Hanjiacun, an ordinary village in Qi County.
Lying on a hilltop one kilometer away, Li Yunlong raised his telescope and looked at Hanjiacun.
Hanjia Village is about 300 meters away from the highway, and then I looked towards the highway.
"Damn it!"
At first glance, I saw that in this severe cold weather, the Japanese and puppet soldiers actually pointed guns at the people to build artillery towers and bunkers.
Some were building the walls of the turrets, and some were carrying bricks on their backs. If they moved a little slowly, they would be severely beaten by the Japanese.
Seeing someone being beaten up by the Japanese, other civilians who were forcibly captured did not dare to beg for mercy or help, with numb expressions on their faces and fear in their eyes.
Li Yunlong just couldn't bear to see the common people being bullied, and an angry expression suddenly appeared on his face.
"Captain, how about I take the soldiers down and rescue these folks?"
Lu Yingjun, who was standing next to him, saw Li Yunlong's expression and said from the side, with a sharp light in his eyes.
This time for reconnaissance, Li Yunlong did not bring a cavalry battalion or a guard company, but a sharp sword squadron.
If it was just to ambush the big fish, it would be enough for Lu Yingjun to bring people to conduct reconnaissance once. However, if he wanted to attack the Japanese 9th Brigade, the trouble would be huge, so Li Yunlong had to do the reconnaissance himself.
"No, let these devils live for two more days first, and don't alert the enemy."
Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes, and finally suppressed the murderous intention in his heart for the time being.
The most miserable people in this world are the common people.
He himself was originally a common man, and why he wanted to make revolutions and riots was because people couldn't live in this miserable world.
"yes!"
"Commander, look, that's what I said is a suitable place for an ambush."
Lu Yingjun responded in a low voice, then pointed in another direction.
Li Yunlong raised his telescope and looked in the direction pointed by Lu Yingjun.
I saw that there were cliffs on both sides of the location, and the road passed through the bottom of the cliff. Although there were no plants growing on the cliff, there were sorghum stalks and corn stalks that the people put on it.
Two hundred meters away, there was a turret under construction, which looked like it was about to be topped out.
"This is a good ambush location."
Li Yunlong said in a satisfied tone: "Our troops go to the top of the cliff at night. Those sorghum and corn stalks can not only hide but also keep out the cold."
"As soon as the big fish in the Japs' net arrives, they suddenly launch an attack and act condescendingly. Then the battle will be secure."
"The ambush location is right here!"
Later, Li Yunlong finalized the ambush location.
"Let's go and see the Dawangou you mentioned."
"yes!"
The two quietly retreated from the top of the mountain.
Before retreating, Lu Yingjun carefully removed the traces of where the two of them just lay down.
According to the map, Dawangou is about 5 kilometers away from Hanjiacun.
But that was by road. At this time, the Japanese were very strict on the road. It was impossible for Li Yunlong and the Lijian Squadron to take the road and could only go along the path.
Fortunately, the Sword Squadron came here for reconnaissance a few days ago, so they are very familiar with the trails here.
Everyone rode horses and walked around the path for nearly two hours before arriving at the Dagou Bay that Lu Yingjun mentioned.
Lying on a hilltop 500 meters away from Dawangou, Li Yunlong raised his telescope and looked.
The terrain here is somewhat similar to the Kuaizi Mountain where the New Regiment ambushed the Okazaki Brigade.
However, there is only one bend in Guaizi Mountain, but there are five bends here. Each bend is a canyon facing mountains on two sides, and the road passes through the middle of the canyon.
"Haha... God has been kind to us, Lao Li!"
Li Yunlong spoke excitedly: "The terrain here is so damn suitable for an ambush."
"I think the Feng Shui here is good, and it is very suitable for the burial of the Japanese 9th Brigade."
Then, the tone turned sinister again.
"Lu Yingjun, your boy's reconnaissance work is getting better and better."
Li Yunlong praised Lu Yingjun again.
"Captain, conducting reconnaissance is just a piece of cake for our Sharp Sword Squadron."
"As long as you give an order, our Sharp Sword Squadron will go to Taiyuan at any time to pick off the head of that old devil Shinozuka Yoshio and serve it to you as a chamber pot, Commander."
In the past, in the Jizhong Military Region, Lu Yingjun could not eat well, and he often led troops to fight against the Japanese. Although he was broad-boned and over 1.9 meters tall, his physique was not substantial.
But after joining the new group, I eat meat every day, eat fine grains, and have plenty of vegetable oil and water. Now I am getting stronger.
Not only Lu Yingjun, but also Wang Xikui, Wei Dayong, Duan Peng and others are all strong now.
Li Yunlong nodded: "What you said may sound encouraging, but now is not the time to pick off Shinozuka Yoshio's head."
After a pause, Lu Yingjun asked: "Captain, are you still going forward for reconnaissance?"
Li Yunlong looked at the sky and said, "We won't go further for reconnaissance. Let's go back to the base and look at the Chenjiayu area."
The Sharp Sword Squadron has already walked along the highway and marked the locations of the Japanese strongholds and bunkers along the highway on the map.
The purpose of Li Yunlong's reconnaissance this time was to reconnoiter several major ambush points in advance and improve the combat plan.
At that moment, Li Yunlong led the Sword Squadron back to the base area without stopping and rushed to Chenjiayu.
After reconnaissance of the terrain in and around Chenjiayu.
Chenjiayu is very close to the headquarters, and Li Yunlong went to the headquarters to meet with the boss and chief of staff.
By the time we returned to Yangcun, it was already around three or four o'clock in the afternoon.
