Chapter 252: Thanking The Heavens
This Japanese Tank Regiment and infantry were smashed to pieces by Li Yunlong and Gao Liujin, and they hurriedly withdrew.
“Damn it, this rocket launcher is too damn good, the Japanese tanks and war vehicles haven’t been completely destroyed yet, I’m going to pursue!” Gao Liujin was about to pursue.
“Forget it, can your two legs outrun their wheels!” Li Yunlong grabbed Gao Liujin and said, “There are quite a few Japanese troops, you want to fight wars, are you afraid there won’t be an opportunity!”
“Haha, indeed, indeed.” Gao Liujin laughed heartily. This battle was truly too exhilarating.
“You clean up the battlefield here and keep an eye on the Yoshino Regiment, I’ll go negotiate with Chu Yunfei.” Li Yunlong said to Gao Liujin.
This guy’s mouth has no filter, better to let him stay here for now, Li Yunlong planned to go negotiate with the Jin Sui Army side himself.
As for the Yoshino Regiment, after our side drove away the Japanese Tank Regiment, this Yoshino Regiment didn’t rush over urgently, but we still couldn’t relax our vigilance.
“Alright, fine.” Gao Liujin nodded, quickly seizing the time to clean up and sending people to watch the rear.
Li Yunlong strode over towards Chu Yunfei’s side: “Sorry, Brother Chu, brother I arrived one step late.”
“Brother Yunlong, where is Deputy Factory Director Yan?” Chu Yunfei suppressed his inner anger and got straight to the point.
By now, Chu Yunfei had already figured it out.
Li Yunlong must have pretended to be trapped by the Yoshino Regiment, with the aim of luring out the Jin Sui Army.
His firepower was so strong, even in a frontal clash with the Japanese, he could hold his own.
If the Japanese wanted to keep him pinned, without airplanes coming out, it would probably be very difficult.
“Oh man, Brother Chu, it’s all my fault for poor command, my command was poor.” Li Yunlong quickly blamed himself profusely.
Chu Yunfei, upon hearing this, his expression changed drastically: “Brother Yunlong, what do you mean, don’t joke with your brother me, I’m already in bad enough shape now.”
Chu Yunfei’s current state was indeed not good.
The 358th Regiment, as the vanguard, had braced itself to fight several thousand Japanese, and the opponent also had a Tank Regiment.
Chu Yunfei’s soldiers’ casualties were approaching one-third, and if Li Yunlong hadn’t arrived in time, the artillery battalion would have been gone too.
“Brother Chu, how would I dare joke with you.” Li Yunlong’s expression was extremely serious, “Mr. Yan Kai is still alive, it’s just that he’s not in my hands right now.”
“Then where is he, could he have fallen into the Japanese hands?” Chu Yunfei, upon hearing this, his face paled even more.
Yan Kai gone was no different from falling into Japanese hands.
“No, no.” Li Yunlong hurriedly shook his head and said: “Mr. Yan Kai is so important, how could we let him fall into Japanese hands, he’s in the hands of my other two old comrades.”
“Then where are your two old comrades, why haven’t they come over?” Chu Yunfei glanced towards Li Yunlong’s rear, only seeing Li Yunlong’s troops and Gao Liujin’s troops.
“We broke out in two directions separately, because I knew that once we broke out, the Japanese would definitely pursue frantically, my side was to cover theirs, that’s why I drew the Japanese away.” Li Yunlong explained solemnly, “It was also a coincidence, I led the Japanese here and happened to see you, old brother, taking losses against the Japanese Tank Regiment, so I took advantage of the momentum helped you out, Brother Chu, you owe me a huge favor now, you have to remember to pay me back.”
Seeing Li Yunlong’s shameless look, Chu Yunfei was so angry he laughed: “I say Brother Yunlong, can you stop talking nonsense? You came straight here after breaking out of the encirclement, right? Coincidence, how is that possible!”
“Brother Chu, you can’t be like this as a person. I clearly helped relieve your siege, you don’t appreciate your brother’s kindness, and instead…” Li Yunlong looked heartbroken.
If I hadn’t acted in time, your artillery battalion would be gone.
Chu Yunfei didn’t want to bandy words with Li Yunlong and interrupted irritably: “Where are your two old comrades, what is their position now?”
“Over there.” Li Yunlong immediately pointed in a direction and said: “We agreed when breaking out to rendezvous there. Brother Chu, you’ve seen it, the Japanese troops are numerous, my two regiments going there, if they run into Japanese, it would still be very dangerous, you’d better come with us, we’ll go together to pick up Mr. Yan.”
Immediately after, Li Yunlong played dumb again: “Ah, speaking of which, your brother I regrets it so much, why did I take Mr. Yan along back then, I should have just refused him, Mr. Yan is an important relative of Officer Yan, if anything happens to him, when I get back the brigade commander will surely shoot me.”
“Li Yunlong, are you sure Deputy Factory Director Yan is still alive and with your two old comrades right now, right?” Chu Yunfei ignored Li Yunlong’s playacting and confirmed again, “I need to inform superior right away.”
“Of course he’s alive, right now with my two old comrades, absolutely true.” Li Yunlong nodded seriously and urged, “You’ve seen it, the Japanese are rapidly combining forces, their fist twisted together would be hard to deal with, we probably need to move fast, can’t delay.”
“You wait here, I’ll go personally inform superior right away.” After confirming with Li Yunlong again, Chu Yunfei told him to wait in place and quickly ran to the command post to use the command post’s telephone to contact superior.
