Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Shouyang County.

Milong and others followed the large army into Shouyang County. During this period, both Milong and Li Liansheng felt that everything was a bit unreal.

They were defeated all the way from the four northeastern provinces, from Fengtian to Jinzhou, and then to Shanhaiguan without winning a single battle. Later, they joined some other armies but were defeated every time they faced the Japanese, until they joined the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column.

They easily won the battle against the artillery tower at the beginning and tasted the sweetness of victory. Then they took down four artillery towers in one day, and now they have captured the county town without bloodshed. It all feels a bit unreal, like a dream.

"Don't think about it. The Japs are not fools. They know they don't have enough troops to defend the county, so they ran away early. When the Japs finish fighting in Zhongtiao Mountain, they will probably fight us with real swords and guns. Don't be scared when that happens!"

The squad leader saw their confusion and explained with a smile, then said seriously: "After entering the city, you must pay attention to discipline. Our troops are not the national army. If you violate the discipline, you will be severely punished. Even if our detachment leader makes a mistake, the commander will still execute him!"

The squad leader said this to Milong and Li Liansheng. He could see some soldier ruffians and soldier oil in them. As for Gu Xiaomai, he was very simple, so the squad leader was more relieved.

At this time, in the Japanese headquarters in Shouyang County, Zhang Dabiao looked at the empty headquarters that still had some traces of burning and couldn't help cursing: "These little Japanese devils, they burn quite fast. Don't let me catch you, or I will..."

"Report, telegram from headquarters!"

Zhang Dabiao was halfway through his scolding when he heard it was a telegram from Li Yunlong. He reached out and snatched it away. He glanced at it and immediately said, "Notify everyone, urgent assembly!"

"Emergency gathering!"

"..."

Soon the first team left Shouyang County and began to march northward, directly entering Mount Wutai.

"Squad leader, where are we going?"

"do not know!"

"Then should we still fight Taiyuan?"

"..."

Although most of the soldiers were very confused, they did not ask too many questions and followed the main force northward. Halfway through, they met a logistics team. After replenishing their ammunition, supplies, and guides, everyone continued on their journey northward.

This journey took half a day and a whole night. When it was almost dawn, they were ordered to rest on the spot. However, by then they were already in the mountains and had no way of telling where they were.

"Pass the company commander's order. Everyone must act collectively. No one is allowed to act on their own as a squad. Anyone who acts without authorization will be treated as a deserter. Pass it on!"

"Pass the company commander's order..."

After hearing this command, the squad leader of Milong and the others' class couldn't help but become serious: "Remember, anyone who wants to do anything must report to me, no matter what it is, even if you want to go pee, you have to report to me. Act together, do you understand!"

"Yes!"

After resting in the woods for a whole day, night fell and the first team continued their journey.

The field hospital of the Logistics Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column. This time, Li Yunlong did not take the logistics troops away. The field hospital also had some organs and units and heavy artillery companies that could not be transported long distances in the mountains. They were all left in some hidden areas around Ping'an County.

"Sister Liu, why didn't Big Brother come to see you today?"

After a day of work, Liao Yaquan returned to the dormitory and saw a female nurse mending shoes in the dormitory. He couldn't help but ask curiously.

This Nurse Liu is a man who is a guard at the command center. He usually comes to see Nurse Liu after changing his shift on weekdays. But today Nurse Liu was alone in the dormitory, so Liao Yaquan immediately seized the opportunity to ask.

"Don't mention it. He said he had an urgent mission and left. By the way, Doctor Liao, how are you and Deputy Battalion Commander Yu doing? Why haven't I seen him come to see you recently?"

The deputy battalion commander Yu mentioned by Nurse Liu is Yu Zhigan. When Yu Zhigan was arranged to be hospitalized by Li Yunlong, Liao Yaquan was responsible for taking care of him, and the two had a close relationship.

Hearing this, Liao Yaquan pretended to blush and said, "He said he went back to his hometown to visit relatives. He hasn't come back in such a long time!"

"Could something have happened?"

"Probably not?"

Liao Yaquan pretended to be a little panicked, but he sneered in his heart. The woman in front of him was really stupid. He could easily get such important information out of her.

To carry out an emergency mission, his man is from the guard battalion, and the guard battalion will act together with Li Yunlong. In addition, there were rumors in the army before that Li Yunlong was going to attack Taiyuan, so it is estimated that the troops are likely to attack Taiyuan!

