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Chapter 136 Great record!

The Japanese and puppet troops of more than 100 people took advantage of the situation and pressed up to the top of the mountain. Suddenly, the sound of machine guns on the Japanese machine gun positions stopped, replaced by bursts of submachine guns firing like popping beans, and about three people appeared in Takeo Honda's binoculars. Ten Eight Routes are shooting at the attacking Japanese and puppet troops with skillful tactical movements.

In the rain of bullets, the bodies of the Japanese soldiers and the puppet soldiers fell to the ground convulsively as if they were electrocuted.

The deputy machine gunner of 1 heavy machine gun and 2 light machine guns was shot through the head by a sudden bullet as soon as he touched the gun.

The eight-way submachine guns fired sand and rocks, and the devils and puppet soldiers fell in pieces in an instant.

Suddenly, there was a sharp whistling sound from far to near overhead, and a row of shells fell between the devils and the puppet soldiers.

boom boom-

In the sound of the explosion, the devils and the puppet army were immediately enveloped by flames and gunpowder smoke, leaving a pile of corpses on the hillside, and a small number of devils and puppet troops retreated.

Beside Takeo Honda, the Japanese army staff officer wiped off his cold sweat and said: "Master, this is definitely not an ordinary Eighth Route Army. Although the number of this Eighth Route Army is small, they have rich actual combat experience, and all of them are at the level of special shooters. Their mental quality is extremely high." Stable, and there are snipers among them."

Takeo Honda was preparing to concentrate the grenadiers and launch another attack on the top of the mountain.

The observer came over in a panic, his tone and footsteps hurried: "Report, Major, the infantry artillery and field artillery are pulled out from the eighth road directly in front!"

"Nani?"

Takeo Honda and the staff officer's expressions changed drastically at the same time.

Infantry artillery and field artillery?
The case was solved, and the Lijiagou stronghold was definitely lost by the Eight Routes.

At this time, Takeo Honda realized that he had been tricked. The commander of the Eighth Route had the strength to take down the gun tower, but he put on a posture of besieging the stronghold for a long time from the beginning.

It was obvious that he was fishing.

And he foolishly took the tick.

Careless.

Takeo Honda's aching head became more and more painful.

"How many soldiers do we have?"

The staff officer replied: "There are about 150 Imperial Army soldiers, 50 of whom are wounded soldiers, and the Imperial Association Army has about 100 soldiers."

During the bombardment, most of the devils hid in the gun towers and bunkers, while the puppet troops were bombarded outside.

However, the space of the gun towers is limited after all, half of the wounded soldiers, and the gun towers and bunkers cannot hold all the devils.

But now, Eighth Road has pulled out the infantry artillery and field artillery, so the artillery tower is not safe.

Takenan Honda said in a deep voice: "Order, all the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army will move into the county."

The shame of the Japanese army was still very strong, and they described retreat as turning in, and called for help as a request for tactical guidance.

The staff officer was astonished and said: "Captain, what do you mean, we want to abandon the stone box stronghold?"

"Fujii-kun." Takeo Honda looked at the staff officer with dark eyes, "Don't tell me you want to stay and live with Shixia stronghold?"

"Hey, transfer to the county seat immediately!" The staff officer paused and said, only a dead end, and a fool would stay.

At that moment, the Japanese army staff officer named Fujii immediately issued an order to transfer to the county seat, and the devils and puppet soldiers took the wounded, weapons and ammunition and ran towards the path they had come from.

Before fleeing, the devils did not forget to burn the food that could not be taken away from the stronghold.

On the hill opposite the stronghold, Li Yunlong saw the devils and puppet soldiers fleeing.

Immediately turned his head and shouted at the artillery company on the top of the mountain: "Fire a few shots for labor and capital to send off the devils."

After receiving the order, the artillery company immediately turned its muzzle and fired in the direction of the devils and puppet troops.

……

After the devils and the puppet army fled, the Xinyi regiment occupied the Shixia stronghold without even firing infantry and field artillery.

As soon as Li Yunlong and Zhao entered the stronghold, Zhang Dabiao came over to report to Li Yunlong.

"Reporting to the regiment commander, there are dozens of devils and wounded soldiers in the gun towers and bunkers, and they all committed suicide."

"Should be seriously injured."

"The seriously wounded soldiers of the puppet army also died. They should have been killed by the devils before they left."

Zhang Dabiao's tone was somewhat disdainful, this group of puppet soldiers defected to the enemy and betrayed their country and took the devils as their fathers, and their devils father slaughtered them like animals.

"But it's a pity that more than 100 devils and dozens of puppet soldiers escaped." Zhang Dabiao said again.

"It's a pity..." Li Yunlong waved his hands, "We will take down the county sooner or later, and even a devil and a puppet army will not be able to escape."

"Yes, it's not a pity."

Zhao Gang said with a smile: "In this battle, we wiped out the devils and the main force of the puppet army in the county. The remaining devils and puppet army should not dare to go out of the city to support."

Lu Yingjun strode down from behind Zhang Dabiao, and gave a military salute to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.

"Leader, political commissar!"

Li Yunlong's expression changed, and he hurriedly asked: "Lu Yingjun, how many cannons did your Sword Squad capture?"

Grinning, Lu Yingjun said: "8 guns were seized, 4 Type 4 infantry guns, and 81 Type [-] [-]mm mortars."

