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When you leave Hebei, you also leave the vast mountains along the Great Wall.
However, walking out of the mountainous area is actually just walking from one kind of mountain to another. The mountains in Hebei are taller and have more lush trees, while the mountains in Shanxi are more barren and have far more shrubs than trees.
To put it bluntly, Hebei is short of water, and Shanxi is even more lacking, especially Datong, which is adjacent to Hebei. As the border of ancient China, Datong, which is more than 500 miles away from Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi, has always been a battleground for military strategists.
However, with its solid stone and shrub cover, the mountain here is obviously more suitable as a defensive position.
As soon as they entered Shanxi's territory, Liu Lang and his independent group received unusual courtesy.
An independent brigade of nearly 5,000 people was greeting them, loaded with live ammunition and fully armed. Even on the top of a mountain several miles away, Liu Lang could still see the cocked muzzle of the cannon through his telescope.
This is not the attitude toward friendly forces.
After the warning came from the special forces in charge of the investigation, Yu Xiancheng's first battalion, as the vanguard, had already assumed a fighting posture as if it were encountering the enemy. All rifle bullets were loaded and machine guns loaded with ammunition belts. Once attacked, they would fight back as soon as possible.
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Postwar syndrome does not only exist among soldiers who have been fighting the Japanese invaders for more than a month. Even officers are extremely sensitive to external stimuli.
Any gesture that may pose a threat to oneself will be met with what may even be called an extreme reaction.
Just imagine, for more than forty days, these soldiers have been walking on the edge of life and death. Seeing their comrades who were sleeping cuddling with each other last night, they may not even be able to find their bodies the next morning. That kind of coming from
What a devastating blow the extreme cruelty of war has on the human psyche? In the hospital, there have been two incidents where a sleeping wounded soldier almost strangled the doctor who was checking on the injury at night.
Yu Xiancheng did not immediately order an attack on the troops who occupied the high ground 500 meters away and set up machine guns to pose a huge threat to his own troops. This was the result of extreme restraint.
Compared with the soldiers of the first battalion, whose adrenaline surged rapidly and entered combat status instantly, the Jinsui Army on the opposite side was obviously confused.
They didn't expect that it was just a small demonstration, or it could be said to be a small show of strength to the other party. The other party turned out to be like a frightened hedgehog, opening their spines with a "swish".
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More than 600 men and horses reacted quickly as soon as they entered the attack range. The infantry quickly occupied favorable terrain, and the machine gunners were building firepower points. Also, what do those guys with short black tubes do?
The stunned officers at all levels of the Jinsui Army picked up the telescopes hanging around their necks and collectively gasped. More than thirty groups of soldiers were holding what else but grenades.
The Japanese grenade with a range of up to 700 meters can blow up the fire points on the mountain into a sea of fire at that distance. It is only a battalion of the independent regiment. The short-range suppressive firepower of the grenade is comparable to that of a Japanese army brigade.
Of course, this was because the Jinsui Army did not see that two kilometers away, Zhao Ergou's artillery battery was happily assembling the two Bofors Mountain Cannons that had been disassembled and placed on the carriage.
Like the infantry, the soldiers of the artillery company who had been sleeping with cannons on their heads for more than forty days also suffered from extremely strong post-war syndrome. During the month of repairs in Peking, not to mention firing artillery, they almost ran out of artillery.
You can't even touch it, but it almost suffocated people to death.
When you receive the order to assemble the cannon, you are not as excited as if you are celebrating the New Year?
As for whether the battle can be won or not, who is the independent regiment that is afraid of even a division of the Japanese invaders?
If the Independent Regiment before the Battle of the Great Wall was a well-equipped, well-trained, and highly morale elite force, then the Independent Regiment after the Battle of the Great Wall was an iron-blooded force that was well-equipped, tenacious in fighting will, and full of self-confidence.
The two are completely incommensurable.
The Battle of the Great Wall was like a hammer, gradually hammering the rough embryo of the Independent Regiment into a fine piece of iron. The most important thing was to create the arrogance of belonging to the Independent Regiment. I am so strong, I will do it if I don't accept it.
If it were the former independent regiment, I'm afraid the soldiers would be thinking more about: Whether it works or not, we won't know until we fight.
The Independent Regiment, which has the confidence to win and 3,000 veterans who have fought for the rest of their lives, is so confident.
