Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 300: Annihilate the enemy and attack the reinforcements!

In addition to weapons, ammunition, food, fuel and other important supplies, war also requires.

A large amount of accurate intelligence about the enemy is also needed.

The more accurate the intelligence, the better, and the more there is, the better.

However, during wartime, both the enemy and our side often deliberately spread false information before the war.

This requires commanders on both sides to have the ability to judge the authenticity of intelligence.

Sorting out a large amount of true and false intelligence to find the most accurate and valuable intelligence.

If Li Yunlong wanted to attack Beitongpu Road, he had to attack the 108th Division.

To attack the 108th Division, we must first understand the division's weapons and equipment, as well as its troop garrisons and other situations.

Then formulate corresponding combat plans and emergency plans.

On the one hand, Li Yunlong ordered the Jinzhong base area to make full use of its own intelligence network.

On the other hand, Li Yunlong asked his superiors to let underground undercover personnel obtain intelligence on the 108th Division.

In addition, Li Yunlong used up the quota of 200 devils and asked Lin Feng for important intelligence on the Japanese Army's 108th Division.

A three-pronged approach.

Two days later, all three channels provided some information about the Japanese 108th Division.

At the regimental headquarters, the intelligence staff reported to Li Yunlong:

"Commander, according to intelligence from three parties, the Japanese 108th and 20th Divisions have already been deployed on Beitongpu Road and Xizhengtai Road."

Li Yunlong thought for a moment and said, "Let me focus on reporting the situation of the Japanese 108th Division."

"Yes!" the intelligence officer continued to report, "The headquarters of the Japanese 108th Division is stationed in Xinzhou. Along with the division headquarters, there are also the 117th Infantry Regiment, the 108th Cavalry Battalion, the 108th Field Artillery Battalion, the 108th Engineer Regiment, the 108th Quartermaster Regiment, as well as the field hospital and logistics troops."

"The 132nd Infantry Regiment, the 52nd Infantry Regiment, and the 105th Infantry Regiment are stationed in Yuanping, Ningwu, and Shuozhou, respectively. Each infantry regiment is equipped with dozens of Dodin trucks."

"Also, Boss Lin's intelligence also mentioned that the First Army Headquarters originally wanted to expand the 108th Division's Field Artillery Battalion into a Field Artillery Regiment. However, we lost some artillery and field guns to the 20th Division's Field Artillery Regiment."

"Therefore, the First Army Headquarters will supplement the artillery and field artillery intended for the 108th Division with the 20th Division."

"It is said that this made the commander of the 108th Division, Motojiro Taniguchi, very unhappy."

The intelligence officer handed over a page of Boss Lin's intelligence information.

Li Yunlong took it and read it quickly, then said with a smile, "I was wondering why a second-tier division of the Japanese Army was equipped with an artillery regiment, while a special division only had one artillery battalion. This doesn't make sense. So it's because of this."

The artillery firepower of the 108th Division is related to the outcome of this battle to a certain extent, so intelligence in this regard is very important.

"The intelligence provided by Boss Lin is damn detailed."

The intelligence officer sighed.

The intelligence network of the Jinzhong Military Region and the underground organization of the headquarters could only obtain information that the 108th Division only had a field artillery battalion but no field artillery regiment. However, Boss Lin's intelligence information clearly explained the reasons and details of why the 108th Division only had a field artillery battalion.

In addition, the various intelligence details and weapons and equipment of the 108th Division and above are very detailed.

What's more important is that the intelligence can be updated in real time. Boss Lin will send someone to deliver the intelligence on the mobilization of the Japanese Army's 108th Division, as well as various aspects of material supplies, as soon as possible.

Li Yunlong nodded in agreement. "It seems that Boss Lin's intelligence officer has already infiltrated the First Army Headquarters. This person must be at least a trusted staff officer of Shinozuka Yoshio, otherwise he wouldn't have access to such precise intelligence."

"Xiao Liu, you have to work hard too. Someday you can place an undercover agent next to Shinozuka Yoshio. That way, we can fight with half the effort."

The intelligence staff officer was named Liu Jingrong. He was sent from the headquarters. He had experience in underground work and was very good at intelligence gathering.

"Yes, I'll try my best." Liu Jingrong said, "It would be great if we could place a hidden person next to the Japs' Tianhuang. We could just send the hidden person to kill the Japs' Tianhuang with a knife, and then we wouldn't have to fight."

Developing an underground organization requires a large amount of money. Fortunately, every time the troops win a battle, they can seize a lot of Japanese yen, dollars, gold and silver treasures for the activities of intelligence personnel. Otherwise, the intelligence network of the Jinzhong Military Region would not have been able to reach such a scale in just a few months.

But even so, the Jinzhong Military Region's intelligence network cannot compare with Boss Lin's.

Li Yunlong laughed and said, "If you have that ability, even I would have to salute you."

After a pause, Li Yunlong asked again: "How is the deployment of the 20th Division?"

The intelligence officer said, "The 20th Division Headquarters, two regiments of the 40th Brigade, and the field artillery regiment are stationed in Shouyang. The 39th Brigade Headquarters is still stationed in Yangquan, the 77th Regiment is stationed in Yangquan, and the 78th Regiment is stationed in Niangziguan."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes. "It seems the Japs are really going to start shipping large quantities of combat supplies to the First Army. I'm not going to let them do that. Leave the intelligence data there, and you go get busy."

