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Chapter 124: Fierce Battle of Attack and Defense
"Bang... Bang..." Chen Jinhu led the middle route and first exchanged fire with the guards at the intersection. Now the Yang family had received the news that Tongping was attacked, so the guards here were also strict. This place serves as the outer defense line, and is fully equipped with roadblocks. However, there are roadblocks and fortifications on the avenue, but the defenses on the farmlands on the right and the hillside on the left are lax.
As several Molotov cocktails were thrown down the hillside on the left and approached the enemy's fortifications, an area was instantly illuminated, followed by machine gun fire, which suppressed the enemy so much that they could not raise their heads.
"Charge..." The Du family army suffered heavy casualties and the attack was not smooth. On the hillside on the left, they also came into contact with the personnel guarding the stronghold. They were unable to break through the pass in the first wave. Five minutes later, suddenly several grenades exploded in the enemy's fortifications, followed by Molotov cocktails, which started a fire.
It turned out to be the members of the right team. Most of them waded across the river from the small river below the avenue, and a few of them crawled on the water, using the rocks in the river for cover, and slowly groped forward along the river bank, and quietly crawled to the pool below the opponent's pass, threw up several grenades and Molotov cocktails, instantly blowing several people away. Chen Jinhu took the opportunity to grab the machine gun and swept directly. A small team took the opportunity to jump forward more than 20 meters, threw out several grenades, broke through the first blocking fortification, and then a few jumps, landed in front of this fortification, used it as a cover, and continued to throw bombs.
"Charge..." The team members at the back did not hesitate, and immediately crossed the fortifications and started close combat. The remaining resistance personnel saw that they were unable to stop them.
They began to shout "We surrender... Don't kill us". These joint defense team members trained by the Yang family were considered a strong combat team. They persisted in resisting and only began to surrender after rushing into the position, thus completing their blocking mission.
As the first checkpoint was opened, the strongholds on both sides were also surrounded by members of the central flanking team. However, when the personnel in the strongholds on both sides saw that they were unable to resist, some of them ran away.
All the teams continued to divide into three directions and besieged the Yang family base. After a few hundred meters, they would begin to attack the second line of defense. The base of this defense line was located on a river beach at a bend in the Huangyang River. It was flat all around, and the base was raised one or two meters at the bend. There was a rammed earth wall covered with designed holes. Due to the high foundation, all shooting was slanted downward with a wide field of vision. The second line of defense was more than 400 meters outside the wall, and was assisted by earth wall defense fixed fortifications. Generally speaking, it was quite difficult to attack.
At this time, gunshots were heard from other parts of the defense base. It seemed that my father Zhou Kui and Li Long had also arrived and were clearing out the outer strongholds. As long as the outer strongholds were taken, the enemy would lose at least 100 people, and there would be less than 500 people in the strongholds. They had nearly 1500 attackers, which was three times the number. It was not a big problem, after all, their team was much more powerful.
They stopped outside the second line of defense, first preparing to capture the stronghold on the avenue, thus barely encircling the base.
10 minutes later, fireworks exploded in the air, signaling a general attack. They had no choice but to fight quickly. If they could not break through the enemy base tomorrow, they would have to withdraw. They did not dare to attack the joint defense brigade in broad daylight. If they attracted the joint defense brigade of Zhaohua and Guangyuan counties, they would not be able to resist their attack. Therefore, the attack time was planned to be from 3 am to 8 am, 5 hours.
"Attack..." Without any verbal communication, Xue Chen directly began to order the attack. Previously, the 4th and 7th squadrons were the first wave. There was only a river beach of more than 400 meters here, which could not support a large team attack. Otherwise, it would be too dense and easy to be killed and wounded by machine guns and mortars. The front team was attacking, and the others behind were still using ordnance shovels to dig some bunkers and defensive tunnels.
There was no testing of the shots from the beginning. The dense machine gun sounds were like tearing cloth, continuous "da da da da da" all the time... sometimes three-point, da da da, with a brisk rhythm, and the sound of the rifles was low and penetrating "bang... bang...".
All their offensive equipment was used for this battle. He Jiacheng brought several iron plates from Gaocheng, and more than a dozen wheelbarrows filled with sandbags, which were used as defensive bunkers. They were advancing slowly, and now they were taking steady steps. They dug a small pit every few meters and piled mud in front of it to use as a bunker. In this way, they created some small mounds of earth artificially on the flat offensive position to facilitate the attack of the crawling people. The team led by my father was basically all recruits, including the base guards, none of whom had participated in any major battles. Li Long, a member of the joint defense team, had only participated in some bandit suppression operations and had never fought in a tough battle. Therefore, they were more of a draw for firepower.
The biggest problem in attacking at night is the lack of clear vision. Both sides rely more on gunshots and firelight to judge the enemy's position. Generally speaking, the attacking side is still at an advantage. The attacking side is very scattered, and a large number of Molotov cocktails are thrown into the middle area, which can illuminate some of the enemy's fortifications. On the 21st day of the lunar calendar, there is a bright moon, providing light.
He Chaowu led the special service team to participate in the battle. Now they had to do their best. All the special service team members were wearing black cotton coats. They all crawled forward. He Chaowu and two team members were lying on the edge of a paddy field. They hung grenades around their necks to prevent them from getting wet. "Machine gun fire suppression..." Xue Chen watched as He Chaowu was about 100 meters away from the first layer of fortifications before he ordered the heavy machine gun to open fire.
The guard commando immediately lifted the sackcloth, and the machine gun emitted a "da da da da da..." sound of fire snakes, "Charge over..." He Chaowu groped over from the edge of the paddy field, then climbed up the ridge and crawled over at a very fast speed. The machine gun suddenly swept towards him, and he had to roll into the paddy field instantly to avoid the burst of gunfire, "Ah..." A team member next to him was not so lucky and was shot in the left shoulder, "Go..." There was no way he could do it. He was still 40 meters away from the fortification point, and he could not throw a grenade at all, so he had no time to rescue the brothers next to him. After the machine gun, he immediately rolled forward Suddenly he jumped up, took out the grenade, pulled the fuse, jumped forward a few steps quickly and threw it out. With a "boom...", the grenade exploded in the air, and the gunfire in the fortifications stopped instantly. Then the brother behind threw out a fuel oil Molotov cocktail, illuminating the enemy's position. Taking advantage of the light, the heavy machine gun immediately swept over, and a firepower gap appeared in the enemy's position. "Retreat..." He Chaowu and his two men threw down two more grenades and immediately rolled into the darkness and retreated. Because they risked their lives to advance, the team behind them immediately advanced 50 meters, and a gap appeared on the outer periphery of the enemy's second line of defense.
He Chaowu brought the injured brother back to join the team behind, and the medical team immediately lifted the stretcher and carried the injured team member away. "Hush..." A bright fireball in the night sky quickly hit the Du family army's position.
"Get down..." Chen Jinhu shouted. Before he finished speaking, a shell hit the gap where He Chaowu and his men were attacking, and landed on the paddy field, blowing cold mud all over the sky. The second shell... the third shell... came in succession and exploded instantly. Several machine guns had to be withdrawn immediately. One shell was less than 10 meters away from a heavy machine gun and almost destroyed it.