Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Chapter 141 Mr. Hu’s three hobbies

 Let us turn our attention back to the direction of the third group.

Long before the official start of the attack, Commander Yang had selected a breakthrough position for the attacking troops in advance. This point is very tricky, and any unprepared troops will be caught off guard.

 When Commander Han saw the Japanese's first squadron setting off from the Jingxing Coal Mine, he immediately ordered the soldiers of the three battalions to crawl forward to the predetermined position.

The starting point of the comrades was only 800 meters away from the high outer wall of the coal mine. They took cover under the dark moonlight and waited for the order to start the general attack.

The tactical arrangement of Captain Han this time is not complicated. It can be said that he uses his power to suppress others in an upright manner. Moreover, everyone had just seen with his own eyes that the Japs divided their forces, and now he was more confident in this operation.

As for whether you will worry about the enemy who just left the house, they will see through the ambush and come back to double-team you?

Then he, Old Han, can only say sorry. I'm afraid you are looking down on the commander of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Division.

At present, the enemy's garrison in the mining area is at most two squadrons, and their regiment has a total of 2,700 combatants.

 In addition, in the Jingxing Coal Mine, there are underground worker guerrillas established by the miners as support. These comrades have been enduring humiliation and burden for a long time. When the battle begins, they will wait for the opportunity to cooperate with the third regiment.

 Under such an arrangement, Captain Han didn’t even know what the Japanese had the ability to fight with their three regiments.

 The only problem now is how to deal with the Japanese in the Jingxing Coal Mine in the shortest possible time.

  After all, the location of this mining area is very sensitive, and the enemy's reinforcements are likely to be slow. What's more, enough time needs to be left for sabotage operations. There are too many equipments in the coal mine.

 In order to deal with many unexpected situations that may occur, Captain Han made the following arrangements. He called the three battalion commanders to him and began to issue specific combat tasks to them.

“First Battalion Commander, your battalion’s goal is the old mining area in Gangtou. The Japanese headquarters is also in that direction. You must move quickly to capture that area.”

“Bring your portable wireless phones with you and report to me if the situation changes!”

Logically speaking, the old Gangtou mining area is a tough nut to crack, as there are a total of thirteen gun towers there. The third regiment also has no barrel guns, so it will definitely suffer a big loss in the face of the enemy's cross fire.

 But now the enemy is extremely short of manpower. When they attack, it will be overwhelming if they can have three gun towers to participate in the defense.

After receiving the order, First Battalion Commander Wan Gaofei agreed without thinking. He immediately lowered his voice and said to the people around him:

“You guys, just be optimistic, our first battalion will always be the sharp knife of the third regiment! We guarantee to complete the mission!”

 In response to his battalion commander's stinky behavior, Captain Han had an imperceptible smile on his face. Although Wan Gaofei's words sound a bit arrogant, they are all based on successful results one after another.

 After a brief thought, he looked at the second and third battalion commanders and told them his arrangements.

“Hengshan and Dongwangshe will be left to you. There are many comrades miners there. We must try our best to protect them while attacking. The people are the root of our army.”

"Alright! Let's get ready! Leave it to the First Battalion to open a breach! Once you get in, disperse as quickly as possible."

Five minutes after the task was assigned, the soldiers of the Third Regiment saw a red signal flare rising in the sky in the distance. Everyone ended their concealment and launched an attack towards the Jingxing Coal Mine.

The distance of a few hundred meters quickly shortened, and the comrades encountered the first obstacle on the way forward.

In order to prevent the miners from escaping and to stop the guerrillas from wreaking havoc, the Japanese deployed a large number of power grids outside the mining areas.

In the original plan, workers inside the coal mine would cut off the power supply when the attack began. Obviously, they must have encountered some difficulties.

But the problem is not big. The soldiers of the third regiment have already made multiple plans.

 The simplest and crudest method is to let the engineers build wooden boards, or to ask the comrades of the first battalion to use grenades to open the way, but this method of treatment involves certain risks.

 In order to avoid non-combat attrition, Captain Han chose the most prudent method of play.

The engineers of the first battalion took out gloves made of basketball leather linings and put them on their hands. Then they turned around and took the guillotines handed over by their comrades beside them.

