Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 287 Sun Desheng’s Sixth Tactic.

Sun Desheng led the cavalry reinforced battalion to disperse the Japanese and puppet troops and continued to rush forward without stopping.

Although there were still many Japanese and puppet soldiers alive, the cavalry battalion had more important tasks.

at this time.

Li Yunlong was not at the front line of Zhangjiazhai, but rode a military horse to the south gate of Mengxian County.

As soon as he dismounted, an Eighth Route Army officer came up to Li Yunlong and saluted him.

"Report to the regiment commander, the motor battalion's 120 large trucks are ready. Please give your instructions!"

This man's name is Liang Jinrong. He used to be a car soldier in the National Army. Later, he joined the Red Army and had rich driving experience.

They were technical soldiers in the Eighth Route Army, but they mainly fought guerrilla warfare, and in many cases they had to blow up the captured Japanese trucks.

However, it was only after the Eighth Route Army formed a motor vehicle unit that his driving skills were able to be put to good use.

Liang Jinrong couldn't put down the Jiefang truck provided by Boss Lin. Whether in terms of performance, horsepower or reliability, it was much more durable than the Japanese's Douding truck!
Half a month ago, the training of the motor vehicle soldiers in southeastern Shanxi was completed. Li Yunlong notified Lin Feng to take delivery and persuaded Lin Feng to send two large helicopters to transport the 120 pilots to the Jinzhong base.

Li Yunlong then formed a motor vehicle battalion with more than 120 drivers and equipped with 120 Jiefang brand trucks.

In addition, Boss Lin also donated a large amount of fuel, spare parts, and automotive engineers to train auto repair technicians for the Eighth Route Army.

Although the trucks produced by the system have a low failure rate and high reliability, trucks still malfunction and are damaged in combat.

This Jiefang brand truck is not the kind of small truck used by the Japanese.

The Japanese's Doding truck had a load capacity of only 1.5 tons and could only carry 17 soldiers, while this Jiefang truck had a load capacity of 4 tons and could carry 30 soldiers.

"How about it, can the motor soldiers drive at night?"

Li Yunlong raised his hand and returned the military salute and asked.

"Captain, please rest assured!"

Liang Jinrong's tone was full of confidence:
"When we were in southeastern Shanxi, in order to prevent bombing by Japanese planes, the soldiers of our motor vehicle battalion spent most of their time conducting driving training at night. As long as there was a road, the motor vehicle battalion could reach it."

"good."

Li Yunlong looked behind Liang Jinrong and saw 120 Jiefang trucks neatly arranged in the dark, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

In order to prevent the motor vehicle troops of the Jinzhong base from being discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance planes, Li Yunlong ordered the motor vehicle battalion to stay in hiding and on standby after receiving the goods and forming the battalion.

If the Japanese really attacked the base, Li Yunlong would have no choice but to order the 120 license-removing trucks to be blown up.

The reason is very simple. The terrain of the Jinzhong base area is complex, and Li Yunlong cannot fight guerrilla warfare with this batch of trucks.

"Set off."

Li Yunlong sat in the passenger seat of the first truck, and Hu Zi and a squad of guards who came with Li Yunlong jumped onto the truck.

Liang Jinrong sat in the driver's seat, inserted the key and started the truck. The bright lights turned on, illuminating the area in front of the South City Gate as bright as day.

Then one truck after another drove towards Zhangjiazhai.

In less than half an hour, Li Yunlong led the motor vehicle battalion to Zhangjiazhai, where the elite soldiers from the five battalions of the Eighth Route Army were already waiting.

When the battalion commanders and soldiers saw the long line of cars appear, their eyes almost popped out.

Li Yunlong jumped off the truck, and the second battalion commander Chen Ziyuan, the third battalion commander Zuo Ye, the artillery battalion commander Wang Chengzhu, the first battalion commander of the independent regiment Guan Dashan, the second battalion commander Shen Quan and the third battalion commander Wang Huaibao immediately came forward with their eyes wide open.

Kong Jie and Xing Zhiguo led other troops to deal with the Japanese in Wangjiawan.

The ones who just attacked the Japanese positions were the 1st Battalion of the New 1st Regiment and the newly formed 5th Battalion.

"Captain, what's going on?"

The Second Battalion Commander asked:
"Where did the big guy come from?"

"Where did it come from?" Li Yunlong asked, "Of course it came from the sky."

The battalion commanders understood immediately that the regimental commander's words were not sarcastic, but really came from the sky.

It was just that Boss Lin lifted it here with a large helicopter, and many battalion commanders didn’t know about this.

The bespectacled third battalion commander chuckled:
"Captain, with this thing, we can reach Yangquan in two hours."

Time is short and the task is heavy. Li Yunlong's expression became serious. "Stop talking nonsense and order the soldiers to board the vehicles immediately in squads and platoons. Don't disrupt the organization. Battalion Commander Liang in the lead vehicle has some motion sickness medicine. Send soldiers to get it and distribute it."

Many soldiers had seen the Japanese's small trucks but had never ridden in one.

I'm afraid many soldiers will get carsick since it's their first time riding this thing, but Boss Lin provided motion sickness medicine this time to ensure the soldiers' combat effectiveness after riding.

"Yes!"

All the battalion commanders responded loudly, turned around and walked quickly towards their respective troops.

Soon, the soldiers received motion sickness medicine. Each soldier carried a water bottle. The motion sickness medicine could be taken immediately or when feeling dizzy.

The infantry quickly got on the vehicle, and the soldiers of the artillery battalion also quickly moved the ammunition boxes to the vehicle bed, and hung 20 120mm mortars and 12 75mm mountain cannons on the back of the vehicle with hooks.

