Chapter 656: Ghost Convoy (First Update!) )
The Koseki stronghold becomes very quiet from 8 o'clock in the evening!
Except for a few guard posts, the rest of the Japanese puppet army went to sleep!
In the territory of Datong, the main force of the imperial army is attacking the Jin Sui army and recapturing Datong! The battlefield is dozens of kilometers away, and it can't affect here anyway!
Outside the stronghold, He Jun, the commander of the first battalion, held a telescope and stared at the stronghold motionless for almost ten minutes!
Just when his subordinates were about to wait in time, he spoke: "Comrades, there is still half an hour before the attack!" ”
"I decided to hide a company on the road five kilometers north of the stronghold, guard the direction of the county seat, and kill the reinforcements that may be sent out to block the county seat!"
"An hour after the battle started, regardless of whether the reinforcements of the Japanese puppet army appeared or not, the troops immediately retreated!"
"The second company with all the artillery frontal attack! The three companies were divided into three, each with a heavy machine gun to attack from the other three directions to block the Japanese puppet army breakthrough troops! ”
"What the regiment commander wants is to completely annihilate all the Japanese puppet troops in the stronghold to prevent our convoy from being exposed because of some fish that slipped through the net!"
"So don't be merciful when you fight, the devil will kill it directly, and the puppet army will take it if it can be captured, and if it can't be captured, it will be killed!"
"Boom ......"
The mountain artillery was the first to fire, firing the first shot of the entire breakout battle!
The shell exploded, and the second floor of the central turret of the stronghold was directly blown out of a large hole, and the first hit was made!
In the eyes of the Japanese puppet army, the turret is definitely the safest place in the entire stronghold, and the second floor is the safest place in the turret!
That's why the devils generally set their headquarters here!
A cannon smashed on the outer wall of the second floor, and the moment it exploded, the devil captain and more than a dozen officers, large and small officers, guards, were directly served in a pot!
"The mountain artillery continues to fire and blow up the turret!" He Jun decisively ordered!
"Mortars also opened fire, bombed the open space of the stronghold, and killed all the Japanese puppet troops who rushed out of the turret and barracks!"
"Machine gun cover, the second company pressed up, and as soon as the turret collapsed, the assault began!"
As soon as the battle began, the captain and the two squad leaders died!
The leaderless Japanese army was in chaos at that time!
Although this confusion was quickly suppressed by Cao Chang in the middle, and he rushed to the position in disheveled clothes, He Jun did not give them this opportunity!
Mortar shells in groups of three kept falling at a very fast speed!
The Japanese puppet army exposed outside the stronghold was blown up piece by piece, like paper paste!
Someone was killed on the spot, and someone fell to the ground screaming with a painful face!
"Boom ......"
An even more violent explosion sounded in the middle of the stronghold, and the artillery tower where the Japanese puppet army was located collapsed, turning into a pile of ruins in an instant!
At this time, in addition to the devil and listening to the greeting of Cao Chang beside him, the puppet army was completely chaotic, like a headless fly, scurrying around in the stronghold, and his face was full of fear!
There are also people who hide directly in the corner, lie on the ground, pretend to be dead, and wait for the Eighth Route Army to come over and surrender! ”
"Tick ......"
The Bugle is sounding!
More than 100 Eighth Route Army troops appeared in the devil's field of vision, and under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, they rushed towards the stronghold like hungry wolves!
"Fight back, shoot right away, stop them!" Cao Chang half-squatted behind his subordinates and shouted loudly!
"Bang bang bang...... Dadada......"
Dozens of rifles and a limited number of two crooked handles fired quickly!
But in less than five seconds, they were targeted!
"Da Da Da ......"
Two strings of heavy machine gun bullets whizzed over, and the two machine gunners were instantly cut off half of their heads, and without saying a word, they fell directly into the trench, dying!
Several riflemen next to him were also affected, and they fell into the trench with a muffled grunt!
The others hurriedly lowered their heads, and although they dodged the bullets flying close to the trench, they were crushed by the bullets and had no chance to raise their heads to fight back!
Erlian seized the opportunity and rushed forward more than ten meters!
The devil Cao Chang was anxious, stared at a pair of red eyes and shouted, "Counterattack...... Everyone stands up and fights back, and the Eight Roads are about to kill! ”
"The Heavy keeps shooting!"
"What about our heavy machine guns? Immediately transferred to participate in the battle, we can't let the Eighth Route Army get close to us anymore! ”
Jun Cao crawled down the trench and reported: "Dead, all dead!" ”
"The offensive firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce, and the machine gunners are dead!"
"Most of the machine guns and heavy machine guns we are equipped with have not been snatched out of the turret, and now they are all crushed in the rubble, and we have no machine guns to use!"
"Boom, boom, boom......"
As soon as they finished speaking, a thunderstorm had already fallen from the sky and smashed around them!
In the county seat, the report was received twenty minutes after the attack on the Xiaoguan stronghold!
"Sir, our telephone contact with the Xiaoguan stronghold has been cut off, he doesn't know anything about the situation there, and it was the outpost on the outskirts of the county town that faintly heard an explosion in the direction of the stronghold and sent someone to report to us!" The staff officer on duty stood in front of the captain of the county garrison and reported!
"Sir, do you want to send cavalry to take a look at it immediately, and find out the situation first!" The adjutant hesitated and reminded!
"Yaga, are you a pig!" The captain scolded!
