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

"Captain, urgent call from headquarters!"

"Read!"

"All ten Japanese Taiyuan Air Force planes have taken off, targeting your position, pay attention to air defense!"

"Good boy, you've spent a lot of money!"

Li Yunlong acted decisively. He realized that the twelve anti-aircraft guns were not sure that they could shoot down all the Japanese planes. In order to avoid losses, all the howitzers and anti-aircraft guns were transferred to prevent Japanese retaliation.

All positions began to prepare for air defense. Except for a few guard posts, all other personnel and weapons and equipment entered the anti-artillery caves, quietly waiting for the Japanese planes to lay eggs.

Li Yunlong was listening to the roar of planes in the sky. I was in the palm-sized air-raid shelter, feeling very depressed.

"Fuck it, if I had a plane, I'd fight you with bayonets in the sky!"

The Huanhe River position east of Linzhou City was not the direction of the Japanese army's attack, so the Japs symbolically dropped a few bombs on the head of the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment and then fled.

The Japanese planes dropped aerial bombs on Niujiazhuang, north of Linzhou City, and Ding Wei and Shen Quan were badly injured.

Even though anti-artillery holes were prepared in advance, many soldiers were killed by shock, explosions, or even buried alive in the ground.

After the Japanese plane laid eggs, it wagged its tail and ran away.

Ding Wei spat out the dirt in his mouth and shouted.

"Repair fortifications and prepare for battle!"

Shen Quan also counted the casualties, and more than 200 soldiers died under the Japanese aerial bombs.

"Brothers, cheer up and avenge your fallen brothers!"

The dust raised from the Niujiazhuang position had not yet settled when more than a thousand Japanese devils and several hundred remaining puppet troops rushed towards the Niutoushan position.

By the time the New 1st Regiment and the 2nd Battalion had just finished resting and repairing their fortifications, the Japanese had already approached within 50 meters.

"Grenade ready!"

Hundreds of large German bombs were thrown over and exploded among the Japanese, killing a wave of them.

More than one hundred Japanese soldiers with bare upper bodies, sanitary napkins on their heads and Type 99 rifles in their hands rushed up while shouting "Get on board!"

Shen Quan sneered in his heart when he saw the Japanese's foolish "board charge". This kind of foolish charge was effective against bolt-action rifles, but to attack against the powerful semi-automatic firepower was just suicide.

"A bunch of pigs, come and experience the power of automatic weapons!"

The battalion's more than 40 MP95 submachine guns, more than rifles, and dozens of light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, directly slowing down the momentum of the Japanese attack!

Colonel Katayama dropped his jaw in shock. Didn't the Second Section of the Headquarters Staff say that there were only three regiments guarding Linzhou County? This group of Eighth Route Army soldiers equipped with automatic weapons was obviously not the same group as the Eighth Route Army soldiers stationed in Niujiazhuang before.

Could it be that another regiment had quietly entered the Linzhou battlefield?

"Baga, these intelligence dealers should be sent to a military court!"

Under the cover of the Japanese mortars, the Japanese retreated, leaving behind hundreds of corpses.

Ding Wei and Shen Quan had a head-on fight. According to this style of fighting, even if they could stop the Japanese, it would be a miserable victory.

"Report to the battalion commander, Regiment Commander Li Yunlong requests a call!"

Shen Quan took the walkie-talkie and stood at attention.

"Captain, the Second Battalion of the Independent Regiment has repelled the enemy's first wave of attack, killing 500 enemies and 200 of them!"

"Thank you for your hard work! The enemy's planes are not easy to deal with. Just hold on a little longer. We are going to take a big action!"

"Yes! Commander, our Second Battalion can still fight!"

"Nonsense! The lives of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment are very precious. Captain Wang will send you food soon. Eat well and have a good rest!"

Li Yunlong hung up the walkie-talkie and began to discuss ways to resolve the situation with Wang Meng.

The headquarters just sent another intelligence message that the Japanese in Taiyuan dispatched another regiment, which passed through Changzhi and attacked from the east of Linzhou.

Now that the Japanese have gone mad with killing sprees, the strategic value of Linzhou City is no longer important. Both the enemy and us are holding our breath to see who will lose his temper first.

Wang Meng poked his finger hard at Anyang City.

"Captain, all the Japanese in Anyang City have been wiped out, and the remnants of the Loyal and Patriotic Army are all in Niujiazhuang. If we raid Anyang City now, we may be able to lift the siege of Linzhou City."

"Surround Wei and rescue Zhao?"

Now Li Yunlong is facing a difficult problem: whether Linzhou City’s defense can hold out until they attack Anyang City.

"I order the Third Battalion and the Cavalry Company to enter the Niujiazhuang position and exchange positions with the Second Battalion. The Second Battalion will enter the Huanhe position. The First Battalion, the Artillery Battalion, the Infantry Artillery Company, the Anti-Tank Company, and the Reconnaissance Company will set off immediately, aiming for Anyang City!"

"Captain, I have another plan..."

Under the cover of night, Zhao Gang led the third battalion into the Niujiazhuang position. At first, Shen Quan refused to leave the position after receiving the order, but finally, after Zhao Gang's persuasion, he was willing to move to the Huan River.

"Captain Shen, your Second Battalion and the New First Regiment have repelled four enemy attacks and have accomplished their mission brilliantly. The regiment's Party Committee orders you to enter the Huan River position!"

Shen Quan lost six or seven hundred soldiers that day, but also killed more than sixteen hundred devils and puppet troops.

"Yes!"

The third battalion commander Wang Huaibao obtained the consent of Ding Wei and the headquarters, took over all positions, and allowed the New 1st Regiment to enter Linzhou City for rest and recuperation.

Zhao Gang looked at the news about the Japanese troops' movements in the direction of Taiyuan sent by the headquarters and could only pray in his heart, hoping that Li Yunlong could quickly reach Anyang City and take it down.

The soldiers marched more than a hundred miles all night and arrived at the west gate of Anyang City in the early morning of the next day.

"Set up the artillery and bombard the city gate! Blow up the gate tower first, then the city gate!"

The defenders of Anyang City had no heavy artillery counterattack, so the infantry artillery company deployed its troops, and four 150mm infantry guns and twelve 75mm infantry guns fired at the same time, directly blowing open the gate of Anyang City.

The Japanese troops in the city were awakened by the explosion, and Yoshio Shinozuka rolled off the bed in shock.

"Baga, what's going on?"

The adjutant hurried over and helped Yoshio Shinozuka up from the ground.

"General Shinozuka, the Eighth Route Army has launched an attack on Anyang City!"

"What? They dare to attack. How many troops do we have left behind?"

"Except for the squadron you brought from Taiyuan, there is only one infantry squadron left in the Anyang City garrison!"

Yoshio Shinozuka was careless. He never expected that with the army from Linzhou City approaching, the enemy commander would dare to free up troops to attack Anyang City!

However, Yoshio Shinozuka, who was awakened from his sleep, quickly recovered from his panic.

"Order the Taiyuan Air Force to take off immediately and bomb the Eighth Route Army outside the city."

"Hayi! General Shinozuka, do we need to notify the Katayama Regiment to return to defend Anyang?"

"No need. There are two Chinese idioms: besieging Wei to save Zhao and luring the tiger away from the mountain. If we really transfer the Katayama Brigade back, we will fall into their trap! Order all troops to suspend the attack and wait for the Taiyuan reinforcements to arrive, and then take Linzhou in one fell swoop!"