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[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 302: Soldiers in the Mining Area (Ask for a monthly pass!) ）

The puppet army gave **** Dazuo a big slap with his own unique cowardice, and then Wu Xiuda hit **** Dazuo with a sharp blow and turned dizzy - the city wall collapsed.

To say that the reason why Wu Xiuda's department was able to collapse the Datong city wall so quickly, in addition to Ma Zheng's improved explosives package, he also had to thank one person, that is, Yan Xishan, the commander of the Second World War Zone.

Datong City has a long history of building a city, as early as the capital of the Northern Wei Tuoba clan, it has built a large-scale city. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because it was the Gyeonggi Ping Domain, the military position was very dangerous, so Xu Da, the general of the fifth year of Hongwu, added on the basis of the old city to form the Datong town that the world sees today. Datong City is based on a huge strip of stone, the inner core of the city wall is rammed with three-fold soil, each piece weighs 17 pounds of blue bricks, the city wall is 14 meters high, and the brick stacks of 5 meters long, 0.8 meters high, 0.5 meters thick are built on the battlement wall, and the distance between the stacks is 0.5 meters.

At that time, the city wall of Datong was indeed very strong and thick, but after so many years, the city wall of Datong had long been dilapidated, so when the crisis in North China was aggravated, that is, a year before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yan Xishan had applied to the city fortress group of the Nanjing Government Staff Headquarters for a huge sum of money under the pretext of building national defense fortifications. And then, there was no more then.

Originally, this money was used to build the city defense fortifications from Datong to Tianzhen, but as a result, Li Fuying, the commander of the 61st Division of the Jin Sui Army, who was responsible for the construction of the fortifications, received very limited construction materials from Taiyuan during more than a year of construction. The total supply of steel and cement is less than 1 percent of the planned quota, construction tools are even more scarce, and the wages and allowances of migrant workers have been deducted in every possible way.

In fact, most of this huge amount of money was taken by Yan Xishan to the major commercial ports of the country to make a private fortune in order to coax the Nanjing government. Yan Xishan went around boasting that his "fortifications" were impregnable. In fact, the defense fortifications could not be built normally, and it was not until the Japanese army invaded Datong that the construction of the fortifications began here. After the Japanese army occupied Datong, it was at the time when its troops were strong, and they did not strengthen the city fortifications of Datong, so Wu Xiuda was equivalent to using 38 years of war weapons to deal with the city walls built during the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, it is rare that the walls of Datong City can hold out for such a long time. In fact, not long after the battle began. After a period of bombardment, the threat of the Datong city wall has been minimized, and the city wall has been crumbling in many places. After Wu Xiuda ordered his subordinates to concentrate their firepower on the front city wall, it was only ten minutes before the city wall, which has a history of more than 400 years, finally completed its mission and collapsed.

The sudden collapse of the city wall was a great blow to the Japanese army, first the four or five hundred troops who fought on the city wall were directly buried alive, and then Wu Xiuda's troops rushed into the city across the ruins of the city wall, compressing the defenders to the area around the city gate, and the battle seemed to have entered the countdown.

When Datong City was in full swing. But the mining area, less than 25 kilometers from Datong City, is quiet. Although the sound of gunfire in the direction of the main city has alarmed the Japanese here, the office areas of each company are brightly lit, and armed men with loaded guns patrol back and forth from time to time, which can be seen in the tension of the mining area.

But with the exception of the two gendarmerie squadrons of the mine garrison, which were responsible for the security of the entire mining area, the other armed forces guarded their own little property in case they were robbed by the Chinese laborers who did not submit to the "discipline".

Of course, the reason why the Japanese are so "calm" is mainly because they don't think that the cowardly and backward Shina people can conquer such an important town as Datong. You know, since last year. Not to mention such an important town as Datong, even the kind of county town without the protection of the city wall has not been conquered.

