Just as Zhang Ruhao led the 150 red soldiers hidden in the truck, all equipped with submachine guns and short-range firearms, as well as two independent regiment blue infantry companies equipped with pure Japanese equipment, passed the Japanese army's first line of defense checkpoint and continued to attack the Japanese army.
When the 26th Artillery Regiment advanced, 60 kilometers away, a huge convoy of 130 large trucks and 80 three-wheelers had arrived at a location ten miles away from the Shimen City Gate.
There, Liu Lang met Yu Xiancheng, whom he had not seen for a long time.
Yu Xiancheng, who had personally led Lu Shandong's Third Special Forces Team to lurk into Shimen City for four or five days, brought Shimen City's city defense map and the troop deployment of the 20th Division.
Because the Japanese army monitored the radio signals in the city very closely, Yu Xiancheng turned off the field radio he carried with him four days ago when he entered Shimen City. He even came to the designated location to report such important information to Liu Lang in person. He has already
I waited in this mountain all night until I saw the unique contact signal of the special operations brigade sent by Niu Er who followed Liu Lang.
This made Brigadier Chen of the 343rd Brigade, who hurried over as soon as he got off the car, very excited.
An infantry regiment plus an independent regiment and an elite infantry battalion marched 60 kilometers in more than four hours to counterattack Shimen. This march was fast and could catch the Japanese army by surprise, but he still had some doubts.
You must know that Shimen is not only the headquarters of the 20th Division, but also the logistics base for the entire Western Front Corps of the Japanese Northern Expeditionary Force. The total strength of the Japanese Western Front Corps is more than 50,000 people. It is so important to Shimen.
Base defense can never be too bad.
Even if the 20th Division has all its elite infantry, as long as the 108th and 109th Special Divisions have one infantry unit left, this battle will be difficult to fight. Even with a surprise attack, the casualties will be extremely heavy.
accept.
To a certain extent, this reconnaissance intelligence is equivalent to the role of an infantry regiment.
"The Japanese troops stationed in Shimen City include: one field hospital with more than 300 medical and non-combatant personnel; one engineering regiment with more than 660 personnel; two supply squadrons with more than 1,000 personnel; and one division and regiment guard infantry squadron with more than 200 personnel
"The division headquarters has a communications brigade of more than 250 people, with a total of about 330 people, and a total of about 2,500 people." After Brigadier Chen softly read Yu Xiancheng's information on the Japanese military strength, not only did his face smile like a flower, but he also took the initiative to hold the hand
Yu Xiancheng shook his hand again and again: "Captain Yu, this information of yours is so useful. It has finally put my old Chen's heart into my belly."
No wonder Brigadier Chen was so happy. The Japanese army was much weaker than he expected. However, the Japanese army of more than 2,500 people, not to mention more than 500 non-combatants, did not include an engineer regiment and a baggage squadron.
They were also the second-line soldiers of the Japanese army. In the opinion of Brigadier Chen Da, the only one with any combat effectiveness was the No. 200 man of the security squadron.
But what he and Liu Lang led were the most elite Chinese troops in the entire east of Shanxi. Brigadier Chen, who was already equipped with a large number of Japanese light and heavy machine guns and artillery, was already thinking very modestly. Otherwise, he would have dared to
It is said to be the most elite army in China.
This is not arrogance, but the confidence gained from years of fighting on the battlefield.
"Hey, Brigadier Chen, you laughed too early. Wait a minute! You will be happy." Liu Lang said with a chuckle.
It seems that he discovered a little secret in the deployment of Japanese troops, if his intuition is correct.
"Hey, sirs, it's not that difficult to get the head of Bunzaburo Kawagishi. In the past few days, Lao Lu and the others have been lurking in the attic of a restaurant 500 meters away from the Japanese division headquarters, at least three times.
I could shoot that old devil's head off with one shot, but I didn't agree to it." The older he gets, the more calm he becomes. He rarely smokes and looks like a middle school boy, but at this time, Lieutenant Colonel Yu pretends to be awesome.
When Brigadier Chen had a toothache, he said: "However, two officers, we don't want them to kill Bunzaburo Kawagishi because we are afraid of death. It's because I have discovered something more important than the old man."
The devil’s head is a much more important thing.”
"What is more important than the head of the old Japanese soldier Bunzaburo Kawagishi?" the red general was a little curious.
"Let me guess." Liu Lang smiled slightly, "Is it true that all the baggage of the Japanese Army on the Western Front is at Shimen?"
"Sir, you are awesome." Yu Xiancheng smiled and gave Liu Lang a thumbs-up, "That's true. The Japanese army's trains have brought a large amount of baggage from Peiping for several days in a row, and they are all stored in Shimen. It makes me jealous.
Just waiting for you to come."
"Japanese Western Front Corps baggage load? Hiss~~~" The red general took a breath of cold air and was dumbfounded.
He was completely stunned by this big pie that suddenly fell from the sky. In Jingxing County, only part of the baggage of the 20th Division was enough to support the entire 129th Division. This was almost the baggage of two and a half divisions.
Then you have to burst your belly!
"Yes, according to the observations of insiders among the porters in the past few days, most of the 20th Division's baggage has been transported to Jingxing County, and the warehouses belonging to the 20th Division are basically empty. However, the 108th and 109th Divisions
The regiment's logistics and baggage base is also located at Shimen. The two baggage squadrons are not affiliated with the 20th Division, but are affiliated with the 108th and 109th Division respectively. To be honest, in the past three or four days, whenever I look at them,
It makes my heart hurt to transport the supplies onto the train and send them southward along Pinghan Road." Yu Xiancheng may have been impatient, but he actually made some witty remarks at this moment.
