Yang Zhen's telegram that stopped Wang Guangyu's next move was simple. Only two sentences were written. The first is to order Wang Guangyu to do his best to end the war on the front line of Wang Duzitun. The second is to directly sue him that after the first regiment solves the enemy in front of Fuguitun, it will immediately return to the establishment. At the same time, the reinforcements allocated to the 1st Brigade will arrive with the 1st Regiment at a later date.

Looking at Yang Zhen's telegram, Wang Guangyu, who immediately understood that this was the commander's next step, was afraid that he would make a big move, and he didn't dare to mess around. In addition to handing over the remnants of Sugino's troops to the Second Regiment, he honestly stopped and made a temporary adjustment to his troops before the arrival of the replenishment.

Originally, Wang Guangyu thought that with the strength of the two existing battalions of the Second Regiment, he would eat the remnants of less than two squadrons of the Japanese army now trapped in the small village of Wang Duzitun. He didn't expect that Ma Fengqi, the head of the second regiment, was fighting extremely unsmoothly.

Compared with the villages in Guannei, the scale of Wang Duzitun is indeed not large. However, this village was a large group of tribes formed by the relocation of residents from the mountainous areas of western Yubara after the Japanese army took the relocation of the settlements and households. In order to cut off the common people from the anti-Japanese coalition in the mountainous area west of Yubara, the Japanese army built a tall and strong wall here.

As an outpost for the blockade of the Resistance League, it is different from other group tribes made of rammed earth. The wall was built entirely of granite poured with concrete. Not only tall, but also extremely sturdy. Ninety-millimeter mortar shells hit it like tickling.

In addition to the high-powered direct-aim artillery, the infantry guns and light and heavy mortars equipped with the Second Regiment were really limited in their lethality to this wall. Moreover, the Japanese army has less than two squadrons, although the strength of the army is definitely not much, but that refers to the combat soldiers and even the infantry alone.

However, its firepower is not thin, not only the number of machine guns and grenadiers is quite large. In particular, there were as many as 12 heavy machine guns. And it has always been the location of Sugino's headquarters, and the ammunition reserves here are also extremely abundant. There is nothing wrong with holding on for at least three days.

Rely on strong fortifications, a large number of light and heavy machine guns, plus a stubborn will to resist. At this time, they had all shrunk into the remnants of the Japanese army in Wang Duzitun Village, and gave Ma Fengqi and his two solidarity a solid lesson in what is called attacking fortifications.

Originally, Ma Fengqi did not treat the Japanese army who shrank into Wang Fool Tun as a dish. In Ma Fengqi's view, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army in front of him is indeed strong, but with its main force already eaten, how much wind can the remnants of less than two squadrons still be defeated? His overindulgence also affected his own troops. The 2nd Regiment did not even carefully survey the terrain before attacking.

Ma Fengqi's careless result was that he was hit the head, and this stick beat the second group to the head and bleed. A company that took the lead in the attack was completely wiped out by the Japanese army in the frontal firing area of Wangduzitun, and was subjected to intensive strafing by more than 10 light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army and four infantry guns that had been moved up to the wall.

A fully loaded infantry company, without even touching the edge of the wall, was forced to retreat with two-thirds of the casualties. And the people who retreated, including those with injuries, were only more than 50 people.

Seeing that he was disabled like this without even using his strength for a complete infantry company, Ma Fengqi's eyes turned red, and he scolded his mother in distress. can scold the mother and scold the mother, and the problem will still be solved after all. Just scolding my mother here won't solve any problems.

Ma Fengqi, who had calmed down, raised his binoculars and carefully observed the deployment of the Japanese army in Wang Duzitun, only to realize how much mistake he had made in the previous light enemy, and at the same time felt fortunate that he did not invest too many troops in the first wave of attacks.

The Japanese put 80 percent of the forces they had on hand for battle into the walls, and 100 percent of the heavy weapons. Coupled with the well-trained Japanese army's own accurate marksmanship, the entire Wang Fool Tun is now like a hedgehog spewing tongues of fire everywhere.

And the thickness of the wall of Wang Duzitun is obviously different from that of the group tribes he fought before, although it is not built of reinforced concrete. But apparently the large granite stones are no worse than the solid ones of concrete. Ninety-millimeter mortar shells tickle when they hit it. Even if a 120-mm mortar shell hits, it will not have much effect. What kind of wall is this? It can be compared to the walls of those small county towns in Guannai.