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Yoshino Regimental Commander helped gather the routed soldiers from the Tank Regiment side, Major General Kawashima brought his troops over, and seeing the losses, he couldn’t help cursing loudly: “Baka, damn Eighth Route Army!”
“Brigade Commander Kawashima, I’ve already immediately reported the battle situation via radio to the commander side, what do we do now?” Yoshino Regimental Commander immediately looked to Major General Kawashima.
“What else can we do, immediately settle the injured, then we combine forces and charge through, wipe out the Eighth Route Army and Jin Sui Army!” Major General Kawashima said furiously.
Yoshino Regimental Commander questioned: “Brigade Commander Kawashima, although we’ve combined forces and have plenty of troops, but the Eighth Route Army’s firepower isn’t weak either, if we fight head-on, our casualties probably won’t be small. Mainly, we have no poison gas shells now.”
“Entangle them, consume their ammunition.” Major General Kawashima said wisely, “As long as their ammunition is nearly consumed, their combat power drops, then we make one final push…”
At this point, Major General Kawashima looked up at the sky and said: “Maybe we don’t need to wait that long, looking at this weather, the sandstorm weather will stop in these two days, then our airplanes come out, taking down the Eighth Route Army and Jin Sui Army won’t be difficult.”
Yoshino Regimental Commander reminded: “The Eighth Route Army and Jin Sui Army aren’t stupid either, if they see the weather improving, they’ll probably slip away too.”
“So, entangle them, don’t give them an opportunity to go back.” Major General Kawashima’s tone was firm.
Not long after, the signal soldier handed over the newly arrived telegram: “Commander’s reply.”
Major General Kawashima took the telegram, Commander Shinozuka was extremely angry in it, ordering Major General Kawashima to take temporary command, with the Yoshino Regiment and the Tank Regiment reinforcements from the Taiyuan side all under his command, must make the Eighth Route Army and Jin Sui Army die here.
“Tell the commander, I won’t let him down.” Major General Kawashima had the signal soldier reply to the commander, then looked solemnly at Yoshino Regimental Commander and others: “Your Excellency Commander has granted me temporary command authority, let’s seize the time now and move closer, focus on entangling them, avoid frontal hard fights as much as possible.”
“Hai!”
While Major General Kawashima was bringing his troops over, Chu Yunfei had also finished communicating with superior.
Chu Yunfei ran to Li Yunlong and said seriously: “Brother Yunlong, our superior has decided, bring the troops to follow you and pick up Mr. Yan, you lead the way ahead right away.”
“Alright, no problem, then you all follow and go right away.”
Li Yunlong nodded briskly.
As Li Yunlong expected, as he led the Jin Sui Army halfway, Major General Kawashima encircled over with the Japanese army.
Li Yunlong was unwilling to fight head-on, Major General Kawashima was unwilling to fight head-on, the Jin Sui Army wanted to fight hard but had no heavy weapons.
Both enemy and us were now entangled with each other.
This entanglement lasted several days.
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Border Region Arsenal
Li Muzhi stretched lazily and slowly woke up.
He put on clothes and got out of bed, then washed up.
Outside the window, it was drizzling, and the sky was overcast.
Two days ago, the sandstorm weather had stopped.
But good weather didn’t come, no sunlight, instead it started raining.
For Li Muzhi’s side, this could be considered the heavens helping out.
Raining, sky overcast, Japanese airplanes couldn’t take off either.
Moreover, due to the rain, the Japanese raids had to be temporarily halted.
Their transport vehicles were stuck in the mud, supplies couldn’t be transported, so the Japanese troops had to stop and wait for clear weather, and rest briefly.
For the Eighth Route Army side, this naturally gained precious rest time.
Li Muzhi’s arsenal could go full throttle to produce weapons and ammunition.
Even yesterday, many in logistics were still praying to the heavens for the rain to last ten days or half a month.
Li Muzhi finished washing up and went to the canteen for breakfast.
Before, when it rained, the arsenal workers would curse.
Because back then the arsenal conditions were poor, rain meant dampness, ammunition easily got damp.
Now it’s different, heaven raining, Japanese raids stop, this is heaven buying time for our Border Region Arsenal.
So, when Li Muzhi arrived at the canteen, the workers’ emotions were clearly much higher.
When shouting “Factory Director good,” they were all like they’d been injected with chicken blood.
Li Muzhi got his breakfast and sat down to eat.
Li Muzhi had just peeled the egg in his hand when he saw Doctor of Metallurgy Zhang Ke come over happily: “Factory Director, the fake tungsten ore you ordered made is almost finished today.”
“Mm, good.” Li Muzhi acknowledged and said, “Then today I’ll notify the 386th Brigade side to get ready.”
Zhang Ke asked: “Should we make more of this fake tungsten ore?”
“No need for now.” Li Muzhi waved his hand and said, “Put your manpower on producing weapons and ammunition now, take advantage of these rainy days to make more weapons and ammunition quickly.”
“Good.” Zhang Ke nodded, then remembered something and asked curiously: “Factory Director, the parts for your new type rockets are almost made, right?”
Parts all made, then left is assembly and testing.
“Needs a few more days.” Li Muzhi said.
“About how many days?”
“If no mishaps, five days.”
“Haha, if this rain lasts another five days that would be great.” Zhang Ke laughed heartily.
New type rockets, truly too anticipated.
