"Nani?"

"Taiyuan airport was shelled?"

After receiving the telegram from Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka originally had a leisurely expression that the offensive could be further expanded because the battle situation in Shou County was going well, and the new wing was coming.

How could Taiyuan airport be shelled?

Could it be Li Yunlong again?

A series of doubts flashed in his heart, but Yoshio Shinozuka was not too worried, but still calmly accepted the telegram.

Experience teaches.

According to the range of the 82-caliber mortars used by Li Yunlong in the shelling of the airport, he deliberately expanded the airport cordon circle to three kilometers, dug a large number of blocking trenches, and cleared obstacles.

Even if Li Yunlong attacked and shelled the airfield again, he could only shell it three kilometers away, but he would be quickly driven away by the garrison.

He also readjusted the guard posts around Taiyuan and set up multiple security checkpoints, so that it was impossible for heavily armed artillery units to pass through, and even if lightly armed troops infiltrated them, they would not be able to pose a threat to the airport.

With the recent expansion of the airport, he preferred to relax some of the airport's interior construction and re-enhance the perimeter security in the spirit of precaution.

It should have been just a small harassment...

It is estimated that a small force sent by Li Yunlong carried one or two mortars and a small number of shells to harass the airport.

Yoshio Shinozuka speculated in his heart as he opened the telegram in his hand.

At present, he is carrying heavy troops to attack Shou County, and it is inevitable that the vigilance of Taiyuan will be reduced, and it is possible for small-scale lightly armed troops to infiltrate near the airport, but it is absolutely impossible for artillery units carrying a large number of baggage to pass through, even if it is an independent regiment with super mobile ability.

It is impossible not to go undetected from the huge burden of a large number of shells.

"The firing range is up to five kilometers, and the number of artillery pieces is unknown..."

At the first glance of the telegram, Yoshio Shinozuka's face changed drastically.

His arrangements were all set up around the 82-caliber mortars of the Independent Regiment, the three-kilometer cordon, the clear firing circle around the airfield, and the Type 92 infantry guns left by the garrison brigade.

But now a cannon with a range of five kilometers suddenly popped up, or a heavy artillery·····

"The power is comparable to or even exceeds that of divisional and regimental artillery, intensive artillery bombardment."

The news that followed made his face even more gloomy.

Long range, great power, intensive artillery fire...

The previous bombardment of a few 82 mortars almost wiped out the First Army Flying Group, and the airfield was repaired for several weeks before it was restored, and now the caliber is larger, and the artillery with the same dense firepower is probably ·····

He hurriedly continued to watch, the firing range around the airport was cleared, the obstacles were also dug up, and at a distance of five kilometers, it didn't take long for the garrison brigade to rush over and stop the enemy's continuous shelling.

But the rest is still not good news:

"The number of enemies is small, but the garrison was blocked by several medium-caliber mortars of the enemy when attacking, and the attack speed is slow, and the shelling of the airfield by the enemy's heavy artillery is still continuing..."

After reading the telegram, Yoshio Shinozuka was dizzy, his body shook, and he almost couldn't stand steadily.

His Taiyuan Airport, and the more than 80 planes of the First Army Flying Brigade...

Large-caliber heavy artillery, comparable to or even more than the division-level 105 howitzers bombarded the airfield, and several medium-caliber 82 mortars blocked the garrison brigade, this news made him understand that the garrison brigade was afraid that it would not be able to stop the enemy's shelling.

The reason for the heavy casualties in the offensive in the past few days was largely due to the sudden covering fire of Li Yunlong's 82 mortar group, which could easily block the attack of the imperial army and interrupt the offensive formation with its dense artillery firepower. And without capturing the heights on both flanks, his artillery group could not destroy the extremely mobile mortars.

Although there are many planes on duty and can avoid shelling, there are no airfields, no logistics, and those planes are equivalent to decorations.

The staff officer beside him hurriedly assisted Yoshio Shinozuka, and after taking a few breaths, he roared angrily:

"Yaga, how is that possible?"

"What about the guard posts around Taiyuan? Why didn't you find this guy? ”

"Are they all blind?"

He can understand that the squadron-sized lightly armed troops have not been discovered, but there are quite a few heavy artillery at the division and regimental level, plus several 82 mortars, and a large number of shells, the scale is comparable to a brigade.

This hasn't been discovered yet?

No one could answer Yoshio Shinozuka, even Yamamoto lowered his head, and he was equally puzzled in his heart.

"Let the Ninety-Seven Wing..."

