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Chapter 383 Battlefield information interception!

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That night, Li Yunlong led a new regiment to set off.

The Taihang 3rd Column and the other three attack groups also set off under the leadership of Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie.

Li Yunlong asked Wang Dehou to draw the marching routes of the three attacking agencies on the map with arrows.

Then report to the headquarters so that the headquarters can keep track of the movements of the troops.

At the same time, the Taihang 1st Column, led by Brigadier Chen, rushed towards the 2nd Guards Division of the Zhengtai Railway.

Today's Chen Geng still holds the title of brigade commander, but he has long been the head of the Taiyue Military Region, and he has already been treated at the division level.

Although Li Yunlong is already receiving brigade-level treatment, he is still far behind the brigade commander in terms of qualifications and positions.

The Taihang 2nd Column rushed towards the 37th Division under the leadership of the division commander.

The 37th Division of the Japanese Army is the closest to the base area, only more than 30 kilometers away. In at most one night, the 2nd Taihang Column will exchange fire with the 37th Division.

At the same time, the Eighth Route Army troops in southern Shanxi were ordered to respond
The boss and the chief of staff are guarding the home while coordinating the overall situation in the base area.

Li Yunlong commanded at most one column, while the boss and chief of staff commanded one corps.

Right now, the main force of the Eighth Route Army is coming out, but no Japanese troops can threaten the base area, so there is no need to worry about being stolen.

On the contrary, if the three columns fight outside better, the people in the base area and the headquarters will be safer.

The division commander's Taihang 2nd column and the brigade commander's 1st column marched swaggeringly without implementing battlefield information interception.

However, the third column led by Li Yunlong carried out battlefield information interception operations.

Before the main force of the main force set off, the Sword Squadron was already one step ahead.

Battlefield interdiction refers to temporarily "shielding" the target battlefield through air power or long-range strike forces, blocking the connection between the battlefield and the surrounding combat area, blocking external support, and placing the target area in a relatively isolated environment.

Thereby providing better battlefield conditions and helping one's own side achieve its combat objectives in the region.

Before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the little devils sent many scouts and spies to infiltrate the base area, and many of them were discovered by the militiamen and the main force and captured or killed.

There are also some devil's spies who come in and then retreat. These spies dare not go deep into the base area, so they must be squatting outside the base area at this time.

Battlefield interdiction is widely used in modern warfare.

However, this combat operation of Sword Squadron should be called battlefield information interception.

Through special operations, carry out surgical removal of enemy scouts and cut off the connection between enemy scouts and the command.

During the Hundred Regiments War, the Baijin Railway was severely damaged, but then the devils rebuilt the Baijin Railway, and it has now reached Wuxiang.

After the devils escaped from the counties, the reconstruction of the railway was also abandoned.

On the edge of the base, near the Baijin Railway, behind a huge rock.

"Captain." After two vigorous figures touched the rock, the leader of them was Duan Peng, the captain of the No. 1 battle team.

"Duan Peng, how is the situation?"

Lu Yingjun asked with a slightly surprised expression. He asked Duan Peng to do reconnaissance, but he didn't expect to come back so soon.

Duan Peng said: "This is Captain Liu of the guerrillas."

With the bright moonlight, Lu Yingjun could clearly see the person behind Duan Peng. He had dark skin, a strong figure, and firm and sharp eyes.

The two sides saluted each other with a military salute, and then exchanged a few words of greeting.

As early as 2 days ago, the various ministries issued orders to order the guerrillas operating around the base area to quietly search for the devil's spies.

Bordering the base area is not the occupied area of ​​the Japanese army, but a guerrilla area, which the Japanese army calls a quasi-law and order area.

In the guerrilla zone, the guerrillas and county brigades of the Eighth Route Army were active, and there were also many Japanese troops.

It's just that after the devils stationed in the county escaped, only a few spies of the devils remained in the guerrilla zone.

After all, this is China, and everyone living in this land may be an intelligence officer of the Eighth Route Army.

Mobilizing the power of the militia and the masses is many times more efficient than the spies of the Sword Squadron who are investigating one by one and looking for the devils.

Duan Penghui reported: "Captain, we have found the lair of the devil's scouts. It was Captain Liu and the others who discovered it. In a cave 2 kilometers away, the devil has sentries on the main roads and small roads nearby. I have lurked there. We have conducted reconnaissance outside the cave, and there are more than 20 people in total, carrying radio stations."

"There are about 10 devils in the cave now, and the remaining 10 or so are squatting on the nearby roads and paths."

Lu Yingjun squinted his eyes, kid, this is working in two shifts, so it is guaranteed that someone will be watching the road going north from the base area 24 hours a day.

Duan Peng continued: "In addition to the cave, the devils have also found the hiding places on the main road and the small road, and our team members are watching."

"Good job, lead the way!"

Lu Yingjun raised his hand and pressed forward. Dozens of special forces soldiers who were squatting on the ground behind him immediately got up and moved forward silently with submachine guns.

Not long after, Lu Yingjun led two combat teams to the cave where the devils were hiding.

The other three teams are going to deal with those squatting devils.

