Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

After repeatedly asking about the last location of the North China Expeditionary Army Observation Group, Kazuo Shinozuka asked about the surrounding situation and received some not-so-good news: the Wangjia Town stronghold closest to the North China Expeditionary Army Observation Group was attacked by Chinese troops.

The news of the attack on this stronghold would not be reported to the desk of Kazuo Shinozuka. This kind of thing was very common. In the areas where the Eighth Route Army was active, district squads, county brigades and other local armed forces would harass various devil strongholds every day.

The Japanese were used to it, and there had never been a case of a stronghold being breached by the guerrillas.

What made Shinozuka Kazuo feel that something was wrong was that the Wangjia Town stronghold had also lost contact. It was not until Shinozuka Kazuo received a telegram from his troops about Wangjia Town that he stood up tremblingly.

"Send a telegram to the Matsumoto Battalion immediately and have them search the surrounding area to see if they have found a train!"

Kazuo Shinozuka's voice was trembling when he spoke, and he didn't even care about the relationship between superiors and subordinates. He directly bypassed the division and gave orders directly to a battalion as the commander of the regiment.

"Hayi!"

After receiving the telegram from Shinozuka Kazuo, Matsumoto Jiro was flattered. This was the first time he received a telegram from the headquarters. After reading the content of the telegram, he immediately and resolutely carried out the headquarters' order and asked the puppet troops who set out with the army to enter the Wangjiazhen platform to check the situation.

Dozens of puppet soldiers rushed into the fire scene despite the blaze and brought back the news that there was a burning train on the platform.

"Oh my god, a lot of Japanese soldiers died. These corpses seem to be high-ranking Japanese officers? Is this a lieutenant colonel?"

"I see a colonel here!"

"Don't just stand there, go report to the captain!"

After receiving the news, Matsumoto Jiro didn't believe it at first. He immediately led his men to the train station. After seeing the corpses all over the ground, he immediately reported the news to Shinozuka Kazuo. Shinozuka Kazuo, who was anxiously waiting for information, heard the signalman say that it was a telegram from the Matsumoto Battalion, but he rarely did not walk quickly to the signalman to read the telegram.

Instead, he whispered, "Read it!"

"Hayi!"

The signalman didn't know what was going on, so he raised his voice as much as possible to make himself look better and leave a good impression in front of the general.

"Reporting to General Shinozuka Kazuo, the general is well. Our troops discovered a train at the Wangjiazhen train station that had been attacked and burned by the Chinese guerrillas. It was a military train, with numerous bullet holes in the body. Numerous bodies of Imperial officers were found beside the train. Among them... the railway line from Wangjiazhen to Taiyuan was blown up, and the excavation is about two kilometers long. Our troops are organizing emergency repairs..."

Shinozuka Kazuo could no longer hear the specific content of the telegram, he only heard that a military train was found burning.

"Gulu!"

Kazuo Shinozuka's Adam's apple moved up and down rapidly, his body was shaking and trembling, and then he became unstable and sat down directly on his chair. However, because the chair was some distance away, he only sat partially on it, and the chair slid backwards.

Kazuo Shinozuka sat down directly on the ground.

"General!"

The communicator immediately rushed to Shinozuka Kazuo and tried to help him up.

Shinozuka Kazuo sat on the ground in a daze, muttering to himself, "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Kazuo Shinozuka was well aware that the consequences of the incident with the North China Expeditionary Army Observation Group meant the end of his career. Although the highest rank of that group of people was only major general, the power behind them was terrifyingly great. They were all gilded in the General Staff and would then be transferred back to the headquarters to take up various important positions.

Kazuo Shinozuka just wanted to please them so that they would say something good about him after returning to the base camp, but now he has failed to gain anything and something has happened to them in the First Army's defense zone.

"Send a telegram to the Matsumoto Battalion to immediately pursue the enemy forces that attacked the Wangjia Town stronghold. I want to know who did it!"

"Hayi!"

Kazuo Shinozuka had come to his senses at this time. It was too late to say anything now. He had to find a way to deal with this matter.

"Send a telegram to Yamamoto Ikki, telling him that the North China Expeditionary Force Observation Group has encountered an accident and that he should retreat immediately!"

"Hayi!"

"General, let me help you up!"

Shinozuka Kazuo waved his hand and said, "No need, go generate electricity!"

"Hayi!"

Chapter 47: Chasing, from night to day

After receiving the telegram, Yamamoto Ikki breathed a sigh of relief and ordered a retreat.

But at this time, the rest of the support troops of the New 1st Regiment were rushing towards the field hospital like crazy.

"boom!"

An explosion sounded, and a mortar shell fell on an open ground not far from Yamamoto Ikki. A communications soldier next to Yamamoto Ikki was directly hit by shrapnel and fell to the ground.

Yamamoto Ikki only felt a tingling sensation in his arm. When he turned around, he found that his arm was cut by mortar shrapnel and was bleeding.

"idiot!"

After saying this in a low voice, Yamamoto Ikki continued to move forward, put down the weapon in his hand, bandaged himself, and continued to retreat!

"kill!"

"kill!"

Behind Yamamoto Ikki, the first batch of reinforcements from the New 1st Regiment had caught up, and gunshots rang out again behind him.

"Captain, reinforcements from some unit are catching up!"

After hearing this, Yamamoto Ikki immediately stopped and looked behind him.

"Which Chinese are rushing here to die? Let's teach them a lesson. Let the third squad stay behind to block the reinforcements!"

"Hayi!"

