Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

After saying this, Riyan Qiexiu began to wander around Guojiazhuang again, looking for traces. Finally, he clapped his hands and said, "There was indeed a troop stationed here recently, and they were stationed here for at least half a month, but they just moved away!"

After hearing this, Zhang Dabiao immediately said, "Madam, I really didn't know they had moved away!"

Riyan Qili Xiu waved his hand: "You did a good job. We found this place, which proves that we are on the right track!"

At this moment, a Japanese soldier ran over and said, "Report, we have found something!"

"Oh? Have you spotted the Eighth Route Army?"

"Your Excellency, Captain, please look!"

After he finished speaking, a Japanese soldier came over carrying a wooden sign.

This wooden sign is about two meters long and more than twenty centimeters wide, with a line of words engraved on it: Headquarters of the New 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

When Zhang Dabiao saw the wooden sign, he was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered what was going on.

This is the wooden plaque hung at the headquarters of the New 1st Regiment. However, after the New 1st Regiment was renamed the Independent Column, this wooden plaque was abandoned. The original plan was to turn the plaque over and engrave the words "Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army Independent Column" on it, but the back was also engraved with words, so it was thrown to the kitchen squad to be burned as firewood.

It is estimated that the soldiers in the kitchen team were reluctant to chop up the wooden sign and burn it as firewood, so they kept it. When they retreated, they forgot to take it away, and it was found by the Japanese!

When Riyan Qiexiu saw the wooden sign, his eyes immediately lit up, and he no longer had any doubts about Zhang Dabiao. "You did a great job! This is indeed the base of the New 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. They fled in such a hurry that they even forgot to take their regimental headquarters sign with them. It's clear that they were in such a panic that they had no choice but to leave!"

Then he immediately said: "Immediately search all suspicious places nearby, don't miss any suspicious spots!"

"Hayi!"

"Immediately notify the surrounding troops to assemble towards Guojiazhuang. The New 1st Regiment is likely hiding nearby. They definitely haven't gotten far!"

"Hayi!"

Riyan Qili Xiu was very excited and felt that he would be able to catch a new group soon.

Zhang Dabiao silently watched as the Japanese troops were sent out one after another and began to search the mountains.

"Search, search, there's nothing on the nearby mountains, just enough to delay for two more days!"

Riyan Qiexiu led the soldiers of his regiment and two infantry battalions that came to support from nearby to conduct a carpet search in Guojiazhuang, but found nothing. The New 1st Regiment had already retreated.

Two days later, Zhang Dabiao had to lead the Japanese again. The next target was Yitiantian, where the New 1st Regiment was once stationed.

"Wasn't that place destroyed by the Imperial Army?"

Hearing that Zhang Dabiao was going to take them to Yitiantian, Riyan Qiexiu couldn't help but frown.

However, Zhang Dabiao smiled and explained, "You don't know, my lady, but we have an old saying here: the most dangerous place is the safest place. You all know that Yixiantian has been destroyed, so you will ignore Yixiantiantian. Maybe the Eighth Route Army is hiding there!"

"Yoshi, what you said makes a lot of sense! You're great, I'm very optimistic about you!"

Chapter 80 Li Yunlong Arrives at Taiyuan

On Heiyun Mountain, Zhang Dabiao had been out for three days, but Zhao Gang and others had not relaxed their vigilance. The entire Heiyun Mountain remained highly alert, ready to fight at any time if they discovered the Japanese and puppet troops.

"It seems that Zhang Dabiao must have succeeded. There are no more devils or puppet troops nearby!"

Zhao Gang put down the telescope and whispered to Old Xing beside him.

Old Xing nodded: "I am more worried about the captain now. He is taking too much risk this time!"

After hearing what Lao Xing said, Zhao Gang nodded. He did not agree with Li Yunlong's plan now, but Li Yunlong was determined to carry it out, and he had no other choice. The radio remained silent, and he could not get in touch with the headquarters. He could only watch Li Yunlong lead his troops to take risks.