"set off!"

Li Yunlong gave an order.

120 trucks, carrying more than 3400 soldiers, drove along the highway towards Yangquan.

……at the same time.

The battle in Miaoling and Guanjiayu areas has begun.

The Japanese built two large strongholds and three medium-sized strongholds in this area to blockade the Jinzhong base.

The bunkers and watchtowers in each stronghold are all built with reinforced concrete.

These bunkers and gun towers are located on the hillsides on both sides of the highway, supporting each other. There are dozens of machine guns in the bunkers and gun towers, which implement a 360-degree fire blockade on the highway. There is sufficient ammunition and food.

Normally, these bunkers and watchtowers were occupied by the elite Japanese troops of the 39th Brigade.

However, during the Japanese army's battle in Jinzhong, the elite troops of the 39th Brigade were withdrawn, and the First Army Command sent two squadrons and a battalion of puppet troops from the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade to garrison.

The 4th Independent Mixed Brigade is also a security force and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the 39th Brigade.

However, this puppet army camp is an elite unit among the puppet troops. It used to be the national army and has rich combat experience.

Normally, the Japanese mortars and infantry guns were placed on the top of the hill, with a large number of machine gun fire blockades. In the eyes of the Japanese, no matter how many Eighth Route Army troops came, they would die.

However, as the troops of the 39th Brigade were withdrawn, the mortars and infantry guns on the hill had been taken away, and the two infantry companies of the 4th Brigade were not equipped with infantry guns and mortars, only grenade launchers.

"Da da da…"

"Boom boom boom..."

The fighting was extremely fierce.

The Japs' firepower was very strong, with machine guns roaring wildly, and dozens of machine guns spewing out barrages of bullets in the night sky.

Faced with such firepower, launching a group charge is tantamount to seeking death. No matter how many come, all will die.

Sun Desheng was very calm. He ordered the soldiers with good marksmanship to shoot down the Japanese searchlights, and then ordered the soldiers to fight back with machine guns and submachine guns from a distance. The two sides fired at each other from a distance.

Then he ordered 50 rocket launcher teams to disperse, carrying rocket launchers, and sneak up to a position more than 200 meters away from the Japanese artillery towers and bunkers to launch a surprise attack.

The enemy never expected that the Eighth Route Army had weapons to destroy reinforced concrete fortifications, let alone Sun Desheng's Old Six tactics.

Once all the bazooka teams were in place, they opened fire almost simultaneously.

Amidst the dense rain of bullets, rockets drew arcs across the night sky, directly hitting the Japanese bunkers and artillery towers.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

In just a few minutes, bunkers and artillery towers were destroyed like dry wood and rotten wood in the huge explosion, and the Japanese and puppet soldiers were blown into pieces by the powerful explosion and metal turbulence.

The Japanese's cage tactics were just bullying the poorly equipped Eighth Route Army. When the Eighth Route Army had equipment such as rocket launchers and recoilless guns, the bunkers and gun towers were just stone pipes built by the Japanese for themselves.

……

"Commander, the locust troops in the Miaoling and Guanjiayu areas are calling out, saying the blockade is under attack by the Eighth Route Army cavalry."

At the Wangjiawan front, at the Japanese Army's 39th Brigade Headquarters, the communications captain hurriedly reported to Kenkichi Hirata.

The Japanese in Miaoling and Guanjiayu were also equipped with radios, which allowed them to communicate directly with the 39th Brigade Headquarters at any time.

"Oh?"

"The Eighth Route Cavalry dared to attack the blockade, wouldn't that be courting death?"

Due to the dim light, Kenkichi Hirata did not notice the anxious expression on the communications captain's face.

He felt that Li Yunlong of the Eighth Route Army was desperate and had no way to deal with the attack of the 39th Brigade. He planned to send cavalry to tear open a gap in the Miaoling area, and then the Eighth Route Army and the people in the Jinzhong base would escape from there.

But the locust army has been operating there for so long, how could a mere cavalry unit of the Eighth Route Army be able to make a breakthrough?

The communications captain took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and reported, "Major Furukawa of the 4th Brigade stationed at Miaoling reports that the Eighth Route Cavalry has destroyed half of the locust army's bunkers and artillery towers. Major Furukawa requests tactical guidance."

"Idiot, can't you just finish your words at once?"

Kenkichi Hirata's face changed and he slapped the communications captain in the face.

The bunkers and artillery towers that the locust army had spent a lot of manpower, material resources and strategic supplies to build were half destroyed so quickly.

This made Kenkichi Hirata realize instantly that something was wrong, and it was very wrong.

"Hi."

The communications staff member suddenly lowered his head.

Hirata Kenkichi said coldly, "Order Major Furukawa to hold the Miaoling and Guanjiayu positions at all costs. If he loses these positions, he will commit seppuku."

"Hi."

The communications captain suddenly lowered his head and turned away.

Not long after, Masao Uwagawa, who had gone to check the sentry post, walked in. When he heard that the Eighth Route Army indeed had weapons that could destroy reinforced concrete bunkers and artillery towers, his face changed drastically.

Uwagawa Masao said, "It seems that what Yamamoto said was right. Li Yunlong really wants to attack Yangquan. Fortunately, we have already sent back the 6th Infantry Battalion. As long as the 6th Infantry Battalion holds out in Yangquan for a day, reinforcements from the 4th Brigade will arrive in Yangquan."

Hirata Kenkichi's face darkened: "Yamamoto is such a bad mouth."

This situation reached Yamamoto Ikki's ears, and the corners of his mouth turned cold: "Idiot, it's too late to go back to Yangquan now."

(End of this chapter)