Two p.12.

Fu'an.

A county seat near the Tongpu Railway.

Unlike other county seats, Fu'an has a relatively short history, no strong city walls, and relatively flat terrain, and the devils built several cannon towers around the county and relied on them to establish positions.

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

"Fire."

Cheng Shifa gave the order to attack in high spirits.

With his order, twelve 105 mountain guns and twelve 120 mortars opened fire at the same time, and the muzzles of the twenty-four cannons shone brightly, and a series of explosions and smoke rose from the Fu'an devil's position in the distance.

Half an hour later, the devil's position was already miserable, a large number of fortifications were destroyed, and the ring fortification system was almost useless.

The Fu'an area is stationed in a new wing of the devil, which is inexperienced and weak, and the combat intensity here is low before, although the devil is on the defensive, but the rest of the troops do not have any heavy firepower, so the fortification construction is built according to the standard of 75 mountain artillery.

Suddenly encountered a 105-level heavy artillery bombardment, and it was scattered in an instant.

"Attack."

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, Cheng Shifa ordered the troops to attack from the front, attacking the devil's position, and the three battalions attacked the three artillery towers at the same time.

Although the devils were bombed and the position was almost ineffective, their morale was still stable, and they did not panic, and they planned to rely on the strong turret to carry out defense.

However, the new 105 mountain gun is technologically advanced, and can be used as both howitzers and flat-fire guns.

Boom...

After a few shells, the thick artillery tower, which could withstand the direct fire of the 75 mountain guns, completely collapsed, and the morale of the devils also collapsed and shattered along with the turret.

"Rush."

Wielding the twenty-round shell gun in his hand, Cheng Shifa personally led people to rush forward.

At this time, only two hours after the battle began, the Japanese positions around Fu'an were completely broken, and the stronghold closest to Taiyuan on the Tongpu railway was about to be taken by the troops.

Yoshio Shinozuka had to urgently mobilize troops to support.

But at this time, the entire Tongpu railway strongholds flew like rainflakes to ask for help telegrams.

In the Taiyuan headquarters, Yoshio Shinozuka looked at the piles of telegrams, fell into a stupor, and muttered to himself:

"Tongpu Railway..."

All along, he was nervous about the Zhengtai Line, because there was Li Yunlong there, but what he didn't expect was that he didn't wait for Li Yunlong to make a move on the Zhengtai Line, but waited for the Tongpu Line to be fully attacked.

"General?"

The staff officer waiting for the order couldn't help but urge.

"Order all the garrisons in Shuiyang, Yaxian and other places to attack."

Yoshio Shinozuka gritted his teeth and sent almost all of his troops:

"The Dongchi United team also went to support."

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Heyuan County Airport.

It was just after 4:10 p.m.

Five attack planes, nicknamed 'bomb trucks' by the fighters, fell, and with the creaking of tires as they ran, the five fighters were firmly on the runway almost at the same time.

Opening the bubble-shaped canopy, pilots jumped out of the cockpit and climbed off the plane with the help of soft ladders.

"Energetic."

As soon as he got off the plane, one of the pilots waved his fist to vent the excitement in his heart.

The Yoshino Wing was only 50 kilometers away from the airfield, and the planes did not need 20 minutes from take-off to the front line, and it was very simple to drop bombs, just fly parallel over the devil's position, drop one every 80 meters, and spread it like a carpet.

The Yoshino Wing, lacking a strong position, had no way to avoid it.

As for the devil's anti-aircraft weapons, they have already been killed in the first round, and they are now in the third round of bombing, and the rest of the crooked handles, crutches are like tickling the heavily armored 'bomb trucks'.

After throwing the bomb, he stepped on the accelerator and flew back to land, and the whole process took less than 40 minutes.

"All right."

After the five pilots gathered, the captain asked.

"No problem, you can continue the mission."

The other four shouted.

Although three missions have been carried out, the total mission time is less than two hours.

Moreover, although the 'bomb truck' attack plane has advanced performance, it is actually very easy to fly after mastering it, and this attack does not need to evade the enemy's anti-aircraft fire, and there is no need for high-maneuver flight maneuvers, but only needs to fly over smoothly, drop bombs in parallel, and then fly back.

