I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 439: The 1st Army Headquarters's coded reply

Yoshio Shinozuka's judgment is still above average.

Now that we know it is the Eighth Route Army that is harassing us, there is nothing to worry about.

They are just a group of local guerrillas. What harm can they do to the Imperial Army?

So what if there are too many people?

No matter how many people there are, they are still the Eighth Route Army. Are you afraid of a group of farmers holding homemade guns?

Perhaps the Eighth Route Army's display of weakness a few days ago played a certain role.

Faced with this complicated situation, Yoshio Shinozuka did not take it seriously, but went back to his room to sleep.

In response to the plain text telegram from Yangquan Railway Station, he simply replied with an order.

"Let them guard the station's armory. If the special forces inside cause any problems, let them commit hara-kiri.

As for the reinforcements... there will always be reinforcements, all you have to do is guard the train station."

"Hi"!

When Adjutant Ono received the commander's order, he did not waste any time and immediately asked the telegraph operator to send a message to Yangquan Railway Station.

"Mr. Ono, there should be no secret code at Yangquan Railway Station, so they sent the telegram in plain text."

Ono: "Then you should send it back in plain text. Why are you asking me this?"

So, according to Yoshio Shinozuka's instructions, a clear-coded telegram was sent to the artillery tower of Yangquan Railway Station.

The radio operator in the artillery tower had just replied "The message has been received" when he returned to his hometown on the Japanese island.

When Ono heard the reply from Yangquan Railway Station, he didn't think much about it and went straight back to the office to be on duty.

Now the Japanese squadron leader has no time to read the telegram.

The heavy machine gunner in their artillery tower just couldn't help himself and got into trouble.

They saw the Eighth Route Army using anti-aircraft machine guns on the roof of the station building to shoot at the Japanese soldiers in the train carriages.

Seeing his soldiers suffering heavy casualties, the heavy machine gunner in the turret couldn't help himself.

They picked up heavy machine guns and started firing at the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft machine guns.

It’s just a pity that the anti-aircraft machine gun position on the train station building is too high.

Their heavy machine guns could not hit the Eighth Route Army at all, and instead exposed themselves.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers on the roof of the station building were not polite either.

Press the muzzle of the anti-aircraft machine gun downward and fire directly at the turret.

Not only did he kill the heavy machine gunner, but he also fired a bullet from an anti-aircraft machine gun, which was a great achievement.

Not only did he kill the radio operator, but he also blew up the telegraph machine in the artillery tower.

This completely cut off all contact between the train station and the outside world.

What made the squadron leader even more devastated was the telegram from the First Army Headquarters.

"Bakayaluo, defend to the death, defend to the death, how to defend to the death? Are we going to rely on these five or six hundred scattered soldiers?"

You should know that there are quite a few Eighth Route Army soldiers on the trains at the train station.

Once they got out of the vehicle and turned the gun around, all they had to do was fire a belt of ammunition.

The defenders on the side of the train station wall will completely collapse.

What should they do? It seems that they can no longer defend this train station.

The armory was hidden relatively secretly.

In addition, these Eighth Route Army troops are used to suffering.

The weapons and ammunition on the surface of the station alone were enough for them to move.

As long as we can attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army, perhaps they won't find that hidden arsenal?

The Japanese squadron leader made a big decision: he wanted to lead his troops to break out.

As long as they rushed out, the Eighth Route Army troops would not dare to stay in the train station for too long.

It didn't matter that all the weapons on the surface of the station were lost.

That warehouse really cannot be lost, as it contains a thousand special bullets.

It also stores weapons and equipment for an entire brigade.

Those are all intended to be shipped to the southern battlefield, and we can't lose them.

Otherwise, he would definitely not survive, and even his family on the Japanese island would be implicated.

In fact, he also thought about blowing up all these weapons and not leaving them to the Eighth Route Army.

But he didn't dare. If he really blew up the armory, he would die too.

There was another one, the armory was hidden on the other side of the station.

But Yang Qingwen and his crew's train was right in the middle, blocking the Japanese.

It was difficult for him to rush over, let alone blow up the armory.

The Japanese squadron leader made up his mind. He wanted to break out, and he wanted to break out in the direction of the independent brigade.

The Eighth Route Army troops are now eager to attack, but they certainly would not have thought of this.

I will abandon my strong fortifications and fight against their troops.

He followed all the despicable practices of the Japanese islands, which was to take a gamble.

What Japan is best at is betting on the country's destiny. They had good luck at the beginning and kept winning.

So today, the Japanese squadron leader decided to take another gamble like his predecessors.

He was betting that the Eighth Route Army's besieging troops would soon evacuate the train station.

He was blocking the Eighth Route Army soldiers and couldn't find the door to the armory.

He was betting that the garrison stationed in Yangquan County could quickly send reinforcements.

He immediately ordered the heavy machine gunners in the artillery tower not to bother with the anti-aircraft machine gun positions on the top of the station building.

Instead, they fired at the Eighth Route Army attacking from outside the station wall.

Just like that, they fired their heavy machine guns madly at the outside.

They had no time to take care of themselves and were called out one by one by the sharpshooters of the Eighth Route Army.

Their grenade throwers were continuously firing flares into the sky.

For a moment, the outside of Yangquan Railway Station was as bright as day because of the flares in the sky.

The soldiers of the independent brigade who rushed over were immediately exposed in the open space.

Even with the support of sharpshooters and light and heavy machine guns, they still suffered considerable casualties.

Fortunately, Zhou Weiguo brought an artillery team that fired in time.

They suppressed the Japanese grenade launchers, thus avoiding greater casualties among the troops.

The artillery of the independent brigade did not dare to fire because the two regiment commanders, Chen Feng and Sun Chenghai, were still inside the station.

They usually have enough bullets for training, but not much reserve of artillery shells.

During the training, there weren't enough live ammunition. In the dark, they didn't dare to fire.

If the bomb is not blown up properly and they are both blown up, it would be a real loss.

The Japanese squadron leader saw that the attention of the Eighth Route Army was attracted by the walls and artillery towers.

He immediately gave an order, asking the 400 or so Japanese soldiers hiding at the station entrance to quietly open the door.

They had to leave the city quickly because the Eighth Route Army was lurking inside the station.

They have already started setting up heavy machine gun positions on the train platform, with fifty heavy machine guns in total.

The four anti-aircraft machine guns on top of the station had begun to cut down the turret layer by layer from top to bottom.

Just as they opened the door, they made eye contact with the people outside.

There were Japanese invaders inside the doorway and the Eighth Route Army outside. Between the two sides was a truckload of explosives.

Li Dabenshi had already planned it out, and they would take action outside first.

Then Chen Feng and Sun Chenghai took advantage of the chaos and launched a surprise attack on the Japanese from behind.

After Chen Feng takes action, Li Dabenshi will launch a feint attack on the outer wall of the railway station.

They wanted to take advantage of the situation and divert the Japanese's attention.

Then, they sent out a demolition team while it was still dark, and pushed the explosives into the station doorway on a cart to detonate them. The independent brigade could then rush into the train station.

This time, both sides wanted to find a breakthrough point from the station entrance, so they tacitly chose not to start the fight at this location.

The Japanese squadron leader didn't even let the grenade launcher fire the flares in this direction.