Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 59 Transport Team Leader!
After completing the mission, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and Captain Chen led their troops back to their respective temporary bases.

Zhang Wanhe also returned to Wutai County with about 80 tons of combat supplies.

In the next few days, Li Yunlong received an order to lead his troops to move to the vicinity of the headquarters for rest and recuperation.

After two battles at Wangdongbao, the New 240st Regiment inevitably suffered more than casualties.

The New Third Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the 769th Regiment each suffered about 250 casualties. The total casualties of the Eighth Route Army in this battle were around 1000.

If the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade had not brought in the mountain artillery battalion, the Eighth Route Army's casualties would have been much lower.

The Japanese army suffered more than 2500 casualties, and hundreds of tons of combat supplies were seized or destroyed, which was a huge profit.

On that day, Kong Jie and Zhong Zhicheng led their troops to eliminate the main force of the village squadron that was sent to reinforce Wang Dongbao outside the city.

They then attacked the county town, which was defended by only a small group of Japanese soldiers and a small number of puppet troops.

In addition, Wang Chengzhu brought infantry artillery to provide artillery firepower for the infantry, and it didn't take much effort to wipe out the Japanese and puppet troops in the county.

And seized a large amount of combat supplies and food.

However, due to insufficient transportation capacity at the time, each soldier only carried a few dozen kilograms of combat supplies or food, and the rest of the combat supplies and food were all blown up.

By the time the main force of the Japanese troops from the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade arrived, Kong Jie and Zhong Zhicheng had already led their troops out of the county town, crossed the Hutuo River and entered the mountains.

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Taiyuan.

Second Theater Command.

The Japanese were ambushed in the Wangdongbao area and suffered heavy losses. The war zone commander Yan Xishan soon received the news.

This made Yan Xishan full of doubts.

According to the intelligence and information he obtained, the main force of the Eighth Route Army's 115th Division was in the direction of Datong Pingsui Road, the 120th Division was in the direction of Tongpu Road in northwest Shanxi, and the 129th Division was reinforcing Niangziguan and Zhengtai Road.

At present, there are no main forces of the Eighth Route Army in the areas of Gang County and Dai County. Even if there are, they are only a small main force.

The Eighth Route Army would not dare to take action to ambush thousands of Japanese soldiers unless a certain division of the Eighth Route Army was dispatched.

For example, in the Pingxingguan victory, almost the entire 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army was mobilized.

A small main force of the Eighth Route Army dared to ambush a Japanese transport team escorted by thousands of people, and even wiped out the entire Japanese transport team?

By the way, they also wiped out the Japanese cavalry battalion and caused over a thousand casualties to the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade.

Just outrageous.

Didn’t the main force of the 129th Division go to reinforce Niangzi Pass?
If that's the case...if Niangzi Pass is lost, then the blame can be put on the Eighth Route Army.

Humph... The Eighth Route Army wants weapons and ammunition, but it doesn't obey the orders of the theater headquarters. How can such a good thing happen in this world?

The Eighth Route Army left the front line without authorization and preserved its strength in the name of advancing behind enemy lines to conduct guerrilla warfare, which made Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xi Jinping very dissatisfied.

Just when Yan Laoxi was making his own plans.

"commander."

The intelligence officer walked in quickly:
"The Wangdongbao ambush has been thoroughly investigated. The Eighth Route Army troops involved in the battle included the 385th Regiment and the New Third Regiment of the 769th Brigade, and the New First Regiment and the Independent Regiment of the 386th Brigade. The commander was Li Yunlong, commander of the New First Regiment of the Eighth Route Army."

"Li Yunlong?" Yan Laoxi's voice suddenly rose. "Is it the Li Yunlong who attacked the Sakata regiment?"

"Report to the Commander." The intelligence officer nodded. "That's the man."

"It's actually him!" Yan Laoxi narrowed his eyes and was silent for a long time after hearing this name...

After the Sakata Regiment was defeated, Yan Laoxi immediately ordered the intelligence department to investigate Li Yunlong and obtain all of Li Yunlong's information.

Soon, the intelligence department delivered Li Yunlong's brief information to Yan Xishan. After learning that Li Yunlong had a low level of education and had never attended any military school, Yan Xishan lost interest in Li Yunlong.

A peasant who has never received further training in a military academy is just a mere warrior even if he has been through hundreds of battles and is lucky enough to kill the Sakata Regiment. Yan Laoxi does not believe that Li Yunlong has any extraordinary tactical skills.

