Chapter 306: Yoshio Shinozuka, Captain of the Eighth Route Army Transportation Brigade!
"Your Excellency, Commander."
"Flying Team 9 has returned."
In Taiyuan, at the First Army Headquarters, Chief of Staff Hideyoshi Kusuyama reported to Yoshio Shinozuka.
It was already dark by this time, but that doesn't mean the plane couldn't take off after dark.
But after dark, pilots cannot see ground targets, making it difficult to find ground targets for bombing and dive attacks.
"No news yet from the 13th Cavalry Regiment?"
Yoshio Shinozuka asked, a bad feeling suddenly rising in his heart.
"There is no news yet." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said, "But the 13th Cavalry Regiment should have arrived at the position of the military column by this time. It should be engaged in a firefight with the Eighth Route Army. The communication team of the 13th Cavalry Regiment does not have time to set up a radio."
Yoshio Shinozuka asked again: "Which of the infantry troops rushing to the rescue is closest to the Dragon King?"
Kusuyama Hideyoshi said hurriedly: "The nearest is the 1st Mobile Brigade, which is only 6 kilometers away from Longwang Tu. It has already joined the 2nd Mobile Brigade, but was stubbornly blocked by the Eighth Route Army."
"In addition, the 4th Mobile Battalion has arrived at Niangzi Pass, has completed the rendezvous with the Niangzi Pass defenders, and is advancing towards Longwang Tu."
"It's just that the advancement is very slow. In addition to the Eighth Route Army's blocking troops, the Eighth Route Army also deployed a mountain artillery regiment in the east and west attack directions."
Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.
Whether an army has artillery or not makes a huge difference. With the firepower of an artillery regiment and less than the strength of a brigade, it would be very difficult to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line.
At present, if the three divisions in southern Shanxi are not used, only the 14th Brigade, the 18th Brigade and the two regiments of the Guards Division are left.
The division-level artillery firepower was completely suppressed by the Eighth Route Army.
Even if the artillery regiment of the Guards Division is in place, it can barely fight.
However, what gratifies Yoshio Shinozuka is that the Japanese army as a whole still has a great advantage in terms of artillery fire support at the squad and squadron levels.
Light mortars and grenades can still suppress the eight-way firepower.
Kusuyama Hideyoshi continued: "The military train from Yangquan derailed after only a few kilometers, and the soldiers were on foot to rush to rescue."
"Not only Yangquan, but also the railway in the direction of Jingxing and the section from Shouyang to Yangquan were damaged to varying degrees!"
The more Kusuyama Hideyoshi continued to speak, the darker Yoshio Shinozuka's face became.
Yoshio Shinozuka said in a gloomy tone: "It seems that these thugs are really well prepared."
"Order all mobile brigades to go to the rescue on foot, at all costs!"
"Hi!" Kusuyama Hideyoshi paused, and then walked quickly to the communication room next door.
About 10 minutes later, Kusuyama Hideyoshi came back again, his steps hurried and his face extremely ugly.
"Your Excellency, Commander, there is news about the 13th Cavalry Regiment."
As soon as he entered the headquarters war room, Kusuyama Hideyoshi said immediately, his tone urgent.
Seeing Kusuyama Hideyoshi's panicked expression, Shinozuka Yoshio's heart suddenly sank, and he asked in a deep voice: "Did something happen to the 13th Cavalry Regiment?"
"Yes!"
Kusuyama Hideyoshi's face was ugly: "The 13th Cavalry Regiment encountered the Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade 3 kilometers southwest of Longwang Tu. After a fierce battle, the 13th Cavalry Regiment was defeated by the Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade, leaving only more than 00 cavalrymen to flee back to Yangquan!"
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"Eighth Route Cavalry Brigade? This is impossible!"
Yoshio Shinozuka sounded unbelievable. There was no intelligence showing that the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi had a cavalry brigade, not even a cavalry regiment.
The 19th Division only had one cavalry regiment in total, fighting guerrillas against the Japanese army in the southern Hebei Plain.
The Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi only had one or two cavalry battalions at most. Where did the cavalry brigade come from?
