Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

The Japanese army fired bullets fiercely!

Accurate sniping, bullets hit the thick iron wool composite double-layer reinforced wooden shield like raindrops, making bang bang sounds, but unable to cause any casualties.

The distance is too far and the bullet is not powerful enough.

Whoa whoa whoa!

The Japanese soldiers were so angry that they kept howling.

They wanted to kill them with artillery fire, but were told that the ammunition was very limited and had to be kept for the time being.

Captain Yamazaki Yeping told his men, "Don't worry. The Chinese Eighth Route Army's trench tactics are very slow. They might be scared off by our approaching reinforcements before they even reach us. Also, they're short of artillery shells, which is why they resort to this desperate tactic. Their only way to attack is with the large number of hand grenades they possess. The average throw distance of a hand grenade is forty meters, which means we can wait until they've dug about fifty meters before launching a counterattack and throwing grenades into the trenches to kill them. Or, from a high position, we can shoot them down in the trenches with bullets! Humph, when it comes to tactics, they..."

I was originally thinking that I was not even worthy of carrying his shoes, but suddenly I remembered the bitter lesson of being defeated twice by a Chinese army in shabby clothes in a county town on the edge of the base area on the eve of departure. My heart ached and I stopped abruptly.

The reorganized and reinforced Yamazaki Battalion, consisting of four infantry squadrons, one engineer squadron, one cavalry squadron, one mortar squadron, two infantry guns, two mountain guns, and over a thousand men, had suffered continuous casualties after fighting deep into the base area. Now, under continuous siege, only about 2 men remained, a significant number of troops. Therefore, they firmly occupied the top of Lijiapo and hollowed it out.

The layers of fortresses and shooting holes are daunting and a death trap!

The large number of stone slabs on the mountain and the ruins of houses where the people once lived provided them with great protection.

This village of more than a dozen households was massacred by them!

The people's food and water cellars also gave them peace of mind.

"Board, board!" Looking at the dense corpses of the Eighth Route Army soldiers on the hillside and the meaningless Eighth Route Army digging trenches at the foot of the mountain, I felt very happy. Looking down at the earth, a strong sense of revenge arose spontaneously.

"Major, it's bad. The troops digging the trenches below are those shabby-looking ones." Someone interrupted his heroic speech.

When Major Yamazaki saw this, his head suddenly started buzzing. It was like enemies meeting each other with envy. But, he changed his mind and smiled: "Don't worry, this is the psychological warfare of the Eighth Route Army! Even if they come, it will be in vain!"

Under the order of Major Yamazaki Yehei, the Japanese army stopped shooting and even watched with interest and sympathy the digging Eighth Route Army!

Some Japanese soldiers simply took a nap.

After half an hour, the excavation was basically successful.

Another 10 minutes, further processing.

At this time, Su Fei commanded the troops to drag the super mortar he had cast with a rope and run it on wheels, and secretly transported it to a place 150 meters away from the top of the mountain in 10 minutes.

In order to ensure absolute success, he threw away the data on several sheets of paper that he had been calculating for half an hour and ordered to dig again, advancing to 120 meters.

Soon, the work started again. The soldiers held thick composite shields in their hands and rushed forward 30 meters away. A row of shields provided cover, while other soldiers quickly dug individual pits, connected them together, and piled the excavated soil and rocks in front to increase the height.

Another 20 minutes and it's done.

The mortar was further transported to its location.

On the mountain, the Japanese army could see clearly almost face to face, and they were gloating because, in a moment, the trenches dug by the Eighth Route Army with great effort would be counterattacked by the Japanese, bombed with a large number of grenades, and turned into ruins! Burying the diggers themselves, ahahaha.

At the foot of the mountain, the brigade commander and a group of cadres were also speculating on how the independent regiment would charge.

Su Fei personally took control and adjusted the shooting angle. The trench at 120 meters was much shallower.

After a large explosive pack was placed, the propellant was ignited, boom!

The explosive pack was thrown high into the sky and landed precisely on the Japanese position at Lijiaopo!

The sound of the explosive packs being launched shocked the cadres and soldiers of the independent regiment who were ready to go, and even more so the other Eighth Route Army troops who were stacked up and surrounded and had already participated in the attack. It also shocked a large group of senior military commanders including the brigade commander.

The soldiers of the independent regiment are eager to charge!

The Eighth Route Army troops that participated in the war hoped that their brother troops could avenge them.

The brigade commander and others wanted to know what kind of medicine was hidden in Su Fei's gourd, and why he dared to play dumb with the brigade commander and so many commanders.

The Japanese soldiers also heard the noise. They were only 120 meters away, so they all popped their heads out to watch: "The Chinese are throwing grenades? Haha."

It turned out to be a...

boom!

The 25-jin medium-sized explosive pack exploded precisely on the Japanese soldier's head! The countless nails, stones, and porcelain fragments mixed in it burst out into sharp and lethal objects, piercing the Japanese soldiers who stuck their heads out to observe.

Eyes, face, nose, mouth, palms!

The huge kinetic energy shock wave instantly radiated to the surroundings, tearing apart the Japanese soldiers within a few meters, shattering the internal organs of the Japanese soldiers within a dozen meters, and making the Japanese soldiers within a radius of twenty to thirty meters dizzy, collapsing to the ground and losing their physical strength.

Big bomb?

So big?

What on earth?

Ahhhhh!

The Japanese army urgently issued an order, asking everyone to hide inside the fortifications and not to come out!

It’s too dangerous. Shameless Chinese, the Eighth Route Army, bombarded us with super-large bombs. They have no moral principles!

At the foot of the mountain, the Eighth Route Army troops were extremely shocked when they saw the huge power. They were stunned for a moment, and then bursts of crazy cheers broke out!

The brigade commander was so excited: "Good boy, Su Fei, you are amazing! You are amazing! Later, I will give you a commendation, a great commendation!"

Deputy Regimental Commander Kong Jie clapped his hands until they turned red. "Brilliant! Really brilliant! Using a homemade cannon to blast the explosive pack at the enemy's head, this kind of explosive pack is much more powerful than a mortar shell. Even if it explodes on the enemy bunker, the people inside the bunker will still die!"

Captain Ding Wei slapped his hands with several other cadres!

"He's the special agent company commander from our New 1st Regiment! His mother's family is from the New 1st Regiment!"

Before the thousands of people on both sides could fully recover from the shock, four large explosive packs flew into the sky and hit the Japanese fortresses and crowds on the top of Lijiaopo Mountain, in the trenches, and behind the fortifications on the reverse slope.

Boom boom boom!

The earth is shaking and the mountains are shaking.

The brigade commander and others at the foot of the mountain felt the earth roaring, the waves swaying, and they could not stand steadily!

Not only that, after launching five explosive shells into the trench 120 meters away from the Japanese army, they did not stop, but continued to bombard the top of Lijiaopo Mountain at a rate of five shells per round, one round every ten seconds.

Smoke and dust, collapsing earth, flying rocks, the Japanese soldiers' screams like slaughtered pigs, hundreds of elite Japanese field troops seemed to be suffering in purgatory...

After five rounds of bombing, the blazing flames on the top of the mountain were significantly reduced.

Li Yunlong led the charge, shouted loudly, and launched a charge.

On the top of the mountain, the cadres and soldiers of the independent regiment discovered that more than 700 Japanese soldiers were all dead. Some were torn to pieces and scattered all over the mud, while others were buried by the collapsed fortress and became turtles!