On the road leading to Taiyuan, more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops formed a four-way column, carrying them into a group and moving forward quickly.

The deputy captain walked in the middle of the team. Although he was anxious, he did not show any nervous expression.

"Report to the Chief, we encountered the Independent Regiment's reconnaissance unit in front of us. Should we let the troops slow down the marching speed, strengthen vigilance, and prevent the Independent Regiment from attacking our ambush!" A Chief Cao suddenly ran from the front of the team to report.

"There is no need for that!" The deputy captain vetoed without hesitation.

"The Independent Group is our old rival, and no one knows their true strength better than us!"

"It is not a match for our strengthening squadron to pull all the entire independent regiment, not to mention that we have two infantry squadrons and one battalion of the Imperial Army!"

"And there is still a large part of the troops in the Independent Regiment that need to be blocked outside Taiyuan City, at most a reinforcement battalion is drawn to deal with us. This little force does not threaten our safety at all. If they really dare to come and deal with us, I don't mind eating them!"

"Let the troops continue to move forward at their current speed. With the combat effectiveness and combat style of the independent regiment, at most, sneak attacks on the only way to the troops heading to Taiyuan. The longer we delay on the road, the more sneak attacks we are, the greater the losses will be."

"So the sooner we arrive in Taiyuan, the less casualties the Independence Group will cause us!"

The squadron leader next to him agreed very much.

He had fought against the Independent Regiment and once led two infantry squads to chase the Independent Regiment and a reinforced battalion.

If the Independent Regiment hadn't run too fast, he would have been able to wipe out all the Eighth Route Army.

So he looked down on the Independent Regiment from the bottom of his heart and immediately responded: "As far as I know, although the Independent Regiment has more than 1,000 people, it is equipped with less than ten light machine guns, and there are even fewer heavy machine guns and mortars. Moreover, their ammunition is very small, and the entire regiment reserves is not as much as our two infantry squads!"

"As long as the troops are carried together and the national rescue army does not give each chance to defeat each other, their little firepower will definitely not do anything to us!"

A team of more than 600 people marched forward in a four-way column under the arrangement of the deputy captain.

It sounds like there are many people, but the entire team only lasts less than two hundred meters.

One company's Imperial Army took the lead, and two companies' Imperial Army behind, nearly four hundred Japanese marched in the middle, and even the guard post was not safe, so they rushed to Taiyuan City.

On both sides of the road less than ten kilometers across Taiyuan, more than a thousand independent regiments were ambushed in the cornfield. The soldiers closest to the road were less than fifty meters, and all were covered with corn straw.

The regiment commander and political commissar squatted next to a heavy machine gun. Due to limited time, there was no time to dig a trenches. The heavy machine gun was mounted on a small earth slope less than 200 meters away from the road, blocking a bunker piled up with sandbags in front. There was a row of corn stalks in front of the bunker, which integrated with the surrounding environment.

As long as the Japanese do not come closer to observe, they will definitely not be able to see the existence of the machine gun position.

The political commissar squatted beside him, and his face showed a worried expression again.

Today's independent regiment has artillery companies and heavy machine gun companies, and the number of light machine guns is twice as high as before. It can suppress more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops in both firepower and military strength. The political commissar is absolutely sure to take them down.

But the positions where the troops hid were too simple. As long as the Japanese and puppet troops sent scouts, the ambush troops would be exposed, the ambush war would turn into raids, and the casualties of the independent regiment would increase exponentially.

This is the ending that the political commissar least wants to see, so he stared at the highway with a nervous look on his face, for fear that the Japanese and puppet troops would send investigation troops to search for the roadside.

"Report to the regiment commander, political commissar, and the Japanese and puppet troops are here, and there is less than two kilometers left between us!" An investigator hurried over to report.

The political commissar immediately asked his most concerned question: "Have they sent scouts? Is the troops vigilance high? Is it possible to find us ambushing the troops?"

The investigator quickly reported: "The Japanese and puppet troops did not send scouts. The entire unit was exactly the same as the regiment commander's judgment, and marched together and rushed towards Taiyuan!"

"There were no scouts. When we marched, we didn't care about our sneak attacks along the way, and we just wanted to rush forward!"

