Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

I looked at the time again. Four hours had passed since I received the news that a large number of planes took off from Wuhan Airport. It was already around 4:30 in the afternoon. They should be the Japanese planes taking off from Wuhan Airport.

"Notify all units to cease attacking immediately, disperse on the spot, and seek cover. Notify all artillery units to immediately begin taking cover, and our headquarters will also disperse."

"Yes!"

More than 30 heavy bombers were able to fly from Wuhan to Yun County. First of all, the Type 93 bomber was ruled out. The only possible one was the Japanese Type 97 heavy bomber. This thing was already outdated in the European battlefield, but it could dominate the sky in the domestic battlefield. Li Yunlong once again deeply realized the truth that if you lag behind, you will be beaten.

The Type 7,7 heavy bomber could carry a one-ton aerial bomb, and was also equipped with five mm machine guns and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, allowing it to straf the ground.

With more than 30 tons of aerial bombs and more than 300,000 rounds of bullets, Li Yunlong had to show some respect and temporarily avoid the attack.

"Damn it, sooner or later, I'm going to beat you all down!"

Li Yunlong cursed as he packed up his things. The originally smooth offensive rhythm had to be delayed because of the devil's planes, giving the Sixth Division a chance to catch its breath.

Chapter 260: Infantry Artillery Coverage

"Molotov cocktails!"

"High-explosive bomb!"

"Cluster bomb!"

"..."

Li Yunlong was on a mountain, looking at the battlefield in the distance with a telescope. He was watching the flashing flames and sounds of explosions in the distance, and distinguishing the types of bombs.

"How's the situation at the front?"

Li Yunlong put down the telescope and asked.

"I don't know yet. I sent a telegram but haven't received a reply yet."

Li Yunlong sighed and clenched his fists as he watched the Japanese fighter planes wreaking havoc in the sky.

Air supremacy. Without air supremacy, you can only passively take the beating.

The Japanese Type 97 heavy bomber, without any fighter cover, flew thousands of kilometers in a swagger, and then began to drop bombs at low altitude.

After a round of bombing, the Japanese bomber did not leave. After increasing its altitude and circling around, it once again arrived over Yu County. This time, it no longer dropped bombs, but chose to strafe at low altitude.

The Japanese bombers even poured their ammunition into the trenches at an altitude of less than 100 meters.

Five anti-aircraft guns launched air defense operations immediately, but failed to shoot down the Japanese bombers. Instead, one anti-aircraft position was destroyed.

Only after all the ammunition of these bombers were emptied did the Japanese bombers rise from low altitude and fly directly to the east.

"Looks like we're going to land at Shimen Airport. Trouble!"

Li Yunlong did not expect that the Japanese would mobilize heavy bombardment support from Wuhan. If he could not eliminate the Japanese in Yun County tonight, he might have to face high-density bombing from the Japanese tomorrow. There is not much difference between taking off from Shimen Airport to support Yun County and taking off from Taiyuan Airport to support Yun County. The distance is very close.

"Let the troops continue the attack!"

After watching the Japanese bombers leave, Li Yunlong once again gave orders, saying that a merciful army is not suitable for commanding troops, and now is not the time to care about casualties. Li Yunlong only wanted one result, Yu County.

There was only one goal, which was to capture Yu County and destroy the Sixth Division.

"Yes!"

At the same time, fifteen kilometers south of Wenchang Mountain.

The 61st Regiment of the 4th Division is marching at a rapid pace.

"Quick, quick, hurry up!"

After more than four hours of forced march, the Japanese troops who set out from near Yangquan walked more than 20 kilometers and were only about 15 kilometers away from Yun County.

Sato Genpachi, commander of the 61st Regiment, sat in a car and checked his watch. "Send a telegram to the division commander. Our unit is still fifteen kilometers away from Yu County. We expect to arrive there around seven o'clock today!"

Although Nakaaki Daxiang and several other commanders of the 4th Division decided to take their time, Sato Genpachi was particularly concerned about supporting the 6th Division.

Because Sato Genpachi received the news that His Royal Highness the Prince was injured and the division commander Yamashita Tomotake was about to be transferred from the 4th Division.

If he could seize the opportunity and perform well, perhaps he could stand out in the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters or the headquarters. He didn't dare to think about being a division commander, but perhaps he could go one step further and become a brigade commander or be promoted to some other positions.

Sato Genpachi even used the money he earned from selling supplies as activity funds to bribe several staff officers and some personnel at the North China Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

Moreover, Sato Genpachi believed that the 6th Division was surrounded and could break out of the encirclement without even any reinforcements. Going to support it himself was just icing on the cake. The first person to support the 6th Division would definitely be rewarded.

He even thought Zhong Ming Daxiang was a bit stupid: "Doing business with Li Yunlong? Why not just chop off Li Yunlong's head? That's worth three hundred thousand dollars! Idiot, if it were me, I would have found a way to kill Li Yunlong the first time I saw him!"

The 61st Regiment's marching route was filled with observation posts, which allowed the 61st Regiment's movements to be clearly seen. In fact, all the troops of the 4th Division were under the surveillance of the district squads and county battalions.

At the beginning of the war, Li Yunlong assigned tasks to these district teams and county brigades, and even sent signalmen with radios to ensure that he could keep abreast of the movements of the various units of the Fourth Division.

