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"Report to the head!"

"The commander of the cavalry battalion reported that our 12 Katyusha rocket launchers killed a brigade of devils with just one salvo!"

"Currently, the devils of the 1st Division show no signs of breaking out!"

About 6 kilometers away from Datong City, the troops around were marching mightily, and a telegraph soldier reported to Kong Jiehui.

Beside Kong Jie, Ding Wei stood with his hands behind his back, and the political commissars and chiefs of staff of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment also stood aside.

Just now, the devil's reconnaissance plane flew over. Because the devil's plane flew a little high, the distance was a little far.

In order to let the large troops rush to Datong as soon as possible, Kong Jie did not let the air defense force set up all the cannons and shoot at the devil's plane.

"Twelve Katyusha rocket launchers killed a brigade of devils in one salvo?"

Kong Jie's eyes lit up suddenly. This was not the first time that the Katyusha rocket fired at the devil.

But it was the most fruitful one.

On the frontal battlefield of the national army, if you want to kill a brigade of devils, you have to pay at least 3 to 5 times the lives of the same national army soldiers.

And this round of Katyusha's firepower killed the elite troops of the Japanese 1st Division.

The corners of Ding Wei's mouth were also slightly turned up. He knew that the Katyusha rocket launcher was powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.

A volley of 12 rocket launchers, at least the effect of one or two artillery divisions, and one or two heavy artillery divisions, can kill a devil brigade with a single salvo.

Then the salvo of four Katyusha rocket launchers can produce the effect of an artillery brigade in a short time.

At the beginning, 1500 recruits were exchanged from Lao Li for 4 Katyusha rocket launchers.

Blood is worth it!
Ding Wei said in a disdainful tone: "Old Kong, it seems that the devils of the 1st Division were so frightened by a round of rocket launchers that they didn't even dare to run away?"

"There is a heavy artillery unit in the 1st Division." Kong Jie analyzed, "If the devil wants to escape, he will definitely carry this heavy artillery unit with him, but the devil didn't run away. I guess, the devil is afraid of this heavy artillery unit. Our Katyushas blew up."

Ding Wei nodded: "It's not impossible."

Wang Yingcai, political commissar of the Independent Group, analyzed: "If the devil wants to blow up our Katyusha rockets, he can only send fighter jets and bombers to bomb them."

Xu Shansheng, political commissar of the New Second Regiment, smiled slightly: "When the devil's plane arrives, we will not be in a hurry. At that time, the main force of our infantry has already surrounded Datong."

Kong Jie then shouted loudly: "Give me an order, and all the troops will move forward at a faster speed, and within an hour, Datong will be surrounded!"

With Kong Jie's order, the speed of the various ministries advancing towards Datong increased a bit.

Kong Jie and Ding Wei didn't care much about whether they could block the 1st Division.

It is best to block the 1st Division in Datong, if it is not blocked in Datong, then it doesn't matter.

Because the main force of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, as well as the heavy firepower of the New First Regiment, went north to attack the 1st Division of Datong, which was originally a cover and a feint.

It is best to be able to destroy and severely damage the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, but it doesn't matter if it can't.

Although the current 1st Division is a Type A division, the main force has been wiped out, and there is no trouble at all.

Take it out alone, in the case of field combat, even the new second regiment or the independent regiment can't beat it.

About an hour later, the main forces of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment completely surrounded Datong.

An hour ago, the devil's reconnaissance plane went to reconnaissance around Datong, only saw a dozen or so trucks, and did not find the heavy artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, the North China Front Army Command did not send fighter jets and bombers to bomb for the time being.

In the former enemy headquarters, Kong Jie looked at the southern city wall of Datong through the artillery mirror.

The chief of staff of the independent regiment reported the situation to the commander Kong Jie:

"Reporting to the head, there are no devils outside the city at present, all the devils have retreated into the city, and there are not many devils on the city wall."

The artillery units of the three regiments were already firing artillery, ready to attack.

The infantry is hurrying to eat breakfast to replenish their strength.

Although after a whole night of rapid march, the soldiers can immediately go into battle.

But people are like iron and rice is steel, and they are more energetic when they are full and full of food and drink.

The deputy commander Ding Wei frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Old Kong, something is wrong!"

"Old Ding, what's wrong?"

Kong Jie was turning the artillery mirror to look at the city wall, and when he heard Ding Wei's words, he turned around quickly.

Ding Wei analyzed: "The 1st Division gave up the fortifications outside the city, and even the fortifications of the city wall. It is clear that they want to play street fighting with us."

