Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

The Kurai Brigade could hardly find any ready-made shelter in the wilderness and had no choice but to turn around and flee.

The Japanese and puppet troops reacted quickly and struggled desperately, but were still burned alive, with more than 50 of them being turned into human torches.

More than 100 people were injured.

The thick smoke and flames, the stench of garlic cloves and the toxins made it impossible for the Japanese and puppet troops to resist and they quickly collapsed.

All that was left was chasing and fighting. Su Fei's troops charged on their horses. If they encountered an enemy who was only trying to escape, they would kill him with their sabers. If an enemy resisted, they would shoot him to death with their automatic rifles.

The Kurai Infantry Battalion and a subordinate puppet army regiment of more than 500 soldiers were completely wiped out outside the city.

Su Fei's cavalry rushed into the county town, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who resisted stubbornly were quickly shot and killed by 81 rifles.

They occupied the county town and seized a large amount of supplies, ammunition and guns from the Japanese and puppet troops.

Under the leadership of Political Commissar Zhao Gang, the people were mobilized, die-hard traitors were hunted down, internal traitors were eliminated, and a new people's anti-Japanese war organization was established.

Commander Gao, Staff Officer Han, and dozens of veterans of the Nationalist Army under their command were amazed: "Commander Su is a master at commanding troops, and his weapons are sophisticated. Fighting the Japanese is as fun as playing house. We admire him deeply!"

In the Battle of Shunying City, Su Fei's army lost 15 soldiers and injured 32. In total, 1208 Japanese soldiers and more than 540 puppet troops were annihilated.

In the Battle of Manchester, more than 400 Japanese soldiers and a puppet army division of 1800 people were annihilated.

In the battle of the county town, more than 300 Japanese troops and more than 800 puppet troops were annihilated.

Large-scale mopping-up operations continued in the surrounding areas to eliminate the strongholds of Japanese and puppet troops.

The captured infantry guns and 35mm howitzers could be aimed directly. In front of them, the Japanese bunkers and artillery towers completely lost their tactical function and became sitting ducks.

Artillery fire destroyed the fortifications of the Japanese and puppet troops, followed by pursuit and capture!

Every battle is fought in the shortest time and at the lowest cost.

Within ten days, Su Fei's troops further eliminated more than 80 Japanese and puppet army strongholds, and wiped out a total of more than 5000 Japanese and puppet troops.

Su Fei's troops also grew to 2500 people, including 1200 cavalry.

The troops are organized into one cavalry regiment and one infantry regiment.

Political Commissar Zhao Gang is responsible for political and ideological work and the overall situation. Shen Quan and Duan Peng serve as the commander and deputy commander of the cavalry regiment, Xing Zhiguo serves as the commander of the infantry regiment, and Wei Dayong serves as the deputy commander!

However, there was also bad news. The Japanese army was going to carry out a large-scale iron wall encirclement of this area and completely wipe out Su Fei's troops.

As soon as the news came, Commander Gao suggested that the troops should immediately leave this area and move to the southern Hebei region, near the 39th Group Army, to form a corner with other troops and buy a chance to catch their breath.

Su Fei smiled and said: "The army is formed by fighting!"

He was unwilling to go to southern Hebei and northern Henan because a great famine had just occurred in Henan the previous year, and it was extremely difficult to raise food and military pay there. The 39th Army, the 24th Army and other troops, known as the main guerrilla forces in the Hebei-Chahar War Zone, had been hiding in the south and did not dare to fight the Japanese army. This was a passive avoidance of war, which was wrong.

Only by developing northwards can we gather more war horses and truly establish a cavalry army!

In the plains, in North China, during guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, the mobility of cavalry is still quite effective. With the support of 81 rifles and 35 grenades, Su Fei's troops are invincible in light weapons combat!

Since the enemy is coming to surround us, it’s easy to deal with. Fight on both the inside and outside lines to disrupt the enemy’s plans!

