Chapter 229 Where are the reinforcements coming from?
The fields and mountains in winter look particularly empty. The northwest wind penetrates into the mountains of northwest Shanxi, whistling sharply among the peaks and valleys, and seems to have frozen and cracked the exposed rocks.
Due to time constraints, the independent regiment did not have time to dig out the offensive and could only ambush on the spot.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang squatted behind a small hill on the side of the mountain. Listening to the whistling wind blowing in their ears, Li Yunlong shrank and wrapped his winter clothes tighter. He felt a little unhappy about following him.
Monk Wei next to him said: "Monk, stop hanging around here and ask the telegraph operator if there has been any news from the headquarters?"
"yes!"
Monk Wei ran away quickly.
Zhao Gang could see that Li Yunlong was feeling a little unhappy. Normally, he would not bother to pay attention to him. However, with the war approaching, he knew that it was impossible to keep the commander's heart tense like this, so he smiled and said: "Old Li, speaking of which, we have to
Thank you to Commander Gao. If he hadn't given us this radio station, if we wanted to report the situation to the headquarters, we would have had to send a correspondent to go there in person. This trip would have taken at least a day, and the day lilies would have been cold by then.
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"Who says it's not?" Hearing this, Li Yunlong felt better. Looking at the more than 100 regiment-level units of the Eighth Route Army, he could count the number of people with radio stations. His independent regiment was one of them. On weekdays,
When he met the group leaders, he would brag and talk about it, and would use it to irritate them. Seeing their envious, jealous and hateful looks made him feel very happy.
Just as he was about to brag a few words as usual, he heard a faint noise coming from the front, accompanied by the roar of the engine.
"Attention everyone...the devil has appeared."
Accompanied by the roar of trucks, the Japanese convoy appeared. Two crooked machine guns were mounted on the roof of the driving shed of the leading vehicle. The carriage was filled with Japanese soldiers wearing yellow tweed coats and fur hats with live ammunition.
There were dozens of trucks... The Japanese trucks drove very slowly, and the leading truck seemed to be searching cautiously. The Japanese soldiers sang in the wind:
Under the morning glow, I can look far away,
Endless ups and downs of mountains and rivers,
Our elite army is strong and mighty,
All the people of the alliance are in good health,
Fully loaded with glory Kwantung Army.
Zhao Gang, who knew some Japanese, immediately changed his expression. He turned to Li Yunlong and said: "This is the military song of the Kwantung Army! Old Li, something is wrong! This is not the first army of the little devils stationed in Shanxi, but the Kwantung Army. Look.
In this situation, at least one regiment has the strength, and they also have artillery. The strength comparison with ours is almost two to one. This battle will not be easy to fight!"
Li Yunlong's face also became ugly, "Why did his grandma's little devil Kwantung Army come to Shanxi and attack Xiaoli Village? What happened?"
In fact, what Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang didn't understand was that due to the appearance of the butterfly Gao Hongming, great changes had occurred in the history of this time and space.
In the original history, the Eighth Route Army, the Jinsui Army and the Central Army could fight evenly against the Japanese army when they combined. However, in this time and space, due to the emergence of Gao Hongming, the strength of the Japanese army suffered a huge blow.
Not to mention anything else, in the past year alone, more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers died at the hands of the Liantai militia. If we add in the battle of Qingyuan River a few months ago, at least 10,000 Japanese soldiers were killed by the Liantai militia.
More than 30,000 people, even more if we include those who were killed and injured piecemeal by the Eighth Route Army.
There were tens of thousands more casualties all at once, and even the Japanese top brass couldn't stand it if they didn't take seriously the army red deer they could attract with an eight-cent stamp.
In order to deal with the increasingly severe situation in Shanxi, Japanese high-level officials urgently transferred the 10th Division from the Kwantung Army, with only one purpose: to stabilize the situation in Shanxi as soon as possible.
The Japanese army coming today is the 10th Regiment of the Japanese 10th Division. This regiment has nearly 4,000 troops and is also equipped with an artillery squadron. In terms of strength, it is twice as many as the independent regiment.
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"Old Li, what should we do?" Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "What else can we do? This road is the passage to Xiaoli Village. No matter what we say, we can't let the Japanese pass!"
"Commander!" As soon as Li Yunlong finished speaking, the communications soldier ran over, holding a telegram in his hand. "The deputy commander-in-chief called and ordered our regiment to block this enemy force at all costs. We must not let them
Arrived at Xiaoli Village! And he has asked the brigade commander to send the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment to come as quickly as possible to support."
It was not the first day for Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang to serve as soldiers. When they heard the words "at all costs", they understood the meaning of the deputy commander-in-chief, that is, they must complete the mission even if the entire independent regiment is exhausted, without any bargaining.
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Although the deputy commander-in-chief told them in the telegram that they had sent reinforcements, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment were at least 50 or 60 kilometers away from them. Even if they were forced to march, they would not arrive until at least tomorrow. Can they hold on?
It would be hard to tell at that time.
"His grandma's, let's fight with the little devil."
Li Yunlong cursed fiercely, took out the pistol from his waist, stared at Monk Wei and said: "Monk, tell Zhang Dabiao and Wang Dapao to resist at all costs, if they dare to lose their position
I'll kill him."
The battle started instantly
With a wave of Li Yunlong's hand, Monk Wei fired the explosives that had been planted in advance.
With a "boom", a truck at the front was blown to pieces in an instant. The fragments of the car and the broken limbs of Japanese soldiers fell from the sky, almost all falling on the lurking soldiers.
"beat!"
Accompanied by the sound of explosions, the ambushed Eighth Route Army soldiers instantly poked their heads out of their ambush, and a dense rain of bullets immediately shot towards the Japanese army.
The 10th Infantry Regiment is indeed the Kwantung Army known as the trump card. Even if it is hit by a sudden attack, they can respond quickly. The soldiers howled and jumped out of the car one after another, rolling on the spot looking for them.
Immediately after taking cover, they fired at the positions laid by the Eighth Route Army. The whole process did not take more than five seconds.
As soon as the two sides exchanged fire, the independent regiment immediately felt the ferocity from the troops coming from outside the customs.
These Japanese soldiers wearing cotton hats and military coats with fur collars were extremely accurate in their shooting. They were almost killing each other at a distance of one to two hundred meters. For a while, the independent regiment began to suffer a lot of casualties.
Moreover, under the leadership of officers, two squadrons of Japanese troops began to attack the independent regiment's position under the cover of grenade launchers.
Seeing this, Li Yunlong's heart grew anxious. This Japanese army was much stronger than the Japanese army stationed in Shanxi that he had fought against in the past, both in terms of combat awareness and weapons and equipment. According to this style of play, without reinforcements, let alone persist.
Come tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on even today.
But where are the reinforcements coming from now? Just when Li Yunlong was anxious, a person suddenly flashed in his mind...