After Duan Peng used a short knife to kill a devil who was in charge of security, more than 1 team members came to the entrance of the cave.

There were snoring sounds one after another in the cave, and the devils were sleeping in it.

The vigilant devils also buried a few landmines at the entrance of the cave. The devils would not step on the mines they buried themselves. If other troops came to attack the devils, they would suffer a big loss if they were caught off guard.

However, none of the most elite units of the Eighth Route Army were eyeing this group of devil scouts this time.

A dozen grenades were thrown into the cave, and several submachine guns fired intensively.

The battle happened suddenly and ended quickly.

In less than ten seconds, the cave fell silent.

The dozen or so Japanese scouts who were resting in the cave just now were all shot dead.

There were gunshots and explosions here, and when they heard the gunshots and explosions here, the devils squatting on the roads and alleys immediately realized that they had been exposed.

The sharp sword team members also attacked at the same time, and in a very short period of time, they completely wiped out the devil scouts in the vicinity.

After clearing out the devil scouts and notifying the headquarters through the high-power walkie-talkie, Lu Yingjun led the Sword Squadron to move forward to clear the way for the large troops.

An hour later, the large troops of the new regiment arrived here. The soldiers carried ammunition boxes and light and heavy weapons, and passed through safely and without exposure.

The two corpses were carried to Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others by soldiers of the guard company.

The two corpses were dressed in common people's clothes, and they were the devil scouts who had been shot dead by the Sword Squadron.

Xing Zhiguo stepped forward to check the devil's body, and said with emotion, "Both devils were shot in the head and killed with one shot. The Sword Squadron did a great job!"

"Of course."

"Sword Squadron does this kind of work, that is, Zhang Fei eats bean sprouts, and it's a piece of cake."

Li Yunlong laughed.

At this time, the large troops went north along the Baijin Highway. The advantage of taking the main road was that it saved time and effort, and it was convenient for the artillery troops to march.

Because the 1st and 2nd columns were fighting in the field, and the 3rd column was going to attack the city, the head of the headquarters transferred the howitzer regiment to Li Yunlong.

Of the 12 howitzers that Li Yunlong handed over to the headquarters last time, only 4 were supplemented into the howitzer regiment, and the other 8 were given to the division artillery regiment and the artillery regiment of the 385th Brigade.

Each column has almost 2 artillery regiments, that is, an artillery brigade, equipped with all mountain guns and howitzers above 75mm.

And Li Yunlong's artillery column has the strongest firepower.

李云龙的炮营就有48门炮，其中10门105榴弹炮，38门75山炮。

The howitzer regiment is even more powerful, with a total of 40 105 howitzers all in one.

The artillery wing of a three-unit division of the Japanese army is equipped with only more than 75 30mm mountain artillery.

In the past two months, the personnel of the arsenal have worked overtime. 200 infantry guns and 350 mortars have been produced.

Cannonballs are plentiful.

In this battle, compared with a Japanese division, each column was crushed in all aspects in terms of artillery firepower.

"That's right, commander in chief."

Xing Zhiguo pointed to the Baijin Railway in the distance and said: "The devils have all run away. This is a good opportunity to tear down the rails, and let the local militia and civilians organize and transport these rails back to the arsenal."

"It cannot be dismantled!"

Li Yunlong said: "At least it can't be demolished now. After Taiyuan is captured, we will have to rely on the railway to transport the seized materials back to the base area. There are so many materials that cannot be moved by manpower alone in ten and a half months."

"The commander-in-chief is right." Zhao Gang said, "Not only can we not demolish it, but we must send local troops to protect the railway."

"Don't worry, the headquarters has issued an order."

Afterwards, Li Yunlong turned his head and shouted loudly: "Followers follow, speed up!"

Hearing the voice of their own regiment leader, the soldiers all rushed away with their guns on their backs, full of energy.

Not long after the Xinyi regiment passed by, the headquarters was directly under the howitzer regiment, and the attack groups passed one after another.

After a night of rapid march, the Taihang 3rd Column marched 50 kilometers north, and before dawn, all the troops had found the forest to hide.

Rest during the day and march at night.

The Taihang 2nd Column led by the division commander has arrived in Xiangyuan and Licheng after a night of rapid march.

The vanguard has already exchanged fire with the 37th Division.

The Taihang 1st Column led by the brigade commander has also revealed its whereabouts. In fact, there is no cover up, and the target is the Zhengtai Railway.

Ming card.

Taihang's 1st and 2nd columns are equivalent to a clear style of play, the purpose is to cover Li Yunlong's 3rd column.

Because the Japanese army did not know that the Eighth Route Army had expanded its main force of more than 4 people.

This data is also top secret in the Eighth Route Army, and only a very small number of absolutely reliable senior officers know it.

When Shinozuka Yoshio learned that there were 3 main forces in the direction of Xiangyuan and Licheng, and there were 3 main forces attacking the Zhengtai Railway, plus militia troops and troops stationed in the base area.

There are so many main forces of the Eighth Route Army that have exceeded Yoshio Shinozuka's expectations, and it is hard to guess that there is still a powerful force from the Eighth Route Army that is heading north to attack Taiyuan.

(End of this chapter)