This time, Luo Yue attacked Taishan Village, and Luo Yue also launched a campaign. All three combat battalions participated in this battle. Even Luo Yue personally went to the front line to command and was responsible for attacking from the Jinan Prefecture side. The two battalions of Qingdao garrison were arranged on the side of Tai'an Prefecture, responsible for cutting off the bandits' retreat and preventing the bandits from retreating to the side of Tai'an Prefecture when they were defeated.

After these arrangements were made, the People's Army launched an attack on the Taishan Dazhai. The battle on the first day was mainly to clear out strongholds, sentinels, ambushes, etc. outside the village, and to relieve the worries about entering the Dazhai.

Because the People's Army conducted detailed reconnaissance on the terrain of Mount Tai before the war, the bandits had 70% of the strongholds and sentinels outside the Dazhai, and the attack was extremely purposeful. In addition, they were still tactical with mortars and grenade launchers and infantry followed up. As a result, they were naturally invincible and could not resist the strongholds outside the Dazhai, and they could only be easily removed by the People's Army one by one.

Although the bandits temporarily added some ambush strongholds outside the village, some of them had been investigated by the People's Army. Although several strongholds escaped the People's Army's reconnaissance, one is that the number is too small and cannot affect the overall situation. The second is that the People's Army has a strong tactical discipline and has made sufficient warnings and prevented the army during the attack. Therefore, even if a small number of bandit ambush troops emerged, they were quickly stopped by the guarded army, which actually did not pose much threat to the People's Army.

In the end, the People's Army took only one day to clear out 6 strongholds, 3 ambushes, and defeated 2 ambushes. Only one ambush escaped back to the mountain village, killing 112 bandits and capturing 91. Less than 50 bandits fled back to the mountain village, while the People's Army was only injured and none of them died. It can be said that they achieved a complete victory.

Luo Yue also moved his command center to a small fort at a stronghold, less than 5 kilometers away from the bandits' village.

Although the People's Army did not launch an attack on the mountain village on the first day, the bandits who stayed in the mountain village were shocked. After all, the battlefield was not far from the bandits' village. Standing on the wall, you can see clearly. You can see smoke outside the village, covering the sky and the earth, and the fires are endless. Even if you can't see some details clearly, the People's Army's artillery fire was deafening and the gunshots were endless. The bandits in the village could hear it clearly. Such a battlefield was something the bandits had never experienced before.

At this time, the bandits fully believed that Lin Weizheng was right. The overseas Chinese army was indeed Lizhai, and they had no confidence in whether they could defend the Dazhai. Fortunately, Lin Shenwang and others had sent their families away secretly, so they had no worries.

However, that night, Lin Shenwang discussed with Wang Kefu again. Wang Kefu suggested to Lin Shenwang to withdraw from the parcel overnight so that he could preserve his strength more. This time, Lin Shenwang directly rejected Wang Kefu's suggestion, believing that at this point, he had to fight a war with overseas Chinese before he could evacuate from the parcel.

In fact, this is the different position held by Lin Shenwang and Wang Kefu. Wang Kefu only considers it purely from the perspective of preserving his strength, while Lin Shenwang must consider it comprehensively. Because there are still many bandits who are unwilling to evacuate from the parcel, and there are still a large number of bandit families in the parcel, and it is impossible to evacuate all overnight. In this way, the bandits whose families did not withdraw will inevitably become dissatisfied with Lin Shenwang. In addition, although Lin Shenwang has prepared three reserve hiding strongholds, it cannot accommodate the entire population of the parcel now. Moreover, their families have occupied one of the strongholds. Therefore, only by fighting a war with overseas Chinese, they are forced to evacuate from the parcel when they cannot be defeated. In this way, other bandits have nothing to say, and can also get rid of most of their family members and support them for a long time when they arrive in the new stronghold. These factors determine that they must fight with overseas Chinese to retreat tomorrow.

Wang Kefu could not understand Lin Shenwang's thoughts, but Lin Shenwang insisted on fighting with overseas Chinese, so he could only listen to him. Moreover, he had to stay in the village and accompany Lin Shenwang to fight this battle. After all, at this point, Wang Kefu was already in a difficult position, because if he evacuated first at this time, all his efforts before would be wasted, so he could only take the risk to stay. Of course, when the battle was held to Guan Jian, he still had to escape immediately and never wait to die in the village. In addition, he could also take this opportunity to observe the combat effectiveness of overseas Chinese at close range. This information is also very important for Japanese intelligence agencies. It has always been the focus of Japanese intelligence agencies collecting, but it is difficult to find opportunities.

