Chapter 359 Our Eighth Route Army is fighting against the locust guards!
"Commander, how about you take command of this battle?"
"Shall I help you?"
Li Yunlong looked at the teacher and said.
The division commander asked: "Let me ask you, how many weapons and ammunition have you prepared?"
Li Yunlong replied truthfully: "There are probably more than 2 million bullets, more than 50,000 artillery shells, and more than 60,000 grenades."
In order to severely damage or even kill the Japanese 2nd Division, in addition to the 48 cannons transferred back by Li Yunlong, there were also 36 cannons from the divisional artillery regiment.
These 84 cannons have prepared 2 base numbers of shells, which is more than 16,000 rounds.
In addition to the more than 30,000 rounds of artillery shells prepared by 200 mortars, the total is estimated to be more than 50,000 rounds of artillery shells.
This does not include grenades, rifle grenades and rockets. It would be even more in total.
Although it is not necessary to fire all the artillery shells, it is necessary to be prepared. After all, this is a Japanese division plus a puppet division.
After all, this is an adaptation of the Standing Guards Division, and the Emperor's Guards still respect it.
The 36 cannons of the artillery regiment directly under the headquarters were taken away by the boss and chief of staff to besiege the Japanese 36th Regiment.
"So much ammunition?"
The division commander's gaze suddenly became a little surprised and heated.
After a pause, the division commander waved his hand again: "Forget it, I'm in command but no one will reimburse me for the ammunition, so I won't take your command right away."
Although the division commander also wanted to command such a big battle, he gave up the opportunity to reimburse his weapons and ammunition just to have fun.
It's like picking up sesame seeds and losing the watermelon, it's not worth it.
"Okay then, Commander, just rest here and watch how I beat him up. The Emperor's Guards. Our Eighth Route Army is beating the Emperor's Guards."
Li Yunlong was secretly happy that if the division commander didn't want him to have command power, then he could have free reign.
However, on the surface, he pretended to feel sorry for the teacher and expressed his stance at the same time.
"I won't watch anymore. I'll leave you two regiments in reserve." The division commander said, "I'm going to take the other two regiments to support the head of the headquarters."
Li Yunlong knew that the Japanese 36th Regiment was a tough opponent, so he said: "Commander, please bring the other two regiments with you. I have enough troops and I don't need a reserve team."
At the moment, he has four trump cards: air support, 84 guns with a caliber of 75 mm or above, more than 200 mortars, and the main force of the new regiment.
Coupled with the superiority of troops and sufficient ammunition.
With this configuration, he would not be able to defeat the Japanese 2nd Guards Division, so Li Yunlong might as well go home and comfort his children.
"Okay then." The division commander nodded, patted Li Yunlong on the shoulder, said a few words of encouragement and then turned around and left the Taihang Column headquarters.
After watching the division commander get on his horse and leave, Li Yunlong turned back to the map, pointed at it and said:
"Huzi, give me the order to set up the mortar positions at this location, as well as here and here."
Huang Erhu looked at the map, remembered the location of the mortar positions, turned around and gave the order using a high-power walkie-talkie.
More than half an hour passed.
A mortar unit of more than 200 people climbed up the hill behind Huojiazhuang.
The location of Huojiazhuang is halfway up the mountain, just across from the main intersection entering the Huangyadong Arsenal.
At this time, Huojiazhuang was already empty, and the main force of Ding Wei's first attack group was ambushing on the mountain behind Huojiazhuang.
Ding Wei's headquarters is also located here, and the location here is also excellent. Once the battle starts, he can overlook the entire battlefield.
I watched the artillerymen of the new regiment carry more than 60 mortars to the ridge of the top of the mountain. Behind them, there was a steady stream of logistics personnel carrying ammunition boxes.
When these artillerymen came to the reverse slope of the ridge line, they set up their cannons one after another, aimed at the road down the mountain with their thumbs, and then adjusted their shooting at Zhu Yuan.
Seeing this scene, Ding Wei was shocked. Where did Li Yunlong get so many mortars and artillery shells?
Ding Wei called the artillery company commander to him and asked him: "Where did your commander get so many mortars and artillery shells?"
His 1st Attack Group consists of four infantry regiments. Before the war started, Li Yunlong added 8 mortars to each regiment. Now the average is 10 mortars.
Coupled with these more than 60 mortars, he has more than 100 mortars here alone, a complete mortar group.
"Report to Commander Ding, Director Cheng of the arsenal lent it to our regiment."
The artillery battery commander answered truthfully.
"borrowed…"
Ding Wei showed a look of regret on his face. He thought these mortars belonged to Li Yunlong. After the war, he could ask him for 2 or 30 mortars.
After all, Li Yunlong only had so many artillery pieces in his regiment, so he couldn't use so many mortars unless he had one mortar per man.
Ding Wei's tone became solemn: "Go ahead, the devil will come later and beat him up hard, that son of a bitch."
"Yes!" The artillery company commander straightened up and turned around to direct the artillerymen to set up the artillery.
Ding Wei looked expectant as he looked at the mortars lined up on the reverse slope of the ridge and the mountains of shell boxes.
Good guy, he's so damn rich, enough for a devil to drink from.
Although the 60mm mortar is only a company-platoon-level support weapon, it is extremely powerful when used in large numbers.
Not far from the headquarters, the commanders and fighters of the 1st Attack Group also looked excited.
