Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 416 Is it okay to disrespect ancestors?
At the headquarters of the New 1st Regiment, Li Yunlong was giving orders.

"Order the tank battalion commander to bring all the tanks over and prepare to fire directly at the enemy positions on Jiangjun Ridge."

"Each artillery group moves toward Jiangjunling, with their muzzles pointed at Jiangjunling, and takes turns firing at the devil's Jiangjunling."

Tonight, Li Yunlong had no intention of letting the Japanese rest. He fought non-stop all night, on the one hand tiring out the Japanese and puppet troops, and on the other hand inflicting certain casualties on them.

Zhao Gang said, "Old Li, what's the point of this? The Japs and puppet troops are hiding in the tunnels we dug. Wouldn't our artillery shells be wasted?"

Although Boss Lin was reimbursed after the war and consumed less ammunition in the battle, Boss Lin was still not happy.

But even if Boss Lin was unhappy, Zhao Gang was afraid of wasting the shells. After all, Boss Lin's shells were not blown by the wind.

"How could it be in vain?"

Li Yunlong's expression was full of shrewdness and strategy:

"The Japanese's offensive tactics are: artillery bombardment followed by infantry charge, and then infantry charge followed by artillery bombardment. Tonight we're going to teach them a lesson. What the hell is a tactic? We're going to feint our infantry and lure the Japanese out of the tunnels and onto our positions. Then we'll have the artillery groups take turns bombarding them."

This tactic could only be effective at night, because during the day the Japanese could see whether the Eighth Route Army infantry was actually attacking.

"Ha ha…"

Zhao Gang was immediately amused, with an expression that said he had learned something:
"You really are the Chinese type of cunning, kid?"

"Let's talk about tactics!" Zhang Dabiao smiled slightly, his eyes sharp. "We Chinese are the ancestors of the Japanese devils. How can we disrespect our ancestors?"

"but……"

Zhao Gang stared at the map and said worriedly, "We're being ruthless. Don't scare the Japanese and the puppet army. If they slip away from Jiangjunling at night, they'll suffer a huge loss. Among these Japanese are two major generals and a field artillery regiment."

"Don't worry, they can't escape." Li Yunlong sneered, "Da Biao, you lead the 200st, th, th, and th Infantry Battalions, armed with flamethrowers and pepper shells. Take the small path to the front of Jiangjunling and cut off the Japanese's retreat towards Heyuan County."

Originally, the New 1st Regiment had six infantry battalions. More than a month ago, the guerrilla forces led by the Eighth Route Army, including county brigades and district squads in several counties, were reorganized into two main battalions.

Now the New 1500st Regiment has eight main infantry battalions in northwest Shanxi. Each infantry battalion has more than people at full strength. Each infantry battalion has five infantry companies, one machine gun company, one artillery company, and one logistics support company.

On average, each company has nearly 200 people.

"Yes." Zhang Dabiao accepted the order without hesitation, and then said, "But Captain, where can we get so many flamethrowers and pepper bombs?"

The concrete and tunnel fortifications built by the New 1st Regiment at Jiangjunling were mainly facing the direction of Heyuan County.

In the battle of Jiangjunling, it is necessary to cut off the retreat routes of the Japanese and puppet troops, otherwise the enemy may escape at any time.

Zhang Dabiao naturally knew that flamethrowers and pepper bombs were effective weapons against tunnels.

"I asked Boss Lin for an advance a few days ago," Li Yunlong said with a chuckle. "During that time, you were inspecting the terrain in northwest Shanxi. I also asked Boss Lin to make the chili pepper bombs. In addition to RDX explosives, the 82mm shells also contain perverted and invincible chili peppers."

When building the permanent concrete fortifications, Li Yunlong knew that the fortifications were very powerful and even the 152mm howitzers could not destroy them.

Not to mention the bazooka.

So Li Yunlong has been thinking about what method he can use to destroy this permanent concrete fortification.

What's more, he actually came up with a solution, which was to use pepper bombs and flamethrowers in combination.

So Li Yunlong asked Boss Lin to specially customize a batch.

"Is this the feast you prepared for the devils?"

Zhao Gang suddenly realized and thought to himself that Li Yunlong was really insidious and cunning.

"That's right!"

Li Yunlong nodded and looked at the watch on his hand:

"I've already given the order to the motor vehicle battalion. They should be on their way to the headquarters by now."

This place is not far from the logistics warehouse in Ping'an County.

During these days of fighting, the motorized battalion played a vital role, making several daily trips back and forth between the artillery positions and the Ping'an County logistics warehouse, delivering large quantities of artillery shells, freshly steamed meat buns, fruit, canned goods, and water. Although the battalion was also attacked by Japanese aircraft, these aircraft were not its primary target, and since it was equipped with some anti-aircraft firepower, the losses were minimal.

