"Your Excellency General, the latest news has come from the First Army Headquarters."
"The Eighth Route Cavalry around Datong City has about the strength of a cavalry regiment, and the Eighth Route Cavalry has completed the encirclement of Datong City."
"So the commander of the 3rd Brigade met Major General Yin Sanxiong again, gave up turning north, and stuck to Datong City."
"On the one hand, Major General Yin Sanxiong asked for tactical guidance. On the other hand, Major General Yin Sanxiong asked for bombers to blow up the supplies at Datong Station."
As soon as Okamura Neji got up, he heard Chief of Staff Tanabe Moritake reporting to him with a solemn expression and tone.
Okamura Neji, who originally wanted to practice a wave of sword skills, his face and eyes quickly turned gloomy.
What does this Zhongjian Yin Sanxiong do for food?
The Eighth Route Cavalry had already arrived at Datong City before they realized that they were nothing but trash!
It was Neji Okamura's decision to reorganize the 3rd Brigade into the independent mixed 3rd Brigade.
He had long discovered that the ability to meet Yin Sanxiong again was not good enough, so he planned to replace the brigade commander with a more capable brigade commander. Major General Yamamoto Kazuki, Okamura Neji, recommended by the First Army Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu, was very optimistic.
However, Okamura Neji never expected it.
Just after waking up, the 3rd Brigade was surrounded!
Okamura Neiji asked in a deep voice: "Why didn't the 3rd Brigade turn north earlier?"
He stared at the map. There was a mountainous area about 20 kilometers northeast of Datong City.
When the 3rd Brigade first discovered the Eighth Route Cavalry, it immediately gathered its forces and moved toward the mountainous area. Even if the Eighth Route Cavalry caught up, some soldiers could be left to resist, while the remaining soldiers and the brigade headquarters would drive to the mountainous area.
At least the brigade headquarters will not be surrounded by the new regiment in Datong City.
But in the current situation, the 3rd Brigade has only a thousand troops in the city. At this time, if the 3rd Brigade leaves the city and turns north, it will definitely be overtaken by the Eighth Route Cavalry and strangled.
What's more, with the firepower of the Eighth Route Cavalry, it's not that easy to get out of the city.
The cavalry of the Eighth Route Army arrived outside Datong City before the main force. The purpose was to surround the city wall and prevent the 3rd Brigade from turning in and escaping.
Tanabe Moritake replied: "According to the regulations, the locust army is not allowed to leave its station without orders. Otherwise, the chief officer will be dismissed from his post at the least, or he will have to have his belly opened to apologize."
Okamura Neji's face became more and more gloomy after hearing this.
It must have been the 3rd Brigade that sent the telegram to the First Army Headquarters requesting to turn north.
Then it took more than half an hour for the telegram to come and go.
In more than half an hour, with the speed of the cavalry, the four gates of Datong City had already been surrounded.
"Your Excellency, General." Tanabe Moritake asked cautiously, "I see Major General Yin Sanxiong again and ask for tactical guidance. Can the 3rd Brigade still be saved?"
Okamura Neji suddenly fell into deep thought.
Now I am afraid that we can only save the 3rd Brigade by sending a full armor division.
If a second-line division is sent, it will take at least two full second-line divisions to save it.
And it has to be near Datong, because if the reinforcements are slow to arrive, the 3rd Brigade may have been wiped out.
The ones closest to Datong at the moment are the 40th Division of the First Army stationed in Taiyuan, the 37th Division stationed in Yangquan, and the 26th Division, 118th Division and the Cavalry Group of the Mongolian Army.
Among them, the 237th Regiment of the 40th Division was disabled, and the 11th Independent Infantry Regiment of the 26th Division stationed in Mongolia also suffered heavy casualties.
But both the First Army and the large troops stationed in Mongolia were too far away from Datong.
By the time the reinforcements arrived, the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade in Datong City would have been completely wiped out.
Okamura Neiji changed the subject and asked: "Requesting to dispatch bombers? Did the 5,000 tons of combat supplies at Datong Station fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army?"
"Yes!" Tanabe Moributo said, "According to the report from the First Army, it should be the special forces of the Eighth Route Army's New Regiment that attacked Datong Station in the early morning. Currently, 5,000 tons of combat supplies have fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army."
"Eight...Gah!" Neji Okamura almost blacked out.
This was because he applied to the base camp to mobilize five divisions to seamlessly attack Shanxi North Eighth Route.
Therefore, these 5,000 tons of combat materials were never transported to Peiping, but remained at Datong Station.
Unexpectedly, Li Yunlong actually set his sights on this batch of combat materials and allowed Li Yunlong to take advantage of the loophole.
Okamura Neiji personally drafted a telegram and said coldly: "Immediately send a telegram to the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Yoshijiro."
At this time, Okamura Neiji was not yet the commander of the China Expeditionary Forces, so he had no right to mobilize the Kwantung Army's aviation units.
However, Okamura Neji still has some friendship with General Umezu Yoshijiro, so he hopes that the other party will send bombers to bomb the Datong Airport for the sake of Okamura Neji.
As for the Central China Expeditionary Force, at this time, the battle to attack Changsha was so intense that there was probably no spare capacity to reinforce the North China Front.
Even if the Eighth Route New Regiment wants to move 5,000 tons of combat supplies, it will definitely not be that easy.
Tanabe Moritake received the telegram, lowered his head and said: "Hi!"
