When the attacking troops were fifty meters away from the stronghold, four mortars began to extend artillery fire, and the Japanese remaining in the outer positions finally had a chance to breathe.

Climb out of the trenches quickly, lift the rifle and shoot at the National Rescue Army that is close to you.

Someone took out the prepared grenade and threw it out with force.

The offensive troops that were blocked were not vegetarians, and the light machine guns and submachine guns that attacked with the team immediately joined the battle.

The Japanese shot a bullet at them, and the attacking troops fired back ten or even twenty bullets.

Although the attacking troops lost artillery support, the powerful machine gun fire still caused heavy casualties in the Japanese army, and they were unable to move in the trenches...

"kill……"

Li Yifang, the company commander of the Fourth Company of the Second Battalion, rushed to the front, holding a box cannon in his hand, and was the first to rush into the outer position of the stronghold.

The surviving Japanese survivors rushed out of the trench with guns. They wanted to fight with the National Savior Army to fight for bayonets and pull a few more people before they died.

Seeing Li Yifang holding a box cannon in his hand, he immediately determined his identity as an officer, and then rushed towards him together...

But Li Yifang didn't give them a chance to fight a bayonet, so he raised the box cannon and shot at them.

As the battalion commander of the second battalion, Huang Hu is no longer suitable to charge on the front line.

Seeing that the outer defense line of the stronghold was torn open by Li Yifang, many surviving Japanese soldiers emerged from the stronghold and wanted to fight bayonets with the offensive troops. Although they didn't know how these Japanese troops avoided the shelling, there was one thing he knew: Although the National Salvation Army took a lot of advantages in the hands of the Japanese, when it comes to fighting bayonets, neither of the two soldiers were the opponents of the same Japanese.

That's why the regiment commander reminded everyone at military meetings many times not to fight bayonets with the Japanese. It is best to avoid even shooting at the counter. Enemies that can be solved with shells on the battlefield will never use bullets, and problems that can be solved with bullets will never use bayonets...

Thinking of this, Huang Hu made a quick decision to order: "The guards will use submachine guns and pistols to kill the surviving Japanese devils at the stronghold."

The guard platoon was equipped with ten submachine guns, ten box cannons, and three light machine guns. It was the infantry platoon with the strongest melee firepower in the Second Battalion.

As soon as they entered the battlefield, the surviving Japanese devils completely lost their chance to turn the tables.

As soon as they emerged from the hiding ruins, a shuttle of submachine gun bullets flew towards them, killing them without any resistance.

Zhou Cheng and Tang Yufeng were guarding next to the convoy, about one kilometer across the battlefield.

Hearing the sound of cannons on the battlefield slowly being covered by gunfire, and as the gunfire began to become thinner, Zhou Cheng felt that the attack of the Second Battalion had been completed.

As soon as this thought came to my mind, a messenger rode his horse and rushed towards everyone.

After turning over and falling, he reported with excitement before he stood firm: "Captain, the Zeng Jiayan stronghold was taken down by us."

"The battalion commander asked me to report that the 4th and 5th Company is advancing towards the blockade line on both sides of the stronghold, expanding the breakthrough, and the transportation team can set off!"

Zhou Cheng's heart was finally relieved and immediately ordered: "The operation starts now!"

"Old Tang, please take the recruits to the back to pick them up. I will go with the convoy first to prevent accidents from happening in the middle!"

After Zhou Chengyi finished speaking, he climbed onto the co-pilot of a car next to him, not giving Tang Yufeng a chance to object.

"Boom..."

The car started, and twelve cars rushed out of the hiding point one by one. Under the escort of the cavalry company, they rushed toward the breakthrough of the blockade line that had just been torn open by the Second Battalion.

The official road and the Japanese stronghold were next to each other. When Zhou Cheng sat in the co-pilot passing by the stronghold, he could clearly see the tragic situation in the stronghold.

The artillery tower towering in the middle of the stronghold has been blown into a pile of ruins. The barracks behind the artillery tower have also been bombed, the roofs have been completely blown away, the beams have been lit, and thick black smoke has been emitted. The two rows of barracks can only see some ruins with gaps everywhere.

Many of the castles on the outside were bombed into ruins. Even if they were not destroyed, at least one big hole was blown out from the top of the castle, which looked particularly scary.

The outermost defense line has been blown up in a distorted manner, with bullet craters of different sizes everywhere, Japanese and puppet troops lying around the bullet craters, and many Japanese and puppet troops have even been blown away, and their limbs and broken arms are splashed everywhere...

Nearly a hundred unbeaten puppet soldiers were squatting in the open space in the middle of the stronghold, and more than a dozen soldiers were guarding the side with guns. They were asked to register one by one. After the registration was completed, they were taken by other soldiers to help transport the bodies of Japanese and puppet soldiers...

Although Zhou Cheng did not visit the scene in person, he could see that the reason why the Japanese strongholds were like this is because the mountain artillery company under the artillery battalion played a great role.

The name of the God of War of Artillery is indeed not bragged about...

The indestructible artillery towers and castles in front of the infantry were like paper in front of the artillery, and were instantly blown into ruins.

This is even more true for human lives. In the face of powerful artillery, as long as the shells are sufficient and the artillery fire is strong enough, no matter how many soldiers go up, they will eventually become a series of casualties in the battle report.

