Xiaoguan base, the base becomes particularly quiet starting at eight o'clock in the evening!
Except for a few guard posts, the other Japanese and puppet troops have fallen asleep!
Within Datong, the main force of the imperial army is attacking the Jinsui Army to retake Datong! The battlefield is dozens of kilometers away, and it cannot affect this place no matter what!
Outside the stronghold, a battalion commander, He Jun, held up a telescope and stared at the stronghold motionlessly for almost ten minutes!
Just when his subordinates were almost exhausted, he spoke: "Comrades, there is still half an hour before the attack!"
"I decided to hide in a company on the road five kilometers north of the stronghold, and set a guard in the direction of the county seat to kill any reinforcements that might be sent to block the county seat!"
"An hour after the battle started, regardless of whether the Japanese and puppet reinforcements appeared or not, the troops retreated immediately!"
"The second company brings all the artillery for a frontal attack! The third company is divided into three, each with a heavy machine gun and attacks from the other three directions to block the Japanese and puppet breakout troops!"
"What the regiment leader wants is to wipe out all the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold to prevent our convoy from being exposed because of some fish that slipped through the net!"
"So don't be merciful when you fight. Kill the Japanese directly. Capture the puppet soldiers if they can, and kill them if they can't!"
"boom……"
The mountain artillery was the first to fire, firing the first shot of the entire breakout battle!
The shell exploded, and a large hole was blown out of the second floor of the central turret of the stronghold. The first hit!
In the eyes of the Japanese and puppet troops, the turret is definitely the safest place in the entire stronghold, and the second floor is the safest place in the turret!
So the Japanese usually set up their headquarters here!
A cannon hit the outer wall of the second floor, and the moment it exploded, the Japanese captain and a dozen of his officers and guards, large and small, were immediately hit!
"Continue to fire from the mountain cannon and blow up the tower!" He Jun ordered decisively!
"Mortars were also fired, blasting into the open areas of the stronghold, and killing all the Japanese and puppet troops who rushed out of the gun towers and barracks!"
"Machine gun cover, the second company presses forward, and the assault begins as soon as the turret collapses!"
As soon as the war started, the captain and the two squad captains died!
The leaderless Japanese army was in chaos!
Although this chaos was quickly suppressed by Captain Cao in the middle, who rushed to the position in disheveled clothes, He Jun did not give them this chance!
Mortar shells in groups of three kept falling down very fast!
The Japanese and puppet troops exposed outside the stronghold looked like paper, and they were blown up piece by piece!
Some people were killed on the spot, and some fell to the ground screaming with pain on their faces!
"Rumble..."
A more violent explosion sounded in the middle of the stronghold. The turret where the Japanese and puppet troops were confident collapsed and instantly turned into a pile of ruins!
"At this time, in addition to the Japs and the greetings from Chief Cao beside them, the puppet army was in complete chaos. They were like headless flies, running around in the stronghold, with fear on their faces!
Some people hid in the corner, lay down on the ground, pretended to be dead, and waited for the Eighth Route Army to come over and surrender!"
"Tick tock..."
The charge horn sounded!
More than a hundred Eighth Route Army troops appeared in the sight of the Japanese. Under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, they rushed towards the stronghold like hungry wolves!
"Counterattack, shoot immediately and stop them!" Cao Chang squatted behind his men and shouted loudly!
"Bang bang bang...ta da da..."
Dozens of rifles and a limited number of two crooked guns opened fire quickly!
But within five seconds of being arrogant, they were targeted!
"Da da da……"
Two strings of heavy machine gun bullets flew over, and the two machine gunners had half their heads cut off in an instant. They fell directly into the trench without making a sound, dying!
Several riflemen nearby were also affected and fell to the trench with a groan!
The others quickly lowered their heads. Although they dodged the bullets flying close to the trench, they were pinned down by the bullets and had no chance to raise their heads to fight back!
Erlian seized the opportunity and rushed forward more than ten meters!
The Japanese leader Cao became anxious and shouted with a pair of red eyes: "Counterattack... Everyone stand up and fight back, the Eighth Route Army is about to kill us!"
"The machine gunner keeps firing!"
"Where are our heavy machine guns? Move them over immediately to join the battle. We can't let the Eighth Route Army get closer to us!"
The sergeant crawled over along the trench and reported: "Dead, all dead!"
"The Eighth Route Army's offensive firepower was so fierce that all the machine gunners were killed!"
"Most of the machine guns and heavy machine guns we equipped were not taken out of the turrets. Now they are all buried in the ruins. We have no machine guns left!"
"Boom boom boom..."
As soon as they finished speaking, a thunderstorm fell from the sky and hit them!
In the county seat, the Xiaoguan stronghold was attacked twenty minutes before the report was received!
"Sir, our telephone contact with the Xiaoguan stronghold has been interrupted. We don't know anything about the situation there. It was the outpost outside the county town that faintly heard explosions in the direction of the stronghold, so they sent someone to report it to us!" The staff officer on duty stood in the county town.
Reported in front of the captain of the garrison!
"Sir, do you want to send out the cavalry immediately to take a look and find out the situation first?" the adjutant hesitated and reminded!
"Baga, are you a pig!" the captain yelled!
"The Xiaoguan stronghold is dozens of kilometers away from us. It takes at least two hours for the cavalry to go back! By the time we figure out the situation, the stronghold has been lost!"
