Chapter 35: Take Chengguan Town Lightly
"One, two, three, four, hi," the repeated whistles echoed between the valleys. A car was lying on a narrow dirt road, and the cars behind were blocked and unable to move forward. Only the infantry advanced on foot without being restricted by the terrain. The newly formed Sixth Brigade is a unit that has just been formed for half a year. Except for grassroots cadres who are from other troops or military academies, the soldiers are basically from peasants. People who understand knowledge and culture either become officials or go to the factory to work, and the rest enter the army.
Lin Siyu just caught up with the army today. Her calm thinking for a few days made her think of her father’s embarrassment. As a child, she still hopes that her parents will be happy for a lifetime. In that world, mothers will also hope that her father will be happy and not consider her feelings too much. She should wait until the battle is over and go see her father! Put aside the distressing topics and look at the endless army in front of her, she can’t help but show a proud look. Perhaps her father has realized the ideal she has dreamed of here.
Looking at the increasingly blocked road, Lin Siyu got off the car and walked along with the troops. The place he walked naturally made a road. The troops were always the place where men played the protagonist. A woman with a colonel-level shoulder suddenly appeared in the marching team. You can imagine what would happen.
Fortunately, at this time, the soldiers of the 100th Regiment basically knew or knew that they had such a regiment commander. For this reason, the soldiers of the 100th Regiment had been ridiculed by other brother troops, saying that after 100th, they could be called the backwards and that they would always be the general reserve team in war.
This is indeed the case. According to the deployment of the Central Army General Staff and the opinions of Sun Wu, the 100th Regiment has been designated as a reserve force, and is fifty miles away from the forefront. Lin Siyu came to the car where he was lying down and heard the first battalion commander Wang Biao getting angry at the soldiers.
"Bastard, how did your grandma drive a car? When was it not good to stay in bed? Now I'll ask you if the troops don't go up. What about you? Liuzi, organize people to push me aside, don't block the road." Anyone who encounters this matter feels very wronged, let alone Wang Biao, who is trying to save face, has called a female team leader, and he can't raise his head. He sucked his stomach and had nowhere to be angry. He deserves Liuzi to be hit.
Wang Biao cursed and inadvertently saw Lin Siyu coming over. Although he didn't know what his regiment commander was, he was from the attitude of the brigade commander and the political commissar, and he was a role that needed to be offered. He complained in his heart why he had such a regiment commander.
After sorting out your mood, I had to pretend to be a smile on my face and come forward to greet me: "Report to the regiment commander, the first battalion commander Wang Biao reported to you!"
“What’s the situation?”
"The car transporting ammunition has climbed a nest, and there are two cars on the side by side on the valley road. People are organizing people to push the car down first." Lin Siyu was still very satisfied with Wang Biao's handling of the matter. At least Wang Biao knew that losing a car was a trivial matter and he would never stop the large army from marching.
"Report!" Lin Siyu saw the correspondent in the group running hurriedly and said comfortingly: "Speak slowly if you have something to do, don't worry."
"The command center's emergency telegram," said the correspondent handed her the telegram, and after reading the telegram briefly, he said to Wang Biao in front of him: "Get the drawings."
A military map with a ratio of 1:5000 was spread out on the stones on the roadside, "Where are we now," Lin Siyu asked.
"The army has just passed Daheizhai, and the three kilometers ahead is Baihuazhai. There are more than 50 kilometers to Mangchang Town. The road conditions are not good, so you will have to arrive this evening at least." Wang Biao pointed to the map and described in detail, for fear that the female leader would not understand the map very much.
"According to reliable information, the Gui army in front of us is not two regular divisions, but four. In addition to other miscellaneous security groups, it is probably larger to rely entirely on the reorganized Special First Division. Therefore, the headquarters ordered our Sixth Brigade to quickly intersperse and protect the safety of the right wing of the Special First Division." Lin Siyu said while thinking about where his regiment should be placed to fully play the role, rather than passively placing it as a vase at the end and becoming a transportation brigade.
"First Battalion Commander, I now order your troops to move forward lightly before dark. You must not hesitate to occupy it as soon as possible. At the same time, you must stand firm and wait for the subsequent troops to arrive. Do you understand?" Lin Siyu decisively issued the first combat order.
"Yes! I understand."
"I will lead the Second Battalion, and the Third Battalion will follow closely, trying to feel Chengguan Town at noon tomorrow. Okay, go and prepare and set off in ten minutes." Lin Siyu looked at his watch and instructed Wang Biao.
