Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 318: Make a Fortune!

Li Yunlong repeatedly looked at the map and the Japanese's Operation Plan No. 1.

The final decision was to ambush the Japanese 108th Division.

According to this battle plan, the three Japanese divisions planned to attack the southeastern Shanxi base from three directions.

The 20th Division's attack route was to start from Shouyang, Yangquan and other places on the Zhengtai Road, and launch a sweeping attack from north to south in the direction of Pingding and Xiyang.

The 108th Division's attack route was to start from Taigu, Qixian and other places, and attack Yushe, Wuxiang and other places along the Baijin Highway.

The 109th Division moved to the Xiangyuan and Licheng areas in southern Shanxi, launching a sweeping attack from south to north and invading bases such as Qin County and Liao County.

If the Jinzhong Military Region and the 129th Division wanted to ambush a group of Japanese divisions, they could only choose the 20th Division and the 108th Division.

After all, the 20th Division is a Type A division and has relatively strong combat effectiveness.

Li Yunlong recently saw an axe tactical theory in Boss Lin’s military theory book.

In fact, our army had already mastered this tactical theory during the Red Army period.

That is, concentrate superior forces to attack the enemy's weak points.

The price of annihilating the 20th Division is more attractive, but with the current manpower and firepower of the Eighth Route Army, the cost of casualties in annihilating the 20th Division will be relatively high.

In comparison, annihilating the 108th Division is a more appropriate choice.

As for the ambush location, the most suitable one is the Baijin Highway.

He stared at the map. Professional soldiers are very sensitive to terrain. Just by looking at the map, Li Yunlong could roughly know which places were suitable for ambush and which places were not suitable for ambush.

However, the specific ambush location still needs to be repeatedly scouted on site in person.

The Baijin Highway was built in 14, the 1925th year of the Republic of China. It is a highway connecting Baigui Town, Qi County, Jinzhong, Shanxi, and JC City in southeastern Shanxi. It is 348 kilometers long.

At least half of the road from Qi County to Qin County is located in continuous mountains, and there are many ideal ambush positions.

"It seems that I have to go to the headquarters in person in a couple of days."

Thinking of this, Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes. Such a large-scale combat operation must be carefully planned in advance.

And the most important point is that if he can gain command in this battle and win, he will not only be able to get reimbursement of weapons and ammunition, but also get a business price, plus the captured weapons and ammunition, which is definitely three times the profit.

Li Yunlong immediately called the Sharp Blade Commando and learned that Wei Dayong had personally led the 1st Combat Team to deliver intelligence information to the Southeast Shanxi Headquarters. Li Yunlong immediately asked the Sharp Blade Commando to ride on horseback to chase Wei Dayong back and told them not to deliver the intelligence information for the time being as he planned to deliver it himself.

"I wonder if the head of headquarters would agree?"

Li Yunlong: "Huzi, call the Third Battalion and ask Deputy Commander Xing to return to the regimental headquarters immediately and tell them there's an important situation."

Now the political commissar of the new regiment has not yet taken office. Xing Zhiguo is the deputy regiment commander, chief of staff and political commissar, and is busy all day long.

Zhang Hu: "Yes."

Half an hour later, Xing Zhiguo walked quickly into the regiment headquarters and asked quickly, "Captain, what's the emergency?"

Seeing Xing Zhiguo getting anxious, Li Yunlong said, "Old Xing, drink some water first and take a look at this little devil's battle plan. Sit down and read it slowly."

"Operation Plan No. 1?" Xing Zhiguo took a sip of water, quickly took the plan and started reading it, finishing it quickly.

Xing Zhiguo quickly understood and guessed that this was sent by Boss Lin, and only Boss Lin could get such detailed intelligence information.

You, Boss Lin, are still you, Boss Lin.

Cow breaking!

"Commander, the intelligence information sent by Boss Lin is extremely important. With this information, let's notify the headquarters and let the main force of the 129th Division ambush the Yamamoto special forces. We will ensure that the special forces are wiped out and that Yamamoto Ikki is killed!" After reading the Japanese battle plan, Xing Zhiguo instantly thought of a plan.

"I'm telling you, kid, can you be more ambitious?" Li Yunlong said disdainfully. "We exchanged 500 Japanese heads for this intelligence, and Yamamoto's special forces just got rid of us. What a loss!"

Li Yunlong never does business at a loss, and this time he doesn't intend to make an exception.

"Then Captain," Xing Zhiguo asked tentatively, "what do you mean?"

Li Yunlong pointed to the location of Baijin Road on the map and said, "I plan to eat up the Japanese 108th Division on Baijin Road."

Xing Zhiguo quickly followed Li Yunlong's train of thought: "Commander, do you want to ambush the 108th Division on Baijin Road with the main force of the division?"

The last time the main force of Jinzhong was dispatched, it severely damaged the 25th Brigade of the Japanese Army in Xinzhou and killed its brigade commander, Major General Naozo Naozo.

With the current strength of the Jinzhong base, there are not enough troops to ambush a fully-staffed special division.

But southeastern Shanxi is the home ground of the 129th Division, and the main force of the 129th Division is much larger than that of the Jinzhong Military Region.

If we gather the main forces of the 129th Division and the Jinzhong Military Region to ambush the 108th Division, there will be no problem.

"Yes."

Li Yunlong nodded, his expression becoming serious:

"Let's work out a preliminary battle plan. I plan to conduct a reconnaissance on the Baijin Highway and then report to the leaders at the Southeast Jin headquarters. I'm afraid we're going to make a fortune in this battle!"

