Chapter 481 Farewell Telegram!
Nearly 6,000 Eighth Route Army troops led by Ding Wei ambushed Japanese reinforcements coming from the direction of Pingan County in a place called Guangou.
Compared with Ono Village, where Kong Jie led his troops to ambush, Guangou was an ideal ambush point.
Guangou is actually a canyon, and the road from Heyuan County to Ping'an County passes through the bottom of the valley.
The vicinity of the canyon is the standard loess terrain of northwestern Shanxi, with almost no vegetation, only a few bushes, and exposed iron-green rocks with almost no vegetation.
After the Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over, Ding Weicai led his troops to approach the ambush site, and they were not very close at first, two kilometers away from the ambush site.
After waiting for the Japanese scouts and vanguard troops to pass, Ding Weicai ordered the troops to press forward.
Not long after, about 3,000 Japanese and puppet troops came in force.
Next, the artillery group began to exert force. Under the continuous bombardment of 9 large-caliber heavy guns, 2 105mm howitzers, and more than 30 75mm mountain guns, the Japanese and puppet troops suffered heavy losses.
Immediately afterwards the infantry pressed forward, and after more than an hour of fighting, most of the enemies were finally annihilated.
Because the soldiers of the two companies failed to cooperate, a squadron of Japanese soldiers and part of the puppet army tore a hole and fled back to Ping'an County.
But this does not matter to Ding Wei. The battlefield situation is changing rapidly and anything can happen.
The Japanese fled back to Ping'an County, because they were about to attack the city anyway.
Therefore, Ding Wei led his troops to attack in the direction of Ping'an County, destroying more than 30 ordinary reinforced concrete bunkers and gun towers along the way, and soon they arrived at the gate of Ping'an County.
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Heyuan County, outside Xicheng.
The battle went extremely smoothly, almost becoming a one-sided massacre.
With the combat power of the new regiment, the 3rd Squadron of the 224th Regiment was quickly eliminated, occupied the city wall, and completely cut off the Japanese's retreat.
Coupled with the continuous output of heavy firepower such as machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, and the long-range artillery support of two artillery battalions.
More than 2,000 Japanese soldiers who rushed out from Xicheng were wiped out in less than half an hour.
Wei Dayong, the battalion commander of the second division outside the East City Gate, also reported that he had repelled the Japanese who tried to break out twice, and the Japanese suffered heavy losses.
Immediately afterwards, good news came from Ding Wei and Kong Jie, killing a large number of Japanese.
Li Yunlong is still very confident about the tactical command abilities of Ding Wei and Kong Jie. Among the commanders of the entire Eighth Route Army, Ding Wei and Kong Jie are both ranked high.
When the battle reached this point, Li Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief, and the overall situation was almost settled.
Today's battle alone has severely damaged the 36th Division. The main force of the 36th Division has been eliminated, which means that 1,000 tons of weapons and ammunition and 1,000 tons of food have been obtained.
Li Yunlong expected a hard fight and was prepared for a hard fight.
There were more than 7,000 Japanese and puppet troops in Heyuan County. Li Yunlong was prepared to inflict at least 5,000 casualties when attacking Heyuan County.
But Li Yunlong did not expect the Japanese to break through so early and directly hit the muzzles and muzzles of the new regiment.
The aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese planes caused some losses to the new regiment.
However, the Japanese aircraft did not dive and drop bombs accurately, but dropped bombs at high altitude, and they dropped the bombs under a powerful anti-aircraft firepower network.
Some Japanese pilots dropped the aerial bombs carried by the bombers before taking aim, and then hurriedly pulled the plane into the clouds.
This resulted in a very low hit rate for aerial bombs dropped by Japanese aircraft.
After the battle outside the city, the soldiers began to clean up the battlefield.
Xing Zhiguo looked at the burning Japanese tank.
The Japs' infantry-tank synergy was a bit good, but not much. The densely packed Japs infantry followed the tanks and tried to use the tanks to carve out a bloody path, but it had little effect.
Although the soldiers in the third division were not very accurate with their bazookas, they could not withstand the large number of rocket soldiers and bazookas.
Xing Zhiguo said with a pity tone: "It's a pity that these tanks were burned like this. If they could be captured by us, we could still create a tank company."
"It's a pity, it's just a little devil's tank." Li Yunlong looked calm, "It's small and thin, and its firepower is only that much, so it can only bully our poorly equipped troops."
As the equipment provided by Boss Chen gets better and better, Li Yunlong's vision has long been improved and he has become very picky.
If another force were to be replaced, with the cover of 12 tanks and more than 20 Japanese planes, the Japanese might be able to successfully break through.
However, Li Yunlong's tactic of leveling the anti-aircraft guns completely shattered the Japs' dream of breaking out, turning each Japs into minced meat and fulfilling their shattered dreams.
Zhao Gang smiled and said: "These 12 tanks can be regarded as a tank squadron. We can exchange 8 75mm mountain guns from Brother Chen."
Hearing this, Xing Zhiguo immediately felt no pity. Maybe after this battle, the new regiment would be able to obtain tanks aided by Brother Chen.
While the few people were talking, they raised their telescopes and looked towards the battlefield.
Looking around, the entire battlefield has become a mess.
The lucky ones left a whole corpse, but the unlucky ones didn't even leave a whole body behind. There were stumps and broken arms everywhere, a lump of internal organs on the left, and a severed limb on the west. The unlucky ones were able to step on the intestines. On top, the feces in the intestines exploded instantly, the scene was extremely disgusting.
When many recruits from the third division saw this scene, they vomited out the meat biscuits they had for lunch on the spot. After vomiting, they had to continue cleaning the battlefield.
