The Lijiapo position was filled with gunsmoke, and several Japanese planes took turns to dive and bomb, and the attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy casualties.

Yamazaki, a graduate of the Imperial Army University, was an excellent tactician, and the field fortifications he commanded were very ingenious.

At the top of the Lijiapo Heights is a flat round platform, according to the convention, the position of the fortifications of the garrison side should be built on the ridge part of the hillside platform, so that you can have an unobstructed view of the movement of the attacking side, and it is also convenient to condescend to carry out firepower.

However, Yamazaki built the ring fortifications in the center of the flat round platform on the high ground, and the attacking troops could not see the defenders at the bottom of the slope, so the direct fire was ineffective, and the curved fire of mortars and the like was very rare.

The attacking troops had just rushed up the steep slope, and as soon as they showed their heads, they were immediately knocked down by Japanese snipers.

The battle lasted for a whole day, and the corpses of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army lay under the hillside, and the first few main regiments to participate in the attack were killed and wounded more than half and lost their ability to attack.

Li Yunlong could see clearly in the telescope. He grabbed a battalion commander of a brother unit who had just withdrawn from his position and asked, "How far is the edge of the hill from that ring fortification?"

The battalion commander who hung the lottery immediately understood what he meant: "There are more than 80 meters, and the grenade can't reach it." ”

Li Yunlong frowned and said: "Hard rushing is not a way, this is a loss-making business." ”

As soon as the battle of Lijiapo began, the entire North China region became lively.

Seishiro Sakagaki, chief of staff of the Japanese Army, Senior General Toshizo Nishio, commander of the Japanese Dispatch Force in China, Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi, and Tada Jun, commander of the Japanese North China Dispatch Force, were all looking at the map at their headquarters everywhere.

The operational staff officers of the headquarters at all levels were nervously carrying out their work on the map, and the area around Lijiapo on the map was surrounded by huge arrows of different colors.

The 36th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Lu'an, the 16th Brigade stationed in Fenyang, the 9th Brigade stationed in Taiyuan, and the 4th Brigade stationed in Yangquan all made joint attacks in the Lijiapo area day and night.

At the same time, the reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army in the entire North China region had also been engaged with the Japanese reinforcements.

The order of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was dead: at all costs, to block the enemy's reinforcements.

As a result, the units of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army in the entire North China region have put on a decisive battle posture around the little-known hill of Lijiapo, and the eyes of the supreme commanders of both sides of the first battle are still fixed on this obscure hill in Shanxi. The battle of Lijiapo is destined to go down in history.

Chen Geng, commander of the 386th Brigade, saw in his telescope that his attack troops were rushing towards the main position like a tide, wave after wave, and then retreated like a low tide in an instant, and the hillside was covered with corpses in gray military uniforms.

Chen Geng gritted his teeth, grabbed the phone and gave an order: "Concentrate all the artillery fire to bombard the top of the mountain, and all the shells must be exhausted, but yes, all the reserves will be dispatched, and Li Jiapo will be trampled on me." ”

Li Yunlong said on the phone: "Brigade commander, I have a request. ”

Chen Geng said angrily: "Where are you doing so much? ”

"The divisional artillery battalion is under my command for the time being, and that's what I require. I don't need to hold my head to see you if I can't take Li Jiapo, because I must have been lying on the hillside by then. I can only assure you that none of the more than 1,000 people of our Separate Regiment will ever leave the battle alive. ”

Chen Geng's eyes moistened, and the hand holding the microphone trembled a little: "I agree to your request, the artillery battalion is under your command, I want you to take Li Jiapo, and I want you to come back alive, this is an order! ”

At the command post of the Independent Regiment, Li Yunlong said to Guan Dashan, commander of the 1st Battalion: "If you do the math, there are more than 80 meters from the edge of the slope of the hill to the circular fortification, that is to say, our impact distance is so long, and on this open land, we will all become a living target for the little devils." Besides, from the perspective of the terrain, it is impossible for the whole regiment of more than 1,000 people to be deployed, and it will be troublesome to do so, and it will become a 'refueling tactic' if they are separated from each other, which is called increasing the number of troops one by one, which is a taboo for soldiers, so Lao Tzu will not do this stupid thing, and I will shorten this impact distance. ”

The first battalion commander, Guan Dashan's eyes lit up, and he said, "Regiment commander, do you mean to use the method of earth work to dig forward?"

Li Yunlong punched Guan Dashan and said with a smile: "Your brain is very fast, there are 360 people in your battalion, I will transfer all the grenades of the whole regiment to you, and each person will bring 10 grenades, how much should it be? Well, 3,600 pieces, all the troops are moving down the slope, and no one is allowed to show their heads. Advance parallel with the earthwork method, as long as you dig 50 meters, the remaining 30 meters, even a brewer can throw grenades into the ring fortifications, as soon as the signal flare is in the sky here, you all throw grenades together, each person will throw 10 grenades in two minutes, hehe, 3600 grenades are enough for Yamazaki's kid to drink a pot. ”

Guan Dashan was happy: "Commander, this trick is amazing, we pulled the string and waited for two or three seconds before throwing it, and all of them exploded in the air, so that he couldn't find a safe corner for the dog, and there was nowhere to hide." ”

Li Yunlong said to Shen Quan, commander of the second battalion: "All the 20 light machine guns of the whole regiment are used by your second battalion, and all the machine gunners are assigned to the first commando team, and the machine guns are hung on their chests. ”

Li Yunlong looked around at all the personnel and gave a death order: "The whole regiment will be from below me, not one will be left, and all the bayonets will be given to me." Prepare for a white-knuckle battle, remember, no one is allowed to shoot when I see that kid from Yamazaki, keep it for me, Lao Tzu will chop him alive. ”

Yamazaki in the Lijiapo Ring Fortification felt that something was not quite right, why was there silence all around? The silence made the hearts of the Japanese soldiers chill for a while, and the soldiers liked silence the most, because the silence on the battlefield often contained greater danger and foreshadowed more fierce battles.

Yamazaki intuitively realized that an even more intense attack was brewing for the Eighth Route Army.

On the other side, Chu Yunfei, who was possessed by Li Tian, saw this scene through the telescope and had already determined that this was Li Yunlong who was going to appear.

He asked everyone to get ready, set up a thousand mortars, aimed them at little Japan, and muttered to himself as he looked at the battlefield.

"Hehe, I have to say, your strategy is really good, but I want you to understand that in the face of absolute strength, the strategy is all false. ”