Others show their swords, I show my missiles!

Yan Tuhuang took advantage of public opinion, but actually got nothing.

It's like scolding someone and the other person doesn't retaliate. It feels like you're taking advantage, but in fact both sides suffer. For Yan Tuhuang, what does he want? Taking advantage of words? Of course not, he wants real benefits.

Judging from the current situation, it is impossible to peacefully seize the territory from Li Yunlong, and the only option is to resort to force.

After the Taiyuan Defense War, he retreated to southern Shanxi. During this period, he united with Zhu Bing's troops to attack our Eighth Route Army. After being counterattacked by our army, it stopped. Mainly because he was afraid of being beaten, and also because Fu Shuibu had left his camp, he didn't have much strength.

It is undeniable that he accumulated some prestige in the past few years. During the period of dormancy in southern Shanxi, he used his prestige and so-called orthodox status to continuously recruit troops and quickly recovered his strength.

After the December 1939 Incident, he applied to Jiang Wufa to increase his establishment. Jiang Wufa agreed to his request. He took the opportunity to expand the original two group armies and five corps into four group armies and eight corps. But each army only has more than 10,000 people.

In the matter of compilation, Jiang Wufa was very generous to Yan Tuhuang. In contrast, the Eighth Route Army's organization has always been one corps and three divisions.

Although Jin Yan's army is not lacking in personnel, it cannot recruit so many people. As a result, there were three regiments in one division, and each regiment had just over a thousand men.

In the second half of 1940, before our army conquered Xiangyuan, Emperor Yan Tu sent people to contact the Japanese pirates and formed a verbal agreement. The general meaning is that he will no longer resist the Japanese and will join forces with the Japanese to resist me from now on. The Japanese equipped him with thirty regiments.

A few days ago, the Japanese agreed to give Xiaoyi to themselves, but before they had time to accept it, Li Yunlong took over.

This is exactly what he said in the order: it disrupted his plan. It's just that his plan is not to fight against the Japanese, but to unite with the Japanese to fight against us.

Therefore, he hated Li Yunlong very much.

But he didn't dare to let him and Li Yunlong go into full-scale war. He did have a purported army of 200,000, but the actual number was more than 120,000.

There were more people than the independent brigade, but the record of the independent brigade was shocking enough. Even if he didn't believe it, he was still a little afraid.

Therefore, he only dared to send a small number of troops to blatantly occupy the county in the name of orthodoxy. It was up to Li Yunlong to see whether he dared to fight back.

Based on his understanding of our army, he believed that our army would not fire the first shot. If this is the case this time, it will be easy to handle. As long as you restrain yourself and don't fire the first shot, you can rely on your numerical advantage to squeeze out the Eighth Route Army and recapture various counties.

Once the county towns are occupied, Jin Yan's army can turn these county towns into a group of bunkers one after another. Delay our army, cooperate with the Japanese inside and outside, and defeat our army.

The Jinsui Army is famous for being good at defending the city. Even without Fu Shuibu, it is still a force that is good at defending the city. Yan Tuhuang still has confidence in the defensive capabilities of his troops. Because he has never seen our army's 370mm rocket launcher, not even the 155mm howitzer. As for cruise missiles, he couldn't even dream of them!

From the perspective of Emperor Yan Tu, if he wants to have a bargaining chip in negotiations with us, Jiang Fang, and the Japanese side and obtain sufficient benefits, he needs to occupy a certain territory.

It's just that this person is too selfish and doesn't understand the situation clearly. If he can always support us and not give him a few acres of thin farmland in the end, he is "taking a villain's heart to judge a gentleman's belly." In fact, it shouldn't be a problem to make him a minister. As far as governance is concerned, he still has something.

He wanted to squeeze Li Yunlong away, but was Li Yunlong the kind of person who was willing to suffer a loss?

It is said that Li Yunlong even sent troops to rob food!

In fact, Li Yunlong was really wronged for arranging troops to rob food. Later, Zhao Gang asked him and found out the whole story.

It turned out that he had money with him at the time, and his original intention was to buy grain. It's just that the common people didn't understand our troops and thought they were here to steal food, so they didn't listen to his explanation.

His troops were eager to start again, so he asked the soldiers to put down their money, grab the food and leave.

In fact, it was at most a forced purchase and sale, and the money left behind could not only buy these grains at the prevailing market price.

Later, for some reason, the news spread that soldiers were robbing food. Everyone only focused on the robbing and ignored the money they put down. In that era, even if Li Yunlong really sent troops, our soldiers would not rob him!

Let's go back to Yan Tuhuang. He thought over and over again and decided to send the A1 Division of the A1001 Army of Group A to squeeze out the Eighth Route Army in Ji County with the strength of one division.

If you ask why you don’t just say which teacher it is, it’s because you’re afraid of accidentally portraying a good guy as a bad guy. We use code names entirely so as not to offend anyone.

Said to be a division, in fact, Yan Jun's division at that time only had four to five thousand people, which was still a relatively large division. There are not as many people as a group of the Independent Brigade.

Chu Yunfei's regiment back then was as good as a strengthened division now.

Ji County is just a little east of Kenanpo, more than 20 kilometers away in a straight line.

At this time, the second battalion and second company of the fifth regiment were in Ji County, which was only one company of troops.

The independent brigade has nearly 90,000 people, one-third of which are still training. The remaining areas are too large, resulting in local shortages of troops. Moreover, the Japs are mainly in the north of Taiyuan, the main force of the Independent Brigade is located in the north, and there are not many troops in Ji County.

Hearing that a force of 6,000 to 7,000 men was heading towards Ji County, the company commander urgently reported to the superiors step by step; at the same time, he organized the masses to build fortifications at the city wall that had been blown up. He also organized nearby local troops, gathering a total of about 500 people.

When we first attacked the city, the city wall was covered with artillery fire, and a place collapsed. The company commander piled three infantry fighting vehicles there.

Light and heavy machine guns and mortars were mounted on the city walls. The city wall is of little use to defend against troops like the Independent Brigade, but its role in defending against Jin Yanjun and even Japanese pirates cannot be ignored.

"Report, the 1nd Battalion and 1001nd Company of the th Regiment reported that Yan Tuhuang sent the A Division of the A Corps of Group A, carrying mortars and mountain artillery, to kill Ji County. The total number of Yan's troops is about six to seven thousand."

Li Yunlong received the report, walked to the map, tapped the Kenanpo area with his hand and said: "Is Emperor Yan Tu going to break up with us? Order the fifth regiment to assemble troops to reinforce Ji County. While the enemy is gaining a foothold, If it’s not stable, eat this division!”

Zhang Dabiao was about to take the phone to convey the order, but Zhao Gang held down the phone and said, "Wait a moment. Lao Li, this fight is of great importance. Should we ask the headquarters for instructions first?"

"Asking for instructions? The enemy's bayonet has hit our nose, why do we ask for instructions?

Reporting at different levels has already taken a lot of time. The headquarters will study countermeasures after receiving our report, and may even ask the Yanzhou headquarters for instructions. A few hours have passed since the order came down.

On the battlefield, victory or defeat can be decided in one second. If you delay for such a long time, you will suffer losses in the fight!

Tell the Fifth Regiment that in the event of an emergency, they will make a decision on the fly, do not ask for instructions, and report it later.

Whatever happens, I'll take care of it! "

"Okay, then it's up to you. If anything happens, we will be jointly responsible."

Zhao Gang had a bad temper with Li Yunlong in this regard. Li Yunlong made the final decision on the battle. As long as Li Yunlong made up his mind, he would fully cooperate.

If you have any dissatisfaction, you have to wait until the war is over.