Taiyuan, the headquarters of the 1st Army stationed in Shanxi.

The atmosphere in the war room had dropped to freezing point.

There's an old saying that says? I never expected that!

Because less than five minutes ago, Second Lieutenant Kogura of the communication team of the Yamazaki brigade sent a farewell telegram, reporting to the headquarters the bad news of the collective jade shattering of the Yamazaki brigade.

After receiving the report, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't believe his eyes.

A few hours ago, Yamazaki Jihei was boasting to the headquarters that they had more than enough to hold on for three days with the favorable terrain of Lijiapo, even if it was five days.

The words are still in my ears, but less than four hours later, the Yamazaki Brigade was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army!

When did the Eighth Route Army have such a strong ability to attack fortifications? This is an infantry brigade, no, this is a reinforced brigade!

A whole reinforced infantry brigade, more than 1,300 imperial soldiers!

also has a heavy machine gun squadron, 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns, plus 2 artillery squadrons, 12 90 mortars, such a powerful firepower, it took less than four hours for the Eighth Route Army to be wiped out?

At this moment, Yoshio Shinozuka's brain is buzzing.

Unbelievable, I really didn't expect it, it was completely unexpected!

Chief of Staff Takayoshi Tanaka asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency, are the 222nd, 225th, and 237th Infantry Wings still going to attack and advance in the direction of Daxia Bay?" Or let them withdraw? ”

The situation has reached now, and even a fool can see it.

There was no point in continuing the offensive, because the 1st Army was simply not ready.

Before, taking advantage of the defenselessness of the Eighth Route Army, coupled with the Yamazaki Brigade as a bait, it was possible to form a favorable situation of encirclement on all sides and flowering in the center, and it was barely able to fight.

But now the Yamazaki Brigade has been wiped out,

The whole tactical idea came to naught.

There is no way to continue this battle.

If you continue to fight, you will only lose your strength in vain.

Everyone's eyes fell on Yoshio Shinozuka.

Yoshio Shinozuka rubbed his temples and said with a dark face: "Call the front army headquarters immediately and ask for tactical guidance." ”

The current situation is all due to Okamura Ningji, so this pot is not carried by their 1st army, and whoever pulls out the will let him wipe it himself.

……

"Nani?"

After receiving the telegram forwarded by the headquarters of the 1st Army, Okamura Ninji also looked incredulous.

"Miyano-kun, you mean, the Yamazaki brigade has been collectively shattered? More than 1,300 imperial soldiers have been collectively broken? ”

"Yes." Michiichi Miyano said with a dark face, "It's unbelievable, but the headquarters of the 1st Army did send a farewell telegram from Second Lieutenant Ogura of the communication team of the Yamazaki Brigade, so it shouldn't be fake." ”

"Yaga!" Okamura Ninji's whole face suddenly turned the color of pork liver, and it was hot and hot.

It felt as if someone was really slapping him in the face, and it hurt.

Other high-ranking generals are new officials taking office with three fires, and the more they burn, the more they burn, but what about him?

At the beginning of dismounting, the first fire in southern Hebei was extinguished by the Eighth Route Army, and a cavalry brigade was lost.

The loss of a cavalry brigade is actually nothing, and more than 600 cavalry is not enough to hurt the North China Front Army at all, but the loss of face of Okamura Ningji cannot be tolerated.

In order to save face, Okamura Ninji immediately burned a second fire.

Okamura Ninji is ready to give the Eighth Route Army a black tiger to dig out his heart, destroy the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, and no matter how bad it is, he will severely damage or even annihilate the main force of the 129th Division.

However, how full the ideal is, how skinny the reality is.

This side has just started, and reality immediately gave him a blow to the head: the Yamazaki brigade was completely annihilated!

The second fire was also extinguished, and Okamura Ninji not only failed to save face, but received an even more severe slap, and his entire face was almost swollen by the Eighth Route Army.

Okamura Ninji couldn't help but start reflecting.

It seems that the battlefield in Central China was too smooth before.

With the successive victories on the battlefield in Central China, some floated.

Although it took a few months to transfer back to China, it still did not adjust.