"Haha, brother Yu, don't feel bad now. The deputy commander-in-chief and I are here to help the little devils move supplies. However, they are moving to my Shanxi province." The red general couldn't help laughing out loud with joy.
Quietly, even Liu Lang's title was changed from Commander Liu to Deputy Commander-in-Chief.
Obviously, by this moment, he was completely convinced by Liu Lang. Having reached this point in his military use, it could no longer be described as using his soldiers like a god.
"Deputy Commander-in-Chief, please give the order! As long as the artillery provides full assistance, I guarantee that we will enter the city within thirty minutes." After laughing, the red general took the initiative to ask for the order.
"Okay, Brigadier Chen, I've been waiting for your words." Liu Lang's face also became solemn, "The four gates of Shimen, the east, west, and south gates are each defended by a brigade of more than 200 people from the Japanese Army Engineer Corps. You can lead them personally.
The 686th Regiment storms the east gate. The artillery battalion will have four mortars and two infantry cannons at your disposal. After entering the city, in addition to sending an infantry battalion to quickly outflank the west gate to prevent the Japanese from escaping, the other two infantry battalions will use all their strength.
Rushing towards the baggage warehouse area, the 343rd Brigade Guard Company set up a blocking position three miles outside the north gate city, reinforced with two light and heavy machine guns, two mortars each, and made sure not to allow the Japanese to break up and escape. I led the bayonet battalion to attack the south.
After breaking through the city, we will rush toward the Japanese division headquarters. When the time comes, you and I will compete to see whether you capture the Japanese army's baggage warehouse first, or I get the head of the old Japanese soldier Bunzaburo Kawagishi first."
"Haha, okay, it's settled, whoever loses will be treated to a drink." The red general laughed, turned around and left to gather the troops.
Watching the clean-cut red brigade commander who had only met him once but was hard not to like him disappear into the darkness, Yu Xiancheng couldn't help but feel a little amused, "Master, you are a bit unethical! I have to drink this wine."
superior."
Lang Tuan Zuo also bared his teeth: "Xiancheng, is the south gate ready?"
"Well, I contacted the insider in the city. He took the opportunity to repair the city wall and buried 100 kilograms of explosives in it. I just don't know if two years have passed and the explosives have been dampened and can still be exploded." Yu Xiancheng looked a little weird.
He nodded and replied.
If Brigadier Chen was still imagining Liu Lang in terms of soldiers being like gods, then Yu Xiancheng and others who were very close to Liu Lang and knew Liu Lang's arrangements were using the term "unpredictable" to describe Liu Tuanzuo.
As the war curtain gradually opened, Liu Lang's five-year plan for a rainy day gradually appeared in front of them. And the facts proved that his vision was not ordinary.
In the past five years, the most important function of the Huashang Group has not only been to be the independent group's money bag, providing sufficient funds for the independent group's equipment that far exceeds the firepower of other troops, but to become the independent group's intelligence system throughout China.
.From the north to the southeast and even the south, which Yu Xiancheng didn't know yet, there are lurking spies of Chinese business groups in almost every military important place.
They are either wealthy businessmen or traffickers. They may not be visible in other places, but in the city where they live, they are definitely very familiar with every corner.
Take the wealthy businessman who contacted Yu Xiancheng as an example. He took over the city defense renovation project of Shimen, a military town, three years ago. He is definitely among the top three rich men in Shimen, and he is actually from the Huashang Group. Not only did he provide
Yu Xiancheng provided a hiding place that the Japanese army had no idea about, and even told Yu Xiancheng a secret. As early as two years ago, he had ordered a large amount of explosives to be buried under the base of the South Gate city wall. As long as it was aimed at that
If you hit it with artillery, it will cause a big explosion.
The moment he heard this secret, even though Yu Xiancheng knew that Liu Tuanzuo had been preparing for this war for five years, he couldn't help being "shocked". Liu Lang actually knew that he would definitely be there several years ago.
The Battle of Shimen?
If this is the case, it is not an exaggeration to describe him as Liu Bowen, who "knew five hundred years before and five hundred years later"!
The south gate city wall has been arranged in advance. Regardless of the high wall and thickness of the city, it may not be able to withstand three artillery pieces. Even if Brigadier Chen attacks with a regiment, the speed will definitely not be as fast as that of a battalion of the Independent Regiment. That meal of wine,
Please make a reservation.
Of course Yu Xiancheng didn't know that the fat man in front of him, whom he had already admired to the point of admiration, definitely did not have the ability to know for 500 years, but he had the ability to know for 85 years. Even this fat man, the future master, was
Everyone knows how to beat future disciples.
This is the biggest advantage of the little butterfly that traveled through time and space! Although I don’t have the ability to turn the wheel of history with one kick, I can take advantage of myself if I don’t make some arrangements in advance where I might fight.
Isn’t that fat butterfly’s head soaring?
Not only did he have spies deployed in major strategic locations, but he also stocked large amounts of arms and food. Wherever he went, Fatty could pull up a team by himself. Overseas branches of Huashang Group continued to make a steady stream of money from the American continent.
The U.S. dollars flow into the country through Huamei Company, and it is not just a matter of where they are piled.
There are nearly 150,000 employees of Huashang Group, enough to spread to every corner of China in five years.
On the surface, there is only the tip of the iceberg of the business empire, but in fact it is already as good as the intelligence organization under the leadership of the military commander Dai Boss. However, their focus is mainly on all Japanese, and on the national government, it is more about defense.