Soon, the Eighth Route Army's "Xinhua Daily" published the headline that the Eighth Route Army, led by Li Yunlong, captured Taiyuan and killed the commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka.
Major figures published their comments in Xinhua Daily.
Commander-in-Chief: "The Taiyuan Battle is a great battle with national strategic significance. It strengthened the compatriots' confidence in victory, promoted national unity, and made it difficult for the enemy to realize his conspiracy of threats and inducements."
Deputy Commander-in-Chief: "This battle greatly enhanced the people of North China's confidence in victory in the fight against Japan behind enemy lines. It dealt a big blow to the Japanese invaders' policy of inducing surrender and the Munich conspiracy in the East. It gave great excitement to the people across the country. This battle also gave people a chance to surrender.
Another attack was sent, which enhanced the prestige of the Eighth Route Army!"
Chief Wei Lihuang sent a congratulatory message: "The stubborn enemy has been increasing his troops one after another in an attempt to occupy Zhongtiao Mountain and march into Shaanxi. My brother and others have mobilized powerful troops to attack the enemy head-on and crush their conspiracy. It is deeply comforting that your troops have launched the Taiyuan Campaign.
Not only to deal a fatal blow to the enemy, but also to provide spiritual encouragement to the friendly forces."
YA: "The Battle of Taiyuan is the battle with the most fruitful results for our army in the War of Resistance Against Japan."
When they first heard the good news, many people couldn't believe it.
Because since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, there has never been such a great result, and there has never been a case of recovering a provincial capital.
However, as people from all walks of life and various media and newspapers issued congratulations to the Eighth Route Army, ordinary people rushed to tell each other and cried with joy.
In Shuangqing City in the rear area, progressive youths even organized a parade to celebrate the Eighth Route Army's great victory.
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"Lao Li, Lao Li."
In Taiyuan, Zhao Gang excitedly held a stack of telegrams and found Li Yunlong who was eating noodles in a restaurant.
Although Taiyuan has just been baptized by the flames of war, it has not hindered Shanxi people from doing business at all.
In the words of the noodle shop owner, he fights his battles and I handle my business.
However, this store had better luck, and the noodle shop was not bombed during the street fighting.
"Old Zhao, you came just in time. Can we sit down and have something to eat together?"
Li Yunlong saw Zhao Gang walking in and said.
Zhao Gang sat down and looked at Li Yunlong opposite, eating a mouthful of noodles with soybean paste and a mouthful of garlic. He ate it very deliciously.
This guy didn't sleep for three days and two nights. There was no trace of fatigue on his face, but he was full of energy.
"I just ate some solid food."
Zhao Gang pushed the telegram in front of Li Yunlong and said excitedly: "This is what the headquarters forwarded to us. They are all commendation telegrams sent by Chairman of the Standing Committee, Chief Yan, as well as other war zone commanders and people from all walks of life.
A congratulatory message."
Li Yunlong took the telegram and looked through it, and said in a disdainful tone: "Lao Chang and Yan Laoxi are really deducted. They are just commended, and they might as well be given machine guns."
Zhao Gang smiled broadly: "That's right, you, Mr. Li, don't care about these awards. You don't even bother to wear big red flowers when you receive awards from your superiors. That means you are only interested if there are real benefits."
Li Yunlong asked: "Headquarters just sent these telegrams? Didn't they say how the arsenal would deal with them?"
Before that, Li Yunlong had already visited the Taiyuan Arsenal. Today, the Taiyuan Arsenal is mainly a bullet factory and a steel factory, and there are also a few production lines for making guns, cannons and grenades.
A lot of equipment and raw materials were transported away by the little devils.
But even so, the steel factory and bullet factory are still good things for the Eighth Route Army.
With these two things, you can make steel and produce bullets yourself.
In addition, there are tens of thousands of tons of raw materials for making weapons and ammunition.
Zhao Gang looked solemn, took out a telegram and said: "Headquarters ordered us to transport the arsenal and raw materials by train along the Baijin Railway back to the base area in southeastern Shanxi."
Li Yunlong finished eating the noodles, wiped his mouth with his hand, and nodded, without much surprise in his expression.
This batch of equipment and raw materials was either transported to northwestern Shanxi or southeastern Shanxi, and both were transported by train.
Nowadays, northwestern Shanxi is very poor and has nothing to offer. It obviously does not have the conditions to build an arsenal. However, southeastern Shanxi already has several arsenal branches and has also trained a group of skilled workers.
At the moment, it is the most appropriate choice to transport this batch of arsenal equipment and raw materials to southeastern Shanxi.
Moreover, at the beginning of the battle, the troops captured the Taiyuan Railway Station outside the south of the city and captured several trains.
Regardless of transportation speed or transportation capacity, transportation by train is much higher than that of human and animal power.
Then, Li Yunlong said: "Old Zhao, please ask Chief of Staff Wang to send another telegram to the headquarters. This time we shot down 110 Japanese aircraft, obtained 330 75mm mountain guns, 110 105mm howitzers, and captured Taiyuan to gain business.
How to distribute the 2,000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 2,000 tons of grain?”
In this ground-to-air battle, a total of 110 Japanese aircraft were shot down, which cast a shadow on the Japanese aviation force.
For two days, no Japanese fighter jets or bombers dared to come to Taiyuan, and only one or two reconnaissance planes occasionally flew over at high altitude.
Of course, what is more important is the generous assistance received from shooting down so many aircraft this time: 330 75mm mountain guns, 110 105mm howitzers, 550 radios and 1,100 tons of food.
