After the Hundred Regiment Battle and two major sweeps, the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese Army suffered losses from each other.
The Eighth Route Army needed rest and reorganization, and the Japanese army also urgently needed replenishment of troops and supplies.
The supply of troops can be replenished by transporting soldiers to Shanxi on foot or by truck.
The materials range from a few hundred tons to thousands of tons. The efficiency of transporting them by trucks is obviously too low, so they need to be transported by trains.
Therefore, the Japanese are using all available human and financial resources to quickly rebuild the Xiutai, Tongpu and Pinghan Railways.
In this cold weather, the main force of the Eighth Route Army seldom came out for activities, so there was no fighting.
Commander Yoshio Shinozuka and Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi were playing chess in the office.
Usually Shinozuka Yoshio plays chess with Yamamoto Kazuki, but now there is a crisis of trust between the two, and Yamamoto is still locked in the cell of the Special High School.
I can only go with Kusuyama Hideyoshi.
Although Kusuyama Hideyoshi's central flowering strategy failed, the intelligence of that time was not leaked, and the Japanese troops carried out massive destruction after entering the base area, which was not without gain.
Therefore, Yoshio Shinozuka still trusted Kusuyama Hideyoshi.
However, successive battle plans have been leaked, and now Yoshio Shinozuka has become suspicious and extremely suspicious.
"Report!" The voice of communications staff officer Toshimatsu Kasai sounded outside the door.
"Come in!" Yoshio Shinozuka shouted without raising his head.
Kasai Toshimatsu hurried to the chessboard with a face on his face, paused and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, something has happened."
Shinozuka Yoshio and Kusuyama Hideyoshi both raised their heads when they heard this, and their expressions changed slightly.
Kasai Toshimatsu said: "The Kono Brigade of the Kwantung Army was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army on the Chenjiagou section of the Shotai Highway between Yangquan and Shouyang. It had at least 2,000 troops. The situation was very critical. Kono Zhongzuo requested the headquarters to send troops for immediate support!
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"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka's face suddenly darkened. It seemed that something had really happened.
When Toshimatsu Kasai said his first sentence, he thought the Kwantung Army was being attacked by a small group of Eighth Route guerrillas.
Kasai Toshimatsu added: "The Eighth Route Army's firepower is very fierce and it is equipped with artillery."
"Your Excellency, Commander." Kusuyama Hideyoshi said in a deep voice, "Aircraft support should be sent immediately, and the Imperial Army stationed in Shouyang and Yangquan should be ordered to rush to the rescue immediately!"
"The Kwantung Army's combat power is very powerful."
"What's more, these soldiers are all elites selected from various units of the Kwantung Army. As long as the one ambushing is not Li Yunlong's tribe..."
"Even if you lose, there shouldn't be any problem if you persist for a few hours."
"It's still not too late to send troops."
Yoshio Shinozuka looked gloomy and slapped the chess table:
"Tubalu is looking for death!"
"Order the Yangquan and Shouyang defenders to set off immediately, and the flying brigade to send aircraft to support immediately!"
The table was slapped, the chess pieces on the table jumped violently, and Kasai Toshimatsu's heart jumped in fright.
"Hi!"
Kasai Toshimatsu quickly lowered his head and ran out to deliver the order.
Seeing Kasai Toshiatsu's back disappearing from the door, Yoshio Shinozuka frowned, Chenjiagou?
Why does it feel familiar?
The 9th Flying Group, which was completely wiped out in the First Army, has been rebuilt.
The leader of the flying team is still Ryuichi Kato.
Kato Ryuichi was imprisoned because he lied about the military situation during the Battle of Shinao Mountain in the Battle of Shota, which indirectly led to the annihilation of the entire 4th Brigade headquarters.
Kato Takashi almost went to court-martial, but Yoshio Shinozuka saved him and gave him a chance to atone for his crimes.
However, Kato Ryuichi was also a blessing in disguise. He was not around when Li Yunlong led the artillery battalion to bombard the Japanese airport, and he luckily escaped with his life.
Almost all the pilots of the 9th Flying Group, which was directly under the First Army, were wiped out.
The aircraft and pilots of the 9th Flying Group directly under the First Army are all transferred from the Kwantung Army.
