Yang Village.

"Little devil, has you made up your mind to be a turtle with a shrunken head?"

Grand Master Li looked at the movements of the Shou County devils reported by Zhang Dabiao, and pursed his lips disdainfully.

Since the Shou County devils received reinforcements, Li Yunlong took the opportunity to order the troops to shrink, deliberately leaking a few flaws, and in sporadic battles, let the devils reasonably occupy some villages and towns around the county seat.

His purpose is twofold.

First, it is necessary to concentrate forces and avoid the dispersion of troops, after all, relying on the legs to maneuver between mountain roads, the independent regiment's support capacity is limited, and the territory controlled is too large and somewhat difficult. Second, to seduce the devil and be fooled, come out and have a fight with the independent group.

Pity.

The devil didn't hit the trick.

The old devil of the Black Island people can't live or die.

"The little devil in Shou County began to build strong fortifications in several villages and towns near the county seat, putting on a completely defensive posture, and being a turtle with a shrunken head, this move, we really can't help it."

Zhang Dabiao sat down by himself and poured himself a glass of water by the way.

Now the independent regiment is strong and strong, and the morale is strong, although the little devils in Shou County have received a lot of reinforcements, but when they really fight, it is still the independent regiment that has an advantage, and it is an all-round advantage, whether it is firepower or troops.

If the devils of Shou County really dare to come out and want to restore their previous territory, come out and fight with the independent regiment, with the complex terrain of mountains near the county seat, he has prepared a series of plans to cut the devil's troops and then eat them bite by bite.

However, the devil can't come out alive or dead, and he doesn't have the arrogant posture that an invader should have, and he hides in the town to overhaul the fortifications, so he can't do anything.

Attacking fortified positions, the independent regiment is still a lot worse.

The mortar is really not suitable for attacking fortifications, the accuracy of the shells is low, the ability to destroy the fortifications is weak, the 92-type part-time work is a little better, but it is okay to shoot directly at the turret, if you attack the scattered fortified positions on the back, it is easy to be directly bombarded by the devil's mountain artillery.

And the devil is not boasting with the defensive ability of strong fortifications, and after fighting the devil for so long, Zhang Dabiao and Li Yunlong are very clear that the devil can be said to be better at defensive warfare.

"If he wants to shrink, he will shrink, anyway, the labor and management are not interested, and when the labor and management have a heavy artillery that day, sooner or later they will even give him the county seat."

Li Yunlong waved his hand, and his tone was casual.

Shou County may not be able to do it, but in the surrounding villages and towns, it is impossible to say that it cannot be defeated, but even if it can be defeated, the troops will definitely suffer huge losses in personnel, a large amount of ammunition will be consumed, and there will not be many devils eliminated.

No benefit at all.

Will he do a loss-making business?

After speaking, Li Yunlong took out a cigarette left by the brigade commander last time, lit it, took a sip, turned his head to look at a phone at the regiment headquarters, and sighed.

Compared to the devil who can't live or die, he feels that this thing makes him more upset.

After the major attack, the brigade headquarters moved its station, and this time it was directly stationed in the rear of the independent regiment, that is, the area where the 772nd and 773rd regiments were stationed before, and it was only about ten kilometers away from Yangcun, where the regimental headquarters of the independent regiment was stationed.

He only needs to pick up the phone to hear the brigade commander's voice.

It's going to die!

And what made Li Yunlong even more aggrieved was that these telephone lines and telephones were dug up and seized by him from between the devil's forts near Shou County, and as soon as they were handed over to the brigade headquarters, the brigade headquarters used their backhands on his head.

"What a fuck!"

Li Yunlong muttered a mantra he heard from Chen Fan.

I knew I kept it for myself.

Wires, drying clothes is also good!

"Commander, you say, can we use smoke bombs to attack the fortifications? We can use smoke grenades to cover the devil's firepower and cover the charge of the troops, as long as the distance is shortened, the fortifications will not be so difficult to deal with. ”

Zhang Dabiao didn't notice Li Yunlong's depression, he carefully thought about the possibility of attacking the fortification.

Where are the devils in Shou County, more than a thousand devils are in front of him, and the feeling of being able to see but not fight is too much for Zhang Dabiao's hands to itch.

"Impossible."

Grand Master Li glared, and his tone was unkind:

"Even if it is an 82 mortar shell, the smoke lasts only a few minutes, and the range is only a few tens of meters away, and this is still without wind, the fortifications of any devil squad are at least two hundred meters wide, dozens of meters deep, and there are more than ten fire points, how many smoke bombs do you have to cover it?"

"Do you really think that labor and management are the landlords of the land?"

"If it's windy, I'm afraid that one hundred and eighty pieces won't even make a sound."

Oops, the regiment commander is in a bad mood······ Li Yunlong's tone made Zhang Dabiao's neck shrink.

By the way, the last time the telephone line was installed, the smoke bombs in the regiment were extorted by the brigade commander a lot, and it is estimated that this is the reason.

