under fire

"Your...go back and report!" The Japanese shouted habitually as they looked at the Imperial Army being dragged down in front of them.

Lu Yuangui just wanted to leave here as soon as possible, but was tripped by Taijun and fell to the ground. He felt pain all over his body. He moved his body and luckily he didn't have any fractures.
He turned a deaf ear to the lady's shouts.

"You bastard!" The corporal became angry when he saw that the bastard dared to ignore his words.

Hearing the familiar scolding... Lu Yuangui's slave nature was restored, and he finally saw the scene in front of him clearly...

One of the nobles was lying on the ground motionless, and the other two who were baring their teeth at him were shot. From the looks of them, it seemed that they couldn't even lift their rifles.

The desire to escape became stronger and stronger.

Anyone who dares to stop me from escaping is trying to kill me.

He raised the gun without hesitation, pulled the bolt quickly, pointed the muzzle at the head of the Japanese soldier a little further away and fired.

boom.
The bullet came out of the eye socket and a flower bloomed on the back of the devil's head.
The man who grabbed his trouser leg was too close, and the rifle was too long to be effective.
Recalling the close combat demonstration by the Imperial Army instructor during training, he raised the butt of his rifle and smashed it on the face of the dazed Japanese soldier next to him.

The screams began to spread
Why don’t you let go?

Then hit it a second time, a third time
Until the devil's still hard head was smashed.
Then I ran north with all my strength...

Bullets whizzed past me from time to time
Luck is also part of strength.

Perhaps because the distance was too far, the bullets whizzing from the Eighth Route Army failed to hit the target.

Earlier, the Japanese soldiers were half-crouching on the ground and shooting, becoming a static target, and were then hit one after another.
Tang Dagou, who reluctantly agreed to be the leader of the precision shooting team, barely had time to drink his soup when he saw such a big scene: "Fuck stop firing! Bullets are not blown by the wind, stop firing immediately!"

"But platoon leader, a puppet soldier ran to the north!" Someone was unwilling to accept this.

"It's good that he ran away. Wait until he spreads the news. Let's see if those traitors and puppet soldiers who surrendered to the Japanese dare to look down on our Eighth Master again." Da Gou didn't care. With such a big scene, the Japanese must have known that the puppet army was ambushed. There was no need to worry that the escaped puppet soldiers would report to the Japanese.

boom.
The gunfire rang out again.

Tang Dagou's orders didn't seem to be so effective.

"If you dare to shoot him again, I will never forgive you!"

"It was an accidental discharge." The soldier who fired the gun laughed. Openly disobeying orders will lead to punishment. It was an accidental discharge, and no one can do anything about it.
The big dog was helpless, so he turned around and asked Liu Yuanqing, who was holding a telescope and muttering to Xiao Hongying, "Hey, Mr. Liu, do you want to go over there and help clean up the battlefield?"

"Don't run around!" Liu Yuanqing turned around and warned sternly.

Then he turned around and shouted to the little braided boy lying next to him with a dark face: "The puppet troops to the south are divided into two lines, the inner and outer lines. Now we have attacked their outer line, we must be careful of their counterattack."

"Hehe, you overestimate them. If they don't retreat to the north now, I wouldn't be called Chang." Xiao Hongying's eyes left the telescope.

"I know the puppet troops can't handle a fight. They'll retreat after getting hit. Are you so sure?"

"The puppet soldiers surrendered to the devils to save their lives. A whole company was wiped out in the blink of an eye. Do you think they still have the guts to do that?"

"There are Japanese soldiers among the puppet army, and there are Japanese soldiers supervising the battle from behind. How dare they run back?"

"Hehe, if the devils dare to stop them from escaping at this time, believe it or not, they dare to point their guns at the devils."

"That does seem to make sense." Liu Yuanqing's eye injury had not yet fully healed, and he shamelessly borrowed Xiao Hongying from Hu Yi to serve as an observer. He had almost analyzed the enemy situation, and was just waiting for the soldiers who were cleaning up the battlefield in the smoke to come back and report.

It seemed that there was still some free time, so Liu Yuanqing began to instruct Xiao Hongying: "I told you, the distance is too far, try not to shoot the enemy's head. The target is too small, and you spend too long aiming, so your shooting speed cannot be increased."

"I like it," Instructor Hong, who was observing through the scope, responded casually.

"You fired three shots, and those guys next to you fired five shots each. You're not as accurate as them, but you didn't kill as many Japs as them."

"I killed the devils, they just injured them."

