I rise from the sword

Chapter 325 Intercepting the Devil's Airdrop

Hearing the order of the battalion commander Zhang Dabiao, the soldiers of the first battalion set up their machine guns and pulled the triggers.

Even the riflemen did not dare to lag behind, pulling the bolts of their guns and firing.

"Da da da! Da da da da!——"

"Crack, clap clap!—"

Intense gunfire exploded like beans.

The dense bullets immediately chased towards the devil's three transport planes like a torrential rain.

"Boom!"

"Bobo bobo—"

At that time, in order to accurately place ammunition supplies on the hills on the west side, the Devil Air Force deliberately lowered the height, and the vertical height from the hills was only more than 100 meters.

At this time, they had just passed the top of the mountain, so some bullets still caught up and hit the transport plane, making a dull impact sound.

However, since they did not hit important parts, these bullets only left a few marks on the transport plane and did not cause any substantial damage to it.

"idiot!"

The devil aviation soldier on the left seemed to hear some crashing sound, and then turned his gaze to the mirror of the plane, and then saw the continuous ringing and flashing of gunfire on the hill behind.

Instead, with a gloomy face, he said angrily: "The idiots of the Yamazaki Brigade, what are they doing, why are they firing at us?"

Shigeno Ikeda heard the voice from the radio. He didn't think that the Yamazaki Brigade would be stupid enough to open fire on him, and he didn't know that it was not the Yamazaki Brigade but Li Yunlong's [-]st Battalion of the Independent Regiment that was guarding the hill on the west side.

So he explained with a smile: "Takeshita-san, this should be the Yamazaki brigade expressing gratitude to us."

The devil aviation soldier who just spoke was immediately relieved when he heard what Ikeda said, but he still said with some dissatisfaction: "The guys from the Yamazaki Brigade are really stupid, they just got the supplies we airdropped, and they are so wasted. "

The Devil Aviation Soldier controlling the wingman on the right smiled and said, "Takeshita-san, it must be that the Yamazaki Brigade was overjoyed after being rescued from desperation. It needs to be vented."

"What does it mean to vent to the Chinese people?"

"Isn't it because we don't know that they are thanking us?"

……

Taiyuan Shanxi.

Japanese First Army Command.

Commander Shinozuka Yoshio paid special attention to this battle between the Yamazaki Battalion and the Eighth Route Army.

Because, it's fine that he didn't take the initiative to launch an attack on the Eighth Route Army, but the other party actually did something on the Zhengtai line.

Not only did they wreak havoc on railways, roads, and bridges, but they also attacked multiple military strongholds.

This can't help but annoy him.

The most important thing is that what happened in his occupied area has made the front army headquarters and even the base camp dissatisfied with him.

He even began to doubt his military ability.

Some of his political enemies have made a comeback this time after a failed attack on him in the Wenshuiguan incident.

If it weren't for his outstanding military exploits before and the fact that there are people above him, the position of the commander of the First Army might not be guaranteed.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army could only act like a coward, hiding in the mountains and fighting guerrillas, and did not dare to face his troops head-on.

Now dare to take the initiative to attack!

Shame, this is definitely a huge shame for him!

But this time, the Yamazaki Brigade entered the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army's controlled area by mistake, and was heavily surrounded by its main force.

This gave Yoshio Shinozuka hope, and severely damaged the hope of the main force of the Eighth Route Army!

Otherwise, he would not have dispatched so many troops to reinforce the Yamazaki Brigade.

at this time.

A communications staff officer on duty suddenly rushed in from the outside. After a respectful pause to Yoshio Shinozuka, he reported: "Report to Your Excellency, Commander, the Yamazaki Battalion is urgent!"

Yoshio Shinozuka didn't notice the abnormal expression on the other party's face, and asked with a smile: "Oh, has the Yamazaki Battalion received the supplies dropped by the aviation soldiers?"

Without waiting for the other party's answer, the old devil asked himself and answered: "It should be like this. After counting the time, the Royal Air Force has already arrived in the sky above Lijiapo!"

The devil's communication staff officer said with an ugly face: "Your Excellency, no, it was the supplies airdropped by the Royal Air Force, which were intercepted by the Eighth Route Army of China."

Hearing this, Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly showed a puzzled expression, and even suspected that there was something wrong with his ears and he heard it wrong.

He asked uncertainly, "What did you say?"

"Your Excellency, Commander, the supplies airdropped by the Air Force were intercepted by the Eighth Route Army of China!"

The devil's communications staff could only answer truthfully, and then hung his head down, not daring to look directly at Yoshio Shinozuka's almost cannibalistic eyes.

