Chapter 978 Li Yunlong becomes more courageous the more frustrated he becomes.
Although the wooden bridge built over the blockade ditch could not pass heavy weapons, it could pass mules and horses as well as war horses.
In order to facilitate the investigation of the enemy's situation and convey the news, Li Yunlong led a cavalry company to break out of the encirclement.
As soon as the troops broke through the first blockade of the Japanese iron wall, the cavalry company quickly dispersed in squad units and built a reconnaissance network with a radius of more than ten kilometers around the team. As long as there were Japanese activities within the cavalry company's reconnaissance range, they would
Li Yunlong could receive the news immediately.
"Deputy Commander..."
An exclamation suddenly sounded behind Li Yunlong, and a cavalryman from the cavalry company rushed over on horseback. When they were still five or six meters away, they tightened the reins of their horses and jumped off the horses.
"Japanese soldiers are chasing us through the breach we just opened. Their strength is about a regiment. They are not equipped with heavy weapons. They only bring mortars and heavy machine guns."
"How far is it from the main force..." Li Yunlong asked with squinted eyes, without showing too much difference.
The Iron Wall Encirclement was a battle organized by Okamura Neji specifically to target the Eighth Route Army. The purpose was to trap the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement, compress their living space, force them to actively stand up for a decisive battle, and finally gather together to annihilate them.
It would be a shame if the Eighth Route Army broke through his iron wall.
Therefore, after Okamura Neji knew that the Eighth Route Army broke through the first blockade of the iron wall encirclement, he would definitely try his best to mobilize troops to encircle it and eliminate the breakout Eighth Route Army on the blockade to save face and prove that he
How impregnable the iron wall is.
Therefore, it was completely within the scope of Li Yunlong and Huang Yu's consideration to send troops to chase and kill the breakout troops.
"The blockade wall we just left that we blew up is at least six kilometers away from us. It will take an hour of rapid march to catch up." The cavalry squad leader thought for a moment and replied.
Li Yunlong replied without hesitation: "That's no problem..."
"An hour's journey is not far, nor is it close, but as long as we are fast enough, we are sure to keep the Japanese pursuers chasing us, but they will never be able to catch up with us."
"The cavalry company continues to investigate the enemy's situation and will report back immediately if there is any news."
"Other units are moving forward as planned."
As soon as the cavalry squad leader left, the chief of staff came over.
Although a regiment of pursuing troops could not threaten the security of the independent brigade, it could hold it back and attract more Japanese and puppet troops to besiege them.
Seeing Li Yunlong's indifferent expression, the chief of staff was not so forgiving and couldn't help but suggest: "Brigade commander..."
"How about we allocate a battalion to build a defense line on the spot..."
"With one hour as the limit, if the Japanese pursuers come over one hour ago, the rear troops must hold off for one hour before they can retreat."
"If the Japanese pursuers fail to kill them, the rear troops will retreat as soon as the time is up."
Li Yunlong confidently refused: "It's not necessary..."
"Regardless of the fact that we are only six kilometers away from the Japanese troops now, when we successfully break through the second blockade of the Japanese army, this six kilometers distance will be expanded to at least eight kilometers."
"You don't need to ask more about the reason, you will know it when the time comes."
"Boom, boom, boom..." The violent explosion of artillery shells soon sounded at the second Japanese blockade.
Faced with a joint attack by more than a hundred mortars, although there were more than two thousand Japs gathered here, no matter how strong their fighting power was, they were still made of flesh and blood, and they were still only passively beaten in the face of steel shells.
The assault company took the opportunity to launch an attack. Within a few minutes, they crossed the blockade ditch and blew open the blockade wall. More than a hundred Japanese soldiers guarding this section of the blockade wall were blown away at the same time, and many Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces.
"Boom boom boom..."
The shells continued to hit the blockade wall, and the flying shell fragments flew everywhere on the earth wall, killing the little devils wantonly.
The assault company took the opportunity to climb up the blockade wall and directed a burst of firepower at the little Japs lying on the ground.
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The Japanese commander defending here was also blinded by the powerful firepower raid of the Independent Brigade.
Although he was not bombed, he could feel the power of the opponent's artillery fire. It was visually estimated that at least five hundred of his men fell in the sudden artillery attack in front of him.
Seeing that the blockade wall was bombed, the Eighth Route Army had already rushed to the blockade wall through the gap and launched attacks from both sides along the blockade wall. I instantly understood the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army's attack.
Immediately shouted: "Baga..."
"The Eighth Route Army's breakout troops want to expand the breach and cross our blockade through the newly opened gap."
"We must not let their conspiracy succeed."
"The troops immediately rushed forward to block their attacking troops. They could not retreat even one step."
"The artillery immediately fired through the gap in the blockade wall, and the user's artillery fire intercepted the Eighth Route Army's breakout troops."
"I don't believe they dare to break through the gap in the blockade wall under artillery fire."
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Every move of the Japanese army could not escape Li Yunlong's eyes.
His brows wrinkled unconsciously.
In his breakout plan, although the second blockade was also difficult to break, it would definitely be easier than breaking through the first blockade due to the lack of garrison troops.
Unexpectedly, the blockade in front of us was even more difficult to break through than the first blockade.
More than 2,000 little Japs were all standing in front of them and they had to be eliminated by themselves without any reinforcements or troops to cover them.
Although there were much more Japanese and puppet troops on the first line of defense than here, with the cover of Huang Yu and Kong Jie, the breakout troops directly faced far fewer Japanese troops.
It was difficult to return, but Li Yunlong was not frightened.
He is the kind of commander who becomes more courageous with every setback and likes to face difficulties most.
Not only will you not be afraid when you encounter this kind of enemy situation, but you will become more motivated.
He opened his mouth and began to give orders: "Ask the first regiment commander to deploy two more companies to reinforce the assault company and further strengthen the assault company's firepower."
"The artillerymen should not save shells for me and bomb them hard. They must cover the assault company and advance two hundred meters to both sides of the breach."
"The heavy mortar battalion immediately joined the battle and blew up the enemy's newly exposed artillery position for me."
"The main force will build the wooden bridge first, and then charge forward as soon as the commandos open a breach, and use the fastest speed to break through the Japanese second blockade."
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Now it was the Japanese captain's turn to frown.
There are only two infantry brigades under his command, and all the artillery pieces together only amount to more than twenty.
As soon as they fired logistics rounds at the breach, nearly twenty heavy mortar shells fell from the sky and hit their artillery position.
The power of these shells is no less than that of mountain cannons, and they can explode into a large area.
If it hits the gun position directly and explodes next to the mortar, the 81mm caliber mortar equipped by the Japanese will definitely be scrapped immediately.
The heavy mortar battalion only fired five rounds of shells, and the two Japanese mortar squadrons suffered heavy losses and almost lost their combat effectiveness.
The news reached the commander's ears, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood on the spot.
The mortar is the only weapon in hand that can attack the breakthrough point past the assault company. Now that something happened to them, they lost a trump card to block the Eighth Route Army's breakout troops.
If we rely on infantry to hold the blockade, we can only defeat the Eighth Route Army assault troops first and occupy the gap in the blockade before we have a chance. The difficulty is as high as the sky.
