Chapter 769: You kid can always come up with something new!
In the past, Li Yunlong always said that with the reputation of a brigade commander, there are not many cavalry divisions, artillery divisions, and machine gunners.
As for the artillery division, it was only Ding Wei's new second regiment and the Kongjie Independent Regiment.
The combined guns of these two regiments with a caliber of 7 mm and above are equivalent to four artillery regiments, which is already the size of an artillery division.
In addition to the three artillery regiments directly under the brigade headquarters, as well as the artillery captured this time from the Mountain Artillery Regiment of the Japanese 37th Division.
It's almost an artillery division. If the two artillery divisions are combined, don't they form an artillery corps?
This does not include 60mm mortars, 70mm infantry guns and 8mm mortars.
Ammunition is sufficient.
Brigadier Chen smiled brightly and said energetically: "Haha, now we, Old Chen, are a real rich man."
Seeing that Brigadier Chen was in high spirits, Li Yunlong was also sincerely happy for him.
Now the brigade commander's artillery division goal has been achieved, or even far exceeded, and there are still cavalry divisions and machine gunnery divisions left.
Maybe in the future the brigade commander can be equipped with a cavalry corps and a machine artillery corps.
After a pause, Brigadier Chen continued: "However, I accept your wish. Forget about the 7mm mountain cannons. Our brigade now has no shortage of 7mm mountain cannons. If you have a conscience, in the future, 10mm howitzers and 03mm
If you have too many heavy howitzers to use up, you can give me dozens of them. I know your new regiment is short of recruits, but our Taiyue Military Region militia has plenty of them."
Nowadays, the 386 Brigade is equipped with nearly 100 7mm mountain guns and dozens of 10mm howitzers.
But the 10mm howitzer only has a door, and it was given to the brigade commander by Li Yunlong out of his own pocket.
There is not even a single 03mm heavy howitzer.
The brigade commander knew that he was rich, but compared with Li Yunlong in front of him, he was almost like a beggar.
The Li Yunlong in front of him is the real rich man.
However, the new regiment no longer belongs to the 386th Brigade's battle order, and the brigade commander has no reason to attack Li Yunlong.
Otherwise, today’s 386 Brigade would be at least two levels richer!
There is no such thing as a free lunch, not to mention the heavy artillery that even Chiang Kai-shek is jealous of. If he wants to take advantage of Li Yunlong, the brigade commander will naturally have to pay some price.
"Haha, no problem."
Li Yunlong agreed:
"Not to mention 10mm howitzers and 03mm heavy howitzers, even tanks and aircraft, as long as the brigade commander asks for it, I will get it for you."
The brigade commander nodded, his expression extremely satisfied.
Li Yunlong made several mistakes in the past. For example, during the Battle of Xinkou, Li Yunlong shot five Japanese prisoners. If the brigade commander had not been behind the scenes, Li Yunlong would not have been dismissed as easily.
Next, assisted by the brigade commander, Li Yunlong took control of the overall situation in Shi Nao Mountain.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, all siege troops had entered their attack positions, all of which were fortification positions originally built by the Japanese army outside the city.
Although the Japs of the 37th Division gave up the offensive outside the city, they did not give up the city wall fortifications.
Instead, they relied on the city wall fortifications to prepare to resist the Eighth Route Army's attack.
To the west of the city, the new 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army formed the main attacking position of the 6th Battalion of the 2nd Battalion Division, taking advantage of the artillerymen in the rear who were setting up artillery.
The soldiers held steel guns and carried ladders into the trenches one after another. They only waited for the artillery to blast the gap in the city wall, and the infantry could attack.
An iron speaker with a structure of about 10 degrees quietly stretched out of the trench and shouted:
"Listen to the little Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall. You have been surrounded by the main force of our Eighth Route Army. We have 00,000 troops. Yours has only 6,000 troops. The strength is 34 to 1. Our 3,000 cannons are ready to fire at any time.
, please immediately lay down your arms and surrender, and do not make unnecessary resistance. The Eighth Route Army implements the Geneva Convention, treats prisoners preferentially, and does not kill prisoners if they surrender their guns!"
"If you resist to the end, the Eighth Route Army will wipe out all of you, leaving no one behind!"
The shouters were soldiers from the New Regiment of the enemy's Ministry of Industry, who had persuaded the Japanese and puppet troops to surrender before the war.
After the soldiers from the Enemy Industry Department shouted once in Chinese, they shouted again in Japanese.
After the puppet troops on the city wall heard the Eighth Route Army's shouting, many puppet troops were immediately ready to move.
The puppet army has never wanted to surrender to the Eighth Route Army more than at this time.
Most of the puppet soldiers did not sincerely want to work for the Japanese army, but served as soldiers to support their families in order to earn a living.
In this world full of chaos, if you want to survive, you have to pay some price. Being a soldier is a dangerous profession. Bullets don't have eyes, and they may be gone one day.
And if you are not a soldier, it will be difficult to survive.
But then again, these young men who became puppet soldiers, after becoming puppet soldiers, in order to survive, they helped the Japanese army bully their compatriots, sometimes even more cruelly than the Japanese.
A Japanese squadron leader on the city wall did not understand what the Eighth Route Army was shouting because the Eighth Route Army shouted in Chinese at first.
It wasn't until the Eighth Route Army shouted it again in Japanese that he understood the meaning behind the words.
Even some Japanese soldiers had their eyes wandering around, looking like they were not determined to fight.
Not to mention the puppet troops, who wanted to run down and surrender immediately to the Eighth Route Army.
