Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

The main force of the elite field detachment of Lieutenant Colonel Yajima of the Japanese Army suffered a total loss of more than 520 Japanese soldiers, including all artillery shells, heavy machine guns and a large amount of ammunition, and more than 300 rifles!

Su Fei's cavalry battalion lost 100 of its 210 men and 40 were injured on the Liumanpo battlefield alone! That's a loss of two-thirds!

Twelve people from the machine gun company were killed.

However, compared with the results of the battle, this is a completely acceptable and huge victory!

With more than 150 people compared to more than 520 people, not only was the casualty ratio quite impressive, but they also captured a lot of spoils, which greatly supplemented their ammunition and artillery fire.

There are other victories as well.

Among other troops, it is worth mentioning the left-wing cavalry company of Su Fei's troops, which was responsible for attacking an enemy infantry company. The Japanese army was frightened at the sight. It had always been their artillery and cavalry that bullied the Chinese, and they had never seen the Chinese cavalry so arrogant.

They had just gathered here and hadn't even had time to dig trenches. Wouldn't it be courting death to lay out on the flat battlefield?

Besides, it was impossible to tell how many cavalry there were.

They retreated immediately.

Some of them still wanted to resist stubbornly, but the Chinese army infantry company in the west of the city, which was under surveillance and surrounded by them, immediately launched an attack. With bursts of random gunfire, more than twenty Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded.

Lieutenant Kono's cavalry squad was very smart and quickly retreated from the north of the city and sent reinforcements to the west.

Thus, the only cavalry duel in the decisive battle of Ping'an County took place.

Part of the Su Fei cavalry chased down the enemy infantry squadron, while the remaining Chinese cavalry soldiers engaged the Kono cavalry squadron and were evenly matched with the Japanese.

A burst of rifle fire!

More than a dozen soldiers from each side fell off their horses, were killed or wounded, and then after getting close to each other, they threw away their rifles and slashed at each other with their sabers!

The Kono cavalry was an elite ace cavalry, well-trained and experienced. However, they were stunned after a sprint and slashing battle with the first row of the first cavalry company of Su Fei's troops.

Of the 30 or so cavalrymen, only 7 were left.

Su Fei has a company and a row of more than 30 cavalrymen, and there are more than 20 more!

"kill!"

Both sides turned their horses, reorganized their formation, raised their sabers again, and rushed towards each other.

There are still 18 Chinese cavalrymen in a company and a row, and all the Japanese troops are wiped out!

The wounded Japanese soldiers were rolling on the ground. It seemed strange. They were clearly swinging their swords and slashing with the same swords. They were both using Japanese cavalry swords with very similar shapes. Why were they the ones falling down?

They didn't understand that the First Company used the Snow Maple Sword.

Five centimeters longer, and it's countless times stronger!

In the battle of the second platoon, more than 50 people chased and killed more than 170 Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers were also blocked by a Chinese infantry company shooting from the flank on the west side of the city. They were unable to run and resist at full speed. During the retreat, more than 30 of them were shot and killed by Su Feijun's infantry company.

The rest were hacked to pieces by the second platoon of cavalry, numbering over 50 men!

The cavalry is too powerful.

Even in the era of hot weapons.

The large-scale use and mobility of cavalry was one of the reasons why the Japanese army was able to easily outflank, encircle and penetrate the positions of the National Army in the early days of the War of Resistance.

After all, there is no Maxim Line Array and no armored steel torrent here!

The Japanese army was almost wiped out, and only the Mizusawa Infantry Squadron that was monitoring the east side of the city escaped safely. After returning, they wrote "A Record of the Decisive Battle in the Suburbs of Heian" and reported to the Japanese Army Captain Aoki and lamented.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the county town wanted to break out and escape, but were intercepted by the infantry company of Su Fei's troops in the east of the city. Fearing that Su Fei's cavalry troops would hunt them down, they had to turn back.

After the battle outside the city ended, Su Fei ordered a dozen captured puppet soldiers to send a surrender notice to the city. Japanese Second Lieutenant Qingchuan ordered the Japanese army to shoot at the surrenderers, killing two people on the spot.

