In Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army.

The conference room of the headquarters was brightly lit, and the staff officers of the entire headquarters of the First Army were busy.

On the sand table in front of Yoshio Shinozuka, compared with yesterday, some half-sized flags have been added, and each half-size flag represents the large stronghold that has been captured by the Eighth Route Army.

Although most of these strongholds lost contact with the headquarters, the frequent low-altitude reconnaissance of aircraft also allowed the devils to figure out the specific number of these strongholds that were captured by the Eighth Road.

Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi was the first to say.

"Your Excellency Commander, judging from the current situation, the main target of the Eighth Route Army in launching this campaign is likely to be the Zhengtai Railway."

"Although Tongpu Road and Pinghan Road have also been attacked to varying degrees, the offensive of the Eighth Road is far less ferocious than the Zhengtai Railway, and it is more like the Eighth Road of the Zhengtai Railway."

"With the frequent mobilization of the imperial army to reinforce the Zhengtai Railway, more and more Eighth Route Army is involved in the battle."

"There are battles in the northwest of Shanxi, in the middle of Jin, in the southeast of Jin, and even in central and southern Hebei, and the situation is now out of control."

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned and asked, "Nanshan-kun, with the current extent of the Eighth Route Army's damage to the Zhengtai Railway, how long will it take for the Zhengtai Railway to resume operation?" ”

"It will take at least half a year!" Nanshan Hideyoshi said, "This is just a conservative estimate, because the damage to the railway by the Eighth Road is far from over, and the Eighth Road wants to completely destroy the Zhengtai Railway, if the Eighth Road continues to be destroyed, I am afraid it will be difficult to restore the Zhengtai Railway traffic for a year!" ”

Yoshio Shinozuka's brows furrowed even deeper, and then he looked at the intelligence staff officer An Teng Takeo and asked, "Ando-kun, have you released your goodwill to the Central Army of China and the Jin Sui Army?" What is the attitude of Wei Lihuang and Yan Xishan? ”

"Report to the General!" An Teng Wu Nan suddenly said, "At present, Yan Xishan's attitude is unclear, and Wei Lihuang clearly rejected the goodwill of the imperial army. ”

"Yaga!"

"Wei Lihuang... Toast without eating and eating penalty wine. ”

Yoshio Shinozuka cursed, and the murderous intent between his words was awe-inspiring.

Nanshan Hideyoshi said: "Among the senior Chinese generals, Wei Lihuang is the main battle faction, and he has an ambiguous relationship with the Eighth Route Army, so it is not surprising that he has this attitude. ”

Wei Lihuang's attitude is obvious, if the Japanese army dares to transfer troops from Jinnan, then I will kill you, even if I can't beat you, it will make your little Japan feel bad.

And Yan Xishan is relatively sleek, most of the time he will not send troops, and even if he sends troops, most of them will only mean something.

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, and finally looked at Kasai Toshimatsu, a communications staff officer, and asked, "Kasai-kun, is the Takahashi Brigade still not in touch?" ”

"Report to the general, not yet!" Kasai Toshimatsu said, "Before dark, our reconnaissance fighters flew over Shouyang County and found that the headquarters of the Takahashi Brigade had been shelled!" ”

Kusuyama Hideyoshi said: "It's another decapitation with a cannon!" From Captain Sakata to Major General Mizutake Tsuda, and then to Shozo Takahashi, this is Li Yunlong's consistent trick. ”

Yoshio Shinozuka's face gradually darkened into the bottom of the pot: "Li Yunlong is a person who unscrupulously killed the imperial army on the Zhengtai Railway, attacked the city and plundered the land, can no one in our First Army of the Great Japanese Empire be able to cure him?" ”

As Yoshio Shinozuka swept his gaze, the staff officers hurriedly paused, although Yamamoto Kazuki did not bow his head, but he was also silent, and his face was as tight as a sculpture with a rare and solemn expression.

"Yaga!"

Unexpectedly, no one has a way to cure Li Yunlong, and even Yamamoto Kazuki, who he has always valued, has died down.

Yoshio Shinozuka scolded angrily, slammed the blue and white porcelain teacup on the ground, and left angrily with the lieutenant general's command knife.

……

In Shouyang County, in front of the Devil's Ammunition Warehouse.

Kong Jiezheng asked in a deep voice, "Lao Li, what do you want to do?" ”

Li Yunlong did not speak, but took the bucket off the back of the guard Huang Erhu.

Then he took out a map of the whole territory of Shanxi from the bucket, and then spread it out in front of Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

Seeing this, the two didn't know what Li Yunlong was going to do, so they came over with a curious look.

"Lao Li, what are you..."Ding Wei asked.

Li Yunlong showed a mysterious smile on his face, pointed to the map and said: "Look, let's get to Taiyuan here, almost 70 kilometers, and we can get there in one night by marching in a hurry." ”

"With our little strength, it is definitely unrealistic to attack Taiyuan City, and the firepower is not enough."

"However, Lao Tzu can use mountain artillery to remotely shell the Xincheng Airport outside the north of Taiyuan City."

"A few months ago, after our regiment killed the Seventh Wing of the Devil Tank in Hulugou, on the way to retreat, the Devil Plane killed dozens of cavalry of the Laozi Cavalry Battalion."

"The cavalry is all our Lao Li's treasure, and I still remember this account."

At that time, Li Yunlong wanted to take the artillery company to the airport to shell the devil, but was stopped by Zhao Gang, and Li Yunlong calmed down and kept the account in his heart.

And now, the time to settle accounts with the devil plane seems to be ripe.

Kong Jie immediately said when he heard this.

"Lao Li, don't come nonsense."

"How do you shell?"

