After the Japanese army captured Niangziguan, the miners in Yangquan and surrounding areas fled in all directions. Our underground party organization was not afraid of dangers and hardships, and used limited funds to help the families of miners who had no food to spare, and mobilized the masses everywhere, and finally brought Yangquan to justice.

The coal miners' guerrilla brigade has flourished and now has more than 500 guerrillas. Due to the previous withdrawal of the Jin army, there are still a lot of guns left behind. There are more than 400 in total. Among all the anti-Japanese guerrillas, they are considered to be well armed.

Now, this guerrilla brigade is divided into two. Most of the members have followed the captain Wang Fengshan into the mountains to help the fellow villagers relocate. Political commissar He Yingcai led a company of troops to take the initiative to attack roads and railways, hoping to cut off the Japanese army's logistics and disrupt Katayama's invasion plan.

, and hope to get the opportunity to attack the mines and rescue their comrades and compatriots in the two major mining areas.

However, when this group of people crossed Laohugou, they encountered a group of Japanese soldiers guarding the mountains and had to take a detour. When they reached the roadside, violent gunfire sounded in front of them.

Led by Li Feishou, commander of the fifth company, the team took a shortcut and arrived not far from the Saiyu Gun Tower. They happened to see the tank and the people on the gun tower yelling at each other. This scene shocked all the team members. It was a tank! The guerrillas had never seen it before.

Don't suffer the consequences of this iron bastard. Several ambush battles ended in an anticlimax just because of the addition of this thing. Today, I encountered this guy again. I really don't know what to do.

A group of people crouched on the top of a hill by the roadside, preparing to wait for the tanks to leave before attacking the gun towers. Unexpectedly, another iron thing drove up from the east and caused everyone a headache. The thing was originally inconspicuous, and everyone thought it could only run on the railway. Who could

I know that during the last ambush retreat, this iron guy actually rushed down the railway track and chased after the team, losing more than thirty team members at once, so everyone hated this armored car.

Some team members couldn't help but wanted to rush down the mountain and use explosives to blow up the guy covered in the blood of his comrades. Political Commissar He stopped him. Just as several team members were about to challenge Captain Li, they saw the Japanese suddenly start fighting among themselves.

"Bang, bang," two rounds of artillery blasted the railway armored vehicle into fireworks. When the machine gun in the turret hit the steel plate and sparks flew out, the two iron bastards turned around again, and four rounds knocked down the tall and powerful turret. A bunch of Japanese

All weapons and weapons were buried in the rubble.

"Okay, good fight, political commissar, this must be one of our own!" Captain Li shouted excitedly, and asked political commissar He for instructions to send someone to contact him.

After knocking down the turret, the tank lid opened again, and the driver shouted to the front: "Xu Hongyuan, come back quickly, forget about the trophies, we have to take the opportunity to enter the mining area to play."

Several dark figures flashed out of the darkness, and one of them kept nagging: "I asked you, company commander, if you make some money and then start losing money, there are two heavy machine guns in there."

"Xu Datou, are you Xu Datou?" A shout suddenly rang out from the hilltop not far away, frightening several people and immediately threw them to the ground. Xu Hongyuan stuck half of his head out from the side of the tank and shouted: "Who is that guy?

Are you making a noise? If you yell again, I’ll pull out your tongue!”

Xu Hongyuan has a big head. After joining the engineer company, any soldier who wanted to give him a nickname would be trained to death in battles. In the end, no one dared to call him a nickname anymore.

"It's me, who am I?"

Xu Hongyuan blinked his eyes: "He Wenshu? Are you Xiao Douya? Hey, why did you come here if you didn't follow the company commander?"

While they were talking, the group of people had hurriedly walked down the mountain, and Zhao Hu and the others also climbed out of the tank. They saw the leader opposite wearing myopia glasses. He was tall and thin. As soon as he saw Xu Hongyuan, he stepped forward and punched him:

"You have such a big head, I didn't expect that after not seeing each other for a few months, you would actually become an iron clother, huh?"

"That's right, don't look at what kind of army we are now. By the way, you are not allowed to call me nicknames anymore. I am in a hurry with you! But you, bean sprouts, haven't seen you for a few months, and you seem to be doing well."

Next to him, Captain Li couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to explain: "This is the political commissar of our miners' guerrilla brigade!"

"What? Political commissar? You, you have become a political commissar? Hey, I didn't tell you earlier, I, I..." Xu Hongyuan was tongue-tied. Once upon a time, this little soldier like bean sprouts followed the company commander all day long. Unexpectedly,

In the blink of an eye, he became a regiment-level cadre. How could he not be surprised?

"Haha, it's nothing. I just happened to fight a few ambush battles. By the way, which unit are you in? Why are there only these people? And they can also drive a tank? This tank was also captured?"

