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

Ding Wei looked at the frivolous face and thought, isn’t this Zheng Chang? How could he forget such a big treasure!

"Hey, Brother Zheng Chang, hurry up and teach the little Japs a lesson! Take down their infantry artillery first!"

"okay!"

Zheng Chang picked up the telescope to observe the Japanese artillery position, and then pressed the walkie-talkie.

"Artillery Command Post, I am at the Niujiazhen position, position A10, right 200, one round of calibration fire!"

A high-speed rotating projectile landed on the right side of the Japanese artillery position, making Ichiro Katayama break out in a sweat.

"What? Where did the heavy artillery come from? The artillery troops move immediately!"

Zheng Chang would not give the Japanese artillery a chance to move, so he continued to talk on the walkie-talkie.

"Position A10, right 100, three rapid fire shots!"

"boom"!

The three deafening noises were just the prelude, followed by a huge bang that soared into the sky. Four Type 92 infantry guns were blown into the sky by the exploding ammunition.

However, the mortar slipped away quickly and escaped the disaster, but it did not dare to show its head again, for fear that the next shell would fall on its head.

Ding Wei looked through the telescope and saw the Japanese soldiers howling in agony after being bombed, and he felt indescribably happy.

"What a pleasure! You are worthy of being Lao Li's little darling. I will treat Lao Li to a drink when I get back!"

Ichiro Katayama was so angry that he was puffing his beard and glaring. He didn't expect that he had underestimated the enemy. It seemed that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army had reached a superb level.

Ichiro Katayama called Guo Huamin from the Handan National Salvation Army.

"Commander Guo, the enemy only has a newly formed regiment of the Eighth Route Army. I will send a squadron of the Imperial Army to cooperate with you and take down Niujiazhuang in one fell swoop!"

After the city was captured, one tenth of the wealth was a big piece of fat meat for Guo Huamin, but the lives of his soldiers? What did they count for? If they died, wouldn't it be better to just recruit more soldiers?

Guo Huamin took out the mirrored box from his waist and fired two shots.

"Brothers, charge for me, take over Linzhou City, and share the money and the women!"

Guo Huamin's simple and crude pre-war mobilization seemed to have given these grassroots "heroes" a talisman that made them fearless of death, and they rushed forward regardless of their lives.

Zheng Chang immediately called for a wave of artillery support. High-explosive bombs exploded next to the Handan National Salvation Army, and the high-speed exploding shrapnel madly reaped the lives of the National Salvation Army.

However, these 2000 fearless living targets showed no fear and kept rushing forward.

Two hundred meters away, the grenade launchers and mortars of the New 1st Regiment were not suppressed by the Type 92 infantry guns and were firing crazily.

One hundred meters away, light and heavy machine guns opened fire, sweeping out fan-shaped areas.

At fifty meters, Mauser rifles and MP40 submachine guns fired flames, slowly killing any fish that had escaped the net.

The firepower of the New 1st Regiment was slightly inferior to that of the Independent Regiment. In addition, Niujiazhuang was a plain and had no geographical advantage. Therefore, two or three hundred puppet troops and half a squadron of Japanese devils rushed into the trenches and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the First and Second Battalions of the New 1st Regiment on the position.

Although the soldiers of the New 1st Regiment were brave and fearless, long-term malnutrition caused them to suffer in hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing the soldiers of the New 1st Regiment falling down around him one after another, Ding Wei fought the Japanese with a machete while shouting to the messenger.

"Damn it, bring all the reserve troops up to me!"

The messenger took up the box gun, fired two shots and killed two puppet soldiers, then rushed out.

Ten minutes later, a series of "da da da" sounds of automatic fire were heard, and the Japanese and puppet troops continued to fall down.

Monk Wei rushed to Ding Wei holding a 95mm rifle and stood back to back with him.

"Captain Ding, Captain Li, and the others are here to support us!"

"Hahaha, you come just in time, kill!"

Monk Wei has learned his lesson now. He will never fight with bayonets if the situation can be resolved with a gun. It's not that he doesn't dare, but there is no need to do so.

More than a hundred automatic rifles showed their power in the trenches. While the Japs were still pulling the bolts of their guns or getting ready to fight, bullets pierced through their bodies and ruthlessly devoured their lives.

Seeing that something was wrong, Guo Huamin hurriedly fled back with the remaining several hundred people.

Come when you want and leave when you want?

Zheng Chang called for another wave of artillery support, sending hundreds of puppet soldiers into the sky.

Ding Wei leaned on the trench, gasping for breath, and looked at the casualties reported by each battalion, totaling more than 400 casualties.

"Monk Wei, it's a good thing we have you, otherwise our new regiment would have suffered a great loss."

"The commander said that we are all family, and he also asked me to tell you that now is not the time to show off. If you can't hold on, the Second Battalion can help defend."

Although Ding Wei was unwilling to accept this, this was only the beginning of the first wave and they had lost one-fifth of the soldiers. He couldn't joke with the soldiers' lives.

"Okay, we'll report this to the headquarters and ask you to come and help us!"

Shen Quan got his wish and led the Second Battalion into the Niujiazhuang position, taking over half of the position.

As soon as the Second Battalion entered the position, it organized all the battalion's medical soldiers to treat the soldiers of the New First Regiment, and asked the accompanying stretcher team to send the soldiers to the Independent Regiment's medical team in Linzhou City for further treatment.

Wang Huaibao also moved from the cold bench to the hot bench, entered the mountains south of Linzhou City, and became the general reserve.

Colonel Katayama suffered a series of setbacks, which made Yoshio Shinozuka very angry.

"Damn it! One regiment, plus five or six thousand imperial troops, can't even take down Linzhou City."

Yoshio Shinozuka also ordered the Taiyuan Air Force to carry out indiscriminate bombing on the positions around Linzhou City early tomorrow morning, and mobilized the Inoue Battalion in Shexian County to advance towards Linzhou from the north.

The fighting between the 386th Brigade's Independent Regiment and the New 358st Regiment was fierce, and the situation on the th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army was not much better.

The Tada Battalion of Ping'an County was on the west side of Linzhou City, and entangled with the 358th Regiment. They fought several hand-to-hand combats, and both sides suffered heavy losses.

Fortunately, it was Chu Yunfei's troops. If it were other Shanxi Suiyuan Army or Central Army troops, they would have slipped into the city long ago after seeing the Japanese bayonets.

Another night fell, and both sides licked their wounds at the same time.

Li Yunlong called Chu Yunfei.

"Brother Yunfei, tell me the truth, can you still hold on? If not, just one word from you, and hand the position over to Old Li!"

"Brother Yunlong, your regiment can withstand a regiment plus a puppet brigade, but I can't withstand a battalion of Japanese soldiers? Aren't you a shame?"

"Hahaha, I knew you were different from those idiots in the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army."

"Brother Yunlong, thank you for the compliment. See you in Linzhou City!"

Li Yunlong saw that the night was just right and decided to give the Japanese a little surprise.

Twenty-four howitzers fired at the same time, and some of the Japanese soldiers in Niujiazhuang died while they were still dreaming.

Colonel Katayama hid in the anti-artillery cave, his face turning purple with anger.

"Baga baga! Take over Linzhou City and skin Li Yunlong alive!"

At dawn on the fourth day, all ten planes of the Japanese Taiyuan Air Force were dispatched, and the Inoue Squadron was merged with the Katayama Squadron, waiting for an opportunity to move...