Zhao Sanbao and Ling Kaishan's Zhangfang Independent Regiment have not been idle in the past year.

Because the two of them may have nothing to do, they became landlords and bought a lot of land. The old local landlords who did not sell their land eventually disappeared without a trace.

Because of this, starting last autumn, from Huoshan Village in the west to the east, passing through Gaojiazhuang and Jiajiazhuang, to Zhangjiazhuang in the east, there were four emerging large landowners in a straight line of 10 kilometers.

These four big landowners popped up overnight, and then began to "build water conservancy". It seems that there is going to be a lot of irrigation of farmland, but the locals don't understand it very well anyway. Not only do the locals not understand, but even if the water conservancy experts come, they will not understand very well.

Because these four landlords joined forces, hired people everywhere in the winter, and even built three irrigation canals in one go. It is common to build irrigation canals on the plains, but the distance between the three irrigation canals is only 100 meters, which is outrageous.

What's even more outrageous is that these four landlords are all good people. Maybe I was afraid that some cat or dog would fall into the irrigation canal and have an accident, so I didn't hesitate to pull back a lot of big trees from the old mountain that one person couldn't hold, and covered all the irrigation canals.

After the four landlords covered the irrigation canal with logs, they brought back the excavated soil and covered it with logs.

In the end, the fellows have seen it for a long time.

No, the soil was ready, and the four big landowners planted wheat on the irrigation canal again. Later, several heavy snowfalls fell in succession, and outsiders did not know that there were three "fine-repaired" irrigation canals underground.

"Toss, toss." The local boss held a dry tobacco pouch in his mouth and said indignantly: "Although you can save land by building irrigation canals in this way, in order to get back such a big tree, you don't want to earn back the money you spent in 20 years." ”

Time is a good thing, it can make people forget a lot of things.

After the beginning of spring, the wheat reappeared in people's sight, and every qiē was so harmonious. After a long time, people slowly forgot that there were once people in this area who built irrigation canals.

It was also in this season that the bandits violated the rules and appeared again in the spring, and they were also the "spirit fairy aunts" who made this realm smell and change.

The current Lingxian Gu is amazing.

As soon as she came out this time, she didn't rob the people, but grabbed the train station. He also did not rob property, but only robbed spare rails and sleepers. Start from the Gaobeidian Railway Station in the north, and then there is Dingxing Railway Station and Xushui Railway Station. After snatching all the spare rails and sleepers, the "Lingxian Gu" disappeared again.

The locals were puzzled: "Could it be that the bandits are also building railways now?" If the railway in the cottage is repaired, is it still inconvenient for the officials and troops to enter the mountain to encircle and suppress? ”

No matter how the locals couldn't figure it out, anyway, after the 6th Division that sneaked up on the little devils, the reconnaissance battalion, machine gun battalion, and cavalry battalion interspersed with each other all ended up in the irrigation canal.

Now, the reconnaissance battalion and cavalry battalion have gone out, and Ke Yuxin has taken his machine-gun battalion of more than 700 people, and now they are staying in the "irrigation canal".

It turned out that Zhao Sanbao and Ling Kaishan used the railroad tracks and sleepers snatched back from Hua Ruyue and Mo Fengjiao's women's barracks to secretly build 75 strong fortresses in three irrigation canals, which are now heavy machine gun positions.

The shooting holes of each bunker are only 40 centimeters above the ground. The construction of the "irrigation canal" and the subsequent return of the earth were intended to hide the three trenches and to clear the fire zone for heavy machine-gun positions.

After some adjustments, these 75 bunkers are very inconspicuous, forming a gentle slope echelon structure from north to south, and the southernmost third trench bunker is 50 centimeters higher than the northernmost trench bunker.

After the three trenches were reburied, there were no more migrant workers, so their own soldiers rebuilt the construction and opened up the communication trenches between the trenches. Of course, the construction of heavy machine-gun fortifications every night was also done by the fighters themselves.

In the middle of each trench is a main fort, which is also a cantonment cave and command post. The last time Wei Chong snatched the phone back from Zhenhai, all of them were used here. Inside the third trench, the westernmost bunker is a generator set that provides lighting for the three trenches.

There are 75 bunkers, and each bunker has 4 Makqin heavy machine guns, which are controlled in four directions. That is, in the trenches, which are 10 kilometers long from east to west, a total of 300 heavy machine guns were concentrated, 100 for each trench.

This construction plan was secretly given to him by Bai Shujie when he came out of Chengde after Zhao Sanbao was appointed as the head of the Zhangfang Independent Regiment.

As for the heavy machine guns, all of them were bought by Ling Kaishan from the "Jin merchants". According to Ling Kaishan's statement: "I worked hard to rob the house and buy something, and the boss farted and it was all gone." ”

"The enemy is still three kilometers away from us, and two platoons in a row are in the first trench. There are 25 bunkers, each of which contains two people to operate heavy machine guns to form a fire support point. ”

Ke Yuxin sat in the big pillbox in the middle of the second trench, holding the telephone and shouting: "The rest of the people spread out along the trench and use light machine guns to see the opportunity. Remember, don't let the enemy get closer than 200 meters, but don't beat the enemy too hard. ”

Press Ke Yu's new machine gun battalion to block the attack here, and don't mention it for the time being.

It is said that Wei Chong's Rao'an Independent Division was all dispatched, and finally after the 6th Division of the Little Devil entered Qingyuan County and announced the occupation of Baoding, all of them entered the starting position of the attack in concealment.

