I traveled through time, starting with two acres of land and a dog

Chapter 131: Race against time and speed is of the essence

Du Chenyu led his team and marched forward in a swagger, fearing that others would see them. He went from village to village and incorporated the armed forces of each village and each village. That afternoon, they arrived at a township west of Changchi, also known as Yanchan Township. This was an important stronghold, defended by more than 200 people, and could be seen from afar. Several sentries were set up on the ridge one kilometer away from the township to establish defensive positions.

"Fight..." Without saying a word, Xue Chen commanded the team to attack in three directions, surrounding the enemy from the west, south and north. From the south, Wu Xuyang's company attacked. In the first wave of attack, the enemy was retreating step by step, and they were about to break into the enemy's position. Du Chenyu hurriedly sent someone to inform Wu Xuyang to slow down the attack and not to take over the enemy's position for the time being, and to focus on destroying the enemy's living force.

Therefore, the three teams began to attack rhythmically and no longer used their full strength. The first wave of battle lasted for an hour and was temporarily stopped.

"Report, the team of more than 200 people from Changchi area who came to Enzen are about to come into contact with the team from Gaocheng area led by Captain He. The two sides are already 3-4 miles apart," a reconnaissance cavalryman came over to report.

Immediately order the cavalry company to bypass the Zen training ground and support He Cunyi, and ensure that all support team members are wiped out.

It is said that Luo Feng led 50 cavalrymen and, under the guidance of the communication scouts, galloped all the way, bypassed Yanchan Street from the south, and arrived at the area of ​​the warring parties in 40 minutes. The Du family army's blocking battlefield was set up on a hill, with more than 100 people on the front. The other side began to attack with the help of trees.

"Report, all 40 members of the cavalry company have arrived. Please give instructions. Master Chenyu has given instructions. Captain He, please make sure to wipe out the enemy as soon as possible," Luo Feng reported to He Cunyi.

"Captain Luo, you have worked hard along the way. At present, not all of our blocking personnel have been deployed. Most of the enemy have entered the encirclement, but the enemy leader is still far behind and has not entered the ambush circle. Captain Luo, please immediately detour behind the enemy headquarters and launch a charge. There is still one hour before dark, and we must attack immediately in half an hour," He Cunyi began to assign tasks.

"Yes, I will make sure to complete the mission and let's go," Luo Feng left.

"Beep...beep..." The charge sounded, and the team members hiding in the dead branches and leaves jumped up and rushed forward with guns in hand. The whole valley was filled with flags waving and gunshots, and the enemies in the valley and on the opposite hill were crushed away.

"Da da... Da da..." Machine guns were roaring and grenades were exploding in the crowd. The enemy began to retreat in panic. Many people could not run, so they knelt on the side of the road and raised their hands in surrender. "You won't be killed if you surrender your guns." Another wave of people raised their hands in an instant. The assault team members still did not stop, but when they were about to rush to the opposite hill, they encountered two hidden machine guns that suddenly opened fire and strafed a large area of ​​the team members rushing in the front.

"Spread out the attack. Jiacheng, speed up and attack from the flank at the lower right side of the ridge." Li Haoran commanded the team to disperse in the front. Although He Jiacheng had participated in several operations, he had never been in charge of the main attack. Li Haoran now gave the flank to him and attacked from the front. This was giving up the opportunity to make meritorious service.

"Okay, Captain Li, you hold on for 10 minutes. I must take down the machine gun position." He Jiacheng led the team to climb up the steep valley on the right to Shangliang.

Li Haoran continued to attack from the front, "aim and shoot, don't waste bullets." The enemy relied on simple blocking positions to block, and nearly half of the troops retreated to the ridge.

A row of grenades flew up from the edge of the cliff, and He Jiacheng's flank team attacked the top of the mountain. "Charge," the frontal attack team took advantage of the moment when the machine gunner was killed, and the large team immediately pressed forward, catching the enemy off guard from the flank and surrounding more than 20 people on the position. The enemy also gave up resistance, and caught up with Li Haoran and continued to pursue.