"I know that." Kong Jie narrowed his eyes, "The devil has a good plan and knows that he is not our opponent in the wild, so he just hid in the city and can't come out."

If it was in the wild, with the current strength and equipment of Kong Jie's men, he could beat the 1st Division out of fear.

It can play a five to one or even lower battle loss ratio with the 1st Division.

But if you play street fighting, the Eighth Route Army's equipment and firepower advantages will not be able to be used.

Moreover, the battle damage ratio is infinitely pulled to one to one, because if you can't cover Datong City with firepower, and you want to occupy Datong and destroy the 1st Division, you can only use your life to fill it.

After a pause, Kong Jie said in a helpless tone, "If it weren't for our Chinese people in the city, labor and management would directly use thousands of tons of shells to cover Datong City with artillery fire, and the 1st Division would be nothing."

In terms of logistics supplies, there is Li Yunlong's car battalion, which pulls combat supplies from Northwest Shanxi to Datong at any time.

In addition, Boss Chen's

"That's the problem." Ding Wei said solemnly, "We really can't cover Datong City with artillery fire."

"Old Ding, calculate it." Kong Jie asked in a deep voice, "Even if it's street fighting, how much will we have to pay in terms of casualties if we want to kill the 1st Division?"

Ding Wei said: "At least [-] people will be killed or injured. This is a conservative estimate. After all, street fighting is different from other battles. Street fighting is the cruelest battle."

Kong Jie nodded, it was about the same as he estimated.

Even the fighters of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment, equipped with semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, were able to keep firing and occupy a certain advantage in fighting the Japanese army in street battles.

But this advantage is not large, and cannot be transformed into an overwhelming advantage.

Kong Jie narrowed his eyes: "For us, this is a loss-making deal..."

A five-to-one battle loss ratio, and a one-to-one ratio in street fighting, wouldn't that be a loss-making deal?

It is also the first time that Kong Jie has commanded so many troops to fight. The main force of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment has a total of 3 people, plus the air defense and artillery units of the New First Regiment have several thousand people, and the total strength is nearly 4. .

This kind of corps-level battle put a lot of pressure on Kong Jie.

However, the books that Li Yunlong read were also given to Ding Wei and Kong Jie. Now Kong Jie and Ding Wei's tactical command ability is only one level worse than Li Yunlong's.

"That's the second thing." Ding Wei said again, "What I'm worried about is that the Japanese North China Front Army will mobilize heavy troops to form a huge encirclement circle around Datong, encircling us and eating us."

"Then let's play casually with the 1st Division." Kong Jie nodded.

Elephant Zhang was originally a loss-making business, and coupled with the fact that the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment might be made dumplings by devils, it was even more impossible for Kong Jie to fight to the end with the 1st Division.

Seeing that Kong Jie did not plan to fight the 1st Division to the end, Ding Wei was slightly relieved.

After all, the commander of this battle was Kong Jie, and he, Ding Wei, was only the second-in-command and had to obey Kong Jie's orders.

"Reporting to the regiment commander, the artillery positions have been constructed!"

"Should we fire at the walls of Datong?"

The chief of staff of the independent regiment reported to Kong Jiehui.

At this time, the 4 artillery battalions of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, as well as the 150mm heavy artillery battalion and the 105nd 2mm howitzer battalion of the New First Regiment, had already aimed at the four walls of Datong.

The devils at Datong Station have retreated into the city.

The tank battalion and the Katyusha rocket artillery battalion were hidden in the woods a few kilometers away.

The North China Front Army still has more than 30 fighter jets and bombers, which need to be prepared.

However, the six artillery battalions have deployed a considerable amount of anti-aircraft firepower, ready to deal with the devil's aircraft for air defense.

The 88mm anti-aircraft gun battalion, 20mm machine gun battalion and 37mm anti-aircraft gun battalion of the new regiment all came.

Coupled with the anti-aircraft firepower of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment.

In terms of anti-aircraft firepower, it is satisfactory.

Unless the devils use more than 100 bombers and fighter jets to carry out large-scale bombing towards the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Otherwise, there are only more than 30 fighters and bombers left, which pose little threat to the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army.

"Pass me the order!" Kong Jie immediately ordered loudly, "Immediately order the artillery to fire at the walls of Datong. The shelling will last half an hour, and I will blow up the walls of Datong!"

In order to imitate Li Yunlong's tactical command, Kong Jie has no direction of assists, and all four walls are the main attack.

