Rise from the sword

Chapter 377 Rewards for destroying the heavy artillery system, ordinary people are the root of the army (compare water)

In December, the weather in Shanxi was freezing, and the mountains and plains were covered with white snow. Even the road from Yangquan, which was responsible for the supply and transportation of devils, to Shouxian County, had accumulated a thick layer of snow.

In this frigid weather, the devil machine repair soldiers naturally did not have to rest, and took care of the several ten-year-old crawler vehicles all night long.

It stands to reason that with the importance of the heavy artillery brigade, especially the 240 heavy artillery, which is the army's largest caliber heavy artillery and a strategic-level weapon, there should have been troops to respond by this time.

But now that the front line is chasing heavily, the five regiments have gone deep into the mountains, cleared the Eighth Route Army's base areas, destroyed fields and houses, etc., the devil's troops are seriously insufficient. With so many troops squeezed out, the rear is naturally empty.

At this time, even Yangquan had only a non-full-strength brigade stationed, and there was no troops to support the heavy artillery brigade, so in the end five hundred devils from the heavy artillery brigade camped in this ice and snow.

It was just past twelve midnight.

"superior."

The second company commander looked up at the sky, and led the soldiers towards the Devil's Heavy Artillery Brigade on the road.

There is no moon tonight, but the clouds are not thick, and occasionally faint starlight can be seen penetrating through the clouds.

Along the way, the soldiers of the second company walked extremely smoothly, even if there was no fire, even if the faint starlight hardly had any lighting effect, even if the road was full of ice and snow.

In the beginning, however, a few fighters fell a few times because of the cold body trembling, but after they started exercising, they all got back up.

This is an area more than ten kilometers away from Shouxian County. As a soldier of the independent regiment, he is naturally familiar with it and cannot be more familiar with it, and he can't go wrong with his eyes closed.

Soon, they came near the devil's camp.

In this weather, coupled with the attack of the large frontline troops, the devils naturally felt that they were extremely safe, and they were all in the tents, even the sentries of the guards were in the stove tent.

"Move fast."

Before the attack, the second company commander repeatedly urged:

"The devil's heavy artillery is divided into three parts, which are transported by three tractors. We have three platoons, one platoon is in charge of one. After we succeed, retreat quickly. As for the devil's machine repair soldiers, they will kill them if they have a chance. If they don't have a chance, forget it."

"Fire platoon pay attention to artillery support."

"Yes."

Each platoon leader answered in response.

"Is the explosives all distributed?"

The second company commander asked the deputy company commander to also serve as the second platoon leader.

"Allotted."

The deputy company commander nodded, and the corners of his eyes twitched at the same time.

He was worried before that he might not be able to cause devastating damage to the Devil's heavy artillery. After all, where is the weight of the Devil's heavy artillery? ability is completely destroyed.

Unexpectedly, his company commander turned his head and dug out a full [-] kilograms of yellow explosives buried underground.

"This guy, he collected more than 60 kilograms of explosives in the defensive battle in a month, so let's focus on the devil's heavy artillery before the battle begins."

The deputy company commander didn't know how to describe his mood at this time.

In the six months since he came to the independent group, what impressed him the most was the subjective initiative of the group.

From the head of the regiment down to every ordinary soldier, they seldom speak, but do what they want to do without hesitation. Use your brain, find ways to complete it, and be very patient.

Many fail, but there are always some success stories.

For example, the previous second bombardment of Taiyuan Airport, such as this time the First Battalion and Second Company reversely attacked the Devils Heavy Artillery Brigade. As the deputy company commander, he also knew the specific combat details after the second bombardment of Taiyuan Airport.

Under the night, the Erlian quietly approached the Devils Heavy Artillery Brigade.

Suddenly, a burst of violent gunshots rang out, accompanied by mortar explosions and grenade explosions... There was a sudden chaos on the highway. Although the captain of the Devils arranged a large number of guard posts, he never expected that there would be Being attacked, he was completely out of control for a while.

About five or six minutes later, three violent explosions rose from the Devils convoy. They were so powerful that they were comparable to super-large-caliber heavy artillery, and the Devils' tractor was almost blown to pieces.

When Erlian was preparing to blow up the cannon, he found a lot of redundant propellant packets. He made a decisive decision and asked the soldiers to add the explosive packets to the explosives and ignite them together.Although the propellant package is not as powerful as explosives, it is not small, and it is full of weight, abruptly increasing the explosive power by more than two times.

