Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

On the top of the hill, Li Erxi used his right thumb to aim at the officer on horseback, and then fine-tuned the 82mm mortar.

Li Erxi lost both his parents when he was young and made a living by herding cattle for the landlord.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Li Erxi joined the Eighth Route Army.

During the Pingxingguan Campaign, Li Erxi joined the Independent Regiment in the Yimaling Blocking Battle and seized several Japanese cannons. The Independent Regiment began to form an artillery company, and Li Erxi became a main attack gunner of the 115th Division.

During the days when the Japanese invaded North China, Li Erxi saw the country in ruins. The Japanese invaders wantonly ravaged his compatriots and implemented the Three Alls Policy wherever they went. Villages and farmlands were destroyed, and countless compatriots were killed.

During the two years of joining the Eighth Route Army, Li Erxi fought against the Japanese at least ten times, and grew from a cowherd to an elite mortar gunner of the Eighth Route Army.

Li Erxi is also using an 82mm mortar now, but it is not the 82mm mortar used by the Kuomintang army in another time and space.

Instead, it is the 82mm mortar produced by the Huangyadong Arsenal.

Although its performance in all aspects is not as good as the 82mm mortar produced by the system.

However, its performance is much stronger than the 82mm mortar produced by the National Army.

Its maximum range reaches 3000 meters, the entire gun weighs only about 60 kilograms, and the power of the shell is much stronger than the Kuomintang’s 82mm shell.

Soon, Li Erxi aimed at the Japanese officer who was riding a tall horse and carrying a saber on the road.

On the road were a group of Japanese soldiers with low morale and who had abandoned their weapons and armor. However, there was no mercy in the eyes of Li Erxi and the soldiers of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, only endless murderous intent.

The best place for the devils to stay is hell!
Every once in a while, the Japanese officers riding on Japanese horses would move forward a little.

Li Erxi also fine-tuned the mortar's firing parameters.

The commander in charge of the ambush was waiting for all the Japanese to enter the ambush circle.

"beat!"

Finally, Li Erxi heard the company commander's order to open fire.

Li Erxi immediately placed an 82mm shell into the barrel, turned a deaf ear to the surrounding gunfire, and stared at the impact point.

boom!
The shell rose up next to the Japanese officer, stirring up a cloud of mud, and the Japanese officer immediately fell off his horse.

At that moment, Li Erxi quickly adjusted the shooting parameters and fired three rapid shots at the place where the Japanese officer fell off his horse!

Boom, boom, boom!

Three shells exploded at the Japanese officer's position, and also knocked down a group of Japanese soldiers around him.

The other five mortars of the artillery company were also firing, and shells exploded in the Japanese formation.

"Protect the general..."

Rapid exclamations rang out from the Japanese formation.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers approaching the position of the Japanese officer, Li Erxi fired five rapid shots, blowing the Japanese soldiers and horses to the ground. The Japanese horse ridden by the Japanese officer was also killed.

When Li Erxi was about to continue firing, he heard the exciting and rapid charge sound, and he quickly stopped firing.

Under the intensive artillery bombardment and the sudden attack of light and heavy machine gun fire, this group of Japanese soldiers were like frightened birds, with no fighting spirit or morale at all. Most of them were killed or wounded in just a few minutes.

Now, the troops of the infantry battalion are rushing down to harvest corn.

Looking at the charging infantry and the panicked Japanese, Li Erxi looked towards the northwest of Shanxi with a hint of longing in his eyes.

"I heard that the New 1st Regiment in Northwest Shanxi is led by Li Yunlong."

"This regiment is even more powerful than the 115th Division Independent Regiment I was in."

"They were equipped with heavy tanks and 152mm heavy artillery, and killing the Japanese was as easy as chopping melons and vegetables."

"If I could drive a tank and fire heavy artillery, how wonderful life would be..."

However, Li Erxi could only think about it. Only a master like Xiong Shanglin would have the chance to be noticed by Captain Li and transferred to the New 1st Regiment to take on important tasks.

He was just a main attack gunner in the first artillery company of the independent division's artillery battalion. ...

"Nani?"

"Major General Abe was ambushed and killed on his way back to Datong?"

At noon, the news that Major General Abe was killed reached Datong, the front-line command of the Japanese North China Front Army.

After listening to the staff officer's report, General Sugiyama Moto suddenly turned around and widened his eyes.

Muto Akira, who was standing by, suddenly showed an expression of disbelief on his face.

As for Yamashita Tomoyuki, he went to mobilize troops and prepare to ambush the Eighth Route Army.

"……Hi."

The reporting staff officer, looking as if his mother had died, lowered his head in grief and replied, "Major General Abe was killed by a mortar shell. The whereabouts of the sword bestowed upon him by the Heavenly Locust Emperor are unknown. The major general's uniform was stolen, and his head was chopped off."

"At present, Major General Abe's body is on its way back to Datong."

"Except for a few hundred seriously wounded soldiers, the entire 2nd Brigade was destroyed..."

After finishing the report, the staff officer immediately bowed his head. Muto Akira and the staff officers at the headquarters also bowed their heads with sad and angry expressions. This was a customary practice. Bowing one's head was a way to express condolences to the soldier from the fraternal country who had just died in battle.

The Eighth Route Army cut off Abe's neck but did not take his head.

But this news made Sugiyama Gen furious. He immediately drew out the sword bestowed by the Emperor Tianhuang and slashed at the sand table in front of him. Each blow was swung with great anger.

Every time he swung the knife fiercely, he would burst out with a "Baga" sound from his mouth. Each blow became more powerful than the last, and the "Baga" sound became louder and louder.

With just four strikes, the staff officer's carefully constructed sand table was chopped into countless pieces.

Sugiyama Gen's swordsmanship +4
What made Sugiyama Gen extremely angry was that on the one hand, Major General Abe, who was about to become the military attaché of Tianhuang, was actually killed by the Eighth Route Army!
On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army chopped off Major General Abe's head.

According to Japanese tradition, if the head is chopped off, the soul cannot enter the shrine and be worshipped, and will become a wandering ghost.

In order to prevent their necks from being chopped off, some Japanese soldiers even made their own iron rings or steel sleeves to protect their necks.

If a lieutenant general had died, Sugiyama Gen wouldn't be so angry.

Sugiyama Gen took a deep breath and forced himself to regain his composure. He said in a cold tone, "Muto-kun, immediately inform the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Yamashita. In this ambush of the Eighth Route Army, no prisoners are needed. Kill them all. I want to use at least 20,000 of their heads to build a memorial in the Jingguan Temple to commemorate the spirits of Major General Abe and the locust soldiers who died in battle!"

"Hi!"

Muto Akira suddenly lowered his head and quickly went to convey the order.

……

At the same time, Yamashita Tomoyuki was busy mobilizing troops and deploying generals.

In two days, in addition to scouting the terrain, he also had to mobilize 30,000 to 40,000 troops, avoid the Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel, and ambush halfway from Shaohukou to Datong without leaking any information.

This difficulty is not ordinary.

However, Yamashita Tomoyuki had studied the Eighth Route Army's ambush tactics extensively and felt that it was not a big problem.

"what happened."

"What made the General so angry?"

At first, after reading the telegram sent by Sugiyama Gen, Yamashita Tomoyuki sounded puzzled.

"Your Excellency the General's Qi cultivation skills are not good enough."

Soon news came again that the remnants of the 2nd Brigade were ambushed on the way, and the brigade commander, Major General Abe, died in battle and his head was chopped off.

"idiot……"

After reading the telegram, Yamashita Tomoyuki angrily drew his lieutenant general's sword and began to swing at it. (End of this chapter)