Headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese North China Front.
The Yamazaki detachment occupied Guanjianao and stood there waiting for reinforcements, but the news came that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was besieging them.
The First Army Staff Office quickly made a sand table with the Guanjianao Highlands as the center.
The mini flags of the rising sun, representing the Japanese support troops, moved towards Guanjianao from four different directions.
Kusuyama Hideyoshi held a bamboo pole in his hand, pointed confidently at the Guanjianao Highlands on the sand table, and introduced to Yoshio Shinozuka:
"According to the telegram sent back by Yamazaki Nakazuo."
"Guanjianao Highland is a flat circular platform, surrounded by the ridges of the hillside platform."
"According to convention, the defensive side's fortifications should be built on the ridgeline, so that they can have a clear view of the attacking side's movements, and they can also use their firepower advantage from a high position."
"However, Yamazaki Zhongzuo did not follow common sense. He built all the fortifications on the platform, making the direct firepower of the eight-way attack force useless."
"Within two hours, the Yamazaki detachment has repelled three attacks from the Eighth Route Army, causing no less than 300 casualties."
"According to the current situation, it will not be a problem for the Yamazaki detachment to hold on for one day in Guanjianao."
Kusuyama Hideyoshi's tone was confident.
"The 3rd Flying Group has taken off from Changzhi Airport and headed to the bandit area in southeastern Shanxi in batches to reinforce and cover the Yamazaki detachment and various reinforcements."
This 3rd Flying Group was temporarily transferred to the First Army by Shun Tada.
However, the two airports in Taiyuan have not been repaired yet, so I took off and landed at Changzhi Airport.
In order to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the southeastern Shanxi base area, Jun Tada spent a lot of money this time.
Yoshio Shinozuka asked: "How many eight roads are there around Guanjianao?"
"Conservative estimate, at least 10,000 people." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said, "Judging from the Eighth Route Army's clothing, they have a very tenacious will to fight. It can be seen that all of them are the main force of the Eighth Route Army."
"This time, the main forces of the Eighth Route Army don't want to fight the imperial army, so they can't help it!"
"Yo Xi!" Yoshio Shinozuka said happily, "order the reinforcements from all walks of life to speed up!"
Kusuyama Hideyoshi: "Hi!"
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Before the direct company commanders of each battalion arrived at the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong dialed the brigade commander's phone number again.
"The brigade commander is me, Li Yunlong."
"Go to Guanjianao Highlands. I have a request."
Li Yunlong said on the phone.
The brigade commander said angrily: "Why do you have so many things going on? Tell me quickly."
"The artillery regiment under the division and the artillery regiment under the brigade are temporarily under my command. I will reimburse the shells fired and the artillery lost during the battle."
"That's all I ask for."
"If we can't take the Guanjianao Highlands, I don't have to hold my head up to see you, because at that time I was already lying on the Guanjianao Highlands."
"I assure you, brigade commander, that among the more than 3,000 people in our new regiment, no one will leave the battle alive."
The brigade commander's tone was decisive: "I agree with your request. You will command the brigade artillery regiment, and I will help you borrow the division artillery regiment."
"But I also have two requests. I want you to take the Guanjianao Highlands, and I want you to come back alive. This is an order, and you must execute it!"
"Yes, I will execute the order!" Li Yunlong hung up the phone after saying that.
Within a few minutes, the brigade commander called Li Yunlong and told him to borrow the divisional artillery regiment for him.
Now Li Yunlong is full of confidence.
When the first stage of the Hundred Regiments War was settled, Chen Feng had already reached an agreement with him.
Within three months, the new regiment received 5 tons of medicine and 30 large-caliber heavy machine guns for every 500 Japanese soldiers they killed.
As for the reimbursement of weapons and ammunition, it has been agreed long ago that all weapons and ammunition consumed by the new regiment in future battles will be reimbursed.
That's why Li Yunlong had the confidence to ask the brigade commander to borrow the division commander's artillery regiment.
There are three sets of combat plans in Li Yunlong's mind.
The first set of combat plan was to call Chen Feng for a bomber group to blow up Guanjianao, so that the Yamazaki detachment would be directly destroyed.
This is the simplest and crudest method, and its advantage is that it is fast, accurate and ruthless.
However, when fighting the Japanese 225th Regiment, Li Yunlong was not willing to use this opportunity. When fighting the Yamazaki Detachment with more than 1,000 people, Li Yunlong was even more reluctant to use it.
The second set of combat plans was to use earth excavation to dig the trench 30 meters away from the Japanese position and throw grenades into the Japanese circular trench.
But throwing a grenade can only blow up to the enemy's forward circular position at most, and cannot blow up most of the enemy.
At this time, if they rush forward and fight the Japanese in hand-to-hand combat, the new regiment will conservatively estimate to suffer more than 600 casualties.
Killing 1,000 enemies and causing 600 casualties. With the equipment of the new regiment, Li Yunlong would not fight such a battle.
Then there is the third set of combat plans:
On the basis of the second set of combat plans, before the general attack, grenades and artillery were gathered to clear the Guanjianao position with artillery fire, in an effort to kill the Japanese to the greatest extent possible.
Time was urgent. After the direct company commanders of each battalion arrived at the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong quickly issued combat orders.
The entire regiment immediately started preparing for the war, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.
Two grooms in the groom's class had a quarrel. They were fighting for a guillotine, and they clamored to find Li Yunlong for comment, but Li Yunlong slapped his head and covered his face and scolded him.