However, in the Battle of Wangdongbao, this man commanded four regiments, including three core regiments, and actually killed more than 2500 Japanese devils and seized and destroyed hundreds of tons of Japanese combat supplies.

The four regiments of the Eighth Route Army had a total of no more than 5000 people, while the Japanese Army's 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, the Jiadi Detachment, and the Cavalry Battalion had a total strength of to people.

How did the Eighth Route Army manage to kill so many devils with inferior forces and equipment?

Is Li Yunlong really that powerful? Is he a natural-born general?
This forced Yan Laoxi to pay attention and he was also very jealous. If he could pull Li Yunlong into his own team...

The intelligence officer said, "Commander, according to the intelligence from below, the commander of the 358th Regiment, Chu Yunfei, has had contact with this person, and Chu Yunfei seems to be interested in making friends with him..."

Yan Laoxi was extremely suspicious and had spies around every officer above the battalion level in the Jinsui Army.

"This person's tactical command ability is beyond the reach of ordinary people. Let Chu Yunfei continue to make friends with him and see if he is willing to join my Shanxi-Suiyuan Army. If he is willing to join my Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, I will immediately promote him to division commander." Yan Laoxi said immediately, preparing to poach some of General Zhu's people.

Intelligence Staff: “Yes!”

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The new regiment’s base.

Li Yunlong returned to the New 1st Regiment’s base from the headquarters and brought back 1 silver dollars and a radio operator.

Although he received 1 silver dollars, Li Yunlong was a little angry and even cursed.

"Captain, who made you angry?" asked Deputy Captain Zhong Zhicheng when he saw this.

"Forget it, let's not talk about it!" Li Yunlong said with a wave of his hand.

This time, their four regiments won a great victory at Wangdongbao, nearly reversing the disadvantageous situation for the Nationalist forces on the Xinkou front, rendering the 5th Division and other main Japanese forces unable to launch a large-scale offensive. Chiang Kai-shek simply sent a commendation telegram: "Your Liu Division and Li Regiment have repeatedly achieved remarkable feats, inflicting heavy losses on the powerful enemy. This is deeply commendable."

In the great victory of Wangdongbao, Principal Chang not only did not give any substantial benefits, but was very angry.

Principal Chang even cursed and said, "Hey, damn it!" He gave the Eighth Route Army three divisions. Who allowed the Eighth Route Army to expand its troops without authorization?
Therefore, Principal Chang only rewarded the main force. Basic regiments like the New 1st Regiment were not on the organization list of the National Army at all.

Li Yunlong thought that Chiang Kai-shek had rewarded the New 1st Regiment for both the Pingxingguan victory and the Daixian Airport campaign, but Chiang Kai-shek hadn't rewarded them for their two consecutive victories, which made Li Yunlong somewhat angry.

But Li Yunlong changed his mind and felt that there was nothing to be angry about. It was not worth getting angry about such a thing.

If Chiang Kai-shek gives it to us, we will take it. If Chiang Kai-shek doesn’t give it to us, we don’t care about it. We, Li Kai-shek, are not without rich men.

Anyway, Chiang Kai-shek was the transport captain of our Eighth Route Army, and his weapons and ammunition would belong to the Eighth Route Army sooner or later.

By the way, since we have seized so many weapons and ammunition this time, can we appoint Itagaki as the transport team leader?

Most of the Red Army's weapons and equipment were captured from the Nationalist Army. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek had the reputation of "Transportation Captain" in our army long ago, but it was not widely known. It was not until the Battle of Lunan during the Liberation War that this title became widely known.

Thinking of the title of transport captain, Li Yunlong immediately asked Hu Zi to call the radio operator Xiao Zhang: "Xiao Zhang, draft a clear text telegram immediately."

"Yes, Captain." Xiao Zhang immediately took out his pen and notebook to take notes. "What's the content?"

Li Yunlong said, "I'll write this down for you to remember. I want to thank Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishirō, the transport captain of the Eighth Route Army, for traveling thousands of miles across the ocean to deliver weapons and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army."

Xiao Zhang was stunned: "Captain, are we going to send it out like this?"

"That's right." Li Yunlong nodded: "Send it out just like that."

Xiao Zhang left with a dazed expression, holding the telegram he had just drafted. He had never imagined that the first telegram he sent after joining the New 1st Regiment would have such content...

This Captain Li seems different from the other commanders of our Eighth Route Army! ?
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