My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 94 Give the Japanese a little shock!
"Did the Japs from the Xiazhuang stronghold break out?"

Early the next morning, Li Yunlong, who returned from the militia training camp, received a message that surprised him.

Now that he had let go of command, Li Yunlong would carry out the task to the end, surrounding the Xiazhuang stronghold and blocking the battle of the Japanese reinforcements. He almost completely ignored it and left everything to the two battalion commanders.

A soldier from the regimental communications platoon replied:

"According to the telegram from Acting Second Battalion Commander Ding Shenggui."

"At around [-] o'clock last night, the Japanese troops broke out in two groups. The battle lasted until this morning. Five Japanese soldiers escaped, including the commander of the Xiazhuang stronghold, Captain Ogamichi."

In order to solve the communication and command problems caused by the equipment of a large number of walkie-talkies, Li Yunlong independently established a regimental communications platoon to receive and process communications.

"Did the troops divide into two groups at night?"

Li Yunlong sneered.

The prerequisite for dividing the troops to break out at night is that the enemy's troops are insufficient or the encirclement has enough loopholes.

But the Second Battalion, with more than 600 people, surrounded the Xiazhuang stronghold for seven days, built layers of fortifications, only besieged but not attacked, and continued to suppress it with cold guns. It was clear that the Japanese were going to be killed. How could there be obvious defense loopholes?

Under the preset situation of bombarding Zhu Yuan, dividing the troops is simply courting death!
Even a little devil can't fight at night!
"What are the casualties of the Second Battalion?"

Li Yunlong asked.

Li Yunlong, who had used night to break out of Japanese encirclements many times, knew very well that the visibility conditions at night were poor and the surrounding party's strength would inevitably be weaker than during the day, making it an excellent environment for a breakout.

Unless there is advance intelligence, it will be difficult to stop them all.

Only five Japs escaped, which is already pretty good.

It's no different than total annihilation.

"Nine were killed and fifteen were wounded, including seven seriously wounded."

the Communications Officer replied.

"Not bad!"

Hearing this, Li Yunlong was very satisfied.

More than 100 Japanese soldiers broke through the encirclement at night. Without any preparation in advance, only five escaped and more than 24 Japanese soldiers were killed. There were [-] casualties on our side, of which only nine were killed.

A casualty ratio of four to one.

A death ratio of one to ten.

Big win.

"Where's Zhang Dabiao?"

Li Yunlong continued to ask.

"It is expected that we will contact the Japanese Beijing Brigade at noon today."

the Communications Officer replied.

"inform him."

Li Yunlong said:
"Fight this battle well for me."

"Yes!"

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nine in the morning.

"Company Commander, the Japs are expected to arrive at their scheduled location in one and a half hours."

Slope up the back.

The place lives up to its name.

This is the top of a steep mountain, but the top is flat and open, as if it was cut flat by some force, which makes people marvel at the uncanny workmanship of nature.

At this time, the artillery company of the independent regiment was stationed on the top of this mountain.

Sixteen newly equipped 82 mortars were almost lined up, pointing at a section of the Liaozhen-Xiazhuang highway [-] kilometers away.

On the slope not far behind the artillery position, there are temporary ammunition holes. Among them, there are boxes of 82 mortar shells. A rough estimate is that there are more than 600 boxes.

Each box of shells contains four 82 mortar shells, which means there are at least three thousand 82 mortar shells here.

"Prepare."

Following Xu Ping's order, the ammunition handlers at the rear began to take out the shells one by one from the ammunition boxes, and then piled them near the running position.

The loader unpacks the shell, installs the fuse, and adjusts the propellant at the end of the shell to prepare for the upcoming rapid fire.

"This is the company headquarters. Please reply when you receive it."

After the preparations were completed, Xu Ping began to check the communications.

Xu Ping loved the walkie-talkies newly equipped by the Independent Regiment. He studied them almost every day and experienced their performance.

If there is any military branch that has the greatest demand for communications, it is undoubtedly the artillery.

Especially artillery equipped with long-range artillery.

When the Independent Regiment only had 60 mortars, Xu Ping felt deeply that poor communication greatly limited the performance of artillery.

Although the 60 mortar only has a maximum range of [-] kilometers, the base areas are generally in mountainous areas, and it is often difficult to directly find the target. Relying on semaphore communication to calibrate the artillery has high delay, low efficiency, and is very prone to errors.

Now with the equipment of the 82 mortar with a range of [-] kilometers, communication restrictions are even greater.

Fortunately, there is a walkie-talkie.

"This is observation point number one."

"This is observation point number two."

"···"

After confirming that there was no problem with every walkie-talkie, Xu Ping put down the microphone in his hand, held up the binoculars, and looked quietly at the road in the distance, waiting for the Japanese to arrive.

···
at the same time.

Yangquan.

No.20 Ninth Brigade Headquarters.

"How is the situation at the Xiazhuang stronghold in Liao County?"

The commander of the No. 20 ninth brigade, Otani Matsubara, called his chief of staff.

Four days ago, the Liao County garrison reported that the Xiazhuang stronghold was under siege by the Eighth Route Army. He immediately ordered the Beijing Brigade to go for reinforcements, but no news was received since then.

The Xiazhuang area, according to the intelligence from the First Army Headquarters, is the location where the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment is active.

The leader of the independent group is Li Yunlong.

It was Li Yunlong who commanded the New Regiment to kill Captain Bantian and defeat the Bantian Regiment. After coming to the Independent Regiment, he commanded the Independent Regiment to wipe out the Hejin Squadron and Nishino Squadron.

