Chapter 32: Duolun County Town

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  Duolun, located at the southern end of Xilingol League in Yinshan Mountains' northern foot eastern end, has rich natural resources. Whether it is water resource or forest resource, they are all top-ranked in Chahar Province. More importantly, Duolun also has rich mineral resources, which have not been excavated yet in this era.

  Although this place belongs to the desert area, it is not a vast expanse of yellow sand and red earth, but rather a sparse forest of drought-resistant natural elm trees standing tall among the yellow sandy ground, with clusters of green psammophytes scattered about.

  The night march had taken a toll on Yang Junran, and now he was using the excuse of teaching the remaining armored soldiers to start getting out of the tank.

  Breathing in the fresh air here and looking at the lush greenery everywhere, Yang Junran felt as if he had already arrived in heaven.

  Blue sky, white clouds, and a lush green meadow. If there were no wars, Yang Junran would rather spend his whole life here.

  However, the troops marching ahead forced Yang Junran to face a problem: he was not here for tourism, but for battle.

  The captain of the fourth squadron, Xu Da, saw Yang Junran get off the car and quickly ran over.

  "Commander, how are we going to fight this battle? These women are always marching ahead of us." Xu Da said bluntly, pointing at the female soldiers in the distance.

  Yang Junran heard it and couldn't help but laugh and cry. If the female soldiers heard it, they would probably start another fight.

  "Alright, less talk, more action. I'll arrange for you to go into battle when the time comes. For now, we still need to accommodate them a bit." Yang Junran looked at the female soldiers in the distance and let out a helpless sigh, he didn't know how many of them would be injured or killed in this battle.

  Bang bang, several gunshots broke Yang Junran's train of thought.

  "The cavalry is coming, it's the Mongolian army's cavalry." Someone shouted loudly.

  Yang Junran's eyebrows were tightly furrowed as he encountered the Mongolian cavalry on the grassland, and the consequences can be imagined.

  "Order the troops to cover each other and use machine guns to fire!" Yang Junran shouted loudly, gesturing towards the tank.

  The tank had stopped, and Yang Junran quickly crawled inside.

  "Faster, speed up." Yang Junran shouted loudly as he arrived inside the tank.

  Although the driver was still not very skilled, after receiving Yang Junran's order, he quickly took action.

  The Type 97 tank quickly sprang into action, and the road ahead had been voluntarily cleared by the soldiers.

  As he looked through his binoculars, Yang Junran had already seen the Mongolian cavalry in the distance launching an attack on the female soldiers.

  Some light and heavy machine guns had been set up by female soldiers, continuously firing at the approaching Japanese cavalry.

  "In the turret, Yang Junran shouted loudly: 'Fire artillery shells, cover the female soldiers.'"

  The standard crew of the Type 97 tank is four, with the commander and gunner in the turret, the driver on the right side of the front of the hull, and the machine gunner to his left.

  At this moment, Yang Junran undoubtedly took on the role of trainmaster. Following Yang Junran's orders, a grenade was quickly fired out.

  The entire vehicle shook noticeably with the launch of the grenade.

  The tank continued to charge forward after shaking.

  The female soldiers looked at the tank in surprise as it rushed over from behind. They had no idea of the power of this iron thing.

  Although Japanese tanks were like toys in front of Western tanks, these toy tanks still had a great effect in Asia.

  The entire National Army, except for units equipped with German equipment, had almost no means of countering these toy tanks.

  The Mongolian army's cavalry was not many, only over a hundred people, but relying on the advantage of rapid movement of cavalry, they kept shooting at the female soldiers.

  If it weren't for Yang Junran's tank, these female soldiers probably wouldn't have any way to deal with these cavalrymen.

  The cavalrymen quickly organized an attack after seeing the tanks.

  A dozen war horses galloped quickly towards the tank, Yang Junran was quite surprised, could it be that these cavalrymen wanted to use their sabers to deal with the tank?

  No matter what ideas these cavalrymen had, the shooter next to the driver has already started firing.

  This is a temporary machine gunner drawn from the field troops, although the operation of the tank's machine gun is still a bit stiff, but the effect is still good.

  Five cavalrymen fell to the ground as soon as the shooter opened fire, while the rest of the cavalry showed no fear and continued to charge at the tank.

  The archer naturally didn't stand on ceremony and quickly began firing in rapid succession.

  The cavalry charge stopped, and the war horses moaned in agony one by one.

  The driver seemed too kind and after seeing the corpse in front of him, he actually backed up the tank a few meters and drove around it from the side.

  The rest of the cavalry saw this result and quickly ran back to Dauron in the distance.

  Inside Duolun County Town, Commander of the 6th Division of the Mongolian Army, Bao Yantu, is holding a meeting to attack the mountainous area.

