate, we only need to block the retreat of the Japanese army from behind, and don't you still have the third and fourth groups you bring to provide fire cover, so that the comparison between us and the Japanese army is only one to two."

"Here, here and here are the machine gun nests arranged by the Japanese army on the city wall, as long as Adam and they destroy the machine gun nests of these Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers on the city wall will be slaughtered by us, don't those snipers always complain that they don't have a chance to shoot, let them fight enough this time" Tang Lei's small wooden stick was pointed at the machine gun nests arranged by the Japanese army on the city wall in turn. Zhang Dongkui can see that Tang Lei's attack plan is completely copied from Zhao Zhi's action plan for the second sneak attack on Zhangwu County, the only difference is that the number of people who served as feints this time is a bit large, and the feint troops also have a large number of heavy machine guns and bazooka.

"This is the barracks in the west of the city" The general direction of the action was thus set, Tang Lei and the next thing they needed to discuss was some small details, this time on the table was the barracks sand table, although it was a little rough, but it could still let everyone know the barracks at a glance. Of the 150 mercenaries who followed Tang Lei to fight in front of the station this time, two-thirds were veterans, and half of these two-thirds had followed Zhao Zhi to fight Zhangwu County twice, and their understanding of the Chengxi Barracks was no worse than Tang Lei's.

"The fifth group of this attack served as the first echelon of the attack, responsible for cleaning up the imperial alliance army in the barracks, and the remaining barracks were optimistic about our retreat, the first and second groups followed me as the second echelon, and the third and fourth groups followed Dongkui as the third echelon. Once the second echelon and the third echelon encountered the enemy on the way to the city gate, Dongkui's third echelon was responsible for diverting the enemy's firepower and providing convenience for the second echelon led by me" Tang Lei's small wooden stick outlined a route on the sand table in the county seat, and he still used the same route as Zhao Zhi last time, of course, it was also the closest route from the barracks to the city gate.

"Judging from the information provided by the intelligence officer of the military command, the Japanese puppet army occupying the county town has not made any changes to the barracks in the west of the city, so we will follow the steps that Mr. did last time. 10 minutes before the start of the operation, the first echelon of men must be in place and wait under the exit of the tunnel, as soon as the attack time is up, Adam's side will bombard the Japanese machine gun nest on the city wall with Bazooka according to the plan, and the explosion is the signal for the attack. After the first echelon began to clear the barracks of the Imperial Allied Army, the second echelon and the third echelon in the middle of the tunnel were waiting to rush to the city gate as soon as possible, and the engineer team destroyed their radio station as soon as possible and cut off their contact with the other Japanese troops."

Tang Lei's subordinates expressed their opinions and supplemented the entire raid plan more perfectly, Zhao Zhi's last plan was completed in a hurry, and there were still many deficiencies, after everyone's supplementation, this plan appeared more perfect. The last time they stole into Zhangwu County from the tunnel, they encountered the Japanese army on the middle of the road, and the veterans still remember it vividly, they only had 150 people this time, and they had to put the handling of emergencies in the first place.

In their supplementary plan, each group is equipped with a bazooka, and if they encounter a confrontation with the Japanese on the way, the powerful bazooka will be their weapon to clear the way. The supremacy of firepower has always been a magic weapon for mercenaries to defeat strong enemies, as long as Zhangwu County is occupied, the follow-up ammunition will be continuously sent here by planes, so Tang Lei and they don't have to worry about the consumption of ammunition.

When Tang Lei and Zhang Dongkui convened a meeting of several mercenary team leaders, the mercenaries below had already guessed that there would be action soon, and the veterans naturally had indifferent faces, just packed up their things in an orderly manner and seized the time to maintain their weapons and equipment. The dozen or so novices who came out with them were a little idle, Lu Xiaobo was better, and he always knew how to maintain weapons and equipment like veterans, and the other novices just got together to chat and brag to pass the time.

Tang Lei, who came out of the meeting, took a full view of the performance of the novices, but none of these veterans reprimanded them, not everyone in the mercenary force can enter, and survival of the fittest is the only law. What should be taught to them has already been taught in the training camp, and the survival skills on the battlefield can only be learned and honed by themselves, the veterans are not their nannies, and they are not obliged to take care of these novices, and they have to rely on themselves if they want to stay in the mercenary army.