The position of the devil is frontal on the way of the Eighth Route Army to Taiyuan.

The road to Taiyuan will be cut off.

In this way, the infantry and heavy firepower of the Eighth Route Army could not reach the city of Taiyuan.

And even if the infantry can penetrate under the city of Taiyuan, it is useless, without heavy firepower, the Eighth Route Army can't even get close to the city wall of Taiyuan.

Not to mention sieges.

However, Li Yunlong pondered and finally thought of a way.

Since the tunnel and anti-slope tactics are more difficult to crack, then labor and management will not crack it directly.

Directly use goblet aerial bombs to blow up the devil tunnels and anti-slope positions on both sides of the road, and then the infantry and heavy firepower units go directly to attack the city.

Leave a part of the troops and surround the devil's anticline and pit positions.

If the devil dares to break through, then use a machine gun to break through the dog's day.

If the devils don't break through, they will starve to death and be trapped in the tunnel.

But.

The lack of troops is a big problem, and if you don't do it, you may be broken out of the tunnel position by the devils.

Because Li Yunlong left more than 10,000 people in the northwest of Shanxi Province to guard his home, the Eighth Route Army, which attacked the 41st Division and the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army on the northern front, had a total of only more than 60,000 people.

If Kong Jie's independent regiment were here, it would definitely be more abundant in terms of troops.

However, Kong Jie's independent regiment guarded Niangzi Pass, and the location of Niangzi Pass was also crucial to the Eighth Route Army.

"If you don't have enough troops..."

Zhao Gang's expression moved, and he made a suggestion:

"Then let's just don't fight Taiyuan City first, let's surround the devils in the tunnel first, I estimate that the devils will not hoard too much food in the tunnel, as long as the logistics supply between the devil's position and Taiyuan is cut off, the devils will starve to death in the tunnel sooner or later, anyway, as long as the lady is in our hands, the devils in Shanxi will not be able to escape for a while."

According to Li Yunlong's tactics, he used goblet aerial bombs to blow up a passage and directly attacked Taiyuan City.

If the devil breaks through because of the lack of troops, the devil attacks the back of the siege force, and the siege force falls into a situation of being attacked by the devil on both sides.

That's going to go wrong.

However, Li Yunlong is actually not afraid of being attacked by the two devils.

With the weapons and equipment of the new 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment now, judging from the battle of the 1st Battalion in Caidong Village, even if the devils attack from all sides, they are not afraid.

What Li Yunlong was afraid of was that after the devil broke through from the tunnel, he concentrated his forces and fled in the direction of Niangzi Pass.

On the way, it joined up with the 40th Division and the 56th Division stationed in Shouyang and Yangquan to flank the independent regiment at Niangzi Pass.

Li Yunlong is a devil who wants to kill the four divisions.

Li Yunlong of the other three B-level divisions is not worried, Li Yunlong is worried about the devils of the Fifth Division, and the combat effectiveness of this devil division can at least surpass the other three B-level divisions.

With the same strength, only the Independent Regiment, the New Second Regiment and the New First Regiment can deal with it.

The main force of the 129th Division will definitely be able to fight, win the battle or even be completely annihilated, but the casualties will be very large.

"That's a good idea."

Li Yunlong touched his chin and analyzed it carefully, then nodded.

At present, not only surround the tunnel position of the devils, but also attack Taiyuan City, which is indeed insufficient in terms of troops.

"Then do it!"

Li Yunlong's tone was categorical.

He planned to eat the 41st Division, the 5th Division, and the 24th and 28th Divisions defending the Taigu Defense Line first, and then gather forces to attack Taiyuan.

According to intelligence, after eating these 4 devil divisions, there are only about 10,000 devils left in Taiyuan.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 3rd Mixed Brigade.

"What kind of tactic is this?" Wang Dehou asked.

"It's called a frog jumping tactic." Li Yunlong raised his head, "I learned it from the military theory book on landing operations given by Boss Chen." ”

Li Yunlong's tactic is actually a frog jumping tactic.

That is, when attacking an area, abandon the traditional practice of front-line horizontal push (straight horizontal sweeping and capture), jump forward, first capture the enemy's rear or other positions around the enemy's occupied area, and then cut off the enemy's supply and support around the enemy, encircle the enemy in the enemy's theater of operations, and then encircle and suppress the enemy in the encirclement.

However, Li Yunlong's deployment this time is not a complete leapfrog tactic, but has made some changes in this tactic.

After all, there is impermanence in the army, and there is no impermanence in the water.

Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou glanced at each other, and they both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

This book, both of them have also read, and more than once.

But they didn't think of using frog jumping tactics to deal with the devil's pit and anti-slope tactics.

Zhao Gang thought to himself, Li Yunlong is a natural tactician, and it seems that in the field of war, in addition to Li Yunlong and rich war practice, talent is also extremely important.

Some people didn't go to military school, but they would command troops to fight.

At this moment, a telegraph soldier walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand and gave Li Yunlong a military salute.

Li Yunlong thought it was a telegram from Deputy Regiment Commander Xing, but he heard the telegram soldier say: "Report to the regiment leader, Boss Chen sent a secret telegram!" ”

Li Yunlong's expression suddenly moved, and he took the telegram and read it.

At this look, Li Yunlong's face was suddenly surprised, looking at the curious looks on the faces of Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou, Li Yunlong read:

"The 1st Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, escorting the Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army, Moritake Tanabe, to Niangzi Pass to supervise the battle, has now set off, Boss Chen."

