This place, Jinzhou, can be said to be undefeable in the cold weapon era because it is an open area with flat terrain.
But modern thermal weapon warfare is different.
In principle, the Japanese could set up trenches here one after another and trade space for time to consume the Eighth Route Army.
After all, it was only seven kilometers long and wide, so it was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to deploy its firepower.
Colonel Yamagishi, who commanded Dalian, thought so. They immediately mobilized all available Imperial soldiers and civilians... a total of more than 6,000 people, all Imperial soldiers and civilians.
He couldn't believe the so-called "Manchukuo Army". When the Eighth Route Army marched, there were reports of the "Manchukuo Army" defecting on the battlefield.
Colonel Yamagishi believed that if he led the "Manchukuo Army" to fight, he would plant a time bomb in his own army.
But even so, Colonel Yamagishi could not rest assured about these "Manchukuo troops".
Because there is another possibility that when the imperial army marched to Jinzhou to fight the Eighth Route Army, the "Manchukuo Army" in the rear began to "rebel".
Thinking of this, Colonel Yamagishi could only grit his teeth and leave 500 highly effective military police in Dalian in order to suppress the "Manchukuo Army".
The military police are used by the Japanese to deal with guerrillas and intelligence personnel, but they can be considered "combat-effective" in Colonel Yamagishi's establishment, because except for the 9th Battalion under his own command, the others are either disabled soldiers or have never fought.
People who fight.
But Colonel Yamagishi was helpless, because he knew that it would be impossible to suppress the "Manchukuo Army" without leaving a force with considerable combat effectiveness, so it was meaningless to stay.
After Colonel Yamagishi arrived at Jinzhou with his troops, he did nothing but dig trenches one after another... This army of more than 5,000 people did not even have a decent organization, because they were temporarily formed.
As soon as we came up, we rushed to the position to build fortifications, and the organization seemed to have little meaning.
Compiling this thing is not as simple as giving a number, such as such-and-such brigade and such-and-such squad.
After the numbers are given, commanders at each level must be appointed. After the commanders are appointed, a certain period of training is required to let them get to know each other.
Otherwise, even if there is a commander appointed by the establishment, he will not know the soldiers and generals, and chaos will be inevitable in a war.
Yamagishi knew this very well, so he did not rush to establish the organization or appoint commanders. He knew that even if he did these things at this time, it would be useless, and it might be worse.
For example, some common people who are strangers to each other force them into a squadron. They can't even distinguish their military ranks and don't know anyone. How can they know who to fight with?
Therefore, Colonel Yamagishi asked them to freely form groups with acquaintances and elect their own commanders. After that, all they had to do was report the commanders and number of people.
Then Colonel Yamagishi assigned a commander with combat experience to command these elected commanders.
Through this method, Yamagishi Colonel successfully brought these troops together in the shortest possible time. Then he dug trenches day and night without stopping for almost a moment. After digging one trench, he advanced one kilometer and then dug another.
Before the Eighth Route Army arrived, Colonel Yamagishi had organized his troops to successfully dig five trenches.
Colonel Yamagishi's idea is very simple, which is to trade space for time to wait for reinforcements.
This method is indeed good. The Japanese coastline is indeed short of troops, but Shizue Sasaki and Yoshijiro Umezu are well aware of the importance of Dalian and Port Arthur.
Therefore, at this time, there were three Japanese support corps, one division and one regiment, who were reinforcing Dalian as quickly as possible.
As long as Colonel Yamagishi can hold off the Eighth Route Army at the strategic point of Jinzhou for about three hours, Japanese reinforcements will arrive and form a two-sided attack on the Eighth Route Army's mechanized troops.
Li Yunlong launched an attack on the Japanese defense line as soon as he came up, but found that the Japanese defense line was not so easy to break through.
This is not to say how high the combat quality of the Japs is. In fact, once you hit them, you will know that the Japs in front of you are nothing more than a mob.
The key point is that the Japanese defense line is one layer after another. After the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army penetrate, it is like hitting layers of elastic fishing nets without any force.
The main reason was that the Eighth Route Army's follow-up infantry failed to catch up, and the Japanese used their elite troops to advance and retreat between trenches and repeatedly attack and encircle the Eighth Route Army.
The Japanese took advantage of this narrow area to create a quagmire that trapped the Eighth Route Army's mechanized troops.
In particular, the Eighth Route Army only had three hours, to be precise, it was not as long as three hours, because the Eighth Route Army also needed time to build defenses in Jinzhou to block the Japanese reinforcements.
However, this matter did not trouble Li Yunlong.
While others were jumping in a hurry, Li Yunlong calmly commanded the troops to continue to advance step by step.
Even Zhao Gang couldn't help but ask: "Old Li, what are you doing? Can we fight like this? The Japanese have five lines of defense, and we fought for a long time to win two. Time waits for no one!"
"Don't worry!" Li Yunlong looked at the time with a smile and replied: "It's only been an hour, there's plenty of time!"
"There is still time!" Zhao Gang got angry when he saw Li Yunlong's expression: "Do you plan to defeat the remaining three in exactly two hours?"
"It doesn't take two hours!" Li Yunlong patted his chest and shouted, "Half an hour is enough!"
"Half an hour?" Zhao Gang stared in disbelief.
As a result, before Zhao Gang could ask any questions, gunshots and explosions came from behind the Japs. Then the Eighth Route Army's charge bugle blew, and the Japs collapsed across the board.
Zhao Gang said "Oh" and laughed, raised his head and asked Li Yunlong: "Are you inciting the puppet army to rebel against Dalian?"
Zhao Gang thought that this was Li Yunlong's connection with the puppet army, and at this moment he suddenly launched a charge towards the Japanese rear.
"What puppet army?" Li Yunlong said: "Those are the soldiers of our independent regiment!"
"Soldiers of the Independent Regiment?" Zhao Gang raised his telescope and took a look, and found that those attacking the Japanese from the other side were indeed the genuine Eighth Route Army.
Zhao Gang put away the telescope and asked with a puzzled look: "Old Li, when did our troops come over? Did they grow wings?"
Li Yunlong raised his head towards the sea, glanced at Zhao Gang with disdain, and said, "You are still a scholar, do you need wings?"
It turned out that Li Yunlong knew that Jinzhou must be a difficult place when he received the order to go south to attack Dalian.
In such a narrow place, the Japanese didn't have to do anything, just dig a few trenches to make it difficult for the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army to move forward.
When the time comes, you will be unable to punch through and get around again and again, so you must be prepared!
At that time, Li Yunlong divided his troops into two companies and took fishing boats to sneak around to Jinzhou, land there, and then fight back from behind the Japanese...