Even if the Japanese aircraft bombs destroyed the roads and bridges, the engineering battalion equipped with small and medium-sized road construction equipment quickly repaired them.

Li Yunlong secretly sighed that although the big mule was also great, the car was still more efficient.

About half an hour later, the motorized battalion arrived near the headquarters, bringing with it 200 flamethrowers, some napalm, 1000 artillery shells, and a large amount of food.

Including meat buns, steamed buns, canned food, water and other hot dishes. In Ping'an County, the directors of the Women's Association of each village led the women to set up hundreds of large pots inside and outside Ping'an County, specifically responsible for cooking food for the soldiers on the front line.

In addition to the New 1st Regiment in Jiangjunling, the soldiers of the New 3rd Regiment and the Independent Regiment in Shaohukou and Majiapo were also able to have a bite of hot food.

At twelve o'clock midnight, the soldiers from each battalion, who had slept for a few hours after the battle, had eaten and drunk their fill and regained their energy and fighting capacity.

Afterwards, Zhang Dabiao led four battalions and began to penetrate the main slope of Jiangjunling from two small paths.

There are two small paths nearby that can lead to the main slope of Jiangjunling, but the mountain roads are very steep. The New 1st Regiment built concrete fortifications on the dangerous terrain of the two paths and placed several general-purpose machine guns, so that one man can block the way for ten thousand.

In the battles of the previous few days, the Japanese from two squadrons of the 4th Brigade tried to make a detour through a small path, but they were beaten back with heavy casualties.

Li Yunlong estimated that the Japanese must have also sent troops to defend the small road to prevent the Eighth Route Army from infiltrating the small road to the main slope position of Jiangjunling.

Therefore, while he ordered Zhang Dabiao to be cautious, he also ordered his troops to launch a feint attack on the reverse slope of Jiangjunling while Zhang Dabiao led his troops to infiltrate, in order to attract the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops.

Under the cover of night, the second battalion commander led the soldiers of the eighth company and quietly approached the reverse slope position of Jiangjunling.

A few hundred meters behind the soldiers of the Eighth Company, 27 tanks of the New First Regiment were lined up in a row, with their muzzles pointing at the Japanese reverse slope positions. Further behind, 36 120mm mortars of the New First Regiment were ready. Further away, the muzzles of 36 75mm mountain guns, 24 105mm howitzers and 24 152mm howitzers were all pointing at Jiangjun Ridge.

The Eighth Company crawled forward to a position about 300 meters away from the reverse slope position of Jiangjunling.

There was originally no position on the reverse slope of Jiangjunling, but there were many tunnel entrances. The Japanese built some trenches and foxholes on the reverse slope.

At this time, on the reverse slope position of Jiangjunling, Takeshi Sakurada stared outside the position and felt something was wrong. Why was there so much silence all around?
The silence was so intense that Major General Sakurada Takeshi felt a chill in his heart. Soldiers do not like silence, because silence on the battlefield often contains greater danger and foreshadows more intense fighting.

Sakurada Takeshi intuitively realized that the Eighth Route Army was planning a more violent attack.

After several days of fierce fighting, Takeshi Sakurada has become numb to the casualties. He now knows that reinforcements are approaching him.

With the favorable terrain, close air support and airdrops, and fortifications built by the Eighth Route Army, it would be no problem to hold out at Jiangjunling for two days.

He hoped to use the remaining forces of the 4th Brigade and the Guards Mixed Brigade to firmly attract the main force of the New 1st Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

Wait until the reinforcements' counter-encirclement is closed, and then we will attack from the middle!
If he wins, he will be promoted to lieutenant general and reach the peak of his life. If he loses, he will die with honor and remain loyal to Tianhuang.

"Let's fire a few flares at the opposite side and see what happens!" Takeshi Sakurada gave the artillery an order.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Several grenade launchers opened fire, and four or five flares soared into the air, drew an arc in the sky, and fell straight towards the formation of the 8th Company of the New 1st Regiment.

"Baga, the enemy is attacking!"

With the help of the flares, Sakurada Takeshi saw through the telescope that there were gray figures lying there, very close to the front line. Sakurada Takeshi was shocked.

"Fire!"

The commander of the eighth company gave the order decisively.

"Da da da……"

Intensive firepower was directed at the Japanese positions.

The front-line soldiers threw grenades forward 300 meters across the Japanese front-line position.

"Boom boom boom..."

Since it's a feint, the louder the better.

(End of this chapter)