Kong Jie often says that Li Yunlong is used to being treasured by the brigade commander.

Because of the brigade commander, Li Yunlong has always dared to act recklessly. In the world line of the original drama, Li Yunlong even dared to seize Kong Jie and annihilate the bandits who had been incorporated in Heiyunzhai.

But it is definitely not true that the brigade commander spoiled Li Yunlong.

The brigade commander really prefers Li Yunlong, but this is true.

Just as five fingers are different in length, people are also close and distant.

Compared with Ding Wei and Kong Jie, the brigade commander obviously likes and appreciates Li Yunlong more.

This time, the brigade commander came to northwest Shanxi to take office, so he only brought one Cao San Company, and did not bring a group of troops from the Taiyue Column and the Taiyue Military Region Command.

Even the Chief of Staff did not bring it here.

The brigade commander did not intend to reorganize a column headquarters in northwest Shanxi.

Because it takes a large number of personnel and resources to form a column headquarters, the brigade commander felt it was unnecessary.

The brigade commander directly merged the column headquarters with Li Yunlong's detachment headquarters, and a group of personnel from the former independent regiment headquarters became members of the Northwest Column Command of Shanxi.

This is actually two teams and one team that are often found in the officialdom.

Li Yunlong was naturally unwilling to do this, because Ding Wei and Kong Jie could stand alone, but he had to stay with the brigade commander, and he had to be under the brigade commander's control in everything and he became a young wife.

But no matter how unhappy he is, it is useless. In Li Yunlong's words, a senior official will kill people.

The brigade commander not only merged the column headquarters with Li Yunlong's detachment headquarters, but also allowed Xing Zhiguo to serve as the logistics director of the column headquarters, responsible for managing the logistics of the entire column.

At this moment, Xing Zhiguo is reporting his work progress to the brigade commander.

"As of now, 300,000 kilograms of pancakes have been prepared, and 300,000 kilograms of pancakes can be received in the future. In this way, each soldier can get 20 kilograms of pancakes, which should be enough for three days. At that time, the cooking teams of each army only need to cook some millet porridge or vegetable soup, and the pressure for food security will be much smaller."

"Three days?" the brigade commander frowned and asked, "Can't you prepare for a few more days?"

Xing Zhiguo explained: "It's already mid-May now, and it's hot, and the pancakes will break down after more than three days."

"Oh yes, I forgot this." The brigade commander patted his forehead and reminded him, "Then you must keep up with the subsequent food security. Eating issues are the top priority. The food security on the battlefield is even more important. No matter what, we cannot let our soldiers fight the Japanese with hunger."

"Braft Commander, don't worry, it's absolutely fine." Xing Zhiguo Highway, "After all, the battlefield is in northwest Shanxi. We can mobilize the people and villagers from the base to make dry food at any time. Regardless of pancakes, buns, or other types of dry food, we can prepare enough in a short time. Our logistics department not only needs to make the soldiers full, but also let the soldiers eat as much as possible!"

"Okay, as long as the meal problem is solved, we will win half of this battle." The brigade commander nodded and said, "Is there any ammunition distributed?"

"It has been sent all of it." Xing Zhiguo nodded.

"Single soldiers prepare thirty rounds of ammunition, light machine guns prepare 600 rounds of ammunition, heavy machine guns prepare 4,000 rounds of ammunition, grenade launchers and mortars prepare thirty rounds of ammunition, artillery prepares two bases of ammunition."

"Okay, nothing is wrong, go ahead and go."

After sending Xing Zhiguo away, the brigade commander returned to the sand table.

I saw Wang Ye and Zhao Gang doing sand table work, Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao stood beside him and started.

The former independent regiment headquarters can be said to have been streamlined to the extreme. Wang Ye, the chief of staff and Zhang Dabiao, the deputy chief of staff, are all part-time jobs. Apart from these two chiefs and deputy chiefs of staff, there is not even a full-time staff officer.

In other words, there is no such unit as a staff in the Independent Corps at all.

Only when the combat plan is needed, Wang Ye, the chief of staff and Zhang Dabiao, the deputy chief of staff, will come to the post. When there is insufficient staff, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and others will be temporarily arrested for help.

For example, now, due to insufficient manpower, Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong's strong men have been arrested.

Under the red and blue pencils of Wang Ye and Zhao Gang, the battlefield situation in northwest Shanxi has already appeared.

From the map, we can see intuition that the four regiments of the Second Detachment have surrounded Ping'an County, while the two regiments of the Third Detachment have set up defenses near Xiaocaozhuang.

The four regiments of the first detachment, the other two regiments of the third detachment, and the artillery regiment, were ambushed in the Zhangzhuang area between Anhua and Ping'an County, waiting for the Japanese troops of Anhua to enter the preset ambush circle.

The Guards and Cavalry Regiments are reserves of the column and remain unmoved for the time being.

Since the Japanese army has not taken any action yet, there are only six blue circles representing the three large strongholds along Tongpu Road, namely Han County, Anhua, Ping'an County.

The brigade commander glanced at the map and asked, "Have the four regiments of the Second Detachment reached the designated location?"

"Yes." Wang Ye stood up and replied, "I just contacted the Second Detachment in five minutes. All four regiments of the Second Detachment have arrived outside Ping'an County and are ready to attack."

The brigade commander nodded and asked again: "Where is the artillery regiment?"

Wang Ye said: "The artillery regiment has also entered the cornfield near Zhanggezhuang and hidden."

"Xiao Wang, the artillery position will not be discovered by the Japanese planes, right?" The brigade commander was a little worried.

Although the Northwest Column of Shanxi has a regiment of artillery, it lacks air defense firepower, so it is still very fragile when facing the Japanese aviation army.

