Bright Sword: Japs, times have changed

During the retreat, the soldier in charge of covering the rear came hurriedly to report that a squadron of Japanese reinforcements had arrived at the train station and were pursuing them along the retreat route.

The soldiers in the first row did not carry much supplies and quickly caught up with the New Second Regiment which had retreated earlier.

At this time, Kong Jie began to regret that he was too greedy and should not have filled the donkey cart too full, which resulted in the retreat being slow.

But they had already retreated so far, and now they were reluctant to abandon some of the supplies. Just when he was in a dilemma, Lin Qiang caught up with him with light equipment.

After seeing that Kong Jie's team was not moving fast, he found Kong Jie and said, "Captain Kong, your team is too slow. How about this? I will bring some people to cover your retreat and try to buy you more time to retreat."

The current situation of the New Second Regiment is in great need of this batch of supplies. This is not only a consideration of the overall situation, but also for Lin Qiang's own benefit.

First and foremost, the New Second Regiment's defense zone is the closest to Black Cloud Village. Whether it's a blocking battle or reinforcement, the New Second Regiment can provide assistance at the first opportunity.

Secondly, it was to prepare for swallowing up Qian Bojun's battalion in Wanjia Town in the future. Lin Qiang could not guarantee that he could pull the team together to compete with Qian Bojun's battalion by then, so he made preparations in advance and let Kong Jie owe him a favor. Then, he would not have the idea of splitting the profits in half with him.

Of course, this is just a preparation in advance. It is still unknown whether the new second regiment will be used at that time.

However, the new Second Regiment is in urgent need of this batch of supplies to strengthen its strength. Regardless of the purpose, Lin Qiang should help.

Kong Jie was stunned when he heard this. He quickly glanced at Lin Qiang's team. Excluding some soldiers carrying supplies, there were less than 30 people who could be deployed in the battle. With such a small number of troops, he was worried that Lin Qiang would suffer a great loss. He advised: "Brother Lin, don't take the risk. I, Kong Jie, will not trade the lives of my comrades for a few boxes of supplies."

After saying that, Kong Jie raised his hand and was about to ask the soldiers to discard some supplies in order to speed up the retreat.

"Captain Kong!"

Lin Qiang shouted, "It's settled. Even if it weren't for covering your retreat, our platoon would have had to fight this battle sooner or later. We might as well take advantage of the fact that the Japanese are so eager to pursue us and are less prepared to fight a blocking battle."

If the Japanese were allowed to pursue them all the way, then the newly established base of Heiyun Village would be discovered by the Japanese. The Japanese did not send troops to attack Heiyun Village before because they wanted to recruit the bandits in the mountains.

In addition to the terrain and the overall war situation in northwestern Shanxi, the Japanese had never bothered with the bandits in Heiyun Village.

But now it’s different. Once the Japanese know that Heiyunzhai is now the base of the Eighth Route Army, they will definitely send a large number of troops to attack it as soon as possible.

With the current strength of a row of troops, it can only stop a few charges from a battalion of Japanese invaders.

Being forced to evacuate this place before development even begins is something Lin Qiang doesn't want to happen.

In order to prevent this from happening, the only way now is to fight a blocking battle to prevent the Japanese from continuing to pursue the retreating troops.

Kong Jie wanted to persuade Lin Qiang, but before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Lin Qiang: "Captain Kong, this battle must be fought. Even if you lose the supplies, you can't avoid the outbreak of the battle."

But Kong Jie didn't think so. He always felt that Lin Qiang was willing to stay and delay the Japanese for the development of the New Second Regiment, so as to buy himself time to retreat.

This couldn't help but warm his heart, and he assured Lin Qiang: "Brother Lin, don't fight the devils head-on. Wait for me to bring the team back to support you. Remember, don't fight the devils head-on!"

"Captain Kong, just retreat."

Lin Qiang waved his hands repeatedly and said, "Don't even think about coming back to support us. If we delay for a while and retreat back to the mountains, we won't give the Japanese any chance to surround us. If you come back to support us, you'll be pursued by the Japanese."

As if afraid that Kong Jie would not listen to his advice, Lin Qiang added: "Captain Kong, remember what I said, there will be plenty of opportunities to fight the Japanese together in the future!"

