"A telegram has just been sent from the Jizhong Military Region. The scouts have discovered an infantry regiment in the vanguard of the Japanese army. Behind this regiment, there are also large Japanese troops."
Wang Dehou held a telegram in his hand and reported to Li Yunlong.
At present, the main attack force of the new regiment has arrived in Jingxing County.
There are many new groups of heavy firepower troops coming soon.
at the same time.
The headquarters of the New Regiment also arrived in Jingxing County by train.
The radar unit of the new regiment has set up radar on the mountain east of Jingxing County.
Boss Chen has equipped every radar with a generator, which can generate electricity using coal. Jingxing County is a major coal county, and the most important thing is coal.
Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes, walked quickly to the map, and asked:
"Where is the current location of the main force of the Japs?"
"here."
Wang Dehou walked over quickly, pointed at the map and said.
Zhao Gang looked at the map and saw that the main force of the Japs was very close to the forward positions of the Jizhong Military Region, so he said to Li Yunlong: "Old Li, as expected, the Japs really went towards the Jizhong Army."
It seems that this time Li Yunlong successfully predicted Okamura Neji's prediction.
At this time, Li Yunlong didn't think so much.
Although he successfully predicted the movements of the main Japanese force, it was still unknown whether the intersecting troops could complete the insertion within the specified time and whether the Jizhong troops could withstand the main Japanese attack.
"Immediately dispatch the 2nd Flying Group to reinforce the troops of the Central Hebei Military Region."
"Send the fighter squadron of the 1st Flying Group, as well as the fighter squadron directly under the regiment headquarters, to intercept the Japanese fighters and bombers."
"Order all reconnaissance planes to take off and pay close attention to the movements of the main Japanese forces in the direction of Baoding."
"Order the bomber squadron of the 1st Flying Group to support the main force of the New Regiment and bomb the Japanese enemy's outlying positions in Shimen and Zhengding areas."
Li Yunlong quickly analyzed the situation in his mind, and then issued the order with a decisive tone and full of confidence.
Orders came down one by one, and Wang Dehou quickly recorded them one by one.
"yes!"
After finishing recording, Wang Dehou took the folder and quickly drafted several telegrams, and then Li Yunlong signed them and asked the Ministry of Communications to send them out quickly.
"This devil's movements are quite fast."
Xing Zhiguo smiled slightly and said:
"Overnight, they marched 50 kilometers silently. The troops in central Hebei Province were waiting for work and should be able to block the Japanese attack."
In this battle, it depends on whether the troops of the Central Hebei Military Region can block the Japanese attack.
If the Jizhong Military Region was quickly defeated by the Japanese.
Then after the Japs defeated the troops in central Hebei, they could quickly slip away to the north and jump out of the encirclement carefully designed by the Eighth Route Army.
By then, there will be no chance of annihilating this group of devils.
"Deputy Commander Xing, immediately send two intersecting troops to report their current positions."
Li Yunlong said.
"yes."
Xing Zhiguo turned around and went to the Communications Department to contact the intervening troops.
"Order the radar troops to set up the radar as soon as possible."
After a while, as soon as Wang Dehou came over, Li Yunlong said to him again.
"Yes, leader."
Wang Dehou first responded, and then handed over a telegram reporting:
"Captain, this is a telegram just sent from the headquarters. According to reliable intelligence, the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the main force of the Japanese 11th Army in Central China have set out to reinforce the North China Front."
"The Kwantung Army dispatched more than 100,000 troops, and the 11th Army dispatched more than 100,000 troops."
"More than 200,000 Japanese soldiers are mainly reinforcing North China?"
Zhao Gang, who was busy, was also surprised.
"right."
Wang Dehou's tone was also filled with shock.
There is no specific number of Japs in the intelligence, but it may be more than 200,000, or it may be more than 300,000.
Li Yunlong took the telegram and read it, his eyes narrowed slightly.
Although the troops in the Northern Shanxi Iron Triangle cannot simultaneously defeat the Japanese Kwantung Army, North China Front Army and Central China Front Army.
