Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 81 Preparation before war!

Li Yunlong immediately called the signalman and issued an order: "Order the Second Battalion, the Guard Platoon, the Special Service Company, and the Artillery Platoon to prepare for departure. The First and Third Battalions will hand over their submachine guns and light machine guns to the Second Battalion. After this battle is over, the Second Battalion will return the weapons to the Third and First Battalions."

This cooperation was to kill 200 Japanese officers and a teaching team consisting of 100 Japanese soldiers.

The New 1st Regiment only has one chance to act independently. After careful consideration, Li Yunlong does not intend to use this only opportunity this time.

This only opportunity to act independently can only be used when you make a fortune.

Although 30 mortars and more than 1 artillery shells are definitely a huge fortune.

However, to deal with the No. 300 devils and possess intelligence information about them, the assault team consisting of the Second Battalion, the Guard Platoon and the Special Forces Company is enough.

If the commando team is not reinforced with weapons, it will naturally not be enough.

However, the firepower of 70 submachine guns, 70 light machine guns, 8 heavy machine guns, sufficient Mark 2 grenades, and 2 infantry guns were enough to defeat the 300 Japanese devils.

In the two battles, the ambush on the Bantian Regiment Headquarters and the victory at Wangdongbao, the New 30st Regiment lost about light machine guns and submachine guns each.

However, the two actual battles with flames, and the ample amount of bullets that the soldiers found unbelievable, greatly improved the soldiers' marksmanship.

The signalman turned around and delivered the order: "Yes."

Watching the signalman's departing figure, Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes and said, "The New 1st Regiment is already well-off, but it's still not enough, far from enough."

Is Yang Hucheng's teaching corps of the 17th Route Army wealthy enough?
After a battle with the Japanese at Niangzi Pass, only one in ten officers and soldiers survived.

Even if a new regiment forms a commando team to go on a mission now, the weapons and equipment of the other two battalions still have to be distributed evenly to the battalion that is assigned the mission.

Concentrate firepower.

If the commando team goes on a mission one day, the weapons and equipment of the other two battalions are no longer distributed to the battalion on the mission, which can be considered to have achieved initial abundance.

Days like this shouldn't last long.

Then, under the guidance of Political Commissar Zhong, Li Yunlong wrote a list himself with a pen. After giving it to Political Commissar Zhong for correction, Li Yunlong called Zhang Hu and said, "Huzi, go inform Lao Wang from the logistics department and ask him to prepare the ammunition according to this number."

From today on, Li Yunlong plans to fight and study at the same time.

"Yes, Captain."

Zhang Hu took the list and looked at it. It said:

Immediately prepare weapons and ammunition for 70 machine guns, 70 submachine guns, 8 heavy machine guns, and 200 rifles, with 300 rounds of ammunition for each light machine gun and submachine gun, 100 rounds of ammunition for each rifle, 800 rounds of ammunition for each heavy machine gun, and 3000 Mark II grenades. The artillery platoon will be provided with 2 rounds of ammunition per gun.

This is a nighttime forced march, and in order to ensure speed, soldiers should not carry too much ammunition.

However, when delivering weapons and ammunition, Boss Lin gave the new regiment a batch of high-quality mules.

The bodies and legs of these mules are larger than those of domestic mules. They are strong, have great endurance, are easy to feed, and are very docile and obedient. Even if they carry more than 400 kilograms of supplies, they can still move briskly on rugged mountain roads.

The logistics director Lao Wang and the soldiers in the logistics department call them big mules.

With these large mules, the soldiers could hand over their weapons and ammunition to them, allowing them to march lightly or even empty-handed.

However, in order to deal with emergencies during the march, the soldiers had to carry their own weapons and some ammunition.

What if we encounter the Japanese while marching and the soldiers have no weapons or ammunition? Wouldn’t that be a bad thing?

"Yes!" Zhang Hu turned and left.

