Li Yunlong held up the telescope and stared at the Yangquan city wall for a few times, then put down the telescope, turned to Zhao Gang and asked:
"Old Zhao, please estimate again, how many Japs are there in Yangquan City?"
Zhao Gang smiled and said, "Are you asking me to do the work of the regiment's political commissar and chief of staff by myself?"
"What's wrong with this?" Li Yunlong said, "Those who are capable should work harder."
Zhao Gang said: "This is boring. Don't think that I don't know. In fact, you have already figured it out in your mind."
"Based on the information we obtained before the battle, we calculate it with the enemies we destroyed."
"There are no more than 300 Japanese and 200 puppet troops in Yangquan City now."
"If we attack now, we should be able to capture Yangquan City quickly."
For the Eighth Route Army, counties are much more difficult to attack than strongholds. Generally, strongholds only have fortifications such as gun towers and bunkers.
The county town held by the Japanese had strong walls, complete fortifications, ferocious enemy firepower, and sufficient ammunition.
It was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to break through the defenses of the city wall.
And the enemy will also make corresponding combat arrangements based on your ability to attack difficulties.
If the opponent does not have artillery that can blast through the city wall, then focus your troops and firepower on the city wall or the fortifications outside the city wall.
If the enemy has artillery that can blast through the city wall, then focus the defense inside the city and let the enemy in for street fighting.
Li Yunlong said.
"Don't worry, we have plenty of time to play with the devils."
"First let each battalion report casualties and losses and clean up the battlefield."
"Let the soldiers eat dry food and replenish their strength. We will attack the city in another two hours."
Zhao Gang worriedly asked: "Is this too risky? How about attacking the city at night to be safer?"
"After all, once our mountain artillery battalion is pulled out to bombard the city wall, the Japanese planes will definitely come to bomb it."
"The mountain artillery was bombed. We still have the help to kill 5 aircraft, but those artillerymen are precious..."
Li Yunlong said: "That's what war is like. It's impossible to only take advantage without suffering losses. The main thing is to see who suffers greater losses."
"Let's trade one or two mountain cannons for one of his damn planes. I think this deal is a good deal."
"Besides, didn't Brother Chen Feng give us more than a hundred disguise nets?"
"Let's use them all. Can the Japanese pilot find the mountain cannon hidden under the camouflage net?"
The precision method is mainly used for artillery fire coverage. It is not suitable for precision artillery fire, because the calculated shooting parameters mainly cover a certain area on the map.
If you want to attack the city and knock down the city wall, you can only advance the cannon and shoot directly at the tower, and try to hit the same position to knock down the city wall.
In this way, the attacking troops could enter the city along the collapsed city wall.
Zhao Gang's expression changed: "Don't say it, this is a way."
At that moment, Zhao Gang ordered the communications troops to go to the brigade headquarters to report the number of enemies wiped out and the new regiment's plan to attack Yangquan to the brigade commander.
Now there are only a few hundred enemies in Yangquan, and the new regiment has a mountain artillery battalion with strong attack capabilities. The brigade commander has no reason to disagree with this combat plan.
After a while, the second battalion commander Zheng Yu walked into the regiment headquarters and saluted Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.
"Reporting to the regimental commander and political commissar, the casualties of each battalion and directly affiliated company have been calculated."
Zhao Gang hurriedly asked: "How many soldiers were killed or injured?"
Zheng Yuhui reported: "Seventy-two soldiers were killed, fifty-two were injured, and... fifty-two soldiers were missing."
No need to guess, both Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang knew that the fifty-two missing soldiers must have been blown up by Japanese aerial bombs.
Either they were blown up directly, or they were buried under the soil by shells.
There was nothing we could do about it. The Japanese aerial bombs were too powerful. Fortunately, the new regiment had 40 anti-aircraft guns that could be used for air defense. Otherwise, the number of casualties would have been several times higher.
"One hundred and twenty-four plus fifty-two equals one hundred and seventy-six."
Zhao Gang looked solemn at first, and then his brows relaxed. He and Li Yunlong both guessed that there would be at least two hundred casualties in these battles.
The soldiers of the new regiment are not inferior to the Japanese in terms of marksmanship accuracy and fighting will, and their firepower is stronger than the Japanese, and they are supported by the artillery fire coverage of the mountain artillery battalion.
