"General."

When Huang Quan returned with four attack planes, Yamamoto also received news from the front:

"The Eighth Brigade and the Ninth Brigade have arrived at the predetermined position and are attacking the Eighth Route Army in the two places, and the remaining twelve infantry brigades are expected to arrive within three hours."

"Yo Si."

Yamamoto nodded in satisfaction.

The Eighth and Ninth Brigades are elite brigades, with rich combat experience in soldiers, good weapons and equipment, and strong combat capabilities.

Even if the independent regiment does not intersperse much this time and does not have sufficient fire support, and can only rely on the weapons and ammunition it carries, its firepower advantage still exists, but it can also contain and consume the strength of these two interspersed troops.

No matter how powerful a lonely army is, it is also rootless.

"General."

As soon as Yamamoto thought arrived, a staff officer ran over in a hurry:

"Eighth and ninth brigade telegrams."

"Read!"

Instinctively, Yamamoto realizes that something is not good.

"Mashiling, Luojiaya's attack was blocked, encountered enemy aerial bombardment, the troops suffered heavy losses, and they were unable to launch an attack."

"Nani?"

Yamamoto's eyes widened.

The enemy has an air force, he knows, and he guessed that he will send out to support the two forces that cut off his road, but how long has it been? The 8th and 9th Brigades had just launched an attack, so why did they suffer heavy losses?

How good is the aircraft support?

"This is the briefing of the Eighth Captain."

The staff officer handed over a telegram.

The captain of the front-line devil brigade also knew that things were too incredible, and sent a telegram detailing the specific process.

Yamamoto took the telegram and looked.

Looking at the detailed description of the battle situation in the telegram, his originally surprised face was first abrupt, then solemn, and after reading the telegram, Yamamoto understood why the attacking Eighth and Ninth Brigades stopped eating so quickly.

In the face of dozens of air-exploded, heavy fragmentation bombs, it is normal to rashly attack without preparation.

Of course, I also saw that the planes equipped by Li Yunlong were fundamentally different from those of the empire.

The enemy's planes, with a large bomb load, are estimated to have two to three tons per sortie, have very strong firepower, are equipped with 30 caliber cannons, and are very fast... In short, the empires are far apart.

Moreover, its air-to-ground communication is very smooth, and the bombs used are very targeted.

Steel ball anti-personnel bombs.

Timed fuses.

Thirty bombshells loaded with a large number of steel balls exploded in the air, and the dense steel balls fell at supersonic speed like raindrops, and the locusts hiding on the ground could not avoid it, and they shattered one after another.

There was also a plane circling in the air...

Seeing the end, Yamamoto's pupils shrank, and he looked at the endless clear sky, and he immediately gave an order:

"The rest of the brigade pauses the offensive and waits for the night to retake positions."

Yamamoto is very forced, his troops have almost no anti-aircraft weapons, the air is completely under the control of the independent regiment, and in the face of the threat of heavy fragmentation bombs, it is pointless to attack now and send them to death.

"Hey."

The staff officer quickly conveyed the order.

Zhang Dabiao also quickly received the devil situation.

"The little devil is cowardly?"

He said disdainfully, but the expression on his face was solemn.

The devil's decision was a bit unexpected by him, originally he thought that the little devil would continue to attack for a few rounds and stop attacking after heavy losses, so that the devil would definitely be extremely crazy at night.

But.

The effect of the aircraft support was beyond imagination, and the two planes knocked the devil brigade back, which greatly helped morale. Because the fighters knew that as long as they held out until dawn, it was a victory.

"Send a report to Huang Quan."

Zhang Dabiao ordered:

"Let him bomb the devil troops gathered around him."

"Yes."

The staff officer quickly went to telegraph the order.

"There aren't enough pilots."

Looking at the tragic situation of the devil in the distance, Zhang Dabiao sighed and couldn't help but sigh again.

If there are enough pilots, they don't want much, fifty or sixty will do, and with the terrain between the three counties of Ping'an, Panxian, and Yuxian, where they are still needed, these 50 attack planes alone can drag the devils down.

After sighing, Zhang Dabiao picked up the shovel and threw himself into the excavation work.

The devil did not attack during the day, and he had the added advantage that he could concentrate all his efforts on digging up the fortifications and allowing the warriors to rest and prepare for the hard battles at night.

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The other side.

At the end of the highway from Heyuan County to Taiyuan, that is, in the mountains near Taiyuan.

The second squad of the third platoon of the reconnaissance company of the separate regiment.

"Squad leader, the devil is out."

A warrior with a high-powered goggle shouted.

"Show me."

The hand-held telescope could not be multiplied too high due to shaking, and the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad walked to the observation glass with a tripod to watch.

In his field of vision, he saw that in the distance of the road, a devil wing rushed over, and in the team, there were several huge guns, the caliber of which looked thicker than the 105 guns in the regiment.

