Datong Station.

An important transit station of the Pingsui Railway, and also the starting point of the Tongpu Railway, several railways converge here, where a large amount of war materials are stored.

It can be said that among the important stations in Shanxi, the strategic position of Datong Station is second only to Taiyuan Station.

During the attack on the northwest of Shanxi, the station was garrisoned by the devils of the 11th Wing of the Independent Infantry of the 26th Division, and it was heavily guarded.

But not long ago, the 11th Independent Infantry Wing fought an encounter with the 2nd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army at Maying Mountain.

The 5th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, as well as more than 300 light and heavy machine guns, 3,000 rifles, and the 2nd Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which was captured by the 5th Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, was naturally the 11th Infantry Wing.

The casualties on both sides in that battle were not small, and the 11th Infantry Wing at this time had been ordered to return to the 26th Division to rest.

After the 11th Independent Infantry Wing left, the commander of the 3rd Brigade revisited Yin Sanxiong and transferred a brigade of troops to garrison Datong Station.

However, a few days ago, the Sword Squadron pretended to be a guerrilla unit to wreak havoc everywhere, and when I saw Yin Sanxiong again because of the lack of troops, he withdrew two squadrons from Datong Station and went to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, and he has not returned yet.

Therefore, at this moment, there is only one devil squadron at Datong Station, and the defense is relatively empty.

According to the intelligence, the devil brigade that went to encircle and suppress the guerrillas was still looking for the guerrillas all over the mountains.

Originally, the 3rd Brigade stationed in Datong was a remnant, with a total strength of only about 2,500 people, and now a brigade and a part of the puppet army were dispatched.

When the two cavalry battalions of the new regiment made a detour to Datong City, Duan Peng also led the sword squadron to quietly approach Datong Station in the dark.

Although there are not many devils in Datong Station, there are many devil whistles and secret whistles around the station.

The first thing the Sword Squadron has to deal with is these devil's sentinels.

At this moment, it is the early hours of the morning, and it is the time when people are most tired, and the devil sentry was wiped on the neck by the Xili Lake when he was hoarding.

After killing the devil sentinels on the periphery, the Sword Squadron and a company quickly approached Datong Station.

At this time, the telephone lines between Datong City and Datong Station have been cut.

"Okay, here it is!"

About 800 meters from the station, the platoon commander of the new regiment in charge of directing the mortars gave an order, and the artillery behind him came to a halt.

The searchlight on the gun tower of the railway station opposite was dazzling and strong, but the location here, even if there was a searchlight, the devil sentries on the gun tower could not see the location of the Eighth Route Army clearly in the dark night.

The infantry, on the other hand, was already crawling towards the station.

Through the searchlight, you can vaguely see more than a dozen scarred corpses hanging from the fence of the train station.

After the devils transported the war materials to Datong Station, they were always strictly guarded, and no one except the Japanese army and the puppet army was allowed to approach near the station.

Some unaware people passed near the station and couldn't help but say that they were arrested by devils and tortured.

Seeing that nothing could come out of the torture, the devils either took the people to a deep pit dug by them, cut off their heads with a katana, and then pushed the corpses into the pit, or stabbed them to death with bayonets and hung them on the city wall to demonstrate.

The artillery platoon commander also saw the corpses of the common people on the city wall in the binoculars, with a fierce expression, and shouted in a low voice:

"Rack up the cannon!"

The artillerymen hurriedly got busy and set up artillery positions in their place.

The 60 mm mortars and 82 mm mortars equipped with the new regiment can be disassembled and transported, and can be split into three parts: base, barrel and bracket, and the weight is very light and easy to maneuver, the weight of the 60 mm mortar is about 40 catties, and the total weight of the 82 mm mortar is also about 100 catties.

According to the position of the devil soldiers in the railway station given by the sword squadron, the artillerymen with rich combat experience, after setting up the mortar, quickly adjusted the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and pointed the muzzle of the gun in the direction of the devil barracks.

Due to the flat terrain and the fact that it was at night, the impact point was certainly not visible from the position of the mortar position.

But the artillery of the new regiment played with fire coverage.

15 mortars, of which 4 were 82-mm mortars, although there were no 75-mm mountain artillery, but the Sword Squadron and the first company were equipped with Bazooka, and there were quite a few of them, and the brick and stone turrets that fought devils were almost one cannon at a time.

With a red flare rising into the air.

The new group of gunners on the artillery position put the mortar shells in their hands into the barrels one after another, and a series of continuous and rapid muffled sounds were heard.

Followed by.

The screech of cannonballs swept through the air and descended on the sky above Datong Station.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

The next moment, the mortar shells fell in the Datong station, and clusters of dazzling red light and gunpowder smoke rose up in the station.

