The four battalions of the new 1st Regiment, under the leadership of Chen Dagu, marched more than 60 kilometers and arrived at Baozi Mountain.

This is the only way for the Tongpu Highway to go south after passing through Xinzhou.

Moreover, the terrain here is dangerous, backed by endless mountains, which can be attacked and defended.

After Chen Dagu took out the "Anti-Slope and Three-Three System Tactics" and looked through it for a while, he ordered the commanders of the four infantry companies and the artillery company under his command to come over for a meeting.

These company commanders are all military cadres with excellent military quality, whom Li Yunlong asked for from the brigade commander or the headquarters.

Many of them made meritorious contributions when they were platoon commanders at the grassroots level, and then went to the camp schools to study intensively, and only those who passed the examination were delegated to various units.

Not only is his own military quality excellent, but he is also able to lead troops and do ideological work for soldiers.

After several baptisms of war, both company and platoon commanders and soldiers have grown into qualified soldiers in the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

Although it is not as good as the three old infantry battalions of the new regiment, the equipment is already the same as the three infantry battalions, and the combat effectiveness is definitely far superior to that of the main regiment like the 772nd regiment.

"Our four battalions, this time the opponent is the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army."

"Our task is to hold a position here for 3 days, and within 3 days, we will definitely not let a devil go south to reinforce Taiyuan."

"The brother troops have blown up the Jinggou Bridge, and the 3rd Brigade can only reach Yuanping Station by train at most."

"Haradaira Station is about 70 kilometers away from us, and if the 3rd Brigade rushes overnight, it will probably arrive at us at noon tomorrow at the speed of the devil's rapid march."

Calling a meeting of several company commanders, Chen Dagu glanced at everyone.

"This is Baozi Mountain, and this is the road where the devils pass."

He picked up a fist-sized stone, pointed to the hill that crossed the road in the distance, and the kilometer that crossed from the bottom of the mountain, and then drew a mark on the ground to represent that this was Baozi Mountain and the road.

Without being verbose, Chen Dagu pointed to the stones and marks on the ground and began to tell about the deployment of the troops:

"The 13th Company has built trenches and foxhole positions on the slope of Baozi Mountain, remember to dig more anti-artillery holes."

On the battlefield behind enemy lines, the Eighth Route Army made extensive use of anti-artillery holes, which not only guarded against Japanese artillery, but also hid, ammunition, and grain.

In the book "Anti-Slope and Three-Three System Tactics", there is also a detailed record of the method of digging anti-artillery holes.

"The engineer platoon planted more mines in front of the forward slope position and on the road."

"The artillery company is responsible for constructing the anti-slope artillery position, and the other three companies are responsible for digging the hill and hollowing out the mountain for me, and the anti-slope and the positive slope are connected."

The instructor of the fourth battalion asked, "Lao Chen, do you mean that we have to use the anti-slope fortification and tunnel tactics in the "Anti-Slope and Three-Three System Tactics" in this battle?"

"That's right!"

Chen Dagu nodded: "Our firepower is strong, one company tops others and one regiment, there is no need to put so many troops on the positive slope."

The infantry units under the main infantry battalion of the new 1st Regiment adopted the four-four system, that is, four companies, four platoons in each company, and four squads in each platoon.

Each infantry squad has about 15 people, equipped with 1 light machine gun, 1 submachine gun, 1 bazooka, 1 sniper rifle, and the rest of the weapons are semi-automatic rifles.

Four battalions of 64 infantry squads, that is, 64 light machine guns, 64 submachine guns, 64 bazookas...

In addition, an artillery battery was equipped with 13 machine guns, 12 mortars and 4 Type 92 infantry guns.

The firepower is very strong.

"In addition, according to the information obtained by the regiment commander, there are more than 200 planes used by the Japanese army to attack Nakajo Mountain this time."

"Although the artillery attacking the devils from the front can't hit our anti-slope artillery position."

"However, once the devil calls the plane to drop aerial bombs and take out our artillery positions and positive slope positions, it will be a matter of minutes."

"So, our artillery and infantry need tunnels to dodge the devil's aerial bombs."

"And our weapons and ammunition can be hidden in the tunnels."

"Plus, we can

To transport the wounded through the tunnel through the mountain, and to reinforce and deliver weapons and ammunition to the positive slope in a timely manner."

Chen Dagu has never fought this anti-slope fortification and tunnel tactics, but the soldiers have trained how to quickly dig mountain tunnels in their usual training.

But he is a veteran of many battles, and only a little analysis knows that this kind of anti-slope fortification plus tunnel tactics is indeed very useful.

"There are less than 20 hours left before the arrival of the devils, and the various units have hurried to lay mines, build positions and dig tunnels."

"The 3rd Brigade is a hard bone, no matter how hard it is, we have to smash it and swallow it again."

Chen Dagu's tone was cold.

"Yes!"

The company commanders responded neatly.

After the company commanders left, the instructor looked at Chen Dagu and said in a surprised tone:

"Lao Chen, listen to your tone, do you want to eat the 3rd Brigade?"

"The 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army is known as the elite, with 2 infantry wings and 1 artillery brigade under its command, so I'm afraid it's hard for one of our battalions to eat, right?"

