Chapter 317: Mountain Battle

The soldiers of the two platoons, more than 80 young men, each of whom was a long and a short guy, in addition to this, each carried a five-kilogram explosive bag according to the requirements of the company commander, and set off under the cover of night under the muffled command of the regiment commander. Where are the novels updated the fastest? Please look for the biquge.info of Aishang Novel Network

Under the gazes of Li Yong, Wang Chengde and others, the soldiers followed behind Li Yuming and quickly disappeared into the vast night.

According to the terrain that had been reconnoitred in advance, it didn't take long for the soldiers of the two platoons to go around to a large area of bushes on the back of Laoshan Mountain, and looking at the dark and flickering mountain, Li Yuming gave the first order: "All of them, rest in place, no smoking, no exposure of targets." ”

The soldiers could understand the company commander's order not to expose the target, but they didn't understand what it meant to let them rest in place, so some soldiers asked in a low voice: "Company commander, this mountain is right under our noses, what else to rest, go up and catch the enemy, and do it quickly." ”

Li Yuming glared at the soldier: "I know a piece of shit, and I still go up to do ***, what are we doing?" We're here for a sneak attack, do you know like you that it's still called a sneak attack regardless of the indiscriminate fighting? ”

If you want to say that it is also beneficial to follow Li Yong often, these young people who didn't know anything a year ago know tactics today, and Li Yuming is even more so, he has grown into an excellent grassroots commander.

The soldier who was stinky by Li Yuming smiled and asked again: "I know, or our company commander understands more, so when will we start doing it?" Gotta have sometime, right? ”

While the soldier was questioning, he heard a rumbling explosion from the direction of Yan'an, not far away, and shells rained down in all directions, the night sky was red, and the entire city of Yan'an seemed to be shrouded in an explosion.

Li Yuming looked at the table below, the hour hand pointed to eight o'clock in the evening, the Northwest Field Army's general attack on Yan'an began, more than a year ago, the troops withdrawn from Yan'an returned, but it was not only those who came back, the remaining old soldiers were basically commanders at all levels in the troops.

Looking at the artillery fire in the sky, the soldiers cheered in a low voice: "It's our artillery, it's our artillery, we also have so many cannons, good guys, it's really amazing, such a bombing, the Kuomintang soldiers have to pee their pants." ”

A few soldiers in the guard company were really right, and the Kuomintang defenders guarding the south of Yan'an City were almost without peeing their pants, and they were all scared all over: "What's the matter, when did the Eighth Road have so many cannons?" How can this still be warn? I don't think we're going to have to let the shells blow up before the Eighth Road rushes up. ”

Is it normal to fight, who is bombed, but the experience of the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army is different from other troops, they used to be the masters of the artillery, and now they have their own artillery, such a change is also a huge encouragement to the morale of the troops, which soldier does not want his troops to be strong?

At the foot of Lao Mountain, at the headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Li Yong listened to the violent explosion from the direction of Yan'an, and shouted into the microphone of the walkie-talkie: "Start." ”

The fighters of the three infantry battalions, under the cover of explosions and night, little by little, touched the defensive positions of the Kuomintang in Laoshan.

Originally, the independent regiment did not have to be so cautious in fighting, and it would save a lot of trouble to use artillery to aim at the enemy first, and then attack it, but now it is not possible, Gao Xiang's howitzer battalion is attacking the city, and the independent regiment has to use all infantry.

Li Yong stood in the concealment department dug by Xiaocheng's engineer company and kept looking in the direction of the attacking troops with a telescope, and Wang Chengde, the political commissar standing beside him, saw the tension in the regiment commander's heart, why? In the dark, the telescopes at that time did not have infrared night vision function, so what can be seen from this view? Wang Chengde was a very careful commander, and at this time he asked with a smile: "Dayong, are you nervous?" ”

Li Yong knew that his inner activities were seen by Wang Chengde, and he couldn't help but secretly admire the old political workers of that era: "Yes, Lao Wang, the order given to us by the commander is that the battle must end tonight, we only have one night to attack, once our regiment loses the attack, it will have an impact on the deployment of the entire campaign, I am really not at ease." ”

Wang Chengde: "The battle plan is in place, all kinds of preparations are also complete, there is nothing great if there is no artillery, didn't we fight without artillery in the past?" It's not like we're just beating the little devils and the Kuomintang, but we have to believe in our fighters, they will create a miracle. ”

As if to verify Wang Chengde's words, as soon as he finished speaking, a dull explosion sounded from the direction of Laoshan, followed by the sound of intensive shooting of various guns, from the explosion just now, Li Yong and Wang Chengde could hear that this was the sound of the explosion of the five-kilogram explosive package of the independent regiment, and the sound came from the right side of the attack direction, no need to ask, the fifth battalion of He Cuihua, who was responsible for attacking from the right side, was the first to start the fifth battalion.

