Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

Chapter 83 Report: Finding the Main Force of the Eighth Route Army

Although it was late at night, the First Army Headquarters was brightly lit and people were constantly entering and leaving the headquarters room.

Kazuo Shinozuka sat in the chair of the combat command center, listening to reports from all sides.

"Report, telegram from the 14th Division!"

"Read!"

"Reporting to the First Army Headquarters, our troops advanced over twenty miles into the Taihang Mountains today, encountering three small-scale ambushes and killing over seventy enemy troops. We also destroyed seventeen villages providing aid to the Zhina Army!"

After listening to this, Kazuo Shinozuka walked to the front of the map and pushed the flag representing the 14th Division forward.

"Call the 14th Division back and tell them to speed up the encirclement. There's no need to get entangled with the small-scale Eighth Route Army. Find the main force of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible and engage in a decisive battle!"

"Hayi!"

Although Shinozuka Kazuo had a blank expression on his face, he was still a little anxious deep down. Three divisions and three brigades had been sent out for five days, but they had not achieved much success. They had only annihilated a small number of enemies, each numbering only dozens of people.

With nearly 200,000 troops and such a big commotion, there was no result.

The North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters has sent a telegram urging Kazuo Shinozuka to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

After all, with these 200,000 people out every day, the amount of supplies consumed is astronomical, especially since it snowed two days ago and some roads are no longer passable, so the pressure on logistics supply is already very great.

"Telegram from the 80th Regiment!"

"Read!"

Hearing the name of the 80th Regiment, Shinozuka Kazuo's eyes lit up. The 80th Regiment called him two days ago and said they had found the wooden sign of the regimental headquarters left behind by the New 1st Regiment and were trying their best to track down the whereabouts of the New 1st Regiment.

Kazuo Shinozuka immediately ordered them to pursue with all their strength and obey the orders of the headquarters directly.

"Relay telegram to the First Army Headquarters: We have arrived at Yixiantian, but it is deserted. We have discovered traces of the Eighth Route Army. We are preparing to continue our pursuit towards Beiyang Village and other directions in search of any traces of the Eighth Route Army!"

Hearing this, Shinozuka Kazuo frowned, thought for a moment and said, "Are there any troops near Yangcun?"

"Report, part of the 14th Division is near Yangcun!"

"Call the 80th Regiment back. We've dispatched troops to Yangcun. Continue your search centered on Guojia Town. Do not explore in the direction of Yangcun. Be sure to find any trace of the new regiment!"

"Hayi!"

"report!"

"..."

The entire headquarters is centered around the command center, and communicators are constantly coming in and out of the surrounding telegraph rooms to report problems discovered by various troops.

Shinozuka Kazuo drummed his hands on the table, and the confidential secretary beside him whispered, "General, why don't you take a rest first? I'll let you know if there's any important news!"

Kazuo Shinozuka nodded and stood up to leave.

At this moment, a signalman excitedly shouted: "Report, urgent message from the Sixth Division!"

Shinozuka Kazuo, who had just stood up, stopped and said, "Read it!"

"Ha Yi, urgently report to the headquarters from the Sixth Division. Our salient unit, the Kumamoto Regiment, has encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army at Yugufengling. The two sides are engaged in a fierce battle. According to intelligence, the unit encountered by the Kumamoto Regiment is the Independent Regiment, the main force of the Eighth Route Army's 129th Division!"

After hearing this, Shinozuka Kazuo smiled. It had been five days, five days! Finally, his troops had captured the main force of the Eighth Route Army!

Then he quickly found the location of Gufengling on the map.

Although the Japanese army had never entered the Taihang Mountains in large numbers, they were still relatively familiar with the terrain and topography of the Taihang Mountains. After all, before the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese had already sent a large number of personnel to the Qing Dynasty to conduct small-scale terrain surveys.

After the end of the Qing Dynasty, warlords fought each other, and the Japanese sent a large number of intelligence personnel to conduct more detailed topographic surveys, leaving nothing out from the topography to rivers and lakes, and even conducting hydrological monitoring.

At the beginning of the war, the reason why the Japanese were able to achieve victory after victory, in addition to the equipment advantage, another reason was that they had an absolute advantage on the map. Many times, the Japanese knew the small paths that the Kuomintang army did not know!

The Japanese knew the terrain that the Kuomintang army did not know. When the Kuomintang troops moved from one county to another, they had nothing but the direction and approximate distance. However, the Japanese army's map marked in detail how to take this route, how to take alternative routes, which roads and villages they would pass along the way, etc.

This is also the fundamental reason why the National Army troops were often attacked by the Japanese. Many times when the Japanese troops appeared, the National Army did not even know where the Japanese came from.

"Gufengling is located in the central area of ​​Taihang Mountain. We encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army here. It seems that the Eighth Route Army has completely retreated and should be concentrated deep in the Taihang Mountains. In this way, our encirclement of Taihang Mountain can be more..."

Just as Kazuo Shinozuka was preparing to arrange the next battle plan, gunshots were suddenly heard outside the headquarters.

"Da da da……"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"What happened!"

Kazuo Shinozuka suddenly looked up at the door, but no one responded. After waiting for about a minute, a lieutenant colonel hurried into the command room. He was the captain of the military police responsible for the security of the headquarters.

