Jiangsu! Xuzhou!

It is cold and humid in northern Jiangsu in late autumn. Dark clouds cover the entire sky, and the earth without a trace of sunshine looks even colder.

"Damn it, what kind of shitty weather is this? It's colder than damn Liaodong!" Li Hu held a piece of dry grass in his mouth and wrapped himself in the military coat. The Liao army's military coat was made of a lot of cotton.

It is enough to withstand the cold for three to nine days in Liaodong, but in this humid and cold northern Jiangsu, it is particularly heavy to wear on the body.

"Batalion Commander, have a cigarette." The orderly handed Li Hu a Red China.

"Get out of here! This is the old forest. You are smoking a woolen cigarette. If you do, it will be easy for you to be shot." Li Hu slapped the orderly and continued chewing grass roots in boredom.

The First Division has landed in Shandong, and the Third Division has quietly moved towards Xuzhou. In order to achieve concealment, only two regiments came to Zaozhuang. It was the strength of these two regiments that launched the early attack. Because of the purpose of the early stage of the campaign,

Not to occupy Xuzhou, but to attract the main force of the Nanjing Forbidden Army to Xuzhou.

As an important town in northern Jiangsu, Xuzhou is stationed with a division of the Jiangnan Forbidden Army. This division has always been facing off against the Third Division across the provincial border, which is quite a bit of a non-confrontation.

Li Hu took out his pocket watch and took a look. It was now five o'clock in the afternoon. The attack time was set at eight o'clock in the evening. After dark, his reconnaissance platoon would cross the Shandong border and enter Xuzhou. Before that, the two sides had never crossed the border.

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"Master Hu! How about we go into Zhuangzi and take a rest? Taierzhuang is in front of us."

"We can't go, we definitely can't alert the enemy." Li Hu flatly refused. Li Hu didn't like this cold and humid environment either, but this was his first time leading a team on an attack, and no matter who it was, he hoped to get off to a good start.

It gets dark very early in late autumn, and it's already dark around six o'clock. Because it's a surprise attack, there can't be any artillery support in advance.

At seven o'clock, Li Hu released the leading reconnaissance platoon. During this period, the border was very calm. In fact, there was only one battalion of Li Hu near the provincial border. The remaining large troops were on standby in Zaozhuang.

The twenty-odd young men from the reconnaissance platoon quickly disappeared into the night. Li Hu held the telescope in his hand, and there was not even a bark of a dog from the other side. In this damn weather, the telescope became cold after holding it for a while.

Scar held an ear-tip knife in his mouth and quietly touched the bottom of a watchtower.

He was brought out by Li Hao from the Marine Corps. The fourth brother, Li Hao, went to the capital and sent Scar to his third brother to be the leader of the reconnaissance platoon. Scar, who was ruthless and ruthless, soon gained Li Hu's favor. Don't worry.

Give him the elite reconnaissance platoon.

The watchtower is a sentry tower with smoke on it. Even though it has entered the era of firearms warfare, the Nanjing Forbidden Army still uses this primitive alarm method.

Preliminary investigation revealed that more than one company of the Nanjing Forbidden Army was stationed in the courtyard. As long as there was any disturbance on the border, a bonfire would be lit immediately to convey the news to Xuzhou. From time to time, laughter could be heard from the row of houses.

This was a rare free time after dinner. The soldiers in the cold weather would stay in the room with the road to talk and talk as long as they had nothing to do.

There were two soldiers standing guard at the door with guns in hand, walking back and forth from time to time. Scar waved his hand and two scouts came over. Covering his mouth with one hand, the sharp knife of the other hand was inserted into his neck. The sharp tip of the knife pierced his neck.

Inside, with a strong backhand pull, the larynx and trachea were cut open, and blood spurted out with a "hiss" and "hiss" sound.

Due to rapid blood loss, the two sentries had no time to shout. They were exhausted and their bodies quickly became limp.

Watching his men slowly lowering the sentry's body, Scar was about to order him to continue searching inside.

"Pa!" A gunshot broke the night sky in Chen Jing's eyes.

A scout who had just been placed at the sentry had blood mist burst out of his body, and he fell softly.

"Fuck!" Scar yelled. The gunshot was so sudden that no one could see clearly where the gun was fired. The only good thing is that the Nanjing Forbidden Army still uses old-fashioned muzzle-loading guns. They have to reload after every shot.

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With the faint light, Scar suddenly saw the grass not far away shaking randomly. This was someone loading bullets inside. Fortunately, they did not have the equipment of the Liao army, otherwise the two men at the door would have died.

"Kill him!" Scar pointed at the swaying grass, and then pulled out his revolver.

The two scouts immediately pounced on it. Sure enough, there was a hidden sentry from the Nanjing Forbidden Army. Without saying a word, the two guys stabbed the responsible sentry with sharp knives in their hands.

The Anshao's mouth was tightly covered, and his legs were kicking on the ground. His arms were scratching randomly, like a cat that had been pushed over.

Scar secretly cursed at the idiot, covering his mouth and drying his hair after being exposed.

Underestimating the enemy! With the experience of being sentry by the Houjin Eight Banners in Wanghai Village, no matter where the Nanjing Forbidden Army camped now, no matter how tight the manpower was, there would be light and dark sentry posts on duty. Scar never thought about this secret sentry matter, and ended up eating here

A big loss.

