After hearing this special signal for help, Li Yunlong and Cheng Blind immediately glanced at each other, and both sides saw the uneasiness and incomprehension in each other's eyes.

As a member of the 129th Division, they knew very well that the person who commanded the operation in Lion's Brain Mountain was a tiger general, and there were two main regiments deployed there.

They really couldn't figure it out, how could the other party start asking for help just four hours after the attack had just begun?

Even if it's a preserved fruit, it's impossible for it to collapse so quickly.

But if you don't understand it, you can't understand it, and the friendly forces must support when they are in trouble. After a brief discussion, the two regiment commanders decided that Li Yunlong would take the new second regiment to Lion's Brain Mountain to assist the friendly forces in combat.

The main reason is that Cheng Blind's troops are too scattered, and the other 1,200 people cannot be assembled in a short time, and now the strength alone is not as large as the new second regiment.

Moreover, their current mission has not yet been completed, and the raid on several surrounding strongholds will continue.

But the new second regiment is different, in the original operational arrangement, they are not counted as those 22 regiments with rigid requirements, they belong to the troops that actively cooperate.

Even if Li Yunlong led people out of here, there would still be troops from other places to fill the position, and the task of the new second regiment had already been completed two hours ago.

After the discussion, the new second regiment immediately prepared to set off. Although they had just experienced a battle, the fighters had a fairly good physical strength due to the strengthened diet.

Before leaving, Cheng Blind called Li Yunlong and brought out the gifts that the soldiers had just prepared.

"This Type 92 infantry cannon is lent to you by me, if you Li Yunlong dare not return it, I will definitely go to the brigade commander for evaluation. I don't care if you steal or rob, remember to return me an extra box of shells after the operation. ”

Hearing this, Li Yunlong, the big boss, felt very moved. With his current emotional intelligence, of course, he would not feel that the other party was lending usury, and the concern in his words was very heartwarming.

He first motioned to the pillar to lead people to remove the shells and parts of the infantry guns, and then patted the blind man on the shoulder and said:

"The scourge has been left for a thousand years, and I, Li Yunlong, haven't gone to Tokyo to enjoy the cherry blossoms, so I can't die! When I come back, I will definitely visit you and invite you to have a drink. ”

The two of them clasped hands tightly together, and then went their separate ways.

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Lion's Brain Mountain is a commanding height located four kilometers southwest of Yangquan, and the Zhengtai Railway also happens to pass through the foot of the mountain, which is the throat part of the mountain.

Controlling this place is equivalent to jamming the neck of the devil's reinforcements.

It can not only prevent Xiaori from drawing troops from the direction of Pingding and Liaoxian to aid Zhengtai Road in the west.

It can also block the devils who set out from Yangquan, so that they can't send troops to rescue those strongholds and stations that are being broken by the various units of the 129th Division one by one.

Even when necessary, the Eighth Route Army could directly launch a feint attack on Yangquan City, so that the devils could not take care of themselves.

It was precisely because of the importance of Lionbrain Mountain that the division commander and political commissar entrusted the defense task to the 385th Brigade, and its brigade commander was personally responsible for commanding and blocking the enemy's reinforcements.

In order to ensure that the sabotage operation could successfully achieve the expected results, the division commander specially emphasized the importance of this mission.

According to his original words, the outcome of the campaign depends on how many railways are destroyed, and the number of roads broken depends on how many days the Lion's Brain Mountain front line can effectively stop the devils.

In the early morning of August 19.

After a night of rapid marching, the 769th Regiment and the 14th Regiment, the main forces of the 385th Brigade, had traveled 80 miles and secretly occupied Lion's Brain Mountain.

Brigade Commander Chen knew that the next few days would be a fierce battle, and the devils would definitely seize this commanding height at all costs, and they must not take it lightly.

The headquarters asked the 385th Brigade to defend here for at least five days, so he ordered the troops to immediately put into preparation for battle.

After receiving the order, everyone endured exhaustion and smeared the construction of various fortifications. Let this mountain, which originally had no natural cover, become easy to defend and difficult to attack.

For the entire day of the twentieth, the two regiments did not make any move. Everyone was recuperating, waiting for the official start of the attack after eight o'clock in the evening.

As soon as the time comes, Zhengtai Road will begin to attack on the whole line!

Only twenty minutes into the operation, Taro Katayama, the commander of the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Yangquan, received a call for help from Niangziguan.

In the next few minutes, the strongholds between Yuji and Yangquan sent reports to learn of the attack, which made the old devil Taro Katayama immediately realize that the situation was not good.

As a major general, this man is naturally not a straw bale.

He immediately ordered three infantry squadrons and one artillery squadron to go out of the city and prepare to go west for a rescue mission, but this played into the hands of the 385th Brigade.

Moreover, Brigade Commander Chen is also ruthless, in order to teach the other party a bloody lesson in the first battle with Katayama Province, he put the enemy close to 300 meters before starting to attack.

As the flares rose into the air, the fire of the two regiments tilted into the valley and caught the enemy by surprise. In the face of the sudden attack, the devils could only hug their heads and run away.

Katayama Kotaro, the old devil, is also a ruthless man, he ordered two infantry squadrons to cover desperately, and he returned to Yangquan City with the remaining remnants.

Lucky enough to escape back to his headquarters, this devil major general immediately followed the pace of Yoshio Shinozuka and Yoshishige Mizuhara, and he pulled out his command knife and moved closer to the realm of the master of swordsmanship.

Although he was very angry, his years of combat experience still made him realize the seriousness of the situation.

The east and west lines of Yangquan are the defense areas of his Fourth Independent Mixed Brigade, and now the Eighth Route Army is holding Lion's Brain Mountain, which is equivalent to cutting off their connection with the various strongholds in the western section of Zhengtai Road.

The eastern side is more or less taken care of by the 8th Independent Mixed Brigade, but the western side can only rely on itself.

As soon as he thought of the return from Niangziguan, his scalp immediately tingled, and he realized that the enemy's target was the entire Zhengtai Line.

After pondering and meditating for more than ten minutes, the old devil had no choice but to ask for help, but he still kept an eye on it. As a major general brigade commander, he is qualified to apply for the First Army's army aviation sortie.

In order not to let his immediate boss question his abilities, Katayama decided to make a secret trick.

In order to get through the connection between Yangquan and the western section of Zhengtai Road, he forcibly scraped together 600 soldiers from the stronghold in the eastern section, and also pressed his own killer weapon.

An artillery brigade with four hundred people and ten mountain guns.

In this way, this old thing still felt that it was not stable enough, and under the reminder of the chief of staff, he remembered that there were still many book expats in Yangquan City who had come to make war money.

Most of these people have received formal military training, and although their overall combat effectiveness is not very good, they are definitely more useful than those Imperial Allies who have a hard time filling in the line.

After three hours of preparation, this force of 2,000 people slaughtered towards Lion's Brain Mountain.

At the same time, twenty-three army airlines departing from Taiyuan Airport rushed to Lionbrain Mountain.

The pilots of these small days, regardless of whether there was the Eighth Route Army below or not, ran out of bullets and bombs they carried in a very short time.

And Katayama was at the foot of the mountain, launching a classic Japanese attack. Since there had been a brief encounter a few hours earlier, this made him more or less remember the approximate location of the Eighth Route Army's position.

Ten mountain guns bombarded the positions on the hill, and then the infantry launched a pig assault.

(End of chapter)