Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 57 Kong Jie, who doesn't eat alone

But it was too late. The cavalry company's cavalry swords had been raised high, and Wang Gensheng, the squad leader who led the charge, had already aimed at the Japanese devils and raised the cavalry sword in his hand to chop down.

The speed of the charging warhorse, plus Wang Gensheng's strength, was 40% greater than that of others.

So naturally, Wang Gensheng chopped off his head and half of his shoulder.

Just when Wang Gensheng wanted to chop other Japanese soldiers, he found that the battle was over.

Because one squad of Japanese soldiers was not enough for a cavalry company to chop down, and on average there was not even enough Japanese soldiers for each cavalryman to deal with.

However, some of them were not hacked to death or shot by machine guns, but were trampled to death by war horses. The reason for this was mainly because the Japanese had high combat skills. For example, light machine gunners would never hold their light machine guns and shoot from the hips like the Eighth Route Army did, which was inaccurate, because this was absolutely not allowed in the Japanese machine gun training outline.

In the eyes of the Japanese, this kind of hip shooting without three-point aiming was a waste of bullets, so several light machine gunners lay on the ground. Then when the cavalry company charged over, the cavalry could not even bend over to chop the machine gunners lying on the ground.

So they just let the horse step on it, and naturally nothing happened. The speed of the charge, coupled with the weight of the horses and people, naturally meant that the Japanese soldiers who were stepped on would suffer a lot. It was a good thing that they stepped on the right place without making shit.

After a wave of charge, the battle was resolved and the battlefield was cleaned up. There was no other way. After all, this transport team only had three trucks, and how much cargo could they carry! Therefore, it was very good to have a small team of devils escorting the transportation.

You have to know that these are not the 100-ton kings of the rear eight-wheeled vehicles that will be seen everywhere on the road in a few decades! Of course, the actual load capacity of these rear eight-wheeled vehicles does not exceed 50 tons, but if everyone abides by the rules, there will be no daily inspections and the roads will not need to be repaired every time.

What's more, there are no asphalt or cement roads now. The road under Wang Gensheng's feet is just a hard dirt road. Once it rains, these cars weighing 3.5 tons and with a load capacity of only 1.5 tons will basically slip and break down in the mud.

Wang Gensheng got on the car and took a look. He found that the machine gunners of the good machine gun team were very restrained in their actions and did not explode the ammunition transported on the car.

Not only did the ammunition not explode, even the trucks were not blown up. Perhaps these trucks were all diesel-powered trucks!

Just pry open a wooden ammunition box and you will find that the entire box is filled with 6.5mm rifle bullets.

Weighing it, the ammunition box is not light, at least more than 50 kilograms, so there must be at least a thousand 6.5mm rifle bullets in this ammunition box.

However, some of the ammunition boxes did not contain bullets, but a large number of Type 97 grenades. There were more than 40 such ammunition boxes on a truck.

Therefore, it can be concluded that the weight of the ammunition transported by this convoy is about three tons.

After estimating the weight of the ammunition, Wang Gensheng immediately called out:

"Squad Leader, send two men to inform the regimental commander and the battalion commander that they don't need to ambush or come to reinforce. Just go back to Wangjia Village!"

Then Wang Gensheng turned to the remaining cavalry soldiers and said:
"The rest of you, take out the hemp ropes and tie four ammunition boxes to each warhorse. Move quickly! Quick! Quick! Quick!"

That’s right, long before, Wang Gensheng had already prepared hemp ropes for the cavalry company, the purpose of which was to be used to transport ammunition.

As for the Japanese truck, it was no longer usable. It wasn't an armored vehicle, so it had already been riddled with holes from the bullets, and several tires had been blown out. Therefore, even if Wang Gensheng had a C1 driver's license before crossing over, he wouldn't be able to drive it.

Wang Gensheng was quite satisfied with the results of this battle. Due to the unexpected ambush and the feint to the east and attack to the west, only two people in the cavalry company were injured, and they were all slightly injured. They only needed to rest for ten days or half a month before they could return to the battlefield.

Of course, Wang Gensheng only dared to do this this time because he saw that the Japanese were few in number and were in an ambush. If there were more people, or even if just one of the Japanese machine gunners discovered the cavalry company charging from behind a few seconds in advance, the casualties would have been increased several times or even dozens of times.

In fact, before the ambush, Wang Gensheng had already made two contingency plans. The first one was just like what he did just now, using the machine gun team to attract the attention of the Japanese, and then the cavalry company on the other side would charge and solve the problem.

The second combat plan is that once the machine gun team opens fire and finds that there are more than one squad of Japanese soldiers getting off the car, they can only adopt a delaying tactic. After the machine gun team blows up the tires, they will immediately retreat, and then delay and wait for the troops from the left and right to arrive for reinforcements.

At the same time, the soldiers of the cavalry company were also responsible for killing the Japanese soldiers who wanted to go back to report the news and ask for help.

It’s a pity that these three tons are all ammunition, not weapons, otherwise the size of the New Second Regiment could be expanded.

Of course, three tons of ammunition is a lot for the New Second Regiment, which has only a thousand people.

After all, there are a thousand bullets in an ammunition box. If these 120 ammunition boxes are filled with bullets, that would be 120,000 bullets.

Each soldier was allocated 120 rounds of ammunition, which was the same amount of ammunition as the Japanese. Unfortunately, half of the boxes were filled with Type 97 grenades and shells for grenade launchers.

Although Wang Gensheng's cavalry company was in the middle, it was the closest to Wangjia Village, so Wang Gensheng led the cavalry company back to Wangjia Village first. However, not long after, Kong Jie returned with his men. As soon as he came back, he naturally saw the more than 100 boxes of ammunition piled in the courtyard of the regiment headquarters, so he asked:

"The battle was resolved so quickly? What were the casualties?"

Although Kong Jie was happy about the harvest of three tons of ammunition, if he had to choose between three tons of ammunition and a cavalry company, he would definitely choose the cavalry company without hesitation.

In response to this, Wang Gensheng smiled and said:
"Luckily, only two people were injured, and they are minor injuries that are not a big deal!"

Then Wang Gensheng told Kong Jie about his battle experience. After listening to it, Kong Jie immediately slammed the table and laughed:

"That's awesome! I never thought we, the Eighth Route Army, would even be able to defeat the Japs. Sixty to zero! Well done! You really make me proud! Just wait! I'll report this to my superiors right away and I'll definitely get you a commendation!"

However, in response to Kong Jie's words, Wang Gensheng immediately said:

"Captain, you better report less ammunition when you report it! Otherwise, it will be like when we were in the independent regiment, and the cavalry battalion will be turned into a cavalry company!"

However, Kong Jie's awareness was much higher than Wang Gensheng, Li Yunlong and others. He simply waved his hand and said:
"Just tell the truth. We are different from Lao Li. We are not stingy. We are doing well here, but we can't just sit back and watch other Eighth Route Army brothers suffer!"

(End of this chapter)