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Chapter 191 Bombard Taiyuan Airport!

In Taiyuan, the First Army Command.

The conference room of the headquarters was brightly lit, and the staff of the entire First Army headquarters were busy.

On the sand table in front of Shinozuka Yoshio, compared with yesterday, there were more half-sized flags, and each half-sized flag represented a large stronghold that was captured by the Eighth Route Army.

Although most of these strongholds lost contact with the headquarters, frequent low-altitude reconnaissance by planes also allowed the devils to figure out the specific number of these strongholds that were captured by the Eighth Route.

Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi made the first speech.

"Your Excellency, Commander, judging from the current situation, the main target of the Eighth Route Army's campaign is likely to be the Zhengtai Railway."

"Although Tongpu Road and Pinghan Road were attacked to varying degrees, the offensive of the Eighth Route was far less fierce than the Zhengtai Railway, and more like the Eighth Route supporting the Zhengtai Railway."

"As the imperial army frequently mobilized reinforcements for the Zhengtai Railway, more and more Eighth Route Army joined the battle."

"Northwest Shanxi, central Shanxi, and southeastern Shanxi, and even central and southern Hebei are fighting. The current situation is out of control."

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned, and asked, "Mr. Nanshan, given the extent of damage to the Zhengtai Railway by the Eighth Route Army, how long will it take at least for the Zhengtai Railway to resume operation?"

"It will take at least half a year!" Nanshan Hideyoshi said, "This is only a conservative estimate, because the destruction of the railway by the Eighth Route is far from over, and the Eighth Route wants to completely destroy the Zhengtai Railway. It is difficult to restore Zhengtai railway traffic!"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned even deeper, then looked at Takeo Iteng, the intelligence officer, and asked, "Ando-kun, have you expressed your kindness to the Central China Army and the Jinsui Army? What are the attitudes of Wei Lihuang and Yan Xishan?"

"Report to the general!" An Teng Wunan paused and said, "Currently, Yan Xishan's attitude is unclear, and Wei Lihuang clearly rejected the goodwill of the imperial army."

"idiot!"

"Wei Lihuang...you don't eat the toast, you don't eat the fine wine."

Shinozuka Yoshio cursed, and the words were filled with murderous intent.

Nanshan Hideyoshi said: "Among China's senior generals, Wei Lihuang is the main combat faction, and has an ambiguous relationship with the Eighth Route Army. It is also expected that he will have such an attitude."

Wei Lihuang's attitude is obvious, if the Japanese army dares to transfer troops from Jinnan, then I will fuck you, even if I can't beat you, it will make life difficult for you little Japan.

As for Yan Xishan, he was more tactful, most likely he would not send troops, and even if he sent troops, it was mostly just for fun.

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, and finally looked at Toshimatsu Kasai, the communication staff officer, and asked, "Kasai-san, is the Takahashi brigade still not in touch?"

"Report to the general, not yet!" Toshimatsu Kasai said suddenly, "Our reconnaissance fighter jets flew over Shouyang County before dark and found that the headquarters of the Takahashi Brigade was bombarded!"

Nanshan Hideyoshi said: "Beheading with a cannon again! From Captain Sakata to Major General Tsuda Mitake, and then to Major Takahashi, this is Li Yunlong's consistent trick."

Shinozuka Yoshio's complexion gradually became dark: "Li Yunlong is unscrupulous in killing the imperial army on the Zhengtai Railway, besieging cities and looting land. Could it be that no one in the First Army of the Great Japanese Empire can deal with him?"

As Shinozuka Yoshio glanced over, all the staff members immediately nodded their heads. Although Kazuki Yamamoto did not bow his head, he remained silent, with a rare and dignified expression on his face as tense as a sculpture.

"idiot!"

Unexpectedly, no one can cure Li Yunlong, even Kazuki Yamamoto, whom he has always valued, died down.

Shinozuka Yoshio cursed angrily, threw the blue and white porcelain teacup on the ground, and left angrily with the lieutenant general's command knife in his arms.

……

In Shouyang County, in front of the ghost ammunition warehouse.

Kong Jiezheng asked in a deep voice, "Lao Li, what exactly do you want to do?"

Li Yunlong didn't speak, but took the bucket off the guard Huang Erhu's back.

Then he took out a map of Shanxi from the bucket, and spread it out in front of Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

Seeing this, the two didn't know what Li Yunlong was going to do, so they approached with curious expressions.

"Old Li, what are you..." Ding Wei asked.

A mysterious smile appeared on Li Yunlong's face, and he pointed to the map and said, "Look, it's about 70 kilometers away from Taiyuan, and we can get there in one night with a quick march."

"With our strength, it is definitely unrealistic to attack Taiyuan City, and the firepower is not enough."

"However, I can use mountain cannons to bombard Xincheng Airport outside Taiyuan City from a long distance."

"A few months ago, after our regiment killed the Seventh Wing of Devils Tanks in Hulugou, on the way to retreat, Devils planes killed dozens of cavalrymen from the Laozi Cavalry Battalion."

"All the cavalry are our old Li's treasures, I still remember this account."

At that time, Li Yunlong wanted to take the artillery company to bombard the devil's airport, but was stopped by Zhao Gang. Li Yunlong calmed down and kept this account in his heart.

But now, the time to settle accounts with Devil Airplane seems to be ripe.

Kong Jie said immediately after hearing the words.

"Old Li, don't mess around."

"How do you shell?"

"During the day, before your mountain cannon battalion got close to the airport, the devil's plane spotted you."