Li Yunlong held a sharply sharpened ghost-head knife and a shell gun with its nose opened in the holster, and said to Zhao Gang: "I will lead the commando team up first, and you will be in charge of the rear. We will kill them all and then you will make up for them."
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Zhao Gang was loading bullets into the Barrett sniper rifle. When he heard this scene, he raised the corner of his mouth and said: "How dare you? The regiment commander should stay in the command position, not the commando. I will call the brigade commander immediately and ask for
If I don’t disqualify you from participating in the exhibition, I won’t trust Zhao.”
"Don't, don't, don't, it's not interesting."
Li Yunlong immediately softened.
After a pause, Zhao Gang continued: "I have visited the terrain of Guanjianao. There is a hilltop called Fengnaoding about 350 meters away. This hilltop is still in our hands. I will collect the entire group's terrain later.
The snipers gathered together and built a sniper position on Fengnaoding. When the frontal attack was launched, the snipers immediately killed the Japanese machine gunners and artillerymen."
Li Yunlong is preparing to rebel against the entire army, so the political commissar should stay in the command position, not the sniper position.
But then I thought about how political commissar Zhao would not be with me later. Who would dare to stop me from chopping the Japanese's head with a knife?
Li Yunlong's eyes were thoughtful and he looked happy: "Old Zhao, you have reminded me that our snipers can eliminate the enemy's firepower points, so there is no need for earthwork at all."
Li Yunlong really forgot about this incident. There are more than 100 snipers in the new regiment. If there are snipers, they can suppress the Japanese machine gun fire.
Moreover, these more than 100 snipers are almost all equipped with semi-automatic sniper rifles.
Then there is no need to do so complicated soil work.
After all, Li Yunlong ordered the digging of trenches because he wanted to shorten the distance from the attack position to the Japanese's circular forward position.
Because once the charge starts from a few hundred meters away, the light and heavy machine gun firepower of the Japanese at the forward position will be able to fire unscrupulously from a high position.
Even if artillery fire is used to clear the Guanjianao Highlands, all the Japs will not be eliminated. Without earthworks, the attacking troops will still be exposed to the Japs' machine gun fire.
But if there are snipers to eliminate the Japanese machine gunners, then there will be no problem.
"That's true." Zhao Gang said, "Anyway, our mission is to end the battle before dark. It depends on how you choose to fight."
"We will not do any ground work to save time and end the battle as soon as possible." Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Old Zhao, you are the best sniper in our regiment. You will lead the team and build a sniper position on Fengnaodong.
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"Don't worry," Zhao Gang said, "We will definitely provide timely fire support to the main frontal attack force."
The corners of Li Yunlong's lips curled up: "Haha, with you, Old Zhao, personally taking action, then we, Old Li, can rest assured."
Zhao Gang warned: "When I'm not with you, you can't act recklessly, and you definitely can't participate in hand-to-hand combat."
Li Yunlong patted his chest and said, "I will definitely stay in the command position and never participate in hand-to-hand combat. Besides, there is a brigade commander watching from behind. How dare I do that?"
Zhao Gang then turned around with relief and ordered the entire regiment of snipers to assemble immediately.
After the preparations were completed, Li Yunlong led the entire group to Guanjianao Highlands.
One kilometer away, the guard company of the new regiment quickly set up a temporary headquarters.
It's secluded enough here and has a great view.
Stepping on the ladder of the headquarters, Li Yunlong had a panoramic view of the situation in front of the Guanjianao Highlands.
There were many corpses lying in front of the Guanjianao Highlands, some belonging to the Eighth Route Army and some belonging to the Japanese. The shell craters were densely covered, which showed how fierce the battle was.
In addition to the Japanese's circular position on the Guanjianao Highlands, there were also many cave dwellings, and the Japanese relied on the cave dwellings to build fortifications.
"Old Li, Old Li..."
"Old Li!"
Li Yunlong heard a familiar voice in his ears. He walked down the ladder and looked towards the door. It was Ding Wei and Kong Jie who came hand in hand.
"Lao Kong, Lao Ding?"
"Why are you here?"
Li Yunlong's expression was a little surprised.
Kong Jie smiled and said: "Old Ding and I heard that you need artillery support, so we came here."
"Although Lao Kong and I don't have many cannons," Ding Wei said, "but we can barely get together an artillery battalion, so don't dislike it."
Li Yunlong went to the door and saw that Ding Wei and Kong Jie had indeed brought their artillery batteries.
"It's not too late for our old Li to be happy."
"Disgusted, how is that possible?"
"I really need artillery support here. If you want to thank me, I, Lao Li, won't say anything. I'll treat you two to a drink after this battle is over."
"And don't worry, you two, we, Lao Li, will reimburse you for all the artillery damaged and the shells consumed during the battle."
Li Yunlong was really touched. He didn't expect that Ding Wei and Kong Jie would take the initiative to support their lifeblood artillery company at this time.
After all, there are Japanese planes in the sky, and maybe a few aerial bombs will drop and their artillery battery will be wiped out.
Kong Jie said: "With your words, we can rest assured."
"Yes!" Ding Wei said, "Then we won't disturb your command."
"Brothers, let's go slowly."
Li Yunlong sent Ding Wei and Kong Jie away, arranged their artillery batteries in artillery positions, and then turned back to the headquarters.
He silently calculated in his mind that the division artillery regiment plus the brigade artillery regiment constituted an artillery brigade.
The new regiment has more than 40 mortars and 20 mountain guns, plus the artillery battalion brought together by Ding Wei and Kong Jie, it can also be regarded as an artillery brigade.
Hey, two artillery brigades are enough for that guy Yamazaki to drink a big pot.