Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 203 I ask you to beat me up ( more, please give me a monthly ticket)

When the gunshots rang out on Caotouling Mountain, Jia Gui, who was still sleeping soundly, was woken up by someone.

"Damn it, who dares to disturb me!" Jia Gui cursed without even opening his eyes.

"Captain! There's a war on the mountain! Eighth Route Army!" Lao Liu, with dog-skin plaster pressed on his temple, said anxiously.

"What?!" When Jia Gui heard the word "Eighth Route Army", he jumped up immediately. The quilt slipped off, revealing his ribs.

"Where are the Eighth Route Army?" Jia Gui asked anxiously.

"On the mountain! Fighting with the Japanese and the security team!" said Lao Liu.

"On the mountain? Why the hell are you in such a hurry? The Eighth Route Army is fighting the Japanese and that guy Huang Jinbiao. What does it have to do with me?" Jia Gui breathed a sigh of relief, sat back on the kang, and prepared to go back to sleep.

"Oh, Captain, who are the Eighth Route Army? Will they let us go while they fight the Japanese? We are traitors too!" Lao Liu said anxiously.

"Yes! I am also a traitor!" Jia Gui jumped up again.

The Eighth Route Army never fights useless battles. Since they are fighting the Japanese in the mountains, they will definitely come to rescue these laborers. Then won't the detective team be the ones to get beaten?
Apart from other things, although we don't know how the Eighth Route Army got up the mountain, they must have gone down the mountain after defeating the Japanese. Where did they go down the mountain? They must have gone through this place.

"Sixth Brother, notify Nineth Brother, let's leave quickly!" Jia Gui said anxiously.

"Walk?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense? You don't even listen to what's going on on the mountain. That must be the main force of the Eighth Route Army. We couldn't get the upper hand against the Eighth Route Army before, and now we're fighting their main force, that's just courting death!" Jia Gui said.

"Ah? Oh, yes, yes, we have to leave quickly!" Lao Liu reacted immediately.

It's okay for their detective team to bully ordinary people, but if they want to fight against the Eighth Route Army, that's really too much. Apart from anything else, the Mauser pistols in their hands can't compare with rifles in field battles.

Jia Gui and Lao Liu joined up with another twenty or so members of the detective team, and without caring about the members of the maintenance association and the laborers, they ran west, preparing to return to Anqiu first.

As a result, before I ran 200 meters, I saw a man standing there holding a light machine gun, and next to him was an assistant gunner carrying bullets.

"Plop~"

Before Jia Gui could say a word, he slid to his knees and bowed.

"Master Ba, please spare me! Master Ba, please spare me!"

Seeing this, the others knelt on the ground and begged for mercy without hesitation.

The machine gunner standing in place was stunned. He belonged to the forward platoon and originally just wanted to change the shooting position to cover the subsequent team members to continue advancing.

Who would have thought that more than twenty people would suddenly jump out, and what was even more unexpected was that these people knelt down and kowtowed hard as soon as they came up.

The machine gunner didn't know what to do for a moment.

The ammunition carrier nearby reacted first and immediately shouted, "Don't move! Anyone who moves will die!"

"Don't move! We promise to be as still as turtles!" Jia Gui said quickly.

Seeing how cooperative these guys were, the ammunition man put down the bullets in his hand, winked at the machine gunner, and then slowly stepped forward, ready to take away all the guns from these men.

In response to the ammunition man's actions, the detective team cooperated perfectly. It's just a gun, they can go back and ask the Japanese for it. The most important thing now is to save their lives.

When Chen Chengxing led his large force to the foot of Caotouling, they saw the detective team squatting on the side of the road. The forward platoon controlled the scene without firing a single shot.

After listening to the soldiers' explanation, Chen Chengxing took another look at Captain Jia, who had a shrewd face and a greasy mustache, and waved his hand and said, "Let them go. There's no need to waste manpower watching them."

Chen Chengxing simply has no time to deal with them now, and keeping such people in the ranks of traitors can be considered a roundabout way of saving the country.

Hearing that they were going to be let go, Jia Gui suddenly perked up: "Thank you, Master Ba, thank you, Master Ba!"

"Go, go!" Jia Gui waved to the side repeatedly.

But before he had walked 2 meters, Jia Gui suddenly stopped.