Immediately afterwards, the devil's communication staff handed the translated telegram to Shinozuka Yoshio.

This time, Shinozuka Yoshio finally heard what his subordinates said clearly, his old face suddenly turned purple, uglier than eating a few catties of poop.

"Baga! Idiots, what a bunch of incompetent idiots!"

Yoshio Shinozuka read the telegram in his hand, and then punched heavily on the desk in front of him.

"Oh!"

Shinozuka Yoshio struck out angrily. This punch almost exhausted all his strength. With the huge reaction force, the pen, ink, document, water glass, and telephone on the desktop were all bounced off the table, and then fell to the ground in a blur.

The Chief of Staff Miyano Toshi next to him waited for a while, and when Yoshio Shinozuka's breathing stabilized, he asked cautiously, "Your Excellency, what's going on? Even if the materials cannot be accurately placed at one point, the error will never exceed 100 meters.

How did the Eighth Route Army of China intercept these materials? "

Yoshio Shinozuka didn't speak, but handed over the message that was almost crushed in his hand.

Miyano Toshi took the telegram and looked at it, his face turned ugly immediately.

Still, life must go on.

As the Chief of Staff of the First Army, Jun Miyano obviously couldn't act emotionally, he just had to solve the problem.

So he comforted: "Your Excellency, Commander, it seems that we cannot blame the Yamazaki Brigade and the Flying Brigade!"

"Ok!"

Shinozuka Yoshio nodded approvingly, and then said bitterly: "These Chinese people are really insidious, they actually came up with such a way! Originally, I thought Yang Lin was already difficult enough, but I didn't expect This Li Yunlong is also so difficult to deal with!"

Miyano Jun said again: "Your Excellency, Commander, it will be dark in less than an hour, and it is unrealistic to send out aviation to provide tactical guidance and supplies to the Yamazaki Battalion.

What should we do now, should we abandon the previous plan, abandon the Yamazaki Brigade, or let him break through! "

Yoshio Shinozuka's face darkened again, and he flatly refused: "No! Continue to implement the plan! Immediately call back the Yamazaki brigade and tell Yamazaki Zhihei that no matter what, we must stick to our position! The reinforcements are on their way!"

"Also, send power to the 29th Brigade, the [-]th Independent Mixed Brigade, and other departments, and tell them to speed up and travel day and night, and must go to Lijiapo before the Yamazaki Brigade's position is lost!"

"Hi Yi!"

Toshi Miyano paused, wrote down what Yoshio Shinozuka said one by one, and went to the confidential department in person.

……

Let's talk about Li Jiapo's side.

Seeing that the devils airdropped all the supplies to the position of the first battalion without any mistakes, Li Yunlong completely forgot that he was strafed and bombed by the devils' air force before, and took the lead to run towards the high ground on the hill on the west side.

They can't wait to see what's in those airdrops.

"Head, Head Yang, Head Kong, Head Chu!"

The first battalion commander Zhang Dabiao, who was dismantling the airdrop, saw Li Yunlong and others, and immediately turned to meet them.

Li Yunlong nodded, then pouted his lips and asked, "Zhang Dabiao, what did the little devils airdrop for us?"

Zhang Dabiao replied truthfully: "Reporting commander, the materials that the little devil airdropped include light and heavy machine guns, mortars, shells and bullets, as well as some food and drink, canned food and so on."

"Damn it, these little devils are really extravagant. What time is it? They still want to eat canned meat! But now it's better, it's cheaper for me! Hahaha!"

A chrysanthemum-like smile bloomed on Li Yunlong's face, like a groom who is about to enter the bridal chamber.

Then strode forward...

Lijiapo, this side of the Yamazaki Battalion.

Yamazaki Zhihei has received a call back from Shinozuka Yoshio from Taiyuan.

Although Yoshio Shinozuka said in the telegram that the reinforcements were on their way, but Haruhira Yamazaki knew that he was abandoned by Yoshio Shinozuka.

Otherwise, Shinozuka Yoshio should let him choose an opportunity to break out of the siege when he is holding his ground, instead of sticking to his position and not saying a word about the breakout.

Shinozuka Yoshio, this is to use you and his Yamazaki Brigade as a bait to attract the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and then destroy it in one fell swoop!
However, Yamazaki Zhihei had long been prepared to serve the emperor and the empire, so he was not dissatisfied with Shinozuka Yoshio's indifference.

Instead, he felt grateful to the other party for not blaming him for his incompetence.

As time went on, the smoke gradually dispersed a little.

Yamazaki Zhihei raised his binoculars and looked towards the hills on the west side.

