The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1373 Li Yunlong takes action (first update)

On a hilltop about five kilometers away from the Raoyang River stronghold, Li Yunlong was observing the road at the foot of the mountain with a telescope.

The reinforcements finally marched along the mountain. The two main battalions brought by Li Yunlong were all ambushed halfway up the mountain, with their guns pointed directly at the road, quietly waiting for the arrival of Kwantung Army reinforcements.

After a while, two cavalry figures appeared at the end of the road. They rushed all the way to the foot of the mountain, jumped off their horses, and then led the horses up to the high ground together, heading straight for Li Yunlong.

"Report to the chief..."

"The Kwantung Army stationed at the Raoyang River stronghold was dispatched..."

"Two infantry squads, a heavy machine gun squad, a mortar squad, two companies of the Puppet Manchurian Army..."

"The Japanese are in front, the artillery and heavy machine gun squads are in the middle, and the puppet Manchurian army is in the rear, marching towards us in a hurry..."

Li Yunlong snorted an order: "The fish is hooked..."

"Let comrades prepare for battle... strive for a quick victory and end the battle within ten minutes..."

"The puppet Manchurian troops who enter the pocket will capture them if they can. If they can't, then kill them."

"Commander, the Kwantung Army is coming..." As soon as Li Yunlong finished giving the order, the reminder from Shi Jin, commander of the third battalion of the second regiment, came to his ears.

Looking up, I saw a row of torches at the end of the road.

As time passed by, more and more torches appeared on the road, and soon they formed a fire dragon and quickly approached him.

The formation was exactly as reported by the scouts.

More than a hundred Kwantung Army infantrymen walked at the front of the team, followed by the artillery squad and the heavy machine gun squad, and finally the Puppet Manchuria Army, which had the worst combat effectiveness.

Li Yunlong suppressed his inner excitement, tried his best to stay calm, and ordered in a low voice: "Fire all light and heavy machine guns..."

"Concentrate your firepower first to eliminate the Kwantung Army infantry, light and heavy machine gunners and gunners at the front of the team..."

"Destroy the Kwantung Army in the reinforcements, and the remaining two companies of the Puppet Manchuria Army will become a piece of fat on our lips, which we can eat as much as we want."

The attack came very suddenly, and the more than a hundred Kwantung Army had no preparation. It was not until a dense rain of bullets flew in front of their eyes, drilling bloody holes in their bodies, that the Kwantung Army realized that they had been deceived.

But it was too late.

Although Li Yunlong only led three main battalions to attack Fuxin, these three battalions were all strengthened battalions.

This is also thanks to the large amount of weapons and ammunition stored by the Kwantung Army in Chaoyang City.

After the back detachment captured Chaoyang, the total number of light machine guns seized from the Kwantung Army and the Puppet Manchuria Army alone exceeded 150.

Including the weapons and ammunition they seized at the Chaoyang Arsenal, the number of light machine guns directly exceeded 200.

Without affecting the mobility of the troops, the best way to improve the firepower of the attacking troops is to equip the troops with a large number of light machine guns.

Therefore, among the three main battalions participating in the attack, in addition to each infantry platoon equipped with two Type 96 light machine guns, Li Yunlong also temporarily pieced together a light machine gun company for each main battalion, equipped with nine light machine guns.

In order to quickly capture the reinforcements sent from the Raoyang River stronghold, the two main battalions participating in the ambush were equipped with more than fifty light machine guns.

Calculated based on a light machine gun killing two Kwantung Army troops in the first round of sudden fire attack.

In the sudden fire attack just now, the total casualties of the Kwantung Army reinforcements exceeded one hundred.

The total number of real Kwantung Army infantry in the reinforcements was only about a hundred.

Moreover. When the surprise attack began, the Kwantung Army under attack did not respond immediately.

Under the powerful firepower attack, every second the Kwantung Army's reaction speed was slow, countless soldiers were shot to death and fell into a pool of blood.

This means that the northbound detachment must have killed more than a hundred little Japs in the first round of rapid fire attacks.

that's the truth.

The artillery squad and the heavy machine gun squad that were under heavy attack almost lost their combat effectiveness. Heavy machine gun and mortar parts were scattered everywhere because the soldiers were killed.

At least half of the two infantry squads suffered casualties. The surviving soldiers lay on the ground, facing the rain of bullets flying overhead, trying to raise their guns to fight back.

But as soon as they fired a bullet, dozens or hundreds of light machine gun bullets were fired.

On the high ground on the hilltop, Li Yunlong was very satisfied with the effect of the first round of firepower strikes by the troops. He started to issue new combat orders as soon as he opened his mouth: "The bugler blows the charge horn, machine gun cover, all charge, kill all the Kwantung Army, and the puppet Manchurian Army can capture Just take prisoners..."

"Maybe these puppet Manchurian troops in our pockets can be sent back to the base to provide us with a company of new recruits."

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The stronghold of Raoyang River.

The Japanese squad leader who stayed behind at the stronghold was very nervous, his eyelids kept twitching, and he felt a faint uneasiness in his heart. He felt that it was too dangerous for the squadron leader to lead troops to attack in a hurry.

If they fell into the Eighth Route Army's trick, and the troops had no strongholds or gun towers to protect them, the chance of an accident was really high.

From time to time, he glanced at the direction in which the reinforcements were leaving. It wasn't until the torches they held disappeared from the end of the road that the team leader returned to the stronghold headquarters with a worried look on his face.

Sitting down on the chair, he looked at the map and prayed that the reinforcements could successfully complete the support mission and escape safely, otherwise the Raoyang River stronghold under his feet would be dangerous and troublesome.

Including himself, the Kwantung Army left behind to guard the stronghold only had about sixty people at full strength, and the Puppet Manchuria Army only had one company, with a total strength of no more than two hundred people.

In the event of an attack, our few troops are not enough to put a gap in the enemy's teeth.

Less than ten minutes after he sat down to rest, the sound of firefights from the battlefield five kilometers away faintly reached his ears.

The squad leader stood up from his chair and went straight to the top of the turret, raised his binoculars and looked in the direction where the sound of crossfire came from.

Except for the faint light of fire and the sounds of firefights, the team leader saw nothing.

But judging from the sound of exchanges of fire, the Eighth Route Army attacking them was obviously equipped with more light and heavy machine guns.

The large number of light and heavy machine guns means that their firepower on the battlefield is more intense than that of the reinforcements. Maybe the reinforcements have been suppressed by the enemy on the battlefield...

"Captain, the sound of the exchange of fire came from the road five kilometers away. Judging from the marching speed of the reinforcements, they are likely to have an accident on the road. Should we send troops to respond to them..." The Kwantung Army standing next to the squad leader Chief Cao suddenly spoke.

The team leader was also very anxious, but he was too clever to make things easy for him.

There is only one Manchu team and one company of puppet Manchurian troops in hand.

If fewer troops are sent for reinforcements, it will be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth and giving the Eighth Route Army military exploits in vain.

If you send too many reinforcements, the stronghold under your feet will lose its defensive strength.

If the Eighth Route Army lurks around the stronghold and takes the opportunity to attack the city, Fuxin County will be lost.

(End of this chapter)