Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

The main force of the Japanese army finally took action.

The cavalry regiment discovered that a cavalry company of the special operations brigade was galloping back and forth in a very arrogant manner. Although they saw clearly that it was a cavalry company of about a hundred people, they still launched an all-out attack, sending troops to attack from the east and west, and sending people to intercept from the south, forming a blockade line.

A cavalry squadron of more than 170 people attacked the outskirts of Baijia Town from the west, and another cavalry squadron of more than 170 people attacked from the east.

Two cavalry squadrons combined together become a cavalry battalion!

Such elite forces would definitely win if they were to chase down a company of a hundred or so Eighth Route Army soldiers.

To be on the safe side, the Eighth Route Army cavalry company broke out to the south, and Colonel Iwagami personally led two other cavalry squadrons to intercept them in the south and advance covertly.

Let’s first wipe out a cavalry company of the Eighth Route Army.

Must eat it quickly!

Colonel Iwagami vowed to wipe out the Eighth Route Army cavalry unit that was so bold as to come to rescue Baijia Town, leaving no one alive.

He believed that this cavalry unit was the Su Fei Special Forces Brigade cavalry that was rampant in the west and trampled to death countless Japanese soldiers. Su Fei himself must be among them. Chinese men are all romantic men. How could he sit idly by and watch with more than 30 beautiful wives and concubines?

Enemies are extremely jealous when they meet.

Su Fei's troops wiped out an entire cavalry regiment of the 4th Cavalry Brigade! How terrifying!

This brutal enemy.

He must take revenge and restore the dignity of the 4th Cavalry Brigade.

Kill the bandit leader Su Fei with your own hands!

As for Su Fei's wives and concubines, huh, they were all abducted and turned into comfort women for the Imperial Army, rewarding the Imperial Army every day and night, and suffering unparalleled humiliation!

Colonel Iwagami believed that his cavalry regiment could easily destroy Su Fei's cavalry, and then encircle and annihilate the independent regiment, one of the main forces of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army that broke out from the east. With his success and fame, he was promoted to the rank of major general and replaced the current brigade commander who was taking the blame!

Colonel Iwakami's idea is perfect and full of meaning.

"After a hard battle and attrition, the loss of life during the long journey, and the heavy damage in Hulu Valley, Su Fei's cavalry is reduced to only a hundred people! They are so weak and vulnerable, they can't withstand a single blow, hahahaha."

"The search team west of Hulu Valley said the enemy had 500 cavalrymen. That's pure nonsense!"

However, reality soon gave him a loud slap in the face.

The cavalry company, as if it had eyes, quickly evacuated from the outskirts of Baijia Town and fled towards the north.

When the two Japanese cavalry squadrons rushed to Baijia Town, they saw a large number of corpses of more than 900 people from the Imperial Army Infantry Regiment and the Iino Supervisory Team, as well as the green eyes of the stray soldiers huddled a thousand meters outside the village.

The bait troops left outside Baijia Town could easily have entangled the cavalry company, or even severely damaged it. How did it become like this?

The two Japanese cavalry squadron leaders angrily interrogated the defeated soldiers and found out that the Iino Supervisory Team and the Imperial Army Corps Commander Huang were all killed.

It turned out that the Japanese and puppet troops who entered the trenches immediately prepared for battle, hoping to use bullets to hit the Eighth Route Army cavalry head-on and knock them off their horses.

Unexpectedly, the cavalry company 500 meters away used its ultimate move, using 5 mortars and 8 grenade launchers to fiercely bombard the few Japanese soldiers and a large number of Imperial Army troops who were fearlessly and screaming in the trenches.

On the southern battlefield, the Japanese and puppet troops, who had 1 mortar, 3 grenade launchers, 1 heavy machine gun and 3 light machine guns, had few shells left due to continuous attacks on Baijia Town and were completely unable to resist.

The extremely fast group of small steel cannons and grenade launchers blew the Imperial Army into chaos.

The shocked Japanese and puppet troops instinctively retreated into their trenches and held out, but the artillery fire continued. The Japanese supervisory team and the Imperial Army's regimental headquarters, with its flags flying, were successively covered in shells. With both the supervisory team and the regimental commander gone, what was there to fight for? The Imperial Army immediately scattered.

run?

The cavalry company immediately charged and caught up with the Imperial Army. They fired several machine guns at them and shouted at them to surrender their weapons so that they would not be killed.

The main force of more than 400 Imperial Army troops south of Baijia Town collapsed and knelt down to surrender.

After confiscating the guns, the cavalry company soldiers also confiscated the belts of the Imperial Army and told them to leave immediately with their pants up!

The collapse of the main force in the south was quickly known to the surrounding Imperial Army, and they also fled.

The cavalry company of the special operations brigade rushed to Baijia Town with four captured light and heavy machine guns, one mortar, three grenade launchers, more than 350 rifles and a large amount of bullets. They asked the militia guerrillas in the town to come out to receive weapons and ammunition, and moved northward.

