In the past, Li Yunlong always said that with the reputation of a brigade commander, there were not many cavalry divisions, artillery divisions, and machine gunners.
As for the artillery division, it was just Ding Wei's new second regiment, the Kongjie Independent Regiment.
The combined guns of these two regiments with a caliber of 75 mm or more are equivalent to four artillery regiments, which is already the size of an artillery division.
In addition to the three artillery regiments directly under the brigade headquarters, as well as the guns of the Japanese 37th Division Mountain Artillery Regiment captured this time.
It's almost an artillery division. When two artillery divisions are combined, don't they form an artillery corps?
This does not include 60mm mortars, 70mm infantry guns and 82mm mortars.
There is plenty of ammunition.
Brigadier Chen smiled brightly and said energetically: "Haha, now we, Old Chen, are a real rich man."
Seeing that Brigadier Chen was in high spirits, Li Yunlong was also sincerely happy for him.
Now the brigade commander's artillery division goal has been achieved, or even far exceeded, and there are still cavalry divisions and machine gunnery divisions left.
Maybe in the future the brigade commander can be equipped with a cavalry corps and a machine gun corps.
After a pause, Brigadier Chen continued: "However, I accept your wish. Forget about the 75mm mountain cannons. Our brigade now has no shortage of 75mm mountain cannons. If you have a conscience, in the future, 150mm howitzers and 203mm If you have too many heavy howitzers to use up, you can give me dozens of them. I know your new regiment is short of recruits, but our Taiyue Military Region militiamen are plentiful."
Today, the 386 Brigade is equipped with nearly 200 75mm mountain guns and dozens of 105mm howitzers.
But there are only two 150mm howitzers, and they were given to the brigade commander by Li Yunlong out of his own pocket.
There is not even a single 203mm heavy howitzer.
The brigade commander knew that he was rich, but compared with Li Yunlong in front of him, he was almost like a beggar.
The Li Yunlong in front of him is the real rich man.
However, today's new regiment no longer belongs to the 386th Brigade's battle order, and the brigade commander has no reason to attack Li Yunlong's autumn wind.
Otherwise, today's 386 Brigade would be at least two levels richer!
There is no such thing as a free lunch, not to mention the heavy artillery that even Chiang Kai-shek is jealous of. If he wants to take advantage of Li Yunlong, the brigade commander will naturally have to pay some price.
"Haha, no problem."
Li Yunlong fully agreed:
"Not to mention 150mm howitzers and 203mm heavy howitzers, even tanks and aircraft, as long as the brigade commander asks for it, I will get it for you."
The brigade commander nodded, his expression extremely satisfied.
Li Yunlong made several mistakes in the past, such as when Li Yunlong shot five Japanese prisoners during the Battle of Xinkou. If the brigade commander hadn't been there to support him, Li Yunlong would not have been dismissed as easily.
Next, assisted by the brigade commander, Li Yunlong took control of the overall situation in Shi Nao Mountain.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, all siege troops had entered their attack positions, all of which were fortification positions originally built by the Japanese army outside the city.
Although the Japs of the 37th Division gave up the offensive outside the city, they did not give up the city wall fortifications.
Instead, they relied on the city wall fortifications to prepare to resist the Eighth Route Army's attack.
To the west of the city, the new 1st regiment of the Eighth Route Army formed the main offensive position of the 6th battalion of the 2nd battalion division, taking advantage of the artillerymen in the rear who were setting up artillery.
Soldiers holding steel guns and carrying ladders entered the trenches one after another. They only waited for the artillery to blast the gap in the city wall so that the infantry could attack.
An iron speaker with a structure of about 120 degrees quietly stretched out of the trench and shouted loudly:
"Listen to the little Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall. You have been surrounded by the main force of our Eighth Route Army. We have 200,000 troops. Yours has only 6,000 troops. The strength is 34 to 1. Our 3,000 cannons are ready to fire at any time. , please immediately put down your arms and surrender, and do not resist needlessly. The Eighth Route Army implements the Geneva Convention, treats prisoners preferentially, and does not kill prisoners if they surrender their guns!"
"If you resist to the end, the Eighth Route Army will wipe out all of you, leaving no one behind!"
The shouters were soldiers from the New Regiment of the enemy's Ministry of Industry, who had persuaded the Japanese and puppet troops to surrender before the war.
After the enemy soldiers shouted in Chinese, they shouted again in Japanese.
After listening to the Eighth Route Army's shouting, the puppet troops on the city wall suddenly had many puppet troops ready to move.
The puppet army has never wanted to surrender to the Eighth Route Army more than at this time.
Most of the puppet soldiers did not sincerely want to work for the Japanese army, but served as soldiers to support their families in order to make a living.
In this world full of chaos, if you want to survive, you must pay some price. Being a soldier is a dangerous business. Bullets don't have eyes, and they may be gone one day.
And if you are not a soldier, it will be difficult to survive.
But then again, these young men who became puppet soldiers, after becoming puppet soldiers, in order to survive, they helped the Japanese army bully their compatriots, sometimes even more cruelly than the Japanese.
A Japanese squadron leader on the city wall did not understand what the Eighth Route Army was shouting because the Eighth Route Army shouted in Chinese at first.
It wasn't until the Eighth Route Army shouted it again in Japanese that he understood the meaning of the words.
Even some Japanese soldiers had their eyes wandering around, looking like they were not determined to fight.
Not to mention the puppet troops, who wanted to run down and surrender immediately to the Eighth Route Army.
"idiot!"
"shooting!"
