"We won't have an ambush this time."
At the new regiment headquarters in Hanwang Town, north of Liao County, Commander Li pointed at the map.
After two reconnaissances, it was found that there was suitable terrain for ambushing a brigade, but there was no terrain suitable for ambushing a regiment.
More than 3,000 Japs marched along the road, and the marching team was nearly 1 kilometer long. This kind of terrain is rare.
After being ambushed so many times, the Japanese learned a painful lesson and were not so easily fooled.
Zhao Gang, Cao Third Company and the battalion commanders looked at Li Yunlong.
It was Zhao Gang who asked, "Old Li, why don't you plan an ambush? Should we fight the Japanese head-on and engage in positional warfare?"
In fact, it is not impossible. With the firepower of the new regiment, as long as the fortifications are dug, it is not impossible to fight against the Japanese alliance head on.
Last time, the two battalions of the New Regiment defeated a frontal attack of thousands of Japs at Lion Rock, and the Japs also had tanks and more than 20 cannons.
Li Yunlong said: "What we, Mr. Li, like most is attacking. If we don't engage in positional warfare, it won't be very interesting."
"Then what do you want to do?"
Zhao Gang looked confused and took the initiative to attack? Take the initiative to attack a Japanese army unit?
Crazy?
Although in Cangyunling, Li Yunlong also led a new regiment to attack a Japanese coalition.
However, due to terrain reasons, the Sakata Regiment actually only had one brigade in front of the New Regiment. Seeing the New Regiment rushing over, the Japanese immediately rushed out of the fortifications and started a hand-to-hand battle.
However, the Bantian unit encountered Li Yunlong, an old silver coin. A Japanese group rushed out of the trenches to fight hand-to-hand, and was directly attacked by more than 100 submachine guns and light machine guns from the new group.
Coupled with the fact that one shot killed the Sakata Regiment headquarters and killed the Regiment Captain Nobutsuru Sakata, we defeated the Sakata Regiment head-on.
Zhao Gang looked thoughtful and said: "With our current firepower and artillery equivalent to two artillery regiments, we may not be able to defeat a Japanese regiment."
"But if we take the initiative to attack from the front, I'm afraid there will be a lot of casualties. After all, the enemy's combat power is there."
"Maybe if you kill a thousand enemies, you will suffer eight hundred losses."
Cao Sanlian's expression was dull. He was an artilleryman anyway, and Li Yunlong would shoot wherever he pointed.
The battalion company commanders were not worried. They had never made a loss-making business since they followed Li Yunlong.
If you kill a thousand Japanese, you will still make a profit if you lose 800. As a rule, they will fight whatever Li Yunlong says.
After a pause, Zhao Gang said again: "Unless you are planning to use up an opportunity for air support?"
Li Yunlong said: "Killing the enemy by one thousand and damaging yourself by eight hundred is called fighting a stupid battle, fighting to the death, and we, Old Li, are not in the habit of doing that."
"You don't need air support to defeat a Japanese army."
Cao Sanlian looked stunned, where was the air support coming from? But then he thought of the mountain cannons Li Yunlong had brought, and he was too sensible to ask any more questions.
Li Yunlong's eyes dropped, and he tapped the map with his finger. Everyone looked along his finger, and saw Captain Li's finger pointing at Xiyang County on the map.
"According to the marching speed of the Japanese, they should have arrived near Xiyang County by now."
"After the Japanese rest here for one night, they will have to march for another day tomorrow and they will probably be able to reach Liao County."
"If we send troops to harass and slow down the Japs' march, the Japs can reach Heshun County at most."
"But our raiding force can control the marching speed of the Japs. We can neither make the Japs too fast nor too slow."
"It's best to let the Japanese just walk to the millstone concave area when it's dark."
Having said this, Li Yunlong's fingers traced down the Heliao Highway again, and did not stop until they reached the millstone depression more than ten kilometers south of Heshun County.
"Why here?"
Zhao Gang asked with a flash of his eyes.
Li Yunlong said: "The terrain here is a bit special. It is a small basin. It will be dark when the Japanese come here, so there is a high probability that they will camp here."
"What if the Japanese don't camp here," Zhao Gang asked, "and return to Heshun County to camp?"
"It is impossible for the Japs to return to Heshun County to camp." Li Yunlong said firmly, "The Japs came all the way from Xiyang County. After two days of forced marches and the harassment of our small troops, they are already exhausted physically and mentally. It is impossible to run back more than ten kilometers. To camp in Heshun County, the Japanese would have to walk more than 20 kilometers."
"The Japanese army must have camped in Moshi'ao. Taking advantage of the night when the Japanese were sleeping, we quietly surrounded Moshi'ao and then used more than 80 cannons to violently bombard the Japanese camp. Hehe..."
Captain Li smiled cunningly.
All the battalion commanders also started laughing, and they laughed treacherously.
The stone in Zhao Gang's heart finally fell to the ground. Li Yunlong said that he would take the initiative to attack the Japanese, which shocked him.
It turns out that instead of ambush, we play sneak attack.
This guy is really fucking insidious.
Whoever competes with Captain Li on the battlefield is really unlucky for eight lifetimes.
However, I like it.
Zhao Gang also laughed slyly.
Only the leader of the third company, Cao, was a little confused: "???"
Who the hell are these people?
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That night, Li Yunlong sent out raiding troops, engineering companies and cavalry.
The engineer company was responsible for laying mines, and the cavalry was responsible for raiding with rifles and mortars.
Early the next morning.