Two Japanese cavalry squadrons immediately assembled and galloped north in pursuit.

What the Japanese army didn't know was that this was the hometown of the cavalry soldiers of the special operations brigade. They were very familiar with the terrain and knew exactly where the hills, rivers, woods and villages were.

After circling around a few times, they made the Japanese so angry that they let down their guard and chased them relentlessly.

In Hamagou, the cavalry company continued to advance with more than 20 people in disguise, while the rest stayed behind to hide. When the Japanese cavalry rushed over, they swept wildly with machine guns and bombarded with mortars. Within ten seconds, more than 20 people of the Japanese Shibano Cavalry Squadron were killed and more than 50 were injured. They were so scared that they dared not chase them.

The cavalry company moved again, detoured west, returned to Hulu Valley, and finally rejoined the Third Battalion.

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The Japanese commander-in-chief, Colonel Gao Wuxun, not only received news that the cavalry regiment had failed to hunt down Su Fei's troops, but also received a large number of calls for help from Japanese strongholds.

He quickly regained consciousness.

"This group of Eighth Route Army soldiers is so insidious. They actually made a feint to the east and attacked in the west, taking advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack our outer strongholds?"

The Cangyong Infantry Regiment in Wanjia Town was immediately mobilized and set out, with an infantry battalion and an infantry artillery company, to rush towards Hulu Valley.

This was a message from the cavalry squad lurking west of Hulu Valley: "The Eighth Route Army is preparing for battle in the mountains, and there are many of them."

This move was necessary to attack the Eighth Route Army, forcing the Su Fei troops and the independent regiment troops who were out on guerrilla warfare to stop attacking the strongholds on the cage chain in the southeast and southwest directions.

The cavalry regiment moved to the area around Hulu Valley and lay in wait, ready to attack the returning Eighth Route Army cavalry troops at any time.

Originally, he didn't believe the intelligence about more than 500 Eighth Route Army cavalrymen at all, but now, he believed it.

He did not feel the slightest bit of annoyance, only the surprise of having found his prey.

"Hulu Valley is the testicles of your Cavalry Regiment and Independent Regiment. As long as I hold it firmly, you monkeys will never escape the palm of my imperial army's hand!"

The 4nd Infantry Battalion also drove from Wanjia Town to Baijia Town, equipped with four mountain cannons from the regiment's artillery company, and surrounded Baijia Town.

They surrounded the town but did not attack, and did not fire a single shot. They just arrested people everywhere, intending to capture thousands of civilians and destroy the tunnels outside Baijia Town bit by bit.

Or they used intimidation to force the Eighth Route Army to come to the rescue.

As for the Eighth Route Army attacks from the southwest and southeast, he decided to endure them.

By the evening, due to various circumstances, he could no longer hold his temper.

The siege of Hulu Valley had not yet begun in full force, and the cavalry regiment complained bitterly, strongly demanding a change in the plan so that they could pursue and kill the Eighth Route Army's outer troops.

The losses suffered by the Japanese strongholds in the southeast and southwest were astonishingly large.

A large number of cage chains were cut off. A total of more than 350 Japanese soldiers and more than 1000 Imperial Army soldiers were killed or wounded. The situation can be said to be devastating.

"The Tubalu actually have multiple infantry guns and mountain guns? No wonder they were able to easily penetrate the defenses of our army's sturdy bunkers and strongholds."

Gao Wuxun felt a headache for the first time.

The equipment and attack capabilities of the Eighth Route Army far exceeded his expectations. Originally, he believed that the remaining Eighth Route Army soldiers were already weak due to the lack of food and ammunition, and could not cause any damage to any bunker stronghold. The Japanese army and the Imperial Army could use the sturdy fortress group and road chain to use static force to stop them firmly in a small area, and the cavalry regiment and infantry formation could easily close the net and catch them.

Now, he has to rearrange his plans.

After careful consideration, he mobilized the 3rd Battalion of the Kuranaga Infantry Regiment, plus a tank squadron, three squadrons of the Cavalry Regiment, and a regiment of the Imperial Army, to form a joint detachment of 3000 people, commanded by the regiment commander Iwagami himself, to quickly reinforce in the southeast direction.

The sledgehammer tactics, heavy assault, and iron wall encirclement!

The goal is to catch up with the Eighth Route Army troops in the southeast and wipe them out in one fell swoop.

He also ordered all the Japanese troops and Imperial Army in the outer strongholds to come out.

Since the stronghold has become an obvious target of artillery fire, there is no need to be rigid and stubborn. Soldiers should dig trenches and hide outside the stronghold, form combat teams, and lurk around it to assassinate, harass, and scare any Eighth Route Army troops that may pass by!

Break the whole into small pieces, use guerrilla tactics, and turn around to deal with the Eighth Route Army!

Let the staff quickly call each stronghold and issue a notice, telling them how to contact the Japanese troops marching in the night and how to identify the Eighth Route Army.

"Fortify the walls and clear the fields, this is the real fortify the walls and clear the fields!"

