The officer on duty at the headquarters was very calm-minded. He immediately thought of closing all the gates of Taiyuan City to prevent the attackers from escaping. He immediately issued an order asking them to strengthen their vigilance to prevent anyone from robbing the city gate.
When the officer on duty called the west gate of the city, no one answered the call. The officer on duty felt something was wrong and concluded that something might have happened at the west gate of the city.
He immediately reported the situation to the chief of staff.
The chief of staff ordered the duty officer to notify the troops near the west gate of the city to rush for reinforcements and be sure to stop the group of enemy troops attacking the gendarmerie headquarters.
Although the Japanese army moved relatively quickly, it still took a lot of time from receiving the order to getting up to assemble the troops.
Taking advantage of this time, Xu Dalong and others had arrived at the west gate of Taiyuan City by car.
At this time, Wang Zili and others had taken control of the west gate, opened the city gate, and Xu Dalong and others rushed out of Taiyuan City in a car.
After leaving the city, they stopped. Wang Zili and his special forces members also got into the truck and quickly disappeared into the night.
When the Japanese army arrived at the west gate of the city, they saw the open gate and the bodies of the defenders. The attackers had already disappeared.
In this attack, only one member of the special forces team was killed, while the Japanese army's losses were much greater. Taiyuan Gendarmerie Headquarters Special High School, everyone in the barracks was wiped out tonight. Together with the Japanese patrols, gendarmerie, sentries in the yard, and the defenders at the west gate of the city, the Japanese army lost more than 130 people. , the casualties were very heavy.
This operation dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army. The Japanese soldiers in Taiyuan City had a psychological shadow. They were in panic for a long time. They were often awakened by nightmares when they slept at night, fearing that they would also fall into the same category as those in the special high school. The same fate as everyone else.
After the incident, although the Japanese army also conducted a search, they knew that the enemy troops had already left the city, so their search was quickly abandoned.
The Japanese army's special high-level courses were taken over at once, which was good news for all the intelligence stations of the anti-Japanese armed forces lurking in Taiyuan City. With the original group of spies existing, they would be able to grasp some clues about the anti-Japanese armed intelligence station. Now that all the people who knew the situation were dead, the new ones in the special high school had dark eyes. It would be even more difficult to deal with the intelligence organization of the anti-Japanese armed forces again.
This attack was so clean and tidy that the underground Party Intelligence Station, Shanxi-Sui Army Intelligence Station, and Military Command Taiyuan Working Group in Taiyuan City immediately guessed that it was Xu Dalong and others.
They sent telegrams to Xu Dalong and confirmed that it was indeed Xu Dalong and others who did it. They sent congratulatory messages one after another.
After receiving the report from the Military Police Headquarters, Shinozuka Yoshio's first impression was that it was the work of Xu Dalong and others. He was very depressed and felt a deep sense of fear. After all, even Taiyuan City was no longer safe.
He sent a telegram to the section chief of Peking Super High School, urging him to take action against Xu Dalong as soon as possible.
After Xu Dalong, Wei Monk and others left Taiyuan, they did not return to the Mawushan base immediately. That night, they attacked a Japanese stronghold 30 kilometers away from Taiyuan City and eliminated a Japanese infantry squad and a platoon of puppet troops inside. They found a cornfield and hid.
In the evening, Xu Dalong and others set out again. This time they went to Taigu County and came to the vicinity of the No. 1 Military Station. They fired several 240mm heavy mortar shells at the No. 1 Military Station, destroying a building inside. Destroyed several military trucks in the parking lot.
When the Japanese troops in the depot warehouse came out to search, they were ambushed by the special operations squadron, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers were eliminated.
In this way, Xu Dalong and others were not idle. After leaving the military depot and warehouse, they raided a nearby town overnight and destroyed the Japanese and puppet garrison, town office and puppet police station in the town.
Xu Dalong and others launched this series of attacks, which caused a headache for the Japanese army.
After hearing the report, Yoshio Shinozuka felt a little relieved. This was because although Xu Dalong and others continued to launch attacks, the targets of their attacks were getting farther and farther away from Taiyuan City. This also meant that Xu Dalong and others were going to return to them. Mawushan base area, they just attacked the Japanese troops on the road.
