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Chapter 710 People are sitting in the headquarters, and the cannons are coming from the sky!
Southeast Shanxi.

Liao County.

Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

Early this morning, the chief, the chief of staff and the division commander woke up early, before they had breakfast, they discussed the battle plan in the operations hall of the headquarters.

The battle plan discussed this time is not to attack Taiyuan and Yangquan, but the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army is preparing to continue to develop towards southern Shanxi.

The division commander introduced: "At present, we have regained Xiangyuan, Licheng and Changzhi, and developed troops in the Shangdang area. Further south are Gaoping, Lingchuan and Jincheng. In the south of Shanxi, apart from our guerrillas , and Pang Bingxun's department."

The chief said: "Jinnan is just something in our pocket, and it can be recovered at any time. If we want to fight, we will fight the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army in the Zhongtiao Mountain area!"

Now the strength of the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi is no worse than that of the First Army.

The main force is more than 20, and there are about 1000 guns of various calibers.

It is mainly the 60mm mortars and 70mm infantry guns produced by the arsenal, which supported the brothers in other military regions of the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, the number of cannons in the 129th Division would have exceeded 1.

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After more than a year of building walls, accumulating food, and mobilizing troops, the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi now has enough weapons, ammunition and food reserves to support the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in several battles.

Now the appetite of the head of the headquarters is naturally not to recover one or two small county towns, but to focus on killing the devil's vitality.

Whether the land is recovered or not, it is all there, and it will be the same when it is recovered sooner or later.

But there are more than 100 million devils in China, and if one is killed, there will be one less. This is the real deal.

"Fight the 33rd Division?" The chief of staff was slightly startled. "We are 300 kilometers away from Zhongtiao Mountain. If we send the main force to fight, can the logistics supply keep up?"

"At the beginning, we had traveled 300 miles, so what is 33 kilometers?" The chief said domineeringly, "The logistics supplies can't keep up, so our combat troops should carry more supplies. We just need to take Nantongpu Once the road is cut off, the devils of the [-]rd Division will have no logistical supplies. At least we still have logistical supplies and the help of the local people.”

The distance of 300 kilometers is connected by roads. Now the 129th Division has hundreds of vehicles, which can transport ammunition and food to the frontline troops, but the supply line is slightly longer.

It also consumes more fuel, but fortunately, the fuel provided by Boss Chen is barely enough.

The division commander said: "If the national army on the south bank of the Yellow River also takes the opportunity to cross the Yellow River to attack the 33rd Division, under the attack from both sides, it may even completely annihilate the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army."

"It may be difficult to get the cooperation of the national army." The chief of staff said, "At the end of last year, the diehards in the upper echelon of the national army accused Wei Lihuang of not resolutely implementing the policy of fighting against the outside world first, and Lao Jiang also accused him of not We should favor our Eighth Route Army in many matters. Last month, Lao Jiang ordered General Wei Lihuang to be transferred from the First Theater, dismissed from all positions, and reassigned as the director of the Xi'an General Office of the Military Commission, depriving him of his military authority. And secretly monitor."

"Now the actual commander of the first war zone is Tang Enbo. This person has never been against us in the Eighth Route Army. It may be a bit difficult for him to cooperate with us in fighting."

"And if at a critical moment, the national army stabs us in the back, the consequences will be disastrous."

The chief of staff's concerns are not unfounded.

If General Wei Lihuang is still the commander-in-chief of the First Theater, then there is no need to worry too much about such problems.

It's not like the national army has never done something like stabbing a knife in the back, and Principal Chang can definitely issue such an order.

General Wei Lihuang would definitely not execute it, focusing on the overall situation of the War of Resistance, but it was hard to say for Tang Enbo.

"Then the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army, shall we still fight?" the division commander asked.

The 33rd Division was organized by the Japanese Army in Sendai in 1939. The code name "Bow" is the second batch of divisions established by Japan in 1939.

The Battle of Mt. Nakajo was also the first battle of the 33rd Division. The commander of the division, Shozo Sakurai, led the 33rd Division to attack the Nationalist Army from the northeast. The offensive was fierce and the Nationalist Army was defeated all the way.

The chief thought about it carefully, and said decisively:

"We must fight this battle!"

"After June this year, our Eighth Route Army will launch a major counterattack against the Japanese army in Shanxi."

"Before the big counterattack, as many Japanese troops can be eaten, then eat them first."

"Okay!" The chief of staff nodded solemnly, "Then I will start to formulate a battle plan."

In the battle of the Hundred Regiments War, the head of the headquarters also made the decision, and the chief of staff then formulated a corresponding battle plan according to the needs of military operations.

The teacher nodded and did not object.

To be honest, in the past year, the 129th Division has more than doubled its troops, but it has fought a lot less than before.

The main reason is that the Japanese army began to shrink their defenses and gradually shifted their defense focus to Northwest Shanxi, resulting in few guerrillas fighting.

The result of the battle is only to regain a few counties.

Right now, if the 129th Division wants to maintain the overall combat effectiveness of the troops, actual combat experience is essential.

Allowing the troops to quickly accumulate actual combat experience in combat is actually to prepare for the subsequent major counterattack.

After the discussion, the chiefs were preparing to have breakfast.

But right now.

