The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 203 Dream or Nightmare

... Soon, Captain Tanimura knew how wrong he was. This is not a dream, it is clearly a nightmare.

Around five o'clock, or how long it will take for the sky and earth to reappear, so the night at this moment is getting darker and darker.

It's not that you can't see your fingers, but when you look out at a glance, the surroundings are dark, and you can't see anything clearly at a little distance.

Tanimura, who quickly assembled the troops, led the Japanese and puppet troops, preparing to rush to the front-line machine gun fortifications to garrison.

When rushing out of the bungalow area of ​​the stronghold, Tanimura saw an explosion in the outer barbed wire area.

The power of the explosion was very violent. Through the faint sky, Tanimura saw three or four large gaps in the barbed wire outside the stronghold during the big explosion.

The area where the gap is located just avoided the minefield laid by the stronghold.

This is the usual method used by the Eighth Route Army when attacking strongholds. They would use explosives to blow open the barbed wire in advance, and then launch a charge. Tanimura subconsciously thought that the Eighth Route Army was about to launch a fierce attack. .

Under the emergency command of Tanimura, the Japanese and puppet troops took their positions. The machine gunners stayed on the machine gun fortifications, and the riflemen crawled behind the circular fortifications. The Eighth Route Army in the periphery carried out fire bombardment.

The two gun towers have also received urgent orders from Tan Cun and are ready to fight at any time. Each gun tower has six light machine guns, a total of twelve light machine guns.

All defensive preparations are fully in place.

It didn't take more than 3 minutes from Gucun waking up in a daze to rushing to the fortifications. Looking at the stronghold still in his hands and the tight defense around him, he was relieved.

only……

What about the Eighth Route Army?

It was pitch black outside the stronghold, and even the large wattage searchlight in the stronghold still couldn't dispel the darkness.

The previous big explosion had just stopped, and the barbed wire fence around the stronghold had been blown to pieces, not enough to become an obstacle to stop the Eighth Route Army from attacking.

……

in the dark.

Commander Li Yunlong's eyes were calm and terrifying, but also sharp and terrifying.

At the beginning of the battle, the astonishing explosion destroyed the barbed wire fence around the stronghold, and at the same time awakened all the Japanese and puppet troops.

Estimating that the Japanese and puppet troops had almost reached the outer fortification area, Li Yunlong gave the order to fire without hesitation.

boom -

The grenadier firepower lined up began to bombard.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold fell into a fatal disadvantage in an instant.

The reason is very simple, the battle broke out suddenly, and the eyes were dark again. The Eighth Route Army, which suddenly attacked the big stronghold, was not even clear where the eighth route army was outside the stronghold.

But the situation on Li Yunlong's side was quite the opposite. To attack the devil's stronghold, according to the rules of the Eighth Route Army, intelligence comes first, which is a must.

Before the attack on the stronghold, Li Yunlong had already done his homework.

Regarding the firepower configuration and defense situation of the Yangquan stronghold, and even where the devils usually place their grenade positions, Li Yunlong has studied everything clearly, and even launched a harassing feint to confirm the situation.

For the Japanese army, the dark night covered their sight and became a fatal wound, but for Li Yunlong's attacking troops, there was no major obstacle at all, and instead it became an excellent cover.

For example, after successfully blasting the devil's outer barbed wire before, why didn't Li Yunlong give the order to attack immediately after the explosion, but gave the devil a full 2 ​​minutes of breathing time until the little devil transferred his troops to the fortifications. Order to fire?
Because the devils hide in the gun towers, sleep in the bungalows in the stronghold, and are protected by buildings, so it is not so easy to kill.

And if the little devils are gathered together, it will be much easier to deal with!
Without further ado, Li Yunlong ordered grenade launchers to bombard, and suddenly attacked the devil's fortifications with curved firepower.

The target of the attack, including the area where the devils set up the grenade.

Wang Chengzhu and the howitzer almost kept the location of the target in mind. These two master gunners took the command, and this side was bombarded with covering artillery fire.

A round of artillery fire covered, and in the deafening sound of artillery fire, the Japanese squadron leader Gu Village was dumbfounded!

He saw with his own eyes that the grenadier positions 50 meters behind the machine gun fortifications were the first to bear the brunt of being directly hit by shells from the Eighth Route Army.

Amidst the sound of intensive artillery fire, gunpowder smoke enveloped the entire grenadier position.

Ten grenadiers, together with a squad of imperial warriors and a squad of imperial alliance troops, were instantly engulfed by artillery fire.

The grenadier firepower that the stronghold relied on to attack turned into nothingness in the blink of an eye.

It's just that at this moment, Gu Cun didn't bother to wonder why the Eighth Route Army had such powerful artillery fire.

In front of him, he was also in crisis, and he was in danger of protecting himself. The Eighth Route Army was frantically bombarding the peripheral machine gun fortifications with the curved firepower of the grenadier.

Tanimura was beaten until he couldn't hold his head up.

"Immediately counterattack with machine gun fire from the turret, counterattack! Destroy the grenades of the Eighth Route Army!"

At this time, through the sound of the Eighth Route Army's shells, Gu Cun determined the position of Li Yunlong's grenadier.

Amidst the roar, Gu Cun, who was holding his command knife high, rushed towards a nearby gun tower, ready to get into the gun tower to command himself.

At this moment, there were several more cannon fires, and Gu Cun was so familiar with the sound of the cannons that he froze for a moment when he was walking fast.

boom -

A shell hit the gun tower that Tan Cun was about to rush into.

It seemed that the earth was shaking, and even the bricks and stones that built the turret were blasted and scattered from the building itself.

