Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

The battle is over!

However, it is still impossible to make amends.

Su Fei's troops were still surrounded by the Japanese army, and they didn't know how many enemy troops were around or where they were ambushing.

If we continue to stay in this position, we will be surrounded and killed by the Japanese army sooner or later.

Although his inside and outside line tactics are magical, they are actually risky. If the risk reaches an extreme, the same tactics will fail if used too much.

Su Fei immediately convened a meeting of officers to discuss whether to stay or go.

He immediately made a decision to leave Baishishan and head west towards northwest Shanxi. After all, there were a large number of main forces of the Eighth Route Army there to assist him, and the situation was very good. He was not very familiar with the Eighth Route Army in the central Hebei area, and it was difficult for them to have a tacit understanding. In addition, his identity as a national army would also arouse suspicion.

Many officers burst into laughter.

"Okay, we'll go wherever the division commander says. Anyway, we've killed so many Japanese soldiers, we've made enough money! We're not afraid of death!"

The troops are very motivated.

There were also several officers who voluntarily joined the army from Wan County. They were originally dissatisfied with the fact that the army was far away from their hometown. Now, after fighting hard and dying, they hoped to return to their hometown because they loved their hometown for ten years.

Su Fei persuaded them: "There are so many Japanese troops around now. If we disperse and go home, we will be intercepted by the enemy and die."

They quickly unified their thinking and determined the strategy and tactics for the westward advance.

Now, there are more than 2100 soldiers and more than 350 wounded soldiers.

An independent division of 5300 people has now lost more than half of its troops.

All the captured enemy field artillery were blown up, and the shells were dismantled and made into blasting tubes. The excess ones that were not destroyed in time were directly detonated to leave nothing for the Japanese.

There are too many mountain artillery.

It is also quite bulky.

Su Fei's troops buried a large number of mountain artillery deep in the air-raid shelters and tunnels to destroy any traces outside.

Mortars and other weapons were also streamlined, and the redundant ones were buried.

There are 2000 military horses in hand, most of which were captured when the last wave of enemies were eliminated. Most of the previous horses were killed by the Japanese army's long-range artillery and bombers, and some were eaten. Now, the meat of the dead and wounded horses on the ground was cut off and carried as dry food. The dry food, canned food and other supplies captured from the Japanese were also taken away.

The troops were divided into three groups.

The first group, more than 150 people, used carriages and horses to carry the wounded forward. They all changed into Japanese military uniforms, disguised themselves as Japanese soldiers, used Japanese military numbers and flags, pretended to be defeated and fled in a panic. They not only carried the wounded, but also the bodies of Japanese soldiers, especially the bodies of Japanese officers.

The second wave, more than 500 people, pretended to be the remnants of Su Fei's troops and the military intelligence of the National Army, and rushed forward to "hunt down" the Japanese officers and soldiers who were fleeing in front.

The third wave, more than 1000 people, pretended to be Japanese soldiers, all dressed in Japanese uniforms, pretending that the Japanese soldiers were chasing Su Fei's defeated troops.

The troops carried a large number of horses to transport ammunition and weapons.

All officers and soldiers carried 1100 light machine guns, 150 mortars, more than 30 mountain cannons, more than 20 machine guns, etc., and all the excess were buried.

set off!

The troops were marching in a mighty force, with the sound of gunfire and artillery fire all the way!

More than 20 miles after leaving the Baishishan position, the troops in front brought the wounded with them. If they found a village or villagers, they would hide the wounded in the village and give them a huge amount of money captured from the Japanese army as compensation.

At the same time, he explained that if they could protect the wounded and heal their wounds, they would be rewarded handsomely in the future. If they failed to protect the wounded, they would be retaliated against and punished as treason.

All situations are taken into consideration.

As they advanced, they dispersed and settled the wounded along the way.

After lightening their burden, the troops sped up.

After more than 30 miles, there was a Japanese blockade line ahead.

Immediately, according to the pre-agreed plan, the first group of officers and soldiers, dressed in Japanese uniforms, turned around and established a defense line and engaged in battle with the troops dressed in National Army uniforms.

Soon, the Japanese army was attracted.

It started with a squad, then an infantry company. The Japanese quickly reinforced and joined the pretender unit of Su Fei's first echelon.

In order to cover the battle of the first echelon, Su Fei's troops, wearing the uniforms of the National Army, used artillery fire to bombard the opposite side.

It is to block the enemy and bombard the enemy reinforcements.

The smoke and chaos caused by the continuous bombing and killing of Japanese soldiers could also confuse the enemy's vision.

More than half of the Japanese infantry company were killed or wounded in the bombing.

After entering the crowd of Su Fei's camouflaged troops, Su Fei's troops, at the command of the battalion commander, immediately took action and quickly killed all the enemies.