It was the first time for many soldiers to see so many mortars being used intensively. They were much richer than the Japanese.
Not only Ding Wei's 1st Attack Group, Kong Jie's 2nd Attack Group and Cheng Shifa's 3rd Attack Group also received enhanced firepower of more than 30 mortars each.
However, since the first attack group's position is relatively critical and can take care of the entire battlefield, it has more mortars here.
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"The forward search team reports that it has arrived in the Huojiazhuang area."
"Encountered a small group of troops from the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army laid many mines on the road. The search team is moving forward."
Two hours later, the Japanese 2nd Guards Division Headquarters, Chief of Staff Nakazawa Province, reported to Kunomura Momoyo.
Kunomura Momoyo looked at the map and his expression moved slightly: "Yoshi, the search team is only 3 kilometers away from the outskirts of the Eighth Route Arsenal."
"Yes!" Zhongze said, "Follow the main road to the west, then go over two hills, and you will reach the outskirts of the Eighth Route Arsenal."
Later, Zhongze Province brought another map and said: "Division Commander, this is a map of the Eighth Route Army's Hongyadong Arsenal drawn by the Imperial Army's combat staff based on the oral accounts of Wang Fugui and others. This is Huangyadong.
It is a steep stone wall. According to the aviation survey, the Eighth Route Army's arsenal is located in the cave in the middle of the stone wall."
"Next to Huangya Cave is Shuiyao Mountain, surrounded by mountains on all sides and with a basin in the middle."
"The other side is the line of sky marked on the map. After the 36th Regiment arrives, it will launch an attack on the Eighth Route Arsenal from the direction of the line of sky."
"We attacked from both sides with our 2nd Guards Division and captured the Eighth Route Arsenal in one fell swoop."
"Yoshi!" Momoyo Kunomura narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded:
"Just half an hour ago, Commander Shinozuka sent a telegram. According to the intelligence, the equipment in the Eighth Route Arsenal is still there, and the workers have not escaped yet."
Zhongze Sheng's eyes were fixed and his tone was cold: "Now the Eighth Route Army cannot escape even if they want to."
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The 2nd Guards Division searched for the regiment. After arriving at Huojiazhuang, they turned around and continued to search and attack.
Just now, the search team was attacked by about a battalion of the Eighth Route Army.
The search wing lost three more Type 95 tanks.
This time was different from the past. The Eighth Route Army's attack firepower was very fierce. It was followed by grenade launchers and mortar firepower.
There were also those ferocious anti-tank weapons, which were hit with firepower as soon as they met. If the 3rd Regiment hadn't come up with timely support, the search regiment would probably have very few casualties left.
Jinzhong Wuyi didn't know that this was just an ordinary company of the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
Seeing the Japanese support troops arriving, the company commander refused to fight and directly chose to retreat.
By the time the Japanese opened fire, including infantry artillery, grenade launchers and other firepower, the Eighth Route Army had already disappeared when they rushed up again.
And dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed to the position flew into the sky amid a violent explosion.
The soldiers of the Engineer Company of the New Regiment buried a lot of explosives on the position, and used the smokeless gunpowder explosive bags produced by their own arsenal to match the grenades.
A detonator is wrapped around the explosive package and the grenade, and then detonated with a detonator modified from a telephone. The power is no less than that of a 105-caliber artillery shell.
The 3rd Regiment of the 2nd Guards Division followed behind the search regiment.
The long march stretched out a queue of at least 1 kilometer long.
The captain of the 3rd regiment, Tadao Matsui, pushed open the top cover of the Type 97 tank, stuck his head out, raised his binoculars and looked at the search regiment ahead.
I saw that the search team had stopped and was removing landmines.
Tadao Matsui used a telescope to look at the surrounding terrain. The terrain here was indeed dangerous, with mountains on both sides, and the Japanese army was in the canyon at this time.
However, Tadao Matsui did not think there would be an ambush on the Eighth Route Army.
Because in the past two days, the Japanese army passed through countless such canyons. The Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi are crisscrossed with ravines. There are countless such dangerous terrains.
What's more, the main force of the Eighth Route Army is attacking the 37th Division. Even if there is an ambush, it will only be small-scale and not something to be afraid of.
Suddenly, Tadao Matsui saw a village halfway up the mountain. From the map, it should be Huojiazhuang.
"Go to a small team and burn that village down."
Matsui Tadao pointed at Huojiazhuang and ordered the adjutant on the horse behind the tank.
In the little devil's three-light battle, even if the Eighth Route Army and the people in the village run away, the village will still be burned to the ground.
Following Tadao Matsui's order, a team of dozens of Japanese soldiers rushed toward Huojiazhuang halfway up the mountain with rifles in hand.
Ding Wei, who was at the mountaintop headquarters, tensed up when he saw this scene. If the ambush position was discovered by the Japanese, it would be a big problem. Currently, there is only one regiment of Japanese soldiers entering the ambush circle.
Fortunately, the Japanese stopped advancing halfway up the mountain, sprinkled some gasoline and diesel on each house, and lit them with matches.
A few minutes later, the entire Huojiazhuang was ablaze, with raging fires burning on the roofs of every house and black smoke rising into the sky.
"What a bunch of bastards!"
Ding Wei saw this scene in the headquarters, and his tone was murderous: "If I don't kill you all today, my surname will not be Ding!"
