Regarding Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fu's attention, Li Ziyuan also said with a solemn face: "Chief, Taiyuan City is difficult to fight, and I have long been aware and prepared. During this time, in addition to training the troops, my troops have been practicing siege and street fighting tactics. My staff officer also carefully measured the height and thickness of the eastern wall of Taiyuan City. ”

"This staff officer of mine is a high-achieving student majoring in engineering at the Nanjing Military Academy. There is absolutely no problem with the data he measured. According to his measurements, we have ready the siege equipment. And from the second time I took over the position, I had already begun to secretly dig tunnels. ”

"Please trust the chiefs that we will complete the task with quality and quantity. But I have a few small requests, which is that what I need now is *, and the more the better. In addition, I heard that the 19th Corps and the 20th Corps had seized a lot of American-made ammunition from the Beiping stockpile in Pingjin. ”

"Can you give us some American-made light machine gun bullets, and some Thomson* bullets? At the end of last year, we crushed a division of the Youth Army and seized a lot of U.S. weapons and light weapons. Our troops basically did not have US weapons and equipment before, and the training intensity of the troops during this period was very high. ”

"There is not much left of the captured American-made light weapons and ammunition, and some needs to be replenished in order to maintain combat effectiveness. In particular, *, it is still very powerful in street fighting. If those troops don't want to, after this battle, I will hand over all the American light machine guns. The boss gave me a domestic Czech type, even if it was a Soviet-style turntable machine gun. ”

"Also, the Nineteenth Corps and the Twentieth Corps, if there are captured bazookas and recoilless guns, can you give me some of the excess*. I am ready to strengthen all the bazookas and recoilless guns to the front-line detachments, so as to enhance the offensive firepower of the front-line combat detachments. ”

"To be honest, I really don't want these beautiful weapons, except for *, *, 60 guns, and bazookas. In terms of performance, it is not much better than the Chinese formal and Czech ones we have captured, but the bullets are not easy to manipulate, and it is still more formal or 38 big cover insurance. ”

"But this*, bazookas, and recoilless guns, but they're really good stuff. There is absolutely no problem with hitting ordinary civil fortifications and machine gun fire points. In the case that the artillery cannot keep up, these lightweight weapons can at least effectively reduce our casualties. Boss, this thing is a good thing to hit tanks, but it is not bad to hit fire points and fortifications. ”

"In addition, I would like to be assigned to our artillery, under the unified command of my artillery battalion commander. The direction of our attack has always been the place where we have been fighting and besieging for a long time. The enemy fortifications and firing points here, no one knows better than us. We have unified command, so that the maximum power of artillery fire can be fully utilized. ”

"Also, our troops have been fighting with the Jin Sui army for a long time, and all the artillery is captured by the Jin Sui army. Most of them are Jin mountain artillery, which is suitable for mountain warfare, but it is a little worse for attacking fortified positions. As a direct-aim artillery, the mountain artillery is not as good as the 75 field artillery, which has a straighter trajectory. Can you transfer a field artillery company to us on the basis of the existing reinforced artillery? ”

Regarding Li Ziyuan's requests, the boss pondered for a moment and then nodded: "Yes, I will immediately ask the 19th Corps to allocate 100,000 American-made machine gun shells for you, 200,000 Thomson* bullets, and 5,000* rounds." The first part of the heavy artillery, which was originally under the command of the headquarters, was transferred to you two companies. Also, in the reinforcement gives you two field artillery batteries. ”

"Bazookas and recoilless guns, I'll ask them to transfer five recoilless guns and ten bazookas for you from each corps. Well, these recoilless guns and bazookas are only lent to you for temporary use. After the battle is over, you kid is not allowed to swallow it privately, and you must promise to return to Zhao completely. ”

"Also, I heard about your battle, you kid defeated a reorganized division of the Youth Army one-on-one with inferior troops. Although the youth army is not as good as the Central Army in some aspects of military quality, its tenacity on the battlefield even exceeds that of the ordinary elite of the Central Army. ”

"Your kid can defeat one of their divisions one-on-one with the strength of a brigade, which is quite amazing. At the very least, it shows that your troops are definitely not inferior to theirs in terms of tenacity. But you kid will remember to me from now on that the battlefield is a whole, and it's good to be alone, but acting alone is taboo for soldiers. ”

"This is also the main reason why I want your division, this time as the main attack division of your corps. This time, the three corps met in Taiyuan, and the other two corps were all old units of the original Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, both from the 115th Division. Only your corps is originally from Shanxi, Hebei, Luyu, and came from the 129th Division. ”

"Your performance this time is directly related to your old army and the honor of your teacher. Whether you kid is going to give them glory or smear them in the face, I'll have to take a closer look. I have overfulfilled your boy's request. If you don't fight well, I will confiscate all your beautiful weapons and reward them to the troops who fight well. ”

Regarding the boss's agitation method, Li Ziyuan just said with a serious expression: "Please rest assured that the old chief, I will definitely not embarrass the old army." Compared with our brother troops, we are all new troops that have just been upgraded from the local armed forces. However, the combat effectiveness of the troops does not depend on the length of time it has been formed. Let's let the brother troops today see what is called the back wave of the Yangtze River pushing the front wave. ”

