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Chapter 386 God assists!
At the beginning of November 1937, the Japanese army gathered tens of thousands of elite troops to approach the city of Taiyuan.

The Japanese army captured Taiyuan in just three days.

During the War of Liberation, Yan Laoxi built thousands of large and small reinforced concrete permanent fortifications inside and outside Taiyuan City.

The People's Liberation Army has assembled hundreds of thousands of troops. Peng Shuai and Xu Shuai have served as commander-in-chief successively, and it took half a year to liberate Taiyuan City.

Yan Laoxi was defeated and fled all the way in the war with the Japanese, but he was very stubborn in the war with the People's Liberation Army, and he refused to surrender.

Of course, the current defense of Taiyuan is not as perverted as the War of Liberation.

But after all, Taiyuan is the headquarters of the Japanese First Army, and it is not so easy to capture it.

Under the leadership of Li Yunlong, after more than 2 hours of rapid march, the troops were still about 13 kilometers away from Taiyuan City.

The sky was dark and misty, and only the overlapping figures of soldiers marching hurriedly were seen. Li Yunlong raised his watch and looked at it, and it was about an hour before dawn.

Going forward for 3 kilometers, you will reach within 10 kilometers outside Taiyuan City.

On the main roads and small roads within 10 kilometers outside Taiyuan City, there are many devils' gun towers and stronghold fortifications.

The high-power walkie-talkie carried by a guard soldier sizzled.

Chief of Staff Wang Dehou picked it up:
"Hello, this is the headquarters of the 3rd Taihang Column."

"What? A devil's position is found ahead? How many devils are there?"

"Okay, I'll report to the commander-in-chief immediately!"

After hanging up the phone, Wang Dehou ran to Li Yunlong and gave a military salute: "Report to the commander, the Sword Squadron reported that a Japanese army position was found near Xiaodian Town 3 kilometers ahead. There are about 2000 people, and the puppet army has more than 3000 people, and they just received an order to build fortifications in Xiaodian Town last night."

"Map!" Li Yunlong shouted.

A combat staff officer quickly took the map to Li Yunlong and spread it out in front of Li Yunlong. With the help of the flashlight, Li Yunlong looked at the map.

"Small shop town?"

Li Yunlong quickly found the location of Xiaodian Town on the map.

Zhao Gang came over and took a look: "Old Li, could it be that the whereabouts of our column have been exposed?"

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes, shook his head and said, "Probably not, it should be that the devils speculated that there might be an Eighth Route Army unit going north to threaten Taiyuan, and temporarily sent troops to build a defense line."

Xing Zhiguo suggested: "Should we cross the Fen River east, bypass Xiaodian Town, and directly approach the city of Taiyuan?"

"Detour?" Li Yunlong snorted, "That's not our old Li's style, this devil and puppet army dare to go out of the city, it's a godly assist!"

Wang Dehou asked: "Commander, what do you mean?"

Li Yunlong said: "Think about it, if these 2000 devils and 3000 puppet troops fight us in the city, how many soldiers will we lose if we fight all these 2000 devils and 3000 puppet troops?"

Zhao Gang said: "A conservative estimate, at least 3000 casualties are needed to kill these 2000 devils and 3000 puppet troops."

"Old Zhao is right!"

"At least 3000 casualties are needed to kill 2000 devils and 3000 puppet soldiers!"

"In street fighting in the city, we can't take advantage of artillery fire, but in field fighting..."

Hehe gave a strange laugh, and then Li Yunlong said to Wang Dehou: "Chief of Staff, use the walkie-talkie to inform the battalion commanders and howitzer regiment commanders of the New First Regiment to come here for a meeting immediately."

"Yes!" Wang Dehou hurriedly ordered two combat staff officers to take out their walkie-talkies to convey the order.

Li Yunlong said again: "Let the communication soldier send a telegram to ask where the 1st column is."

If the 1st column led by the brigade commander has not arrived at the Zhengtai Railway, Li Yunlong will not be able to launch an attack immediately.

Otherwise, it would be troublesome if the 2nd Guards Division gave up the Zhengtai Railway and took the train to reinforce Taiyuan.

Although Li Yunlong was not afraid of the 2nd Guards Division, after a field battle with the 2nd Guards Division, the 3rd Column probably had no chance to attack the city.

Therefore, Li Yunlong had to wait for the brigade commander to cut off the Zhengtai Railway communication line before he could expose and attack the city.

As soon as the order was issued, the codecs rushed forward and handed a telegram to Wang Dehou.

After reading it, Wang Dehou said: "Report to the commander-in-chief, this is a telegram from the 1st Column. The main force of the 1st Column has arrived near Yangquan, engaged in fire with the 2nd Guards Division, and has destroyed a section of the railway track. The Japanese Guards The 2nd Division has been unable to reinforce Taiyuan."

"Haha, that's great."

Li Datuan immediately beamed with joy.

After a while, the battalion commanders of the Xinyi Regiment and Wen Ting, the head of the howitzer regiment of the headquarters, arrived.

"It's all here, let me make a long story short."

Li Yunlong glanced at everyone, pointed to the map and said, "In the area of ​​Xiaodian Town 3 kilometers ahead, 2000 devils and 3000 puppet troops have already built a defense line."

"What are these 2000 devils and 3000 puppet soldiers doing?"

"He's delivering food to us."

"The first battalion, the second battalion, the third battalion and the fourth battalion are the main offensive, and the county brigade is the reserve team."

