Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"Report, Deputy Commander Xing sent a telegram, the Third Detachment has entered the enemy's front line, but the Japanese artillery fire is fierce, and the advance is hindered!"

"Order the 107th Rocket Artillery Battalion to find a way to support the Third Detachment and destroy the Japanese artillery!"

"Yes!"

"Report, headquarters telegram, forwarding secret intelligence from Wuhan, the Japanese are mobilizing a large number of bombers to the north to support Shanxi Province, let our troops prepare for air defense."

"Hmm? Wuhan?" Li Yunlong couldn't find Wuhan's location on the map. He looked up at the division commander and asked, "Division Commander, how far is Wuhan from here?"

"About 1,200 kilometers,"

"Two to three hours. We can only bomb once today. Send a telegram to headquarters, requesting other friendly forces monitor the sky for any traces of Japanese aircraft. If they find any, report to our unit immediately."

"Yes!"

"Report, headquarters telegram, forwarding news from the Sijiucheng intelligence department, twelve Japanese reconnaissance planes and twelve light explosives have been dispatched from the Sijiucheng airport. After taking off, they are flying westward, and their target is suspected to be northern Hebei or other areas."

"The support arrived quickly!"

Planes from Wuhan took off. Li Yunlong had not expected that his battle in Yun County would alert the Japanese in Wuhan and they would dispatch planes for support.

But the plane in Sijiu City was within Li Yunlong's expectations.

"Notify the anti-aircraft artillery battalion and prepare for air defense."

"Yes!"

"Report, the Daqingshan Cavalry Detachment has sent a telegram: over twenty planes from the Mengjiang Garrison are heading south, their destination unknown."

Li Yunlong quickly checked the location on the map and narrowed his eyes slightly. "Send a telegram to Deputy Commander Xing, telling him to disperse the non-combatants and not to concentrate them. The combatants and the command center should take cover. The Japanese air support is coming!"

At this time, Li Yunlong began to understand why the headquarters was not optimistic about his ability to defeat the Sixth Division.

It is indeed very difficult to destroy a Japanese division. From the Japanese's current reaction, it can be seen that without air superiority, they are fighting very passively.

This is also the reason why, although General Xue had the advantage in the Battle of Wanjialing, he was still able to allow part of the Japanese 106th Division to escape.

Chapter 253 Sending Power to the Fourth Division

The Japanese support came too quickly. Without air superiority, the Japanese planes could provide air support unscrupulously. As long as you were within the range of the Japanese planes, you would have to face the Japanese air force if you wanted to destroy a regular Japanese unit.

However, Li Yunlong did not intend to retreat. General Xue was besieging the Japanese 106th Division in Wanjialing at that time. The Japanese had the advantage of terrain and firepower. There were also a large number of Japanese reinforcements around who were desperately supporting the 106th Division.

However, in Yun County, the Japanese Sixth Division was trapped in the basin. Unlike Wanjialing, where they could occupy high ground and hold on until reinforcements, the Japanese Sixth Division did not have the terrain advantage.

In terms of firepower, the field artillery regiment was destroyed, and the remaining artillery squadrons were all infantry artillery. Facing 107 rockets and 88mm rockets, they no longer had a firepower advantage.

As for reinforcements, the Sixth Division did have some, including a Fourth Division, around it.

The 4th Division has good combat effectiveness, but it has few bullets now, and its ammunition reserves are even less than that of the 6th Division. Even if it has sufficient ammunition, the Japanese Tianhuang probably has no idea how much contribution the 4th Division can make.

In addition, the 20th Division was in Taiyuan, but the Taiyuan Airport was bombed, and Li Yunlong also sent people to blow up the ammunition depot. If the 20th Division wanted to provide support, it had to consider whether the 6th Division or Taiyuan City was more important.

More importantly, the Japanese soldiers in the Sixth Division didn't even have much ammunition. In high-intensity combat, a division only had two million bullets, averaging one hundred rounds per person. Taking into account the consumption of light and heavy machine guns, the average person had less than fifty rounds, or even less.

The Japanese without bullets are like pigs in a slaughterhouse - ready to be slaughtered at will.

Li Yunlong's encirclement and suppression of the Japanese Sixth Division was a victory of taking advantage of the time, place and people.

It was God who gave Li Yunlong the opportunity to capture Datong, which made him wealthy and able to produce nearly a thousand 107 rockets, which was almost the total number of 107 rockets that Li Yunlong could produce from the materials seized from Datong.