After the arrangement was made, Colonel Gao Wuxun, Deputy Chief of Staff of the First Army, couldn't help but feel proud.

This approach is certainly very clever.

In the evening, Su Fei's troops learned that the enemy's main force had been dispatched to besiege Hulu Valley and Baijia Town. Of course, they knew that the enemy would definitely send troops to hunt them down.

How to do?

It is very dangerous not knowing the direction and number of the enemy.

They used walkie-talkies to scout the enemy and found that the enemy had all stopped using walkie-talkies.

Therefore, Su Fei decided to continue to alert the enemy and assembled a cavalry battalion of more than 300 people and a newly formed infantry battalion, and hid them near a large stronghold. This was also to go against the trend. The ruins of the stronghold seemed to be on the main road, a very dangerous place, but it was also very safe.

Send a mixed cavalry unit of 50 people, carrying one infantry gun, one mortar, and three machine guns, to attack the next Japanese stronghold.

Soon, they discovered something unusual.

The Japanese stronghold was pitch black. The local guide said it was strange. Usually they would use searchlights to illuminate the surroundings at night, and it was as bright as a demon. Why did they all fall asleep tonight?

So they sent people to investigate, but the Japanese and puppet troops lurking outside the stronghold tripped their horses with ropes and were about to capture them alive.

The soldier was shocked and angry, shouting, slashing with his saber and shooting with his pistol. In the darkness, the Japanese army could not capture him alive and stabbed him to death with their bayonets.

The cavalry troops were shocked and immediately fired machine guns and bombarded with artillery shells.

At night, they could not see the enemy's position and number clearly, could not strike the enemy accurately, and were worried about being surrounded, so they could only retreat quickly.

The Japanese ambushes fired a barrage of bullets, causing the mixed cavalry unit to lose 7 men and 5 horses.

When they returned to the Dahuang Village stronghold where Su Fei was and reported to Su Fei, Su Fei immediately became alert and immediately ordered to use the radio to inform other troops, prohibiting attacks on enemy strongholds at night.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang of the Hulugu Independent Regiment also sent a telegram to Su Fei's troops, saying that they were surrounded by heavy enemy forces, the battle had already begun, and was becoming increasingly fierce, with the Japanese artillery fire being fierce.

Su Fei felt unprecedented pressure.

The enemy will definitely not simply besiege Hulu Valley, there will be other big moves.

The Japanese commanders were quite cunning, as can be seen from the enemy's practice of leaving their strongholds, lurking as guerrillas and ambushes.

It is not advisable to maneuver at night, so as not to accidentally run into the enemy's encirclement.

If we avoid the strong and attack the weak, and make a long-distance attack towards the areas of Baijia Town and Wanjia Town, or the outskirts of Hulu Valley, it may seem smart, but it is actually a gamble with too great a risk.

The infantry battalion that he had just recruited was likely to lose a large number of soldiers in the rapid movement.

The current situation has never happened in the world of Bright Sword. It is a completely new scenario.

So he took the most prudent approach, which was to stay in this Dahuang Village stronghold, but mobilized the infantry to quickly dig trenches and tunnels, individual pits, and obstacle ditches, deployed infantry battalions inside and outside the stronghold, set up defense lines, and incorporated the main forces of machine gun companies and artillery companies into the infantry.

One veteran leads two or three people, and quickly teaches them military knowledge, shooting techniques, bayonet fighting techniques, dodging artillery shells, overcoming psychological barriers, etc.

The commander of the first battalion served as the commander-in-chief of the internal operations. Su Fei led a cavalry company, a machine gun platoon, and an artillery platoon, nearly half of the troops, in a village outside the stronghold.

Because of the fighting during the day, the villagers in this village were frightened and fled in all directions. Except for those who joined Su Fei's troops, everyone else was evacuated to live with their relatives to avoid being retaliated by the Japanese.

The sky is full of stars, twinkling with the cold light of late autumn.

Su Fei ordered all the soldiers to fetch water and wash their horses repeatedly, and even to dump and bury the washing water.

The unique urine smell of horses will be carried far and wide in the cold wind if it is not removed and suppressed.

Feed the war horses urgently with captured enemy food and grass. After feeding them quickly, tighten the bit.

what do i do if I'm hungry?

Su Fei's cavalry troops grilled the meat of injured horses in the room and closed the windows.

The troops inside and outside the Dahuang Village stronghold also adopted the same approach, trying their best to ensure confidentiality and concealment.

A large number of scouts were dispatched, carrying walkie-talkies, to expand the surveillance range to 3000 meters.

Five hours passed.

Su Fei's troops were safe and sound.

More than 800 infantry and cavalry soldiers were well fed and most of them fell asleep contentedly.

Some newly joined soldiers excitedly recalled the happy life here. Damn, they could actually eat meat with big mouthfuls and their mouths were full of oil. If they had known that life in the special operations brigade was not hard at all, they would have come here earlier!

At around one in the morning, the investigator sent a message via walkie-talkie: A large number of dark shadows are moving towards this side!

exposed!