"Fifty heavy guns, 100,000 shells."

After Lu Renjia left for a long time, Zhao Gang was still immersed in joy - even if the heavy mortars had not yet arrived, there was only a manual of weapons and equipment, and pictures.

Li Yunlong could understand Zhao Gang's joy.

The combat weight is two hundred kilograms, the individual parts are more than seventy kilograms, the firing range is 7700 meters, and the power is comparable to the 105 mortar of the Devil 120 howitzer.

This is a real heavy artillery!

And it is also the most suitable heavy artillery for the current transportation capacity of the troops.

Even if he takes the devil's 105 howitzer, 105 cannon, or even 150 howitzer in exchange, he Li Yunlong will not change it.

For a unit that is going to go to battle, it is more important to be suitable than to be strong.

Once the Taiyue Mountains get 50 mortars per month and 100,000 shells, in the complex and familiar Taiyue Mountains, even if the devils dispatch division-sized troops, the 386th Brigade can be calm and fearless.

Fifty 120 heavy mortars are enough to form three heavy artillery regiments, and with the forward observation post and walkie-talkie communication to guide the school firing, it can completely suppress a mixed brigade of devils.

There are only fifty or sixty artillery pieces in a division of the devil, and most of them are 75 mountain artillery.

But...

"It's not that easy!"

Li Yunlong shook his head.

Fifty 120 mortars per month, 100,000 shells, weapons comparable to a heavy artillery brigade and enough shells to be consumed for a large-scale campaign - the capture of two Devil Wing flags.

"The Devil Wing flag is not so easy to capture."

Li Yunlong's tone was serious:

"Don't look at the battle in the upper village, it's very simple for us to capture the flag of the Yamashima United."

"That's because Brother Lu provided almost all the information of the Mountain Island Wing, and put the location of the devil's position, troop deployment, and command location in front of us, which is equivalent to Brother Lu's more than eighty percent of his strength, and we only have less than two percent."

"But this time it's up to us to do more than eighty percent!"

"It's not that easy."

"And we can only get the new 120 mortars if we capture one flag, and we need to capture two devil wing flags to get fifty artillery pieces and 100,000 shells per month."

After Brother Lu received the warning, the artillery could not apply casually.

With the size of an independent regiment, 120 mortars are heavy artillery and can only be equipped with 12 guns and 12,000 shells per month.

"Can it be done?"

Of course, Zhao Gang knew that things were difficult.

Extremely difficult!

But no matter how hard it is,

Fifty 120 mortars per month, 100,000 rounds of shells must also be in hand.

Not negotiable!

"Absolutely."

Li Yunlong smiled.

If there was no positioning of the Devil Wing Flag provided by Brother Lu, it would be difficult for the Independent Regiment to capture a few Wing Flags even if it was fought out, but with the positioning, things would be much easier.

"Targeted?"

Zhao Gang asked.

"Yes."

Li Yunlong took out the map and pointed to Li County, which is located south of Liao County:

"The Xitian Wing of the 33rd Brigade of the Devil Regiment stationed in Li County."

"Westfield United."

Zhao Gang looked at Lixian County on the map, thinking about the information collected by the headquarters.

Like Liao County, Li County is also located between the Taiyue Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, which is an important communication line, plus Li County guards the north of Changshi, so the devils stationed a full brigade here, more than a thousand devils.

The Westfield United team headquarters is also stationed here.

There are more garrisons than Liaoxian and their strength is stronger.

However, the 33rd Brigade, like the 29th Brigade, is a newly formed garrison brigade of the devils.

"Draw the Westfield United out?"

Zhao Gang asked.

The most important point that can capture the wing flag of the Yamashima Wing is that the Yamashima Wing is in the mountains and is infiltrated by the elite squad of the army.

This is also the best way that Zhao Gang can think of.

"Nope."

Li Yunlong shook his head:

"This time, it's the turn of the Independent Regiment to attack!"

"Take the initiative?"

Zhao Gang frowned:

"Attacking Pear County?"

Although the strength of the independent regiment is very strong now, it can be successful in attacking a county town, but the losses will be very large, and it is almost impossible to capture the flag of the devil's wing.

"Lao Zhao, you have to remember." Li Yunlong explained: "Our purpose is not to attack Lixian, nor to eliminate or severely damage the Xiye United, but to capture the Devil's Wing Flag. ”

"After all, we can know the real-time location of the Devil's Wing flag."

"And the devil doesn't know that."

"You want to..."

In terms of military ability, although Zhao Gang is not as good as Li Yunlong, he has been in the independent regiment for so long, has experienced more than a dozen battles, large and small, and his promotion is not small, and he immediately understood what Li Yunlong meant:

"Turning the tiger away from the mountain?"

"Haha, Lao Zhao has grown!"

Li Yunlong suddenly said proudly:

"The Lixian Devil Barracks is in the plain area on the west side of the county, and judging from the information given by Brother Lu, the wing flag of the Xiye United is also over there."

"Next month, we'll have a cavalry battalion."

"When the time comes, I will send a cavalry battalion to attack first."

"The plains are home to the little devils."

"Once we attack, the little devils will inevitably send troops in pursuit."

"As long as the main force of the devils leaves, the small force that is lurking can sneak close and take the opportunity to seize the devil's wing flag."

···

Wuxiang County.

Outside the devil's stronghold.

"First battalion commander, watch me closely, and arrange for me to have both open and dark posts."

"Second battalion commander, you organize ten sharpshooters from the whole regiment to shoot cold shots with the newly issued sniper rifles from the brigade headquarters."

