Half an hour later, Yamamoto Kazuki, who carried the rank of Daizuo on his shoulders and a saber, walked into the combat hall.
He walked up to Yoshio Shinozuka, put his feet together, and heard a crisp snap.
He paused and said, "Your Majesty General, are you looking for me?"
"Yoshi." Yoshio Shinozuka nodded and said, "Yamamoto-kun, you are here."
After a pause, Yoshio Shinozuka continued: "I'll make a long story short. Li Yunlong led his troops to Lion Rock in Yangquan. The troops from the Fourth Brigade headquarters attacked Lion Rock twice and returned with disastrous defeats. Even the commander of the Tsuda Mibu Brigade was shattered.
Now, Li Yunlong is about to attack Yangquan, can your special team behead Li Yunlong?"
After the outbreak of the war, Kazuki Yamamoto handed over the command of the First Army's intelligence system and the Special High School Course to the intelligence staff officer Takeo Anten.
"Your Majesty General, with all due respect, you are acting out of impulse!" Yamamoto's voice did not fluctuate at all.
"Li Yunlong is indeed on the secret service's must-kill list."
"The special agent team will behead him only if they have accurate information and a 90% success rate."
"Although we now know Li Yunlong's exact whereabouts, he is surrounded by a regiment of troops, and this regiment is well-equipped and has powerful firepower..."
"Yamamoto-kun, I don't need your explanation." Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand, interrupted Yamamoto, and said, "If your special agent team puts on the uniforms and equipment of the Eighth Route Army and parachutes near Yangquan, you have a 10% chance of being able to
Kill Li Yunlong?"
"Only 20%!" Kazuki Yamamoto paused.
"20% certainty? So low?" Yoshio Shinozuka frowned. This success rate was far beyond his expectation.
"Hi!" Yamamoto Kazuki said, "According to reliable intelligence, Li Yunlong has a special force that he has carefully trained around him. This special force has performed outstandingly in battles in Qi County and Liao County."
During his time in charge of the First Army's intelligence system, Yamamoto had indeed mastered a lot of information about the New Regiment.
"A 20% certainty is already high for a humble position, but in reality it's only about a 10% certainty."
"Even if the special agent team is lucky and finds and successfully kills Li Yunlong, there is a 90% chance that the special agent team will be wiped out in the Eighth Route Army siege."
"The special agent team should be regarded as a strategic-level force. In the words of a Shanxi businessman, replacing Li Yunlong with the special agent team is a loss-making deal."
"What's more, the probability of replacing Li Yunlong is extremely low."
"It's just that, since His Majesty the General has given such an order, our special team must carry out it ourselves."
When Yoshio Shinozuka heard this, his brows furrowed and his eyes showed contemplation. Kusuyama Hideyoshi and other officers did not dare to disturb him.
No matter how you look at it, as Yamamoto Kazuki said, exchanging the secret service team for Li Yunlong's head is a loss-making deal.
Yoshio Shinozuka was reluctant to cut off the head of a mere Eighth Route Army regiment commander and ruin a strategic-level unit.
"At present, Zhengtai Road and Tongpu Road are being severely damaged and attacked by the Eighth Route Army."
"Li Yunlong's troops are also preparing to attack Yangquan City. Yangquan City's defense force is empty. Yamamoto-kun, do you have any good suggestions?"
Yoshio Shinozuka no longer mentioned the matter of beheading Li Yunlong. The old Japanese was already at the end of his rope.
Although Kazuki Yamamoto is good at special operations, his way of thinking about problems is often different from that of regular officers, and he has unique insights into war.
Yamamoto had predicted that the Eighth Route Army would launch this battle a few months ago, but Yoshio Shinozuka didn't take it to heart at the time, thinking that it was just Yamamoto's lie.
But it's obviously too late to regret now.
However, even if Yoshio Shinozuka takes it to heart, it is useless. This is the policy of North China Front Commander Tada Shun, and he can only execute the order.
The troops were too dispersed and the Eighth Route Army was not taken seriously, which gave the Eighth Route Army an opportunity to take advantage of.
But when the battlefield developed into the current situation, Yamamoto Kazuki was at his wits end and couldn't think of any good comeback plan.
…
In Yangquan, Lion Mountain New Regiment Headquarters.
The battalion commanders and direct company commanders were called to the regiment headquarters for a meeting by the communications corps.
"This is Yangquan City."
Summoning several battalion commanders, Li Yunlong pointed to the east city wall, and then drew a square on the ground to represent the city.
Without being verbose, Li Yunlong pointed to the traces on the ground and began to describe the deployment of the troops:
"Our troops are relatively weak this time, so we won't resort to attacking from all four directions."
"Let's do something new with the Japanese."
"The first battalion is responsible for the main attack, attacking the west gate of the city wall. The mountain cannon battalion is responsible for knocking open the Japanese city wall with mountain cannons, and the machine guns are responsible for protecting the mountain cannons."
"Once our mountain artillery battalion knocks on the city wall, the first battalion immediately attacks the city, separates two companies to attack along the city wall, and cooperates inside and outside to break down the north and south gates."
"The other company and the Sharp Sword Squadron followed the route map and went straight to the Japanese arms warehouse and grain depot, and occupied these two places first."
"As for which two companies will provide assists and which company will continue to attack, Zhang Dabiao can make your own arrangements."
"Have you both memorized the locations of the arms warehouse and grain depot that the puppet army told them?"
Li Yunlong's eyes swept across the faces of Zhang Dabiao and Lu Yingjun.
The two of them nodded in unison and said, "Remember!"
The reason for this arrangement was that Li Yunlong was mainly afraid that the Japanese would blow up the arms warehouse and burn down the grain depot before they died, which would make all his work in vain.
