Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 163 Surprise
After the guard platoon rushed to the battlefield with mortars and heavy machine guns, Yang Xiong happily ordered.

"Platoon Leader Chen, you came too timely. The Imperial Association Army has already been pushed back to the barracks by me. Immediately set up the mortars, give them two, and force them to surrender!
"Tong... Boom..." A shell fell from the sky and smashed into the barracks and exploded.

Hot flames burst out from the closed windows and doors of the barracks, and even a soldier of the Imperial Association Army covered in blood was blown out.

"Battalion Commander, the Eighth Route Army has guns in their hands, what should we do next!" The company commander Er who was next to the battalion commander of the Imperial Association Army asked very nervously.

"The Eighth Route Army is everywhere here, and there is no way to escape." The battalion commander replied with a sullen face.

"Besides, I just killed a few devil instructors just to save my brothers' lives. If I go back to the devil's place, I must die. So, I decided to take my brothers to surrender to the Eighth Route Army. Do you have any objections?"

There are three types of these puppet soldiers. One is the devil captive and put on this layer of skin. For them, there is no problem at all in surrendering to the Eighth Route Army.

One is to become a puppet soldier in order to support their families. They only get that little salary, and they will definitely not lose their lives for the sake of devils.As long as you can survive, there is no problem in surrendering to the Eighth Route Army.

There is another kind of person who really wants to be a traitor and give his life to the little devil.But they have one thing in common, that is fear of death.

Although they are unwilling to surrender to the Eighth Route Army in their hearts, they also have no objection to surrendering to the Eighth Route Army in order to survive.

Therefore, when the battalion commander said the word surrender, none of the subordinates around him showed a surprised expression on their faces.

"If you don't speak, you agree! Order the troops to raise the white flag, surrender, and tell the Eighth Route Army not to fire!" The battalion commander ordered after a sigh of relief.

"Company commander, the puppet army raised the white flag and surrendered!" An exclamation sounded from among the soldiers in front.

Yang Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately reacted: "The artillerymen stopped firing, and everyone else stopped shooting and shouting at the Imperial Association Army inside. They came out one by one, and threw their guns outside! Then they walked out of the barracks. No one can carry a gun on their body!" "

It took less than 130 minutes for more than 5 imperial association troops to become Yang Xiong's prisoners.

As soon as the Imperial Association Army surrendered, a platoon of the Eighth Route Army rushed into the garrison to eliminate the puppet troops who might have been hiding.

In the end, the puppet army did not catch one, but it brought Yang Xiong a huge surprise.

"Cannon, company commander, we found a small restless warehouse with cannons in it!"

Yang Xiong frowned, and immediately asked the battalion commander among the captives: "Battlemaster Wang, what happened to those cannons? As far as I know, the devils are reluctant to equip you with precious cannons!"

"These guns belong to our garrison brigade." The battalion commander of the Imperial Association quickly replied.

"Our garrison brigade has a mountain artillery company, and each regiment also has a mortar battery! In order to defend the city wall, the imperial army... no, it's the devil, the little devil asked us to separate the artillery and defend the four city gates separately! Just now Your army blew up one mortar, and the remaining three mortars and two mountain cannons were captured by your army before they were released!"

"Where are the artillerymen, let the artillerymen among the prisoners come out immediately!" Yang Xiong immediately asked the battalion commander of the Imperial Association Army.

Soon, more than 20 gunners stood up with a look of panic. Yang Xiong was not polite, and directly ordered: "I don't care what you did before, now you must obey the command of our Eighth Route Army. Next, you need to start those guns. , go to the front line to provide artillery support for our Eighth Route Army. If you fight well, you will be rewarded with five oceans per person at the end of the battle.

"Commander Yang, do you want it?" Chen Junyu, the guard platoon leader, asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"The artillery is not only a sharp weapon for attacking, but also a sharp weapon for defense. If such good equipment can be used, the battle casualties of the troops in Laiyuan City will definitely be much smaller!"

Without explaining too much, and without giving the artillery prisoners too much time to think, Yang Xiong went on and on and ordered directly: "The second platoon will stay in charge of the prisoners, and the others will take the artillery and shells with me to reinforce the battalion commander!"

"The Japanese and puppet troops built a lot of fortifications around the material warehouse in the west of the city. The casualties in the storm were too high, and artillery support was definitely needed!"

The material warehouse not only hoarded a lot of materials, but also stored ammunition supplies for an infantry brigade for up to five days, which was very important.

Therefore, the Japanese and puppet troops piled up a large number of fortifications around the warehouse with sandbags, including several machine gun forts made of masonry and cement.

For ordinary fortifications, even if a single shell from a mortar can't destroy it, it can still blow up the devils in the fortification.But several machine gun fortresses are different, with rough skin and thick flesh, and a single shell will scratch the skin a little at most.

Although Zhang Yunshan led the main force of the battalion to wipe out many Imperial Association troops, with the support and resistance of several machine gun fortresses, the troops never rushed into the warehouse, and left behind thirty or forty corpses. The whole attack was very successful. Tragic!
Just when Zhang Yunshan ordered the two mortars to continue firing with anger, and was about to order the troops to launch a new round of attack under the cover of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Xiong came.

"Battalion Commander, don't attack yet, look what good things I brought you!"

"The cannon, and it's a mountain cannon, Yang Xiong, where did you get it!" Zhang Yunshan shouted excitedly.

"The garrison of the Imperial Association Army was captured by me without firing a cannon. I brought them over with more than 20 artillerymen of the Imperial Association Army."

Zhang Yunshan was so excited that he was almost speechless, and he was stunned for a few seconds before he realized: "Then why are you still in a daze, let them set up artillery immediately, and blow up those machine gun fortresses for me. In addition, let the artillery line up A few people learn, sooner or later our Second Battalion will have its own mountain artillery and infantry artillery, and they will not be used if they are seized by then!"

A gun was placed tens of meters away for direct aiming. As soon as the muzzle of the black hole was erected, the face of the machine gunner guarding the bunker turned pale.

Then he dropped the machine gun and fled outside the bunker.As soon as five or six of the more than a dozen imperial association troops ran out, the mountain artillery fired.

"Boom...Boom..." A violent explosion sounded behind them just now, and the strong machine gun fortress was blown down in an instant like paper, and then turned into a pile of ruins.

"Battalion Commander, the Eighth Route Army has mountain artillery, and a machine gun fortress has already been blown up. We can't hold the warehouse anymore!" In the last machine gun fortress, a company commander looked at the explosion scene tens of meters away with a pale face and exclaimed. .

"That's the mountain artillery of the brigade's mountain artillery company. I know a platoon leader among the gunners. How could it be possible that they surrendered to the Eighth Route Army!" Another company commander shouted, his face full of disbelief.

"The third battalion guarding the city wall must have surrendered to the Eighth Route Army. Battalion Commander, what should we do? Make up your mind quickly, or we will all die here!" the deputy battalion commander asked in a heavy and anxious tone.

While speaking, another explosion sounded in front.

A second machine gun fort was left in ruins in the explosion.

The violent explosion, like a reminder, urged the battalion commander to make a quick decision.

(End of this chapter)