Chapter 40

  "It's not hard to take down the county town, but what about after that? Who will manage it, you or me? Anyway, I won't be able to handle this thing."

  "Haha, I didn't think of that. I only thought about fighting, looks like I can't control this either. Let's talk about it later."

  "Besides, if we take down the county town, it will inevitably expose our strength and bring us even greater revenge from the devils. The devils may even send planes to bomb us, and we will definitely suffer heavy losses, which is unbearable for us."

  "Hmm, Little Li, it seems you've grown up and your ideas are much better than mine."

  "Haha, didn't I learn all this from you, Commander Lian?"

  A sentence of flattery made the team leader of the Second Dog Squad smile with joy.

  "Alright, go get ready then, be careful."

  "Yes, Commander, don't worry, just wait for news of my victory." Li Tie saluted the Second Dogzi Battalion Commander and left. He went back to prepare things and gather the little devils.

  When he returned to the mountain cave base to collect some things and brought the fox back to the battalion, the other companies that had been drawn from several regiments were already waiting for him at the battalion. Even the artillery company had withdrawn a platoon to participate in this battle.

  This time, Li Tie directly brought three cars (the earliest car that had been dismantled was also taken by Li Tie and a few people to repair with parts removed from the Japanese car last time). Each carriage is equipped with four large trunks, what's inside is temporarily unknown.

  All warriors who participated in the battle got on the car and sat well. The three cars slowly drove out of the brigade department, heading towards the direction of the devils' county town.

  Although they didn't walk very fast, it was much faster than a forced march. More than two hours later, they had already seen the walls of Mengxian County from afar.

  On the city wall, a flag with a mourning atmosphere hung there, waving weakly. The puppet army on the city wall walked back and forth lazily, occasionally looking at the fake soldiers in the city gate tunnel who were pretending to be mighty.

  Three cars drove directly to a place about two hundred meters away from the city wall and stopped behind a low wall.

  Li Tie directed the fox to open the boxes in the carriage and take out a bundle of arm-thick pipes, which was ten pipes - iron, not paper. Behind one, a pile of fuses was exposed.

  Each box took out two bundles, a total of twelve bundles were taken out. The fox team members directed these things at the city wall and installed the brackets.

  This is the new rocket launcher from the munitions factory, but due to technical reasons, they can only tie ten iron pipes together with thick iron wire and cannot arrange them in two or three rows. Another weakness is that the range is too short, now after improvement, the maximum range is only 400 meters, and the best range is 200 meters, within 200 meters, where you point is where it hits.

  There is also an inconvenience, that is, since the electric **has not been successfully studied, and there is no suitable power source, it can only be ignited by hand.

  As it was almost noon, there were not many pedestrians at the city gate, only a few people hurried to and fro.

  Li Tie drew out his pistol and fired two shots into the air, causing a commotion at the city gate. In no time, not a single passerby was to be seen. Meanwhile, the devils and puppet troops on the city wall were as if facing a formidable enemy, hastily pulling up the drawbridge, with their guns trained on those below, looking like they dared anyone to come near.

  Twelve rocket launchers were fixed in place, aiming directions were set, and Li Tiesheng gave the order. Three rocket launchers were fired. Thirty rockets spewed out long tongues of flame, charging towards the enemy's city wall.

  The devils and puppet troops on the city wall stared blankly as these monsters with long tails of flame flew towards them, and they even forgot to escape.

  "Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!"

  One after another, the explosions sounded on the city wall, and the bodies of the devils and puppet troops were thrown directly into the air, then fell under the city wall. In a short while, the smoky city head was empty, not a single devil or puppet troop was seen, and that plaster flag was also torn off by more than half, leaving only a white cloth hanging on it. The rope of the suspension bridge was blown off one root, leaving only one root.

  Before long, the smoke dispersed, and the city wall was in a mess. The bodies of the devils and puppet troops were either on the battlements or under the city wall, with some rolling around at the foot of the wall, wailing.

  At this time, the devil's machine gun rang out, and bullets flew over everyone's heads in waves.

  Li Tie ordered three rounds of rockets to be fired at the city wall again.

  Another thirty rockets flew towards the city wall, and the devils' machine guns fell silent.

  And the suspension bridge was also completely blown up and fell down.

  It was the moment when the suspension bridge fell down, and a string of bullets shot out from the city gate tunnel and swept over the suspension bridge.

  Li Tie ordered the target to be re-aimed and three groups of rockets were ready to fire at the city gate.

  First, a salvo was fired, with ten rocket shells trailing fire tails flying towards the city gate. At least four rockets flew directly into the city gate cave, blowing up the devils and pseudo-military inside, who let out a chorus of wails and screams as blood and flesh flew everywhere.

  The city gate was quiet.

  At this time, the entire battlefield was quiet, and even the wounded devils' fake soldiers had no more screams.

  Looking through the gap in the low wall at the enemy's city wall, there was no movement on the city wall.