After crossing the blockade line and following the convoy forward for less than half an hour, several black smoke pillars entered Zhou Cheng's vision, which was a stronghold that the spy company had just taken down.

The tragic level inside is no worse than the Zeng Jiayan stronghold.

Although the artillery tower more than ten meters high was still standing on the spot, the exterior wall of the artillery tower was blown up to several large holes, and black smoke kept popping out of the holes, and several Japanese and puppet soldiers' bodies hung upside down on the holes...

The spy company commander Shen Liwen guarded the intersection of the official road and left the stronghold. When Zhou Cheng was stationed, he ran over: "Captain, the spy company successfully captured the stronghold twenty minutes ago, destroyed 86 Japanese and puppet troops, and captured 59 puppet troops. The spy company sacrificed 39 people and seriously injured 18 people. Almost all of them were caused by our attack on the Japanese and puppet troops."

Zhou Cheng was very satisfied with the order: "Leave a squad to clean the battlefield, guard the prisoners, and all other troops will be scattered. Never let a Japanese and puppet army approach our transportation line, which will affect the safety of the convoy!"

Shen Liwen replied very seriously: "Don't worry, leader, I've started doing it!"

In the secret arsenal, Wang Tieshan finally saw the convoy coming from the defense zone at the end of the official road, and his eyes lit up.

"The regiment commander is coming soon, and the baggage company is ready to load the vehicle!"

From dark, the baggage company began to transport ammunition and equipment from the arsenal to the entrances and exits of the ravine.

More than 200 mules and horses can transport more than 50,000 ammunition and equipment at a time. It takes half an hour to transport it. When the convoy arrived, the logistics company had already transported nearly 150,000 kilograms of ammunition and equipment at the entrance and exit of the ravine.

More than 200 mules and horses are still continuously transporting ammunition to the loading point.

Dozens of baggage soldiers guarded the mountains of ammunition and equipment. As soon as the car arrived, they immediately climbed up to unload the large truck in the car, then loaded the ammunition and equipment on it, and set off for one...

On the official road that was almost ten kilometers away from the defense zone, Tang Yufeng marched forward with a thousand new recruits and 150 large cars. Every time he advanced for more than half an hour, he had to take a look at the map, his expression was both nervous and anxious.

"Deputy Commander Tang, a car is driving towards us."

Tang Yufeng quickly climbed up to the roadside high ground and saw the headlights of the car at a glance.

The second car entered the field of view when the first car was more than 500 meters away from the receiving troops.

"We went to the front open space to pick up the convoy. The place was large enough that the car that had unloaded the supplies could turn directly back for the second transportation. The first company, the second company, and the third company were responsible for picking up the first batch of ammunition and equipment. They equipped fifty large trucks. In order to prevent accidents during transportation, each large truck could only carry 1,300 kilograms of ammunition and equipment..."

Although the National Salvation Army quickly killed the Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold and cut off the telephone line from the stronghold to the county before the attack, they could not kill the Japanese and puppet troops who were everywhere in the enemy-occupied areas.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, the Japanese Heshun Garrison Command received news that the stronghold was captured, the defense line was torn apart, and there was a news that the car was running back and forth on the official road.

"Sir, the National Salvation Army has dispatched all cars that are rarely used in normal times. It must be transporting very important things to their defense zone!" A staff officer frowned and analyzed.

The captain was very dissatisfied with this answer: "I am not stupid, of course I know that they are transporting important things."

"Now I want you to think about how to solve this problem. No matter what the national rescue army transports, we must find a way to cut it off!"

Several staff officers frowned even deeper, and they all showed a look of embarrassment.

This problem is too difficult to solve.

Although the Heshun Garrison still has half of the troops, half of the soldiers are recruits just added by the brigade commander. They have not yet formed combat power and must not be sent to the battlefield to die unless they have to.

Last night there was a field infantry brigade in the city. If they were there, a reinforcement squadron would be able to rob the things that the National Rescue Army was transporting.

The problem is that they evacuated early this morning, and it is definitely too late to tell them to kill them.

If you don’t have troops in your hands, no matter how many methods a few staff members think, it will be vain.

The captain waited for a long time but no one spoke, so he could only sigh: "Since there is nothing we can do, the brigade commander asked us to defend the county town and did not have the order to prohibit the initiative. The accident that happened outside the city could only be handed over to the brigade commander to decide."

"He told us to attack and attack, he asked us to ignore it!"

At the command of the Yangquan Japanese Army Corps, Major General Honda did not take it too seriously after reading the telegram sent by the Heshun Garrison.

The Heshun County was being controlled by the garrison, and the arsenal of the garrison that the garrison reserved weapons and ammunition was also in the county. The National Salvation Army captured all the strongholds outside the city and could not seize much.

Since the national rescue army transported not any important materials, let them transport them.

When the Zhengtai Railway is reopened and the garrison and Honda United recover their combat effectiveness, no matter what the supplies the National Salvation Army transports tonight, they will eventually fall into their hands.

With this idea, the Honda United ordered decisively: "Call back to the Heshun Guard: Let them not cause trouble. Now our most important task is to protect and repair the Zhengtai Railway. No matter what else the garrison and Honda United restore their combat effectiveness, we will find the National Rescue Army to settle the accounts!"
Chapter completed!