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in Taiyuan.

The First Army Command of the Japanese North China Front Army.

The Yamazaki detachment occupied Guanjianao and waited for reinforcements, which attracted the news of the siege by the main force of the Eighth Route.

The First Army Staff Department quickly made a sand table centered on the Guanjianao Highland.

The Rising Sun miniature flag, representing the Japanese support troops, approached Guanjianao from four different directions.

Holding a bamboo pole in his hand, Kusuyama Hideyoshi pointed to the Guanjianao plateau on the sand table confidently, and introduced to Yoshio Shinozuka:

"According to the telegram sent back by Nakasa Yamazaki."

"The Guanjianao Highland is a flat circular platform, surrounded by the ridgeline of the hillside platform."

"According to the convention, the fortification position of the defending side should be built on the ridge line, so that the dynamics of the attacking side can be seen at a glance, and the firepower advantage can also be condescending."

"However, Zhongzuo Yamazaki did not play his cards according to common sense. He repaired all the fortifications on the platform, making the direct firepower of the eight-way attack force useless."

"Within two hours, the Yamazaki detachment has repelled three attacks from the Eight Route Army, resulting in no less than 300 casualties."

"According to the current situation, it is not a problem for the Yamazaki detachment to stick to Guanjianao for a day."

Kusuyama Hideyoshi's tone was confident.

"The 3rd Flying Brigade has already taken off from Changzhi Airport, heading to the bandit area in southeast Shanxi in batches to reinforce and cover the Yamazaki Detachment and various reinforcements."

The 3rd Flying Battalion was temporarily transferred by Hayao Tada to the [-]st Army.

However, the two airports in Taiyuan have not been repaired yet, so we take off and land at Changzhi Airport.

In order to wipe out the main force of the Eighth Route in the southeast Shanxi base area, the old devil Tada Hayao spent a lot of money this time.

Yoshio Shinozuka asked, "How many eight roads are there around Guanjianao?"

"A conservative estimate, at least 10,000 people." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said, "Judging from the Eight Routes' clothes, they have a very tenacious fighting will, which shows that all of them are the main force of the Eight Routes."

"This time, the main forces of the Eight Routes don't want to fight the imperial army, so it's up to them!"

"Yoxi!" Shinozuka Yoshio said happily, "Order the reinforcements from all walks of life to speed up!"

Kusuyama Hideyoshi: "Hi!"

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Before the company commanders of the battalions arrived at the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong called the brigade commander again.

"The brigade commander is me, Li Yunlong."

"Go to Guanjianao Highland, I have a request."

Li Yunlong said on the phone.

The brigade commander said angrily: "Why do you have so many things? Tell me quickly."

"The artillery regiment belonging to the division and the artillery regiment belonging to the brigade are under my command temporarily. I will reimburse the shells fired and the artillery lost during the battle."

"Just ask for it."

"If I can't take down the Guanjianao Highland, I don't need to raise my head to see you, because I'm already lying on the Guanjianao Highland at that time."

"I assure you, Brigadier, that none of the more than 3000 members of our Xinyi Regiment will leave the battle alive."

The brigade commander's tone was firm: "I agree with your request. The artillery regiment of the brigade is under your command. I will borrow it for you from the artillery regiment of the division."

"But I also have two requests. I want you to take down the Guanjianao Heights, and I want you to come back alive. This is an order, and you must carry it out!"

"Yes, I will carry out the order!" Li Yunlong hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

Within a few minutes, the brigade commander called and told Li Yunlong that he had borrowed the divisional artillery regiment for him.

Now Li Yunlong is full of confidence.

When the first stage of the Hundred Regiments War was settled, Chen Feng had already negotiated with him.

Within three months, the Xinyi Regiment received assistance of 500 tons of medicine and 5 large-caliber heavy machine guns for every 30 Japanese soldiers killed.

As for the reimbursement of weapons and ammunition, it has been negotiated a long time ago, and all weapons and ammunition consumed by the new regiment in future battles will be reimbursed.

That's why Li Yunlong dared to have the confidence to let the brigade commander borrow the division commander's artillery regiment.

There are three sets of battle plans in Li Yunlong's mind.

The first battle plan was to call Chen Feng for a bomber fleet to blow up Guanjianao, so that the Yamazaki detachment would be destroyed directly.

This is the simplest and most brutal method, and the advantage is that it is fast, precise and ruthless.

But Li Yunlong was not willing to use up this opportunity when he was fighting against the 225th Devils Regiment, and Li Yunlong was even more reluctant to use this opportunity when he was fighting against the Yamazaki Detachment with more than 1000 people.

The second battle plan is to use geotechnical excavation to dig the trench to a position 30 meters away from the devil's position, and throw grenades into the devil's circular trench.

But throwing a grenade can only reach the devil's forward circular position at most, and it can't blow up most of the devil.

At this time, if we rush forward to fight hand-to-hand with the devils, the new regiment conservatively estimates that there will be more than 600 casualties.

1000 kills and 600 casualties. With the new regiment's equipment, Li Yunlong would not fight this kind of battle.

Then there is the third set of battle plans:
On the basis of the second set of battle plans, before the general attack, gather grenades and cannons to attack the Guanjianao position first, and strive to kill the devils to the greatest extent.

Time was urgent, and after the company commanders of the battalions arrived at the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong quickly issued combat orders.

The whole regiment immediately put into pre-war preparations, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

The two grooms in the groom class got into a quarrel, they were fighting over a guillotine, and they were clamoring for Li Yunlong to judge, but Li Yunlong scolded them all over the face.