The advantage of Yamamoto's special forces is that they fight in small groups in a dispersed manner, taking advantage of the terrain and firepower to annihilate enemy forces that are several times their own size. If they retreat on their own initiative and the New 1st Regiment dares to chase them, they will be asking for their own deaths.

Now that it is still dark, we can use our firepower advantage to eliminate a group of reinforcements from the new regiment, which can also be regarded as revenge for the Battle of Yangcun.

Soon, a dozen Japanese soldiers from the third squadron of the Yamamoto Special Forces received the order and did not continue to retreat. Instead, they observed the surroundings and simply used the terrain to prepare to eliminate the pursuers behind them.

"Da da da……"

"Da da da……"

The 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion, which was at the forefront, was suddenly hit head-on, and five soldiers were caught off guard and died heroically.

A bullet would fly past the head of the second battalion commander Fang Zheng, and Fang Zheng could clearly hear the sound of the bullet cutting through the air.

"Damn it! Brothers, if you scatter, then just fight like the captain taught us!"

Fang Zheng was unusually calm at this moment. Thinking of the consequences of the Second Battalion's intensive charge against the Japanese special forces that night in Yang Village, he immediately ordered all soldiers to begin the attack according to the three-three system they had trained in daily.

After hearing Fang Zheng's order, the soldiers of the Second Battalion quickly dispersed. Instead of charging in a tight formation, they formed groups of three into an inverted triangle and began to pursue.

"You guys from Group 1, Group 2, will be in charge of the left side, and you guys from Group 1, Group 3, will be in charge of the right side!"

"Watch out for enemy fire points, spread out!"

"attack!"

The soldiers of the Second Battalion spread out in groups of three and began to pursue along the road in front of the field hospital. The soldiers of the Third Squad of the Yamamoto Special Forces, who were responsible for the rearguard action, were still using the terrain to carry out in-fighting.

But they soon discovered something was wrong. The soldiers of the New 1st Regiment, who had originally charged in a swarm, were now standing in a very loose position. When a Japanese soldier pulled the trigger at a soldier from the Second Battalion, a soldier from the side immediately shot at him to suppress his firepower.

"The Chinese troops are spread out too thinly, they're already closing in!"

"Fight and retreat at the same time!"

After taking a look at the surrounding situation, the squad leader of the third squad of the Yamamoto Special Forces immediately ordered a retreat, because the soldiers of the second battalion on the left and right sides had already reached a position parallel to their flanks, and if they continued to fight in this place, they might be surrounded.

However, the Japanese soldiers who were responsible for covering the Yamamoto Special Forces soon discovered something was wrong, because the soldiers of the Second Battalion of the New First Regiment on the side were moving in the mountains at a speed almost as fast as them.

The soldiers of the Second Battalion usually train the hardest in order to avenge the Battle of Yangcun as soon as possible. After encountering the Yamamoto Special Forces today, all the soldiers held their breath and tried their best to bite off the Japanese troops in front of them.

Moreover, the New 1st Regiment had a lot of 400-meter obstacle race training on a daily basis, and the situations they encountered in the mountains were basically what they had encountered during training. In addition, night combat was the Eighth Route Army's strong point, so they were able to easily catch up with the retreating Japanese troops.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Several Japanese soldiers had just found a shelter and were about to launch a counterattack when they heard a burst of gunfire from the side. Three soldiers from the second battalion stood in a V-formation and moved towards them.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Two grenades exploded, and then a soldier from the Second Battalion shouted, "Over here!"

In an instant, two more combat teams launched an attack on the Japanese troops behind them.

As time passed, the sky in the distance began to turn pale, and light began to appear in the dark night. Yamamoto Ikki was now a little breathless and was holding on to a tree as he looked around.

"How's the situation with the third team?"

"Report, currently unable to contact!"

Yamamoto Ikki turned his head and took a look at the defense line of Yitiantian. At this time, he had climbed to a ridge on the side of Yitiantian. Going forward would be the way down the mountain, and he had already left the range of Yitiantian.

"Keep calling!"

Yamamoto Ikki endured the pain and looked at the location of the wound on his body. The bandage had been stained red and blood was still flowing out.

"Captain, may I bandage you?"

Yamamoto Ikki gritted his teeth and nodded: "Let the troops rest for a while and wait for the third team!"

"Hayi!"

Yamamoto Ikki did not think that any accidents would happen to his third team. According to his tactical plan, the third team would definitely be able to fight and retreat and return safely.

"Suck!"

Yamamoto Ikki's arm was seriously injured. When the old bandage was removed, he couldn't help but gasp. There was a wound of more than ten centimeters on his arm, and because he was not treated in time, the bone was visible.

"Captain, this may be painful..."

The Japanese soldier who was about to change Yamamoto Ikki's bandage had just finished speaking when his head suddenly exploded.

A dull gunshot came from behind.

"The devils are here!"

"Flank the enemy! Don't let them escape!"

"Chase!"

The soldiers of the Second Battalion had no intention of letting Yamamoto's Special Forces go. After eliminating the troops left behind by Yamamoto Ikki, they continued to pursue them all the way from dusk till dawn.

Yamamoto Ikki was startled by the sudden attack, but instinctively fell to the ground. Seeing a figure flash below, he immediately ordered: "Prepare for battle!"

In an instant, the remaining forty or so Yamamoto Special Forces soldiers occupied the advantageous terrain on the ridge and began to fight back.

However, there were not many soldiers from the New 1st Regiment in front of the Yamamoto Special Forces. Only two combat teams from the Second Battalion hid behind the bunkers and fired from time to time to contain the Yamamoto Special Forces from the front, while more soldiers from the Second Battalion began to encircle the Yamamoto Special Forces from the side.