Haha, you dare to resist?

court death!

Su Fei ordered the use of captured Japanese mountain artillery and infantry artillery to bombard Ping'an County. More than a dozen shells were fired, accompanied by thunder, and Lieutenant Qingchuan was blown to pieces on the spot, and a large number of Japanese and puppet troops were killed or wounded.

The puppet army, frightened by the artillery fire, launched an uprising and launched a surprise attack, killing more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, capturing two sergeants and a corporal, and then surrendered outside the city.

Su Fei's troops captured Ping'an County!

Standing on the city wall, Su Fei was filled with emotion.

The main battlefield of the Ping'angle War in this world of Bright Sword is right at his feet.

We originally wanted to surround the enemy and attack the reinforcements, but we didn't expect so many enemies to come. The arrows were on the string and had to be shot. However, it was too dangerous!

Deal with the aftermath quickly.

The captured light and heavy machine guns and ammunition were used to further strengthen the cavalry machine gun company. All captured trucks were also incorporated into it. This company had 50 light machine guns and 8 heavy machine guns, and its strength grew to 300 people, organized into a machine gun battalion.

The Japanese artillery squadron's 2 mountain guns, 1 infantry gun, 12 mortars, plus the three infantry squadrons' 9 mortars, 20 grenade launchers, 1 infantry gun, and 3 machine guns were all added to the artillery company. The number of people also increased rapidly and it was changed into an artillery battalion.

The cavalry battalion was badly damaged after the fierce battle, but it was quickly replenished and restored to a strength of 350 people.

The new recruits were mainly captured puppet soldiers who were educated and joined. In addition, more than 450 new recruits were recruited in Ping'an County and its surrounding areas.

The people were extremely excited after the victory in the fierce battle and they took the initiative to join the army to fight the war.

By the way, the puppet army, an infantry regiment of more than 700 people, was completely frightened by the cavalry's relentless pursuit and surrendered one after another. The total number of prisoners finally reached more than 370. After education and mobilization, more than 200 people stayed.

Contact the underground party in Ping'an County and ask them to openly take charge of the work and establish the county government. Ping'an County also established an independent battalion and allocated 100 long guns, 30 pistols, and 3000 rounds of bullets.

Let Ping'an County also dig a large-scale tunnel system in preparation for war.

Su Fei led the troops through Pingjing County and repatriated the Pingjing Independent Battalion, providing them with supplies and ammunition. He also asked the local party organization to take charge of the work and develop military and political forces.

After returning to Baijia Town to carry out post-war work, the cavalry battalion was stationed in Wanjia Town and trained day and night.

In the Battle of Liumanpo in Ping'an County, the cavalry battalion suffered few losses of war horses. After the war, most of the horses of the heroes were recovered. In addition, more than 50 horses of the Japanese cavalry squad were seized, as well as more than 30 horses ridden by Japanese officers such as Lieutenant Colonel Yajima and Kono. After the horses were sufficient, they were allocated to the machine gun battalion.

All the draft horses used by the Japanese artillery squadrons were given to the artillery battalions.

The three battalions are combined into the Special Operations Brigade Cavalry Regiment.

People were sent to deliver 200 Japanese rifles, 10,000 rounds of ammunition, two mortars, and two heavy machine guns to the infantry regiment of Political Commissar Kong Jie in the county seat. The actual battle process was not described, but the letter simply said that after many battles, the Japanese army was defeated and several strongholds were eliminated.

Su Fei was afraid that Political Commissar Kong Jie would be embarrassed.

The infantry regiment, which is the main force of the special operations brigade, has been training without much success.

Fortunately, Political Commissar Kong Jie lived up to his nickname of Kong Erlangzi. He did not think too much or ask any detailed questions, but instead warmly congratulated the cavalry unit on its great victory.

What Su Fei didn't know was that Operation A had already begun with the dispatch of Lieutenant Colonel Yajima's reinforcements.

Upon hearing the news of Yajima's death, the commander of the Japanese First Army, Yoshio Kozuka, immediately announced that the attack had begun and an iron wall encirclement would be formed!