I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 447 What? Yangquan County was lost?

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka had already understood what Adjutant Ono meant, and it seemed that this matter could not be mentioned again.

Although the matter was temporarily cleared up, Ono's subsequent report made Yoshio Shinozuka break down again.

"What? Yangquan County was also captured by the Eighth Route Army. All the Yangquan defenders were killed?"

The defenders of Yangquan have no choice but to die in battle.

The train station was attacked, and the Japanese commander of the Yangquan garrison was still at the train station at the time.

How dare they not rescue their superiors? What would they do if the garrison commander returned?

Those subordinates who did not rescue him would probably have been hacked to death by him.

There were originally two battalions of Japanese soldiers in the city, and the Imperial Army also stationed a regiment in Yangquan.

But recently, some unknown problem occurred to the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, and they have been shrinking their forces.

The Eighth Route Army in eastern Shanxi did not have time to fill the gap.

The Japanese in Yangquan took the opportunity to send out troops and the Imperial Army to seize territory everywhere.

More than a dozen artillery towers were built quickly.

However, a small half of the troops in the city were forced to leave.

Mainly the Japanese soldiers in Yangquan, they have also become furious.

It is already August and the autumn harvest will be next month.

The Japanese have now occupied new territory, and naturally all the food they have captured belongs to them.

The Japanese in the city only left a squadron of soldiers and a battalion of the Imperial Army to defend the city.

Then a battalion of Japanese infantry and a battalion of the Imperial Army went out of the city to support the Yangquan Railway Station.

Not long after they left the county town, they were surrounded by a regiment of the Marine Brigade.

That's eighty big cannons, forty small cannons, and the mines are given away for free.

Finally, a machine gun fire swept through and the group of Japanese devils were completely wiped out.

No wonder some people later said that the Gansu Army’s infantry were all corpse collectors.

Even if they were sent to the battlefield, they would rarely have the opportunity to fire a shot.

Because when they fight, they rely on the terrain and ammunition.

If it really comes their riflemen's turn to play, it means that their opponents are very difficult to deal with.

Or maybe the terrain is not suitable for fighting, as it is too wide and can only be fought by infantry.

Therefore, every time the Gansu Army infantrymen were unable to fight, they were very active in cleaning up the battlefield.

Because only at that specific moment do they have the chance to shoot.

The defenders on the city wall watched helplessly as their troops leaving the city "danced" amid artillery fire and gunfire.

During this attack, the Japanese infantry battalion was caught in the dark and collapsed before it could even form a battle formation.

The Imperial Army was even more confused. When the gunfire rang out, they just lay down on the spot.

But after waiting for about twenty minutes, the battle was over and the Eighth Route Army sent people to take care of them.

The commander of the Imperial Army cursed the Eighth Route Army in his heart.

After all, I have a battalion of soldiers, and you dare to look down on me.

It was at this moment that the regiment commander secretly took out his pistol, intending to take advantage of the chaos to shoot down the Eighth Route Army's hidden guns.

The battalion commander shot and killed the regiment commander with just one shot.

"Bah, you traitor, you want to die, and you want to take your brothers to be buried with you, what a piece of shit!

Why are you looking at me? Put down your guns and kneel down.

Let's wait together for the commander of the Eighth Route Army to come and capture us.

When they come, maybe they can even give us a battlefield for an uprising."

The Imperial Army had some complaints at the beginning, what "dog traitors"?

Aren’t we also “traitor dogs”?

But now after hearing what the battalion commander said, he knew that not only could he save his life this time, he also had a chance to start an uprising on the battlefield.

They all began to take off their weapons and equipment and put them aside.

A company commander of the Imperial Army came over and asked, "Battalion Commander, we have all revolted, so why don't we go up and help the Eighth Route Army?"

Battalion Commander: "What a help! With our current combat capability, going up now would only make things worse.

Let's just wait and wait until the Eighth Route Army arrives and accepts us. There's no need to create any more trouble."

The Japanese soldiers guarding Yangquan County have been frightened by the battle situation outside the city.

The city is now very short of troops, with only one squadron of infantry left.

There are also more than a hundred gendarmes from the gendarmerie, who are now on the city wall.

There were also civilian personnel from various Japanese military units and the devil's cooks and grooms.

Even the wounded and sick who were able to hold guns were organized and given guns.

The Imperial Army, puppet police, and detective teams in the county town were also assembled and assigned to participate in the defense of the city walls.

Looking at the thousands of people who were finally gathered together, the Japanese squadron leader felt relieved.

Now he couldn't leave the city, and his garrison commander was no match for him.

An entire battalion of the Imperial Army was wiped out so quickly. What would be the point of going out by myself?

If he could rely on the city wall to protect Yangquan, he would have escaped disaster.

Of course, there is no need to think about making contributions to the empire.

He wants to be a coward, but he has to see if his shell is hard enough.

The main forces of the Japanese invaders were guarding the west gate city wall.

At this time, the garrison guarding the east gate was a company of the Imperial Army and a detachment of the gendarmerie.

The Japanese soldiers in the gendarmerie were quite confident in catching anti-Japanese elements in the county town.

As for leaving the city and fighting in the field with the Eighth Route Army, it was only at the level of a second-rate unit.

However, their fighting power should not be underestimated as they are hiding on the city walls for defense. After all, their shooting skills are quite accurate.

In addition, a lot of soldiers from the Imperial Army came up on this section of the city wall.

The entire company has more than 160 people.

This shows that this company of the Imperial Army not only did not have vacancies, but may have exceeded the quota.

This means that their company commander is an officer who is good at leading troops and fighting.

Didn’t you see that there were more than 40 unfamiliar faces in their team?

But they look very tough and you can tell at first glance that they are veterans of war.

This further increased the Japanese squad leader's confidence in guarding the city gate.

The Japanese squad leader was influenced by the working instinct of the gendarmerie.

A very strange idea suddenly occurred to him.

"What? More than 40 new faces? What do you mean?

I need to think about this carefully. I seem to have overlooked something just now.

That is something very important, but I can’t remember it at the moment.”

At this time, he wanted to find Captain Huang of the Imperial Army to ask about the situation of his men.

Look at these unfamiliar soldiers. When did they join their company?

I saw Captain Huang standing behind the battlements, observing the situation outside.

The Japanese squad leader walked over and asked, "Huang Sang, these subordinates of yours look unfamiliar. Where are they from?"

Captain Huang said: "Captain Kawano, these are all soldiers that my platoon leader recruited in mid-August.

You haven't been to our company for a while, so it's inevitable that you don't know them."

While the two men were still talking, Captain Kawano noticed that a torch suddenly lit up in the darkness outside the city.

In the darkness over there, there was a shadowy figure who waved a torch three times.

An Imperial Army officer on the city wall took the torch from a soldier beside him and waved it four times towards the outside of the city.

Then Captain Kawano saw the changes happening below the city wall.