Although Li Yunlong has already commanded more than one such rich battle.
But this is the first time for Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie.
Sufficient ammunition, crushing artillery firepower, and complete logistical supplies...
What is fucking fun? This is fun!
The three people who had tasted the sweetness were very excited at this time. In one afternoon, each attacking group wiped out at least 3,000 enemies.
Of course, with the current strength of the Eighth Route Army, only one attack column like this can be formed.
If 4 attack columns like this could be formed, the Japanese would come with 4 divisions and eat them all.
It's not that we don't have enough troops, it's mainly that we can't keep up with weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies.
Moreover, currently only Li Yunlong can play like this, hiding all the guns in the rear, and then calling for artillery support at any time to hit wherever he points.
However, this time Li Yunlong led his troops to attack the Japanese 37th Division, although he would suffer even more crazy revenge from the Japanese army next time.
However, this frontal attack will provide the Eighth Route Army with experience in large-scale frontal attacks on the Japanese army and fill the gaps in the Eighth Route Army's large-corps operations.
More importantly, you can kill a lot of Japs and get a large amount of weapons, ammunition and food.
Li Yunlong raised his eyes from the map and glanced at Ding Wei, Kong Jie and Cheng Shifa, and the three of them immediately fell silent.
"Where did this happen?" Li Yunlong glared, "I just killed four to five thousand Japanese. You are all so happy. Those who didn't know thought you had chopped off Hirata Kenkichi's head."
Although more than 8,000 Japanese and puppet troops were wiped out today, in Li Yunlong's eyes, he didn't look down on the puppet troops at all.
Moreover, Chen Feng had no business in killing the puppet troops.
"Commander-in-Chief, how will we fight in the next stage?" Ding Wei asked.
Although they are brothers from the same class, Li Yunlong now has brigade-level treatment.
Li Yunlong's troops are now the most developed, with more than 7,000 troops, well-equipped and extremely powerful.
Moreover, Li Yunlong often sent equipment to Ding Wei and asked him to listen to Li Yunlong's instructions, so he didn't feel uncomfortable.
He actually hoped to have more big battles like this, so that the New Second Regiment could make a fortune, and anyway, they wouldn't always be listening to Li Yunlong's command.
Li Yunlong pointed at the map: "Currently, the Japanese have retreated into the county town. The old Japanese soldier Pingtian has fled to Changzhi. Next, we attack the city."
"We don't have to worry about the Japanese reinforcements. Our brother troops will help with reinforcements. Our only mission is to kill the 37th Division at all costs."
In this combat meeting, Li Yunlong acted extremely authoritarian as always. He didn't like the term military democracy very much.
If you have an idea in the east and an idea in the west, whose opinion do you listen to?
I am the commander-in-chief, so you have to listen to me. He simply canceled the discussion and assigned tasks directly:
"Now I will deploy the combat mission."
"Cheng Shifa's third attack group besieged Xiangyuan County, and Ding Wei's first attack group besieged Licheng County."
"Kong Jie's second attack group bypassed Xiangyuan County and besieged Changzhi together with the new group."
"Since many troops have never fought in the county town and have no experience, I can impart my experience. Each attacking group will set up a regiment around the county town and use artillery to blast open the city wall. The entire attacking force will be divided into four points, southeast, northwest, and attack at the same time."
"Remember, the troops that attack first should not rush in deep. First, they should infiltrate along the city wall in a roundabout way, kill the enemy's defensive forces on the wall, open the city gate, and then attack deep from four directions to pin the enemy in the center.
Finally clean it up."
Cheng Shifa, the commander of the 3rd attack group, put forward a different opinion: "Commander-in-Chief, I suggest that we concentrate our strength on one county by one, and concentrate the main force on attacking the county, and send two to three regiments to each of the other two points to attack, so that the enemy
It is difficult to determine whether to attack the county town..."
Li Yunlong interrupted Cheng Shifa unceremoniously: "Your tactics are too rigid. This time we are outnumbered 4 to 1 by the enemy. The Japanese troops are distributed in three counties. We will use all our troops to attack the three counties at the same time."
, every point in the east, west, north and south of each county is the main direction of attack. The enemy has no choice but to be led by us and turn every point into a key defense point. The enemy has fewer troops and we have more troops. We will definitely take advantage. Just do what I said.
Go and fight. As for how to allocate troops, that is your business. I will not interfere. I only want results."
"Whoever among you takes the county seat first and annihilates the Japanese and puppet troops in the city, I will give him 50 tons of ammunition and 6 mountain cannons."
After saying the last sentence, Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie's eyes lit up at the same time.
"Is this true?" Cheng Shifa asked urgently.
Among the people present, his regiment was the most poorly equipped, with only one infantry cannon and five mortars. Ding Wei and Kong Jie each had an artillery battalion with 12 cannons.
Li Yunlong's artillery battalion even had 48 guns, which was extremely rich.
Cheng Shifa also wanted to set up an artillery battalion. With these 6 mountain cannons and the captures from this battle, an artillery battalion was ready.
"Every spittle brings a nail." Li Yunlong said.
"It's done!" Cheng Shi said, "Commander-in-Chief, I have no objection to your combat deployment and will completely obey your orders."
"Old Ding, Lao Kong, where are you two?" Li Yunlong looked at Ding Wei and Kong Jie.
"no comment."
"I don't have any objection, I'll just fight as you say."
Ding Wei and Kong Jie expressed their stance one after another.
"Okay, do you have any other questions?" Li Yunlong asked.