Wang Biao's fierce personality made him issue a combat order in just two minutes, and then ordered the troops to set off with only one ration and follow the nearby Yangyan Trail to Chengguan Town. "Come on, keep up, keep up, no one needs to fall behind." Wang Biao stood on the mountain stream path and gasped, while urging the team to go down the mountain and trot. A battalion of thousands of people marched for more than 30 miles of the mountain, and was almost at the limit of human physical strength.
"Battery Commander, let the troops rest for a while!"
"No, I can't rest now, I will definitely climb a nest after a rest." Wang Biao thought for a while, in order to maintain the strength of the troops, he could only slow down the speed of the march. The brief rest made him recover a little bit of his physical strength. Seeing that a soldier who was resistant to heavy machine guns was almost unable to support him, he hurried forward to take the heavy machine gun and said with a smile: "I will help you carry it for a while, and you will recover your physical strength."
The machine gunman looked at the battalion commander carrying the gun, and his lips were trembling slightly and he couldn't speak. Perhaps he was too tired. The troops walked quickly on the mountain path, with only the sound of footsteps, the sound of friction between guns, the sound of short breathing, and the lack of noise in the crowd.
Wang Biao looked anxiously at the sun that was about to go down the mountain, while looking at the map in his hand. It was still two hours before it was dark, and there was a mountain in front to climb. When Tianhei Mountain Road became more difficult to walk, he watched the guide walk past him and grabbed it and asked, "My fellow villager, where is the front? How far is it from Chengguan Town?"
"There is Longjin Bay ahead, and there are still forty miles east of Longjin Bay," the guide stopped the script and replied unhurriedly: "It's almost dark, and the mountain road is hard to walk. Finally, after dawn tomorrow, you will cross Dahu Mountain."
"No, my superiors instructed me to seize Chengguan Town tonight. What are you going to do?" After all, Wang Biao was not a child who grew up in the mountains, but he also knew that people in the mountains were generally afraid of climbing unfamiliar mountain roads at night.
"I am quite familiar with this area. I will lead the way back and ask the soldiers to pay attention to my footsteps. There are several cliffs and deserts on Dahu Mountain. As the saying goes, if you don't pay attention, you'll go down." The guide also knew that the troops were rushing so hard that there must be an emergency.
"Thank you, I'll invite you to have a good meal after the battle," Wang Biao held the guide's rough hands gratefully.
It was ten minutes late at night, and the towering mountains still caused the first battalion to fail to arrive in Chengguan Town on time, which was postponed for three hours. Wang Biao knew that the regiment commander was bound to wait for his telegram to occupy Chengguan Town. After thinking about it, he should wait until the battle was over!
"Order the troops to rest on site for half an hour, and reconnaissance platoons to touch the situation. After forty minutes, each company seized the commanding heights in order, and the enemy had only two companies of troops." In his opinion, the Gui army's equipment and personnel quality could not be compared with him. If the surprise attack was unexpected, I believe that it would be able to successfully occupy Chengguan Town soon. Next, we will repair the trenches and welcome the Gui army's counterattacks at any time. Whether it can be blocked is the key.
Late in spring, the rain and dew in the mountains and woods hit people, feeling a little cold. The soldiers came one by one, quietly and slowly approached the town along the footsteps of the former. Even so, they were still discovered by domestic dogs with a sensitive sense of smell and issued an instinctive warning to the constantly approaching team.
The ones stationed in Chengguan Town are more than 200 squadrons of Nandan County Security Corps. Chengguan Town is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with water on one side, and only two city gates in the north and south. It is a must-pass place to Nandan County and Hechi from the northwest. Generally, at night, the town will pull up a suspension bridge next to Tongjiang River to ensure the safety of the town to prevent sneak attacks by bandits on the mountain.
At this moment, the soldier on the night shift on the city wall saw the captain on duty walking over, full of alcohol in his mouth. He couldn't help but greet him with envy: "Captain, how are you drinking today? Is Widow Wang so strong?"
"Go to your little bastard, you haven't had a few hairs on your body yet, so you're thinking about that?" Ma Liu, who had a macaque face, shouted and cursed with a lewd smile: "Stand guard for me, I've been saying it's not peaceful recently, so I'll be smarter, and bullets don't have eyes." The members of the security team are relatively complicated, most of which are formed by the military pirates and the Baoxiang team that were reorganized by the Gui army last time. Basically, they are for the poor military pay and the people who can rush to the old man at any time. As for the team's strength of the security team, only God knows. They are evil wolves, and against the trend are sheep who flee everywhere.
Maliu burped, walked to the city wall and looked at the Tongjiang River flowing in the darkness not far away. In the quiet night, intermittent barking of dogs came from the village in the distance from time to time. "Look carefully, I'll go down and stare for a while." Maliu ordered the sentry to complete a routine inspection and prepare to go back to his peaceful nest to have a beautiful sleep.
