Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 233 Chapter 232, What’s going on?

Fan Ziming is also a veteran. He has traveled 25,000 miles. What kind of battles has he not seen?

But because he had seen it so many times, he knew that today's matter would be difficult to deal with! Looking at the posture of the devils, they were going to fight with infantry and artillery. And according to the intelligence from the previous reconnaissance, the devils had a full 10 large and small artillery pieces, and the firepower was not low! Now look again, the devils actually placed the artillery position 2 kilometers away, and it was impossible to sneak attack the artillery position with a grenade launcher!
"If the regiment commander was still here and Comrade Wang Chengzhu's artillery platoon was here, we could actually attack the Japanese artillery positions..." Battalion Commander Fan muttered to himself, continuing to observe with his eyes squinted.

At this time, the Japanese were still preparing to attack and had no intention of encircling. However, the Japanese Type 600 heavy machine gun position was directly deployed at a distance of more than 700 meters and close to meters, which was far beyond the effective range of the grenade launcher. Of course, this was not the point. The point was that in front of the main force of the Japanese, the puppet army brigade was building a position.

That is to say, in the next battle, the Japs will have heavy machine guns to support firepower and artillery bombardment, but the ones charging are the puppet troops! After the battle, the Japs suffered basically no losses, and all the dead were Chinese!
In the past, even if the commander of the 4th Battalion had the confidence to defeat or even annihilate this Imperial Army brigade, he would still be worried about the problem of ammunition supply.

Fortunately, the total strength of the 4th Battalion is 538 people. The guerrillas sent 200 Type 1 rifles and 1 rounds of ammunition, and the 12st Company sent 5000 Type light machine guns and rounds of ammunition. In addition, there were bullets they seized on the train the night before... Well, there is no need to worry about ammunition, and there are enough weapons!

"Tell the comrades, there will be a fierce battle next, and we may be sacrificed at any time! Tell them not to be afraid, behind us are innocent people, our relatives, we must not let the Japanese devils enter our homes and massacre our relatives! Tell the veterans to keep an eye on the new recruits, don't let the devil's artillery fire scare them silly!"

Before the battle, the fourth battalion commander mobilized the soldiers in the dazzling afternoon sun. On the puppet army side, Captain Hua was also conducting his pre-war mobilization...

"What? The Locust Army wants our squadron to attack the Eighth Route Army's position in front? Haha, please rest assured, Locust Army, we will definitely take it down for you!" In front of the position, Sakata Nobutsu's order had already reached Hua Chenyu's hands. After learning the order given to them, Hua Chenyu was not afraid, but trembling with excitement.

"Young men, let's start the ritual. I will pray for you..." Seeing the translator walking away, Hua Chenyu called out, and several of his trusted followers came over immediately. One of the followers took out a colorful piece of clothing with unknown bird feathers from his bag. Another follower took out a hat made of several kinds of bird feathers.

While these two servants were helping Hua Chenyu get dressed, the other servants pulled out a table, several incense burners, and some yellow paper from the carriage...

Soon, a simple altar was set up in front of the position. Captain Hua, wearing a bird feather hat and a bird feather robe, holding a peach wood sword in one hand and a copper bell in the other, appeared on the altar. He was muttering something, twitching and twisting all over, lightly picking up the peach wood sword in his right hand, placing the copper bells on the table, and casually inserting a handful of yellow paper into the peach wood sword.

"Heaven and earth, may the spirits come to you..." While muttering in a mess, Captain Hua lit the yellow paper on the candle, and after it danced in the wind, he threw it into the brazier, and then repeated this action. When the flames in the brazier were several feet high, he stopped adding paper and danced around the brazier. In the end, he fell to the ground, convulsing and howling...

When the flames died down and only ashes remained in the brazier, his followers brought a few buckets and poured the ashes into the buckets to stir them…

"I am your God! Now, I have asked for the blessing of the gods for you! Drink this talisman water, and the bullets will avoid you... drink it..." Captain Hua continued to twitch on the ground, but he finished speaking.

This scene of performance really shocked the audience!
The Eighth Route Army: What the hell is wrong with this puppet army captain? Does he think he can win like this? The ordinary puppet army: The captain is amazing, he must have been possessed by a god. Now we have the blessing of the gods, and we are not afraid of bullets.

The old puppet soldiers who know the child well said: Alas, the child's condition is getting worse and worse, but this trick is still very effective in deceiving those silly soldiers, at least they won't be afraid anymore!

The Japanese artillery observer said: What? Is this really some kind of Chinese magic? Why does it look so much like our soul-calling dance? Is this to call back souls?

Nobutsu Sakata: This officer is very ceremonial, but I don't know what kind of ceremony this is? The time has come, attack!

The time had come, the Japanese artillery was ready, the artillery observer was in place, and Captain Hua finally took off his bird feathers and put on his box gun again.

"Okay, everyone, attack, attack... Charge..." As Captain Hua spoke, he actually took the lead and ran in the front, showing a spirit of leading by example.

"Oh, so brave?" On the 10th Company's position, Captain Mao looked at the puppet troops rushing over and showed his white teeth, praising them. Then he shouted to the messenger beside him: "Xiao Duan, tell the whole company to wait for these puppet troops to get closer before shooting! Follow the sound of my guns, and fire at full force once you start shooting! Tell the shotguns to bombard the puppet troops!"

"Yes!" The messenger Xiao Duan left Captain Mao's side in a flash and passed the order to the three platoon leaders one by one.

Xiao Duan moved very quickly. He only took 500 minutes to pass the message to the position of more than 5 meters from north to south. This speed was not slow, because the trench was not straight, but curved, and he had to run more than 500 meters. At the time he passed the message, the puppet army had not yet broken through to the walnut tree that was originally used as the target.

The puppet army started the charge from a distance of more than 500 meters... but after running less than 200 meters, each of them could no longer run... Then, their long strides turned into small steps, and they had to take a deep breath after walking three steps. In short, there was no order at all.

At this time, the puppet soldiers had a new understanding of their own Captain Hua's strength! That's right, even though they were exhausted, the captain was still walking briskly and directly pulled the main force more than 100 meters away.

"What's going on? Are our comrades going to revolt on the battlefield?" Seeing Captain Hua's performance, the Eighth Route Army soldiers on the mountain didn't know how to respond.

(End of this chapter)