In the morning, before the sky was completely bright, Liu Yu ordered all artillery units to hide, and at the same time asked a large number of people in the base area to burn wet straw to create thick smoke in the sky to avoid retaliatory bombing by Japanese planes.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese plane arrived.
But this time, they were not as arrogant as they were at Tumenguan last time, but were hovering thousands of meters high in the sky.
Unfortunately, the smoke produced below was too thick, and the Japanese Air Force did not want to waste precious bombs, so they had to return.
Then, Liu Yu asked Tang Tianji to take the 728th Regiment and the 732nd Regiment to Shouyang. The 37th Division there still did not give up and wanted to try to capture Shouyang.
Shouyang is the gateway to Yuci (today's Jinzhong City), and Yuci is the southern gateway to Taiyuan, so its strategic location is very important.
Now that Liu Yu has beaten him down, there is no reason to let the little devil fight him back.
The Japanese 37th Division only had three infantry regiments in total. Facing the defense of the 4 main regiments of the 122nd Division, they had no desire to attack.
It was not until the third day of the battle, that is, in the early morning of June 12, that the Japanese 37th Division in Shouyang retreated across the board, and the battle came to an end.
After the news came out, the whole country was naturally excited.
The happiest thing was the Eighth Route Army. The 122nd Division captured the four counties of Yangquan, Pingding, Yuxian, and Shouyang in one battle, connecting the base area with the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. At this time, the entire Taihang Mountains area on the map could be dyed. It's red.
The Eighth Route Army Headquarters also upgraded Liu Yu's Lunan Military Division to the Shanxi-Hebei Border Military Region, which was placed under the command of Liu Shuai's Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Military Region and was responsible for combat missions along the Zhengtai Road and in the northern Hebei region.
Naturally, the Chongqing side was very upset. They verbally praised the 122nd Division, did some propaganda, and then shamelessly placed the credit for commanding the battle on the Second Theater. In the end, Liu Yu's military rank was promoted to Army Lieutenant General, and he had nothing left, not even 100 legal currency.
Some people also say that Liu Yu took advantage of the scattered Japanese troops to catch them off guard, and then used Japanese tactics to penetrate into Shouyang and cut off Hyakutake Harukichi's escape route to win so quickly. Such a cunning and shameless attack Law, they disdain it.
More people said that if they had so many cannons, they would also be able to win!
Indeed, Liu Yu used a reorganizer this time to fight two brigades of Japs, with more than 22,000 people fighting more than 2,000, and a group of large-caliber heavy artillery to help out. It was indeed very simple in the eyes of others.
But they also didn’t think about any unit that could run like the 115th Division Teaching Group for 8 hours from the southern area of Mount Wutai to the southern part of Shouyang, blow up the railway bridge over the Xiaohe River, and block the 4th Japanese 225th Regiment. hours? Which army can be like the 727th Regiment, which used only one battalion to defeat a Japanese garrison squadron and a puppet army battalion within an hour, and occupied Shouyang, and used it in the subsequent defense. One regiment withstood the attack of the 37th Division for more than three hours?
There are many heroes like the third company commander of the teaching regiment who died heroically! But most commanders can't make their sacrifices more valuable, but Tang Yanjie can!
There are many troops that a battalion can defeat against more than 500 days of puppet troops, but their commanders basically dare not lead them to attack the Japanese on their own initiative, but that bold and careful girl Li Lin dares!
In Liu Yu's view, this battle was by no means a fluke, but reasonable!
He didn't even bother to argue with those rumors.
. . . . . .
Walking on the streets of Yangquan, Liu Yu was filled with emotion.
After traveling for more than half a year, I finally saw the flat land. Although it was only a basin with a radius of only ten kilometers, at least I didn’t have to “climb up” every day, right?
There is also a Yuxian Basin to the north, and with the Pingding Basin to the south, Liu Yu's industrial base address is established.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for winning the medium-sized battle. In this battle, a total of three eighteenth-tier cities (Shouyang, Pingding, Yuxian) and one third-tier mining city (Yangquan) were recovered. However, due to the high casualties of the host's subordinates, we The battle evaluation was qualified, and a total of 75,000 points were obtained.”
