Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 299 Simpler than killing a chicken

"Sweet potato, what do you think of this outfit?"

Li Chishui straightened his military saber, raised his head and puffed out his chest.

"Hey, you know what, they look even more like Japanese devils than the Japanese devils themselves." Ren Wuliu gave a thumbs up.

"He's just a bit too tall," Ren Wuliu said.

Li Chishui is from Hebei Province and is nearly 1.8 meters tall, which is completely different from the Japanese soldier's 1.6 meters.

“I’m a Japanese officer now, do you think I can be treated the same as an ordinary Japanese soldier?” Li Chishui retorted.

He knew the enemy's height, of course, but there was nothing he could do; he couldn't very well saw himself off.

"Stop talking nonsense and get dressed quickly!" Li Chishui shouted to the dozen or so people beside him.

These dozen or so outfits were brought by Li Chishui from the brigade headquarters.

It was thanks to this dog skin that I managed to get past the Japanese blockade.

The other county brigade members who had no clothes to change into had all hidden themselves in the village.

If necessary, they can rush out and engage in hand-to-hand combat at any time.

"Captain, the puppet troops are here!"

A soldier dressed in the uniform of a traitorous detective team ran from the village entrance.

"Hurry! Surround Gaocao Village!" Li Chishui ordered.

Li Chishui had already given all the instructions, and the soldiers quickly took their positions.

Every few minutes, more than 50 puppet soldiers from Xiaobaozhuang were led by the "traitors" at the village entrance to the threshing ground of Gaocao Village.

"Bagaya road!"

"******" Li Chishui started with a string of bird language.

Meng Dake looked at Li Chishui, about to compliment the Italian officer in front of him on his height.

As soon as I took it, I was bombarded with a barrage of questions.

Although he didn't understand what was being said, he could tell from the expression that it wasn't anything nice.

"The officer asked why you took so long to arrive? All the villagers have run away!"

“You bear the primary responsibility for this matter!” Ren Wuliu immediately “translated”.

"Ah? Sir, I've been wronged!"

Meng Dake never expected that before he could even stand firmly on his feet, the pot would fall on him.

Besides, I'm not late at all. The requirement was 8 o'clock, and it's not even 7:40 yet.

The people ran away, shouldn't that be your responsibility?
"****" Ren Wuliu 'translated' in Li Chishui's ear.

"******!" Li Chishui cursed again.

"The Japanese officer said you're all useless, and he's going to give you some intensive training."

"Put your guns on the ground and line them up in a row!" Ren Wuliu ordered.

Meng Dake was at a loss. Fine, he'd just treat it as a way to amuse Yi.

"Brothers, hurry up and do as the commander says," Meng Dake urged.

Seeing the puppet troops line up in a horizontal row as planned, Ren Wuliu suppressed a laugh and continued to give orders:

"turn back!"

"Forward march!"

"stand at attention!"

"turn back!"

The puppet soldiers turned around and were dumbfounded.

The gun on the ground had been taken away by the 'Japanese officer,' and the 'Japanese officer' had even pointed the gun at me.

"Sir! Sir! We are extremely loyal!" Meng Dake shouted hurriedly.

Meng Dawei himself is still angry about the villagers of Gaocao Village running away.

“I know you are loyal,” Li Chishui said with a smile.

"Thank you, sir, thank you so much!" How come the Italian speaks Chinese so fluently?
Before Meng Dake could react, Li Chishui waved his hand.

"Fire!"

"Put-put-put" "Put-put-put"
"Slap!" "Slap!"
The soldiers of the county brigade killed the lined-up puppet troops as easily as killing chickens.

One volley of fire wiped them all out.

"Finish them off quickly, let's head to Xiaobao Village!" Li Chishui ordered.

Xiaobaozhuang had fewer than 90 puppet troops in total, and now two-thirds of them have been wiped out. It's the perfect opportunity to take them down.

“It’s lively. Take a few men and go exchange ammunition with the traitors in the Night Raid Team,” Li Chishui said, turning his head.

Now that the terms had been agreed upon, Li Chishui had no intention of breaking his promise.

After all, we still need to operate within Wuyi County in the future, and once we lose credibility, it will be difficult to get things done.

"I'm going right now!"

Li Renao selected a few people to go find the puppet troops; they had already found a place to park their bicycles the night before.

After obtaining the bicycles, the puppet troops returned to Wuyi County without looking back.

Then Ding Zhiqiang took his damaged bicycle and went to the Japanese soldiers to claim his debt.

"Sir, we were attacked by the Eighth Route Army in Gaocao Village. The fighting was very fierce."

"We suffered heavy casualties. We not only used up all our ammunition, but also damaged our bicycles, and our captain died."

Regardless of how people die or how ammunition is consumed, the intensity is definitely there.

"Ding Sang, let the Night Raid Team rest for a while, and then recruit more people on your own."

"Don't worry, I'll replenish your bicycles and ammunition."

"Also, now that you are the new captain, the Locust Army will never mistreat those who contribute to the Locust Army."

Terauchi Isamu expressed concern about the Night Raid Team's encounter.

"Thank you, sir!" Ding Zhiqiang hadn't expected things to go so smoothly.

The two people inside the room laughed.

The third platoon that stayed behind in Xiaobaozhuang were numb with fear when they saw the Eighth Route Army soldiers appearing outside.

"Damn it, wasn't the company commander supposed to be annihilating the Eighth Route Army? How did they end up here?" "Could it be that the company commander and his men went to the wrong place? Or were they killed?" The puppet army platoon leader was sweating profusely.

The hearts of the remaining puppet troops in the stronghold were also pounding wildly.

