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    Although the largest capital in building the fortress group is human capital, it can be said that it is almost free under the premise that the Japanese army plundered laborers from the mainland on a large scale and brutally enslaved prisoners of war.  [.Com text] However, steel bars and concrete still require money to produce, and additional weapons and equipment also require money to purchase.

    "Japanese capitalists are not philanthropists. They support you in launching a war to make war profits, not to be taken advantage of for free."  After several quarrels, the emperor, who lost his patience, finally came to a nondescript result.

    Whether the functions of the fortress are increased or changed, the Kwantung Army can proceed according to the actual situation.  However, the Ministry of War's funding for the fort project remained unchanged.  Moreover, the second phase of the project in the original plan cannot be stopped and must be completed as planned four or three years ago.

    The number of labor required can be solved by coordination between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, and raw materials can also be allocated as needed by the steel plants in Manchuria according to the original plan.  But there is one thing. All overspending expenses will be borne by the Kwantung Army itself, and the Army Ministry will not increase it by a penny.  Moreover, Manchukuo exports at low prices every year, which is almost equivalent to nothing. At present, the quantity of coal and grain that Japan urgently needs in preparation for war cannot be reduced in any way, but must be increased according to the situation.

    The funds are stuck, but the largest fortress groups in Manchukuo are all in the so-called East Manchuria area where banditry is the most serious.  After careful calculation, the Kwantung Army discovered that if they wanted to make some adjustments to the functions of these fortress groups, from mainly offensive to both offensive and defensive, the amount of work would not be that small, and the cost would also rise significantly.  And if construction starts at the same time and all the additional funds are borne by the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army will go bankrupt.

    Although the Kwantung Army forcibly allocated some funds from the so-called Manchurian treasury, which was actually the Kwantung Army's small treasury, and reduced the construction volume of several other fortress groups to save money, this funding could only maintain  Hulin Fortress and Dongning Fortress are the two most important fortress groups in Northeast Manchuria.

    According to the current budget, without additional funding from the Army, it is necessary to complete the modification of these fortress groups whose main works have been completed.  With a large amount of Japanese immigration resettlement work still to be undertaken, the deformed Puppet Manchukuo economy cannot afford it anyway.  Without being unable to afford it, the Kwantung Army Headquarters had no choice but to start with key fortresses.

    As for other projects, they can only stay in accordance with the original planning and construction, and even the second-phase projects of some secondary positions such as the Honey Mountain Fortress Group and Banjiehe Fortress Group can only be temporarily interrupted.  As a result, the other defense fortifications originally planned to be built by the Honey Mountain Fortress Group in the spring of this year were suspended because only the laborers arrived, but the raw materials were still far away.

    The changes in the situation have caused the second phase of the Honey Mountain Fortress Group to be actually planned to be built.  When Wu Ruofu attacked the Camel Peak line along the 458th Highland, the Japanese defenses along the ridge had not yet started construction except for some anti-slope positions on the 458th Highland.

    But after all, the Japanese are not fools, let alone blind.  When Wu Ruofu touched the foot of Camelback Mountain, his good luck ended.  The Japanese army had not yet had time to build protective fortifications on the ridge from the 458 Highlands to Camelback Peak, but this does not mean that there were no fortifications built on Camelback Peak.

    The fortifications on Camel Peak and 458 Highlands are actually a whole. Not only are the two mountains connected by ridges, but there are also secret underground passages built in the ridges to connect the two mountains.  Although no fortifications have been built on the ridge, the fortifications on the front of Camel's Hump have been completed.  These fortifications and the anti-slope positions of the 458 Highlands can form a relatively rigorous defense network between the two mountains.

    When Wu Ruofu led two companies to reach the leg of Luotuofeng Mountain, they were discovered by a Japanese security position on Luotuofeng.  The Japanese troops on Camel's Peak were also unambiguous. When they found someone on the ridge rushing towards their position, they did not care about exposing their defensive posture. All the firepower points on Camel's Peak opened fire at the first opportunity, intending to block the gap between the two mountains.  ridge pass.

    And sent some troops to launch a counterattack along the ridge against the roundabout troops led by Wu Ruofu, trying to eliminate these enemy forces that had penetrated into their own defenses in one fell swoop, so as to prevent the already tight defense of the 458 Highlands from being attacked from the front and back and ultimately defeated.

    Although they knew the seriousness of the enemy force that had penetrated into their own territory if they could not be eliminated as quickly as possible, the Japanese army seemed to be obviously lacking in strength at this time.  Even when faced with an opponent who penetrates deep into one's own defenses, the force sent is nothing more than a makeshift squadron made up of infantry and engineers.

    Seeing the Japanese army sending out counterattack troops, Wu Ruofu immediately left behind the heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and detached a company under the command of a deputy battalion commander who coordinated with him.The Japanese army blocked the Japanese counterattack and covered the attack on Camelback.  He commanded another company and strengthened the mortars, ignoring the Japanese firepower on Camel's Hump, and under the cover of the mortars, forcibly launched an attack on the mountain.