Miyano Michiichi said with a dark face: "Your Excellency, the collective jade fragmentation of the Yamazaki Brigade is clearly caused by the improper command of the 1st Army, but this will require the Front Army Headquarters to directly order tactical guidance, which is clearly to shirk responsibility, I think that the 1st Army must be strictly ordered to continue to attack and advance in the direction of Daxia Bay." ”

"No!" Okamura Ninji Huo Ran raised his hand and said, "I can't fight anymore." ”

Speaking of this, he sighed lightly, and said, "It seems that I was careless." ”

"It was I who underestimated the strength of the Eighth Route Army, which led to these two failures."

"Order, the 222nd, 225th, and 237th Infantry Wings to withdraw immediately."

"Let Kinoshita-kun prepare a transport plane for me, and I will fly to Taiyuan overnight."

"Nani?" Miyano Michichi said in surprise, "Your Excellency General, are you going to fly to Taiyuan overnight?" ”

"Yes, Miyano-kun, you come with me." Okamura nodded lightly and said, "I will review the gains and losses of this battle with my colleagues in the 1st Army, learn lessons and find a way to defeat the Eighth Route Army." ”

"Hello!" Miyano was stunned and in awe.

……

At the foot of Lijia Slope, the forward observation post.

Through the vision of the telescope, the brigade commander saw Li Yunlong, who was standing on the slope of Li's house, jumping to his feet and scolding his mother, and knew that the battle on the top of the slope had ended, and the Yamazaki brigade had been completely annihilated.

"Good boy, there are really two hits."

The brigade commander praised: "This is a standard infantry brigade of devils, no, this is a reinforced brigade, but it is stunned to let the independent regiment charge to annihilate it all, amazing!" ”

"With this precedent, how can you be arrogant to see the devil?"

"From now on, devils below the size of the brigade don't want to enter our base area!"

"Even if you come in, it's just a death, and we can eat it in a few hours!"

The brigade commander did not say this casually, because the annihilation of the entire Yamazaki Brigade, and the annihilation of the entire army in such a short period of time, would indeed change the tactics of the Japanese army against the Eighth Route Army to a great extent.

Thinking of this, the brigade commander muttered again: "Li Yunlong, this kid, is really good at fighting. ”

The chief of staff said with a smile: "Brigade commander, don't praise it first, Li Yunlong, this kid is not praised." ”

After saying this, he said, "You forgot what happened last time?" The last time the independent regiment beat Niangziguan Railway Station, you also praised him a few words, but this kid turned around and gave you a prelude, and actually took the new regiment, the new second regiment and the 772nd regiment to fight Yangquan County, but left us two. ”

"Hahaha, how could I forget this?"

The brigade commander laughed: "But this kind of disaster, it would be better to come a few more times." ”

The chief of staff said: "Brigade commander, don't let Li Yunlong and Wang Ye hear this. ”

"I'm not afraid." The brigade commander laughed and said, "Chief of Staff, you reminded me of this, I will go to Lijiapo now and praise Li Yunlong and Wang Ye in person." ”

"Let the two of them go."

"Cause more trouble for Lao Tzu, hahaha!"

At the end, the brigade commander burst out laughing again.

The chief of staff also laughed, thinking that the brigade commander was really open-minded.

If he was replaced by the head of another unit, he would have jumped to his feet with a subordinate like Li Yunlong, but the brigade commander was not only unhappy, but happy, and proud to have such a strong subordinate.

And in fact, this is really just a routine operation for the brigade commander.

In another time and space, in 1944, the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region concentrated its main force to carry out a counter-sweeping operation against the Japanese army, so that the Taiyue base area was empty, and Yan Laoxi took the opportunity to take the initiative to provoke friction and gather heavy troops with the intention of occupying Changzhi, Lucheng and Huguan and other places.

The commander and political commissar of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region ordered the brigade commander to give Yan Laoxi's Jin Sui army a head-on attack.

As a result, the brigade commander was "extremely bold" to hand over this task to a regiment commander, and the commander of the 3rd Vertical and 9th Regiment commanded the eight main regiments to launch a counterattack, inflicting heavy losses on the Jin Sui Army in one fell swoop.

Because of this, the brigade commander is especially supported by his subordinates.

Otherwise, the brigade commander is not a military cadre trained by the Fourth Front Army, so how can he sit firmly in the position of 386 brigade commander and still be supported by Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, Cheng Shifa, and other proud generals?

