Chapter 32 Two Japanese Infantry Regiments (Please don’t support the book)
"One is the Sakata Unit that caused great damage to our unit during the last sweep.
The other one is the Ono Corps transferred from the south!"
"These two regiments are fully staffed field regiments. They will reach Shiquan County in at most one day!"
Qin Yangming stood up immediately after hearing the brigade commander's words.
He initially thought that it would be the same as in the original novel, and the Japanese would at most send a Sakata Regiment and at most garrisons from a few nearby counties.
But how could he not have expected that the Japanese would actually send two regiments!
If the garrisons in the nearby county are included, the number of Japanese devils might reach three regiments!
"Why did the Japs send so many people here?
Even if the New 1st Regiment captured the county town, shouldn't the Japanese send two regiments over?"
"It's because of you that there was a rift between the puppet army and the Japanese.
As a result, the Japanese still don't dare to trust the puppet army.
The puppet troops didn't really obey the Japanese's orders.
In order to suppress the puppet army, the Japanese had to increase the number of their own troops. "
"This time, your New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment are mainly facing about 10,000 Japanese devils and 10,000 puppet troops.
But according to intelligence, the puppet troops are very passive.”
"Your mission is to defend Linyuan County for five days and delay the Japanese troops as much as possible to buy time for the hospitals, logistics, and other troops behind to retreat!"
"Okay, I'm going to call and inform your team leader about this."
As soon as the brigade commander finished speaking, he immediately hung up the phone, called Li Yunlong, and then told Li Yunlong what had happened.
Zhangye, who was standing nearby, was also filled with worry when he heard that more than 10,000 Japanese devils and more than 10,000 puppet troops had launched an attack on Linyuan County.
Now all the Eighth Route Army troops in Linyuan County, including the county battalion and district squad, add up to more than 10,000 people.
The Japanese troops that came this time were all field regiments.
The combat effectiveness of these Japanese field regiments is much stronger than those county garrison troops.
Even the Sakata Squadron is an old squadron that has existed since the beginning of the war!
"Quick, send out all the signal soldiers to inform all the people to either go into the mountains or hide in the tunnels!"
Similarly, the headquarters of the new regiment.
After discussing with Zhong Zhicheng and Kong Jie, Li Yunlong also issued an order similar to Qin Yangming's.
"The county brigade and district squad don't need to participate in direct combat. Let them be responsible for the safe transfer of the people."
"Order the kitchen staff to work overtime to make fried noodles and flatbreads for me,
All the flour and lard were used.
If you don't have enough manpower, go find Captain Wu and ask him to send new soldiers to help!"
"Order all troops to enter the fortifications according to the predetermined plan. This time I'm going to let the Japanese taste the power of the artillery tower!"
After the Japanese invaders in Linyuan County were wiped out, the strongholds and artillery towers left behind were not wasted.
Those strongholds are basically located on major traffic routes, near important intersections, and in some difficult-to-attack locations.
After the New 1st Regiment occupied Linyuan County, they sent people to repair those artillery towers.
And following Qin Yangming's procedure of mixing iron wire into cement, a large amount of straw, logs and stones were added into it.
Although the operating cost is much higher than the original brick and wood structure turret.
But the materials were all copied from the homes of the traitors and seized from the Japanese.
Li Yunlong didn't feel sorry at all.
There is not much else in Shanxi except for a lot of mud and coal.
During the nearly half year of occupying Linyuan County, small coal mines in Linyuan County were mined on a large scale and a large number of earth hills were leveled.
They are then fired into bricks and used to build bunkers, secret bunkers, or sent underground to reinforce tunnels.
Looking at the sand table in the regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong said confidently: "Tell Zhang Dabiao and the second battalion commander that I want half of the Japanese troops to die before they reach the county town!"
"Yes!"
"Lao Kong, your independent regiment has just completed training. Your troops will go to the hospital and the logistics department to protect their evacuation."
"No problem. I promise to evacuate the hospital logistics as quickly as possible."
"Political Commissar, go and organize the people in the county to leave the county.
I am worried that the Japanese will retaliate against the people after they recapture the county town.”
"So I plan to leave an empty city for the Japanese!" Li Yunlong knew very well that the county town could not be defended.
In front of the Japanese planes, the county town’s reinforced earthen walls were a joke.
So he did not plan to defend the county town, but prepared to fight street battles with the Japanese.
