It’s so cheap to come and still want to go back.
Xu Shiyou also made corresponding strategic adjustments and had already prepared a feast for the Japanese 37th Division and the 9th Division in Jingxing.
Li Yunlong's 51st Army has been operating in Jingxing for more than two months. According to the established strategic deployment, Li Yunlong has built an underground fortress with complete functions and facilities outside and inside Jingxing, making full use of the intricate underground mines in the Jingxing mining area. .
The Japanese army occupied Jingxing for several years and adopted brutal mining methods in the Jingxing mining area, which resulted in underground mines that were crisscrossed like a spider web. Even old miners could easily lose their way when they walked in.
With such unique conditions, Li Yunlong combined the People's Liberation Army's experience in building offensive and defensive tunnels to build the underground fortress like an iron wall. No matter how many enemies came, he was confident that he would eliminate them here.
Yamada has mobilized the Ninth Division stationed in Shijiazhuang for three times, so Xu Shiyou will naturally not miss such a great opportunity.
Siege warfare is the most troublesome thing. The little devils can fight siege warfare on our land without any scruples, but we can't.
A city as big as Shijiazhuang has too many people. If we fight against the Japanese, we will inevitably hurt the people.
Now that the rare Japanese troops have come out, Shijiazhuang is now empty of troops. How long will it take if we don't replace them now?
Now that you are out, don't plan to go back. Xu Shiyou gave an order. The 49th Army and the Tank Division, which had originally planned to attack along the north bank of the old Yellow River, immediately turned around and headed straight for Shijiazhuang.
You backstab me, and I'll backstab you, cutting off your escape route first.
As for the two Japanese divisions attacking Jingxing, Xu Shiyou didn't have much to worry about. Jingxing didn't have many civilians, only 70,000 to 80,000 people, most of whom were miners' families. As long as these civilians were removed, Li Yunlong would be free to attack.
Don’t worry about the bottles and cans on the surface. We can rebuild them if they are broken. Dagu Town and Zhangzhuang are the ones that have been destroyed and rebuilt. The public rental housing policy launched by the government is very successful. I believe the people of Jingxing will also be very happy when the buildings are dilapidated. The shanty houses were transformed into spacious and bright brick houses.
In this era, mining areas were among the poorest areas. Miners had low incomes and were unable to build decent houses. They lived in low, damp shanties.
When the 37th Division and the 9th Division received the retreat order from Kojima Kawano, they were already in a fierce battle with Li Yunlong's troops, and they had quickly broken through Jingxing's outer defense line and entered the city.
They had already entered Jingxing without encountering much resistance. The 37th Division and the 9th Division were unwilling to withdraw to Shijiazhuang.
After discussion, the two division commanders decided to capture Jingxing in one go, leaving a brigade to garrison here, and then withdraw their troops. In this way, they also recovered a strategic resource area.
As for the possibility that the People's Liberation Army would hide underground, they also thought about it, but they were not too worried. The enemies trapped underground had nothing to worry about. They guarded the entrance of the mine and came out to kill one by one, trapping them to death underground.
The 37th Division and the 9th Division continued to attack Jingxing. It was too easy for the two divisions to attack such a small city. If they had not received the order from Kojima Kawano, they would not have even thought about it. Go straight to Niangzi Pass and cooperate with Commander Eitaro Uchiyama's large forces to regain Yangquan.
They only received the retreat order from Kojima Kawano. They didn't know that Eitaro Uchiyama's large army had been annihilated on the beach of the Yellow River in Jiayingguan. Otherwise, they would have turned around and ran back to Shijiazhuang as quickly as possible. .
As the two Japanese divisions gradually entered the city and it gradually became dark, Li Yunlong finally ordered all ground troops to withdraw into the tunnels and carry out the second phase of the battle plan.
The task Li Yunlong received was to hold off this group of Japanese soldiers and buy time for the 49th Army to regain Shijiazhuang. After all, the distance between Jingxing and Shijiazhuang was too close, only a hundred miles away, and the Japanese mobile troops could run back to Shijiazhuang in an hour.
The Japanese army successfully occupied Jingxing, and the two division commanders gathered together and laughed.
Xie Baoqing's troops were nothing more than this. I really don't know how the battles of the previous troops were fought. Xie Baoqing's troops captured so many cities and passes one after another, and lost the entire Shanxi.
These two units have never fought against the People's Liberation Army. Although the 9th Division belongs to the First Army's battle order, it has been stationed here since it occupied Shijiazhuang a few years ago. The People's Liberation Army fought against the 27th Division in the liberation of Jingxing. After the 27th Division was defeated, it was transferred to Dingzhou for rest and recuperation. The key was that the commander of the 9th Division and the commander of the 27th Division had a bad relationship and had no communication at all.
After Li Yunlong's 301st Division completely withdrew into the tunnel, some troops firmly guarded the more than a dozen deliberately exposed tunnel entrances, while the remaining soldiers took the time to eat and rest.
Li Yunlong is now the acting commander of the 51st Army and the acting commander of the 301st Division. He carries two generations, which is unprecedented. The main reason is that the punishment of Li Yunlong by the group army has not been revoked. It will take a war to know whether this kid has corrected his mistakes. Damn it, if he still has the same style, Xie Tian really doesn't mind completely abandoning Li Yunlong.
Li Yunlong picked up the phone and called Ding Wei and Kong Jie respectively. The 302nd Division and the 303rd Division were not in Jingxing. According to the tactical deployment, the 302nd Division was ambushing in the Dongyugou area of Guayun Mountain, and the 303rd Division was ambushing in the Cangyan Mountain area. These two The position could not only launch a sudden attack on the Japanese ground troops, but also cut off the retreat route of the two Japanese divisions to Shijiazhuang.
But if the battle really happened like that, it would be a head-on fight.
The Japanese have already occupied Jingxing, and Li Yunlong can still keep his phone lines open with other troops. This preparation work is also very sufficient.
Ding Wei replied on the phone: "Old Li, I'm here to watch you guys having a lively fight. Now I'm a freeloader."
"It's so lively, it's so lively without even firing a few mortars." This battle was not a happy one, and Li Yunlong was still depressed.
Ding Wei laughed: "It's already dark, and there's no movement from Shijiazhuang yet. How about we kill him first?"
"Don't be ridiculous. I think you have bad intentions. Tell me frankly. Are you thinking about the chair under my butt and instigating me to make mistakes quickly to make room for you?"
Ding Wei laughed loudly: "You have seen this, you have become smarter."
Li Yunlong is the acting commander of the 51st Army, and Ding Wei is the deputy commander of the 51st Army and the commander of the 302nd Division. If Li Yunlong made a mistake, Ding Wei would naturally sit on the throne of the army commander.
But these two were naturally joking. Li Yunlong had his own ups and downs. If he hadn't made any mistakes, he would probably be on an equal footing with Xu Shiyou now.
Of course, this is talking about if you were still in the Eighth Route Army.
At this time, Ding Wei suddenly shouted on the phone: "There's a fight, Lao Li, there's a fight in the direction of Shijiazhuang. Damn it, Li Changshun has finally arrived. Lao Li, let's do it too."