"Moritake Tanabe, this old devil is out of Beiping? him? Wang Dehou's eyes lit up slightly, Tanabe Shengwu was the chief of staff of the North China Front Army, with the rank of lieutenant general of the Eight Classics, and Michichi Miyano and Sadachi Yoshimoto were at the same level.

Zhao Gang's eyes narrowed, and he carefully analyzed: "It is not good for the three divisions of the Japanese army to attack Niangzi Pass, and the old devil Okamura Ningji did not dare to go out of Beiping, so he sent Tanabe Shengwu to Niangzi Pass to supervise the battle. ”

"But..."

"Boss Chen didn't give specific itinerary information, and it was escorted by a devil who formed a mixed brigade, so it was difficult to accurately kill this devil lieutenant general."

After a pause, Zhao Gang said in a worried tone: "Moreover, a devil who is mixed into a brigade to reinforce the three Japanese divisions in Niangziguan is afraid that it will bring some variables to the battle over there in Niangziguan." ”

Li Yunlong stared at the map, pondered and analyzed, and then said, "It's not a big problem. ”

"The railway bridges, stations, and highway bridges from Beiping to Baoding and Shimen City were all bombed by our planes."

"The devil can only walk from Beiping to Niangzi Pass, even if it is a daytime march, the 1st Mixed Brigade and Tanabe Shengwu will take at least 5 days to reach Niangzi Pass."

"In four days, the brother units of the Jizhong Military Region should be able to complete the encirclement of the three divisions of the Japanese army."

"When the time comes, let the Jizhong Military Region send a force to block the 1st Mixed Brigade."

Wang Dehou and Zhao Gang nodded.

Then Li Yunlong changed the three words at the end of the telegram from Boss Chen to Li Yunlong, and looked at Wang Dehou: "Immediately forward this telegram to the Independent Regiment and the Jizhong Military Region Headquarters." ”

"Yes, Captain."

Wang Dehou turned around and handed the telegram to the telegrapher, who took the telegram and turned around and walked away quickly.

It didn't take long.

Deputy Head Xing replied to the telegram:

Medium bomber crews and goblet bombs can be put into actual combat, goblets are hugely powerful, several goblet bombs can destroy a tunnel position, there are currently a total of 50 goblet aerial bombs.

After reading the telegram, Li Yunlong's eyes suddenly lit up slightly.

The fact that they can be put into actual combat shows that the eight flight crew members have good training results and are very confident in dropping bombs.

But... 50 goblet bombs, I'm afraid it's not enough.

"Eight bomber crews, isn't it too little?"

Zhao Gang finished reading the telegram, and his tone was worried:

"You can only drop 8 goblet bombs at a time, and the four devil divisions outside Taiyuan City have a lot of tunnel positions."

Li Yunlong looked at the map drawn by himself for a while, and nodded: "There are indeed fewer bomber crews, and there are fewer goblet aerial bombs." ”

Naturally, the more powerful aerial bombs there are, the better, and Li Yunlong plans to have at least a few hundred of them at a time.

Li Yunlong looked at Wang Dehou: "Send a telegram to Boss Chen, saying that I want to receive the goods, and send 8 bombers of the same type and 200 goblet aerial bombs to the flight team of the headquarters." ”

"After this batch of flight crews can be put into actual combat, we will use frog jumping tactics to deal with devils on the northern and southern routes together."

"Labor and management don't believe it, can't eat these four devil divisions?"

"Yes!"

Chief of Staff Wang began to get busy.

Not only did he have to send a telegram to Boss Chen, but he also had to send a telegram to the headquarters and the 129th Division, so he had to draft three telegrams at once, and the content of the telegrams needed to be short and accurate.

Li Yunlong stared at the map, looked in the direction of Niangzi Pass, and then looked at the North China Plain east of Niangzi Pass.

"When we destroy the devils in Shanxi, there will be no such trouble in the future."

"The devil doesn't have a mountain to build tunnels and anti-cline positions, but labor and management have to see, what do the devils use to defend our heavy artillery, planes and tanks?"

When he said this, Li Yunlong's tone was fierce.

As the telegrams from Li Yunlong's headquarters were sent out continuously, Boss Chen's side immediately arranged for the pilots to deliver goods to the bombers.

After receiving Li Yunlong's telegram, the head of the headquarters immediately put his heart back in his stomach.

After analysis by the head of the headquarters and the operational staff officers, Li Yunlong's tactics were very feasible, and even an operational staff officer of the headquarters gave Li Yunlong the title of a master tactician.

However, there was no objection from Headquarters.

As a result, the headquarters immediately issued an order to Yangcun Airport.

Then.

Five reconnaissance planes and five bombers immediately took off from Yangcun Airport and flew to the Independent Regiment airfield in the northwest of Shanxi Province to make room for medium-sized bombers.

Not long after, 8 bombers landed at Yangcun Airport, and the first batch of 30 goblet aerial bombs were also in place.

The flying regiment directly under the headquarters quickly formed a bomber crew and began training in dropping goblet aerial bombs with live ammunition.

During this period, large transport planes landed at Dagu Town and Yangcun Airport every day, and dozens of goblet bombs were delivered every day.

In the direction of Niangzi Pass, without the Japanese 23rd Division, 35th Division, and 110th Division unaware, the 60,000 main forces of the Jizhong Military Region have quickly surrounded the devil assembly area from three directions.