People are shining their swords, secretly helping the Iron Triangle in Northwest Shanxi

Chapter 244 The Change of Old Li

The reconnaissance platoon can be said to be armed to the teeth. Each squad has small-caliber mortars, sniper rifles, and light machine guns to provide cover.

The six assaulters are equipped with three guns, Czech-style semi-automatic rifles, Jin-made shell guns, and Jin-made submachine guns.

What they encountered was only a small number of investigators from the Japanese army. The two sides engaged in battle, and gunshots rang out.

Facing the attack of the reconnaissance platoon, these little devils were wiped out one after another.

By 358 o'clock in the afternoon on November [-]th, the [-]th regiment advanced to the range of Lancheng.

The reconnaissance platoon attached to the second battalion and the third battalion has already controlled the highland west of Lancheng. They entered the highland and began to build a defensive position.

The fourth battalion and the seventh battalion were slowly advancing towards the county town under the command of Chen Ziyun.

The artillery battalion was advancing at the back, and Li Yang and Sun Xiong also began to dispatch relevant personnel to find a suitable location and prepare to set up artillery positions.

As for the troops of the Zhangwu Cavalry Battalion, they made a large-scale detour and advanced towards Jiaoqu Town in the southeast of Lancheng.

Jiaoqu Town is located in the center of Lancheng and Gujiao. Chen Ziyun arranged for the cavalry battalion to be stationed here, the meaning is obvious.

The cavalry battalion is here in Jiaoqu Town to cut off the connection between the Japanese army in Lancheng and the Japanese army in the too far away area.

Chen Ziyun was planning to make the Japanese army in Lancheng completely alone, and then launch a campaign to encircle and annihilate it.

By six o'clock, the 358th regiment successively took control of Lancheng County, the western highlands and other areas.

Four infantry battalions and one artillery battalion began to form positions in different positions.

The reconnaissance platoon carried out a large-scale search on horseback to ensure that no Japanese troops would ambush near the battalions.

The sky gradually became dark, time passed, and the Japanese army in Lancheng began to shrink to the east to defend.

Kojima Shinxing, who commanded the Japanese army to fight, has been paying close attention to the 358th regiment, and he discusses with his officers from time to time.

The 358 regiment currently has four infantry battalions, one artillery battalion, and one reconnaissance platoon in Lancheng, with a total strength of more than 3000 people.

Xiaojima Xinxing can quickly judge that this is the most elite 48th Regiment of the Independent 358th Brigade.

It is also because of this that even if the reconnaissance troops he dispatched were annihilated, Kojima Shinxing still did not move in the afternoon.

At eight o'clock in the evening, Japanese troops began to gather at the artillery positions.

At this time, their strength has been increased again, and the independent mixed ninth brigade does not have many troops that can be transferred.

But here in Jin Province, there are still some hardcore traitors.

The head of the little devil's brigade, Koshio Toranosuke, began to mobilize a group of puppet troops to strengthen the combat forces here in Lancheng.

The four infantry squadrons have been strengthened by the puppet army, and their overall strength has become stronger.

Each infantry squadron currently has more than [-] people, and their overall weapons and equipment are very sophisticated.

They basically have one infantry gun, three mortars, six heavy machine guns, nine light machine guns, nine grenade grenades, and more than a hundred rifles.

With the arrival of these puppet troops, the combat strength of the Lancheng Japanese puppet army is also around 800.

Kojima Xinxing also began to adjust the combat troops in Arashi City. He organized the artillery unit into an artillery unit.

An older artillery captain served as the captain of the artillery team and was responsible for unified command of the artillery operations.

This artillery team has four 75MM mountain guns, four 75MM field guns, and four 105MM mountain guns.

Now the more than 1000 Japanese puppet troops are all gathered here in the artillery position. They are well-equipped with weapons and sufficient ammunition.

Because they defeated the 12th Reserve Regiment with minimal casualties in Lancheng, the morale of these officers was high.

Even though they knew they were facing the 358 regiment, they still felt that they could win.

"Your Excellency, Captain, we should continue to attack the county seat and adopt the same attack strategy as before."

"With our current strength, if we continue to launch night attacks, we will definitely achieve greater results."

"Your Excellency, Captain, they would never have thought that we would launch an attack. Now is a rare opportunity."

"Please command us to launch an attack on the county seat immediately, and catch them off guard."

Several lieutenant squadron leaders looked at Xiaojima Xinxing, and asked for a fight.

They want to repeat the old tricks and attack the county again at night to attack the troops of the Jinsui Army.

