Although this group of Japanese troops suffered heavy casualties, they were after all rigorously trained. When he retreated, he did not panic, and the house he chose to retreat to was diagonally opposite the gate of the Japanese ammunition depot in the Fire God Temple. Although these Japanese troops are not to be feared, even if they do not destroy their troops, even if they rush into the ammunition depot, they will definitely pay a lot of casualties.

For these Japanese soldiers who do not bow their heads, Li Ziyuan will naturally not be polite. As early as when the ammunition depot of the Japanese army in the Fire Temple was chosen as the main direction of attack, he made several preparations. Looking at the stubborn resistance of the Japanese soldiers Li Ziyuan who retreated to a house, he waved his hand, and several skilled soldiers climbed over the wall and climbed onto the roof from the shooting corner of this house after cutting the power grid with a big knife.

Climbing the roof is a common tactic used in village warfare on the Eighth Road, and most of the soldiers are very proficient in this technique. After a few soldiers climbed onto the roof with great skill, they quickly cut open the roof, threw a few Japanese-made grenades, and the gunfire in the entire ammunition depot completely subsided.

After solving the squad of the Japanese garrison ammunition depot, and the last remaining resistance force, Li Ziyuan naturally would not be polite to this ammunition depot of the Japanese army. In addition to leaving one part to defend the outside world and prepare for the counterattack of the Japanese army, he immediately ordered to clean up the battlefield.

In Li Ziyuan's words, the devil's things are our things, and there is no need to be polite with him. As long as it does not affect the mobility of the troops, they can take as much as they can. After Li Ziyuan gave the order, these hard-working soldiers under his subordinates would be polite? After the warehouse doors were opened one by one, it was like a wolf that had been hungry for half a year and saw a flock of fat sheep.

However, the vast majority of fighters only know the ammunition of small arms. After all, for the Eighth Route Army, which was poorly equipped and did not have a few guns in the whole army, these soldiers did not have many opportunities to know the use of shells by various artillery. Coupled with the fact that the level of education is generally not high, and few people know the Japanese on the ammunition box, it is difficult to avoid mistakes in the busy.

Li Ziyuan asked for Japanese-style mortar shells and 41-type mountain artillery shells by name, but many soldiers sent 92-type infantry shells and 94-type mountain artillery shells to the front. Although these two mountain guns were made by the Japanese, and the caliber of the guns was 75 mm, the two shells could not be used universally.

The Type 94 Mountain Cannon may be able to barely fire Type 41 Mountain Artillery shells, but if the Type 41 Mountain Gun misuses the Type 94 Mountain Cannon, because the chamber pressure of the gun is different, it is easy to cause a blow up due to the amount of charge. Seeing that the soldiers confused the shells, Li Ziyuan could only temporarily transfer Zhou Tong back.

Anyway, Zhou Tong's artillery position, in order to avoid the destruction of the Japanese counterattack artillery fire, was set up in the courtyard of the Japanese ammunition depot, and transferring Zhou Tong over would not delay anything. Zhou Tong picked out the 41-type mountain artillery shells, and by the way, he also picked out the mortar shells needed by He Huizhang.

As for Li Ziyuan's request to let him choose some of the small number of Japanese artillery in stock in this warehouse. Zhou Tong shook his head very calmly and told Li Ziyuan clearly. Judging from the current tactics of the Eighth Route Army and the replenishment capacity of ammunition, if the artillery establishment is increased, it will only affect the mobility of the troops.

If the 92 infantry cannon and the Taizheng 11 37mm infantry cannon are more in line with Li Ziyuan's current ability. Although the firing range of the 41 mountain cannon is a little shorter, fortunately, the weight is relatively light. As for the other artillery, forget it, taking them with them can only be some burden for Li Ziyuan's small regiment of troops.

It is very suitable to have one mountain artillery, and the other artillery should still be mortars. At the moment, the number of cannons in Li Ziyuan's troops is enough for the size of his troops. The problem at hand is to make sure that these guns have enough shells to use as much as possible.

However, Zhou Tong suggested that Li Ziyuan should bring a Taisho 11th Year 37 infantry gun in the warehouse, as well as an anti-aircraft machine gun. Although the 37 infantry guns in the 11th year of Taisho are old, their range and power have fallen behind. However, it was light in weight and could be used as a direct-aim artillery against the civil fortifications and machine-gun positions of the Japanese puppet army.

Although Zhou Tong was in the Jinsui Army, he was just an ordinary artillery squad leader, and his rank was just a non-commissioned officer, not even a second lieutenant. But in the Eighth Route Army, which seriously lacked the backbone of artillery, especially except for the foul-mouthed mortar of He Huizhang, there was no real artilleryman, Li Ziyuan's department, it was definitely an expert-level person.

Although Li Ziyuan is a person, sometimes he will make some stubborn mistakes. But Li Ziyuan has an advantage, that is, he will never pretend to understand. No matter what kind of background these people he is fiddling with, as long as Li Ziyuan can be absolutely trusted, there will be absolutely no discrimination.

This is also the reason why the original He Sanliang and He Huizhang, including the current Zhou Tong, who were even born in the puppet army in the former national army, will soon be able to integrate into this team after joining the army. It is precisely for this reason that Li Ziyuan accepted all of Zhou Tong's suggestions without saying a word.

After receiving the news of the attack on the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple, the regimental headquarters of the 36th Division suddenly blew up the nest. Most of the mobile forces in the city were entangled in the situation that Nanguan could not be withdrawn. Lieutenant General Jingguan organized all the non-combat miscellaneous soldiers at the division and regimental headquarters, and each of them was issued a rifle.