Coupled with Li Yunlong's proper tactics, the casualty rate was greatly reduced.
Almost half of these casualties were caused by aerial bombs dropped by Japanese planes.
Zhao Gang asked again: "Are the casualties of the cavalry battalion included?"
"No." Zheng Yu said, "Battle Commander Sun hasn't sent someone to give me the casualty data yet."
Zhao Gang nodded and said: "The casualties at the cavalry camp should not be large, within the acceptable range."
"I have sent someone to notify the militia." The second battalion commander continued, "The militia will come later to carry the wounded off the fire line for treatment."
Li Yunlong nodded, looking satisfied with the arrangement of the second battalion commander.
Zheng Yu asked again: "By the way, we also captured more than 400 puppet soldiers, and there were more than 30 captured Japanese soldiers. What should we do with these Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers?"
Zhao Gang thought for a moment and then said: "We don't have time to take care of these prisoners now. Let the Japanese be handed over to the militia and escorted back. The puppet soldiers will be educated and released."
"Don't let the puppet soldiers go yet. I hate traitors the most in my life." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "Let all these puppet soldiers go to the railway to scrape the rails and tell the soldiers in charge of supervision if any puppet soldier dares to escape or Anyone who cheats or cheats will be shot without asking for permission!"
"Yes!" Zheng Yu walked out.
…
At the same time, Kurosawa Shoji, who was standing on the tower, was holding a telescope to see the situation at Lion Rock.
Standing on the tower, he couldn't see the battle on the reverse slope of Lion Rock, but Kurosawa Shoji could roughly see the battle in the direction of Yanzigou.
The battle in the direction of Yanzigou lasted less than half an hour and ended. After the battle, not a single Japanese soldier returned to Yangquan.
This showed that the two squadrons of soldiers he sent out were completely wiped out.
The expected artillery fire to seize the Eighth Route Army's artillery to counterattack the Lion Rock position has yet to appear.
Not only did the highly anticipated plane fail to inflict serious damage on the Eighth Route Army, but it also managed to get in five planes, which was like a loss to my grandma's family.
In this round of games, Kurosawa Shoji felt that the opponent's commander's deployment was impeccable. At present, it seemed that all his four preparations had failed.
And he only has one squadron of capable soldiers left in his hands, and the rest are puppet troops and ronin waste.
Suddenly, Kurosawa Shoji's pupils shrank slightly, and a terrible thought emerged in his mind. He hurriedly ran down the city wall, then got into a car, which quickly started and drove towards the brigade headquarters.
Quickly rushing into the communications room, Kurosawa Shoji immediately asked the communications staff officer with a dark face:
"Have you not contacted Lieutenant Colonel Ogata yet?"
"Report to the chief of staff, we haven't been contacted yet." The communications staff member stood up and paused, "More than half an hour ago, the telegram from the radio station of the second brigade was only sent halfway and then terminated. The signal was interrupted. Since then, it has completely Lost Group 2 radio signal.”
Kurosawa Shoji then asked: "Nani? The telegram was terminated halfway through? What did Lieutenant Commander Ogata send?"
The communications staff officer handed a telegram to Kurosawa Shoji: "This is the translated telegram."
I saw the telegram saying: Report to the brigade headquarters that our department has discovered the Eighth Route Artillery position...
The telegram was very short and would end here. If it were a complete telegram, it would definitely include the location and a request for tactical guidance.
The telegram was only half sent. Either the telegram suddenly broke or something happened.
But it was clear that the possibility of a telegraph suddenly breaking was extremely low.
Kurosawa Shoji said sternly: "Send power to the headquarters immediately. All three of our attack forces were wiped out in the Eighth Route Army's attack on Lion Mountain. The Eighth Route Army has a high probability of attacking Yangquan. Please ask for tactical guidance."
The communications staff officer was stunned when he heard this. The Eighth Route Army was going to attack Yangquan City? Then wouldn't they have no way to escape?
"Baga, why are you still standing there?"
"Send the telegram immediately!"
"Hi!" The communications staff member paused quickly, quickly drafted a telegram and handed it to the telegraph operator.
…
In Taiyuan, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.
A lot of little red flags were added to the sand table in front of Shinozuka Yoshio.