"The Xiaoguan stronghold is dozens of kilometers away from us, and it takes at least two hours for the cavalry to go back and forth! By the time we figure out the situation, the stronghold has been lost! ”
"The Xiaoguan stronghold is a very important stronghold in our defense area, in addition to controlling the highway, more than a dozen villages and towns around it are also under their control!"
"Once it is lost, the resistance forces of these dozen villages and towns will definitely seize the opportunity to expand rapidly and become a big hidden danger in our defense area!"
"So I don't care what the enemy's purpose is, the Xiaoguan stronghold must not be lost!"
"Immediately draw a reinforced squadron from the garrison, bring a radio station, and reinforce the stronghold by car!"
Inside the stronghold, the gunfire has completely stopped!
More than a hundred prisoners squatted in the open space in the middle of the stronghold, pointed at machine guns, trembling!
The second company that was the first to enter the stronghold is searching the entire stronghold in a dragnet style to make sure that no fish slip through the net on the battlefield!
"Battalion commander, all the devils have been killed, and 128 puppet soldiers have been captured!" The instructor found He Jun and reported excitedly!
"Have you taken the devil's ammunition depot and warehouse!" He Jun asked with satisfaction!
"Take it down, there are dozens of boxes of bullets and grenades, and mortar shells! There is also a lot of food, I have seen it, at least three thousand catties! ”
He Jun glanced at the watch on his wrist and began to give an order: "Time is running out, order the second company, the third company, and the regiment commander to strengthen the artillery given to us, escort the prisoners, bring all the captured food and ammunition, and retreat directly from the forest!" ”
"The guard platoon, the reconnaissance platoon, stay behind me to ensure that the regiment commander passes through here smoothly, and by the way, give the devil reinforcements a false impression that we are fighting a stronghold for food, weapons and ammunition!"
In less than ten minutes, a string of horses' hooves reached He Jun's ears!
Zhou Wu, the commander of the cavalry company, rushed to the front first, without any stop, and directly passed in front of He Jun with a puff of smoke, and then disappeared into the night!
"Lights!" The guard platoon commander pointed to the two lights that suddenly appeared at the end of the road and shouted!
"It's the regiment commander who came over, and the troops have strengthened their vigilance to ensure that the convoy passes through here smoothly!" He Jun ordered very seriously!
Sixty-eight cars, one after the other, all took twenty minutes to pass through the stronghold, and then dozens of cavalry halls!
After all the cars and cavalry disappeared, He Jun's tense nerves relaxed!
"Let's retreat too!"
"Boom, boom...... Dadada......"
As soon as the command came out, a burst of gunfire came!
"It's a company, they must have exchanged fire with the devil reinforcements!" He Jun frowned and judged!
But just one glance at the watch, the frowning brow relaxed!
"Now there are only ten minutes left before the agreed retreat time, they will definitely be able to retreat with their whole body, we don't care about them, just retreat into the mountain!"
"Search the stronghold again before you go, see if there's anything else you can take away, and if you do, take it all!"
"Since you want the devils to mistakenly think that we are building a stronghold for weapons, ammunition and food, we must do it as realistically as possible, and put on the illusion that we lack everything and want everything!"
The commander of the devil reinforcements, Captain Oda, is very aggrieved!
Suddenly encountered a company of blocking troops, and a car of the forward troops was caught off guard, and it was directly overturned by a mine buried on the road, and it was buckled upside down next to the road!
The driver plus the soldiers, nearly twenty subordinates, did not even see the shadow of the enemy, the dead were killed, the wounded were wounded, and they completely lost their combat effectiveness!
Finally stuck to the blocking troops of the Eighth Route Army, Xiao Tian, who was holding back his anger, planned to do something to the other party and avenge the loss of the forward detachment just now, but the Eighth Route Army did not give him this opportunity at all!
Retreat as soon as you make contact, only use cold guns and mines to disturb yourself, and slow down your march!
"Sir, it looks like the enemy holding us back has retreated, and we haven't been attacked for several minutes!" An ensign rushed over and reported!
"Eight Grid Tooth Road, the enemy who attacked us just now must be the Eighth Route Army, only they will be so difficult!"
"Order the troops to advance at full speed and reinforce the Xiaoguan stronghold!"
Ten minutes later, Captain Oda saw the stronghold that had been blown into ruins!
More than a hundred subordinates, except for the guard post, everyone else is searching the stronghold, trying to find one or two living people to come out!
But ten minutes passed, and several team leaders all returned in vain!
"Sir, there's not a single living mouth in the stronghold!"
"There are more than a hundred people missing from the Imperial Army, and they should have been captured and taken away by the enemy!"
"The weapons, ammunition, food, and clothing in the stronghold were all looted by the enemy, and even the bullet casings were picked up!"
"Judging from the humble judgment, the enemy must have attacked for the weapons and ammunition in the stronghold, otherwise it would be impossible to clean up the battlefield so clean!"
"In addition, we found traces of the enemy's retreat in the woods southeast of the stronghold!"
"Preliminary judgment, the total strength of the enemy attacking the stronghold exceeds five hundred!"
Captain Oda also walked around the stronghold just now, and he really didn't see any bullet casings!
The huge battlefield, except for the corpses, everything else has been looted!
This style of combat he had only seen in one army: the Eighth Route Army!
immediately agreed with the judgment of his subordinates, and then ordered: "Contact the team leader, report our judgment, and request the next combat order: whether the troops will pursue the retreating enemy!" ”