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Chapter 238: Conquering Fufeng in the Battle of Xifu

The head of the regiment, Li Yong, proposed to attack Fufeng County, but in order to reduce casualties, he had to avoid street fighting with the enemy as much as possible. Doesn't it mean that the independent regiment can't fight street fighting, so why not suffer less losses?It's not a bad thing either.

After Li Yong finished talking about the plan, everyone was convinced. Zhang Jinsong shook his thumb and said, "It's a good idea to be the head of the regiment. The way he came up with is powerful. Okay, this is a good move. It will scare the enemy out of the city." Come out, and then destroy."

Ma Quanyou, the second battalion commander, couldn't bear it anymore: "I said Zhang Jinsong, that's fine, don't flatter the regiment commander, you're almost catching up with Li Jiangguo."

Li Jiangguo, who just wanted to praise the head of the regiment, opened his mouth and gagged a few times, but said nothing, and went back in a jeep with his battalion instructor.

Everyone found it interesting to see Li Jiangguo like that, but he never expected that Lao Li, who has always been eloquent, would sometimes feel overwhelmed.

After the combat meeting, the independent regiment quickly moved forward, and at the same time reported the situation and its own combat plan to the commander of the column king by telegram.

Commander Wang's reply was that the vanguard troops can adapt to the situation according to the situation, and agree with you to attack Fufeng County, but pay attention to reducing unnecessary casualties, and report in time if support is needed.

In this way, all the troops of the Independence Regiment arrived at the foot of Fufeng City in a short time at a mechanized marching speed. Of course, they were beyond the range of the machine guns.

Li Yong, the head of the regiment, ordered Gao Xiang to arrange the artillery of his battalion outside the city at a certain distance, so that the soldiers defending the city could easily see it with their eyes, and ordered Wei Gang's machine gun battalion to refit them. The cars were also fully driven out and placed behind the artillery positions.

After the Battle of Chakou, Wei Gang's machine gun battalion became the weakest battalion in the whole regiment. After returning all the heavy machine guns, the whole battalion's heavy weapons were only seven anti-aircraft machine guns, and the rest were miscellaneous weapons. There are not even submachine guns, and compared with other battalions, their combat effectiveness is simply not on the table.

Because of this matter, Wei Gang has been getting angry a lot, how can the main camp be equipped with such equipment?For this reason, he often went to the regiment headquarters to find Li Yong to discuss what to do?Li Yong did not spend much time on this matter. It would be a big loss if a battalion's combat effectiveness could not be improved. There were still vicious battles to be fought in the Xifu Campaign, and improving their battalion's combat effectiveness was also a top priority, and this matter really needed to be resolved.

Later, in order to deal with the cavalry of the Ma family army, the independent regiment refitted more than [-] vehicles. How to distribute these vehicles was also a problem.

Li Yong's original idea was to divide these vehicles evenly among the five infantry combat battalions, but later he thought that these modified vehicles could be used as armored vehicles, and the power of armored vehicles can only be maximized by concentrated use. play.

After thinking about it, Li Yong handed over all the modified cars to Wei Gangying except for a few left by the regiment headquarters, and told them to put sandbags on the back of the car's armor. Personally, press a Maxim heavy machine gun at the back of the cab, and bring eight soldiers with submachine guns in addition to the heavy machine gun's front and back shooters. In this way, the firepower is terrifying. The advantage of fighting cavalry in plain areas is too great.

After setting up the artillery and cars, Li Yong ordered Sun Quanhou of the supply battalion to try to make the dust behind the independent regiment's position as large as possible, the bigger the better.

After receiving the order, Sun Quanhou still used the old method he had used before, cutting down dozens of trees, hanging them on the back of cars and jeeps, and pulling them back and forth behind the independent regiment's position.

Immediately outside Fufeng City, the artillery of the People's Liberation Army can be clearly seen standing there with the naked eye. The barrels of the cannons are black and pointing at the city wall of Fufeng. Far.

There are many armored vehicles behind the cannons, well, they should be armored vehicles, and the dust is even more dusty behind the artillery positions. It is also clear how many large troops of the Eighth Route Army there are, but there must be quite a few.

The head of the security team of the Kuomintang Fufeng County who was watching with a telescope was so frightened that he almost dropped the telescope on the ground. A cold sweat rolled down his forehead.

This guy said to the surrounding soldiers with trembling lips: "Oh, isn't this a large army of the Communist Army? Why are there so many cannons? What are we doing here? How can this little Fufeng make them make such a big fight?" ?"

The soldiers around the regiment commander also replied tremblingly: "Commander, look at the tubes of the Eighth Route Army's cannons, they must be thicker than my waist. If this cannon hits us, our troops are not enough to fill the cannons. I guess there is nowhere to run if I want to run.”