He knew that the General deliberately did not mention the reinforcement of the 3rd Brigade, which meant giving up the 3rd Brigade.
…
Half an hour later.
A new regiment of infantry, led by Li Yunlong, has arrived outside Datong City.
The personnel of the guard battalion quickly built a temporary regiment headquarters at a location 2 kilometers away from the south city wall that was both hidden and with good visibility.
The battalions of the new regiment have already surrounded the city wall of Datong according to the original plan.
Datong City is surrounded by open terrain, which is very convenient for the deployment of infantry, artillery, cavalry and tank troops.
Li Yunlong, wearing a black leather jacket, quickly walked into the regiment headquarters and asked impatiently: "Have you met that old devil Yin Sanxiong again? Have you been blocked in the county town?"
Xing Zhiguo turned around with a smile on his face: "Captain, I just used a high-power walkie-talkie to ask Cao Jiang, commander of the 1st Cavalry Battalion, and Ma Renxing, commander of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion. What I can confirm is that at present
The Japs from the 3rd Brigade have not yet escaped from Datong City, and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion has wiped out a group of Japs who attempted to reinforce Datong Station outside the East City. The Japs' strength was an infantry squadron."
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"Now, there are only about 1,000 Japanese in Datong City."
Li Yunlong's expression was very satisfied.
The 2nd Cavalry Battalion was expanded from the more than 400 cavalrymen of the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment. Its combat effectiveness is definitely not bad, but the equipment is mainly inferior.
Just after the expansion, a Japanese infantry squadron was killed in the first battle, and the 2nd Cavalry Battalion began to show its skills.
Li Yunlong believes that under the leadership of Battalion Commander Ma Renxing, the 2nd Cavalry Battalion will become bigger and stronger and create greater glory.
Because although the current 2nd Cavalry Battalion only has more than 700 cavalry, its firepower has far surpassed the Jizhong Cavalry Regiment.
The fact that there were no Japanese soldiers escaping meant that there was a high probability that the commander of the 3rd Brigade was still in Datong City.
Guard Huang Erhu spread out the map and placed it on the table.
Li Yunlong looked down and saw the red arrows on the map representing the encirclement route of each battalion of the New Regiment, extending towards Datong City.
This time.
The new regiment dispatched a total of 8 infantry battalions, 1 tank battalion, 2 cavalry battalions, and 3 artillery battalions.
There are also logistics units such as transportation battalions and automobile battalions.
The total military strength is more than 10,000.
At this time, Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou also walked into the regiment headquarters together. Li Yunlong looked up and raised the corners of his mouth slightly:
"There are only 1,000 Japs in Datong City now, while our troops are more than 10,000, and the ratio of troops is more than ten to one."
"The artillery firepower is dozens or hundreds of times that of the Japanese."
"This is the first time for labor and capital to have such a battle for wealth!"
"Let's not play the three-miss-one game. The main attack will be from all four directions. Whichever battalion enters the city first and kills Chongjian Yin Sanxiong, whichever battalion will be the first to win!"
In this regard, Zhao Gang, Xing Zhiguo and Wang Dehou did not object.
The original battle plan formulated by several people from the regiment headquarters was to surround three buildings and one.
The infantry surrounded the east, south and west walls of Datong and placed the cavalry in ambush outside the north city. Once the remaining Japanese troops of the 3rd Brigade opened the north city gate and escaped, they would immediately fall under the iron hooves of a new regiment of 1,500 cavalry.
However, the remaining Japanese troops of the 3rd Brigade did not break out and escape after the new cavalry regiment completed the siege of the city wall.
Then after tens of thousands of infantrymen surround Datong City, it will be even less possible for the Japanese in the 3rd Brigade to escape.
So there is no need to play with the three sieges anymore, just do it and be done.
"Since the four directions are the main attack," Zhao Gang said, "then the battle deployment must be adjusted."
Li Yunlong nodded and said: "Our original plan was for the first battalion of the main force, the second battalion of the main force and the first battalion of the division to attack the city wall, and the other five infantry battalions served as reserves and blocking troops."
"Three artillery battalions cooperate with three infantry battalions to attack."
"In this way, the second division battalion is sent to attack the north city wall. The tank battalion drives the tanks outside the north city and fires artillery to coordinate the attack of the second division battalion."
"Okay!" Wang De said kindly, "I will immediately send an order to the second battalion of the division."
After finishing speaking, Wang Dehou turned and walked towards the walkie-talkie.
Xing Zhiguo added: "According to the report of the Sharp Sword Squadron, a brigade of the 3rd Brigade is encircling and suppressing our guerrillas in Gaoyang County. When we besiege Datong, this group of Japanese soldiers may not come to rescue them, but they are likely to come."
Blow up combat supplies."
"Lao Xing's analysis makes sense." Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Send the main force, the Third Battalion, to kill these Japs for me."
Wang Dehou had just finished giving orders to the second battalion of the division, and after hearing Li Yunlong's words, he immediately gave orders to the third battalion of the main force.
As time goes by, the sun in the sky rises higher and higher, but it is already early October, and the sun is very comfortable on people.
On the city wall, the Japanese soldiers were intensifying their preparations for a desperate fight.
Outside the city wall.
The new group of attacking infantry has already entered the attack position. They only need to wait for the artillery unit to set up the cannon and fire towards the city wall. After the cannon blasts a gap in the city wall, the infantry can rush into the city to collect corn.
