Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 132 The Battle of Ping'angra
While Li Yunlong was getting annoyed by Yang Xiuqin, Wang Gensheng was preparing to expand his territory.

They no longer wanted to stay in Majia Village, but wanted to turn all the surrounding villages into bases.

This is especially true in Duanjiagou, where Duan Peng lives.

After all, although Wang Gensheng's cavalry regiment was selected from the entire Lion Army, their families were all in the base area, so they basically had no worries about their families.

However, Duan Peng's village, Duanjiagou, was still under the control of the Japanese! From time to time, the village head, who was the Japanese's representative in the village, would plunder the villagers!

Therefore, for the safety of Duan Peng's hometown, it was imperative to include Duan Peng's hometown, Duanjiagou, within the scope of the base area.

Actually, Wang Gensheng would prefer to wait until after the storyline of Li Yunlong attacking Ping'an County before attacking Qingyun Town.

Because in the Bright Sword storyline, the attack on Ping'an County directly mobilized all the Japanese soldiers of Yoshio Shinotsuka's First Army to support Ping'an County.

This effectively created a situation where the enemy forces were besieged and reinforcements were attacked. It should be noted that the Eighth Route Army did not have heavy weapons, so by holding the county town and relying on the strength of the city walls, they were able to resist the Japanese troops who outnumbered them by seven or eight times.

However, once the Japanese troops come out of the city to provide support, the effect is quite different; basically, only two or three times the number of troops are needed.

Even if they ambushed the enemy on the only way, they could have clashed with the Japanese with one or two times the number of troops. It was this battle that greatly weakened Yoshio Shinotsuka's First Army, forcing the Japanese to withdraw their forces.

For example, Chu Yunfei took advantage of the Japanese troops' retreat to occupy Anhua County, which had been abandoned by the Japanese.

Unfortunately, the original story of "Bright Sword" did not specify when Li Yunlong attacked Ping'an County, or when Yamamoto Ichiki attacked Li Yunlong. It is only known that the time was roughly within four or three years, but the specific month is unknown.

Therefore, if Wang Gensheng attacked Qingyun Town before the Battle of Ping'an County, it was very likely that he would capture it first, and then the Japanese would send more troops to retake it.

Just like the Heyuan County town that Wang Gensheng had captured before, after Wang Gensheng wiped out a large group of Japanese soldiers in the entire Heyuan County town at night, he didn't expect that a few days later, Yoshio Shinotsuka would actually send a regiment of troops to garrison Heyuan County town.

It should be noted that Qingyun Town is not far from Yangquan and Heyuan County, so the most likely scenario is that after Wang Gensheng takes over Qingyun Town, he will likely send a large detachment to be stationed there.

While Wang Gensheng was hesitating, whether to wait for Li Yunlong's incident to occur and take Qingyun Town after the Ping'an County battle, or to take Qingyun Town directly in the next few days and open up the road from Duanjiagou to Majia Village.

Fortunately, before Wang Gensheng could hesitate, Li Xiu came over to report:

"Commander, Commander, something big has happened! The soldiers from the reconnaissance team who were sent out to investigate the situation in Heyuan County today said that almost a regiment of Japanese soldiers has hurriedly headed towards Ping'an County!"

Wang Gensheng's eyes lit up when he heard this. Didn't this mean that the Japanese devils' war to protect their peace had already begun?

However, simply having Heyuan County support Ping'an County is not enough to guarantee that it is the Ping'an-Gele Campaign.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng immediately said to the newly dispatched telegraph operator, Du Yiman:
"Comrade Du Yiman, quickly send a telegram to Shili to find out what's going on, and also report the intelligence that a regiment of troops from Heyuan County has been dispatched to Ping'an County!" "Yes, sir!"

Du Yiman turned around and went back to the room at the power station to send telegrams.

A short while later, Du Yiman ran over and told Wang Gensheng that she didn't know what was going on in Shibu either. Moreover, it wasn't just the Japanese soldiers in Heyuan County; according to the latest information, the Japanese soldiers in the surrounding counties of Ping'an County were also heading towards Ping'an County.

After Du Yiman read the contents of the telegram aloud, she paused for a moment before saying:

"Commander, Commander Lion said that if the cavalry regiment doesn't get entangled with the Japanese, it would be best to go to Ping'an County to check what's going on. That's the Independent Regiment's base, but we can't contact the Independent Regiment now!"

Upon hearing Du Yiman's report, Wang Gensheng naturally understood that it would be strange if they could even make contact!
It should be noted that currently, among all the regimental-level combat units of the 129 Lions, only Wang Gensheng's cavalry regiment has a radio. The rest use telephone lines for communication. That is to say, after the regimental headquarters determines the location of the encampment, it will lay telephone lines to the garrison, and then the garrison and the Lions will communicate by radio.

Yamamoto Ichiki destroyed Zhao Jia Yu. Although Li Yunlong and his men broke through the encirclement, they naturally couldn't bring out the Independent Regiment's phone. So without the phone, they couldn't contact Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment.

Having a telephone to contact the capital was already considered good; some regiments didn't even have a telephone. You have to understand that some regiments were stationed far from the capital, and the length of telephone lines was limited. After all, it was difficult to make bullets in this era, let alone telephone lines.

Moreover, Li Yunlong is probably already attacking Ping'an County with bloodshot eyes, so it's impossible for him to take the initiative to contact Shibu.

However, the order given by the Lion's Beast was a bit too much for Wang Gensheng to bear, since Wang Gensheng had been planning to launch a surprise attack on Taiyuan City for a long time!

As long as most of the Japanese troops in Taiyuan City are deployed, and the remaining garrison does not exceed one regiment, then Wang Gensheng is confident of taking Taiyuan City.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng immediately said to Du Yiman:

"Report to Shibu that his location is nearly 200 kilometers from Ping'an County. By the time the cavalry regiment arrives, the battle will likely be over. So, the cavalry regiment might as well hold the line and ambush the reinforcements! By the way, Du Yiman, after you send this telegram, keep the radio on silent!"

After Wang Gensheng finished speaking, he began to assemble the cavalry regiment. That's right, Wang Gensheng was planning to attack Taiyuan City.

That's right. In order to take Taiyuan, Wang Gensheng is willing to disobey orders this time. After all, the opportunity is rare. You should know that Yamamoto Ichiki is extremely important to Shinotsuka Yoshio. Otherwise, Shinotsuka Yoshio would not have sent the Japanese soldiers guarding Taiyuan City to support Yamamoto Ichiki.

Although Taiyuan City is nearly 200 kilometers away from Ping'an County, and it would take four or five hours to get there by car, Yoshio Shinotsuka still sent troops to support it. His main purpose was to keep the Eighth Route Army in other places from supporting the Eighth Route Army attacking Ping'an County, which was a kind of mutual restraint.

Wang Gensheng led his cavalry regiment to the vicinity of Taiyuan City in a short time, and then saw large numbers of Japanese soldiers being driven out of Taiyuan City!

It's obvious that these are all Yamamoto Ichiki who went to reinforce Ping'an County.

(End of this chapter)