The geographical advantage is that the Japanese themselves placed the Sixth Division in Yun County. If the Sixth Division and the Fourth Division had swapped positions and stationed in Yangquan, Li Yunlong would not have such a good opportunity. After all, Yangquan is not a basin.

Harmony among people means that Li Yunlong's troops are united and share the same hatred of the enemy, while the Japanese troops are only superficially united but actually divided, such as the 4th Division.

Li Yunlong glanced at the division commander, the chief of staff, and the brigade commander and said, "Send a telegram to the 8th Regiment of the 4th Division of the Japanese. Tell Zhong Ming Daxiang to notify the other troops of the 4th Division. If they dare to come to Yu County, I will deal with them as well. I'm in a good mood today, so I will only attack the 6th Division. They are allowed to settle accounts on the periphery, but if they dare to come within 15 kilometers of Yu County, wash your neck and wait for me to exchange it for money!"

"One more thing to add: prepare money to exchange for the bodies of the Sixth Division devils!"

"Yes!"

The division commander, chief of staff and brigade commander were all very satisfied with Li Yunlong's leisurely listening to telegrams from all sides and his orderly command.

It is believed that Li Yunlong has the qualities of a commander.

When I suddenly heard Li Yunlong say this, I was stunned.

I suspect there's something wrong with my ears.

They knew that Li Yunlong's troops had transactions with the Japanese 4th Division, but they didn't say much. Occasionally, other troops would buy some weapons and ammunition from the puppet army or the Japanese, but most of the time the purchase quantity was not large, and they had to be carefully inspected.

Otherwise, the Japanese would secretly boil the ammunition they sold to the Eighth Route Army or soak it in water overnight, so that the bullets would become damp and unable to fire. (Note 1)

But now Li Yunlong is commanding tens of thousands of people to encircle and suppress the Japanese Sixth Division. Suddenly he sends a telegram to the Japanese Fourth Division, asking them not to move?

That’s the Japanese Fourth Division.

Looking at the division commander, chief of staff and brigade commander, Li Yunlong smiled shyly.

"Ahem, division commander, chief of staff, brigade commander, war isn't just a dinner party. Sometimes there are social etiquette involved. The Japs' Fourth Division should know the importance of this. If they don't, I have ways to make them realize it. I still have a salvo of 107mm rockets waiting to be fired. I'm just waiting to see their reaction!"

"They sold us a bunch of bullets and need to settle the accounts. We'll give them a chance to settle, but they can't get closer than 15 kilometers. If they want to be respectful, we'll give them respect this time. If they don't want respect, then we won't let them be respectful!"

Li Yunlong knew very well that he had to take a tough stance against the Japanese. If he gave money to the Fourth Division's troops not to come, perhaps these Japanese would think that Li Yunlong was afraid of them and would launch an attack instead.

However, given their tough attitude and limited ammunition, they are likely to just stall on the periphery.

Upon hearing this, the division commander immediately laughed and said, "No matter what method you use, as long as you can win the battle, it's fine. Your method of buying up all the enemy's ammunition in advance may sound a bit outrageous at first, but it is also a good idea. In ancient times, there was Zhuge Liang borrowing arrows from a straw boat, and now there is Li Yunlong buying up all the enemy's bullets. Both are leveraging the enemy's strength to defeat the enemy. Not bad, not bad!"

The chief of staff and the brigade commander also nodded, but the chief of staff looked at the division commander and said, "Division commander, where did you find this guy back then?"

"How would I know? But the first time I saw this guy, I thought he was good and a good fighter."

"He's not cut out for war! If he wasn't a soldier, he'd definitely be a profiteer, and a big capitalist at that!"

"Hahaha……"

While the three of them were chatting and laughing, telegrams continued to be sent to Li Yunlong's command center.

At this time, Li Yunlong's desk was piled with telegrams. The division commander, chief of staff and brigade commander were summarizing them, and the other staff officers were helping him, constantly recording various intelligence, and then helping Li Yunlong mark them on the map.

"Report, telegram from Ping'an County."

"Ping An County!"

Hearing these three words, Li Yunlong suddenly raised his head with a hint of worry in his eyes. After all, Ping'an County is almost an empty city now.

"When Deputy Battalion Commander Yu was transporting supplies through Ping'an County, he met General He, a senior general of the Nationalist Army, and General Yang Xingru, a subordinate of General Yan. They wanted to go to the front line to observe the battle."

