The alarm sounded quickly in the mine, and the Japanese could be vaguely seen rushing out of the barracks, disheveled, carrying rifles and rushing towards the bunkers around the mine!
"Da da da……"
On the roof of the turret that had not yet collapsed, the Japanese security force was the first to respond!
Point a crooked handle at the location of the mountain cannon and draw fire!
But the distance was too far, and the bullet burrowed into the soil before it even flew over!
At this time, the main force, which had reached two hundred meters outside the mine, was no longer hiding!
Ten crooked guns were fired at the same time, and the bullets flew towards the top of the turret like a rain of bullets!
The bullets were so dense that most of them hit the outer wall of the stone turret, sending sparks flying! A small number of them shot through the crenels into the roof of the turret, and finally got into the body of the Japanese machine gunner!
The machine gun instantly misfired!
The troops were severely attrited, and the artillery battalions were reduced to artillery batteries. Yuan Qingfeng was most worried about artillery casualties on the battlefield, and his heart suddenly rose to his throat!
Seeing the machine gun misfiring, his tense nerves immediately relaxed, and he followed the order: "Keep firing and kill the turret for me!"
"Rumble..."
The dull sound of shelling soon rang in Yuan Qingfeng's ears, and then he saw two flames exploding on the turret, and black smoke followed from the gap in the turret!
Just when everyone thought that the turret would still stand and needed a third round of shooting, an accident happened!
The nearly ten-meter-high turret suddenly began to tilt to one side, and the angle became wider and wider!
"Rumble..."
Finally, it hit the ground hard, sending up a lot of smoke and dust, and the sound was like thunder!
When the smoke cleared, only a broken wall of the turret that was no more than two meters high remained, and the rest was in ruins!
Without the turrets, the Japanese lost the firepower to attack the garrison from above, and could only rely on the bunkers around the mine to intercept the garrison's attacking troops head-on!
The devils did the same thing!
"Da da da……"
The four bunkers on the front opened fire one after another, including two heavy machine guns and two light machine guns!
"The machine gun continues to fire, frontal fire suppression, attracting the attention of the Japanese in the bunker, the mountain cannon continues to fire, and all the four machine gun bunkers in front are named!" Li Hao stared at the battlefield and ordered with a serious face!
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions keep ringing in the mine, and every explosion means a bunker has been destroyed!
In the blink of an eye, the four bunkers were blown into ruins by mountain cannons!
A sneer flashed across Li Hao's lips and he continued to order!
"The mountain artillery stopped shelling and the mortars fired. Each gun fired five shells. After the infantry assault, we used the shortest possible time to kill the little Japs inside!"
There are mountain artillery, mortars, and more than thirty light machine guns. Even if the mine guards are all retired old devils with rich combat experience, they still only get beaten!
The remaining Japs in the escort were all fooled!
Just as they reacted from the shelling, the attacking troops had already rushed to a position thirty or forty meters outside the mine. The rifleman held a rifle in one hand and a grenade in the other, ready to throw it into the mine!
The devil's face suddenly turned pale, and the moment he threw his head on the ground again, he shouted with a look of horror!
"Grenade... concealed... boom boom boom..."
The Japanese who were not attacked by grenades reacted quickly and started throwing grenades!
"Baga! We can't just be beaten passively, we must fight back immediately and use grenades to fight back!"
Grenades come and go, and in the explosions, Japanese soldiers are constantly being killed!
The attacking troops of the garrison suffered greater casualties. More than 20 people fell on the spot, either dead or injured!
But the remaining attacking troops did not stop. They rushed past the grenade interceptor as quickly as possible, and rushed towards the mine with rifles with bayonets in hand, as if they were going to fight the Japanese in hand-to-hand combat!
For the old Japanese with rich combat experience, the thing they are least afraid of is fighting with bayonets!
There is even a desire to fight with a bayonet on the battlefield!
Actual combat has proven time and time again that in hand-to-hand combat, three Chinese soldiers are not necessarily an opponent of an imperial army!
Especially after the imperial army formed a bayonet formation, three veterans could easily fight against an infantry squad of the Chinese army!
Therefore, in the eyes of the Japanese veterans, as long as the opponent does not have much strength advantage, hand-to-hand combat can definitely allow you to kill the opponent at the minimum cost!
Seeing that the attacking troops wanted to fight with them with bayonets, they not only were not worried, but were looking forward to it!
They all fixed bayonets on their rifles and rushed towards the garrison!
The first battalion commander, He Jun, rushed into the middle of the attacking troops. When he saw the Japanese coming back to fight him with bayonets, his eyes immediately started to shine!
"The devils have been fooled. Everyone, prepare your pistols and kill them with bullets!"
"The rifleman retreats and takes cover. Those with pistols come up to me!"