"Even if you have a group of anti-aircraft artillery, but the devils find that there is danger, they will surround you from the sky and the earth, and they will also kill your mountain artillery battalion."

"Of course this job is done at night." Li Yunlong said, "I'm not crazy to be close to Taiyuan in broad daylight."

"If it's at night." Ding Wei said in a deep voice, "Your artillery can't see the target, how do they calibrate the shooting parameters?"

Li Yunlong said: "Don't worry about this, the effective range of this American mountain cannon is 10 kilometers, and I can shoot any artillery within the range."

"Just blow it up." Kong Jie was full of disbelief, "Still pointing out where to hit. If you want to be able to do this, the head of the artillery regiment of our division has already asked you to do it."

"Old Kong, you are right." Li Yunlong said, "It's not my old Li bragging. Last time the division commander called me personally. Guess what the division commander said. He really wanted me to be the commander of the corps, but I was rejected."

After a pause, Li Yunlong said again: "As for the shelling, don't worry, my shells will definitely fall on the devil's airport and plane."

During the day, Li Yunlong carefully observed the Devil's reconnaissance fighter jets, and there were at least ten Devil planes at Taiyuan Airport.

If you kill one devil plane, you can get the assistance of three mountain cannons. If you blow up all these devil planes, you can get at least thirty mountain cannons.

Adding the 6 Devil planes that were shot down before, that is almost 50 mountain artillery pieces, plus the mountain artillery battalion of the new regiment, which is almost the number of artillery pieces of a Japanese mountain artillery regiment.

Properly make a fortune!

"Old Li, what do you want to do?" Ding Wei asked.

"How can Lao Ding and I cooperate with you?" Kong Jie also asked.

"You don't need any cooperation." Li Yunlong said, "If you two are interested, you can go and observe it with me."

"It must be interesting." Ding Wei laughed.

"If you don't invite me, I'll go and have a look." Kong Jie said with a smile.

"Then it's settled." Li Yunlong said, "The seized cars will be left to our new group. I will be of great use."

"No problem!" Kong Jie and Ding Wei said in unison, and then the two brothers looked at each other and smiled again.

When Yangquan was captured, eight trucks were seized, but they had not yet driven to Shouyang County.

Li Yunlong just wanted to use these trucks to tow the mountain artillery along the highway to a range of ten kilometers in Taiyuan.

The Sword Squadron lurked near the airport, calculated the shooting parameters according to the precision method, and used the radio to call artillery to shell the Devils Airport.

The advantage of being towed by a truck is that it is convenient and fast, and the body of the truck can also hold shells and artillery.

The 70-kilometer road will take at least one night if you rely on your legs, but it can take up to three or four hours to drive a truck.

Driving vehicles is the basic skill of the members of the Sword Squadron. In an ambush on the Yuliao Highway a few months ago, two Devil trucks were captured.

The Yuliao Highway was controlled by Xinyituan, and the devils did not dare to come out in the county, so Lu Yingjun and his team members used these two trucks to learn how to drive a truck on the Yuliao Highway.

However, Li Yunlong also knew very well that it was definitely not the time to bombard the devils airport tonight.

Because of the good equipment, although the Zhengtai railway and highway from Yangquan to Shouyang were pulled out by the 386 brigade and the militia.

However, the battle between Shouyang and Yuci was still going on, and some of the devils' strongholds had radio stations, and they could directly contact the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.

So, now we can only wait.

After the 385 brigade cleared the devil's stronghold on the section from Shouyang to Yuci, Li Yunlong could start.

Next, the three brothers happily divided up the seized food, weapons and ammunition, and each took a share.

There are a total of more than 900 rifles, more than 50 machine guns, nearly 20 rounds of bullets, more than 2000 shells, more than 30 catties of food, three intact Type 3 infantry guns, six Type 6 mortars, and nine There are 2 Type 38 mountain guns and 1 Type [-] field gun.

This is nothing to Li Yunlong, but to Ding Wei and Kong Jie, it is a fortune.

At present, the three brothers have recruited militiamen, civilian husbands and transport teams to help them transport ammunition and food back to the base area.

It's not close to the base here, almost 100 kilometers away.

That night, Li Yunlong asked the Sword Squadron to go to Yangquan and hide all eight trucks near Shouyang County.

And sent a combat team from the Sword Squadron to infiltrate and reconnaissance near Taiyuan.

The Xinyi Regiment seized basically all Type 1.5 trucks. Like their tanks, the Devil trucks looked a bit small. The maximum load of this kind of truck was only [-] tons.

However, it is enough to tow the 75mm American mountain gun.

At the same time, Li Yunlong asked Fang Lei to send a telegram to the brigade commander, reporting the detailed combat plan to the brigade commander.

The brigade commander knew that Li Yunlong couldn't stay idle, so after careful consideration, he agreed to Li Yunlong's bold plan and reported it to the division headquarters, hoping to get the cooperation of the 385th Brigade of the brotherly army.

There was no battle for the next two days, and more than 5000 soldiers from the New First Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the New Second Regiment joined in the vigorous battle to destroy the railway.

The 386th Brigade mobilized and organized the people to destroy railways, stations and their ancillary facilities by means of demolition, blasting, burning, and flooding.

The Zhengtai railway track on the entire section from Shouyang to Pingding was basically destroyed, and a complete railway track could not be seen.

On the afternoon of the fourth day after the start of the raid, Li Yunlong finally received a telegram order from the brigade commander for tonight's operation.

(End of this chapter)