Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

The victory in Xinjing brought a lot of smiles to everyone's faces, but everyone was most concerned about the battle in Fengtian. Compared with Fengtian, Xinjing was indeed somewhat inferior. Apart from being the capital of the puppet Manchukuo, its status in various aspects, such as industry, was not as good as Fengtian.

"The vanguard is currently less than 30 kilometers away from Fengtian. We can launch an attack on Fengtian tomorrow!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong nodded and said, "The bombers continue to bomb the railway supporting Fengtian. We must hold back the five Japanese divisions coming from the peninsula!"

It actually takes less than a week to get from the peninsula to Fengtian, and it can take at least two days by train.

But when the war broke out, Li Yunlong kept dispatching bombers to blow up this railway, making it impossible for the reinforcements from the peninsula to take the train and they could only move forward on foot.

"Capture Fengtian in three days!"

Li Yunlong pounded his fist on the edge of the sand table. He was determined to take Fengtian back, no matter what. The city was teeming with industrial equipment. If he could capture Fengtian and take over these factories, Li Yunlong would instantly own the largest industrial base in Asia. From metallurgy to finished products, all the equipment was fully integrated, and the output was high.

"Well, now it depends on the performance of the troops attacking Fengtian and the Shenquan troops!"

Jiang Shou turned his attention to Jinzhou. He felt that taking Fengtian shouldn't be a problem. The Japanese had only one division defending them. While there were numerous fortifications on the periphery, the troops were also equipped with heavy firepower. Furthermore, there were spies and underground personnel within the city, so taking Fengtian shouldn't be difficult.

However, Jinzhou, where Shen Quan's troops were located, had to face the attack of ten Japanese divisions.

Li Yunlong also nodded and looked towards Jinzhou: "Old Xing, have we delivered the supplies to Jinzhou?"

"They set off three hours ago. They sent out their largest transport planes, all loaded with heavy weapons!"

"Increase support and ensure the safety of Jinzhou!"

"Yes!"

There is a Xiaolingzi Airport in Jinzhou, but the runway of this airport is short and can only accommodate some fighter jets and light bombers.

The Japanese heavy bombers took off from Fengtian and Xinjing airports.

Therefore, the C53 transport aircraft and the Pei-8 bomber could not land at Jinzhou Airport.

Tashan, 30 kilometers outside Jinzhou City.

The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Shenquan Chahar Column are working hard to build defensive positions.

There are no mountains in Tashan. It is located between Jinxi and Jinzhou. A railway and a highway pass through Tashan Town, making it an important place.

"Deputy Commander, the Japanese have ten divisions. We don't have heavy weapons, so it's hard to defend!"

Yao Zhe, commander of the First Division, said with some concern.

Yao Zhe used to be the commander of the Daqingshan Detachment. Later, after the Shenquan Chahar Column was established, the Daqingshan Detachment was merged into the Shenquan Chahar Column, and the original commander Yao Zhe became the commander of the First Division.

The deputy commander he mentioned was Ding Chengye. Ding Chengye was originally the company commander of the 8th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the New 1st Regiment. Later, when the troops were reorganized into an independent column, he served as the commander of the 5th Detachment. After the surprise attack on Datong, he and Shen Quan stayed in Wutai Mountain to develop.

Later, when the troops were reorganized into the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Independent Column, he worked with Shen Quan. After the troops were reorganized into the Heilongjiang-Jilin-Liaoning-Chahar Military Region, he served as the deputy commander of the Chahar Column.

Ding Chengye was no longer as youthful as before, his skin darkened and he seemed more composed. The promotion from company commander to deputy column commander was a significant pressure on Ding Chengye, but he always loved learning. He would take time every day to study tactics and various theoretical knowledge.

Ding Chengye surveyed the surrounding terrain, pondering a strategy. This place was indeed difficult to defend, but it had to be defended. This was the narrowest point in the entire Liaoxi Corridor. If we didn't defend it, the Japanese could simply cross Tashan and attack Jinzhou unimpeded.

"Report, telegram from headquarters!"

"Hmm? What are the Commander's instructions?"

Ding Chengye put down the telescope and asked, the headquarters here refers to the column headquarters, and if Li Yunlong sends him a telegram, it is called a headquarters telegram.

"The commander said that headquarters is sending me supplies. A plane will be dropping supplies soon. We should make guide marks on the ground!"

"Airdrop supplies?"

Ding Chengye took the telegram and glanced at it, then said to Yao Zhe, "It seems the headquarters has taken our difficulties into consideration and is planning to airdrop some heavy weapons to us!"

Chapter 609 Airdrop Supply

"Airdrop? Heavy weapons?"

Yao Zhe was a little confused. He knew about airdrops. When he was fighting the Japanese before, they had also airdropped supplies.

But they were all small boxes of supplies, and he had seized some of them.

Most of them were food and drink, and at most there were some bullets, artillery shells, or light machine guns, grenade launchers, and mortars.