"What about the shells, how many shells are there?"

Zhao Gang showed joy, and the captured eight cannons could almost form two artillery companies.

Currently a standard mortar battery is 6 mortars, but 4 mortars are barely enough.

Lu Yingjun replied: "The shells are a little short. I haven't counted them carefully. There are only about 500 rounds."

Zhao Gang said happily: "500 rounds is quite a lot, this time your sword team has made a great contribution."

"Let's talk about the meritorious service when we go back." Li Yunlong said, "Huzi, go, and call me the second battalion commander, the third battalion commander, and Wang Chengzhu."

"Yes!" Huang Erhu turned around and walked out of the stronghold.

Soon, Zhang Dabiao, Zheng Yu, Chen Dagu, Wang Chengzhu, Lu Yingjun and Zhao Gang surrounded Li Yunlong.

After the cavalry company was expanded into a cavalry battalion, it was stepping up training and did not participate in this battle.

Li Yunlong said directly: "During the battle just now, the Sword Squad captured 8 Japanese guns, of which 4 were Type 4 infantry guns and [-] were mortars."

Apart from Zhang Dabiao, Lu Yingjun and Zhao Gang, Zheng Yu, Chen Dugu and Wang Chengzhu immediately showed excitement.

Especially Wang Chengzhu's face was a little flushed. Although he was just an artillery company commander, he was actually living the life of an artillery battalion commander.

If these 8 guns were to be incorporated into the artillery battery, the number of artillery in the new artillery battery would be 24. He was almost living the life of an artillery regiment commander.

Li Yunlong continued: "Since the main force of the county devils has been wiped out and 8 more guns have been seized, we can speed up the progress of the attack."

"Now I will assign tasks."

Li Yunlong picked up a bayonet casually, and used the bayonet to draw a simple sketch on a flat place on the ground.

"This is the county seat of Liao County. There are 4 strongholds around the county seat, Shixia, Guantou, Pushang, and Xiaolingdi."

"You three battalions, form a stronghold commando with the battalion as a unit, and attack the three strongholds of Guantou, Bushang and Xiaolingdi around the county at the same time."

"The first battalion and the second battalion are each equipped with 2 infantry guns and 3 machine guns. The Xiaolingdi stronghold is a small stronghold with 1 infantry gun and 3 machine guns."

"In addition, each battalion is equipped with four 4mm mortars."

"The remaining 1 field gun and 2 machine guns will move with the regiment headquarters. The political commissar and I will lead the guard platoon and the sharp sword unit to pull out the gun tower along the road."

"After you take out the strongholds in your respective directions, you must continue to attack and move forward."

"Today, let's fight for it and take it away from all the devil strongholds and gun towers outside the county."

Zheng Yu, the commander of the second battalion, said worriedly: "Regimental Commander, there is only a guard platoon and a sharp sword unit next to you, and there are less than 100 people. What if the devils concentrate their forces to attack here?"

Li Yunlong snorted and said: "That's easy to handle, labor and management are afraid that the devil will not come out."

……

Although Liao County has a large area, most of the artillery towers and strongholds are concentrated around the county town or built on roads.

And the devil's blockhouse on the road has long been pulled out by Xinyituan.

It was originally expected to take a whole day to plan the terminal stronghold, but the Xinyi regiment destroyed the devil's stronghold outside the county seat before noon.

After the devil stronghold was taken away, the new regiment launched an attack on the devil's gun tower outside the county seat. As a last resort, Takeo Honda had to let the devils and puppet troops in the gun tower outside the city transfer into the county seat, and gave away six soldiers from the new regiment for nothing. Seven gun towers.

During this period, the devils and puppet soldiers who were besieged by the Xinyi regiment in the county were trembling and highly nervous, for fear that the Eighth Route Army would attack the county.

However, Li Yunlong considered that there would be too many casualties in the attack on the county seat, so even if he could forcibly take the county seat of Liao County, it would be a loss-making business.

After taking away all the gun towers and strongholds around the county, Commander Li led his troops to leave contentedly.

Takeo Honda received the news that the Eighth Route Army had left in the gendarmerie. He slumped on a chair, let out a long breath, and his face was full of the expression of the survivors after a catastrophe.

……

Yangcun, Xinyituan.

Night falls.

Li Yunlong led the soldiers back in a mighty way.

The new regiment was dispatched today, and not only killed a large number of devils and puppet soldiers, but also wiped out the strongholds and gun towers around the county seat of Liao County.

Now, apart from the sporadic gunhouses in distant villages and towns, there are only a small number of devils and puppet troops in Liao County.

In the regiment headquarters, several battalion commanders and company commanders directly under them had a small meeting.

Second Battalion Commander Zheng Yu reported the statistical data to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang.

"Today we took down 4 large and small strongholds, 19 large and small artillery towers, killed about 300 devils, and killed about 400 puppet soldiers."

Zhao Gang and the battalion and company commanders all had smiles on their faces, as if they were farmers who had just returned from harvesting grain in the fields.

Today, it can be said that the record is remarkable.

The corners of Li Yunlong's mouth curled up to the point of his ears, almost crooked.

A stronghold counts as 3 machine guns, and a gun tower counts as 1 machine gun, for a total of 31 machine guns.

Plus the 4 Type 4 infantry guns and [-] mortars seized today.

Haha... Labor and management have made a fortune.

(End of this chapter)