Chapter 674: The Arsenal is Lost
When Kangping was planning to blow up the arsenal in Datong City, the Japanese army outside the city was ready to cut off the retreat route of Datong City.
At this time, the only way to enter and exit Datong was the south gate of Datong City, and the troops responsible for logistics and transportation would occasionally encounter sneak attacks by the Japanese army, but fortunately, the losses were not large, and the transported materials could be safely sent into Datong City.
But as time goes by, the Japanese army will definitely completely surround Datong, and the connection between Datong City and the outside world will inevitably be severed, which is what Huang Changsheng and Li Weimin are most worried about.
"Send a telegram to Li Lingfei!"
The Japanese army is becoming more and more arrogant and rampant, and the logistics units of the new 33rd Army are weak in combat effectiveness, which makes the little devils like flies and harass the logistics and transportation lines at any time. Regarding what happened, Huang Changsheng became more and more aware that this was the Japanese army testing them and wanted to take the opportunity to cut off their way to retreat.
"Okay, send it in my name, we have to prepare for Datong to be besieged!"
The siege of Datong seems to have become an inevitable thing, and they must be prepared for the encirclement, since there is no way to break the encirclement from the inside, only to break the encirclement of the Japanese army from the outside. So they had to tell Li Lingfei and let Li Lingfei figure it out.
Li Lingfei received a telegram from Datong and showed it to Liao Jundong as soon as possible. It is not a trivial matter for tens of thousands of troops to be surrounded, they must find a way as soon as possible, otherwise these tens of thousands of people will not do anything, and they will be able to sit on Datong and eat nothing.
"How many soldiers do we have left?" Liao Jundong asked Li Lingfei.
"There is only one guard regiment, and I have already arranged for the other troops to go to Jingcheng to support Commander Ma!"
In the Taihang Mountain garrison, there is only one unit of the guard regiment left, which is the last line of defense of the garrison, and if the guard regiment is transferred, there will be no troops to defend the factories, hospitals, schools and other infrastructure in the garrison. These things are the key to the new 33rd Army, once these things are gone, everything in Taihang Mountain will have to return to the starting point.
"The guard regiment can't be mobilized, let Liu Chundao lead the troops north!"
"But...... But...... What if something happens in the Jingyun area? ”
Liu Chundao's troops can be said to be the last reserve of the entire New 33rd Army, and now that the battle has just begun, the last reserve will be transferred, and they will no longer have any troops to respond to on the battlefield, which makes Li Lingfei feel bottomless.
"I can't care about it so much, once Datong is lost, the Japanese army will drive straight down, causing a series of reactions, and our troops on the Datong territory will retreat to Taihang Mountain!"
Liao Jundong is not wrong, the mechanized troops in the Datong Basin are the most suitable for the little devils, once they go south, the connection between Shanyin County and Ying County will also be cut off, and if Shanyin County is lost, Ying County will also be unable to support it alone, and the final result is that all their troops will withdraw to the mountains.
This is not what Liao Jundong wants, they finally got to the current situation.
Li Lingfei obeyed Liao Jundong's order and sent a telegram to Liu Chundao, asking him to leave a regiment of troops at Shimen, and the rest of the troops immediately went north with their equipment after receiving the order.
Liu Chundao discussed with Tian Ziqi at the Shimen Gate about the situation faced by the various units of the New 33rd Army, especially the Jingcheng area where the problem had occurred last time, and he speculated that their division would probably be arranged to fight with Ma Wanzhong's division in the Jingcheng area again.
"A telegram from Chief of Staff Li of the division commander's headquarters!"
"Looks like we're both thinking wrong!" After reading the telegram, Liu Chundao handed it over to his deputy division commander, and the order of the telegram was to let them immediately go north to Yingxian, and then secure the back road of Datong.
"What are we going to do?"
"There's nothing to do, obey the order, you take a regiment to stay at the station, and the rest of the troops will go north at full speed to support Datong after receiving the supplies delivered by the logistics department!" Of course, Liu Chundao will not discount the order, Liao Fan has now fallen, and these people must be sincerely united to achieve victory.
When Li Lingfei sent a telegram to Liu Chundao, he ordered the logistics department to send a batch of materials to Shimen to ensure the smooth implementation of Liu Chundao's plan.
Regarding the order issued by the military department, Li Lingfei did not tell Huang Changsheng and Li Weimin, not because he didn't want to tell them, but because after arranging things, Li Lingfei completely forgot about it. However, Liu Chundao and his troops still went north as scheduled.
When night fell again, although the front-line fighting stopped, it was also the busiest time in Datong City, the wounded, food and ammunition were coming in and out of the city gates, and the patrols in the city had been replaced by non-combat units.
Kang Ping took a few people to help the New 33rd Army carry the wounded for a day, and also found out the situation in the hospital. The most important thing is that the men he has gathered have learned to use the guns in their hands after training during the day.
He divided his assembled men into two teams, one to go to the hospital, and the other to follow him to blow up the munitions hoarded in the city.
