One of the benefits of uniting with the Jinsui Army is to get more detailed information about Yuncheng from Chu Yunfei.
This was the seventh day after the tanks arrived, and the headquarters held another emergency meeting.
Wang Xuexin arrived late because his bike's saddle broke down on the road. When they arrived, the conference room was already full of people, and the chief's meeting had already begun.
As soon as Li Yunlong and others came in, the chief said with an unhappy face: "What's the trick? This is all mechanized and it's slower than other people's riding horses!"
Li Yunlong stood up and saluted, and replied: "Report to the leader, if the horse doesn't run away, just kick it twice. It's useless to kick the horse with mechanized things. If Xiao Dongbei hadn't been able to tinker with it a few times, we wouldn't be here now!"
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All the cadres burst into laughter after hearing this.
"Hurry up and sit down!" said the chief of staff, "I'm waiting for you. You are the only one in the army who has tanks. Only then did I realize that without you, the independent regiment would not be able to hold a meeting!"
Li Yunlong liked hearing this, and before sitting down, he apologized to everyone around him with a twitchy expression: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Who told us to understand tanks? We don't want to, the chief insists on putting tanks there.
Independent regiment..."
"Beautiful to you!" Kong Jie couldn't help but said: "You know nothing! Isn't there a little Dongbei there to support you?"
"I said Kong Er is stupid!" Li Yunlong chuckled and replied: "If you are not convinced, just take this tank over? Are you having fun?"
Kong Jie lost his voice when Li Yunlong said this. He really couldn't take on this job.
After Li Yunlong and others were seated, the chief said: "The situation is like this. Recently, we have been receiving intelligence that the Japanese have transferred troops to the northeast in batches, leaving them empty of troops. Therefore, we want to unite with the Shanxi-Sui Army to attack Yuncheng, comrade
What do you think?"
There was a cheer immediately in the conference room.
However, someone still stood up and said: "Chief, I heard that after Yuncheng was captured, Yuncheng was handed over to the Jinsui Army for garrison. Is this true?"
The chief nodded: "What do you think about this matter?"
As a result, the cadres refused to agree and objected:
"What a loss. How could we just give up Yuncheng to the Jinsui Army after we captured it?"
"No matter what, we have to occupy a part of it. It will be easy to get it back later!"
"If you do this, the soldiers will have no energy to fight, and they will all fall to the Jinsui Army anyway!"
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The chief of staff explained: "Comrades, this matter is really not unfair. First of all, we are moving Yuncheng not for the city itself, but for the iron and copper of Zhongtiao Mountain and the salt of the Salt Lake. Sooner or later, Yuncheng will be ours, no?
I'm in a hurry. Secondly, our Yuncheng was sold to the Jinsui Army.
A batch of guns and ammunition also obtained steel, copper and other materials. We have to be trustworthy. Again, this can also reflect the unity of the two militaries to the outside world. It is a good opportunity for national cooperation, a good start, and an example! Therefore,
Not only do we have to fight, we also have to fight this battle well!"
One thing the chief of staff did not say was to use Yuncheng to transfer the Jinsui Army from the second line to the front line to confront the Japanese... Of course, this cannot be said openly, otherwise it will be spread to Yan Laoxi's ears.
Things won't go so smoothly.
However, even if Yan Laoxi knew what was going on, he could only break his teeth and swallow it... He had no choice, he couldn't let go of Yuncheng in front of him, right?
It’s okay if you don’t want to, the Eighth Route Army can win it on its own, the Jinsui Army can just watch from the side!
This is the tragedy of being alone.
There is a saying that "weak countries have no diplomacy", which refers to small countries. Weak countries cannot escape the fate of being used as pawns and are swayed around. No matter how hard they struggle, it is useless.
This actually applies to the military as well.
Before this, when the Jinsui Army was strong, even the stubborn troops did not dare to offend easily, and the Eighth Route Army was even more incompetent.
But this time and that time.
The Jinsui Army declined due to the defeat of the stubborn Zhongtiao Mountain, but the Eighth Route Army thrived at this time. As the strength of the Eighth Route Army exceeded that of the Jinsui Army, it played a leading role in the cooperation to attack Yuncheng.
At the same time, it also took the strategic initiative.
After listening to the chief of staff's explanation, the cadres said nothing more.
In fact, many of them know what's going on, but they just see through it and don't say anything.
The chief signaled the staff to distribute the mimeographed maps to the cadres and said: "Another benefit of cooperating with the Shanxi-Sui Army is that we have obtained this detailed defense map. Comrades, take a look, there are many bunkers that we have not detected.
If we start a fight rashly, we will suffer heavy losses and even affect the entire battle!"
The cadres took a look at the map and couldn't help but gasped. There were indeed many bunkers and fortifications that were not marked on the original map.
The chief of staff took a map and said: "Obviously, Yuncheng's defense is mainly on the east, west, and north sides. The south side is the Salt Lake, which is inconvenient for attack and has fewer defensive fortifications. The other three directions are three or five directions outward from the city wall.
Covered a hundred meters away
Field fortifications such as high pillboxes, low pillboxes, and plum blossom pillboxes. These fortifications form cross fires to cover each other, and use the outer trenches as barriers to form a tight firepower network. Even if our army has tanks, it is difficult to successfully capture this city.
It’s easy!”
Li Yunlong looked at the map for a while, then turned to Wang Xuexin and asked: "What do you think? Are there any difficulties?"
Wang Xuexin frowned and nodded slowly, saying: "Captain, if this city was for the Japanese to defend us, there might not be these trenches to protect the city. But these fortifications were built by the Jinsui Army to protect against the Japanese."
...This is troublesome!"
Li Yunlong understood what Wang Xuexin meant.
The Japs always thought that the Eighth Route Army did not have tanks, so neither the Japs nor the puppet army had any fortifications against tanks.
However, Yuncheng was used by the Jinsui Army to defend against the Japanese, and the Jinsui Army was extremely short of anti-tank equipment, so a large number of anti-tank fortifications were built.
The "outer trenches" mentioned by the Chief of Staff are actually anti-tank trenches, and they are also hidden anti-tank trenches.
The so-called concealed anti-tank trench means that there is nothing unusual about it on the surface. It is entirely supported by wooden boards and logs at the bottom, and then covered with soil on top, so that people can walk on it.
In this way, the Japanese reconnaissance planes could not detect anything unusual, which is why the Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel did not detect these fortifications.
But as soon as the tank is driven upward...the weight of the tank will immediately collapse the wooden board, and then the tank will fall inside and be unable to get out.
Wang Xuexin secretly rejoiced that he was cooperating with the Jinsui Army. Otherwise, if the tank troops who did not know the inside story moved forward, they would probably have suffered heavy losses and failed.
Of course Li Yunlong knew what was going on. He gritted his teeth and cursed: "Damn it, why didn't the Jinsui army blow up these fortifications when they withdrew? Now they are all left to the Japanese to pick up ready-made items!"
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Kong Jie replied angrily: "Old Li, if the Jinsui Army did this, would it still be called the Jinsui Army?"