Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

There wasn't just one bugle call, there were lots of bugles! And all sorts of gunfire.

Su Fei immediately used a telescope to observe and found that in the darkness, under the light of the burning fires in several villages, including the houses in Baijia Town, the black shadows of the Japanese army like small ants were moving, but they did not retreat completely.

They lay in ambush, shooting around.

Su Fei judged that it was the Eighth Route Army, or some of the Eighth Route Army's peripheral armed organizations, that used bugles to disrupt the Japs' actions. The Japs were also quite tough and would never retreat or break out. They saw through the plan and were determined to fight to the end.

Su Fei was not in a hurry.

Because he has a backup plan.

After a while, the Japanese army suddenly got up from the ground and fled to the east.

It seems that the Japanese have a lot of troops.

Su Fei felt relieved.

Hahaha.

The soldiers he left behind in the village would take advantage of the opportunity when the Japanese were out fighting, quietly change into the Japanese and puppet army clothes that had just been seized that day, go out with pistols, blend in with the enemy, and launch a surprise attack on them.

The enemy wandered the town for a long time, finding nothing. They could only set fire to the houses, assuming the townspeople had fled in fear of retaliation. They had no awareness of the danger behind them. As a result, the Baijiazhen soldiers and villagers who had sneaked out assassinated over 50 people before realizing what was happening and crying out loudly. Then, the Baijiazhen soldiers and villagers, in turn, turned their ferocious side, bombarding the Japanese with grenades and firing rifles. Unable to distinguish friend from foe, the Japanese fled.

When Su Fei saw the enemy flee, he knew his plan had succeeded, but he also felt a little regretful. If it were him, he would definitely continue to assassinate the Japanese army. Wouldn't the Japanese army be even more confused during the retreat? That would be more satisfying to kill!

"It's over, let's go to sleep!" Su Fei left a guard post and directed everyone to rest.

Suddenly, a burst of fierce shouting and cursing came from the northeast!

Su Fei quickly observed through the telescope, but could not see anything. However, the shouts, curses and screams of the Japanese soldiers proved that they had suffered a brutal attack.

Forget it, let’s talk about it tomorrow morning.

At dawn, Su Fei sent people to scout everywhere. After confirming that there was no ambush by the Japanese, he entered the village. At this time, most of the village had been burned by flames, and some people were saved by the villagers.

Upon inquiry, it turned out that they had indeed launched a surprise attack on the Japanese from behind. In the end, they confiscated 45 rifles, 2 light machine guns, 3 grenade launchers, a mortar, several sabers, and a large amount of ammunition. There were 61 bodies of Japanese soldiers and 3 bodies of puppet soldiers.

Judging from the combat log of a captured Japanese second lieutenant, they were from the Yamazaki Battalion!

Haha, the villagers assassinated 61 purebred devils, and they killed 39 of them outside, which is exactly 100!

Zero casualties!

The Baijia Town troops suffered zero casualties again!

As he was speaking, the Eighth Route Army cavalry approached. The leading cavalry officer, though wrapped in an old and bulky uniform, still galloped forward, brandishing his sword with a fierce and vigorous air: "Comrade Su Fei, here I come!"

Sun Desheng!

More than 70 Eighth Route Army cavalrymen swept in, each carrying two or even three rifles on his back, all with smiling faces.

So majestic.

Sun Desheng didn't dismount, but walked around proudly, with an air of superiority: "Deputy Commander Su, we came at the right time last night, didn't we? Commander Li and Political Commissar Zhao sent me to help you. If it weren't for our cavalry company, you would have been trapped to death by the Japanese! We scared the Japanese away with the bugle call, and then we intercepted them on the way, killing and wounding over a hundred of them! What do you think? I, Sun Desheng, am not much worse than you in fighting, am I? Deputy Commander Su, you gave us the horses for our cavalry company, but we saved your lives last night, so we owe each other nothing!"

The other cavalry company officers and soldiers were more modest. They dismounted and saluted Su Fei at attention: "Hello, Commander Su!"

Little Su.

Indeed, Su Fei was a notch below the elite cavalry company soldiers in both age and height.

Sun Desheng chuckled happily and saluted Su Fei from his horseback: "Learn from Commander Su! Our cavalry company did well this time, didn't they? We sacrificed one man, injured three, killed 56 enemies, and injured dozens of devils! Awesome, right?"

Before Su Fei could say anything, the Baijiazhen soldier next to him couldn't hold back any longer: "Damn, what are you guys showing off for? Do you know how many Japanese we killed during the day yesterday? More than 230! Do you know how many Japanese soldiers we killed last night? A full 100. Moreover, no one was injured in our night battle!"

Ok?

Sun Desheng was furious: "I'm talking to your deputy regiment commander, why are you butting in? You can interrupt, but what nonsense are you talking about? Commander Su, you don't even care about your broken soldiers? Do you have any discipline at all?"

Su Fei smiled, "Captain Sun, there's nothing wrong with him interrupting. Don't we in the Eighth Route Army value military democracy? Aren't officers and soldiers united?"

Sun Desheng's face flushed, and he jumped off his horse. "You can talk, but you can't brag, right? Let me see how many devils you've killed. If I kill even one, I'll admit defeat!"

Su Fei waved his hand, and the soldiers and villagers pointed out the place where the Japanese corpses had been dumped. Sun Desheng went over and saw a huge pit full of the bodies of Japanese soldiers who had been skinned like boiled chickens, wrapped only in loincloths.

Sun Desheng was stunned. He pulled off his military cap and fanned himself repeatedly, as if he was extremely hot. "Ah? It's actually true! Great! You guys are really good! But, zero casualties is just a lie, right? You killed so many Japanese soldiers. If you don't sacrifice at least thirty of them, I'll take your last name!"

Other cadres and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army Cavalry Company were also speculating about the casualty data of Su Fei's troops and requested Su Fei to disclose it.

Su Fei did not disclose the details, but explained the battle arrangements and the course of the battle last night, and also let them see the captured spoils.

As a result, the villagers and soldiers not only brought out the spoils from last night, but also dragged out the weapons and equipment of more than 230 enemies from the firefight yesterday. There was a huge clatter, and Su Fei was so angry that his head was dizzy. "What are you doing? What are you showing off? Huh?"

Sun Desheng and others were stunned: "Oh my god, you..."

They received news yesterday that a fight had broken out outside the county town, but they didn't know who did it.

There were Eighth Route Army insiders in the county town and the villages outside, but those people had never seen a group of black and gray camouflaged troops. After reporting to the Independent Regiment, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang were both puzzled. For safety reasons, they tentatively assumed that it was Su Fei who did it. They also predicted that the Japanese army would inevitably retaliate, so they sent a cavalry company to support.

Li Yunlong also believed that the insider was dazzled and turned a small-scale battle into a decisive battle in which hundreds of Japanese were killed or wounded!

They didn't know that the Yamazaki Battalion had entered the county town and entered the forward base for infiltration operations deep into the heart of the Eighth Route Army base!

Aren’t there at most thirty to fifty devils and a few hundred puppet troops in the county town?

If Li Yunlong hadn't been worried about the Japanese armored forces' rapid reaction forces and air force bombing, he would have wanted to take down the Japanese county town long ago!

Now that the secret was exposed, Su Fei could no longer hide it and told about the battle that took place yesterday.

Sun Desheng's face was gloomy and he stopped fanning his hat. He rubbed his military cap hard with both hands, and his face was as red as a big piece of red cloth!