Although Wang Kefu has been fighting overseas Chinese for 2 or 3 years, he has not fought with overseas Chinese with real swords and guns. Of course, this is because Wang Kefu's own strength is too weak and he has no power to confront overseas Chinese head-on. Now he can use the power of bandits to try out the combat effectiveness of overseas Chinese.

The next morning, the People's Army launched an attack on the bandit Dazhai. After several battles, the People's Army was quite skilled in using mortars. First of all, it was to arrange artillery positions and bombard the Dazhai.

However, the scale of the Dazhai is far larger than that of Wohu Mountain. It is difficult for the People's Army to carry out covered artillery fire as if it were attacking Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain. After all, the People's Army's mortars and grenade launchers only carry a base of ammunition. If it is to carry out covered artillery fire strikes, the number is far from enough. Therefore, the main range of the People's Army's attack is near the village wall, hoping to cause devastating blows to the bandits guarding the village wall, and blow up several gaps to open up the situation for the infantry's advance.

For a moment, the cannons roared and fell toward the wall. In a blink of an eye, the wall of the village was covered by explosion and smoke. The bandits' wall was built with a mixed structure of civil, wood and stone. Although it is mainly rammed earth, the inside is made of logs as piles and is mixed with large stones, about 5 meters high, about 4 meters wide at the bottom, about 2 meters wide at the top, and there are piles and perforations. However, there are not many shells that can fall on the wall. Even if the shells hit the wall are added up, it is less than 1/3. Most of the rest fall outside the wall, but a small number of them fall into the wall.

However, the People's Army's mortar teams carried out two rounds of artillery bombardment. Although it caused huge casualties to the bandits guarding the village wall, the damage to the village wall was not large. Although several gaps were also exploded, they were not large. The largest gap was more than 3 meters high from the ground. As a result, the mortar shells were indeed not powerful, and they used high-explosive bombs, not *, and the lethality to fixed bunker targets was very limited; the second was that the Taishan Dazhai Village Wall was indeed stronger than Wohu Mountain and Jiuru Mountain, so the People's Army's artillery targets were not fully achieved.

However, this result was long ago as Luo Yue expected. When he received the report from the reconnaissance personnel, Luo Yue estimated that it would be difficult to break the wall of Taishan Dazhai with mortars, unless formal artillery could be used.

Luo Yue's regiment also has a 75mm field artillery battalion under him, equipped with 18 75mm field artillery. Although it is only half equipped now, it is enough to deal with the village wall. However, Luo Yue finally decided not to use 75mm field artillery in this battle. Firstly, although the 75mm field artillery is lighter, it still needs to be dismantled and transported, and when it comes to the battlefield, it has to be reassembled before it can be used. This is too troublesome. Secondly, in these battles, the coordinated combat between mortars and infantry has been practiced, which is just a matter of further strengthening the application ability in this area. If 75mm field artillery is used, not only will the coordinated combat between mortars and infantry not be well trained, but the coordination between infantry and formal artillery must be re-engineered, which is obviously not conducive to the progress of infantry.

In addition, although the mortar cannot open the wall of the village, there is no other way. While sending troops, Luo Yue had prepared 50 long ladders in order to capture the wall of the village.

Seeing that the mortar failed to open the city wall, Luo Yue immediately ordered the mortar's range to extend 200-300 meters forward to conduct fire interception and block the bandits' reinforcement of the village wall. The infantry stepped forward and rushed to a range within 300 meters of the village wall to suppress the village wall. Although there were only three or four bandits guarding the village wall at this time, it was basically impossible for him to defend the village wall, but he still had to strictly follow tactical norms.

After Luo Yue gave the order, each mortar team immediately adjusted its firing units and extended the range forward by 200-300 meters. In this way, all the shells fell into the village, and an explosion interception belt was formed behind the village wall. Not to mention that the village did not intend to send people to reinforce the guards of the village wall at this time, even if there were, under such fire interception, there would inevitably be heavy losses.

The infantry immediately dispatched, and the two companies immediately rushed to a place less than 300 meters away from the village wall and fired on the village wall. At the same time, the grenade launcher also opened fire and frequently fired * on the village wall. After the previous round of urgency attacks, most of the bandits guarding the village wall were injured and killed. At this time, they were hit by such a fierce fire, and many casualties were immediately killed. The rest were all lying down and hiding below the battlement. They dared to show their heads again.
Chapter completed!