Then he turned around and smiled flatteringly: "Eighth Master, hey, I have another request."

Chen Chengxing stared at Jia Gui without saying anything. Letting them go was already a great mercy from Chen Chengxing. If they dared to meddle in other people's business, he would make them know what the people's iron fist was.

Seeing Chen Chengxing's unhappy expression, Jia Gui hurriedly explained: "Don't worry, Master Ba, I don't mean anything else."

"Look at my face, is there something missing?" Jia Gui pointed at his own face and gestured.

"What's missing? Lack of morality?"

"Oh, who wants that thing?" Jia Gui said with a smile.

"I mean, if I go back like this, I'm afraid the Japanese won't believe me."

"See if you can beat us up. It would be best if we are beaten until our faces are bruised and we cry for our parents." Jia Gui explained.

In the past, whenever they went out, they would be shot or beaten by the Eighth Route Army if they encountered them. It was hard to explain why they returned without any injuries.

"Haha. This is the first time I've heard of such a request." Chen Chengxing said with a smile.

The soldiers next to them couldn't help laughing. They had never seen such a situation before. This was really an eye-opener.

"Monk, take a few people to beat them up." Chen Chengxing said casually.

"No need, I can do it myself." Wei Dayong clenched his fists.

He likes to beat the Japanese and traitors the most, and he doesn't bother him even if he is tired.

Ignoring Wei Dayong who jumped over and beat the detective team, Chen Cheng ordered the 11th and 12th companies to prepare to attack Caotouling, and at the same time, mortars were set up.

After a while, Chen Chengxing received the report from the scout.

"Captain, the Japanese camp on Caotouling is on fire. Some Japanese have broken through and are fleeing down the mountain."

"Let the 11th and 12th companies launch the attack immediately, and join the 9th and 10th companies to encircle the Japanese!" Chen Chengxing ordered.

"yes!".
The Japanese soldiers who were about to rush into the labor team to find some amulets saw the heavy shadows appearing in front of them and realized that something was wrong.

There had to be at least several hundred people, so it was impossible that they were the detective team guarding the labor team. They also did not hear any gunfight at the foot of the mountain, which meant that the detective team either ran away directly or were so incompetent that they were captured before they could even react.

Before Horiguchi Kiri could figure out what to do, he heard a sudden burst of gunfire from the front.

"Da Da Da" "Tu Tu Tu".
"Counterattack! Counterattack!" Horiguchi Kiri fell down instantly and shouted.

"Bang!" "Bang!".
After lying down, the Japanese launched a fierce counterattack from the front, trying to open a gap and break through.

But just a few minutes later, Horiguchi Kiri discovered that there were more and more Eighth Route Army soldiers in the two groups, and as they stopped their efforts to break out, the Eighth Route Army actually started shelling, and they were not just one or two guns.

"Damn, there are too many Eighth Route Army soldiers!" Horiguchi Kiri said with a grim expression.

For Horiguchi Kiri, he must break out now, and he must do so before the Eighth Route Army officially completes the encirclement. If he continues to stay here, his entire army will be wiped out sooner or later.

"Everyone get ready to break out! The guard team takes the lead!" Horiguchi Kiri shouted.

Even if the guard team is weak, as long as they can attract some firepower for themselves and allow the locust army to advance one more meter, their death will not be in vain.

When Huang Jinbiao heard what Horiguchi Kiri said, he almost cursed out loud on the spot.

Is this to let the guards act first? This is clearly to let the guards die first!

But even if Horiguchi Kiri asked the guards to take the bullets, Huang Jinbiao had no way to do anything because this was their livelihood.

"Damn it, it looks like I have to go back and recruit soldiers. There aren't enough traitors in Anqiu City. I have to go to the countryside to take a look." Huang Jinbiao muttered.

"Brothers! It's time to break out! As long as we can break out successfully, I will treat you all to a drink at Dingxianglou!" After cursing in his heart for a while, Huang Jinbiao shouted to the puppet soldiers around him.

"Yes!" The puppet soldiers around said weakly. Drinking is a good thing, but who knows if they will have brains to drink after breaking through.

Looking at the puppet soldiers around him, Huang Jinbiao thought for a moment, they were his brothers after all, so he took the risk to remind them: "If you get shot, get down quickly. Did you hear me? You got shot! Cover your wound and get down quickly!"