"There are about more than 4,000 devils, a reinforced wing, and a heavy artillery brigade, and the direction is to follow the road to Heyuan County."

After more than an hour of observation, the squad leader saw clearly the scale of the devil in the distance, as well as the direction of the march.

"Inform the regimental headquarters."

Then he said to the warrior behind him.

"Yes."

Several fighters with radios on their backs quickly laid antennas and contacted the regimental headquarters.

With the sound of ticking, the movements of the gang of devils in front of him were telegraphed back to the headquarters of the Independent Regiment.

At the same time, the same thing happened in two other places, and the three wings that set off near Taiyuan were clearly and clearly understood by the reconnaissance troops of the independent regiment.

After the radio station became rich, Li Yunlong equipped each squad of the reconnaissance company with one, so that with the help of the absolute superiority of the troops in the countryside, it was widely spread, and he could know any movement of the Taiyuan devils as soon as possible.

The news that the three wings of the devil were attacking Heyuan County in three ways was also transmitted to Li Yunlong's ears as soon as possible.

"The soldiers are divided into three ways?"

In the Heyuan County headquarters, Li Yunlong snorted coldly disdainfully when he heard the news.

According to the information compiled by the General Staff, the three infantry wings from Taiyuan, carrying heavy artillery, set off from Taiyuan, Shuiquan and other places, and at the same time drove towards Heyuan County, while the Yoshino Wing set off from Taiyuan and attacked the east of Heyuan County along the road, and the other two wings attacked the south and west.

looks like he wants to let the independent group be blessed at this time and there.

"Little devil, this is seeing that we don't have many troops left."

Ding Wei also said with a smile.

After the troops took root in Heyuan County, they spread to the surrounding areas and occupied Chu Yunfei's territory, and the base area was greatly expanded.

After all, Heyuan County has many factories, warehouses, and airports, a newly built iron mine, and a coal mine, which are important assets of the base.

"What are you going to do?"

Ding Wei asked.

The devils divided their troops, which was different from what they had expected, and they also had to change their way of dealing with them.

It is impossible to enter Heyuan County, Ding Wei knows very well how strong the left-behind troops in Heyuan County are now.

But it's also a fact that the number of people is not as good as the devils.

The devils divided their troops to attack, Heyuan County is very large, the surrounding terrain is flat, except for the mountainous area near Zhao Jiayu, the rest of the directions extend in all directions, once the devil's wing is approached, this group of devils are equipped with heavy artillery, maybe it will bring great losses to the base area.

This is unacceptable to them.

"Hey, hey, hey."

Li Yunlong smiled, and pointed a little in the direction of Taiyuan on the ground:

"Offense is the best defense."

"Do you want to..."

Ding Wei's pupils widened, revealing an excited look.

"Yes."

Li Yunlong nodded:

"Three devil wings, among which our old rival Yoshino United came along Taiyuan, the middle terrain is flat, only a few narrow terrain, we can use the plane to greet this group of devils."

"According to Zhang Dabiao's report, the new attack aircraft has a very good effect on the ground, and it is estimated that five planes in one wing are enough."

"Anyway, the little devil on Zhang Dabiao's side was afraid of being bombed, and he didn't dare to attack during the day, so he didn't need air support for the time being."

"The remaining one seems to be the Kwantung Army Wing, what is it called the Kasai Wing, this group of devils attacked along the Zhengtai Railway and the highway, so let the Sixth Tank Company go to greet him, and finally the Wing from Fu'an, wait until you get close and let the artillery cluster deal with it."

In three or two sentences, Li Yunlong arranged the combat mission.

"Good idea."

Ding Wei nodded in agreement.

If you have enough hole cards in your hand and are good enough, you can play easily.

Now there are ten pilots in the base area, and ten planes can take off at the same time, two of which are hovering in the positions of the first and second battalions, five against the devil wing, and three bombers against the devils.

Although the troops could not grasp the specific location and movements of the Devil's plane, it was already known that the Devil sent ten twin-engine bombers and four fighters to escort the escort.

It has only been more than half a month since the formation of the independent regiment flight brigade, and the performance of the aircraft provided by Boss Chen is very advanced, and the pilots are very unskilled in the performance of fighter jets, which is not suitable for fighting with the elite pilots of the little devils, but it doesn't matter.

He didn't even focus on this plane.

Artillery positions, industrial areas.

No matter where the devils bomb, it's all wishful thinking.

Today, the independent regiment is organized into two air defense battalions, one stationed in Zhao Jiayu and the other in Heyuan County. Artillery also has its own air defense units.

With Li Yunlong's order, the sixth tank company, which had just been formed not long ago, and an infantry battalion drove along the road in the direction of Taiyuan, preparing to face the devil Yoshino Wing head-on.

Thirty tanks, sixty armored vehicles loaded with infantry companies, and an infantry battalion of nearly 2,000 men rushed towards the Kasai wing of the Kwantung Army.