For Yoshio Shinozuka, the anti-Japanese armed forces in Shanxi included the Zhongyang Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, and the Eighth Route Army. They hardly stopped for a day, and they continued to attack the Japanese army. As long as Taiyuan City is not attacked, it is very common for some battles to occur far away from Taiyuan. So he didn't take it to heart.
During the day, Xu Dalong and others rested until evening. Monk Wei asked: "Master Long, where should we fight tonight?" After saying that, he took out the military map, pointed to a red circle that had been marked on it, and said: "Yushan County is ahead. Do you want to send a telegram to Zhou Mingde and ask about the situation of the Japanese and puppet troops inside? We will capture Yushan County tonight."
Xu Dalong shook his head and said, "We won't fight there anymore."
Monk Wei and the special forces team members are restless masters. If they don't fight for a day, their hands will feel itchy, so they just go back to the Mawu Mountain base, which feels a bit unsatisfactory.
Squadron leader Wang Zili said pleadingly: "Captain, there is just a county in front of us. Even if they are prepared in advance, we can still defeat them. Otherwise, let's attack the county."
Several squad captains also said: "Yes, captain, the brothers have rested and are full of energy. Let's take the brothers to fight."
Xu Dalong said: "Since all of you are willing to fight, then we will continue to fight. But instead of fighting Yushan County, we will turn around and go back to fight Taiyuan City."
Hearing this, Monk Wei was very excited. He said with admiration: "Master Long, you are still thoughtful. The target of our attacks is getting farther and farther away from Taiyuan City. The Japanese puppets on the way to our base area The army will definitely strengthen its defenses.
They never dreamed that we would turn around and go directly to attack Taiyuan City. This move is really amazing. "
The commanders of the special operations team were also very excited and clapped their hands.
In order to continue to attract the attention of the Japanese and puppet troops and increase their judgment errors, Xu Dalong left a special operations unit to continue attacking Yushan County. He and Wei Monk took the main force of the First Squadron and headed for Taiyuan City overnight.
The Japanese and puppet troops in Yushan County received a notice from their superiors, asking them to prepare for a sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army. The Japanese and puppet troops in the county judged from the activities of Xu Dalong and others that they would soon attack Yushan County, so they mobilized urgently to strengthen the defense of the county.
Especially at night, the Japanese and puppet troops did not dare to sleep at all and ran to the city wall, ready to deal with the Eighth Route Army's attack at any time.
The judgment of the Japanese and puppet troops in Yushan County was correct. At 3 o'clock in the morning that night, the Japanese and puppet troops on the city wall saw a figure shaking outside the city in the faint moonlight, coming towards the county town.
The Japanese and puppet troops hurriedly shot at the black figures, and the other side also fired back, and the two sides started fighting ping-pong-pong.
The Japanese and puppet troops in Yushan County were on very tight guard. The Eighth Route Army that came to attack saw that they could not capture the county and withdrew at dawn.
Xu Dalong and others galloped all the way and quickly rushed back to Taiyuan City.
At 4 o'clock in the morning, they arrived at the east gate of Taiyuan City.
Monk Wei personally led a detachment of special forces members to climb up the city wall, and then divided the troops into two groups, attacking the Japanese defenders on the tower from the top of the city wall, and attacking the Japanese defenders in the gate along the wall.
The Japanese army has received notification that the Eighth Route Army is attacking Yushan County. Seeing that the target of the Eighth Route Army's attack was getting farther and farther away from Taiyuan City, the Japanese defenders here were extremely lax in their defense.
Monk Wei and others took the east gate of Taiyuan City without any noise. After opening the door, Xu Dalong and others entered Taiyuan City.
Xu Dalong left behind a squad of special forces members and led the other special forces members to a nearby parking lot.
Zhou Mingde received the telegram from Xu Dalong and had parked four trucks here in advance.
Xu Dalong and others got on the truck and drove towards the city. Their target was the headquarters of the Japanese First Army.
After arriving outside the headquarters compound, Xu Dalong and Wei Monk led a detachment of special forces members and climbed over the wall. Wang Zili led other people to respond outside.
According to the barracks distribution map of the Japanese garrison in Taiyuan provided by Takahashi, Xu Dalong and others were already familiar with the layout of the garrison in the Japanese headquarters compound.
Zhou Mingde's men have also figured out the Japanese army's password tonight in advance. Xu Dalong and others disguised themselves as Japanese soldiers and drove directly to the dormitories of senior Japanese officers.