Political Commissar He asked 18 questions in succession, which stumped Xu Hongyuan. How could he answer so many questions one by one?

Zhao Hu stepped forward and saluted: "Hello, Political Commissar He, I am the engineer company of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army. My name is Zhao Hu. We just hit the iron bridge gun towers and destroyed the bridge."

, the Japanese just sent a few tanks over, we are going to use them to attack the mining area, but we are short of manpower, I wonder if the political commissar is interested?"

"Why aren't you interested? We came just for the mining area. The enemy's firepower was too strong and we couldn't find a breakthrough for a while. It's great now that we have tanks. As long as we knock down the cannon building, we can attack the mining area directly, and there are still our weapons inside.

Comrades work together to fight."

While he was talking, Captain Li had already led his men into the ruins of the artillery tower and found five or six rifles and a 92 heavy rifle that could still be used. As for the crooked handles and other rifles, they were all smashed.

Of course, everyone knows very well whether there are any Japanese prisoners inside. Just look at the bayonets of the guerrillas to know the result. Since they occupied Yangquan, this group of Japanese has done a lot of harm to the people. Many surrounding villages have become dead!

Captain Li found that there were quite a lot of bullets seized but few guns, which was a pity. Zhao Hu saw that there was still enough time and quickly asked Xu Hongyuan to take everyone to the place where the guns were buried in the back. There was a squadron of weapons and ammunition there. If it had been buried for a long time,

, the gun will rust.

When the weapons of a squadron and a small team were transported, together with all the weapons from the Qiaonan gun tower, the soldiers of the whole company screamed. They still had extra Japanese-style weapons and equipment after a company, and everyone even put it into their hands.

The old slides with worn rifling and those made in Hanyang were collected, but no one was willing to throw them away. These were treasures that were found with great difficulty. There were still many people in the army who did not have guns.

Taking advantage of the time when weapons were distributed, Zhao Hu took everyone to search around the armored vehicle. After the two cannons blew up the armored vehicle, the ammunition boxes inside were blown up in all directions. They actually found seven to eight hundred rounds of ammunition.

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Before Zhao Hu left, he touched a broken car and quietly put away the useful steel and spring steel inside, leaving only an open iron shell.

With men relying on clothes and soldiers relying on guns, a fully armed company, led by two tanks, marched eastward in a mighty manner. On the way, Xu Hongyuan also taught the miner company's machine gunner how to use the crooked handle. With the machine gunner, he

The artillerymen were finally liberated and could fire artillery with peace of mind.

While resting on the road, Captain Li introduced Zhao Hu to the enemy forces in the mining area. After the Japanese occupied the coal mine, they set up a large stronghold on the way into the mining area. The outside was built with a stone wall, which was three meters high. There were also shooting points on the stone wall.

hole.

Inside the stronghold, there is a three-story gun building, which is also made of cement and iron bars. The iron bars are also made of wrought iron burned in the pyrite area in the east. Therefore, the 37 cannon on the tank alone can't bombard the enemy.

Even the stone walls may not be penetrated through the turrets.

This is a big problem. If a large stronghold cannot be captured, entering the mining area to rescue people is an empty talk. The machine guns on the turrets can shoot down at any time. Even if the miners can escape, they will not be able to survive.

Zhao Hu thought for a while and said to Political Commissar He: "Otherwise, Political Commissar He, when we were arguing with Saiyu Paolou just now, he said that he came from Shouyang. They must have called to inquire, but it didn't take long.

, the phone line was cut off by us. If we pretend to be Japanese soldiers and enter the stronghold, we might be able to attack from both inside and outside and capture the stronghold."

Political Commissar He thought for a while, shook his head and said: "If the enemy receives a call, they will definitely ask the Japanese troops in Shouyang. The result will be clear after this question. How can they release tanks and then enter the stronghold? The Japanese are not stupid."

Zhao Hu became worried when he heard this. This big stronghold was like a turtle shell. If he didn't break it, he wouldn't be able to take the next step. Moreover, daybreak was coming. When daybreak, all the problems would be revealed. He could pretend even if he wanted to.

Can't go down anymore.

Xu Hongyuan came over with a can: "Boss, I forgot to tell you something. Just before we cut the phone line, we overheard the conversation of the Japanese. It was from the mining area to the Japanese army in Shouyang. They replied that today is

Several tanks broke down while out on missions, namely No. 934, No. 935, No. 987, etc. However, they were repaired before dark and were ready to turn back. I was afraid that the Japanese would ask.

If there is too much leakage, the phone cord will be cut off."

Zhao Hu pondered: "The phone line is broken and the Japs still have telegrams, but I think that after the Japs in the mining area know the answer, they will definitely not send any more inquiries via telegrams. What they are most concerned about is the situation of their own troops and gun towers. As long as we are bolder,
Chapter completed!