In a word, the brigade commander really loves and is really willing to train his subordinates.

After laughing, the brigade commander continued: "Doesn't Yoshio Shinozuka, an old devil, want to fish? Now that the bait is gone, I'm going to see what he can do with it. ”

The chief of staff said: "This is called stealing chickens and not losing a handful of rice." ”

The brigade commander said with a smile: "Chief of Staff, call the headquarters immediately, and say that my mobile column has fulfilled its mission and has killed the Yamazaki Brigade raised by the son of a bitch!" ”

The chief of staff answered yes and grabbed the telephone.

The brigade commander put his hat on his head and turned to walk away from the observation post.

"Guards? Let's go, go with Lao Tzu to Lijiapo and have a look. ”

The Yamazaki Brigade was completely annihilated in this battle, and it is estimated that there will be no less weapons and equipment captured.

In terms of ammunition, I am afraid that we will not be able to make ends meet, because the amount of ammunition consumed in this battle is too large, especially the overshooting of 9 heavy machine gun companies, which can kill 30,000 rounds of ammunition in one wave.

Just thinking about it, the brigade commander felt a lot of pain in his flesh.

I don't know how much I can make up?

……

Daxia Bay, headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.

The chief of staff walked into the war room and said loudly: "Boss, good news. ”

The boss put down the half-eaten potatoes in his hand, wiped his mouth and asked, "Did the mobile column finish the work?" ”

Several operational staff officers who were working on the map immediately cast surprised glances at the boss.

A staff officer couldn't help but ask, "Boss, why do you think so?" ”

Another staff officer said: "Yes, this is a reinforced brigade!" ”

The third staff officer said: "The point is that it's only been a few hours? How is it possible to completely annihilate the Yamazaki brigade? ”

The fourth staff officer said: "According to the strength of the enemy and our actual combat strength, this battle will take at least two days and two nights, and the battle will not end in four hours, how is this possible?" ”

"How could it be?" The boss said, "I think it's possible." ”

"The strong combat effectiveness of the mobile column is not something that a few of you can imagine."

After a pause, the boss continued: "In short, I have confidence in Chen Gen and Li Yunlongwang. ”

"As the boss, we have to see the problem more thoroughly than us." The chief of staff gave a thumbs up and said, "Boss, I'm really right, the mobile column has lived up to its mission and has already killed the Yamazaki brigade raised by the son of a bitch!" More than a thousand devils, none of them ran away, they were all killed by the independent group! All killed! Ha ha! ”

Now, it's like a pebble falling into a calm pool.

It's like a drop of water falling into the oil pan and frying it in one fell swoop.

"Huh? Did you really kill the Yamazaki team? ”

"Oh my god, that's too fast."

"The Independent Regiment is going to heaven."

"It's a different story."

"Yes, in the future, when the devil comes again, we will sweep the Taihang base, and we will have to weigh it, and the strength of less than one wing is basically a sustenance, haha!"

"Beautiful! Well done! ”

The boss also slammed the knot: "It seems that our decision to form a mobile column is correct. ”

"Yes." The chief of staff said with deep contempt, "With such a powerful field mobile unit in hand, we will have much more choice when we fight the devils again." ”

The boss said: "More importantly, we have the confidence to fight a tough battle with devils!" ”

The division commander said: "The boss is right, in the future, I am afraid that the situation of the Anti-Japanese War in our Taihang Military Region will be renewed, and if the devil wants to go into the mountains to sweep up, he will have to weigh it." ”

……

Li Jiapo.

The injured were taken to the hospital as soon as possible.

The fighters of the Separate Regiment are cleaning up the battlefield.

Wang Chengzhu, the commander of the artillery company, was jumping to his feet and scolding: "Damn, the little devil of the dog day is too damaged, there are 12 90 mortars, and there is not a single firing pin left." ”

When Wang Ye followed Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang to the devil's artillery position, he saw that 12 90 mortars were already lined up on the ground, and 3 of the guns were relatively complete, but there was no firing pin on the open tailgate.

The remaining 9 mortars were completely destroyed with their breeches torn open.

