Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

The Japanese Engineer Regiment also entered a positional warfare mode of crawling and firing.

They rolled and crawled, desperately looking for natural ravines, bomb craters, trees and other shelters. Under the intensive fire of Li Yunlong's troops, the weak firepower of the Japanese Engineer Regiment could not withstand it.

Both sides fired fiercely.

The Japanese engineers were mainly responsible for auxiliary tasks such as building large-scale fortifications, constructing temporary pontoon bridges, and paving roads for the main force. They were poorly equipped, insufficient in number, and their firepower was far weaker than that of ordinary field infantry.

Not to mention the engineering regiment, even if the Japanese infantry battalion with more people and better equipment came, they would not be a match for Li Yunlong's troops!

More than 200 light machine guns were beyond the imagination of the Japanese Engineer Regiment.

What’s more, there are more than 10 mortars, more than 50 grenade launchers, 8 machine guns and other weapons bombarding the city?

The Japanese Army's Engineer Regiment had twice as many soldiers as the infantry unit, but the number of guns and firepower were far less.

A total of more than 300 people had rifles, and the rest had 5 light machine guns, 5 grenade launchers, 2 machine guns, several pistols and sabers.

Their professional training mainly focuses on engineering technology, not on conquering cities or charging into battle.

Although these soldiers' shooting skills are good, they are far inferior to those of field infantry.

Major Takenaka Zouichi, commander of the Japanese Army's engineering regiment, was terrified after witnessing the two infantry companies in front of him being completely wiped out without even a chance to fight back.

The main force of the engineering regiment is composed of married reservists in their 30s, with elderly parents and young children to support. Even if they are influenced by the ideological trends, they are very different from other young beastly soldiers.

After realizing that they were completely unable to resist, many officers and soldiers fled backwards, crawling and rolling.

The scene of the rout quickly infected more soldiers, and the Japanese army was unable to resist and collapsed as a whole.

Even if the Japanese army resisted stubbornly, they could not hold out for long.

In the large-scale chaotic battle and the air filled with smoke, various factors affected the effectiveness of the Japanese army's precise sniping with rifles. However, the cadres and soldiers of Li Yunlong's independent regiment hardly needed to aim. They just had to pull the trigger and shake casually in the direction of the enemy crowd.

Their firepower output efficiency is more than ten times that of the Japanese army.

A machine gun fired 30 bullets at the fastest speed, sweeping through the crowd of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese Army's Type 38 rifle was a bolt-action rifle, which required pulling the bolt once for each shot, and was incredibly slow.

In less than half a minute of fighting, more than half of the Japanese troops were killed or wounded and began to flee.

The desperate regiment commander, Major Takenaka Zouichi, committed suicide by disembowelment. He had just turned his saber over and had not yet aimed it at his belly when a volley of bullets pierced his head, instantly blowing his head off. Bang!

Crazy machine guns, crazy metal jets, crazy waterfalls of death swallowed and enveloped the Japanese army.

After two rounds of shooting, the Japanese engineering regiment was completely wiped out.

The few remaining Japanese veterans lay in the ditch, tore off the white clothes under their uniforms, and put them on their bayonets to beg for surrender.

In this battle, only 14 people of Li Yunlong's independent regiment were killed and 26 were injured.

The casualty ratio is 20 to 1.

The key point is that the field artillery positions were consolidated and continued to unilaterally suppress the Japanese army from a long distance, reaping the lives of the Japanese army in vain, but the Japanese army had no way to retaliate.

Battles also broke out in other directions.

The Japanese cavalry search team moved very quickly, expanding to more than 4000 meters and soon reaching the hiding place of Su Fei's troops.

So, Su Fei sent a small unit to ambush in front. A squad of more than 10 people and 6 machine guns directly fired at the Japanese cavalry, turning them into worms rolling on the ground.

Since the Japanese army's tactics have changed, their search capabilities are strong and their vigilance is very high, there is no need for Su Fei's troops to hide. They can come out directly and advance towards the Japanese army's flank.

The Japanese troops' garrison positions were basically confirmed, and a small number of mortars were used to bomb the enemy, and grenade launchers were also not idle.

When the Japanese army was attacked, they discovered a large-scale gathering of hundreds of Su Fei's troops. They immediately used their only four mountain cannons to fire at them. The range of more than 6000 meters posed a threat to Su Fei's army.

However, these Japanese mountain artillery were soon targeted and surrounded by 12 field artillery pieces.

When they discovered the Japanese mountain artillery firing, they fiercely covered that area. The Japanese artillery positions were hit one after another, and a large number of personnel were killed and wounded. They could not stand and had to abandon their positions and flee. The four mountain artillery pieces became useless.

Su Fei and the independent regiment's coalition artillery won a complete victory.

Su Fei's infantry gradually approached the enemy and pressed towards the enemy's position.

The Japanese army's skirmish line had the same pattern as Su Fei's army's, but the difference in firepower was so great that they were completely unable to resist.

Many Japanese soldiers, even if they crawled in the ravines and showed their heads slightly to observe and aim, would be hit and killed by the random blind shooting of Su Fei's officers and soldiers. Anyway, Su Fei's principle was that as long as the soldiers aimed their bullets at the Japanese positions, they could shoot as much as they wanted.

The firepower was so strong that the Japanese army couldn't even raise their heads.

As the battle advanced towards China, Su Fei discovered that some Japanese troops were gathering in a forest, so he issued an order to the mortar group, informing them of their main location.

So, they hid 4000 meters away and quickly moved forward after the war broke out. More than 50 mortars of the Japanese army, which were 2500 meters away, fired fiercely at the designated area.

There were quite a few Japanese troops fighting against Su Fei's army, including three infantry companies with more than 500 people, a machine gun squad with more than 50 people, a cavalry company with more than 170 people, and two supply companies with more than 300 people. Their strength was more than twice that of Su Fei's army.

They were suppressed from the beginning. When more than 50 mortars opened fire at full power, in just half a minute, they wiped out one of the three infantry companies of the Japanese army, blew up all the machine gun squads, killed or injured half of the cavalry, and crippled a company of logistics troops.

The artillery and machine guns possessed by these Japanese troops were also severely damaged.

Su Fei's troops advanced steadily, and with the advantage in firepower, it was best to seek stability.

After ten minutes of fighting, only more than 200 people were left in the Japanese army of 1,000.

Ten minutes later, almost all the Japanese troops along this route were wiped out.

At the Japanese military headquarters, Major General Haneda noticed something was wrong and his eyes turned red.

The attacking force on the western front was completely wiped out, so he could only send more troops to attack again. He had to destroy the Chinese army's field artillery. In the southeast, a mortar cluster appeared, which was shocking.

This is the Eighth Route Army, it’s just Su Fei’s troops from the Independent Division. How can they have so much artillery fire?

The firepower of the frontal attack was too weak, so Major General Haneda could only use his cleverness and send a cavalry squadron to encircle Su Fei's troops from the flank.

In the past, a cavalry squadron, like an overwhelming force, would often crush the Chinese infantry at very little cost, or outflank them from a distance, scaring the Chinese army into fleeing.

It is also Major General Haneda's tried and tested flanking tactic.

However, when his cavalry squadron approached, they were beaten.

Su Fei's troops concentrated their firepower and opened fire.

More than 170 Japanese cavalrymen were swept away at a distance of 200 meters, and more than 60 were killed or wounded on the spot.