"Ding! Congratulations to the host's troops for killing 2,349 Japanese soldiers, including 2 majors, 4 captains, and 9 lieutenants..."
System prompts always come so suddenly and are so pleasant.
The recapture of the four county towns, Shouyang, Yuxian, and Pingding, were awarded 10,000 points each, and Yangquan was 20,000 points, for a total of 50,000 points. The victory in a medium-sized battle only rewarded 25,000 points because the casualties were a bit high.
Including the reward for killing the Japanese, Liu Yu's total points are now back to 81,230 points.
It's OK to be excited again.
Liu Yu couldn't help but reveal a pleased expression on his face, which made Tang Tianji roll his eyes.
"Commander, commander?"
"ah?"
Liu Yu was yelled twice by Old Tang, and finally came to his senses, and said angrily: "What are you doing?"
Old Tang was even more annoyed and said, "What's wrong with you? You were walking normally and suddenly you stopped having an erotic dream."
"You're just having an erotic dream!" Liu Yu replied, then asked, "What are the casualties of the troops?"
"Not bad, 557 people were killed and 713 injured. Mainly due to the relatively large losses during the street fighting in Yangquan City. Then there was the 727th Regiment from Shouyang. They were the first to fight against the 37th Division, and they fought hard!" Tang Tianji replied.
Liu Yu nodded and said in a deep voice: "To reimburse more than one battalion at once shows that our soldiers are indeed lacking in actual combat experience, especially street fighting. In the future, we must focus on strengthening training in this area. It is best to have more training." Conduct a few offensive and defensive drills!”
"In addition, the lost soldiers of each department should be replaced by recruits from the recruit training camp as soon as possible."
Tang Tianji nodded: "I understand, Commander!"
Liu Yu turned his head and looked at the surrounding ruins and the few people sitting in front of their homes with dull expressions, and felt uncomfortable again.
In his previous life, he had only seen such scenes on TV.
"We still need to pay close attention to artillery training. What's all this? The cannons are almost on the shoulders of the infantry in front. Let them build a city wall and still fire shells into the city!" Liu Yu complained.
Tang Tianji was about to speak when he heard a quarrel coming from in front of him.
"Get out! Get out! We don't need your help!"
Looking over there, I saw an old man in rich clothes who was covered in dust at the entrance of a courtyard, using a cane to drive out two Eighth Route Army cadres.
Liu Yu and Tang Tianji looked at each other and hurriedly walked up.
When he got closer, Liu Yu asked, "What's going on?"
When the two cadres saw Liu Yu, they quickly saluted: "Commander!"
Although Liu Yu's official position is now the commander of the 122nd Division, everyone is still used to calling him commander.
Liu Yu saluted them, and before the two cadres could speak, the old man leaned on a cane and spoke first: "I dare to ask this Eighth Route Army commander, you often say that the Japanese are vicious, then why did the Japanese enter Yangquan with Minqiu committed no crime and never fired a single shot at a residential building! And you claimed to protect the country and the people, but you ignored the safety of the people and destroyed Yangquan?!"
Liu Yu frowned and was about to speak when he heard an old man say: "Three days ago, the people of Yangquan were living and working in peace and contentment. Why do you have to go to war and destroy this only peace?!"
As he spoke, the old man seemed out of breath and coughed violently, looking like he couldn't stand. Seeing this, a middle-aged man next to him immediately came over to help him.
Liu Yu took a breath and replied: "Old man, you said that the Japanese did nothing to the common people, and you said that the people in Yangquan live and work in peace and contentment. So, may I ask, what was the population in Yangquan two years ago, and how many are there now?"
The old man's eyes widened: "It's much less than two years ago, and they were all killed by your Eighth Route Army's artillery!"
Liu Yu raised his eyebrows: "Really? Then I will ask people to clean up the corpses and see if how many people died in this battle can match the small population of Yangquan in the past two years!"
The old man also sneered: "So what if we don't match up? It's an indisputable fact that your Eighth Route Army started a war in vain and bombarded people's houses!"
"So you would rather let the Japanese occupy Yangquan and brutally kill the people than let the Chinese army regain Yangquan?" Liu Yu replied quickly.