After a day's rest for the 225th Regiment of the Japanese 37th Division, the Japanese hurriedly finished their breakfast and continued their rapid march along the highway under the leadership of the commander of the regiment, Takeji Takeji.
The Japs are well-trained and can even march faster than ordinary troops. They can cover 60 kilometers a day on a forced march, and 70 kilometers a day on a forced march.
Yesterday, the Japanese 225th Regiment suffered only sporadic attacks from guerrillas.
When the guerrillas saw a large number of Japs following behind them, they were so frightened that they ran away. A regiment of Japs could not be offended.
Because Zhenmuwuji only received the order to set off near noon yesterday, we only walked 50 kilometers yesterday, and we have to walk 70 kilometers today.
Therefore, Zhenmu Wuzhi was ordered to speed up the march, hoping to reach Liao County this evening.
The commander-in-chief Wuji and the Japanese thought that today was another day of happy rapid march.
But at noon, the leading Japanese tricycle hit a landmine, and the tricycle and the Japanese were blown up into the sky.
The Japanese's three-round lead attack is usually used for fire search.
A light machine gun with a crooked handle was mounted on the co-pilot of the three-wheeler. He moved ahead of the larger troops to search and conduct fire reconnaissance on suspicious locations.
At that moment, the Japanese did not dare to advance rashly, so they sent out mine-clearing engineers and advanced at a rapid pace with mine-clearing detectors.
I really let the Japanese sweep out a few landmines.
Then the Japanese began to advance again, but soon another Japanese stepped on a mine, killing and injuring six or seven Japanese.
The angry Japanese captured an old farmer who was herding sheep, pointed a gun at the old farmer, and drove his sheep to explore the road ahead.
Landmines killed dozens of sheep. The Japanese marched all the way, and the Japanese scouts went all the way to the nearby areas to catch cattle and sheep to replenish their supplies.
The Japanese successfully walked more than 20 kilometers.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Zhenme Wuji ordered the march to stop, rest for half an hour, and eat to replenish strength before leaving.
The little Japs were sitting on the ground on the road, taking out rice balls from their backpacks and chewing them. Some Japs took out cans of beef from their backpacks and pried them open.
Several ordinary people who were captured by the Japanese to drive cattle and sheep could only watch the Japanese eat, swallowing hard and trembling.
On the hilltop 1.5 kilometers away, Sun Desheng, lying in the grass with a ring of grass above his head, held up a telescope and saw the Japanese clearly.
The field of view of the telescope turned to the direction of cattle, sheep and ordinary people.
Sun Desheng immediately cursed: "Damn it, the long-term workers of the landlord's family still pay their wages, the little devil makes the common people walk through the road without even giving them a drink of water, damn it makes me angry, set up a mortar for me, and shoot him A few silly shots."
The Japanese have security posts, but they should be placed at most a few hundred meters away.
Behind Sun Desheng, Sun Desheng's artillery platoon soldiers quickly set up the mortars.
Although it was an artillery platoon, Li Yunlong equipped Sun Desheng with six 60mm mortars.
"Keep a watchful eye and don't hurt the people." Sun Desheng reminded.
After a while, the cavalry artilleryman shouted in a low voice: "Batalion Commander, the mortar is set up."
Sun Desheng turned around and saw six mortars arranged neatly, with a distance of 2 meters between each gun. The muzzle pointed in the direction of the Japanese. The gunner held the shell in both hands and was ready to put it into the barrel at any time.
The posture is very standard.
"Fire, and retreat after 3 rounds!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the mortar shell in the gunner's hand slipped into the barrel.
Boom boom…
After a few muffled sounds, the gunner calmly took the mortar shell from the secondary gunner and put it into the barrel.
Immediately afterwards there was a continuous muffled sound of tom tom tom.
Sun Desheng raised his binoculars and looked toward the road.
Boom boom boom…
Explosions kept rising in the crowd of Japs, and the Japs hit by the shells were instantly blown to pieces. The Japs' formation was very dense, and the casualties caused by these artillery fires were not small.
After three rounds of mortar shells were fired, the artillerymen quickly put away the mortars, got on their horses and evacuated from the artillery position.
Not long after they evacuated from the artillery position, a large group of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the artillery position with bayonets in hand. Groups of artillery shells fell near the artillery position.
Sun Desheng, who was riding on a military horse, smiled and said, "The devilish Japanese are so polite. They even fired off cannons to see us off."
Hearing the battalion commander's words, all the cavalrymen couldn't help but laugh, and grinned from the corners of their mouths to their ears.
After a while, a Japanese squadron leader ran up to Colonel Wuji and said: "Report to Colonel, the enemy has escaped. According to the traces on the scene, the enemy is a light cavalry, carrying about 6 mortars."
"Six mortars?"
"It seems to be the main force of the Eighth Route Army."
The commander-in-chief Wuji has a cold expression and a carefully trimmed beard under his nose.
"Yes!" The Japanese squadron leader agreed, "The mines laid on the highway are very tricky, and they should also be made by the main engineers of the Eighth Route Army."
Zhenmu Wuji snorted coldly and said in a cold and stern tone:
"The more Tubal Road wants to slow down our march through harassment, it means the more anxious they are, the more we have to speed up."
"Order, the troops set off immediately and must arrive in Liao County tonight!"
"Hi!" The Japanese squadron leader nodded and conveyed the order on behalf of the commander, Colonel Wuji.
The Japs who had just finished their meal quickly started off again. The Japs were driving the people, and the people were driving herds of cattle and sheep, towards Liao County.
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