The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1438: Captain, We Win (First Update)

"Shoot... Da Da Da..."

Colonel Koike gave the order decisively, put two Eighth Route Army soldiers into the crosshairs of the light machine gun at the same time, and pulled the trigger.

The familiar sound of gunfire soon rang in his ears, and the two Eighth Route Army soldiers whose guns he had aimed at fell to the ground.

Including those killed by the guards around him, more than a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers rushing towards the front fell in an instant.

Colonel Koike was very excited. He immediately adjusted the direction of shooting, put the other two Eighth Route Army soldiers into the crosshairs, and continued to pull the trigger.

There was a company of Eighth Route Army soldiers attacking the headquarters, a squad of guards defending the headquarters, plus the headquarters' civilian staff, staff officers, and signalmen... there were about a hundred people in total.

He was 100% sure that he could kill the more than one hundred Eighth Route Army soldiers attacking him in front of him before he died.

Thinking of this, Colonel Koike became more and more excited as the battle went on, and he wished he could rush out of the bunker and fight the Eighth Route Army face to face with bayonets.

But just as he was about to continue shooting other Eighth Route Army soldiers, an accident happened.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers rushing towards him all lay on the ground as if they had agreed beforehand. The two Eighth Route Army soldiers who had just been caught in his crosshairs also fell to the ground, with only half of their heads showing.

Colonel Koike was very confident in his marksmanship, but he didn't think he had the ability to hit half of the head with a light machine gun at a distance of one or two hundred meters.

"Sir... the Eighth Route Army is surrounding us but not attacking us. How can we fight on?"

The captain of the guard followed the bunker to Colonel Koike and asked anxiously.

In his view, as long as the Eighth Route Army continued to attack them, they could kill a large number of the Eighth Route Army's manpower through blocking battles, so as to achieve the goal of consuming the enemy's military strength.

Now if they don't attack, they can't fight a defensive battle.

It was obviously not possible to break out of the position and launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army's attacking forces.

Once the identities of the attacking and defending sides change, the guard team will not only be unable to inflict heavy damage on the Eighth Route Army's attacking forces with its limited strength, but will also become a sitting duck for the Eighth Route Army to slaughter.

But apart from counterattack, the team leader could not think of any other way to break the deadlock, so he could only pin his hopes on the wing commander, hoping that he could come up with one or two good ideas.

Colonel Koike frowned and fell into deep thought, without responding to his subordinates' words.

The battlefield is now full of the Eighth Route Army, and he has only a hundred or so men around him, with no reinforcements yet, and not even a mortar that can attack the Eighth Route Army from a distance.

As the saying goes, it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.

With no capital at hand, even if Colonel Koike could think of a way out of the impasse, he would not be able to implement it.

Not to mention that his mind was a mess and he couldn't think of any way out of the situation.

"Baga... it's a flying thunder cannon..."

A cry from his subordinates brought Colonel Koike, who was lost in thought, back to reality.

I slowly stuck my head out of the bunker and saw a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers wielding shovels and setting up the barrel of a flying thunder cannon made of a gasoline barrel two hundred meters in front of me.

Colonel Koike's face turned pale and he immediately gave the order.

"Grenade launcher..."

"Immediately destroy the Eighth Route Army's Flying Thunder Cannons. We must not let them disturb us in launching explosive packs, otherwise all of us will be blown to death..."

"Boom boom boom..."

The guard squad was equipped with three grenade launchers and immediately fired a round of three grenades at the flying thunder artillery position.

The grenade exploded, flames flew, and three Eighth Route Army soldiers who were setting up the flying thunder cannon were blown over and fell to the ground without making any sound. Their lives or deaths were unknown.

Seeing this, Colonel Koike couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As long as the grenade throwers continued to fire and killed the dozen or so Eighth Route Army soldiers left in the flying thunder cannon unit, the flying thunder cannon without qualified gunners would not threaten their safety.

But good luck did not come to the guards today.

Before the second round of grenades were fired, several explosions sounded behind Colonel Koike.

When I turned around, I saw several balls of fire rising from the bunker where the grenade throwers were hiding. Two grenade throwers were blown out of the bunker and their bodies hit the bunker with half of their bodies blown off.

Colonel Koike's mood, which had just calmed down, became tense again, his face turned pale again, and he shouted loudly.

"Are there any grenadiers left? Keep firing..."

"The Eighth Route Army's Flying Thunder Cannon gunner must be blown up immediately..."

"Those who can still move should shoot immediately..."

"boom……"

An explosion was heard at the Feilei artillery position not far away, and two more Eighth Route Army soldiers were blown over, which meant that only one of the three grenade launchers equipped by the guard team could still be used.

"Boom boom boom..."

Unfortunately, the only grenade launcher in the position could only fire the last grenade. Before it could fire the second grenade, the second round of grenades fired by the Eighth Route Army directly destroyed it.

Without the grenade launcher, Colonel Koike could only watch helplessly as the Eighth Route Army set up the Flying Thunder Cannon right under his nose.

"Rumble..."

Three dull explosions suddenly sounded at the Eighth Route Army's Flying Thunder Cannon position. Three balls of orange-red flames gushed out from the gasoline barrels, and then three explosive packs knocked down by millstones were seen flying towards the headquarters at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Colonel Koike's pale face revealed a look of despair, and he cried out, "It's over... Boom..."

A thunderous explosion soon rang in Colonel Koike's ears, and then he flew up and lost consciousness.

…………

The front command post of the 1st Regiment of the Northbound Detachment.

A soldier rushed in, panting and reporting excitedly: "Captain..."

"Urgent report from the Fourth Battalion..."

"They successfully captured the Japanese regiment headquarters during the attack."

"The Japanese regiment commander was killed by the explosive pack thrown by the flying thunder cannon..."

Less than five minutes after the first messenger left, the second messenger rushed in: "Report to the commander..."

"The 8th Company of the 3rd Battalion successfully captured the Kwantung Army's heavy mortar position and seized six intact large-caliber mortars and more than 800 rounds of matching shells..."

"The devil was too cruel. He blew up six of his guns before he died. Otherwise, we could have captured twelve large-caliber mortars."

For Huang Yu, who had robbed the Tianjin wharf, large-caliber mortars were not rare treasures.

But for the Northward Detachment, these six large-caliber mortars can definitely be called treasures.

The troops entered the Northeast on their backs. In order to facilitate the march, they did not carry any other heavy weapons except mortars.

Although a large amount of equipment and ammunition were seized from the Kwantung Army in previous battles, they were mainly light equipment with heavy equipment as a supplement. Not a single mountain artillery or heavy artillery that was not convenient for operation in the mountains was seized.

Although large-caliber mortars are not as powerful as heavy artillery, they are much more powerful than mountain artillery.

Not only can it kill enemies on a large scale on the field battlefield, but it can also be used as a heavy weapon for attacking to a certain extent. I didn't expect the troops to seize six guns at one time, which was definitely an unexpected surprise.

(End of this chapter)