Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"Okay, I'll make arrangements right now!"

When Li Yunlong heard that Stilwell agreed to Ridgway's suggestion, although there was some worry on his face, he had already started to consider in his heart whether he should let Ridgway encounter an accident.

Li Yunlong acted very quickly. After making the decision, he immediately sent a telegram to the Third Corps. At the same time, he prepared vehicles and sent these American generals to the Third Corps. The specific combat unit to which they would be assigned was decided by the deputy division commander.

Stilwell did not go with them. He came here specifically to see these American generals off. He had a lot of things to do in the mountain city and old Burma.

When only Li Yunlong and Stilwell were left in the command center, Stilwell took out an agreement with a smile.

"General Li Yunlong, I've already approved the financial aid you requested last time. It's a 10 million US dollar, interest-free loan for ten years."

Seeing Stilwell take out the agreement, Li Yunlong raised his eyebrows and said, "Thank you for your generosity."

Li Yunlong took a look at the contents of the agreement. There was no trap. It was just a simple interest-free loan. He directly signed the word "Linglong" on the agreement.

“When will the money arrive?”

"All you need is an account. If you don't have one, we can provide one and deposit the money into Citibank. You can also contact us through our ambassador to purchase any supplies in China."

Hearing this, Li Yunlong's eyes lit up, but he shook his head and said, "Ten million, it's just a drop in the bucket!"

Stilwell heard the hidden meaning in Li Yunlong's words and asked curiously, "General Li Yunlong, what's the problem?"

Chapter 680: Bomber

"General Stilwell, you've already helped us so much. I'll figure out the rest myself."

Li Yunlong lit a cigarette for himself and spoke while shaking his head.

Li Yunlong knew Stilwell quite well. Stilwell was not afraid of threats. Shancheng had threatened him when he fell out with him, but Stilwell was not afraid at all.

But as long as Shancheng came to Stilwell and cried poor, Stilwell was still willing to provide them with some help.

"General Li Yunlong, if you have any difficulties, please tell me."

After hearing this, Li Yunlong sighed and said, "It's still the same old problem: money and supplies!"

Li Yunlong bit the end of his cigarette and said, as if he had made up his mind: "Although our troops have temporarily won victories in the four eastern provinces, these victories are only temporary!"

"The Japanese are an industrial country, and we are an agricultural country. The gap is really too big. Now, thanks to the aircraft supported by you and the aircraft supported by the Russians, we have gained air superiority."

"But our planes are all supported by you. Every time one of these planes is destroyed, one less is left. Currently, our total number of planes is less than 300, and there are a large number of trainer planes among them."

"Although we occupied Fengtian and were able to independently produce some aircraft and tanks, the aircraft and tanks produced in Fengtian were all outdated models, such as the Type 97 tank and the Type 92 aircraft. The Japanese were using Zero fighters and Dragon fighters, which had excellent performance. Our pilots..."

When Li Yunlong said this, his eyes turned red.

After hearing this, Stilwell quietly took out a cigar, cut off the end, and thought for a moment: "General Li Yunlong, do you want some aircraft and tank design drawings?"

Li Yunlong nodded after hearing this, then shook his head and said, "Blueprints alone are not enough. I also need some experts. You know that the literacy rate among the people in our country is not high. It is difficult to produce advanced fighter jets with only blueprints without experts."

Hearing this, Stilwell couldn't help but frown. If it was just a design drawing, Stilwell could still help and talk to the cripple to transfer some more advanced fighter and tank technologies from the country.

But the lack of experts and skilled technical workers made Stilwell feel troubled. After all, the United States was also busy producing airplanes and tanks, and there was also a shortage of workers.

"Besides that, we are also in urgent need of medicines, but the amount of medicines your country has provided is simply not enough for hundreds of thousands of troops. If we could have a penicillin production line, perhaps it would alleviate some of the problem."

Li Yunlong sighed again when he said this: "Besides that, our metallurgical technology is not good either. This is the bayonet used by our troops."

Li Yunlong took out the Mitsubishi bayonet, and Stilwell picked it up and looked at it, but found nothing unusual.

"This kind of bayonet is a weapon we have to use because our metallurgical technology is substandard. This way, we can avoid being at a disadvantage when fighting the Japanese with bayonets!"