Before the secret whistle died, a packet of explosives was thrown at the wooden door. In the dark night, the flames flashed with "sizzling" and "sizzling" sparks.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the door made of thick wooden boards flew up like torn pieces of paper. Before the flames of the explosion dissipated, several soldiers from the reconnaissance platoon ran to the door, lying on the ground and looking into the darkness.

Shoot everything that moves.

"Pop", "Pap", "Pap"...!

Gunshots were heard continuously, and screams continued to be heard in the darkness. The advantage of fixed ammunition in the rate of fire was clearly revealed at this time. Scar held the revolver in both hands and got into the yard first. He blocked the door directly and rushed out.

The Jiangnan Forbidden Army fired fiercely.

The bullets in both pistols were almost gone, and he pulled out a grenade from behind his buttocks, pulled the string, and threw it in. Then his whole body jumped and hid behind the horse-mounted stone next to him. The whole action was completed in one go, as smoothly as a flow.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" More than one scout was doing this, and the explosions of grenades came one after another. After the explosion, screams like slaughtering pigs came from the house. Maybe the stove was blown over, and several rooms were inside.

There was thick smoke.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" A sharp whistle came from the bunker, and the response was really slow.

On the face of the Nanjing Forbidden Army, while blowing the whistle fiercely, he rushed to the roof of the watchtower. He grabbed the torch beside the wall and threw it into the fireworks pool. He immediately lit a bonfire poured with kerosene and faced the blazing bonfire.

There was no time to light more fireworks, so I could only throw them into the bonfire.

Seeing fireworks bursting into the sky, Scar knew the raid had failed.

Bullets continued to shoot down from the tower, and several of the scouts were shot. Scar kept rolling to avoid it, and passed the explosive pack on the back of a soldier. After a few jumps and rolls, he came to the bottom of the tower. He pulled the fuse and

La, the explosive bag with sparks was thrown at the entrance of the watchtower.

With a sound of "Boom!", the door of the watchtower was blown open. Several scouts rushed in immediately and fired their guns at it. Scar gasped and hid under the foot of the wall. While observing the battlefield, he shook off the revolver.

, and fill it with bullets one by one.

There was constant fire going up and down inside the watchtower, and the advantage of the breech-loading gun's rate of fire was fully utilized. Those Jiangnan Forbidden Army only fired one shot, and the other party had already returned four or five shots. The bullet scratched the company commander's thigh and severed the main artery. Company Commander

He screamed like a slaughtered pig, and blood spurted out from his body.

Before the Nanjing Imperial Guards had time to come out, they were blocked by bullets in the house. The window had just been opened, and before anyone could jump out, they were beaten into a sieve in mid-air.

Several scouts began to pour kerosene on the house and light it on fire.

Li Hu finally arrived with the entire battalion, and the compound was surrounded. All kinds of guns kept shooting into the house! Heart-piercing screams came from the burning house, as if it was hell.

The raid was short-lived! It only lasted less than twenty minutes, and screams could still be faintly heard in the burning house. The entire company of the Nanjing Forbidden Army was killed, as well as the dogs in the yard.

Li Hu looked at the messy battlefield and realized that the purpose of this raid had been achieved. He believed that this raid would immediately cause a confrontation between the Nanming and Longwu Dynasties. He was not afraid of the large army of the Nanjing Forbidden Army and did not gather around Xuzhou.

"Burn! Set fire to everything that can be burned!" Li Hu ordered.

"The grain is also burned?" Someone pointed to the grain warehouse.

"It's already this time, how the hell do you have time to move food? Burn it!"

All the houses were quickly set on fire. In fact, anything that could emit smoke was set on fire in the compound.

A lot of explosives were placed under the watchtower. After a roar, half of the foundation of the tall watchtower was missing. The ten-meter-high watchtower soon collapsed.

"Hold the horses and retreat!" Li Hu pointed to several horses in the manger. This was the only capture of this raid. No matter how many horses were captured, it was good.

A battalion led by Li Hu came and went like the wind. In less than half an hour, a gun tower of the Nanjing Forbidden Army was taken away, and an entire company guarding the gun tower was wiped out.

Of Li Hu's men, only three were killed and ten were wounded. Six of them were slightly injured. In any case, this was considered a successful raid.

The same raid was carried out on Sun Chengzong's grandson Sun Zhihao and Li Hu's old squad leader Hei Niu.

In the city of Xuzhou, Liu Jie, commander of the Seventh Division of the Nanjing Forbidden Army, was like a fertilized donkey, scurrying up the city wall.

In the telescope, the three towers in the distance were all burning with fire. Even faintly, the bright light caused by the explosion of ammunition could be seen.

"Grandma! What are the Liao troops going to do? Are they going to attack Xuzhou? Come, hurry and report to Jinling. Xuzhou is under attack!" Liu Jie's first reaction was a large-scale attack by the Liao army. The Liao army's combat power

Liu Jie has always been fierce, but to be honest, the Liao army in Nanjing was a little guilty from top to bottom. When he saw the fire, Liu Jie's first reaction was to ask for help.

"Teacher, flying pigeons deliver messages faster."

"Then why don't you fucking go quickly?" Liu Jie wanted to strangle this talkative messenger to death.

"The whole division gathers and prepares to fight!"

The order was quickly passed on, and everyone began to take action. However, what Liu Jie was thinking about now was just relying on Xuzhou's city defense. He had no idea at all of going out of the city to see the watchtowers that had been attacked.
Chapter completed!