Political Commissar Zhong asked, "Old Li, would you like to report to the brigade headquarters?"

"No need." Li Yunlong waved his hand and said, "The brigade commander has allowed the independent deployment of a battalion."

Li Yunlong was able to obtain a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

The superiors have tacitly approved Captain Li's actions.

As long as you don't make mistakes of principle, you can make as much noise as you want. It would be a feat if you could pull a few hairs off the beards of Kawaishi Fumisaburo and Itagaki Seishirō. Political Commissar Zhong nodded, but he planned to send a signalman to report to the brigade headquarters after Li Yunlong and the assault team left.

This is a matter of principle.

It was approaching the early hours of the morning.

The surrounding brother troops have all fallen asleep.

Li Yunlong led the Second Battalion of the New First Regiment, the Guard Platoon, the Special Service Company and the Artillery Platoon, and marched covertly along the narrow mountain path towards Zhengtai Road.

Li Yunlong and the soldiers had slept during the day and were full of energy at night.

Dazhai Mountain is only more than 20 kilometers away from Zhengtai Road. After a forced march in the middle of the night, the commandos arrived at a mountain forest near Zhengtai Road near dawn.

The army of more than 400 people, with 50 large mules, had a detailed map provided by Boss Lin. In addition, it was the cold winter season, and under the cover of night, the soldiers moved silently all the way.

When the Nationalist army retreated along the Zhengtai Road, it damaged some stations and railway facilities, and the Eighth Route Army also destroyed some railroad tracks.

The Japanese engineers were unable to repair the road in a short period of time, so they could only use trucks to transport troops and supplies along the Zhengtai Highway.

According to the information provided by Boss Lin, the Japanese teaching team will ride trucks along the Zhengtai Highway towards Yangquan today.

The exact time is unknown, but it is definitely today.

In the night before dawn, Li Yunlong looked at the soldiers who were shivering with cold but had firm eyes. Although the weather was very cold, it did not affect the soldiers' enthusiasm to kill the devils at all.

Soon, Wang Hongcai, the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad who was sent by Li Yunlong to scout the ambush site, returned.

"Have you found the location of the ambush?"

Looking at Wang Hongcai who was walking over, Li Yunlong asked.

The sun rises late in the mornings in winter. It is about an hour and a half before dawn. The commandos must enter the ambush position and bury the mines before dawn.

The ambush force of 400 people is not small in size. Jin is a mountainous area, but most of the mountains in Jin are bare, so it is not easy to find an ideal ambush location.

Moreover, the Japanese planes stationed at the Daguo Village Airport in Shimen City will definitely fly along the Zhengtai Railway after dawn to provide infantry reinforcements to the Japanese on the ground.

This increased the risk of the commando team being discovered by Japanese planes.

Once the commandos were discovered by the Japanese planes, if the Japanese pilots remained calm and called some fighters and bombers to drop aerial bombs on the commandos, it would be very bad.

Therefore, Li Yunlong attached great importance to and was cautious in choosing the ambush location.

"Reporting to the regiment commander, I led the soldiers of the reconnaissance squad to conduct a reconnaissance within a radius of 5 miles. There are no valleys on either side of this section of the road."

Wang Hongcai was a veteran reconnaissance soldier of the Red Fourth Front Army. He had rich experience in combat and reconnaissance, and had repeatedly gone deep behind enemy lines to complete reconnaissance missions.

Li Yunlong originally planned to set up a reconnaissance platoon and let Wang Hongcai be the platoon leader.

"Is there no suitable ambush location?" Li Yunlong frowned.

The commandos are running out of time and must reach the ambush site and lay mines as quickly as possible.

"But Captain."

Wang Hongcai said:
"Over there, there's a terrain that's more suitable for an ambush, but I'm not sure. I need you to go and take a look yourself."

Li Yunlong immediately said, "Lead the way."

Wang Hongcai: “Yes.”

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(End of this chapter)