Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 105 The turret jumped up
In order to get the black gunpowder, Chen Chengxing began to discuss with Li Yunlong and Kong Jie how to eliminate Qin Youde.

"Once the artillery tower is blown up, the puppet troops in Shenkou Town will inevitably flee in panic. Do you want to surround them on all sides or surround them on three sides and leave one side open?" Chen Chengxing asked.

Both surrounding three sides and surrounding three sides with one side left have their own advantages.

If they were to surround the enemy on all four sides, the troops would surely suffer more casualties; and if they were to surround the enemy on three sides and leave one soldier missing, some puppet soldiers would inevitably be able to escape, and then the gains of their three regiments would be less.

Li Yunlong and Kong Jie were also very clear about these two situations, so after a little thought, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie asked for a four-sided encirclement, and Chen Chengxing also agreed with this choice, after all, he still had a mission to do.

It’s not that Chen Chengxing looked down on these puppet troops, but their combat effectiveness was not enough to attract the attention of the three regiments.

The reason why they did not take over Shenkou Town in the past few days was simply because they did not want to cause heavy casualties.

Moreover, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie were not blind. They judged that Chen Chengxing must be doing something, so they kept waiting.

If necessary, regardless of casualties, they could capture Shenkou Town in less than six hours.

If there were Japanese soldiers in Shenkou Town, Chen Chengxing and his men might have to choose the tactic of surrounding them on three sides and leaving one behind.

After all, some dogs behave completely differently when they are watched by their owners and when they are not.

Chen Chengxing doesn’t think that these traitors in Shenkou Town can fight to the death. If they had this awareness, they would not become traitors.

"When will the explosion happen?" Li Yunlong rubbed his hands eagerly.

"You should hurry up and send the explosives over so that they can be detonated at noon today. If we delay until night, these puppet troops will most likely escape at night," said Chen Chengxing.

In the dark, if the puppet troops fled in all directions, they might not be able to catch them all.

Even if there were 2200 pigs, their three groups wouldn't be able to catch them all.

"Okay!" Li Yunlong and Kong Jie immediately got up to make arrangements.

After receiving the explosives, Chen Chengxing immediately arranged for filling.

In the chamber, the bottom layer was loaded with high explosives, the second layer was loaded with black powder, the third layer was loaded with high explosives again, and the fourth layer was still black powder.

A total of 500 kilograms of high explosives and 1500 kilograms of black powder.

At 1 p.m., after making all preparations, Chen Chengxing pressed the detonator.

"Boom~~~"

This time there was no deafening noise, only a sound like muffled thunder.

And from a distance, it seemed that the artillery tower was still standing and had not collapsed.

"Is this artillery tower so solid? It can't be destroyed even by 2000 kilograms of explosives?!" Li Yunlong and Kong Jie's eyes almost popped out.

"That's not right. There's such a thick smoke and the ground seems to have risen. How come it doesn't collapse?" Chen Chengxing was very puzzled.

"Xu Wu!" Chen Chengxing shouted.

"To!"

"You arrange a platoon of troops to launch an attack and see what happens." Chen Chengxing ordered.

"Yes!"

A few minutes later, the well-prepared 1st Company, 1st Platoon, launched the offensive.

But the puppet soldiers in the artillery tower were very quiet, as if they had not seen the Eighth Route Army at all.

Two minutes later, a long line of people came running back in a hurry.

"Captain! It collapsed, it collapsed! The other side of the artillery tower has collapsed. Among the hundreds of puppet soldiers inside, except for two who are half dead, the rest have all gone to report to the King of Hell in their homemade planes." A platoon leader said excitedly.

"Good! Haha, good!" Li Yunlong immediately burst into laughter after hearing the words of the platoon leader.

Without the artillery tower, Shenkou Town was a piece of fat meat, and the three regiments could eat it however they wanted.

"Let's go, let's go." Li Yunlong waved to Chen Chengxing and left in a hurry. He couldn't wait to enter Shenkou Town.

Kong Jie also returned to the independent regiment shortly afterwards.

"Is it still possible to go up to the artillery tower?" Chen Chengxing asked.

"Yes! Comrades have tried it and it is very solid." said a platoon leader.

The Japanese did not save any cement when building this turret, so even if half of it collapsed, the other half could still be used.

"Carry an infantry gun up and aim to bomb TND." Chen Chengxing ordered.

When the infantry artillery goes upstairs, it becomes invincible. It uses its height and field of vision to hit anyone it wants.

None of the puppet army's firepower points could escape. Even if they moved, they were under the noses of the infantry artillery and had nowhere to hide.

"Yes!"

When Chen Chengxing pressed the detonator, Qin Youde was curled up in the room cuddling with his third concubine.

Qin Youde was a little surprised when he heard the thunder-like sound.

"Someone come! Go and see what's going on!" Qin Youde ordered.

"Yes!" The guard at the door ran out immediately.

But as soon as the guard reached the gate of the headquarters, he saw the chief of staff rushing into the headquarters like crazy.

"Staff officer." Before the guards could salute, Jia Junfei had already run into the headquarters.

Jia Junfei rushed into the headquarters and without saying a word, he slammed Qin Youde's door open.

"Who the hell is tired of living?" Qin Youde pulled his hand out and said angrily.

