The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2240 More and Less

Shang Zhen had never seen such puppet troops.

They did not resist the Japanese and even assisted them. It can be said that the puppet army was in name only and was at odds with the Japanese army, secretly supporting all anti-Japanese actions.

But now he has encountered it.

There were a total of seventeen puppet soldiers in the artillery tower. Although these puppet soldiers expressed their willingness to cooperate with them, Shang Zhen still left only one puppet soldier in the artillery tower, and the rest were taken out of the artillery tower by his own people.

One of the reasons is to protect these puppet troops.

Just imagine, if they launched another attack on the Japanese troops that were about to pass by in this artillery tower, what would it mean if they kept puppet troops in the artillery tower? If the Japanese army knew that these puppet troops had turned against them, Commander Wang would have a hard time explaining himself.

In fact, Shang Zhen particularly disapproves of this kind of fence-sitting behavior during the anti-Japanese war. Sometimes you can please both sides, but when you really cannot please both sides and are forced to be black or white, that is when you will be in trouble.

The second reason is that these puppet soldiers could easily give up resistance to him. Then who could guarantee that when the Japanese army attacked, they would counterattack as soon as they saw the situation was not good? Wouldn't that be like placing a time bomb around him?

It is easier to manage with fewer people. Now there is only one puppet soldier left by Shang Zhen, and that is the puppet army leader who calls himself Lu Yong.

But they only released seven people from their company.

As for the reason here, it is because there are only six shooting holes facing the road.

Shang Zhen had no plan to bring his men to guard the tower, so why did he leave so many people there?

"Your accent tells you're from the Northeast. How did you end up in the independent brigade?" Lu Yong asked Shang Zhen on top of the artillery tower.

"Heh." Shang Zhen was amused when he heard Lu Yong's question. "He was conscripted into the Independent Brigade."

"Fuck, this is such a great way to capture a strong man. They directly captured a company commander. Does the independent brigade have such a good eye?" He didn't know whether Lu Yong believed what Shang Zhen said or not, so he said with a teasing look on his face.

Shang Zhen smiled again and stopped talking, just looking into the distance. In front of him was a Czech light machine gun.

This light machine gun certainly belongs to the puppet army.

Since this is a gun tower, the firepower must be strong, so there are four machine guns on this gun tower. This is a real surprise for the company of new recruits that lacks weapons!

Although Shang Zhen and his men had seized some Type 38 rifles last time, only eight were left, including those that Hu Sheng and his men had secretly kept. As for the rest, they were all taken away by the fat brigade commander.

During this attack on the Japanese army, Shang Zhen was still thinking about how to get some better guns for the recruit company!

But getting a good gun requires a good opportunity. With the combat effectiveness of a recruit company like this, it's okay to deal with a small group of Japanese soldiers with only 20 or 30 men. As for a large group of Japanese soldiers, you can just shoot them from nowhere as you did before. Although you can kill a few of them, it's impossible to seize their weapons.

If he had followed the original strategy, Shang Zhen would have been thinking about the puppet army.

However, the relationship between the puppet army and the independent brigade was very good. Without the consent of the fat brigade commander, he could not touch the puppet army.

This time he took over the artillery tower without authorization and he didn't even tell the fat brigade commander!

Shang Zhen and Lu Yong were standing on the top of the artillery tower, staring at the road in the distance. There was a soldier standing behind them. The soldier had a rifle in his hand and Lu Yong's 20-shot box gun slung across his body.

He is responsible for watching Lu Yong.

"How many Japanese soldiers did you kill?" Lu Yong asked again.

"There were more than a thousand people, and only a few dozen were killed." Shang Zhen was too tired to complain.

"Is it too little?" Lu Yong asked.

Shang Zhen didn't say anything. Although he seldom showed his emotions on his face, his dissatisfaction was evident on his face.

Lu Yong saw Shang Zhen’s dissatisfaction, but did not continue the topic.

In his eyes, although he knew that Japanese soldiers would die if shot, he did not think that Japanese soldiers could be killed so easily. Dozens were not a small number!

After a while, Lu Yong asked again: "You are setting an ambush here, how can you be sure that the Japanese are definitely in front? How can you be sure that our people will not come to the artillery tower?" When Lu Yong asked this, Shang Zhen did not respond, but the soldier behind him was startled and he couldn't help but worry.