However, every single Japanese front soldier was no match for the Eighth Route Army's North Shanxi Corps.
If the North China Front Army, the Japanese Kwantung Army and the 11th Army were to join forces, the Japanese troops would have a total strength of four to five million, which would be really difficult to deal with.
"Lao Li, how do you plan to deal with it?"
Zhao Gang narrowed his eyes and asked.
"The main force of the Japanese 11th Army is blocked by the main force of the 129th Division."
Li Yunlong put down the telegram and said:
"Our bombers have bombed all the railways and roads from outside the Pass into the Pass. The main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army will not arrive so quickly."
The Kwantung Army came out in full force. This was a rare opportunity.
"If the Kwantung Army dares to come, we will also deal with the Kwantung Army."
There was a hint of domineering in Li Yunlong's words.
At the same time, Li Yunlong sighed in his heart, the chief is still your chief, and he has already considered this.
so.
The headquarters left Li Yunlong hundreds of tanks and heavy artillery, as well as a reserve of 50,000 infantry.
Seeing that Li Yunlong was confident, Zhao Gang felt relieved.
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Jinju area.
Japanese Provisional Headquarters.
"Report to the General."
A combat staff officer came in and reported to Takashi Takamori, Seiichi Aoki and Masao Watanabe:
"After the leading troops discovered the Eighth Route Army's forward position, after comprehensive reconnaissance, the Eighth Route Army has established a complete infantry position."
"The 11th Cavalry Regiment found the Eighth Route Army cavalry unit on the left wing, with a strength of about one cavalry regiment."
"The Eighth Route Army is so fast."
Frowning slightly, Takashi Takamori exclaimed.
Overnight, a complete infantry defense position was built, which was not good news for the Japanese army.
I originally thought it was an encounter, but I didn't expect it to be an offensive and defensive battle.
"The Eighth Route Army also has a cavalry unit. Is it so large?"
Suddenly, Takamori Takashi's expression changed.
Each Class A division has a cavalry regiment, and even some elite Class B divisions are equipped with cavalry units, which are just cavalry brigades.
Takashi Takamori prepared to implement the tactic of using a wave of artillery to finish off the cavalry charge.
Even though the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei Province built a complete defensive position.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But the Japanese army has three artillery regiments. Let the three artillery regiments use full firepower. After covering the Eighth Route Army's position with several waves of artillery fire, let the cavalry rush up to break through the Eighth Route Army.
line of defense.
Then, the infantry rushed forward to collect the corn.
This is called breaking one point and shaking the entire line.
However, the Eighth Route Army also had cavalry, and its strength was no smaller than that of the Japanese army, so this tactic was not easy to implement.
"It's not surprising that the cavalry horses of the Eighth Route Army's Central Hebei Corps were snatched from the cavalry horses of the 16th Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Locust Army."
Masao Watanabe first answered Takamori Takashi's doubts, and then said worriedly:
"What I'm worried about is that the Eighth Route Army already knew that we were coming to attack the Jizhong Military Region. Instead of running away, they built a large number of fortifications here to wait for the locust army to attack. I'm worried that there might be some conspiracy here?"
"What's the conspiracy?" Takashi Takamori asked with a slight frown.
"It's unclear at the moment," Masao Watanabe said, "However, if something goes wrong, there will be a monster, and we must deal with it carefully."
Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi looked at the sky and said in a solemn tone: "Takamori-kun, Watanabe-kun, do you want to attack or turn in? If you want to attack, you must speed up. I estimate that the Eighth Route Army's aviation unit is coming soon. Locust
The army's infantry and artillery units were exposed to the Eighth Route Army's aircraft and were just a bunch of living targets."
"You don't want to be like the 9th Division, who was bombed and severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army's aviation unit before you even saw the Eighth Route Army, right?"
Takashi Takamori and Masao Watanabe certainly did not want the 11th Division to be called the greatest shame of the Locust Army of the Empire of Japan, just like the 9th Division.
