frightfiction Chapter 636 Attacking Pizhou
Chapter 636 Attacking Pizhou
Chen Feng filled Yang Qingfeng's glass with wine. He found Yang Qingfeng's condition a little funny. He was trying too hard to figure something out, which only hurt his brain.
"Let's do this! The Guard Regiment has not been involved in any fighting recently, so I will have the Guard Regiment send out a special operations battalion and an artillery battalion. The Second Regiment will also send out a special operations battalion. The two battalions will join forces with the artillery battalion to attack the enemy. You will be responsible for clearing the mess and carrying the food. We have agreed that we will take one third of the food. Is that okay?"
Yang Qingfeng nodded with a wry smile. He would be happy even if he was given one-third of the money. What worried him most was the breakthrough.
"Eat it quickly! I was thinking of taking it back to Lao Li without eating a single bite"!
"Captain Leng Qiang, if you don't ask, I can't ask, but I can't help it. Where are you going in the future? Are you planning to attack the Japanese islands?"
"We want to fight, but the navy is not able to do so. If I had three or five aircraft carriers and hundreds of carrier-based aircraft, we would have reached the Japanese islands long ago. Don't guess. Our target is in the south, a very far place. You just need to take over our territory, but you have to change the name. Captain Yang, I advise you to let your superiors think about the things you can't figure out, and you just focus on fighting, otherwise you will suffer."
Yang Qingfeng understood. It seemed that these words were spoken to him, but in fact, they were just for him to be a messenger. Forget it, let's eat.
After the meal, Yang Qingfeng packed up all the leftovers. He used a bamboo basket, covered it with brown paper, drained the soup from the dishes on the plates, and filled half of the basket without caring whether the leftovers would be contaminated or not.
"Old Yang, learn how to do some business!"
Old Yang replied stubbornly.
"I would rather starve to death than be a profiteer."
Chen Feng was speechless. He deserved to be poor and deserved to have no food to eat.
After seeing off Lao Yang, Chen Feng returned to the cave and began to study the strategy for conquering Jinan. Conquering and occupying are two completely different concepts. The Tiger Regiment, including the new recruits, has only 5,000 troops. It is somewhat difficult to occupy Jinan. Mengshan does not need so many troops to defend now, so it will be no problem to allocate 3,000 troops at that time.
Shen Zhong applied for Lu Feihu and traveled all over Mengshan. Except for the pharmaceutical factory and the arsenal, he studied all the places thoroughly.
Early in the morning of July 7, Shen Zhong, under the alias Chen Zhong, participated in the training of the Special Operations Battalion of the Independent Regiment. Chen Feng would occasionally teach him personally. The child had good talent, especially in marksmanship. In three days, he had surpassed most of the recruits.
On July 7, news came from the south that two merchant ships had successfully arrived at the small town of Pidai after many twists and turns. Thousands of people stayed in Pidai for one night and joined the production and living army of the new city of Holy Spear.
On the night of the 15th, the joint forces headed straight for Pizhou County and launched a raid to seize food.
The Guards Regiment mobilized all 40 mountain and field guns of the Yimeng Guerrillas. At the beginning of the attack, they launched artillery bombardment at the designated targets that had been scouted, including Japanese military camps, city wall defense systems, artillery positions, and outer trench positions.
At eight o'clock in the evening, the mortars opened fire. The mortars of the two special operations battalions, including all the mortars of the Lunan detachment, more than one hundred light and heavy mortars fired twenty rounds at high speed, and more than two thousand shells were about to flatten the Japanese army's carefully designed trenches.
At 8:10, the commando team arrived, with dozens of anti-aircraft machine guns and large-caliber heavy machine guns providing cover behind them. In the middle, multiple snipers blocked the Japanese bunker defense system. Hundreds of special forces soldiers holding submachine guns suppressed the trenches with rapid fire, covering the eighty rocket launchers that followed.
Tsk! Tsk, tsk, tsk!
Rocket launchers were fired at the bunker. After three rounds of attacks, although the bunker did not collapse, there was no movement inside.
The commandos had already occupied the scattered trenches. A signal was sent from the city that the Japanese army was charging towards the grain storage area occupied by the special forces, intending to burn the mountains of grain.
The mountain artillery and field artillery began to concentrate their fire, blasting out a buffer zone outside the grain storage area.
boom! Boom boom boom!
After several violent explosions, the county town gate and half of the city wall were blown down. The soldiers of the Lunan Detachment launched a charge, and 5,000 troops poured into the county town in a mighty force.
The Japanese army had never seen an attack of this magnitude before. It was a complete nightmare. By the time they realized that the enemy was after food, it was too late. All the artillery fire had been cleared and the infantry could not rush forward. Even if they rushed forward under the artillery fire, they would be shot and killed by the enemy who occupied the food storage area.
The cessation of shelling also meant that the battle was coming to an end. The Lunan Detachment had no interest in capturing prisoners this time. Instead, they quickly cleared out the remaining Japanese soldiers who were stunned by the bombing from north to south.
The artillery shifted its guns and aimed them in the east and west directions to guard against reinforcements from the Japanese army's railway line. The special operations battalion had no transportation mission, so they built simple blocking positions on both sides of the town, one in the east and one in the west.
All the troops of the Lunan Detachment entered the city, and 15,000 soldiers began to transport food. They only had to carry the food across the railway lines and trenches, and naturally there were carts from the people to pick them up.
After all, he was the originator of mobilizing the masses. The mighty army of people moving grain stretched for 15 kilometers. Each family had a small cart with 200 kilograms of grain. A family of several people could not walk more than two kilometers carrying it in their arms and on their backs. But a small cart completely solved the problem. Men pushed, women pulled, and children followed as they rushed forward.
The mountain of grain was shrinking visibly. Yang Qingfeng and Political Commissar Li both came, and both of them showed unconcealable joy on their faces.
"Old Yang, we've really prospered this time! Not only will the people benefit greatly from this batch of grain, but our team will also have no worries for a year."
The people were not mobilized for free labor this time. No matter how much grain a family transported, they could keep a quarter of it, that is, 50 kilograms out of 200 kilograms. Don't underestimate these 50 kilograms of grain, if mixed with wild vegetables and sweet potato stalks and put into the pot, it would be enough for a family of three or four to survive for two months. Even the most poor families could hold on until the autumn harvest.
Xiaohulu, a family of seven, had two carts. His grandparents could no longer walk, and the remaining five of them were sandwiched in the middle of the team, holding two carts. His father pushed one, which was pulled by his sister alone; his eldest brother pushed one, which was pulled by his mother; Xiaohulu and his brother took turns.
Xiaohulu's brother is sixteen years old and is strong, taller than his father. He has no problem pretending to be an adult and transporting grain. Xiaohulu is only fourteen years old, half a head shorter than his brother, so it is a bit difficult for him to push the cart, but he is born with a strong will. Whenever his brother can't hold on any longer, he will take over for half an hour. His shoulders are already rubbed raw and his legs are twisting all the time, but he grits his teeth and perseveres. If he pushes the cart a little longer, his brother will save some energy.
The two families packed 400 kilograms of food, and when they got there they could take 100 kilograms, 100 kilograms! But it was all wheat and corn.
My mother said that no matter whether it is midnight or not, we should steam some white flour buns and eat them immediately when we get home. We have 20 kilograms of white flour left after the summer harvest. We had saved it for the shortage, and we also have to save a few kilograms for making dumplings for the New Year. We can eat them when we get home tonight and everyone will have enough to eat.