"Tata... Tata..." On the other side of the ridge, the cavalry company was already galloping on horseback, sabers raised at an angle. They were less than 200 meters away from the hastily retreating enemy. The overwhelming momentum made it impossible for the enemy to raise their morale. Luo Feng took the lead and with one sword, he cut the head of a joint defense team member who was panicking and raising his gun on the side of the road. Blood spurted into the sky instantly. The team members behind him could not dodge in time, and their horses' heads were covered in blood. Most of the joint defense team members could not even raise their guns in panic. They could only be paralyzed in fear, throwing away their guns and raising their hands in surrender. Some people simply rolled down the hillside.

A blocking and encirclement battle ended with a cavalry charge and a direct confrontation with cold weapons as night was about to fall. The scene was extremely bloody.

"Clean up the battlefield as soon as possible," He Cunyi led the follow-up team to follow up. All the prisoners were gathered together, and the wounded were carried away. The dead soldiers of the enemy were buried on the spot. The names of those with names were written on wooden boards to make it easier for their families to find them. Where there were bloodstains, the soil was simply turned over and the blood was removed and buried.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, the team began to retreat. According to the original plan, they surrounded Yanchan Township from front to back and tried to get the other side to surrender directly to avoid huge damage to the streets.

The next morning, he sent people to the Yanchan Township Office to issue an ultimatum, demanding that they lay down their arms and surrender immediately within a quarter of an hour, and bring them the head of Liang Shuyu, deputy captain of the Changchi Joint Defense Battalion, in order to tell them that the reinforcements had been eliminated and to deter them.

Liang Shuyu was trying to escape quietly during the final battle when he was discovered and shot dead. At that time, he was wearing ordinary soldier clothes and could not be distinguished at all. After interrogation, it was discovered that he was the eldest son of the Liang family in Changchi.

Seeing thousands of people besieging them, Yanchan militia captain Rao Zhe surrendered without much thought. The Du family army randomly entered the village square, leaving the logistics team to maintain law and order. Rao Zhe was also appointed acting platoon leader. 50 original militiamen were selected and retained, and He Zhengba was also promoted to acting platoon leader. Soldiers were assigned from the garrison team members and the reorganized militiamen. Now that the jurisdiction has expanded, there is a shortage of soldiers. It is no longer possible to train all the prisoners before recruiting them into the team, so they can only reorganize some strong men on the spot.

They did not stay in Yanchan for too long. Li Haoran was left with half a day to reorganize the two newly formed platoons, while the rest of the team continued to advance towards Changchi Dam. They arrived there in less than three hours at full speed. At present, there were still at least 400 people defending the Changchi area.

The terrain here is flat and there are no strategic locations to defend, so the enemy can only rely on strongholds and trenches to engage in positional warfare head-on. Du Chenyu divided the team into three routes. Xue Chen surrounded the south, Zhao Rui and He Jiacheng detoured to the east, and they personally led the team to attack the west, completely following the "surround three and leave one" approach.

This time, we started with persuasion to surrender according to the rules of the battlefield, and did not attack right away. After all, as a large town in the region with a street population of more than 2000 people, there were a large number of wooden houses and an ancient building, the Yuwang Palace. If street fighting was carried out, there would be heavy losses. In order to give the people enough time to flee the countryside, they were allowed to go out after being interrogated, and it would be best if they did not fire guns on the streets. A battle would leave a scorched earth that could not be recovered for many years.

The other side did not respond to the persuasion to surrender. In fact, Liang Shuyu was beaten to death, which basically blocked the possibility of peaceful liberation. Liang Shuyu's father, Liang Zaixing, had been the mayor since the Qing Dynasty. He was ruthless and killed his father to gain power. He bullied the people in the village and beat and framed them at the slightest disagreement. He had almost no humanity. There is a local nursery rhyme:

"Liang is in Xing, not in Xing. He killed his father and humiliated his mother. The child can stop crying at night.