Once the artillery positions are not camouflaged and exposed to the eyes of the Japanese aviation forces, the artillery regiment of the Northwest Shanxi Column will be destroyed in just a few rounds of bombing.

Wang Ye said with great certainty: "Our Wolf Warrior Brigade has assisted the artillery regiment in carefully camouflaging the artillery positions. It is difficult for Japanese aircraft to find our artillery positions from the sky."

"But the Japanese also have ground scouts, that is, the advancing team." The brigade commander said, "Although the Japanese had failed to mobilize the Taihang Military Region before, the dozen advancing teams of the Japanese posed a great threat to our army. If there weren't the Tianlang Squadron and the Brutal Wolf Squadron at that time, the headquarters might have been bitten by them."

Wang Ye smiled and said, "But you feel at ease, brigade commander, we have prepared for this."

"Oh?" the brigade commander asked happily, "What have you prepared for the Japanese?"

Wang Ye smiled and said, "Our Wolf Warrior Brigade will block the battlefield in the area near the artillery position. In short, the Japanese advancing team will never infiltrate within five kilometers of the artillery position."

"The battlefield is blocked?" said the brigade commander, "Didn't that expose our combat intentions?"

"Yes." Zhang Dabiao also said, "Wolf Warrior Brigade has blocked the battlefield in the five-kilometer area near Zhanggezhuang, and the Japanese will definitely know that there is a problem with Zhanggezhuang."

"There is no way to do this," Wang Ye shook his head.

"Because the road is surrounded by plain terrain that is rare in northwestern Shanxi."

"If it weren't for the large area of ​​farmland on the roadside and many of the farmlands were planted with corn, we wouldn't even find the terrain of the hidden soldiers. It would be difficult for this terrain to hide ambushing soldiers without being discovered."

After pausing, Wang Ye said again: "However, the Japanese will only know that we have hidden ambushers in Zhanggezhuang, but they don't know how many regiments we deployed in Zhanggezhuang. Moreover, the Japanese have to come and pass through Zhanggezhuang, because only Zhanggezhuang can pass through heavy equipment and are closest to Ping'an County."

The brigade commander said, "But what if the Japanese abandoned their heavy equipment and went by?"

"There is such a possibility." Wang Ye said, "But it doesn't matter, because we have absolute military strength advantages and have the initiative on the battlefield, and there is no problem in communication, so we can respond quickly than the Japanese. Even if the Japanese detour, we can send troops to intercept them in advance, and then mobilize troops to attack the roundabout way, and the result is the same."

The ambush of tens of thousands of people is essentially different from the small ambush of hundreds of people.

A small-scale ambush of hundreds of people can be hidden well on the roadside, and can catch the enemy within half a minute after the battle begins and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

However, the ambush of tens of thousands of people is obviously impossible to achieve this level.

In an ambush battle of tens of thousands of people, you can only draw a rough ambush circle.

When the enemy enters this area, the troops involved in the ambush launch a centripetal attack on the enemy in the area from various positions until they form a four-sided encirclement to the enemy.

After a pause, Wang Ye said again: "Maybe the battle will be easier."

"That's right." The brigade commander said with a smile, "If the Japanese really gave up heavy equipment, maybe the battle would be easier."

While he was talking, a sudden sound of rapid footsteps sounded outside the door, and then Wei Dayong walked in quickly, and the expression on his face looked a little solemn.

"Commander, leader, political commissar."

Wei Dayong, brigade commander, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang saluted, and finally said to Wang Ye: "Captain, the enemy situation has changed. The Japanese in the three strongholds along Tongpu Road suddenly withdrew from Anhua County."

"What?" The brigade commander, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang changed their faces at the same time.

"Damn it." Li Yunlong cursed, "The Japanese actually gave up Tongpulu? I really didn't expect this."

Zhang Dabiao said in a deep voice: "In this way, the Japanese in Anhua County have an additional infantry corps. Including engineers, baggage and artillery, the total force has exceeded 8,000."

Zhao Gang said: "This means that at that time the Japanese may send an infantry corps, a mountain artillery brigade and a search team to reinforce Ping'an County!"

The atmosphere in the war room became solemn in an instant.

Because this is seriously inconsistent with Wang Ye’s preset parameters.

In Wang Ye's pre-set plan, the maximum number of Japanese soldiers who reinforced Ping'an County from Anhua was 3,000, and the troops were less than one-fifth of the troops they participated in the ambush.

But now, the Japanese reinforcements are likely to exceed 5,000.

In other words, the Japanese reinforcements will exceed one-third of their troops.

Although the forces of their Northwest Shanxi Column still have an absolute advantage, the difficulty of this ambush is completely incomparable.

It is obviously too late to adjust the plan temporarily at this time.

Because all participating troops have entered designated positions.

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Zhang Dabiao and Wang Ye's eyes gathered on the brigade commander at the same time.

Fight? Or not? At this time, you must be the brigade commander to make a decision.

The brigade commander's eyes narrowed, and he smashed hard on the edge of the sand table with a punch, saying in a deep voice: "The plan remains unchanged, fight!"

...

Anhua County, the combat room of the 69th Division of the Japanese Army.

Takaichi Sakamoto looked up at the wall clock, and saw that the hour hand was already pointing to ten o'clock in the evening.

"Dingling!" The phone on the table next to it suddenly rang without warning. Takaichi Sakamoto immediately stepped forward to answer the phone, "Moses Moses, I am the division headquarters."

After a moment, Sakamoto Takaichi gently hung up the phone.

"Sakamoto, whose phone number?" Sadao Inoue asked, "What's the matter?"

"The phone number of Sato's advancement team." Sakamoto Takaichi replied, "They were attacked by the Eighth Route Army special forces near Zhanggezhuang and suffered heavy losses."
To be continued...