Fighters and reconnaissance aircraft are basically Nakajima fighters, and bombers are basically Type 96 attack aircraft.
Taiyuan now has two airports, Xincheng Airport and Wusu Airport, and each airport has built aircraft nests that can withstand the power of 75mm mountain field artillery shells.
After receiving the order, Kato Ryuichi, who was at Wusu Airport, led 3 fighter jets and 2 attack aircraft, carrying aerial bombs, and flew along the Shotai Highway toward Chenjiagou.
After receiving orders from Yoshio Shinozuka, the Japanese in Yangquan and Shouyang immediately dispatched convoys to assist the Kwantung Army's Kono Brigade.
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When the Japanese air force and ground troops begin to dispatch for reinforcements.
The battle in Chenjiagou is coming to an end.
In the face of powerful firepower, the Bushido spirit of the Kwantung Army was simply vulnerable.
After the Japanese did not fight back, Li Yunlong ordered an attack on the highway.
The remaining Japs who were still alive thought that the Eighth Route Army was about to charge forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat, so they charged towards the Eighth Route Army with bayonets and howling.
However, the enemy was greeted by bullets from all directions, and all the enemy who tried to charge and engage in hand-to-hand combat were beaten to a pulp.
There were more than ten or twenty Japs at the head and tail of the convoy, seeing the situation bad, they ran away, but they were soon overtaken by the cavalry who came out from behind the mountain and became the dead souls of the sword.
In the end, the Japanese who resisted were shot dead, and the battle ended quickly.
There were about 800 Japanese Kwantung troops who entered the ambush circle, and the entire army was destroyed.
More than 800 Kwantung Army troops were completely wiped out by two battalions of the New Regiment in less than a quarter of an hour.
I saw corpses of Japanese soldiers lying scattered on the road. Many Japanese soldiers had been shot several times. There were also many broken limbs and broken arms of Japanese soldiers on the road.
The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, which was nauseating.
However, none of the soldiers were new recruits on the first day on the battlefield, and no soldier actually vomited.
A soldier who had just joined the Second Battalion from the county brigade saw that the Japanese had fallen to the ground, and reached out to peel off the coat from the Japanese corpse. The eyes of the Japanese corpse suddenly opened, and then he hugged the soldier tightly and rang his hands.
The grenade exploded and both of them died together.
"Damn it, two or three people work together to quickly clean the battlefield, first replenish your guns and then your knives. I don't want any prisoners." Li Yunlong heard the sound and ran over to take a look, and immediately said angrily.
This group of Kwantung Army was not only tenacious, but also cruel and cunning. They deliberately pretended to be dead in order to gain support.
However, all 800 people have been wiped out. Are you still afraid of a few Japanese soldiers lying on the ground pretending to be dead?
The New Regiment has fought so many victorious battles and cleaned up so many battlefields. There are many ways to deal with the Japanese wounded soldiers, that is, the new recruits are inexperienced.
The crackling sound of gunfire and the clicking sound of bayonets piercing flesh were heard.
Seeing that they could not exchange old silver coins, some wounded Japanese soldiers wanted to resist, but were quickly killed.
More than 1,600 people cleaned up the battlefield very quickly. In less than a minute or two, all the corpses of the Japanese were shot and killed, and not a single Japanese was left alive.
At that moment, Li Yunlong said: "Everything on the devil's body or in the car, whether it is weapons, ammunition or everything he wears, will be stripped off by the labor and management. Except for his crotch pants, not a single hair will be left for the devil!"
The soldiers then boldly peeled off the cotton-padded clothes and weapons and equipment from the Japanese soldiers.
Zhang Dabiao jumped onto a truck containing supplies, used a bayonet to pry open an ammunition box, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and shouted loudly:
"Commander, come and see, we have made a fortune, this car is full of bullets."
Li Yunlong quickly climbed onto the truck and saw that the truck was full of ammunition boxes, and they were all bullet boxes.
Just by looking at the caliber of the bullet, Li Yunlong recognized that it was a 6.5mm caliber Arisaka rifle round.
Commander Li grinned and looked back. Many trucks were empty, but there were also some loaded with ammunition boxes.