"The Xiaoguan stronghold is a very important stronghold in our defense area. In addition to controlling the highway, they also control more than a dozen surrounding villages and towns!"
"Once that place is lost, the resistance forces in these dozen villages and towns will definitely seize the opportunity to expand rapidly and become a major hidden danger in our defense area!"
"So I don't care what the enemy's purpose is, the Xiaoguan stronghold must not be lost!"
"Immediately draw a reinforced squadron from the garrison, bring a radio station, and take a car to reinforce the stronghold!"
Inside the stronghold, the gunfire has completely stopped!
More than a hundred prisoners squatted in the open space in the middle of the stronghold, trembling with fear as they were pointed at by rifle guns!
The Second Company, which was the first to enter the stronghold, is searching the entire stronghold with a net to ensure that no fish slips through the net on the battlefield!
"Battal Commander, all the Japs have been killed and 128 puppet soldiers have been captured!" the instructor reported excitedly to He Jun!
"Have you captured the Japanese ammunition depot and warehouse?" He Jun asked with satisfaction!
"It was taken down. There were dozens of boxes of bullets, grenades, and mortar shells inside! There was also a lot of food. I saw it, at least three thousand kilograms!"
He Jun glanced at the watch on his wrist and began to give orders: "Time is running out. Order the Second Company, Third Company, and the regiment commander to strengthen our artillery, escort the prisoners, and bring all the captured food and ammunition.
Retreat directly from the woods!"
"Guard Platoon, Reconnaissance Platoon, stay behind with me to ensure that the regiment commander passes here smoothly, and at the same time give the enemy reinforcements the illusion that we are setting up a stronghold for food, weapons and ammunition!"
In less than ten minutes, the sound of horse hooves reached He Jun's ears!
The cavalry company commander Zhou Wu rushed to the front first, without any pause, and passed directly in front of He Jun, and then disappeared into the dark night!
"Car lights!" the guard platoon leader shouted, pointing to the two lights that suddenly appeared at the end of the road!
"It's the regiment commander and the others who are here. The troops have stepped up their vigilance to ensure that the convoy passes here smoothly!" He Jun ordered seriously!
Sixty-eight cars, one after another, took a full twenty minutes to pass through the stronghold, and then dozens of cavalry followed behind!
After all the cars and cavalry disappeared, He Jun's tense nerves relaxed!
"Let's retreat too!"
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
As soon as the order was spoken, a burst of gunfire came over!
"It's the First Company. They must have gotten into trouble with the Japanese reinforcements!" He Jun judged with a frown!
But just by looking at the watch, my frown relaxed!
"There are only ten minutes left before the company's agreed retreat time. They will definitely be able to escape intact. We don't need to worry about them and just retreat into the mountains!"
"Before leaving, search the stronghold again to see if there is anything you can take away. If so, take everything away!"
"Since we want the Japanese to mistakenly think that we are setting up a stronghold for weapons, ammunition and food, we must make it as realistic as possible and give the illusion that we lack everything and want everything!"
Captain Oda, the commander of the Japanese reinforcements, was very aggrieved!
Suddenly encountering a company of blocking troops, a car of the forward troops was caught off guard and was overturned by a mine buried on the road. It was knocked upside down next to the road!
The driver and soldiers, nearly twenty subordinates, could not even see the shadow of the enemy. They were dead and wounded, and they had completely lost their combat effectiveness!
After finally joining the Eighth Route Army's blocking force, Oda, who was holding back his anger, planned to attack the enemy and avenge the loss of the forward unit just now, but the Eighth Route Army did not give him this chance at all!
Retreat as soon as there is contact, only harass yourself with cold guns and landmines, and slow down your marching speed!
"Sir, the enemy who blocked us seems to have retreated. We haven't been attacked for several minutes!" A second lieutenant rushed over and reported!
"Bageya Road, the enemy who attacked us just now must be the Eighth Route Army. Only they can be so difficult to deal with!"
"Order the troops to advance at full speed and reinforce the Xiaoguan stronghold!"
Ten minutes later, Captain Oda saw the stronghold that had been bombed into ruins!
More than a hundred subordinates, except for the security posts, were all searching the stronghold, hoping to find one or two survivors!
But ten minutes have passed, and all the team leaders have returned without success!
"Sir, there is no one alive in the stronghold!"
"The Imperial Alliance Army is missing more than a hundred people. They must have been captured by the enemy and taken away!"
"The weapons, ammunition, food, and clothing in the stronghold were all looted by the enemy, including the bullet casings!"
"From my humble judgment, the enemy must have attacked for the weapons and ammunition in the stronghold, otherwise it would be impossible to clean the battlefield so cleanly!"
"In addition, we found traces of the enemy's retreat in the woods southeast of the stronghold!"
"Preliminary judgment shows that the total number of enemy troops attacking the stronghold exceeds 500!"
Captain Oda also walked around the stronghold just now, and indeed he didn't see any bullet casings!
In the huge battlefield, everything except the corpses had been looted!
He had only seen this fighting style in one army: the Eighth Route Army!
He immediately agreed with his subordinates' judgment, and then ordered: "Contact the captain, report our judgment, and request the next combat order: whether the troops will pursue the retreating enemy!"