Chapter 288: Getting Rich (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Miscellaneous !! ）

The battle in Shimen City continued, but whether it was Qin Wuyang, who was in charge of commanding the attack, or Hattori Zhengchen, who was in charge of defense, they all knew that the outcome of this battle was already doomed. In the case of a large number of puppet army on the battlefield anyway and the main force of the Fuping Independent Brigade entering the city, the Japanese army can be said to be suffering from the enemy on its back, and the remaining more than 100 devils were oppressed in the garrison headquarters and could not advance or retreat, and they could not survive.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Qin Wuyang ordered the troops to continue to besiege the Japanese garrison headquarters, and at the same time ordered the troops to urgently transfer the supplies at the railway station, and at the same time capture the Japanese expatriates and ronins in the city.

General Binshan Yuan never thought that the Shimen defenders would be defeated so badly and so quickly, and Binshan Yuan knew that there were no generals who often won, let alone troops who would not defeat the battle, but in his mind, the Imperial Japanese Army would not be defeated even if it failed. The Shimen defenders added up to tens of thousands, and the army that attacked there was only a few thousand, even if the imperial army was caught off guard by a sudden attack, it should not be a problem for the defenders to hold out for three or five days.

However, this idea of his was obviously inconsistent with reality, and just when he was discussing countermeasures with a group of high-ranking military cadres, the telegraph operator delivered the latest battle report from the Shimen Front, and when he opened it, it turned out to be a farewell telegram from Major General Hattori. In the telegram, Hattori Masatomi had confirmed that the Shimen Imperial Army had been lost, and that there were less than a hundred Imperial warriors left around him at this time, and the others were either captured or shattered.

As for the responsibility for the defeat, Hattori did not shirk the blame, and he alone took full responsibility. But Major General Hattori Masatomi also specifically mentioned it. In the process of defending Shimen, a large number of imperial troops mutinied, and together with the Chinese people, they opened fire on the imperial army, and the imperial army was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. At present, the barracks, field hospitals, air defense positions, railway stations, city gates and other strategic points have all fallen into the hands of the Chinese people. In addition, Major General Hattori Masatomi also specifically mentioned one thing, that is, the Chinese paratroopers who attacked Shimen were equipped with a large number of new weapons, and their firepower far exceeded all the individual equipment in the current service of the Japanese Empire, and I implore the Empire to take more precautions.

After reading the telegram, General Binshan Yuan slammed his fist on the conference table and looked at everyone with a blue face. He really couldn't figure it out. More than 10,000 defenders were completely reimbursed in just four hours. What the hell is going on, is it because the combat effectiveness of the people of China has increased, or has the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army decreased.

In fact, if you want to analyze, there are reasons for both aspects. The number of Japanese troops in Shimen City was not very large. The regular army numbered only 1,500 men. In addition, the guard team composed of ronins is only 3,000 people. The rest of the three or four thousand people were puppet troops. Moreover, there are still some soldiers outside the city, scattered in various towns and villages, and such a deployment of troops gives Chen Feng's troops an opportunity to take advantage of.

Let's not talk about that. The disparity in the quality of the soldiers on both sides alone was enough to make these thousands of devil soldiers completely desperate. The airborne troops of the Eighth Theater were drawn from hundreds of thousands of troops, and there were many tested special combat personnel, and the ways and methods of training the airborne troops and the combat mode were all in accordance with the special forces, and the special forces were used as the whetstone.

In view of the fact that the airborne troops have to fight deep behind enemy lines or in the enemy's hinterland, they have weaknesses such as complex organization and implementation, difficulty in supplying deep behind enemy lines, and vulnerability to enemy attacks. Chen Feng also put a lot of effort into the firepower configuration of the airborne troops, and the main armament of the airborne brigade is AK47 assault rifles, each carrying 300 rounds of ammunition, and each soldier has an M1911 pistol and a combat short knife. In order to strengthen the firepower of the airborne force, Chen Feng also equipped some soldiers with Thompson submachine guns.

It can be said that the Airborne Forces of the 8th theater of operations are a completely super-force consisting of automatic fire. As for the Japanese army, the main equipment is still the 38 big cover plus the crooked handle light machine gun and the 92 type heavy machine gun, as for the group of ronin guards is even worse, even if they hold the 38 big cover in their hands, but they are still used to charge with a katana, which is extremely stupid, more than 1,000 ronin completely collapsed in less than 20 minutes under the blow of a company and a half company of airborne.

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As soon as they came up, the more than 4,000 airborne troops concentrated on striking at the enemy's key targets, such as the enemy's command organs, military stations, transportation hubs, and important points, which were of crucial strategic and operational significance to the Japanese army, and finally achieved decisive combat results with limited strength. And Qin Wuyang controlled Yunheihu, which made a large number of puppet army battlefields anyway, and caused a long period of chaos in the Japanese puppet army, which also made the Japanese army defeat an important reason, and also made the Japanese army finally completely collapse under many unfavorable circumstances.

At nine o'clock in the morning of the 11th, the remnants of the Japanese army in Shimen City had basically been cleared, and the fierce gunfire finally gradually stopped, even so the people in the city still did not dare to go out, they did not know who those who flew down from the sky, and most of them were trembling in their own homes.