Chen Dagu spread out the map and said: "People must have dreams, the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army will still leave troops to guard the nest, and it will definitely not come out of the nest, at most 1 infantry wing, plus 1 or 2 infantry brigades and artillery brigades, we only need to kill and injure a large number of devils on the positive slope, crush the morale of devils, and then seize the opportunity to have a wave of counterattack... It's hard to eat the 3rd Brigade, but there's still a chance to defeat the 3rd Brigade."

The instructor analyzed it carefully, and immediately felt that what Chen Dagu said made some sense.

Defeating most of the elite brigades of the Japanese army with a battalion unit is exciting to think about.

After a pause, Chen Dagu said again: "Lao Wang, immediately send a telegram to the command headquarters to report our current position and tactics, and see if the commander-in-chief has any instructions for us."

Although the four battalions carried ammunition for three bases, part of which was transported by the militia.

But semi-automatic rifles are consumed much faster than bolt-action rifles, and in the case of frequent battles, 3 base numbers of bullets are used up in two days at most.

In order to facilitate the reception of airdrop supplies, Li Yunlong specially assigned a radio station to the fourth battalion.

If there is a shortage of ammunition, he can directly send a telegram to Li Yunlong, and Li Yunlong will call Chen Dagu for an airdrop.

"Good!" The instructor turned and walked towards the communications team.

……

In the afternoon the last wave of attacks by Japanese aircraft ended.

Li Yunlong used a radio walkie to talk to a boss surnamed Chen.

In this call, Li Yunlong called for the same number of artillery and machine guns that were destroyed.

Li Yunlong dared to give up the artillery to the devil plane to bomb, so he naturally had the confidence.

His confidence comes from Boss Chen's battlefield airdrops.

At the same time, it also made Yoshio Shinozuka feel that the cannons of the Eighth Route Army had been blown up, and he would surprise the old devil at night.

Although today shot down 110 Devil planes and killed 110 Devil pilots, 330 75-mm mountain guns and 110 105 howitzers were earned.

But Li Yunlong was not in a hurry to receive this batch of goods.

At the moment, it is not in the base area, it is fighting, and it is also a big battle against Taiyuan.

The maximum transportation capacity of the Eighth Route Army is only 48 mountain guns and 40 howitzers, and any more will exceed the transportation capacity of the Eighth Route Army.

Therefore, Li Yunlong just called so many cannons and machine guns.

48 mountain guns and 40 105 howitzers were used to hit Taiyuan, which was also enough.

This time, Li Yunlong led his troops to shoot down more than 110 Japanese planes, achieved the achievement of shooting down 100 planes, and unlocked the 37mm anti-aircraft gun.

However, because the 37-mm anti-aircraft gun was too heavy and needed to be pulled by car, it was not delivered to Li Yunlong this time.

After replenishing the artillery and machine guns, the anti-aircraft firepower under Li Yunlong's command was replenished, and the Japanese planes lost more than half, and the devil planes came again just to deliver food.

12 o'clock at midnight.

The moon is dark and the wind is high.

On a flat land 6 kilometers away from the northern city wall of Taiyuan, Li Yunlong looked at the watch in his hand.

"Ignition!"

Li Yunlong waved his hand, and a soldier next to him first lit the torch with a match, and then put the torch under a pile of dry firewood.

After a while, a raging fire was ignited by dry wood.

At night, whether it is a parachute jump or an airdrop, it is common to light a fire to guide the pilot's coordinates.

It didn't take long for the sky to resound with the dense clatter of dragonfly helicopters.

"Haha, here!"

The corners of Li Yunlong's mouth curled, and his tone was excited.

Zhao Gang, Wang Dehou and Wang Chengzhu around him, as well as the soldiers, were also full of smiles.

Xing Zhiguo, the deputy head of the regiment, didn't come, he was staring at the headquarters.

"Flares!"

As soon as Li Yunlong's words fell, a flare rose into the air with a sharp whistling sound, and the surrounding 1,000 meters were suddenly illuminated as if it were day.

Everyone looked in the direction where the sound came from, and saw the eastern sky, densely packed with dragonfly helicopters emerging from the night.

Under each Dragonfly helicopter hangs 1 105 howitzer or 2 75 mountain guns.

Guided by fires and continuous flares, more than 60 Dragonfly helicopters placed 51 mountain guns and 42 howitzers on the ground and quickly flew away along the road they had come from.

After the helicopter flew away, the night sky faintly resounded with the humming roar of transport planes.

Li Yunlong ordered the soldiers to fire a red flare and flares to point the transport plane in the direction.

As dozens or hundreds of large transport planes swept across the night sky, dense drop boxes and more than 80 machine guns slowly descended with parachutes.

The drop box was filled with shells and machine shells.

Looking at these 105 howitzers and 75 mountain guns, as well as the dense airdrop boxes, Li Yunlong's smile became more and more intense.

Later, he wants to give Yoshio Shinozuka a big surprise.

During the day, it is just a small test, and the night battle is the specialty of the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, there is the most important point.

At night, the Japanese planes could not bomb, and the artillery of the Eighth Route Army could pull the mountain artillery and howitzers to a distance of 1,000 meters from the city wall and aim at the city wall and shoot directly.

The Taiyuan city wall is indeed high and thick, but it can't stop more than a dozen or twenty 75 mountain guns and 105 howitzers from aiming at a point.

Li Yunlong said: "Chief of Staff Wang, immediately notify the artillery and transport teams of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd attack groups to come here to transport mountain artillery and howitzers, and by the way, machine guns and shells."

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