"Your Excellency, Commander." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said with a wry smile, "This is probably true. The 8th Mixed Brigade Cavalry Battalion of the Imperial Association Army, the Cavalry Battalion of the Independent Division of the Imperial Association Army, and part of the Kuroshima Cavalry Regiment are all
It fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. It is not surprising that the Eighth Route Army used these horses to form a cavalry brigade."
"The strange thing is that the combat effectiveness of this cavalry brigade of the Eighth Route Army far exceeds the imagination of the imperial army."
"Even the 13th Cavalry Regiment, which has rich combat experience, was defeated."
"Were all these military horses stolen from the Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance Army?" Yoshio Shinozuka's face darkened again.
"Your Excellency, Commander, not only these military horses, but also many 38 rifles, Type 92 heavy machine guns and other weapons and ammunition in the hands of the Eighth Route Army were snatched from the hands of the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said with a bitter smile.
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"Baga!" Yoshio Shinozuka scolded, "Then what is the Imperial Army? The transport team of the Eighth Route Army? Who am I, the commander? The captain of the Eighth Route Transport Brigade?"
At this time, Shinozuka Yoshio was furious and glanced at the sand table in front of him. This sand table was put up with great difficulty and could not be damaged.
His eyes then glanced at a radio communication machine and a telephone placed on the desk. These two are valuable items and cannot be damaged.
Scanning the blue and white porcelain vase in the corner of the war room, Yoshio Shinozuka finally found an outlet to vent his anger. He immediately drew out his command knife and chopped the blue and white porcelain vase, which was as tall as a man, into pieces with one blow.
There was only a crashing sound, and the blue and white porcelain bottle shattered on the floor...
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After dark, the brigade commander also arrived at Longwangtu.
Seeing that the military column was not blown up by Japanese planes, I immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Then a smile appeared on his face. Now the Eighth Route Army had really made a fortune.
1,000 tons of ammunition and supplies, one million kilograms of ammunition and supplies, just like Li Yunlong said, the Eighth Route Army can have a prosperous year now.
At this time, the supplies in the military column had only been moved halfway, and the brigade commander walked towards the military column with a few guards.
Across the distance, Brigadier Laoyuan heard Li Yunlong's loud voice.
"Haha, 7 mm caliber instant-fire artillery shells! One box!"
"70mm caliber artillery shells, 3 rounds in a box!"
"Report to the leader, six Japanese tanks were found at the rear of the train."
"What are you talking about? There are still 6 tanks?" Commander Li's voice rose.
At that moment, Li Yunlong was about to take a look at the captured Japanese tank, but he ran into the brigade commander head-on.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Brigadier!" The moment he saw the brigade commander, Li Yunlong smiled like a chrysanthemum, with a respectful look on his face, and gave him a military salute.
"Li Yunlong, how are the seizures going?" the brigade commander returned the military salute and asked.
"Basically all the ammunition and materials on the military column have been seized." Li Yunlong said, "There are bullets, artillery shells, grenades and hand grenades in large quantities, as well as 60 tons of gasoline and diesel each. By the way, a soldier just reported,
There are also 6 Japanese tanks."
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The load of one carriage is almost more than 60 tons. This train has 16 carriages, and two more carriages are added at the back to hold tanks. However, the Japanese tanks were covered with military green cloth, so no soldiers noticed it at first.
The brigade commander showed an interested look on his face and said, "Let's go and see the tanks!"
At that moment, Li Yunlong accompanied the brigade commander to the rear of the Japanese army column.
The front half of the whole Japanese Army train derailed, and the iron wheels of the rear half were still in the rails, which prevented it from rolling over.
If it rolled over, the Japanese inside would be killed and injured on the spot.
Not long after, Li Yunlong and the brigade commander arrived at the rear of the train. At this time, many people were gathered here, including Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu, Xu Yonghai and others.
Li Yunlong and the brigade commander took a closer look and saw that a total of 6 tanks, a Type 95 light tank and 4 Type 97 medium tanks, were chained to the train.