They also encountered Japanese sentries along the way. Because the password was correct, they did not arouse the suspicion of the Japanese sentries. They successfully arrived at the dormitory area where senior Japanese military officers lived.
Xu Dalong personally led a special operations team member to the door of the dormitory area. The Japanese sentry guarding the gate saw someone coming, asked for the password, and saw that the password was correct. They had no doubts and waited for Xu Dalong and others to come over and question them about their purpose.
Xu Dalong and the special forces member came to the gate. While answering the sentry's questions, they took advantage of him and shot him to death with a silent pistol.
Then the two of them entered the guard room next to the gate and killed all the Japanese sentries inside.
After taking down the gate, the special operations team member following Xu Dalong stood at the gate and waved.
After seeing this, Monk Wei and others entered the courtyard of the residential area. According to the information provided by Takahashi Bingwei, they went straight to the back of the residential area. There was a row of two-story buildings there, which were the dormitories for officers above the colonel of the Japanese First Army. In these two buildings, there are two small white buildings behind the buildings, which are the dormitories of Yoshio Shinozuka and the Chief of Staff of the First Army.
Xu Dalong and Wei Monk each led two team members and went straight to the two small white buildings. The squad leader who came in with them led the other team members to the two-story building.
In the middle of the two small white buildings, there is a Japanese sentry standing guard. In order to avoid alerting the Japanese sentries, Monk Wei walked over alone first.
While answering the Japanese sentry's command, he continued to approach him. He came to the sentry, and the sentry was about to question him about his origins. He raised his hand and shot the Japanese sentry to death.
Monk Wei turned around and waved to Xu Dalong and others, indicating that Xu Dalong and the others could come over.
At this moment, there was a sudden gunshot, and a bullet hit Monk Wei in the back. Monk Wei stumbled and almost fell to the ground.
It turned out that because Xu Dalong and others always launched attacks at night, the Japanese army had temporarily deployed additional lurking posts in order to prevent accidents at night. When Monk Wei was talking to the Japanese sentry, the latent sentry had been secretly observing their movements.
Seeing that Monk Wei had killed the sentry, he shot Monk Wei.
Xu Dalong, who had been paying attention to the situation around Monk Wei, saw the lurking sentry who fired at Monk Wei, shot him and killed him.
When he heard the gunshot, Xu Dalong knew that they had been exposed, and they could not have more than one minute at most to attack the Japanese army. The special operations team members immediately launched attacks on their respective targets.
The special operations team members who attacked the front row of buildings performed relatively smoothly. They quickly rushed into the row of buildings and eliminated many Japanese officers inside.
Xu Dalong and Wei Monk were in more trouble here. The Japanese army reacted extremely quickly. When the gunfire from the latent sentry sounded, in just a few seconds, the windows in the rooms above the second floor of the two small white buildings were pushed open. , and then Japanese soldiers opened fire.
Xu Dalong and Monk Wei knew that a sneak attack was impossible, and it was too late to attack by force. The two of them threw the grenades they had prepared at the windows above Xiaobai Building, killing the Japanese soldiers who were shooting. Then they took the time to throw grenades at the glass windows of other upstairs buildings, and then quickly ran towards the door. direction.
There was a Japanese emergency unit in the headquarters compound. After they heard the gunshots, they immediately came for reinforcements.
The special operations team members who stayed at the gate had already set up their machine guns. When they saw the Japanese troops rushing over, they used firepower to intercept them.
Xu Dalong and others rushed out of the door of the dormitory area, and then quickly ran towards the wall where they entered.
There were thousands of Japanese soldiers in the First Army Headquarters compound. They took the time to get dressed and get up. Some of them rushed out shirtless. But at night, they couldn't figure out where the enemy was, and they were so confused that they didn't know what to do.
Before the Japanese army organized an effective interception, Xu Dalong and others quickly climbed over the wall.
Outside the wall, Wang Zili and his team members intercepted the Japanese patrol that came for reinforcements. Xu Dalong and others boarded the truck and drove directly towards the east gate.
The Japanese army has learned the lessons from the last time and made plans in advance. After gunshots and explosions came from the First Army Headquarters, the Japanese and puppet troops stationed near the city gate rushed to the city gate for reinforcements without waiting for orders from their superiors.
(End of chapter)