The people are tired and miserable. Some are in Xing, but they are not given food, and they can only wander around the mountains during the New Year."

After lunch, they began a full-scale attack, compressing the encirclement and eliminating the living forces. There were reconnaissance companies and guards in the west, and the attack speed was extremely fast. In half an hour, with the support of three machine guns, they advanced more than one kilometer and were only about 1 kilometer away from the street. The opponent had to continue to shrink the defense and set up the position on a small earth beam. "Da Da... Da Da..." Seeing that the opponent was about to lose the position, the heavy machine guns hidden behind several stones began to work. Within the range of 800 meters, the Du family could not organize an effective attack for the time being. They did not have enough mortar shells and generally did not carry them. Facing this heavy machine gun fortress, they could not break through for the time being and could only retreat.

The enemy's combat effectiveness was much stronger than Du Chenyu had expected. In an attack on an outer stronghold, the casualty ratio was almost 1:1. Although this flat terrain was infinitely defensible, their attackers had less than twice the number of the enemy and could not create an advantage. Once the trenches were dug, the attackers squatted inside and fired their guns, and they could not get close at all.

Captain Luo was told to ride around the city on horseback. Lei Jianqin rode with Du Chenyu, surrounded by more than 10 cavalrymen led by Luo Feng himself. Du Chenyu went along the southern periphery of the city and arrived at Xue Chen's attack point at the south gate. Since he only brought one company with him and the number of people was reduced, he also cleared the outer strongholds in the first round. However, there was a small river in the south, and the enemy retreated to the other side of the river, and could not attack for a while.

After a short rest, he continued to run to the east. This side was flatter and had a larger area. Zhao Rui did not stop. The second round of attack was underway. Due to the lack of enemy troops, Zhao Rui advanced in front of the kilometer front in groups of three. The sound of machine guns, rifles, and grenades mixed together. Zhao Rui was 17 years old this year, and He Jiacheng was only 25 years old. They rarely fought tough battles before. He Jiacheng and He Chaowu were cousins ​​of the same clan. Therefore, He Chaowu also gave his cousin a lot of high-quality weapons. Most of the rifles were Mauser rifles, and his company, the special service team, had trained for more than a month, so the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. With the preparation of precise rifles, the lethality was greatly improved. "Go... machine gun fire suppression, take down the hilltop stronghold", the machine gunner on a small hill of the other side was hit, Zhao Rui personally led the commando team up, 5 or 6 grenades opened the way in front, and Zhao Rui rushed up while the dust was flying. Successfully occupied the stronghold and made an important breakthrough from a high position.

"Bang... bang... bang..." Before Zhao Rui and his men could gain a firm foothold, the enemy's artillery shells scattered around the hill. He grabbed the machine gun left by the enemy on the position and shouted "Retreat... Lie down...", rolling and crawling to lie down in the valley.

"Machine gun... machine gun..." Du Chenyu saw that the Du family machine gunner still did not move his position, so he shouted hurriedly, but no one could hear him at all. Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, "boom..." a shell hit a machine gun, and the machine gun was blown up more than 1 meter high. The three soldiers around it also left this world in a homemade plane, never to come back.

Or maybe we don't have enough combat experience. When facing enemy artillery fire, all machine guns should be moved away as soon as possible, otherwise they will become sitting ducks, and the enemy artillery will concentrate all its efforts to clear key points.

"Let them retreat," Du Chenyu ordered the guards to pass on the order.

"Mr. Chenyu, why are you here? Are you going to punish me? My machine gun is damaged." Zhao Rui came over with his head hung down. There were several wounds on his body that were bleeding. His head and cotton-padded jacket were all covered with dirt. "Puff... Puff" he spat out a few mouthfuls of sand in his mouth and said a little unwillingly.