When Liu Lang heard that Ling Hong sent people to report that the Jinsui Army had stationed a large army on the road that the independent regiment must pass through in the mountainous area ahead, with at least two regiments of troops, and they were still loaded with live ammunition, a flash of light flashed at the corner of Liu Lang's mouth.
sneer.
Isn't this Yan Laoxi's style? He just wants to give himself a prestige. The purpose of the prestige is also very simple, which is to make himself more honest in Shanxi and not to make any mistakes. This is Lao Yan's territory.
, is not the world of the bald principal.
What's the use of having military orders from the Northern Military Commission? In Shanxi, if it's a tiger, you have to lie down, if it's a dragon, you have to coil up, it's that simple.
Liu Lang had studied the history of the Republic of China, so it was impossible not to know that he could definitely apply for the famous "King of Shanxi" in the Guinness Book of World Records after ruling Shanxi for 38 years.
Yan Laoxi is really a capable person. Although he is not weak militarily, compared with the generals who are good at fighting between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, he is simply a scumbag.
So where can he be? He can have average abilities, just like a general in the game. He doesn't have any outstanding abilities, but all his abilities are not weak.
If he was just to be a general of an army, then Comrade Lao Yan might be just a minor general, the kind of little guy who was cut off by the enemy's general to increase his experience points as soon as he came out.
But if you are the leader of one party, it will be great.
You know, the evaluation of him by later generations of scholars is this: If he had lived in the peaceful era of ancient times, I am afraid he would have been an excellent civil servant and an expert in governing the country. If in troubled times, he would have been a vassal and a feudal lord who separated himself from one side, and he might have been like Zhu Yuanzhang.
Eventually he became the leader of the country.
This evaluation is quite high. In the Republic of China, few people could reach this height.
Along with Comrade Lao Yan, the other four warlords of the Republic of China are also famous.
Lao Li and Xiao Bai of the Gui Army are both good fighters, and the Gui Army under them is also very good. Even the Japanese would not dare to neglect them. They are also top-notch masters in political tactics.
It’s just that I’ve never played with a bald principal.
However, what hinders their development is their worst economy. Guangxi's economy has been manipulated by these two masters. It can only be described in one word: "poor".
Lao Feng in the northwest also had outstanding military capabilities. The Northwest Army was also a strong army, but the Northwest... was even three points worse than Guangxi. So, the outcome was doomed.
Lao Zhang in the Northeast has a very strong economy and military, much stronger than Shanxi. However, his political skills are not that good.
As a result, the powerful Northeast Army fell into pieces.
And what about Comrade Lao Yan? From 1911 to 1949, for 38 years, Shanxi was as stable as a mountain, and Shanxi's economy has always been among the best in the country. If the Red Army hadn't been so awesome, he might have ruled Shanxi until his death.
That day.
Such a local bully from Shanxi naturally has a lot of twists and turns. He just uses this move to show Liu Lang that this is my Lao Yan's territory, and the military orders of the bald principal will not work with me.
Of course, this is a small warning not only to Liu Lang, but also to General He, who has three central divisions in Hebei.
Comrade Lao Yan felt a huge threat from the tens of thousands of Central Army troops stationed on the border of Shanxi. God knows if the bald man who completely controlled Hebei through the Great Wall War would attack his base camp in Shanxi? Comrade Lao Yan was against Bald
The boss's skills have always been sufficiently vigilant.
In the past, in order to prevent 300,000 national troops from entering Shanxi to fight against the Japanese invaders, Comrade Lao Yan did not hesitate to fabricate a fake military deployment of the so-called "Battle of Datong" to fool the bald man. There was even an incident if 300,000 soldiers were allowed to enter Shanxi to fight against the Japanese invaders.
The Chinese army entered Shanxi, so they might as well surrender to the Japanese.
Comrade Lao Yan's plan was very good, but it was a pity that he didn't understand Liu Lang. Liu Lang would never be the chicken who was "killed to scare the monkey."
In fact, can Liu Lang say that he also has post-war syndrome? The moment he saw the opponent's muzzle raised, Liu Lang immediately became furious.
Not to mention seeing the cannons of the Independent Regiment raised up, just the reaction of the front battalion had already made the officers of the Shanxi-Sui Army in front a little nervous.