When will heavy weapons be airdropped? A heavy artillery piece weighs several tons. How can this thing be airdropped?

"Well, order the troops to prepare signal flares and spread red flags on the ground to guide the airdrop troops!"

"Yes!"

Ding Chengye was not sure what kind of supplies would be airdropped, but since the commander said that the command center had sent him heavy weapons, it must be heavy weapons.

Half an hour later, a small black dot appeared in the distant sky. The observer quickly raised his signal gun and a red flare was launched into the air.

Immediately afterwards, several flares were launched into the air to guide the transport planes in the air.

In the air, the pilot of the C53 transport plane was searching for a target. This time the plane was flying at a low altitude of only a few hundred meters, and the observer was also keeping an eye on the situation below.

"Flare detected!"

"Approach the target direction, radio call to confirm identity!"

"Roger that!"

"..."

"Identity confirmed. The troops below are the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions of the Chahar Column."

"Prepare for the supply airdrop. Confirm the airdrop location. In the red area below, prepare to open the hatch!"

"Hatch open, ready!"

"Ready!"

“You can airdrop!”

As the order to "airdrop" was given, the transport plane suddenly adjusted its flight attitude, its nose tilted upward. Inside the cargo hold, two soldiers, armed with weapons, cut the ropes securing the supplies, and boxes of supplies, tied to parachutes, slid out of the hold and plummeted to the ground.

After the parachutes on these cargo boxes left the plane, they were immediately blown open by the wind, blooming into white parachute flowers in the air and slowly falling to the ground.

After seeing the parachute flowers, the soldiers below who were preparing to receive the supplies suddenly burst into cheers and waved to the transport plane in the air.

Some young soldiers didn't understand why the company commander next to them was so excited and were very curious.

"Captain, why are you crying?"

"Crying?"

The company commander rubbed his eyes, as if he did have tears in his eyes, and said with a smile: "The wind is so strong, the sand is blinding me!"

"Then why is your face red?"

"I ran too fast and my face turned red."

"then you……"

"Alright, let's go move the supplies!"

The company commander said this with a smile on his face as he looked at the soldiers running to pick up the supplies.

He did cry, but it wasn't because of the strong wind, and his face didn't turn red because he ran too fast. This distance was nothing for a veteran. He was just too excited.

The company commander was somewhat envious of the soldiers who had just joined the army. When they first arrived at the army, they had no worries about food and drink, and had sufficient weapons and equipment. The equipment they used was even better than that of the Japanese.

He was an old soldier who had followed Li Yunlong in the New 1st Regiment. How could he not be excited?

In the past, the army was short of everything and had to rely on fighting the Japanese to obtain supplies. But now? If they are short of supplies, they will directly receive airdrops.

This was a scene that only happened in the Japanese army in the past. He still remembered the scene when they used Japanese flags to trick the Japanese into airdropping in Ping'an County.

He was a squad leader at the time and once said to the soldiers in his squad that one day, when we are short of supplies, planes will come to airdrop supplies.

I just didn't expect this day to come so soon.

"Tom!"

"..."

The airdrop box made contact with the ground with a dull thud, and then a parachute covered the box.

But soon a dozen soldiers rushed to the box.

"Wow, this box is so huge! It looked so small from the air, I didn't expect it to be so big!"

"Okay, quickly put away the parachute before it breaks, and then move the boxes!"

Before the regiment that came to move the boxes set off, the regiment commander told them the precautions. After finding the supply boxes, the first thing to do was to collect the parachutes. These parachutes would be handed over to the logistics troops and would be reused in the future.

"Look, what was airdropped for us?"

"Food?" a soldier asked, scratching his head.

"You kid only cares about eating. There's going to be a war soon, and you're still thinking about eating?"

The squad leader scolded him angrily.

"Hey, hey, squad leader, I was just kidding. It should be weapons and ammunition!"

Soon the box was opened, revealing the supplies inside.

"what is this?"

"Idiot, you don't even recognize the 107 rocket?"

"Huh? This is what a 107 rocket looks like?"

"I've seen it explode before, but I've never seen what it looks like."

"..."

A group of people quickly took out the rockets from the supply box and sent them to the army logistics department.

The main supplies for this airdrop are 107 rockets, but to prevent accidents during the airdrop, the warhead and the body are separated.

Some boxes contain warheads, and some contain projectile bodies, requiring logistics troops to connect the firing mechanism with the warheads and projectile bodies.

In addition to these rockets, there is also a batch of large-caliber mortars, which are the American 106.7mm mortars.

This thing has a maximum range of about five kilometers, which can make up for the lack of medium-range firepower of the Chahar Column.

"Have you figured it out? What was airdropped?"

"Report, five hundred 107mm rockets, twenty 106.7mm mortars, and five hundred high-explosive rounds have been delivered!"

After hearing the amount of ammunition, Ding Chengye smiled. "These supplies arrived just in time. We're just short of heavy firepower. With these, we can give the Japanese ten divisions a good fight!"