The Boss of the Yan Family in Siheyuan

Chapter 459: Capture Ping'an County

Author: Star Traveler

Chapter 459: Capture Ping'an County

Upon hearing Li Yunlong's words, Zhang Dabiao immediately turned around and ran to convey Li Yunlong's order.

After Panasonic returned to the city with support, they also told Muto three times the conditions offered by Li Yunlong. Although they didn't know whether Li Yunlong's words counted, at this moment they had no other way out and could only go all the way to the dark, hoping.

Li Yunlong can keep his promise.

Although the two battalions have a lot of weapons and equipment, it is not impossible to take them out. As the forward position of this counter-mopping operation, the Kwantung Army division commander replenished them with some weapons and ammunition when he came last time, although not as much as Li Yunlong requested.

, that’s not impossible.

The only way is to collect the firearms of the puppet troops in the city. Anyway, these puppet troops are not of the same mind as them. They are all just like the wind. Even if they are kept, they will probably be killed when Li Yunlong breaks into the city.

Surrender immediately.

There are now three brigades of Japanese troops in Pingan County, and one regiment of puppet troops. Although the weapons and equipment of the two battalions requested by Li Yunlong are not the current battalion-level organization of the new regiment, a battalion is also based on the eight-eighth regiment.

It's calculated by hundreds of people.

After confiscating the weapons of the puppet troops, they also plundered all the spare weapons and equipment in the warehouse, and finally the quantity requested by Li Yunlong was met.

After everything was prepared, Muto Sanji arranged for Panasonic support to take five people and three transport vehicles out of the city gate and drove towards the temporary headquarters where Li Yunlong was located.

This time Li Yunlong led troops to attack Ping'an County. He was afraid of being attacked by the Japs' artillery, so he placed the headquarters far away from the county seat, which was basically beyond the range of all existing Japanese artillery.

It's no wonder that Li Yunlong is cautious. After all, this is a battlefield, and you only have one life. Li Yunlong doesn't want to waste his life here. He also wants to save his life and kill more little devils.

Panasonic helped out of the city gate and drove three trucks with a few of his men straight to the new regiment headquarters five kilometers to the northwest.

There were no accidents along the way. The Eighth Route Army soldiers on the opposite side had already received the news and got out of the way and stood on both sides of the road, watching three trucks loaded with goods slowly drive towards the headquarters.

Today's trucks have limited load-carrying capacity, and they can only travel faster than horse-drawn carriages after being loaded with goods.

After driving for more than ten minutes on a five-kilometer journey, three trucks slowly stopped in front of Li Yunlong.

After parking the car, Panasonic helped open the door, jumped out of the truck, walked up to Li Yunlong, bowed and said:

"Li Sang, I have brought everything you asked for. When will you leave with your troops?"

Matsushita Assistant was always cautious when he spoke, his eyes fixed on Li Yunlong, for fear that he would burn the bridge and tear up the treaty with him after collecting the things.

They had doubts before, but they had no other choice but to bet that Li Yunlong would keep his word and be able to keep his promise and withdraw his troops after collecting the items.

But no one would be willing to do this kind of thing like betting on one's own destiny unless it was absolutely necessary.

Hearing Panasonic's words of support, Li Yunlong laughed, then patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, I, Li Yunlong, will not make fun of my character. Let your people come down. I will send someone to finish the count later.

Just lead the troops and leave."

After speaking, Li Yunlong waved his hand behind him.

Seeing Li Yunlong's gesture, the soldiers who had been prepared immediately rushed forward and began to move the supplies from the car down.

Someone on the side was ready to take charge of the inventory. After five or six minutes of busy work, a soldier got up and came to Li Yunlong to report: "Commander, the inventory of weapons and equipment has been completed. There are a total of 1,700 rifles and eight light machine guns.

There are four heavy machine guns, four grenade launchers, and two mortars. In addition, there are bullets, artillery shells, and grenades..."

"Captain Li, I have arranged for you to order the things to be delivered. Look..." Matsushita said while pointing in the direction of the county town, which meant that you should do something after you took the things.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. I'll give you the order to retreat. Don't worry, you don't know who I am, Li Yunlong. Youdao uses people's money to eliminate disasters for others. Since I took your things, I must do things for you."

"Yes." As Li Yunlong said this, he put his hands on his waist, and while Panasonic relaxed his support, he suddenly took out his pistol.