"In addition, the devils used a kind of radar technology..."

Li Yunlong talked a lot, but his speaking speed was not fast, so Stilwell could remember it bit by bit.

It’s not that Li Yunlong really wants these things. In fact, what Li Yunlong wants is hidden in the words, and Stilwell needs to think about it himself.

For example, Li Yunlong said that there was a lack of experts and workers. Given the current situation in the United States, they would definitely not send their experts to Li Yunlong.

But don’t forget that there are many Chinese experts in the United States.

Instead of secretly sending people to contact experts in the United States and letting the United States notice the abnormality, it is better to let Stilwell think of this point himself, like Li Yunlong, and then take the initiative to propose to the Lame Man to send these experts to Li Yunlong.

In addition, what Li Yunlong really wanted was the penicillin production line and metallurgical technology.

The other things were all made up by Li Yunlong, and these things are high-tech things in the United States, and the United States would not give them to Li Yunlong.

However, Li Yunlong made so many demands, and some of them must be met. After removing those that cannot be met, the remaining ones that are more acceptable will naturally be agreed to.

"General Li Yunlong, I will report your needs and provide you with as much support as possible!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong smiled and pretended to think for a moment before saying, "General Stilwell, I have another request."

Seeing the hesitant look on Li Yunlong's face, Stilwell said without any doubt: "General Li Yunlong, please say that we are allies in the fight against fascism. There is no need to be so polite."

Hearing Stilwell's words, Li Yunlong smiled and walked to the front of the map: "General Stilwell, I think if we want to quickly defeat the Japanese, in addition to winning on the battlefield, we also need to strike at the Japanese homeland!"

"what do you mean?"

Li Yunlong pointed to the Japanese mainland and said, "I need some long-range bombers to bomb the Japanese mainland. General Stilwell, please rest assured that these bombers are only on loan to me temporarily. I will return them to you after we defeat the Japanese!"

Hearing this, Stilwell did not doubt it. He looked at the Japanese map and thought for a moment before saying, "General Li Yunlong, did you bomb Sasebo last time?"

"Yes, we used incendiary bombs, and it worked!"

Li Yunlong specifically pointed out that he used incendiary bombs in order to avoid something from happening.

To be precise, Li Yunlong asked Stilwell for long-range bombers in order to divert the topic to incendiary bombs.

Many people know about the Li Mei barbecue incident. The United States used a large number of incendiary bombs against the Japanese, including Yingdu, making many of them "acquaintances."

However, the ratio of thermite in the incendiary bombs used by the United States during the Sakura bombing was finally finalized after more than a dozen tests in China.

Because of the US incendiary bomb experiments, at least tens of thousands of Chinese civilians died in the US bombing.

On December 1944, 12, with the consent of Yamashiro, the US military dispatched more than 18 aircraft, including more than bombers and more than fighters, to carry out a large-scale bombing on Hankou.

The bombers carried a large number of incendiary bombs and dropped them from Yiyuan Road to Wumalu Riverside to the railway line, turning the three-kilometer-long and five-kilometer-wide urban area into a sea of ​​fire, causing countless civilian casualties.

More than 500 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped over an area of ​​15 square kilometers.

Then on December 12 of the same year, another 21-ton bomb was dropped, resulting in more than civilian casualties.

The US Air Force's combat log also recorded an assessment of the Hankou bombing: 83% of wooden buildings were destroyed, and the proportion of thermite was increased to implement Operation Sakura City.

Li Yunlong certainly could not bear to see the United States use Chinese civilians as test subjects on the domestic battlefield, so he brought up the matter in advance and used the Japanese to conduct experiments.

After hearing this, Stilwell thought for a moment and said, "General Li Yunlong, your suggestion is indeed good. I will report it to the country!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong thought for a moment and said, "I also hope that you can send some experts to evaluate the bombing effect. You will definitely bomb the Japanese in the future, so this is a good opportunity to improve the formula of the incendiary bomb!"

Hearing this, Stilwell nodded and said, "General Li Yunlong has thought it through very carefully. I will report this to the country."

Hearing this, Li Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief. If the United States conducted experiments on Japanese soil, the people of Hankou should not suffer.

