The relatively well-preserved Yangquan city wall is four or five zhang high, and there are wide horse roads on it.

The bricks of the city are made of glutinous rice juice and mortar masonry, which is unusually strong, and the intact and neat battlements show the tactical characteristics of the cold weapon era.

There was a moat around the city outside the walls, but it had dried up and dried up due to age.

However, at this time, Yangquan City was already filled with gunsmoke, and the battle was extremely fierce.

The firepower of the new assault company was very fierce, and the mountain artillery battalion had ploughed the devil's outer positions, and the devils and puppet troops outside the city wall could not withstand it at all.

As soon as a devil poked his head out of the foxhole and was about to shoot, several dazzling tongues of fire were violently whipped like whips, and the devil twitched like an electric shock, and in an instant he was beaten into a blood sieve.

The outer positions of the walls were quickly cleared, and the assault company split into two parts and rushed to the breached gap.

The mountain artillery blasted out two gaps in the city wall, a V-shaped gap and a U-shaped gap, and the collapsed broken masonry and earth were more than three meters above the ground.

"Go up the ladder, move fast!"

Xu Yonghai held the submachine gun, leaned his back against the gentle slope of the gap, and shouted loudly.

The fighters behind them with the ladder ran up and erected the ladder, and the fighters of the assault company climbed up the ladder.

As soon as several fighters climbed to the gap, the devil machine gunners behind sandbags in the street wielded light and heavy machine guns, and the fire swept over, and two fighters were hit and rolled down the ladder.

Several other fighters dodged a wave of long burst fire, then showed their heads, clutching a ladder while firing with a submachine gun in one hand.

Taking advantage of the fact that the devil's fire was suppressed for a moment, several grenades were thrown at the devil, and after a few explosions, the devil machine gunner was killed.

The fighters took the opportunity to climb up the gap and stabilize their heels, and more and more fighters swarmed up behind them.

In the blink of an eye, the assault company burst into the city through two gaps.

The devil immediately organized a firepower street battle, but the devil's troops were insufficient, and he was soon defeated by the fierce firepower and accurate marksmanship of the assault company.

The assault company opened the breach and opened the city gate, and the sword squadron, the second and third companies of the first battalion immediately poured into the city through the city gate.

The second and third companies attacked along the city walls, and the sword squadron and assault company pounced on the devil's ammunition warehouse and grain depot respectively.

At this time, Shoji Kurosawa was watching the battle from the roof of the 4th Brigade Headquarters.

The communications staff officers and intelligence staff officers were also there, and several team leaders were basically killed in battle.

Seeing that the western city wall was broken through by the Eighth Road, and attacked along the city wall to both sides, several staff officers suddenly knew that Yangquan City could not be defended, and their troops were too small.

The air support that Kurosawa was expecting did not show up, and he guessed that the headquarters knew that Yangquan would definitely be captured, so they didn't want to waste bombs and fighters.

After all, this eight-way force is very evil, and there are dozens of anti-aircraft guns for air defense alone, and unless a group of hundreds of bombers is dispatched at the same time, several planes will be helpless.

Now the Tongpu Railway and the Zhengtai Railway are basically controlled by the Eighth Road, without any support, and Yangquan has completely become an isolated city.

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, I suggest a breakout." The intelligence staff officer panicked, "The Eighth Route has not attacked the East Gate, we can escape from the East City Gate." ”

"I guess the Eighth Road doesn't want to break the net with us and cause them more casualties."

"Since the Eighth Road has given us the steps, why should we bother to support it, save our lives and have the opportunity to avenge His Excellency the Brigade Commander in the future."

Kurosawa Shoji snorted coldly: "Do you think that if you escape from the East City Gate, the Eighth Road will be able to let us go?" There must be an ambush outside the East Gate on the Eighth Road, and going out at this time is just throwing yourself into a net. ”

is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, and this is all the experience summed up from the experience of a hundred battles.

"Are we going to die here today?" The communications staff was also afraid.

"Yaga, as a warrior of the Great Japanese Empire, are you so afraid of death?" Kurosawa Shoji's cold eyes swept over the two of them, and the two shivered coldly.

"Hey!" The two staff officers shook their heads in unison.

Kurosawa Shoji said: "Nomura-kun, immediately send a telegram to the headquarters, Yangquan City has been breached, and the Fourth Brigade Headquarters swears to live and die with the city, and asks if the ammunition warehouse will be blown up and the grain depot destroyed!" ”

Under normal circumstances, even if the devil is completely shattered, he would not dare to easily blow up the ammunition warehouse and grain depot.

If there is a possibility that the materials will be snatched back after being captured by the enemy, then the devils will definitely not destroy the materials.

On the other hand, if the materials are captured by the enemy, there are no friendly troops nearby, and they will definitely not be able to be recovered, then the materials will definitely be destroyed.

Yangquan was an important military town of the Japanese army in Shanxi, storing a large number of weapons, ammunition and food supplies, even if he knew that he was dead, Kurosawa Shoji did not dare to easily decide whether to destroy the materials without authorization.

"Hey!" The communications staff officer slammed his head, stepped down the ladder, and walked briskly towards the communications room.

Kurosawa Shoji felt that the street fighting was a very brutal battle, and the superior forces of the Eighth Route could not be deployed, even if the troops were insufficient, it was no problem to hold out for a few hours.

Therefore, it is completely too late to ask for instructions before bombing the medicine depot and grain depot.

However, he never imagined that the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade had already been targeted.

In a three-story private house, Lu Yingjun held a telescope and looked in the direction of the Devil's Command.

