Li Yunlong held up the telescope and stared at the Yangquan city wall for a few times, then put down the telescope, turned to Zhao Gang and asked:
"Old Zhao, please estimate again, how many Japs are there in Yangquan City?"
Zhao Gang smiled and said, "Are you asking me to do the work of the regiment's political commissar and chief of staff by myself?"
"What's wrong with this?" Li Yunlong said, "Those who are capable should work harder."
Zhao Gang said: "This is boring. Don't think that I don't know. In fact, you have already figured it out in your mind."
"Based on the information we obtained before the battle and the enemies we destroyed."
"There are no more than 300 Japanese and 200 puppet troops in Yangquan City now."
"If we attack now, we should be able to capture Yangquan City quickly."
For the Eighth Route Army, county towns are much more difficult to attack than strongholds. Generally, strongholds only have fortifications such as gun towers and bunkers.
The county town held by the Japanese had strong walls, complete fortifications, ferocious enemy firepower, and sufficient ammunition.
It was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to break through the city wall's defenses.
Moreover, the enemy will also make corresponding combat arrangements based on your ability to attack difficulties.
If the opponent does not have artillery that can blast through the city wall, then focus your troops and firepower on the city wall or the fortifications outside the city wall.
If the enemy has artillery that can blast through the city wall, then focus the defense inside the city and let the enemy in for street fighting.
Li Yunlong said.
"Don't worry, we have plenty of time to play with the devils."
"First let each battalion report casualties and losses and clean the battlefield."
"Let the soldiers eat their dry food and replenish their strength. We will attack the city in another two hours."
Zhao Gang worriedly asked: "Is this too risky? How about attacking the city at night to be safer?"
"After all, once our mountain artillery battalion is drawn out to bombard the city wall, the Japanese planes will definitely come to bomb it."
"The mountain artillery was bombed. We still have the help to kill 5 aircraft, but those artillerymen are precious..."
Li Yunlong said: "That's what war is like. It's impossible to only take advantage without suffering losses. It mainly depends on who suffers greater losses."
"Let's trade one or two mountain cannons for one of his damn planes. I think this deal is a good deal."
"Besides, didn't Brother Chen Feng give us more than a hundred disguise nets?"
"Let's take them all and use them. Can the Japanese pilot find which camouflage net hides the mountain cannon?"
The precision method is mainly used for artillery fire coverage. It is not suitable for precision artillery fire, because the calculated shooting parameters mainly cover a certain area on the map.
If you want to attack the city and knock down the city wall, you can only advance the cannon and shoot directly at the tower, and try to hit the same position to knock down the city wall.
In this way, the attacking troops could enter the city along the collapsed city wall.
Zhao Gang's expression changed: "Don't say it, this is a way."
At that moment, Zhao Gang ordered the communications troops to go to the brigade headquarters to report the number of enemy annihilations and the new regiment's plan to attack Yangquan to the brigade commander.
Now there are only a few hundred enemies in Yangquan, and the new regiment has a mountain artillery battalion with strong attack capabilities. The brigade commander has no reason to disagree with this combat plan.
After a while, the second battalion commander Zheng Yu walked into the regiment headquarters and saluted Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.
"Report to the regimental commander, political commissar, casualties of each battalion and directly affiliated company."
Zhao Gang hurriedly asked: "How many soldiers were killed or injured?"
Zheng Yuhui reported: "Seventy-two soldiers were killed, fifty-two were injured, and... fifty-two soldiers were missing."
No need to guess, both Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang knew that the fifty-two missing soldiers must have been blown up by Japanese aerial bombs.
It was either directly blown up or buried under the earth by shells.
There was nothing we could do about it. The Japanese aerial bombs were too powerful. Fortunately, the new regiment had 40 anti-aircraft guns that could be used for air defense. Otherwise, the number of casualties would have been several times higher.
"One hundred and twenty-four plus fifty-two equals one hundred and seventy-six."
Zhao Gang looked solemn at first, and then his brows widened. He and Li Yunlong both guessed that there would be at least two hundred casualties in these battles.
The soldiers of the new regiment are not inferior to the Japanese in terms of marksmanship accuracy and fighting will, and their firepower is stronger than the Japanese, and they are supported by the artillery fire coverage of the mountain artillery battalion.
Coupled with Li Yunlong's proper tactics, the casualty rate was greatly reduced.
Almost half of these casualties were caused by aerial bombs dropped by Japanese planes.
Zhao Gang asked again: "Are the casualties of the cavalry battalion included?"
"No." Zheng Yu said, "Battle Commander Sun hasn't sent someone to give me the casualty data yet."
Zhao Gang nodded and said: "The casualties at the cavalry camp should not be large, and they are within the acceptable range."
"I have sent someone to notify the militia." The second battalion commander continued, "The militia will come later to carry the wounded off the fire line for treatment."
Li Yunlong nodded, with a hint of satisfaction on his face regarding the Second Battalion Commander's arrangements.
Zheng Yu asked again: "By the way, we also captured more than 400 puppet soldiers, and there were more than 30 captured Japanese soldiers. What should we do with these Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers?"
Zhao Gang thought for a moment and then said: "We don't have time to take care of these prisoners now. Let the Japanese be handed over to the militia and escorted back. The puppet soldiers will be educated and released."
"Don't let the puppet soldiers go yet. I hate traitors the most in my life." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "Let all these puppet soldiers go to the railway to scrape the rails and tell the soldiers in charge of supervision if any puppet soldier dares to escape or
Anyone who cheats or cheats will be shot without asking for permission!"
