Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 403 Subverting the Outlook on Life

The Japanese were right in front of them, so Monk Wei didn't care what he had just said.

"Captain Chen, our 201st Airborne Regiment will lead the charge!"

When they were fifty meters away, Wei Heshang and others opened fire with their Type 95 rifles, instantly knocking down more than a dozen Japanese soldiers and puppet troops.

They climbed up the north city embankment, stepping on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers. They saw the trenches were filled with all kinds of guerrilla corpses.

Some of them hugged the Japanese soldiers, and some of them stabbed them with bayonets.

Captain Wang of the guerrillas looked up in surprise at the 201st Airborne Regiment, who were also wearing ordinary people's clothes.

"Comrade, which district's guerrillas are you from? I don't think I've seen them before."

Chen Zhanying also rushed up at this time, looked at his sister-in-law who had been knocked down, then turned back to explain to Captain Wang.

"Captain Wang, this is a comrade from the Jinnan Independent Column. He passed by our Shan County and happened to see us fighting the Japanese. He came in to help!"

Monk Wei saw that the puppet troops and Japanese soldiers under the north city dike had not yet dispersed, and he knew that they had not given up.

"Captain Chen, Captain Wang, the Japanese haven't retreated yet, so it's not the time to chat! Go support the comrades in the Seventh Company, and leave this position to us!"

Captain Wang looked at the ragged monk Wei. He had never heard of the Southern Shanxi Independent Column, and his heart was beating fast.

"Comrade, I see that you only have about thirty people, and our Qinshan guerrillas have a full fifty fighters, but we still can't stop the enemy. The battlefield is not a place for bragging! Even if all our Qinshan guerrillas die, we will hold our position!"

It turned out that they fought too fiercely just now. Didn’t their Captain Wang see that they killed more than a dozen Japanese soldiers?

Forget it, let’s perform it again!

"Snipers, get ready, shoot down the Japs' grenade launchers and machine guns!"

Each squad in the 201st Airborne Regiment has a sniper team with a total of three sniper rifles.

The three sniper teams immediately occupied the best sniping positions and began aiming at the Japanese soldiers more than 200 meters below the embankment.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

After a few gunshots, Chen Zhanying saw through the telescope that two enemy grenade throwers had fallen.

"Captain Peng, you are awesome! I'll leave this position to you! Take care!"

After Chen Zhanying finished speaking, he took Captain Wang and the remaining dozen or so guerrillas to support the position of the Seventh Company on the right.

Monk Wei was filled with awe as he watched a guerrilla force of more than fifty people reduced to only a dozen or so.

"Comrades, it's up to us now!"

The Japanese and the puppet army had already regarded Wei Heshang and his ragged guerrillas as soft targets, and concentrated most of their forces to prepare for a boarding charge.

When the puppet army saw the guerrillas, they seemed to have gained courage and for the first time ever, they asked the Japanese for the role of the vanguard.

Two squadrons of puppet troops, with a total of more than 200 people, began to rush towards the embankment with their backs bent!

Chen Zhanying and Staff Officer Du, who were at the flank position, were sweating when they saw the huge crowds of puppet troops charging.

"Staff Officer Du, there are at least two hundred Japanese soldiers here. This is going to put a lot of pressure on Captain Wei!"

Staff Officer Du was also worried. He didn't expect that the Japanese and the puppet troops had seen that that was the weak point of their defense.

"Captain Chen, do you want me to lead a company to support them? After all, they are here to help. If they suffer too much loss, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to my superiors."

Chen Zhanying picked up the telescope and looked at the Japanese squadron standing motionless like turtles at the foot of the mountain.

"Not yet. If we move rashly, we might fall into the hands of the Japanese. Captain Wei doesn't seem to be a boaster, so there shouldn't be any problem! We just need to stay alert and be ready to support at any time!"

At this time, the remaining grenade launchers of the Japanese also began to fire continuously. Fortunately, the snipers paid special attention to them, and the grenade launcher soldiers had their skulls blown off as soon as they showed their heads.

Without the threat of grenade launchers, the soldiers of the 201st Airborne Regiment climbed out of the trenches, holding Type rifles, and began to fire in bursts.

Thirty automatic rifles, firing in bursts, actually achieved the effect of hundreds of bolt-action rifles.

Seeing the lackeys around them falling one by one, the puppet soldiers began to feel some regret.

How can this be called a guerrilla force? Such strong firepower, such accurate shooting, a real main force!

But the Japanese machine guns behind were supervising the battle, so there was no way to retreat and they could only charge forward.

After finally rushing to within 50 meters, the puppet soldiers had no time to breathe a sigh of relief before they felt what was like a rain of bullets!

The Type 95 automatic rifles opened fire at full power, and the puppet soldiers fell one after another.

The Japanese also seized the opportunity, using the puppet soldiers as human shields and rushing forward!

"Thirty meters! Get your grenades ready!"

Three rounds, nearly a hundred grenades were thrown like frying fish, blasting the Japanese and puppet troops to pieces.

Of the three hundred Japanese devils and puppet soldiers, only one hundred are left.

Moreover, the puppet troops began to show a tendency to fear fighting and flee, and were afraid to move forward.

The Japanese soldiers were charging and didn't bother to pay attention to these cowardly puppet soldiers. They just kicked them away with their big leather boots, and then they swarmed up the mountain like maggots.

Monk Wei sneered. He had never seen so many people lining up to die!

"Hit the Japanese hard and let them have a taste of our power!"

More than twenty automatic rifles fired at the Japanese, while three sniper teams specifically targeted their machine gunners and officers. The Japanese had no officers or sergeants to command them, so they could only rely on their crappy Bushido spirit and rush forward in a panic.

But in the face of hail of bullets, the so-called Bushido became a "road to death."

The Japanese formation began to collapse, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers chased the puppet soldiers who turned back and ran down!

"Fire two rockets!"

Two rockets hit the location where the Japanese and puppet troops were most densely populated, sending more than a dozen Japanese and puppet troops to death.

This short battle of more than twenty minutes completely overturned Chen Zhanying and Staff Officer Du's outlook on life. He didn't expect that a battle could be fought in this way?

The Japanese boarded charge was particularly effective against the Eighth Route Army and local troops. After all, under the suppression of the Japanese mortars, grenade launchers and machine guns, the Japanese infantry just had to charge forward.

But this tactic doesn't work on the battlefield of the independent column.

First of all, the sniper rifles will take care of the grenade launchers and machine guns, and the Japanese are not equipped with mortars this time, so there is no fire suppression at all.

Those Japanese soldiers who rushed forward headfirst became meat on the chopping board and were shot into sieves by the powerful firepower of the independent column.

Monk Wei looked through the telescope and saw that there were only about thirty Japanese devils and forty or fifty puppet soldiers left.

"Comrades, change the magazines and prepare to charge! Kill!"

The soldiers of the 201st Airborne Regiment rushed towards the Japanese soldiers under the embankment, while the snipers continued to fire at the more threatening targets.

Chen Zhanying and Staff Officer Du thought that since the battle had come to this, what were they waiting for? Charge!