These cannons can be organized into almost 10 mountain artillery regiments and 3 howitzer regiments.
Absolutely rich and fluid.
With so many cannons, Li Yunlong would definitely not be able to eat them, and even the headquarters might not be able to eat them.
After arranging the transportation of the arsenal's equipment and raw materials back to the base area in southeastern Shanxi, Li Yunlong will not return to southeastern Shanxi, but will lead his troops to northwest Shanxi.
You need to ask for instructions in advance.
Zhao Gang asked: "Didn't you promise to give Cheng Shifa, Ding Wei and Kong Jie some mountain cannons?"
"That's right." Li Yunlong said, "The 23 mountain cannons for Lao Kong, the 31 mountain cannons for Lao Ding, and the 18 mountain cannons for Lao Cheng must be explained to the head of the headquarters in the telegram. Also, about Shinozuka
The lieutenant general of the adopted man is commanding the saber. I am going to send it to the chief of staff. You should also mention it in the telegram."
Li Yun Long Menqing, the head of the headquarters will definitely give him this face.
As long as the business channel between Li Yunlong and Chen Feng continues, these dozens of mountain cannons will mean nothing.
The mountain artillery and howitzers are now sufficient for the new regiment. What Li Yunlong is really looking forward to is the reward for killing Yoshio Shinozuka.
Is there a larger caliber heavy artillery?
"Okay, I'll ask the telegraph operator to send a telegram to the headquarters."
Zhao Gang personally drafted a telegram, turned around and left quickly. Several guards armed with submachine guns and rifles quickly followed, protecting him at every step.
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Headquarters.
"Report to the commander, there is an urgent call from the 3rd column of Taihang!"
The Eighth Route Army decoder handed the transferred message to the chief of staff.
The chief of staff quickly took it over. After reading it, a smile appeared on his face, and soon he was all smiles.
"What benefits has Li Yunlong given you? Why are you smiling so happily?"
The boss raised his head, glanced at the chief of staff, and sounded surprised.
The chief of staff smiled and said: "Li Yunlong did give me a favor. He said that he would give me Yoshio Shinozuka's general's sword. I gave him a belt from the Frunze Military Academy, and he gave me a Japanese military sword in return.
The general will command the sword, this deal is really a good deal."
"No, no," the boss said, "Yoshio Shinozuka's command saber must be handed over."
This is the command saber of Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka of the Japanese First Army, and the boss is very jealous.
The chief of staff suddenly laughed and said: "If you want to hand it over, you have to hand it over to YA in the end. Do you think this saber will still be in your hands, boss? I will keep this saber here. You can still play with it occasionally.
Besides, Li Yunlong has already given you and the division commander Japanese command knives, but he hasn’t given one to me yet."
"Well, I'm a gentleman and don't take advantage of others." The boss said enviously. Although the one Li Yunlong gave him was a gift from the Emperor, it was just a sergeant's sword, which was far inferior to a general's sword.
"That's not the point. A lieutenant general's command saber is nothing."
The chief of staff grinned and asked again: "Boss, guess how many planes Li Yunlong led his troops to shoot down this time?"
"10 planes, 20 planes?"
When the boss heard this, his expression changed and he tentatively guessed.
The chief of staff shook his head, and the boss tentatively said: "More than 30?"
The chief of staff still smiled and shook his head. The boss was always impatient and simply stopped guessing and asked: "How many planes did Li Yunlong shoot down?"
"More than 30 aircraft, you are so petty." The chief of staff said excitedly, "Boss, this time, Li Yunlong led his troops to shoot down 110 Japanese aircraft!"
"What did you say?" The boss' voice suddenly rose and his tone was incredible, "Shooted down 110 planes? Such a huge result, this guy Li Yunlong actually said it now?"
Although during the Battle of Taiyuan, Li Yunlong would order the general staff to send a telegram to the headquarters to report on the progress of the siege, but the results would only be reported after the battle.
After hearing this result, the boss couldn't sit still.
Japanese planes have always shown off their power in the sky. Even before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Japanese planes came to the Eighth Route Army base every day to conduct reconnaissance. Now they were finally proud and proud.
Shooting down 110 Japs aircraft means killing at least 110 Japs pilots, which is enough to make the Japs feel distressed for a long time!
"That's not the point either."
The chief of staff continued: "The key point is that by killing these 110 Japanese aircraft, Li Yunlong will also receive 330 75 mountain guns, 110 105 howitzers, 3 base shells, 550 radios and 1,100 tons of food assistance. In addition,
There are 2,000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 2,000 tons of food for the attack on Taiyuan. Li Yunlong asked the headquarters how to distribute them."
When the boss heard this, he thought about it carefully, as if he had heard Li Yunlong say there was such a thing as long-term business.
However, the boss did not remember the specific number of downing an aircraft and killing a pilot in detail.
Anyway, when Li Yunlong gets rich, he will take the initiative to hand over part of it.
However, upon hearing such a huge number, the boss's eyes suddenly widened and he couldn't help but breathe quickly:
"Aren't these 10 mountain artillery regiments and 3 howitzer regiments?"
The chief of staff smiled broadly, nodded and said, "Yes, it's the 13 artillery regiments!"
Hearing the Chief of Staff's affirmative answer, the boss couldn't help showing a look of ecstasy on his face. Now the Eighth Route Army had really made a fortune!
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(Yesterday something unexpected happened and I owed another chapter. I will pay back the owed chapter around the 10th.)