Thinking of this, Liao Yaquan prepared to go to the command center for the same reason that the stupid woman had just thought of for him, to find out whether Yu Zhigan had returned from visiting his relatives.

If the command center has left, it means that Li Yunlong's troops have set out to attack Taiyuan. This is very important information that must be passed on.

"Sister Liu, I'm a little panicked when you say that. No, I can't just wait like this. I have to go and find out!"

"Go, go! I tell you, Deputy Battalion Commander Yu is really good, and he's already a deputy battalion commander at such a young age. From now on..."

Nurse Liu watched Liao Yaquan hurriedly leave with a look of disdain on her face. Is this a spy sent by the Japanese? Just this?

Liao Yaquan didn't know that she had been exposed a long time ago. The people around her were all specially arranged by Zhao Gang. Every leak of information was arranged by Zhao Gang, so what Liao Yaquan wanted to see was decided by Zhao Gang.

When Liao Yaquan arrived at the command center, he found it was pitch black and the large army originally stationed there had disappeared.

"who!"

At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came. Liao Yaquan turned around and saw Yu Zhigan wearing tattered clothes and a dozen people appearing behind him.

"Captain Yu, what's wrong with you?" Liao Yaquan was a little surprised and asked with pretended concern.

Yu Zhigan looked at Liao Yaquan and frowned, but immediately relaxed his brows and asked, "Doctor Liao, why are you here?"

"I heard you went to visit relatives and haven't been back for so long. I was worried that something happened to you, so I came to ask, but there was no one here."

"You don't know where the headquarters is either?"

Liao Yaquan shook his head and said, "I don't know. I heard from Sister Liu that her husband was on an emergency mission. I wanted to ask about you, but I didn't expect the headquarters had moved away."

Yu Zhigan looked at the empty command center and sat down on the ground. How come when he went out to "visit relatives" and came back, the troops were gone?

"Captain Yu, how about you come back to the hospital with me? Then we can find out where the headquarters is?"

Yu Zhigan nodded and said, "That's all we can do for now."

The command center that Yu Zhiqian was thinking about at this time was crossing the mountains and ridges along the Taihang Mountains and arrived at Mount Wutai, and finally rushed to Datong.

The rest of the troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column were also constantly heading north. With more than 300 kilometers to cover in seven days, the time was not very sufficient. If they encountered some problems on the road and were delayed for a while, they might be late.

Therefore, each unit tried to walk as far as possible every night. During the day on the sixth day, the first team arrived at the outskirts of Datong first. However, Li Yunlong had already led the command center to this area, and the soldiers of the guard battalion were exploring the terrain.

Although Li Yunlong had made preparations before and sent people to explore the terrain early on, and he had also visited Datong several times in later life, especially the Datong Mass Grave Memorial Hall, the terrain had changed a bit over the decades and was somewhat different from what Li Yunlong remembered.

The first, second and third teams arrived first. On the evening of the seventh day, the remaining troops arrived in the area around Datong one after another. Most of the soldiers were in place, but a small group of soldiers fell behind. Most of them were new recruits. Some were injured while traveling and some were exhausted, but they were all caught up by the ones behind and eventually all arrived in Datong.

Chapter 176 Letter to the Military

In Taiyuan City.

Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko once again received intelligence support from the Special High Technology Bureau. In order to help Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko secure his position as commander of the First Army, the Japanese headquarters provided a lot of support.

First of all, in terms of intelligence, in the past, if Kazuo Shinozuka wanted to obtain intelligence from the Special High Technology Bureau, he had to make a phone call in person or send a telegram to obtain it. However, after Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko arrived, the Special High Technology Bureau took the initiative to hand over the intelligence they had obtained about Shanxi Province.

Secondly, although Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko was the commander of the First Army, the troops he could mobilize were not limited to the First Army. For example, in this attack on Zhongtiao Mountain, all the elite troops of the First Army were sent out, but he could transfer the Fourth Division from Hebei Province.

In addition, after the 4th Division was sent out, Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko was able to transfer most of the 26th Division from the Mongolian garrison to the south.

If it were Kazuo Shinozuka, he would need to report to all levels of government if he wanted to mobilize troops stationed in other places except the First Army, otherwise no one would listen to him.

"Report, urgent telegram from Jinzhong!"

