Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"Yes!" Ding Chengye saluted with some excitement. Ding Chengye was originally the company commander of the second company of the third battalion. He performed outstandingly in this battle and was directly promoted from company commander to detachment leader, that is, battalion commander, a promotion of two levels in a row.

"Sixth Detachment, your base is in the Hongyanling area. Your mission is to find a way to open up the road from Hongyanling to Heishan. The situation there is somewhat complicated. It is located at the junction of the Shanxi and Hebei regions. Be prepared to communicate with the deputy commander at any time. You can't force anything. First, establish roots and then grow step by step. Do you understand?"

"Yes!" Yi Zhixin sat down without changing his expression after hearing this.

Yi Zhixin is Zhang Dabiao's deputy battalion commander. Because of the influence of Li Yunlong, Zhang Dabiao is more impulsive in doing things, but Yi Zhixin has always been like a stabilizing force and is stable enough, so Li Yunlong gave the task of opening up Chahar and Hebei to Yi Zhixin.

"Seventh Detachment, Eighth Detachment! Your mission is to enter the Jingxing area. You have only one task: eliminate the strongholds surrounding the Jingxing mining area, understand the situation in the Jingxing mining area, and prepare for the subsequent large-scale attack on the Jingxing mining area!"

"Yes!"

Tang Wenguang and Tian Xinrong are the commanders of the 7th and 8th detachments. Tian Xinrong is the deputy battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion and Shen Quan's deputy. Tian Xinrong is the deputy battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion. Both of them have good abilities, so this time Li Yunlong directly promoted them to commanders.

"Ninth Detachment, your mission is to station at Majiachuan as a stronghold, expand westward, and ensure smooth communication between our unit and headquarters!"

"Yes!" Wang Wenbai saluted and sat down. Wang Wenbai was Li Yunlong's former staff officer. He was appointed as the commander of the 9th detachment because of his meritorious service in the Ping'an County battle.

"The Tenth Detachment!"

Li Yunlong turned his gaze to the last place, Cangyan Mountain, located east of Ping'an County.

"Your mission is to station at Cangyan Mountain and pay attention to the movements of the Japanese invaders in northern Hebei. You can cooperate with Deputy Commander Che to develop towards the northern Hebei region!"

"Yes!" The commander of the 10th detachment was Hong Mingliang, who was formerly a company commander of the 1st battalion. During this battle, he killed a lieutenant colonel and a major of the Japanese army, who were promoted by Li Yunlong to the commander of the 10th detachment.

"Eleventh and Twelfth Detachments, your sphere of activity will remain primarily within the Ninth Column area. Except for large-scale engagements, you may make your own decisions!"

After hearing this, Lao Che and Lao Liu immediately stood up and said, "Thank you, Commander!"

"The defense zones have been divided for you. Here are the numbers for each of your detachments. Excluding the 11th and 12th detachments, I'll give you 100 veterans and 300 new recruits for the remaining units. One veteran will lead three new recruits. Once you arrive at the defense zones, it's up to you to decide how many troops you can recruit, but I want you to be combat-ready within three months!"

Li Yunlong glanced at the crowd in front of him and said, "The Japanese are planning the Zhongtiaoshan Campaign, which is expected to begin at the end of next month or early May. The battle may last for about a month. After the battle, the Japanese will rest for two months and will definitely launch a large-scale revenge against us. We only have so much time left. I want you to train all the soldiers in these three months!"

"If you're short on weapons, come to me. If you're low on ammunition, come to me. I have only one request of you: in three months, I want to see a fighting force!"

Everyone's eyes lit up after hearing this. Li Yunlong's implication was that within the next three months, they could develop independently, and the headquarters would also provide supplies of weapons and ammunition.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"Very good, Lao Zhao, you will be assigned to be the instructor of each detachment in the future. Don't fall behind in ideological work!"

"Row!"

Zhao Gang nodded, stood up and began to introduce the fifteen outstanding graduates of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University brought by Ding Wei yesterday.

Each detachment is equipped with an instructor, including one for the 11th and 12th detachments.

Then one person was assigned to the cavalry battalion directly under the column headquarters, the artillery battalion and the recruit battalion, and all fifteen people were assigned.

This number of people is not enough at all. Zhao Gang originally planned to keep two people to work in his political department, but after the allocation, he found that it was not enough at all. The instructor of the guard battalion also needed to be transferred from the political department.

"The appointments and defense zones have been assigned. Everyone, go and rest. After you collect your weapons and ammunition from the logistics department tomorrow, you will each head to your respective defense zones! Dismissed!"

After a group of people left, Sun Desheng did not leave. Instead, he looked at Li Yunlong and wanted to speak but didn't know how.