Hearing this, Li Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief and frowned, "What are they doing here?"

"Didn't you say you were getting married today? I guess I'm here to give you a gift."

Hearing this, Li Yunlong patted his head and forgot about the matter as soon as the battle started.

He touched his chin and said, "Let them come. We've been fighting quite hard this time. When the time comes, let them pick out some meritorious deeds on the spot. If they want them, they can pay for them. I remember that each Japanese division has at least four or five generals, right? These generals' swords can also be sold for a good price!"

Upon hearing this, the division commander, the chief of staff, and the brigade commander were immediately irritated and laughed: "Boy, are you fighting a war or doing business? The battle with the Japanese hasn't even ended yet, and you're already trying to sell off your achievements. If I didn't know you were from Dabie Mountain, I would have thought you were Yan Laoxi's illegitimate son."

Hearing this, Li Yunlong thought seriously for a moment and said, "If Commander Yan recognizes me, I will have no problem being his son, but he has to give me his family background in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, otherwise I won't have a father!"

"you……"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Brigade Commander, this kid is even more shameless than you were back in the Whampoa Military Academy!"

"Or maybe you say this guy looks like me, Commander He, right? He's my old instructor. I haven't seen him in a long time since we left the Magic City. He's a rich man, Li Yunlong, you have to prepare some good things. He's a wealthy man, don't miss this opportunity to make a fortune!"

"Don't worry, Shinozuka Kazuo's command knife is right in my room, just waiting for the big fish to take the bait."

"Hahaha……"

Note 1: The metal fixed bullets of World War II were not as well sealed as modern bullets, and the primer would not fire if it got wet.

Chapter 254: Zhong Ming Da Xiang, you idiot

4th Division, 8th Regiment.

After receiving the telegram from the division, Zhong Ming Daxiang has been thinking about whether to support the Sixth Division.

The commanders of the remaining 37th, 61st, 70th and supply regiments under the 4th Division all sent telegrams to Zhong Ming Daxiang, asking for countermeasures. Zhong Ming Daxiang vaguely became the leader among these regiment commanders.

Among them, the 61st Regiment agreed to immediately support the 6th Division because they had the largest ammunition reserves. When the bullets were sold, the 61st Regiment sold the least, and each soldier still had 100 rounds of ammunition in reserve.

The 61st Regiment is the Wakayama Regiment. Although it also belongs to the Osaka area, it is located in a relatively remote area of ​​the Osaka area, and there is some distance between it and several other regiments formed in and around Osaka.

As for the division commander's orders, these Japanese regiment commanders simply chose to ignore them. Most people in the 4th Division were not convinced by the airborne division commander Yamashita Nobuyuki, and Yamashita Nobuyuki came to rectify the style of the 4th Division, so he was not very popular in the 4th Division. Many people in the subordinate units and even the division headquarters were hypocritical and disobeyed his orders.

Yamashita Fengwu blocked everyone's path to wealth.

"Kodera-kun, do you think we should support the Sixth Division?"

Nakamiya Daisho touched his chin and looked at Kodera Kouta and asked.

"Sir, I abide by your decision."

"We must provide support, but we don't have many bullets left. If we are ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, we won't be able to hold out for even half an hour. If we don't provide support, we will be disobeying military orders and will be court-martialed."

"What about you, Captain?"

"As a help!"

"Like help?"

"Just like providing support, order the troops to prepare to move out, but move slowly. We will set off after sufficient preparations are made."

"Hayi!"

Kota Kotera recalled some legends of his predecessors and roughly understood what the captain meant.

At this time, a signalman entered Zhongming Daxiang's headquarters and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, a telegram from General Li Yunlong!"

"A telegram from General Li Yunlong? Shouldn't he be busy encircling and suppressing the Sixth Division right now? Send me a telegram when you have time?"

Zhong Ming Daxiang took the telegram curiously, but after reading the contents of the telegram, Zhong Ming Daxiang's face became a little ugly.

"Baga, this Li Yunlong is so arrogant!"

Then Zhong Ming Daxiang narrowed his eyes slightly. Although he liked doing business, it did not mean that he was willing to be ordered around by Li Yunlong in such a high-handed manner, as if he were his subordinate. Damn Chinese. Although he was a businessman, he was also a brigade commander of the empire!

Even though they don’t have many bullets in their hands now, they still have a lot of artillery shells, so the Eighth Regiment still has a certain combat effectiveness!

"Your Excellency, the Captain?"