As a result, the explosive power was completely destroyed by the heavy artillery, and even the barrel was bent.

After successfully killing the devil's heavy artillery, the second company quickly ran away according to the original plan. With the help of its familiarity with the terrain, it quickly got rid of the devil's pursuit and ran into the mountains without a trace.

It was dark at night, and the devils didn't dare to go deep into the pursuit, so they could only go back to the road and look at the blown-up heavy artillery, wanting to cry without tears.

It took a long time before I realized it, and used the radio to send a telegram to Shinozuka Yoshio who was supervising the battle at the front.

It was already two o'clock when the staff of Yoshio Shinozuka's headquarters received the telegram.

This night, during the 30 days since the attack on Shou County, Yoshio Shinozuka had a good night's sleep for the first time. After being woken up by the staff in the middle of the night, he was so angry that he ignored the 21 on the spot and slapped the staff several times , The staff officer's front teeth fell off, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding.

But the news that followed directly avenged the staff officer.

Hearing that the First Heavy Artillery Brigade was attacked and the heavy artillery was completely blown up, Shinozuka Yoshio just spat out a mouthful of blood.

The 240 heavy artillery is a strategic heavy artillery. It is only equipped in the heavy artillery brigade.

Now destroyed, he's in big trouble.

After that, Yoshio Shinozuka passed out directly.

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at the same time.

Somewhere an unnamed mountain.

The system panel pops up automatically, and the subtitles appear;
"Destroyed a Meiji 45-style 240mm howitzer."

"Reward: Six Bosford L24 mountain guns (modified), bottom row of extended-range shells..."

"In view of the fact that this is the result of independent action, the subjective initiative has been fully utilized, so the reward price is doubled."

"Increased rewards: the full set of technologies of the first generation of big mules, some technologies of the second generation, livestock farm..."

"The Battle of Shou County begins to settle..."

Looking at the panel that popped up from the system, Chen Fan was very satisfied at the beginning, the system was very powerful, and he could replenish as much as he lost, especially the food. Twitching, he finally choked out a sentence:
"At least give me some points."

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Shinozuka Yoshio quickly woke up under the treatment of the military doctor, and he also learned the specific situation. For a while, his heart was full of regrets.

The heavy artillery brigade was destroyed mainly because of his command error.

After breaking through Shou County, he was eager to attack and eliminate Li Yunlong. He forgot to set up a blockade, and forgot to deploy enough troops to protect the heavy artillery brigade, which led to the tragedy.

After learning from the pain, Shinozuka Yoshio gritted his teeth and once again urged the forward troops to launch a dragnet search, trying to find and eliminate Li Yunlong.

Urged by Yoshio Shinozuka to send more than a dozen telegrams a day, the five squadrons of the little devils searched like crazy. Every village and every mountain was searched. The devils burned, killed and looted all the way, doing everything. A large number of ordinary people were forced to retreat and transfer under the leadership of the militia.

A large number of ordinary people were driven out by the devils, and the independent group was forced to fight the devils many times to cover the retreat of the ordinary people.

A few days later···
"madness."

Inside Devils Command, Yamamoto snorted coldly as he read the latest front-line telegram.

Before the heavy artillery brigade was attacked and the heavy artillery was blown up, Yoshio Shinozuka was so angry that he vomited blood. Since then, he had health problems, and the military doctor warned him not to be greatly stimulated. In the past few days, Yamamoto has been responsible for filtering the bad news that is too stimulating.

For now, though, this one is good news.

"General."

"Frontline Battle Report."

Kazuki Yamamoto's tone is still cold and hard, but obviously happy:

"In the past few days, various troops have exchanged fire with Li Yunlong's troops many times during the mopping up period, and many Qi troops have been wiped out. At present, the main force has been driven out of the Zhiping Plain and fled to the northwest of Shanxi."

"Ok?"

Yoshio Shinozuka was a little puzzled for a moment.

A company-level troop of about 100 people is not so easy to find hiding in the mountains, not to mention that Li Yunlong, an independent regiment here, is very familiar with the terrain. Why did they drive the opponent out of the mountain in just three or four days?
Even wiped out many of its troops?
Shou County was blocked for a month. Facing the short time and the results of the battle, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't believe it for a while.

"General, Li Yunlong made a serious mistake, even a fatal mistake."