Yes, what if the puppet army is in front?

You have to know that there are also hundreds of puppet soldiers. Normally, the puppet soldiers should be in front and the Japanese soldiers should be behind. And once the puppet soldiers who returned wanted to enter the artillery tower, they couldn't let the puppet soldiers in. Wouldn't the enemy notice it?

If they did not let the puppet troops into the artillery tower, and could not fight the Japanese army but the puppet troops, it would be hard to say what the puppet troops would do.

"I have another company under me. If your people enter the artillery tower, we will shoot." Shang Zhen replied indifferently.

Lu Yong looked at Shang Zhen and didn't ask any more questions.

The sun was still moving higher and higher overhead, and the wait became long again.

In fact, when the first enemy appeared in Shang Zhen's sight, it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon.

Shang Zhen and Lu Yong watched the enemies appear one after another at the end of the road, and then line up like a long dragon and come towards this side.

When they could really see the color of the Japanese and puppet troops' clothes, Shang Zhen and Lu Yong subconsciously looked at each other. The Japanese troops were in front!

As for why the Japanese army was in the front this time, Shang Zhen immediately reacted.

The reason here was that the Japanese army's horse-drawn carts carrying supplies were no longer as numerous as in the morning. Of course, that was because many horses were knocked down by the independent brigade during the ambush.

Then the remaining carriages would not even be enough to transport supplies, let alone the wounded Japanese soldiers.

Therefore, the Japanese army asked the puppet army to carry the wounded Japanese soldiers.

Although the Japanese are short, they eat well and generally weigh more than Chinese soldiers. Even if a wounded soldier weighs 100 kilograms, imagine asking two puppet soldiers to carry a 100-kilogram weight for dozens of miles. No one can do it.

Then we can only keep changing people to carry it.

It is impossible to say that the puppet soldiers had no complaints in their hearts, so how could they walk fast while carrying the wounded along the way?

So at this point, it was the Japanese army, which was nimble and light-footed, that came to the front.

"Please trouble me, brother, to pretend to be on guard for a while." Shang Zhen said in a low voice, then he bent down and placed the butt of the light machine gun against his shoulder.

At this time, the Japanese army had already entered Shang Zhen's shooting range.

"There are more than a thousand people, but we only killed dozens of them. Look, there are only five or six of us this time, let's see how many we can kill!" Shang Zhen said.

There was a sinister tone in Shang Zhen's voice when he said this, which made Lu Yong, who was standing next to him, shudder.

Yes, it took more than a thousand people to kill only a few dozen. This time, Shang Zhen and a few soldiers were using four light machine guns provided by them. Regardless of whether they were new or old, they were all Czech type. So how many people could Shang Zhen and his men kill this time?

Just as Lu Yong was thinking about it, Shang Zhen pulled the trigger.

"Bang, bang, bang", Lu Yong looked in surprise as the khaki figure of the Japanese soldier fell down under Shang Zhen's shooting.

At this moment, not only the Japanese and puppet troops who had returned from the expedition were confused, but even Lu Yong, a bystander, was confused. But then Lu Yong felt as if the blood in his body was boiling!

Lu Yong was originally a member of the National Army. Later, Commander Wang led his troops to surrender to the Japanese Army, and he had no choice but to follow.

In fact, he also hated the Japanese. When he saw those arrogant Japanese soldiers lined up, he also thought that he had a machine gun and could just shoot down those Japanese soldiers in a row!

Although that's just a thought, how many Japanese soldiers would be killed at once?

But now, Shang Zhen, a soldier from the Northeast who appeared out of nowhere, actually realized his idea!

I was just thinking about it, but others were actually doing it! What was the difference between the Japanese soldiers walking back in a line and standing in a line?

The sound of shooting from several shooting holes below also rang out as Lu Yong was shocked.

And in this shooting that was like a storm, Lu Yong saw that the Japanese troops that were originally marching in a line were shortened, and then the Japanese soldiers behind them reacted and began to lie down and raise their guns.

The so-called missing part was of course because it was knocked down by Shang Zhen and his men's machine guns.

"Retreat!" Shang Zhen shouted.