The Japanese squadron leader pulled out his command knife with a swipe sound and pointed suddenly at the position of the Eighth Route Army enemy's Ministry of Industry soldiers under the city wall.
Da da da…
Boom boom…
On the city gate building, the Japanese light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers opened fire, and a dense rain of bullets, mortars, and grenades hit the loudspeaker.
A dozen soldiers of the new regiment were killed in the explosion.
However, the explosion did not hit the soldiers from the enemy's Ministry of Industry. After the Japanese finished firing, the soldiers from the enemy's Ministry of Industry changed positions and continued to shout to the Japanese and puppet troops on the wall to persuade them to surrender.
With experience, the infantrymen stayed far away from the soldiers of the enemy's Ministry of Industry.
In addition to the west city wall, as well as the east, south and north city walls, there were soldiers from the enemy's engineering department of the Eighth Route Army shouting to the Japanese and puppet troops to persuade them to surrender.
The total strength of the Eighth Route Army outside Yangquan City is 60,000 main elites, while the 37th Division, including heavy supply troops and engineering troops, only has 6,000 troops.
Regardless of artillery firepower or troop strength, the troop strength was 10 to 1.
Li Yunlong adopted his classic tactics again: no assists, all four walls were the main attack.
The soldiers from the enemy's Ministry of Industry shouted to the Japanese army that if the Japanese and puppet troops surrendered, everyone would be happy.
If the Japanese and puppet troops don't surrender, it won't be a big problem. Just wipe them all out.
Calling for surrender and exaggerating one's own military strength and firepower are also a spiritual attack on the Japanese and puppet troops.
In the headquarters.
Zhao Gang stepped on the ladder, put down the telescope in his hand, and smiled slightly: "Old Li, you can always come up with something new!"
It was Li Yunlong who personally arranged the order for the enemy's Ministry of Industry to shout to the Japanese and puppet troops in the Japanese city gate building.
Li Yunlong's eyes were calm: "These are all small tricks, the fun has just begun."
Hearing this, Zhao Gang also put away his smile and continued to observe the enemy's movements with a serious face.
The Japanese on the city gate tower angrily launched several waves of shooting, but to no avail.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the East Artillery Group has been deployed..."
"The Western Artillery Group has been deployed..."
Soon, reports came one after another that the four artillery groups in the east, west, south and north had been deployed.
"Chief of Staff, have the infantry units entered the attack position?" Li Yunlong asked.
"Report to the commander-in-chief." Wang Dehou reported, "All attacking troops have entered the position!"
Li Yunlong said in a stern tone: "Very good, give me the order. The four artillery groups in the east, west, north and south will fire at the city wall immediately. The bombardment will last half an hour and I will blow the city wall open."
"yes!"
Wang Dehou turned around, grabbed a high-power walkie-talkie, and ordered: "All artillery groups, fire on the city wall immediately. The bombardment lasts for half an hour!"
Not long after the words fell, 75mm mountain cannons and 105mm howitzers from the four directions of east, west, north and south began to test-fire at the city wall.
Immediately after the test firing was completed, all the artillery opened fire and smashed against the city wall of Yangquan.
Groups of cannonballs fell from the sky like crows and landed on the city wall of Yangquan. Along with the deafening roar of the explosion, the entire Yangquan city wall was gleaming with fire and filled with smoke.
The Japanese and puppet troops were suddenly bloody and bloody.
…
at the same time.
Taigu Line of Defense.
The commander of the 129th Division is leading 60,000 elite Eighth Route Army troops to confront the Japanese 18th and 14th Brigades.
In last night's shelling, the two Japanese brigades suffered heavy losses and heavy casualties.
But after the Eighth Route Army stopped shelling, the Japanese army began to repair the fortifications, assuming a posture of coexisting with the position.
The Japanese also knew that the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells had bottomed out.
In the headquarters, the division commander stood on the ladder and looked at the Japanese position through the artillery mirror.
I saw that the Japanese army's position was full of craters and broken arms.
Many Japanese soldiers are stepping up repairs.
The division commander knew very well that if he ordered his troops to rush forward at this time, he would definitely be able to defeat the Japanese 14th and 18th Brigades, and even have a chance to annihilate them all.
But the troops under his command will definitely suffer heavy casualties. After all, the Japanese army is on the defensive side, and the 14th Brigade and the 18th Brigade are elite.
Order the troops to rush forward now, and you are guaranteed to sacrifice thousands of soldiers.
But when the airdrop supplies arrive, the situation will be different.
Li Yunlong sent intelligence that the encirclement of the Japanese 33rd Division and 37th Division had been completed.
Now, the teacher can finally let go and do something big.
No matter how the battle ends in Taiyuan, it will not have any impact on the two battlefields of Yangquan and Shouyang.
The division commander looked up at the sky, then at the watch on his hand, and said in a confused tone: "It's already 10 o'clock in the morning, why haven't the battlefield supplies arrived yet?"
After the division commander sent Li Yunlong a telegram requesting an airdrop of supplies, Li Yunlong sent a telegram back to the division commander last night.
The content of the telegram requested the division commander for airdrop supplies of 100,000 rounds of artillery shells, and asked the division commander to inform Li Yunlong if the supplies were insufficient.
Bold and arrogant.
The chief of staff sounded uncertain: "Commander, maybe Boss Chen needs some time to prepare? After all, we applied to Li Yunlong for battlefield air-conditioning supplies at midnight last night, from preparing artillery shells to installing aircraft, and then the transport plane flew here from the airport, but It takes a lot of time.”
The teacher nodded: "That's true." (End of Chapter)