As for the group of people in Shancheng, Li Yunlong no longer wanted to mention them. This group of people had done countless bad things, and these were just the tip of the iceberg.

Chapter 681 The excited devils are finally going to fight back

“Americans come to study here?”

After receiving Li Yunlong's telegram, the deputy division commander was stunned. He looked at the chief of staff beside him and asked, "What are the Americans here to learn from us?"

The chief of staff of the Fourth Corps was the former deputy chief of staff. This time he came to the Heilongjiang-Jilin-Liaoning-Chahar Military Region with Wu Yier.

"I don't know either, but Li Yunlong's telegram asked us to be a little secretive, especially some tactics like the three-three system, and not to show them as much as possible."

After reading the telegram, the Chief of Staff shook his head and said, "This is a bit difficult. The three-three system is now a compulsory training subject for our new recruits. If we suddenly stop using it, I don't know if the soldiers can adapt."

"This guy definitely has his own ideas. Let's do as he says. Aren't these American officers supposed to go to the lower divisions for training? Then let them go to some newly formed recruit divisions to learn."

"Okay, I'll make arrangements right now!"

A day later, the American observation group arrived at the Fourth Corps. The deputy division commander and others warmly received them, and then arranged these American officers into the new recruit division below.

"Is this the weapon you used?"

Ridgway looked at the Type 38 rifles in the soldiers' hands, picked them up curiously and studied them carefully.

"Yes, the Type 38 rifle. This is a good thing. It's much better than the old sleeve and Hanyang rifle we used before!"

The speaker was a battalion commander who knew English and acted as a temporary translator.

"Oh, you used these weapons to defeat the devils?"

Ridgway had no impression of the Japanese army as he had never fought against them. All his information about Japan came from various war reports.

In Ridgway's eyes, the Type 38 rifle in his hand was a very simple weapon, roughly the same as the Springfield rifle they were previously equipped with. However, now the US Army has replaced it with the Garand rifle, which has a clear advantage in firepower.

"Yes, when we didn't have these weapons, we could still defeat the Japs with more primitive weapons!"

This battalion commander followed Li Yunlong when he was in the New 1st Regiment. At the beginning, he used the old sleeve. Compared with the old sleeve, the Type 38 rifle is indeed a better equipment.

Ridgway observed the battalion commander carefully, seeing his expression and the pride in his eyes, which did not seem to be fake, and he made a note of this incident in his mind.

In fact, most of Li Yunlong's troops had already been equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles. The newly formed recruit division had too many people and insufficient equipment, so the captured Type 38 rifles were handed over to the recruit division.

If Ridgway went to the northern front troops or the Tashan defense troops, he would find that the Type 38 rifle was almost extinct in the combat troops except for a few accurate shooters who occasionally used it.

Ridgway and others settled down in the newly formed 61st Division, which was headquartered in Changbai Mountain.

The straight-line distance from the peninsula area controlled by Japan is no more than 50 kilometers, and it is considered one of the front lines.

Half a month after Ridgway and others arrived, the Japanese army had completed its preparations and began to prepare for the autumn counterattack.

"The devil finally couldn't bear it anymore!"

Li Yunlong looked at the telegram sent by the Air Force and handed it to the Chief of Staff.

"Winter is less than a month away. If we engage in a large-scale battle in winter, the logistical pressure will be enormous. The Japanese want to finish us off within a month!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong couldn't help but snort coldly: "It seems that the Japs are determined to win. They secretly mobilized a batch of transport ships from Shandong Province. It seems that they are planning to open up a new battlefield!"

At this time, the telegram Li Yunlong received was from the First Corps, saying that the Japanese troops in Harbin had begun to move south and had already engaged in a firefight with their front-line positions.

"Order the Air Force to patrol Outer Mongolia and the Chahar region to find the location of the main force of the Japanese army!"

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong was not worried about the northern front. The division commander led the First Corps with nearly 300,000 troops. Although it could not be said to be as solid as a rock, it was as stable as Mount Tai.

What Li Yunlong was worried about was the Japanese troops hiding in the dark. As long as these Japanese troops did not come out, Li Yunlong would have to be on guard to avoid being caught off guard.