After the guard platoon rushed to the battlefield with mortars and heavy machine guns, Yang Xiong happily ordered.
"Platoon Leader Chen, you arrived just in time. I have pushed the Imperial Army back to their barracks. I immediately set up the mortars, fired two of them at them, and then forced them to surrender!"
"Tong...boom..." A cannonball fell from the sky and hit the barracks and exploded.
Hot flames suddenly spurted out from the closed windows and doors of the barracks, and even a blood-covered Imperial Army soldier was blown out.
"Batalion Commander, the Eighth Route Army has artillery in its hands, what should we do next?" The company commander next to the battalion commander of the Royal Association Army asked very nervously.
"The Eighth Route Army is everywhere here. It's definitely impossible to escape." The battalion commander replied with a stern face.
"And I just killed a few Japanese instructors to keep my brothers alive. If I go back to the Japanese, I will definitely die. So, I decided to take my brothers and surrender to the Eighth Route Army. Does anyone have any objections?"
There are three types of puppet soldiers. One is those who were captured by the Japanese and wore this skin. For them, surrendering to the Eighth Route Army has no problem at all.
One kind is a puppet soldier just to support their families. They only want the little money, and they will definitely not throw away their lives for the Japanese. As long as they can survive, there is no problem at all in surrendering to the Eighth Route Army.
There is another type who really wants to be a traitor and work for the Japs. But they have one thing in common, that is, they are afraid of death.
Although they were unwilling to surrender to the Eighth Route Army, they would not have any objection to surrendering to the Eighth Route Army in order to survive.
Therefore, when the battalion commander said the words "surrender", none of the subordinates around him had a surprised expression on their face.
"If you don't speak, that means you agree! Order the troops to raise the white flag, surrender, and tell the Eighth Route Army to stop firing!" the battalion commander ordered after heaving a sigh of relief.
"Company commander, the puppet army raised the white flag and surrendered!" A cry of surprise rang out from the soldiers in front.
Yang Xiong was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted: "The artillery stopped firing, and everyone else stopped shooting and shouted to the Imperial Alliance Army inside. They walked out one by one and threw their guns outside! Then walked out of the barracks. No one was allowed to carry a gun!"
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More than 130 Imperial Army troops were all captured by Yang Xiong in less than five minutes.
As soon as the Imperial Alliance Army surrendered, a platoon of the Eighth Route Army rushed into the garrison to eliminate any puppet troops who might have been hiding.
In the end, the puppet troops did not catch any of them, but they brought a huge surprise to Yang Xiong.
"Cannon, company commander, we found a small warehouse at the station with cannon in it!"
Yang Xiong raised his brows and immediately asked the captive battalion commander: "Captain Wang, what's going on with those cannons? As far as I know, the Japanese are reluctant to give you precious cannon equipment!"
"These guns belong to our security brigade." The battalion commander of the Royal Association Army quickly replied.
"Our security brigade has its own mountain artillery company, and each regiment also has a mortar company! In order to defend the city wall, the imperial army... no, it was the Japs. The little Japs asked us to separate the cannons and defend the four city gates respectively! We were just attacked
Your army blew up one mortar, and the remaining three mortars and two mountain cannons were captured by your army before they were even launched!"
"Where's the artillery? Let the artillery among the prisoners come out immediately!" Yang Xiong immediately asked the battalion commander of the Imperial Association Army.
Soon, more than twenty gunners stood up with panic on their faces. Yang Xiong was not polite and directly ordered: "I don't care what you did before, now you must listen to the command of our Eighth Route Army. Next, you need to let those cannons fire."
Get up and go to the front line to provide artillery support to our Eighth Route Army. If the battle is completed, each person will be rewarded with five oceans at the end of the battle. If the battle is not successful, military law will be engaged!"
"Captain Yang, what do you want?" Guard platoon leader Chen Junyu asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"Artillery is not only a weapon for attacking fortresses, but also a weapon for defense. If such good equipment can be used, the troops' battle casualties in Laiyuan City will definitely be much smaller!"
Without explaining too much or giving the artillery prisoners too much time to think, Yang Xiong immediately ordered: "The second platoon will keep the prisoners under guard, and the others will follow me to bring artillery and shells to reinforce the battalion commander!"
"The Japanese and puppet troops have built a lot of fortifications around the material warehouse in the west of the city. The casualties in the attack will be too great. Artillery support will definitely be needed!"
The material warehouse not only stores a lot of materials, but also stores ammunition supplies for an infantry brigade for five days, which is very important.
Therefore, the Japanese and puppet troops used sandbags to pile up a large number of fortifications around the warehouse, including several machine gun forts built with masonry and cement.
For ordinary fortifications, if a mortar shell hits it, even if it cannot destroy it, it can blow away the Japanese in the fortification. But several machine gun fortresses are different. They have rough skin and thick flesh. If a cannon ball hits it, it will blow up the enemy at most.
Break some skin.
Although Zhang Yunshan led the main force of the battalion to eliminate many Imperial Alliance troops, with the support and obstruction of several machine gun forts, the troops never rushed into the warehouse, and thirty or forty corpses were left behind. The entire attack was very fierce.
Tragic!
Just when Zhang Yunshan ordered the two mortars to continue firing with anger, preparing to order the troops to launch a new round of attack under the cover of the Three Kingdoms, Yang Xiong arrived.
"Batalion Commander, don't attack yet, look what good things I have brought you!"
"Cannon, and it's a mountain cannon, Yang Xiong, where did you get it?" Zhang Yunshan shouted with excitement.
"I captured the Imperial Alliance Army garrison without even firing a single shot. I also brought over twenty Imperial Alliance Army artillerymen with me."
Zhang Yunshan was so excited that he could hardly speak. He was stunned for several seconds before he realized: "Then why are you still standing there? Let them set up artillery immediately and blow up those machine gun fortresses for me. In addition, let the artillery platoon go over.
If a few of us learn from it, our Second Battalion will have its own mountain artillery and infantry artillery sooner or later, so we won’t be able to use them if they are captured by then!”
A gun was set up dozens of meters away and aimed directly. As soon as the black muzzle was raised, the face of the machine gunner guarding the bunker suddenly turned pale.
Then he dropped the machine gun and fled outside the bunker. As soon as five or six of the dozen or so Imperial Army troops came out, the mountain cannon opened fire.
"Boom... boom..." A violent explosion sounded behind them just now. The strong machine gun fortress was like paper, collapsed in an instant, and then turned into a pile of ruins.
"Battal Commander, the Eighth Route Army has mountain artillery, and a machine gun fort has been bombed. We can't defend the warehouse!" In the last machine gun fort, a company commander exclaimed with a pale face as he looked at the explosion scene dozens of meters away.
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"That's the mountain artillery of the mountain artillery company of the brigade. I know a platoon leader among the gunners. They actually surrendered to the Eighth Route Army. How is that possible!" Another company commander shouted, his face full of disbelief.
"The Third Battalion guarding the city wall must have surrendered to the Eighth Route Army. Battalion Commander, what should we do? Make up your mind quickly, or we will all die here!" the deputy battalion commander asked in a heavy and anxious tone.
While he was talking, another explosion sounded in front of him.
The second machine gun fortress was reduced to rubble in the explosion.
The violent explosion was like a talisman, urging the battalion commander to make a decision quickly.