Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

Relying on superior fortification conditions, the officers and soldiers of the Su Fei Independent Division occupied an absolutely advantageous position.

More than 600 machine guns, hundreds of grenade launchers, and dozens of mortars all fired at the enemy crowd.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

"Hit! Hit hard!"

Countless bullets formed a terrifying metal jet, like the radiation of sunlight, shooting towards the enemy with thousands of golden rays. The puppet troops and the Japanese troops had no way to avoid it!

In an instant, the troops of the Imperial Army rolled and jumped, screaming as if they had been electrocuted, like a group of little mice caught by an eagle.

The bullets passed through their bodies.

Head, chest, belly button, thighs, calves, eyes, nose, forehead.

It penetrated the skin and flesh, burst the blood vessels, shattered the internal organs, cut off the eggs, causing pain, shame, and suffering.

The bodies of the puppet soldiers turned into garbage, and they became even more garbage!

A puppet soldier jumped up, covering his eyes.

A puppet soldier covered his stomach and stuffed the intestines that had flowed out.

A group of puppet soldiers got up from the ground, then lay down again, crying for their mothers.

In the waterfall of righteous bullets, the puppet soldiers fell one after another and died in a short time.

Then the puppet Manchukuo army also suffered heavy casualties.

These damn traitors and traitors got their retribution.

Several officers of the puppet Manchukuo army were so angry that they cried.

"Isn't this bullying? With so many machine guns, who can rush through? Ah? Bah! Su Fei, can you guys stop being so shameless?"

In half a minute, more than a thousand puppet soldiers were killed. The Japanese army then charged, shot, and bombarded. The two sides fought in a melee, and the Japanese artillery bombarded crazily. In this way, more than a thousand Japanese soldiers became sparse and rolled on the ground after a few minutes.

Su Fei's army also suffered heavy casualties.

More than 130 officers and soldiers were killed, pierced by Japanese bullets and blown to pieces by artillery shells!

More than 100 people were injured.

Half an hour later, the battle was completely over, and more than 200 remnants of the Japanese infantry battalion retreated.

The commander of the Japanese 33rd Division observed from a distance and sighed repeatedly, "Stupid, stupid, Nagatsu Saki is such a bastard, such an idiot, he's giving blind orders!"

Beside him, a group of Japanese military officers had solemn expressions, and some were already wiping away tears.

They didn't feel sorry for how many puppet soldiers died, but they used an infantry battalion of the 33rd Division, and there were casualties everywhere, all of whom were their relatives and friends.

"too frightening!"

"Hmm? Yamamoto-kun? What did you say?"

"Ah? I say, how pathetic! How hateful!"

As night fell, in the darkness, the remnants of an infantry battalion of the Japanese 33rd Division knelt on the ground, praying and paying tribute to their comrades who had died in battle.

Afterwards, they quietly launched a sneak attack.

"Only by surprise can we defeat the enemy. We will enter the enemy's trenches without making a sound, blend in, and attack the enemy directly just as they attacked our army."

The ghostly figures of the Japanese army sneaked into Su Fei’s army position like ghosts.

But suddenly, there was something empty under my feet in front of me and I fell in!

Puff, a cold wind entered the bodies and souls of the Japanese soldiers!

The Japanese didn't know that at night, Su Fei's army was also on high alert, ready to guard against sneak attacks.

Lurking in trenches and individual pits, motionless, waiting for the Japanese army to arrive, suddenly launching a surprise attack and assassinating them!

In order to conceal themselves and remain silent, the Japanese soldiers kept their mouths shut and would rather be killed than make a sound, to ensure absolute secrecy.

However, after more than ten minutes, all the Japanese troops were wiped out.

The commander of the 21st Division, Lieutenant General Sakichi Nagazu, who was in charge of the division, became angry as he had not received any news from the Japanese troops.

"Kill him!"

Another round of artillery fire and another round of charge.

At night, the Japanese army launched more than ten charges.

Two puppet infantry divisions and one cavalry regiment were thrown into the battle.

As a result, after dawn, it was discovered that the corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers on the battlefield had piled up into a thick layer.

During the night charge, many Japanese and puppet soldiers were tripped by their own corpses and then killed by the enemy's machine gun fire.

Some Japanese and puppet soldiers were even stabbed to death or injured by bayonets discarded on the ground!

Overnight, two puppet army divisions totaling more than 7000 people and a puppet army cavalry regiment of more than 800 people were almost wiped out.

Two Japanese infantry battalions were severely damaged.

The rays of the rising sun gently soothed the earth, coating the piles of corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers with a layer of golden color.

The Japanese officers and soldiers who saw the tragedy burst into tears.

The commander of the 11th Infantry Division of the puppet army who managed to survive shot himself.

It was not that he had a change of heart, but that he was reprimanded by the front-line commander, Lieutenant General Nagatsu Saki, and forced to commit suicide.

"Idiot, idiot, you are a piece of trash. You are a division commander, but you can't even take down the position of a division of the National Army. Shameless and incompetent!"

There was also a battalion commander of a puppet cavalry regiment who escaped and was hacked to death by Nagazu Saki himself.

All the Japanese and puppet troops were enraged and crazy, but they didn't know why they failed.

The Japanese army was forced to stop attacking for a day.

After the commander-in-chief of the North China Front Army, General Okamura Yasuji, learned about this, he personally ordered a rest and study of the problem.

He sent his own staff to the Baishishan area to airborne and inquire about the situation. He asked officers and soldiers, who were shocked: "Air-raid shelters? The Chinese army actually built a solid air-raid shelter system underground. Our artillery and aerial bombing were ineffective?"

The staff telegraphed the news to Okamura. Okamura carefully studied the situation and said, "What a fool! You can't even solve such a simple problem?"

He ordered the troops to withdraw 2500 meters, maintaining a distance of more than 5000 meters from the Sufei Independent Division to ensure safety. Then, he dug blockade trenches and blockade walls, and laid mines in front of the blockade trenches, "trapping them to death."

Aerial bombs are ineffective, and even if a heavy artillery brigade is mobilized, it will not make much sense. What's more, the Japanese army is now besieging Baishishan with heavy troops, and other places are short of troops. The Eighth Route Army guerrillas are expanding wantonly to support Su Fei's independent division.

Some national army troops also began to counterattack.

It is meaningless for a 100,000-strong army to stop in front of a solid fortress.

Okamura Yasuji's plan was to encircle and use the minimum force to force the superior Su Fei Independent Division to break out of the fortified position. At that time, his quick reaction column ambushed nearby could easily destroy the Su Fei army by using the power of tanks, armored vehicles and aircraft, plus artillery strikes.

Otherwise, if the siege lasted for a long time and Su Fei’s army ran out of food and ammunition, they would also die.

Lieutenant General Nagatsu Saki was dismissed from his post and demoted to the commander of an infantry regiment, and was ordered to guard the outer perimeter of the Baishishan encirclement to the east, thus redeeming his crime and making meritorious contributions.

The 33rd Division and others were withdrawn, leaving an independent mixed brigade to ambush in the west, waiting for the opportunity.

Because he was worried that the order could not be carried out perfectly, Okamura Yasuji personally took a special plane to Shiraishan and, under the escort of soldiers, conducted reconnaissance and surveillance from 5000 meters away.