sbdcsierra Chapter 317: Sword 20
Chapter 317: Sword 20
"Attack the county town and save my sister-in-law!"
After Li Yunlong finished speaking, all the battalion commanders shouted a slogan together.
"We are an armed force led by an organization, the Eighth Route Army, not bandits or Liangshan heroes. We must pay attention to the impact. If we attack the county town, we will attack the county town. What's the point of saving my sister-in-law?"
Xing Zhiguo was overwhelmed when he saw a group of people in the room were so excited that he was worried about how others would view the Independent Regiment if the news got out.
"I am an honest man. I say what I think. Having said that, if you don't want to do it, I, Li Yunlong, will not force you. You can quit." Li Yunlong rejected Xing Zhiguo's words.
"Commander, you decide how to fight! How about my Second Battalion launching the main attack?" Zhang Dabiao's eyes lit up as he looked at the map.
"Why do you, the Second Battalion, take the lead in the attack while my Third Battalion is just sitting there doing nothing? Commander, my Third Battalion will be responsible for the main attack!" The Third Battalion Commander was not convinced when he saw Zhang Dabiao acting like he was the only one who could do the job.
"So what you two mean is that my Second Battalion..."
"Alright, alright, alright. This time we're attacking Ping'an County. The independent regiment plus local troops have a total of nearly 10,000 people. We're attacking a county with more than 1,000 defenders. That's a ten to one difference in troop strength. When has Old Li ever fought such a powerful battle? There's no main attack or feint attack. It's all main attack, with tens of thousands of people going forward." Li Yunlong set the tone with just one sentence.
Next, we began to make specific arrangements, including which battalion would be responsible for which gate, responsible for blocking reinforcements from which direction, and so on.
The meeting was completed quickly and efficiently, and each combat unit quickly left the regiment headquarters to go back and make arrangements. Looking at the empty room, Li Yunlong felt his eyelids starting to twitch all over his body, and he fell asleep on the table as soon as he sat down.
The unusual movement of the independent regiment soon attracted the attention of surrounding troops, who ordered their troops to return to their bases and be ready to fight at any time. Local armed forces also began to attack the artillery towers and moved closer to Ping'an County step by step.
Yamamoto Ikki, who was hiding in the military police headquarters in Ping'an County, finally felt that disaster was imminent when he received a message from the captain of the Ping'an County Security Brigade about the beginning of anti-Japanese armed activities around the county and the loss of contact between the various bases in the county. But what confused him was that he didn't know where he had lost. His special forces team had clearly destroyed the independent regiment's headquarters and its command system, so why were they still able to organize troops to besiege Ping'an County and advance layer by layer?
The common problem of the Japanese is that they only learn half of things. For example, the Tang envoys who came to China learned everything and moved everything except the imperial examination system. That was because the imperial examination system would subvert the rule of the aristocracy. Another example is clearing away the emperor's concubines. The emphasis is on clearing away the emperor, and concubines are just an excuse and a by-product. So seven years ago, there was a strange thing that a group of idiots killed high-ranking officials of the dynasty and pledged allegiance to the emperor, but were personally classified as rebels and ordered to be suppressed by the emperor.
Yamamoto Ikki naturally also had this problem. Although he claimed to be an expert in special operations and an expert on China, he had only learned half of special operations and only knew a very small part of China. This led to his dead end.
However, Yamamoto Ikki's German teacher probably had some tricks up his sleeve when teaching him this course.
During this period, there were two armies on Earth that could not possibly be decapitated by his so-called special forces and left to lose control and collapse.
One is the anti-Japanese armed force under the leadership of the organization. In the absence of superiors, as long as there are three members of the organization, they can form a temporary leadership and command structure to quickly restore the army's order and combat effectiveness.
The other is the army of the Third Reich. Their junior officers have extremely high military literacy and rigorous national quality. In the absence of superiors, they can still control the army and perform combat missions. The most typical example is a 10-man reconnaissance team directly forced a city to surrender, and that city was the capital of a country.
No matter how confused he was, he had to survive the revenge operation of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment. For the first time, Yamamoto Ikki put aside his pride and sent a radio message to Shinozuka Yoshio for help.
Yoshio Shinozuka was very generous and ordered all the surrounding garrisons, security forces and puppet troops to go out to lift the siege of Ping'an County and rescue Yamamoto Ikki and his special forces.
A battle that shocked the whole country broke out. Troops belonging to different camps spontaneously joined the battle, especially the Eighth Route Army and the local armed forces led by them. They insisted on fighting in the face of the superior forces of the Japanese devils in order to delay the enemy and buy time for the main force to capture Ping'an County. The entire northwest Shanxi was in the midst of war.
