Predator Reborn

Chapter 111 Jingxing Coal Mine

Seeing that the Pingding Garrison Regiment, under the leadership of the regiment leader Wang Bing, slowly completed the formation of the army, after allocating a company of troops from each regiment, the three battalions of the garrison were quickly set up. First of all, let's start with

Those who arrived in Zhangjiazhuang were soldiers from the independent battalions of several villages that were liberated for the first time. After being supplemented by soldiers from several independent battalions, each company of the garrison now has a strength of about one platoon of the main force. Liu Hua believes that,

After decentralizing these companies to each village, each company will be fully staffed quickly, but the remaining things will not be under your control.

Seeing the pacification garrison being gradually completed, Liu Hua slowly felt relieved and began to plan the long-prepared arsenal plan.

Through several days of continuous investigation by a company of the reconnaissance battalion, Liu Hua knew the current Jingxing Coal Mine very well. The current Jingxing Coal Mine is far from the scale of later generations. Now the Jingxing Coal Mine mainly produces coking coal. According to the investigation, there are 500 coal miners in it.

Most of the laborers are prisoners of the Kuomintang and have very high fighting qualities. As long as they are willing to join the Eighth Route Army, these people will immediately form the combat effectiveness of a battalion.

What makes Liu Hua even more happy is that according to the situation detected by the reconnaissance battalion, after the Japanese army occupied the Jingxing Coal Mine, they brought dozens of miners from Peiping. However, these miners were obviously different from ordinary miners. Many of them brought

With his eyes closed and his complexion fair, he could tell at a glance that he was a scholar, so these circumstances were very difficult to hide from the comrades in the reconnaissance camp.

When Liu Hua learned about this situation, he immediately became happy. Liu Hua knew that these people must be some professors and scholars captured by the Japanese from universities in Peking. The workers in his arsenal finally had workers.

However, what troubled Liu Hua the most was that in order to protect the resources and the coal mine, the Japanese army actually sent a squadron of Japanese soldiers to guard it. At the same time, the Japanese soldiers stationed two soldiers in Chaiyu Town, less than 3 miles away from Jingxing.

There is a squadron of troops, and there is also a mountain artillery squadron, with a total of 6 mountain artillery, which can provide artillery support to the Japs in Jingxing Coal Mine at any time. Therefore, if you want to capture Jingxing Coal Mine, you must capture the nearby Chaiyu Town at the same time, and now there are two

All the enemies were huddled in solid fortifications, especially the Jingxing Coal Mine, which had semi-permanent fortifications. The heavy firepower in the hands of the independent brigade could only be destroyed by direct targeting with mountain artillery.

But faced with such a big piece of cake, Liu Hua still couldn't bear to let it go. At this moment, political commissar and chief of staff Xing hurried into the headquarters. "Brigadier Commander, there's a call from headquarters!"

Before Liu Hua could speak, the political commissar continued, "The headquarters congratulates us on our final victory in the Huangyadi battle. At the same time, in order to support the construction of our base area, the headquarters specially dispatched 200 local cadres from Yan'an to come to our base area.

, will arrive in half a month. I hope we can send effective troops to protect it. At the same time, the headquarters requires us to quickly develop the base area within the past two months. According to the central government’s estimates, the Japanese will launch a new attack in two months.

A round of offensive will take place, and our Eighth Route Army will not be idle at that time."

"Haha, political commissar, don't you think there are too few people at this time? We're going to reinforce the company as soon as a visitor arrives. The headquarters is really generous." Liu Hua looked at the smiling political commissar and said with a smile.

"Brigadier, don't talk about me anymore. Now, while the three of us are here, let's discuss what the army will do in the past two months!" The political commissar did not forget his work because of Liu Hua's joke.

"Political Commissar, I have a lot of tasks in the past two months, mainly the arsenal plan we agreed on some time ago. As for you two, we still need to discuss it."

"I think my main focus is on the training of new recruits and the establishment of garrison regiments," the chief of staff replied.

"You have all talked about your problems, so I will focus on the construction of the base area." In this way, the three of them carried out a clear division of labor. After that, Liu Hua, the political commissar and the chief of staff, stayed to take care of the problems in his hands.

I hope my two partners can come up with a good idea.

"Brigadier Commander, where are the troops of this brigade, it is almost impossible to transport all the equipment from the coal mine!" After hearing Liu Hua's analysis, the chief of staff immediately said in the negative.

"unless……"

"Unless what?" Liu Hua asked eagerly.

"Brigadier Commander, it's very simple. The Japs in Chaiyu Town cannot support the Japs in the mining area. Even if there are cannons in the Chaiyu Town, if we interrupt the Japs' communications, how can the Japs call for artillery support? How can the Japs stay there?

The cannons have all become decorations."

But we can't attack Jingxing without looting. As soon as the gun fires, the Japanese in Chaiyu Town will know, how can they not go to support." Liu Hua asked doubtfully.

"Brigadier Commander, we are attacking Jingxing and Chaiyu Town at the same time. This way the Japanese in Chaiyu Town will not be able to take care of Jingxing. But in this case, we have to divide our troops. You must know that the troops we have now are not

There are many, with less than six battalions of troops. The strength seems a bit thin."