"God helps me!" The political commissar sighed with emotion.

He punched the sandbag in front of him and said confidently: "Captain, the Japanese and puppet troops are so arrogant, we will definitely win this battle!"

"I will go to other heavy machine gun positions to supervise the battle. As you said just now, if you try to get the first round of firepower and kill more than half of the Japanese, then we will be sure of this battle!"

"Dongdongdongdong...dakdada..."

As soon as more than twenty light and heavy machine guns fired, the deputy captain of the Japanese who was walking in the middle of the team was frightened.

When I looked up, I saw that there were many soldiers who were beaten to death on the road. Many soldiers' chests had been sieve and they had lost their breath after falling to the ground.

A pair of eyes immediately became frightened and shouted: "Lying down, lying down, we are ambushed by the enemy!"

While speaking, the guard had already knocked the deputy captain to the ground.

Despite this, he could still feel the scene of bullets flying above his head.

Of course, as the commander-in-chief of more than 600 Japanese and puppet troops, the deputy captain would not be scared by this little accident.

I quickly calmed myself down and looked at the machine gun positions that suddenly appeared on both sides of the highway and shouted: "Light and heavy machine guns counterattack immediately and suppress the enemy's machine gun fire!"

"First fire the grenade launcher, knock off the enemy's heavy machine gun fire point and shoot!"

The deputy captain's order spread quickly, but there were not many gunshots along the highway.

The puzzled deputy captain subconsciously looked up and looked around, and his heart suddenly became cold.

The enemy's firepower toward the highway was too strong. The few imperial troops on the highway were completely crushed to the ground, and they didn't even have the chance to raise their heads, let alone launch a gun to counterattack.

He saw with his own eyes a machine gun team had just raised his upper body, and a string of heavy machine guns knocked three machine gunmen into sieves, and fell to the ground with a scream.

Grenade turrets had no chance to fight back.

Compared with machine gunners who only need to lie on the ground and fire fire, grenade launchers must squat on the ground to accurately fire the grenades, which is much more difficult than machine gunners.

Several grenade launchers did not believe in evil and were beaten to death as soon as they got up from the ground...

"Roar... surrender and don't kill..." In less than five minutes, the independent regiment shouted and killed on the battlefield.

At this time, there were less than 100 Japanese soldiers on the road. Although there were more than 200 puppet troops, they were already scared by the powerful firepower exposed by the Independent Regiment.

The rifle was thrown aside, and he lay on the ground with his head in his hands, his face pale, and he had long lost the courage to continue fighting.

Seeing the Eighth Route Army suddenly breaking out on both sides of the road, they immediately prepared to kneel down and surrender.

Twenty minutes later, the battle ended, and a surrendered puppet army company commander was taken to the regiment commander and knelt on the ground with a puff: "Sir, please spare my life. I am forced to be a puppet army, and I have never done anything bad. Every time I encounter the Eighth Route Army, I shoot at the sky. Heaven and earth can be seen, so don't kill me!"

"Company Commander Zhou? I didn't expect that we could meet acquaintances outside Taiyuan City!" After seeing the captive identity clearly, the regiment commander said happily.

"Are you the commander of the Independent Regiment?" The company commander of the puppet army asked with disbelief.

After looking up and seeing the other person's hole, the nervousness and worry expression on his face disappeared instantly, and he said with a glee: "Great, you are really Captain Wang."

"You know me the best. Although I became a puppet army, I have never done anything bad. I have sent you ammunition twice in secret!"

"I didn't expect that your independent group would become so strong. The Japanese on the road died unjustly!"

Commander Wang did not deny the introduction of Company Commander Zhou just now, and turned his head to explain to the political commissar: "Company Commander Zhou is indeed an old friend of our independent regiment. Political Commissar, go and learn about the situation with him later, and then let him go. If possible, it is best to let Company Commander Zhou continue to go to the Japanese to be his eyes!"

As soon as the political commissar received the order, the chief of staff rushed towards them with a smile: "Captain, political commissar, have made a fortune, our independent group has made a fortune!"

"I just counted it. Because the battle ended too quickly, many Japanese soldiers were killed before they even got the rifle. As a result, most of the weapons and ammunition equipped by the Japanese were completely seized by us."