"Yes!"

Liu Jingrong put down a stack of intelligence information, turned around and left quickly.

Li Yunlong picked up the intelligence information and read it himself, unraveling it.

Not surprisingly.

The intelligence sent by Boss Lin was the most complete, followed by the intelligence sent by superiors, and finally the intelligence network of the Jinzhong base area itself.

As for whether the intelligence is accurate? Boss Lin's intelligence has never been wrong.

Based on intelligence analysis, the Japanese were mainly guarding against the Eighth Route Army's attacks on the Niangziguan to Shouyang section of the Zhengtai Railway, and the Shuozhou to Xinzhou section of the Tongpu Railway.

Of course, troops were also sent to defend other sections of the road, but the number of troops was relatively small.

If these main sections of the railway were attacked by the Eighth Route Army in Jinzhong, the Japanese army would certainly send reinforcements quickly, and the engineers would also be able to quickly repair the railways destroyed by the Eighth Route Army.

After combining maps and intelligence data, the deployment and distribution of the Japanese troops were fully understood.

A preliminary battle plan emerged in Li Yunlong's mind.

"Since the Japanese are so fond of defending the railway, we should send some troops and militia to destroy the Japanese railway and force them to send out troops to encircle and suppress them."

"Send more troops to surround the Japanese reinforcements and wait for them to continue calling for reinforcements."

"Then the main force will eat up the larger reinforcements of the Japs."

This time, Li Yunlong planned to surround the enemy and attack the reinforcements.

Encircling a point and attacking reinforcements is the Eighth Route Army's signature tactic, which involves many tricks and requires the use of many tactics and their flexible application.

Li Yunlong thought about it and felt that this time his tactics and battle plan of surrounding a point and attacking the reinforcements were not appropriate.

Siege and attack means surrounding an enemy town and using it as bait to attract reinforcements from other places. The real purpose is to attack the reinforcements and achieve the goal of annihilating the reinforcements.

The focus of besieging a point and attacking its reinforcements is on attacking the reinforcements, so the focus of troop deployment is the force that attacks the reinforcements, and the force that sieges the city is the auxiliary force.

There is also another tactic called siege the city and attack the reinforcements, which requires both capturing the city and annihilating the reinforcements.

The battle that Li Yunlong was going to fight this time was to encircle the enemy in the wild. He had to both eat up the surrounded enemy and annihilate the reinforcements.

So it should be called to annihilate the enemy and attack the reinforcements.

It is necessary to use various tactics such as luring the snake out of its hole, besieging a point and attacking reinforcements, ambushes, sparrow warfare, and the gourd baby saving his grandfather.

With the current strength of Jinzhong, it is not difficult to attack a county town garrisoned by an elite Japanese regiment.

but.

The Japanese troops were not defending in isolation. If one Japanese unit was attacked, the other Japanese units would rush to reinforce it regardless of their own lives.

They will never be like the National Army, where each unit will stand by and watch others die in order to preserve their strength.

In addition, the Japanese's mobility is also quite good.

This is the advantage of the devils, but the advantage can also be used to become the devils' disadvantage.

Currently, Xing Zhiguo serves as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the New 1st Regiment.

Li Yunlong immediately called Xing Zhiguo and asked him to put other work aside.

They immediately returned to the regiment headquarters and worked together to develop the combat plan and emergency plan.

At noon the next day, the two men's carefully formulated battle plan and emergency plan were released.

Xing Zhiguo raised the corner of his mouth, his brows showing a hint of fatigue, but his tone was excited: "Commander, if the superiors agree to our battle plan, we can conservatively estimate that we can destroy an infantry regiment of the 108th Division."

The 108th Division was a special division formed with retired personnel from the Japanese Army's 8th Division as its backbone.

In terms of both manpower and weapons and equipment, the 108th Division is much stronger than the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade.

It would be great if we could destroy an infantry regiment of the 108th Division.

"How many people are there in an infantry regiment?" Li Yunlong said with disdain. "Since we are going to fight, we must give Shinozuka Yoshio a hard time. We must severely damage at least one Japanese brigade this time."

Li Yunlong’s principle in fighting is that if he doesn’t attack, then it’s fine, but if he does, it’s a killing move!
Be decisive and never give the enemy time to react.

Xing Zhiguo said worriedly, "If we want to severely damage a Japanese brigade, we will probably need the cooperation of the main forces of the brother units. This will probably cause a chain reaction, and by then the whole of Shanxi will likely be at war."

"That's exactly the effect we want. The bigger the noise, the better." Li Yunlong raised his lips, "That way we can fish in troubled waters."

"Old Xing, you must immediately draft a telegram to report to the brigade headquarters, stating our battle plan and our determination to annihilate the enemy."

"Request the main force to cooperate."

In this battle, if the main forces of Southeast Shanxi, Southwest Shanxi, Northwest Shanxi and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region all launched a feint attack.

Then Li Yunlong's confidence will be much greater.

Li Yunlong handed over so many weapons, ammunition and combat supplies to the headquarters. Now the strength of the brother units, especially the material reserves and equipment level of the 129th Division, is many levels stronger than before.

Even in a head-on battle, the current 129th Division can easily compete with an elite division of the Japanese army.

Xing Zhiguo: “Yes!”

(End of this chapter)