My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 74 Yoshio Shinozuka: I’ll send another squadron, come back if you have the guts!
April NO.17.

"General."

"This is a battlefield investigation that took place between Hexian and Liaoxian, and the Dahe Squadron was ambushed."

Yoshio Shinozuka took the information handed over by Yamamoto.

After so many days, Shinozuka Yoshio's anger has subsided.

After all, there are 140 locust troops in one squadron.

Even if the three squadrons were added together, there would be less than [-] locust troops. He didn't even need to use reserve troops, he could directly recruit from the imperial residents in Shanxi to make up for the losses.

"go on."

Yoshio Shinozuka looked through the information in his hand and asked Yamamoto to continue explaining.

"The enemy should have obtained precise information about the Dahe Squadron through the underground organization lurking in Yangquan."

"Including confidential military information such as troop strength, weapons and equipment, detailed marching routes, and even time."

"Ah."

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded.

Ambush warfare requires sufficient and accurate intelligence support.

Tubal Road was able to accurately ambush the infantry squadron in Yangquan to reinforce Liao County twice in a row, which shows that there are many Tubal Road rats lurking in Yangquan, and they have a certain ability to penetrate the imperial Yangquan garrison.

Seeing that his commander seemed to have no expression, Yamamoto continued:

"According to the investigation of the battlefield where Hejin Squadron was ambushed, the number of troops dispatched by Tubal Road was not large, only 800 to [-] people, but they displayed very fierce firepower, especially light artillery fire."

"A significant number of shell casings were also left at the scene."

Collecting bullet casings on the battlefield is a waste of time.

After the independent regiment ambushed the Hejin Squadron in Xingzigou, in order to save time and avoid being bitten by the Japanese, Li Yunlong only asked the troops to collect a few shell casings.

First, with the support of Boss Lu, the independent regiment is not short of ammunition, and even the brigade headquarters is not short of ammunition.

Secondly, even Shuiyaozi Arsenal can reload less than [-] rounds of ammunition every day due to insufficient production of primers and propellants.

There are too many shells and you can’t use them.

"On the battlefield where Dahe Squadron was ambushed, although the firepower of Tubal Road was not as good as that of Hejin Squadron, it was not bad. Many traces of 60mm mortar explosions and grenade grenade explosion traces were found on the scene."

"There are also a lot of machine guns."

"More troops were dispatched, more than 2000 people were dispatched, and almost all the shell casings at the scene were removed."

Captain Li had the God of Wealth behind him, but Kong Jie and Wu Cheng did not. In addition, two wings were arranged to block the reinforcements. The two followed the shooting discipline and tried their best to collect the shell casings.

But it is impossible to collect them all in a few hours.

"In other words, Tubalu showed very good firepower in both battles?"

Yoshio Shinozuka grasped the key point.

"Correct."

"From the analysis of the remaining shell casings and shell fragments, the manufacturing process is very high, and they are all imported ammunition."

Yamamoto closed the document in his hand and handed it to Yoshio Shinozuka.

"It seems that Tubal Road has received support from some foreign forces."

After receiving the investigation report handed over by Yamamoto, Yoshio Shinozuka read it carefully and thought about it.

In a unit whose discipline dictates that only five thousand rounds of ammunition can be fired in a battle of a thousand men, suddenly, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were fired in just two ambush battles against the Imperial squadron, and thousands of rounds of ammunition were fired. mortar shells, thousands of grenades.

This shows that the Eighth Route Army did have a way to obtain imported weapons and ammunition that the Imperial Army did not know about.

And the quantity will not be small.

Yamamoto glanced at his commander, confused.

Isn't the point that the intelligence of the Yangquan garrison was leaked?

The key to an ambush battle is intelligence. He knows it, and it is impossible for the commander and general not to understand it.

"Any other discoveries?"

"About the source of weapons and ammunition on Tubal Road."

Yoshio Shinozuka looked at Yamamoto.

"There is currently no discovery by the intelligence services."

Yamamoto shook his head.

After the third team was completely destroyed, Yamamoto's special forces suffered serious losses. In addition, Chief of Staff Miyano reduced his support for special operations, and he had to suspend special operations activities.

Under the persuasion of General Shinozuka, he began to concurrently serve as the deputy chief of staff of the First Army and was responsible for the intelligence force of the First Army.

"In fact, after the Hejin Squadron was ambushed, I began to investigate whether there was a source of weapons and ammunition on Tubal Road, but so far, nothing has been found."

"But I got some other information."

"What information?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked.

"According to information disclosed by Liao County Guards personnel."

"The Liao County Military Workers Team has recently received a considerable amount of food from their base area."

“It’s all refined flour.”

“There was even a lot of animal fat.”

"It seems to be imported food."

"Importing food?"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.

Weapons, ammunition, food!
They are two kinds of materials that the Locust Army strictly blocked on the Eighth Route Army base area.

The Eighth Route Army is seriously lacking these two supplies, which are also the two biggest problems limiting the growth of the Eighth Route Army's strength.

Now there seems to be evidence that some forces are assisting the Eighth Route Army with these two supplies, or that the Tubal Army has obtained a lot of food, weapons and ammunition through some channels?
"Focus."

"Investigate clearly the source of these weapons, ammunition, and food."

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone was serious.

"Hi." Yamamoto bowed his head in response.

"General, the 29th Brigade sent a telegram. The Shandao Regiment continues to request tactical guidance. He asked whether to continue sending reinforcements?"

Yamamoto changed the subject.

"Should we continue to send reinforcements?"

