After Huang Yu led the special regiment to cross Niangzi Pass and enter Shanxi, Yoshio Iwasatsu sent people to occupy Niangzi Pass again.
However, he had transferred the main force of the Japanese army in Shanxi to northwest Shanxi to mop up the Eighth Route Army, and he had no mobile troops to reinforce Niangziguan.
But Yoshio Iwamatsu had to defend, so he could only gather 500 people from the surrounding garrisons to garrison Niangziguan.
Half of the five hundred people are puppet troops, and there is only one reinforced squadron of real little devils.
For several days, the new Niangziguan garrison has been repairing the gaps in the city wall to ensure that they will have fortifications available when Niangziguan is attacked again.
As a result, the city wall that was blown down by the Eighth Route Army had not yet been repaired, and Yoshio Iwamatsu's order for them to block the retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army came.
"Bagh Ya Road..." Niangziguan's newly appointed garrison captain began to curse after receiving the blocking order.
He was originally a captain. After being temporarily appointed as the captain of the Niangziguan garrison by Iwamatsu Yoshio, his military rank rose with the tide and he was promoted to major.
I thought my good days were about to begin.
Unexpectedly, just a few days after being happy, this task that determines his life and death will come.
"Captain, what is the order from His Excellency the Commander?" The deputy stood aside, not knowing why the captain suddenly became so angry, and asked tentatively.
The captain handed over the order smoothly and complained sullenly.
"The previous defenders of Niangziguan had more than a thousand imperial troops, and they were also equipped with mountain artillery and a large number of mortars. They were unable to stop the attack of the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong."
"We only have more than 200 imperial troops and more than 200 puppet troops, equipped with three mortars, and our strength is several times weaker. However, the Eighth Route Army in the wing is equipped with several times more tanks and five times more artillery than before. Not only that, the military strength of both sides is decreasing, how can we stop it."
"The gaps in the city wall have not been repaired either."
"Those gaps that have been repaired cannot withstand artillery fire yet."
"If the Eighth Route Army's Jinzhong artillery fire storms the city of Niangziguan."
"It takes a few minutes to reopen those breaches."
"Chariots provide cover, infantry assaults, and we can charge into Niangzi Pass with just one charge. Our small force can't even block their first round of attacks. How can we fight?"
The deputy fell silent after reading the telegram.
After listening to the captain's analysis, his face became more solemn.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Captain..."
"Since you can't keep the Niangzi Pass, it's better to give up..."
The captain didn't hear what the deputy said, his head shook like a rattle, and he immediately objected: "No..."
"Even if we insist on defending Niangzi Pass and die here, we can't escape in the face of the battle..."
"That's going to be court-martialed."
"Death in Niangziguan can still preserve the honor of the military."
"After you run away and are sent to a military court, your family members at home will be humiliated."
"We must not give up Niangziguan and become a deserter before the battle."
The deputy quickly explained: "You misunderstood..."
"team leader……"
"I have no intention of deserting my humble position."
"I just want you to find another way to block the Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong."
"The commander asked us to stop the Yizhong Eighth Route Army in Shanxi. He didn't say it must be at Niangzi Pass."
"The order stated that the Eighth Route Army brought hundreds of vehicles loaded with weapons, ammunition and equipment, so their evacuation from Shanxi must be impossible without roads."
"As long as we blow up the road, these cars won't be able to move."
"While the Eighth Route Army has spent a lot of time repairing the road, Your Majesty the Commander has already led the reinforcements to Niangzi Pass."
"We won't have anything to worry about in the next battle."
The captain was as if enlightened and reacted instantly.
As soon as his eyes lit up, he began to give orders: "Take all the explosives we brought into Niangziguan..."
"Leave a small team to defend Niangzi Pass, and all other troops will follow me out of the city to blow up the highway."
"I want to completely destroy the road near Niangziguan."
"Faster..."
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Twenty minutes later, more than 400 puppet troops came out of Niangzi Pass in a mighty manner.
The team also towed several carts filled with gunpowder, weighing more than 8,000 kilograms.
"Boom boom..."
Two thunderous explosions suddenly sounded on the highway. Thick smoke billowed, dust flew, and a three-meter deep hole was instantly blasted into the road.
Not to mention transportation vehicles, ordinary armored vehicles can't get through.
"Yoshi...just explode like this."
The Japanese captain seemed to have seen the picture of himself being commended by Yoshio Iwamatsu after completing the blocking mission, and his face was full of expectations for orders.
"Explodes every ten meters. I want the Eighth Route Army to repair these big holes until tomorrow morning..."
Seeing that all the troops were gathered around, many soldiers stood guard and continued to give orders because they had nothing to do.
"We divide our forces into operations..."
"A small team led a platoon of puppet troops, pulled a cart of explosives, walked one kilometer forward and started destroying the road."
"Try to blow up all five kilometers of roads in front and behind us within one hour."
Little did they know that two companies of the Eighth Route Army had gathered around them, and several more companies were on their way over.
Seeing the little devils suddenly dividing their troops, these Eighth Route Army troops suddenly became excited, all smiling, waiting for the best opportunity to attack.
"Boom boom boom..."
Three consecutive explosions sounded again, and the road was blown into three large craters connected together.
The Japanese captain's face was already happy.
In order to speed up the progress, I personally ran to the cart to move the gunpowder.
"Da da da……"
A machine gun flame suddenly appeared in the bushes a hundred meters away on the left side of the road, and the sound of gunfire reached the captain's ears at the same time.
Before he could react, the gunpowder piled on the car was hit by several bullets.
"Rumble..."
More than a thousand kilograms of gunpowder were detonated instantly, and the dazzling fire and shock wave quickly spread to the surroundings.
The seventy or eighty Japanese and puppet troops gathered around were instantly enveloped.
The little devil who was closer to the cart was directly torn into pieces by the explosion. Not even a complete body was left, and it turned into a rain of blood and sprinkled around.
The Japanese and puppet troops who were a little further away were like paper toys. They were blown into the sky in an instant and turned into corpses when they landed.
The Eighth Route Army that attacked them was also frightened by this scene.
Even though they were all lying on the ground, the nearest soldier was one hundred thirty or forty meters across the road.
The simultaneous explosion of more than a thousand kilograms of explosives was so powerful that in addition to the sound that made their ears ring, the powerful shock wave also posed a huge threat to them.
Several soldiers fainted on the spot.
Everyone else was also stunned by the explosion, and it took them a while to calm down.
When the gunpowder smoke cleared from the highway, the cart pulling gunpowder had been blown to pieces, and not even a single piece of wood was left.
A five-meter-deep crater was blasted directly where the cart was, and the soil was scorched. All the little devils gathered around the cart disappeared, and 80% of them were destroyed by the blast.
Only ten or twenty meters away from the explosion point were scattered dozens of corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers.
The little Japs, who usually pride themselves on being invincible, were completely wiped out with just a few machine gun bullets and a load of gunpowder.