Basketball sounds a bit nonsense, and it doesn’t seem to be something that should have appeared in that era, but this sport is indeed very popular within the Eighth Route Army.

As we all know, Mr. Hu, who started out with two kitchen knives, has three major hobbies in his daily life. That is smoking, dunking, and beating Zhang Moutao. And in terms of basketball level alone, none of the 100 reasons are his opponents. Even when the material conditions are very difficult, this macho man has always regarded sports activities as an important part of military construction.

Basketball was popularized in the army by Commander Huzi. The 120th Division also organized a combat basketball team.

This hobby is well known to many outsiders. Even the Japanese and puppet troops know how to distinguish the headquarters of the 120th Division. After all, wherever there is a basketball court, there is Mr. Beard.

This man is known as a master of the court who can play basketball while playing devils, and play doubles between basketball and ghosts.

“After the war, he served as the director of the Sports Committee for fourteen years.”

 You can say that the 120th Division lacks troops, or you can say that the 120th Division lacks artillery, but you can never say that there is a lack of basketballs.

 With these insulation materials, engineers and soldiers can handle the power grid with confidence.

 They first cut gaps in the power grid with guillotines, and then put up prepared wooden boards. The soldiers of the entire regiment crossed the power grid through wooden planks and rushed towards the three mining areas where the Japanese were located.

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At this moment, Fujimura Hiroto is already under great pressure. As the only squadron leader still defending in the Jingxing Coal Mine, this devil is about to curse his mother.

When the red signal flare in the distance shone in the sky, he knew that there would be a massive enemy attack tonight.

As if to confirm this idea, all the circuits in the mining area were suddenly cut off.

This situation made even him, a low-level officer who crawled out of the dead, a little panicked, let alone his soldiers who were usually neglected in training.

But this young man knows that if he wants to survive, he can only rely on himself now.

 The first thing he did after being attacked was to strengthen his defenses as much as possible, and at the same time sent out correspondents to ask for help from surrounding friendly forces.

After the circuit is cut off, the high-power radio station will definitely be unusable. This is a no-brainer.

However, small radios and walkie-talkies that use batteries and hand-cranked generators can still work normally.

The Japanese correspondent stumbled into the room, sent distress messages to Weishui Town, Pingshan County and Jingxing County respectively, and asked for help in contacting the Eighth Independent Mixed Brigade in Shimen.

　　When Fujimura Hiroto and his adjutant hid in the artillery tower and looked outside, they realized how many attacking Eighth Route Army troops they were facing now.

 Although the visibility of the entire battlefield was very poor because there were no searchlights.

But with the help of the moonlight, I saw countless groups of the Eighth Route Army forming skirmish lines on this small day, attacking them like a sea of ​​​​people. Moreover, these enemies seemed to have updated their equipment, and the original broken hats were actually replaced with steel helmets.

 In this situation, Fujimura Hiroto dare not even think about guarding the coal mine and equipment.

As the 1st Squadron went to inspect the damaged Shota-Taiwan Railway, the 3rd Squadron went to perform routine rural clearing activities. At this time, there were less than 200 professional soldiers left in the three huge mining areas.

Even if we include those mine policemen who pretend to be powerful, each place can only be assigned a maximum of about 100 people. The number of enemies on the opposite side was at least five times theirs, and this battle was doomed to fail from the beginning.

Thinking of this, the desperate Fujimura Hiroto roughly pushed away the machine gunner in front of him. He directly took over the Type 92 heavy machine gun and fired wildly at the Eighth Route Army below.

 Due to the lack of lighting, it is difficult to achieve effective kills by relying solely on moonlight. In this small day, the bullets were fired one after another, but the casualties caused were completely insignificant to the first battalion.

Seeing the Eighth Route Army getting closer and closer to the gun tower, Fujimura Hiroto left the machine gun and drew out his command knife. He kept urging his soldiers to increase the frequency of shooting.

 But at this moment, a violent explosion sounded below the turret, and a powerful impact directly opened a gap in this "strong" fortress.

Countless wooden-handled grenades were thrown in from the gap. Fujimura Hiroto knew that there was no way back now. This little day, he gritted his teeth and adjusted the collar of his military uniform, then launched the last attack in his life downwards.

Hey, being able to buy the Varyag is inseparable from the boss’s only son.

 (End of this chapter)