"The artillery battalion and the howitzer regiment set up their cannons. If we want to beat the devils in one fell swoop, after the devils' defense line is defeated, it will almost be dawn."

"If the cavalry battalion rushes up to collect corn, none of these devils and puppet soldiers can be returned to Taiyuan City."

"Yes!" Everyone shouted in unison.

Li Yunlong was very busy and did not mobilize the commanders and fighters of the new regiment before the battle, because the new regiment had too many soldiers, more than 8000 people.

Therefore, let the battalion commanders and company commanders directly under them do the order to mobilize before the war.

Following Li Yunlong's order, all the troops moved quickly.

Li Yunlong looked at the map again. Wusu Airport is about 10 kilometers northeast of Xiaodian Town.

Later, Li Yunlong gave Kong Jie an order to lead the second attack group to take down Wusu Airport.

The second attack group led by Kong Jie attacked the east gate, and after taking down Wusu Airport, it was just time to attack northward and attack Taiyuan's east city wall.

……

To the south of Taiyuan City, the Japanese army's position is 500 meters away.

Several members of the Sword Squadron lay quietly on the ground, watching the front with binoculars. The devils and puppet soldiers were lighting torches and digging trenches and foxholes.

The fire dragon pulled out by the torch extends eastward from the Fen River to several kilometers away.

The devil's guard posts scattered farther away have been quietly killed by the special forces of the Sword Squadron.

But if you go any further, you are in danger of being discovered by devils.

There is still half an hour until dawn.

More than 1000 people from the first, second, third, and fourth battalions of the Xinyi Regiment and a company rushed towards the devil's line of defense.

After approaching the devil's position at a distance of 500 meters, more than 1000 people dispersed directly and launched a group charge towards the devil's position.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

A guard post of the puppet army immediately discovered the undisguised Balu, screamed in horror and fired a shot at the same time.

There was no shelter in front of Yimapingchuan's position, but it was at night, and the devils and puppet troops could not judge the number of the Eighth Route Army at all.

"Shhhhhh..."

The mortars of the Eighth Route Army fired first, and the shells traced a striking orange-red trajectory in the night sky, and landed on the devil's position and its surroundings and exploded.

Accompanied by loud shouts of killing, more than 1 new regiments of fighters who were probing the attack launched a group charge towards the devils and puppet army positions, and soon approached the devils and puppet army positions at a distance of 400 meters.

"Baga, enemy attack!"

"Launch flares and counterattack with all firepower!"

After a short period of panic, the ghost commander Takahashi Choro, Zhongzuo calmly gave the order with both eyes.

Commander Shinozuka was really predictable. Sure enough, there were eight groups going north to try to attack Taiyuan.

No way!
shhhhhh!
Several flares flew into the sky, illuminating the surrounding kilometers like daylight.

On the defense line of several kilometers, the devils and puppet soldiers were holding mortar shells, and more than a hundred machine guns fired at the same time, and dense bullets poured over.

"Artillery firepower ready!"

Takahashi Soro looked cold and resolute, and shouted loudly.

But as soon as he finished speaking, the attacking Eighth Route seemed to be frightened by the sudden ferocious firepower, and retreated hastily. The Eighth Route's attack came quickly and went even faster.

When another round of flares was raised, the eight-way was no longer visible in the field of view of the telescope.

A sneer appeared on the corner of Takahashi Soro's mouth.

That's it?

Eighth Route's fighting strength doesn't seem to be as strong as in the legend, hmph, it's vulnerable.

Takahashi Takaro said: "Notify Lieutenant Kasai immediately that the Eighth Route Army has launched a fierce attack on our position. The force exceeds 3000 people, and the Eighth Route Army has been repelled."

"Hi!" The phone soldier behind him hurriedly picked up the phone and shook the handle.

However, within 5 minutes, a sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky.

Takahashi Tsuro looked up, with a horrified expression on his face, the sky was covered with dense orange-red ballistics.

Takahashi Tsuro, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is sure that this is definitely not a shell that can be fired by dozens of cannons.

"Baga, anti-cannon!" Takahashi Choro yelled, and jumped into the foxhole next to him.

The moment Takahashi Choro jumped in, the first round of shells had already landed on the positions of the devils and puppet troops.

The first attack of the infantry battalions of the new regiment was nothing more than a probing attack. The members of the Sword Squadron had already communicated the firing positions of the devils' firepower points to the artillery positions behind through high-power walkie-talkies.

Boom boom boom...

Intensive explosions exploded in the devil's position, accompanied by fireballs and gunpowder smoke, shrapnel and shock waves that swept across the entire devil's and puppet army's position.

The power of the 60mm mortar is average, but the power of the 75mm mountain gun and the 105mm howitzer is not a joke with the devils and puppet troops.

Before the devils and puppet troops recovered from the first round of artillery explosion, the second round of shelling had already arrived.

boom boom boom…

Explosion fireballs and gunpowder smoke enveloped the entire devils and puppet army positions again.

Dense artillery shells fell like raindrops, washing the ground back and forth over several kilometers of positions, and the shells landed extremely accurately in the dark night, indicating that the Eighth Route Artillery's quality was extremely high.

Takahashi Choro, who had worked as an artilleryman, was sure that at least 1500 shells fell on the position every minute.

Such intensive bombardment, including many large-caliber guns...

Thinking of this, Takahashi Choro's face suddenly became extremely dignified, it really is the main force of the Eighth Route!
(End of this chapter)