Li Yunlong nodded and continued: "The second battalion is responsible for attacking the north city wall, and the third battalion is responsible for attacking the south city wall."
"Remember, you two battalions are here to assist. Don't fight the Japanese as soon as you get up just to grab the lead."
"After the first battalion enters the city, you two battalions will launch a general attack and work with the first battalion to capture the city wall."
Having said this, Li Yunlong looked at the cavalry battalion commander Sun Desheng.
"As for the cavalry battalion, move outside the east gate and wait for the Japs. Don't expose your cavalry battalion. If the Japs escape from the east gate, Sun Desheng, do you know what to do?"
As he spoke, Li Yunlong pointed outside the east city gate of Yangquan.
Sun Desheng's expression flashed sternly, and he expressed his stance: "If a Japs escape from the east gate, Commander, you will tear off my head and use it as a chamber pot."
"What I want is your head." Li Yunlong said, "As for your head, it's better to keep it. I don't need a chamber pot as big as yours."
Ha ha ha ha--
When all the battalion commanders and company commanders heard this, they couldn't help but laugh together. Even Zhao Gang, who looked serious in speech, couldn't help but smile.
Revolutionary optimism is an old tradition from the Red Army to the Eighth Route Army.
There is no harm in making some jokes and it can liven up the atmosphere.
With a smile on his face, Zhao Gang couldn't help but nod slightly. Li Yunlong's battle deployment was exactly the strategy of surrounding three formations in "The Art of War".
It means to emphasize the need to leave a gap when encircling the enemy. In this case, if the enemy is surrounded on all sides, it may prompt the enemy commander to make up his mind to fight to the death.
On the contrary, if a gap is deliberately left, it may cause the enemy commander to waver between fleeing or fighting to the death, and at the same time, it will also cause the enemy soldiers to lose their fighting spirit.
More importantly, leaving a gap does not mean leaving it alone, but setting up an ambush at the place where the enemy must pass to escape, so that the enemy will fall into an ambush during the hasty escape.
However, Li Yunlong has never read Sun Tzu's Art of War, and has not even fought in a decent city a few times, but he can understand the art of war by himself without a teacher.
The attack on the county seat of Qi County a few months ago was different from this time. Last time it was a surprise attack, but this time it was a frontal attack.
Although Zhao Gang had read a lot of military books, if the two of them each led an army to face each other on the battlefield, he would be killed by Li Yunlong.
In the original drama, Chu Yunfei once made this evaluation of Li Yunlong: Li Yunlong has a smart mind. If he has the opportunity to receive education, he will be a great person in the future!
Chu Yunfei, who has always been aloof and arrogant, only paid attention to Yan Laoxi and Principal Chang. Even he had such a high evaluation of Li Yunlong, which shows that Li Yunlong's tactical command ability is indeed outstanding.
Back to business.
As Li Yunlong's battle deployment was completed.
"Yes!" All the battalion and company commanders responded in unison.
"There is still about half an hour left in total. All ministries should seize the time to prepare for war and prepare weapons, ammunition and siege ladders."
Looking at the pocket watch in his hand, Li Yunlong added.
…
Half an hour passed quickly, and the Japanese plane did not come again.
However, even the arrival of Japanese planes could not stop the new group from attacking the city.
More than a hundred camouflage nets are placed on the ground of Lion Rock and Yangquan West City Wall.
These camouflage nets were spread widely, and 12 mountain guns and 37 machine guns were scattered and hidden under the camouflage nets.
Unless a Japanese pilot has a sharp eye, he will never be able to detect a mountain cannon hidden under any camouflage net.
As a signal flare takes off, a new group's general attack begins!
The artillery had already aimed the muzzle at the city wall in advance and adjusted the shooting points of the mountain cannon. When it saw the signal flare, the artillery immediately pulled the match rope.
The next second, more than a dozen artillery shells with a long screaming sound passed over the attacking battalion in front and landed overwhelmingly on the wall of the west gate of Yangquan City and the defenses outside the city.
Within a few minutes, all the fortifications such as bunkers and gun towers outside the city were destroyed.
Large areas of the city wall were also shrouded in smoke.
When the artillery bombardment first started, Zhao Gang was still a little worried, worried that Japanese planes would come to bomb the artillery positions.
What Li Yunlong was thinking about was hoping that Japanese planes would bomb the artillery positions.
However, after more than ten minutes, not even a Japanese plane appeared in the sky.
In fact, it was not that the Japanese planes did not come, but that at this time, the captain of the 9th Flying Squadron of the First Army, Kato Ryuichizuo, was arrested by the Military Police for allegedly lying about military information.
However, with so many camouflage nets on the ground, even if the remaining Japanese planes arrived, they would not be able to catch them.
At this time, under the continuous bombardment of armor-piercing shells and grenades fired by 12 mountain guns, the Yangquan city wall was finally blasted with two gaps.
"Comrades!"
"Check the equipment and prepare to attack!"
First company commander Xu Yonghai took the MP40 submachine gun from the guard and shouted.
The first battalion and the first company are the sharp knife company of the new regiment, also called the assault company. It is also the company with the best equipment besides the sharp sword squadron.
The more than 100 soldiers in the company behind him checked the weapons and ammunition in their hands.
Soldiers from each battalion and platoon behind the assault company also began to inspect more than a dozen ladders. These ladders had been prepared long ago and were brought from the base area.
Because even if the mountain cannon can knock down the city wall and create a gap in the city wall, the piles of rubble and bricks will still be piled in the gap.
It is difficult to climb up by people, so you need the help of a ladder.
Xu Yonghai pulled the bolt of his gun, opened the safety, and took the lead in escaping from the starting position of the attack. More than 100 assault company soldiers followed suit.