"How to distribute artillery?" Kong Jie asked.
"By the way, there is also artillery." Li Yunlong said, "The artillery is evenly distributed. Each attack group is equipped with 3 artillery battalions and 1 howitzer battalion."
Li Yunlong's artillery battalion has 48 guns, the new second regiment artillery battalion has 12 guns, the independent regiment artillery battalion has 12 guns, the brigade artillery regiment has 36 guns, and the howitzer regiment directly under the headquarters has 36 guns.
There are 144 guns in total, which is exactly 4 artillery regiments.
In this way, each attack group has 48 guns, and everyone is on the same starting line.
Some people in the province say that Li Yunlong is partial and that a bowl of water will not be balanced.
Although Kong Jie's attack group added a new regiment to attack Changzhi, Changzhi is an important military town after all. There are many Japanese defenders, so the offensive force must be larger.
In fact, the reason why Li Yunlong wanted to fight in three counties together was because he was afraid that old devil Kenkichi Hirata would run away.
After concentrating their troops and firepower to attack Xiangyuan and Licheng, even though they were captured quickly, Hirata Kenkichi would have been scared away long ago.
After all, Hirata Kenkichi is now a frightened bird.
Next, Li Yunlong communicated with the three people about issues such as the time to launch the general attack.
Finally, Li Yunlong said: "There are no sheep attacks or assists in this battle. It's all about the main attack. Get ready to go. The headquarters will follow the 2nd attack group to attack Changzhi. If anything happens, just use the radio to contact us."
The distance between Changzhi and Xiangyuan and Licheng counties is almost 40 kilometers each, which is far beyond the communication range of high-power walkie-talkies.
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"Yes!" Ding Wei, Cheng Shifa and Kong Jie shouted in unison.
After Li Yunlong ordered the telegraph troops to send the battle plan to the headquarters, he then led the headquarters to converge with Kong Jie's second attack group.
Then bypass Xiangyuan County and go south along the main road to Changzhi.
…
"This afternoon, a total of five regiments, the 18th Brigade and the 14th Brigade, completed their raids, joined forces, and are working desperately to assist the 37th Division."
"All the blocking troops engaged in combat with the Japanese reinforcements."
"However, after all, these two brigades are not divisions, and the artillery firepower has been suppressed by us. Our troops have blocked them layer by layer. The Japanese reinforcements have not advanced more than 7 kilometers so far."
At the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the chief of staff is reporting to the boss on the status of the various blocking units.
"Five regiments?" the boss asked, "the mopping up troops of these two brigades, doesn't the intelligence say there are six regiments?"
The chief of staff said: "Among them, a group of Japanese soldiers from the direction of Changhan Road came towards Yixiantian. Judging from the situation, this group of enemies is coming towards our arsenal."
The boss was suddenly shocked. Now that the arsenal has added 60mm mortars and smokeless gunpowder production lines, the arsenal must not make any mistakes.
The chief of staff added: "I have sent a special agent group to defend the Huangyadong Arsenal. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is difficult for the Japanese to attack it with the strength of a regiment."
The boss went out in the afternoon and came back in the evening, so he didn't know about it, but the chief of staff had made arrangements.
The boss nodded and asked: "Is there any movement in the 2nd Guards Division?"
The chief of staff said: "Currently, the 2nd Guards Division is only conducting normal sweeps, and has no intention of rushing south to assist the 37th Division."
"Order the frontline troops to pay close attention to the movements of the 2nd Guards Division." The boss said, "Report immediately as soon as there is any situation."
The combat effectiveness of the 2nd Guards Division is much stronger than that of the 14th and 18th Brigades. Once the 2nd Division also gives up its sweep and rushes south to aid the Hirata Division, the situation will not be good.
"Yes." The chief of staff nodded, "Currently, Li Yunlong has not yet begun to attack the city, but the enemy's 14th Brigade and 18th Brigade have already begun rushing to rescue him. This shows that Yoshio Shinozuka has guessed that Li Yunlong's combat intention is to eat him.
The 37th Division."
"Yoshio Shinozuka responded very quickly this time." The boss also smiled.
"Report, telegram." A telegraph operator came in, saluted and handed the telegram to the chief of staff.
The chief of staff picked it up and put it under the oil lamp to look at it. He was immediately happy: "Li Yunlong's telegram, he is preparing to attack Xiangyuan, Licheng and Changzhi at the same time. There is no sheep attack, assists, all are main attacks."
The boss narrowed his eyes: "This guy's tactics are a bit interesting."
…
Li Yunlong led the second attack group and marched in a hurry in the middle of the night.
Going all the way south, we finally arrived at Changzhi before dawn, and five infantry regiments and more than 10,000 troops surrounded the city of Changzhi.
The leading force, the 1st Battalion of the New Regiment, has captured Wangcun Airport outside Changzhi City.
However, Li Yunlong did not immediately order the troops to attack. On the one hand, he waited for the artillery troops to arrive, and on the other hand, he let the soldiers rest first.
After an afternoon of fighting and a forced march of more than 60 kilometers, the soldiers were already a little tired.
Li Yunlong also squinted for a while, lay down and fell asleep.
He had a dream, in which he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to fight.
He not only has infantry under his command, but also powerful aviation and navy.
The sea is covered with his warships, the sky is filled with airplanes, and the tanks are as densely packed as locusts. A single salvo of firepower from thousands of large-caliber heavy artillery pieces can cause destruction to the enemy's deep positions.