kingnovel Chapter 167 The 8th Route Army begins its harassment
Chapter 167 The 8th Route Army begins its harassment
"The Japanese Fourth Division was very aggressive and quick in the beginning.
But as soon as they arrived in Lan County, they stopped moving and even set up stalls and started doing business in Lan County. "
After hearing this, Li Yunlong and Wu Chang looked at each other in surprise.
What did the Japanese mean by this? Did they not intend to take care of the 39th Division?
Li Yunlong looked at the map again and said, "How far is the Imperial Army's vanguard from the 39th Division?
Also, how far is the mixed rear guard brigade of the Imperial Army from the 39th Division? What is the configuration of these Imperial Army troops? "
Zhang Dabiao said: "These imperial troops are not from Shanxi, they are basically transferred from North China.
The leading 15th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army had three infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, totaling 10,000 people.
They have never suffered any loss at our hands, so they are very arrogant now.
In addition, they have the support of cavalry and they work very hard during the march. Now they are about 30 kilometers away from the main force of the Japanese army.
The 16th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army behind was much slower because it was responsible for escorting Zibo.
So they were about 20 kilometers away from the main force of the Japanese army.
As for the 3rd and 7th Divisions of the Imperial Army, because of the direction of the Fen River.
They are even further away from the Japanese, about fifty kilometers away."
After Zhang Dabiao finished speaking, the words "defeat them one by one" appeared in the eyes of Li Yunlong and Wu Changfeng.
Of course, Li Yunlong only has more than 6,000 troops under his command now.
He was not so arrogant as to think that he could wipe out the more than 70,000 Japanese invaders and traitors in one breath.
Li Yunlong said, "Deputy Commander Wu, what plans does the Gansu Army have this time?"
Wu Changfeng said: "Report to the regiment commander, the Japanese invaders are invading with great force this time.
The commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone ordered a strict defense and not allowed any Kuomintang troops to take the initiative to attack.
Now the First and Second Guerrilla Detachments of the Gansu Army have changed into the uniforms of our Eighth Route Army.
Since yesterday, they have been secretly outflanking the Japanese on the left and right wings."
Li Yunlong said happily: "How many people came this time?"
Wu Changfeng said: "I don't know the details, but I estimate that at least 30,000 people will be mobilized."
Li Yunlong expressed his understanding, because the movements of the Japanese devils in other areas were unclear at the moment.
The Gansu Army's First and Second Guerrilla Detachments will have to leave some men behind to defend the base area, and the entire army will not be mobilized.
Li Yunlong suddenly felt more confident. In his eyes, there was only one Japanese 39th Division.
As for the 50,000 invading Imperial Army, to Li Yunlong, they were no different from 50,000 prisoners.
A bunch of dogs with broken spines, they will become a pile of loose sand if their master doesn't support them.
Li Yunlong smiled at Wu Changfeng and said, "I'm Wu Changfeng. Is our cavalry brigade still there?"
Wu Changfeng said: "They are now in the base.
What's the matter, Captain? Are you going to use them this time?"
Li Yunlong asked again: "Hey, Lao Wu, how many Imperial Army uniforms do we have now?"
Wu Changfeng said: "We should be able to capture more than a thousand sets of uniforms from the Imperial Army...
Are you planning to have them disguise themselves as cavalrymen of the Imperial Army..."
Li Yunlong called Wu Changfeng and Zhang Dabiao over, and the three of them whispered for a long time.
After a while, Wu Changfeng went to the back and asked the telegraph operator of the New 1st Regiment to send a telegram to the Gansu Army Guerrilla Detachment.
At the same time, he also reported his combat intentions to his brigade headquarters.
Now that Wu Changfeng is here, Li Yunlong will not mobilize troops without authorization.
Upon hearing this, the head of the brigade was furious and cursed: "The Gansu Army has already begun to cooperate with Li Yunlong's actions. Why are you notifying me now?"
There is no way, Li Yunlong is very cunning now.
He never mobilized troops without authorization. He only mobilized friendly troops.
I don’t know how Commander Song Wenwan greeted them.
The Gansu Army troops stationed in Shanxi were often available on call at Li Yunlong's request.
Normally, he would command two or three regiments of five to six thousand men in battle.
And what about Li Yunlong?
At the beginning they said that they only had about 3,000 people, but once the battle started, there were often tens of thousands of "Eighth Route Army" rushing forward.
The current brigade chiefs are a little envious of Li Yunlong when they think about it.
I feel that Li Yunlong is much more powerful than the division commander.
It was the same this time. On the surface, it was Li Yunlong's 6,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers against the Japanese army's 80,000 troops.
In fact, he thought that if something went wrong with Li Yunlong.
The more than 80,000 Gansu troops from Shanxi may rush forward to support Li Yunlong.
I don’t know what Song Wenwan is thinking. She actually values Li Yunlong more than herself.
The Eighth Route Army was originally disciplined, but this time Li Yunlong was suspected of executing first and reporting later.
It seems that after this battle is over, I will have to have a good "chat" with him.
There are already signs of forming factions and acting on one's own, which is not a good phenomenon.
Now we are at war, no one will say anything. But when the revolution is victorious, this will be used as evidence against others.
The leaders in the brigade headquarters are unable to deploy any extra troops now.
We can only ask everyone to help guard Li Yunlong's flank so that he can deal with the enemy in front of him with peace of mind.
Inoue Yu was now very proud. As he walked along the way, he burned down countless villages of ordinary people.
It’s just a pity that these villages have long been deserted, so he can’t kill people to vent his anger.
But he was not in a hurry, because all the houses were burned down anyway.
Those ordinary people who hid in the mountains either starved to death or froze to death.
These will become his great achievements and the capital for his success and fame.
At night, he could vaguely hear the sound of gunfire in the tent.
After a while, the combat staff of the division headquarters came in to report the situation to him.
"Reporting to the division commander, the 3rd and 7th divisions of the Imperial Army on the left and right wings have encountered night attacks by the Chinese army."
Inoue Yu said: "What's the situation now? What size of army is on the other side?"
"Reporting to the division commander, they said that the enemy has a force of more than a thousand people.
Most of the weapons used by the enemy were old-style and Hanyang-made rifles, and many were shotguns.
They had very few heavy weapons and clearly insufficient artillery shells.
They only fired three shells intermittently and then stopped shooting.
When the Imperial Army launched a counterattack, they seized nearly thirty Hanyang rifles with exploded barrels.
I found blood on the gun, it seems that the gun was old and caused the gun to explode. "
Inoue Yu picked up a broken Hanyang-made cigarette and looked at it carefully.
"Oh, this Hanyang rifle was manufactured in 1910.
As the legend goes, it was the Tubalu who were doing the work."
"Notify all units of the Imperial Army and have them send out search teams to drive them away.
Drive these Chinese soldiers far away and don’t disturb the rest of the Imperial Army.”
At this time, the Japanese were extremely arrogant and did not take China's combat capability seriously at all.
Otherwise, when they launch subsequent raids, a large number of veterans will retire and return home.