Jia Junfei simply ignored Qin Youde's scolding and shouted, "Commander! Commander! Something bad has happened!" "What's the matter?!" Seeing Jia Junfei's expression, Qin Youde stood up suddenly, and the third concubine who was originally sitting on his lap rolled to the ground.

But at this time, the two people in the room ignored the third concubine who fell to the ground.

"The gun tower! The gun tower was blown down!" Jia Junfei's expression was uglier than if his own father had died.

"What? What did the Eighth Route Army use to bomb? Just those two small cannons?" Qin Youde's eyes almost popped out.

"It should be a tunnel. The brothers on the city wall said they saw the artillery tower jump up."

"Commander, what should we do now?" Jia Junfei said with a sad face.

Qin Youde was now as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, pacing back and forth in the room.

"Let the brothers hold on. I will call the locust army now." Qin Youde said.

Now Qin Youde is not sure whether he can call for support, but he must try.

"Yes." Jia Junfei hurried out to pass on the order.

Qin Youde shook the phone frantically.

"Hello? Xiao County City Defense Department? I'm Qin Youde from Shenkou Town! The Eighth Route Army has breached the city wall and is engaging in street fighting with us! We are in urgent need of support! Keep up the support!"

When the Eighth Route Army appeared on the first day, Qin Youde had already reported the situation to Xiao County, but the Eighth Route Army did not fight seriously at that time, and Qin Youde, relying on the artillery tower in his hands, did not take it too seriously.

But he didn't expect the situation to change so quickly, and the turret collapsed in the blink of an eye.

But the Japanese are not fools. Now Xiao County only has an infantry battalion, and it is only configured because of its special geographical location.

But even if a battalion was fully mobilized, it would be impossible for it to compete with 10,000 or 20,000 Eighth Route Army soldiers. They just think of themselves as elite, not fools.

If they were unarmed Eighth Route Army soldiers, they would dare to go up, but facing the main force of the Eighth Route Army equipped with both light and heavy weapons, they could only hope God bless them.

"What? Unable to send reinforcements?!" Qin Youde was almost furious.

"Hello? Hello?!"

"Fuck!" Qin Youde slammed the phone directly on the table.

You are a Japanese, how can you be scared by thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers?
Qin Youde has forgotten how he reported.

In order to gain more credit and report more losses, Qin Youde said that there were 10 to 20,000 people outside, seven or eight infantry guns, and dozens of heavy machine guns.

At that time, Xiao County judged that it was Li Jiachuan's enemy.

This Eighth Route Army had been fighting the 109th Division for several days with no clear winner. If one of our battalions were to go up there, we would just be throwing ourselves into disarray.

Qin Youde cursed in the room for a long time, and had no choice but to pick up the phone and call Anqiu again.

Shenkou Town is an important stronghold connecting Xiaoxian and Anqiu, and the 109th Division will certainly not sit idly by.

"Hello? Hello! I'm Qin Youde from Shenkou Town. Please get me the 109th Division from Anqiu City!"

"What? Gone?!"

"when?!"

"Yesterday? Have you left Shanxi by train?"

Qin Youde was stunned when he heard the answer on the phone, and didn't even know when the other party hung up the call.

"Damn it, why leave at any other time, why leave yesterday?!" Qin Youde started jumping up and down again.

The reason why he is so confident is because the 109th Division is not far away and can be reached in 3 hours by trucks. Now you tell me that you are leaving for the front line?

Either you leave early or you don't leave at all. What does it mean to leave at this time?
Just as Qin Youde was cursing in the room, Jia Junfei ran back again.

"Commander, the Eighth Route Army has entered the town!" Jia Junfei asked anxiously, "How long will it take for the reinforcements to arrive?"

"Reinforcements? What a bunch of reinforcements! Not a single Japanese soldier is coming!" Qin Youde said angrily.

"Ah?! What should we do then?" Jia Junfei said.

Without the help of the Japanese, it would be wishful thinking for the 2500 security forces alone to stop the to Route Army soldiers rushing in.

According to Jia Junfei's estimation, the entire army would be wiped out in less than an hour.

"Damn it, how should I know what to do?" Qin Youde threw his hat directly on the table.

Qin Youde thought about it and felt that he couldn't just let it go. He had to live. He had just had a few days of good life. If he died, he would have been a traitor in vain.

"Chief of Staff Jia, let's break out! As long as we can escape the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, we can make a comeback no matter whether we go to Xiaoxian or Anqiu!" Qin Youde said.

After all, he was a lieutenant general, and the Japanese would give him a way out even for the sake of their face.

With the support of the Japanese, I can regroup the team at any time.

It's just conscription, it's the same for everyone.

Hearing Qin Youde say he wanted to break out, Jia Junfei breathed a sigh of relief. He was so afraid that Qin Youde would choose to risk his life.

As for surrender, neither of them thought about it.

If the soldiers surrendered, they might still survive, but based on their usual behavior, they would be killed sooner or later if caught by the Eighth Route Army.

If the people outside now were the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army or the Central Army, they would have surrendered long ago.

"I'll arrange it right away." Jia Junfei walked out of the headquarters.

Since we are trying to break out, we must not be too big a target, but we must not be completely defenseless, otherwise a few bandits can kill us.

(End of this chapter)