The third demolition force formed by the special operations battalion succeeded, but not completely.

As a death squad, they completed their tasks and missions, risking their lives to rush to the city wall despite a hail of bullets, and successfully detonated the explosives.

But the explosive charges failed to blow up the fortified city gate.

The Independent Regiment's attacks from the other three directions also failed and fell into a state of anxiety.

The second and third battalions were responsible for attacking the east gate and south gate respectively. These two battalions had no artillery support and suffered heavy casualties from the beginning.

The blasters rushed towards the city wall one after another against the firepower on the roof of the city gate and the bunkers below the city.

The first battalion attacked the north gate. The attacking troops were blocked several times and suffered heavy casualties.

Under the cover of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, the first battalion of blasters successfully detonated explosive packages under the city wall, but still failed to blow open the city wall.

Li Yunlong was so angry that he jumped up and cursed.

Zhao Gang held a 97 sniper rifle, fired a shot at the tower, and quickly pressed Li Yunlong's head down.

"Old Li, the city wall is too thick even for explosives to explode, we have to find a way!"

Li Yunlong shouted back: "Where is Yao Shangwu? Pull up the mountain cannon for me!"

The communications troops ran back, and after a while, Yao Shangwu and a dozen artillerymen came up pushing and pulling mountain artillery and infantry artillery.

Li Yunlong immediately shouted: "Yao Shangwu, aim directly at the fire points on the city gate. I want to see how many guns these sons of bitches can withstand and give me a blast!"

…

At this time, with Yushe County as the center, everything within a radius of dozens of miles was almost reduced to a pot of porridge.

Although the Japanese army's defense is in a state of flux, its mobility is not weak. Each of its strongholds and county towns are not defended in isolation.

If a certain point is attacked, other strongholds will provide reinforcements regardless of life and death, and there will never be a situation where the conservative forces among the various ministries will not save them.

A small group of Japanese and puppet troops from strongholds along the Yuliao Highway moved toward Yushe County to support and exchanged fire with various blocking troops of the Fourth Battalion of the Independent Regiment.

The county brigade and militiamen of Yushe County also joined the battle inexplicably, and these Japanese and puppet troops who were reinforced by small groups were quickly repelled.

However, larger Japanese reinforcements were dispatched from various military towns and rushed towards Yushe County.

Upon receiving the mission, the Japanese First Army Aviation Group immediately loaded bombs and artillery shells with four Zero fighters and took off from Taiyuan Airport.

…

Yangquan, Shinao Mountain Racecourse.

More than a thousand cavalry members of the Black Island Cavalry Regiment were assembled on the racecourse and were on standby.

This Japanese cavalry regiment has three cavalry squadrons and one cavalry artillery squadron.

Captain Kuroshima Morita came over with a sword.

Kuroshima Morita, who has been very brave since childhood, has strong martial arts skills, is good at using a sword, is a hereditary baron, and his ancestor is a Japanese ronin.

The Black Island Cavalry Regiment under his command is well-trained. These cavalrymen can make people feel a chilling momentum just by standing there while riding on their horses!

Kuroshima Morita was getting on his horse and was about to give the order to set off.

In the distance, more than thirty cavalrymen were galloping toward him. The attire of these cavalrymen was very different from that of the Black Island Cavalry Regiment. They were all wearing yellow woolen coats of the Kwantung Army.

The leader was a young and handsome officer with an intimidating background. He was the prince of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, Akimoto Akiyoshi.

Akamoto Mingyi is a restless master. He feels that there is no war in Manchukuo and it is too boring, so he plans to go to Hebei to find his good friend Yamashita Fengwu, but he does not expect that Yamashita Fengwu is shot in the head by a sniper.

So in the name of exchanging riding skills, I came to the Shanxi war zone to find my distant cousin Kuroshima Morita.

"Uncle Kuroshima, your cavalry regiment seems to be engaged in combat operations. Where is it going?" Arriving in front of Kuroshima Morita, Akamoto Akimoto reined in his horse and asked.

Seeing this young master, Hei Dao had a headache.

This is a young and handsome young Japanese officer with excellent riding skills. He is also a prince. He was promoted to the rank of colonel at a young age.