Yamamoto's tone was full of sarcasm:
"Its troops are highly concealed, and the various regiments have failed to find any gaps in the net search many times. However, during the sweep, according to the order of General Gangcun, the troops carried out a policy of cleaning only the villages."

"In order to cover these people, Li Yunlong's army only transferred the common people, and often fought head-on with the imperial army. Although many old deformed people were rescued, the troops themselves suffered great losses."

"I didn't expect Li Yunlong to be so stupid."

Hearing this news, Shinozuka Yoshio's originally pale face turned rosy with the naked eye.

"Exchanging excellent soldiers for the survival of civilians is simply stupid."

Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't help but sneered and sneered many times, and his tone became more and more neutral.

If he were Li Yunlong, he would definitely distribute simple weapons to the civilians, such as grenades or explosives, and then order the civilians to stop the imperial army with their lives to buy time for the troops to retreat.

"The general is right."

"Li Yunlong made a very wrong, even stupid decision."

Yamamoto echoed:
"and."

"The villages in the Republic of China are all small-scale peasant economies, and they are self-sufficient in food. This time, we destroyed their farmland and destroyed their production. It is foreseeable that they will be seriously short of food next year. At that time, these ordinary people who have been left will become a burden again. .”

"Hundred harms and no benefits."

"Order the troops to pursue quickly, and notify the blockade troops in the plains to strengthen vigilance."

Yoshio Shinozuka felt that his body was completely recovered.

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Just when Yamamoto and Yoshio Shinozuka were happy, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang had already brought their troops to a village in the plain.

"There is a village called Xinzhuang ahead, let's repair it here, guard here for a day, and break out at night."

After a brief discussion, Zhao and Li pointed to the map and made a decision.

After several days of fighting, especially the many times of covering the retreat of the common people, not only did Li Yunlong and his previous troops lose a lot, but when they set off, there were only 180 people left in the Dalian team of 120 people. There are still several seriously wounded, and the soldiers are seriously exhausted, and their marching speed has dropped sharply, so they must find a place to recuperate.

Otherwise, sooner or later the devil will catch up.

After making a decision, the accompanying company quickly made preparations. The soldiers dug simple bunkers, and the cooking team prepared meals.

Fortunately, Xinzhuang is a plain village, and most of the houses are built of bricks and stones. Moreover, they have experienced battles before, and many of the houses were damaged. There are ready-made materials to build bunkers and fortifications.

Just over an hour later, the bunker was erected, and the soldiers also drank the hot mush and tortillas prepared by the cooking class to recover their strength and wait for the devils to catch up.On the bunker, the monk was still touching his two Desert Eagles, while Wang Xikui continued to count his bullet belts.

During the period, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang were discussing the past few days:

"We haven't done enough preparations for the retreat of the common people."

Li Yunlong spoke first, with a wry smile in his tone.

Because of Brother Chen, a large number of victims came in from his base area, and they were resettled in villages in the base area when food was available. Such a large population obviously exceeded the capacity of the grassroots political organizations that had just been established in each village. A lot of trouble.

And, there's another reason...

It has been a long time since the devils have entered the base area of ​​the independent regiment, especially the newcomers, who have never experienced the raids in the base area of ​​the devils. Several alliance devils who came in suddenly had a big problem.

This time the devils also made a deadly move, burning, killing and looting. If it weren't for the cover of the independent regiment soldiers, many murders would have occurred.

"really."

Zhao Gang nodded, his voice full of guilt:

"This is a gross dereliction of duty on my part."

It was Political Commissar Zhao who was responsible for the transfer of common people in the base areas.

"I can blame you for this. There are so many people in the base area suddenly, we have to fight the devils, and you have to take care of the work of the soldiers in the regiment. There is time to investigate village by village."

Li Yunlong's rare discussion topic with earnestness and earnestness.

"I don't know how we lost this time?"

Zhao Gang said.

In order to protect the common people, each company fought the devils head-on many times, and the losses were not small. For example, their company sacrificed nearly one-fifth of the soldiers.

"No matter how much the loss is, the retreat of the common people must be covered."

Li Yunlong's tone was firm:
"The common people are the root of our Eighth Route Army."

　Monday is so busy...
　　Lots of surgeries.

　　Make up [-] characters for Shui Quanqin (I didn’t plan to write the next [-] characters.)
　　There is a half-day holiday tomorrow, you can have more...

　　Sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)