"Unhappy with the appointment?"

Li Yunlong sat directly next to Sun Desheng and took out a pack of cigarettes. After seeing this, Sun Desheng also wanted to reach out and take one.

"You're not well yet, so you can't smoke. It will affect the healing of your wound. I'll give you a pack when you're better."

"Commander, I'm not dissatisfied, but I want to go to the battlefield and kill the devils!"

"One year, one year. If you can train qualified new recruits for me, I will let you be the commander of the cavalry battalion again!"

Hearing this, Sun Desheng's eyes lit up: "Really?"

"When have I ever lied?"

"Alright, Commander, I'll be leaving first. Don't worry, Commander, I promise to train all the new recruits until they scream!"

"Go ahead and heal your wound first!"

"Don't worry, Commander. My injury has healed, but the doctor won't let me remove the gauze!"

"Get out of here, listen to the doctor!"

As soon as Sun Desheng left, Zhao Gang trotted into the command center and said happily, "Old Li, Old Li, there's another group of students outside. This is the fifth wave of students today, and many of them came from the Magic City!"

"Demon City? How did they get here from so far away?"

Li Yunlong couldn't help but be shocked.

"We've suffered a lot along the way. There are at least a hundred people holding newspapers about you!"

"Hiss, so many?"

When Li Yunlong first read the newspaper, he didn't think anything of it. He didn't expect it to have such a great influence that so many people would come all the way to Ping'an County to join him.

"These are all treasures, let's go and take a look!"

Chapter 167 The dog bowl in the village during the New Year is about to explode

The next day, Ping'an County.

Monk Wei hid in a cat-ear cave outside Ping'an County, sticking his head out and looking at the sky, like a field mouse in the field preparing to go out to find food. He looked at his confiscated watch and realized that the time had come but he didn't see the Japanese plane. He couldn't help but look back.

"Commander, the Japanese planes didn't come today!"

Li Yunlong rolled his eyes at Monk Wei in anger and said, "You're just a village dog bowl during the New Year, asking for trouble! You're complaining about the Japanese planes not coming!"

Monk Wei touched his head sheepishly and said, "Commander, I'm not used to being bombed. I can't sleep if I don't hear the sound of bombs dropped by the Japanese planes!"

"Since the Japanese planes aren't coming, we should get back to work and continue building our monument!"

"Ah, we're still repairing it. Wasn't it bombed by the Japanese two days ago? Commander, why don't you just forget about it? Even if the Japanese planes don't come every day, if they come every few days, we won't be able to repair it!"

After Ping'an County was liberated by Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong decided to build a monument in the center of Ping'an County to commemorate the soldiers who died in the battle of Ping'an County and the heroes who sacrificed their lives to fight against Japan.

The Japanese have not been defeated yet, and building a monument under their noses sounds like a fantasy, but Li Yunlong is not the first person to do this. Shancheng started building a monument last year, which is the landmark building of Shancheng in later generations.

Next year, a monument will be built on Langya Mountain, facing Baoding to mock the Japanese invaders. At the same time, a monument will be built on the Anti-Japanese Mountain in Ganyu, Lianyungang in July next year. To be precise, the mountain is not called Anti-Japanese Mountain now, and it will be renamed Anti-Japanese Mountain after the monument is built.

Before traveling through time, Li Yunlong was from Lianyungang. He had gone to pay tribute to the deceased when he was a child and after graduation. At first, he thought it was a bit ridiculous. After all, the Japanese invaders had not been driven away yet, but they were building a monument. Moreover, it was built under the noses of the Japanese invaders, and it was often destroyed by the Japanese invaders. It was a waste of a lot of manpower and material resources and was meaningless.

But with his gradual understanding and experience after the time travel, Li Yunlong immediately understood why these monuments were built.

What is being built is not a monument, but a belief, a persistence, and an indomitable faith.

It's like the monument in the mountain city, which was repeatedly bombed by the Japanese. The more the Japanese bombed, the more actively the people participated in its construction. This invisibly strengthened the people's faith and made everyone believe that victory would be achieved in the end.

This was true for the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain, the Anti-Japanese War Mountain in Lianyungang, and even more so for the Ping'an County Monument built by Li Yunlong.

The monument was built here to let everyone see that Li Yunlong was determined to win and to defend Ping'an County.

Even if they were bombed by the Japanese every day during construction, even if they would be destroyed, they would continue to build as soon as the Japanese planes left. They were indomitable, just like the people on this land of China. Even after going through hardships, they would eventually stand up and continue to move forward.

"Just take me with you to repair it, what are you talking about? If you say one more word, you won't be allowed to drink a single drop of alcohol this month!"

