I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 434: Fight at Yangquan Railway Station

This kind of banditry was seen as a propaganda campaign against the people of the Japanese island, and the Japanese military condoned it.

This will let the people in Japan know that there are benefits to foreign aggression.

Zhou Weiguo, who had taken over the command of the joint operations, finally gave the order to open fire.

"fire"!

Afterwards, the artillery company of the Jindong Independent Brigade began to show its power.

A total of ten mortar shells hit the inside of the train station.

The Japanese soldiers in the station were immediately blown to pieces.

Fortunately, this is a dedicated railway station for the Japanese army. There are no Chinese people inside, so there is no need to worry about the bombing hitting our own people.

This was just an appetizer, the Gansu Army's Air Force Marine Brigade also took action.

The artillery they brought opened fire almost simultaneously with the Eighth Route Army's artillery.

More than thirty mortar shells with a range of 90 mm or larger accurately hit every defensive node of the Japanese.

Zejiu's sharpshooter company successively blew out the searchlights on the station's turret.

The open space in front of Quanyang Railway Station suddenly became pitch black.

However, the Japanese soldiers in the turret on the wall were illuminated by the light.

They directly became a living target in the eyes of Chinese soldiers.

Light and heavy machine guns swept over, directly beating the Japanese soldiers in the defensive position so hard that they couldn't raise their heads.

The Japanese soldiers in the artillery tower were quite fierce at the beginning.

They picked up the Type 92 heavy machine guns and began firing at the darkness outside the station.

What was unexpected was that in just a moment, all the heavy machine guns in the turret fell silent at the same time.

Zejiu has sharp eyes and has already figured out some of the clues.

These were bullets from five rifles, which went through the firing holes in the turret and hit the machine gunner inside at the same time.

Although Zejiu can also do this kind of shooting skills.

But there were things he couldn't do. He had no way to snipe the Japanese in the artillery tower silently.

It seems that if he has time, he will go to Gannan to learn from others.

I didn’t expect that in the past year or so, Song Wenwan would come up with something interesting again.

Li Daben was worried about Chen Feng's safety, so he kept staring into the station with the telescope in his hand.

Just a minute ago, Yang Qingwen and Chen Feng's team boarded the train they had just taken.

It was late at night and it was dark inside the carriage and I couldn’t see clearly.

Chen Feng walked in and used a flashlight to discover that there was something else going on inside the carriage.

All the seats had been removed and the area near the windows was filled with sandbags.

There is a bulletproof steel plate in front of the sandbag.

Yang Qingwen turned these carriages into mobile war fortresses.

Then, there was a Browning heavy machine gun placed right under the sandbags.

Several Gansu Army soldiers sat on the ground, ready to lift their heavy machine guns, carry sandbags and fire at any time.

Seeing the station attendant, he waved the signal light to signal them to depart.

With a long whistle from the locomotive, their train slowly started moving.

I saw a white steam coming out from the front of the train.

It directly drowned Colonel Shimizu and others who were handing over the goods on the platform.

When the steam dissipated, the Japanese soldiers nearby discovered that Colonel Shimizu and the stationmaster had been beaten to death.

Several other officers who were accompanying him were also shot in the head and died.

The train's whistle drowned out the Japs' screams of panic.

A young Japanese officer followed the bullet hole in Colonel Shimizu's head.

The shooter's hiding place was quickly analyzed.

He turned his head to look at the stationmaster's office building behind him and felt as if something was staring at him.

Before the officer could say anything, he was shot between the eyebrows.

A bullet from a Garand semi-automatic rifle blew the back of his head off.

Also dying with him were officers from other Japanese troops on the battlefield.

Chen Feng was surprised to see that there were at least ten sharpshooters lying in ambush in the office building opposite the train station.

These people only fired two shots, and twenty Japanese officers on the platform fell down in an orderly manner.

Chen Feng and Sun Chenghai immediately understood that Yang Qingwen wanted to destroy the enemy's command system first.

The second shot had just ended when Zhou Weiguo, who was outside the station, launched an attack.

Zhou Weiguo used the sound of gunfire outside to cover up the actions inside the train station.

Because Zhou Weiguo and his men attacked suddenly, the Japanese did not notice the cause of death of the officers around them.

They didn't even doubt that there were enemies inside the station, assassinating their officers.

With the third, fourth, and fifth shots, almost all of the Japanese officers were killed.

There were more than a thousand Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, and not even a second lieutenant was left for them.

Due to the loss of command, the Japanese troops on the battlefield were blown into chaos by Zhou Weiguo's artillery.

In every critical moment, there is always a leader who is ignorant of the consequences and rushes out to die.

Among the retired Japanese soldiers was Captain Watanabe from the 9th Mixed Brigade, who was in charge of logistics.

Just a few months ago, the Yamazaki Battalion was completely wiped out at Lijiaopo.

This made Yoshio Shinozuka and his 9th Mixed Brigade very embarrassed.

Someone has to take the blame for this failure.

Therefore, the final investigation results showed that there were problems with the allocation of supplies by Jun'ichi Watanabe, who was in charge of logistics.

Therefore, a huge blame was put on Captain Watanabe.

There is no way, because Jun'ichi Watanabe's backer was transferred away from the 9th Mixed Brigade.

He was unwilling to do so and gave this lucrative position to the brigade commander's brother-in-law.

In the end, he had no choice but to give up the opportunity to make great achievements and chose to retire in disgrace, returning to Japan with the veterans.

Although he became a civilian again, the old soldiers who accompanied him all sympathized with him.

Ordinary soldiers can understand this situation.

It was obvious that the Yamazaki Battalion was destroyed by the Eighth Route Army because it was greedy for merit and advanced rashly. This has nothing to do with Jun'ichi Watanabe.

It's this little bit of indignation, this little bit of sympathy and empathy.

This caused more than 3,000 people to fall into an irretrievable situation.

Jun'ichi Watanabe, who is already in his fifties, is very unhappy.

So in the train carriage, I drank sake with several retired squadron and platoon leaders.

The platform of the station was suddenly attacked by Chinese troops.

At the first moment, he lay down in the carriage with those veterans.

They have retired and no longer have weapons.

The newly appointed logistics captain is young and energetic.

Even his Type 14 Nambu service pistol was confiscated.

His reason was that it was the property of the Imperial Army and Jun'ichi Watanabe was not allowed to keep it.

Fortunately, Jun'ichi Watanabe's command sword was purchased with his own money from the military.

As private property, the sword was allowed to be taken on the train.

Otherwise, Jun'ichi Watanabe would be left with nothing now.

The depressed mood and unwillingness to accept one's own situation finally came to the fore under the stimulation of alcohol.

In fact, his brigade commander's evaluation of him was quite fair.

He is confused when he should be smart, and understands everything when he shouldn't be smart.

He is a man who would rather sacrifice his life than his wealth. If he had vacated his position earlier, he would have been fine.

As compensation, the commander of the 9th Mixed Brigade offered very good conditions.

As long as he gave up his position, he would be given the position of garrison commander of a county.

That is to become a local emperor of a county. This condition is not bad, right?