The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1334 Duan Peng: Must win by surprise (second update)

When Li Yunlong rushed to the Chaoyang City Arsenal, the battle here was completely over.

In order to prevent the remnants of the Kwantung Army from causing damage, Huang Jiashan left a main force company to protect the place and ensure that not a single fly could fly into the arsenal.

As soon as they entered the door, they saw Shi Jin, commander of the third company of the Second Regiment, rushing out with excitement on his face: "Chief... our northward detachment has made a fortune..."

"The Kwantung Army is so damn rich..."

"The arsenal of a main force regiment actually contains more weapons and ammunition than the arsenal of a main force brigade of the North China Front..."

"Now it's all easier for us to go north..."

Li Yunlong's frustration at not being able to go to the battlefield to kill the Japanese in person was instantly gone. He walked faster and faster, and rushed directly into the arsenal. As he walked, he asked, "Tell me, what good things are there..."

"The northward detachment will soon undergo a large-scale expansion, and it must have a sufficient number of weapons and ammunition to achieve this."

Shi Jin followed Li Yunlong and introduced as he walked: "I will definitely not let you down..."

When he walked into the arsenal, the first thing that caught Li Yunlong's eyes was various boxes, neatly stacked inside his crotch pants, which were taller than a person.

Shi Jin pointed to a long box that had just been opened and introduced: "Chief...these boxes are all filled with 38 big lids..."

"A box of ten rifles, there are a total of fifty boxes of five hundred rifles here..."

After saying that, he turned his attention to a larger box next to him, opened the lid, grabbed a Type 96 light machine gun, and continued to introduce: "This is full of light machine guns, a total of thirty..."

"There are ten heavy machine guns, ten 90mm caliber mortars, four mountain cannons, two infantry cannons at the back, plus two to three hundred 38 guns, which is the equipment of a full infantry brigade..."

"The largest quantity is ammunition..."

"The 69-caliber rifle machine gun has more than 1.2 million bullets, introduced by the captured Manchurian Army..."

"This was originally the arsenal of a main brigade of the Kwantung Army..."

"Last year, a main force regiment was transferred from this main brigade, but the ammunition in the arsenal was not transferred away. That's why so many bullets were stored."

"There are still a total of 200,000 heavy machine gun bullets, 12,000 mortar shells, 1,200 infantry artillery shells, 1,200 mountain artillery shells, 30,000 grenades, and 6,000 grenades. Special grenades..."

"In addition to the ammunition used by the Kwantung Army, a small arsenal next to it also stores a large amount of ammunition used by the Puppet Manchuria Army..."

"There are a total of 400,000 rounds of 79-caliber rifle bullets, 50,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets, 1,200 mortar shells, 20,000 grenades, and 20,000 pistol rounds."

After listening to this, Li Yunlong calculated in his mind: "In the two ambush battles, we captured more than 1,500 Sanba Gai in total, and also captured more than 60 light machine guns and more than 20 heavy machine guns. Nearly twenty mortars, twelve mountain cannons... plus thousands of guns seized from the puppet Manchuria Army, we will not be short of weapons even if we immediately expand the northward detachment to 10,000 people..."

"This battle was well fought..."

"Contact Deputy Chief of Staff Huang Yu immediately..."

"We have captured Chaoyang City and seized a large amount of weapons, ammunition and supplies in the city. Let him bring the troops and mobilized people to come to Chaoyang City immediately to transfer the loot."

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In the mountains northeast of Jinzhou.

Wei Dayong had just led the team to join Duan Peng. Looking at the team in front of him, which was obviously hundreds less than a few days ago, the excitement on Wei Dayong's face suddenly disappeared. The task Huang Yu gave them was to wreak havoc in Jinzhou. The longer they persisted, the greater their influence would be, and the more Kwantung Army troops they would attract, the better the task would be accomplished.

It does not mean that the more Kwantung Army troops can destroy in Jinzhou, the better.

Kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred.

Even if the Eighth Route Army fights guerrillas with the Kwantung Army in the mountains and uses its own strengths to overcome the enemy's weaknesses, there will be times when the horse stumbles and all kinds of casualties are inevitable.

The more Kwantung Army destroyed, the greater the troop casualties.

However, the Northward Detachment only has so many troops in one regiment. Without reinforcements, if the troops suffer one more casualty, the next battle will lose one point of combat effectiveness.

Now the troops suffered hundreds of casualties all at once. If the Kwantung Army gathered more troops to encircle and suppress them, they might not be able to drag them to the Jinzhou battlefield with the few remaining troops in one regiment.

The task of establishing a base in Chaoyang with the main force of the regiment's support detachment would not be completed.

"Battle Commander Duan..."

Wei Dayong's mind was in a mess. Facing the few troops at hand, he couldn't think of what the troops should do next or how to continue to hold back more Kwantung Army. He could only pin his hopes on Duan Peng.

He has a flexible mind and an endless supply of various combat methods.

Before the troops were divided, Huang Yu specifically reminded him to discuss problems with Duan Peng. There was really no way to send a telegram to the headquarters for help.

"We killed so many Kwantung Army troops in this battle, especially the battalion you commanded, and directly ate up a main regiment of the Japanese army."

"Based on what we know about the Kwantung Army, they will definitely gather more troops to surround us and retaliate against us..."

"But our total strength has been reduced sharply to less than 500 people. Excluding the wounded, there are only about 400 soldiers who can really confront the Kwantung Army head-on."

"After the great defeat that just ended, the Kwantung Army has become more adapted to our guerrilla warfare..."

"So the next battle will definitely become more and more difficult. Maybe our group will end up on the battlefield in Jinzhou!"

"Chief of Staff Du said that you think quickly, and I think so too. Otherwise, it would be impossible to completely annihilate a main force of the Kwantung Army with the strength of a battalion..."

"I can't think of a good way to break the situation anyway. I wonder if you have any ideas here."

Duan Peng blurted out and replied: "Chief of Staff..."

"Since we are no match for staying in the mountains and passively engaging in guerrilla and mobile warfare with the Kwantung Army's mopping up troops, let's do the opposite and take the initiative. Maybe we can carve out a bloody path."

"The deputy chief of staff once said: If you want to defeat more with less on the battlefield, the best way is to use surprising moves to catch your opponents off guard and make them unable to defend themselves."

"The Kwantung Army wanted to send out heavy troops to eliminate us inside the mountains, but we failed to do as they wished. We abandoned the mountains and fought them outside the mountains..."

"In this way, 80% of the Kwantung Army's previous preparations will be in vain. Facing our active attack, we can only passively fight, and the initiative on the battlefield will be firmly in our own hands. We can fight with the Japanese wherever we want. The Japanese are fighting, and you can fight them whenever you want."

(End of this chapter)