At this moment, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army seemed to be disgusting him on purpose. They unpacked the airdrop boxes swaggeringly on the high ground, and then put out the brand new Type 60 heavy machine guns and [-]mm mortars. prominent location.

If it weren't for the fact that the shells in his hand were almost exhausted, he would have to use them to deal with the next attack of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army in order to complete the task assigned to him by Commander Shinozuka Yoshio.

This old devil has already ordered a few shots!
However, what Yamazaki Zhihei didn't know was that the Type [-] heavy machine guns and mortars that Li Yunlong deliberately placed were actually models.

Its purpose is to seduce him into firing.

Fortunately, there are not many shells left in the Yamazaki Brigade, otherwise they will be tricked by Li Yunlong's old coin again.

Of course, Li Yunlong also learned from Yamazaki Zhihei...

This side of the hills on the west side.

Li Yunlong saw that he put his eyes on the point of the little devil's knife, but the other party could not resist stabbing him, so he couldn't help jokingly said: "Hey! These little devils are really similar to turtle eggs. If they are like this, why don't they stab them?" I can bear it."

Yang Lin on the side nodded approvingly, and said: "Yamazaki Zhihei can really bear it, but I underestimated him.

However, this also shows that the opponent's shells are running out.

Otherwise, if you still have food left, little devil, seeing that you are so arrogant, Brother Yunlong, you would have blown your chrysanthemums to pieces long ago! "

"Hahaha!"

Li Yunlong laughed wantonly, the little devil's ammunition was running out, which made him more confident about the next attack.

Of course, the so-called certainty is not the certainty of capturing Lijiapo, but that many soldiers can be sacrificed less.

Suddenly, Li Yunlong seemed to think of something, he put away the smile on his face, turned to Zhang Dabiao and ordered: "Zhang Dabiao!"

"Have!"

Zhang Dabiao straightened his body, and suddenly agreed.

Li Yunlong said again: "Pass my order, everyone in the regiment should relax their mouths a little bit, we must not leak out the matter of our interception of the devil's supplies, especially not to be known by the brigade commander!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Dabiao promised again, then turned around and delivered the order.

"Hahaha! Old Li, shouldn't this little devil airdrop supplies for everyone?"

Kong Jie laughed meaningfully, then turned to look at Yang Lin who was beside him: "Brother Yang Lin, am I right?"

A treacherous smile bloomed on Kong Jie's face, Xin Dao said that this trip was really a good deal. You can get two benefits for nothing without doing anything. Isn't this much better than winning the opportunity to attack?

Yang Lin nodded approvingly: "Well, I think what brother Kong Jie said is good, and he really should see it."

Chu Yunfei followed suit and said, "I also don't think there is any problem with Captain Kong's proposal, not to mention that brother Yang Lin came up with this plan."

After a pause, Chu Yunfei said again: "However, I don't need the benefit fee, just distribute it to Captain Kong and brother Yang Lin."

Li Yunlong stabbed him so many times in a row and cheated him so much money, it would be strange if he could let him go.

Seizing the opportunity right now, Chu Yunfei would of course disgust the other party severely.

"Gah?"

Hearing what everyone said, Li Yunlong was stunned. If he had known earlier, he would not have brought the opponent over to watch the battle.

Originally thought that he had caught a few young men for free, but he didn't expect to follow a few people who shared the spoils, and in the end he cheated himself.

But when I thought about it, if the brigade commander's pork chop skin knew about it, it would be nice to leave him with more than 10 boxes of supplies in the end.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Yunlong could only choose to compromise.

"Okay, I can give you a share, but after the battle is over!"

"can!"

Kong Jie nodded in agreement, he was not afraid that the other party would regret it later.

Because if Li Yunlong dared to go back on his word, then he would not stop doing anything and just smash the pot!
Let's talk about the Yamazaki brigade.

At this time, although the Independence Regiment hadn't launched an attack yet, Lijiapo was surrounded by groups, and there were soldiers from the Independence Regiment everywhere.

Further away, there are other units of the Eighth Route Army.

Although the Yamazaki Brigade blocked several attacks by the 772nd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, it also suffered great casualties.

Moreover, I just fought hard with the Eighth Route Army Independence Regiment for more than an hour. Although the Independence Regiment was just a feint attack, the bullets and shells they fired were genuine!

In particular, the destruction of the first brigade stationed on the hills on the west side was equivalent to breaking one of Yamazaki Zhihei's arms.

After many battles, more than half of the casualties of the Yamazaki Battalion have been lost, and more than half of them were killed in battle alone. There are less than 500 people who can continue to fight.

What worried Yamazaki Zhihei most was that the supplies airdropped by the aviation force were intercepted by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

They're running low on ammo...

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(End of this chapter)