I am helping

Chapter 341 It's All Main Attack!
Chapter 45 is all about the main attack!

Although Li Yunlong has commanded more than one such battle of wealth.

But it was the first time for Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie.

Sufficient ammunition, crushing cannon firepower, perfect logistical supplies...

What is a fucking fun, this is what a fun is!
The three people who had tasted the sweetness were very excited at this time. In one afternoon, each attacking group wiped out at least 3000 enemies.

Of course, with the current strength of the Eighth Route Army, only one attack column like this can be formed.

If an attack column like 4 can be formed, the devils will come to 4 divisions and eat them all.

It's not that there are not enough troops, it's mainly that weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies can't keep up.

Moreover, at present, only Li Yunlong can play like this, hiding all the cannons behind, and then calling for artillery support at any time, pointing to where to hit.

However, this time Li Yunlong led his troops to attack the 37th Division of the Japanese Army, although the Japanese army will retaliate even more frantically next time.

However, this frontal attack will provide the Eighth Route Army with the experience of attacking the Japanese army with a large force, and fill in the gap in the Eighth Route Army's large corps operations.

More importantly, he can kill many devils and obtain a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food.

Li Yunlong raised his eyes from the map and glanced at Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa, and the three immediately fell silent.

"Where is this?" Li Yunlong stared, "I only killed four or five thousand devils, and I am happy to make you all happy. If you don't know, you may think that you have chopped off Hirata Kenkichi's head."

Although the devils and puppet troops wiped out from all walks of life today add up to more than 8000 people, in Li Yunlong's eyes, he doesn't look down on the puppet troops at all.

And at Chen Feng's place, they didn't kill the puppet army's business either.

"Commander, how will we fight in the next stage?" Ding Wei asked.

Although he is a brother who came out of the same class, Li Yunlong is now treated at the brigade level.

Li Yunlong's troops are now the best developed, with more than 7000 people, well-equipped and extremely powerful.

Moreover, Li Yunlong often sent equipment to Ding Wei, letting him listen to Li Yunlong's command, and he didn't feel uncomfortable.

He hoped that there would be more such big battles, so that the new second regiment could make a fortune, anyway, he didn't always listen to Li Yunlong's command.

Li Yunlong pointed to the map: "At present, the devils have retreated into the county, and the old devil Pingtian has fled to Changzhi. Next, let's attack the city."

"We don't need to worry about the devil's reinforcements. The brother troops will help. Our only task is to kill the 37th Division at all costs."

In this battle meeting, Li Yunlong, as always, behaved extremely authoritarian. He didn't like the word military democracy very much.

One idea to the east, another idea to the west, who do you listen to?
Lao Tzu is the commander-in-chief, so he has to listen to Lao Tzu. He simply canceled the discussion and directly assigned tasks:
"Now I will deploy a combat mission."

"Cheng Shifa's 3rd Attack Group besieged Xiangyuan County, and Ding Wei's 1st Attack Group besieged Licheng County."

"Kong Jie's second attack group bypassed Xiangyuan County and besieged Changzhi with the Xinyi regiment."

"Since many troops have never fought the county seat and have no experience, I can pass on my experience. Each attacking group will set up a regiment around the county seat, blast the city wall with cannons, and divide the entire attacking force into four points in the southeast, northwest, and attack simultaneously."

"Remember, the troops who attack first should not rush in deep, first penetrate along the city wall in a roundabout way, kill the enemy's defensive forces on the city wall, open the city gate, and then attack in depth from four directions, pressing the enemy in the center, Clean it up at last."

Cheng Shifa, the commander of the 3rd attack group, put forward a different opinion: "Commander-in-chief, I suggest that we concentrate our strength on one county-by-county settlement, concentrate the main force on the main attack county, and send two to three regiments to feign attacks at the other two points to make it difficult for the enemy. Judging the main attack on the county..."

Li Yunlong interrupted Cheng Shifa's words unceremoniously: "Your tactics are too rigid. This time we and the enemy's forces are 4 to 1. The devil's forces are distributed in three counties. Let's use all our forces to attack the three counties at the same time. , the east, west, north, south, and every point of each county is the main direction of attack. The enemy has no choice but to be led by the nose, turning each point into a key defense. The enemy has fewer troops, and we have more troops. They must take advantage, just as I said. Go fight, as for how to allocate troops, that's your business, I won't interfere, I just want the result."

"Whoever among you wins the county seat first and wipes out the devils and puppet troops in the city, I will give him 50 tons of ammunition and 6 mountain cannons."

After finishing the last sentence, Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie's eyes lit up at the same time.

"Is this true?" Cheng Shifa asked urgently.

Among the few people present, his regiment had the poorest equipment, with only 1 infantry gun and 5 mortars. Both Ding Wei and Kong Jie had an artillery battalion with 12 guns.

Li Yunlong's artillery battalion even has 48 cannons, which is simply rich.

He, Cheng Shifa, also wanted to build an artillery battalion. With these 6 mountain cannons and the captures in this battle, there would be an artillery battalion.

"One spit, one nail." Li Yunlong said.

"Done!" Cheng Shi said, "Commander, I have no objection to your combat deployment, and I will completely obey orders."

"Old Ding, Lao Kong, what about you two?" Li Yunlong looked at Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

"no comment."

"I have no objection either, just do as you say."