A group of scouts crawling on the ground slowly squirming, maintaining their light and agile skills, constantly approaching the moat. Liu Ming, the platoon leader of the reconnaissance platoon, lay behind the pile of mud, took out a night vision glass, and clearly saw the enemy who came back to patrol in groups of three or three on the top of the city. He secretly felt that it was a wise move for his superiors to give night vision goggles to such a reconnaissance force. He gently signaled the soldiers on the right hand to start crossing the river. The two soldiers pulled out the military daggers from their waists and put them in their mouths, silently went into the river, and slowly swam to the other side of the river. Liu Ming looked at the two soldiers who had already arrived ashore, waved to him, put away the night vision goggles in his hand, and slowly climbed to the riverside. More than a dozen soldiers in the reconnaissance platoon read the river in turn.
Thinking of the task assigned to him by battalion commander Wang Biao, when the troops launch an attack, they must seize the city wall and open the city gate and lower the suspension bridge. At the same time, they can ensure the safety of the city gate and allow the troops to quickly occupy Chengguan Town. Standing at the foot of the city wall, looking at the city wall that is more than four meters high, it is easy to imagine how difficult it is to capture the city gate without being discovered by the enemy.
Liu Ming stood up and tried to see if it was possible to insert a dagger into the gap between the bricks in the city wall. Fortunately, the wall of Chengguan Town has been in disrepair for a long time, and the gap between the bricks and the rotation is very large. He took the lead in pulling out two daggers, stepped on a soldier's shoulder, inserted the dagger into the high city wall with force, jumped up, and the other dagger also inserted into the city wall. The climbing was entirely based on the strength of his own arms, and the scouts who had not undergone special training could not be completed. He chose a corner of the city wall that was quite labor-saving, poked his head and looked at the sentry gradually away from his position, hooked his right hand against the wall, and flipped hard, his body was flat on the wall, and rolled down into the city wall, but it still made a crisp sound.
"What sound?" The two sentries more than ten meters away stopped subconsciously.
"Hi, what's the noise? It's not those brothers who came out to shit and pee," the accomplice next to him replied impatiently.
"Damn it, this ghost weather is really cold, I deserve to change shifts with others."
"Let's go, let's go to the leeward place to take a few sips."
"Okay!" The two gradually left Liu Ming's sight. Even so, he was frightened and sweated. He squatted up and made a gesture outside the wall. The soldiers went up to the city wall one by one.
"We will start to act now. Class 1 follows me down and open the city gate. Class 2 guards the city and put down the suspension bridge at any time. Start to act!" Liu Ming lowered his throat and assigned specific tasks.
The crisp "bang, bang" gunshots pierced the quiet night, and grenade explosions resounded throughout the town. A group of security teams stationed at the city gate were blocked by several soldiers in the dormitory and could not get out. They suddenly became like headless flies. Wu Ran squatted under the window and fired guns out.
There are quite a few people in Chengguan Town who were frightened by gunfire, but no one went to the street to inquire. After all, who knows what the situation is in the dark? It’s better to be honest with someone to be shot and be a little bit of abusive.
"Damn, what's going on? Was it the gun shot, the dead or the bandits entered the village?" The captain of the security team stationed here was awakened by the gunshots in a daze, and crawled out of the warm women's nest. He was in a very unhappy mood. He was wearing a not-too-tidy military uniform, holding a gun in his left hand, commanding the chaotic team in the courtyard, gathering the number team while shouting and scolding.
"Report, report," a security guard ran in panic, shouting in anger.
"What are you panic?" The captain's vicious eyes scared the security guards and swallowed the words they said: "What's going on in the North Gate? How many bandits have come?"
"Captain, it's not a bandit, it's the Sichuan Army. The Sichuan Army has entered," the team members stuttered?.
"What, how many people?" the captain was startled, raised the chest of the team member in front of him and asked in surprise.
"I don't know, it's dark, the North Gate Guard Squadron is probably destroyed. Now the North Gate city is full of Sichuan Army, the captain, let's retreat quickly! It's too late."
A speech scared the security team standing in the yard and instantly lowered their heads and whispered. The captain knew that this battle could not be fought at all, so he would retreat soon. Going back to report was considered a contribution and his life could be saved. His eyes turned and he shouted at the team below: "Brothers, don't panic. Why is there a squadron in front of us? We immediately retreated to Nandan County, and then concentrated our superior forces to regain Chengguan Town in one fell swoop." With the captain's words, the brothers below finally calmed down the hearts of the brothers below, and they ran to the south gate with satisfaction. Some people even didn't know where the guns in their hands were thrown to run faster.
Chapter completed!