Li Yunlong was still happily collecting equipment outside the city.
The battle was basically over at this point.
The Japs outside the city are better informed than the Japs inside the city. The reason is that the Japs inside the city basically use telephone lines to communicate. Once the headquarters is intercepted, the phone lines are either cut or the command center is lost and cannot be contacted.
Most of the Japanese outside the city used radio stations to communicate with each other. Except for a few lines leading to the regiment-level headquarters in various directions, additional radio stations were set up in locations that needed key command.
The first thing Anda 23 did after escaping from the city was to order the Japanese outside the city to retreat.
The Japanese retreated very quickly. The main force was completely withdrawn before dawn, leaving only a small group of troops behind to lag behind the Eighth Route Army... If these small groups of troops were not blocked in the bunkers, the main force would have been very likely to be chased by the Eighth Route Army.
He was beaten and suffered heavy casualties.
But these small groups of troops left behind were nothing to the Eighth Route Army, which had rocket launchers in their hands. A few rounds of incendiary bombs burned them to death in the bunker one by one.
The main reason why Li Yunlong did not lead troops into the city was because there were many equipment abandoned by the Japanese outside the city...
To be precise, it was not equipment. At this time, the independent regiment was already equipped with Springfield rifles, and it was no longer as "eager" for the Japanese's 38-guns, crooked machine guns, etc. as before.
What Li Yunlong coveted was the ammunition left by the Japanese in the bunker.
He waved the box cannon and shouted at the soldiers: "Comrades, we don't care about rifles. If we want to get them, we have to get ammunition. Do you understand? Ammunition! No matter how many guns there are but no ammunition, they can't fire!"
In fact, Li Yunlong did not make it clear that this is not a problem of guns having too many bullets and not being able to fire.
If this is really the problem, does it mean that if you have too much ammunition, you can still shoot without a gun?
There is a reason for Li Yunlong to say this. He is a very clever person, and what he is thinking in his heart is:
Our independent regiment has been equipped with Eagle Springfield rifles. Although some of them are still equipped with 38 rifles, this is only because they are worried that the bullets captured on the battlefield cannot be used.
So... the ammunition captured by the Japanese can still be used by the Independent Regiment, but the captured guns must be handed over obediently and used to equip other troops.
We can't do such a thankless thing!
However, Li Yunlong cannot say this clearly, because if he shouts like this, Zhao Gang will definitely contradict him: "I said you, Li Yunlong, are you so enlightened as a regiment leader? Do you still think of yourself as a revolutionary soldier? A little bit
There is no overall consciousness..."
What is holistic consciousness? Even if we have holistic consciousness, we have to feed the independent group first before we can think of others, right?
Wouldn't it be silly to think about "the whole" when one is still hungry?
So Li Yunlong shouted out the fallacy he had just made, saying that "no matter how many guns there are, they can't fire without bullets."
Zhao Gang did not realize that there was any problem with this. After all, the Eighth Route Army had always had such a problem... Zhao Gang did not expect that the Eighth Route Army also lacked guns. Many soldiers were holding old guns with worn riflings that were seriously beyond their service life.
Guns, and even warriors only had grenades and spears.
But soon, Li Yunlong realized that he was simply stupid.
Because while he was still leading the soldiers to collect ammunition from bunkers one by one, Wang Xuexin's correspondent came up and reported to him: "Commander, the commander of the fifth battalion asked the commander to lead the troops into the city immediately...
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Li Yunlong was busy grabbing the scattered bullets into the ammunition box. He looked like a very hungry beggar when he saw the delicious food on the table. His eyes shone and his hands trembled. He wanted to put all the bullets in his arms and eat them.
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When the correspondent heard that Wang Xuexin asked him to enter the city, he raised his head and responded without thinking: "What city are you entering? Aren't all the city gates knocked down? He, Xiaobei, still can't handle it?"
As he said that, he turned around and grabbed the piles of bullets on the ground, and while grabbing and returning them, he cursed: "Damn you little devil, what a good bullet, just throwing it away like this! These losers!"
"No, Commander!" The correspondent became anxious: "The Fifth Battalion Commander is not asking you to go to the reinforcements, but to the warehouse in the city..."
"What's there to worry about in the warehouse?" Li Yunlong replied: "It won't run away!"
Li Yunlong was seduced by the ammunition in front of him, and he didn't have much idea in his head.
The correspondent felt helpless and said: "The battalion commander is worried that the ammunition in the warehouse will be blown up by Japanese planes!"
"What are you going to blow up..." Before he finished speaking, Li Yunlong stopped what he was doing, then suddenly raised his head and looked at the correspondent, asking: "What are you talking about? Ammunition? A warehouse of ammunition?"
The correspondent replied: "There is not just one warehouse, at least a dozen warehouses, and the number of ammunition is countless..."
Li Yunlong jumped up from the ground with a "scratch", knocking over the ammunition box on the stool, and the bullets he just picked up were immediately scattered on the floor.
Then Li Yunlong said nothing, and ran out while cursing: "Damn it, why didn't you tell me earlier that there were so many ammunitions in the city? I'm still here to pick them up one by one!"
The correspondent looked innocent, he said it from the beginning!
After Li Yunlong got out of the bunker, he waved his hand and shouted to the soldiers: "Comrades, there is a lot of ammunition in the city. We can't pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelons! Follow me into the city!"
So he led the independent group and rushed to the city anxiously.
When Li Yunlong arrived at the warehouse, he took a look and shouted at the piles of ammunition boxes: "Hey, how much ammunition are there here!"
Wang Xuexin replied: "I haven't counted them. These should be the reserves of the Jinsui Army plus the reserves of the Japanese. Both of them regard Yuncheng as their base camp!"
Li Yunlong laughed "hehehe", turned around and patted Wang Xuexin's shoulder heavily, saying: "I have it for you, Xiao Dongbei! I'm afraid all these ammunition will be used by our independent group for a year!"
Without saying anything more, he turned around and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "What are you doing standing still? Move it to me immediately and evacuate the ammunition to other places. Be careful to choose a sturdy house. Do you understand?"
"Yes!" the soldiers responded, slung their rifles on their shoulders, and began to carry boxes of ammunition out.
It took most of a day to evacuate the ammunition in the warehouse, and it was only done after a main division entered Yuncheng to join the evacuation team.
At noon, the surrounding fog gradually dispersed and the visibility finally improved. The Japanese seized this opportunity and concentrated more than ten 98 light explosives to bomb the warehouse. However, it was already too late...
The warehouse was indeed blown up by the Japanese, but only the warehouse was destroyed.
Even the Japanese pilot understood what happened. He reported to Anda 23: "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, although we hit the warehouse, there was no chain explosion. The ammunition may have been transferred by the Eighth Route Army!"