Kojima Xinxing glanced in the direction of the county seat, but of course it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly.

There was a thoughtful expression on his face, and then he shook his head directly, rejecting the suggestions of these officers.

"According to the message from the Army Command forwarded by the Brigade and Regiment Headquarters, the 358th Regiment is the core elite unit of the Independent 48th Brigade."

"Chu Yunfei, the brigade commander of the Independent 48th Brigade, once served as the head of the regiment. This is also Chu Yunfei's starting unit."

"Chen Ziyun, who is currently the head of the regiment, has strong commanding skills. We have suffered several disastrous defeats, all of which are directly related to him."

"If we attack the county at this time, we will not achieve the previous results, but will pay heavy losses."

"Don't forget, this Jinsui army has more troops, better weapons and equipment, and they also have a lot of artillery units."

"If we want to deal with them, we must adopt more flexible tactics!"

With a serious expression on Kojima Shinxing's face, he spoke directly.

He started to take out the map, gathered the officers together, and directly expressed his thoughts.

When the officers heard Kojima's battle plan, they all expressed their approval.

Soon, the Japanese and puppet troops began to rest in place, and they were quietly waiting for the battle time to come.

As for Chen Ziyun, after confirming the safety of each battalion, he asked each battalion to take turns to rest and strengthen vigilance.

There are highlands around the county seat, so Chen Ziyun did not deploy too many troops in the county seat.

Chu Yu's battalion commanded an infantry company and a machine gun company stationed in the county for defense.

The other troops are deployed in the area west of the county seat.

"Tuanza, looking at it now, the Japanese army should be gathering in the east for defense."

"And they should not have the guts to launch a night attack, why don't we take a good rest now."

"After dawn, advance directly to the east, and the cavalry battalion can also attack from behind them."

At around nine o'clock, Liang Guoping, attached to the regiment, came to Chen Ziyun, and he said with a puzzled expression on his face.

Recently, Liang Guoping has fully adapted to his different positions and has become very honest.

In his own words, Chen Ziyun's future is limitless, and if he follows behind, he can gain some military exploits and be promoted to military rank.

So no matter what Chen Ziyun asked him to do, he would go all out and strive to do his best.

In the recent training, Liang Guoping also made progress, and he also had a great understanding of new tactics such as indirect shelling.

Chen Ziyun is also willing to do more training, after all, Liang Guoping's identity is very special.

He is a member of Yan Laoxi, and many things can be easily resolved by using him in the future.

For example, if the Independent 48th Brigade wants to expand the artillery regiment, if Chen Ziyun arranges Li Yang and others to serve as regiment leaders.

Yan Laoxi will be jealous, worried that Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun will expand their troops without authorization, and will take these troops out of the Jinsui army system in the future.

But if Liang Guoping was to be the head of the regiment, the situation would be completely different.

And Liang Guoping is different from Qian Bojun and Zhang Fugui, he will not be a traitor anyway.

In terms of fighting devils, Liang Guoping was pretty good.

"Liang Tuanfu, the Japanese army's tactics are relatively dull in general."

"But have you ever thought about it, it is such a rigid tactic, but it can win many battles."

"And if you think about it carefully, how many tactical changes the Japanese army made during the initial battle."

"They have used these rigid tactics to the extreme, and they have also exerted a strong attack power."

"Until now, the Japanese army has completely controlled the Jin Province area. They don't use any tactics at all to fight against us, and they can completely crush us."

"But after our troops won several times, they obviously made adjustments quickly, so there was a fiasco for the reserve I2 regiment."

"If we continue to fight according to the previous routine, we will definitely suffer a big loss."

"And you have to remember one thing, the Japanese troops are definitely not soft persimmons, and their officers are not drunks!"

With a serious expression on Chen Ziyun's face, he looked at Liang Guoping beside him and said.

If the previous routine was followed, then in the afternoon, Chen Ziyun would command the troops to launch an attack.

But now, he is adopting a steady and steady strategy.

The 12th Preparatory Regiment has learned from the past. It would be foolish for Chen Ziyun not to learn from it.

What's more, the lives of 358 people in the 4000th regiment are all in his hands.

With excellent weapons and equipment, Chen Ziyun didn't want to use his life to obtain the results of the battle.

He needs to fight more cautiously, and strive to obtain the greatest results with the least casualties.

The Japanese army is not soft persimmon, and they are not completely static.

The German Army 39 concentrated tanks to use blitzkrieg, thus creating a precedent in the history of war.

However, the Japanese army had already used relevant tactics as early as 38.

