Chapter Eighty-Eight: The War Machine Begins
After coming out of the conference room, Wang Lung arrived and asked Long Yi to assemble the bayonets, and then Wang Lung came to the meeting place of the bayonets, and at this time the bayonet brigade that received the order had completed the assembly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Now the bayonet brigade is the sharpest knife in Wang Lung's hand, and now Wang Lung has to give them the most difficult task every time he fights, and this time is of course no exception.
Wang Long, General Long Yi, and several squadron leaders of the bayonets have already arrived, and now the bayonets are officially in the army and can fight only 5 bayonet squadrons, namely wind, thunder, lightning, rain, and clouds, and five bayonet squadrons.
The Captain of the Bayonet Squadron of the Wind Wind, the Captain of the Bayonet Squadron of the Thunder Thunder, and so on.
Wang Lung explained the situation for a moment, and then began to assign tasks.
Wang Lung said solemnly: "Order: The bayonet brigade will set off tonight, move to the vicinity of Yulin as fast as possible, if there is a chance, directly infiltrate Yulin City, and at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning, the guards on duty in Yulin South City will be eliminated, and the important facilities of the devils in the city will be attacked, the main targets of your attack will be the devil's railway station, barracks, warehouses and military police headquarters, and after you succeed, you will send green signal flares, red signal flares if there are major battle results, and three red signal flares if you end the enemy's headquarters." Do you understand everything? If you understand it, go ahead and carry out the order! ”
"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission." Wind and rain, thunder and lightning and others said in unison.
After sending away the bayonet 5 special operations squadrons, Wang Lung immediately ordered the troops to move.
At the same time, the troops stationed in various places also began to assemble rapidly, and according to Wang Lung's orders, they gathered to the predetermined location.
In addition, the rest of the regiments also moved one after another according to their own orders, and for a time the 88th Division was running at high speed in this huge war machine, ready to carry out an earth-shattering blow.
The large-scale mobilization of the 88th Division naturally could not hide from the Japanese army, and soon, the news that Wang Long's headquarters was assembling on a large scale reached Yulin.
Yoshio Shinozuka and the others were not anxious after receiving the news, but they all smiled happily. They were worried about not knowing how to lure Wang Lung's subordinates to take the bait, but they didn't expect this group of self-conscious guys to take the initiative to send them to the door.
As a result, the troops of the 10th Division were also mobilized, and Yoshio Shinozuka immediately sent a mixed brigade and a chariot brigade, plus three newly transferred brigades, plus the existing troops on the Luliang front, the total strength has reached more than 6,000 people, and Yoshio Shinozuka feels that it should be possible.
At the same time, the headquarters of the 10th Division sent a telegram to the 26th Division in Datong, ordering them to immediately assemble their troops to the north and launch an attack on the Eighth Route Army stationed around Shenmu County, and to unite them to wipe out this damned Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.
On the morning of the 9th, a ravine on the periphery of Lvliang was the only way to Lvliang. By this time, it had become the forefront of the two armies, and since the place was originally under the control of the Japanese army, the Japanese had transformed the town into a huge fortress.
The 1st and 2nd Recruit Regiments, as well as the artillery regiment directly under the division headquarters, built fortifications two kilometers from Yukou Town, ready to attack at any time.
When the front line reported the situation of the Eighth Route Army to the headquarters of the 10th Division in Yulin, Yoshio Shinozuka was overjoyed, he thought that Wang Lung could send a regiment to be very good, but he did not expect that there were five or six thousand people on the Eighth Route of the forward position, this must be the main force of Wang Long's department, as long as this army is eliminated, then Wang Long's department will not be a problem.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the headquarters of the 1st Regiment of Recruits took the lead in launching an attack, and the artillery regiment opened fire at the same time with a full 56 75mm caliber mountain guns and field guns. The Japanese army at the front did not prevent the Eighth Route Army from having such a large-scale artillery, and was immediately caught off guard, and the casualties were not small.
The new regiment then sent small units to carry out a tentative attack, but was quickly repulsed by the Japanese. The Japanese army rushed to the position of the 88th Division Recruit Corps, and was quickly repulsed.
You fought back and forth for a morning, and there were casualties on both sides, but on the whole, the casualties on the side of the 88th Division were a little larger.
The main reason is that the quality of the individual soldiers of the Japanese army is relatively high, and the accuracy of the soldiers' shooting is very high, which has caused a lot of casualties to the headquarters of the first regiment of recruits, and the most important thing for the recruit regiment is that the training time is short, and the quality of individual soldiers has not yet reached the standard, otherwise there will be no major casualties.
In the afternoon, the Japanese army sent aviation troops, but they did not expect that Wang Long's headquarters had placed several anti-aircraft machine guns in the front line, so the Japanese aviation troops came twice but did not take much advantage.
Speaking of anti-aircraft machine guns, Wang Lung is lucky! This is when the bayonet was in training, the train that robbed the devil was snatched, Wang Lung was out of sight at that time, and let the car transport team transport it back as quickly as possible, after the transportation back, Wang Lung let the bayonet blow up the devil's train, causing the appearance that it had been damaged, and these anti-aircraft machine guns, no one knew.
After the shipment was returned, Wang Lung carefully inspected and found that there were 30 anti-aircraft machine guns, and later Wang Lung learned that these anti-aircraft machine guns were transported from the northeast and were to be transported to some important cities in the south as anti-aircraft weapons to prevent the bombing of GMD planes.
The devil dropped some aerial bombs, but also knocked down two planes. Due to the heavy damage suffered by the company, there were few planes in the Shanxi-Hebei region at this time, and there were less than 30 planes left that could take off.
Wang Lung knew that the devil had now transferred all the planes to the south to prepare for the battle of Guangzhou, and at this time there were less than 50 planes in the Jinji region, and the devil's plane caused great losses to Wang Long's department last time, but the devil's plane also suffered heavy losses.
And now there are two more lost, which makes Yoshio Shinozuka feel very distressed, these planes are baby bumps! In order to preserve these only baby bumps, Yoshio Shinozuka ordered the aviation troops to rest for the time being, and then attack when it was critical.
Without the threat of aviation, the Eighth Route Army on the front line would be much more relaxed, and there would be no need for the old cat to be in the bomb shelter.
But in general, the battle on the first day was not very fierce, and the first regiment of recruits and others received orders to contain the enemy army, so they were not in a hurry to attack. The Japanese army was waiting for the cooperation of other parties and preparing to wipe out Wang Long's headquarters in one fell swoop, so there was no large-scale attack on the first day.
However, neither the mixed brigade on the Luliang front line nor Yoshio Shinozuka in Yulin City expected that after nightfall, a huge force consisting of more than 2,000 cavalry and more than 3,000 infantry was plunging straight into Yulin, like a sharp knife.
At ten o'clock in the evening of the 9th, after a day and a night of rapid marching, Wang Lung finally arrived near Qinhe Town, ten miles away in the northern suburbs of Yulin, with the cavalry regiment, as well as a special regiment and bayonets.