Holding a telegram in his hand, a young telegrapher walked into the conference room quickly, and then saluted with a military salute: "Report to the chief, a new group of good news!"

"Good news?"

Both the chief and the chief of staff were slightly startled. Could it be that Li Yunlong is doing something big again?
"Successful news so early? This is the first time for Li Yunlong, read it quickly." The teacher looked at the watch in his hand and smiled. He couldn't wait to know what victories Li Yunlong won again, how many devils he killed, and more importantly, I want to know how much money Li Yunlong has made.

The chief and chief of staff at the side also looked at the telegrapher with anticipation in their eyes.

"Yes!" The young telegrapher picked up the telegram and read, "This morning, two air regiments of the Japanese army attacked Dagu Town in the air. Our new regiment assembled more than a thousand air defense firepower to counterattack, shot down 2 enemy planes and damaged 37 enemy planes. Yu Jia, I request the headquarters to notify all military regions immediately, and pay close attention to the Japanese parachute pilot who was injured by an enemy plane, Li Yunlong, commander of the Eighth Route Army's Xinyi Regiment."

After the telegrapher finished reading the telegram, he put the telegram on the table, gave another military salute, and then turned around and left quickly.

"Shot down 37 enemy planes and damaged more than 20 enemy planes?" The division commander was startled, "How many devil planes are there in the two flying regiments?"

The chief of staff said: "The Japanese army's air force organization is a bit strange and not uniform, but the two flight regiments also have at least eighty or ninety aircraft."

The teacher asked: "Then in this battle, Li Yunlong killed most of the planes of the North China Front Army?"

"That's right!" The Chief of Staff nodded with a smile on his face.

The chief found the location of Dagu Town on the map, and his tone was delighted: "Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang must have obtained the information that the Japanese planes bombed Dagu Town in advance, so they deployed a large number of anti-aircraft firepower points in Dagu Town in advance to send troops and ordinary people All retreat, and when the devil plane bombs, let's all open fire."

The division commander pushed his glasses, with a shocked expression: "More than 1 anti-aircraft firepower points fired at the same time, how terrifying is the firepower?"

当初平型关大捷后，南京国民政府调拨了6门20毫米苏罗通机关炮给八路军，其中115、120、129师各分得2门。

For the Eighth Route Army, which lacks heavy weapons and anti-aircraft weapons, the Suluotong cannon can be called an ace weapon.

At that time, the weapons of the Eighth Route Army were millets plus rifles and machetes, and machine guns were the most advanced weapons. Every time the troops took action, they needed the approval of the division commander to fire a few rounds of ammunition.

But now, the Oerlikon 20mm machine gun equipped by the Eighth Route Army is much stronger than the Su Luotong machine gun in all aspects!
The new regiment alone prepared at least 500 Oerlikon 20mm machine guns, and Li Yunlong handed over more than 20 Oerlikon 1mm machine guns.

However, the more than 1 gates were all distributed to the various troops. The 1th Division could not afford to fight a rich battle like Li Yunlong's that gathered more than 129 air defense firepower points.

Dozens of millions of rounds of ammunition are fired every minute, who can play this well?
The chief of staff said: "The bullets and shells hitting the air must be as dense as raindrops!"

Although he was not at the scene, the chief of staff could imagine how powerful the Xinyi regiment's firepower was at that time.

In addition to Oerlikon 20mm machine guns and 12.7mm heavy machine guns, the new regiment is also equipped with 37mm anti-aircraft guns and 88mm anti-aircraft guns.

The latter two types of anti-aircraft guns can also greatly threaten the devil's planes!
Rao is the two flying regiments of the Japanese army. When they were attacked by more than 2 anti-aircraft firepower points at the same time, they did not dare to have the slightest love for fighting. All the planes wanted to pull into the clouds immediately.

If the Japanese army had the idea of ​​destroying the ground air defense firepower and made another round of attack, the number of downed aircraft would not be as simple as 37.

The chief looked at the chief of staff and said: "Immediately give orders to the troops along the Japanese route to pay close attention to the movement of Japanese aircraft. Once a Japanese pilot is found parachuting, immediately control them and try to catch them alive!"

The value of Japanese pilots is much greater than the Japanese aircraft themselves.

"Row!"

The chief of staff looked at the map and immediately began to prepare telegram orders.

It didn't take long for several telegram orders to be drawn up, and then handed over to a combat staff officer, who took them to the telegraph room.

After doing all this, the chief of staff calculated carefully, and then said: "In this battle, Li Yunlong and his regiment shot down 37 planes on the spot, and at least 37 pilots were killed. According to the business given by Boss Chen, that is 185 planes." There are 75mm mountain guns and 111 105mm howitzers, a total of 296 cannons, which is a big deal!"

After a pause, the chief of staff said with a smile on his face: "Besides, I remember last time Li Yunlong said that all the weapons and ammunition earned next time should be handed over to the headquarters. Haha, we will get rich this time!"

"It's still the leader who thinks long-term. If it's me instead, Li Yunlong was forced to hand in half of the cannon and ammunition last time." The division commander adjusted his glasses and was in a good mood. This time, the 129th division will expand to an artillery division.

"Of course!" The chief raised his brows, and his tone was filled with joy, "When did you see me doing a loss-making business?"

(End of this chapter)