Wang Xuexin personally led a team to pry open a warehouse.
This warehouse was originally used by the Jinsui Army to store salt... The method of producing salt in this era was still relatively backward. It basically relied on the method of drying salt from the sky. To put it simply, the lake water was poured into the salt pond and exposed to the sun, and the water evaporated to
To a certain extent, the salt particles will crystallize and sink to the bottom of the pool.
Using this method to produce salt is obviously mainly done in summer and autumn. In winter, when the temperature drops and the salt freezes, the cost of producing salt will be high.
Therefore, Yuncheng, as the main salt-producing land in Shanxi, overproduced salt in summer and autumn and slowly sold it in warehouses.
At this time, the salt in the warehouse had been emptied by the Japanese... The Japanese did not need to leave too much salt in Yuncheng. Linfen, Taiyuan and other places all needed salt, so they transported weapons and equipment and stored them in the warehouse. The train was in Chengdu.
Then he brought the salt back.
This warehouse is not just one, but a dozen tile-roofed mud rooms similar to simple factories, each of which is at least several hundred square meters.
Because Wang Xuexin was worried that the Japanese would ignite the ammunition and detonate the ammunition before retreating, when the tank company attacked the north gate, he took Monk's reconnaissance company to seize the warehouse... This is one of the reasons why Wang Xuexin took Monk's reconnaissance company with him.
First, this unit is not only well-trained, but more importantly, it has many snipers.
Wang Xuexin ordered the monk: "Move quickly and don't give the enemy any time or opportunity to blow up the warehouse and burn supplies!"
"Yes!" The monk patted his chest and assured Wang Xuexin: "Don't worry, battalion commander, I've got it covered!"
Although the monk may be careless, there are times when he is very thoughtful when fighting.
He thought about it: the Japanese were guarding the ammunition depot. If they found that they couldn't defend it, they only needed to throw a grenade or explosive pack into the warehouse. Therefore, the normal attack as usual would not work, no matter how fast it was.
Just a grenade!
Thinking about it, the monk waved and whispered to deputy company commander Shi Sha, who nodded repeatedly.
The reconnaissance company was actually divided into two teams to attack the warehouse. The move the monk used was called "building a plank road in the open and crossing Chencang secretly"... Shi Sha pretended to attack the front, firing a few shots to kill a few Japanese without launching a strong attack.
Under such circumstances, the Japanese would not blow up the warehouse and self-destruct as soon as they arrived.
On the one hand, this is because everyone has the desire to live, and no one will be willing to die with the warehouse until the last moment.
On the other hand, Yuncheng had lost effective command at this time... The headquarters in the center of the city was captured by the Eighth Route Army with lightning speed. Anda 23 fled with his staff in a hurry, so all the departments in Yuncheng lost their command and fought independently.
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The result of fighting on their own is that the warehouses don't know what the fighting situation is like in the city, and most of them even think that the war situation is favorable to the imperial army.
Just as Captain Murayama who was stationed at the warehouse said to his subordinates: "The Eighth Route Army has simply thrown itself into a trap. As long as our reinforcements arrive, they will soon be surrounded in the city and annihilated!"
Squadron Leader Murayama believed in this from beginning to end. Even when he finally woke up after being knocked unconscious, he still did not believe that Yuncheng would be lost.
Because it is really unbelievable. This is Yuncheng, a fortified city defended by a division. It was actually captured by the Eighth Route Army in such a short period of time?
impossible!
There must be something wrong somewhere.
The other Japs also firmly believed this, so the situation was not as dangerous as the monk thought, thinking that the Japs would blow up the warehouse at any time.
The fact is: the Japanese thought that the situation in Yuncheng was always under control, so they never thought of blowing up the warehouse but instead defended it.
What's more, the Japs stationed at his warehouse, including Captain Murayama, all thought that even if the warehouse was lost, the imperial reinforcements would take it back when they arrived.
Therefore, I would never choose to blow up the warehouse anyway. Doing so would only make me a sinner of the empire.
But the monk still carried out the attack plan on the assumption that the Japanese would blow up the warehouse.
While Shi Sha led a platoon to attract Japanese firepower and attention, Monk led two platoons to seize the nearby commanding heights. The sharpshooters climbed onto the roof one by one to block the entrance and exit of the warehouse from all angles and directions and provide cover for the ground troops. .
Then, the monk led his troops to cross the wall and sneak into the warehouse in the dark.
This was too easy for the soldiers of the reconnaissance company. The wall was only more than three meters high, and there was a triangular glass plugged into the top of the wall to prevent climbing. There was not even a barbed wire.
This is not to say that the Japanese cannot pull up the barbed wire, but that they feel that the warehouse is very safe in Yuncheng and there is no need to pull up the barbed wire.
This is also the reason why this huge warehouse is defended by only more than a hundred people... Although the Murayama Squadron is a squadron, it did not have time to replenish it after the battle damage. There are only 110 people in total, and there are more than fifty among them. The transport team is responsible for the distribution and deployment of ammunition.
The soldiers of the reconnaissance company first hooked the wall with multifunctional engineering shovels, climbed up, covered the triangular glass at the top of the wall with their cotton clothes, and climbed over easily.
Then, before the Japanese discovered them, the soldiers had quietly killed the sentries guarding the warehouse door one by one and occupied the warehouse.
Among them, Squadron Leader Murayama and several communication soldiers were playing with the radio on the ground... He tried to use the radio to contact the headquarters to ask about the situation and next instructions. What he didn't know was that the headquarters had been occupied and even Adachi Twenty-three was there. Of course, it was impossible to turn on the phone and give him instructions on the way to escape.
The monk was originally a ruthless master. He was never merciless to the Japanese, and few of the Japanese who passed through his hands survived and became prisoners.
But this time, the situation was special. The monk was worried that the gunfire would reveal their "secret crossing into Chencang" tactic prematurely, so he used a rifle butt to knock Murayama unconscious, and then put a submachine gun on the head of the communications soldier.
The communication soldiers dared not resist, so they could only raise their hands in shock... They thought the imperial army was about to achieve a complete victory, but who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army had already come up from behind.
Then the monk led his team to rush behind the Japanese and captured the warehouse neatly.
Of course sharpshooters played their due role in this...the Japanese who tried to resist were knocked to the ground as soon as they made a move.
This was an invisible pressure. There seemed to be countless pairs of eyes and countless black holes pointing at them in the darkness, so the Japanese squadron collapsed and lost combat effectiveness in an instant. In the end, half of the Japanese soldiers chose to give up under this pressure. Surrender of weapons... This is rare on the battlefield. The Japs often still have fighting ability after more than half of them have been killed or wounded. It is not uncommon for the entire army to be wiped out and the last few people to still fight.
Wang Xuexin thought that the reason why so many people surrendered may be because the reconnaissance company not only defeated them in battle, but also defeated them psychologically.