The Japanese and puppet troops at the city gate were first bombarded by a 105 howitzer battalion and a 75 mountain artillery battalion.
It was also covered by mortar and infantry artillery fire.
Then it was fired flatly by the machine gun, and dozens of firepower points suffered a devastating blow in an instant.
The new regiment and battalion only charged from the west gate, captured the west wall, and then successfully entered the city.
As the Japs headquarters in the city suffered a devastating blow, the Japs without unified command could only fight independently.
At the same time, the feigned attack troops outside the north and south city gates began to attack the city wall, and the Eighth Route Army that entered the city began to attack in a roundabout way along the city wall.
At this time, only the East Gate was not attacked.
The Japanese and puppet troops, who had lost the courage to resist, did not engage in street fighting with the Eighth Route Army, but broke out from the east city gate.
Street fighting requires reinforcements and unified command, but in this situation, whether there are reinforcements or not is still a matter of debate.
Without much hesitation, the Japanese and puppet troops broke out from the east city gate and escaped.
At this time, they fell into Li Yunlong's trap, and another fierce battle ensued. The Japanese who were in a dilemma died in the battle, and most of the puppet troops pretended to be dead and surrendered.
Before dawn, the battle was completely over.
When Li Yunlong entered the city, his genius was just bright.
Zhang Dabiao and Zheng Yu, who had M3 submachine guns hanging on their chests, followed closely behind Li Yunlong.
After the first batch of 300 M3 submachine guns was issued, some members of the Sword Squadron were also equipped.
However, most of the team members still use submachine guns such as MP40 and Bobosha. Li Yunlong doesn't care about this. He just uses whatever comes handy.
After entering the city, Li Yunlong led everyone quickly and went straight to the arms warehouse and grain depot in the county town.
In addition to earning Chen Feng's share of the price, he worked hard to capture the county seat, and also for the sake of capturing the county seat and building his reputation.
Zhang Dabiao followed behind him and said in a worried tone: "Captain, after we capture this county, will we be able to occupy it? Will the little devils let us occupy this county? Anhua and Ping'an are not important counties, but Heyuan County,
It’s quite important.”
"Who said I want to occupy it?" Li Yunlong said, "Isn't it the county seat? If the devil wants it, give it to the devil."
"Just give it up to the Japanese?" Zhang Dabiao suddenly felt a little reluctant. After all, this was a county town that was finally conquered.
"You kid, don't be so short-sighted."
Li Yunlong glanced at Zhang Dabiao and said earnestly: "Don't care so much about the gains and losses of a city or a place. Apart from grain depots and arms warehouses, does this county have any other benefits?"
Zhang Dabiao thought about it carefully and said, "There are also ordinary people."
Li Yunlong said: "Think about it carefully."
Zhang Dabiao added: "There are also money and food from the traitor's family, tobacco factory, winery, hospital..."
"Think more carefully?"
Second Battalion Commander Zheng Yu said: "Commander, what do you mean, after the Japanese occupy the county town, and we attack the county town again, we can earn a share of heavy artillery, anti-aircraft guns and food from Boss Chen?"
"Hehehe." Commander Li smiled and said, "The second battalion commander's mind works very fast. Yes, that's what he means."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Dabiao suddenly showed a meaningful smile.
It turns out that this was the idea of the group leader. With Xinyi Tuan’s current strength, this county is the fat on Xinyi Tuan’s mouth, and he can eat it whenever he wants.
When has the leader ever done a loss-making business?
Zhang Dabiao muttered secretly.
"Da Biao!" Li Yunlong shouted.
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao stood up and responded.
Li Yunlong then said: "Go and organize the common people and ask them if they are willing to leave the county. Those who are willing to leave can follow the Eighth Route Army. If they are unwilling to follow the Eighth Route Army, we will not force them."
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao turned and left.
"Zheng Yu!" Li Yunlong shouted again.
"Yes!" Second Battalion Commander Zheng Yu responded.
Li Yunlong took out a list from his pocket: "On this list are all traitors. According to this list, I will arrest all the traitors and hold a public trial. The property of the traitors will be confiscated and those who have committed the most heinous crimes will be shot!"
Don't worry about dancing for fun now, be careful about making a list in the future.
The traitors rely on the power of dogs, and usually rely on the Japanese's power to bully the people, and even help the Japanese to deal with the guerrillas. Now is the time to draw up a list of traitors.
"Yes!" Zheng Yu laughed ferociously, took the list and turned around to leave.
At this time, Li Yunlong was surrounded only by security guards, telegraph operators carrying high-power walkie-talkies, low-power walkie-talkies, and radio stations.
Soon, Li Yunlong arrived at the arms warehouse in the county town.
The county town is not big, and the arms warehouse is not far from the Japanese headquarters.
Seeing Li Yunlong, Lu Yingjun, who was holding an M3 submachine gun, came up to him: "Report to the leader, the arms warehouse and grain depot have been captured by the Sharp Sword Squadron."
Li Yunlong looked satisfied: "How are the casualties of your Sharp Sword Squadron?"
"Two people were slightly injured, no one died." Lu Yingjun replied.
Li Yunlong's expression became more and more satisfied, and the work of the Sword Squadron was getting better and better.
Not only did he complete the beheading mission, he also volunteered to take over the arms warehouse and grain depot.
Originally, the arms warehouse and grain depot were the tasks of one battalion and one company. After the first battalion entered the city, the first company immediately stormed in along the streets and captured the arms warehouse and grain depot.
However, it would be better for the Sharp Sword Squadron to capture the arms warehouse and grain warehouse by the way, to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from jumping over the wall and destroying the arms warehouse and grain warehouse.