Kong Jie has never been a fussy person. After hearing what Lin Qiang said, he made up his mind: "Okay, then I'll listen to you. I, Kong Jie, promise you that if you need help from the New Second Regiment in the future, just ask, and the entire New Second Regiment will never say no!"

Lin Qiang was delighted, waiting for you to say this, but his face remained calm as he urged, "Alright, Captain Kong, let's retreat quickly. I need to prepare an ambush position."

"it is good!"

As they walked, Kong Jie said, "Brother Lin, please be careful and don't get entangled with the devils for too long!"

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After the New Second Regiment's troops disappeared, Lin Qiang led a row of less than 30 soldiers and marched about one kilometer towards the train station, setting up an ambush site on a hillside beside the road.

This position is high and overlooking, there is open area on three sides ahead, and the Japanese have almost no shelter to hide.

For the Japanese, charging into the ambush position was harder than climbing to the sky. Unless they had the strength of a company, they could not charge forward under the firepower of three Type 99 light rifles.

These three light machine guns were brought out from the train station. It was these three light machine guns that made Lin Qiang realize that as long as they were not supplies rewarded by the system, even if they were received in the system space and then taken out, there was no need to worry about not being able to explain their origins. Everyone would automatically believe that they existed.

Three light machine guns were placed in the center of the position, with three machine gunners, three reloading operators, and a number of bullets.

In short, Lin Qiang had only one thing to say: as long as bullets can still be fired, the machine gun must not stop at all before retreating, except for reloading.

The ambush was at a very close distance, at which the mortar could hardly play a big role, and there were only three shells left.

The team did not carry grenade launchers, and the most powerful firepower in this ambush was three Type 99 light rifles.

Lin Qiang didn't feel bad even though the train station was damaged. The reward for taking it had been distributed as early as the end of the battle, but Lin Qiang didn't have time to check it along the way.

In addition to this ambush, although he was unable to completely wipe out the Japanese, Lin Qiang believed that it would give him some reward.

Not to mention the large amount of supplies brought out from the train station. Compared with this, the three Type 99 light rifles are really nothing.

Suddenly, Lin Qiang thought that if Li Yunlong knew about his behavior, he would definitely point at his nose and scold him for being a prodigal son.

After the positions were deployed, before the Japanese arrived, Lin Qiang made a battle plan for the soldiers: "Remember, the machine guns only fire, and you are responsible for shooting the rest of the Japanese. Each person has ten grenades, don't throw them randomly, throw them when the machine guns are reloading."

"Once I give the order to retreat, the team will retreat from left to right, using the tactics we learned to provide cross-cover coverage. We must not leave any of our brothers behind."

"Does everyone understand?"

"Understood!"

Even though there were only less than 30 people in the team, and they had to stop a squadron of Japanese pursuers here, the difference in numbers did not lower the team's morale, but instead made it even higher.

One of the three machine gunners was Hu Zi. He volunteered for this task. He had wanted to use a machine gun to let the Japanese taste the pain of being strafed a long time ago, but only now did he have the opportunity.

The only regret for him was that he was now using a light machine gun instead of a pheasant neck.

Qiangzi stared at the road ahead and said to the soldier in charge of reloading, "Get all your bullets ready! Don't delay me from killing the devils. Do you hear me?"

"Don't worry, Brother Qiangzi! But you have to kill a few more devils for me!"

Qiangzi patted the butt of his crooked handle rifle and said confidently, "That's for sure. As long as there are enough bullets, I'll kill all the Japanese!"

Compared to Qiangzi's confidence, Lin Qiang was a little worried. He smoked one cigarette after another. He was worried that the Japanese would carry mortars or grenade launchers.

If the Japanese were carrying these two weapons, the ambush would end in failure, and the team would have no choice but to hide in their positions and watch the Japanese continue to pursue them.

At that time, the only thing Lin Qiang could do was to send someone to inform Kong Jie that their attack had failed.

At this time, Hu Zi handed the telescope back to Lin Qiang, pointed to the bend in the road in the distance and said, "Platoon leader, the Japanese are coming!"

Through the telescope, Lin Qiang also saw the Japanese vanguard. He put down the telescope, extinguished the cigarette in his hand, and said to the soldiers: "The Japanese are coming, get ready for battle!"

"Remember, without my order, no one is allowed to fire a gun without authorization. If anyone dares to disobey my order, don't blame me for not recognizing anyone with the Mauser pistol in my hand!"

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