Li Yunlong continued to scold: "I don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, let me tell you, although there are enough weapons and ammunition in the regiment now, it is not such a waste..."

"That regiment commander, there is still something going on in my battalion, and the new officers have been training with the soldiers recently, I'll take a look."

Zhang Dabiao hurriedly looked for an opportunity to escape.

Can he not know about the saving of weapons and ammunition? How did he do the regimental commander not see? That time did he waste ammunition? Although the regiment commander was obviously looking for trouble, he did not dare to scold the regiment commander.

The only one in the whole regiment who dared to do this was Political Commissar Zhao.

After Zhang Dabiao left in a gloomy manner, Li Yunlong spread out the map of the county seat of Shou County, smoking a cigarette, and his eyes were staring straight at the devil positions around Shou County, and even his eyes occasionally turned to the county seat of Shou County.

At this time, Grand Master Li's expression was full of thought.

Smoke grenades are not very effective in attacking strong field fortifications in the open area, but the effect of enclosed areas in the city is resounding, and this Kurozhima multiplayer seems to be ·······

Jingle bells···

Suddenly, the phone that had just been installed at the regiment headquarters rang, interrupting Li Yunlong's thinking.

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"Yo Si."

In Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka looked at the stack of telegrams from the brigade that went deep into the enemy's base area in his hand, and nodded frequently.

Then, he looked at Kazuki Yamamoto on the side, and his eyes were full of relief:

"Yamamoto-kun, your judgment is indeed correct, the ten brigades marched along the predetermined route, and although they were strongly blocked by the Eighth Route Army during the period, they failed to hinder the footsteps of the imperial army."

"The mobile brigade gave the other side serious damage."

"This time, it will definitely greatly weaken the strength of the Eighth Route Army."

Yoshio Shinozuka said that he was high-spirited, and the grievances that had accumulated in his heart in the past few months were swept away.

When you have your hands free, you will destroy Li Yunlong! He thought hatefully in his heart.

"What about Brigade Yamazaki?"

Gradually flipping through the telegram in his hand, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly frowned.

He found that there were only nine telegrams in his hand, that is, there was still a brigade that had not reported.

"I don't know, the Yamazaki brigade can't be contacted, but the other party has only been missing for five hours, and it is unlikely that there will be an accident, presumably because there is a problem with the telegraph, or in the valley, the signal is interfered with."

The staff officer replied.

"Map."

Beckoning to the map, looking at the location of the last report of the Yamazaki Brigade above, Yoshio Shinozuka was in a gloomy mood.

This place... It is only more than 30 kilometers away from Shou County. And Li Yunlong has appeared in this vicinity many times, and it is basically certain that Li Yunlong's troops must be stationed in this vicinity.

"Keep in touch."

Yoshio Shinozuka ordered, "Until the Yamazaki brigade returns." ”

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Around noon.

Between a mountain road in a lonely mountain, a devil army emerged from the valley.

"The operator."

Captain Yamazaki in the front row had a hoarse voice with madness.

Yamazaki, like the Japanese men of his time, was short, loop-legged, and muscular, with a neck almost as thick as his head, and looked like a shotgun bullet when he struck it.

With his short and stout stature, and the katana he carried at his waist, it was completely disproportionate to his height, and it was hard to imagine what Yamazaki would look like when he held a katana in a duel.

"Your Excellency."

At the back of the line, the radio operator hurriedly ran up.

His temper as a captain is not good, he is irritable and irritable, and if he is a little unhappy, he will beat and scold his subordinates, and even seriously injure his subordinates, and the operator does not want to touch his head.

Before, in the valley, he had already received several slaps because the signal was affected.

"Immediately send a report to the headquarters to report the current position of our army."

Yamazaki's face was full of flesh, and his tone was fierce.

Unless he is superior, Yamazaki will always be in this tone.

"Hey."

The operator immediately called the map staff officer, prepared to ask for the location, and then reported to the headquarters.

However, when the map staff officer came, he looked at the map in his hand, but he couldn't tell where the troops were currently located for a while.

After pointing at the map for a long time, the devil staff officer said weakly: "Your Excellency Zhongzuo, we seem to have deviated forty degrees from the predetermined route, and we are currently in a place called Yitian, more than thirty kilometers away from the predetermined route. ”

"Yaga."

As soon as the staff officer finished speaking, Yamazaki knocked him to the ground with a slap.

"Stop moving."

Yamazaki was so angry that his face was rolling with meat.

It's just that before he could cut down the staff officer in charge of navigation, the devil of the front reconnaissance team came back and brought back a message:

"Report Zuo, a suspected base of the Eighth Route Army has been found ahead."

"Nani?"

"Eighth Route Army base?"

Yamazaki's face quickly turned cloudy.

He has been trying to find the main force of the Eighth Route Army for a decisive battle and show the strength of the Imperial Japanese Army, but unfortunately, except for the small force that blocked it, he didn't even see the shadow of the Eighth Route Army.

