Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Li Yunlong, who was far away at the New 1st Regiment’s base, did not feel the slightest bit of abnormality. Instead, Zhang Dabiao, who had just returned from recuperating at the headquarters field hospital, started to talk to Li Yunlong hesitantly.

"Zhang Dabiao, how is your injury recovering?"

"The Type 38 rifle has a long range and strong penetrating power. I just drilled a hole in the calf. I poked it with an alcohol cotton pad and disinfected it. It's not a big deal."

Li Yunlong borrowed back the sweet potato stew he had given away last time. He picked up the bowl and took a sip with great satisfaction.

"Hey, wanna have a bite?"

Zhang Dabiao was not polite either. He picked up the wine bowl and gulped down the whole bowl.

"I told you to drink a sip, why the hell did you drink it all!"

Zhang Dabiao put the empty bowl on the kang table and grabbed a handful of peanuts.

"Captain, didn't you say that people should be honest? If you ask me to drink, I will drink!"

Li Yunlong frowned, not realizing that he had dug a hole for himself.

"You are too honest. I can't tell which is polite and which is honest."

Then Li Yunlong's face changed and his whole face turned into a chrysanthemum.

"Hehe, but you have made great contributions in the battle of Cangyun Ridge. Come! I will reward you with another bowl!"

Zhang Dabiao gulped down another bowl and then sat down on the kang.

"Captain, have you heard any news recently?"

"What's the rumor? Which young wife is getting married again?"

"I have a fellow villager who is a staff officer at the headquarters. When he heard that we disobeyed orders on the battlefield, the head of the headquarters was very angry and said that we would be severely punished!"

Li Yunlong drank a bowl of wine and slammed the bowl on the table with a clang.

"Damn it! I won the battle, but you still want to punish me. How can this be justified? Never mind. I'll tell you when they really punish me! Zhang Dabiao, have you got a new gun?"

Zhang Dabiao patted the brand new mirror box, he was so happy.

When Zhang Dabiao came back from recuperation, he found that the battalion commanders of the second and third battalions were all carrying brand new mirror boxes, and his deputy battalion commander also carried one. He wanted to slap himself twice, thinking that he had missed such a great opportunity by going to the hospital.

But later, the deputy battalion commander dug out a mirror box from the kang, and Zhang Dabiao's liver-like face finally relaxed.

"Captain, who are those people from Cang Yunling?"

"I asked, and they said it was a team organized by patriotic overseas Chinese. It doesn't seem like a lie. I've seen their tactical drills, and they have some skills. Stop yelling at people like a donkey, and learn how to climb a tree like a cat!"

Before Li Yunlong finished his words, Wang Meng and his men walked into the yard with several wooden boxes.

“Who wants to learn to climb a tree like an old cat?”

Li Yunlong glared at Zhang Dabiao.

"Hey, isn't this Captain Wang of my county brigade? Come in, come in!"

Wang Meng would not visit Li Yunlong without a reason. He went to Li Yunlong's house with one thing in mind: to train the new regiment!

The New 1st Regiment, a local regiment of more than a thousand people at Cangyun Ridge, blocked the Sakata Regiment of more than 4,000 people. More than half of their personnel and weapons were lost, and they had just recently received reinforcements from local areas.

(The only officially organized regiments of the 386th Brigade are the 771st and 772nd Regiments; the other New st Regiment, New nd Regiment, and Independent Regiment were all self-established.)

Wang Meng wanted to help Li Yunlong improve the combat effectiveness of the New 1st Regiment and achieve the goal of driving out the Japanese as soon as possible.

In addition, he has a little trick.

When studying the points redemption system, he found a line of small words at the bottom: "Military personnel trained by the special forces will receive 80 percent of the points after completing enemy killing or rescue missions."

Fortunately, I read it just like I did in an insurance contract, not even paying attention to the small print, otherwise I would have missed this item.

Otherwise, with just over a hundred of them, even if each of them became a model worker, the money they received in exchange would still not be enough to equip a regiment, let alone exchange it for the Liaoning!

"Captain Li, are my soldiers' combat qualities okay?"

Li Yunlong nodded slightly. These soldiers of Wang Meng not only had good physical fitness, standard tactical movements, and strong work style, but also had a lot of battlefield experience. They didn't look like rookies.

"Your soldiers are all great. There's nothing to say about it. They are all good soldiers!"

"How about my soldiers bring you new recruits? It's free, no charge!"

Li Yunlong started to make plans in his mind. He was not afraid that Wang Meng would abduct the soldiers of the New 1st Regiment, but he was worried whether their training methods could adapt to the New 1st Regiment.

"Captain Wang, how are you going to practice? Let's talk about shooting first."

"Top shooters are made by bullets. Let's practice our posture first, and then each soldier should shoot thirty to fifty rounds a day. After practicing for a month, we will be able to hit whatever we point at!"

Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao gasped when they heard this. Fire thirty or fifty rounds a day? Is this a joke? Some soldiers never fired more than thirty or fifty rounds in their entire lives, from the time they joined the army to the time they died.

Li Yunlong shook his head. He still didn't understand the actual situation of our base. He was another expert in theory?

"Brother, don't even think about firing thirty or fifty rounds a day. Even if each of you fires two rounds, you'll have to sell Lao Li's pants! I'm telling you the truth, some soldiers fired their first gun on the battlefield!"

"Captain Li, how many soldiers do we have in the New First Regiment now?"

"About a thousand people!"

Wang Meng dragged Li Yunlong to the yard, where he laid out twenty boxes of bullets.

"Captain Li, there are 1,000 Mauser rounds in a box, a total of 20,000 rounds. I will continue to replenish them after the soldiers have finished their work!"

Li Yunlong's eyes widened. Each person could get 20 rounds? Li Yunlong was now a wealthy landlord, even richer than the head of the headquarters!

But the new regiment had too many types of guns and they were too diverse, including bird rifles, muskets, old-style rifles, Hanyang rifles, Zhongzheng rifles, Type 38 rifles, Mauser rifles, and everything else!

"Brother, Mauser bullets alone are not enough. Our team is poor, and we have all kinds of stuff, including muskets and muskets!"

"Captain Li, I have thought about this. After the soldiers have completed their basic formation and discipline training, each qualified soldier will be given a Mauser rifle!"

Hiss, Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao took a breath again.

Good fellow! If all of them were equipped with Mauser rifles and then Czech machine guns, wouldn't that be a German-equipped regiment?

"Zhang Dabiao, what are you still doing standing here? Everyone gather together!"

Zhang Dabiao stood there. He still didn't believe that Wang Meng could provide so much equipment, so he wanted to get some benefits for the first battalion first.

"Captain, I'm afraid Captain Wang doesn't have enough guns. How about letting our first battalion set an example first? We're not vague about fighting the Japs, and we're not vague about training either!"

"Stop your calculations, my brothers have plenty of guns, hurry up and gather!"

Zhang Dabiao grabbed his hat in his signature gesture and ran out without looking back.

Li Yunlong looked at Wang Meng, the silly brother of the landlord, and wanted to go up to him and give him a couple of kisses.

With a loud noise, the entire New 1st Regiment's base started moving and soon gathered in the open space outside the village.

There were more than a thousand people, a small number of them wore a complete set of gray military uniforms, while the others either only had a pair of pants and a shirt, and many even only had a hat.

It was just this group of one or two thousand people with a wide variety of weapons and equipment and almost no logistical support who managed to hold off the Sakata Regiment of more than 4000 people.

Wang Meng, Lin Shubing, Zhang Xuan and all the special forces soldiers stood in awe and saluted in unison.