On the contrary, they both wanted to make contributions to the Locusts and become the greatest glory of the Locust Army of the Empire of Japan.
"The Eighth Route Army has planes, and so does the Locust Army!"
"Even if the Eighth Route Army is prepared, the Locust Army can defeat them!"
"Nishihara-kun."
Takashi Takamori shouted with a solemn expression.
"Hi."
The chief of staff of the 11th Division, Seihara Masio, took a step forward and bowed his head to answer.
Takamori Takashi ordered: "Immediately report our position and current situation to General Okamura, the North China Front Army Headquarters, and call the 6th Flying Division to dispatch aircraft for reinforcements."
"Hi."
Nishihara Masao lowered his head, quickly drafted a telegram, and asked the telegraph soldiers to send it out.
After a pause, Takamori Takashi said with a cold expression: "Aoki-kun, Watanabe-kun, order the artillery regiment and the artillery units of each infantry regiment to prepare for 15 minutes of artillery fire. As soon as the artillery fire stops, the infantry will rush forward to eliminate them.
Eighth Route Army! After completing the artillery bombardment, each artillery regiment immediately dispersed and hid to avoid being bombed by Eighth Route Army aircraft. In addition, the soldiers of all regiments were ordered to disperse to avoid being washed away by aerial bombs and incendiary bombs from Eighth Route Army aircraft."
"Hi."
Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki and Lieutenant General Masao Watanabe both bowed their heads.
Then he turned around and left quickly.
About 15 minutes later, the Japanese soldiers who had been attacking all night were sitting together in small groups to have breakfast.
A few kilometers behind the Japs, on the Japanese artillery position, a 75mm Type 94 mountain gun took the lead in firing.
The artillery fire flashed in the wind, the gun body suddenly shook, and a 75mm shell landed on the forward position of the Eighth Route Army.
With a loud bang, the explosion wave swept across, and a large cloud of mud and mist was raised in front of the Eighth Route Army position.
The Japanese observer quickly reported the bullet impact point to the artillery position behind by phone.
After two test firings of artillery shells, the Japanese artillery shells finally landed on the Eighth Route Army's position.
A moment later, muzzle fireworks continued to flicker on the positions of the three Japanese artillery regiments, one after another.
Every time the muzzle flashes, a cannonball rises into the sky.
One after another, the 75mm artillery shells drew arcs in the sky, and then landed on the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army troops in central Hebei.
The bombardment of three artillery regiments, with more than 100 75mm artillery pieces, is powerful and cannot be underestimated.
The forward position of the Eighth Route Army in Central Hebei Province was suddenly shrouded in smoke and explosive fireballs.
"Kill me..."
As the Japanese artillery fire stopped, the Japanese infantry squadron leaders led the Japanese to kill the troops of the Jizhong Military Region.
During the offensive, the Japanese 11th Division was the main force, and the well-trained soldiers of the Type A Division were at their best.
The attack formation and skirmisher line were always maintained stable. The formation was dispersed and not chaotic from beginning to end, approaching the Jizhong position with murderous intent.
…
at the same time.
Jingxing County.
Eighth Route Army Frontline General Headquarters.
"Captain, according to the confession captured by the Sharp Sword Brigade, there are three Japs from the Infantry Brigade and one puppet army from the Front Army in the Zhengding area of Shimen City."
Chief of Staff Wang Dehou put down the phone in his hand and reported to Li Yunlong:
"The 11th Division, the 40th Division and the 56th Division each left an infantry brigade with weaker combat effectiveness."
"The puppet army of this group army is the second front of the North China puppet army, and its commander-in-chief is Sun Liangcheng."
"The headquarters is located in the Kaifeng area. It was recently transferred to Hebei Province by the Japanese to assist the Japanese in defending the Shimen and Zhengding areas."
"This department has two armies and one independent division, with a total strength of about 30,000 people."