  Through the blown-open city gate, I saw that there was not a single pedestrian on the main street inside the city. The doors and windows of the shops on both sides of the street were all closed.

  A gloomy atmosphere of death.

  Li Tie waved his hand and two rows of soldiers rushed up the suspension bridge, quickly occupying the city gate.

  The devils in the city gate were blown to pieces, and enemy corpses were everywhere. Swiftly cleaned up the devil's fortifications of devil corpses, to prevent the devils from "playing dead", all the corpses were stabbed again at the vital parts, then thrown out of the fortifications. Set up the machine guns in the devil's fortifications, aiming at the streets inside the city, to prevent the devils from coming up for reinforcements.

  Li Tie led the remaining men with their rocket launchers and charged directly into the county town.

  The garrison of the ghost son is in the west of the city, which is close to the west gate, while Li Tie's attack this time is at the east gate, with a distance of about 1,000 meters in between.

  Li Tie and his men had just charged into the street when they ran head-on into the enemy's reinforcement troops. Four light machine guns and over ten submachine guns rained bullets, directly covering the streets with the enemy's corpses.

  After dozens of hand grenades were thrown out, the devils retreated back.

  Li Tie tightly followed the devils, the devils were always within their firing range, from the east city gate to the west city gate, a short distance of nearly a thousand meters, the bodies of the devil's fake soldiers were piled up one by one, from the west city gate to the east city gate!!!

  Until the puppet army of the devils entered the barracks and closed the large iron gate, Li Tie's corpse manufacturing machine temporarily stopped working.

  The devils closed the big iron gate. Li Tie ordered the rocket launcher to be ready.

  Immediately, strings of fire dragons rushed towards the enemy's barracks, blowing up the enemy's camp houses, blasting down the enemy's kitchen, igniting the enemy's mosquito nets, and burning their clothes.

  The devils' camp was filled with wailing and howling, chaotic and disorderly, with flames and explosions everywhere, and wounded soldiers all over the place.

  The other devil units in the city, such as the Kempeitai, originally had fewer people, and with relatively weak firepower configuration, many devils were knocked down by the Eighth Route Army's rifles or light machine guns before they even got close. Now the Eighth Route Army has increased its light machine guns to over a dozen, and many of the devils' abandoned machine guns have been picked up by the Eighth Route Army. These soldiers who picked up the machine guns put their own big guns on their backs, held up the devil's crooked handle, and fired at the devils in front of them with a burst of fire...

  The country has temporarily stationed in the county seat, Itabashi Nakasa has returned to his original residence, and Watanabe was killed by Li Tie, so now the county seat is guarded by a Japanese lieutenant named Inoue Jirō.

  He was originally a staff officer under Itami, and since his performance had been decent so far, Itami entrusted him with the heavy responsibility of defending the county seat. He didn't want to be stationed in this poor and remote county town, but due to Itami's insistence, he had no choice but to obey. Who would have thought that Itami had just left for less than two days when the Eighth Route Army attacked? The chair in Itami's former office was still warm when the Eighth Route Army attacked, and it was said that they were already close to surrounding the barracks. This is a disaster, if we can't win then we'll have to run, leaving behind a mountain of green hills won't be a problem.

  He led the remnants of his troops out of the county town through a side gate of the barracks and headed for Banta's large camp.

  The devils ran away, and the puppet army that had no hope of escape all surrendered. As for the special agents, they were not good at fighting, but they could still run away, so they all successfully escaped.

  Li Tie didn't think it would be so easy to liberate the county seat.

  From the start of the battle to its end was less than three hours.

  The rocket tube achieved great success in its first formal battle.

  But considering the devils might come back, it's better to make a profit and leave, or else this trip would be in vain.

  Order everyone to clean up the battlefield immediately, take away what can be taken away, distribute what cannot be taken away to the nearby masses, and if it is really impossible, burn it with fire, and blow it up with hand grenades if it cannot be burned.

  They loaded three trucks with guns, bullets, hand grenades and shells from the ammunition depot of the Japanese army barracks. Everyone carried a full load on their backs. They also hitched up several large carts in the barracks, loading them with food and clothing. In less than an afternoon, the Japanese army barracks was left with only broken doors and windows. Li Tieshun led a few men to sweep through the office of the Japanese garrison at the well, collecting a large bundle of documents that were useful or not useful, to be studied slowly when they returned. Looking back, there was also a hand-cranked telephone, which they took without hesitation, winding up the telephone line as well.

  In short, the Three Alls Policy of the devils is nothing but this, and it's even more devilish than the devils themselves.

  Considering that if the enemy's houses were demolished, they would rebuild them when they returned, wasting China's resources, so Li Tie spared these houses. However, all the iron objects inside were looted without a single one left behind.

  The estimated reinforcements of the devils may have arrived, and Li Tie led the main force to transfer quickly. As for the residents in the county seat, the devils generally will not carry out a massacre, because if they slaughter the city, then they will also lose their foundation for settling down, where can they go to eat and drink? Where can they go to show off their power?