As soon as he entered the gate of the regimental headquarters courtyard, Li Yunlong happened to run into Zhao Gang.
"Lao Li, are you back?"
"What's the situation detected?"
Seeing Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang breathed a sigh of relief and asked again.
Li Yunlong said: "There is basically no change from our battle plan last night. There are only a few small issues that need to be improved."
Zhao Gang nodded: "Captain Ding and Commander Kong have already been here once today, and they left again when they saw you were gone. At present, the independent regiment, the new second regiment, the division-affiliated artillery regiment, and the brigade-affiliated artillery regiment have all reported to us.
Come closer."
Li Yunlong nodded and said: "Old Zhao, ask the communications team to notify several group leaders to go to Yangcun for a meeting immediately."
"good!"
Zhao Gang nodded, turned around and was about to call the communications team, then turned back and asked, "By the way, have you informed Chu Yunfei?"
After thinking for a moment, Li Yunlong said: "Let me inform you. After all, they are here to observe, and we can't let others find faults."
Li Yunlong was not afraid that Chu Yunfei would see the true strength of the Eighth Route Army.
After the Hundred Regiment Battle, the Eighth Route Army's trump card has been revealed, and the Japanese Army and the Jinsui Army have long known it.
Zhao Gang said: "Yeah!"
Later, Li Yunlong asked the cooking team to prepare noodles for him and the Sword Squadron.
After a day of reconnaissance, Li Yunlong was already hungry. Although he brought some dry food and water, he was not very hungry.
After eating the noodles, Li Yunlong felt energetic again.
Not long after, two infantry regiment leaders, Ding Wei and Kong Jie, arrived first.
"Haha, Lao Li!" Ding Wei said, "I heard that your fortune has been good recently. Even Jianbi Qingye made a fortune."
After laughing, Li Yunlong said: "That's not true? Who makes God like to make me, Old Li, rich?"
Kong Jie hurriedly asked: "Old Li, tell me honestly, how much supplies did you seize?"
"Hehe." Li Yunlong said with a smile, "There is only a mere one hundred tons of supplies. Unfortunately, there are only a few trucks of weapons and ammunition. Most of the supplies are fine grains and canned food. Now we, Lao Li, eat canned beef and drink the kid's sake every day. I
I can barely walk."
Ding Wei suddenly laughed and said: "It's time to fight the local tyrants again, haha."
"You kid can't eat alone." Kong Jie said hurriedly, "Give some to Lao Ding and me."
"No problem." Li Yunlong said, "After this battle is over, if you ask for as much as you want, I will give you ten tons of food."
The new group's grain reserves are now enough to last until April or May next year.
This is the benefit of having superior equipment. Having equipment provides food for the Japanese and traitors, which is food for labor and capital.
Li Yunlong welcomed Ding Wei and Kong Jie into the regimental headquarters room.
Ding Wei put down his cup, looked at the regiment headquarters with only three people, and said in a low voice: "My new second regiment, and Lao Kong's independent regiment, have received orders from the brigade headquarters, asking us to cooperate with your new regiment to fight against the enemy.
Battle, what kind of big battle is it? Lao Li, can you tell me and Lao Kong now?"
In fact, both Ding Wei and Kong Jie knew that they accepted Li Yunlong's command to fight a big battle, and said they were cooperating, mainly to take care of the face of several regiment leaders.
Li Yunlong has the final say on how the war is fought.
Li Yunlong was a little surprised: "The brigade commander didn't tell you?"
"This is all true," Kong Jie said, "I received the order last night and brought the troops over this morning."
At this time, Cao Sanlian, commander of the brigade artillery regiment, and Qiu Zhangcheng, commander of the division artillery regiment, also arrived.
The two of them walked in hand in hand. They were all old comrades in arms, and there was another round of greetings when they met.
After the greetings, Li Yunlong said: "Since everyone is here, let me talk about the combat mission of our three infantry regiments and two artillery regiments to engage in such a large battle."
"This time, we are going to have an unprecedented battle, a battle of annihilation against the Japanese 9th Brigade."
After finishing speaking, Li Yunlong's eyes swept over everyone.
This time the battle formation was even bigger than the Guanjianao battle more than half a month ago!
Last time there were only a new regiment and two artillery regiments, but this time there are two more main infantry regiments.
There are more than 8,000 infantrymen, and more than 5,000 artillery personnel in the five regiments. The total force is more than 13,000 people, and they can properly command a division to fight.
And it was a reinforced division, because during the last battle in Guanjianao, Li Yunlong had used almost two artillery brigades in total.
If you really want to calculate carefully, it's almost like commanding an infantry division and an artillery division in combat.
"This is the first time for our army to attack a Japanese brigade on a large scale!" Kong Jie said excitedly.
"It should have been done a long time ago!"
Ding Wei is also a bold guy: "If we really kill the Japanese 9th Brigade, that would be terrible. Who dares to say that our Eighth Route Army is wandering without attacking?"
Commander Qiu Zhangcheng asked: "There are only five of our regiments?"
Li Yunlong said: "According to the intelligence, the current Japanese 9th Brigade is not full strength, and only has about 6,000 people. Our five regiments add up to less than 13,000 people. Our strength is two to one with the Japanese, and the advantage is on our side.
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"This is Japs No. 6000." Cao Sanlian also worried, "Even if we can win, it will be very difficult to annihilate them all."
With a smile, Li Yunlong said: "Lao Qiu, Lao Cao, you two put your hearts back in your stomach. To tell you the truth, we, Lao Li, have air support!"
This chapter has been completed!