"Now we can only hope that Lao Li can return safely. Calculating the time, Lao Li is almost there!"

And at this time in Taiyuan City.

Li Yunlong was wearing a worn cotton-padded jacket and strolling on the streets of Taiyuan City with his hands tucked into his sleeves. Monk Wei and Yu Zhigan were also beside him, looking at some food on the street and wiping their mouths from time to time.

"Tuan, Lao Li, this Taiyuan is an empty city!"

Yu Zhigan said in a low voice while observing his surroundings.

Li Yunlong nodded after hearing this and said, "It is indeed an empty city. I took a look when I entered the city just now. The walls are full of puppet troops, there are few devils, and there are not many people patrolling the streets!"

"Old Li, if the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army were to attack us now, wouldn't they be able to take us down directly?"

Hearing this, Li Yunlong couldn't help but laugh: "Fight? They don't have the guts to do that. And even if they take it, how will they defend the city? Don't forget that there are so many people in the city!"

After hearing this, Monk Wei and others stopped talking and continued to stroll around Taiyuan City with Li Yunlong.

"Old Li, what are you looking at?"

After walking around in circles for several times, Wei Heshang and Yu Zhigan were a little confused. Li Yunlong seemed to be wandering around aimlessly and didn't even look at where the headquarters was.

"Let's see how we can enter the city, how to bring in weapons, how to retreat, and where the Japanese army camps are, and where is suitable for street fighting!"

After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he went into a small alley and began to circle around in the alley.

"Write down all these places! Remember them in your mind, they'll be useful when you get back!"

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong did not act in a hurry. On the first day, he just wandered around Taiyuan City. He wandered around until night, but did not leave Taiyuan City. Instead, he found an alley and hid there.

Around ten o'clock in the evening, a curfew was imposed in Taiyuan City, and Li Yunlong started moving again. This time, he did not wander around, but stayed in an alley near the headquarters of the First Army of the North China Expeditionary Force, staring at the main road outside.

Half an hour later, a patrol team passed through the alley and Li Yunlong wrote down the number of people.

"Monk, go check how far this group of people can patrol. Don't expose yourself!"

"Yes!"

An hour later, the monk followed the patrol back to the alley: "Old Li, they went to the South Gate and exchanged positions with the South Gate garrison. The Japanese soldiers guarding the South Gate have been exchanged back!"

The First Army Headquarters is located in the center of Taiyuan City, about an hour's walk from each city gate.

"Did you encounter any other patrols along the way?"

Monk Wei thought for a moment and said, "We encountered a few black patrol teams, but they weren't many, only about 20 or 30 people!"

Li Yunlong nodded after hearing this and took note of it. The so-called black patrol team was the police in Taiyuan City. The fact that the Japanese even sent out police to patrol at night was enough to show how empty the Japanese city was.

Then, while the patrol team was continuing to change shifts, Li Yunlong went around to an alley on the side of the headquarters and began to observe the defensive deployment in front of the headquarters.

"The Japs are really out of people. They've even started using puppet soldiers to stand guard at the headquarters entrance!"

Li Yunlong observed the First Army Headquarters. There were two fortresses, two machine gun positions, and some roadblocks at the entrance as obstacles blocking the entrance.

The machine gun positions and the fortress were filled with Japanese soldiers, and a group of puppet soldiers were patrolling the gate. More than 20 people were divided into four groups and circled along the wall of the headquarters.

In addition, there are sentries and searchlights on the headquarters wall, constantly exploring the surroundings.

It can be said that the security is quite strict.

If a frontal attack is launched without preparation and without heavy weapons, it will result in a lot of casualties. After all, there is an open space of thirty or forty meters in front of the headquarters without any shelter. The firepower of two machine gun positions and two bunkers can easily suppress the attacking enemy.

Moreover, Li Yunlong had no idea how many troops were inside the headquarters.

