I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 458: The 8th Route Army bombards Dawang Town

Battalion Commander Feng Dameng and Captain Feng both found it unbelievable that they had entered Dawang Town like this.

You guerrillas really know how to play. You have taken bombing the city to a new level.

At this time, Feng Xiaomeng came out from the artillery tower of the stronghold.

He was chewing on a big steamed bun that the Japanese had not yet eaten.

He said, "We have dealt with the Japs in the turrets, we will go there later and deal with the Japs at the south gate.

Captain Wang, how many Japanese soldiers are there at the South Gate? "

Captain Wang: "Eighth Route Army commander, the situation in this stronghold is as follows.

There was a squadron of Japanese soldiers and a battalion of the Imperial Army guarding the place.

The Japanese had three infantry squads, a squadron headquarters and an artillery unit. There was a squadron of Japanese in each of the two artillery towers at the north and south gates.

Now the north gate is guarded by our Imperial Army, and the south gate is guarded by the devils."

Feng Xiaomeng: "We are in the artillery tower and have just wiped out two squads of the devils.

That is to say, including the ten people in the squadron.

There were less than 150 Japanese infantrymen guarding the South Gate.

Captain Wang, please find us some uniforms of the Imperial Army.

Then you find someone to take our soldiers to capture the important targets in Dawang Town.

Comrades who came in in disguise at the beginning, led by Captain Wang, follow me to fight the Japanese at the South Gate. We will set out soon. "

These more than one hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers also changed into the uniforms of the Imperial Army.

He followed Captain Wang and ran towards the south gate of the stronghold.

When Captain Yamaguchi arrived at the South Gate, the Japanese there had just defeated the Eighth Route Army's first attack.

He ran up the wall, picked up the telescope and looked outside.

There were quite a lot of Eighth Route Army soldiers outside the stronghold. No matter how you looked at it, there seemed to be thousands of them.

The Eighth Route Army that came to attack from outside came from two different forces.

It was the night before, after clearing out the Japanese strongholds, that they set their sights on Dawang Town.

This Dawang Town stronghold is not only an important chess piece to split the base area.

It is also an important collection point for nearby taxes. The town is lined with shops and is extremely prosperous.

The Japanese also attached great importance to this place, so they sent a squadron of Japanese soldiers to be stationed here.

If we can capture Dawang Town, we can not only connect the base areas into one.

Even the problems of clothing and food for the troops can be properly solved.

Now the leaders of the two Eighth Route Army troops were lying in a ditch and cursing the Japanese.

"How was this Dawang Town stronghold built? It's really like a turtle shell, very hard.

I say, Old Chen, you guard Dawang Town every day, why don't you think about eating it up as soon as possible?"

"Mr. Yu, please stop saying such sarcastic things.

Do you think this is cabbage? You'd better take it down as soon as possible.

At the beginning, there was a large group of Japanese soldiers stationed here, and it was impossible to defeat them at all.

Now they are building more and more artillery towers, even if they are dividing their troops to garrison.

There was also a squadron of Japanese soldiers and a battalion of the Imperial Army in there.

If the headquarters had not taken unified action this time, the superiors would have sent this strange artillery unit to help.

I don’t even want to come to the Dawang Town stronghold to smash this bastard shell.”

Having said that, the two of them looked at the firepower team sent by the guerrilla division at the same time.

The two firepower team leaders were holding straw sticks on the ground, calculating for a long time.

There was no way to deal with this in Dawang Town, whose walls were almost as high as the city walls.

“Alas, it would be great if the main force of our battalion could be here.

This broken wall looks quite solid, but in fact, it can be knocked down with just a few shots.”

"Don't say it's useless. Our battalion still has a Type 41 mountain cannon. It only takes one shot to blow down this broken wall."

The two Eighth Route Army battalion commanders above listened to the bickering between the two squad leaders below, and their eyes lit up.

They didn't think that these two people were bragging. During the fight that night, they used all their tricks and every move showed how powerful they were.

Especially the weird cannon they have, something called the RPG-7 rocket launcher.

They call that thing a "magic weapon for demolishing artillery towers," and they're not wrong, it's really powerful.

In the past, if they wanted to attack such a stronghold, they would have to sacrifice lives, and even then they might not be able to take it down.

Now, no matter how strong the Japanese bunkers and artillery towers are, they can be destroyed with just one shot.

But now they are in a dilemma, because the wall of Dawang Town is too difficult to break through.

It seems that the RPG-7 rocket launchers in their hands are not enough.

The two regiment commanders were too confident today. The battle went too smoothly last night and they captured too many Japanese strongholds.

More than half of the soldiers in the regiment stayed behind to clean up the battlefield.

Otherwise, here on the outskirts of Dawang Town, the two team leaders wouldn’t even be able to put together a team.

Otherwise, they wouldn't be squatting here, looking at the Japanese devils and feeling angry.

If all the troops of the two regiments were brought up and all the light and heavy weapons were deployed, the Japanese would be worn down to death.

But now it's daybreak, the Japs will soon adjust.

Now, while the Japanese are still in a state of panic, the right thing to do is to quickly bring the spoils back to the base.

What they didn't know was that the Japanese in Shanxi's First Army did not send out troops immediately.

They were confused for a long time before sending troops to reoccupy those strongholds.

The two commanders of the Eighth Route Army looked at the reinforcements sent by the guerrilla division and had no choice but to agree to withdraw their troops.

"Old Chen, I'm unwilling to leave like this."

"So what do you want to do?"

"I see you still have five or six shells, and I have seven, fire them all.

Even if we can't take down the artillery tower, we have to use mortars to scare the Japanese to death.

Even if the Japanese leave their base, they won’t dare to act so arrogantly anymore.”

"Hehehe, Old Yu, you still have a lot of clever ideas. Let's do it this way."

Soon the Eighth Route Army's mortars began to show their power.

As for this fighting style, even though they have no rules at all, they just fire randomly here and there.

But their shots were very accurate and the bombs exploded on the wall.

The effect of the shelling was extremely good, and almost every shell could take the lives of two or three Japanese soldiers.

This frightened Captain Yamaguchi to death.

The Eighth Route Army fired more than ten artillery shells, killing all the men from his two squads.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army had stopped its shelling. Yamaguchi immediately ordered his men to prepare for firing and wait for the Eighth Route Army to launch a second attack.

The artilleryman of the guerrilla division looked at the shell boxes that he had used up and shook his head with regret.

Alas, what a pity, there are only so few shells left, otherwise we would have given the Japanese a hard time in minutes.

They picked up the mortar and ran away. As expected, the Japanese artillery began to fight back.

The artillery position they had just been at was blown to pieces by four mortar shells from the Japanese.

Yamaguchi lay behind the fortifications of the wall and did not wait for the Eighth Route Army to charge.

Instead, his good brother "Kawashita-kun" came over.

He heard the sound of running feet coming from the town streets behind him.

Leading the way were Captain Wang and Kawashita Ichirō, followed by fifty brave warriors of the Imperial Army.

They wore green steel helmets on their heads and held Type 38 rifles with fixed bayonets in their hands.

Behind them was a company of the Imperial Army, and they ran with dignity and momentum.