Seeing the oncoming Chinese soldiers, the leader of the devil squadron did not panic, and actually began to gather his troops in an orderly manner and slowly assembled into a circular position. After firing the loaded bullets in the rifle, immediately change formation. Several people form smaller rings, and several small rings are combined into one large circle. In strict accordance with the rules in the army infantry canon, bayonets, back bullets, although the last round of shooting of the devil caused dozens of casualties to the soldiers, but as a battle-hardened regiment and a battalion did not stop longer, in the face of the comrades lying on the ground, there was no sympathy, only grief and indignation, only anger, and all the remaining people had only one thought: that is, to turn grief into strength, continue to think about the devil to rush, and use the devil's head to avenge the comrades-in-arms. In the first round of collision, the two troops suffered casualties on each other, but the soldiers who charged in front did not entangle with the devils more, and the soldiers who charged in the front avoided the edge of the devils and continued to charge, and soon, the devils were surrounded by the fighters piece by piece. The large circular position was completely disrupted by the fighters.

Moment. The whole position was filled with the sound of the clash of bayonets, the clash of guns against guns, the sound of bayonets piercing ** and, of course, the constant sound of shell gun gunfire. The devil retreated the bullet for his own sake, and there was no need for the Eighth Route Army to abide by any infantry regulations, because the Reading Brigade was specially designed to deal with the devil's bayonet. Each battalion was equipped with a certain melee weapon. All the platoon commanders and cadres above the deputy platoon commander in a battalion were all equipped with shell guns, and nearly 30 shell guns in the whole battalion opened fire one after another.

After the squadron leader led by the devil slashed a soldier, he suddenly found that there were more and more soldiers in the Shina around him, while there were fewer and fewer soldiers in the imperial army. The squadron leader immediately realized that something was wrong, and there was a loud roar, and the rest of the Japanese army moved closer to him, and soon gathered dozens of Japanese troops, and those Japanese troops gathered together soon formed a circular bayonet formation again. Slowly breaking through in the direction of Yangquan, in the devil's lifeless charge, and even sometimes in the face of the barge gun in the hands of the soldiers, the devil was not afraid at all, raised a grenade and died with the soldiers next to him, and those devils paid a certain price. opened a bloody passage and fled into the county seat in a hurry with the remaining 20 or so devils.

In the face of the devil's crazy moves, the regiment commander Shen Qinghua can't do anything, he can't let the soldiers also raise grenades and end up with the army, such a thing, if the commander knows, with the surname of the commander who loves soldiers like a son, he will not shoot himself, and when the time comes, even if he has great military achievements, he will not forgive himself.

Looking at the dozens of devils who fled into the county, the regiment commander Shen Qinghua shook his head and immediately ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield. The results of the battle were quickly counted: in addition to the 20 or so remnants of devils who escaped, a squadron out of the city was completely annihilated, killing a total of 142 people, including 82 rifles, 5 light machine guns with crooked handles, 6 grenadiers, nearly 20,000 rounds of ammunition, 16 soldiers killed and 45 wounded, 3 of whom were seriously wounded.

A battalion outside the city was happily cleaning the battlefield, but the captain of the Yue Army in the city looked at the squadron leader of the second squadron who ran back with a gloomy face. The captain looked at the squadron leader in front of him in disbelief, and the anger on his horse's face. "Yaga, you fool, the reputation of the Imperial Army has been completely lost by you, and you should apologize to His Majesty the Emperor." The captain roared loudly.

At the same time, it also put away the heart of the enemy, the original abundant garrison of the city, after the loss of two elite infantry squadrons, there is only one infantry squadron and a few baggage squads left in the city, the strength is less than 500 people, if you want to hold such a large county, what can you do! Thinking that outside the city, he could easily annihilate his own squadron of the Zhina army, as well as the terrible mountain artillery, the captain did not suffer from a chill, and his confidence in whether he could hold the county seat became more and more insufficient. Yaga, the captain said to himself, as a samurai of the Empire, the captain was ashamed of his thoughts just now. We must defend the county seat, the captain thought secretly.

Soon, a telegram asking for help was sent from Yangquan County, and the devil strongholds along the Zhengtai Railway were dispatched one after another, with most of the mobile forces to Yangquan. Because every devil officer knows that Yangquan has stored a large amount of military supplies in the empire, if it is lost, not only the current commander of Yangquan will be punished, but even the people along the railway will also be punished, so each devil officer has sent the most troops he can send to reinforce the county.

Of course, in order to create a posture of really attacking the county seat, the regiment commander Shen Qinghua also played a full play, after cleaning up a squadron of the enemy out of the city, he immediately handed over the captured weapons and ammunition to a company of his new regiment for reloading, and at the same time ordered the mountain artillery company that had once again built an artillery position to open fire again, of course, this time the target was the city wall, under the powerful artillery attack, from time to time there were shells directly on the city wall, throwing up the corpse of a devil.