At about the same time that the 5th Battalion began to attack, the 3rd Battalion on the left and the 4th Battalion on the front also began to attack the top of the hill, and the blasting of explosives rang out one after another.

The Kuomintang Laoshan defenders are not bad goods, they all know the importance of this hilltop position, so they were sent by He Wending is also a very capable force, at the beginning because they did not find that the soldiers of the independent regiment who attacked suffered a small loss, and then immediately reacted.

The guns in the pillboxes and trenches were fired downwards point by point, because the line of attack was full of dead corners that could dodge the shooting, and the bullets were not very threatening to the soldiers, and the most annoying thing was the grenades that were constantly thrown, densely packed everywhere, and it was impossible to see where they were thrown from in the dark, and they only knew when they exploded nearby, but then casualties were inevitable.

Fortunately, the attack team of the independent regiment is very sparse, every three fighters have a combat group, three combat groups deal with a pillbox, one group attacks two groups of cover, and the casualties are still within the bearable range, just like that, the soldiers gnaw upwards little by little with bullets and grenades, and have to rely on explosives without artillery cover, and the independent regiment prepared a large number of explosives packs before the battle, which really came in handy at this time.

The fifth battalion was placed in the rightmost attack position, which was a hard-fought mountain attack, and He Cuihua, a young commander, did not dare to be sloppy at all, and sent his soldiers to attack and advance upwards in platoons, covering the fire under his own direct command and supporting at any time.

Don't look at the rush to grab the task, this girl is very hot, as soon as the battle starts, the mind must calm down, this is a must-have for an excellent commander, He Cuihua, who has experienced the test of many wars, is fully qualified for this position, and is an outstanding commander.

The most economical combat unit of the independent regiment is the platoon level, each platoon has about 80 people, and the armament is very complete, and it is a combat unit that can fight alone.

According to the content of the training, the soldiers are deployed in a front trapezoidal shape (the front trapezoidal shape can facilitate the covering fire behind them to prevent accidental injury), and each combat group is placed in a triangular row, and the three combat groups are a relatively large triangular row, which is composed of several large triangular rows into a platoon attack line, which is the standard platoon attack method of the independent regiment, and it is also a method that has been practiced countless times in peacetime.

The platoon commander was in the middle and back, and not too far to his flanks were the reinforced heavy machine-gun and mortar positions of the battalion.

Every time a firing point was found, the fighters quickly lay down, and then the two combat teams responsible for covering desperately suppressed the enemy's fire in the stronghold, and the attack team surrounded it from three sides, and blew up the firing point with the explosives bags they carried with them.

Behind each attack platoon there are several anti-aircraft machine guns reinforced by the regiment, the anti-aircraft machine guns are responsible for dealing with the enemy's crossfire, and the crossfire poses the greatest threat to the attacking fighters, so from the beginning of the battle, these high-caliber machine guns have not been idle, and the large-caliber machine gun shells are constantly firing, and the unique, "oh-oh-oh" shooting sound is mixed with the explosion of the explosive pack is particularly clear.

The anti-aircraft machine gun shooters constantly moved the firing position forward, and as long as the front was cleared a little, they moved a little, and He Cuihua's order to them was that as long as they found that the enemy's fire was fierce and our attack was suppressed, they would shoot fiercely, and they must cover the enemy from the firepower, knock out the enemy's arrogance, and let the enemy in Laoshan see what the firepower of the People's Liberation Army is.

There are more than 20 anti-aircraft machine guns assigned to the fifth battalion (Wei Gang's machine gun battalion has more than 60 anti-aircraft machine guns, most of which were captured from the reserve base in Baoji, and the average score for the three attack battalions is more than 20 in each battalion.

"Don't look at the fact that we don't have heavy artillery cover, we can also suppress the firepower of your Kuomintang, our independent regiment is not another army, no one can be an opponent in terms of firepower."

He Cuihua unfolded his five infantry platoons in turn, and the remaining platoons followed closely as support forces, and the attacking troops needed a large number of explosive packs, and the soldiers could not carry more, so the soldiers in these platoons responsible for support each carried several on their backs.

From the very beginning of the attack, the fifth battalion used all its strength, He Cuihua did not leave any reserves, the whole battalion went together, and even she and her guard squad went to the front line.