Ding Wei and Kong Jie expressed their opinions successively.

"Well, are there any other questions?" Li Yunlong asked.

"How is the artillery allocated?" Kong Jie asked.

"By the way, there is also artillery." Li Yunlong said, "The artillery will be distributed evenly. Each attack group will be equipped with 3 artillery battalions and 1 howitzer battalion."

Li Yunlong's artillery battalion has 48 guns, the new second regiment artillery battalion has 12 guns, the independent regiment artillery battalion has 12 guns, the brigade artillery regiment has 36 guns, and the headquarters has 36 guns in the howitzer regiment.

There are a total of 144 guns, which happens to be 4 artillery regiments.

In this way, each attack group has 48 guns, and everyone stands on the same starting line.

Some people in the province said that Li Yunlong was eccentric and that the bowl of water was uneven.

Although Kong Jie's attack group has added a new group to attack Changzhi, but Changzhi is an important military town after all, and there are many devils defending, so the attacking force must be more.

In fact, the reason why Li Yunlong wanted the three counties to fight together was because he was afraid that old devil Kenkichi Hirata would run away.

After concentrating troops and firepower to defeat Xiangyuan and Licheng, although the attack speed was fast, Hirata Kenkichi was probably scared away long ago.

After all, Hirata Kenkichi is already frightened now.

Next, Li Yunlong communicated with the three of them about the timing of the general attack.

Finally, Li Yunlong said: "There are no feints or assists in this battle. The whole thing is the main attack. Get ready to go. The headquarters will go to Changzhi with the second attack group. If there is any situation, use the radio to contact."

The distance between Changzhi and Xiangyuan and Licheng counties is about 40 kilometers each, which is far beyond the communication range of high-power walkie-talkies.

"Yes!" Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie shouted in unison.

After Li Yunlong ordered the telegraph soldiers to send the battle plan to the headquarters, he then led the headquarters to join Kong Jie's second attack group first.

Then bypass Xiangyuan County, go south along the main road and go straight to Changzhi.

……

"This afternoon, the 18th Brigade and the 14th Brigade, a total of 5 regiments, have completed their mopping up, joined forces, and are desperately rushing to help the 37th Division."

"All the blocking troops exchanged fire with the devil's reinforcements."

"However, after all, these two brigades are not divisions, and our artillery firepower has been suppressed by us. Our troops have blocked it layer by layer, and the devil's reinforcements have advanced less than 7 kilometers so far."

At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the chief of staff is reporting the situation of the blocking forces to the boss.

"5 regiments?" the boss asked, "the mopping-up troops of these two brigades, isn't there 6 regiments according to intelligence?"

The chief of staff said: "Among them, from the direction of Changhan Road, a regiment of devils came towards Yixiantian. Judging from the situation, this group of enemies is coming towards our arsenal."

The boss was surprised. Now that the arsenal has more production lines for 60mm mortars and smokeless gunpowder, the arsenal must not lose.

The chief of staff said again: "I have already sent a special task force to defend the Huangyadong Arsenal. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult for the devils to attack with the strength of a regiment."

The boss went out in the afternoon and came back in the evening, so he didn't know about it, but the chief of staff had already made arrangements.

The boss nodded and asked, "Is there any movement from the 2nd Guards Division?"

The chief of staff said: "Currently, the 2nd Guards Division is just doing normal raids, and there is no intention of going south to help the 37th Division."

"Order the frontline troops to pay close attention to the movement of the 2nd Guards Division." The boss said, "Report immediately if there is any situation."

The combat effectiveness of the 2nd Guards Division is much stronger than that of the 14th and 18th Brigades. Once the 2nd Division also abandons the sweep and goes south to help the Hirata Division, the situation will be bad.

"En." The Chief of Staff nodded, "Before Li Yunlong started to attack the city, the enemy's 14th and 18th Brigades have already started rushing to help. The 37th Division."

"Yoshio Shinozuka reacted very quickly this time." The boss also smiled.

"Report, telegram." A telegraph operator walked in, saluted and handed the telegram to the chief of staff.

The chief of staff picked it up and put it under the oil lamp to look at it, and he was immediately amused: "Li Yunlong's telegram, he is going to attack Xiangyuan, Licheng and Changzhi at the same time. There are no feints or assists, and they are all main attacks."

The boss narrowed his eyes: "This kid's tactics are a bit interesting."

……

Li Yunlong led the second attack group and marched through the middle of the night.

Going all the way south, they finally arrived at Changzhi before dawn, and 5 infantry regiments with more than 1 troops surrounded Changzhi City.

The first battalion of the new regiment, the vanguard, has captured Wangcun Airport outside Changzhi City.

However, Li Yunlong did not immediately order the troops to launch an attack. On the one hand, he waited for the artillery troops to arrive, and on the other hand, he let the soldiers rest first.

After an afternoon of fighting and a rapid march of more than 60 kilometers, the soldiers were a little tired.

Li Yunlong also squinted for a while, then fell asleep when he lay down.

He had a dream. In the dream, he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to fight.

He has not only infantry under his command, but also a powerful aviation and navy.

The sea is full of his warships, the sky is full of planes, the black planes, the tanks are densely packed like locusts, and thousands of large-caliber heavy artillery can destroy the enemy's deep positions with just a single wave of firepower type of killing.

(End of this chapter)