The head of the regiment turned around and kicked the soldier: "F*ck, you actually scared me. You guys are the ones who scared me out of my troubles, and you didn't tell me anything nice. What kind of cannon has a barrel thicker than your waist? Have you been to see it? You are so hard at propaganda, aren’t you a spy sent by the Communist Army?”

The soldier said a little aggrieved: "Regimental Commander, look at the formation of the others. Take a good look at the back of the cannon. There are too many people to count. They must be preparing to load the cannon now. I have watched it for a while. This city gate building is enough."

As soon as the soldier reminded him, the head of the regiment suddenly came to his senses. He was standing on the top of the city gate and must be the key target of the Eighth Route Army.

Damn, you really have to go quickly, this place is not for people, and after a while, it might be bombarded by the eighth road cannons, thinking of this, this guy turned away and left.

As soon as he left, the nearby soldiers panicked even more, and the regiment leader ran away, what should we do?Several soldiers guarding the city gate discussed with each other: "The regiment leader has run away, who are we going to work for? Have you seen the cannons on the Eight Routes outside? Wait a while for the cannons to go off. Even if our brothers are fatal, then go to the police station and run away."

Besides the independent regiment outside the city, Gao Xiang, the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, ran over to report: "Regimental commander, our battalion's artillery is ready, just wait for your order. Blast him flat."

Li Yong nodded and said to Gao Xiang: "Don't worry, wait a little longer, let's let the soldiers of the Kuomintang security regiment watch for an hour, and the attack will start in an hour."

Gao Xiang asked a little puzzled: "Head, why did you let them watch it for an hour? What's the secret?"

Li Yong: "The Kuomintang security regiment in Fufeng does not have long-range heavy weapons, so we are a bit of a bully when we fight this battle. Only we fight them, but they can't attack us. Think about it, if a person takes How does it feel to hold a loaded rifle to your head for an hour?"

Gao Xiang said excitedly: "Regimental Commander, I understand. If you aim a cannon at the city wall for an hour, the soldiers defending the city will feel terrified. You don't know when the disaster will happen. This feeling is really uncomfortable."

Yes, what we want is this feeling, to make them feel that the god of death will come at any time, reduce their will to resist, disintegrate their fighting spirit, and create conditions for our regiment's follow-up attack.

Gao Xiang: "Captain, I have learned another trick. This method is good. To put it simply, it is to scare people into confusion before hitting them."

The soldiers of the security regiment on the city wall looked at the cannons outside the city and couldn't help trembling in their hearts, "Oh my god, what are you trying to do here? To fight or not to fight? My calf is twisting."

The other said: "Don't talk about it. When you say you are afraid, I always want to pee. I have had a lot of bubbles in a short time. Why do I still have a temporary problem?"

Another soldier said: "You have something wrong temporarily, you are scared."

An hour passed in a blink of an eye, Li Yong looked at his watch, and said to Gao Xiang beside him: "It's ok, let's start."

Following Gao Xiang's order, the two standard guns "Tom, Tom" fired two shells. The scale and distance had already been calculated, so the two cannons fired very accurately, and the shells exploded on the city wall.

Looking at the smoke and dust blown up by the shells on the city wall, Gao Xiang shouted excitedly: "The height remains the same, the pitch remains the same, eight rounds per cannon, the whole battalion fires rapidly."

The more than forty howitzers of the Independence Regiment let out earth-shattering roars, and the shells roared and smashed towards the fortifications of Fufeng County.

All of a sudden, there was a sound of explosions, the ground shook, the city wall was blown to pieces of rubble, guns, corpses and bricks flew up together, and the position where the head of the security regiment was just now was blasted into the sky , Except for the soldiers on the city wall who were killed in the first wave of shells, the rest followed the path, just ran away, shit, whoever doesn't run is a fool.

After firing three rapid fires in a row, Li Yong told Gao Xiang, it's ok, push your 200nd infantry artillery and [-]th field artillery forward until they are [-] meters away from the city gate, and aim directly at the city gate. Shooting must blow open the city gate or the city wall.

Under the cover of artillery fire, several infantry artillery and seventy-five field artillery were quickly advanced under the traction of the modified car, and they did not stop until they were less than 200 meters away from the city gate.

During this period, the enemy's defensive firepower has not responded, and there is no way to respond. It is completely covered by the firepower, and there is no way to respond. The soldiers aimed the muzzle at the city gate to visually aim and shoot.

It was so close at hand that it was difficult to miss it. Fire, fire, fire, and more than a dozen shells were fired, and the gate and a section of the city wall of Fufeng County fell down in a violent explosion.

Seeing that the city walls and gates were blasted, Li Yong ordered again at this time: "Zhang Jinsong, bring the Liu Desheng who was captured by the second son of Ning, and go up with you, stand on the city wall, and direct the artillery to the target."

[dedication]