It's easy!

Five or six more trips won't be a problem.

"Then let's move on."

The captain immediately led the pilots to another hangar.

Where, there are attack planes that have already loaded bombs and refueled at any time.

About twenty minutes later.

"Lie down! Disperse! ”

Accompanied by Yoshino Daisa's miserable howl.

On the highway from Taiyuan to Heyuan County, an attack plane swept by and dropped a series of bombs, which exploded in the air more than 10 meters in the air, and hundreds of thousands of directional steel balls were sprayed in the air at supersonic speeds, stirring up a series of dust on the ground.

"Help me..."

"Mom..."

On the ground, even if the devils dispersed in advance, the formation was also very open, but such a dense rain of steel beads still killed and injured, and wailed everywhere.

Before the devils could respond, another attack plane full of bombs swept by at a low altitude, and more than a dozen bombshells fell one after another, and with the explosion smoke and fireballs, a dense rain of steel balls fell again in the sky.

This was followed by a series of devil wails.

"Yaga..."

Seeing this scene, Yoshino Daisa's eyes were split, and he scolded fiercely:

"Didn't you say that there were less than ten pilots in the Independent Regiment?"

Although the airport was under high martial law, the surrounding area could not be approached, and even the commanding heights that could be seen around were also controlled, but the devil still summed up the intelligence of the independent regiment flight brigade.

The number of pilots is about seven to ten, and the number of planes is about the same.

"Intelligence, that shit."

Yoshino scolded hatefully.

Only seven or ten planes?

Only seven to ten pilots?

In the past two hours or so, he has been attacked 25 times and more than 400 bombs have been dropped. If someone from the intelligence department was in front of him at this time, Yoshino was sure that he would immediately draw his sword and directly help him break the jade.

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Ironstone Ridge.

An important node on the main highway leading from Yu County to Ping'an County and Pan County.

In front of the positions of the first battalion.

A large group of devils spread out and launched an attack.

But at this moment, a 'bomb truck' attack plane passed by at a low speed, and the 30-mm rapid-fire cannon on the wing burst into a series of fireworks, setting off a series of explosions on the ground.

In the face of strafing, the devils lay down and hidden, but there were still three unlucky devils who were broken to pieces on the spot.

The power of a 30-mm cannon is much more terrifying than that of a large-caliber machine gun.

However, after a wave of strafing, the attack aircraft had to return because it ran out of ammunition.

"Offense. Offensive. ”

Seeing the plane fly away, the captain who commanded the attack breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, there was only one plane, but fortunately, with the lessons of the previous Eighth Brigade, he figured out the enemy's air attack pattern, his team was very scattered, and targeted evasion, and he did not suffer much loss from the attack of one plane.

Only the artillery squadron two mountain guns were blown up.

At the urging of the captain, the devils got up one after another, gritted their teeth and launched an attack on the Mashi Ridge in front.

As they got closer and closer to the position of the Independent Regiment, the formation of the devils spread out even more, they were all old devils, and they knew that the firepower of the Independent Regiment was fierce, especially the artillery fire, and it was necessary to cover the stragglers line to the maximum.

But until a kilometer closer to the position, the opponent did not open fire. This lifted the spirits of the devils, their morale increased sharply, and the speed of the charge increased a lot.

At this time, on the Mashiling position in the distance, Zhang Dabiao was making the final pre-war mobilization:

"The hardest battles were at night, trying to save a little ammunition during the day, and 82 mortars and 120 mortars were not out during the day."

"Put the devil close and then fight."

"Rifles, machine guns suppressed devil soldiers, 60 mortars and heavy machine guns suppressed devil grenadiers."

Zhang Dabiao's tone was a little disdainful.

The little devil turned over and over and over that little thing, and he didn't grow at all in a few years, 38 style, crooked handle, 92 style, and finally plus a grenadier cannon, and a few mountain cannons.

Now that the mountain artillery has been killed by the flying team, there is only that little light weapon left, and the devil brigade in front of me is completely here to deliver food.

It was not until it was close to 300 meters that the independent regiment opened fire, and the newly equipped semi-automatic rifles and general-purpose machine guns opened fire together, and a dense rain of bullets shrouded the devil's head, and the devil couldn't lift his head in an instant.

