Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Zhong Ming Daxiang handed the telegram to Kotera Kouta and said, "Li Yunlong is going too far. Does he really think our Fourth Division is a pushover? That we can only resell supplies and not fight? Damn, if we don't teach him a lesson, we will..."

Zhong Ming Daxiang's brain began to work rapidly, while staring at the map, thinking about how to quickly support the Sixth Division.

At this time, another signalman entered Zhongming Daxiang's command center with a telegram.

"Report, telegram from the 23rd Regiment."

"The 23rd Regiment? Requesting tactical guidance?"

"Sir, please check it yourself."

The signalman thought for a moment and then handed over the telegram.

Zhongming Daxiang took the telegram and looked at it.

This telegram was not a request for tactical guidance but an insult.

The telegram began with a harsh scolding of Zhongming Daxiang, meaning that it was all because of Zhongming Daxiang and now they were in a desperate situation. Okamoto Zhenxiong was no longer considering whether he would be dismissed or transferred back to his home country, but whether he could survive.

"Was the fighting so intense? Did the 23rd Regiment give up so quickly?"

Zhongming Daxiang frowned and suddenly felt that something seemed wrong, as if the warning Li Yunlong sent to him was not a joke.

"Call the 23rd Regiment back and ask what exactly happened."

"Hayi!"

A few minutes ago, the outer frontier positions of the 23rd Regiment had been captured. The independent column had broken through the second line of defense of the 23rd Regiment and was launching an attack on the deep defense positions.

"Stop, everyone. The Japanese are firing so hard. You are going to die!" Platoon leader Sun Dayou looked at the crossfire of the Japanese in front and pulled Gu Xiaomai and others.

"Platoon leader, I'm going to blow up the Japanese firing point!"

"You don't need to go, communicator, give me the walkie-talkie!"

A row of communications soldiers came to Sun Dayou with walkie-talkies on their backs. Sun Dayou stuck his head out to observe the Japanese's firepower point in the distance, and quickly lowered his head. In just this instant, more than a dozen bullets were fired at him.

The Japanese machine gunners and handguns fired very accurately. During previous charges, Sun Dayou had seen too many comrades fall under the muzzles of the Japanese machine guns and handguns.

"map!"

The correspondent immediately spread out a map, which was a rough topographic map of Yu County, but it was in a grid format.

"Where are we?"

"Here, we are in area E4!"

After hearing the communicator's words, Sun Dayou immediately took out a pen, made a light mark on the map, and picked up the microphone of the walkie-talkie.

"I'm Sun Dayou from the first platoon. We need fire support. The enemy is firing from three machine gun positions. Positions E6, D5, F4! Requesting fire support!" (Note 1)

There was a loud buzzing sound from the walkie-talkie, followed by a voice: "Rocket artillery company received!"

After the rocket artillery company received the order requesting fire support, the observers quickly found these three directions and confirmed that there were no friendly forces in these three directions.

Three 88mm rockets were loaded into the launcher.

"Target E6, distance four kilometers, adjust elevation to 50 degrees, ready one 88mm rocket!"

"Target……"

After confirming the direction, the operator pressed the launcher and three rockets with tail flames flew towards the Japanese position.

When the rockets streaked across the sky and flew towards the Japanese positions, the Japanese soldiers of the 23rd Regiment were already scared out of their wits.

The scene of the 107mm rockets bombing the Japanese field artillery regiment was deeply engraved in their minds. Now seeing the rockets flying towards them, some Japanese soldiers simply abandoned their positions and ran into the cat-ear caves not far away.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Three explosions were heard, and three cross-fire points blocking the front of the row were destroyed.

"Come at me!"

Sun Dayou roared and continued forward with his weapon in hand.

At the 23rd Regiment headquarters, Okamoto Shin's men were constantly reporting the news of the loss of front-line positions.

"Your Excellency, the Eighth Route Army has broken through the second line of defense, and most of the firepower points on the third line have been destroyed..."

Before he could finish his words, another explosion was heard.

"Baga, heavy artillery!"

The sound of the explosion just now was at least from a heavy artillery of over 100 mm.

The shock wave generated by the explosion caused dirt to continue to fall from the reinforced command center.

Okamoto Shigeo shook his head to clear the dirt and said, "Have the 3rd Infantry Battalion take the lead. They must hold out for two hours no matter what!"

"Hayi!"

Two hours. As long as he can hold on for two hours, Okamoto Shigeo can retreat, and then the fact that he is selling bullets can be covered up.

"Sir, our ammunition reserves are running low..."

"Nani?"

"Your Excellency, the Eighth Route Army's firepower is too strong. We have no heavy artillery support and can only rely on light and heavy machine guns to suppress them. We are almost out of bullets..."

"Baga, Zhongming Daxiang, you bastard, you idiot..."