"The little devil is really bad enough." Li Yunlong said distressedly, "Before he dies, he has to destroy the cannon, what a good cannon, let the little devil destroy it like this, damn." ”

After saying this, he yelled again: "Find it for Lao Tzu, and dig three feet into the ground to find the firing pin." ”

Wang Ye persuaded: "Regiment leader, you can find the firing needle if you can, and it doesn't matter if you can't find it." ”

"How's that going to work?" Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "There is no firing pin, and the remaining 3 mortars are just decorations." ”

Wang Ye said: "No, the firing pin is not a high-tech precision component, and the Water Waist Arsenal can file it for you by finding a mechanic in the morning." ”

"Really?" Li Yunlong said, "That's great." ”

After a pause, Li Yunlong said again: "What about the heavy machine gun?" Has the heavy machine gun been blown up? ”

The Yamazaki Brigade has a heavy machine gun squadron equipped with 8 or 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns.

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Dabiao led people to carry over 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns, or rather, the wreckage of 8 Type 92 heavy machine guns.

All 8 heavy machine guns were destroyed.

It's nothing more than a difference in the degree of destruction.

The captured weapons and equipment were quickly put together.

There are quite a few 38 big covers, and most of them are in good condition.

But grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns are hardly intact.

Before launching the final charge, the Yamazaki brigade not only blew up almost all the mortars and grenadiers, but also blew up all the light and heavy machine guns, and the rifles had to be used to fight bayonets, so they didn't have time to destroy them, otherwise it is estimated that there will not even be one left in the 38 big cover and the Wang 8 box.

"Damn, it's a big loss this time."

"When did the little devil of the dog day become so good?"

Looking at the tattered weapons on the ground, Li Yunlong trembled in distress.

Zhao Gang comforted Li Yunlong and said: "Lao Li, this is actually normal, after so many years, we are improving, and the devils are not idle, and they are also improving." ”

Wang Ye said: "The main thing this time is to fight the highland attack on the inner line, before we launched the general attack, the devils have already prepared for the worst, once the war is unfavorable, they will immediately start the self-destruction procedure, so their light and heavy machine guns, mortars and grenadiers will be destroyed so completely." ”

The devil's attitude towards internal and external operations is definitely different.

The battlefield of the internal line of operations is in the hinterland of the base area, and once defeated, the weapons and equipment will definitely fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, so the devils will resolutely destroy the weapons and equipment.

However, the battlefield of the external battle is in the Japanese-occupied area, and even if the devils are defeated, they will not easily destroy the weapons and equipment, because as long as the follow-up reinforcements can arrive in time, the weapons and equipment can be recaptured.

Wang Ye said again: "If it is an external battle, the devil will be reluctant to destroy weapons and equipment, at most dismantle some parts or something." ”

"That's fine." Li Yunlong breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Otherwise, if you can only harvest a bunch of rags in the end every time you win a battle, then there is no way to fight this battle." ”

"Li Yunlong, look at your little bit of talent."

The brigade commander's voice suddenly came from behind him: "You only see weapons and equipment in your eyes? You can't see these more than 1,000 devils of the Yamazaki brigade? That's the biggest result! ”

"If only I could kill more than a thousand devils every day,"

"With the little strength of Little Japan, how many days can it last?"

"Yo, Brigadier, why are you here?" Li Yunlong immediately turned his anger into joy.

"Lao Tzu is here to praise your kid." The brigade commander smiled, "This battle is good. ”

"No, no." Li Yunlong's mouth was already grinning at the root of his ears, but his mouth began to be modest, "Actually, we fought averagely." ”

"Damn, are you still modest?"

The brigade commander scolded with a smile and asked, "How many casualties?" ”

Li Yunlong's face immediately became serious: "More than 300 people were killed and more than 80 were seriously injured. ”

The brigade commander couldn't help but gasp, he guessed that the casualties of the independent regiment would definitely be less than that of the Yamazaki brigade, but he never expected that it would be so few.

That's almost a three-to-one casualty ratio of friend to foe!

One thing to say, this casualty ratio is extremely exaggerated.

At least so far, no troops have fought.

Of course, the wolf warrior squad can't be counted, this one is not comparable.

But the brigade commander was a little sad to think that more than 300 fighters had given their lives, and more than 80 seriously wounded had been taken to the hospital.

PS: There is no manuscript to save, the second chapter will be sent in the afternoon.

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