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Chapter 169: Attack and Defense Change
Heyuan.

Zhang Dabiao's Independent Guerrilla Brigade has grown to more than 2 people.

Even when the battle was the most intense, the Heyuan Arsenal where Ren Zhong stayed was like a peaceful time with full production. The Japanese soldiers left in Heyuan City were weak and had no external reinforcements. Ichiro Hirata hid in the city and pretended to be dead, and then racked his brains to deal with the errands from above to cover up the worsening situation in Heyuan.

Not only has the number of people increased, but the weapons and equipment are also the envy of the main battalion of the independent regiment. Each company has heavy weapons including 9 machine guns, 3 grenade launchers and 2 mortars, as well as the powerful firepower of 30 56 semi-automatic rifles.

Now each squad of the First Independent Guerrilla Battalion has a squad leader and a deputy squad leader, and an additional firepower platoon consisting of 2 mortars and 12 56 semi-infantry rifles. Whether in attack or position defense, the firepower is terrifyingly strong.

The disastrous defeat at Yangcun and the casualties caused by the attack caused the Independent Regiment to lose more than one-third of its original strength. However, after the war, Li Yunlong was surprised to find that Zhang Dabiao had prepared a surprise in Heyuan.

Li Yunlong was suddenly revived with full health, and his mind suddenly became active.

Li Yunlong thought of Yangcun, a place with good feng shui.

A bold idea gradually emerged in my mind.

"Brother Yunfei, if we take Anping City in this battle, the city will be yours. I only want the captured weapons and ammunition. What do you think, brother? This is very considerate of you. If we take down a county this time, Brother Yunfei will definitely be a great hero and a big shot for the higher-ups. Maybe he can even be promoted to a division commander." Li Yunlong took Monk Wei and sneaked into the 358th Regiment and lobbied hard.

"Look, Brother Yunfei, you have an artillery battalion, so it will be no problem for you to blast the city gate open. As long as Brother Yunfei opens the gap in the city gate, the rest will be up to our independent regiment. We will definitely clean up the Japanese in the city, and then Brother Yunfei can lead his troops to move in directly."

Chu Yunfei looked at Li Yunlong who was spitting everywhere, and couldn't help feeling a little strange. It was said that Li Yunlong was a stingy person, so why was he so generous this time and gave the fruits of victory to him?

However, Anping is dozens of miles away from his base. What is Li Yunlong thinking that he would trick him into attacking there?

"Brother Yunlong, if we want to capture the county, I think it is better to take Heyuan. If you and I brothers join forces, it will be easy to take Heyuan. Why should we go far away?" Chu Yunfei said with a smile.

Li Yunlong secretly complained in his heart. This Chu Yunfei didn't seem to be easy to fool. "Heyuan doesn't have much to offer, and there aren't many Japanese soldiers. It's a waste of our strength. If we attack Anping, we can not only take back a transportation point, but Anping's output will be several times more than Heyuan's."

Li Yunlong groaned in his heart but said with a smile on his face.

"After we seize Anping, we can at least cut off the Japanese's transportation lines within a radius of 3 miles. If we advance, we can threaten the Japanese in three counties. If we retreat, we are close to the mountains, and we are only a few miles away from entering the mountains. If the main force of the Japanese comes, we will enter the mountains to drag them to death. If the main force of the Japanese does not come, under the current conditions, if a large group of Japanese comes at random, won't they be a meal for you and me, brothers?"

Of course Li Yunlong was not so kind.

He just had his eyes on Chu Yunfei's artillery battalion. With those mountain cannons in the artillery battalion, the gates of Anping City would not be able to withstand the cannon attacks.

If Chu Yunfei could be convinced and the artillery battalion was loaned out to fight this battle, no one would suffer a loss.

After all, a city is much more complex and stronger than a stronghold. Without heavy weapons such as mountain artillery and field artillery, it is very difficult for the independent regiment to capture a city.

In this time and space, the second battalion commander had no chance to get any Italian artillery. The first and second battalions followed Li Yunlong all the way to fight, and the third battalion was wiped out. Now the only siege weapon they can use is the flying thunder cannon. The 82mm mortar is good for positional warfare, but it is not very good for siege.

It is not as powerful as the Flying Thunder Cannon and cannot cause much damage to the solid city walls.

Otherwise, why would Li Yunlong come to find Chu Yunfei.

The second aspect is Li Yunlong’s greater expectation, which is to bring the 358th Regiment to the county town as a barrier for rebuilding the Yangcun base.

The 358th Regiment was strong in both men and horses. Even though there were casualties after the battle, Chu Yunfei managed to replenish the personnel and weapons and ammunition without complaining and finally recovered to full health.

The 5000th Regiment, with more than 358 people, can be regarded as a brigade, and its weapons and equipment are far superior to those of ordinary troops. Who would equip an ordinary brigade with a mountain artillery battalion? But Chu Yunfei has an artillery battalion with 12 mountain artillery pieces!
No one else could be so anxious to receive such treatment as a biological son.

"Brother Yunlong, my base is hundreds of miles away from Anping." Chu Yunfei said with a smile, "Without the order of the theater commander, even if I can capture the county, it will probably be a disaster rather than a blessing."

"Brother Yunfei, you are wrong. What time is it now? The army has just been defeated and we urgently need to boost our morale. Brother Yunfei's capture of a county is no less than the achievement of annihilating a brigade of the Japanese. The higher-ups can't even reward him in time, so how can they blame him? Besides, Brother Yunfei is a person with connections in the Second War Zone and the higher-ups. How can he be blamed for such a trivial matter as fighting across zones? "

"Once Anping is taken, Heyuan will be easy to capture. There are two counties nearby that we can attack or defend. Moreover, there are still many troops in the Taihang Mountains. They need us to show our strength so that they can follow our example and take down some of the county towns in the mountains occupied by the Japanese. Then we can turn the Taihang Mountains upside down."

Li Yunlong said half-truthfully.

Chu Yunfei agreed with most of what Li Yunlong said, so he did not completely reject it.

Instead, I seriously considered this possibility.

The last time the two sides attacked together, although they relied on coincidence to help each other, the two sides fought very well and suppressed the Japanese in the south of Hongdong County and dared not move. They cut off the Tongpu Line for 7 days. This was the most ruthless combination in destroying the railway. In seven days, Li Yunlong pulled out more than rails.

The 358th Regiment's Mountain Artillery Battalion made Li Yunlong drool.

Three days later, after a deafening burst of artillery fire, the city wall on the west side of Anping City was instantly blown to pieces by artillery shells. As the city gate was blasted open by several shells, Li Yunlong led his troops to sound the clarion call for attack. The main force of the independent regiment rushed in at one go, and using the advantage of close-range firepower, they wiped out the Japanese gendarmerie and forced the puppet army to surrender. They seized three battalions of new equipment at once, and then retired after their success, allowing the 3th Regiment to take over Anping County.

Due to the sensitive timing, this battle seemed a bit confusing in the eyes of all parties. In the eyes of Guosu's superiors, the move of the 358th Regiment prevented the county town from being occupied by the Eighth Route Army, so they did a good job in taking over.

In the eyes of the brigade commander, this was Li Yunlong's first step to return to Yangcun. Knowing that Li Yunlong had found a backer for himself to protect Yangcun more closely, the brigade commander pretended not to see Li Yunlong's battle and allowed Li Yunlong to lead the first and second battalions back to Yangcun to begin the work of rebuilding the third battalion.

The Yang Village that was destroyed by the Japanese began to be rebuilt step by step.

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