"Haha, it's really a tank." Li Yunlong was immediately happy, "Brigade commander, now you can form a tank company."
The corners of the brigade commander's mouth were also slightly raised, and he turned to the guard and said, "Go and ask, who in our brigade can drive a tank?"
"Yes, brigade commander!" The guard gave a military salute and walked back.
"Does anyone in your regiment know how to drive a tank?" the brigade commander asked Li Yunlong.
"Brigadier, yes, yes, but..." Li Yunlong hesitated a little.
"But what?" the brigade commander asked, "If you have tank soldiers, please find them for me immediately."
"The Sharp Sword Squadron has learned about it in books, but has never practiced it in practice. Those guys should be able to do it," Li Yunlong said, "but those guys are not here now."
Commander Li was somewhat glad that the guys from the Sword Squadron were not here.
The brigade commander will definitely keep these 6 tanks to form a tank unit, and he will not have any share.
It would be the end if the members of the Sword Squadron were kidnapped by the brigade commander to become tank crews.
The members of the Sharp Sword Squadron are all the treasures of Commander Li Da, and they will not be replaced even by the battalion commander.
Commander Li thought to himself that with the tens of thousands of people in the 386th Brigade, apart from the Sharp Sword Squadron, it should not be difficult to find a few tank soldiers.
At this time, Zhou Chunyu, the commander of the brigade cavalry regiment, came on horseback. When he saw the brigade commander, he turned over and dismounted, and gave a military salute: "Report to the brigade commander, the brigade cavalry regiment, the new first regiment cavalry battalion and the new second regiment cavalry company.
, the cavalry company of the independent regiment fought with the Japanese cavalry regiment on the flank, defeated the Japanese cavalry regiment, annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese cavalry, and captured more than 800 horses. The weapons and ammunition seized have not yet been counted. "
"Huh?" the brigade commander asked hurriedly, "How many casualties did our cavalry have?"
"We have a total of more than 400 casualties," Zhou Chunyu replied, "about 00 people were killed and about 00 people were injured. The specific number of casualties and injuries has not yet been calculated."
"When did the combat effectiveness of the Japanese cavalry become so weak?" The brigade commander was stunned when he heard this. It shouldn't be the case. With almost the same strength, the battle loss ratio between the enemy and us was 1 to 1?
"The main thing is that the sabers in our hands are good." Zhou Chunyu looked at Li Yunlong, "The Yunlong saber provided to us by Captain Li is simply the nemesis of the Japanese 32-type cavalry sword. Coupled with the machine gun firepower and the machine gun firepower of the new regiment's cavalry battalion,
With light machine gun fire, we first swept away the Japs and killed a quarter of them, and then we won a great victory."
In fact, the cavalry battalion of the new regiment and the cavalry regiment of the brigade have only recently been expanded, and half of the cavalry are new cavalry. Otherwise, the number of casualties of the Eighth Route Cavalry would be greatly reduced.
"Haha." Li Yunlong said cheerfully, "Yoshio Shinozuka is quite particular. He even gave us a big gift before dark."
More than 800 military horses, as well as a full set of saddles, rifles, and sabers, were enough for the Eighth Route Army to expand a cavalry regiment.
"Yoshio Shinozuka, captain of the transportation brigade." Zhang Dabiao raised the corner of his mouth, "That's what he does."
"Da Biao, what you said reminded me." Li Yunlong said, "Draw up a telegram to the effect that our Eighth Route Army has received a thousand tons of ammunition and supplies and horses and equipment for a cavalry regiment. Thank you.
Comrade Yoshio Shinozuka, captain of the transportation brigade of the Eighth Route Army, Comrade Yoshio Shinozuka traveled thousands of miles to China to deliver supplies to our Eighth Route Army. What kind of spirit is this? This is the spirit of internationalism. It is sent out in clear code telegrams."
The crowd burst into laughter, and the air was filled with joy.
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao raised the corners of his mouth and straightened his body.
The brigade commander didn't say much. The brigade commander had a humorous personality. Li Yunlong learned this from the brigade commander.