  The meeting was interrupted by gunfire outside when it was half way through, which made Bao Yantu very displeased.

  Several Mongolian soldiers rushed in quickly and whispered a few words beside Bao Yantu.

  Hōgen's face suddenly contorted, and he immediately shouted loudly: "Cavalry division emergency assembly, Sixth Division cooperates with Doron's guard team, quickly enters the fortifications, cavalry division launches an external attack."

  As soon as Bao Yan's order was given, the people in the conference room quickly ran outwards.

  A sturdy man walked towards Bao Yan Tu, he was the commander of the cavalry division, Ba Te Er.

  Baturu glanced at the treasure map and said to him: "I only want the safety of the people in the town, as for the battle, it's up to you to decide. My cavalry regiment will not participate in any action, even if King De is here, I won't change my mind."

  Takahiko furrowed his brow and reluctantly walked out towards the outside.

  The importance of Duolun County is very clear, as the main county town of Xilinguole League, it not only has a lot of grain but also a lot of military supplies.

  If this place is occupied by the National Army, let alone Bao Yantu, even if it were De Wang, I'm afraid they would not be able to account for themselves to the Japanese.

  The cavalry division's refusal to fight left Bao Yantou extremely frustrated, but there was no way out, and he could only rely on his own troops, plus the garrison troops of Duolun, a total of more than 3,000 people, to guard here and wait for reinforcements from other places.

  Yang Junran looked at the outer city of Duolun and was somewhat unexpected.

  The fortifications here should be quite solid, at least they can hold out for a while, and their own troops cannot break through the position in a short time.

  The current Mongolian army has completely abandoned its outer positions and is all entrenched in the town.

  The female soldiers have already begun preparations, as if they've forgotten about Yang Junran's unit behind them.

  Yang Junran didn't mind, and after cooperating with the female soldiers several times, he knew that their self-esteem was in no way inferior to that of men.

  "Zhang Junzhe, get your machine gun squad deployed immediately, we must suppress the firepower on the city wall." Yang Junran looked at Zhang Junzhe not far in front of him. Although he didn't know much about this officer, Yang Junran had a feeling that this officer knew quite a bit.

  "Yes, Commander." Zhang Junzhe saluted and ran back to his own squadron.

  Xu Da had already walked over from afar, with a furious look on his face. Yang Junran knew he was definitely going to launch a major attack.

  "Commander, what do you mean? Are we supposed to let them take the lead and have us old men watch from the sidelines? That's absolutely unacceptable. If word gets out, our Northeast Army will be ridiculed to death." Xu Da said with some displeasure after seeing Yang Junran.

  Yang Junran patted Xu Da's shoulder and said with a smile: "Let your mortar battalion and machine gun battalion get ready, support the female soldiers' combat, the fierce battle is behind, don't be impatient."

  Xu Da looked at Yang Junran's gaze, sighed helplessly, and sat down on the ground in silence.

  All around are lush green pastures, probably no one would want a fierce battle to take place here.

  If Yang Junran had a choice, he would definitely not choose to fight here.

  However, the Mongolian soldiers seemed to be showing off and fired several shots in a row towards the outside.

  On the outer positions, it was actually a good cover, these abandoned fortifications by the Mongolian army allowed the machine gun regiment to quickly occupy them.

  On the basis of the original construction work, the warriors quickly carried out the renovation and completed the cover for the artillery.

  Zhou Yulan did not rush to launch an attack, but instead ordered the troops to hide and convened a meeting with several female officers.

  Yang Junran didn't care if it was the right time or not and directly walked over.

  The female officers looked very serious, as if these were things they should take on.

  Although he knew about the female soldiers' self-esteem, Yang Junran still did not want them to take on the main attack.

  "Commander Zhou, I'd like to discuss something with you." Yang Junran walked over and said to Zhou Yulan.

  Zhou Yulan looked at Yang Junran and asked in surprise: "Commander Yang, what's wrong?"

  "This time, let our troops take the lead. We've brought a lot of artillery and machine guns this time, so there shouldn't be any problems. These female soldiers aren't easy to deal with, I don't want them to suffer too many casualties. After all, in this war, women are all innocent." Yang Junran said seriously, looking into Zhou Yulan's eyes.

  "Commander Yang, this is no longer a normal war. The Japanese are not even human, they're worse than beasts. Every woman here, if she didn't have a deep-seated hatred, who would be willing to take up arms and kill? Don't they want to live in peace? As long as the Japanese remain on Chinese soil, we will fight, until they leave this place." Zhou Yulan's expression was furious, her eyes already gleaming with a killer's gaze.

  "Commander Yang, we appreciate your kind intentions. We are absolutely not afraid of death." A female military officer walked over and said to Yang Junran.

  Looking at these people's eyes, Yang Junran sighed helplessly.