"Old Li, should we climb over the wall? Our people are all good at climbing over walls!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "No, we don't know what's behind the wall. There's also barbed wire on the wall, and we don't know if it's an electric fence. What if the Japanese set a trap behind the wall? We can only attack from the front!"

Monk Wei looked at the situation at the headquarters and said with some concern, "We may not have enough manpower!"

Li Yunlong couldn't help but laugh after hearing this and said, "We have to rely on our brains to fight!"

After saying this, Li Yunlong continued to hide in the alley, waiting for the Japanese patrol troops to change shifts.

About forty minutes later, the patrol team arrived at the entrance of the headquarters. After several puppet soldiers removed the roadblocks, the patrol team entered the headquarters, but soon another patrol team came out of the headquarters and began patrolling.

Li Yunlong observed for a night and personally followed the soldiers on duty along their route. He discovered that these soldiers did not change shifts every hour, but every four hours. Each time they changed shifts, they would go to four different gates in the east, south, west and north.

There were about fifty people in one group. All of them were Japanese soldiers and there were no puppet soldiers. Even in the second half of the night, Li Yunlong found that the equipment of these Japanese soldiers who were changing guards was different from that in the first half of the night.

"The Japanese probably don't even have a regiment of troops in Taiyuan City!"

Li Yunlong looked at the group of Japanese soldiers walking past and spoke slowly.

"Not a single wing?"

"Well, you see, the Japanese military police are all out on patrol. If there were extra troops, the Japanese military police would definitely not move!"

The Japanese military police are easy to recognize. Their clothes are different from those of ordinary Japanese soldiers, and each one of them is much taller than ordinary Japanese soldiers.

"Let's go. We'll take action tomorrow night and show the Japanese what a decapitation operation is!"

Looking at the sky that was already turning white in the distance, Li Yunlong, along with Wei Heshang and others, slowly retreated and eventually disappeared into the alley.

Chapter 81 Decapitation operation, get ready!

The next afternoon, the special forces who had been lying in ambush outside the city began to sneak into the city under various identities.

Some are refugees fleeing from outside the city, and some are workers looking for work.

Taiyuan City usually conducts very careful checks on people entering the city, but now there are not enough people, and the Japanese are unwilling to check people entering the city in the cold wind, so the work of checking people entering the city fell into the hands of the puppet army, and the Japanese hid in the sentry post nearby to warm themselves by the fire.

Although these puppet soldiers took over the job reluctantly on the surface, they were actually very happy in their hearts. They could exploit the people entering the city by checking their identities.

If you want to go into the city, you can, but you have to pay!

If you don't pay, you will be asked to take off all your clothes for inspection. In the middle of winter, you will be stripped naked and inspected at the city gate for half an hour. You will be lucky if you don't freeze to death.

After being paid, these puppet soldiers basically turned a blind eye.

So half of Li Yunlong's special forces soldiers easily sneaked into the city, and as agreed, gathered in a deserted courtyard in the south of Taiyuan City.

The remaining soldiers, including Wei Heshang and Yu Zhigan, had disappeared.

The courtyard where they met was not far from the gate of Taiyuan City, only about ten minutes' walk away, and less than two hundred meters from the train station. However, except for the courtyard wall, the entire courtyard had been abandoned and all the houses had collapsed.

This type of house is very common in Taiyuan City. During the Battle of Taiyuan, most of the houses in Taiyuan City were blown down.

"Old Li, what about our weapons?"

Although people came in, the weapons were outside the city.

After hearing this, Li Yunlong whispered, "Don't worry, Monk Wei will give us the weapons tonight. Now everyone, get some rest and we'll act tonight!"

"Yes!"

A group of people found a sheltered corner in the abandoned building, lay down on the ground and began to rest.

Li Yunlong went out again, and when he came back, he had some hot food in his arms.

"Share all this food. When you're full, follow me and get the gun!"