Now the puppet soldiers understood. Yes, it was night time now. Once the Eighth Route Army’s guns sounded, how would the Japanese know whether they were hit or not? They would just lie down on the ground and scream.

If the Japanese can defeat the Eighth Route Army, it will not be too late for us to run away. If the Japanese are killed, we will surrender on the spot.

It’s not the first or second time, I’m used to it, so it doesn’t matter this time.

Just as he was thinking about it, Horiguchi Kiri gave the order to charge: "Taoci, come on!"

"Brothers, charge!" Huang Jinbiao shouted and rushed out.

"Charge!" The other puppet troops followed closely behind.

"Thump, thump, thump."
Seeing the enemy troops starting to charge, the machine guns of the New Second Regiment immediately began to fire.

"what!"

"I was hit!"

"Help!"

It was just two short bursts of fire from a dozen light machine guns, with a total of less than 100 bullets fired. As a result, the puppet soldiers fell to the ground, and the number of fallen puppet soldiers was even more than the number of bullets fired.

"Fuck!" Looking at the puppet soldiers all falling to the ground, Huang Jinbiao couldn't help cursing while lying on the ground, saying that they can't even act.

But now that he had been 'shot', he certainly couldn't say anything more and could only close his eyes and play dead.

The puppet army's fall to the ground exposed the Japanese directly to their guns.

In the darkness, the soldiers could not tell whether the enemy was the Japanese or the puppet army, so they could only keep firing.

However, seeing the black shadows constantly leaping forward with various tactical moves, everyone immediately concluded that it was the Japanese, and the puppet army did not have this skill.

"Hit hard, don't stop firing mortars!" Chen Chengxing ordered as he looked at the advancing black shadow. The Japanese were still some distance away, so it was a good time to fire mortars for a while, and then bayonet them when the distance was close.

"Boom!" "Boom!".
Faced with the continuous attacks from mortars, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, but Horiguchi Kiri could not care about anything else at this time. Once the charge began, there was no room for retreat.

"It's dark and the card is on board!"

"Onboard!"

The Japs shouted and charged forward under the pressure of artillery shells and bullets.

Seeing that the Japanese had advanced to within less than 50 meters and the 82mm mortar had stopped firing long ago, Chen Chengxing gave the order to charge.

"Beep, beep, beep, beep"

"Comrades! Follow me and kill!" Chen Chengxing shouted.

"kill!"

"Kill!"

The soldiers jumped up and rushed towards the Japs.

When the Japs saw the Eighth Route Army rushing towards them, they knew that this was their last fight. If they could get through, they would live, but if they couldn't, they would die. Therefore, they all burst out with all their strength.

A few seconds later, the two sides collided and fell down.

As Chen Chengxing was very skilled in wielding a broadsword, he found it even easier to use the lighter Japanese knife, killing almost every one of them with one blow.

Being killed by the Japanese knife was considered a glorious death for the Japanese.

Faced with more than 300 Eighth Route Army soldiers, the forty or so Japanese soldiers who finally broke through the hail of bullets were all killed before they could even hold out for ten minutes.

When the soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, they discovered that the puppet soldiers lying on the ground were pretending to be dead.

"Hold out, those who are willing to surrender, raise your hands, and the rest will be killed one by one." Chen Chengxing ordered.

When cleaning up the battlefield, no one could escape the New Second Regiment's finishing blow. Even if you died in a pile of corpses, they would still stab you twice with their bayonet.

Hearing the Eighth Route Army's shouts, Huang Jinbiao thought for a moment, then climbed up and shouted, "Brothers! The Eighth Route Army treats prisoners well, so hurry up and surrender!"

After hearing the dual calls from the Eighth Route Army and Huang Jinbiao, most of the puppet troops got up and surrendered obediently.

Of course, there were also a few people who did not believe in it and wanted to get away with it, then go to the Japanese and complain so that they could climb up the ladder.

But they didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army would stab them one by one with bayonets. When they were stabbed and shouted and wanted to stand up and surrender, six or seven bayonets were already stabbing at them at the same time.

"TND, there really are puppet soldiers who are determined to work for the Japanese and actually want to launch a sneak attack." A soldier complained.

