Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"..."

"boom!"

When a huge explosion sounded, the walls of Ping'an County began to shake.

Then a soldier from the independent regiment cried out: "Commander, commander, it's bad, the city wall has collapsed!"

"what?"

Yang Wanli looked over and saw that a section of the city wall not far away had collapsed, with a gap about two meters wide blown open by the Japanese.

"Notify headquarters immediately! The city wall has collapsed. Third Company, block it! Don't let a single enemy soldier enter the city!"

"Yes!"

At the same time, after the Japanese blew up the city wall, they immediately shouted: "The city wall has collapsed!"

"attack!"

"Wan Sheng!"

Immediately, the Japanese soldiers holding the explosives ran towards the gap without using their hands or feet.

But he had only taken two steps when he was shot dead by the soldiers who rushed over.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"..."

There were several more explosions, but except for the gap that was just blown open, the rest of the Ping'an County city wall was still quite solid.

At the same time, in the command center, Li Yunlong, who was dozing off in a chair, was awakened by the urgent ringing of the phone.

"Commander, the city wall has been blown down by the Japanese!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong stood up suddenly and asked, "The city wall was blown down? How big was the gap? How many parts collapsed?"

"Report to the commander, there is only one spot at the moment, about two meters wide!"

Hearing this, Li Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief: "Don't panic, tell Yang Wanli to hold the city wall first, reinforcements will be here soon, wait for my order!"

"Yes!"

After saying that, Li Yunlong hung up the phone.

At this moment, the messenger at the door trotted into Li Yunlong's office.

"Report to the commander, the brigade commander is here!"

"The brigade commander is here?"

Li Yunlong immediately stood up and walked towards the door. The brigade commander had already hurried into the command center. When he saw Li Yunlong, he immediately asked, "I just heard that the city wall collapsed. Can Ping'an County still be defended?"

P.S.: This chapter is not about showing how brave the Japanese were, but about being a little closer to reality. After all, the Japanese elite troops still had some combat effectiveness. When the Japanese attacked Taiyuan, they used this method to blow up the city wall! ~

Chapter 140 Ping'an County was broken?

The headquarters of the Japanese 13th Regiment.

"Your Excellency, the Regimental Commander, a telegram from the Division Commander!"

After receiving the telegram, Okabe Michino immediately walked to the front of the map and gestured with his hands at Heian County and its surroundings.

The deputy commander, staff officers and others also gathered around.

"What new orders does the division commander have?"

Okabe Mitsuno directly handed the telegram to the others: "Read it for yourselves!"

After reading the contents of the telegram, the deputy commander and others all frowned. "The Eighth Route Army's reinforcements will arrive tomorrow at noon. Your Excellency, Commander, I suggest that we retreat to Yangquan and wait for reinforcements before launching an attack on Ping'an County."

"I also agree with the deputy commander's suggestion. The Ping'an County Independent Column has fierce firepower and cannot be easily defeated in a short period of time. Our army lacks heavy firepower. Once the Eighth Route Army reinforcements arrive, we will complete the encirclement..."

After hearing this, Okabe Mitsuno thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps we can attack from the center, using our 13th Regiment as bait to attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The division commander can lead the main force of the division to reinforce us, forming a huge encirclement and annihilating the Chinese troops in the encirclement in one fell swoop!"

After hearing what Okabe Michino said, several people looked at each other and thought that the proposal was feasible.

"I will immediately send a telegram to the division commander, informing him of the Central Bloom Plan and requesting tactical guidance from the division!"

Within the 6th Division, after receiving the telegram from Okabe Michino, the division commander Kanda Masatane was also thinking about the feasibility of this plan. At the same time, he reported to Prince Higashikuni Yasuhiko that the 6th Division was now ready to march south to Zhongtiao Mountain, and if the combat mission was to be changed, Prince Higashikuni Yasuhiko's consent would be required.

Listening to Kanda Masatane's account of the 13th Regiment's plan, Prince Guizi immediately laughed and said, "Kanda-kun, Okabe-kun's battle plan is very interesting, but this battle plan can be executed at any time. As long as the Eighth Route Army doesn't abandon Ping'an County, there's no difference between executing it now and executing it after the regular army has eliminated the Zhongtiaoshan branch."

"If we encircle them now, the Eighth Route Army might just abandon Ping'an County. But if we let them occupy Ping'an County for a while longer, they will invest more energy in building and developing Ping'an County. Then we can attack them again and they will not give up easily. Then we can eliminate more of their main forces!"

Kanda Masatane's eyes lit up when he heard what Prince Higashikuni Naruhiko said. "Hayi, Your Highness is wise. I will send a telegram to the 13th Regiment and have them withdraw from the battle immediately."

Okabe Michino was somewhat incredulous when he received the division's reply. Not only did they not agree with his central blossoming plan, they even wanted the 13th Regiment to withdraw from the battle.

Upon seeing this telegram, Okabe Mitsuno slammed his hand on the table in anger. "What is the division commander thinking? This is the best opportunity to wipe out the Eighth Route Army. If we miss it, there will definitely be no better chance than now. Is he worried that his plan will fail?"

"Your Excellency, the Regiment Commander, perhaps the Division Commander and the Headquarters have their own considerations!"

"idiot!"

Okabe Mitsuno couldn't help but curse under his breath, but at this moment, cheers suddenly came from a distance.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

Okabe Mitsuno immediately stood up and asked, "What happened outside?"