Just when Yoshio Shinozuka was about to let the Ninety-Seven Wing come to his aid, he suddenly stopped, and after a moment of silence, his eyes were full of fierceness:

"Order the 97th Wing to send a brigade to support Taiyuan Airport, and the rest of the troops quickly rushed to Shou County."

At this time, it was too late to go to the rescue airport, and it was also a ruin, hundreds of shells that exceeded the power of the divisional and regimental level artillery were enough to make the Taiyuan airport a ruin, a large number of aircraft were destroyed, and it was pointless for a wing to go to the rescue.

It is better to attack Shou County with all your strength and eliminate Li Yunlong.

"Hey."

The staff officer hurriedly went to send a report.

Subsequently, in the field headquarters, everyone had a doubt in their hearts.

How did the enemy approach Taiyuan with so much heavy equipment? Not to mention anything else, just a few hundred heavy artillery shells, as well as medium-caliber mortar shells, will need a baggage squadron, as long as the Taiyuan alert troops are not blind, they will definitely be able to find out.

Unless, there are inner ghosts, and there are quite a few of them·····

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At this time, the independent regiment did not know the suspicions inside the devils, and they were still struggling to deal with the attacks of the devils.

In the northern area of Shou County, at the commanding heights of both flanks, fierce battles broke out, and the devils attacked in waves, while the independent regiment held on to it, and both sides gritted their teeth and relied on a brutal war of attrition.

The highlands of the left flank of Shou County.

In the afternoon, the devils gave up the strategy of attacking the two flanks at the same time, focusing on attacking the left flank, and more than one brigade rushed to the left flank, for which the second battalion commander Shen Quan personally led the troops to reinforce him.

Both sides fought for several hours, and the casualties were not small.

"Right, right up."

Shen Quan stood in the trench on the front line, looking down at the overall situation, and suddenly found that the devils of the squad on the right were almost close to the position, and were about to personally lead reinforcements, looked at the empty sky, and immediately their eyes lit up, and shouted loudly:

"Heavy machine gun squad, press back this gang of devils on the right."

There are many routes on this high ground, and the devil relies on the force group to launch a multi-front attack, and he is under a lot of pressure, and the reserves have to be kept to prevent accidents, lest the defense line be broken through and there are not enough troops to recapture, so it is decided to let the heavy machine guns go up.

"Yes."

In the anti-artillery hole, the heavy machine gun squad leader quickly commanded the team to take out a set up heavy machine gun, which was quickly erected on the bunker, facing the devil squad on the right side of the shuttle.

Knock knock knock·····

A dull gunfire rang out, and a bullet with a thick thumb swept across the attacking devil skirmisher line, smashing several unlucky devils directly to pieces. The surrounding devils suddenly lowered their bodies, not daring to continue to move forward.

"Damn, it's still this thing."

Seeing that the devil was cowardly, the shooter suddenly shouted proudly.

"Hey, where's the devil plane?"

The heavy machine gun shooter, who was about to transfer, looked overhead and was directly stunned.

This is a hillside, the mountain road is steep, the Type 92 infantry guns can't come up at all, there is little threat to heavy machine guns, and the range of grenadiers is not enough, and the biggest threat to heavy machine guns is devil planes.

A heavy machine gun squad was knocked out by a devil plane before.

At that time, the battle was very fierce, the devils almost broke into the position, in order to suppress the position, the machine gun team shot hard, and was bombed by the devil's plane, a round of strafing made the loss of the fight, the heavy machine gun was blown up, the squad was killed and five were injured, and even the squad leader was seriously injured.

"Speaking of which, it seems like I haven't seen a devil plane for a long time."

On the battlefield, the fighters who took a breath were also strange.

In the battle between yesterday and this morning at noon, the devil's plane flew in the sky all the time, and from time to time it would come down to strafe or drop a bomb, but now it's only five o'clock, and it seems that I haven't seen the devil's plane for a long time.

The same doubts spread among the devils:

"Yaga, where's the fighter?"

Seeing that he was about to break through the enemy's lines, only to be hit back by that terrible heavy machine gun, the squadron leader of the front command was hysterical.

The artillery can't reach it, and the mountain artillery can't hit the low slope and the high slope can't hit it accurately, so you can only rely on the aircraft to suppress this heavy machine gun, but now what about the aircraft? And what about the planes of the Reich?

"Is it..."

Shen Quan narrowed his eyes and thought of a possibility.

As a battalion commander, he knew about the Taiyuan plan.

