Chapter 244 Lao Li’s changes
It can be said that the reconnaissance platoon is currently armed to the teeth. Each squad has small-caliber mortars, sniper rifles, and light machine guns to provide cover.
The six assault legs are equipped with three guns, a Czech semi-automatic rifle, a Japanese-made shell gun, and a Japanese-made submachine gun.
They encountered a small number of investigators from the Moon Army in Buenos Aires. The two sides engaged in battle and gunshots rang out.
Facing the attack of the wrong reconnaissance platoon, those little devils were wiped out one after another.
By five o'clock in the morning in November or April, the 358th Regiment advanced outside Lancheng.
The reconnaissance platoon attached to the Second and Third Battalions has taken control of the high ground to the west of Lancheng. They stationed themselves on the high ground and began to build defensive positions.
The Fourth Battalion and the Seventh Battalion were commanded by Chen Ziyun to the east and slowly advanced towards the county seat.
The artillery battalion was still marching at the initial stage, and Li Yang and Sun Xiong also began to dispatch relevant personnel to find suitable locations and prepare to set up artillery positions.
As for the Zhangwu Cavalry Battalion, will they make a large-scale detour and advance towards Jiaoqu Town, southeast of Lancheng?
Jiaoqu Town is located in Lancheng, the center of Gujiao. Chen Ziyun arranged for the cavalry battalion to be stationed there. The meaning is obvious.
The cavalry battalion should be stationed at Jiaoqu Town to cut off the connection between the Yue army in Lancheng and the Yue army in the far area.
Is Chen Ziyun prepared to let the Lancheng Yuejun completely become an isolated force, and then launch an encirclement and annihilation operation against them?
By six o'clock, the 358th Regiment gradually took control of Lancheng County, the western highlands and other areas.
Four infantry battalions and one artillery battalion began to build positions at different locations.
The reconnaissance platoon mounted a large-scale search on horseback to ensure that there would be no ambush by Moon troops near each battalion.
The sky gradually turned dark in the east, time passed by, and the Lancheng Moon Army began to shrink to the east for defense.
Nobuki Kojima, who commanded the operations of the Lunar Army, has been paying close attention to the 358th Regiment, and he discussed with the officers from time to time.
The 358th Regiment currently has four infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, and one reconnaissance platoon in Lancheng, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people.
Kojima Nobuyoshi could quickly judge whether it was the 358th Regiment, the most elite unit of the Independent 48th Brigade.
Is it because of this that even if the reconnaissance force he dispatched was annihilated, Kojima Nobuki still stood still at midnight.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the Moon troops began to assemble at the artillery positions.
At this time, their strength has been increased again, and the independent ninth brigade indeed does not have many troops that can be mobilized.
But there are some die-hard traitors in Jin Province.
The commander of the Little Japanese Major General Brigade, Yue Sheng Toranosuke, began to mobilize a group of puppet troops to increase the combat strength in Arashi City.
The four infantry squadrons were reinforced by puppet troops, and their overall strength became stronger.
Each infantry squadron currently has more than 300 people, and their overall weapons and equipment are very sophisticated.
They basically have one infantry gun, three mortars, six heavy machine guns, nine light machine guns, nine grenades, and more than a hundred rifles.
With the arrival of these puppet troops, the combat strength of Lancheng Yue's puppet troops is now around 1,800.
Kojima Nobuhiro's combat troops in Colan City also began to make adjustments, and he organized the artillery units into artillery teams.
A relatively senior artillery captain served as the captain of the artillery team and was responsible for unified command of artillery operations.
Does this artillery team have four 75MM mountain guns, four 75MM field guns, and four 105MM mountain guns?
Now all the puppet troops of more than a thousand months have gathered at the artillery position. They are well-equipped with weapons and equipment and have sufficient ammunition.
Because they had previously defeated the 12th Reserve Regiment in Lancheng with minimal casualties, the morale of those officers was high.
Even though they know that they are facing the wrong team now, they still feel that they can win.
"Captain Ge Dong, they should continue to attack the county town and adopt the same attack strategy as before."
"With their current strength, if they continue to launch night attacks, they will definitely achieve greater results."
"Captain Ge Dong, they definitely didn't expect that they would launch an attack. Can we have a rare opportunity now?"
"Please command them to immediately attack the county seat and catch them off guard."
Several lieutenants and squadron leaders looked towards Kojima Nobuxing and took the initiative to invite a fight.
They wanted to repeat their old tricks and attack the county town here to attack the Shanxi-Sui army.
Kojima Nobuhiro glanced in the direction of the county seat. Of course, it was dark now and he couldn't see anything clearly.