In this case, the Japanese planes and cannons would be useless.
……
Time passed quickly. After the two Japanese regiments arrived at Shiquan County and rested for a day, they headed directly to Linyuan County.
At the same time, the Japanese from several nearby counties also swarmed towards Linyuan County with their puppet troops.
As Baihuling is located directly at the border between Linyuan County and Shiquan County, it was naturally the first target of the Japanese.
Otherwise, if they bypass Baihu Ridge, the vanguard camp on Baihu Ridge will be able to threaten their transportation supply lines at any time.
It even threatens Shiquan County, which has been drained of its military forces and is being used as a logistics base!
Baihu Ridge gets its name because in winter the entire mountain looks like a ferocious white tiger.
At this moment, Qin Yangming was standing at the highest point of Baihu Ridge and using the high-magnification telescope given to him by the system to look at the Japanese troops that had reached the border area of Shiquan County.
Because they were waiting for troops from other directions to arrive at the designated attack position, this group of Japanese soldiers were not satisfied with directly attacking Baihuling.
"Li Erhu, come and see if you can fire a shot at the Japanese?"
Qin Yangming handed the telescope to Li Erhu, pointed at the Japanese troops about six or seven kilometers away and asked Li Erhu.
Li Erhu took the telescope and looked at the Japanese base while calculating.
"The Japanese are about seven kilometers away from us. The maximum shooting distance of the Type 41 mountain gun plus the high base is about this number.
If we fire here, I have the confidence to give the Japanese a good shot."
"But it doesn't guarantee that we can hit the target accurately. We can only guarantee that we can hit the enemy's army."
"It's okay. I don't need you to be accurate, and I don't want to eliminate the Japanese through this method."
"I just don't want the little devils to rest there peacefully."
"Hey, battalion commander, just wait and see. I'll show you what a top gunner is!"
Because only three cannons could be placed on the open space on the ridge, Li Erhu did not pull up all six guns.
After Qin Yangming earned more than 100,000 points last time, he exchanged them for nine Type 41 mountain cannons and ten Shanghai-made Type 41 mountain cannons.
The brigade commander was given three Type 41 mountain guns and six Shanghai-made Type 50 mountain guns to take away, and Li Yunlong was given three Type 41 mountain guns and four Shanghai-made Type 50 mountain guns.
He set up a mountain artillery company equipped with six Type 41 mountain cannons and a mortar company equipped with twelve 82mm mortars.
After the soldiers carried the mountain cannon up and assembled it.
Li Erhu used the gun scope to aim at the target and then loaded a shell into the barrel.
"boom!"
As the artillery shells were fired, Qin Yangming also saw through the telescope a flower of earth exploding inside the Japanese base.
"Hahaha, this is the position. Five shells per person. Shoot for me!"
……
Inside the Japanese base, the Japanese Ono Regiment came to attack Baihuling this time.
The commander of the regiment was named Ono Heissuo, a colonel.
Because Ohno Heissuo's qualifications were not as good as Sakata's regiment commander Nobutatsu, Sakata Nobutatsu was in charge of commanding this battle.
"It takes two regiments to attack Linyuan County?
What does the Commander think?"
Ohno Heissomatsu, who had just been transferred from the south, was ordered by the headquarters to attack Linyuan County together with Sakata Nobutetsu.
Then they launched an attack from Linyuan County towards Cangyunling where the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army was located.
He really didn't understand. With the combat effectiveness of the Japanese locust army, it actually took two regiments to deal with a so-called New 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army?
Although he knew that the New 1st Regiment had captured Linyuan County and wiped out the Kameda Battalion.
But the Kameda Battalion was originally an understaffed garrison battalion, and it was because of that idiot Kameda that the Locust Association forced the army to rebel.
Otherwise, how could the Eighth Route Army have occupied the county town so smoothly?
Therefore, he did not think that the Eighth Route Army in Linyuan County was very powerful, and that they captured Linyuan County only by luck and Kameda's stupidity.
After arriving in Shiquan County, Sakata Nobutsu directly ordered him to lead his troops to eliminate the Eighth Route Army on Baihu Ridge within five hours to ensure the safety of the troops' logistics line.
It takes five hours for a regiment to defeat a battalion of the Eighth Route Army?
Ohno Heissuo felt that if he sent out a large battalion, two hours would be enough to resolve the battle.
(End of this chapter)