The more Okamoto Shigeo thought about it, the angrier he became: "Send a telegram to the Eighth Regiment, Nakamiya Daxiang, you idiot..."

Note 1: The grid map was invented by Li Yunlong. After all, most soldiers were unable to accurately state the coordinates of areas. Li Yunlong first used a simple grid map and later conducted coordinate training for grassroots commanders.

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Chapter 255: Is this how the Eighth Route Army fought?

"There's a Japanese fire point in front of the company commander, we can't take it down!"

Near Dongzhai Village on the north side of Yun County, the attack of the Third Detachment was also hindered. The 45th Regiment of the Japanese army fought very fiercely and repelled several attacks of the Third Detachment.

Under the cover of ten rapid artillery shots and a barrage of artillery fire, the Third Detachment successfully occupied the forward position of the 45th Regiment of the Japanese Army, opening a gap for the follow-up troops.

Subsequently, the fourth, fifth, and sixth detachments have all entered the Japanese positions. Subsequently, large forces are continuously rushing across the two-kilometer flat ground, entering the Japanese positions, and continuously extending to both sides.

However, as the attack deepened, the vanguard attacking forces had gradually left the range of the infantry artillery. The Type 92 infantry artillery on the mountain was moving its artillery position. It would take a certain amount of time to build a new artillery position and it was temporarily unable to provide fire cover for the attacking forces.

"Let me lead the charge!"

Long Wenjian originally thought that the Eighth Route Army would use them as cannon fodder, but he didn't expect that the tough bones were all charged by the Eighth Route Army troops. He joined the Eighth Route Army and opened up the frontier positions, but was assigned some tasks of clearing out the remaining enemies, and there was no attack mission at all.

Now Long Wenjian is the company commander of a temporary company with about 120 men under his command, but only more than 50 guns. After all, there are more than 10,000 guns seized, and it is not enough to distribute them all to these Kuomintang soldiers.

They could only fight while seizing rifles from the dead devils and distributing them to the unarmed soldiers.

However, Long Wenjian also discovered something strange. The Japanese troops that were exchanging fire with the Eighth Route Army were short of ammunition. When they searched the bodies of some Japanese soldiers, they only found twenty or thirty bullets. Some even had only a few bullets, or even no bullets at all.

"We don't need you. We can do it ourselves. You are responsible for cleaning up those who are not completely dead and those who are pretending to be dead!"

The soldiers of the Independent Column looked down on the combat effectiveness of these National Army soldiers. They thought that asking them to attack would only delay the attack and waste the opportunity, so it would be better for them to do it themselves.

After the company commander finished speaking, he immediately squatted in the trench, raised his head and shouted loudly: "Demolition team, demolition team, does anyone else have rockets?"

"Captain, our group still has three more rounds!"

"Then attack and destroy the enemy's firepower point!"

After the company commander finished his speech, he turned to the other soldiers and said, "Fire cover for the demolition team!"

"Yes!"

Long Wenjian listened to the expression on the face of the Eighth Route Army soldier next to him, thought for a moment and wanted to continue speaking.

He knew about the blasting team. When he was in the National Army, the blasting team was generally called the suicide team, which was basically the same as the suicide squad. It was composed of soldiers who had made mistakes or received resettlement allowances, and they would take explosives to blow up the Japanese's firepower points.

"Let me go. I have experience in blasting, so I don't need to..."

Before Long Wenjian finished speaking, he saw two people suddenly emerge from the trench not far away.

"Watch out behind you!"

Immediately afterwards, flames suddenly came out of the object one of the men was carrying, and a shell directly hit the Japanese's firing point.

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, and the Japanese firepower points and bunkers were destroyed.

"Grenade launcher, grenade launcher, blow up the Japanese machine gun position in front!"

"Where's the mortar? Give me some support and blast out a safe zone!"

Continuing to advance, they soon encountered some obstacles, including the Japanese machine gun positions and some temporary firepower points. However, when encountering these firepower points, the vanguard troops did not rely on lives to fight their way out, but immediately called for various artillery support.

After hearing the shouting, several soldiers would immediately take out grenade launchers from behind their backs, then take out shells and fire several shells at the Japanese machine gun positions.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

Although the caliber of the grenade launcher was not large, after several shells fell together and a series of explosions sounded, the Japanese machine gun position that had just been showing off its might and spewing flames was completely silenced.

"Is this how you, the Eighth Route Army, fight?"

Long Wenjian looked at the battlefield, a little confused. In their impression, the Eighth Route Army would immediately charge after firing a few shots and running out of bullets, approaching the Japanese and engaging them in hand-to-hand combat. Why was it that now, after encountering a firepower point, they directly called for fire support? Back then, the German-equipped divisions weren't so well-off, were they?

"That's about it. Don't just stand there. Xiao Liu, lead them to encircle the flanks and eliminate the group of devils in the front position!"

"Yes!"

"Go ahead, and if you encounter any problems, request artillery support!"