After returning to the base area, Li Qiufan found that everyone looked at him with complicated expressions, including Zhao Gang.
"Old Zhao, what's wrong? Why do you all look at me like this?"
Li Qiufan was a little puzzled and pulled Zhao Gang aside and asked.
"Ahem, Qiu Fan, you still have to pay attention to the impact of some things. Although it surprises us, I still understand you!"
Zhao Gang patted Li Qiufan's shoulder earnestly, leaving Li Qiufan a little confused: "What's the matter? Do you still need to pay attention to the impact?"
"Didn't the monk come back before? That's what he said."
Seeing that Li Qiufan didn't understand, Zhao Gang gave a subtle reminder.
After hearing this, Li Qiufan immediately understood what was going on. His face turned green at that time, and then he went out to find the monk under Zhao Gang's puzzled gaze.
By the time they showed up again, it was already after gathering the troops.
"Qiu Fan, why don't you report such a large military operation to the division headquarters?"
Zhao Gang asked with some worry. After all, although he was not going to fight Taiyuan directly, he was still around Taiyuan.
"Why beat me after I reported it? It's the same thing if I wait until the beating is over and then report it. Then the teacher will scold me at most."
Li Qiufan waved his hand and said without any concern.
"Heizi, order the troops to set off!"
Li Qiufan turned around and said something to Heizi, and then left without looking back.
"Qiu Fan, where is the monk?"
Zhao Gang looked around and didn't see the monk. As the commander of the guard battalion, he had to be inseparable from Li Qiufan.
"Monk, I gave him a holiday, so he won't have to go this time!"
Li Qiufan waved with his back to Zhao Gang, but he didn't know that the monk lying in the room could not get off the bed at this time.
That day, after Li Qiufan left, he directly found the monk and started practicing alone without saying a word. He stopped until the monk was completely out of shape.
The destination of the troops' trip was a place called Yangjiapo, which was the assembly point previously agreed with Li Yunlong.
After marching for most of a day, Li Qiufan led his troops to Yangjiapo. At this time, Li Yunlong was already waiting for him at Yangjiapo.
"Brother, you are finally here! Brother, I can't wait any longer!"
Li Yunlong was happy when he saw Li Qiufan coming. He gave him a bear hug and then looked at his troops.
"Brother, you are such a good soldier!"
"And that cannon, good guy, when did you buy another mountain cannon!"
Seeing Li Qiufan's cannon, Li Yunlong's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward to caress it as if he were seeing his daughter-in-law.
"Ahem, okay, Lao Li, so many brothers are watching!"
Li Qiufan coughed lightly and reminded Li Yunlong not to be too embarrassed.
But at this time, Li Yunlong only had guns in his eyes, and he didn't care about Li Qiufan, so he simply ignored his greeting.
"Old Li! No more fighting!"
Li Qiufan helplessly shouted, finally calling Li Yunlong's soul back.
"Haha, don't mind, bro. I'm just happy to see so many cannons at once!"
Li Yunlong didn't feel embarrassed at all and grinned.
"Okay, let's quickly discuss the attack time and the troops' blocking route."
Li Qiufan said helplessly that there was really nothing he could do about Li Yunlong.
"Okay, here we go!"
When it came to business, Li Yunlong stopped smiling and followed Li Qiufan towards the temporary command post.
In the command post, Li Qiufan and Li Yunlong were studying how to allocate blocking routes.
"Brother, I feel like I'm putting you at a disadvantage by being like this!"
Li Yunlong looked at Li Qiufan with some embarrassment.
Because Li Qiufan and Li Yunlong just confirmed their respective parts.
Li Qiufan's two infantry regiments and artillery regiments, plus the guard battalion and reconnaissance battalion, were responsible for the feint attack in Shangyang County.
The remaining two infantry regiments and cavalry regiments are led by Heizi and will eat a Japanese regiment that will be reinforced from the east.
The remaining Japs, totaling two more regiments, were given to Li Yunlong. This was undoubtedly a pot of stewed meat, and Li Qiufan only gnawed the bones.
"We brothers have made an agreement before. No need to say more, we should arrange the troops to be in position immediately. This matter cannot be delayed for too long!"
Li Qiufan waved his hand. He did not tell Lao Li about his idea of conquering the county.
"Okay, your brother just remember, we, Lao Li, won't do anything wrong to you!"
Li Yunlong nodded heavily, and then went to arrange the troops.
Li Qiufan also called Heizi and assigned him a blocking mission, asking him to eat up the Japanese army coming from the east.
After some deployment, the two troops began to take action. Li Qiufan also took the artillery regiment and the first and second regiments to Shangyang County, which was occupied by the Japanese.
At eight or nine o'clock in the night, Li Qiufan led his troops to the woods not far from Shangyang County, and then called on the soldiers to take a rest and wait until three o'clock in the morning to launch the attack.
Time passed minute by minute, Li Qiufan did not sleep, but observed the surrounding terrain while paying attention to the time.
Soon it was 1:30 in the morning. Li Qiufan woke everyone up and then arranged combat tasks for each unit.
"Old Ma, you take the reconnaissance battalion to build an artillery position on the back of the side hillside, and launch the artillery attack on time at three o'clock!"
"The First Regiment and the Second Regiment will follow me to Shangyang County and surround several exits of the county. Please follow my orders on how to act!"
After Li Qiufan finished explaining, he quietly led the first and second regiments around the county town, and surrounded the entire county town under the cover of night.
The two regiments plus the guard battalion totaled about 8,000 people, blocking the two main entrances and exits of the county. In addition, some small troops were distributed around to prevent the Japanese from escaping.
"Erhu, tell brothers, prepare to fight!"
After everything was arranged, Li Qiufan looked at the time and found that it was almost three o'clock sharp.
"Boom boom boom..."
As the pointer passed three o'clock, Lao Ma's artillery regiment began to test fire. Although few shots fell on the city wall, they still scared the Japanese.
Soon the entire county was brightly lit, and the Japanese in the city continued to support the city gates and build fortifications.
Lao Ma also readjusted the angle with the help of the reconnaissance battalion, and the next cannonball landed on the city wall accurately.
"beat!"
Seeing that it was almost done, Li Qiufan ordered the troops to start attacking. For a while, countless gunfire flashed in the dark night.
At this time, the Japanese commander knew that he was surrounded, and immediately ordered his men to ask for help from the Japanese everywhere, and also called Taiyuan.
"Communication Corps! Go tell Lao Ma and ask him to blast the city gate for me! Be sure to blast the city gate open!"
Li Qiufan shouted to the correspondent on the side that he did not bring a ladder with him this time, mainly because it would affect the marching speed too much. In addition, using a ladder to attack the city would cause too many casualties.
After careful consideration, Li Qiufan finally decided to concentrate his artillery fire, blast open the city gate of Shangyang County, and attack through the city gate!