"Send a telegram to headquarters: the 61st Regiment of the Japanese Fourth Division has entered the 15-kilometer radius of Yu County!"

"Yes!"

At Li Yunlong's headquarters, upon receiving the telegram, Li Yunlong could not help but snort coldly, "I didn't expect that someone from the Fourth Division would actually come here to die!"

"Is the 107th Rocket Artillery Battalion in position?"

"Report, already in position!"

"Are the Ninth Detachment and the New Fourth Battalion in position?"

"We have also arrived at the designated location and are ready to launch an attack at any time!"

The 9th Detachment and the newly formed 4th Battalion stayed in the base during the attack on Datong, responsible for harassing Taiyuan and Jinzhong, providing cover for Li Yunlong's attack on Datong, and did not leave the base.

This time, when attacking Yu County, the 107th Detachment and the New th Battalion served as the reserve forces. When Li Yunlong received news that the st Regiment of the Japanese army was rapidly approaching Yu County, he sent them out with the th Rocket Artillery Battalion to wait in the mountains ten kilometers away from Yu County.

As the 61st Regiment rapidly approached Yu County, Li Yunlong ordered the Rocket Artillery Battalion, the 9th Detachment, and the New 4th Battalion to ambush the route the 61st Regiment had to take, preparing to surprise the emerging enemy regiment.

"Order the 107th Rocket Artillery Battalion to fire the last round of 107th rockets!"

"Yes!"

"Order the Ninth Detachment, the New Fourth Battalion, and the surrounding district squads and county brigades. Once the artillery fire is over, strike hard. If you can completely wipe them out, do so. If you can't, cripple the 61st Regiment. Drive them back to where they came from!"

"Yes!"

A hilltop near Yulinzhao, 15 kilometers from Yu County.

After receiving the order, Chu Qiwen, commander of the 107th Rocket Artillery Battalion, said, "All guns, position!"

The eighteen rocket launchers had already been loaded and were adjusting the warhead scales according to the locations they were responsible for bombing.

"Cannon number one is ready!"

"Cannon number two is ready!"

"Cannon number three..."

Soon all eighteen rocket launchers were ready.

"put!"

Following Chu Qiwen's order, the 107 rockets loaded on the launchers of the eighteen rocket launchers were powered on and ignited one by one, flying into the air with tail flames. Because the distance was only about four kilometers, the elevation angle of the launcher was adjusted to be very high.

After nearly three hundred rockets were launched into the air and reached a certain height, they began to fall.

On the hills on both sides of the 61st Regiment's marching route, Wang Wenbai, commander of the 9th Detachment, kept staring at the sky, looking for traces of rockets.

The ambush site was not very close to the marching route of the 61st Regiment.

Because Chu Qiwen had reminded Wang Wenbai that the accuracy of the 107 rocket was a little poor, occasionally with an error of three or four hundred meters, and sometimes even larger, so the ambush position of the th Detachment and the New Fourth Battalion was about meters away from the st Regiment.

"Captain Wang, what are you looking for?"

Li Yang, the captain of the Ping'an County Brigade, looked at Wang Wenbai with some curiosity. After all, the Japanese were at the foot of the mountain. Wang Wenbai didn't look at the Japanese but looked up at the sky. Could there be something good in the sky?

Li Yang also looked up at the sky, and then he saw a scene that he would never forget.

Dense black dots quickly streaked across the sky and fell rapidly towards the ground.

Wang Wenbo saw the rockets flashing across the sky and shouted, "Our artillery fire is coming! Comrades, attack! Follow me!"

The words just fell.

A series of huge explosions sounded above the Japanese marching column five hundred meters away.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom……"

Nearly 300 rockets were launched successfully. Except for a few that landed in the off-center spots, the rest basically hit the designated locations. There was not much deviation in the Japanese marching formation.

Chapter 261 The Japanese Army was stunned by the bombing

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

There are three roads from Yangquan to Yu County. One is from Zhangzhao Town along the east bank of Wen River through the Wen River Gorge to enter Yu County.

One route is to go north along Baihu Mountain on the west bank of Wen River and enter Yu County.

The last route, which was chosen by the 61st Regiment of the Japanese Army, passed through Sanjian Mountain, which was the Zhengyang Line in later generations.

Although the road here is not as wide as the road next to the Wenhe Canyon, it can accommodate six Japanese soldiers walking side by side and trucks can pass normally.

The Japanese didn't even notice when the 107 rocket was launched and was about to fall into the Japanese marching column.

When the Japanese heard the sound of the rockets falling through the air, it was too late. The rockets had already fallen and began to reap the lives of the Japanese soldiers of the 61st Regiment.

Without any cover, the Japanese soldiers of the 61st Regiment walked crowdedly on the road.

Even if the 107 rocket did not fall into the crowd, it would fall next to the Japanese marching column.

The huge shock wave generated by the explosion could blow over groups of Japanese soldiers, or even kill them directly.

At the same time, the rocks and various debris brought up by the explosion were also taking the lives of the Japanese soldiers. These Japanese soldiers had no defense at all and completely lost consciousness after hearing a huge explosion.

Even more unlucky were some Japanese soldiers who were hit head-on by the 107 rocket launcher.

Of the nearly three hundred rockets, about two hundred fell into the Japanese marching troops.