But this man is very arrogant. He has not fought many serious battles, but he feels that he is invincible.

"Your Highness," Kuroshima said with a slight bow as he rode on his horse, "Our department has received orders from Commander Shinozuka and is preparing to go to reinforce Yushe County."

Akamoto Mingyi's eyes lit up: "Great, do you want to fight the Eighth Route Army? I'll go with you."

"Absolutely not, Your Highness, this is really too dangerous."

Hei Dao's expression was a little frightened, but he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth. If you were not a prince, I would chop you to death with a knife.

"As a soldier of the Japanese Empire, what does the mere danger mean?" Akamoto Mingyi said indifferently.

"But you are..."

"Hey, Uncle Hei Dao, just don't treat me as a prince. These soldiers behind you can fight for the empire, why can't I."

"Just think of me as your ordinary soldier."

"Your Majesty Colonel, Akamoto Akihiro is reporting to you!"

Black Island's face is full of black lines. Damn it, is fighting a joke?

Besides, if something happens to you, how will I explain it to the Commander and His Majesty the Emperor?

"Uncle Kuroshima, don't worry, I will follow you and I will never run away." Seeing Kuroshima's expression, as if he wanted to refuse, Akamoto Mingyi said hurriedly.

"All right."

Hei Dao nodded. He couldn't afford to offend this young master, so he had no choice but to agree and pretend to have a smile on his face.

Akamoto Mingyi looked slightly happy and quickly led his Kwantung Army cavalry squad into the Black Island Cavalry Regiment.

"Let's go!" Hei Dao gave the order with a stern look in his eyes.

Immediately, the Black Island Cavalry Regiment dispatched en masse and galloped slowly towards the south.

Wherever more than a thousand cavalrymen passed by, they brought up large amounts of dust and scattered them.

…

Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

Mr. Liu took several telegrams and reported to the boss.

"Starting from the night before yesterday, our 129th Division, with the assistance of the people in the base area, launched a comprehensive attack on the Baijin Railway."

"At two o'clock sharp the night before yesterday, the 386th Brigade Independent Regiment used latent tactics to attack Guanshan Town, seized a large amount of supplies and explosives, and rescued more than 1,000 road construction workers."

"The rest of the main force attacked Qin County, Guyi, Zhangyuan, Laiyuan and other strongholds along the railway."

"Yesterday during the day, the Japanese troops in Taigu, Laiyuan, and Qinxian counties launched a counterattack, but they were all severely beaten."

"It is roughly estimated that this raid will destroy dozens of kilometers of railways, more than 50 large and small bridges, take down more than 30 strongholds, and wipe out thousands of enemy people."

Listening to Commander Liu's victory report, the boss put his hands on his hands and laughed: "This raid was brilliant. The Japanese army built the Baijin Railway just to use their superior equipment and troops to continuously sweep away our base area in southeastern Shanxi. I stole it."

Railway tracks, let’s see what he uses to sweep them away?”

"Yes, especially Li Yunlong's independent regiment, which annihilated more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops within half an hour of entering Guanshan Town."

Commander Liu said: "It shows the majesty of our Eighth Route Army!"

"Li Yunlong?" The boss asked with a look on his face, "Where is he now? This time I should give him a good reward."

"Oh." Commander Liu replied, "Last night, Li Yunlong led his troops to Yushe County to block the Japanese reinforcements heading to the Baijin Railway. In addition, our new weapon flying thunder cannon also played an important role in this raid.

It has a great effect. The Japanese and puppet army's bunker and gun towers are simply vulnerable to flying thunder cannons!"

"Not bad!" The boss nodded in approval, "I remember that the Flying Thunder Cannon was invented by Li Yunlong's subordinate, Monk Wei, right?"

"It's him."

Commander Liu nodded and said, "The latent tactics used in the attack on Guanshan Town this time were proposed by Monk Wei. He also personally led the troops to capture Guanshan Town."

"Rewards, all commendations!" A smile appeared on the boss's face.

At this time, the chief of staff rushed into the headquarters war room with a telegram in his hand.
Chapter completed!