Each small red flag represents a stronghold captured by the Eighth Route Army on the Zhengtai Railway and Tongpu Railway.
Although the First Army Headquarters has lost contact with these strongholds.
However, starting from the morning, Yoshio Shinozuka ordered planes from Changzhi, Taiyuan and Datong airports to take off and conduct reconnaissance along the railway.
As he expected, these out-of-contact strongholds had indeed been captured by the Eighth Route Army.
Since the day, the Eighth Route Army has been attacking medium-sized strongholds. It is expected that all these medium-sized strongholds will be captured before noon tomorrow.
Finally, the Eighth Route Army concentrated its forces to attack the large strongholds on the railway. If there was no support, these large strongholds would not last long.
Even in the section from Shouyang to Pingding, the Eighth Route Army has captured all medium-sized strongholds and is attacking large strongholds.
This section is responsible for the section of the 386th Brigade. Since the 386th Brigade is equipped with American mountain guns and super bazooka rocket launchers, it has sufficient ammunition and its ability to attack difficulties has been geometrically enhanced.
Yoshio Shinozuka's gaze lowered and moved eastward along the Shota Railway, finally stopping at Yangquan.
I wonder what the fighting situation is like there? The aviation force inflicted heavy losses on Li Yunlong's department at the cost of 5 aircraft. Surely Kurosawa Shoji won't let me down, right?
If Kurosawa Shoji eliminates Shinichi and Li Yunlong this time, what if the position of commander of the 4th Brigade is given to him?
With this thought in mind, communications staff officer Toshimatsu Kasai hurriedly walked into the combat hall with the telegram in his hand and bowed to Yoshio Shinozuka.
"Your Excellency General, the Fourth Brigade has an urgent call!"
Without waiting for Kasai Toshiatsu to read, Yoshio Shinozuka snatched the telegram and glanced at it.
As soon as he saw it, he was stunned and his face gradually turned dark.
"Baga, Kurosawa Shoji is a loser. The aviation force severely damaged the New Regiment, but he still can't take the Lion Rock position?"
"Nani?" Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi asked in surprise, "What is this guy Kurosawa Shoji doing? He hasn't taken down the Lion Rock position yet?"
After receiving the telegram from Yoshio Shinozuka, Kusuyama Hideyoshi took one look at it and couldn't help but become furious.
Is this more than just an offensive failure? This is simply a complete annihilation of the entire army, and even Yangquan is in danger of being captured by the new group.
what is going on? Didn’t it mean that the aviation force has been reorganized into a new group?
Yoshio Shinozuka raised his head, looked at Toshimatsu Kasai, and said urgently: "Go to the special agent training camp and invite Colonel Yamamoto back!"
"Brother Shen!"
"Um!"
When Shen Changqing walks on the road, whenever he meets someone he knows, he will say hello or nod to each other.
But no matter who it is.
There was no unnecessary expression on everyone's face, as if they were indifferent to everything.
To this.
Shen Changqing has become accustomed to it.
Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, an organization that maintains the stability of the Qin Dynasty. Its main responsibility is to kill monsters and monsters. Of course, there are also some other side jobs.
It can be said.
Everyone in the Demon Suppression Division has a lot of blood on their hands.
When a person is used to seeing life and death, he will become indifferent to many things.
When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but he got used to it over time.
The Demon-Suppressing Division is huge.
Those who can stay in the Demon Suppressing Division are all powerful masters, or those who have the potential to become masters.
Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.
Among them, the Demon Suppressor Division is divided into two professions, one is the Guardian Envoy and the other is the Demon Slayer.
Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Department starts from the lowest level as a demon slayer.
Then he will be promoted step by step, and he is expected to eventually become a guardian envoy.
Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level among the demon slayers.
Possessing the memory of a previous life.
He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.
It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of a loft.
Unlike other places in the Demon Suppressing Division that were full of chills, the attic here seemed to stand out from the crowd, showing a different kind of tranquility in the bloody Demon Suppressing Division.
At this time, the attic door was open, and occasionally people came in and out.
Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment before stepping in.
Enter the attic.
The environment changes in vain.
The fragrance of ink mixed with the faint smell of blood hit his face, making him frown instinctively, but then relaxed it quickly.
There is almost no way to cleanse away the smell of blood on everyone in the Demon-Suppressing Division.