Let Otani Matsubahara pay more attention to it.

"The Beijing Brigade is currently on the road to the Xiazhuang stronghold. They encountered sporadic attacks by the Eighth Route Army in the mountainous area."

"The Eighth Route Army sent a large number of small troops to attack the Beijing Brigade with grenade launchers, which caused the Beijing Brigade to march slowly. It is not expected to arrive at the Xiazhuang stronghold this evening." "A large number of grenade launchers?"

Kotani Matsubarada frowned.

Recently, a large amount of intelligence has proved that the Eighth Route Army seems to have a large source of weapons and ammunition, a large amount of food, and a large number of brand-new imported military uniforms and military shoes.

However, investigations by the First Army Intelligence Department were unable to find traces and sources of transportation.

It was as if the supplies appeared out of thin air.

The matter has been put on hold, with no further report and no corresponding solution.

"Correct."

The Chief of Staff replied:
"According to Lieutenant Colonel Kitai's report, in recent days, his brigade has encountered nearly two hundred grenade attacks every day."

"There was even a mortar attack yesterday."

"Mortar."

Kotani Matsumahara's brows furrowed even deeper.

The primary reason for the weakness of the Eighth Route Army is the serious shortage of weapons, equipment and ammunition. The second reason is the massive expansion of the army, which leads to the low quality of the soldiers and the shortage of qualified grassroots officers.

If the Eighth Route Army obtains a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and food.

Then it's not a security issue.

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noon that day.

The Beijing Brigade entered an open area.

Almost all the Japanese soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. In this kind of terrain, the probability of encountering an ambush was very low.

"rest."

"Captain, we are only five kilometers away from the Xiazhuang stronghold."

After hearing the report from the map staff, Beijing's expression did not change at all, his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot.

Three days of arduous marching in the mountains made his thoughts of retreat more intense - not only would not be able to rescue the men's squadron at the Xiazhuang stronghold, but the Beijing brigade would also suffer heavy losses if they continued to move forward.

But again, he had no choice.

His superiors would not agree to his retreat, and he could not even make suggestions. He could only continue to move forward according to orders and reinforce the Xiazhuang stronghold.

It is taboo to deny orders from superior officers.

Because even though three squadrons were wiped out, from beginning to end, the senior officials of the Locust Army never realized that they were still seriously underestimating the strength of the Eighth Route Army.

"Send someone over there to observe the surroundings."

Beijing Minghe looked around, looked at the hillside in the distance and said:

But Beijing Minghe's words had just finished.

suddenly,

Boom boom boom.

Dense explosions erupted around the Beijing Brigade.

Sixteen 82 mortars from the artillery company of the independent regiment opened fire.

Huge explosions of gunpowder smoke rose up in the Beijing brigade formation.

At this time, the Beijing Brigade was a formation of skirmishers. Nearly 300 Japanese soldiers were marching in separate units. However, the mountainous terrain limited the width of the formation and could only extend a width of more than [-] meters.

But for a brigade, it was still an intensive march.

Of course, it is enough to deal with 60 mortars and grenade launchers, as well as machine gun fire,

But with a weight of 18 kilograms, an effective killing radius of 82 mortars and grenades up to [-] meters, and the firepower of sixteen guns, this is also a dense formation march.

Shells fell one after another, and the Japanese were blown away one by one.

"This is a large-caliber mortar!"

"spread."

"Artillery squad, suppress enemy artillery."

"First Squadron, attack the enemy's artillery position."

Kitai Minghe had already anticipated the attack.

Tubal Road surrounds the Xiazhuang stronghold, and the target is most likely not the Xiazhuang stronghold.

But his Beijing brigade.

But when the dense 75 mortar shells, which were comparable to the power of the 82 mountain gun, fell, Kitai Minghe was still shocked.

There are a large number of 82 mortars and artillery shells on Tubal Road!

This was far from what he expected.

If the 60 mortar relies on a large skirmisher line, it can still cope with it,

But the 82 mortar must rely on a complete position with foxholes, trenches, and anti-gun holes.

But here, there is nothing.

There are just some dirt pits and scattered woods.

This kind of terrain is very effective when facing gun battles, grenades, and 60 mortars, but it has little effect when facing the 82 kilogram shells of the [-] mortar.

But soon, he regained his composure, began to command the troops to disperse, directed the artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery positions, and ordered the first squadron to raid the enemy's artillery positions.

The effect was far worse than Kitai Akita expected.

The commanding view and the artillery forward observation post equipped with the radio enabled the shells of the 16 mortars to be accurately calibrated and always landed on the Japanese formation.

Even with the mountainous terrain as a natural shield, the casualties of the Beijing Brigade still increased at a very rapid rate.

The Type 92 infantry artillery carried by the brigade had no chance to counterattack.

The [-]st Infantry Squadron, which received the assault on the enemy's artillery position, was suppressed by artillery from beginning to end. Not to mention completing the mission, the team did not even get out, and was always suppressed to the ground by artillery.

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The shelling lasted for a full 10 minutes.

"Come on!"

When the shelling had just ended, the Japs raised their heads one after another. Appearing on their flanks was a battalion led by Zhang Dabiao.

More than 300 independent regiment soldiers, armed with submachine guns, were like bayonets, piercing into the center of the Beijing brigade.

　"Emotionally exhausted, the quality of the written text is also very poor, sorry"

　　There is a high probability that tomorrow will be a dove day...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)