"Let the heavy machine gun squad hold its ground, and the devil plane should not come back in a short time."

Shen Quan immediately ordered.

With the support of heavy machine gun fire, the devil's attack became more and more difficult, and finally saw that evening was coming, and had to choose to retreat.

······

A new regiment.

"Have the villagers all been transferred?"

Ding Wei, who had been running with the troops for a day again, was resting in a mountain forest, and after a few big mouthfuls of the water bottle handed over by the guard, he asked Chenghe on the side.

"It's all transferred out."

Chenghe also replied panting.

Ding Wei suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the villagers are all transferred, then the new group will be able to let go. In the past few days, the reason why he has been caught by devils is largely because of the cover for the transfer of ordinary people.

At this point, Ding Wei suddenly realized something and suddenly raised his head.

At this time, the sky was quiet, and there was not even the sound of birds.

"Hey, where's the devil plane?"

Only then did Regiment Commander Ding discover that there were no devil planes in the sky at this time, and his new regiment had not been bombed and strafed by devils for a long time.

Otherwise, the retreat and transfer would never have been so smooth.

"yes, where's the devil plane?"

The commander of the first battalion, Cheng He, was also stunned.

In the past few days of breaking through, the devil plane is simply a kraft candy, following the new group at any time, and it can't be shaken off, and the soldiers are not very afraid, and the plane will lie down when strafing, and hide when the bomb is dropped.

But the common people can't, the bombing and strafing of the planes can bring great panic, and the huge scale of the people can't hide from the eyes of the sky at all, which is also the reason for the failure of the transfer for several days in a row.

"It's only about five o'clock."

looked at his watch and found that it was still early, and Ding Wei was even more puzzled.

Counting the time, the devil plane was almost gone before four o'clock.

"Could it be that something happened?"

Ding Wei speculated in his heart.

·····

Headquarters.

Zhang Wanhe began to transfer with a heavy arsenal baggage.

Although most of the machinery and equipment have been buried, there are some things that can only be carried with him, which makes the transfer speed of his logistics department slow, but fortunately, there are many large mules, which makes him much faster than before.

"Hurry up, while the devil's plane hasn't come yet, speed up..."

After a moment of anxious command, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the baggage had finally entered the mountains and woods and was temporarily safe.

In the past few days, because of the bombing of devils, his losses are not small.

At this point, Zhang Wanhe suddenly looked up at the sky.

He had been busy before, and then he reacted, as if he hadn't seen the devil's plane for a long time·····

"Huh..."

Minister Zhang was puzzled for a while.

In the morning and at noon, the devil's plane was bombing wildly, diving and strafing anytime and anywhere, forcing him to transfer extremely slowly, why did he suddenly turn off the engine?

·····

A series of doubts did not affect Yan Sheng's bombardment of Taiyuan Airport, even though many planes flying back from the sky launched strafing his position, he had already continued to bombard the airport.

Of course, all the devil planes that flew back had no bombs, and there were few bullets, which was also the main reason.

There were 82 mortars blocking the attacking devils, as well as the artillery positions prepared in advance, so that Yan Sheng bombarded the Taiyuan Airport for more than an hour, and all 1,000 rounds of 120 mortar shells fell into the airport.

"Withdraw..."

The last cannon shot was discharged, and he gave the order to retreat.

The artillery crew quickly disassembled the cannon, then loaded the large mule on the back, and then led the large mule and walked quickly towards the predetermined mountain retreat route.

Of course, the old traditions of the independent regiment must not be forgotten, and a lot of mines were left for the devils when they were evacuated.

At the same time, the 82 artillery group shells were almost exhausted, and after receiving the order, they also slipped away.

"Company commander, the second and third groups were devils..."

After the two sides converged, Iwamori also counted the casualties this time.

On his side, the strafing of the returning devil planes caused three soldiers on his side to be killed and two wounded, and the losses were very small.

However, the losses of the 82 artillery crews responsible for blocking the devil troops were more serious, the two artillery groups were hit by the opponent's Type 92 infantry guns, and some broken soldiers died.

In order to ensure that they could continuously shell the airport, the ammunition porters of the 82nd Artillery Group who were covering, as well as the reinforced platoon specially formed by Li Yunlong for the first artillery company, carried submachine guns and launched a close-range gun battle with the ghost soldiers who rushed up.

In the end, the 1st Artillery Company shelled Taiyuan this time, killing 32 people, wounding 27 people, and losing 2 82 mortars. For a battery of one hundred and ninety people, the casualties were not small.