My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 60: Unbelievable headlines!
"Damn it."

mid March.

The headquarters of the new regiment is stationed,
Xingjia Village,
Ding Wei was walking back and forth in the regiment war room with his hands behind his back, cursing and never even taking a puff of the cigarette he lit in his hand.

"Captain, what's wrong?"

At this time, the guard dared to ask cautiously.

It is said that Captain Li Yunlong and Captain Li Da have a bad temper, and he often curses people, and the curses are so unpleasant that they can kill people.

Guard Ding Wei has naturally never experienced how powerful Captain Li can curse, but he knows that his own Captain Ding is not much better. When he loses his temper and curses, it can also cost people's lives.

Probably because the two people came from the same trench and the same class?

"Damn that bitch Li Yunlong."

Ignoring the guard, Ding Wei continued to curse:
"Isn't this bullying honest people!"

In February, Li Yunlong wanted to leave 120 combat cadres in the new regiment, including Sun Desheng, the company commander.

Sun Desheng has followed Shi Yousan since he was a child. He has been in the army for more than ten years and has participated in more than a hundred battles, large and small. He has rich experience in leading troops and can also command and train cavalry.

He is a truly experienced elite.

In fact, with Sun Desheng's military ability, he can be a regiment leader, but he has only been in the army for a short time, less than a year. In addition, his friend's background as a guard and his poor cultural level are not even as good as a crane. The last one, Li Yunlong, can only be a company commander at present.

But Ding Wei knew very well that Shi Yousan was a traitor, but Sun Desheng was a tough guy, otherwise he would not have left the guards of Shi Yousan and joined the Eighth Route Army.

With such a talent, plus 110 nine combat backbones, Li Yunlong only gave him 20 rounds of ammunition and [-] Czech guns.

Send beggars!

The 38th Regiment helped transport some supplies to the brigade headquarters. After transporting less than ten wounded, they got three 60-mm mortars, [-] rounds of artillery shells, three grenade launchers, and [-] rounds of grenades.

You bastard, you think he is easy to fool, right?

Guard: "?"

Didn’t you praise Captain Li for his generosity every day?

Why did he go to the 38th regiment and start scolding Captain Li when he came back?

what happened!
"No, labor and management are going to find Li Yunlong!"

Ding Wei slapped the table for the last time, took the guards with him, and ran to the Independent Regiment.

···
"Team seat."

At the headquarters of the [-]th Regiment, Chief of Staff Fang Ligong walked into the regimental office.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a newspaper on the table.

"Is this...their newspaper?"

Even without looking at the content, Fang Ligong could tell that the low-quality, home-made newsprint was obviously a newspaper issued by the Tubal Road group.

He was so poor that he didn't even have enough newsprint and was sparing printing ink, leaving Fang Ligong quite speechless.

Are you still running a newspaper here?

Why bother!
"Yes, the Taihang edition of the Xinhua Newspaper of the Eighth Route Army."

Chu Yunfei nodded.

"Could it be that the Liao County prisoner of war camp was really the work of Tubal Road?"

Fang Ligong speculated.

The only thing that could make the regiment call him over was the news published in the Eighth Route Army newspapers, which might be what happened in the prisoner-of-war camp in Liao County not long ago.

In February, in just over an hour, the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Liao County was captured. More than 100 Japanese prisoners were wiped out, including Masabu Hirata, the deputy chief of staff of the North China Front, and more than 500 prisoners of war were rescued.

All parties in Shanxi are speculating on who did it.

Now it is known that it is not the Central Army, nor their Jinsui Army, so there is only one possibility.

Eighth Route Army!
It can't be the bandits or the Japanese who did it themselves!

But the question is, with the strength of the Eighth Route Army, can it capture the prisoner-of-war camp in Liao County and annihilate more than 100 Japanese in just over an hour?

Do they have this ability?
The Japanese's defensive ability is even stronger than their offensive ability.

"more than!"

Chu Yunfei's answer exceeded Fang Ligong's expectations.

"more than?"

"What else?"

Fang Ligong couldn't help but pick up the newspaper on the table and read it himself.

"really!"

After reading the front page headlines in the newspaper, Fang Ligong frowned and shouted that it was impossible.

Records in newspapers.

The Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, under the leadership of Li Yunlong,
In mid-February, the Liao County prisoner-of-war camp was captured with less than 30 casualties, and 150 Japanese were annihilated, including the Yamamoto Special Agent Team, an elite Japanese team trained in Germany, and the North China Front's deputy chief of staff, Hirata Masahiro, and rescued 500 Many prisoners of war were taken, and a large amount of supplies were seized.

On March 30, with less than [-] casualties, they completely annihilated a fully reinforced Japanese infantry squadron and killed more than [-] Japanese.

During this period, they also ambushed a Japanese transport team on the Liao Town Highway and killed nearly thirty Japanese soldiers.

In less than a month, nearly [-] Japanese were killed?
Is this possible?

Let’s not mention the prisoner-of-war camp in Liao County.