His face showed a thoughtful expression, and then he shook his head directly, rejecting the suggestions of the officers.
"According to the military headquarters message forwarded by the brigade and regiment headquarters, the 358th Regiment is an independent core elite unit of the 48th Brigade."
"Chu Yunfei, the commander of the 48th Independent Brigade, once served as the commander of the regiment. This is not the same as the army where Chu Yunfei started."
"Chen Ziyun, who is currently the leader of the group, has strong command capabilities. Their several tragic defeats are not directly related to him."
"At this time, if they ask whether to attack the county seat, they will not achieve the same results as before, but will pay heavy losses."
"Don't forget, the Jinsui army has more troops, better weapons and equipment, and they have a lot of artillery troops."
"If they want to compensate them, they must adopt more flexible tactics!"
Kojima Nobuhiro showed a serious expression on his face and spoke directly.
He began to take out the map, gathered the officers together, and expressed his thoughts directly.
After hearing Kojima Nobuki's combat plan, the officers all agreed.
Soon, the puppet troops began to rest in place, quietly waiting for the battle time to come.
As for Chen Ziyun, after confirming that the vicinity of each camp was safe, he asked each camp to take turns to rest and strengthen vigilance.
There are highlands all around the county, so Chen Ziyun did not deploy too many troops in the county.
Chu Yu's camp headquarters commanded an infantry company and a machine gun company to station in the county town for defense.
Other troops will not be deployed in the area west of the county seat.
"Commander, if we look at it now, should the Lunar Army troops gather in the east for defense?"
"And they shouldn't have the guts to launch a night attack. Why don't they take a good rest now."
"Wait until daybreak and advance directly to the east. The cavalry battalion can also attack from behind them."
At around nine o'clock, regimental attaché Liang Guoping came to Chen Ziyun and said with a puzzled expression on his face.
During the recent period, Liang Guoping has completely adapted to his different positions and has become very honest.
In his own words, if Chen Ziyun doesn't worry about the future and follows behind, he can gain some military exploits and be promoted in military rank.
Therefore, whatever Chen Ziyun asked him to do, he would go all out and strive to do it to the best of his ability.
Liang Guoping also made some progress in the recent training, and gained a lot of understanding of new tactics such as indirect shelling.
Is Chen Ziyun willing to do more training? After all, does Liang Guoping have a very special status?
If he is not Yan Laoxi's person, many things can be easily solved by using him to make an issue in the future.
For example, the 48th Independent Brigade wanted to expand its artillery regiment, and Chen Ziyun asked if he could arrange for Li Yang and others to serve as regimental commanders.
Yan Laoxi would be wary, worried that Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun would expand their troops without authorization and would take those troops away from the Shanxi-Sui army system in the future.
Can Liang Guoping be asked to serve as the group leader? That would be a completely different situation.
Moreover, unlike Qian Bojun and Zhang Furun, Liang Guoping would not be a traitor under any circumstances.
Liang Guoping was pretty good at fighting Japanese invaders.
"With Liang Tuan, the Yue army's tactics are generally dull."
"Have I never thought about whether such a boring tactic can lead to victory in battles?"
"And I think carefully about how many tactical changes the Moon Army made during the initial battle."
"Can they use those rigid tactics to the extreme and exert a strong offensive power?"
"Now the Yue Army has completely controlled the Jin Province area. They don't use any tactics at all to fight and can completely crush them."
"But after their troops won several victories, they obviously made quick adjustments, which is why there was a disastrous defeat for the Reserve I2 Regiment."
"If they continue to fight according to the previous routine, they will definitely suffer heavy losses."
"And I ask you to remember one thing, the Moon Army troops are absolutely good and they are not weak persimmons, and their officers are not idle persimmons!"
Chen Ziyun's face was serious, he looked at Liang Guoping beside him and said.
If we follow the past routine, then at midnight, Chen Ziyun will command the troops to launch an attack.
But now, he has adopted a steady and steady strategy.
The 12th Preparatory Regiment has learned from the past, and Chen Ziyun asked if he would not learn from it. That would be stupid.
What's more, the lives of the 4,000 people in the 358th Regiment are all in his hands.
With sophisticated weapons and equipment, Chen Ziyun did not want to use human lives to gain victory.
He wanted to fight more cautiously and strive to achieve maximum results with minimum casualties.
The Moon Troopers are not pushovers, and they are not completely static either.
The German Army's 39th concentration of tanks used blitzkrieg warfare, thus creating a historical precedent in war.
But the Lunar Army had already used relevant tactics as early as 1938.
