Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 393 The whole army is dispatched, fighting everywhere

When the battalions were dispersed, Wang Chengzhu also led a total of more than 800 people in the supply battalion, guard company, supply company, and cooking squad, and moved outside the blockade ditch under the cover of night.

The supply battalion needs to carry supplies, which is also a physical effort. The soldiers' physical fitness is very good, and they also need to participate in various trainings, so their combat effectiveness is not bad.

It's just that this time the supply battalion didn't come to participate in the war, but to carry the spoils.

Yangquan County is the seat of the brigade headquarters of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army. All the materials of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade are stored in Yangquan County.

The task of the supply battalion is to do this.

Not long after Wang Chengzhu and the others came to the trench, a militia team rushed over, led by Chen Shiming, an underground party official who had met Wang Chengzhu once when Wang Chengzhu first came to the southeast of Shanxi.

Relying on strong grassroots organizations, our party has exploded with strong organizational and mobilization capabilities.

In less than 3 days, hundreds of local armed forces and militias in the Taihang base were mobilized, and even the combat tasks were clearly assigned.

The militia brought a large number of ladders and planks.

They put the ladders across the blockade ditch, and then laid planks, so that simple pontoon bridges were erected.

Then, the soldiers of the Second Independent Regiment easily crossed over.

As for the barbed wire outside the blockade ditch, it has become a complete decoration at this time.

If it weren't for the fact that no one collected broken copper and rotten iron in that era, the Second Independent Regiment could have collected it and sold it, and it could have exchanged a lot of food.

at the same time.

Xu Hailang also led the 1st Battalion and part of the Artillery Battalion to the vicinity of Daliang.

With the information provided by Wang Chengzhu and the reconnaissance battalion, Xu Hailang already knew the strength and firepower deployment of the Daliang stronghold.

A Japanese army team was stationed in Daliang, plus a company of the puppet army, with a total of more than 200 people, three light machine guns and one heavy machine gun, and several strong fortresses were built.

Judging from the size of the firepower and the size of the troops, it is considered relatively large among the small strongholds.

However, this is for the 1st Battalion with the Type [-] infantry artillery.

The puppet army stationed at the Daliang stronghold belonged to Sun Yuliang's 4th Mixed Brigade. Before that, Wang Chengzhu had already contacted Sun Yuliang, and Sun Yuliang had also greeted his officers.

Moreover, in order to prevent accidents and facilitate the control of the field, Sun Yuliang also helped the subordinates of the pro-Japanese faction transfer back to Yangquan County, and all those stationed in the outer strongholds were replaced by his cronies.

As soon as the Eighth Route Army launches an attack, the puppet troops stationed in these strongholds will immediately turn against the water and join forces with the Eighth Route Army to attack the devils in the strongholds.

Therefore, in order to prevent accidental injury to his own people, it is obviously impossible for Xu Hailang and the others to use artillery to attack.

It's only 10 o'clock in the evening, and there are still two hours before 12 o'clock.

The wait is always the longest and the hardest.

In just two hours, the soldiers of the 1st Battalion seemed to have been waiting for two days.

Finally, Deputy Battalion Commander Zhao Bin took out his pocket watch and said, "Battalion Commander, it's time!"

Hearing the sound, Xu Hailang immediately raised the box cannon in his hand and fired a shot into the sky. The sound of a 'pop' shot instantly broke the tranquility of the night.

Immediately afterwards, several soldiers fired flares.

"Whoa! Whoa!—"

The flares dragged the eye-catching tail flames up into the night sky, and then slowly descended with dazzling glare, illuminating the entire Daliang stronghold as if it were daytime.

In an instant, the puppet soldiers standing guard outside the gun tower were completely exposed to the sight of the soldiers of the 1st Battalion.

You soldiers who had been waiting for a long time decisively broke off the fire, and the dense bullets poured over the area, immediately piercing the gun tower not far away, and all kinds of sand, gravel and soil kept falling down.

Some bullets hit the ground, splashing clusters of dust, but they missed the puppet soldiers. It's not that the soldiers of the 1st Battalion were poor marksmen.

Rather, they have been notified that these puppet troops will soon become their own, so they deliberately missed and showed mercy.

The puppet soldiers who knew it well understood it, and immediately hid behind the bunker, pulled the trigger with their guns, and fired back into the sky.

For a while, gunshots exploded, extremely intense.

The devils and puppet soldiers waiting in the turret were awakened by the gunshots, and they immediately fought back.

Even more, many devils and puppet soldiers rushed out of the gun tower, entered the outer foxholes and fired back.

The devil second lieutenant in the lead kept roaring in birdsong: "Kill the chicken! Kill the chicken! Get rid of these nasty Chinese people!"

Regrettably, this time, the puppet soldiers did not obey his orders, but followed the command of the captain and company commander to "kill these bastard little devils", and pointed their guns at these devils one after another.

"Crack, clap clap clap!—"

For a while, the gunshots resounded even louder.

Before the devils in the gun towers and foxholes could react, they were all shot and fell to the ground.

The marksmanship of these puppet soldiers is certainly not good, but at a short distance of one or two meters, even people without any military knowledge, as long as they can shoot, they will not miss.

"Baga! You? You actually betrayed the Japanese Imperial Army!"

"Damn! You Chinese people are really unreliable..."

The ghost second lieutenant who was shot in the back turned around with difficulty, his face was puzzled and angry, and he questioned the puppet captain in front of him.

However, he was answered by another burst of gunfire.

"Clap clap clap!"

Second Lieutenant Guizi was shot in the chest continuously, and large pieces of blood were sprayed out, and then he fell to the ground with an expression of unwillingness.

Not only the second lieutenant of the devil, but also the faces of the other devils were full of surprise, and they couldn't figure out what was going on until they died.

The battle started very suddenly and ended very quickly. In just a few minutes, the gunfire stopped.

An infantry squad, 54 devils, were all killed, and Wuyi was spared. On the other hand, there were no casualties in the Imperial Association Army.

It is true that under normal circumstances, a company of the Imperial Association Army may not be an opponent to a devil squad at all, but if it is a surprise attack, and it is a close-range rebellion, the devils suddenly attack when they are unprepared.

As strong as a devil, it is also powerless to fight back.

This is the difference between hot weapons and cold weapons.

Devils are strong in their will to fight, in their physical fitness, and in their marksmanship, but when it comes to short-range bullet attacks, they are still no different from ordinary people, and they can also be knocked down with a single shot.

The Imperial Association Army company stationed at the Daliang stronghold has more than 160 people, dealing with 54 devils, an average of 3 people against 1 devil, and suddenly attacking from behind.

It is not surprising to have such a result.

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(End of this chapter)