The puppet soldier who was still bleeding on the ground wanted to say that he didn't mean that, but he was no longer able to speak.

"Hello, Captain Chen, nice to see you again." As soon as Huang Jinbiao saw Chen Chengxing, he knew he could survive this time.

This was not the first time he had fallen into Chen Chengxing's hands, and he knew the procedures of the New Second Regiment.

"Isn't this Captain Huang? Instead of staying in Anqiu City to enjoy your salary, you come to Dayun Mountain to cause trouble?" Chen Chengxing looked at Huang Jinbiao.

"Look at what you said. How dare I do that? This is not a locust. It's the devil. The devil insisted on building a road and asked the guards to protect it. I don't want to do that either, but I have to bow my head under the eaves."

"But I know the rules. For all these days, I didn't send out a single sentry. When the guerrillas came to attack us, the guards fired their guns into the air to ensure that not a single Eighth Route Army soldier was injured."

"And since I received education from our New Second Regiment, I no longer bully ordinary people." Huang Jinbiao said, patting his chest.

Although I, Huang Jinbiao, opened a tobacco den, a brothel, sold opium, and smuggled arms, I am still a good traitor.

"Come on, you don't have to tell me all this. You know the process and someone will screen it." Chen Chengxing didn't want to listen to Huang Jinbiao's nonsense at all.

"I know that. Don't worry, I promise to cooperate!" Huang Jinbiao said with a flattering smile, "By the way, Captain Chen, I have another question to ask you. Did you kill Jia Gui?"

"Detective team? When I arrived, they had already surrendered and are now gone." Chen Chengxing said casually. The detective team slid down and knelt very quickly, giving the soldiers no time to react.

"What a pity," Huang Jinbiao muttered.

"What?" Chen Chengxing didn't hear clearly what Huang Jinbiao was mumbling.

"It's okay, it's okay, Captain Chen, I'll go over first, you're busy, busy."

Chen Chengxing waved his hand, indicating that all the prisoners should be taken away. Someone would naturally do the work of screening, so Chen Chengxing didn't need to bother.

After daybreak, after cleaning up the battlefield, Chen Chengxing glanced at the statistical list, thought for a moment and said to Sun Xun: "You should keep these 10 machine guns and more than 300 long and short guns and replenish them for the guerrilla team three."

Due to vigilance reasons, the Japanese never gave the puppet army too much ammunition, and the puppet army would also do some small business on their own. So although there are many guns, except for a few thousand 6.5mm bullets, there are very few ammunition seized from the puppet army.

"Yes!"

Upon learning that the railway protection team was completely wiped out, Nojiri Masakawa of Anqiu City was very angry, but he did not plan to send troops to retaliate. Instead, he planned to wait until the 3rd Mixed Brigade of Wuyi County and the New 2nd Regiment fought a battle before taking any action.

In Wuyi County, the 3rd Mixed Brigade received a telegram from Nojiri Masakawa.

"Brigade Commander, this is a telegram from Anqiu!" Ryotaro Toyama walked into the command center and reported.

Nara Yukio took it and looked at it, then angrily said, "Damn it! Nojiri Masakawa is giving up already?"

Yukio Nara could never have imagined that Nojiri Masakawa, known as the "field butcher", would become so cowardly after being injured in Changsha and transferred to the rear.

"Commander, as far as I know, although Colonel Nojiri has a battalion, he has to defend many places and his troops are very scattered. Especially the 358th Regiment in the Dagushan area is a strong opponent. With Anqiu's current strength, it should be a bit stretched."

The garrison battalion has much fewer troops than the field battalion. A battalion has only about six or seven hundred people. The squadron that was wiped out at Caotouling was already a quarter of the troops in Nojiri Masakawa's hands.

If the road construction continues, the strongholds in the Anqiu area may be in trouble, unless the Locust Association Army is used in large numbers. However, letting the Locust Association Army fight against the New Second Regiment is no different from directly delivering supplies.

"Hmph!" Yukio Nara threw the telegram on the table. Nojiri Masakawa was not his subordinate, so he could not give direct orders.

"Mr. Toyama, send a telegram to Commander Shinozuka, requesting an order for the 109th Division to assist in road construction!" Nara Yukio gave the order after thinking for a moment.