On the surface, this was an expansion of the military retaliation against the Japanese invaders' attack on the Eighth Route Army. In fact, it was the inevitable result of the development of the anti-Japanese armed forces after the great mopping-up campaign. It was a sign that the anti-Japanese armed forces under the organization and leadership had shifted from guerrilla warfare to the frontal battlefield. The war entered a new stage.
The nation, which has struggled through a century of humiliation, finally sees the dawn of victory.
In the Xieji Rice Store warehouse in Ping'an County, everyone listened anxiously to the sounds of gunfire coming from the city gates, waiting for the order to attack.
As the sound of gunfire got closer, it seemed that the siege troops of the independent regiment had already reached the city gate. Yu Xian suddenly stood up and began to speak to the soldiers who had changed into the Japanese uniforms.
"I will now issue the mission. All members of the special forces company will set out to seize the Japanese arsenal. The first squad will stay behind, and the second and third squads will follow me to the west gate. The third squad will seize the city gate, and the second squad will follow me to the city wall to rescue our comrades."
After hearing this, the soldiers immediately made a gesture of receipt, the warehouse door opened, and the soldiers filed out and ran outside.
The rice warehouse was not far from the Japanese ammunition depot. Now almost all the Japanese and puppet troops had been sent to the top of the city wall. There was only one squad guarding it. There were only two Japanese at the door, and no one was even arranged at the machine gun position.
The guarding sergeants and the Japanese felt very strange when they saw dozens of soldiers suddenly appear on the street, led by a lieutenant. These people walked towards the ammunition depot without saying a word and hurriedly raised their guns to point at the crowd.
"Stop! Do not come near!" (Japanese)
"Get started!" Yu Xian ordered in a low voice.
Several soldiers hiding behind walked to the front, raised the crossbows in their hands and shot at the two soldiers. The two Japanese soldiers died before they could see what they were.
After dealing with the guard at the door, the first team immediately stepped forward to take control of the machine gun position and dragged the bodies aside.
When I opened the door and entered the courtyard, I saw seven or eight Japanese devils living peacefully in the yard, as if the fierce fighting at the city gate had nothing to do with them.
The soldiers quickly dealt with the stunned Japanese soldiers and kicked open the warehouse. Everyone was used to being poor, and seeing the dazzling array of weapons made them dazzled, and for a moment they were at a loss.
"Bring grenades and machine guns, not the Type 99 machine guns, but the Czech type. Second squad, please note, do not fire your guns when capturing the city gate, use crossbows and bayonets. This is to avoid making too much noise and attracting the attention of the Japanese on the city wall." Yu Xian made his final request.
In five minutes, the soldiers were fully equipped with weapons under the arrangement of their respective team leaders.
"Depart for the South Gate!"
This was where the Independent Regiment launched the most intense offensive. Under the command of Zhang Dabiao, the soldiers gradually eliminated the Japanese and puppet army positions in front of the city wall. Now the trouble was the Japanese on the city tower. Without heavy artillery to attack the city, the soldiers could only use their flesh and blood to hold the explosive packs and cross the firepower network on the city tower to blow up the city gate. However, under the impact that was almost like a moth to a flame, the Japanese on the city tower began to be unable to hold on.
Li Yunlong felt that the offensive was disadvantageous. The blocking team had reached the critical point and could not delay any longer, otherwise they would face a disastrous defeat. Therefore, he personally came to the front line of the South Gate to supervise the battle.
Yamamoto Ikki was not at the gendarmerie headquarters when he received the news that the rescue forces were blocked. He was very unwilling to die in a small county town in northwest Shanxi. For this reason, he brought Yang Xiuqin to the tower to stop the fighting between the two sides. He said a lot of nonsense and planned to execute Yang Xiuqin in public to destroy Li Yunlong's will.
"Captain, why did the sound of gunfire suddenly stop?"
When the second and third teams just arrived at the foot of the city wall, the gunfire stopped.
"It's bad, team two, take the city gate, team three, follow me!" Yu Xian said, pulled out his bayonet, and took the lead in rushing up the ladder.
The Japanese soldiers in the doorway saw more than 50 people carrying heavy weapons appear here, and they just thought they might be reinforcements without thinking much. Then they saw these people split into two teams, one climbing up the city wall and the other coming towards them.
He was still thinking about saying hello or something, but when they got closer, more than a dozen people rushed out from among them, holding crossbows in their hands and shooting at him.