"Yes!" Zheng Yu walked out.
…
At the same time, Kurosawa Shoji, who was standing on the tower, was holding a telescope to see the situation at Lion Rock.
Standing on the tower, he couldn't see the battle on the reverse slope of Lion Rock, but Kurosawa Shoji could roughly see the battle in the direction of Yanzigou.
The battle in the direction of Yanzigou lasted less than half an hour and ended. After the battle, not a single Japanese soldier returned to Yangquan.
This showed that the two squadrons of soldiers he sent out were completely wiped out.
The expected artillery fire to seize the Eighth Route Army's artillery and counterattack the Lion Rock position has yet to appear.
The highly anticipated aircraft not only failed to inflict heavy damage on the Eighth Route Army, but actually managed to board 5 aircraft, which was like a loss to my grandma’s family.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In this round of games, Kurosawa Masaji felt that the opponent's commander's deployment was impeccable. So far, it seemed that all his four preparations had failed.
And he only has one squadron of capable soldiers left in his hands, and the rest are just puppet troops and ronin waste.
Suddenly, Kurosawa Shoji's pupils shrank slightly, and a terrible thought emerged in his mind. He hurriedly ran down the city wall, then got into a car, which quickly started and drove towards the brigade headquarters.
Rushing into the communications room, Kurosawa Shoji immediately asked the communications staff officer with a dark face:
"Have you not contacted Lieutenant Colonel Ogata yet?"
"Report to the Chief of Staff, we haven't been contacted yet." The Communications Staff hurriedly stood up and paused, "More than half an hour ago, the telegram from the Second Brigade's radio station was only sent halfway and then terminated. The signal was interrupted. Since then, it has completely
The radio signal of the second group was lost."
Kurosawa Shoji then asked: "Nani? The telegram was terminated halfway through? What did Lieutenant Commander Ogata send?"
The communications staff officer handed a telegram to Kurosawa Shoji: "This is the translated telegram."
I saw the telegram saying: Report to the brigade headquarters that our department has discovered the Eighth Route Artillery Position...
The telegram was very short and it ended here. If it were a complete telegram, it would definitely include the location and a request for tactical guidance.
The telegram was only half sent. Either the telegram suddenly broke or something happened.
But obviously, the possibility of the telegraph suddenly breaking down is extremely low.
Kurosawa Shoji said sternly: "Immediately send a message to the headquarters. Our three attack troops were all wiped out in the Eighth Route Army's attack on Lion Mountain. The Eighth Route Army has a high probability of attacking Yangquan. Please ask for tactical guidance."
The communications staff officer was stunned when he heard this. The Eighth Route Army was going to attack Yangquan City? Then wouldn't they have no way to escape?
"Baga, why are you still standing there?"
"Send the telegram immediately!"
"Hi!" The communications staff member paused quickly, quickly drafted a telegram and handed it to the telegraph operator.
…
In Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.
A lot of little red flags were added to the sand table in front of Shinozuka Yoshio.
Each small red flag represents a stronghold captured by the Eighth Route Army on the Zhengtai Railway and Tongpu Railway.
Although the First Army Headquarters has lost contact with these strongholds.
However, starting from the morning, Yoshio Shinozuka ordered planes from Changzhi, Taiyuan and Datong airports to take off and conduct reconnaissance along the railway.
As he expected, these out-of-contact strongholds had indeed been captured by the Eighth Route Army.
Since daytime, the Eighth Route Army has been attacking medium-sized strongholds. It is expected that all these medium-sized strongholds will be captured before noon tomorrow.
Finally, the Eighth Route Army concentrated its forces to attack the large strongholds on the railway. If there was no support, these large strongholds would not last long.
Even in the section from Shouyang to Pingding, the Eighth Route Army has captured all medium-sized strongholds and is attacking large strongholds.
This section is handled by the 386th Brigade. Since the 386th Brigade is equipped with American mountain guns and super bazooka rocket launchers, it has sufficient ammunition and its ability to attack difficult areas is geometrically enhanced.
Yoshio Shinozuka's gaze lowered and moved eastward along the Shota Railway, finally stopping at Yangquan.
I wonder what the fighting situation is like there? The aviation force inflicted heavy losses on Li Yunlong's troops at the cost of five aircraft. I guess Kurosawa Shoji won't let me down, right?
If Kurosawa Shoji eliminates Shinichi and Li Yunlong this time, what if he is given the position of commander of the 4th Brigade?
With this thought in mind, communications staff officer Toshimatsu Kasai hurriedly walked into the operations hall with the telegram in his hand and bowed to Yoshio Shinozuka.
"Your Excellency General, urgent call from the Fourth Brigade!"
Without waiting for Kasai Toshiatsu to read, Yoshio Shinozuka snatched the telegram and glanced at it.
As soon as he saw it, he was stunned and his face gradually turned dark.
"Baga, Kurosawa Shoji is a loser. The aviation force severely damaged the New Regiment, but he still can't take the Lion Rock position?"
"Nani?" Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi said in surprise, "What is this guy Kurosawa Shoji doing? He hasn't taken down the Lion Rock position yet?"
After receiving the telegram from Yoshio Shinozuka, Kusuyama Hideyoshi took one look at it and couldn't help but become furious.
This is more than just a failure of the attack? This is simply the annihilation of the entire army, and Yangquan is even in danger of being captured by a new regiment.
What's going on? Didn't it mean that the aviation force has been reorganized into a new group?
Yoshio Shinozuka raised his head, looked at Toshimatsu Kasai, and said urgently: "Go to the special agent training camp and invite Colonel Yamamoto back!"