"How many enemy troops are actually defending Chifeng City? Did you spot it? After letting Wei Dayong take out the map and unfold it, Li Yunlong pointed to the map and asked Sun Desheng.

Sun Desheng squatted down, pointed to the map and said, "Commander, Chifeng City is already heavily guarded. All the devils hid in the city and did not move, but there were a few Imperial Allies outside the city to guard the perimeter. We grabbed a few tongues and interrogated them, and came up with roughly the same number of enemy troops in the city as we had received the information we had received. ”。

After a pause, Sun Desheng continued: "The strength of the enemy army in the city is roughly more than 1,200 people in a devil infantry brigade, and more than 1,300 people in a regiment of emperors' joint army. Coupled with the temporary garrison of some devil expatriates and wandering samurai in the city, the total strength exceeds 3,000 people, but it will not exceed 4,000! ”。

At this time, Zhang Dabiao and others had already rushed to Li Yunlong and gathered around.

Li Yunlong bowed his head, and the rest of the people also heard it clearly.

"Commander, let's fight! Even if there are 4,000 enemy troops in Chifeng City, we still have a slight advantage in strength. The commander of the first battalion, Zhang Dabiao, said in a condensed voice.

Li Yunlong said with a smile: "You must fight!" But how to fight, you need to sum it up! ”。

Chifeng City is low at the upper end of the West Liao River, the terrain is high in the west and low in the east, leading to Kailu and Tongliao in the north, and connecting Chengde, Luanping, Longhua and other places in the southwest. The strategic location is important, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Although it seems to be easy to fight, once the defenders hold on, there is a highway connecting Chifeng in the northeast and southwest, and it is relatively easy for the little devil's reinforcements to rush to Chifeng.

Therefore, Li Yunlong must command the troops to take Chifeng in the shortest possible time. Otherwise, during the siege, the ground reinforcements and air reinforcements of the devils will arrive soon, and it will be very troublesome at that time.

When everyone heard this, they all nodded. Chifeng is also a big city, the city defense is strong, and the little devil defenders have also concentrated all their troops and some temporarily recruited men and horses to strengthen the city defense, which makes it very difficult for everyone to quickly take Chifeng.

"Regiment commander, compared with the strength of the enemy army in Chifeng and our department, combined with the current strength of the devils in the north and south flanks of Chifeng, the strength has not been strengthened. At this time, we will suddenly attack Chifeng, and we will not be threatened by enemy ground reinforcements when attacking the city for at least two hours! ”

Ma Wenhai, the commander of the third battalion, said in a condensed voice: "So, I think we should concentrate our forces and choose one of the directions to attack Chifeng." In this way, the effect will be great. ”。

"Old Ma, which direction do you think you should concentrate your forces on?"

Li Yunlong said calmly, it is not bad to concentrate troops. At present, the troops in Li Yunlong's hands, in addition to the troops lost in the process of successive battles with the Japanese army, also have at least more than 7,000 troops, and the strength is temporarily superior to the enemy army in Chifeng.

Ma Wenhai pointed to the map of Chifeng City on the ground, and said with a serious expression: "Chifeng is high in the west and low in the east, I thought it was time to concentrate forces to storm the West Gate!" The remaining three gates maintained a siege posture in the direction of the city, and when the siege was stopped, the remnants of the devils in the city fled from the remaining three gates at the end of the battle. ”。

When the rest of Zhang Dabiao, Shen Qun and other commanders and fighters heard this, they all nodded in agreement.

Chifeng City is high in the west and low in the east, and the focus of the defense of the devil defenders must be the west gate. Because once the west gate direction is lost, it will create a condescending advantage for the enemy troops in the other three directions.

Li Yunlong saw that the big guys agreed with Ma Wenhai's suggestion, and after thinking about it a little in his heart, he also understood that it was indeed a better way to concentrate superior forces to storm Ximen.

Fortunately, at present, Matsui Shigen's troops actually stopped in the county seat of Weichang and did not move, and it seemed that they were resting. Even if Matsui Shigen set out to kill Chifeng at this time, he couldn't reinforce the devil defenders of Chifeng.

Thinking of this, Li Yunlong clapped his hands and smiled: "Okay, then concentrate superior forces and storm the west gate of Chifeng." ‘。

After a pause, Li Yunlong ordered: "Storm the West Gate, with the first battalion and the second battalion totaling more than 4,000 soldiers. The third battalion was responsible for the siege feint of the remaining three gates, and was also responsible for intercepting the devil rout who escaped from the remaining three gates at the end of the battle. There are also more than 1,000 horses in reserve, ready to support the direction of the battlefield with holes. Do you get it? ”。

"Yes, Captain." When the people heard this, they immediately saluted.

Li Yunlong nodded and said, "Okay, it's four o'clock in the afternoon, and it's less than a few hours before it gets dark." Once we take Chifeng, we will move south and move in the direction of Jianping. Chifeng City must be taken in about an hour, and all the enemy troops defending the city will be annihilated. There is no problem! ”。

"No problem, Commander, you can see. Hey, hey, hey!! The first battalion commander Zhang Dabiao smiled.

The rest of the second battalion commander Shen Qun and the others also laughed, and the enemy troops in Chifeng were at most 4,000 to die. Among them, only one of the devil brigades is still a little combative, which is not very stressful for their own side, and the early difficulty of taking Chifeng is still in the battle of storming the West Gate.

As long as Ximen is captured and enters Chifeng City, the next battle should not be too difficult.

"Okay, everyone is ready. The army is attacking and advancing under Chifeng City, and the troops are deployed according to the plan, besieging Chifeng City for me, and not a single devil and the Imperial Association Army will be able to escape! Li Yunlong waved his hand proudly and said.

Hearing this, everyone immediately dispersed and returned to their respective troops, and with Li Yunlong's order, the rest of the various units continued to attack and advance towards Chifeng City according to the plan.

Li Yunlong commanded the army to fight out of the ravines, mountains and forests, and along the highway from the county seat to Chifeng, to the city, which immediately caused the captain of the devil garrison in the city, Yonekura Kotaro Shaozo, to lie down in the brigade headquarters in the city.

As the small room in the team headquarters lounge was pushed open, there was a loud knock on the door, waking up Kotaro Yonekura who was sleeping.

"Bageyalu, who is it? Don't you know I'm resting? Kotaro Yonekura, who was a little sleepy, got up from the bed, looked at the devil who hurried in from the door, and roared.

However, the devil who pushed the door in was Captain Fujita Rentaro, the chief of staff of Yonekura Kotaro, and saw that this old devil had a serious expression and said hurriedly: "Captain, there is an enemy attack outside the city." The enemy army has already surrounded Chifeng City, and the enemy army is at least five or six thousand people! Artillery and machine-gun positions are being built outside the city, and it seems that they are going to storm Chifeng. ”。

"Nani? Chifeng is surrounded! Kotaro Yonekura suddenly woke up and was very surprised.

Five or six thousand enemy troops, still building artillery positions outside the city, then it is bound to be not guerrillas, is it?

Sure enough, Rentaro Fujita, who hurriedly came to report the situation, saw Yonekura Kotaro's puzzled expression and knew what the old devil was thinking, so he smiled bitterly: "The captain has a good idea, the enemy army surrounding Chifeng is Li Yunlong's troops of the Eighth Route Army, and the enemy troops outside the city have put out their military flags." ”。