Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 1: First Battle with Yamamoto's Special Forces

Da da da!
boom! boom! boom!
"Damn! It's not even New Year yet! Why are we setting off fireworks?" Wang Gensheng, who was awakened from his sleep by the explosion, muttered in dissatisfaction.

Just as Wang Gensheng finished speaking, he was slapped on the head. Of course, it was this slap that woke the dazed Wang Gensheng up.

At the same time, a strange memory popped up in his mind. In his memory, Wang Gensheng was no longer a 21st century post-90s man who was in his thirties and still unmarried, but a post-20s man from more than 80 years ago.

Born in Wangjia Village, he was a shepherd boy who had been herding sheep since he was a child. The man who was beating him was his cousin named Wang Xikui.

When Wangjia Village was massacred by the Japanese, only Wang Gensheng and his cousin Wang Xikui managed to escape. Then Wang Xikui took him to join the Eighth Route Army's independent regiment.

However, just when Wang Gensheng was in a daze because of the memory that did not belong to him in his mind, his cousin Wang Xikui stuffed two black iron lumps into Wang Gensheng's hands and said to him:
"Gensheng, I know you're good at throwing rocks. Throwing grenades is the same as throwing rocks. Don't rush up now. Just stay behind and throw the grenades!"

Wang Gensheng looked down and realized that the two black iron lumps Wang Xikui gave him were the Type 97 grenades, which were the most commonly used by the Japanese during World War II.

As a half-military fan, Wang Gensheng knew the parameters of this grenade.

The Type 97 grenade weighs 450 grams, contains 65 grams of TNT, has a five-second fuse delay, and a killing radius of 10 meters.

Just when Wang Gensheng was still thinking about the parameters of the grenade in his hand, Wang Xikui, the squad leader of the 8th Squad, 4th Company, 2nd Battalion, had already rushed out with the soldiers of the 8th Squad.

Wang Gensheng, who had just traveled through time, involuntarily put on his military uniform and followed with the two grenades given by Wang Xikui.

Although this was Wang Gensheng's first time on the battlefield after traveling through time, the instinct deep in his soul made him excited when he thought that he was going to fight the Japanese.

Although Wang Gensheng was very fast, he was still a lot slower. However, after leaving the barracks, the scene he saw was like a basin of cold water poured on his heart.

I saw soldiers charging towards the cliff behind the village a hundred meters away, falling down one after another. There was nothing they could do because the Japanese were holding submachine guns and their firepower at short range was too strong. The soldiers of the independent regiment didn't even have a chance to rush up and fight with bayonets.

Although he was shocked by the one-sided fighting power of the Japanese, Wang Gensheng did not retreat. He just felt that it was not right to rush forward and fight with bayonets.

So Wang Gensheng looked at the two Type 97 grenades in his hand and then moved forward about 40 meters towards the Japanese with the two grenades. When he was about 60 meters away from the Japanese, he pulled out the safety pins of the Type 97 grenades.

Then he knocked the grenade to the ground, and the delay fuse was immediately ignited. However, Wang Gensheng did not immediately throw the grenade towards the Japanese.

Instead, he waited for two seconds with the grenade before throwing it towards the Japanese.

At a distance of sixty meters, the grenade flew in the air for three seconds before reaching the heads of the Japanese soldiers. Then, just as the grenade was about to land, the fuse expired, so the grenade exploded when it was still five meters from the ground.

Suddenly the Japanese firepower point here was silenced, and

Seeing that this trick was effective, Wang Gensheng didn't have time to think about it. He used the same method again and threw the last grenade in his hand to another firing point.

Wang Gensheng, who had no grenades left, was about to ask other soldiers to borrow some more when he discovered that the Japanese soldiers who had appeared at the cliff behind the village had actually retreated directly along the cliff. Wang Gensheng breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the Japanese soldiers retreat, and then collapsed on the ground. After all, this was his first time fighting the Japanese, so it was natural for him to be nervous. At the same time, Wang Gensheng also felt two very subtle warm currents flowing through his body.

After feeling these two warm currents, Wang Gensheng was delighted. Could it be that the standard system for time travelers had arrived? However, after Wang Gensheng shouted it many times in his heart, he did not get any response from the system.

Just when Wang Gensheng was thinking about the system, a rough voice interrupted his thoughts.

"Well done! Who threw those two airburst grenades just now?"

Before Wang Gensheng could admit it, Wang Xikui, who was covering his shot arm, said loudly:

"Captain, those two grenades were thrown by Wang Gensheng, a soldier from Squad 8. He's been herding sheep since he was a child, so he can throw rocks far and accurately!"

At this time, the leader of the independent regiment came over, patted Wang Gensheng on the shoulder and said:

"Well done!"

However, Wang Gensheng was stunned when he saw the regiment commander in front of him, because this was not Li Yunlong, but Kong Jie, the commander of the New Second Regiment.

Then Wang Gensheng realized that this should be the battle in which Yangcun was attacked by Yamamoto's special forces before Li Yunlong came to the independent regiment. You know, the score in that battle was 200 to zero!
It was precisely because of the disastrous defeat in this battle that Kong Jie was removed from his position as the commander of the independent regiment and Li Yunlong was appointed as the commander of the independent regiment.

However, although Kong Jie praised Wang Gensheng, he did not look happy, because the corpses lying on the ground were all soldiers of his independent regiment, and there were only two corpses of the Japanese devils.

That’s right, these two Japanese corpses were the results of Wang Gensheng’s two air-burst grenades just now.

The Japanese soldiers of Yamamoto's special forces were standing in very scattered positions and did not gather together. Therefore, Wang Gensheng's two grenades only killed two Japanese special forces soldiers.

But this is better than the plot where not a single Japanese special forces soldier was left behind, and the subsequent combat losses were also counted.

The independent regiment lost 216 people, compared with the two people on the Japanese side, the casualty ratio was as high as 108 to 1, but no matter what, it was better than the original 200 to 0.

The death of more than 200 people was equivalent to the annihilation of half of the battalion. Kong Jie reported this result overnight without concealing it.

Of course, Kong Jie was also regretting at this time. He regretted that he should not have followed past experience and let the soldiers charge and fight hand-to-hand with bayonets in order to save ammunition.

If Kong Jie had given the order to defend on the spot or use grenades and bullets to deal with the enemy, perhaps there would not have been so many casualties.

Just when Kong Jie was feeling upset about his wrong command, Wang Gensheng first checked the injury of his cousin Wang Xikui and found that there was nothing serious. It was just that a bullet from a submachine gun pierced his arm. He should be fine after resting for a month or two.

Then Wang Gensheng went to check the bodies of the two Japanese soldiers who were killed by him. Perhaps because of the hasty retreat, the bodies of the two Japanese soldiers were not taken away, and the equipment on the bodies was also there.

(End of this chapter)