Completely crushed and unable to move.

The little devils were ready to repeat the old trick and use grenadiers to suppress the firing point, but as soon as those devils who used grenadiers appeared, they were eliminated by 60 mortars and large-caliber heavy machine guns, and the devil captain could only twitch the corners of his mouth when he saw this scene.

He has no choice!

There are no infantry artillery, mountain artillery has been eliminated, the number of new mortars is too small, and he is not equipped.

As for the charge.

Being able to become a captain under Yamamoto's hands naturally has real skills, and he can naturally see that the firepower of the group in front of him, he launched a group charge with an infantry brigade, which is to send him to death.

But General Yamamoto's order was to continue the offensive and consume the enemy's strength...

Gritting his teeth, he continued to order his troops to advance forcibly, but five successive waves of attacks were easily repulsed with heavy losses, just as he gathered his troops and prepared to launch the sixth attack.

In the sky, the sound of the engine sounded again, and an attack aircraft flew over.

"Yaga."

"How is it so fast?"

Seeing this scene, the captain of the devil brigade was in danger and hurriedly ordered a retreat:

"Retreat, retreat."

Zhang Dabiao saw that the devil was leaving, and immediately contacted the air pilot to indicate the location of the devil.

The attack planes in the sky shook their wings, immediately lowered their altitude, and dropped steel ball bombs on the devils, and one bomb after another exploded in the air, raining down dense steel ball rain.

Oops...

Seeing this scene, the captain of the devil team realized that he had made a mistake.

Retreating now is tantamount to looking for death.

But he didn't have a chance to regret it, a bomb exploded over his head, and he fell straight down.

At the same time, near Luojiaya, the same plot was also being staged, the attacking devil brigade was first bullied by the plane, and then beaten by the second battalion, and then the plane came again.

"General."

The news of the defeat of the two brigades at the front reached Yamamoto's ears:

"The eleventh and twelfth brigades failed to attack, and a third of them were killed or wounded."

"Go on the offensive."

Yamamoto's tone was silent, without the slightest hesitation.

"Hey."

The staff officer quickly conveyed the order.

Looking at the casualty report in his hand, Yamamoto was silent for a long time.

The Separate Regiment has increased its firepower, is armed with semi-automatic rifles similar to those of the United States, and has been providing air support far more frequently than he expected.

"Hey!"

Finally, Yamamoto sighed deeply.

The garrisons around Ping'an County, facing today's independent regiments, are like the Tuba Road at the beginning of the war facing half of the imperial army, and they have been completely suppressed, and they don't even have the strength to fight back.

The only thing that can be used is human life to fill it.

But the empire is not a republic, and it does not have such abundant human resources.

Other than that. Can roads really be opened at night?

After fighting Li Yunlong for so long, Yamamoto knew very well that although this person was reckless, every time he acted was carefully thought out and fully prepared, since he dared to send troops to cut off the highway between Yuxian Zhipingan County and Pan County, then he must be prepared.

Even if the road is opened at night, what will happen?

What if supplies and reserves can come from Yuxian? He lacks anti-tank weapons, he can't fight or can't fight, no matter how many people there are, it's just that he can resist for a little longer.

After being silent for a long time, Yamamoto's eyes suddenly flashed:

"The troops on both wings continued to block the independent regiment, and the rest of the brigade withdrew into Panxian and Ping'an counties."

After transporting a certain amount of reinforced concrete in the northeast region, Yamamoto not only strengthened the fortifications of Ping'an County, but also strengthened the fortifications of Panxian County, and now both counties are full of reinforced concrete semi-buried bunkers.

Since the loss of Ping'an County and Yu County is already doomed, let's have a street fight.

The complex county town is the most suitable location for destroying tanks and destroying the enemy's living forces.

Up to now, Yamamoto can see that Li Yunlong at this time, if you knock out a hundred of his tanks, he will definitely not feel distressed, but if you destroy one of his soldiers, he may be uncomfortable.

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4:20 p.m.

The Kasai Wing finally fought with the 6th Tank Company and the 3rd Infantry Battalion.

