Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

"I had anticipated that the Eighth Route Army would launch a full-scale attack on us!" Captain Matsumoto paced while thinking rapidly: "I also did everything I could to deal with it! For example, splitting up large strongholds into a series of small strongholds; for example, forcibly conscripting some Chinese people to dig blockade ditches; for example..."

"But, what was supposed to come finally came! And it was a full-scale attack. But what I wonder is why they didn't attack the giant town? Could it be..." Matsumoto saw his defense map and thought of the two wings of the official hat: "This is a tactic of cutting off the two wings and then focusing on attacking the central node!"

Wanting to attack here, Matsumoto stopped pacing, looked at the messenger who was waiting for his order and said: "Our extended stronghold cannot be lost! So, order Ohashi Taro to take two squads and the 11th Company of the Imperial Army to reinforce the west immediately. We must ensure that the stronghold is not lost! Order Muto Jiro to take a squad and the 12th Company of the Imperial Army to the east..."

"Order, all teams still in the giant city, immediately enter full combat status, impose martial law on the streets, block the street entrances, and take full control of the town gates and defenses!"

"Hayi..." The messenger quickly wrote down the order, asked Matsumoto to sign it, and immediately went to convey the order...

To the west of the giant city, on the small ridge, at the ambush and blocking position, the veterans had already stopped their pre-war training and huddled the recruits in individual pits and trenches, leaving only observation posts on the positions.

"Sergeant, what do you think? Is the battle going to be easy today?" In a two-man combat pit facing the direction of the giant city, new recruit Xiao Wu asked his squad leader softly.

"Whether it's easy to fight or not depends on the composition of our team and whether the Japanese can cooperate! Take today's battle for example. If most of the Japanese squadron came and found our ambush position in advance, it would be difficult to fight! After all, the main force of this battle is you new recruits, all of you are so cowardly. It's good if you can play 30% of your training level in the fight!"

"But if the troops coming here are mostly puppet troops, then today's battle will be much easier! Although the combat effectiveness of the young devils has declined a lot, and their marksmanship is not as good as the old devils in the past, they are still much stronger than the troops here! Look at those puppet troops, to be honest, they are not as good as you! If you fight against the puppet troops, it's just a fight between weaklings, as our captain of the Peregrine Falcon said!"

"Is that so..." Xiao Wu sighed somewhat depressedly.

"Haha, are you getting mad? Considering the number of these Japanese puppet troops in today's battle, if we were not here and the special forces were here, we should have taken the initiative to attack the giant city instead of mobilizing the Japanese here! We may not be able to defeat the same Japanese, but if the special forces were here, it would only take a few shots per person."

"And our Captain Peregrine, you see him happily wandering by the river all day long and working with the workers in the arsenal, right? But you have also heard about the Japanese invasion two years ago, right? At that time, we were very few in number, so we had to give up Liangjia Village and evacuate the people, and the team hid in the tunnels to fight."

"In that battle alone, our Peregrine Captain killed about three to four hundred Japanese soldiers! We used the oleanders planted in Nanshan to poison the Japanese regiment headquarters and artillery. Our Peregrine Captain did it himself! That's not all. Later, the Japanese came back with a squadron from the east, and our Peregrine Captain shot one by one, without stopping, and killed most of them one by one!"

“So, today’s battle is completely for you new recruits to practice! With this combat experience, you will know where to focus your training in the future, and you will know why you should train that way! When you encounter a battle again in the future, your hands won’t tremble, your marksmanship will improve, and your combat effectiveness will be stronger!” “Is Captain Peregrine so powerful?” Xiao Wu didn’t seem to be focusing on the main point.

"You... close your eyes and take a rest. Be alert when the battle starts!" The squad leader pulled down Xiao Wu's hat brim in annoyance, covering the child's eyes.

Not long after, bursts of bird calls were heard from the position, and the sound was very pleasant.

"The enemy is coming, prepare to fight!" The low shout spread throughout the entire position from person to person.

"Don't be nervous. It's normal to go to the battlefield for the first time. Don't be nervous. Take a deep breath..." Under the control of tense emotions, some of the recruits were trembling, and the veterans around them hurried to comfort them.

At the foot of the mountain, Ohashi Taro led two squads of Japanese soldiers, plus his two messengers, a total of 29 Japanese soldiers walked on the road, looking at the mountains on both sides from time to time. In front of them, more than 5 puppet soldiers from the 11th Company of the 150th Battalion of the Puppet Army of the Imperial Army were walking forward under the urging of their company commander.

"Hurry up, the Imperial Army is behind us supervising the battle. If you don't want to be stabbed through by the bayonet, hurry up and move..." As the commander of the 11th Company, Fang Zhong was more nervous than anyone else. However, no matter how nervous he was, he had to obey the orders of the Imperial Army, otherwise he would be taken down by a single word.

"Ha, these little devils know that we are going to train soldiers? They are really cooperative!" On the west side of the mountain ridge, Bai Dabao, who knew the composition of the Japanese and puppet troops, sighed happily, and then said: "Even with these little devils and puppet troops, we old soldiers are not enough to fight! Okay, tell the old soldiers to try their best to give the new recruits a chance to fight, and don't kill them all at once!"

Bai Dabao was confident in what he said. After all, his marksmanship was one of the best in the detachment, and he also had a special precision marksman rifle with him, which gave him endless confidence. Let's just say that he was not afraid of dealing with more than 20 devils with just one gun! Of course, now was a training exercise, he would probably fire a few shots, and then it would depend on the performance of the new recruits.

"Haha, don't worry, Captain. We won't kill them all at once. We will definitely give these rookies a chance to fight!" Because of Li Yuexuan, the word "rookie" had already spread. After the veterans responded to the messenger's order, they all looked at the new recruits around them.

"Did you hear that? Our Captain Bai said that he was worried that we would wipe out all the enemies at once, so he asked us to leave some for you to practice with! So, shoot with confidence, these enemies are just for us to practice with! If you don't dare to shoot, just think about your parents and treat the devils as moving targets..."

Chirp, chirp, chirp... the rapid chirping of birds was heard, and the veterans who were just talking immediately stopped talking, picked up their guns and aimed forward - the battle was about to begin. (End of this chapter)