In less than ten minutes, the Japanese barracks were occupied by the Eighth Route Army.
The result of this battle made Takei unbelievable... The Eighth Route Army had much fewer troops than his men. They only had sixty people in total, while Takei had more than 150 men, more than twice as many as the Eighth Route Army.
It stands to reason that with this strength compared to the imperial army, these Eighth Route Army should be taught a lesson severely... If this were the case before, the more than 150 people led by Takei would have no problem dealing with a Chinese battalion, but the Eighth Route Army had six
Ten people launched an attack, and they used these 60 people to surround the imperial army?!
The moment he saw the Eighth Route Army's offensive formation, Takei even thought that the Eighth Route Army commander had taken the wrong medicine.
But the reality was exactly the opposite of what Takei thought. Although Takei had many troops, he was suppressed throughout the whole process and had no room to fight back.
The machine gun, heavy machine gun and grenade shooters were killed by enemy snipers immediately. The hastily organized defense line based on the barracks was instantly shattered by the enemy's hovering aircraft. Before the imperial soldiers could take a breath, the Eighth Route Army had already attacked.
In front of me, after a few grenades, there was a hail of bullets...
Only then did Takei realize that he was terribly wrong: the sixty men of the Eighth Route Army could not only attack and surround them, but could even annihilate them all with a heavy casualty ratio!
What kind of army is this? It has such terrifying combat effectiveness!
And what is that monster hovering in the air?
Takei felt chills in his heart. He had never been so scared since he joined the army. Even when a shrapnel penetrated his shoulder blade on Mount Nakajo, shattering it and causing him to faint from pain, he did not feel this powerless.
However, Takei is indeed a veteran who has come out of the battlefield. He raised the box cannon and fired into the smoke while ordering: "The third team will cover, and the others will withdraw to the dormitory!"
"yes!"
The Japanese soldiers resolutely carried out Takei's orders.
This is something that the Japanese often do. When the war goes against them, they will cut off the tail of a gecko to escape.
But Takei was not escaping this time. This was Taiyuan, and it was an arsenal. Takei knew he had nowhere to escape.
Takei judged from the sound of gunfire that the Eighth Route Army used repeating rifles. He had heard of this type of gun and knew that its range was not as good as the 38-gun of the Imperial Army.
Therefore, Takei believed that if he wanted to survive, he should distance himself from the Eighth Route Army. Only in this way could he take advantage of the 38's long range.
The cover of the Japanese Third Team was crazy. Even if they were injured, they would fire grenades before dying. This style of play successfully slowed down the advance of the Eighth Route Army... No matter how strong the firepower or how good the coordination was, when encountering this
You can only be cautious in this life-threatening strategy, otherwise the loss of a few elite soldiers in the reconnaissance brigade will outweigh the gain.
This caused Takei to flee panting to the dormitory area with the more than 70 surviving defeated soldiers.
The dormitory was a labor dormitory. In order to prevent the workers from escaping, the Japanese built thick walls. There were also circles of barbed wire connected to high-voltage electricity outside the walls. The only drawback was that the dormitory area was very large. Takei was worried that the Eighth Route Army would come from other places.
direction of attack.
However, after thinking about it, Takei made up his mind: the Eighth Route Army was still smaller in number than the Imperial Army, and he would divide his troops wherever the Eighth Route Army went.
"Organize defense!" Takei ordered loudly: "Pay attention to the range of the rifle and don't let the enemy get close..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a "chugging" sound from the motor behind him.
Takei looked back in shock and saw ten more helicopters hovering in mid-air behind him, and Eighth Route Army troops were sliding down quickly along the rope...
This was the second batch of troops from the reconnaissance brigade. This batch of troops carried ordinary helicopters, so they crossed the city wall at high altitude and reached the top of the arsenal before lowering their altitude.
Takei knew immediately that he was doomed, but he still wanted to struggle for a while, maybe he could wait for reinforcements.
So Takei ordered: "The second team, immediately reinforce Ximen..."
Before he finished speaking, a helicopter flew in from outside the fence, and then turned its nose, and the aircraft machine guns on both sides of the wing fired a dense barrage of bullets at the Japanese who were hiding behind the fence.
The entire battle lasted for eighteen minutes, and the Eighth Route Army successfully defeated a squadron of more than 200 Japanese soldiers.
The puppet troops were almost negligible in this battle. They were frightened the moment the Eighth Route Army descended from the sky.
After being stunned for a moment, quite a few people immediately showed their active cooperation with the labor uprising... Don't doubt the speed of the puppet army's change of face. Most of them relied on this ability to survive until now.
However, as mentioned before, the puppet army always kills the workers mercilessly in order to get promoted and make money, so the workers simply ignore the "surrender" and "surrender" of these puppet soldiers, and the workers rush in like a tide.
The puppet troops were submerged in the moment they went up without even a splash of water.
Then, under the organization of intelligence personnel, the workers took out rifles from the warehouse and armed them to protect the equipment and warehouses of the arsenal...
At this point, the arsenal was firmly controlled by the Eighth Route Army amidst cheers.
And this is not just a matter of controlling the arsenal. Just as Okamura Neji is worried, the arsenal's warehouse is full of various weapons and equipment... Currently, the only ones that are useful are rifles and pistols, and other equipment such as machine guns and grenades.
Cans, artillery, etc., even if they are distributed to the people, they will not be able to use them, and accidents are likely to occur.
But this is enough. When the arsenal was in the hands of Yan Laoxi, its monthly output was 3,000 rifles and 2,000 pistols. In the hands of the Japanese, the monthly output almost doubled to 5,000 rifles and 3,000 pistols.
A month's supply in the warehouse is enough to equip nearly 10,000 people. In addition, there are many rifles that need to be repaired... The Japanese are short of resources. When the rifles in the army break, they are often not discarded but sent to the arsenal for repair.
These repaired rifles did not have time to be shipped out, so more than 3,000 more were added. After all these guns were shipped out, they immediately equipped an army of tens of thousands of people. However, the pistols among them were a bit damaged by the box.
But this is not important. What is important is that an armed force has been formed in Taiyuan City that cannot be suppressed, eliminated, or even counterattacked by the Japanese in a short time...
There were only about 2,000 Japs in total, and there were only about 5,000 Japs and civilians who had been armed in a hurry. The Eighth Route Army had more than 10,000 people outside the city and more than 10,000 people inside the city.
In addition, the people of Taiyuan City were inspired by the victory of the arsenal, which made the Japanese in Taiyuan City like rats crossing the street.
More importantly...the reconnaissance team and helicopters are ready to attack again.
This time, their target was the Japanese North China Front Army Headquarters.