While he was talking, He Jun had already loaded the box of artillery bullets in his hand and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who were just around the corner!
A picture that made the Japanese jaw-dropping appeared!
The rifleman who was close at hand suddenly stopped. Before the Japanese could realize it, a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers armed with box guns emerged from behind the rifleman!
"Pa bang bang..."
The box cannons fired one after another, instantly shattering the Japanese dream of killing the Eighth Route Army in hand-to-hand combat!
All this was an illusion arranged by He Jun for the Japs. Taking advantage of the Japs' weakness of bayonets, he hid the handgunners behind the riflemen and suddenly appeared when they were about to engage the enemy. He used pistols to kill the Japs without giving them a chance to bayonet!
Obviously, his plan worked!
Under the crazy fire of more than a dozen box cannons, the Japanese were unable to even fight back, and they were mopped down in droves!
"Captain, we have captured the coal mine, and we have wiped out more than two hundred Japanese!" Hong Linfeng reported with a smile on his face!
Li Hao glanced at his watch and replied: "It has been exactly twenty minutes since the cannon was fired!"
"We used mountain artillery just now. The Japs on the front line must have heard the explosion and are sending troops to reinforce here!"
"It will take three hours for the Japs to assemble and march quickly to get here. We have to stay for an hour before entering the mountain. Therefore, the troops must clear the battlefield in the remaining hour and a half, then evacuate the coal mine and destroy this place!"
"Chief of Staff, you lead the first company, second company, and artillery company to clean the battlefield. Take away everything you can, and blow up what you can't take away. Don't leave a grain of food or a piece of equipment to the little devil!"
"Third Company, Cavalry Company, Guard Company, come with me to control absenteeism!"
"In order to keep it secret, no matter whether they want it or not, in the next few days, every absentee will have to follow us!"
After the Japanese reinforcements arrived on the battlefield, the entire mine was blown into ruins!
Not even a single house was left intact! All the mines were blown down, and the equipment was blown into scrap metal and buried in the mines!
Among the ruins of the mine, there were one or two hundred corpses lying in various postures, and without exception, they were all members of the escort!
A quick glance shows that this coal mine has lost its value for re-exploitation!
The Japanese leader who was leading the team was going crazy and yelled!
"BaGeYaLu! Who can tell me who did this? I will chop them all into pieces!"
"Sir, we found traces left by the Eighth Route Army's retreat!" A squadron leader under his command rushed over to report!
The captain's frown quickly relaxed, he stared at his subordinates and asked: "In which direction!"
"Towards the Eighth Route Army's base in northwest Shanxi!" the squadron leader replied!
The captain thought for a moment and then made a judgment: "Baghe Road, this matter must have been done by the Eighth Route Army in the northern Shanxi base area!"
"They tried to capture this coal mine more than once, but they failed because they didn't have the artillery to attack the enemy! Unexpectedly, they never gave up on taking the coal mine, and they even got the artillery to attack the enemy!"
"What are you still doing? Let's give chase immediately!"
"They brought a lot of seizures and absenteeism, and they will definitely not be able to move fast!"
"We must catch up with them and kill them. At the very least, we must destroy the offensive artillery in their hands!"
"Once the Eighth Route Army has offensive artillery, the gun towers and strongholds we built on the blockade will become their living targets and lose their effectiveness!"
In another direction completely opposite to the Japanese pursuit direction, the garrison was walking through the woods with hundreds of workers!
The nearly one hundred mules, horses and war horses specially released during the attack were all loaded with supplies!
There is food, weapons and ammunition, and equipment seized from the mine!
What surprised Li Hao the most was that they also seized a radio station and a large amount of gold, oceans, and yen from the mine, with a total value of more than 30,000 oceans!
This is definitely a windfall!
"Captain, the little devil has been fooled!" Commando captain Xiao Yuan panted and caught up to report!
"They followed the trail deliberately left by the reconnaissance company in the northwest direction. They turned the place upside down and couldn't find us!"
Li Hao's eyes lit up and he ordered: "Well done!"
"Since it's impossible for the Japanese to find us, let's start the next operation!"
"Chief of Staff, order the three main companies to set off immediately, each company with two mortars, rush to the remaining three small coal mines overnight, lurk first, launch an attack tomorrow night, end the battle quickly, and then take the captured
Go directly to the secret camp to meet me with Kui Gong!"
"The commando team is divided into three and cooperate with them to get rid of the Japs chasing soldiers!"
"The number of absentees we have rescued in the four mines must be more than 2,000. We must have enough time to mobilize them to join the garrison, integrate into the garrison, and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible!"
"So we will stay in the secret camp for at least four more days. Your commando team and reconnaissance company must buy these time for me!"
"If the troops engage in an encounter with the Japanese before they have completed the reorganization of the deserters, we will definitely not be our opponents!"