"The commander of the third battalion, you will lead the troops to guard the surroundings to block the devil reinforcements from Qin County and Li County, once the devil reinforcements are found, the first battalion belongs to the mortar greeting, and then the walkie-talkie will notify me."

Cheng Shifa of the 772nd Regiment gave the order in high spirits.

After the Yamashima Wing was completely annihilated,

The three county towns that were originally garrisoned and defended by the Shandao United, Yuxian, Wuxian, and Liaoxian counties had plummeted, and Yuxian and Wuxiang, which had the largest garrisons, only had 1890 devils each.

Each county is worth a squadron.

However, more than three months have passed, and at this time, the strength of the 386th Brigade, no matter which regiment, has skyrocketed by more than seven or eight times.

The 772nd Regiment, which is the main regiment of the old number, has skyrocketed by about ten times.

In fact, at the beginning, the idea of the brigade headquarters was only to take Liao County first, open up the communication line between it and the Taihang base area, and facilitate the transportation of grain, after all, the Taihang base area is close to the North China Plain, with a large population and large material consumption.

200,000 tons of grain will not take long.

The Taiyue Mountains have a surplus of 50,000 tons of grain per month, with a surplus of more than 15,000 tons, not counting the 5,000 tons of grain that the independent regiment can get every month.

But the brigade headquarters did not expect it,

Three days after the New Third Regiment took Liao County, the intelligence officers in Yu County and Wu Township reported that the devils had not yet sent reinforcements to reinforce Wu County and Yu County.

The garrisons of the two county towns still had only a pitiful squadron.

So the brigade commander waved his hand and asked the 772nd, 57th, and 38th regiments to begin besieging Yuxian and Wuxiang counties.

The brigade commander did not intend to storm the storm.

The devils defended the city to the death, with the help of the county city wall and the improvement of fortifications,

Although due to the lack of troops, if troops are mobilized to attack, both county towns can be taken.

However, according to the estimation of the battle situation of the brigade headquarters and staff, even if the captured Type 92 infantry guns were used, and the total number of Type 92 infantry artillery shells less than 100 rounds was used, it would probably cost more than four battalions of casualties to storm and take Wuxiang and Yuxian.

Now the infantry battalion of the 386th Brigade is 650 people!

For the two surrounding villages and towns are controlled by the troops, more than 1,000 people were sacrificed, more than 1,000 people were injured, and a large number of civilians were killed or wounded.

Not cost-effective.

So the brigade commander just let the three regiments surround him, and then set aside a retreat route, continue to harass, and force the devils to retreat, or until the devil reinforcements come over, and see if he can beat the devil reinforcements by the way.

Cheng Shifa resolutely carried out the brigade commander's orders, surrounded Wuxiang County, mobilized sharpshooters to harass, and prepared reinforcements to ambush the devils.

"Damn, the little devil has today!"

Looking at the devils on the city wall who didn't dare to show their heads, Cheng Shi laughed extremely rampantly, like a villain.

···

"Yaga!"

Same.

Yang Spring.

In the headquarters of the 29th Brigade, the brigade commander Kotani Matsubara looked at the map on the table, focusing on the three counties of Liao County, Yu County, and Wuxiang, his brows furrowed deeply, and his mouth kept scolding.

From the map,

Yu County, Liao County, Wuxiang, and Li County, the four county towns stood at four corners, blocking the 386th Brigade, which was the most active and part of the Taiyue Mountains, where a large amount of supplies appeared.

However, with the shattering of all the members of the Shandao United, Liao County was occupied by Tubalu on the same day.

There is a big loophole in the blockade circle,

Since then, the Taiyue Base Area has been connected with the Taihang Base Area.

Afterwards, the headquarters ordered him to immediately dispatch troops to urgently reinforce Yuxian and Wuxiang to prevent more county towns from being captured by Tubalu.

But before, only three squadrons and one brigade were annihilated, and now another wing has been completely annihilated, and half of the strength of the 29th Brigade has been removed, where can reinforcements be drawn?

Moreover, with the current strength of Tuba Road in the Taiyue Mountains, at least one supernumerary brigade, that is, a team of 1,500 people, is needed to reach the two counties safely.

In the end, troops could only be drawn from the garrisons of Jinzhong, Fenyang, Changshi and other places.

Although these local garrisons all belonged to the First Army, the strength of the locusts army was already seriously insufficient, and the strength of the various wings, brigades, and regiments was tight, so it was natural to drag on the transfer of troops to other defense areas.

So much so that four days later, with his own efforts, he had gathered 1,500 people.

So now there is a very troublesome thing in front of Kotani Matsubara:

Yuxian County and Wuxiang County, which county seat is given to the Eighth Route Army?

"Yaga!"

Matsuhara Otani once again fell into an impotent rage.

Wuxiang and Yuxian, located on the center line of the Taiyue Mountains, are the key strategic points for the Locust Army to divide the Taiyue base area on Tuba Road, and they are both very important county seats, and no matter which one of them, they cannot be abandoned.

Any county town being captured by the Tuba Road means that a large amount of materials that appear in the Yangcun area can flow to the western and southern sections of the Taiyue Mountains through this route.

If both of them are captured by Tubalu, it means that the Taiyue Mountains of Tubalu are completely connected to the city.

The cage program was a complete failure.

After scolding angrily for a while, he made a decision:

"Immediately go to support Wuxiang!"

Although both county towns are important and cannot be lost, in comparison, Wuxiang, which has a railway passing through, is more important.

(End of chapter)