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Chapter 56 Artillery coverage!

That night, Li Yunlong ordered the cooking team to prepare dry food for the whole regiment for two days.

The troops distributed ammunition and let the soldiers sleep during the day to recharge their spirits.

When it got dark the next day, Li Yunlong led the whole regiment and marched towards the Huting stronghold at night.

Despite the rugged mountain road and the biting cold wind, the commanders and fighters of the new regiment all walked with guns on their backs and their morale was strong.

While encouraging the soldiers, Zhao Gang looked in the direction of the artillery company and the heavy machine gun company, his eyes were a little hot.

Although he had been mentally prepared, Zhao Gang was shocked when he saw Xinyituan's family background.

The regiment has more than 40 light and heavy machine guns, 15 mortars, and 1 field gun. There are sufficient bullets and shells, and even the grenades used are foreign products.

The wealth of the new regiment was somewhat beyond Zhao Gang's imagination, and he had to admire Li Yunlong, the leader of the regiment.

Although Li Yunlong has some minor problems, he has accumulated such a solid family background within less than a year after taking over Xinyituan, which is indeed outstanding.

At least in Zhao Gang's impression and cognition, in the entire No. 18 Army's battle sequence, no regiment has such a wide range.

It seems that I have to learn more from Captain Li in my work... Looking at Li Yunlong's back, Zhao Gang tightened his padded jacket and stepped forward to catch up.

It is 60 miles from Yangcun to Huting stronghold.

The advantage of having more than 100 military horses is reflected.

Some heavy equipment and ammunition boxes were handed over to the army horses and mules.

This enables the soldiers to move forward with light equipment and greatly saves energy.

In the middle of the night, Li Yunlong led his troops to the vicinity of the Huting stronghold.

Immediately, Li Yunlong brought Zhang Dabiao closer for reconnaissance. Although it was midnight, the Huting stronghold was still brightly lit.

In every direction, a searchlight was constantly sweeping in all directions.

The Huting stronghold is at the intersection of the highway, and there is a dirt road next to the stronghold, which is the only way to the base.

So the devil built a large stronghold here, guarding the traffic arteries and blocking the roads entering the base area.

The devil's stronghold in this area and the defense of the gun tower are connected with the whole base terrain like a tiger, and this stronghold is Hutou, so the devil named this stronghold Huting.

The head of the headquarters ordered to take down the Huting stronghold several times, but the attacking troops failed to take it down, not only because of the quick rescue of the devils, but also because of the strong defense and heavy firepower of the Huting stronghold itself.

The Eighth Route Army, lacking the heavy firepower to attack fortified areas, had no way to take the Huting stronghold for a while.

However, the devils and puppet soldiers in the Huting stronghold were not feeling well. The guerrillas would come and fire guns outside the stronghold from time to time, making the devils and traitors in the stronghold sleepless.

But today, Li Yunlong came with Italian guns.

Li Yunlong lay on the back of the soil slope, raised his binoculars, and stared at the Huting stronghold for a while.

A black shadow approached from the front, Zhang Dabiao held the sniper and shouted in a low voice, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Cao Jinwang." A deep voice sounded in the darkness.

Zhang Dabiao: "Come here."

Cao Jinwang took a sniper rifle, shoveled to the back of the slope, and bowed to Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao.

He was the scout sent by Li Yunlong two days ago to keep an eye on the Huting stronghold in case something unexpected happened.

Li Yunlong asked in a low voice: "Cao Jinwang, what happened these two days?"

"Reporting to the regiment commander, there is nothing wrong. The devils and puppet soldiers have been staying in the stronghold and did not dare to come out." Cao Jinwang said, "By the way, yesterday the devils and puppet soldiers sent food to the Huting stronghold. There were dozens of mule carts."

Zhang Dabiao said: "Looks like it's better to catch up sooner rather than later, let us meet."

Li Yunlong also said happily: "Haha...God is trying to make us rich."

Fighting devils' strongholds will definitely capture more than fighting devils transport teams, provided that they can be defeated.

In order to prevent being besieged by the Eight Routes for a long time, the devils' strongholds usually store food, weapons and ammunition for three to six months.

If a regiment of the Eighth Route Army can destroy a medium-sized stronghold, it can make a small fortune.

However, the devil's stronghold is not so easy to fight, especially for the Eighth Route Army, which lacks offensive firepower.

Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao slowly retreated from behind the slope and walked towards the temporary headquarters.

The three battalion commanders of the new regiment and the acting commander of the directly subordinate artillery company were called to the temporary headquarters.

Immediately, Li Yunlong issued a deployment order to them.

The second and third battalions feigned attacks from two directions on the flanks, while the first battalion and artillery company mainly attacked from the front.

Li Yunlong wanted to attack in all directions, but there was only one Italian cannon. Even though the heavy machine guns were powerful now, the heavy machine guns couldn't deal with the devil's gun towers and bunkers.

The damage of 60mm mortars to gun towers and bunkers is limited, and random fighting will only increase casualties, and Li Yunlong will not do money-losing business.

As the order was issued, the second battalion commander and the third battalion commander each led their troops to the designated location.

Long before, each battalion dispatched a company to fight in the designated direction, and Li Yunlong took care of it in the direction of the county, sending a battalion, three companies and an engineering platoon.

The third company is responsible for blocking, and the engineering platoon is responsible for laying mines.

After the Okazaki Battalion received the call for help, it took only one hour by truck to reach the Huting stronghold. The task of the engineering platoon was to blow up the devil's truck.

The [-]st Battalion was also ready to attack.

On the position of the artillery company, Li Yunlong looked at the Italian artillery, and then at Wang Chengzhu: "Zhuzi, at this distance, can you blow up the devil's artillery towers and bunkers?"

"Leader, just watch and see how I deal with these devils and traitors." Wang Chengzhu was very confident.

After this period of familiarization and training, Wang Chengzhu finally found the trick to use this gun, and he can shoot accurately without aiming directly at the gun scope.

Next to the Italian cannon, 15 60mm mortars were also set up. The shooting elements were already being debugged, and the muzzles were pointing in the direction of the stronghold.

Cannonball boxes were constantly being unloaded from the horses by the artillerymen and placed behind the emplacements of each gun.

A few hundred meters ahead, Zhang Dabiao was lying almost at the forefront with a piece of dogtail grass in his mouth, ready to throw his military cap at any time.

Next to Zhang Dabiao, soldiers from the first battalion were densely packed, Wang Xikui, Wang Gensheng, Wei Dayong and others were impressively in the queue.

After all the cannons were set up and adjusted to shoot Zhu Yuan, Li Yunlong shouted loudly: "Fire me!"

There was a continuous and rapid boom-thump sound from the position of the artillery company, and then, the screaming sound of the artillery shells descended on the Huting stronghold.

Mortar shells arced across the night sky visible to the naked eye, and fell towards the Huting stronghold.

Since the shelling target is very large, there is no need to test fire at all, and the firepower is fully fired as soon as it comes up.

If you are poor, you will strike with precision, if you are rich, you will have full coverage...

In the words of Li Yunlong, this fight is the battle of prosperity.

The next moment, there were violent explosions in the Huting stronghold one after another, and clusters of dazzling red light and smoke almost enveloped the entire stronghold in an instant.

Accompanied by the rumbling explosion, the devils and puppet soldiers in the stronghold immediately made a mess, screaming everywhere.

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