Anqiu, Ping'an and Luyang are now under the jurisdiction of the 109th Division. As long as the 109th Division sends troops to cause trouble in the west of the Zhongyun Mountains, it will be able to divert a lot of the Eighth Route Army's energy and create favorable conditions for itself.

"Hai!"

After receiving Nara Yukio's telegram, the Taiyuan First Army Command attached great importance to it and quickly sent an order to the 109th Division, asking them to arrange personnel to assist.

However, things did not develop as Yukio Nara had expected. More than ten days after the order was issued, not a single soldier of the 109th Division was mobilized.

"Brigade Commander, the road construction team was harassed by the Eighth Route Army again, and hundreds of laborers were abducted by them." Ryotaro Toyama reported.

Because the road construction was carried out in sections, the road construction team also defended in sections. However, facing the endless stream of Eighth Route Army troops who gathered and dispersed at random, the road construction team found it difficult to cope with them.

When one place is attacked, it is difficult for troops in other places to decide whether to provide support or not.

If we provide support, we may be ambushed; if we do not provide support, we will just sit back and watch the Eighth Route Army devour our friendly forces.

Even though the Eighth Route Army did not always succeed in wiping out a road-building team in a certain place, they could not stand the destruction alone.

"The Eighth Route Army is so annoying." Nara Yukio said with a headache.

According to his expectation, the road from Wuyi to Yaotou Village should be repaired within 2 months, but now it has been almost a month and not even 1/5 of it has been repaired. Moreover, the frequency of harassment by the Eighth Route Army is getting higher and higher. If it continues like this, the construction will have to be stopped.

"Has the 109th Division started moving?" asked Nara Yukio. Now only if the 109th Division can divert the attention of the New nd Regiment can he take the opportunity to quickly advance the progress of the project.

"No, we received a telegram from the 109th Division. Lieutenant General Yamaoka said that the 109th Division cannot provide support in the short term."

"As far as I know, the 109th Division was mobilized after receiving the order, but no troops were dispatched. Now only the counties and strongholds within its jurisdiction are constantly adjusting." said Ryotaro Toyama.

"Baka! This guy Yamaoka Shigehisa is a disgrace to the Locust Army!" said Nara Yukio angrily.

Yukio Nara knew that he and Shigeoka did not have a very good personal relationship, or rather, they had a little grudge against each other, but now everyone was fighting for the benefit of the empire, and you were actually putting personal interests above public ones?

Yukio Nara had apparently forgotten how he had ignored Yamaoka Shigeaki's telegram requesting help.

"We can't wait for the 109th Division. We must respond." Nara Yukio gritted his teeth. If this dragged on, there would be no end. We had to divert the attention of the Eighth Route Army.

"Order the First Infantry Battalion to rush to Yaotou Village, and after joining the road construction team, continue westward to Mahe Town, and then establish a stronghold to attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army." Nara Yukio decided to use offense as defense.

The 4rd Mixed Brigade is not yet fully staffed, with only battalions of troops.

The First Battalion was formed by Yukio Nara, who selected the remaining elite troops from the entire brigade. It is the only combat-capable unit at present.

The other three infantry battalions each have a small number of elite soldiers with a large number of new recruits, and their training has not yet been completed.

The geographical location of Mahe Town is critical. Further ahead is Wuli Pass. If a stronghold can be built here, it will be easy for the troops to enter Wuli Pass.

Yukio Nara felt that the Eighth Route Army would not give up Mahe Town easily.

"Hai!"

"The Japanese really don't suffer any loss at all. They started to react after just two pokes." Luo Ping said as he looked at the latest movements of the Japanese.

"That's good too. Since the Japanese has poked his head out, we can just grab its head." Chen Chengxing said.

When the Japanese used Yaotou Village as the front line, Yaotou Village and the surrounding strongholds were on the same line of defense, so attacking one was equivalent to attacking a group.

The Japanese advanced out of Mahe Town, which was like a turtle sticking its head out. Although it posed a threat to the New Second Regiment, it also exposed its weaknesses.

As long as the Japanese in Mahe Town are killed, the 3rd Mixed Brigade will definitely not be able to launch a new offensive in the short term.

After Chen Chengxing and Luo Ping reached a consensus, they issued an order to assemble, and the regiment headquarters began to move eastward.

(End of this chapter)