"Although a small number of Japanese soldiers fought with us for more than ten minutes, they only consumed dozens of bullets, and the remaining ammunition also fell into our hands!"

"Except for a few Japanese who destroyed their weapons before they died, most of them had good weapons."

"A total of 11 crooked handles, three heavy machine guns, three mortars, three light machine guns, three Czech light machine guns, 298 Hanyang with a caliber of 79, 214 38 large covers, 28 turtle boxes and box cannons, and 12 grenade cannons were seized!"

"The biggest seized was ammunition: in addition to the three hundred mortar shells, we seized nearly 30,000 bullets with a caliber of sixty-five, 10,000 bullets with a caliber of seventy-nine, and more than 500 grenades, more than 600 grenades, and seventy grenades for special grenades..."

"With these weapons and ammunition, our independent regiment can not only expand a main battalion, but also the firepower level of the troops can reach a higher level!"

The regiment commander was so happy that he almost jumped up from the ground and immediately looked at the political commissar on the side: "I want to directly equip the heavy machine guns and mortars with the artillery company and the heavy machine gun company, and then draw a portion of the machine guns to supplement the three main battalions to ensure that each platoon is equipped with a machine gun."

"All grenade launchers are equipped with troops, and each main battalion sets up a grenade launcher squad."

"The extra weapons and ammunition are temporarily hidden, and they will be transported back to the base area when the battle is over!"

"The first battalion stayed to clean the battlefield, and the other troops went outside Taiyuan City immediately!"

"I can see that we will not only not suffer any losses when we attack Taiyuan this time, but will also take advantage of us!"

The Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the communications staff walked into the war room with a nervous look on their faces.

"Your Excellency the Commander, what happened to the troops in the surrounding strongholds to reinforce our troops?"

"The nearest reinforcement unit was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army ten kilometers away from Taiyuan, and the entire army was destroyed!"

"There is another reinforcement unit that was ambushed 12 kilometers away from Taiyuan. Only more than 300 people broke out, and the remaining more than 500 people were wiped out, losing a large amount of weapons and ammunition."

"The third reinforcement unit encountered the Eighth Route Army blocking troops fifteen kilometers outside the city. They attacked three times in a row without breaking through, and had lost more than 400 people..."

"The National Salvation Army that occupied Jinzhong also began to take action!"

"At least five thousand elite troops marched towards Taiyuan City, and the speed was very fast. The outposts and strongholds along the way were destroyed by them with artillery fire before they could have time to warn them. They would definitely be able to kill outside the city before dawn!"

The commander was very angry at first, and after hearing this, he showed a sudden enlightenment on his face: "Bageyalu, we are fooled!"

"The National Salvation Army and the Eighth Route Army want to attack Taiyuan, but also want to surround and attack aid!"

"If I had known this, I would have asked the reinforcements to join forces and rush to Taiyuan together. In this way, the National Rescue Army and the Eighth Route Army would not do anything to them!"

"Chief of Staff, immediately notify the troops that have not been besieged by the Eighth Route Army and the National Salvation Army, and ask them to stop advancing, join the other reinforcements before advancing together, and ensure that the total strength of each reinforcement unit cannot be less than two thousand people, otherwise they will hit the guns of the National Salvation Army and the National Salvation Army and die in vain!"

The Chief of Staff also realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately arranged for the staff to issue orders and then comforted the commander.

"Sir, although the reinforcements outside the city have suffered heavy losses due to our negligence, the progress in the city is very smooth."

"In less than two hours, we organized more than 800 armed expatriates."

"Weizhi temporarily organized more than 200 expatriates who had served as soldiers into a reinforcement squadron, allowing them to manage the spy brigade and police formed by the Chinese."

"There are more than 600 expatriates who are left to form four temporary squadrons to maintain public order in the city instead of the military police brigade."

"The replaced gendarmerie brigade is ready for combat and can reinforce the city defense forces at any time."

"There are more than 850 spy brigades and police officers composed of Chinese people, plus the reinforcement squadrons temporarily organized by the expatriates, a total of 1,100 people. They used them to replace four infantry squadrons from the city defense force!"
To be continued...