Although the recruits had participated in several battles before and had seen disgusting scenes, it was nothing compared to the big scene now.
However, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang remained calm as usual.
The battlefield is like this, and they have seen scenes more disgusting than this.
Not only Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang, but also veterans such as the squad leader, platoon leader, and company commander showed no response, urging the new recruits to clean up the battlefield quickly.
At this time, the street fighting in the city was still continuing, with fierce explosions and gunfire.
Li Yunlong held up the telescope, but there was a look of expectation on his face. The Japanese were trying to break out from the west gate.
Then, there is a high probability that the division commander Jingguan Ren is among these Japs...
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Taiyuan.
First Army Headquarters.
Within half an hour, bad news reached the headquarters one after another.
"Report, the 222nd Regiment was shelled in Ono Village, 20 kilometers northwest of Anhua County."
"Report, the 223rd Regiment was ambushed in the Guangou area fifteen kilometers southwest of Pingan County!"
After receiving these two pieces of news, Iwamatsu Yoshio didn't think anything was wrong. The Eighth Route Army's encirclement and reinforcements were expected.
The most that can be done is to block it.
The main infantry and main artillery of the new regiment are both in Heyuan County. Unless they have 2 or 3 times the strength, coupled with strong artillery firepower, they will have a chance to eat up these two reinforcements.
However, Yoshio Iwamatsu did not know that Ding Wei's New Second Regiment and Kong Jie's Independent Regiment had already been expanded to have an artillery battalion each.
The size of each artillery battalion is equivalent to that of a Japanese artillery regiment. In addition, Li Yunlong transferred heavy artillery to support, the artillery firepower is already more powerful than the artillery regiment of the Japanese permanent division.
Then, worse news reached the headquarters.
"Report, there is an artillery regiment that bombarded the 222nd Regiment, including large-caliber heavy artillery!"
"Report, there is an artillery regiment ambushing the 223rd Regiment, including large-caliber heavy artillery. The Eighth Route Army has at least 6,000 people!"
When Yoshio Iwamatsu, Masa Hanagani and others heard this, their expressions changed immediately.
There are at least 6,000 people in the artillery regiment, large-caliber heavy artillery, and the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army is here to eliminate the reinforcements!
According to this calculation, there were 12,000 Eighth Route Army troops participating in the ambush, and there were more than 10,000 people in Heyuan County.
The Eighth Route Army also had to send troops to block the 3rd Brigade and prepare for reinforcements from Taiyuan.
Based on this calculation, the Eighth Route Army may have nearly 30,000 troops!
"This is impossible!" Yoshio Iwamatsu shouted, "Where did the Eighth Route Army come from with so many troops? Did they pop out of the ground?"
Hanatani Masao, Miyazaki Masao, and all the combat advisers were unable to reply to Iwamatsu Yoshio's words.
The war hall fell into deathly silence.
"Report to the general!"
Communications staff officer Takeo Nakamura held a telegram in his hand, walked in in a panic, and reported to Yoshio Iwamatsu: "Major Saburo Maase of the communications team of the 36th Division sent a farewell telegram!"
"What, a farewell telegram?"
Iwamatsu Yoshio suddenly turned around, his face full of disbelief, he couldn't believe his ears.
"Hi!" Takeo Nakamura nodded and confirmed, "Farewell telegram, the 36th Division sent a farewell telegram!"
Iwamatsu Yoshio snatched the telegram from Takeo Nakamura's hand, and saw only 6 words on the telegram: Farewell telegram, finally
The content of the farewell telegram was only two words, and the following content was missing. This shows that the telegraph operator only sent these two words and then encountered an accident. Either the telegraph machine broke down or the telegraph operator died.
But the four words of the farewell telegram already represented everything.
Lieutenant General Jingguan and the Locust Army that broke out of the encirclement were most likely loyal to the Japanese Locust.
The entire operations hall fell into deathly silence again!
This was another Japanese lieutenant general who was killed by the new regiment and Li Yunlong.
This pair of Yoshio Iwamatsu, who had just taken office, was like a bolt from the blue to the First Army Headquarters and even the entire First Army.
Iwamatsu Yoshio's face turned pale, and his body was shaky and about to collapse. Hanatani hurriedly supported him and asked in a concerned tone: "Your Excellency, Commander, are you okay?"
"Kanatani-kun, I'm fine!" Yoshio Iwamatsu waved his hand, looked at Takeo Nakamura, and asked in a deep voice, "What happened? With tank squadrons and aircraft covering him, how could Lieutenant General Iseki fail to break through? What's going on? ?”
"Hi!" Takeo Nakamura lowered his head and tried to keep his tone smooth, "I have already contacted the reconnaissance plane. According to the observer of the reconnaissance plane, the flying squadron directly under the North China Front air raided the defensive position of the Eighth Route Army's New Regiment, and the flying squadron was shot down 4 aircraft, damaging 2 aircraft, and then the Eighth Route Army used heavy anti-tank weapons, machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns to target the breakout Imperial Army tanks and Imperial Army infantry with direct fire..."
Although the Japanese fighters and bombers flew away, the Japanese reconnaissance planes were still hovering at high altitude in Heyuan County to observe the battle situation.
Iwamatsu Yoshio was furious when he heard this.
"idiot!"
"idiot!"
Every time he cursed, he slapped his palms on the desk so hard that the whole desk almost shook.
After slamming the table three times, Yoshio Iwamatsu said with eyes splitting: "Forget about using machine guns and anti-aircraft guns to deal with tanks, but actually using them to shoot infantry flatly. People like Li Yunlong should be brought to court-martial!"
(End of chapter)