After seizing the strategic territory of Hankou, the 11th Army of the Moon Army faced a strategic encirclement by nearly a hundred divisions from the 3rd, 5th, and 9th theaters.
In order to break the passive situation, the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Neiji, planned an attack on the capital of Gan Province.
In that battle, Okamura Neji used all tanks and artillery to fight.
From March 17, 1938, to March 27, 1938.
In just ten days, the 11th Army successively broke through the heavily fortified defensive positions in the Ninth Theater Zone and took over the capital of Gan Province relatively easily.
In that battle, the Lunar Army adopted a concentrated tank assault operation, which made it difficult for the elite troops in the ninth theater to adapt.
Moreover, during the battle, the Lunar Army's artillery launched a concentrated bombardment, mixed with poison gas bombs.
Any troops attacking the east side of them will definitely not miss a leg.
It can be seen from this that there are many people in the Moon Army.
Chen Ziyun was well aware of the cunning of the Japs, so he was very cautious during the Lancheng battle.
The overall strength of the 12th Preparatory Regiment is not weak, and Qian Bojun is somewhat capable.
Even if ordinary little devils can win, they will not be able to repel them at best.
Could it be that the 12th Preparatory Regiment was defeated in Lancheng and suffered nearly 600 casualties?
The officers who commanded the Lancheng Moon Army were no ordinary little Japanese officers.
And those troops are not ordinary Japanese troops.
Chen Ziyun must not continue to attack according to the previous routine, otherwise he will definitely suffer losses.
Chen Ziyun told Liang Guoping in detail, hoping that Liang Guoping would be alert.
At 10:30, after Chen Ziyun and Liang Guoping had a conversation, they each went to inspect different areas.
Is Chen Ziyun now consciously cultivating Liang Guoping to enhance his commanding ability?
After all, for him, even if Liang Guoping was the leader of the 12th Preparatory Regiment, it would be much better than Qian Bojun being the leader.
At Lancheng, the total number of troops on both sides exceeded 5,000, and they were stationed in the east and west areas respectively.
But neither side took action, and Lancheng was completely silent late at night.
In November and May, at one o'clock in the morning, Lijiapo battlefield.
The new regiment troops have arrived on the battlefield one after another. Li Yunlong personally took command. Each battalion used the cover of night to gradually advance towards the starting position.
After arriving at the starting position, the whole regiment began to work, and they immediately started soil work.
Of course, it was very early in the morning when the ground was freezing and the weather was freezing. It would be very difficult to dig a position and build a bunker.
And they must not make too much noise, otherwise they will definitely be bombarded if they alert the little devils.
"Captain, what about the 772nd Regiment? Please come here sooner. Maybe the battle will be over by now."
"We are here now. Look, our regiment will definitely be able to end the battle before four o'clock in the morning."
"Forget about the brigade commander that time, the division commander might even have to treat you to a drink."
First Battalion Commander Zhang Dabiao approached Li Yunlong and said with a smile on his face.
However, Li Yunlong did not have the cheerful side of Xiang Yue. He had a solemn expression on his face and looked towards Li Jiapo from time to time.
"Da Biao, he told me that if our regiment can be the first to get the main attack mission, we may not be able to capture Li Jiapo in the east."
"Even we will suffer heavy casualties. Those little devils in Lijiapo are not easy to fight. I don't think the battle can be over in a day or two."
"He knows the combat effectiveness of the 772nd Regiment. If we give them the same weapons and equipment as our old troops, they can still achieve amazing results."
Li Yunlong looked at Zhang Dabiao and said in a serious tone.
If Li Yunlong had not been strengthened by a series of weapons, the new regiment would not have achieved such impressive results.
When Li Yunlong met the 772nd Regiment there, he would definitely laugh at Cheng Xiazi for not knowing how to fight.
With a series of victories, has Li Yunlong's character changed to some extent?
And he also knew that the 772nd Regiment and other troops continued to attack Lijiapo, where the Japs fought one after another and consumed a lot of physical and ammunition.
Now that a new group is coming, it is inevitable that there are some elements that have been missed.
Apart from anything else, if you encounter the little Japanese who just came to Lijiapo for defense.
No matter how careful the new group was, they would be noticed by the little Japanese and be bombarded. After all, the Moon Army had plenty of ammunition at that time.
After all, the New Regiment can safely carry out construction work, and it must have something to do with the continued attacks by the 772 Regiment and other troops.
After fighting again and again, Li Yunlong has obviously become much calmer.
The new regiment continued to carry out soil work. As time passed, some heavy weapons gradually began to be quietly transported and deployed in different areas.
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