The soldiers had been planning this for a long time and were the fastest with their sabers and pistols.

After killing the enemy, everyone stayed put as they saw that there were Japanese reinforcements coming from a distance.

After a while, more Japanese troops arrived to reinforce.

On the way, they were blown to pieces by Su Fei's troops dressed in Kuomintang uniforms, leaving casualties everywhere.

Mortars bombarded the Japanese army without any charge.

The Japanese army was also a despicable bunch, stubborn asses, and fearless of death. They continued to charge, broke through the line of fire, and came to the front to reinforce the battle.

reinforce?

Once they got close, they would be assassinated and killed by the more than 150 people in Su Fei's army.

Carry out assassination and deception to the end!

Eat it all over the world with one trick!

With this incredible tactic, Su Fei's troops killed more than 700 Japanese soldiers and suffered only more than 30 casualties.

The ground was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

Let’s go and keep moving forward!

In this way, they kept encountering interceptions from the Japanese army along the way, and kept defeating the enemy. They easily assassinated and killed nearly two thousand Japanese soldiers in one day.

Su Fei's troops also advanced quickly westward.

All the captured Japanese rifles were buried if they could be hidden, and those that could not were smashed on the spot!

Because there were too many spoils.

In order to create a more realistic illusion, Su Fei's troops also replaced a large number of the Japanese soldiers they killed with the uniforms of the National Army. Those uniforms were brought by themselves and were premeditated.

In order to prevent the Japanese from recognizing each other, they stripped off their clothes and loincloths, and cut off their heads!

It was as if the Japanese army beheaded the bodies of the national army.

This created the illusion that Su Fei's troops were fleeing in panic and many were killed along the way.

On the third day, they had already traveled more than 150 miles away from Baishi Mountain.

This time, they were blocked by the Japanese army again.

The number of Japanese troops was extremely large. Looking from afar, Su Feijun of the first echelon was amazed. There were so many of them, so densely packed.

They estimated it to be an infantry regiment, in fact, yes, it was an infantry regiment.

All the Su Fei troops did not panic.

They have mastered the art of deception.

Everyone puts life and death aside.

Already numb.

Life and death are but a matter of a moment.

The Japs are here only to die.

However, they were wrong.

The Japanese army bombed them directly!

Mountain artillery, infantry guns, mortars, and direct bombing.

More than 150 officers and soldiers in the first echelon were killed or wounded in a blink of an eye!

Only then did they realize that their tricks were no longer effective and the Japanese had seen through their ruse.

There is no way. The Japanese are not fools. Their deceptive tactics will be exposed sooner or later. The results we have achieved are already shocking!

Worth it.

They fought a fierce battle with the Japanese army.

Over there, there were some gullies and trees. They immediately hid themselves.

When they found that the first echelon was under attack, Su Feijun of the second echelon stopped pretending and directly used a large number of mortars and mountain cannons to fire at the enemy.

Su Fei's army in the third echelon also divided into two wings to attack the enemy.

Both sides fired artillery at each other, resulting in casualties on both sides.

The Japanese army's vanguard was an infantry battalion with limited artillery firepower, including one mountain gun, two infantry guns, and more than ten mortars. They bombarded fiercely to cover the infantry attack.

However, although Su Fei's first echelon suffered heavy casualties, the remaining soldiers still had 8 mortars to fight back against the enemy.

The second-tier Sufei army had 40 mortars and 4 mountain cannons, equivalent to a mortar battalion.

A fierce bombardment at the Japanese army!

The third echelon is even more powerful, with 100 mortars and more than 20 mountain cannons!

This lineup is so luxurious.

This infantry battalion of the Japanese army never dreamed that the Chinese army they faced, which was called a remnant of defeated soldiers and a stray dog ​​by their superiors, was just a little insidious and cunning, but in fact, it was extremely well-equipped!

The speed of the mortar far exceeds that of the infantry gun, so the Japanese army’s two infantry guns are not worth mentioning.

The Japanese army's reinforced version of a mountain cannon was a joke in front of the more than 30 mountain cannons of Su Fei's troops.

The Japanese artillery was quite powerful, but the skills of Su Fei's artillery officers and soldiers were the experience and ability gained from firing countless artillery shells in actual combat, and were in no way inferior to the enemy.

After fighting for a while, the Japanese firepower was completely suppressed.

Boom boom boom, balls of fireworks ignited, thunders struck the Japanese army, and clouds of smoke enveloped the Japanese army.

The Japanese artillerymen were killed or wounded, their cannons were blown away, and they almost completely lost their combat effectiveness.

The Japanese infantry launched a fierce charge.