On the roof of the Devil's Headquarters, a sun flag and a rising sun flag flutter in the wind.

There are devils with light and heavy machine guns around the headquarters and on the roof, and it seems that the devils do not want to escape, and are ready to fight to the death.

And the few hundred meters around the Devil's Headquarters are basically Japanese-style buildings.

At that moment, Lu Yingjun used the precision method to calculate the firing parameters of the artillery position shelling the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade and Regiment.

Then he immediately picked up the radio communication machine and used the secret language to call the mountain artillery battalion and send out the shooting parameters.

Wang Chengzhu received the shooting parameters and first fired a test shot, and then Lu Yingjun quickly corrected the shooting parameters according to the impact point.

It didn't take long for the artillery outside the city to start working, and 12 mountain guns fired a salvo into the city.

The cannonballs arced across the sky and fell with a long screech, accompanied by a muffled thunderous explosion, and fireballs and smoke instantly enveloped the Devil Command.

After three rounds of shelling, the entire Devil's Headquarters was destroyed, not a single intact building was built, and many of the surrounding Japanese-style houses were also destroyed by shells.

Lu Yingjun, who saw this scene through the telescope, couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.

"This precision artillery bombardment is really useful."

……

In Taiyuan, the headquarters of the First Army.

Communications staff officer Toshimatsu Kasai walked into the war hall quickly and said to Yoshio Shinozuka: "Report to the general, the Fourth Brigade Kurosawa Daisa has sent a farewell telegram that the Eighth Route has broken through the Yangquan City Wall, and the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade is ready to live and die with Yangquan City, and ask if you will destroy ammunition and food supplies?" ”

"Nani?" Yoshio Shinozuka's face changed, Li Yunlong's movements were so fast?

It seems that Li Yunlong's troops will be able to capture Yangquan City tonight, which is not good news.

Although Shoji Kurosawa asked for air support several times, Yoshio Shinozuka really didn't dare to send air forces.

If you go to support once, you will lose five planes, and if you go to support twice, I am afraid that all the planes will be shot down, and there will be no planes for aerial reconnaissance at that time.

That's the real blindness.

In response to the large-scale attack on the Eighth Road, the countermeasure plan formulated by the General Staff of the First Army was to gather troops on Tongpu Road and Pinghan Road to attack from the east and west.

However, at this time, the troops of Tongpu Road and Pinghan Road had not yet been able to assemble.

With the mobilization of Japanese troops, more and more Eighth Routes participated in the operation.

There were about 20 regiments of the Eighth Route Army that participated in the attack on the Zhengtai Railway, but the number of Eighth Route Army troops that cooperated with the operation far exceeded that.

At present, there is no unit that can save the headquarters of the Fourth Brigade of Yangquan.

After thinking for a moment, Yoshio Shinozuka said with a dark face: "Order the Fourth Brigade to immediately destroy the ammunition depot and grain depot, and Yangquan's military supplies must not fall into the hands of the Eighth Road!" ”

"Hey!" Toshishi Kasai paused, then walked briskly outside.

Less than five minutes later, Toshimatsu Kasai hurriedly walked in and paused.

"Report to the general, the command has lost the radio signal of the communications department of the 4th brigade."

"Na... Buddhist nun? ”

Hearing the news, Yoshio Shinozuka was so angry that he almost squirted out a mouthful of old blood.

Just now, I was still feeling sorry for the loss of a large amount of ammunition and food.

Now this batch of food and ammunition is very likely to fall into the hands of Balu, and it is still in the hands of Li Yunlong, and the whole person is not good.

……

In Yangquan City, there are only more than 200 regular troops of devils.

The rest are junk puppets and Japanese ronins with guns.

The latter basically has no combat effectiveness, let alone the will to fight, and is almost on the verge of collapse.

These puppet armies and ronins were shot down, those who surrendered, surrendered.

Although the devil still had a few tanks, they were quickly destroyed by Bazooka in a street fight.

The devils without tanks were even more disadvantaged, and the brigade headquarters was completely destroyed by the mountain artillery battalion, and the devils fell into a situation of fighting on their own.

However, the devil's resistance was very tenacious, and even if the troops and equipment were completely suppressed, it still dragged the new regiment for two hours.

It wasn't until it got dark that the battle was completely ended and the devils in Yangquan City were eliminated.

The ammunition warehouse and grain depot in Yangquan City were also taken by the Sword Squadron and the Assault Company respectively.

At the headquarters of the Lion Rock Regiment, after listening to the report of the signal soldier, Zhao Gang smiled: "Lao Li, the ammunition warehouse and grain depot have been taken down by us, and now the brigade commander should congratulate you on making a fortune." ”

Li Yunlong said: "We have won such a big battle and made such a fortune, I was very happy, but when you say this, the labor and management are in a bad mood again, damn!" ”

"Still in a bad mood?" Zhao Gang said: "If you are robbed, you will be robbed, and it will not fall into the hands of devils, anyway, it is the overall strength of our Eighth Route Army that has grown." ”

"That's just as well." Li Yunlong said, "Let's go into the city to see how many weapons, ammunition and food the devil has in this Yangquan City." ”

At that moment, the two walked out of the headquarters together, turned over and walked towards Chaoyang Spring City.

When they arrived in Yangquan City, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang quickly asked the second battalion commander to estimate the total amount of ammunition and food captured.

According to preliminary estimates, there will be no less than 3 million rounds of ammunition, at least 20,000 shells of various calibers, and at least 2 million catties of grain.

When Li Yunlong heard this, the corners of his mouth grinned: "It seems that this time I want to congratulate the brigade commander on making a fortune." ”