Taking advantage of the departure of the main force of the devils in Yangquan, Li Yunlong decisively sent an independent regiment mobile force, and the cavalry battalion attacked the surrounding area of Yangquan.

For a time, a large number of artillery towers and military stations were destroyed.

Helpless, Yoshio Shinozuka could only order the 33rd Wing to withdraw. After all, there is still a question about whether there is a gold matter, and if Li Yunlong is allowed to continue to do it, I am afraid that Yangquan will be abolished.

Seeing that the devil reinforcements were back, Sun Desheng twisted the accelerator, turned his head and ran.

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Yang Spring.

Outside a turret five kilometers away from Yangquan City.

Shinji Kosa hurried back with his two brigades, and without returning to the headquarters, the 33rd Wing rushed to the nearest attacked turret as soon as possible.

Looking at the turret in front of him, which had not yet collapsed, his eyes widened and he fell into a long stupor.

Around him, the other devils had the same expression.

At this time, the turret they looked at was a new turret.

Because of the failure of the cage tactic, and because the Eighth Route Army invented the mortar flat-firing technology, and finally, there were a lot of Type 92 infantry guns in the Eighth Route Army recently, and the order from the North China Front Headquarters required all localities to strengthen the artillery towers and increase the ability to defend against artillery attacks.

Although there is a wing stationed in Yangquan, it is not taken seriously here, so the superior only came with an order, and there is no support for the mission.

Even though there is a serious lack of cement, steel and other materials, the devils in the turrets everywhere, for their own safety, still try their best, fire bricks, coal ash, large bluestone bricks, glutinous rice adhesion, multi-layer reinforcement, or directly reinforce a layer of wooden planks or adobe bricks on the outside to block the deadly shelling.

Mortars are not offensive weapons in the first place, as for the 92 type, the destructive ability is also limited, and the reinforced turret is not bad, even if the turret is a little smaller, at least it will not collapse after one or two cannons, and even the larger turret can completely resist these two weapons.

The turret in front of me is not big, but it is not small, there is a full squad of imperial troops stationed in it, the outer layer has been reinforced, the inner layer of stone bricks, the outside has added multiple layers of wooden planks, and deep trenches and multiple layers of barbed wire have been built around, according to common sense, even if the enemy uses Type 92 infantry artillery, it is difficult to break through in a short time.

In reality, this turret has indeed not been captured, and a few locust armies can be seen outside cleaning up the wreckage, but...

"What's going on?"

After reacting, Shinji Kosa pointed to the turret in the distance, his tone full of disbelief.

At this time, the original cylindrical turret seemed to be in disrepair, the surface was full of potholes, holes were everywhere, especially where the shooting holes were placed, and the bricks were broken and fragmented, as if someone had repeatedly beaten them with a sledgehammer, and the sharp-eyed Kosa Shinji even saw the blood stains at the location of the shooting holes.

What happened?

What kind of weapon was this attacked?

"Co-Captain."

Seeing the visitor, the leader of the devil squad who was originally cleaning up the wreckage outside the turret suddenly burst into tears.

"What's going on?"

"How so?"

Shinji Kosa pointed to the turret and asked again.

"It's the Eighth Route Army."

"They used a very powerful heavy machine gun, and the bullets ·····"

Speaking of this, the devil squad leader shuddered suddenly, and then said incoherently: "If you can directly break the outer wall of the turret, you can break people with one shot, and you can..."

Listening to the squad leader's incoherent words, his voice full of fearful narration, everyone understood the attack not long ago, and they also vaguely felt the fear of the squad leader.

The enemy quickly maneuvered outside the turret on a dozen or so motorcycles.

Seeing the enemy, the first time, the devil squad leader immediately organized a response, closed the turret drawbridge, and then set up a machine gun in the shooting hole, ready to deal with the enemy's attack.

But unexpectedly, the opponent was completely different from the previous attack, only advanced to a position of more than a hundred meters, and then set up a heavy machine gun and fired directly at the turret.

Bullets hit the turret one by one.

Although it was not directly penetrated, the turret was like an old turning head in the face of the heavy machine gun fire, and it was shattered piece by piece in the face of the heavy hammer hitting again and again.

