Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 247 Our leader is very angry and the consequences will be serious!
The Japanese Caijiabao stronghold northwest of Shouyang County.

This is a small road leading from Jinzhong Military Region to southern Shanxi.

The last time the Japanese raided the Jinzhong base, they sent a large group of Japanese and a battalion of puppet troops to attack along this path in three batches.

The Japanese and puppet troops organized a group of laborers and built a brick and stone stronghold here, where a small team of Japanese and a company of puppet troops were stationed.

To prevent the people of Jinzhong Military Region and the Eighth Route Army from following this path to southern Shanxi.

Some people from the Jinzhong base area planned to flee famine from here to southern Shanxi. When they sneaked through the stronghold at night, they were discovered by the Japanese and puppet troops, and dozens of them were killed by machine guns.

On a tree on a hillside not far away, there were several corpses of ordinary people hanging, and even several wooden stakes with the heads of several ordinary people on them.

This was to warn the Eighth Route Army of the Jinzhong Military Region and the common people not to approach, otherwise they would be shot.

In the area near Zhengtai Road, the Japanese were building reinforced concrete bunkers and artillery towers.

That morning, without any warning, the Japanese and puppet troops just got up and found that their Caijiabao stronghold was surrounded.

The muzzles of light and heavy machine guns, mortars, infantry guns and mountain cannons were all pointed at the Caijiabao stronghold.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the stronghold had never seen such a scene before and were scared to death on the spot.

The Japanese squad leader hurriedly called for help, but found that the telephone line had been cut off and no one could help him.

At the headquarters of the first battalion, Zhang Dabiao glanced at the watch on his wrist and was not in a hurry to attack.

This time he brought an infantry battalion and an artillery company, ready to make an example of the Japanese and puppet troops in Caijiabao.

More than half an hour later, a soldier ran in and reported to Zhang Dabiao: "Captain, the militia and villagers are here."

Zhang Dabiao raised the telescope and glanced at the hill not far away. There were shadowy figures on the hill, and there were quite a few people coming.

The militia and the villagers were both excited and frightened
These people were militiamen and villagers invited by the New 1st Regiment to watch the battle. Because a fight was about to break out, they were not allowed to get too close.

Among this group of villagers, some had relatives who died at the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops.

The Eighth Route Army did not have any mandatory regulations regarding whether the people stayed or left. We would see them off if they wanted to leave, and we would welcome them if they wanted to stay.

Moreover, the Eighth Route Army had already reminded the villagers not to approach Zhengtai Road and Tongpu Road.

"let's start."

Zhang Dabiao, with a shaved head, gave orders with sharp eyes.

"Yes!"

The soldier turned around and quickly delivered the message.

soon.

A homemade iron horn was extended from behind a stone shelter, and the sound rang almost simultaneously in the ears of the Japanese and puppet troops, as well as the militia and villagers.

"We are from the Jinzhong base area, Li Yunlong's troops from the New 1st Regiment!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the puppet soldiers in the stronghold all changed their expressions. Who among those who lived in the Zhengtai Road area didn't know the name of Li Yunlong of the Eighth Route Army?
This was the ruthless man who killed Lieutenant General Kawagishi, Major General Takagi, and Major General Gaoyuan, and broke through the frontal encirclement of tens of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops!

"The main reason we came here today is to avenge our fellow villagers who died unjustly!"

"A few days ago, hundreds of villagers from our base were mercilessly shot at by you with machine guns just because they were passing through Caijiabao!"

"This makes our leader very angry, and the consequences are serious!"

"We Chinese have an old saying: if you kill someone, you must pay with your life; if you owe someone a debt, you must pay it back. It's only natural!"

"Our regimental commander said that the people of the Jinzhong base area are under the protection of the Eighth Route Army. No one can bully them! We must kill the murderers who killed the people of the Jinzhong base area at all costs!"

"As long as you hand over the machine guns and machine gunners that fired last time, we will withdraw. Otherwise, we will flatten the Caijiabao stronghold!"

After the soldier finished speaking in Chinese, he shouted again in Japanese.

It is impossible to withdraw the troops.

If the Japanese puppet army could hand over their machine gunners and machine guns, this battle would be much easier to fight.

After hearing the Japanese shouting, the Japs couldn't stop sweating and all of them had serious expressions, as if they were facing a powerful enemy.

Although these devils wanted to eat Li Yunlong's flesh, they couldn't help but shudder when they heard Li Yunlong's name.

Because this group of devils were also soldiers of the 77th Infantry Regiment, Li Yunlong killed their battalion commander, regiment commander, brigade commander, and even division commander.

After hearing the Eighth Route Army's call, the Japanese squad leader became so angry that his face turned ashen and his eyes widened.

"Baga, yalu..."

The Japanese squad leader was furious. He didn't understand.

The Eighth Route Army actually came to fight with the Locust Army and the Locust Association Army for the lives of just a few dozen unruly civilians!

It’s simply unreasonable!

In times of war, human life is worthless. Wherever the locust army goes, they kill some Chinese troublemakers.
The Japanese squad leader turned his head and noticed that the eyes of the puppet soldiers in the artillery tower were flickering. This group of puppet soldiers had already begun to hesitate and planned to give the machine guns and machine gunners to the Eighth Route Army.

The squad leader took out a shackle gun, loaded the bullet, took off the safety, and shot a puppet soldier in the head.

Click!

The bullet jammed.

Awkward…

He loaded the pistol again and shot a puppet soldier in the head.

Click!

The bullet jammed again...

The gun tower was suddenly filled with an awkward atmosphere.