A group of people who went to the hospital moved first, and their main purpose was to attract the attention of the city patrol and give Kangping a chance to attack the arsenal. As the minutes ticked by, Kang Ping looked at his watch and waited quietly.
As long as they succeed tonight, their Kang family will return to Datong, and no one will dare to mess with him if Datong is still above 10,000 people under one person, and the most important thing is that he will become the head of the Kang family.
At the appointed time, Kangping took his men and set out to go to the arsenal. Kangping had planned to wait for the dead of night to make a move on the arsenal, but after several reconnaissances, even in the middle of the night, the perimeter of the arsenal was full of people and soldiers carrying ammunition, so Kangping simply decided to act in the first half of the night.
Soldiers patrolling the arsenal and a squad delivering tomorrow's ammunition to the front line, fearing a bombing by Japanese planes during the day, they had to work overtime at night.
Kangping told himself about the concealment of the people, and then waited for the sound of gunshots in the direction of the hospital.
After a while, gunshots came from the direction of the hospital, because they had reconnoitred the defense of the hospital in advance, so they knew the situation of the hospital well, although their combat effectiveness was not even as good as the local troops of the national army, but they suddenly attacked and quickly rushed into the hospital.
As soon as the shots rang out in the direction of the hospital, all the troops in the city were immediately alerted, and even the soldiers who were carrying ammunition at the arsenal forgot to carry the ammunition and looked up in the direction of the hospital, even though they could not see anything here.
Of course, Kangping also heard the gunshots from the hospital, but the soldiers at the arsenal who did not have the slightest intention of supporting him.
But there was no turning back from the bow, Kang Ping knew that they had to act, the opportunity was only this one, and if he succeeded, he would be able to trample everyone in Datong under his feet, and if he failed, he was alone and had nothing to worry about.
"What people!" The soldiers guarding the arsenal watched vigilantly at the people who were coming towards them and shouted to stop them from moving forward, "Military land, idlers are forbidden to approach, and then ......"
"Da Da Da"
Before the soldier could finish speaking, he collapsed in a pool of blood. Kangping and the others had in their hands the same Jin Thomson*, and they suddenly attacked, and the firepower was so strong that it was difficult for the soldiers guarding the arsenal to resist.
"Rush! The first one to rush in, Young Master Ben rewarded fifty gold bars! Kangping believes that there will be brave men under heavy rewards.
Kangping's gold bars did work, fifty gold bars, these people could not spend it in several lifetimes, they were all masters who wanted money and did not want to die, regardless of the soldiers' return fire, rushed to the arsenal.
The soldiers guarding the arsenal were taken by surprise, and Kangping had prepared in advance, and they were close enough to the arsenal to quickly rush to the front of the soldiers' business. Melee combat* firepower is significantly stronger than rifles in the hands of the guards in the arsenal.
The soldiers who held out at the gate could not hold out with five times the number of troops, and finally the whole army was annihilated.
The soldiers patrolling the arsenal were still a step late, and by the time they arrived, Kangping had already rushed into the arsenal with men.
"Listen, lay down your arms and surrender, and spare you from dying!" The platoon commander who led the team shouted inside the arsenal, "If we wait for us to rush in, we will definitely kill you chickens and dogs!" ”
Kang Ping ordered his men to guard the door of the arsenal, and he scoffed at the shouts of the soldiers outside: "If you dare to rush in, everyone will die together!" ”
Such a sentence completely suppressed the platoon commander, these people are all outlaws, once the arsenal is detonated, the consequences are unimaginable.
"You go to the division headquarters to report the situation to the division commander!" In desperation, the platoon commander had no choice but to arrange for his soldiers to report back to the headquarters and ask for orders from the headquarters.
"No need to go, I'm coming!"
When he heard gunshots in the direction of the hospital, Huang Changsheng arranged for the troops to immediately go to the hospital to support. At the same time, Huang Changsheng also expected that something might happen to the arsenal, so he took people to the arsenal and dared.
But I was still a step too late, and when I arrived at the arsenal, I found that the situation was already very tricky.
"Arrange for the soldiers to move all the people in the houses within 500 meters of the surrounding area to a safe place!" Huang Changsheng's first order after arriving at the scene was to arrange for the transfer of ordinary people.
The arsenal was stockpiled with a large amount of ammunition, especially a lot of artillery shells, which were not delivered to the front line in time, and once the people in the arsenal detonated the arsenal, the surrounding civilian houses would inevitably be affected.
Now that they have blocked the exit of the arsenal, the people who attacked the arsenal can't escape at all, as long as the people inside want to live, Huang Changsheng has enough time to negotiate with them.
"Listen to the people inside, our brigade commander is here, if you want to leave alive, quickly put down your weapons and surrender, our brigade commander promises you that you will not be held responsible!"
Huang Changsheng is the brigade commander of the special operations brigade, these people killed the soldiers of the New 33rd Army, how could he easily let these people go, the reason why the soldiers shouted like this is just an expedient measure, in order to stabilize the people in the arsenal.