Beiping.
Iron Lion Alley.
North China Front Army Headquarters.
Front Army Commander Okamura Neiji and Arisu Seizo are playing chess in the office.
Since the frontline headquarters sent a telegram in the morning, saying that the use of tunnels and anti-slope tactics had successfully blocked the new regiment's offensive, Okamura Neji felt comfortable all over.
People are in high spirits during happy events, and Okamura Neji had a slight smile on his lips, indicating that he was in a good mood at this time.
As long as the 10th Division can block the Eighth Route New Regiment's offensive, the Locust Army will have a chance to eliminate the New Regiment and Li Yunlong.
Then, not only can those previous mistakes be written off, but he will also be rewarded by the base camp.
Li Yunlong caused great losses to the empire. Even Tianlu knew that there was such a person, so Li Yunlong must die.
"There are still hundreds of thousands of Chinese people in the Eighth Route New Group Bandit Area."
"When the four divisions of locust armies encircle us, the hundreds of thousands of people will not be able to escape."
"It is a pity that the Chinese people in the two bandit areas of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment were allowed to run away."
Okamura Neiji took a sip of Longjing tea, and then spoke slowly, with an indifferent tone.
After he took office as the commander of the North China Front, his policy was to strengthen public security campaigns and use a combination of massacres and conciliatory policies.
The implementation of a soft policy towards the Chinese people in the security areas is, to put it bluntly, ideological enslavement. The forced introduction of Japanese language teaching in the occupied areas has completely turned the first generation of Chinese people away from Chinese characters and Chinese culture and become Japanese at the ideological level; As for non-security areas, the old Japanese implemented a three-prong policy, that is, kill them all, burn them all, and rob them all.
This time the Japanese army organized five divisions to attack northwest Shanxi, and the Japanese strictly implemented the Sanguang Operation.
I originally thought that the Japanese army's four second-line divisions, plus one A-type division, had defeated three regiments of the Eighth Route Army, but I didn't expect that the battle would end like this.
"What your Excellency the Commander said is absolutely true."
Youmo Jingsan echoed: "In the final analysis, Li Yunlong is too conceited. He thought that with the new regiment, he could easily defeat the 10th Division of the Locust Army. It is simply fantastic."
"Now not only the soldiers of the new regiment are besieged, but hundreds of thousands of Chinese people are also surrounded by the locust army."
"If the Chinese people in the Xinyi Bandit Area also cross the Yellow River to go to northern Shaanxi, they can avoid being massacred by the locust army."
"Speaking of which," Okamura Neiji said: "The combat effectiveness of the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army really impressed me. I estimate that the combat effectiveness of the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army is now equivalent to that of the Fifth Division."
Arisum Seizo was suddenly shocked: "Your Majesty Commander, can the combat effectiveness of the new regiment be comparable to that of the Fifth Division? Isn't this a bit exaggerated? The Fifth Division is the steel army of the Empire of Japan."
"No, it's not an exaggeration at all." Okamura Neiji waved his hand, "If the new regiment is allowed to continue to develop, its combat effectiveness will even be comparable to that of the First Division of the Locust Army."
Youmo Jingsan said: "Fortunately, after this battle, even if the new regiment is not completely wiped out, it will still be severely damaged. Let alone the first-class division of the Locust Army, it is estimated that even the infantry of a second-line division of the Locust Army Even the alliance can’t compare.”
Okamura Neji nodded, noncommittal.
Although the New Regiment has channels for foreign aid.
But the power of the New Regiment lies not only in the powerful weapons and equipment, but also in the experienced veterans and grassroots officers of the New Regiment.
These veterans and grassroots officers followed Li Yunlong and fought many victorious battles in a few years. The grassroots officers have rich experience in commanding operations and the veterans have extremely high combat literacy.
The more battles are won, the more veterans with rich combat experience will survive, and the stronger the combat effectiveness will be.
The New Regiment is this kind of army.
When other Chinese troops fought against the Japanese army, the number of casualties was often several times that of the Japanese army.
However, when the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army fought against the Japanese, the Japanese casualties were often several times that of the New Regiment, and the morale of the New Regiment was far superior to that of other Chinese armies.
"Your Excellency, Commander." Arisu Seizo continued: "My suggestion is to deal with Li Yunlong and the new group."
"These five divisions will take several months to replenish their forces and rest and recuperate. We will then assemble these five divisions and the First Army's nearly 200,000 troops to eliminate the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi."
"According to intelligence, the arsenal of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi has grown to a relatively large scale,"
"If the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi continues to develop, I'm afraid..."
Before Arisue Seizo could finish speaking, the communications staff officer hurriedly walked in with a telegram in his hand, lowered his head and reported to Okamura Neji:
"Report to Commander, there is an urgent call from the Locust Army's Northwestern Shanxi Frontline Command!"
"Read!" Okamura Neiji said casually, not realizing that the new group's offensive at this time was already overwhelming.
The communications staff paused for a moment, took the telegram and read in a deep voice: "The New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army used fire-breathing tanks, and under the cover of heavy artillery and medium tanks, it defeated more than 10 positions of the 10th Division of the Locust Army. Ishikawa Erlangzhong We will request to concentrate the main force of the 10th Division and start a decisive battle with the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army!"
"Nani?" Okamura Neiji suddenly turned his head and said in an unbelievable tone, "The 10th Division was conquered more than 10 positions in a row?"
Seizo Arimoe, who was on the side, also cast an incredulous look at the communications staff officer.
Didn't it mean that the new regiment's offensive was contained? Why were more than 10 positions captured so quickly?