The puppet soldier was almost scared to death.

"Xinei!"

A Japanese soldier nearby couldn't bear to watch anymore and stabbed the puppet soldier to death with his bayonet, the knife going in and the knife coming out.

The Eighth Route Army outside was still shouting.

This situation made the Japanese squad leader even more furious.

The Japanese squad leader pushed the machine gunner aside, picked up a Type 92 heavy machine gun, and opened fire at the bunker where the call came from. Da da da...

The 7.7mm machine gun bullets hit the bunker, causing smoke and dust to fly and gravel to fly everywhere.

After a while, the Japanese squad leader ceased firing.

A voice came from the loudspeaker behind the bunker.

"If you don't accept my toast, then let's start a war..."

Just as the words fell, dense explosions and gunshots rang out.

boom boom boom…

Da da da…

Take advantage of the mortars, machine guns and machine guns to suppress the firepower of the Japanese and puppet troops.

The artillery pushed two Type 92 infantry guns and two mountain guns to a position 500 meters away from the stronghold and aimed directly at the Japanese artillery towers and bunkers.

More than a dozen shots were fired.

The Japanese main gun tower was blown down, and the bunker was blown to pieces like a rotten wood in a huge explosion.

The brick and stone barracks of the Japanese puppet army collapsed under the continuous bombardment of 82mm mortars.

"Is this the true strength of our army?"

On a hill not far away, the militiamen and villagers opened their eyes wide, their faces filled with disbelief.

For most of them, it was the first time to watch the Chinese and Japanese armies fighting up close.

Under Li Yunlong's policy of universal conscription, many militiamen were new recruits and had not even been issued guns.

Seeing the entire stronghold completely shrouded in smoke and explosions, the Japanese puppet troops were unable to fight back.

The militia and villagers were all stunned. The brutality of the Japanese was well known, but they didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army was even more powerful.

The villagers who were killed by the Japanese puppet army machine gunners were even more moved to tears, as they finally got their revenge.

Seeing that the strongholds and artillery towers of the Japanese puppet army were blown down by direct artillery fire, Zhang Dabiao issued the order for a general attack.

The charge sounded, and the soldiers of the first battalion rushed forward like a tide, and the Caijiabao stronghold was soon submerged in the tide.

No Japanese soldier escaped and they were all killed. Dozens of puppet soldiers were also killed, and the remaining fifty or so puppet soldiers surrendered.

When the Eighth Route Army attacked just now, these puppet soldiers all raised their guns and did not dare to fire at the Eighth Route Army.

"Go and invite the militia and the villagers over."

After giving an order to a soldier, Zhang Dabiao drew the sharpened machete he had brought from the 29th Army and pointed the tip of the machete at the squatting puppet soldiers:

"Who among you is the machine gunner? Stand out!"

The puppet soldiers looked at each other, and no one dared to move.

After all, anyone who admits that he is a machine gunner is likely to be shot.

"No one dares to stand up, right?"

"very good!"

"Machine gunners and submachine gunners, get ready!"

Wow!
Dozens of submachine guns and light and heavy machine guns were pointed at the puppet army, almost scaring them to death.

"Your Eighth Route Army has a policy of treating prisoners well and not killing them."

A puppet soldier said this, and upon hearing this, the other puppet soldiers immediately relaxed.

"You are quite knowledgeable about the policies of our Eighth Route Army." Zhang Dabiao raised his lips slightly. "We in the Eighth Route Army don't kill prisoners, but the common people don't have this policy."

The puppet soldiers looked in the direction Zhang Dabiao pointed, and saw a large group of civilians walking towards them with murderous eyes, as if they wanted to eat them.

"Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor. Today, we will only hold the machine gunner responsible!"

"If you don't hand over the machine gunner, you'll be shot at by the civilians!"

In the end, four puppet army machine gunners and a puppet army company commander were identified, their hands were tied, and they were forced to kneel in front of the relatives of the villagers who were shot.

Although other puppet army riflemen may have opened fire that night, the Eighth Route Army has policies. They can't just kill all the puppet soldiers, right?

However, killing the chicken to scare the monkey is necessary.

After a public trial, Zhang Dabiao handed over the power of execution to the relatives of the villagers who were shot.

"Click, click..."

After a few slashes, the heads of four puppet army machine gunners and the puppet army company commander fell to the ground.

The executioners were all young men, and they expressed on the spot their desire to join the Eighth Route Army.

After giving the puppet soldiers a lecture, Zhang Dabiao pointed the bloody tip of his knife at their heads and said sternly, "Go back and tell the devils, if anyone harms the folks in the Jinzhong base area again, this will be the end!"

An old patriarch, who was nearly eighty years old and was carried on a stretcher to join in the fun, burst into tears when he saw this scene.

"I'm almost eighty years old, and from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, I've never seen a military unit that avenged the common people."

"I have made the decision. From now on, all 107 of us villagers from Zhengjia Village will join the Eighth Route Army..."

When the Japanese invaders arrived, many powerful villages spontaneously formed militias, mainly for self-protection.

Many militiamen who came to watch signed up on the spot to join the main force, and young and strong men also signed up enthusiastically to join the army.

However, Zhang Dabiao did not immediately let these people join the team, and they were still in the Japanese stronghold.

Once these people return to the base to spread the word, more people will join the team.

Watching the militia and ordinary people volunteering to help clean up the battlefield and hand in food, weapons and ammunition, they were busy and happy.

The corners of Zhang Dabiao's mouth curled up slightly and then quickly returned to its calm state.

"The captain is still taller."

(End of this chapter)