"Report, the suicide squad has blown up the city wall of Ping'an County, and the Second Infantry Battalion is launching an attack towards Ping'an County!"

After hearing this, Okabe Michino's eyes lit up immediately. He didn't even bother to put on his military cap and walked out of the command center directly, looking at Ping'an County in the distance. Although it was dark, there were flares in the sky. Looking through the telescope, he could see a gap in the wall of Ping'an County. A group of Japanese soldiers in khaki uniforms were rushing into Ping'an County like locusts.

"Send a telegram to the division immediately. We have successfully blown open the walls of Ping'an County and are launching a final assault on the county. We will capture Ping'an County before the Eighth Route Army reinforcements arrive tomorrow!"

"Hayi!"

At this time, in Li Yunlong's command center.

"Report, the Second Battalion has blocked the gap and failed to allow the Japanese to gain a foothold in the city!"

Although the brigade commander was anxious at this time, he stood aside and did not interfere with Li Yunlong's command. He just watched Li Yunlong formulate a battle plan.

"Inform Shen Quan, the Second Battalion will open a gap to allow some of the Japanese to enter the city. Remember, we cannot let the Japanese penetrate more than 100 meters!"

"Yes!"

"Oh, right, tell Shen Quan to retreat step by step to consume the enemy's manpower. Explain to the soldiers that this is a tactic. Don't retreat all at once, lest the news be misrepresented and cause a rout!"

"Yes!"

After the messenger left, the brigade commander finally spoke: "Aren't you afraid of getting into trouble? There are two Japanese infantry battalions outside!"

Li Yunlong immediately smiled and said, "We still have the brigade commander here. Your battalion is like timely help. With this battalion here, Ping'an County will not be lost!"

After hearing this, the brigade commander immediately pointed at Li Yunlong and said, "You kid!"

After he finished speaking, he immediately said seriously: "What exactly are you planning?"

"I want to let the Japs take the initiative to implement the refueling tactic. My original plan was to retreat tomorrow morning and let the Japs enter the city. This would make their bombers afraid to bomb recklessly. However, I didn't expect the Japs to actually organize a suicide squad and blow a gap!"

"Add fuel to the fire tactics? You want to eat up this entire regiment of the Japanese?"

Li Yunlong nodded vigorously and said, "Yes, don't let any of them go!"

"The Japanese have a cavalry regiment in Yangquan. If the 13th Regiment gets into trouble, they will definitely come to support us. Do you have any way to deal with it?"

"Don't you, Brigade Commander, help me? The 772nd and 771st Regiments just need to help me stop them. Give me one day, and I'll wipe out the Japanese 13th Regiment!"

The brigade commander looked at Li Yunlong, walked to the front of the map, looked at it carefully, and said, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, please rest assured, Commander. We will completely wipe out the Japanese 13th Regiment before sunset tomorrow!"

"Okay, I trust you. I'll leave this guard battalion to you!"

"Thank you, Brigade Commander!"

At this time, a gap was blown open in Ping'an County.

The Japanese Second Infantry Battalion launched a desperate charge towards the gap, while the engineering company behind them was also desperately digging trenches towards the gap.

In addition, some Japanese soldiers were also using explosive packs to continuously blow up the gap. The original two-meter-wide gap is now about five meters wide, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers can rush in at the same time.

"Onboard!"

Several Japanese soldiers rushed out from the gap, but they were faced with a burst of machine gun fire.

In an instant, these Japanese soldiers were killed, but more Japanese soldiers rushed up from behind, and this happened repeatedly.

The battle for the gap lasted until about two in the morning. Seeing that they could not gain a foothold in the city, the Japanese mobilized a dozen death squads to blow up the gate of Ping'an County. It was not until this time that the Second Battalion retreated while fighting and gave up some areas near the north gate of Ping'an County.

Chapter 141 Elite? We are fighting against the elite!

After a night of bloody fighting, when the sun rose again, the gunshots that had echoed throughout Ping'an County all night gradually subsided.

The earth began to revive, and the land shrouded in darkness gradually became clear.

"Quack! Quack!"

Outside Ping'an County, the cries of several crows were heard. In the sky, flocks of crows were circling, occasionally landing to eat a few bites of food before flying away again.

Two five- to six-meter-wide gaps had been blown open in the northern wall of Ping'an County, and the city gate had disappeared. The wall was similar in color to the Japanese army uniforms, but upon closer inspection, one could see a large number of corpses at these broken spots and the city gate.

Some Japanese soldiers who were not yet dead let out screams.

"Mama-san, I want to go home!"

"help me……"

The bodies of the Japanese soldiers stretched from two hundred meters outside the city to the bottom of the city wall, and the gap that was blown open first was piled with corpses that were almost as high as the city wall.

The ground was dyed red by the blood of the devils. Next to these corpses, the devil soldiers lowered their heads and walked forward silently, stepping on the corpses one by one, and successfully crossed the gap that was blown open and entered Ping'an County.

At the entrance of Ping'an County, although the city gate has disappeared, one can see that the corpses of Japanese soldiers have been piled up to form a new city gate. The Japanese soldiers who arrived later looked at the piled corpses in front of them, stepped on the corpses to find a way, and finally jumped down into the city.

The other gap was blown open at four in the morning, so there were not many bodies. It was also the main route for the Japanese soldiers to enter Ping'an County.

After a night of fierce fighting, there were less than 400 soldiers left in the Japanese Second Infantry Battalion. They barely managed to gain a foothold in the city and took control of some houses as shelters.