Although there are many retired veterans among the expatriates, they have been away from the military for too long, and their military literacy is obviously not as good as that of active soldiers.
Moreover, among the expatriates there are a large number of people who have never served in the military.
Mixing and fighting with retired veterans not only failed to increase the veterans' combat effectiveness, but also reduced it.
When the squadron leader who commanded them died, many of them became headless flies, looking confused and frightened, not knowing what to do next.
A dozen people near the puppet platoon leader took the opportunity to shoot at them.
The shooting distance was very close, and the Japanese were caught off guard again. More than a dozen people were shot and fell to the ground on the spot.
A retired second lieutenant took over the command and quickly ordered: "Get down, everyone shoot, kill the Imperial Alliance Army in front, they want to rebel..."
With the commander giving the order, the combat effectiveness of dozens of expatriates obviously began to increase.
With the retired veterans as the center, they lay down on the ground and started to fight back.
The remaining puppet troops who did not move also joined the battle.
Seeing the Japanese shooting, everyone understood: now there is no other way to get out of the predicament except rebellion.
After the last worry in his mind disappeared, he raised his rifle and started to fight back.
Although the overall combat effectiveness of the overseas Chinese is slightly stronger than that of the puppet army, they are too few.
After several rounds of shooting, the puppet troops actually gained the upper hand. The surviving expatriates retreated while fighting. The balance of victory seemed to be tilted in favor of dozens of puppet troops.
"Da da da……"
The sound of machine gun fire suddenly sounded behind the immigrants.
Three machine gun flames suddenly appeared on the courtyard wall not far away. Bullets passed over the heads of the residents and flew towards the puppet troops like rain.
Approaching step by step, the puppet troops who were about to win were immediately defeated...
The remaining puppet troops were no match at all. They were wiped out by the Japanese army that suddenly appeared within two minutes, leaving no one alive.
This is the reinforcement force that the brigade commander has just sent to the east of the city. There are four squadrons in total, two to reinforce the city wall, and two to establish a new line of defense behind the gap created by heavy artillery, responsible for destroying the Eighth Route Army that may rush in through the gap.
They were on the battlefield for the first time and before they encountered the Eighth Route Army, a group of puppet soldiers who were rebelling happened to hit their guns...
The communications staff officer at the Japanese military headquarters answered the phone and just hung up when the phone rang rapidly.
One call after another, like a queue, the calls keep coming here.
"General, urgent report from the east of the city!" A staff officer put down the phone and reported anxiously.
"The Eighth Route Army's siege artillery fire was so fierce that more than half of the more than 300 Imperial Army and policemen who blocked the gap suffered casualties in less than 20 minutes. The remaining puppet troops did not want to continue to block the gap and die, so they actually switched sides and beat the governor.
The team was caught off guard."
"Fortunately, the reinforcements arrived in time and no major disaster occurred."
"But without these puppet troops, the garrison in the east of the city can no longer allocate extra troops to plug the gap. I hope the headquarters will send them reinforcements, preferably the Imperial Association Army, who will be responsible for plugging the gap in the city wall. Otherwise, with the Eighth Route Army's current attack
The city's artillery fire will blow down the city wall in another twenty minutes."
"If someone blocks the gap, the wall can hold on for at least another hour!"
The brigade commander cursed angrily: "Bagh Ya Road! Where do I have so many reinforcements for them? If I still have more troops, what do I want these commanders to do? They can defend Datong City at all costs."
The deputy chief of staff quickly reminded: "General, calm down. The east of the city is the main attack direction of the Eighth Route Army. As long as we hold there, we will definitely be able to hold on until dawn."
"It's only half past three. If the city wall is blown down before four o'clock, there will still be more than two hours until dawn the next day. With the offensive firepower and combat effectiveness displayed by the Eighth Route Army, they will definitely be able to break through the temporary defense line built behind the gap by the reinforcements and advance in.
Inside the city.”
"At that time, they will be strangled with our troops, and it will be useless even if the planes that reinforce us come."
"So we must find a way to send troops to reinforce them and defend the city's fortifications."
The brigade commander nodded and ordered: "The gendarmerie has just collected many private armed forces and sent them all to the east gate to plug the gap."
The deputy chief of staff shook his head and replied: "There are only more than a hundred people, which is definitely not enough!"
"How come there are so few?" the brigade leader asked with suspicion.
Datong is not an ordinary small county town. It is home to a large number of celebrities who surrendered to Japan, including wealthy businessmen, mine owners, officials, and landowners...
In the eyes of the brigade leader, they more or less have some guards.
Not to mention too many, there must be a thousand people in total.
But after such a long time, the gendarmerie only found more than a hundred people. The huge gap made it difficult for him to believe this result.
A look of helplessness flashed on the deputy chief of staff's face, and then he explained: "General, these Chinese are too cunning."
"Even though Datong is still in the hands of the imperial army, many of them are no longer optimistic about the imperial army."
"In order not to leave a bad impression on the Eighth Route Army attacking the city and to scare the monkeys, many people disbanded their private armed forces before dark and hid their weapons."
"When the gendarmerie asked them for people, almost all of them turned up in vain."
"The war is urgent, and the gendarmerie doesn't have that much time and energy to deal with them. They can only deal with them one at a time, and they can find them one by one."
The brigade commander's eyes were as red as spitting fire, and then he gritted his teeth and cursed: "These treacherous people usually rush to curry favor with the imperial army. Now that the imperial army is in trouble, every one of them can run faster than a rabbit."
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"If we can survive this time, when the battle is over, I will definitely go and meet them personally and make them pay for their stupid behavior today."
"Since these private armed forces are unreliable, we can only place our hopes on the city defense garrisons in the other three directions."
"Pass my order: Each of the west, south and north of the city will draw 150 Imperial Army soldiers and police to reinforce the east of the city."
"Including more than a hundred private armed forces, there are exactly 600 people."
"Return the call to the garrison in the east of the city now. The first batch of Chinese reinforcements, more than 100 of them, will arrive on the battlefield within ten minutes. Then 450 reinforcements will arrive one after another, for a total of 600
people."
"I have only one request: the city wall cannot be blown open by the Eighth Route Army before five o'clock in the morning."
On the battlefield in the west of the city, a large number of Eighth Route Army corpses had fallen outside the city.
However, in order to put maximum pressure on the defending troops, the attacking troops were still organized into battalions and continuously launched assaults on the city wall.
At first, the attacking troops rushed two hundred meters outside the city and were unable to move forward.
As the fighting continued, the blocking firepower on the top of the city weakened significantly, and the attacking troops began to continue to approach the city wall. Now they were able to rush more than a hundred meters outside the city, lying on the ground and confront the Japanese and puppet troops on the top of the city.
shoot.
"Boom boom boom..."
Three artillery shells hit the top of the city in a zigzag shape, and a heavy machine gun that screamed happily was located right in the middle of the impact point.
The shell exploded and the gunfire suddenly stopped.
The captain who was not far away saw it in his eyes and felt pain in his heart, and his expression became more and more serious.
After subtracting these heavy machine guns, there are still three heavy machine guns left in the city that can continue to participate in the battle, and there are less than ten light machine guns left.
Such firepower could not stop the attacking troops at all.
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