Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 60 How could the Eighth Route Army set up an ambush?

The Japanese transport team had been completely trapped in the ambush of the New Second Regiment without knowing it.
Just as Liang Chengsi was licking Nagata Masao with a smile on his face, a gunshot suddenly rang out.

"boom!"

The moment Nagata Masao heard the gunshot, he fell off his horse.

"Thump, thump, thump," "thump, thump, thump," "thump, thump."

"Da Da Da", "Da Da Da", "Da Da Da"

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!".
The soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately opened fire after hearing Chen Chengxing's gunshot.

Dozens of tongues of fire appeared in the darkness and swept towards the Japanese transport team.

"Enemy attack!"

"Alert northeast!"

"Everyone quickly deploy a defensive formation! Machine gun team provide fire cover!" Nagata Masao kept shouting loudly. He never expected that he would be ambushed.

Although the guard team led by Masao Nagata is a second-line force, its combat effectiveness is not weak.

The moment they heard the gunshot, their bodies instinctively fell to the ground.

Therefore, the strafing fire from light and heavy machine guns did not cause much casualties, but the puppet troops following them were not so lucky.

This group of puppet troops were originally reorganized from the security corps and had never received any professional military training.

When they heard the gunshot, they thought someone had fired the gun accidentally.

After all, the Japanese gun boxes are notorious for "not being able to kill yourself if they go off accidentally."

Therefore, facing the bullets from the machine gun fire, the puppet soldiers basically took them all, and seventy or eighty people were killed on the spot.

It was only at this time that the remaining puppet troops realized that they were under attack.

"Get down! Get down quickly!" Liang Chengsi lay on the ground in a panic and kept shouting.

The puppet soldiers who reacted fell to the ground in panic, with their hats and rifles scattered all over the floor.

As for Masao Nagata's order for them to fight back, they simply ignored it.

Since they started working as a security team, they had never been attacked by so many heavy and light machine guns.

The life of a traitor is also a life!
Seeing that the effect of the fire attack had worn off, Chen Chengxing immediately ordered, "Blow the charge!"

"Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick" the loud charge horn sounded in the darkness.

"kill!"

"Kill!"

When the New Second Regiment heard this voice, their adrenaline surged and they rushed out shouting.

However, to the ears of the puppet soldiers, this voice was no different from the King of Hell calling their nicknames.

However, the Japanese guards were not afraid at all. After hearing the shouts, Nagata Masao stood up, drew out his command knife and shouted, "Gentlemen! Tiannao Heika is watching us! Taosi!"

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

"Onboard!"

The Japanese raised their rifles, bent their bodies and rushed towards the direction where the shouting came from.

Although the moon is quite round today, it is over a hundred meters away and it is impossible to see how many people are there.

The first companies to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese were the 7th and 8th Companies of the nd Battalion.

Zheng Hua led the 5th and 6th companies to rush directly from the side of the Japanese escort without even stopping. Their mission was to seize the artillery.

However, when the Japanese and the New Second Regiment collided, they discovered something was wrong.

Why are there so many Eighth Route Army soldiers? And there are more Eighth Route Army soldiers emerging from the darkness? Besides, aren't there more than 500 of us? Why does it feel like that?
When Masao Nagata chopped down the Eighth Route Army in front of him and looked back, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

I saw that all the locust soldiers were lying on the road, with no intention of getting up and joining the battle.

It was dark, and all Nagata Masao could see was a bulge on the ground where the locust soldiers were lying, but he couldn't tell if it was a head or a butt.

Nagata Masao turned around and shouted, "Gentlemen! It's time to sacrifice your lives for your country! I will be with you!"

"Onboard!"

"what!"

Just after the transport team was suddenly attacked, the Luyang Garrison Command received a telegram sent back by the transport team.

The transport team’s radio was specially equipped by the headquarters to prevent accidents.

"Quick! Call the surrounding towns and strongholds immediately and ask them to send troops to support us immediately!" said the commander of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade anxiously.

"Also, send a cavalry brigade to provide support immediately!"

The 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade has a cavalry battalion and an artillery battalion.

If the cavalry set out from Luyang and marched at full speed, they could reach the battlefield in two hours at most.

"Hai!"

After receiving the order from Luyang, Qujiao Town and Jinghu Town, which are closest to Shuiwan Village, immediately sent support.

A small team of Japanese soldiers and 200 puppet troops sent by Qujiao Town rushed all the way to Shuiwan Village, trying to rescue the transport team that suddenly appeared and was suddenly surrounded.

However, the nine guerrilla teams of the New Second Regiment had been waiting in Xiashi Village for a long time.

When the Japanese reinforcements arrived at the blocking position.

The guerrillas immediately opened fire.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!".
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!".
Although the guerrillas did not have machine guns, they had plenty of grenades.

Faced with the indiscriminate bombardment of grenades, the Japanese reinforcements were beaten back before they could even see who was on the position.

After retreating to a safe position, the Japanese immediately reorganized their troops.

"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"

The Japanese squad drew out their command knives and ordered the two machine gun teams they brought to fire at the sniping position.

"Thump, thump, thump." "Thump, thump, thump."
The guerrillas were not worried about the Japanese's strafing, they just lowered their heads to minimize the possibility of being hit.

Although the Japanese's Type 99 light machine gun has a very high accuracy, it is late at night and the Japanese can't even see the people, so it is useless even if the hit rate is high.

The guerrillas were well aware of the shortcomings of the Type 2 light machine guns. The firepower from two Type light machine guns was not enough to suppress their several hundred men.

However, the guerrillas did not waste bullets shooting at the Japanese. They just waited for the Japanese to get close and then greeted them with grenades.

Seeing that there was no response from the opposing position, the Japanese squad leader immediately ordered his infantry and locust troops to launch an assault.

"Tao Si, give it to me!" The Japanese squad leader pointed the tip of his knife at the guerrilla position.

After receiving the order, the Japanese infantry immediately began to charge forward with their bodies bent, and the puppet troops who followed could only follow with bitter faces.

The order has been given. If they dare to disobey it, the bullets from the Type 99 light machine gun will probably hit them.

However, although these puppet troops also launched attacks, they were obviously more advanced than the puppet Mongolian troops and had now learned to slack off on the battlefield.

With the puppet army's strong presence, the guerrillas occupied the advantageous terrain and used grenades from high above to hit the Japanese, preventing them from advancing a single step.

In the end, the Japanese reinforcements had no choice but to retreat after more than half of their squad was killed or wounded, and the puppet army suffered 10 casualties.

As for the two teams of reinforcements sent by Jinghu Town, they rode a total of six trucks, and two of them were destroyed by mines as soon as they arrived at Majiapo.

The Japanese soldiers sitting on the truck naturally turned into human barbecues at the same time.

As for the remaining four teams, they could not move forward at all facing the resistance of the replenishment battalion.

When the Japanese heard the gunfire from the north and south gradually weakening, they knew that they were in great danger.

The Japanese immediately showed their brutal side and began to drag the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side regardless of their lives, trying to die together with them.

(End of this chapter)