Monk Wei scratched his head, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"

After Monk Wei left, Xing Zhiguo looked at the distant horizon and said, "That's strange! Why didn't the Japanese send any planes today?"

“…”Another one who belongs to the dog bowl.

Seeing Li Yunlong rolling his eyes at him, Xing Zhiguo immediately said with a smile: "Old Li, the stuff has arrived!"

"arrive?"

"Yes, they're all hidden in our cave. Three 105mm heavy guns, rounds of ammunition, six mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, and some ammunition..."

After hearing this, Li Yunlong's eyes lit up. With the addition of these two, he now had a total of five 105mm heavy guns, which was enough to form a heavy artillery battalion. With the addition of these six Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns, an anti-aircraft artillery company could also be formed.

Moreover, this is a 20mm anti-aircraft gun. If it is placed flat during an ambush, it can tear apart any Japanese tank or anything else.

"It's a lot of money, isn't it?"

"Over three hundred thousand dollars. We gave away most of our wealth. Since the money wasn't enough, we paid with small yellow croaker."

Old Xing felt a little sad. Part of the more than 300,000 oceans were seized in Ping'an County, and the rest were stripped from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers from the 13th Regiment.

In those days, the Japanese were robbing everywhere, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of atrocities. Most of the time, they would carry the valuables they robbed with them, and then write down their hometown address and ask people they were close to to hide the valuables in their ashes and mail them to their homes after they died.

As for why they carried it with them, it was entirely because of the fine tradition of the Japanese devils. The Japanese devils burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil outside, which was enough to show that the military discipline of this unit was very corrupt. The military discipline within their ranks was also very poor, with theft being rampant. There was even a case where a Japanese recruit had all his belongings stolen except for his uniform as soon as he arrived at the unit.

Divisions would throw telephone lines, electric wires, motorcycles, trucks, etc. to each other. Some Japanese troops had to hang or spray "XXX unit exclusive" on the electric wires and various military supplies.

In addition, it was common for various troops to steal war horses, supplies, weapons and ammunition. After the Battle of Wuhan, Okamura Neiji's troops stole a lot of war horses from the 6th Division. At that time, the commander of the 6th Division, Inaba Shiro, even scolded Okamura Neiji as a horse thief.

This is true for the upper class, and even more so for the lower-level soldiers. When the Japanese troops first went out to fight, they would not carry valuables with them, but would keep them in the barracks. Then, these Japanese soldiers discovered that when they went out to fight, the valuables in their barracks disappeared, so they started to carry them with them to prevent them from being stolen.

In addition, when the Japanese army mailed valuables, they were often stolen by their own personnel. Many valuables that the Japanese army mailed back home were not received by their families. Later, when the Japanese army was short of supplies, they simply confiscated the spoils that these low-level soldiers mailed back home. As a result, a profession was born in the Japanese army: the wounded soldier courier.

When a Japanese soldier was injured and lost his combat effectiveness, he would be sent back to his country. At this time, a group of people would entrust the spoils to him and let him take them home. They would also give these wounded soldiers a generous reward.

Later, some Japanese soldiers were deliberately injured in order to make money. The Japanese army began to check the belongings of these wounded soldiers when they returned home, so the Japanese soldiers began to carry valuables back home in urns.

Do you really think the Japanese soldiers took their comrades' urns back home because they were friends? It wasn't like that at all. They simply used the urns to store valuables. Without this layer of protection, the valuables these low-level Japanese soldiers had looted would never have been delivered to their families back home. After layers of embezzlement and exploitation, if even one gram of gold out of a hundred grams reached their families, it would have been considered a sign of the Japanese logistics department's conscience.

"With so much money, I wonder if Commander Wang will live long enough to spend it!"

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes slightly, and Xing Zhiguo immediately knew that Li Yunlong was going to do something bad.

"Old Li, these are friendly troops, you can't act recklessly."

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. We are regular soldiers, not bandits. I would never do something like robbing people on the road."

Li Yunlong patted Lao Xing's shoulder and said with a smile.

That night, Yu Zhigan and a dozen guards around Li Yunlong disappeared from the base, saying they were going home to visit their families.

Chapter 168 Black Cloud Mountain Telegram, Success

"Old Li, more than 300 people have arrived today, some of them are from the mountain city!"

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"Lao Li, Lao Li, good news! More than 200 people and 40 students came today, and several of them came from Guangdong Province."

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"Lao Li, Lao Li, guess how many people are here today? There are more than 200 people, including patriotic overseas Chinese who have returned from abroad to join you. Great job, Lao Li, your reputation has spread beyond the borders of the world now!"

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