They shouted slogans, their eyes bloodshot, and howled like wild dogs that had eaten a corpse.

Because they had learned that the Japanese troops besieging Baishishan, whether it was Lieutenant General Nagatsu Saki, commander of the 21st Division, or a brigade unit that came later, were completely wiped out. After fighting with Su Fei's army for several days and surrounded by twenty times the number of troops, not only did they fail to destroy Su Fei's army, but more than 20,000 people were wiped out!

What a shame!

"Revenge General Nagatsu Sakube!"

Many Japanese officers and soldiers cried bitterly while charging.

More than a thousand people were killed.

They finally got their chance.

The cunning Su Fei Independent Division had been hiding in deep and solid tunnels, leaving the Japanese army helpless. Now, they have finally reached the plains and can fight openly.

Su Fei observed the enemy through a telescope.

Behind him, more than 400 officers and soldiers established a defense line, lurking with fierce artillery fire, and were not afraid of enemy sneak attacks at all. The main focus was on the front.

Now, as the commander, he didn't need to say much.

Under the command of the regimental commanders and battalion commanders, the soldiers crushed the enemy with artillery fire and bombed the enemy's infantry behind to drive the enemy charge.

When the Japanese army charged, more than 40 officers and soldiers in the first echelon waited until the enemy was 300 meters away, then pulled out machine guns from the natural ravine and fired crazily at the enemy.

More than 40 machine guns.

Crossfire.

More than 300 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded on the spot.

Two infantry squadrons were destroyed.

On the flank, officers and soldiers of the third echelon used machine guns to straf the Japanese army at a distance of 800 to 1000 meters, killing and wounding more than 150 Japanese soldiers.

Even the Japanese army's sophisticated skirmish line could not avoid such brutal firepower.

The mortars of Su Fei's troops continued to bombard the enemy. Although the enemy was scattered and one shell could only kill or injure one or several people, in the end, a total of about 300 people were killed or injured.

The last remaining Japanese troops, about 300 people, still charged forward tenaciously and approached a platoon of the remnants of the first echelon.

The soldiers of that platoon hid in natural gullies, behind some rocks, or in irrigation ditches in the fields, loaded their bullets, and fired at the enemy.

Too many machine guns!

No martial ethics either.

The Japanese army fired in three bursts, fearing to waste bullets, while the officers and soldiers of Su Fei's army were afraid that they could not use up all the bullets they carried, as they carried too much and had captured too much. Also, the key was Su Fei's military tactical concept: blitzkrieg!

Use up all the bullets as quickly as possible and reload them.

Not only were they shooting, but the officers and soldiers in the second echelon were also shooting, with hundreds of machine guns firing.

The Japanese troops were wiped out as soon as they rushed to within a hundred meters.

Su Fei had been observing the progress of the battle. Seeing that the battle ended easily and the enemy's follow-up troops continued to approach, which were still more than 2,000 meters away, he immediately came up with a new idea.

"retreat."

Some people retreated openly, and then played a trick on the position of the first echelon. They sent more than 200 people to pick up the ammunition and machine guns discarded by the Japanese army, and then quickly returned. While running, some of them hid.

In this way, the number of troops in the first echelon was increased to 100 people and 100 machine guns.

The remaining troops retreated to the east, 800 meters away from the hiding place of the first echelon.

The troops hid more than 300 people again, and the rest of the troops continued to retreat.

Su Fei continued to lure the crack in the ground.

The enemy suffered heavy losses, with more than a thousand casualties. How could we not retaliate?

After hiding, Su Fei was most worried about the enemy's pursuing troops coming from behind and attacking him from both sides.

While observing, Su Fei felt a tightness in his heart. The thing he was most worried about finally happened.

From the east, Japanese cavalry rolled in. Behind them, there might be even more infantry.

"Enemy spotted behind, prepare to engage."

The troops carried out fortification work, quickly dug trenches and individual pits, and made full use of surface obstacles such as woods, gullies, rocky mounds, etc.

The Japanese cavalry chasing behind were too fast.

So the order was given to bombard the enemy at a distance of 800 meters.

There were sporadic shellings, with five mortars firing in succession.

This was also a conspiracy, an act of weakness, and at the same time an act of urging the devils to act.

The Japanese were indeed provoked. The cavalry were not moving in the wilderness. Were they just going to sit there and wait for death?

They immediately launched a charge.

The Japanese soldiers' shouts were very arrogant, and hundreds of them came like a storm, waving their swords.

Su Fei's army continued to bombard the enemy with sporadic artillery fire, blowing more than 30 Japanese cavalrymen to pieces, leaving them rolling in a bloody mess.

When the Japanese army rushed to a distance of 200 meters, 300 machine guns suddenly opened fire!