Ma Fengqi, who lacked direct-aim artillery, hesitated for a long time, but still hung up a phone call to Wang Guangyu, hoping to get the support of the field artillery battalion that the headquarters had strengthened to the 1st Brigade before the war. Although this wall cannot be harmed by mortar shells, it will not be impregnable in the face of 75-millimeter field artillery, although it cannot be like paper paste.

It's just Wang Guangyu's reply, but it made Ma Fengqi feel like he was poured a basin of cold water from head to toe. The reinforced field artillery battalion shells at HQ had been depleted in the previous battle. Now before the new reinforcement from the headquarters arrived, the field artillery battalion was left without a single shell.

Although Wang Guangyu's words were very tactful, the meaning was clearly expressed. He told Ma Fengqi that the second regiment wanted to take down this fire hedgehog, and they had to find their own way. Artillery support, don't think about it anymore. At least until new artillery shells are delivered at headquarters, artillery support will not be possible, as in the previous days' fighting.

Putting down the phone in his hand, Ma Fengqi, who knew that there could be no more artillery support, looked back at the wall that could harvest human lives at any time, but he felt a big headache. Without artillery support, how many people would have to take down this wall? Think more about it? What do you think? You can't bite on that two-person tall stone wall, right?

looked at Ma Fengqi, who was like a vicious wolf encircled in the house, grinding back and forth with red eyes. At the request of Yang Zhen, as a member of the political work cadres who have just been transferred from the central government. Selected from the 129th Division of Yang Zhen's old unit, he served as the deputy director of the regimental administration department and the instructor of the main battalion when he was in the Red Army.

As a veteran political worker, Huang Guanglie, who replaced the former political commissar of the Second Regiment who was transferred to the head of the Propaganda and Education Section of the Political Department of the Military Region at this time, and served as the political commissar of the Second Regiment, was very steady. He smiled and said, "Old Ma, don't be too anxious. If you think about it carefully, there will still be one after all. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Guanglie pondered for a moment and said: "During the Long March, because all the heavy weapons had been lost, we could only use our brains to think more when attacking the fortifications. Without the support of heavy weapons, this battle must be fought when it should be fought. Could it be that without the support of heavy weapons, we would not have fought a war? ”

"I just took a look, and this devil is very cunning. When we were shrinking our forces, we cleared all the 300-meter shooting range around the entire village, and we didn't even have a single tree left. If we want to attack, it will be difficult to reach the distance of 300 meters under such dense fire from the devils. ”

"But it's hard to get through on the ground, but it's not necessarily impossible to get through underground. Without the fire of the direct-aim artillery to help us blow up this wall, don't we still have the explosives distributed and captured by our superiors, and we can use them to blow up the wall. The yield of explosives might as well be larger, even if it doesn't kill them, it can stun them. ”

Hearing this, Ma Fengqi looked at the political commissar who was still very unfamiliar to him, and said a little confused: "How to go underground, is it difficult for us to drill a mouse hole." My commissar, don't say no, even if there is a rat hole now, a person of our age can't get through it. ”

Hearing Ma Fengqi's words, Huang Guanglie smiled and squatted down, asked the guards beside him to put the kettle on the ground, and drew a big circle outside the kettle with a branch, and then said a little heavier outside the circle: "Regiment leader, you see this is Wang Fool Tun, this circle is the shooting boundary that the devil has now cleared." This is where we are. ”

"In other words, we are only three hundred meters away from the little devil in a straight line. If we dig a few tunnels in our existing location, dig directly under the devil's wall and plant explosives. If we don't have time, we don't even need to dig a fully concealed tunnel, as long as one person is tall enough to cover our attacking troops. ”

"The light and heavy machine guns of the devils are erected on the wall more than two people high, and as long as we go underground, it will be difficult for the little devils' fire to hit us. Our mortars can't break down the wall, but they can cover the troops' advances. Besides, we can also light something and cover the troops with smoke. ”