Li Ziyuan's tone made the usually serious boss sneer, and waved his hand to signal that he could go. After Li Ziyuan left, he said to the deputy commander beside him: "This kid, since the day I met him, he has been so arrogant. But this kid is indeed a bit crazy. ”

"This kid was really eye-catching during the Anti-Japanese War. The time when Cross Ridge broke through, if he hadn't taken a reinforced battalion and ventured into the encirclement of thousands of puppet troops. and stubbornly fought a bloody way, and it is estimated that the headquarters organs will not be so complete. ”

"In the southeast of Jindong, it won't be so exciting. It's not very old, but it's not too small. And dare to bear heavy burdens, dare to fight tough battles that others dare not fight. I'll keep it in mind for him this time, and I'll talk about the rest after this battle. If the battle is not good, I will settle the old and new accounts for him at that time. ”

Hearing that the boss was a deputy commander who loved Li Ziyuan from the bottom of his heart, he smiled when he heard this: "Yes, this kid is indeed a cadre who can fight tough battles." His performance reminds me of a man during the Northern Expedition. It's just that when he was the commander-in-chief of the Nanchang Uprising, he was much older than this young cadre. ”

"And he graduated from the Baoding Military Academy and received a formal military education. We young people have been completely trained through actual combat. In fact, he already has the ability to serve as a military commander, except for the lack of qualifications, it should be said that he is still qualified in other aspects. ”

"Originally, this time I was going to transfer him to take over as the commander. But considering that he is still too young, he is a little less stable, sometimes his personality is too strong, and many times he changes the deployment of his superiors without authorization. It is not as important as the current army elder, so he did not make a final appointment. During the Jinzhong Campaign, his division did not report to the corps and columns, and changed the deployment of his superiors without authorization. ”

Although he arrived in time, he completely cut off the enemy's retreat and achieved the greatest victory among the brigade participating units. However, it made a gap in the direction he was originally responsible for, and the position that was supposed to be defended by three regiments was left with a reinforced battalion, which was almost exploited by the enemy. ”

"The commander of the encircled enemy forces was not a fool, and immediately after discovering the emptiness of troops on his side, he organized a breakout operation. The reinforced battalion, which he had left in his original position to hold only two key points, fought hard for six hours in the face of the enemy's breakthrough from division to division under the cover of an artillery regiment. ”

At the cost of almost all casualties, he held out until he quickly retreated after defeating one of the enemy's divisions and a corps, plus a few security regiments. If it weren't for the tenacity of this battalion, this part of the enemy would probably have run away. This part of the enemy is the elite over there, and one of the divisions is the so-called pro-trainer division over there, which is very strong in combat and quite well-equipped. ”

"The other division, although it is not a regular division, is the old Japanese army left over there, and the main force of the so-called 10th Corps is the strongest combat force over there. With the strength of a reinforced battalion, he blocked the enemy breakthrough force under the cover of more than 30 mountain guns and three aircraft, which was too risky. ”

"The situation was really desperate, and if he was ten minutes late, the enemy who broke through would break through his thin line of defense and open a passage to join the reinforcements. If such a situation occurs, it means that the battle is completely lost. The commander and I were in the command post, and our hearts were hanging all the time. At that time, the Linfen Battle had just ended, and the casualties of the various units had not yet had time to be replenished. ”

"The battle of Jinzhong itself is 60,000 against the enemy's army of more than 100,000. The troops suffered too many casualties in continuous battles, and they had not yet had time to rest and replenish, and not a single company of several columns was full. In the case that the force has been used to the extreme, it is impossible to support their side. And once the enemy breaks through, there will basically be no results to mention in the first phase of the operation. ”

"At that time, the situation was critical, and the commander killed him. The political commissar who only reported to the Corps headquarters after the incident did not say a word no matter how much he criticized, and he kept his mouth shut and pretended to be deaf and dumb at every question. The commander's temper, boss, you know. can make him angry like that, how much did you say this guy was too much at the time. ”

"I didn't say anything about violating the order, and let the political commissar fool my superiors. Fortunately, this guy arrived in time, and the commander did not tear up. However, although this guy said that he was a little more self-conscious, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers he brought out was indeed first-class. When this guy arrived, the two regiments collectively rushed forward with bayonets against the enemy who broke through. ”

"The commander and I saw with our own eyes through the binoculars that his troops had gone up with horsemen and cooks. The lightly wounded did not get out of the line of fire, and the seriously wounded insisted on covering with fire on the spot. With two regiments that were not fully manned, they relied on bayonets and * to defeat the enemy who broke through. A general detachment of the enemy army behind the breakthrough enemy army was frightened by the current fierce battle and directly laid down its weapons and surrendered. ”

"In the Battle of Jinzhong, his division performed the most prominently at that time, and the results were the largest among all the troops participating in the battle, but the casualties were also the largest. This guy captured more than 200 mortars and more than 500 heavy machine guns in that battle. In addition, there are more than 50 mountain guns and 6 heavy infantry guns, and the black pressure is very spectacular on the river beach. ”