The troops were immediately mobilized, with Political Commissar Zhao Gang serving as the commander-in-chief of the interior, responsible for remaining behind to fight. Su Fei led a cavalry battalion of 400 people, and Shen Quan and Duan Peng each led a cavalry battalion to launch a fierce attack on the surrounding areas.

30 Type 81 rifles, 15 light machine guns, 5 mortars, 1 infantry gun, 3 Type 35 grenade launchers, and the rest were all Japanese-made Type 38 rifles. The Su Fei Cavalry Battalion immediately headed north after receiving the order.

Outside Laishui City, a Japanese cavalry squad was suddenly launched and annihilated, and 2 machine guns, 2 grenade launchers, 53 horses and 1 mortar were seized.

Nearby, three Japanese strongholds were destroyed and a batch of guns, ammunition, mules and horses were seized.

In the early morning, Su Fei's cavalry raided the county town, launched a fierce attack, wiped out the sentries, and killed more than 300 Japanese soldiers with their swords within a few minutes!

The next morning, they discovered a large Japanese army, so numerous that they had no idea how many there were, and they retreated immediately.

They retreated northward, with the Japanese army chasing them madly.

They were cavalry and were fast, so the Japanese army used cavalry to chase them in the front.

Su Fei's troops retreated while waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. They killed more than 300 Japanese cavalrymen three times.

A Japanese cavalry battalion!

The Su Fei Army's high-performance automatic rifles, once in contact with the enemy, can fully suppress the Japanese army, with fierce firepower and fast speed, which can achieve blitzkrieg. The Japanese army was unwilling to give up and stubbornly pursued them, being ambushed three times, which was their unfortunate fate.

The Japanese truck troops continued to chase.

After crossing the Hutuo River, Su Fei, a cavalryman on the north bank, watched as the Japanese truck soldiers had to get off and swim across the river.

Does this work too?

They immediately fought back.

After a burst of fierce shooting, more than 300 Japanese soldiers were killed in the river and on the riverbank, suffering a bloody defeat.

On the north bank, mortars and 35mm direct-fire artillery shells were used to bombard the Japanese army, suppressing the Japanese artillery fire and directly blowing the Japanese artillery to pieces.

When the Japanese army retreated, they crossed the river and seized a large amount of supplies from the Japanese army, including more than 20 trucks.

In fact, the troops chasing Su Fei's army were from the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade 5, which consisted of two independent infantry battalions and one cavalry battalion.

More than 200 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded on the south bank of the Hutuo River.

The main reason is that the 35mm grenade is too powerful.

One grenade aimed directly can kill all the soldiers on a Japanese truck.

After burning the truck, Su Fei's troops crossed the river again and launched a guerrilla campaign to the north.

When the Japanese army's follow-up main force arrived, there was nothing left except the stripped corpses.

Su Fei's troops did strip the Japanese of their uniforms because they were useful.

On the way, when they came across a village, they would just give the people some military uniforms and boots, belts, aluminum kettles and other small items, and talk a few words about the brutality and hatefulness of the Japanese devils, so that they could be mobilized to join the war.

The people still want to ask, are the cavalry troops this time the same ones who came last time? What? Yes? Okay!

On the third day, Su Fei's army had grown to 1100 officers and soldiers and 1400 war horses, all of which were captured from the Japanese and puppet troops.

Some Japanese strongholds and traitor militias in villages also raised a lot of horses.

Su Fei discovered that the Japanese and puppet troops along the way had been defeated by his two expeditions, their morale was low and they had become frightened birds. So he immediately launched the third expedition to southern Chahar!

Within half a month, they swept across thousands of miles of territory around Xuanhua Zhangyuan, accumulating small victories into a major one. Relying on superior light firepower, they annihilated over 1000 Japanese troops, over 1000 puppet troops, and several traitorous militia groups, seizing over 4000 war horses. The force expanded to over 2800 men and was organized into a cavalry division!

The three Japanese mopping-up forces were worn down by them.

Su Fei was planning to go on an expedition to the border to wipe out the pseudo-Mengjiang traitor troops and even attack from the northeast, when he suddenly received an urgent telegram!