Although they still have a base for protection, they are still somewhat uneasy.

"Quickly, call the Wuyi County Command! Request reinforcements!" the puppet army platoon leader shouted, turning his head.

They are currently unable to contact the company commander responsible for the encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army, so they can only contact their superiors first.

"Platoon leader, our telephone line has been cut!"

"Are you blind? It was already fixed this morning!"

When the soldiers were cutting the telephone lines, they did not do anything tampering with them because of time constraints.

Therefore, the puppet army's telephone operators easily completed the repair by following the line.

"I'll call right now!" the puppet army soldier said, and began frantically shaking the phone.

"Hello? Hello? Is this Wuyi County? This is Xiaobaozhuang Outpost!"

"We have been attacked by the Eighth Route Army!"

"Yes, yes! They're not guerrillas! They have over a dozen machine guns and several artillery pieces!"

"Number of people? Countless! Absolutely impossible to count! They're all packed together!"

"Come quickly!"

Just as the puppet troops in the stronghold were desperately pleading for reinforcements, Li Chishui had already led the county brigade to make preparations.

"Listen up, you puppet troops inside! Your main force has been completely annihilated by the Wuyi County Independent Regiment! If you know what's good for you, surrender now!"

The brigade commander said that once the number of personnel is sufficient, they will be given official positions. So what is the county brigade if not an independent regiment?
"Platoon leader, what should we do?" the puppet army soldier asked, trembling.

An entire regiment! What does that even mean?
One pee from each person could drown them all.

"Don't listen to the Eighth Route Army's nonsense. How could a regiment of troops move here so quietly!" the puppet army platoon leader said firmly.

"But if we could quickly annihilate the company commander and his men, even if it wasn't a regiment, it would still be a battalion, and we still wouldn't be able to hold them off."

"Don't rush! Wait a little longer, wait a little longer!" The puppet army platoon leader wiped the sweat from his brow.

He was tough on the surface, but he was also a little unsure of what to do.

"Did you hear that, you puppet troops inside? If you don't surrender, I'm going to open fire!" Li Chishui shouted through a tin megaphone.

"A local regiment with artillery? Absolutely not! Do they think they're the New Second Regiment?" the puppet army platoon leader gritted his teeth.

The news that the Second Regiment has been upgraded to a brigade has not yet spread.

Li Chishui shouted a few more times, but seeing that the puppet troops were unresponsive, he became angry.

"Damn it, you won't listen to reason, you'll have to suffer the consequences! Just you wait!"

"Sweet potato! Rocket launcher!"

The rocket launcher that Chen Chengxing assigned to Li Chishui was only equipped with a standard six-round shell.

If you want it again later, you'll have to trade it for something else.

Therefore, Li Chishui treasured it very much. He didn't expect to have to use it so soon, especially on these useless puppet troops.

Li Chishui had only trained for a few days, so he was not yet able to hit the target at a distance of over 100 meters.

He could only try to move Ren Wuliu forward as much as possible.

When they got within 50 meters, Li Chishui took a shell out of his ammunition pouch and fired it.

"You traitorous dog, taste my cannonball!"

Li Chishui aimed at the firing port where a shadowy figure was moving and pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

A large ball of fire erupted from the pillbox inside the stronghold.

The rockets are standard thin-shelled, large-powder shells, with a propellant charge no less than that of 82mm mortar shells.

Moreover, the brick and wood structure of the pillbox was no match for the armor-piercing effect of rockets.

A small hole appeared on the pillbox in an instant, and a jet of water at thousands of degrees, carrying falling debris, killed several puppet soldiers on the spot.

"Damn! What kind of cannon is that?!" The puppet troops were dumbfounded.

They had never seen anything like this before.

Normal artillery either creates a large hole with a single shot, or it does no damage at all.

There has never been a case of making a small hole and then killing the person inside.

"Never mind that, the enemy is there, fire!" the puppet army platoon leader shouted, pointing to where Li Chishui had opened fire.

The rocket launcher uses black powder to fire, producing a lot of smoke when it is launched.

Upon hearing the shouts, the puppet troops began firing indiscriminately at the rising smoke.

However, Li Chishui and Ren Wuliu had already crawled behind the earthen slope to move, leaving the puppet troops with nothing to show for their efforts.

After arriving at a safe place, Li Chishui picked up the tin megaphone again.

"I'll ask you one more time, are you going to surrender or not!"

"I have plenty of shells like these! If you want to die, I'll grant your wish!"

Hearing the shouts of the Eighth Route Army outside, the puppet soldiers in the blockhouse all turned their attention to the puppet platoon leader.

The puppet army platoon leader looked at the Eighth Route Army soldiers outside through the firing port, constantly swallowing saliva.

Seeing that the puppet troops inside hadn't reacted for a minute or two, Li Chishui shouted, "All artillerymen, prepare!"

The puppet army platoon leader in the pillbox could no longer hold back, after all, the soldiers next to him were looking at him with strange eyes.

"Don't fire! Don't fire! We surrender!"

Li Chishui beamed with joy as he watched the twenty-odd puppet soldiers emerge from the open door with their hands raised.

"Sweet potato, go!" Li Chishui gestured to Ren Wuliu beside him.

"Follow me!" Ren Wuliu led his thirty-odd men forward.

Upon entering the Xiaobaozhuang stronghold, Li Chishui saw a Type 92 heavy machine gun mounted on the pillbox and grinned so hard that his back teeth were showing.

"It's done, it's done!"

I never expected the county brigade to get heavy weapons so quickly.

Originally, Li Chishui's county brigade was short of guns and ammunition, but now they've made a fortune.

(End of this chapter)