Although the 6th Tank Company has just been formed, in fact, the actual combat experience is not bad, and some of them are elite tank groups drawn from the 1st and 2nd Tank Companies.

At the same time.

At the airport, five planes covered with steel ball fragmentation bombs also took off, thinking about the Yoshino Wing plane.

The remaining three pilots stayed in the cockpit of the fighter plane, ready to meet the devil's bomber crew at any time, although in this battle plan, they did not think of relying on fighters to shoot down the devil bomber, but it was also a good opportunity to sharpen their skills and familiarize themselves with the aircraft.

For this reason, Huang Quan even left the attack aircraft and personally piloted a new fighter.

In the other direction.

The artillery group stationed in Heyuan County and the remaining infantry battalion began to move, setting up positions and preparing to block the infantry wing of Fu'anlai.

Meanwhile.

Near Fukuan.

The 772nd regiment also began to assemble.

Cheng Shifa stood in an open space, looking at the 772 regiment in front of him, and his heart suddenly aroused a sense of pride and enthusiasm.

At this time, the 772nd regiment, strictly speaking, seems to be the 772nd reinforced regiment, which can be called the strongest.

Not counting the personnel of the regimental headquarters, the total number of the regiment was 3,900.

There was a three-unit howitzer battalion, each company armed with four new 105 mountain guns. A three-unit 120 mortar battalion with four 120 mortars per company, and a baggage transport battalion with three hundred third-generation mules.

A heavy machine gun company armed with twelve 12.7 mm large-caliber machine guns.

The rest is three infantry battalions, the battalion artillery company has six 82 mortars, 60 mortars are delegated to the platoon level, all squad machine guns are replaced with general-purpose machine guns, and the rifles are all new semi-automatic rifles using intermediate power rounds.

At this moment, the 772nd Regiment, in the face of any devil full formation, even the devil wing of the A division regiment in the early days of the war, Cheng Shifa is also confident that he can beat it head-on.

In the future, it is planned that the troops will successively form 50 regiments of the same size.

"Let's go."

With a wave of his hand, Cheng Shifa led his reinforcement group to the direction of Fu'an.

In order to cooperate with the actions of the 772nd Regiment and the Battle of Ping'an County, the rest of the base troops were also dispatched one after another, intending to give the devils a ruthless blow.

In the afternoon of the same day, a fierce battle broke out in Heyuan County, with Heyuan County as the center.

The two wings of the independent regiment were blocked by Yamamoto, and the devils tried to delay the encirclement troops on both flanks by relying on the resistance of the position, but in the two wings of the army with tanks as the vanguard and sufficient artillery support, coupled with the lack of reserves, the devils were just mantis arms blocking the car and retreating.

But relying on human lives can be regarded as slowing down the momentum of the two wings.

On the road leading from Taiyuan to Heyuan County, Yoshino Daisa scattered his wing formation and ordered his troops to be ready for artillery bombardment at any time, and to be ready to deal with the independent regiment at any time.

In the previous encounters, he suffered a big loss in the shelling of the independent regiment.

But instead of the shells, five planes came.

Yoshino Wing had anti-aircraft weapons.

After knowing that the independent regiment had an air force, before departure, Yoshio Shinozuka strengthened the air defense of the wings. However, because the Shanxi garrison had never encountered an air threat before, the entire First Army was searched, and only four Type 98 25mm anti-aircraft guns and ten Type 93 13.2 caliber heavy machine guns were taken out.

And just this bit of weaponry has to be scattered in three wings.

The anti-aircraft fire point of the Yoshino Wing, before a few bullets were fired, was broken into parts by the 30-mm cannon on the attack aircraft.

Without anti-aircraft weapons, the Yoshino Wing could only be bombed in vain, and the steel ball anti-personnel bombs that started with a hundred kilograms made the devils miserable, even if the formation of the wing was very wide, the loss was not small, and as for continuing to advance, don't think about it.

On the other side, the Kasai Wing of the Kwantung Army also saw the incoming 6th tank company and an infantry battalion, and set up positions to prepare for battle.

Seeing that the two flanks could not stop the encirclement, the reserves and supply lines were cut off again, and the planes were bombing the Yoshino Wing, Yamamoto gritted his teeth and launched an attack on the 1st and 2nd Battalions in the afternoon, preparing to forcibly open the road.

In the Fu'an area, the 772nd Regiment also set up a formation and began to attack the Tongpu Railway, in the face of the greatly strengthened 772 Regiment, a new wing left in the Fu'an area was not an opponent at all, and Yoshio Shinozuka had no choice but to mobilize reinforcements from other areas, and the troops in the surrounding base areas also cooperated, delaying the reinforcements of the devils.

Jin Suijun, who had been beaten by the devil before, saw that the devil couldn't free his hand, and he was also gearing up to find the field.

The tide of the battle expanded explosively in an uncontrolled manner.

Suddenly.

The entire northwest of Shanxi, no, it should be said that the whole Shanxi has become a pot of porridge.