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

Katsume Naosin looked at the ambush position that looked like it had been plowed through, with a sinister smile spread across his face.

"Kill them, search forward!"

When Ge Mu Zhi Xin arrived at the ambush position, the smile on his face gradually froze. Apart from the yellow earth, he did not find the broken limbs he had imagined. It was obvious that their aerial bombs were wasted on the empty position.

"Baga! Cunning Chinese, for the sake of the empire's reputation, chase them!"

More than 1200 Japanese soldiers, organized in squadrons, searched a dense forest. The mixed infantry battalion commander, Hattori Hanzo, reported this to Katsume Naoguni.

"Sir Kazume Naoshi, the Chinese are very cunning. This dense forest looks very dangerous. It is better to be careful!"

Naoki Katsuragi's mind is now filled with revenge and shame, and he has been blinded by anger.

"Baga, cowardly Hattori Hanzo, you are unworthy of the name of your ancestors. A few Eighth Route Army soldiers scared you like this. You are not worthy of being a soldier of the Empire!"

Naogami Naogami was not impressed with Hattori Hanzo. Relying on the fact that he was a member of the clan and the Emperor's swordsmanship teacher, Hattori did not take the regiment commander seriously and threatened many times to report directly to General Yoshio Shinozuka and even Commander General Okamura Yasuji.

This time we must find an opportunity to dampen his arrogance, or simply make him be loyal to the emperor he always talks about.

As expected, Hattori Hanzo, who was always putting on airs, brought up the damn emperor again.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency has been blinded by anger. You are playing with the lives of the imperial warriors! I will report directly to His Majesty the Emperor through my people!"

Ge Mu Zhi Xin was furious. It was already humiliating enough that he led an absolutely superior force and was beaten to the ground by the Eighth Route Army. Now he was being contradicted by you, a captain.

"Baka! Even if we need to report to His Majesty the Emperor, that will be in the future. Now you, Hattori Hanzo, are under my jurisdiction. As the commander, I order you to take your mixed infantry battalion into this forest and search for the Eighth Route Army!"

No matter how powerful Hattori Hanzo's background was, he dared not disobey orders on the battlefield and glared at Katsurame Naozune angrily.

"Hattori Mixed Infantry Battalion, search forward, beware of the Eighth Route Army ambush!"

More than 1,200 Japanese soldiers gradually entered the dense forest and searched forward along the traces of the large group.

He had heard that the Eighth Route Army was first-rate at laying mines, so Hattori Hanzo asked the Japanese soldiers to watch their feet and immediately call for engineers to clear the mines if they encountered any suspicious bottles or jars.

When the Hattori Battalion had all entered the dense forest, a sergeant was hit on the back of his hand by a piece of white bird droppings.

"Damn, this is so unlucky! There's a saying in my hometown that if you get hit by bird shit, it will bring misfortune!"

The sergeant looked up and saw a dark green iron box hanging on the tree, with the curved surface facing down.

Cao Changzai looked around and found that the forest was almost full of these iron boxes. Even the dumbest pigs knew that these iron boxes were the ones that would take their lives!

"Danger in the tree! Retreat!"

Before most soldiers could react, hundreds of broadswords hanging on the trees fired at the same time.

Tens of thousands of high-speed steel balls were ejected, penetrating the Japanese soldiers' arms, shoulders, necks, and torsos. The only part that might not have been penetrated was their heads which were covered with steel helmets.

The entire dense forest was filled with the howling of ghosts and wolves, as if it had become a pig slaughterhouse.

Hattori Hanzo was also hit in the thigh by a steel ball.

While the Japanese soldiers had no time to retreat, the soldiers of the Second Regiment jumped out of the bunker deep in the jungle and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who were either dead or wounded.

In the dense forest, more than 40 MP submachine guns of the whole regiment ruthlessly harvested the lives of the Japanese soldiers, and sent the bones of those lying on the ground to the west.

After a round of charge, Hattori Hanzo limped out of the dense forest with more than 400 Japanese soldiers.

"Baga, Hattori Hanzo, who allowed you to leave the battlefield without my order!"

Hattori Hanzo, who had managed to save his life, no longer cares about your orders. Even if he is to be brought to a military court, that will be a few months later. If he enters this Shura field again, he will probably go to hell immediately.

"Sir Kuzume Naosin, if the troops suffer more than two-thirds casualties in battle, they will be deemed to have lost their combat effectiveness, and the commander can abandon the mission!"

"Baga! This is really a disgrace to your Hattori family!"

Although Naogoi Katsume insulted Hattori Hanzo for being cowardly, he definitely wouldn't dare to go into the jungle alone.

The mortars and grenade launchers of each mixed brigade were concentrated again and fired at the vague and aimless target, but because of the obstruction of the trees, the shells hit the tree trunks and exploded, posing no threat to the Second Regiment.

"Baga! Stop wasting shells! Call in the air force immediately to carpet bomb this dense forest!"

Hattori Hanzo, lying on a stretcher, looked at the incompetent Naoki Katsurame and shook his head helplessly. This idiot was wasting the empire's bombs again. But this had nothing to do with him. He was about to stay in a rear hospital for some time.

According to the plan, the 2nd Regiment left its original bunker again and continued to retreat to the south.

As expected, the Japanese air force was venting their anger in a deserted position.

At the Nankou position, more than 222 people from the 800nd Mixed Infantry Battalion and more than 1200 Imperial Army soldiers were lost.

The 222nd Regiment's Mixed Infantry Battalion was ambushed by the special forces and reconnaissance battalion outside the dense forest and lost more than 200 people.

They were attacked by the Second Regiment's Broadsword mines in the dense forest, resulting in the loss of more than 800 people.

All that was left of Katsurame Naoki were the 1400-strong mixed infantry battalion of the 800th Mixed Brigade, plus remnants of the other two infantry battalions, and puppet troops whose combat effectiveness was negligible.

"Baga! Send a signal to General Shinozuka."

"Our troops have made good progress in the early stages and are about to break through the Eighth Route Army's Hongyadong defense line. We have also annihilated part of the 386th Brigade's Independent Regiment. However, a large number of Chinese troops equipped with advanced weapons have appeared behind us, disrupting our plans! Please support us, Commander!"

Yoshio Shinozuka looked at the telegram and called the head of the Second Section of the General Staff and Chi Takaji in. The telegram was hit directly in his face.

"Baga, is this your intelligence work? You don't even know the deployment of such a powerful team!"

"Ha Yi! I'll investigate right away!"

He Zhiyingji quickly arrived at the Huangyadong position, looked at the bodies of the independent column soldiers wearing desert camouflage and the G43 semi-automatic rifles, and fell into deep thought.

As far as he knew, no army in the world had been equipped with uniforms made of this material and such advanced weapons on a large scale.

Moreover, these so-called military uniforms do not have the Eighth Route Army logo. Could they be some elite local armed forces?

He Zhiying called the signalman and dictated the telegram:

"General Shinozuka, we have indeed found something unusual, and there are 5.8-caliber bullets. I think this enemy's combat effectiveness is quite strong! In comparison, the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment surrounded in Huangya Cave is much weaker! It may be the real culprit who repeatedly insulted the empire, and the independent regiment is just a scapegoat!"

After receiving the telegram, Yoshio Shinozuka was worried and stood in front of the map again.

"Kume Naoxin stop attacking, gather your troops and wait for the next order!"