Shinozuka Yoshio's tone rose and he sneered:
"The Eighth Route Army must have thought that I did not dare to send reinforcements to Liao County..."

"Or, think I'm definitely going to send more reinforcements."

"Order."

Yoshio Shinozuka's tone was full of disdain:
"The No. 20 Ninth Brigade dispatched a second-class infantry reinforcement squadron and set off on April 24 to support the Liao County garrison via the Xiyanghe County route."

"There is no need to strengthen confidentiality for this operation. As soon as we received the order, the No. 24 reinforcement order to Liao County was immediately notified in detail to every soldier participating in the reinforcement squadron."

Yamamoto suddenly looked at his commander in surprise.

Another squadron was sent for reinforcements, and even direct orders did not need to be kept secret. They could be notified to every imperial soldier. This was a declaration of war on Tubal Road.

"Order the 29th Brigade to secretly equip the reinforcement squadron in Liao County with a radio station."

"Order, after the reinforcement squadron sets off, the garrisons in Liao County, Yu County, and He County are on full alert and ready to support at any time."

"Order, after the reinforcement squadron sets off, Taiyuan Airport will enter a state of combat readiness and be ready to take off for reinforcements at any time."

"I want to see if Tubal Road dares to ambush!"

"Do you really think that with a little external reinforcement, our First Army will be afraid of them?"

After the words fell, Yoshio Shinozuka snorted disdainfully.

"Hi!"

Yamamoto immediately lowered his head and responded.

Do Tubal Road dare to ambush?
Absolutely not.

Even if that Li Yunlong was given ten more courages, he wouldn't dare.

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at the same time.

Yang Village.

Independent regimental shooting range.

clap clap

Gunshots were heard one after another.

boom boom boom

There are even occasional grenade grenades and the sound of 60 mortars.

At this moment, more than 500 soldiers of the third battalion are conducting a live-fire training competition in squad, platoon and company units.

After one and a half months of arduous training, the recruits of the third battalion finally met the physical fitness standards and learned trench excavation, tactical movements and other essential skills on the battlefield.

During this period, due to excessive training intensity, more than 50 soldiers of the Third Battalion were exhausted and were forced to transfer to the logistics transport team. Fortunately, the training camp's training of preserved fruit prisoners of war was coming to an end. Many former soldiers of the preserved fruit camp entered the first and third battalions to make up for the loss. solved the problem of insufficient soldiers.

Therefore, the training of the third battalion has entered the next stage, actual combat and live-fire training.

Li Yunlong adhered to the attitude of starting everything from actual combat, and the shooting range was built to simulate the battlefield environment, trenches, foxholes, ring fortifications, and set up straw dummy targets hidden behind the fortifications.

All assessments are based on actual combat.

After training troops enter the battlefield, they not only need to complete standard tactical actions, but also need to accurately hit dummy targets hidden in trenches, foxholes, and ring fortifications.

And at a straight distance, many hidden targets controlled by pull ropes were set up to simulate enemies suddenly jumping out and train the soldiers' quick reaction ability.

Finally, the hit rate is scored based on the qualification of tactical actions.

Worst squad, platoon, company, battalion.

Yes, all four battalions of the Independent Regiment need to participate in this training.

Sorry, I won't punish you by not giving me meals or anything like that. I'll just increase my training until I'm no longer last in the next training session. But I can't let go of cultural learning.

By the way, the construction of the shooting range is handled by the regiment's security platoon and the battalion with the best results.

"How much ammunition does this training consume at one time?"

Zhao Gang couldn't help asking.

Although he knew that Boss Lu had the whole story, he still felt distressed.

With the training of the militia troops launched and the second battalion stationed in Shangcun, the independent regiment has four infantry battalions with a full strength of 520 people, an artillery company, a baggage transport battalion, a communications reinforcement platoon, and the total strength of the regiment headquarters has been Reached 3000 people.

This does not include the logistics supply station with more than 200 people.

"One battalion, one training session, requires at least about 60 rounds of ammunition, [-] rounds of grenade grenades, and [-] [-]mm mortars. If it is higher, the consumption of grenade canisters and mortar shells may even exceed live ammunition."

Li Yunlong's tone was not distressed at all.

Anyway, Brother Lu has the whole story, so this is normal training consumption.

Moreover, these consumptions actually become the combat effectiveness of the troops.

"The artillerymen and grenadiers still need more training!"

The two of them looked at the actual combat training of the three battalions in front of them.

When one of the infantry squads attacked a position, they encountered the fire suppression of three crooked 'machine guns' and a Type [-] heavy machine gun.

The positions of these four machine guns are extremely tricky. The Czechs cannot shoot them, let alone submachine guns and rifles. Both wings are in rugged terrain, so they cannot go around and can only rely on grenade launchers.

But the grenade shooter fired more than forty grenades and fired all the grenades carried by the whole class. He was unable to suppress the two Czechs. He had to retreat, stop the attack, and replenish ammunition before starting again.

In the end, the company's 60 mortars were fired, and it took more than 50 artillery shells to take out the tricky firepower set up by the second battalion.

It took more than half an hour.

This scene made Li Yunlong frown.

Although the position of the machine gun positions set up by the veterans of the Second Battalion is indeed tricky and extremely difficult to aim, it also means that on the battlefield, this company will be blocked by a firepower point for half an hour.

"Drip drip..."

At this moment, the communicator on Li Yunlong's wrist rang, and his eyes suddenly lit up:
"Haha, here comes the new deal."

(End of this chapter)