The specific deployment is: Cao Renhou's infantry regiment, three full-fledged infantry battalions, 2,480 people. The squad supported fire, which was 3 light machine guns and 2 howitzers, and the regimental headquarters was located in Xiaohouzhuang;

Liu Kui's heavy machine gun regiment (lacking a light machine gun battalion, there is also a heavy machine gun battalion, an anti-aircraft machine gun battalion), the regiment headquarters is in Yanzhuang, north of the infantry regiment;

Ding Dakui's artillery regiment (lacking heavy artillery battalion and field artillery battalion, only mountain artillery battalion, mortar battalion, and baggage battalion) was located in Huangtuo Village, southwest of the infantry regiment.

This time, Cao Renhou served as the commander-in-chief of the main siege force of the Eastern Group, and there were 2,480 people in three battalions of the infantry regiment. In addition, the mortar battalion belonging to the Ding Dakui Artillery Regiment has 746 people in three mortar companies. The heavy machine gun battalion belonging to Liu Kui's heavy machine gun regiment has 746 people in three companies.

Including the communications company, plus Cao Renhou's guard company, the total strength of the attacking force of the Eastern Group was 4,000 men. His task is to undertake the attack in the south and east of the county, and pull out the stronghold of the little devil outside the city.

Cao Renhou was a third battalion commander under the 129th Division of the former Northeast Army. He was bent on fighting the little devil, but unfortunately he didn't have a chance. Later, Bai Shujie went to Xiongxian, Raoyang, and Anping to suppress bandits, and after Cao Renhou broke away from the Northeast Army, he was absorbed by Bai Shujie.

Later, the Rao'an Independent Regiment was formed, and Cao Renhou could still only be the commander of the third battalion. However, the troops under his command have changed from more than 340 people to 746 people. When the Rao'an Independent Division was formed, Cao Renhou served as the commander of the infantry regiment.

Cao Renhou was the oldest in Wei Chong's independent division and the one who had been in the army for the longest time. Therefore, Wei Chong did not let Wang Sanju, deputy division commander and chief of staff, serve as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Group, but ordered Cao Renhou to assume the task of commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

As for the deputy division commander Wang Sanju, he specially coordinated the artillery regiment and the machine gun regiment to go all out and cooperate with the coordinated operation of the attack cluster. The other is a medical battalion, ready to receive the seriously wounded from all sides. Minor injuries are not in the line of fire, and they will not be accepted here.

Wang Sanju is a fierce general under Bai Shujie, who usually doesn't talk much and smiles at the "smiling tiger". If any of the eight kings and calves disobey the peck, and dare to disobey the order, he will definitely cut it first and then play it, and will not show mercy.

Cao Renhou was first relieved of heavy responsibilities, and he was also able to command the deputy division commander, so his tactical arrangements were stable and unhurried.

As soon as the front-line artillery rang out, Cao Renhou gave the first order: "The 1st Infantry Battalion immediately sent a company, reinforced with a mortar platoon (9 mortars) and a heavy machine gun platoon (6 heavy machine guns) to rush north. Kill the devils of the Cao River Railway Bridge squad and blow up the railway bridge. Then build fortifications on the spot and prepare to block the enemy on the front line of Xushui's reinforcements. ”

The second order: "The 1st Infantry Battalion leaves no reserves, and the remaining two companies, each reinforced with a mortar platoon and a heavy machine-gun platoon, one company to seize the silver village to the west, and one squadron to defend the army; Another company seized Jiaozhuang to the west, with a squadron and a brigade headquarters in it. Then all in place to organize defenses. ”

The third order: "The 2nd Infantry Battalion strengthened a mortar company and a heavy machine gun company, and quickly moved south to the line of Qingbao." With the cooperation of the mountain artillery battalion, annihilated a brigade of little devils in Huang Village. Then he went straight to the south gate of the county seat, preparing to fight for the city wall and seize the south gate. ”

The fourth order: "The 3rd Infantry Battalion, reinforced by a mortar company and a heavy machine-gun company, immediately after the attack of the 1st Infantry Battalion, crossed the enemy's blocking line and went straight to the moat outside the east gate of the county town." Then let the enemy's wall fire point be exposed, and then call in artillery fire to destroy it and capture the east gate. ”

The final mobilization was: "Brothers, Lao Tzu sent out all the troops, leaving a guard company to protect the girls of the communication company. Therefore, you must complete your respective tasks, and there are no reinforcements here. The commander-in-chief has made it very clear that even if the entire independent division is completely wiped out, it is absolutely not allowed to take half a step back. Now let's do it. ”

Four orders were issued, and the troops were deployed. Cao Renhou still had a large force of 4,000 people under his command just now, and now there is only one guard company, an artillery platoon, and a heavy machine gun platoon, plus more than 100 girls in the communication company, which is less than 600 people, which is about the same as the commander of the light pole.

The company of the 1st Infantry Battalion that captured the Cao River Railway Bridge was the most smooth, and soon killed a squad of devils, and also blew up the iron bridge, cutting off the reinforcement route on the Xushui line.

After receiving the news, the commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion immediately ordered the other two companies to make a rapid attack and launch an "encirclement and blocking attack" against Yinzhuang and Jiaozhuang in front of them.

Yes, these two companies are going to use their own flesh and blood to forcibly tear a hole in the enemy front that is connected together, and then use a loose encirclement to divide the little devil into two parts and temporarily surround them.

Because the first task of the 1st Infantry Battalion was to open a passage for the 3rd Infantry Battalion, so that they could cross the enemy's outer lines and strike directly at the enemy's deep walls.

In order to gain time, the peripheral war and the siege war must start at the same time, and this is the battle plan formulated by Cao Renhou of "the black tiger digs out the heart and strikes to the death".

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.