The mention of getting rich, and making a fortune at that, instantly invigorated Xing Zhiguo, who immediately began formulating a battle plan with Li Yunlong. Xing Zhiguo explained, "The 108th Division is a special division, a scaled-down version of a regular division. At full strength, the Japanese 108th Division has a total strength of over men."

"If we were to ambush the 108th Division, we would need at least twice that many troops, or more than men."

"There are currently about 20,000 troops in the Jinzhong base area, but 8,000 of them are new recruits who haven't completed their training yet and are definitely not able to go to the battlefield."

Li Yunlong nodded, Xing Zhiguo's analysis was absolutely correct.

Ambushing a Japanese division, especially a special division, is a big job, an ultra-large-scale ambush.

It is difficult to defeat the 108th Division with the same number of troops. It would be safer to have three times the number of troops. However, the 129th Division has so many troops, but it still has to allocate troops to block enemy reinforcements. The 108th Division was ambushed and in danger. The 20th Division and the 109th Division will definitely try their best to reinforce it.

Li Yunlong said, "Then let the new recruits stay at the base, and let the 30 infantry companies that have been developing independently return to their respective units. After this battle is over, let them develop independently."

Although they developed independently, all 30 infantry companies established contact with the regimental headquarters.

After all, the weapons used by these 30 infantry companies were all provided by Boss Lin, and these independently developed troops needed logistical supplies from the regiment headquarters.

Xing Zhiguo nodded and said, "We will leave one to two thousand veterans in the Jinzhong base to guard the home. In this way, our Jinzhong base can send out 129 main forces, and the 3th Division will only need to send out about ."

Li Yunlong's lips curled up slightly. "In fact, the frontal firepower of our Jinzhong base troops far exceeds that of the 108th Division. Add to that the 129 troops of the 3th Division. As long as the Japanese from the 108th Division enter our encirclement, we will be able to win this battle."

Today, the Jinzhong base area has 120 heavy artillery pieces including 105 mortars and 104 howitzers.

Li Yunlong thought about it carefully. The 105mm howitzer has high requirements for road conditions. Since he could not go to southeastern Shanxi, he could only carry a 120 mortar.

But even if it is 120 mortars, the Jinzhong Military Region has 79 of them, and the main force of the division will definitely dispatch one or two heavy artillery regiments.

The 108th Division has at most one artillery regiment and is not on the same level at all.

In terms of light and heavy machine guns, rifles and submachine guns, the Eighth Route Army also completely crushed the Japanese 108th Division.

The 108th Division was beaten badly in all aspects except for the individual soldier's quality.

But this battle was an ambush, and the Japanese soldiers' individual skills could not be brought into play at all.

Fire coverage is all that matters.

Soon, Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo discussed and worked out a preliminary battle plan.

Then Li Yunlong took the battle plan and went to Baijin Highway for reconnaissance accompanied by the Blade Commando.

……

Taiyuan.

inner city.

Japanese First Army Headquarters.

The commander of the First Army, Yoshio Shinozuka, was entertaining the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, Rensuke Isogai, who came to observe. The captain of the special forces, Ikki Yamamoto, and the chief of staff, Ren'ya Mutaguchi, were standing beside him.

This time, Rensuke Isogai came to the North China Front Army to observe, and he also brought with him twelve staff officers and six colonels as regiment commanders.

"Isoya-kun, this is the newest Longjing tea this year, please."

As soon as Yoshio Shinozuka put his hands down, Lianjie Isogai, who was sitting across the table, picked up the teacup and took a sip.

Both of them had served as commander of the 10th Division, and Yoshio Shinozuka took over as commander of the 10th Division from Rensuke Isogai.

So the two are very familiar with each other.

Isogai Lianjie was intoxicated: "The tea is green and mellow, fresh and sweet. It is really a good tea with all the colors, aromas and flavors."

"China is truly vast and rich in resources." Shinozuka Yoshio took a sip and nodded. "Such fine tea is rarely found in the Empire."

Isogai Lianjie said: "Such precious tea, and this beautiful land, will eventually belong to the Yamato people."

Shinozuka Yoshio said, "But it's not easy to completely conquer China."

"That's right," said Rensuke Isogai. "At the beginning, the Imperial Military said that the Chinese government would conquer them within three months. But now, more than a year has passed since the July 7 Incident, and not only have we failed to conquer China, but the Chinese resistance has become even more intense."

During the Battle of Taierzhuang, Rensuke Isogai realized this deeply.

Yamamoto Ikki looked expressionless and asked, "Don't you think that there's something wrong with the locust army's strategy and tactics?"

"Oh?" Isogai Lianjie's expression changed, and he asked, "Colonel Yamamoto, what do you think is wrong with the locust army's strategy and tactics?"

Yamamoto Ikki then said, "Two months ago, during the Jinzhong Campaign, a small unit of the Eighth Route Army, less than eighty men, ambushed the 39th Brigade's field artillery battalion, which was protected by a squadron of infantry. General, what do you think the outcome was?"

Isogai Lianjie said, "The result must have been the complete annihilation of the Eighth Route Army's small unit. An infantry company plus a field artillery battalion, the total strength is at least 600 to 700 people, not to mention the troops of a Type A division."

"But the fact is," Yamamoto Ikki said expressionlessly, "the Eighth Route Army's small unit suffered no casualties, while the Locust Army's infantry company and field artillery battalion were completely destroyed."

"What?" Isogai Lianjie was shocked. "This small unit of the Eighth Route Army is so powerful?"

(End of this chapter)