my bright sword career

Outside the east gate

In a mountain depression three kilometers away from the outer positions of the Japanese army, there is a cave covering an area of ​​hundreds of square meters.

This cave is the headquarters of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. In the cave, five or six radio stations are flashing with red and green lights, and a radio operator is busy in front of each radio station.

In a spacious space more than ten meters away from the radio station, more than a dozen staff officers were discussing something around a huge map, and a small quarrel broke out from time to time.

In the innermost corner of the cave, Lin *, the commander of the 115th Division, sat on a shell box, and in front of him sat seven or eight officers of the 115th Division at all levels.

Master Lin said slowly: "This is not very far from the east gate, and you have heard the sound of the artillery outside. That is our artillery group bombarding the outer bunkers of the Japanese army with heavy artillery.

According to the intelligence sent by the United Finger 10 minutes ago, the bunkers of the Japanese army outside the East Gate have been blown up to the point that only a few bunkers are still alive. Master Liu of the Joint Finger called me just now to ask me if we are sure. Take the east gate.

Now I ask you the same question, are you sure you can win the East Gate? "

Unlike other army commanders, almost everyone in the 115th Division knew that Commander Lin could not smoke because of his lung injury in his early years.

He also doesn't like other people smoking in front of him, but anyone who wants to smoke can only go to another place to smoke and then come in, so the headquarters of the 115th Division is also jokingly called the cleanest headquarters.

Facing Teacher Lin’s question, everyone was silent. From intelligence, it was learned that the 110th Infantry Regiment under the 79th Division of the Japanese Army was currently stationed at the East Gate, and was assigned an artillery squadron and a regiment of the puppet army, with a strength of more than 7000 people. .

Everyone knows that even if the bunkers of the Japanese army were knocked down, it would not be easy to take down the East Gate.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Mr. Lin's eyebrows began to wrinkle. Commissar Luo smiled slightly after seeing this, and said kindly to everyone: "Why, do you all follow Xu Shu and enter Cao Ying without saying a word? Our teacher is not Cao Cao ah."

Seeing what Political Commissar Luo said was interesting, everyone laughed.

After laughing, Brigadier Chen of the 343rd Brigade stood up: "Commander, political commissar, the Japanese troops stationed at the east gate are the 110th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division and a puppet regiment.

Moreover, Neiji Okamura also equipped them with an artillery brigade. If we want to launch a strong attack on the East Gate, the Japanese army will definitely resist desperately. In addition, we lack the weapons to attack the fortifications.

If you want to win the East Gate, there will definitely be a lot of casualties, so I think that if you want to win the East Gate, you must send us more reinforcements. "

"Reinforcements?" Master Lin looked at Brigadier Chen with a half-smile: "Tell me, how many reinforcements do you want? A regiment or a brigade?"

Brigadier Chen hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I don't want a regiment or a brigade, I want the command of the front-line artillery group!"

"What, you want to take over the command of the artillery group?"

Everyone present was taken aback by Brigadier Chen's words.

Brigadier Xu of the 344th Brigade laughed and scolded: "Old Chen, you can't be too greedy, you are a lion, do you know how many artillery pieces there are in the entire artillery group?
How many troops in our army of more than [-] people are asking for artillery support every moment?Good guy, you want to take all the cannons with your mouth, and you are not afraid of being choked to death. "

"that is!"

Chief of Staff Chen of the 344th Brigade also objected: "If all our artillery groups are given to you, wouldn't the rest of the fraternal troops drink from the northwest wind?

Old Chen, if the 343rd brigade is afraid to fight, just say so, our 344th brigade will fight for you.Don't use this kind of nonsensical request to block other people's mouths. If it gets out, what will others think of our 115 division? "

The people on the side also started talking.

"That's right, Brigadier Chen's request is too outrageous. There are more than [-] of our troops outside Taiyuan City. If the joint finger gives us all the artillery groups, the other troops will be blown away."

"I think Brigadier Chen just made up an excuse because he didn't want to go to the east gate."

"I think so too."

"fart!"

Brigadier Chen was angry, "Is this a person who is afraid of death? You have also seen that in addition to building dozens of bunkers at the East Gate, the Japanese army also built criss-cross traffic trenches and trenches, dozens of hundreds of light and heavy machine guns. Bunker, if there is no strong artillery support, how much casualties we will have to pay if our infantry storms alone, have you ever thought about it?

I estimated that our brigade now has a total of four regiments with more than 1 people. Even if they all go into battle, they will have to pay at least [-] or even half of the casualties if they want to win the East Gate.

This is just the east gate. If you want to enter Taiyuan City and fight the Japanese army in the street, how much sacrifice will you have to pay? Have you ever thought about it? "

Everyone was silent, everyone was leading the troops, and no one didn't feel sorry for their own troops. If thousands of people or even half of them had to be sacrificed just to take down the East Gate, no one would be able to bear it.

Everyone stopped talking, and everyone turned their eyes to Mr. Lin who was sitting in front.

Teacher Lin took out a small cloth bag from his pocket, grabbed a handful of soybeans, threw one in his mouth and chewed slowly, making a creaking sound.

The brigade commanders and regimental leaders below were all silent. As Mr. Lin's old subordinates, they all knew that his division commander liked to chew fried soybeans when he was thinking about problems. What he hated most at this time was when others interrupted his train of thought. .

After a while, Mr. Lin suddenly said: "Communications staff, give me the link, I want to talk to Chief Gao Hongming."

"Yes!"

Soon, the communications staff moved the phone in front of Mr. Lin, and said in a low voice, "Chief, it's connected."

Master Lin picked up the phone, "Hello, sir, I'm Lin*, and I have something to report to you now."

"Mr. Lin, please speak!" Gao Hongming's clear voice on the phone reached everyone's ears.

"It's like this. After our research, although most of the bunkers of the Japanese army at the East Gate have been destroyed by heavy artillery, the remaining firepower points and fortifications are still there.

In order to reduce casualties, we hope that the United Finger can temporarily hand over the command of the artillery group to our 115th Division, and return it to the United Finger after taking down the East Gate. Please consider our request carefully. "

Gao Hongming on the other end of the phone was silent. He didn't expect that the first time Master Lin took the initiative to call him was to ask for the command of the entire artillery group. You must know that this artillery group included six artillery battalions from the Liantai Militia and five artillery battalions from the Jinsui Army. The artillery battalion has more than 400 artillery pieces in total.

If all of them were given to the 115th Division, what would the other troops do? He could really say that.