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Chapter 651 Shelling!

Dagu Town.

seven in the morning.

In this cold winter season, the sky in Jindi is still dark, and it snowed again last night, and the roads and roofs of houses are covered with a thick layer of snow.

But the real cold weather has yet to come, the snow is not thick, and the shoes creak on the snow.

"set off!"

Li Yunlong looked up at the weather, then at the watch in his hand, exhaled a breath of white mist, and his voice was full of air.

crunch...

A series of sounds of rubber-soled shoes rubbing against the snow sounded, and the soldiers carried their weapons, ammunition boxes, mules and army horses, and grain, canned food and other baggage on their backs.

Under the leadership of the platoon leaders of the battalions and companies, they headed towards the predetermined location.

For this expedition, the new regiment dispatched two artillery battalions, the 1st and 2nd artillery battalions, and two cavalry battalions, the 1st cavalry battalion and the 2nd cavalry battalion.

There are four main battalions and four recruit companies, with nearly 2000 people in each main battalion and 1000 recruits in each company.

The total force is about 1 people.

The Xinyi Regiment’s base is more than 200 kilometers away from Niangziguanzu, and they have to go through many small roads during the period, so this time the soldiers of the Xinyi Regiment did not take a car to go there, but went on foot.

Fortunately, the transportation capacity of the new regiment is strong enough, with a large number of horses and mule carts.

This time the new regiment went out on a small road. The 1st Battalion and the 2nd Battalion of the Xinyi Regiment only carried 75mm mountain cannons, and cannons larger than 105mm could not be carried.

However, the artillery firepower equivalent to two mountain artillery regiments is enough to deal with the devil's reinforcements.

Several members of the regiment headquarters gave each other a military salute, and then Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo, under the protection of the guards, led the communication personnel into the gray torrent.

In this battle, the Xinyi Regiment was running from a distance, with no follow-up support and no friendly troops, and it all depended on the Xinyi Regiment itself.

There was a long-distance raid operation of this scale and nature once last year.

At that time, it was still the early stage of the Zaoyi Battle, and the Xinyi Regiment was still stationed in the southeast of Shanxi Province. It traveled 300 kilometers to the Tongpu Highway north of Taiyuan to ambush the 7th Japanese Chariot Regiment.

In that battle, the Xinyi Regiment wiped out the 7th Regiment of Japanese tanks and earned two mountain artillery battalions, a total of 24 75mm mountain artillery.

Hope this time, Xinyituan will also have a good harvest.

The new regiment still had a lot of work to do, so Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou stayed at the regiment headquarters, and Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo led the team to Zhengtai Railway to do things.

It wasn't until the last troop disappeared from sight that Zhao Gang and Wang Dehou let out a deep breath and walked towards the regiment headquarters.

……

Five days later.

It was five o'clock in the morning.

It is about 2 kilometers north of Niangziguan Station.

Li Yunlong raised his binoculars and looked at Niangziguan. Since it was still dark, he could only vaguely see the lights reflected in the shooting holes of the gun tower.

"Regimental Commander, all the battalion and company commanders have arrived."

Guard Huang Erhu walked up to Li Yunlong and said in a low voice.

Li Yunlong walked to the location where the battalion and company commanders gathered, and looked at the battalion and company commanders.

"Act according to the original plan."

After sweeping around the crowd, Li Yunlong repeated the battle plan he had already made:

"Shi Kezhong is responsible for leading the recruit companies to attack Niangziguan. The offensive must be fierce, but don't force it. Your main task is to let the recruits accumulate actual combat experience."

Shi Kezhong is the battalion commander of the teaching battalion of the Xinyi Regiment. He was originally a battalion commander of the teaching regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and was transferred by the headquarters to the Xinyi Regiment as the teaching battalion commander.

Afterwards, Li Yunlong looked at several main battalion commanders:
"The first battalion, the second battalion, the first artillery battalion, and the first cavalry battalion ambushed here, Pianlianggou, and ambushed the devils who were reinforcing from Yangquan."

"The third battalion, the fourth battalion, the second artillery battalion, and the second cavalry battalion ambushed in Longwangtu, and ambushed the devils who were reinforcing from Jingxing County."

