Chapter 142: God, this is to make our old Li rich.
The attack on the Baijin Railway is in full swing.
The new regiment of soldiers, led by Li Yunlong, has crossed the Zhengtai Railway, and all units have reached their designated positions.
At Crouching Mountain, north of Taiyuan, the Lijian detachment completed reconnaissance of the terrain and rushed to join the main force.
In the early morning, in a woods, captain Lu Yingjun reported the detected situation to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, while several battalion commanders listened.
Lu Yingjun said: "Report to the leader and political commissar that the Jinggou Bridge was blown up by us the night before yesterday. In less than half a month, the Japanese will not even think about opening the Tongpu Railway to traffic."
"Well done!" Li Yunlong nodded and asked, "Did you find suitable terrain for an ambush along the highway?"
Li Yunlong did not hesitate to praise the Sharp Sword Squadron. From the surprise attack on Liao County to the bombing of bridges and reconnaissance, the Sharp Sword Squadron completed every mission extremely well.
Never dropped the chain.
Lu Yingjun pointed at the map and said.
"Yesterday we scouted along the road and found two ideal ambush locations."
"One is Hulugou and the other is Crouching Tiger Mountain."
Li Yunlong's expression changed: "Tell me about these two places respectively."
Lu Yingjun said: "Hulugou is a bit similar to Dawanggou where we ambush the Heidao Cavalry Regiment in Qi County last time."
"The road passes through the bottom of the ditch. This section of the road is all gravel washed by the water, and there are gentle slopes on both sides of the road."
"Our ambush troops can form a pincer attack on the Japanese tanks from both sides."
Li Yunlong nodded, condescending and attacking from both sides. This terrain was simply the best place for an ambush.
Lu Yingjun continued: "The only disadvantage here is that there are bare gentle slopes on both sides of the road, so the ambush troops may be discovered in advance by the Japanese reconnaissance planes."
This morning alone, Li Yunlong saw two enemy planes flying north overhead.
Fortunately, the new group of men and horses were already hiding in the woods at that time, otherwise the Japanese would have discovered their whereabouts.
Japanese reconnaissance planes flew everywhere on railways and roads to detect the movements of the Chinese army.
The closer you get to Taiyuan, the more frequently you can see Japanese planes.
"What about Crouching Tiger Mountain?" Li Yunlong asked, pointing his finger on the map.
Lu Yingjun said: "There are trees in Crouching Tiger Mountain, which can provide good concealment, but the road passes halfway up the mountain, and only one side can attack the Japanese from a high position."
Li Yunlong's eyes dropped, staring at the map, his eyes showing deep thought.
There is absolutely no time to reconnoiter the entire road now, so we can only choose one of these two places as an ambush site, and do it as soon as possible.
Because we don’t know when the Japanese tanks will arrive.
The advantages and disadvantages of these two ambush positions are obvious.
Being in a commanding position can form a two-sided attack on the Japanese, but it is difficult to hide.
One place can be hidden, but only one side can attack the Japanese from a high position, and if the Japanese fire bombs into the forest during the battle, it will be a bad thing.
I looked at the map and found that they are relatively close here in Hulugouli, only about five kilometers from the map.
A quick march will take you half an hour.
Li Yunlong asked: "Is there grass on the gentle slopes on both sides of Hulugou? What color is it?"
"There is grass." Lu Yingjun nodded, "Most of them are only half a meter high, and the grass is green."
Li Yunlong raised his head, looked at it, and smiled: "Labor and management have found a solution."
Following Li Yunlong's line of sight, Zhang Dabiao looked above his head and was the first of all to understand Li Yunlong's intention.
Zhang Dabiao raised the corner of his mouth and said: "Commander, do you mean that all our soldiers should wear clothes made of grass, branches and leaves?"
"That's right!" Li Yunlong nodded and said, "We often did this when fighting guerrillas with the National Army in Hubei, Henan, and Anhui. Wearing it is best for cold shots."
Zhao Gang and the other battalion commanders’ eyes lit up, this is a good idea!
Just do it, the battalion commanders and directly affiliated company commanders quickly issued the order, and the soldiers had already finished breakfast.
Climbing trees and mowing grass, the soldiers began to get busy.
The branches and green grass were tied up with thin ropes, and then draped around the body, with a grass ring on the head. Warriors who were not afraid of getting dirty even painted their faces with mud.
If you lie down there, you won't be able to see anyone unless you get closer.
Even the guns, machine guns and rocket launchers held by the soldiers were tied with grass to make them camouflaged.
Putting the mules, horses and cavalry battalions in the woods on standby, Li Yunlong led the rest of the troops to Hulugou.
When you are covered with camouflage grass, you walk slower because if you walk too fast and your body shakes more, the camouflage grass will easily fall apart.
As a result, before he was halfway there, a subtle buzzing sound came from the sky. Li Yunlong stopped and listened carefully for two seconds.
His expression changed slightly, and he shouted loudly: "It's a Japanese plane, stay hidden!"
The soldiers fell down on the roadside one after another, motionless, and ordered and prohibited.
Fortunately, the Japanese pilot didn't notice him and the Japanese plane flew away. Only when the sound of the plane could no longer be heard did Li Yunlong get up from the ground.
He looked at the direction in which the Japanese plane was flying away, snorted coldly, and said to himself, "Don't be so crazy. I'll have to fight you off later."
"Keep going!" Li Yunlong waved his hand.
The soldiers wore camouflage grass and continued to advance.
