Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Huang Zhiyong looked at the fortifications outside Baicheng and put down his telescope. "We arrived two hours earlier than scheduled. We still have plenty of time. Let's not rush to attack!"

"what do you mean?"

Huang Zhiyong put down the binoculars and said, "Since we have time to prepare, let's not rush the attack. Send a telegram to headquarters. Our troops have arrived at the outskirts of Baicheng as planned. The fortifications outside Baicheng are strong, and the armored forces have not yet arrived at the battlefield. Requesting air support!"

Huang Zhiyong finished speaking and blew out a smoke ring: "We don't have to rely on human lives to blow up the Japanese bunkers now. If we don't have tanks, we still have planes; even if we don't have planes, our rocket artillery division should be here soon. The soldiers don't have to sacrifice their lives. The commander said that a soldier's life is worth ten tanks!"

The political commissar nodded. "Yes, we are different now than we were before. As for the Japs, they are still the same. They think they are infallible just by building a gun tower and a bunker!"

Soon, Huang Zhiyong received a call back from the First Corps Command, saying that the Second Air Division had received their request and would send a flying regiment to provide fire support during the attack.

"Let the soldiers have a good rest. They have traveled such a long distance in three days. Although they took the train, they also walked dozens of kilometers of mountain roads. Let the soldiers have a good meal and rest well before they can kill the Japanese!"

"Yes!"

At this time, in the newly formed 1st Regiment of the 1st Division, Long Wenjian was sitting on the ground, and several battalion commanders were sitting beside him.

"Milong, how are you feeling now?"

While eating potatoes, Long Wenjian looked at Milong who was a little absent-minded beside him.

"Report to the captain, I'm in a good mood!"

"Are you feeling okay? I see you're distracted. You're about to go to the battlefield. Are you scared?"

Hearing Long Wenjian's words, Milong immediately retorted: "No, Captain, I'm just a little excited. We're about to fight back to the four eastern provinces, I... I..."

Long Wenjian slapped Mi Long on the head. "Excited? What the hell! You're the battalion commander now, with hundreds of comrades under you. You're responsible for them. Is the battlefield a place for excitement? The battlefield requires calmness!"

Having said this, Long Wenjian glanced at his battalion and company commanders. "I know you're all very excited, and so am I. Our regiment is very likely to be the first to launch a counterattack and enter the four eastern provinces. This is a huge honor!"

"But don't get too excited yet. After we take over Baicheng, even if you take off your pants and run around the streets, I, Long Wenjian, will not only ignore you, I will run with you!"

"We haven't even started fighting yet, and yet you all act as if we're certain to win. My battalion commanders, it's good to have confidence in victory, but you're the battalion and company commanders, and you're responsible for the soldiers. Look at yourselves now. Can you command the troops well?"

"I'll give you half an hour. Before the attack begins, anyone who's still distracted will be removed from their position and allowed to calm down. War is no joke, and the lives of our soldiers are not bricks to pave your way home!"

"They are our comrades and our closest people!"

"If anyone disobeys orders on the battlefield and acts recklessly in a fit of rage, don't blame me, Long Wenjian, for enforcing military law!"

"Alright, enough talking, calm down and find your souls. Also, tell your platoon leaders and squad leaders to calm down too!"

"Yes!"

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Chapter 566 Attack! Attack!

"Old Sun, look at your watch, what time is it?"

"Two fifty-five, what's going on?"

"Order the troops to prepare for attack!"

There were still five minutes left before the general attack. Huang Zhiyong checked the time with two watches and asked his political commissar about the time to make sure that there was no mistake.

"This is for Commander Shen. Our troops now need to prepare a few extra watches for appointments!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Zhiyong, the political commissar, the division chief of staff and others all laughed.

"No one can predict Commander Shen's time."

"Hahaha……"

Five minutes before the general attack, the regiment responsible for the vanguard attack had already entered the offensive position, which was actually a simple trench about eight kilometers away from Baicheng. This was almost exactly the farthest range of the Japanese artillery, and the offensive force could be organized here.

According to the assigned tasks, the soldiers of the first regiment lay in the trenches and observed the Japanese positions in the distance.

At this time, small black dots appeared in the distant sky.

"Captain, plane!"

After the political commissar of the first regiment saw it, he immediately reminded Long Wenjian.

Long Wenjian glanced in the direction and said, "The plane coming from this direction should be ours. Notify the troops to prepare for the attack!"

"Yes!"

More than 30 planes appeared in the air, 12 of which were escort fighters and the rest were bombers.

After arriving around White City, the fighters and bombers began to descend.

"Set a flare!"

"Roger that!"

Not far from the Japanese defensive position outside Baicheng, after receiving the order, several soldiers lurking there took out signal guns and fired red flares into the sky above the Japanese position.

"call out!"

"Tom!"