Neither side coerced and went directly to the frontal war.

The independent regiment struck first, and the twelve 105 mountain guns towed by half-track tractors were the first to open fire, although only 14 times the caliber, but the range of the standard grenade also reached a distance of ten kilometers.

Dense shells fell in the formation of the Kasai wing.

As the elite of the Kwantung Army, Kasai fought with the Soviet army, so he was naturally not a straw bag, and immediately ordered the heavy artillery brigade to counterattack, but this hand was in the hands of the commander of the third battalion in charge, and he immediately ordered the remaining six howitzers to aim at the devil's position and fire.

The 35 times diameter 105 howitzer barrel is long, the firing range is longer, and the accuracy is also higher, and the intensive actual combat has allowed the artillery of the independent regiment to grow rapidly, and the artillery of the devil has been suppressed in a short time.

Subsequently, the 6th Tank Company, 30 tanks, and 60 armored vehicles launched a charge, and rushed straight towards the Devil Kasai Wing. At the same time, the reinforced battalion artillery battery, equipped with twelve 120 mortars, as well as the company's 82 mortars, also opened fire.

The dense rain of bullets made Kasai Osa feel one thing deeply.

"Is this really a dirt road?"

He couldn't help but mumble to himself, his tone full of disbelief.

Before coming, he had already made a high estimate of the Separate Regiment.

But as soon as he really came into contact, he felt that his previous estimates were too conservative.

He still underestimated the strength of the Independence Regiment.

According to the reconnaissance, the scale of the group in front of Tubalu was about 3,000 people and more than 300 people, which was 1,000 fewer than his wing.

But this firepower in front of you.

This equipment.

There were more than 3,000 people, 30 tanks, 60 armored vehicles, 30 heavy guns of more than 100 calibers, and many small-caliber mortars.

During the Kasai terror, the two sides had already begun to clash.

Completely suppressed by artillery fire, in the face of the onslaught of thirty tanks, coupled with the machine-gun fire of sixty armored vehicles in the rear, the Kasai wing, which lacked a strong position, almost collapsed at the touch of a button.

Thanks to Kasai's timely response, he quickly retreated and hid in the surrounding mountains, which avoided being hit hard. But the plan to attack Heyuan County was gone.

As for the Devil's Wing from Fu'an, they were also repelled by the blocking force with more powerful artillery fire.

Time continues to pass, and a pot of porridge in Shanxi is already stewed.

Before the next morning.

Four attack planes took off from the Heyuan County airfield and went to support Tieshiling and Luojiaya.

The throttle was pressed to the end, and the pilot arrived at the battlefield half an hour later, when the sky was just dawning, and the bird's-eye view made it easy for him to see the situation below.

In the battlefield full of gunsmoke.

Whether it is Tieshiling or Luojiaya, with the two positions as the center, there are corpses all over the place, the closer you get to the position, the more there are, these have devils, and there are also independent regiment fighters, but devils are the vast majority.

Through the corpses everywhere and the traces of gunsmoke, even pilots who are not familiar with ground combat can imagine last night's battle.

The devils attacked the positions again and again, wave after wave, and the soldiers of the independent regiment resisted stubbornly, and the most dangerous time, the devils even rushed close to the defense line of the independent regiment, but they were still repulsed.

Because at this time, on the position, it is still the banner of the independent map.

At this time, the battle continued.

Seeing the plane, the devils hurriedly retreated, while the fighters of the Independent Regiment on the position gave a cheer, which was a shout of victory.

At the same time, Yamamoto received the situation at the front.

"General, Tieshiling and Luojiaya failed to occupy."

The staff officer bowed his head and reported:

"The right wing of the Independent Regiment is also close to Panxian."

"yes, I see."

Yamamoto, who had been mentally prepared, nodded expressionlessly.

"Also."

The staff officer looked at his general, paused for a moment, and then said:

"Taiyuan telegraphed that Fu'an had been occupied by the guerrillas."

"Nani?"

This news finally shocked Yamamoto again.

Fu'an was occupied, that is to say, the same laying line... Gone! The whole north of Taiyuan, no, the whole north of Shanxi returned to the guerrillas.