After capturing the strategically important Hankou, the Japanese 11th Army faced the strategic encirclement of nearly one hundred divisions in the third, fifth, and ninth theaters.

In order to break the passive situation, the commander of the 11th Army Neji Okamura planned an attack on the capital of Jiangxi Province.

In this battle, Okamura Ningji used all tanks and artillery to fight.

From March 38, 27, to March [-].

In a short period of ten days, the 11th Army successively broke through the heavily defended positions in the Ninth War Zone, and took the provincial capital of Jiangxi Province relatively easily.

In this battle, the Japanese army adopted a concentrated tank assault operation, which made it difficult for the elite troops of the Ninth Theater to adapt.

Moreover, during the battle, the Japanese artillery concentrated on covering bombardment, mixed with poison gas bombs.

Any army under their attack is no match at all.

It can be seen from this that there are also capable people in the Japanese army.

Chen Ziyun was well aware of the cunning of the little devil, so he was very cautious in this battle against Lancheng.

The overall strength of the 12th reserve regiment is not weak, and Qian Bojun is more or less capable.

If it's ordinary little devils, even if they can win, the most they can do is to repel them.

But this time the 12th reserve regiment was defeated in Lancheng, and suffered nearly 600 casualties.

The officer who commanded the Japanese army in Lancheng was definitely not an ordinary little devil officer.

And these troops will not be ordinary little devil troops.

Chen Ziyun definitely can't continue to attack according to the previous routine, otherwise he will definitely suffer.

And when Chen Ziyun told Liang Guoping about this in detail, he also hoped that Liang Guoping would be vigilant.

At 10:30, after Chen Ziyun and Liang Guoping talked, they went to different areas for inspection.

Chen Ziyun is now consciously training Liang Guoping to enhance his commanding ability.

After all, for him, even if Liang Guoping is the head of the 12th regiment, it is much better than Qian Bojun.

Here in Lancheng, the total strength of the two troops exceeds 5000, and they are stationed in the east and west areas respectively.

But neither side took any action, and Lancheng was completely silent in the middle of the night.

On November [-]th, at one o'clock in the morning, Lijiapo battlefield.

The new regiment had already arrived on the battlefield one after another. Li Yunlong personally commanded the battalions to gradually advance towards the starting position under the cover of night.

After arriving at the starting position, the whole group began to get busy, and they immediately carried out soil work.

Of course, at night, the ground is freezing and the sky is cold, so it is very difficult to dig a position and build a bunker.

And they can't make too much noise, otherwise the little devils will definitely be bombarded.

"Commander, the 772 regiment is not good. If we had come up earlier, the battle might have ended by now."

"Let us come up now. You see, before four o'clock in the afternoon, our regiment will definitely be able to end the battle."

"Let's not talk about the brigade commander this time, maybe even the commander will have to buy you a drink."

The first battalion commander Zhang Dabiao approached Li Yunlong and said with a smile on his face.

But Li Yunlong did not have the joking side of the past, he looked at Li Jiapo from time to time with a serious expression on his face.

"Da Biao, let me tell you, if our regiment got the main attack mission first, we may not be able to take down Lijiapo until now."

"Even we will pay heavy casualties. Li Jiapo is not easy to fight. Don't expect to end the battle in a day or two."

"I know the combat effectiveness of the 772 regiment. This is our old army. Give them the same weapons and equipment, and they can still achieve amazing results."

Li Yunlong looked at Zhang Dabiao and said in a serious tone.

If Li Yunlong hadn't received a series of weapon enhancements, the Xinyi Regiment would not have achieved dazzling results time and time again.

Then when Li Yunlong met the 772 regiment here, he would definitely laugh at Cheng Xiazi for not knowing how to fight.

But with a series of victories, Li Yunlong's personality has somewhat changed.

And he also knew that the 772 regiment and other troops continued to attack Lijiapo, and the little devils here fought one after another, consuming a lot of physical energy and ammunition.

Now that a new group is coming up, it is inevitable that there is an element of picking up leaks.

Among other things, if it is facing the little devil who just came to Lijiapo to defend.

No matter how cautious the new regiment was, they would be noticed by the little devils and they would be shelled. After all, the Japanese army had plenty of physical ammunition at that time.

But now, the Xinyi Regiment's ability to carry out soil work in a stable manner must have something to do with the continuous attacks of the 772 Regiment and other troops.

After battles again and again, Li Yunlong obviously became much calmer.

The new regiment continued to carry out soil work. As time passed, some heavy weapons gradually began to be transported quietly and deployed in different areas.

(End of this chapter)