    Although the scale facing Camelback is not as large as that of the 458 Highlands, there are still a large number of bunker groups and permanent fortifications mainly located on the mountainside.  Wu Ruofu divided the company in his hand into several combat groups.  Each group is reinforced with a rocket launcher and a light machine gun.

    Adopting a frontal attack tactic, using rocket launchers to knock down Japanese civil fortifications and bunkers with poor protection, the infantry then used the resulting shooting blind spot to launch an attack.  The mortars concentrated their firepower to block the Japanese army's permanent fortifications.  Even if it cannot be blown up, its firing holes must be blocked with artillery shells.

    It¡¯s just different from the frontal offensive that mainly targets the Japanese bunkers and permanent fortifications.  Before rushing up the mountain, Wu Ruofu told him that if he rushed up the mountain, he would look for the ventilation holes of the Japanese underground fortifications.  Once found, use grenades, Molotov cocktails, and explosive charges to destroy as many of these vents as possible.

    In Wu Ruofu's view, as long as these vents that ventilate outside the mountain can be destroyed, the source of air in the mountain can be cut off.  Even if you can't force those shrinking turtles out of the mountain body, it will greatly weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness.  Having graduated from a high school in Manchuria, he is naturally no stranger to the importance of air.  As for the permanent artillery fortification groups on the top of the mountain, Wu Ruofu never thought of fighting hard to capture them.

    The reinforced concrete outside the permanent artillery fortification groups is thicker than that on the front of the 458 Highland. Even if you pile all the explosives on hand, you may not be able to destroy it.  Instead of wasting all your efforts, it would be better to focus all your energy on the Japanese infantry.  As long as the infantry is defeated, how long can the artillery hold on without cover?

    Although the fight was difficult, it was no easier than a frontal offensive.  However, since the main firepower of the Japanese army was still concentrated along the 458th Highland, the pressure on the Luotuofeng line was much less, and the counterattack was not as strong as the 458th Highland.  The company commanded by Wu Ruofu used the cover of the terrain to attack the mountainside of Camel's Peak bit by bit.

    According to Wu Ruofu¡¯s order, after rushing up the mountainside, the attacking troops placed their main force on the outward vents of the Japanese mountain fortifications.  Find one, and after blowing the fence open with a grenade, either a bundle or several bundles of cluster grenades plus a few Molotov cocktails.

    Because it is in a relatively hidden second-line position, the ventilation holes of the first-line mountain fortifications at Luotuofeng are not all built on the reverse slope like the 458 Highlands, but are built upright on the front of the mountain in the sheltered area.  And to prevent rainwater and the entry of snakes and insects, these vents are generally built higher than the ground, so it is not difficult to find these vents.

    It didn¡¯t take long. Except for a few vents around the Japanese army¡¯s permanent fortifications on the mountainside, most of the vents in the Japanese underground fortifications on the front of Camelback had been destroyed, and not much was left.

    Seeing that the battle was progressing smoothly, Wu Ruofu naturally breathed a sigh of relief. Wu Ruofu, who was about to order the correspondent to turn on the walkie-talkie to report the victory to Commander Du, did not expect that at this moment, a man made him and his subordinates who were in the middle of a fierce battle, and even camel's hump underground.  Something unexpected happened to the Japanese troops in the fortifications.

    Sometimes, luck often comes suddenly to a certain person or a certain group of people.  Just two minutes after a soldier dropped two bundles of cluster grenades into a newly discovered ventilation air near the top of the mountain, violent and dull explosions suddenly came from inside the Camelback Mountain, which was undergoing fierce fighting.

    With this violent explosion, the entire Camelback seemed to have suffered a high-intensity earthquake, and the entire mountain shook violently.  The Japanese army's permanent fortifications group, which had been resisting frantically just now, with flames everywhere, and the remaining bunker groups that had not yet been destroyed, all fell silent in a short period of time, and no more shots were fired.  .

    "Compared to most of the Japanese bunkers that just collapsed, the heavy artillery fortifications on the top of Camelback Mountain presented another shocking scene during this period of violent explosions like earthquakes.  The bunker, which originally required hundreds of kilograms of explosives to blast, had its skylight opened.  Several heavy cannons in the bunker were also lifted into the sky amidst the violent explosions.

    The artillerymen inside the bunker who were desperately shooting at the 458th Heights were reduced to parts like their equipment in the explosion.  Broken limbs and artillery parts were blown up all over the mountain. Even after being blown up from the bunker, a thigh fell back to the ground and landed in front of Wu Ruofu.

    "Compared to the destruction of the Japanese military fortification group, the mountain where the explosion of tens of thousands of tons of various ammunition was directly generated, in this period of violent explosion, simply formed a line ofThe height reached nearly 100 meters, and the pit reached 30 to 40 meters in diameter.  The hillsides were built, and wherever the Japanese army built underground fortifications, large-scale collapses were inevitable.

    As for the other side of the mountain, a large-scale landslide simply formed.  Half of the mountain collapsed in the explosion.  The entire landscape of Luotuo Mountain has undergone fundamental changes with this man-made earthquake.  If they were not familiar with it, no one would have thought that half of the mountain in front of them had collapsed.

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