The other is. Units of the Eighth Route Army have also attacked nearby strongholds and even attacked mining areas before. However, the possibility of success is very small, and only once in more than a year has the people succeeded by the Shina people, so whenever there is a gunshot fire, the usual practice of these people is to shout the safety of the thugs they have raised, and then step up patrols. But it did not retreat.

The main reason is that it is very troublesome for factories and mining enterprises to transfer, especially so many absenteeism. If the enemy doesn't defeat Datong City, in the end, if their respective miners run out because of the transfer, it will be more than worth the loss.

They are also not worried about the Chinese coming back to attack the mining area, which does not have much oil and water. No one cares. Second, what is said here is also a private enterprise, and the general army disdains to attack here. Besides, they are not lambs to the slaughter, and even if the Chinese really come here to attack the mines, they may not be able to do anything to them.

Some time ago, a guerrilla unit of the Eighth Route Army came to attack the mining area, and it was menacing. In order to defend the mining area, each company placed all its mine protection units under the command of the gendarmerie. The final result was that the guerrillas had no choice but to withdraw after a long time of effort.

But they never dreamed that Ma Zheng's department was coming for them this time, and no matter how big the bureau was set up in front of them, it was all to pave the way for the evacuation of the mining area. So although many people know that the Eighth Route Army is attacking Datong City, no one knows that death is quietly coming.

Yang Aiyuan was very excited at this time, although it was a bit humiliating to let a lieutenant general with tens of thousands of elite soldiers command an infantry brigade with only two regiments, but as long as he could see the combat effectiveness of this Eighth Route Army on the spot, he would be willing to let him command a company.

Out of trust in Ma Zheng himself, Yang Aiyuan is still very confident in the task of attacking the mining area, the most important thing is that Ma Zheng handed over the special combat team to Bi Lige and Yang Aiyuan to command. Although there are less than 200 people in the special combat team, Yang Aiyuan has witnessed the miracles created by this unit along the way. It has only been two days since he came out of Guisui City, but this small army has created achievements that are jaw-dropping for him, a veteran who has been fighting for a long time.

According to the intelligence department of the Eighth Route Army, there were more than 550 regular Japanese troops in the mining area, and the supreme commander was a lieutenant. Secondly, there are 32 large and small coal mines in the mining area with Japanese capital and Sino-Japanese joint ventures, each of which has a different number of armed security forces, the largest number of which is four or five hundred, and the smallest is forty or fifty people, so it is not easy to take down the entire mining area, and the total strength of the Japanese puppet army is at least seven or eight thousand people.

However, Yang Aiyuan and Bi Lige both know that although these Japanese puppet troops in the mining area are also equipped with very advanced weapons, it is useless for ordinary stragglers and bandit armies to come. But after all, it is not a regular army, and the distribution is still relatively scattered, if it is against the regular army, it is to deliver food, and if it comes, it can only be sent to death.

Those armed groups composed of Japanese ronin and unemployed vagrants are actually similar to the puppet army, and it is okay to bully the thorns in the mine and the local people, but it is absolutely impossible to let these people go to the battlefield, even if they encounter the weakest guerrillas. After all, no matter how bad the guerrilla combat effectiveness is, it is still a well-trained unit.

Although he fought with the army, Yang Aiyuan knew his identity, so although his military rank and official position were the highest in the former enemy command, even the commander of the 12th Brigade of the Du, Bi Lige, could not compare to him, but Yang Aiyuan did not dominate the crowd.

Although Ma Zheng was obviously entrusting him to command the 12th Independent Brigade, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was just a scene. The 12th Brigade was the main force of Ma Zheng's department, so it was impossible to hand it over to him, the commander of the group army of the Jin Sui Army, under any circumstances.

However, Yang Aiyuan's purpose was not to command the troops to fight, so he looked coldly at Bi Lige's command.

To Yang Aiyuan's surprise, Bi Lige did not immediately give the order to attack after the troops approached the mining area, but divided the troops into several battalions and companies, dispersed these troops at the same time, and surrounded all the large mining areas in the middle, and then sent the small force with strong combat effectiveness to infiltrate the mining area and act as a front station for the large army.

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