"During the day, before your mountain artillery battalion got close to the airport, the devil's plane found you."

"Even if you have an anti-aircraft artillery group, but the devil finds that there is danger, the heavens and the earth will encircle and suppress you, and they will kill your mountain artillery battalion."

"Of course, this work is done at night." Li Yunlong said, "Approaching Taiyuan in broad daylight, I'm not crazy. ”

"If it's at night." Ding Wei said in a deep voice, "Your artillery can't see the target, how can they calibrate the firing parameters?" ”

Li Yunlong said: "You can rest assured that the effective range of this American-style mountain artillery is 10 kilometers, and I will shoot wherever the artillery is within the firing range." ”

"Just blow it." Kong Jie's face was full of disbelief, "Where to fight, you kid must have this ability, the commander of the artillery regiment of our division has already let you do it." ”

"I really let Lao Kong, you say it right." Li Yunlong said, "It's not our old Li bragging, the division commander called me in person last time, guess what the division commander said, he really wanted me to be the head of the ** corps, but I refused." ”

After a pause, Li Yunlong said again: "As for the shelling, you don't have to worry, my shells will definitely fall on the devil's airport and plane at that time." ”

During the day, Li Yunlong carefully observed the Devil reconnaissance fighters, and there were at least 10 Devil planes at Taiyuan Airport.

Killing one Devil Plane will give you the aid of 3 Mountain Guns, and if you blow up all of these Devil Planes, you will get at least 30 Mountain Guns.

Coupled with the 6 devil planes shot down before, that is almost 50 mountain guns, plus the mountain artillery battalion of the new regiment, which is almost the number of artillery pieces of the Japanese mountain artillery wing.

Make a fortune properly!

"Lao Li, what do you want to do?" Ding Wei asked.

"How do you need me to cooperate with Lao Ding?" Kong Jie also asked.

"I don't need any cooperation from you." Li Yunlong said, "If you two are interested, you can go with me to observe it." ”

"Then I'm definitely interested." Ding Wei laughed and said.

"If you don't invite me, I'll go and see it too." Kong Jie said with a smile.

"Then it's decided." Li Yunlong said, "The seized cars are left to us a new group, and I will be of great use." ”

"No problem!" Kong Jie and Ding Wei said in unison, and then the two brothers looked at each other and smiled.

At the time of the laying of Yangquan, eight trucks were seized, but they had not yet driven to Shouyang County.

Li Yunlong wanted to use these trucks to tow the mountain artillery and pull it along the highway to a range of 10 kilometers from Taiyuan.

The Sword squadron lurked near the airfield, calculated the firing parameters according to the precision method, and called the artillery with a radio intercom to shell the Devil's airfield.

The advantage of towing with a truck is that it is easy and fast, and the truck's body can also be loaded with shells and artillery.

The 70-kilometre road would take at least one night if you relied on your legs, but it would take you three or four hours by truck at most.

Driving vehicles is a basic skill for the members of the Sword Squadron, and during an ambush on the Yuliao Highway a few months ago, two devil trucks were captured.

The Yuliao Highway was controlled by the new regiment, and the devils did not dare to come out in the county seat, so Lu Yingjun and the team members used these two trucks to learn to drive trucks on the Yuliao Highway.

However, Li Yunlong also knows very well that it is definitely not the time to bombard the Devil's Airport tonight.

Because of the good equipment, although the Zhengtai railway and highway in the Yangquan to Shouyang section were pulled out by the 386 Brigade and the militia.

However, the battle from Shouyang to Yuci continued, and some of the devil's strongholds had radio stations, which could be directly connected to the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army.

So, now we can only wait.

When the 385th Brigade clears the devil's stronghold on the section from Shouyang to Yuci, Li Yunlong can do it.

Next, the three brothers happily divided the seizure, and divided the food, weapons and ammunition into three equal parts, and each of them took a share.

In total, there are more than 900 rifles, more than 50 machine guns, nearly 200,000 rounds of ammunition, more than 2,000 shells, more than 300,000 catties of grain, 3 intact Type 92 infantry guns, 6 Type 97 mortars, 2 Type 94 mountain guns, and 1 Type 38 field gun.

This is nothing to Li Yunlong, but to Ding Wei and Kong Jie, it is a lot of money.

At that moment, the three brothers all found militiamen, civilian husbands, and transport teams to help them transport ammunition and food back to the base area.

It's not close to the base, it's almost 100 kilometers.

That night, Li Yunlong asked the Sword Squadron to go to Yangquan and hide all eight trucks near Shouyang County.

And sent a combat squad of the Sword Squadron to infiltrate and reconnoiter near Taiyuan.

The new regiment seized basically all 94-type trucks, and the devil trucks, like their tanks, all looked a little peay-ding, and the maximum load of such trucks was only 1.5 tons.

However, it was enough to tow a 75-mm American mountain gun.

At the same time, Li Yunlong asked Fang Lei to send a telegram to the brigade commander and report the detailed battle plan to the brigade commander.

The brigade commander knew that Li Yunlong could not be idle, and after careful consideration, he agreed to Li Yunlong's bold plan and reported it to the division headquarters, hoping to get the cooperation of the 385 Brigade of the fraternal unit.

For the next two days, there was no fighting, and more than 5,000 soldiers of the New 1st Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the New 2nd Regiment joined the battle to destroy the railway.

The 386th Brigade mobilized and organized the people to destroy railways, stations and their ancillary facilities by means of demolition, blasting, fire and flooding.

The entire Zhengtai railway track from Shouyang to Pingding was basically destroyed, and a complete railway track could not be seen.

On the afternoon of the fourth day after the start of the entire raid campaign, Li Yunlong finally received a telegram order from the brigade commander for tonight's operation.