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Chapter 247: Power on to annihilate the enemy, the brigade commander's courage

One 37th Division, one 41st Division. Now the main force has not suffered much loss. The 41st Division retreated from Pingyang, and Yan Laoxi also tacitly did not pursue.

The main force of the Japanese devils in Hedong is actually quite strong.

If it were in the original historical time and space of the main world, these two divisions would basically be enough to fight against Guo Su's 100,000-strong army.

Now the brigade commander actually wants to keep them all here.

This is a bit difficult.

"The Japanese crossed the river from Pinglu to the south. The ferry's capacity is limited this time. Not many Japanese can cross the river in one day. In addition, we have already passed the news to the friendly forces in the First War Zone in advance. It will be difficult for the Japanese to attack Shanzhou this time. Our enemies are now divided into one part in Hedong City and one part in Pinglu. It is just convenient for us to divide and conquer."

The brigade commander pointed at the map, his eyes flickering.

The chief of staff smiled bitterly and felt the brigade commander's determination.

"With the marching speed of the independent mechanized infantry brigade, it only takes three or four hours to get from Hejin to Hedong. It seems that there is no big problem in blocking the retreat of the Japanese in Hedong, but we are seriously short of troops now, and it is difficult to block both the Japanese and the preserved fruit troops."

Now take Hedong.

The difficulty is not that we cannot defeat the Japanese, but that the current situation is delicate.

The strategic location of Hedong is coveted not only by the Eighth Route Army and Yan Laoxi, but also by the Guoju people.

Judging from the current external situation, the Eighth Route Army can easily be attacked from both sides.

"We have expanded our business, and our military strength is indeed a bit stretched." The brigade commander pointed to the map, "Hedong and Henei are both places that must be captured, and Lu'an is the backbone of the country. Our situation is very good now, but the pressure is also great."

"Send an urgent telegram to the headquarters, requesting reinforcements from the Taihang Military Region and transferring 5 to 8 regiments to Lu'an for defense. All the main forces of Taiyuan and Lu'an will advance westward to Hedong. No matter how difficult it is now, we must defeat these two divisions. Kong Jie's new 37nd Brigade can't wait for the mechanization reorganization. It will end its rest in Yuanqu ahead of schedule and march quickly to Hedong to meet up with Li Yunlong's Mechanized Infantry Independent Brigade. After defeating the Japanese's 41th Division, we will attack the Japanese's st Division to the south!" said the brigade commander with determination.

"Issue the whole world, my Taiyue Military Region will attack the Japanese 37th and 41st Divisions in Hedong from today on. I want to see who dares to attack my Taiyue Military Region in defiance of the world."

The brigade commander slammed the pencil in his hand on the table.

This time he directly turned it over and played it openly, which shows how determined the brigade commander is.

This is like putting everything on the line.

The battle situation changes rapidly, and the brigade commander cannot hesitate for too long, otherwise it will be too late.

In Shanzhou, it would be considered good if the preserved fruits could hold off the Japanese for a day or two.

Now, everyone is a little worried about the fighting power of the preserved fruits, and they dare not expect them to be able to hold on forever.

Especially when the Japanese were fighting desperately.

Now Kong Jie's new Second Brigade has been fully staffed, but the tanks and vehicles are not in place yet, and the tank battalion's tanks are still on the production plan.

However, the artillery battalion was formed. As for the problem of insufficient vehicles, the brigade commander cobbled together a few hundred mules and horses and barely managed to haul the artillery battalion's cannons and artillery shells away. The Eighth Route Army has always relied on their own two legs to travel, and now they cannot stop fighting just because they have no vehicles and tanks.

As soon as the electricity came on, the whole world was in turmoil.

The Japanese were as anxious as ants on a hot pan, and even Guo Su and Yan Laoxi began to lose sleep.

It's just that everyone has their own ideas.

Yan Laoxi is determined to take back Hedong, but his current strength is limited. If he really turns against the Eighth Route Army, he is afraid that the Eighth Route Army, which is now on all sides, will not show mercy to him, and he will end up losing more than he gains.

The Japanese were so arrogant that they lost several divisions in succession under the command of Brigade Chen!
Yan Laoxi did not think that his 37-strong army was much stronger than the Japanese 41th and st Divisions.

So after much thought, Yan Laoxi decided that it was impossible to send troops. Once he did, the Eight Route Army's Taihang and northwestern Shanxi troops would push southwards, and he might lose the last bit of his foundation.

This matter still needs to be handled from the perspective of the greater good. Yan Laoxi used his name as the head of the war zone to demand that the Eighth Route Army annihilate the Japanese devils. At the same time, the occupied areas should be handed over to the war zone for overall management. No one should occupy them privately and disrupt the legal system.

Yan Laoxi's statement did cause some commotion, but for the brigade commander, he didn't care about political matters at all and left it to his superiors to deal with.

Yan Laoxi doesn't dare to move for the time being, which is a good thing for the brigade commander. He can put his main force into annihilating the Japanese.

Only five Type C regiments were left in the north to defend the line from Yicheng, Houma to Hejin. Ding Wei's New 5st Brigade, which had just completed the reorganization of personnel and some equipment, went south to occupy Yongji and recapture Fenglingdu and Ruicheng.

Li Yunlong maneuvered quickly and in less than half a day he rushed from Hejin to the two strategic points of Miaoqian and Dongguo in Hedong, firmly blocking the escape pass to the south of the Japanese 37th Division!
After completing the preliminary reorganization of Kong Jie's troops in Yuanqu, he set out at night after receiving the order. Zhongtiao Mountain was where he had fought guerrilla warfare, and he was familiar with the roads. Now that he had upgraded his rifles to artillery, the main force of the infantry directly crossed the mountains and ridges, running more than 100 miles in one day and night to Xia County, which was only a dozen miles away from Li Yunlong's independent mechanized infantry brigade. The artillery battalion took a detour through Jiangxian and Wenxi, which was more than twice as far, and it was estimated that it would take about three days to arrive.