Even those small forces are just touching away, and they don't give him a chance to show their strength at all.

"Check it out."

Clenching the katana in his hand, Yamazaki took the lead in stepping up.

After a distance of several hundred meters, hidden on a hillside, looking into the distance, there is a large number of people, and in the middle can even see a dozen mule carts dragging supplies.

"This is, ammunition transporter."

"This is the ammunition depot of the Eighth Route Army, and over there is the Imperial Army that has been looking for an arsenal."

Yamazaki's eyes lit up when he saw the wooden ammunition boxes being loaded onto the truck, as well as the ammunition boxes carried down by people from the mountains and forests in the distance.

"The Emperor Bless Me"

"Prepare, attack."

He raised his katana and said in a frantic voice: "Kill all these people who dare to resist the empire, and leave no one behind." ”

As a standard mid- and lower-ranking officer in the Japanese army, Yamazaki was a samurai who was ready to sacrifice his life for His Majesty the Emperor at any time, and he never took his own life seriously, and a person who didn't even take his own life seriously was naturally even less likely to take other people's lives seriously.

He did not hesitate to give the order for the massacre.

Following his order, hundreds of devils rushed into the distance with a shout, and to Yamazaki's surprise, the troops defending here fled in despair, not even having the courage to fight, and retreated without firing a shot.

"But that's it."

Looking at the gray fleeing crowd, as well as the troops mixed in with the crowd, Yamazaki's tone was extremely disdainful.

He thought there would be a big fight.

He often heard some soldiers privately say that only this army called Hanako is so brave and good at fighting, how difficult it is to deal with, although the equipment is not good, but the morale is not much inferior to the imperial bushido samurai.

Now it seems that it is all rumors.

It's all just an exaggeration.

I'm afraid that Li Yunlong is also exaggerating, but a group of moths in the Imperial Army have no ability to do it themselves, so they deliberately exaggerate the enemy's ability to cover up their incompetence.

"Report, the discovery of the enemy's arsenal, in the depths of the sky."

A devil reported the situation.

"Destroy them all."

Yamazaki's tone was hideous.

"The operator."

After the devil left to deliver the order, Yamazaki called the operator again.

This time, Yamazaki's tone was better than ever.

"Send a report to Lieutenant General Shinozuka that the Yamazaki Brigade of the 29th Brigade has made an unexpected gain in the direction of the first line of heaven and found the arsenal in the enemy's base area, which has been completely destroyed..."

"Hey."

The staff officer hurriedly sent a telegram.

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"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, Yamazaki Brigade telegram."

Taiyuan, within the headquarters, the staff officer this time, his tone was with obvious surprise.

"Read."

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Since there is news coming in, it means that there is no problem with the Yamazaki brigade.

When the staff officer reported Yamazaki's telegram completely, Yoshio Shinozuka stood up suddenly, his eyes blazing:

"Found the enemy's arsenal?"

He had intelligence that the Eighth Route Army had an arsenal, and the production of weapons and ammunition was not low, but he had never found a specific location, and now he finally let him know.

He quickly walked to the map behind him, looked at the position of the sky, and commanded loudly:

"Order, the 32nd Wing, the 5th Brigade of the 37th Wing, and the 4th Brigade of the 9th Wing quickly galloped to the front line."

"The flying team will immediately set off to support Yamazaki Nakasa."

Speaking of the flying brigade, Yoshio Shinozuka's mood was suddenly not so happy again.

Previously, the Taiyuan Flying Brigade had more than 50 aircraft, but now, there are only 15 aircraft, and in the next half year, there will be only 15 aircraft.

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Looking at the beating phone, Li Yunlong hesitated for a moment before picking up the microphone.

But soon, his expression of hesitation suddenly changed:

"A brigade of devils has reached the first line? Won't this destroy him? ”

"Yes, I'll call Lao Zhao to attend the combat meeting."

Hanging up the phone, Li Yunlong happily walked out of the regiment headquarters and called the monk and Zhang Dabiao:

"Monk, go and ask the political commissar to go to the brigade headquarters."

"Zhang Dabiao, order the first battalion, the second battalion, the artillery battalion and the cavalry battalion to assemble."

"There's a fight?"

Zhang Dabiao's eyes lit up.

"Haha, yes!"

Li Yunlong smiled happily.

Since the raid on Taiyuan, there has been no war for a month, and the devils in Shou County are all hiding in the county town and not coming out, during this time, Grand Master Li has been suffocated.

"But Regiment Commander, will we leave only three battalions?"

Zhang Dabiao was a little worried.

Shou County has a full brigade of devils!

"It's okay, the defense area will be handed over to the new regiment."

Li Yunlong waved his hand, and his tone was calm.

Ding Wei's ability is not bad, and with the new regiment having the batch of weapons and ammunition he sent, it is not difficult to contain a large group of devils.