"idiot!"
"shooting!"
The Japanese squadron leader pulled out his command knife with a swipe sound and pointed suddenly at the position of the Eighth Route Army enemy's Ministry of Industry soldiers under the city wall.
Da da da…
Boom boom…
On the city gate building, the Japanese light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers opened fire, and a dense rain of bullets, mortar shells, and grenades hit the loudspeaker.
A dozen soldiers of the new regiment were killed in the explosion.
However, the explosion did not hit the soldiers from the enemy's Ministry of Industry. After the Japanese finished firing, the soldiers from the enemy's Ministry of Industry changed positions and continued to shout to the Japanese and puppet troops on the wall to persuade them to surrender.
With experience, the infantrymen stayed far away from the soldiers of the enemy's Ministry of Industry.
In addition to the west city wall, as well as the east, south and north city walls, there were soldiers from the Enemy Engineering Department of the Eighth Route Army shouting to the Japanese and puppet troops to persuade them to surrender.
The total strength of the Eighth Route Army outside Yangquan City is 60,000 main elites, while the 37th Division, including heavy supplies and engineering troops, only has 6,000 troops.
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Li Yunlong adopted his classic tactics again: no assists, all four walls were the main attack.
Soldiers from the enemy's Ministry of Industry shouted to the Japanese army that if the Japanese and puppet troops surrendered, everyone would be happy.
If the Japanese and puppet troops don't surrender, it won't be a big problem. Just wipe them all out.
Calling for surrender and exaggerating one's own military strength and firepower are also a spiritual attack on the Japanese and puppet troops.
In the headquarters.
Zhao Gang stepped on the ladder, put down the telescope in his hand, and smiled slightly: "Old Li, you can always come up with something new!"
It was Li Yunlong who personally arranged the order for the enemy's Ministry of Industry to speak to the Japanese and puppet troops in the Japanese city gate building.
Li Yunlong's eyes were calm: "These are all small tricks, the fun has just begun."
Hearing this, Zhao Gang also put away his smile and continued to observe the enemy's movements with a serious expression.
The Japanese on the city gate tower angrily launched several waves of shooting, but to no avail.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the East Artillery Group has been deployed..."
"The Western Artillery Group has been deployed..."
Soon, reports came one after another that the four artillery groups in the east, west, south and north had been deployed.
"Chief of Staff, have the infantry units entered the attack position?" Li Yunlong asked.
"Report to the commander-in-chief." Wang Dehou reported, "All attacking troops have entered the position!"
Li Yunlong's tone was stern: "Very good, give me the order. The four artillery groups in the east, west, north and south should fire at the city wall immediately. The bombardment will last half an hour and I will blow the city wall open."
"yes!"
Wang Dehou turned around, grabbed a high-power walkie-talkie, and ordered: "All artillery groups, fire on the city wall immediately, the bombardment lasts for half an hour!"
Not long after the words fell, 7mm mountain cannons and 10mm howitzers from the four directions of east, west, north and south began to test-fire at the city wall.
Immediately after the test firing was completed, all the artillery fired simultaneously and smashed against the city wall of Yangquan.
Groups of cannonballs fell from the sky like crows and landed on the city wall of Yangquan. With the deafening roar of explosions, the entire Yangquan city wall was gleaming with fire and filled with smoke.
The Japanese and puppet troops were immediately bloody and bloody.
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at the same time.
Taigu Line of Defense.
The commander of the 19th Division was leading 60,000 elite Eighth Route Army troops to confront the Japanese 18th and 14th Brigades.
In last night's shelling, the two Japanese brigades suffered heavy losses and heavy casualties.
But after the Eighth Route Army stopped shelling, the Japanese army began to repair the fortifications, assuming a posture of coexisting with the position.
The Japanese also knew that the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells had bottomed out.
In the headquarters, the division commander stood on the ladder and looked at the Japanese position through the artillery mirror.
I saw that the Japanese army's position was full of craters and broken arms.
Many Japanese soldiers are stepping up repairs.
The division commander knew very well that if he ordered his troops to rush forward at this time, he would definitely be able to defeat the Japanese 14th and 18th Brigades, and even have a chance to annihilate them all.
But the troops under his command will definitely suffer heavy casualties. After all, the Japanese army is on the defensive side, and the 14th Brigade and the 18th Brigade are elite.
Order the troops to rush forward now, and you are guaranteed to sacrifice thousands of soldiers.
But once the airdrop supplies arrive, the situation will be different.
Li Yunlong sent intelligence that the encirclement of the Japanese 33rd Division and 37th Division had been completed.
Now, the teacher can finally let go and do something big.
No matter how the battle ends in Taiyuan, it will not have any impact on the two battlefields of Yangquan and Shouyang.
The division commander looked up at the sky, then at the watch on his hand, and said in a confused tone: "It's already 10 o'clock in the morning, why haven't the battlefield supplies arrived yet?"
After the division commander sent Li Yunlong a telegram requesting an airdrop of supplies, Li Yunlong sent a telegram back to the division commander last night.
The content of the telegram requested the division commander to receive airdrop supplies of 100,000 rounds of artillery shells, and asked the division commander to inform Li Yunlong if the supplies were insufficient.
Bold and arrogant.
The chief of staff sounded uncertain: "Commander, maybe Boss Chen needs some time to prepare? After all, we applied to Li Yunlong for battlefield air-conditioning supplies at midnight last night, from preparing the artillery shells to installing the aircraft, and then the transport plane flew here from the airport, but