"Yes!" All the main battalion commanders and recruit company commanders nodded in unison.

There are 1000 recruits in each company, but the company commander, platoon leader, and squad leader are all veterans. Li Yunlong thinks it is not a big problem for the veterans to lead the recruits to the battlefield.

"I'm in charge of directing the devils who ambushed in the direction of Yangquan."

"Old Xing, you are in charge of directing the ambush of the devils in the direction of Jingxing County."

"When the devils enter the ambush circle, the artillery fires first. After the artillery fires, the infantry fires. If the devils and infantry escape, the cavalry will pursue them."

Li Yunlong's eyes flashed sharply:
"We owe Boss Chen a quota of 5000 devils. We must pay them all this time, and we will use the devils from the 37th Division to pay back!"

At present, Li Yunlong still owes Boss Chen the business of a Japanese army brigade, plus a Japanese army unit.

They are the cavalry equipment for 1000 men in advance, and the business of providing steel and cement to Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

"Yes!" Everyone shouted again in unison.

Afterwards, a group of battalion and company commanders walked towards the direction of their respective troops, and began to lead the troops towards the designated location.

……

It was nearly six o'clock in the morning.

Some ghosts in Niangziguan have already started to get up and patrol.

However, most of the devils have not gotten up yet.

According to the information detected by the Sword Squadron, the ghosts in Niangziguan blew the chime on time at 06:30.

But at this time, four Japanese-style [-]-style mountain cannons have been set up two kilometers away from Niangziguan.

In addition to the [-]-type mountain artillery, the firepower attacking Niangziguan Station also included several mortars captured from the devils.

After all, there is a brigade of devils and a regiment of puppet troops in Niangziguan, as well as cannon towers and half-buried bunkers.

If there is no relatively strong fire suppression, letting recruits attack Niangziguan is to give away their heads.

"Report to the battalion commander, the mountain artillery and mortars have been set up."

The artillery company commander of the teaching battalion said to the teaching battalion commander Shi Kezhong: "There are enough shells, and you can fire at any time."

Battalion Commander Shi asked, "Have all the recruit companies entered their attack positions?"

A Telegraph replied: "The company of recruits is in attack position!"

Battalion Commander Shi looked at his watch, and there were still 2 minutes before the time for the general offensive to be launched at six o'clock.

It was freezing cold, the soldiers of the Xinyi Regiment were all in the snow, and the devils and puppet soldiers were all warming up under the blankets.

Therefore, the artillery of the new regiment was pointed at the barracks of the devils.

The firepower of 4 75mm mountain guns plus 8 mortars is equivalent to the size of an artillery battalion.

"fire!"

"put!"

At the moment when the pointer on the watch pointed to six o'clock in the morning, Battalion Commander Shi gave the order to fire.

The shells fired from the first round fell into Niangzi Pass a few seconds later.

Boom boom boom...

While the red light was flashing, the smoke of the violent explosion rose, and the shock wave was accompanied by debris flying around at any time.

Since the devil's barracks was made of masonry, a mortar with a slightly larger caliber could destroy it, let alone four mountain cannons.

The shelling didn't stop, and shells were continuously fired into Niangziguan. It didn't take long for the devils and puppet barracks in Niangziguan to be submerged in gunpowder smoke and flames.

"idiot!"

Inside a cannon building, Major Yoshida Yiyi, the captain of the Devils Battalion, couldn't help being furious when he saw the barracks being bombarded:
"Type [-] Mountain Cannon? Type [-] Mortar? Which enemy is bombarding Niangziguan?"

Puppet soldiers and devils lived in the barracks. Judging by the density of shelling, the soldiers suffered a lot of losses.

After the enemy shelled the barracks, they would inevitably bombard the station. Judging by the density of the shelling, the enemy probably had an artillery brigade.

A slap in the face is light, and maybe he will be dismissed.

"The shells are coming from the north." A ghost soldier beside Yoshida Zhou Yi said loudly.

"Baga, assemble your troops!"

The irritable Yoshida slapped the devil soldiers to the ground with a slap on Monday:
"Attack!"

(End of this chapter)