"That's quite a lot, Chief of Staff, you forgot, we still have the equipment of two mountain artillery companies. When the time comes, we will bring all these easily disassembled Japanese mountain cannons. 12 mountain cannons will be enough for the Japanese and the previous pot."

After hearing what Chief of Staff Li Qing said, Liu Hua immediately found a way and said excitedly.

In this way, with the help of his two partners, Liu Hua perfected his combat plan. Soon, Liu Hua called the three regiment leaders to the headquarters for a meeting. After a brief introduction, the three regiment leaders all

Knowing the purpose of his brigade commander, he said, "Okay, you three all know the purpose and significance of this battle, so we must fight this battle. Please tell me about the troops you have in your hands now!"

"Report to the brigade commander, the first regiment has 5 companies of troops and a heavy firepower company left, with more than 900 attacking troops. Report to the brigade commander, the second regiment has 6 companies of troops plus a heavy firepower company to attack, and the third regiment has 6 companies of attack troops.

strength, plus a mortar platoon."

Soon, Liu Hua became clear about the strength of the troops in his hands, which totaled... two regiments of troops, while the Japanese army had the strength of one brigade. In terms of numbers, the Independent Brigade just had a certain advantage.

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First, Gao Yuan, commander of the First Regiment, led his troops, two companies of the Second Regiment, and a mountain artillery company attached to the headquarters and rushed directly to the Japanese brigade headquarters, Chaiyu Town. They marched day and night along the way. On the morning of the 6th, Shen

They unknowingly surrounded the town of Chaiyu. The town of Chaiyu is now a larger village. Since all the coal dug out from the Jingxing Coal Mine has to be loaded here, the Japanese army began to pay attention to this place and sent out

A large number of troops protect their own resource lines.

The Japanese troops stationed here also attached great importance to this place. At the only two exits of Chaiyu Town, the Japanese laid down several lines of defense in layers, with heavy and light machine guns set up behind the bunkers.

Several Japanese soldiers patrolled back and forth at the entrance of the town, and several searchlights illuminated the outside of the village brightly.

"Captain, we can't move forward, the Japanese are about to find us." Chen Dahe, the political commissar next to him, reminded the regiment leader who was advancing forward.

"Okay, the Japs are very tightly deployed and can only attack by force. I ordered the mountain artillery company to establish a position immediately, and the heavy firepower company also looked for suitable terrain." Although the order he received was to contain the Japs in Chaiyu Town, he always thought that

Sun Xingbang, who claims to be the strongest group in the Independent Brigade, actually means to annihilate this group of Japs within the specified time.

Soon, the mountain artillery battery was ready, and the remaining three or so battalions of troops led by Liu Hua were lying in the grass outside the Jingxing Coal Mine, waiting for the opportunity. The attached mountain artillery battery was under the cover of night.

The muzzles of the guns were quietly pointed at several Japanese bunkers, hoping to blow up all the Japanese bunkers as soon as possible. Then the troops rushed into the Japanese dormitories in one go, and engaged in close combat with the Japanese, trying to destroy them as much as possible.

The Japanese were eliminated outside the mining area and did not destroy the equipment in the mining area.

"Fire," Sun Xingbang ordered loudly. Six groups of sparks lit up in the Chaiyu Town where the cabinet was stationed. As soon as the Japanese heavy machine gun was thrown high, "Boooooooooo..." Chaiyu Town immediately

The devil's alarm sounded.

"Enemy attack!" Hearing the sound of artillery, the Japanese captain jumped up from the bed, yelled and ran to the headquarters. When he arrived at the headquarters, he suddenly bumped into a lieutenant who came to report.

"Baga, what's going on outside?" the captain asked eagerly.

"The Eighth Route Army soldiers are attacking Chaiyu Town. There is a large amount of artillery support. A small team on the periphery has suffered serious losses." After hearing the lieutenant's report, the sound of artillery that the guide heard just now was obviously the explosion of shells from the Imperial Mountain Cannon. "

How come the Eighth Route Army soldiers have the imperial mountain artillery? Order the mountain artillery squadron to fight back immediately and knock out the Eighth Route Army cannons." The captain quickly ordered.

The Japanese artillery reacted quickly, and soon discovered the location of the artillery based on the ballistic trajectory of the Eighth Route Army's artillery. A test-fired artillery shell landed next to the artillery company.

"Quick, move the position quickly." Just as the soldiers were hurriedly moving the position, a group of six Japanese artillery shells fell on the head of the artillery company. Soon, a mountain cannon was hit by the shell and crooked.

He fell on the gun emplacement.

"Quickly, move quickly." The commander of the artillery company loudly ordered. Finally, after the sacrifice of two mountain cannons and more than a dozen soldiers, the mountain artillery company finally moved out. At this time, Sun Xingbang saw the artillery company with his face filled with gunpowder smoke.

The soldiers no longer had the same ambitions as before. Now his request is just to hold back the Japanese troops tightly, prevent them from supporting the Japs in Jingxing, and buy more time for his brigade commander.