The red flare exploded in the air. The bomber flying from a distance could clearly see the location of the flare, immediately adjusted its course, flew towards the direction of the flare, and prepared to start dropping bombs.

At this time, the defenders of Baicheng were two Type B divisions under the Japanese Fifth Army.

The two Japanese division commanders also arrived at the city wall of Baicheng at this time.

"The Eighth Route Army on the opposite side is about to attack!" The commander of the 114th Division, Shigeharu Suematsu, said with a frown after watching the signal flare take off.

Beside him was Wu Chuannan, commander of the Japanese 36th Division. He looked at the signal flares in the sky and said with some concern: "We only have two divisions. Can we hold on?"

Upon hearing this, Suematsu Shigeharu snorted coldly and said, "When we attacked Nanjing, we had fewer troops than the Chinese army, yet we still won. It's useless for the Chinese to have more men. Their soldiers' fighting spirit and equipment are far inferior to those of the Imperial warriors!"

"Whoever wants to take White City with infantry is dreaming!"

Shigeharu Suematsu participated in the Nanjing Incident. The 114th Division he led was established because of the Battle of Shanghai. Later, it went to some cities to serve as garrison troops.

During the winter, the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses and transferred some Type B divisions composed of veterans back to the four northeastern provinces. The 114th Division was one of them.

"Really? It seems General Suematsu Shigeharu is very confident!"

"Of course!"

But at this moment, Shigeharu Suematsu and Maiden discovered a black spot appearing in the distant sky.

"It's a plane, it must be from some air force!"

Suematsu Shigeharu slammed his fist on the city wall. "I don't know what the headquarters was thinking. Why didn't they leave some planes in Manchuria? Now they've let the Chinese Air Force gain air superiority!"

Wu Chuannan glanced at the black speck in the distance and said, "The Chinese Air Force doesn't have any good fighters or bombers. They're probably some obsolete equipment given to them by the Russians. They probably don't have much ammunition capacity, so they won't cause much damage!"

"We have reinforced the outer fortifications of White City. They are now very strong and will not be easily destroyed!"

Wu Chuan'an was very confident, and he immediately reinforced the outer fortifications after discovering that Li Yunlong's troops had made unusual movements.

So he was very confident in defending Baicheng this time.

Just as the two Japanese division commanders were analyzing the situation, the bombers had arrived over the outer positions of Baicheng and began dropping bombs.

"call out!"

"call out!"

"call out!"

"..."

One aerial bomb after another was thrown out from the belly of the Il-4 and Pe-8 aircraft and fell towards the Japanese outer positions outside Baicheng.

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, and a 500-kilogram aerial bomb fell in the middle of the Japanese defense position. The huge explosion instantly destroyed all the bunkers and artillery towers built by the Japanese in the surrounding area.

The shock wave generated by the explosion blew up some Japanese soldiers who were farther away. After spinning freely in the air, they slammed heavily onto the ground and finally fell freely into an incomplete corpse.

Even on the city gate tower four kilometers away, Shigeharu Suematsu and Maidenō felt a shock wave and their bodies retreated uncontrollably. If the soldiers had not caught them, they might have been blown away.

After the explosion, a deep pit appeared at the previous location, with a radius of about 30 meters. No people or animals were left, and everything was reduced to ashes.

None of the Japanese soldiers within a radius of 200 meters survived. Even those with intact bodies were bleeding from all seven orifices and were killed by the earthquake.

Even within a radius of 500 meters, some unlucky Japanese soldiers were killed by the shock or explosion.

A 500-kilogram aerial bomb has terrifying destructive power in an open area without any buildings to block it, but this is just the beginning.

Immediately afterwards, bombs continued to fall from the sky and landed on the Japanese positions.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

The explosions continued and continued to extend towards Baicheng.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, enemy bombers are heading towards White City. Please evacuate immediately!"

Several Japanese officers looked at the bomber flying over and immediately warned them. Without waiting for Suematsu Shigeharu and Maidenō to answer, these Japanese officers carried the two men and began to retreat from the city wall.

After the bomber arrived over Baicheng, it did not choose to drop bombs, but circled and determined the value of the target buildings on the ground.

"Prepare for precision bombing!"

"Roger that!"

The bombardier quickly pushed out the gyro-guided aerial bomb and began to adjust the number of circles.

The escorting fighter planes had no combat missions because they were not intercepted by the Japanese fighter planes, so they also sent out six fighter planes to participate in this attack.

After these fighters lowered their altitude, they began to strafe the ground.

All the fighter planes chose to strafe the city walls without any prior agreement.

After these fighter planes selected a city wall, they began to fire from the side of the wall. Hundreds of bullets hit the wall, killing a dozen or dozens of panicked Japanese soldiers. Then they increased their altitude and flew away.

Chapter 567 Is this the Eighth Route Army?