"Hi!"
The communications staff officer and Okamura Neji looked at each other with penetrating eyes, and then quickly lowered their heads in response.
"Fire tank?"
Okamura Neji's eyes suddenly condensed, how come the Eighth Route Army was suddenly equipped with fire-breathing tanks?
Youmo Jingsan said with a solemn tone: "Before this, there was no intelligence that the Eighth Route Army was equipped with fire-breathing tanks. Either the Eighth Route Army had acquired the fire-breathing tanks a long time ago and had been hiding them until now."
"Baga!" Okamura Neji cursed bitterly, his face falling at a speed visible to the naked eye.
If the 10th Division cannot withstand the offensive of the new regiment, then the Locust Army of the five divisions in this attack on the Eighth Route Army base in northwestern Shanxi will end up in a situation where everything is lost.
And Ishikawa Jiro actually requested to concentrate the main force of the 10th Division to fight the new regiment decisively.
This shows that Tanabe Moritake and Ishikawa Jiro are at the end of their rope, and they really can't think of any way to contain the new regiment's offensive, and they want to complete their success in one battle.
However, can the 10th Division, which suffered one third of the casualties of the offensive combat troops, defeat the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army?
Okamura Neji fell into deep thought.
…
In Dagu Town.
Following Li Yunlong's order, the 1st Battalion of the New Regiment Cavalry completed its assembly outside Dagu Town.
In the darkness, I saw a soldier from the 1st Cavalry Battalion on each military horse.
Each soldier wears a steel helmet on his head and carries a "Yunlong Sword" on his waist. Behind the soldiers, they all carry an M3 submachine gun.
The nearly 600-man 1st Cavalry Battalion, except for the machine gunners, replaced their M1 carbines and all carried submachine guns on their backs.
Each soldier's waist is filled with magazines filled with submachine gun bullets.
The main focus is firepower.
During the day, every cavalry soldier fired hundreds of rounds of training ammunition. Although they were sharpening their guns before the battle, it was not fun at all.
The cavalry were arranged in six rows, their helmets flashed coldly in the moonlight, and an aura called chilling suddenly filled the air.
Although half of the cavalry battalion went to overseas bases to learn to drive tanks, the remaining half were cavalry with rich combat experience.
There are nearly 600 cavalry in the cavalry battalion, with a total of 6 companies of 100 cavalry in each company. They are lined up in company units.
The cavalry battalion commander Cao Jiang was riding a strong maroon Japanese horse at the front of the queue. Even though the soldiers were impatient, he did not immediately order the attack, but looked towards the direction of Dagu Town from time to time.
Suddenly, there was a sound of car motors coming from the direction of Dagu Town.
Immediately afterwards, a bright light swept over from the entrance of the town.
A jeep and a truck drove out of Dagu Town and stopped in front of the 1st Cavalry Battalion.
Li Yunlong jumped out of the Willys Jeep.
"Salute!" Cao Jiang, commander of the cavalry battalion, shouted. Nearly 600 people from the cavalry battalion, riding on military horses, all saluted Li Yunlong with a standard military salute.
The soldiers stared at Li Yunlong with fiery eyes.
Li Yunlong is definitely the soul of Xinyi Tuan.
Li Yunlong looked solemn and returned the military salute. Battalion Commander Cao shouted, and then the cavalry soldier quickly lowered his hands, and a uniform clattering sound rang in everyone's ears.
"Let me just say a few words!"
After glancing at the soldiers, Li Yunlong said loudly:
"Our new regiment of cavalry has been formed since its establishment. Compared to the new regiment of infantry, the cavalry unit has not fought many times, but every time it attacks, the results are brilliant!"
"This time, our 1st Cavalry Battalion's opponent is the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the Japanese 10th Division!"
"The Japs' cavalry is more than double ours, but we have one submachine gun, just for the 10th Regiment of the Japs' Cavalry!"
"Nearly 600 submachine guns. I have never fought such a rich war in my eight lives, and you have encountered it."
"With such good equipment, I would like to ask you, do you have the confidence to kill the 10th Infantry Cavalry Regiment?"
"have!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the uniform shouts of the cavalry soldiers rang out.
"Well!"
Li Yunlong said loudly: "Dignity is only on the edge of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon. Tomorrow you will use the submachine guns in your hands to teach the Japanese cavalry a good lesson. I still say the same, we meet on a narrow road -"
Speaking of this, Li Yunlong paused.
Li Yunlong invented the idea that the brave will win when meeting on a narrow road. Dignity is only on the edge of the sword, and truth is only within the range of the cannon. This was something Li Yunlong heard from Boss Chen.
These words sounded encouraging, so Li Yunlong used it to mobilize the soldiers before the war to boost their morale.
"The brave wins!"
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers' long howls rose into the sky.
"kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
A burning force surged out from the hearts of the cavalry soldiers.
"The 1st Battalion of the New Regiment Cavalry!"
"Attack!"
As Battalion Commander Cao issued the order, the cavalrymen reined in their horses and rushed to the battlefield.
Li Yunlong stared at the direction in which the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Battalion were leaving with calm eyes.
He didn't look back until he could no longer hear the sound of horse hooves and the sound of soldiers driving horses.
Li Yunlong knew very well that with one submachine gun and sufficient ammunition, the cavalry battalion could protect itself. It would be difficult to completely wipe out the 10th Cavalry Regiment.
But as long as most of the Japanese cavalry are defeated or even eliminated, his strategic purpose will be achieved.
(End of chapter)