A reinforced Japanese infantry squadron, with more than 200 Japanese, ambushed in advance and the entire 200th Regiment is mobilized. It can defeat or even annihilate most of them, but total annihilation is almost impossible. The [-]-man Japanese army has a very strong ability to break through encirclement. Unless the little Japanese is seeking death, he only needs to concentrate his forces to attack one point, and he can quickly break the encirclement.

If you want total annihilation, you either have absolute superior firepower to suppress the Japanese infantry squadron, or you have pocket terrain that is very suitable for an ambush.

In terms of firepower, the Jinsui Army is not even good, let alone Tubal Road.
In the latter, there is no such terrain on the highway from Liao County to Yu County.

"I don't know if it's true or not, I don't have any photos."

Chu Yunfei shook his head.

The Independent Regiment did not have cameras and could not record the battlefield conditions in real time.Moreover, due to the Japanese's successive sieges, Xinhua News Agency also lacked ink and mimeograph equipment. In order to save ink, there were very few pictures printed in the newspaper.

Chu Yunfei continued:
"However, according to intelligence, the Japanese have indeed recently strengthened an infantry squadron, departing from Yangquan to reinforce Liao County."

"You also saw the reaction of the Yuxian Japs on March 1000th. In the evening of that day, the Shandao Regiment Headquarters suddenly came out in force. More than [-] Japs poured along the road from Yuxian to Liaoxian, but they came back that night."

"It is said that they also brought a large number of Japanese corpses with them."

"There is definite intelligence that a battle did take place on the road from Liao County to Yu County that day."

The backward communication methods limited the transmission of intelligence and news at this time. It had been five days since the incident, and Chu Yunfei had only received the newspaper issued that day, and he had not yet understood the battle that took place in Xingzigou.

"and."

Chu Yunfei emphasized his tone:

"The person commanding the independent regiment is Li Yunlong!"

"Li Yunlong."

Only then did Fang Ligong notice that the commander of the independent regiment in the newspaper was Li Yunlong.

The Li Yunlong who defeated Bantian's regiment head-on in Cangyun Ridge and killed Bantian.

He had not noticed before because the results were so shocking and unbelievable.

"Even if it's Li Yunlong..."

Fang Ligong wanted to say that even Li Yunlong couldn't do it.

but··
Back in Cangyunling, the new regiment led by Li Yunlong fell into the encirclement of the Japanese Bantian Alliance. They asserted that Li Yunlong was finished!Dead!
Then, they defeated the Sakata United team with a backhand, and even Sakata was promoted.

"I think it's false propaganda."

Fang Ligong changed his tone and said:

"This press release stated that Li Yunlong led the independent regiment to not only annihilate the Japanese infantry squadrons twice in a row, but also handed over a large amount of weapons, equipment and supplies, which greatly alleviated the material dilemma in their so-called base area."

"Even if two Japanese infantry squadrons are wiped out, how many weapons, ammunition and supplies can be captured?"

"A reinforced infantry squadron with more than 200 Japanese troops, including fifty or sixty mules and horses, and five or six carts cannot carry much supplies."

Fang Ligong didn't notice at all that the press release said surrender, not seizure.

"News is always true and false."

Chu Yunfei shook his head:
"And at this time, if they can publish it in the newspaper, I'm afraid the supplies Li Yunlong will hand over will not be too few."

The press release was bound to be wordy, not to mention that it was a group of guys who almost started from scratch. For more than two years, Chu Yunfei had read every Xinhua Newspaper, so he was keen to hand over the supplies instead of seizing them.

This wording made him feel something was wrong.

Even if it is false news, used to boost morale, the word "turn in" should not be used.

"This···"

Fang Ligong wanted to refute.

This is obviously false propaganda, used to boost morale, but it directly refutes the boss, which is not ordinary stupidity.

"I just find it unbelievable."

Fang Ligong was not an idiot, but Chu Yunfei didn't like people who blindly agreed with his boss, so he changed his tone and said:
"After all, this thing is incredible."

"And you also said that it is normal for press releases to be true or false. Using exaggerated methods to promote publicity, boost morale, and cover up problems is a common method, so I am suspicious..."

Fang Ligong stopped here.

"Humph!"

As if remembering something, Chu Yunfei suddenly snorted coldly and said:

"It doesn't matter whether he wiped out all of them or not, and it doesn't matter how many supplies he got."

"But the Japanese squadron coming from Yangquan will definitely suffer heavy losses. All the Japanese in the Liao County prisoner-of-war camp were wiped out, Masabu Hirata was shot to death, and more than 500 prisoners of war were rescued. This is all true."

"These are all good things."

"really!"

Fang Ligong nodded in agreement.

···
Just when Fang Ligong and Chu Yunfei were discussing the latest edition of Xinhua News Agency.

Taiyuan,

A copy of the Xinhua Newspaper issued on March [-] was also delivered to Yoshio Shinozuka's desk.

at the same time,

This newspaper also appeared in the hands of comrades fighting underground behind enemy lines in Taiyuan, Yangquan, etc.

The original means of transmission and the Japanese blockade have limited the current spread speed of Xinhua Newspaper.

　Next chapter later...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)