The front turret was destroyed by a rocket, and the gunfire in the train station suddenly became sparse.
There were only more than a hundred rifles and one powerful machine gun firing.
Another row of mortars and grenades went down, and the train station was enveloped in a burst of smoke and fire.
With the current firepower of the new regiment, if Li Yunlong didn't want to reveal his trump card prematurely and directly let the mountain artillery battalion fire two rounds, the train station would be completely useless if the two waves of artillery fire covered it.
The power of American mountain artillery is not comparable to that of mortars and grenade launchers.
However, the defense and firepower of the train station are relatively weak. After the main battery building is killed by one shot, it basically loses its ability to resist.
"Attack!" the third battalion commander yelled.
Immediately outside the train station there was a flood of shouts of death.
The soldiers of the third battalion immediately rushed toward the train station.
A Japanese soldier on the guard tower stretched out his gun and knocked down a soldier.
But the next moment, more than a dozen rifles fired at the Japanese sentry at the same time. In the blink of an eye, the Japanese who was beaten into a sieve fell from the sentry tower.
More than twenty Japanese soldiers with bayonets in hand rushed out from the train station to fight, but were sifted by the soldiers at the front with submachine guns.
Upon seeing this, the puppet soldiers who were charging behind the Japanese knelt on the ground and raised their rifles above their heads.
The firing holes on the small turret were still firing, and several puppet soldiers and the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushing at the front fell in a pool of blood.
The Japanese are ruthless, but it doesn't matter whether you are a puppet soldier or an Eighth Route Army soldier.
While the Japanese machine gunner in the turret was reloading, a bazooka soldier with a bazooka on his shoulder aimed at the small Japanese turret and pulled the trigger.
A rocket shot past and hit the center of the Japanese gun tower.
With a loud bang, the entire turret was blown to pieces.
Just when the soldiers thought they had captured the train station, machine gunfire sounded like exploding beans from the west. A shell landed near the new group of soldiers and exploded. Three soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
The soldiers immediately lay down, looked for cover, and looked in the direction where the gunfire and artillery fire came from.
A Japanese armored patrol car just came back. This Japanese armored car had three compartments, a coal and water compartment, a gun carriage and a machine gun compartment.
The armored vehicle slowly drove over from the railway. As it drove, the heavy machine gun on the roof of the vehicle was screaming wildly, and a rapid-fire cannon on the turret was also firing continuously.
"Hidden!" Chen Dugu shouted and jumped behind the platform with agility.
"hidden!"
"shooting!"
The company commanders and platoon commanders ordered the soldiers to take cover while ordering shooting.
Various machine gun and submachine gun bullets were fired at the Japanese armored vehicles, hitting the iron sheet and being bounced off, leaving dazzling sparks.
"Bazooka, blow up this armored vehicle for me!" Third Battalion Commander Chen Dugu was yelling.
The rocket launcher team had been loading ammunition for a long time, and at this time, two loading teams had already finished loading.
"Fire cover!" Chen Dugu yelled immediately upon seeing this.
Rifles, light and heavy machine guns and submachine guns greeted the Japanese armored vehicles. Several groups of grenadiers set up the grenades against the Japanese's firepower. Several grenades fell near the Japanese armored vehicles, and one of the grenades just landed on the armored vehicles. The roof of the vehicle exploded, causing the heavy machine gun and rapid-fire cannon fire in the patrol vehicle to stop for a moment.
Just after a moment of pause, two bazooka soldiers picked up the super bazooka, took aim at the Japanese armored vehicle and pulled the trigger.
Although the Japanese armored vehicle was a moving target, it moved very slowly, and the distance was within 100 meters. The two rockets hit the coal water compartment and the heavy machine gun compartment of the armored vehicle respectively.
The rocket shredded the protective steel plate, and the rocket with a delay fuse entered the armored vehicle and exploded.
Boom boom!
After two loud noises, flames and gunpowder smoke rose from the armored carriage. The coal and water carriage was blown to pieces, and the other two carriages burst into flames.
There were only a dozen or so Japs left who were still resisting, but they were quickly wiped out.
The puppet soldiers were completely frightened, and they knelt down and surrendered with their guns above their heads.
The entire battle lasted only ten minutes. Even if a Japanese patrol car suddenly appeared, the Third Battalion only took over the Yangquan Railway Station at the cost of more than 20 casualties.
If there were no Japanese patrol cars and only a dozen casualties, the train station would be captured.
The new group of well-equipped warriors has terrifying combat effectiveness.
When Li Yunlong's eyes widened and he rushed into the train station with a machete raised, the gunfire disappeared.
He had just observed the movements of the Japanese in the direction of Yangquan City, and was only a moment slower. Unexpectedly, the battle was already over.
"Chen Dugu, why the hell did you start so quickly?" Li Yunlong cursed.
"Captain, there's nothing we can do about it. The devil won't survive until he's beaten."
"If you hadn't allowed us to pretend to attack for a while, Commander, our 3rd Battalion would have captured this train station in just 5 minutes."
Chen Dugu said with a grin.
"Go to the next train station and see what you can do." Having said that, Li Yunlong looked quite satisfied.
The combat effectiveness of the three main infantry battalions under his command are all balanced.
"Commander, there is still a Japanese who is not dead here!" a soldier shouted.
"No one is allowed to move, leave it to labor and management!" Li Yunlong took three steps and then two steps with the ghost head machete and rushed over.
A Japanese soldier who had been shot in the leg was crawling on the ground with his rifle in his hands. The Japanese soldier dragged a few meters of blood on the ground and was mumbling something, as if he was begging for mercy.