In the first round of shells, an 82-mm mortar shell landed in a barracks inside the station, and a loud bang was heard, and the barracks made of blue bricks were instantly blown into a pile of masonry and rubble.

Before the devil inside could react, he went to see Amaterasu in the explosion.

Immediately afterwards, a continuous stream of mortar shells fell on the devil's station, completely shrouding the location of the station barracks in gunsmoke.

Several rockets burst out of the grass and dragged a long tail flame in the night sky, hitting the gun tower of the railway station.

In the continuous rapid roaring bang, the devil turret was hit instantly, and the devil machine gunner inside was killed in the explosion of the rocket before he could fire.

Then, two more rounds of rockets were fired to ensure that the machine gun fire points of the devils were all killed, and the soldiers of the sword squadron and a battalion and a company attacked the railway station with their guns, and the dense gunfire rang out like bursting beans.

……

Datong City.

Inside the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army.

The commander of the 3rd Brigade was awakened by the sound of mortar artillery by Major General Yoon Sam-woong, and at first he thought he was dreaming.

During this time, he felt that he was a little bit of a rumor.

was about to continue sleeping, and in the next second, seeing Yin Sanxiong reluctantly getting up from the bed, Tong Kong was shocked.

This is not a dream, it is the real sound of cannons, and the sound of cannons came from the direction of Datong Station.

Is there an enemy attacking Datong Station?

There are 5,000 tons of war materials hoarded in Datong Station, and if this batch of war materials is blown up or falls into the hands of the enemy, then he will be in big trouble!

didn't have time to think too much, and when he saw Yin Sanxiong put on his clothes and took the major general's command knife, he hurriedly pushed open the door and walked to the war room.

As soon as he walked into the war room, an operations staff officer hurriedly walked in and reported:

"Report to the brigade commander, a large number of eight-way cavalry movements have been found around Datong City, and the number is not less than one cavalry wing!"

"Nani? Eight Route Cavalry of a cavalry wing? ”

Seeing Yin Sanxiong hear what he said, his eyes suddenly became gloomy, and he looked at the combat staff officer:

"What the hell is going on?"

"What's going on over there at the station?"

The combat staff officer hurriedly bowed his head and said: "Report to the brigade commander, the communication team is currently unable to contact the station, it should be that the telephone line has been cut off!" ”

"Yaga!"

"Rubbish!"

Seeing Yin Sanxiong scolded angrily.

At this time, Chief of Staff Yoshinori Toda walked in quickly, and just now he heard a conversation between the combat staff officer and the brigade commander outside.

"Brigade Commander!"

Toda Yoshishi bowed his head and said in a deep voice: "We have the Eighth Route of cavalry troops around us, and there is only the Eighth Route New Regiment, and most of them are the Eighth Route New Regiment attacking Datong!" ”

Seeing Yin Sanxiong nodding again, his expression was extremely solemn.

Although there are still more than 2,500 people in the 3rd Brigade, there are only more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers in Datong now, of which more than 200 are logistics personnel.

The 1st Infantry Brigade was sent out to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, and another 200 soldiers were at the station, which was being attacked by the Eighth Route Army.

The staff officers of the 3rd Brigade Headquarters of the Japanese Army hurriedly walked into the war room in succession.

Everyone looked at the commander of the 3rd Brigade to see Yin Sanxiong again, whether the 3rd Brigade wanted to fight to the end or be lucky, hurry up and get an idea.

When he saw Yin Sanxiong again, he looked at Toda Yoshiki and said in a deep voice, "Toda-kun, what do you think?" ”

"Brigade Commander!" Toda Yoshishi said in a deep voice, "There is no point in our 3rd Brigade defending Datong, we have to leave Datong quickly, if we don't leave, it will be too late!" ”

The 3rd Brigade did not fight a battalion of the 8th New Regiment in its heyday.

What's more, now there are more than 1,000 people, can they defend Datong?

Seeing Yin Sanxiong again, he naturally understood this truth, but Datong was an important military town, and the 3rd Brigade was ordered to garrison, and he did not dare to lead his troops to abandon Datong without an order, otherwise he would definitely go to a military court.

Whether it was the Mongolian army or the main force of the First Army in Taiyuan, it was unable to support the 3rd Brigade in a short time.

By the time reinforcements arrived, the 3rd Brigade would probably have been wiped out.

Seeing Yin Sanxiong again, he nodded and said: "The communication room immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the First Army, explaining the situation here, requesting the 3rd Brigade to be transferred to Inner Mongolia, and requesting the cavalry of the garrison in Mongolia to respond!" ”

The operational staff officer quickly prepared a telegram, handed it to Yin Sanxiong for signature, and then turned around and walked out.

"Brigade commander." Toda asked, "What about the 5,000 tons of war materials at the station?" ”