When they attacked Taiyuan, the Japanese ordered the weapons warehouses and grain depots to be destroyed, otherwise the Eighth Route Army could still make a fortune.
"Lu Yingjun, how many weapons and ammunition are there in the arsenal?" Li Yunlong asked.
"There are not many weapons. Most of them are bullets and grenades. There must be more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 3,000 grenades."
Lu Yingjun answered truthfully: "There are more than 200,000 jins of grain in the grain depot."
"So few?" The seizure was worse than Li Yunlong imagined.
However, Li Yunlong then thought about it. Originally, there were no Chinese troops in northwestern Shanxi that could threaten the county, so the Japanese ammunition and food reserves in the county were not large.
This makes sense.
Unlike the counties and strongholds in southeastern Shanxi, the Japanese and puppet troops generally stocked up on ammunition and food for half a year in order to fear being besieged by the Eighth Route Army for a long time.
Even the defense of the county seat is relatively lax. There are no machine gun fortresses, civil bunkers and other fortifications in the southeastern county seat of Shanxi Province. There are only a few strongholds and gun towers outside the city.
There are no decent enemies, and even the defense is lax...
Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes. It seemed that the 358th Regiment of the Jinsui Army did not put enough pressure on the little Japanese.
If the 358th regiment can't put pressure on the little devils, my new regiment will do it from now on.
"Send me the order to move all the weapons, ammunition and food back to the base area!"
Li Yunlong ordered loudly.
Behind him, the soldiers of the first and second battalions walked quickly into the arms warehouse with smiles of harvest.
Soon, militiamen and civilians from the base area also arrived and joined the queue carrying arms and food.
Not long after, Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou also sent telegrams, saying that Anhua County and Ping'an County had been captured.
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"What did you say? In just one night, the New Regiment captured the three county towns of Ping'an, Anhua and Heyuan?"
Dagushan, headquarters of the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Sui Army.
Early in the morning, after hearing Fang Ligong's report, Chu Yunfei sounded a little unbelievable.
The 358th Regiment has been in Dagushan for some time, and Chu Yunfei sometimes wants to regain one or two county towns to become famous and prove his ability.
But it is a pity that although the 358th Regiment has 5,000 people, it is still difficult to conquer the county town heavily defended by the Japanese army.
Because among the various departments of the Japanese army, once the Japanese army is attacked at a certain point, other troops will never sit idly by and ignore it, but will reinforce it at all costs.
But Li Yunlong grasped the timing just right.
On the one hand, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army was killed, and the Japanese First Army was in disarray, with no other Japanese troops able to reinforce it.
On the other hand, it is to directly attack three county towns. The Japanese in these three counties cannot protect themselves, let alone reinforcements.
As for the other counties in northwestern Shanxi that were occupied by the Japs, they were basically in the defense areas of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment. These two troops would definitely not allow the Japs to reinforce them.
"Yes, regiment!" Fang Ligong said in a shocked tone, "The new regiment of the Eighth Route Army has indeed occupied the three counties of Anhua, Ping'an and Heyuan."
"The action was so fast, it was terrifying."
Then, Fang Ligong said again: "It seems that we have to re-evaluate the strength and combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, especially the New Regiment."
Chu Yunfei also had his hands behind his back, worried.
It is a good thing for the country that the new regiment has such strong combat effectiveness, but it is not a good thing for the Jinsui Army and the 358th Regiment.
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At the same time, Taiyuan.
After receiving the information, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Kazuki Yamamoto and others were stunned.
"Li Yunlong..."
His face remained stiff for a long time, and Yamamoto Kazuki slowly spat out three words.
By this time, the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain had ended, and Kazuki Yamamoto had returned to Taiyuan with his special agent team.
In this battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the Yamamoto Special Forces repeatedly made military exploits, successfully attacked two military-level units of the Central Army, and even captured a division commander alive.
Just as Yamamoto Kazuki was immersed in the joy of victory, news suddenly came from behind that Taiyuan was attacked by the Eighth Route Army and Commander Yoshio Shinozuka was martyred.
When Kazuki Yamamoto heard the news, he led his special team to rush back non-stop. However, it was already too late. The Eighth Route Army had already finished attacking Taiyuan and evacuated.
Now that Taiyuan has been captured by the Eighth Route Army and the First Army Headquarters has been taken over, the new leadership team of the First Army Headquarters has not yet taken office.
It is said that the new commander of the First Army has arrived in Peiping, but the new commander cannot take up his post by plane until the airport is repaired here in Taiyuan.
After learning that Li Yunlong had returned to northwest Shanxi to continue causing trouble, Yamamoto Kazuki's face twisted with anger when he heard Li Yunlong's name.
"General Ribayashi, please immediately send troops to northwest Shanxi and chop off Li Yunlong's head to avenge General Shinozuka."
Taking a deep breath, Yamamoto Kazuki immediately suggested to Kuribayashi Tadashi.
"Yamamoto-kun, please be patient."
"The duty of the First Cavalry Brigade is to protect Taiyuan. Now that we are going to northwest Shanxi, what should we do if the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi attacks Taiyuan again?"
On this matter, Major General Tadamichi Kuribayashi would never listen to Colonel Yamamoto Kazuki.
Taking another deep breath, Yamamoto Kazuki suppressed the deep anger in his heart.
He suddenly realized that the troops he had were still too few. What could a special forces force of dozens of people do? They couldn't even avenge General Shinozuka.
Only by becoming a major general, lieutenant general, or even general can you control more armies and accomplish greater things.
For example, chop off Li Yunlong's head to avenge General Shinozuka...
Turning around, Yamamoto Kazuki had an invisible ambition in Kuribayashi Tadashi's eyes.