Some empty vehicles and trucks carrying ammunition boxes were blown up during the fighting.
Commander Li Da scolded: "Da Biao, you are so stupid, you are so good at it, how can you be so happy with just a dozen loads of ammunition?"
With a chuckle, Zhang Dabiao said: "Captain, I, Zhang Dabiao, have no other hobbies. I just like to make a fortune. Once I get rich, I can't control myself."
Li Yunlong said: "Stop talking nonsense. During the battle just now, I saw the Japanese holding a radio and making strange noises. They were probably asking for help."
"First let the soldiers unload all the ammunition boxes and move them to the snow over there to hide them."
"When the Japanese plane comes later and sees us moving ammunition boxes, it will definitely blow up all these weapons, ammunition and trucks."
The straight-line distance between Chenjiagou and Taiyuan is about 70 kilometers. At the speed of the Japanese plane, it takes less than 20 minutes to get there from takeoff.
Must race against time.
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao straightened up and shouted loudly, "First Battalion, hurry up and move the ammunition boxes and hide them in the snow over there."
Li Yunlong quickly jumped out of the truck, and Zhang Dabiao handed him a wooden box containing 6.5 mm Arisaka rifle ammunition. Li Yunlong took it and carried it on his shoulders and ran towards the mountain.
While running, he shouted: "Give me my order, the second battalion will immediately move the ammunition boxes, move them over there and hide them in the snow."
The soldiers of the first and second battalions began to unload the ammunition boxes. Like ants moving, they took down all the ammunition boxes from the Japanese truck and buried them in the snow.
Although Xinyi Tuan is rich now, the more of a good thing like ammunition, the better. How could Li Yunlong have too much?
Less than three minutes after moving the ammunition boxes off the road and blowing up the Japs truck, the hum of the Japs plane motors rang in the sky.
At that moment, under Li Yunlong's order, the soldiers immediately lay down in the snow. Since they were wearing snow camouflage cloaks, they did not have to worry about being discovered by the Japanese in the sky.
The main reason is that the machine gun battalion of the new regiment was not brought, and the two artillery batteries of the first and second battalions only had 8 machine guns in total.
Of course, the two battalions combined have more than 120 light machine guns, and with these 8 machine guns, they will not be afraid of Japanese planes.
However, the new group is to fight the Japanese at low altitude and high altitude. If you can avoid it, try not to fight.
Five Japanese planes passed by at low altitude and found Kwantung Army corpses all over the ground, but they did not find the Eighth Route Army.
At that moment, five planes under the command of Kato Ryuichi scattered to search for traces of the Eighth Route Army, but still found nothing, so they flapped their wings and flew back to Taiyuan.
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First Army Headquarters.
Toshimatsu Kasai shouted a report with an ugly face and walked into the commander's office.
He slapped his feet together and reported:
"Your Excellency, Commander, Kato Daizuo has sent back the news that the Chenjiagou battle has ended, the Kwantung Army's Kono Brigade is in pieces, and the aviation force has found no trace of the Eighth Route Army!"
"Baga!" Yoshio Shinozuka was shocked and speechless at first, then overturned the chessboard, pulled out his katana and chopped the table into pieces.
Shinozuka Yoshio's sword skill proficiency +0.5.
At this time, he finally remembered why he was so familiar with Chenjiagou.
At the beginning of the year, two squadrons of Kwantung Army soldiers were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in Chenjiagou and were all shattered.
Later, after investigation by the intelligence department, it was Li Yunlong of the New Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army who killed two squadrons of the Kwantung Army.
At the same location again, today an elite group of the Kwantung Army was also completely shattered.
Don't tell me, it was Li Yunlong who did it again this time!
But often the more you are afraid of something, the more likely it is.
Kusuyama Hideyoshi analyzed with a gloomy face: "Your Majesty General, the Eighth Route Army was able to wipe out the elite brigade of the Kwantung Army with 2,000 troops so quickly. Among the Eighth Route Army, only the 386th Brigade New Regiment had the ability to do so. It must have been Li Yunlong.
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"Baga, Li Yunlong!" Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly exploded, turned around angrily and slashed, smashing a blue and white porcelain vase.