Two shots were fired at Panasonic Support's head "bump, bump,".

The Panasonic support staff was very happy when they heard Li Yunlong's words. They never expected that Li Yunlong would come to such a place.

There was no preparation at all. After being shot, he threw his head back and fell down without even having time to change the smile on his face.

After hearing the gunfire, the five Japanese soldiers were shot to death by the Eighth Route Army soldiers guarding both sides just as they wanted to take action.

Seeing that all the little Japs had been beaten to death, Li Yunlong picked up his pistol and blew into the muzzle of the gun. He thought, "This little Japs is so easy to deceive. He got these large quantities of weapons without any effort. If he comes here a few days later,

If so, your new group will definitely grow stronger."

Zhang Dabiao, who was on the front line, heard the gunshots not far behind him, and immediately organized the soldiers of the first battalion and began to think about charging in the city. The soldiers of the second and third battalions saw the soldiers of the first battalion.

He also rushed to follow up with his movements.

Because the bombardment has not ended, a section of the city wall has been blown out of the gap.

When the Japanese troops inside the city wall saw the Eighth Route Army rushing toward them from all directions, they immediately felt nervous and began to organize their forces for defense.

But in the face of the disparity in strength of the Eighth Route Army, this kind of defense was of no use at all. They had only a small number of troops, although there were more than 3,000 puppet troops in total.

But at this time, the puppet troops had been disarmed three times by Muto, and some of the two thousand Japanese troops still had to maintain order in the city and protect the safety of the headquarters.

Therefore, there were not many troops available to defend the city. In just a moment, three battalions of more than 6,000 Eighth Route Army troops broke through the defensive positions and rushed into the city.

The three battalions divided into three directions and rushed towards Muto Sanji's headquarters. Along the way, all Japanese who resisted were shot dead.

Anyway, as long as a person wearing a Japanese military uniform, regardless of whether he had a weapon in his hand, would go up and shoot him, even the puppet soldiers would lie on the ground in fear, waiting for the battle to end and surrender to the Eighth Route Army.

At this time, in the headquarters, Muto Sanji also received news that the Eighth Route Army had breached the city gate and was coming towards him.

Muto Sanji was immediately furious. Although he had expected Li Yunlong's lack of martial ethics and his renegade, when the incident came, he was still a little angry.

There was resentment against Li Yunlong for not keeping his integrity, and there was also resentment against Li Yunlong for trusting Li Yunlong so easily and proactively sending him weapons and equipment from two battalions.

If he hadn't taken the initiative to send the weapons and equipment of the two battalions to Li Yunlong, although it still couldn't change the fact that the Eighth Route Army captured the city, at least he wouldn't have resisted longer. Li Yunlong wouldn't have been so easily defeated like now.

He led his troops into the city.

But now is not the time to think about these things. The most important thing now is to destroy the documents and then commit hara-kiri to commit suicide for His Majesty the Emperor.

Although he didn't want to die, at this point, it was too late to escape, and he might even be captured alive by Li Yunlong.

If it really comes to that point, not only will he himself be in trouble, but his family members who remain in Japan will also be persecuted by the military.

In this case, it would be better to commit suicide by committing seppuku. If you die alone, you can save the whole family.

But the Eighth Route Army didn't give him a chance at all. Before he could finish burning the documents, he heard the sound of gunshots. It seemed that the Eighth Route Army would come in soon.

Thinking of this, Muto Shiji had no time to destroy the documents, so he quickly pulled out the command knife on the table, then unbuttoned his shirt, pointed the command knife at his abdomen, closed his eyes, and stabbed hard.

Immediately, Muto's body three times the size was penetrated by the sharp command knife, and blood immediately flowed down.

The sinful commander of the 69th Division of the Japanese Army, Muto Sanzo committed suicide in his headquarters in Ping'an County.

By the time Zhang Dabiao personally arrived with a battalion of soldiers from an assault company, Muto Sanshi was already dead. Fortunately, the documents and materials in the fire were not completely burned.

Although it was a pity not to capture Muto Sanshi alive, it was good to get the Japanese documents and information, so Zhang Dabiao quickly asked the soldiers to put out the fire.

After saving the unburned documents and materials in the brazier, I searched around Muto Sanji's headquarters to see if there was anything else useful.

Zhang Dabiao searched around but found nothing, and he couldn't understand the documents, so he pulled out Muto's triple command sword from his body, and then led the soldiers out of the city to report to Li Yunlong.

