Chapter 281 Take Taiyuan City
Due to the tactics of relying on the superiority of troops to besiege from all sides, coupled with the fact that there were underground parties in the city to take advantage of the opportunity, the Japanese army, which was desperately short of troops after the fall of the south gate of Taiyuan, was exhausted, and finally the city gates in other directions soon fell one after another. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
After the four city gates were breached, the instructor's army pressed the border, and more than a dozen trumpeters sounded the trumpet at the same time, and with the blowing of the trumpet, the marching speed of the Eighth Route Army of all roads suddenly doubled, and the Japanese army was suddenly caught in the vast sea of the Eighth Route Army.
"Rush!" "Kill!"
Countless soldiers of the Eighth Route Army rushed quickly towards the city, starting with machine guns and three-seven bars, and the small artillery units behind carried light mortars and grenadiers to clear the Japanese fire points at any time.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were unstoppable all the way, killing gods when they encountered gods, and killing ghosts when they encountered ghosts, and whenever they saw the Japanese soldiers who came to surround them, they used light machine guns in their hands to fight them with three or seven bars and a shuttle, and the Japanese soldiers were immediately thrown to the ground.
Once they encountered an organized counterattack by the Japanese army, the artillerymen used the grenadiers captured from the Japanese to shoot at each other, and the Japanese army was immediately blown up, and there was no enemy at all.
"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, the Eighth Route Army has rushed into the city, they have invested more than 30,000 troops, the warriors of the Imperial Army can no longer resist, and the front line requests support." A Japanese second lieutenant came to report with a dismal face.
"Reinforcements? Where do I have troops to send reinforcements! Oops, I almost forgot, we still have 3,000 Imperial Cooperative Army, go to Li Fugui, the head of the security regiment, and order him to quickly lead the Imperial Association Army to reinforce! "Benchuan Province rushed to the hospital for three diseases, and even the security regiment with five scum of combat power was also dispatched.
However, at this time, the situation in Taiyuan was indeed extremely dangerous, and there were only a few thousand Japanese troops in Benchuan Province, and it was undoubtedly impossible to defend a famous city in North China like Taiyuan.
More than ten minutes later, a Japanese officer brought a desperate bad news to the three of Benchuan Province, and the 3,000 Imperial Allied Army, on which he had high hopes, surrendered to the Eighth Route Army without firing a single shot.
"Eight Tooth Road! The people of China are really despicable people, they dare to surrender without a fight, and they are not the work of warriors! The three provinces of Benchuan roared angrily and scolded Li Fugui and the security team for not being disciplined.
"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, even the Security Regiment has surrendered to the Eighth Route Army, what should we do now?" The Japanese officer beside him asked with an anxious expression.
"What else can we do, of course, we are coexisting with Taiyuan, can we still abandon the city and break through! The order went down, and let the soldiers of the Imperial Army show the spirit of bushido, fight to the death, and die with the Eighth Route Army. "Benchuan Province gritted his teeth.
The Japanese army was strictly disciplined, and if they abandoned the city without an order, even if they could break out, the commander of the breakthrough force would eventually be given death by his commander and would not be forgiven at all.
As for surrendering to the Eighth Route Army, it was still possible for the Japanese army in the late stage of World War II, but in the early stage of the Sino-Japanese full-scale war, it was absolutely impossible for the Japanese army to surrender to the Chinese troops.
"Hay! Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, I will give the order. The Japanese officers themselves knew that the jade would probably be shattered here today, but they did not have any objections to the bushido spirit, and gave the Japanese soldiers the order to live and die with Taiyuan.
The Eighth Route Army was unstoppable and soon advanced to the Japanese garrison headquarters in the center of Taiyuan City, where they were soon met with strong Japanese resistance.
The Japanese army gathered all its heavy weapons, mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns in a row, and used the fortifications composed of sandbags to stubbornly resist the attack of the instructors, and inflicted great casualties on the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, so far hundreds of officers and soldiers have fallen on the way to the charge.
Li Yunlong soon discovered this situation, and he resolutely issued an order: "Order the artillery battalion to concentrate all the artillery, knock out the Japanese garrison headquarters, and crush all the Japanese troops to death." ”
"Yes, Brigadier General!" The signal corps soon went to deliver the order.
Five minutes later, under the command of the artillery battalion commander Sun Xiucai, a full 30 mountain guns and 80 mortars aimed their guns at the last line of defense of the Japanese army.
With Sun Xiucai's order, more than a hundred cannons simultaneously sent out an earth-shattering roar towards the Japanese position.
"Boom!"
More than 100 shells smashed into the Japanese blocking position, and the Japanese artillery, heavy machine guns, artillerymen, and machine gunners were instantly blown to pieces, and their fire was destroyed by artillery fire at once.
In the headquarters building, the stubborn Benchuan Province was like ashes on three sides, watching its troops continue to be swallowed up by artillery fire, but even so, none of the Japanese soldiers who were not afraid of death left their positions, and still stubbornly fired shells and bullets at the Eighth Route Army.
I have to say that the fighting spirit of the Japanese army is indeed extremely shocking, and they still resist without hesitation even though they know that they will die, and they do not have the slightest intention of fleeing or surrendering.
Li Yunlong knew that the more stubborn these Japanese soldiers were, the more they deserved to die, because the Japanese population was far inferior to that of China, and after the Japanese soldiers who were most poisoned by the bushido spirit and fought the bravest were killed, the remaining Japanese troops would be much easier to fight.
Thinking of this, Li Yunlong once again gave Sun Xiucai an order, asking him not to be stingy with shells and continue to intensify the shelling until all the devils were blown into powder.
"To tell the truth, the bravery and fearlessness of the Japanese army is not under our Eighth Route Army, no wonder the Kuomintang army was defeated when it encountered them!" A new artilleryman said with emotion as he reloaded his shells.
"Humph! No matter how fierce they are to death, they can still carry bombs in their bodies, and under our artillery fire, all the captives will be wiped out! Another veteran artilleryman didn't have any good feelings for the evil Japanese soldiers, and wished they all died.
The new artilleryman originally had a trace of admiration for the Japanese army, but under the words and deeds of the old artilleryman, he soon abandoned all the respect for the Japanese army, struggled to load bombs, and bombed the Japanese soldiers into the sky one by one.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The artillery fire was roaring, the shells were exploding, the last position of the Japanese army was already full of holes under the shelling of the Eighth Route Army, and the defensive line of the position was also crumbling, as if it was about to collapse with a light blow.
"Damn the Eighth Route Army! How could there be such a powerful artillery fire! Ladies and gentlemen, it is impossible for us to withstand the attack of the Eighth Route Army, and it is time to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! Honchuan Province said with despair on three sides.
When all the Japanese officers heard this, their faces were also snow-white, but they turned hideous again, and then they rushed out of the headquarters building under the leadership of the third province of Benchuan and launched a suicidal charge against the Eighth Route Army under heavy artillery fire.
For these hopeless militarists, death is their best destination, and the soldiers did not show mercy and killed all the Japanese troops.
With the death of the last devil, the Japanese army had just occupied the city of Taiyuan for less than a month and fell.