Two heavy machine guns were reinforced with a squad drawn from the guard unit of the regimental headquarters of his own division as the core. And the puppet police in the city and all the puppet military and political personnel who can hold guns, formed a chaotic reinforcement army, and forcibly reinforced in the direction of the Fire Temple. Try to recapture the ammunition depot before the locust-like Eight Roads move out of the ammunition depot.

Although the scale of the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple is not large, it contains almost 50 percent of the ammunition in stock of the 36th Division, as well as most of the ammunition of the puppet army in the area controlled by the entire division. There were only six or five bullets and seven or seven caliber bullets in it, which were enough to have millions of rounds. These ammunition were stockpiled according to the Japanese army's standard of three battle ammunition parts.

Although the artillery wing of the 36th Division has a separate ammunition storage site, there is also a batch of ammunition stored here. Although the number is not so large, the problem is that there are 6,000 rounds of mountain artillery shells and mortar shells. At the same time, there are also a large number of mountain, field and howitzer shells, fuses and cartridges for use, and medicine kits for mortar shells.

The fuses used in the mountain artillery shells stored here are the fuses of the mountain artillery belonging to the entire 36th Division, plus an independent artillery unit attached to it, and all the spare shell fuses. Several newly added separate mortar squadrons, all with spare propellant packs. In addition to these Japanese ammunition, there was also a batch of shells from the 82 mortars used by the Chinese army, which were captured in the Zhongtiao Mountains.

In addition, there were more than 100,000 rounds of 79 bullets for the puppet army, some shell bullets and a batch of wooden-handled grenades made in the Northeast. There are also several anti-aircraft machine guns in this warehouse, four Taisho 11th Type 37 flat-fire guns that have been withdrawn and are ready to be transferred back to the mainland, several Type 94 mountain guns that are ready to be transferred back to the mainland, and a batch of corresponding ammunition.

The Japanese army had quite strict control over the ammunition of the puppet army, and most of the ammunition was controlled in their own hands. Every time ammunition is distributed to the puppet army, it is strictly in accordance with the standards. Most of the ammunition of the puppet army in the southeast of Jin, except for a small amount, is stored here.

If this ammunition is lost or blown up by the Eighth Route Army, the entire 36th Division will lose more than half of its small arms ammunition reserves. The Type 94 mountain guns used by the mountain artillery wings and the Type 41 mountain guns belonging to the mountain artillery squadrons of each wing lost all the spare fuses, cartridges, and spare cartridges used by all mortars.

If the Eighth Route of Taihang Mountain gets these ammunition, it will be like a tiger with wings, and I am afraid that the 36th Division will never have peace. In order to recapture the ammunition depot, Jing Guanqian also made great efforts, and even the safety of the division and regiment headquarters could not be cared for. On the one hand, he urged the mobile troops to speed up and rush back, and on the other hand, he organized the troops to fight back.

But as soon as his reinforcements approached the Fire Temple, they were blocked by Li Ziyuan's troops in the streets around the Fire Temple. Although the street fighting was extremely fierce, the reinforced Japanese puppet army was forced by Jing Guan to fight back desperately, but they couldn't get closer.

When the Japanese army chose to use the ammunition depot in the Fire Temple, in order to ensure the safety of the ammunition depot, they forcibly demolished the surrounding houses. The entire area around the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple was completely demolished into a flat land. Even the nearest civilian house to the ammunition depot is a few hundred meters away.

Although the safety of the ammunition depot was ensured at that time, the problem was the open area formed around the area, which also directly exposed the Japanese reinforcements to Li Ziyuan's firepower. Guarding the ammunition depot of the Japanese puppet army, Li Ziyuan has nothing to be polite about. His machine-gun ammunition can almost be said to be open to fire. The firepower was dense, dwarfing the Japanese troops in front of them.

Although the reinforced Japanese puppet army was attacking with all their might, their offensive was beaten back by grenades that cut their heads and covered their faces, coupled with dense machine-gun fire that did not skimp on ammunition at all. The mountain cannon that Li Ziyuan brought into the city also smashed the last few shells he carried.

However, although the last few mountain shells were wasted, the number of shells used in the warehouse behind the 41 mountain cannon was even larger. The reserve of thousands of rounds of 41-type mountain artillery shells is enough for Zhou Tong to let the Japanese understand what it means to lift a stone and shoot it in the foot.

However, the Japanese army had an advantage in artillery firepower, but it was worried that its artillery fire would blow up its ammunition depot, and it was tied down in use. It can even be said that they did not dare to open fire at all, and could only try to suppress the opposite eight roads with infantry fire. can only rely on the Japanese army to supervise the war, forcing the puppet army to be a meat shield to cover their counterattacks.

Just when the Japanese puppet army reinforcements were blocked around the Fire Temple, it was almost impossible to move an inch. Behind them, a company that attacked the city from the Meridian Gate Station ended up with the Japanese field hospital stationed in Changzhi. also outflanked the pseudo-plainclothes team and other institutions from the direction of the Meridian Gate, and directly inserted the rear road of the Japanese puppet army to reinforce the ammunition depot of the Fire Temple.

The front and rear flanking attacks, coupled with the inability to use sufficient firepower, made the Japanese puppet army's many fierce attacks in vain, and even put themselves in a dangerous situation. If it weren't for the fact that this company was outflanking and choosing a position that could advance or retreat according to Li Ziyuan's order, this Japanese puppet army reinforcing the Fire Temple would have been defeated first.

Compared with the Japanese puppet army reinforcements who could not advance or retreat, after opening the ammunition depot of the Fire God Temple, Li Ziyuan was definitely not polite when he looked at the mountains of ammunition. Sweep away all the ammunition you can carry. Especially the shells of the 41-type mountain cannon, take everything that can be taken. With Zhou Tong's guidance, the troops were very clear this time and did not make mistakes.