Bright Sword Military System

Wang Xuexin did intend to build an airport in Duolun County and use it as a forward base for attacking Chifeng.

This is mainly because there are too few places along this road suitable for building airports.

This sounds a little wrong. The west side of the mountain range is full of flat grasslands. Everywhere should be suitable for building an airport, but there will be fewer places suitable for building an airport!

In fact, this is precisely because the west side of the mountains is too flat and too open:

The flat and open terrain is indeed very convenient for building civilian airports in peacetime, but this is wartime, and what the Eighth Route Army wants to build is a military airport!
The first thing to consider at military airports is safety:

If an airport can be found by the enemy far away in an open space, and heavy artillery can easily shoot shells into the airport ten kilometers away, can it still be used as an airport?
If there is not even a warehouse that can hold cars and ammunition, and it is placed in the open air, a few mortar shells can detonate all of them, can it still be used as an airport?
If the enemy fighter planes are flying over the sky, the Eighth Route Army fighter planes are placed there one by one like lice on the head of a bald man, can it still be used as an airport?

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army needs a county-level city as a base. It requires basic fortifications for ground troops to deploy; houses and warehouses to store fuel, ammunition, and fighters; and it also requires the necessary water and food for the troops.

In this way, only Duolun County can meet the conditions... Zhangkai County can also, but it is too close to Zhangjiakou, only 55 kilometers away.

Wang Xuexin didn't expect that because of this, he would expose his combat goals and make the enemy ready to lay traps.

It was five o'clock in the morning when the independent regiment reached Duolun County.

The information Li Yunlong learned was that the county garrison only had a squadron of nearly 250 devils, and there were dozens of devil gendarmes, with a total strength of only 2000 people. The puppet army had a regiment of more than [-] people, and they were assigned to trenches outside the city. defense.

At this time, the situation of the devils is quite embarrassing, they don't know how to deal with the puppet army.

Fight in unity with the puppet army?
No one believes that the puppet army will "unite" with them at critical moments.

Killed the puppet army?
He didn't do anything wrong, so what excuse is there to kill him?

Moreover, there are so many puppet soldiers, it is not certain who will win and who will win!
Besides, now that the puppet army is being killed without any explanation, do the other puppet troops feel chilled and know that they will die sooner or later if they fight the devils, so it is better to rebel sooner than later?
Can the devils bear the chain reaction caused by this? !
As a result, the devils could only arrange the puppet troops to build trench defenses outside the city, while the devils themselves garrisoned the earth walls inside the city and aimed their guns at the backs of the puppet troops... The devils hoped that this method could at least make the puppet troops Fire a few shots or let the puppet army and the Eighth Route Army consume part of it.

But the devils still underestimated the determination of the puppet army to be a "grass on the wall"... There are puppet troops in Duolun County, just like other puppet troops. They don't even know that the current Eighth Route Army still has this outfit. When the Eighth Route Army came, it was tanks. It was a half-track vehicle again, and the puppet army was startled by just the "rumbling" sound of the engine, not to mention that the devil's artillery was silenced by a single shot.

Then as expected, the puppet soldiers dispersed with a shout. Before they fled, they did not forget to throw grenades behind them to blow up smoke so that the devils could not aim.

The ensuing battle turned into a confrontation between the Eighth Route Army and the devils.

More than 200 devils could not withstand the attack of the Eighth Route Army, and after more than half an hour, they were besieged by the Independence Regiment and unable to move in the Duolun County Railway Station.

The reason why it takes so long is because heavy equipment is difficult to play at night, but the devils can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to move around the city, and sometimes use the people in the city as a cover to make the Eighth Route Army attack.

What the devils often do is that two or three people hide in a civilian house, threatening the people to line up in front of the window as human shields, and they hide in the dark and shoot at the Eighth Route Army outside.

This once made the Eighth Route Army very passive... It’s not that the Eighth Route Army’s firepower is not enough. A tank can blow up all the houses where the devils are hiding in the sky, or a half-track vehicle can drive up the machine gun and smash the devils into a sieve.

But are there people in there who can do this?
So the Eighth Route Army could only give up heavy firepower and use bursting rifles and pistols to fight street battles with the devils, and they cleared house by house.

This is not a simple question of comparing troops and equipment, but a matter of sorting out the whole city.

It was only later that Li Yunlong realized that the information he had received was not accurate. There were more than [-] devils outside and directly fighting the Eighth Route Army. Thousands of people.

The devil did this to procrastinate and wait for dawn.

At that time, Li Yunlong was also waiting for the dawn. He thought that street fighting like this was very difficult to fight in the dark night. Some devils disguised themselves as ordinary people and threw a grenade over them. Many soldiers died in hatred.

However, as soon as the sky dawned, Li Yunlong realized something was wrong: the defense and firepower of the devils at the train station were beyond his imagination.

Then I heard the communication soldier report: "Regimental Commander, the devil reinforcements are coming, there are three directions, they are enemy tank troops!"

"Tank troops?" Li Yunlong asked suspiciously, "Where are the tank troops?"

No one could answer that question, because the intelligence didn't say there was a tank unit of the Japs nearby.

At this time, Wang Xuexin's order came down: "Retreat immediately!"

Li Yunlong's face was very ugly after reading the telegram, and he cursed dissatisfiedly: "Damn it, you are about to take down Duolun County, so you just retreat like this? The blood of the comrades who sacrificed this night is not in vain!"

Zhao Gang persuaded from the side: "There are devils inside that have not been eliminated, and there are reinforcements from outside. Let's withdraw first!"

Li Yunlong replied in a sullen voice: "Isn't there still a new first regiment and a new second regiment? Once they arrive, they are still afraid that such devils will fail?"

There is nothing wrong with Li Yunlong's words. The new first regiment and the new second regiment are two hours behind the independent regiment, and they are almost arriving now.

With the addition of these two regiments, there are twenty "Shermans" plus hundreds of half-track armored vehicles. In addition, they each carry a howitzer battalion. It should not be a big problem to hold Duolun County.

But after hesitating for a while, Li Yunlong gritted his teeth and ordered: "Withdraw!"

As he said that, he spat in the direction of the train station: "It's your fate, I'll come back and peel your skins later!"

Li Yunlong hated the devil's way of using the common people as a cover.

However, just as the Eighth Route Army was retreating in an orderly manner, there was a roar of motors in the train station, and then several strange large tanks broke through the wall of the train station and suddenly appeared in front of the Eighth Route Army. "Quack" turned to the "Sherman" of the Eighth Route Army...

Zhao Gang's face turned pale in an instant, and he exclaimed, "Tiger style!"