Of course, the infantry was not idle, leaving two infantry companies that had not changed their equipment to protect the mountain artillery company, of course, the reason why only two companies of troops were left, the head of the god believed that with the remaining strength of the devil now, it was impossible to send troops out of the city to sneak attack his artillery position. And the remaining four companies with equipment were all scattered by Shen Qinghua, looking for an opportunity to eliminate some small groups of devils who came to reinforce, just like that, the fierce artillery fire, whether it was a company's charge, really made the captain in the city think that the communist army was going to attack the county seat, and constantly urged the surrounding reinforcements.

Of course, the enemy's troop movements did not hide from the scouts of the Reading Brigade who were squatting outside the stronghold. As soon as the devil walked out of the stronghold, the scouts fed back the situation of the stronghold's troop movement to the commander-in-chief Sun Xingbang in a very short time. Soon, in less than two hours under the leadership of Shen Qinghua, the commander of the regiment attacked the county seat, and a vacuum area of nearly 40 miles appeared along the Zhengtai Railway, and only a few devils were left in the strongholds along the way to be on guard, and this bit of devil strength was not enough for more than 2,000 people under Sun Xingbang.

In this way, the warriors, who had been hidden for a long time, quickly attacked and rushed towards the vacuum. As for the strongholds along the way, under the shelling of two regiments of mortars, they were all shattered before they could put up resistance. (Since the army had just occupied the railway line, it had not yet built fortifications such as artillery towers, and only had some sandbag fortifications, so in the face of mortar shells, it was only bombed, and there was no place to hide.) Soon, the railway line really became a no-man's land, and the soldiers grabbed the tools they had prepared, ran onto the railroad, and began to pick up the tracks, and it didn't take long for the roadbed to be destroyed, and the railroad was lit everywhere, of course, these fires were lit by the railroad sleepers. In just a few hours, several kilometers of railroad were cleaned up by the soldiers, all the sleepers were burned, all the rails that could be taken away were taken away, and those that could not be taken away were buried on the spot, and even those small railway nails were also looted under Liu Hua's order, and the entire railway was only left with a roadbed that was dug and full of pits

As for the troops who reinforced the county seat, before they arrived at the county seat, they were awakened by the distress telegram from their stronghold. When I asked again, there was no response from the base. The Yue army, who understood it, came back to help, but when they returned to their stronghold, they were completely stupid. Because the entire stronghold is only a ruin, all the useful things in the stronghold have been looted, and the railroad next to the stronghold, by the way, can't be called a railroad now, because only countless fires can be seen burning along the line

At this time, the victorious two regiments, under the leadership of Sun Xingbang, had returned to the temporary station with the captured materials and the steel rails that had been taken down

The four companies scattered by Commander Shen Shuqing also achieved fruitful results, and in just a few hours, the four companies eliminated a total of three reinforcements that came to reinforce them, and another squadron of the army was wiped out. After receiving the telegram from the commander-in-chief Sun Xingbang that he had successfully completed the task, Shen Shuqing quickly ordered the mountain artillery company to retreat, and quietly withdrew from Yangquan County and returned to the garrison with the captured materials before the enemy could react.

In this way, after a night of fighting, a total of nearly 4 kilometers of the entire Zhengtai Railway was completely damaged and could not be repaired, and the captain of the Yangquan garrison who got the news did not say anything, and committed suicide in the early morning of the next day

Sun Xingbang led two regiments, in order to avoid the revenge of the devils, under the cover of the mountains, evaded the planes detected by the devils, and continued to wait in concealment. A few days later, just when the devil thought that the army that had destroyed the railway had retreated and relaxed, Sun Xingbang set off again with two regiments, and under the cover of the strong firepower of the mountain artillery company, once again carried out a thorough sabotage battle on the railway west of Yangquan. In this way, the devils in the strongholds along the way are less than half of the original strength) under the attack of the mountain artillery company and mortar company, they have been swept away, due to the experience of destroying the railway in the previous time, this time the soldiers are particularly handy, and once again destroyed the nearly 2 kilometers of railway before the arrival of local reinforcements......

Through two raids, the railway between Yangquan and the outside world was completely interrupted, and in terms of the degree of damage to the railway, the railway could not be opened to traffic without half a month of repair......

In the face of the paralyzed railway, the materials in short supply on the front line of the army are now even more scarce, the ammunition reserves in the hands of the front-line soldiers are less than half of that of wartime, there are no artillery shells, and the soldiers have no food.

In this way, the task of this sabotage battle was successfully completed. However, in order not to lead the enemy's target to the Jindong base area, the two regiments led by Sun Xingbang stayed in Yangquan for half a month, and only after the enemy gave up the search did they slowly drive to the base area with the captured materials and steel rails.

(To be continued)