Li Yunlong was holding a very sharp ghost-headed knife, and in the holster was a pistol with the open head, and said to Zhao Gang: "I will lead the commando team first, and you will be in charge of the rear. We will kill you and then you will make up." .”

Zhao Gang was putting bullets into the Barrett sniper rifle. Hearing this scene, the corner of his mouth twitched and said, "How dare you? The regimental commander should stay in the command position, not the commando. I will call the brigade commander immediately and ask If you don't revoke your qualification to participate in the war, I won't trust Zhao."

"Don't, don't, don't, it's so meaningless."

Li Yunlong softened immediately.

After a pause, Zhao Gang said again: "I have gone to see the topography of Guanjianao. There is a mountain called Fengnao Peak about 350 meters away. This mountain is still in our hands. I will take the whole group's landform later." Gather the snipers and set up a sniper position at Fengnaoding, and when they attack from the front, the snipers will immediately snipe and kill the devils' machine gunners and artillery."

Li Yunlong was planning to fight against the general, and the political commissar should stay in the command position, not the sniper position.

But then I thought about it, when Political Commissar Zhao is not by my side, who would dare to stop me from chopping off the devil's head with a knife.

Li Yunlong looked thoughtful and beamed with joy: "Old Zhao, you reminded me that our snipers can eliminate the firepower of the devils, so there is no need for earthwork at all."

Li Yunlong really forgot about this, the new regiment has more than 100 snipers, if there are snipers to suppress the devil's machine gun fire.

Moreover, these more than 100 snipers are almost all equipped with semi-automatic sniper rifles.

Then there is no need to do earthworks so complicated.

After all, Li Yunlong ordered the digging of trenches in order to shorten the distance from the attack position to the devil's circular forward position.

Because once the charge starts from a few hundred meters away, the light and heavy machine gun firepower of the devils in the forward position can be condescending and unscrupulous strafing.

Even if the Guanjianao highlands were washed with artillery fire, all the devils could not be wiped out. Without excavation, the attacking troops would still be exposed to the machine gun fire of the devils.

But with snipers and machine gunners clearing out devils, then there is no problem.

"That's true." Zhao Gang said, "Anyway, our task is to end the battle before dark, so it depends on how you choose to fight."

"Let's not do the soil work, save time, and end the battle earlier." Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Old Zhao, you are the best sniper in our regiment, and you will lead the team to build a sniper position at Fengnaoding. "

"Don't worry." Zhao Gang said, "We will definitely provide timely fire support to the frontal main attacking force."

The corner of Li Yunlong's mouth curled up: "Haha, if you, Lao Zhao, come out in person, then Lao Li can rest assured."

Zhao Gang warned: "I'm not by your side, you kid can't mess around, absolutely can't participate in hand-to-hand combat."

Li Yunlong patted his chest to make a promise, and said: "I will definitely stay in the command position, and I will never participate in hand-to-hand combat. Besides, the brigade commander is watching from behind us, how dare I?"

Only then did Zhao Gang feel relieved and turned around and ordered the snipers of the whole regiment to assemble immediately.

After the preparatory work was completed, Li Yunlong led the whole group to Guanjianao Highland.

One kilometer away, the guard company of Xinyi Regiment quickly set up a temporary headquarters.

It's secluded enough and has a great view.

Stepping on the ladder of the headquarters, Li Yunlong had a panoramic view of the situation in front of the Guanjianao Highland.

There were quite a few corpses lying in front of the Guanjianao Highland, some of them belonged to the Eighth Route Army, and some belonged to devils. The dense shell craters showed how fierce the battle was.

On the Guanjianao Highlands, apart from the devil's circular positions, there are also many cave dwellings, and some devils rely on the cave dwellings to build fortifications.

"Lao Li, Lao Li..."

"Old Li!"

Hearing a familiar voice, Li Yunlong stepped down from the ladder and looked towards the door. It was Ding Wei and Kong Jie who came hand in hand.

"Old Kong, Lao Ding?"

"Why are you here?"

Li Yunlong looked a little surprised.

Kong Jie smiled and said, "I heard from Lao Ding that you need artillery support, so I came here."

"Although Lao Kong and I don't have many cannons," Ding Wei said, "but we can barely make up an artillery battalion. Don't be disgusted."

Li Yunlong went to the door and saw that Ding Wei and Kong Jie really brought their artillery company.

"It's too late for our old Li to be happy."

"Dislike, how is it possible?"

"I really need artillery support here. I won't say thank you, Lao Li. After this battle is over, I will treat you two to drink."

"And don't worry, both of you, for the damaged artillery and spent shells in the battle, Lao Li will reimburse you all."

Li Yunlong was really touched. He didn't expect that Ding Wei and Kong Jie would take the initiative to support their lifeblood artillery company at this time.

After all, there are little devil's planes in the sky, maybe a few aerial bombs will fall, and their artillery company will be reimbursed.

Kong Jie said: "With your words, we can rest assured."

"Yes!" Ding Wei said, "Then we won't bother you to direct."

"Both brothers, go slowly."

Li Yunlong sent Ding Wei and Kong Jie away, and arranged their artillery companies in artillery positions, and then turned back to the headquarters.

He silently calculated in his heart that the artillery regiment belonging to the division and the artillery regiment belonging to the brigade were considered an artillery brigade.

The new regiment has more than 40 mortars and 20 mountain artillery pieces, plus the artillery battalion brought in by Ding Wei and Kong Jie, it is also considered an artillery brigade.

Hey, two artillery brigades are enough for that boy Yamazaki to drink a big pot.