Speaking of this, Huang Guanglie said: "Old Ma, our troops are much better now than when we were on the Long March. Everyone has plenty of bullets, and the number of light and heavy machine guns in your regiment is not comparable to even a brigade of the national army. There are also light and heavy mortars, infantry guns, grenadiers, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc., which are unimaginable in both the former Red Army and the current Eighteenth Group Army in the Guannai. It's the Second Route Army of the Anti-United Nations before you, I'm afraid you haven't thought about it, right? ”

"But what the brigade commander said just now is not wrong. It's a good thing that the troops are equipped. But we must not develop the habit of relying on firepower to solve everything, we are not so generous. Before the military industry has enough support capacity, we must change this habit. It cannot be without the cover of artillery fire that there will be no war. ”

Ma Fengqi didn't listen to the words of Huang Guanglie's preaching at all, but the novel tactics in front of him aroused his great interest. This political commissar has only been in office for a few days, and although the two sides are not too familiar with each other, Ma Fengqi can see that his new partner is definitely not a simple character. At first glance, it is a battle-hardened character. As soon as this comes up, I will surprise myself.

The more he pondered, the more he felt that the idea proposed by Huang Guanglie was very likely to be realized, and after pondering for a long time, Ma Fengqi stood up, patted the dust on his hands, and said, "Political commissar, I think your method is feasible." But we don't have enough wood on hand right now, and it's too late to find it.

"I'll just get a few semi-hidden trenches that are one person deep, a distance of three hundred meters, transfer a few companies plus a direct engineer company, and I will see the devil who can definitely dig under the wall before dark. At the same time, two heavy machine guns and a mortar were deployed in the rear of each trench to cover them. Suppress grenadiers and machine guns for imps. ”

After that, Ma Fengqi called the three battalion commanders and several directly subordinate company commanders of the regiment over, and directly used the formation set up by Huang Guanglie to divide each of the three battalions into a piece and said: "Your three battalions are evenly spread out for Lao Tzu to advance together, one by one. The sappers even prepared all the explosives for Lao Tzu and sent 500 catties to each battalion. ”

"At the same time, light and heavy machine guns and mortars are all advanced to me, suppressing the devil fire on the wall to the death, and we must ensure the safety of the troops' excavation. The political commissar is right, your mortars can't blow up the wall, is it possible that you can't even suppress the fire of the devils on the wall? ”

"This time, there is no main attack or assist, that company is the first to dig under the wall, blast the wall first, and that company is the main attack. This time, Lao Tzu is smashing the pot and selling iron. Grandma's, a regiment can't even eat the devils of less than two squadrons, what the fuck do we have to meet people? ”

Ma Fengqi changed his tactics, but it made Yan Dazuo Sugino, dumbfounded. When the opponent came to make such a move, all of them went underground, so that all his light and heavy machine guns and other direct firepower instantly became useless. The only grenadiers had time to shoot a few shots, and they were either sent to the sky by the mortars that the opponent had already targeted, or they were either killed or maimed by the opponent's snipers.

Looking at the pits that the opponent was getting deeper and deeper, Sugino's cold sweat came down in an instant. If they don't try to stop their opponents' actions, at this rate, they will be able to hit their noses before it gets dark. But apart from mobilizing troops to attack, Sugino Yan Dazuo couldn't think of any other way at all.

Gritting his teeth, Sugino Yan Daisa, who really couldn't think of a countermeasure, dispatched two infantry squads and rushed out, trying to destroy the opponent's tunnel fortifications. It's just that the opponent's firepower has already been aimed, and as soon as the gate of the wall on his side is opened, the opponent's light and heavy machine guns mixed with mortar shells swept over like a storm. Before the two teams could approach the tunnel, they were beaten back.

Seeing that the two teams that were still full at the time of departure, but less than half of them came back, Sugino Yan completely dispelled the idea of destroying the opponent's tunnel fortifications. He knew that his opponents were now eager to get out of the fortifications and fight them. As soon as you break away from the existing fortifications, your opponent will calmly destroy you.

In desperation, Sugino Yan could only increase his firepower, and tried his best to use firepower to stop the opponent's extremely shameless and non-bushido tactical implementation. But no matter how many machine guns there are, the bullets fired will not turn, and the ability to stop the opponent is really limited. The Japanese soldiers on the wall just watched the opponent almost calmly dig the tunnel under their noses, but they couldn't do anything.