Seeing this situation, the captain of the devil was ready to organize a counterattack and suppress the opponent's shots, but the terrifying heavy machine gun completely suppressed the machine gun in the shooting hole, even if it was a thick bulletproof steel plate, it couldn't stop the terrifying bullet.

Not only were the narrow shooting holes smashed piece by piece, but the machine gunners who were ready to shoot were also smashed, and if it weren't for the timely support of Yangquan's remaining brigade, his turret would have been beaten into a sieve·····

"Is there a collection of warheads? Show me. ”

After listening to the team leader's report, Shinji Kosa suddenly shrank his pupils.

The enemy was armed with a large-caliber heavy machine gun, which he had heard of for a long time, and the Type 95 tank in the previous brigade of the Fifth Division was destroyed by this heavy machine gun.

But this kind of gun can also be used against the turret? And can you directly smash the outer wall of the turret?

Can it still be used?

This was something he hadn't expected.

Although the team leader was frightened, he quickly found a few warheads.

Holding the warhead handed over by the team leader, Shinji Kosa just touched the bullet with his fingers, and suddenly felt his teeth sore.

This is a carbide armor-piercing projectile...

If he is not mistaken, the warhead in his hand at this time is a tungsten alloy warhead, a special alloy armor-piercing projectile that even Germany and even Europe and the United States are reluctant to use casually.

This thing is not only difficult to produce, but also very expensive, and they are reluctant to use it in the Japanese Empire and the Navy.

Who is supplying weapons and ammunition to Li Yunlong?

"Report the intelligence here to General Shinozuka."

After a moment of silence, Shinji Kosa said.

"Hey."

A staff officer bows his head and should be.

'Captain, are we going to see the next stronghold?' ’

The captain on the side asked.

Shinji Kosa fell silent for a moment.

According to the information received from this side, the enemy dispatched motorcycles this time, although there were not many, only fifteen, each carrying three people, but the fire was extremely strong, and each motorcycle had a machine gun on it, and there were two heavy machine guns that could threaten the turret.

The group attacked the turret, and did not attack, but fired heavy machine gun fire, destroyed the turret, killed the locust army inside, and waited for reinforcements to come and quickly evacuate.

It is foreseeable that during the period when he was out on duty, most of the turrets around Yangquan were attacked, and they were all subjected to the fire of this large-caliber heavy machine gun, and most of the turrets were similar, and the situation of other turrets was probably not much better than here.

"Where's the next soldier?"

Shinji Kosa asked.

He decided to go and see what was going on at the station.

Different from the turret. A military station is actually a warehouse used to store collected supplies and garrisons. This time there was also an attack.

"Three kilometers away, there is a military station over there with two squads stationed, and according to reports, there have also been attacks and battles over there."

There are many locust garrisons around here, but the staff officer thought about it and decided to go to a place with more troops, so that the losses should be less. Or, maybe hear good news.

But what the staff officer didn't know was that he chose a most tragic location.

·······

Taiyuan.

"How's the situation in Yangquan?"

Yoshio Shinozuka asked Kazuki Yamamoto.

Taking advantage of the departure of Yangquan's main force, Li Yunlong sent a mobile force to attack Yangquan, and caused a lot of damage to Yangquan, he ordered Yamamoto to count Yangquan's losses and judge the combat effectiveness of this group of troops sent by Li Yunlong.

"The losses are huge."

Yamamoto gets straight to the point:

"A total of twelve turrets have been attacked, three military stations have been attacked, and the main structure of all turrets has been damaged."

"This time, the Eighth Route Army did not gather as heavily as before, outside the turret, and then attacked. Instead, large-caliber heavy machine guns were used with armor-piercing shells to destroy the structure of the turret and kill and injure the imperial troops in the turret. ”

"This also led to the fact that this time, the losses of the imperial army are also relatively serious, and the data has not yet been fully counted, and there are about a hundred imperial soldiers in each turret alone."

"Large-caliber heavy machine guns?"

Yoshio Shinozuka rubbed his forehead.

He naturally knew that Li Yunlong was equipped with this kind of machine gun that made him lose a lot.

The failure of the brigade of the 5th Division in the offensive was largely due to this weapon, the loss of three of his aircraft, and also because of this machine gun.

Yamamoto continued:

"In addition, in this battle, the enemy used a new machine gun."

Yamamoto's subsequent words once again attracted Yoshio Shinozuka's interest.