Another blockhouse farther away from Gucun was not so lucky. The shells seemed to be smashed in along the muzzle of the machine gun.

In the dark night, Tan Cun seemed to hear a terrified wail, followed by a loud explosion, the wailing stopped abruptly, and was completely swallowed by the sound of the big explosion.

Gu Cun's pupils shrank suddenly, and as far as he could see, the third floor of the gun tower farther away was directly blown down by the shell.

As for the imperial soldiers and imperial association soldiers stationed on the third floor, even if they were not dead, they would be completely buried inside.

……

The first test shot, the infantry artillery under the command and control of the howitzer, produced an amazing effect, and the shell shot directly into the machine gun eye of the devil's gun tower.

The third floor of the target turret collapsed directly.

Wang Chengzhu, who was also in charge of operating the other infantry artillery, was slightly off the mark, and the shell hit the devil's gun tower less than half a meter away from the left side of the machine gun.

Because the shells could not be shot into the interior of the blockhouse, the three floors of the blockhouse were not directly blown down, but the masonry blockhouse was damaged to a certain extent.

The howitzer laughed proudly, "Haha, company commander, I'm sorry, I'm ahead of the first shell!"

Li Yunlong, who was directing the attack not far away, was quite moved when he heard the words of the howitzer.

Old Kong is really lucky, he went to the prisoner-of-war camp and picked up a sharpshooter on the way.

Faced with the sarcasm of the howitzer, Wang Chengzhu remained calm, his eyes were full of determination, and after making slight adjustments to the infantry cannon's shooting elements, he gave the order again, "Fire!"

boom--

The direct-fired infantry artillery shells drew a straight line and shot directly at the machine gun muzzle of the turret.

After a loud noise, the power of this cannon was extremely astonishing. The third floor of the entire blockhouse collapsed completely, and the second floor was also crumbling.

The howitzer that fired again on the other side was a bit off-point this time. It failed to shoot the shells along the machine gun on the second floor of the Devil's Cannon Building again, but it just blew up a lot of the masonry wall.

The unusually calm Wang Chengzhu regained a round in a blink of an eye.

In the eyes of the artillery company commander Wang Chengzhu and the deputy company commander Howitzer, the tense battle in front of them seemed to be an invisible contest of artillery skills.

Inside the stronghold.

Tanimura was completely insane.

This is an infantry artillery!

Hearing the sound, there are still two more. Judging from the shells fired, those in the Eighth Route Army are definitely good at firing.

The brick-and-stone gun tower that was used to deal with the Tuba Road in front of him was like paper in front of the infantry artillery.

Looking at the blockhouse that was about to be bombarded by the opponent's infantry, Gucun, who originally wanted to enter the blockhouse command, was so frightened that he quickly issued an order to let the Japanese and puppet troops who were still alive in the blockhouse immediately withdraw from the blockhouse and retreat to the bungalow area.

The machine gun fortifications on the periphery of the stronghold are also not dared to be used. The curved firepower of the Eighth Route Army is impossible to defend against.

After giving the order to retreat, Gucun immediately sent the communications soldiers to send emergency calls for help to the county headquarters in three directions through the radio.

"The situation is extremely urgent. The stronghold is being attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army. We must support it quickly!"

As Gu Cun withdrew the Japanese and puppet troops, Li Yunlong immediately received the news from the forward observation post.

"Advance the whole battalion, Zhuzi, give me your ten catapults to advance 300 meters, let the little devil taste the taste of explosives hitting people! After the bombardment is over, the whole battalion will directly attack and quickly resolve the battle."

"Yes!"

In this way, Gucun, who had just returned to the bungalow area of ​​the stronghold, ordered to stand firm.Experienced machine gunners, some climbed to the roof of the bungalow in advance, and some hid behind the machine gun fortifications next to the bungalow, armed with light and heavy machine guns, ready to go, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to launch an attack.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly appeared from mid-air, and when it hit the eyes, the devil exclaimed: "Dynamite bag!"

boom -

Like a broken dam, the first explosion just opened a gap, followed by a torrential flood.

Each explosive package swayed in the air in a strange dance, and smashed towards the bungalow area of ​​the Japanese army.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the midst of the big bang were like a boat floating in the raging waves, which might be destroyed by the violent waves at any time.

Tanimura finally realized that what he had before was a sweet dream, but what happened before him was the beginning of a nightmare.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and Tanimura used the sky to vaguely see the catapults that were constantly throwing explosive packets at the periphery of the bungalow area, less than 200 meters away.

It turned out that the explosive packets flying all over the sky were projected by this kind of equipment.

A Japanese squad leader exclaimed: "It's terrible, is this a new weapon of the Eighth Route Army? Your Excellency, Captain?"

"I think so." Tanimura replied.

"This is terrible, Captain, what should we do?"

"Continue to hold on, our reinforcements will arrive soon." Tanimura raised his voice, as if comforting the Japanese squad leader, and also comforting himself.

"...Your Excellency, what should we do?"

"Are we doomed? What the hell are we going to do?"

Tanimura: "..."

Only then did Tanimura realize that the leader of the Japanese army had been deafened by an explosion that was too close to him earlier, and he couldn't hear anything at all.

"Bastard, calm down, pick up the gun and keep fighting!"

The deaf Japanese squad leader looked stupid and funny.

Tanimura, who was furious, opened his bow with the palm of his hand and the back of his hand at the same time. After two sounds, several red marks appeared on the face of the Japanese squad leader.

The pain sobered up the fear of the Japanese squad leader. The young devil seemed to understand the meaning of the officer. He quickly raised his gun and rushed to the rear of the bungalow fortifications to participate in the battle...

(End of this chapter)