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

1944年5月22日，南下的第3师团、第13师团逼近怀化，而第39师团与第9师团也逼近邵阳。

The 201st Airborne Brigade and the 202nd Airborne Brigade, which were waiting here, placed blocking positions on both wings of the route they had to take.

The reason for this arrangement is that they are short of troops.

The three divisions and one brigade heading south had a total of more than 70,000 people, and the two airborne brigades had no more than 15,000 people, which was only one-fifth of the enemy's.

Moreover, in the early Changheng Campaign, the Japanese troops heading south did not suffer much loss, and their combat effectiveness was hardly reduced.

If the airborne brigade placed its position right in front and used all its strength, the Japanese who were eager to move south would probably open up a passage to the south at all costs. In this case, even with the support of the aviation division, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, Monk Wei placed two airborne brigades on the two wings, which could not only effectively kill the Japanese's manpower, but also prevent the Japanese from making desperate moves.

At around noon, Yokoyama Isamu mobilized the remaining more than 100 fighter planes of various types from the 3rd Flying Division to provide cover, and the southward-moving corps began to pass through Shaoyang and Huaihua.

The two flying divisions stationed in Yongzhou immediately participated in the battle to intercept the Japanese aircraft, and for a while they were unable to withdraw to cover the bombers supporting the airborne brigade.

Shaoyang and Huaihua became battlefields for the enemy and our army.

The Japanese had a large number of troops, and the Welfare Column was well-equipped, and each had its own strengths.

The Japanese assembled more than a hundred tanks to clear the way and penetrated directly to the south, but the airborne brigade simply let their tank troops pass, causing the Japanese to hit a waste of time with their fist, which made Yokoyama Isamu scream in anger.

Originally, he wanted to use the tank troops to directly attack the limited manpower of the independent column to cover the passage of the infantry. As a result, the airborne brigade avoided the attack and passed by directly.

The positions chosen by the airborne brigade were all in the mountains with a certain slope, which exceeded the elevation angle of the Japanese main battle tanks. Even if they stumbled up to the positions, their mobility was very limited, and they would be sitting ducks for anti-tank rocket launchers.

Moreover, Wei Heshang had no intention of letting the Japanese tank troops go. The tank troops were large targets and were only suitable for marching on the main roads. When the aviation division was free, they could be retrained in a matter of minutes.

Yokoyama Isamu reluctantly ordered the tank troops to continue moving south, at least allowing them to separate from the infantry troops and quickly march towards Guilin to refuel.

Having let the Japanese tank troops go, Wei Heshang was not going to be polite to the next infantry troops. After fighting for the city for such a long time, today they could finally roll up their sleeves and work hard.

Moreover, the supplies airdropped to them this time were so numerous that they could not be stacked up, especially the 107mm rocket launchers. If they were spread out evenly, every twenty Japanese devils would get one rocket.

邵阳战场，小鬼子第39师团与第17旅团的炮兵队，集结了36门山炮和12门150毫米榴弹炮，对201空降旅的阵地进行了饱和式炮击。

"The damn Japs are bullying us because we don't have heavy artillery!"

After Monk Wei finished speaking, a shell hit the anti-artillery hole next to it, causing it to collapse. It is estimated that several soldiers were killed.

"Damn it, have you found the enemy's artillery position?"

"Reporting to the brigade commander, we are still looking! The Japs have learned their lesson this time, and they are probably hiding in the woods."

"Hurry up and search for it. Once you find it, destroy it without asking for permission! Also, get in touch with the Liangshan Special Forces. They are probably looking for the Japanese's command center. Ask them to keep an eye on the artillery positions for us!"

"Yes!"

The Japanese had indeed learned their lesson this time. They hid all their artillery batteries in the woods and also camouflaged them. So the artillery scouts wandered around for a long time but couldn't find the enemy's artillery batteries.

Duan Peng led a small team and, like a blind cat catching a dead mouse, he went straight towards the heavily guarded forest.

The closer we got, the more we felt something was wrong, and we could hear a series of rumbling sounds.

"Damn it, have we found the Japanese artillery position?"

"Captain, why don't you go take a look? Even if it's not the Japs' headquarters, just consider it as collecting some interest!"

"Okay, didn't Monk Wei send a telegram asking us to help find the artillery position? If we find it, we have to let him treat us to a drink!"

After saying this, Duan Peng led his team into the dense forest. Finally, they killed more than a dozen Japanese soldiers before they saw the cannons with branches stuck on them.

Duan Peng wanted to destroy the Japanese artillery position himself, but the Japanese seemed to be well prepared, with at least two infantry squadrons on guard around. If the sneak attack failed, it would probably alert the enemy.

"Report the coordinates to Monk Wei, quickly!"

Two minutes later, a 107mm rocket landed one hundred meters north of the artillery position.

"Calibrate coordinates and retreat!"

After the little brother beside him calibrated the target, he watched the panicked Japanese soldiers hastily put away their artillery and prepared to run away. Duan Peng also ran away with the first squad.

这107火箭炮虽然精度不怎么样，密集度仅为射程的1/140，方向偏差是1/85。在8公里的最大射程上，可能会偏离目标50至100米。

However, as long as there is enough gunpowder and a large number of rocket launchers, this lack of accuracy is completely acceptable. One salvo can solve the problem, and if that doesn't work, two salvos can be used.

When Duan Peng's Liangshan Special Forces were jumping up and down in the mountains and forests and running away, white smoke suddenly appeared in the sky.

He roughly looked at at least two hundred of them, which looked like a salvo from at least a 107mm rocket artillery battalion.

A moment later, loud explosions were heard from the forest behind him, one after another, and then a large ball of fire gathered into a small mushroom cloud and rose into the sky.

"Luckily you escaped quickly, otherwise even if you were the strongest special forces soldier on earth, you would have died here. Monk Wei is really violent. Retreat!"

Monk Wei, who was squatting in the trench, sneezed, listened to the artillery fire gradually stop, crawled out, and spat out a mouthful of saliva covered with dirt.

"Damn it, there are a lot of Japanese soldiers running over there, comrades, grab your weapons!"

The Japanese had no intention of fighting, so they left a battalion behind to attack the heights on both wings, covering the main force to quickly pass through the depression in the middle.

It is obvious that this battalion of Japs are just cannon fodder, and once this battalion of Japs is wiped out, another battalion will fill in until all of them pass.

After the 107 rocket launcher eliminated the Japanese artillery positions, it quickly moved to the artillery positions near the blocking positions and launched decisive shelling at the Japanese who were charging.

The Japanese soldiers in this brigade seemed to know that they were destined to be cannon fodder, and they did not rush to charge. Instead, they advanced slowly towards the blocking position in an extremely loose individual line, even taking two steps, lying down, and then taking two more steps...