"Jinzhong?"

Prince Guizi immediately looked at the telegram after receiving it. He found that Jinzhong was less than 30 kilometers away from Taiyuan, which could be said to be the eastern barrier of Taiyuan. To defend Taiyuan, Jinzhong must be defended.

The content of the telegram was that the defenders of Jinzhong discovered that the tank unit of the independent column appeared near Jinzhong, attacked two Japanese checkpoints and then left.

Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko quickly found the locations of the two checkpoints on the map, which were the only way from Jinzhong to Taiyuan.

"Finally can't help but take action?"

A smile appeared on the face of the devil prince. Combining the intelligence from the Special High Technology Bureau, the intelligence personnel who infiltrated the Independent Column confirmed that the main force of the Independent Column had left Ping'an County, and only the logistics troops were hiding in the mountains near Ping'an County.

"I just don't know where you'll start? Jinzhong or Xin County? Or somewhere else?"

The devil prince looked at Taiyuan on the map, thinking about the direction Li Yunlong might attack.

"Report, traces of a small group of Eighth Route Army troops have been discovered east of Taiyuan City."

A communications soldier hurried into the command center and reported the situation.

"Ignore it, pretend you didn't notice anything, notify all the troops, and continue waiting for orders!"

"Hayi!"

Prince Asaka Naruhiko lowered a flag representing an independent column east of Taigen.

After thinking for a while, he placed the flag of the 70th Regiment he had sent out behind the flag of the independent column. Feeling a little unsafe, he took out the flag of the Kuroshima Cavalry Regiment and placed it behind the independent column.

With two regiments left behind, the Japanese prince saw that the independent column had no way of escaping this time.

"Li Yunlong, ah Li Yunlong, let's see where you can escape this time!"

Within a few days, various telegrams were sent to Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko, all of which contained information about the Independent Column. A small group of the Independent Column was discovered around Taiyuan.

A large independent column force of nearly a thousand people was also discovered in Jinzhong. They even launched a tentative attack on Jinzhong. However, the number of people was small and they retreated hastily before reaching the outside of Jinzhong City. It should have been a tentative attack.

However, the Japanese defenders in Jinzhong also received orders and did not pursue, wanting to make Li Yunlong feel that the defenders in Jinzhong City were somewhat empty.

However, Li Yunlong's troops never launched an attack on Taiyuan, but only appeared around Taiyuan.

At this time, in the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

The army commander and the chief of general staff also received the combat report from the people left behind by Li Yunlong on the sixth day after Li Yunlong's troops set out.

In order to prevent the radio from being eavesdropped or deciphered, Li Yunlong did not contact the headquarters by radio before arriving in Datong. The headquarters only knew that Li Yunlong's troops had launched an attack, but it was not clear where they had gone specifically.

After reading the letter, the Chief of General Staff looked at the Army Commander and said, "Commander, I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear?"

"Let's talk about the good news first. What the hell is this guy Li Yunlong doing? Sending someone to deliver a letter? Doesn't he know how to repair radios?"

"The good news is, we don't have to worry about Li Yunlong attacking Taiyuan!"

The commander nodded after hearing this and said, "The Japs have been very active this time. Our intelligence personnel have also discovered that there is an unknown Japs unit stationed in Taiyuan City. They must have been transferred here recently to strengthen Taiyuan's defenses. It's better not to attack them, so as not to fall into an ambush by the Japs! What's the bad news? This guy is not going to attack Shimen, is he?"

After hearing this, the Chief of General Staff smiled bitterly and said, "That's not the case, but it's almost the same. He went to attack Datong!"

"Datong? Li Yunlong's troops are going to attack Datong?"

The commander immediately took the letter and read it. His expression became serious. He walked to the map to look for Datong's location, but found that Datong's name was only found on the edge of the map.

"Change the map of Chahar!"

At this time, a map of Shanxi Province was hanging in the headquarters. Datong belonged to the Chahar region, so it only appeared on the edge.

Soon, a map of the Chahar region was hung on the wall. The army commander looked at Datong and said, "Isn't Datong guarded by the Japanese 26th Division? This guy wants to take over this division?"

"I guess the unknown unit our intelligence department discovered is the Japanese 26th Division. Li Yunlong must have received intelligence that the Japanese 26th Division was heading south, so he went to attack Datong!"