When Li Yunlong and his party were mentally prepared to wait for another burst of "fireworks" in the sky, nothing was dropped in the dark sky, only the black shadows of a few planes flashed past.
Just when Li Yunlong was confused, he saw the correspondent running over panting and shouting: "Captain, what was dropped in the air is a message bottle!"
Li Yunlong's first reaction was that this was a leaflet thrown by the Japanese.
This is because the Eighth Route Army basically does not use this method of communication... The method of transmitting information by throwing message bottles from airplanes is too luxurious for the Eighth Route Army. You must know that the lifespan of a "La 5" is almost 50 hours. If it flies over a certain unit
Just to throw a piece of information down, isn't that just throwing money down?
And this time there were at least two fighter planes in the sky. How could it be that the Eighth Route Army was transmitting information?
Thinking of this, Li Yunlong immediately ordered: "Order the enemy's Ministry of Industry to collect all these leaflets!"
Then Li Yunlong murmured again: "This little devil, shouting with a loudspeaker was not enough before, and he also distributed leaflets! What a waste!"
"Yes!" the correspondent responded and turned around and ran away.
But after a while the correspondent came back: "Captain, this doesn't look like a Japanese leaflet!"
As he spoke, he handed the paper in his hand to Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong was about to order the artillery to open fire but was repeatedly interrupted. He was furious and said in a bad tone: "What did I say you were wordy about? What else could you have if it wasn't a leaflet..."
Then he looked at the things in his hands and said no more, swallowing all the rest of his words abruptly.
During this period of time, Li Yunlong was learning calligraphy from Zhao Gang. Although he could not write completely at this time, he could almost recognize the words. All he could see was "Command Headquarters Order, delivered to Commander Li Yunlong!" was written on it, and the rest were passwords.
Li Yunlong was stunned for a moment, then slapped his head hard and shouted: "Damn it, this is the intelligence from Xiao Dongbei, it almost ruined the big thing!"
With that, he handed the secret document to the correspondent and ordered: "Decode it immediately!"
"Yes!" the correspondent responded and ran to the telecommunications class with the secret document.
The reason why the password was used was because Wang Xuexin was worried that the plane would drop it outside the city at night and fall into the hands of the Japanese. After all, there were many confidential documents dropped... If he only dropped one, he was worried that Li Yunlong would not receive the message bottle, so he prepared
Two hundred message bottles were collected, and two fighter planes each carried one hundred to Datong City.
If this was written in plain text, as long as one or two copies fell into the hands of the Japanese, it would be as if the information had been sent to them. The Japanese would have known in advance what the Eighth Route Army was going to do.
There is no problem if you write it in code. Even if the Japanese are able to decipher it, it will take at least a few hours. Even if they decipher it then, it will not be of much value.
Soon, the deciphered information was sent back to Li Yunlong.
When Li Yunlong saw this information, he burst out laughing "hehehe" with joy, and kept praising: "Xiao Dongbei still has a way! Look at what he can do, he has a hand!"
It turned out that Wang Xuexin gave Li Yunlong not only orders, but also the deployment of the Japanese outside the city and even the approximate location of the headquarters.
This information is difficult to obtain for the independent regiments that are blocked in Datong City, because the enemy's attention is all in the direction of Datong City, and there is a city wall defense line between the two armies. They have clear routes to each other, and any movement will be discovered immediately.
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But the intelligence officers outside the city are different. They are behind the Japanese in a direction where the Japanese are completely unprepared.
They easily detected the location of the Japanese artillery positions because the artillery kept firing.
There was even a group of artillery units hidden in the dark... This artillery unit had a regiment, and it was the artillery unit transferred by Neji Okamura to reinforce the Japanese 110th Division.
Lin Fangtaro deployed this artillery regiment on a small hill and never fired, so that once the artillery in Datong City returned fire, this hidden artillery regiment could immediately destroy it.
This artillery regiment is in a blind spot in Datong City on a small hill, but it is not a secret at all to the intelligence personnel outside the city.
In addition, intelligence personnel also discovered the Japanese headquarters.
This was not accidental, but because the Japanese used radio jammers to block Datong's external signals.
This made it impossible for the Japanese to use radio communication, so Lin Fangtaro's commander could only use telephone lines, and these telephone lines were directly connected to the four directions of Datong City... in order to be able to command better and faster and understand the four directions.
The attack on Datong City.
It is very simple for intelligence personnel to know the location of the headquarters. They only need to follow the phone line to the source and there will be no mistake.
The approximate strength of the troops is also known: more than 2,000 people per regiment in each direction.
This was estimated by intelligence personnel based on the scale of the Japanese charge.
In fact, this is not very accurate. Although the attack organization in each direction is indeed a coalition, in fact, these coalitions only have more than a thousand people.
In addition, the 110th Division also has a cavalry brigade directly under its command... This cavalry brigade was the main force during the battle on Luliang Mountain and was used as a reserve force during the attack on Datong.
A regiment of field artillery plus a supplementary regiment, an engineering regiment, and a baggage regiment.
Except for the cavalry brigade, all of them were made up of dissatisfied soldiers, with a total strength of more than 8,000.
Wang Xuexin's order to Li Yunlong was: use offense instead of defense.
What Wang Xuexin said in the intelligence was not so polite: "Commander, do you still think that you are an independent regiment of millets and rifles? Can one division trap you? If you really stay in Datong to defend,
Then they will be strangled to death by the Japanese! Our machine
What are mechanized troops used for? What are tanks used for, what are infantry tracked vehicles used for, and what are repeating rifles used for? The Japanese are divided into four directions. A division of more than 10,000 people is divided into four directions.
How many more people are there? Can't you just concentrate your forces and fight them?"
Li Yunlong was convinced by Wang Xuexin's scolding. Not only was he convinced, but he also felt happy!
Because he feels that he really deserves to be scolded!
Li Yunlong was also accustomed to the comparison of forces between the enemy and ourselves in the past. He had no idea how much energy and combat effectiveness his more than 3,000 mechanized troops could unleash!
Now that I think about it... not to mention that there are only more than a thousand Japs blocking the front, even if a Japs division were to open on all four sides, it would still be three thousand on each side.
With the current strength of the independent group, wouldn't it be as easy as eating vegetables to defeat three thousand Japanese with three thousand people?
Wang Xuexin gave Li Yunlong a detailed battle plan: Concentrate your forces to fight from the west. At that time, the Japanese will definitely think that you are breaking out, and the Japanese will mobilize forces from other directions to pursue you.
You use your mobile troops to divide into two groups, go around a corner, and then fight back to Datong to attack the Japanese rear!