"After surrendering to the enemy, this unit actively cooperated with the enemy invaders to attack our Eighth Route Army. Its combat effectiveness is also the strongest among the puppet armies in North China, and its equipment is the same as that of the Kuomintang army."
"Damn it!" Li Yunlong said in a bad tone, with murderous intentions clearly revealed, "I hate traitors the most in my life, why haven't the troops started attacking yet!?"
Li Yunlong naturally knew the Japanese and puppet troops in North China very well.
This Sun Liangcheng's unit was originally the National Army, and led his troops to surrender to the Japanese in southwestern Shandong in the first half of the year.
This puppet army has strong combat effectiveness and has assisted the Japanese in raids and attacks on the Eighth Route Army base areas many times.
However, the relationship between the Japanese and the puppet soldiers is nothing more than that between dogs and dogs.
The Japanese have never regarded the puppet soldiers as human beings. The Eighth Route Army came with great force, and the Japanese simply used the puppet soldiers still in Shimen City and Zhengding as cannon fodder.
"Report to the commander, our bomber squadron has not arrived yet."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wang Dehou looked at the watch in his hand, and then said:
"But it should be soon."
The regiment headquarters' combat plan was to first bomb a wave of aircraft, and then have the heavy artillery units bombard the Japanese and puppet positions.
Then the tanks and infantry rushed up to collect the corn.
As soon as Wang Dehou finished speaking, there were some buzzing sounds in the sky.
Li Yunlong and Wang Dehou quickly walked out of the regiment headquarters, raised their binoculars and looked at the sky. A bomber formation composed of 20 A20 attack aircraft passed over Jingxing County.
Later.
Li Yunlong asked Wang Dehou to stay at the regiment headquarters, while he jumped into the jeep and drove towards the front line under the protection of the guard troops.
Half an hour later, Li Yunlong arrived at the headquarters of the 1st Heavy Armored Battalion on the front line.
"Captain!"
Zhang Dabiao, who was wearing a steel helmet and had sharp eyes, saw Li Yunlong walking in and quickly walked over and straightened his body.
"Dabiao, how is the situation?"
Li Yunlong raised his telescope and looked toward the battlefield while asking Zhang Dabiao.
"Commander, the bomber squadron has just returned to Taiyuan Airport after dropping aerial bombs and diving and strafing."
Zhang Dabiao pointed to the positions of the Japanese and puppet troops in the distance and said:
"100 75mm mountain guns are shelling the Japanese forward positions, and 6 heavy artillery battalions are shelling the deep positions of the Japanese and puppet troops."
Looking at the Japanese frontier and deep positions shrouded in artillery fire and gunpowder smoke.
Li Yunlong looked extremely satisfied.
The artillery firepower currently used by the New Regiment is less than a quarter of the entire New Regiment.
The firepower is quite powerful.
Soon, a new round of shelling began again, and the Japanese and puppet army positions seemed to be flattened, torn into pieces, and submerged in the artillery fire.
"Dabiao, we'll be almost done with another half hour of shelling."
Li Yunlong's eyes were calm:
"The opposite side is mainly composed of puppet troops, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. We can save some artillery shells."
In Li Yunlong's mind, the combat effectiveness of the puppet army was not worthy of eating aerial bombs and heavy artillery shells. Using 75mm mountain artillery to deal with the puppet army was already very respectable to the puppet army.
If there weren't some Japs on the opposite side, and if there weren't some Japs on the other side, and during the attack, a few new regiment soldiers wouldn't have been sacrificed.
Li Yunlong had already asked the troops to press forward.
"yes."
Zhang Dabiao picked up the walkie-talkie and called various mountain artillery and heavy artillery positions.
Half an hour later.
"attack!"
As the order to attack was issued from the regiment headquarters.
Dozens of Leopard tanks lined up in a battle formation and advanced towards the Japanese and puppet army positions. The tough soldiers of the new regiment were covered with grenades and magazines, and they looked fierce.
It was like a gray wave sweeping towards the Japanese and puppet army positions.