There were soldiers standing around. If it hadn't been for Commander Li's request, this Japanese would have been dug into a honeycomb.
Li Yunlong ran over and saw this scene. He turned to Zhao Gang and asked: "Political Commissar Zhao, this Japanese is not a prisoner, right?"
"You haven't put down your weapon yet, so that doesn't count."
Zhao Gang was afraid that Li Yunlong would make a mistake, so he quickly followed him, glanced at the Japanese, then nodded.
"That's good." Li Yunlong stepped forward and kicked away the 38 rifle.
The Jaap soldiers subconsciously turned their heads. Just when they saw a figure standing in front of them, Li Yunlong's blade had already flown out diagonally.
The Japanese soldier's head was cut off along with the wooden butt of another rifle that was lying underneath him, and blood spurted out more than a foot high from the Japanese soldier's neck.
Chen Dugu was stunned when he saw this scene. Hey, the captain is so skilled in chopping off heads. He is probably a former executioner.
Li Yunlong looked a little proud. Damn it, it's been a while since he chopped off a Japanese soldier's head, so his technique was a bit rusty.
"Have you seen?"
"There are two shoulders supporting one head, and the enemy's head will still move with this knife."
Li Yunlong pointed at the Japanese corpse and said to the soldiers.
At this moment, the sound of gunfire like exploding beans rang out from the direction of Yangquan. Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang turned to look, and the crimson light produced by the explosion of the shells tore through the night sky like lightning.
Zhao Gang's expression changed: "It should be that the first and second battalions are at loggerheads with the Japs from Yangquan. From what I heard, there are quite a few Japs."
Li Yunlong shouted loudly: "Chen Dugu!"
Chen Dugu straightened up: "Yes!"
Li Yunlong said: "Leave one platoon to clean the battlefield, and the rest will immediately follow me to reinforce the first and second battalions."
"yes!"
Chen Dugu turned his head and said: "Pass my order. The first platoon of the Ninth Company will stay to clean the battlefield, and the rest will immediately reinforce the First and Second Battalions."
Li Yunlong immediately led the main force to support the first and second battalions in the direction of ambushing the Japanese.
…
On the Zhengtai Railway section in Pingding County, more than ten kilometers away from Yangquan, the 772nd Regiment was responsible for attacking.
Cheng Shifa led a total of more than 400 people from the special agent company, guard company, machine gun company, cooking class, and communications class directly under the regiment headquarters.
Under the cover of darkness, they approached the blockade ditch on the south side of the Zhengtai Railway. At this time, the militiamen of the Pingding County Brigade had been waiting here for a long time.
Relying on strong grassroots organizations, the Eighth Route Army developed strong mobilization and organizational capabilities.
In just two days, the Eighth Route Army organized hundreds of armed groups, guerrillas, county brigade and district squad militia in the Taihang base area and guerrilla zone. In addition, it also mobilized many ordinary people to serve as frontline fighters. Support logistics such as transporting ammunition and food.
Even the tasks have been clearly assigned, and no news has been leaked.
The entire Zhengtai Railway's Japanese and puppet troops were in a state of confusion when they were suddenly attacked.
As soon as midnight passed, the militiamen cut the barbed wire fence and set up ladders to let the 772nd Regiment pass.
The 772nd Regiment has four mission strongholds, and each of the other three main battalions is assigned a stronghold. Cheng Shifa takes three directly affiliated companies to take charge of one stronghold.
In terms of equipment, in addition to a Type 92 infantry gun and three mortars issued to the 772nd Regiment by the brigade commander, each of the four attacking troops was equipped with three rocket launchers.
These bazooka soldiers and bazookas are from the new regiment.
After passing the blockade trench, Cheng Shifa immediately ordered his troops to attack the Xiaozhuang stronghold on the Zhengtai Railway.
The tactics are also very simple and crude. The machine gunner feigns a frontal attack, and the bazooka soldiers carry the bazooka to the flanks to wait for opportunities to attack the turrets and bunkers of the Japanese stronghold.
In less than half an hour, the Xiaozhuang stronghold that was originally expected to be breached in one night was taken away by Cheng Shifa and his troops.
…
The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region is responsible for attacking the section from Niangziguan to Luanliu on the Zhengtai Railway.
The 5th Regiment of the main offensive force of the right column of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region stormed Niangzi Pass.
The 129th Division is responsible for the western section of the Zhengtai-Taiwan Railway.
Kong Jie led the independent regiment in three groups to attack Langyu, Zhangjing and Qinquan stations.
Ding Wei led the new second regiment to attack Sangzhang and Yanzigou.
The remaining troops and the decisive column launched a fierce attack on the Japanese strongholds on the section from Shouyang to Yuci.
Due to the fierce attack by the troops, communication with the Japanese troops in the western section of Zhengda Road was interrupted, and the Japanese troops at various strongholds were attacked and besieged.
The 129th Division mobilized and organized the public to destroy railways, stations and ancillary facilities using methods such as demolition, blasting, fire, and flooding.
That night, fighting was going on almost throughout the entire Zhengtai Railway, and the Japanese's transportation and communications were paralyzed.
That night, the Japanese and puppet troops who were trapped in their strongholds on the Zhengtai Railway were screaming at the sky and the earth.
…
Mitake Tsuda, commander of the 4th Brigade, was awakened by the sound of artillery.
Not long after he fell asleep after handling military affairs, he heard the roar of cannon.
At first, I thought it was a hallucination or a dream, but after listening carefully for a while, I was sure it was the sound of cannons. I suddenly woke up with a shiver.
This is Yangquan, where did the sound of gunfire come from? Is there an enemy attacking Yangquan City?
idiot!