But now that the Japanese have been blocked, Kong Jie and Li Yunlong have reunited. With the three artillery battalions and one tank battalion in Li Yunlong's hands, there is no problem in storming Hedong. Li Yunlong's mechanized infantry independent brigade now has more than a hundred barreled guns, including tank guns, not to mention the powerful firepower coverage capability of a 3 artillery battalion.

Anda 3rd gathered two regiments and, with the cooperation of the artillery regiment and the tank battalion, stormed Dongguo in an attempt to open the road to the south. They collided with Li Yunlong's three infantry battalions and two artillery battalions.

The battle began with a collision of artillery. The Japanese took the lead in firing at Li Yunlong's position. More than 30 mountain cannons and howitzers fell in the village of Dongguo.

As there was no time to build fortifications, Li Yunlong's troops relied on the village for defense and had already persuaded the villagers to leave the village.

The Japanese artillery fire landed on the houses in the village, quickly causing more than a dozen houses to catch fire. However, due to the obstruction of the walls, there were not many direct casualties on the side of the independent brigade.

The artillery battalion was urgently searching for the Japanese artillery positions, but it was difficult to confirm them at the moment.

After all, there is no artillery radar now, so it is impossible to deduce it immediately.

However, Li Yunlong did not rush to counterattack.

Instead, he aimed at the direction of the Japanese artillery fire and directly ordered the tank battalion to attack!

In this flat area, the tank charge was unstoppable.

Soon the tank battalion rushed to the front of the Japanese artillery position and encountered the Japanese tank brigade.

Chen Zhi, who had just transferred from the military district tank battalion to Li Yunlong's independent brigade and completed the full staffing of the tank battalion, was not afraid of the Douding tank at all. He rushed to within three or four hundred meters before stopping and firing!
Both sides aimed at their opponents and fired with almost no difference!
However, the huge difference in artillery and armor was like an adult beating a child in a face-to-face confrontation. The Japanese tank brigade, which had only ten tiny tanks, was left with only one tank that escaped after the first encounter!
The bullet hit the target with one strike. The Japanese tanks were simply unable to withstand the fatal blow of the 76mm weapon.

As for the M3 tank, after a 50mm frontal armor was welded, the Japanese 37mm gun hitting the front had no chance of breaking through the defense.

This was a minor improvement made by the tank factory to the M3 tank after learning from previous tank battles. 50 mm of steel plate was added to the front and turret armor, although it looked a bit deformed.

But now, judging from actual combat, the effect is very good. At a distance of more than 300 meters, it withstood the test of the Japanese 37mm artillery. The tank battalion's tanks continued to move forward after emitting a puff of black smoke.

The Japanese artillery position was right in front of him. Chen Jie rushed over at full speed without hesitation. The machine gun on the tank began firing at the Japanese figures. Chen Jie was determined to capture this artillery position.

Behind the tanks were a dozen Willys jeeps with heavy machine guns mounted on them, following the tank battalion a few hundred meters behind.

This was the fire assault platoon formed by Li Yunlong. More than a dozen heavy machine guns were used together and soon intertwined into a rain of bullets, tearing open the Japanese artillery positions.

The Japanese soldiers from two infantry squadrons were almost useless and turned into piles of rotten meat under the fire of more than 2 heavy machine guns.

The Japanese's artillery was still very good. Li Yunlong did not expect that the Japanese would actually pull them out to fight. This was a godsend opportunity, so he sent out his strongest force without hesitation to directly seize the Japanese's artillery positions.

Sure enough, the tank battalion moved forward as if it were in an empty space, and killed its way all the way to the Japanese artillery positions.

Although the Japanese left two infantry squadrons to guard the artillery position, it was just a small dish for the tank battalion.

As for the remaining artillery, although a squadron of Japanese anti-tank guns tried desperately to fire at the tanks, it was of no avail.

The tank battalion deployed its 76mm artillery and used only a dozen shots to blow up the entire Japanese anti-tank artillery squadron.

This is their only means of threatening the tanks.

The tanks were like steel monsters, moving around in the Japanese artillery positions, and the machine guns were chasing the Japanese who were fleeing in panic, pouring bullets on them without hesitation.

The assault platoon that followed closely behind rushed up, circled the position, and chased the Japanese soldiers and fired at them back and forth at a distance of about three or four hundred meters.

An artillery regiment of more than 2000 Japanese devils never thought that they would "return home" in this way today. The tank battalion and assault platoon of the independent brigade tore them to pieces with their sharp knives.

On the front line, facing the charging Japanese, Li Yunlong, who was commanding at the front, saw that the Japanese artillery fire had stopped. After receiving the news that the tank battalion had succeeded, he was relieved.

Order the artillery battalion to fire!
Now the artillery has no rivals on the battlefield. For the sudden charge formation of the Japanese army, it is just a side dish for the artillery!
The first round of covering fire from the 107th Artillery Battalion immediately covered the two infantry battalions of the charging Japanese under a barrage of bullets.

The shell exploded when it hit the ground, and the Japanese soldiers all around flew up into the air and were split into several pieces.

"It's so satisfying! So satisfying!" Kong Jie, who came from afar, saw the Japanese flying everywhere through the telescope, and the anger in his heart finally eased a lot.

"When fighting, you have to use 107 fire! It's so exciting, really exciting!" Kong Jie slapped his thigh and roared, his eyes slowly covered with a layer of mist, which gradually gathered into a bean-sized teardrop that rolled down.

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