And as soon as he came up, he pulled out all the cannons and blasted at the city wall, without getting entangled with the devils at all.

The Chief of Staff of the Independence Regiment stood up straight: "Yes!"

Then, the Chief of Staff of the Independent Regiment took a walkie-talkie and shouted loudly: "Hey, this is the headquarters. All artillery positions fired at the city wall of Datong. The shelling time is half an hour!"

Taking advantage of the artillery test firing, Kong Jie looked at the staff officer and said, "Chief of Staff, immediately send a telegram to Xinyi Regiment Headquarters, saying that the 1st Division has been blocked in Datong City, and we are storming Datong, please Commander Li can safely lead his troops to the south."

"Yes!" The chief of staff of the independent regiment hurriedly drafted a telegram based on Kong Jie's dictation.

Kong Jie took it over and looked at it. There was nothing wrong with it, so he signed his name.

Subsequently, the chief of staff of the independent regiment handed over the telegram to the decoder, who translated it into a code, and then handed it over to the telegraph operator to send it in the form of a telegram.

Since the 1st Division of the Japanese Army was equipped with a heavy artillery unit, each artillery unit approached the city wall to build artillery positions to aim and shoot directly, and they would definitely be counterattacked by the Japanese heavy artillery.

The quality of the artillery of the Devil's Heavy Artillery Wing is not covered.

Therefore, the artillery units set up artillery positions six or seven kilometers away from the city wall, and in concealed positions.

Since it is to bombard the city wall, it is necessary to conduct a test shot in advance, so as not to let too many shells hit the city and hurt the people.

At this moment, each artillery unit has completed the test firing and calibrated the shooting elements.

The artillery units of 6 artillery regiments poured artillery fire on the city wall of Datong.

boom boom boom…

The artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army continued to soar into the sky, drawing beautiful arcs in the sky, and then fell on the city wall.

Accompanied by the earth-shaking explosion, the entire four walls of Datong City were immediately shrouded in flames and smoke.

Although there are a lot of shells, they can't be wasted if they bombard a city wall that is not guarded by devils.

Booming for half an hour is enough.

If there are devils guarding the city wall, it must be bombarded for at least a few hours.

……

In the city of Datong.

Headquarters of the 1th Division of the Japanese Army.

Listening to the dense explosions coming from all directions, the faces of Mitsuo Nakazawa and Yoshio Noguchi suddenly became extremely solemn.

Even the supreme commander of the 1st Division was like this, not to mention the officers and soldiers below, all panicked.

Dust fell continuously on the beams during the vibrations, but Nakazawa Sanfu turned a blind eye to it. He looked at Noguchi Yoshio and asked, "Noguchi-san, you have worked in artillery before, so let's judge what caliber and scale the Eighth Route Army used. ?”

Yoshio Noguchi listened carefully for a while with his ears pricked up before speaking.

"Your Excellency, division commander, the artillery calibers used by the Eighth Route Army include 75mm mountain cannons, 105mm howitzers and 150mm howitzers."

"I can't tell what model, at least the size of 6 artillery regiments!"

"Judging from the sound of the shell explosion, the Eighth Route Army's cannons in each direction of the city wall are similar."

"That is to say, the Eighth Route Army is the main attack in all four directions and has no assists!"

The expression on Zhongze Sanfu's face became more and more ugly. The Eighth Route Army attacked the 1st Division and actually used 6 artillery regiments!
There is also the heavy artillery division that opened fire in the morning. The reconnaissance plane did not find its trace, and it is not known where it is hidden.

The Eighth Route Army is really rich...

Mitsuo Nakazawa secretly exclaimed, compared with this Eighth Route Army unit, the Japanese First Division with first-class equipment is simply like a beggar.

"It's all the main attack, no assists... Your Excellency, Division Chief, this is Li Yunlong's usual mad dog tactics!"

After a pause, Yoshio Noguchi, who had studied Li Yunlong's combat style, reported to Mitsuo Nakazawa.

Mitsuo Nakaze nodded. Fortunately, he did not fight the Eighth Route Army outside the city and gave up the fortification of the city wall.

Otherwise, just after this wave of shelling, the 1st Division would have killed or injured at least a thousand soldiers.

At that moment, Mitsuo Nakazawa ordered Noguchi Yoshio: "Noguchi-kun, you should immediately draft a telegram and report this matter to the North China Front Army Command immediately, requesting General Neiji Okamura to dispatch fighter jets and bombers to send the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army to Blow up!"

The Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery position in the morning was not discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance plane.

But the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army are firing at the city wall, there is nothing to hide, and they will definitely be seen.

"Hi!"

Yoshio Noguchi bowed his head suddenly, and then began to draft a telegram.

……

In a forest about 10 kilometers west of the scene in Meng County.

The sun shines through the leaves, bringing some warmth.

However, in this forest at this time, there was thunderous snoring.

The soldiers of the new regiment arrived at dawn after a night of rapid march, and rested here for a day.

And here, the Zhengtai Railway is only about 30 kilometers away.

The new regiment only needs to attack for half a night and then reach the Zhengtai Railway and attack the 33rd and 37th Divisions of the Japanese Army.

Li Yunlong finished his breakfast, drank clear water, and slept with his back against the bottom of a big tree to replenish his strength and energy.

For a person like him who has experienced the Long March, he can rest anytime and anywhere, and he can also fight anytime and anywhere.

Less than ten seconds after leaning against the big tree, Li Yunlong's snoring sounded.

Seeing this, Zhao Gang smiled slightly, so he also planned to sit on a rock and rest for a while.

At this moment, the telegraph operator noticed that the radio signal was flickering, so he immediately put on his earphones, and the radio began beeping, beeping, beeping rhythmically.

Li Yunlong opened his eyes suddenly, startling Huang Erhu and Chen Baoshan who were watching him sleeping.

"Damn it, I'm not a beauty, what's so good about sleeping?"

"Go, go, go to sleep."

Li Yunlong dismissed Huang Erhu and Chen Baoshan and walked towards the telegraph machine.

Zhao Gang, Wang Dehou and Xing Zhiguo also woke up and came over one after another.

Li Yunlong looked at his watch. At this time, someone was sending a telegram to Xinyituan. It was probably from Kong Jie.

After a while, the telegraph operator wrote down the received password on paper, and the decoder quickly translated it into text before handing over the telegram to Li Yunlong.

"Haha, Lao Kong and his side are progressing smoothly, and the devils from the 1st Division have been surrounded in Datong City."

After reading the telegram, Li Yunlong smiled slightly.

Although the devils of the 1st Division took precautions against the new regiment, they still underestimated the special forces of the new regiment.

Li Yunlong used the method of dealing with the 3rd Brigade, and surrounded the Japanese 1st Division in Datong.

Zhao Gang smiled slightly: "If there is no accident, Okamura Neiji will definitely think that the Eighth Route Army attacking Datong is our new regiment."

"Maybe." Xing Zhiguo also smiled, "The reinforcements from the Devil's North China Front Army are really rushing towards Datong."

Wang Dehou also laughed and said, "Who would have thought that the real strategic goal of our Eighth Route Army would be the 33rd and 37th Divisions of the Japanese Army?"

"Stop talking nonsense." Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou, "Chief of Staff, immediately write a telegram to reply to Kong Jie, saying that you will follow the plan, and then draft a telegram to send to the 129th Division headquarters, asking where their main force has arrived. Where? The rest of you hurry up and rest."

Wang Dehou: "Yes!"

……

at the same time.

Peiping.

Iron Lion Alley, North China Front Army Command.

war room.

With the telegram in his hand, the communication staff officer Chiao Kitani walked quickly to Neiji Okamura, and immediately reported: "Report to the head of the division, the 1st Division has an urgent call!"

Neiji Okamura, Seizo Arisue and Moritake Tanabe are analyzing the battle situation.

"Read!"

Hearing Kitani Haruo's voice, Okamura Neiji waved his hand and said.

"Hi!" Chio Kigu read with a telegram, "The Eighth Route Army used more than six artillery regiments to bombard the city walls of Datong, and requested the headquarters to send fighter jets and bombers to destroy the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions. The 6st Division Lieutenant General Mitsuo Nakazawa, on board His Majesty the Emperor, on board the Great Japanese Locust Army!"

"Nani?" Ningji Okamura's face changed slightly, "Six artillery regiments?"

There were Suesei San and Tanabe Moritake on the side, and their expressions could not help but change.

This firepower is too brutal. Six artillery regiments must have almost 6 cannons with a caliber of 200 mm or more.

Many of them are heavy artillery with a caliber of 150 mm or more!
Should planes be sent to bomb the artillery positions of the Xinyi Regiment of the Eighth Route Army?

Neiji Okamura hesitated for a moment.

……

(I have something to do tonight, so I will directly update a 5-word chapter, and resume 2 updates tomorrow.) (End of this chapter)