The garrison headquarters of the Japanese army has been completely destroyed, and the remaining more than 100 devils are stubbornly resisting in this three-story building, and the airborne troops who have been unable to attack for a long time directly let the Fuping Independent Brigade pull in heavy artillery to bombard, good guys, a small three-story building, the independent brigade was stunned to fire nearly 50 rounds of 25 kg artillery shells. As for the effect, it was obvious, after the bombardment, the entire small building collapsed, and none of the devil soldiers, including Major General Hattori Masatomi, escaped.

Qin Wuyang immediately sent people to dig up the ruins of the Japanese headquarters on the spot to find useful documents. Unfortunately, the paper had long since been reduced to ashes, and nothing was found except for 107 Japanese corpses and 11 seriously wounded people from inside.

The Japanese garrison headquarters did not gain anything, but the Japanese-controlled railway stations and the companies where Japanese expatriates gathered. Shimen Railway Station has a huge warehouse area, divided into more than a dozen districts for stockpiling supplies. After the 2nd Airborne Regiment wiped out all the more than 200 Japanese troops at the railway station, the warehouse door was opened. They were stunned by the scene in front of them, each warehouse was full of supplies, both daily necessities and military items, the quantity of which was far beyond Qin Wuyang and the others' expectations.

In addition, more than a dozen trains stopped at Shimen Railway Station, some of which were loaded with coal, timber, cotton and the like, but to Qin Wuyang's excitement, there were still four or five military columns, which were full of weapons and ammunition.

It is really rich, there is no doubt about this, not to mention these seizures, the property confiscated from the gathering area of a Japanese company in the east of the city alone also made Qin Wuyang and the others smile. There are more than 16 million oceans, more than 900 kilograms of gold, and countless counterfeit money, military tickets, fiat currency, US dollars, etc., and more than a dozen cars of antique cultural relics.

The various machines and equipment of these companies are innumerable, and their value is also quite amazing. For these Japanese supplies, the 8th theater of operations, of course, is two words - confiscation.

In addition to the confiscation of goods, people are also among the confiscated. Those Japanese ronins who were lucky not to be killed were immediately pulled out and shot, and ordinary people were directly put in prison. Qin Wuyang is not the same as Chen Feng, when Chen Feng captured Tianjin, he only captured young and middle-aged people, and did not want women, children and children. Qin Wuyang is much more ruthless than Chen Feng, regardless of men, women and children, as long as they are Japanese, they will all be thrown into prison, there is nothing to say.

After receiving that Shimen was conquered, Yang Yi immediately moved his headquarters to Shimen and personally commanded it. On the one hand, he ordered the troops to transfer supplies, and on the other hand, he ordered the Nangong Independent Brigade and the Handan Independent Brigade to enter the ambush position, once the news of Shimen's capture came out, the devils in Shanxi would definitely not be able to sit still, and the Japanese 20th Division would definitely return to Shimen, and the Nangong Independent Brigade and the Handan Independent Brigade would have work to do.

Sure enough, when the news of Shimen's domestic capture by the Chinese army reached Taiyuan, General Umezu Mijiro was shocked, and he was well aware of the importance of Shimen to the Japanese Imperial Army, especially the First Army stationed in Shanxi. Once Shimen changed hands, the Zhengtai Railway was completely interrupted.

As soon as the Zhengtai Railway was broken, the supply line of the First Army was broken, and the food and clothing of more than 100,000 troops became a problem. The most important thing is ammunition, without ammunition and armament is a pile of scrap metal, and there is no arsenal in Taiyuan City, General Umezu Mijiro suddenly realized the seriousness of the situation.

At this time, General Umezu Mijiro also saw Chen Feng's purpose clearly, and the dispatch of 150,000 troops was just a pretense, although the two sides fought fiercely, but the real killing move was not in Shanxi, but in Hebei, in Shimen. As long as the stone gate is guarded, it won't be long before your first army will collapse without a fight, and there is no way to break through, ruthless!

It was learned that only one paratrooper and one local army had captured Shimen, with a total strength of less than 10,000 people. General Umezu Yoshijiro immediately ordered the 40th Brigade of the 20th Division, which had just passed the Niangzi Pass, to immediately return to Shimen and recapture Shimen together with the defenders of Jingcheng County.

Shimen was overcome, and the North China Front's plan to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao had to be stranded, otherwise they did not wait for them to break through the defense line of the Zhina. The First Army was eaten by others, and a garrison army in Mongolia was enough to make the Japanese Empire lose face, and if another First Army was annihilated, the anger of His Majesty the Emperor would completely burn all the officers of the entire dispatch army to pieces, and he Binshan Yuan was no exception.

In desperation, Binshan Moto had no choice but to order the Kimura Division, which was closest to Shimen, to rush to Shimen immediately, and authorized the commander of the 32nd Division, Kimura Hyotaro, to take full command of the imperial forces around Shimen and quickly recapture Shimen from the hands of the Shina. But will Chen Feng, who has been prepared for a long time, let them get their wish, the answer is obvious. (To be continued......)