"On the battlefield, when both sides are in a stalemate, it is more effective to injure the enemy than to kill him. It takes at least two people to take care of one wounded enemy. If the wounded are abandoned, the others in the team will be saddened and even affect the morale of the army."

Xiao Hongying finally lost her patience and said, "The fox has already said what you said. Can you please stop nagging me?"

"You've heard of it, but they haven't." Liu Yuanqing was not annoyed at all. He turned his head and glanced at the precision shooters who pricked up their ears and continued: "Let me tell you about the key points of battlefield camouflage."

Xiao Hongying couldn't understand why Fengzi Yang, whose sentences rarely contained more than three words, had so many words to say.
Could this be what the fox meant by complementarity?

A figure ran back from the west, panting: "Reporting to the commander-in-chief and instructor, when cleaning the battlefield, we found that in addition to the puppet troops, there were also many Japanese corpses, and the number is still being counted."

"Are there devils among the puppet army?"

"We captured a puppet soldier alive, and he said there was a small group of Japanese soldiers among them."

"Are they all dead?" Dagou's eyes lit up. What he cared about most was that the Japanese must die.

“Killed them all.”

"Stop firing flares." Xiao Hongying's face suddenly changed: "Retreat, quickly ring the gong, and tell the people cleaning the battlefield to withdraw immediately." "You just said that the puppet army would run away, what's wrong?"

"The puppet troops will run away, but the devils among the puppet troops in the west will not run away."

...

Hu Yi, with his thousands of troops, had already circled behind the Japanese who were making a frontal feint attack to the south.

In the darkness, there were figures lying on the ground.

The essence of mobile warfare is to take the enemy by surprise and kill their effective forces while causing as little casualties as possible to yourself.

In small-scale battles, you can just shoot and bite the enemy and then run away. When fighting at the battalion level, you can't just run away if you want to.

Hu Yi's purpose was to delay the Japanese so that they would realize that they were attacked from all sides and would not dare to launch a counterattack to the east easily.

"Battalion Commander, we have spotted a Japanese outer guard post ahead."

"Eliminate the Japanese sentries! Shoot if necessary." Hu Yi ordered.

At this time, there is no need to hide it anymore.

Just to let the devils know someone is attacking them from behind
They detoured from the east and encircled the enemy with two squads and two companies of the Imperial Army.

Being hit by a landmine is not a big deal, and the lieutenant is not worried about the combat effectiveness of his elite men at all.

But no one came back to report, and the lieutenant began to feel a little uneasy.

I quickly sent two devils over to make contact.

叭.
Bang bang bang.
About 500 meters to the north, gunshots suddenly rang out.

It’s the guard post position!

The lieutenant began to feel uneasy and immediately ordered a squad to check it out.

More than a dozen Japanese soldiers quickly got up from the ground, gathered together, and trotted north in groups of three.

He ran no more than a hundred meters.

The sudden change.

Suddenly, flashes of light appeared in the darkness in the north.

Boo hoo hoo.
The sound of bullets breaking through the air was heard.

Then I heard the roar of a Czech light machine gun.
In the darkness, tracer bullets with long beams of light looked like poisonous snakes.

The bullets rushed towards the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who were heading north to check on the sentry.

The dazzling ballistic missiles whistled mercilessly, tearing through the crowd of Japanese devils.

"Flare, shoot"

As the flares rose into the air, a large group of dark figures could be seen squatting on the ground.

The situation has changed!

"Gather the fire!"

"Distance: 250 to 300, elevation: 60" With just a dozen words, Wan Baxi almost yelled out: "Salvo fire."

There was no other way. We couldn't use flag signals to give orders in the dark, so we could only rely on shouting.

There were two mortars and more than twenty grenade launchers lined up in a row.

Tum-tum-tum.
The devils are gathered together. It would be a waste if we don't fight them now...

The Ninth Battalion has revealed almost all its assets
It is unlikely to completely wipe out this group of Japs, but defeating them should not be a problem!

Hu Yi's ideas are different from those of ordinary commanders.

The Eighth Route Army was indeed poor, but that doesn’t mean all of them were poor.

The 9th Battalion is now equipped with a large number of automatic weapons. Except for the lack of mountain artillery, its equipment is almost as good as the battalion-level equipment of the headquarters special forces regiment.

If we can't even defeat these devils who are responsible for local security, how can we fight face to face with the main combat forces of the devil in the future?

Fighting power is gained through fighting. (End of this chapter)