The old man hesitated when he heard the words, but immediately resumed his sneer: "Young man, you don't need to use clichés. The old man's original intention is just to hope that there will never be war disasters in my hometown and that the people will always enjoy peace!"
Liu Yu looked directly into the old man's eyes and said angrily: "But the invaders have already invaded, shouldn't we resist? Seeing our compatriots being humiliated by the Japanese invaders, shouldn't we rescue them?"
Before the old man could continue to speak, Liu Yu cursed again: "The so-called scholars harmed the country, and the ancients are honest! From the Southern Song Dynasty to the late Ming Dynasty, China had so many rotten Confucian scholars like you that the country suffered from foreigners. Bullying! You can talk about obeying the Japanese invaders here, but ask, how many people are willing to be slaves to the subjugation of the country like you?"
"You also know that you are talking about the Mongolian Yuan and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. China was indeed ruled by aliens at that time, but the people did not live the same life? Who is the ruler? What does it have to do with ordinary people like us?" The old man pointed at Liu Yu, blew his beard and glared, "I won't have a pointless argument with you Qiu Ba. I only know that it's your Eighth Route Army who spread anti-Japanese propaganda everywhere and arouse the anger of the Japanese, which brings disaster to the people!"
After hearing this, the anger in Liu Yu's eyes had completely turned into murderous intent: "Have we aroused the anger of the Japanese? Have we affected the people? Not to mention the Lushun Massacre more than 40 years ago, nor the Nanjing Massacre the year before last!" Let’s just talk about the battle of Niangziguan. Don’t you have an idea of how many people the Japanese killed in the area from Jingxing to Pingding? Did our Eighth Route Army come to promote the war of resistance at that time? Did the people who were massacred at that time resist?”
"You keep hoping that Yangquan will not suffer military disasters, but you are watching the Japanese kill fewer and fewer people in Yangquan! Why didn't you try to dissuade the Japanese at that time? Now, you think the Eighth Route Army is easy to talk to, so you come and talk nonsense in front of us. , who gave you the dog face?"
"Looking at how well-dressed you are, you must have flattered the Japanese a lot if you have survived to this day. Otherwise, the Japanese would have emptied your house of your belongings! Old man, I see you don't have many days left to live. I'm too lazy to argue with you! However, I will order a thorough investigation of your behavior in recent years. If you have been a traitor, then wait to be shot!"
Liu Yu spitted all over the phone.
The old man was stunned when he heard this and raised his hand to speak. Unexpectedly, Liu Yu turned around and shouted angrily: "Ma Chao!"
"arrive!"
"Ask a company from the security battalion to surround the compound and not even a fly can fly out! Then tell Director Xu to thoroughly investigate the traitors and lackeys in Yangquan County. After a week, there will be a collective public trial. Anyone with solid evidence will be shot!"
"yes!"
Ma Chao followed the order and left. Before leaving, he glanced at the old man with a sneer.
The old man finally panicked and said tremblingly: "Sir, why did you commit such a crime? What I said just now was inappropriate..."
Liu Yu turned around, glanced at him with contempt, and interrupted: "Originally, when it comes to traitors, we mainly reform and admonish them, but after seeing you today, I found that it is best for people like you to die cleanly! You guys If the death is clean, the backbone of the nation will be straightened up!"
After saying that, Liu Yu left directly and ignored the shouts of the old man behind him.
Tang Tianji, who was beside him, followed step by step, a little worried, and advised: "Commander, that old man may be a landlord. The organization has policies against landlords now, so we can't beat him casually."
Liu Yu glanced at him sideways: "Landlords can't be beaten, but they didn't say traitors can't be beaten? Didn't that Wang Jingyue from Jingxing just eat a peanut?"
As he spoke, he looked back at the compound of the old man's house that was being surrounded by the guard camp, and said: "Some landlords are kind-hearted and have given a lot of help to the poor people and the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. We respect people like that! But! This old man actually stood up to speak for the devils. Even if he was not a traitor, I would have to find a chance to kill him! Such people never care about who the ruler is, they only care about whether their own interests can be guaranteed, so they promote enslavement. The idea of weakening the backbone of a nation is to make the rulers recognize their status so that they can continue to enslave the people. It is simply worse than a traitor!"