"Report, General, there has been an attack outside the headquarters and a firefight is underway!"

The Taiyuan headquarters was attacked more than once or twice. When Taiyuan was just captured, some people often attacked the Japanese headquarters, but they never posed any threat to the headquarters.

"I understand. You can handle it as you see fit!"

"Hayi!"

The captain of the Japanese gendarmerie did not take the attack seriously. Although Taiyuan City was short of troops, the headquarters still had a squadron of military police, a squadron of Japanese infantry, and some puppet troops for protection.

The situation outside has just been learned from the phone call. They were just attacked by a few people. They should be the anti-Japanese forces hidden in Taiyuan City and they can be wiped out soon.

"Notify the Second Squadron to end the battle as quickly as possible and not disturb the General's rest!"

"Hayi!"

Two minutes ago, outside the headquarters, Yu Zhiqian was holding a pocket watch, staring at the time carefully, waiting for the agreed time to arrive.

Watching the second hand move little by little, when the time came to the agreed time of 2:30, Yu Zhigan raised his gun and pointed it at a soldier standing guard at the entrance of the headquarters.

"Da da da……"

After a volley of bullets was fired, the Japanese soldier on guard was instantly turned into a hornet's nest.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers at the entrance of the headquarters also realized that the headquarters was under attack, and immediately took up their weapons and began to counterattack at the entrance of the alley.

"Da da da……"

The first to open fire was the machine gunner in the bunker at the entrance of the Japanese headquarters, who directly suppressed the fire at the alley entrance.

At the same time, the Japanese soldiers at the door also surrounded the alley from both sides.

Chapter 84 Li Yunlong: Take action!

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

When more than a dozen Japanese soldiers approached the alley entrance, several grenades were thrown into the alley.

The grenades were thrown after the fuse was pulled out and held in the hand for two seconds, giving the Japanese soldiers no time to react at all. Moreover, they were fragmentation grenades used by the Japanese Yamamoto Special Forces, and they were extremely lethal.

In an instant, more than ten Japanese soldiers who were approaching the alley entrance all fell to the ground screaming.

"attack!"

"Outflank them!"

"Don't let the attacker escape!"

Although more than a dozen people were killed or injured, the Japanese did not panic at all. They immediately organized a counterattack. A group of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the headquarters and briefly understood the situation.

He immediately ran to another alley, preparing to take a detour to the flank and cut off the attacker's retreat.

Just when this group of Japanese soldiers entered the alley, three special forces members who had been lying in ambush there pulled the trigger in the narrow alley.

The submachine gun demonstrated its greatest power in the street fighting. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers were shot to death by three submachine guns, like being shot through a candied haws.

After dealing with these devils, the three soldiers did not stay there, but directly climbed over the wall into the courtyard, preparing to change positions and continue looking for devils to shoot.

In just a few minutes of exchange of fire, more than 30 Japanese soldiers in the headquarters were killed or wounded, which made some of them feel scared and began to urge the puppet soldiers around them to go into the alley.

"You are in the front, the Imperial Army will follow you!"

A sergeant immediately gave orders to the puppet army. After hearing the orders, the puppet soldiers could only grit their teeth and move closer to the alley.

At this moment, a dark shadow was suddenly thrown out from the alley. When the group of puppet soldiers saw it, they were immediately frightened and fell to the ground.

"Bang..."

When the black shadow landed, it was not a grenade, but several cans.

The frightened Japanese soldiers lying on the ground could not help but get angry after seeing this: "Baga, attack!"

As soon as the words fell, another black shadow rushed out from the alley, but this time none of the Japanese soldiers or puppet soldiers lay down, but continued to move forward.

"boom!"

"boom!"

The sound of grenade explosions was heard, and several more puppet soldiers and Japanese devils were killed or injured.

At this moment, a figure suddenly jumped out from the alley, pulled the trigger at the Japanese and the puppet army, and after a burst of gunfire, he retreated again. When the Japanese machine gun fired over, the figure had disappeared into the alley.

"Grenade!"

The headquarters was suddenly attacked and the Japanese were also very panicked. In addition, the Japanese in the headquarters were all military police and had no experience in actual combat on the battlefield. They did not react for a while. However, at this time, the Japanese had gradually reacted and no longer charged forward forcefully, but chose to use tactics.

Teams of Japanese soldiers stood at the entrance of the alley, leaning against the wall, and then threw grenades directly into the alley.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

A series of explosions were heard in the alley, and then two Japanese soldiers immediately rushed out from the alley entrance with their guns aimed at the dark alley. Then a Japanese machine gunner immediately set up a machine gun at the alley entrance and aimed at the alley. As long as there was any unusual movement, he would immediately open fire.

"go ahead!"

After occupying the entrance of the alley, the Japanese once again let the puppet soldiers serve as cannon fodder and led the way into the depths of the alley, while they hid behind the puppet soldiers and moved forward little by little along the wall.

They moved little by little, fearing another attack. The Japanese and puppet troops moved very slowly, advancing less than twenty meters in about a minute.

Perhaps because they had walked a distance forward without encountering any attacks, the Japanese and puppet troops breathed a sigh of relief. However, after walking a little further, they came to a fork in the road, and once again, a grenade was thrown out from the fork in the road.