"What new firearms?"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned, feeling that his headache had worsened.

The appearance of each new weapon represents an increase in Li Yunlong's strength, which means that the price to be paid to exterminate this person in the future is even greater.

"I don't know what it looks like, so I can't be sure of the exact model."

Yamamoto paused before continuing:

"But two squads at a military station were supporting a turret, and the enemy was holding back the enemy, and the enemy sent fifteen men with five light machine guns to organize the defense, and according to their operational reports, the new machine gun was supposed to be a light machine gun, but the rate of fire was extremely fast, about twice that of the Bren type."

Although Yamamoto's tone was calm, there was still a taste of envy in it.

As a person who usually plays submachine guns, Yamamoto Kazuki has always wanted to reform the imperial military and equip soldiers with automatic firearms, or equip troops with submachine guns to increase the short range of troops

"Twice the rate of fire..."

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly felt a little sore in his teeth.

Although, according to the theory of weapons experts, the rate of fire of a machine gun is optimal at around five hundred, such as the best firing stability, such as saving bullets.

But after fighting in North China for so long, Yoshio Shinozuka knew very well that on the battlefield, what the soldiers wanted most was the faster the rate of fire of the machine guns, the better, and the more bullets the better.

Except for logistics troops.

"What about the loss of that station?"

The ghost sent the gods, Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly asked this question.

"Two squads, a total of one hundred and seven people, launched three attacks, the last of which was a group attack."

Yamamoto's face was expressionless:

"Thirty-seven people were crushed, and twenty-five were injured, more than half of them were injured."

Yoshio Shinozuka suddenly fell silent.

Fifteen people against one hundred and seven people, although it is not clear how much the other side lost, but even if they are completely annihilated, it will be a big defeat. In the case of an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and the other side still won this battle, then the key factor in the defeat of the imperial army was the five light machine guns with an ultra-high rate of fire.

“·····。”

Yoshio Shinozuka rubbed his forehead and sighed.

"General."

Yamamoto suddenly spoke:

"Now that the Independent Regiment has gained Shou County, and we are temporarily unable to retake it, although the First Army is huge, our occupation area is also too large, and the strength is too diluted."

"Moreover, there is a serious shortage of supplies."

"According to General Gangcun's intentions, he will not organize a large-scale sweep of the Eighth Route Army in the area occupied by the First Army for at least half a year, so I think we might as well leave this independent regiment alone for the time being and let it continue to develop with Shou County as the center."

"We temporarily shrink our defense, stock up on supplies, gather intelligence, and accumulate strength."

"When General Gangcun launches a large-scale sweep, he can dispatch heavy troops and carry heavy artillery to completely solve Li Yunlong at one time."

After thinking for a while, Yoshio Shinozuka nodded:

"Well, you're right."

After all, the First Army was only a unit under the command of the North China Front Army, and its main purpose was to maintain law and order and stability in the surrounding areas of Shanxi, and to deal with the Eighth Route Army and the Jin Sui Army.

This is also the main reason why he has always been allowed to deal with Li Yunlong, but he has always been unable to do anything.

In the case of the First Army, even a brigade with more than 5,000 troops would be difficult to organize.

But if it is a sweep organized by the North China Front, then more and more powerful troops can be organized.

······

The robbery of the gold of the Huaihe Devil Navy will slowly become more and more popular with time.

There were fewer rumors of the discovery of gold convoys, the bandits and bandits had returned to their homes, the government troops had also returned to their stations, and the devils had also breathed a sigh of relief, lowering the vigilance slightly.

The four masters, who have been touching the devil fish in troubled waters, saw that the chaos was gradually disappearing, and secretly sighed a pity.

To be honest, they were very interested in gold at first, but then they found out that it was a good thing with or without gold.

The devils went out in a big way, and some of the devils in the turrets even poured out their nests, they took the opportunity to pull out a lot of devil turrets, and also took advantage of the chaos to ambush a few devil transport teams, small troops, and the harvest was not small.

Calculate it, it's all earned.

Although it's a pity, the chaos of the devil is gone, there is no good opportunity, and he can only retreat to look for another opportunity.

Of course, the intelligence departments of various forces, including the government and the devils, are still investigating the whereabouts of the gold and who did it, but they still have no clue.

On the ninth day, that night, Wang Gensheng finally returned with gold.