About half an hour later, Li Yunlong marched to Hulugou with his more than 1,700 people except the cavalry battalion and the logistics department.
As soon as he arrived, Li Yunlong immediately scouted the terrain here. He found that the terrain was much better than he imagined.
Hulugou is actually a gourd-shaped canyon. The bottom of the valley is a road paved with stones, and the gentle slopes on both sides look like a huge gourd.
What's even more rare is that the connection between the two gourds is very narrow, only more than three meters wide. Once the battle starts, the enemy will definitely end up unable to care about each other.
Haha... God is trying to make us, Lao Li, rich.
At that moment, Li Yunlong called together the battalion commander and the company commander directly under the regiment headquarters.
"This is Hulugou."
Li Yunlong pointed to the gentle slopes on both sides and the road in the middle of the canyon, then drew a gourd on the ground with a bayonet, and finally cut it across, cutting the whole gourd in half from top to bottom. This trace represents the road.
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Without any unnecessary nonsense, Li Yunlong pointed to the traces on the ground and began to deploy his troops.
"The first battalion set up an ambush on both sides of the exit of Hulugou. When the Japanese were about to walk out of Hulugou, they would immediately open fire and use rocket launchers to knock out the tanks in the front."
"You can let Monk shoot the first shot. Monk can shoot accurately."
"The second and third battalions set up ambushes on both sides in turn, and the heavy machine gun company guarded the entrance for me to prevent the Japanese behind from escaping."
"The machine gun companies and the rocket launcher soldiers of each battalion are evenly distributed on both sides of Hulugou."
"The first wave of attacks is crucial. The first round of machine gun fire and rockets knocked out at least half of the Japanese tanks."
"We will name the remaining tanks one by one!"
"In addition, the soldiers must pay attention to concealment."
"If any of your soldiers lose their chains, I will skin them!"
Having said this, Li Yunlong stopped.
"Yes!" the battalion commanders responded loudly.
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The actions of the new regiment were concealed from the Japanese reconnaissance planes and passed through the Japanese railway and highway blockades.
But he was discovered by the scouts of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army.
After the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army changed its defense, it happened to occupy a piece of territory in nearby Anhua County.
Chu Yunfei finished breakfast at the regiment headquarters and was about to go to the first battalion to inspect, when Fang Ligong hurried in.
"Regiment, there is a situation." Fang Ligong reported, "The scouts just reported that an unidentified troop is moving along the highway from Taiyuan to XZ."
"This group of enemies is camouflaged with branches and weeds. There are about 2,000 people. I don't know if they are enemies or friends."
"Oh?" Chu Yunfei stood up, walked quickly to the map, and asked, "Where is it?"
"Here, near Hulugou." Fang Ligong pointed at the map.
"Hulugou?" Chu Yun flew to the map and looked at it with his eyes full of thought, "Could it be that the Eighth Route Army wanted to ambush the Japanese transport team here?"
"But the problem is..." Fang Ligong said, "It is an enemy-occupied area. There are only a few guerrilla activities and there is no main force of the Eighth Route Army."
Chu Yunfei's eyes narrowed: "Then you mean, this unit is probably the Japanese army, and its target is our 358th Regiment?"
"It doesn't look like it to me." Fang Ligong wondered, "The Japanese army wants to attack our 358th Regiment, so there's no need to be sneaky."
"And the direction is wrong. Maybe, as Tuan Zuo said, a certain main force of the Eighth Route Army wants to ambush the Japanese transport team here."
"If the Eighth Route Army ambushes the Japanese transport team, we can just use the mantis to catch the cicada, with the oriole behind us, which will just alleviate the problem of the shortage of supplies in our 358th Regiment."
Chu Yunfei chuckled: "Am I, Mr. Chu, the kind of person who takes advantage of others' danger?"
About half an hour later, the scouts came again to report that this unidentified force had set up an ambush in Hulugou.
At that moment, both Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong were sure that this group of troops must be from the Eighth Route Army, and they had received intelligence that they were going to ambush the Japanese transport team in Hulugou.
"Brother Li Gong." Chu Yunfei took off the riding crop from the wall and said with a smile, "Are you interested in going together to see how the Eighth Route Army fought?"
"Tuanzuo, that's an enemy-occupied area." Fang Ligong was shocked, "If it's not necessary, don't take risks easily."
Chu Yunfei said calmly: "I'm not afraid of anyone, so what should I be afraid of?"
"That's alright." Fang Ligong said, "Then I will risk my life to accompany you and go with the group."
Chu Yunfei turned around and said: "Sun Ming, prepare your horse!"
Sun Ming: "Yes!"
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In Hulugou, Li Yunlong lay quietly among the soldiers.
From a distance, the whole place is green, and the camouflage on the soldiers blends perfectly with the surrounding grass.
Lu Yingjun came up from behind and whispered to Li Yunlong: "Captain, Li Changshun just caught someone's tongue. He is a scout of the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army. According to him, our whereabouts have been reported to the 358th Regiment Headquarters.
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"Damn it..." Li Yunlong frowned, "Regiment 358? We are really enemies."
"Send a communications soldier to notify Sun Desheng and ask him to tie up all the horses and then lead the cavalry battalion to put on camouflage grass and move to a position one kilometer behind us to hide."
"Isn't that necessary?" Zhao Gang whispered, "The Jinsui Army is our friendly army and should not stab us in the back."
"What the hell is this friendly army?" Li Yunlong said in a tone that left no room for doubt, "This is the friendly army that labor and management are guarding against."