The other soldiers continued to search the city to see if anything had slipped through the net, and to maintain public order in the city. Although the Japanese were eliminated and the puppet troops surrendered, there were still many ruffians in the city.

Li Yunlong was afraid that they would take advantage of the situation and cause unnecessary trouble, so some troops must be left in the city to deter these little scumbags.

After all, this is the first time that the Eighth Route Army has conquered a county. If these people cause some unrest, it will definitely cause some unnecessary blows to the prestige of the Eighth Route Army.

"Captain, the entire county is now under the control of our new regiment. The Japanese have been wiped out and the puppet army has surrendered. The soldiers are clearing out some die-hard elements. It is estimated that it will be over soon. What are we going to do next?

Do it?" Zhang Dabiao came to Li Yunlong and reported to him.

There was a smile on his face. After all, this was the first time he had made such a big move since he joined the Eighth Route Army, so he couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"Let's go to the city now and wait until political commissar Zhao arrives before making plans." After hearing Zhang Dabiao's words, Li Yunlong replied, and then led the guards towards Ping'an County.

When I entered the city, I saw that apart from the Eighth Route Army soldiers walking in and out, there were no ordinary people on both sides of the street. After all, there had just been a battle.

Before it was stabilized, the people would definitely hide at home and dare not come out. They could just wait and publicize this after Zhao Gang arrived. Li Yunlong didn't pay attention and walked all the way towards the Japanese headquarters.

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka, who was far away in Taiyuan, did not know that Ping'an County had been captured by the Eighth Route Army. The telegram he had received previously only said that Ping'an County was besieged by the Li Yunlong Division of the Eighth Route Army and requested support.

So after Yoshio Shinozuka received Muto's triple telegram, he immediately asked the 21st Division and the 22nd Division to send people to support Ping'an County.

Afraid that Muto would be unable to defend Ping'an County three times, he asked the telegraph operator to send a telegram to Ping'an County every half hour to inquire about the situation in Ping'an County. However, an hour had passed since the last time he sent a telegram.

Ping'an County did not reply, so Yoshio Shinozuka immediately felt bad. Although he did not believe that Ping'an County would be captured by Li Yunlong's troops in such a short period of time. After all, Ping'an County had three brigades of troops. In addition,

There is also a battalion of puppet troops, and they are also on the defensive side.

Even if he could not withstand it, he would not be defeated by Li Yunlong in such a short period of time. You must know that he had delivered a lot of supplies to Muto three times.

But what he didn't expect was that Muto Sanji would be in private contact with Li Yunlong. In order for both parties to coexist peacefully, he even gave some of these supplies to Li Yunlong's new group.

When Li Yunlong attacked Ping'an County, he was given weapons and equipment from two battalions in one fell swoop, which further strengthened the new regiment. Otherwise, even if Li Yunlong could attack Ping'an County, he would not have captured so much. After all, they were not dead.

When he can't keep watch, he will definitely burn the materials in the warehouse. He will even go on a killing spree, leaving Li Yunlong to empty the city.

But things didn't work out. Muto Sanji did just that, which allowed Li Yunlong to break through the county town so easily.

Otherwise, even if Li Yunlong was able to capture the county seat, it would not be so easy. As the Japanese army defending the city, they relied on the city wall for defense. As long as they had enough troops, they would definitely deal a major blow to the new regiment.

"Go and send a telegram to Ping'an County. If there is still no reply, let the troops from the 21st and 22nd Divisions go to support them to withdraw." Shinozuka Yoshio said to the Chief of Staff with a gloomy face.

Kusuyama Hideyoshi said.

"Your Excellency, Commander, are you saying... that Ping'an County was captured by Li Yunlong's new regiment?" Kusuyama Hideyoshi asked in disbelief.

"Although I don't want to believe it, is there any other explanation?" After hearing Kusuyama Hideyoshi's words, Shinozuka Yoshio asked him.

"This..., okay, I'm going to send a telegram to Muto-kun now." Seeing Yoshio Shinozuka say this, Kusuyama Hideyoshi had nothing to say, so he had to follow Yoshio Shinozuka's instructions and send a telegram to Muto Sanji.

Report to the newspaper and ask about the situation in Ping'an County. I hope the battle situation is not like what the commander said. If it really comes to this point, the next battle will not be easy to fight.

(End of chapter)