Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 101 Rescue
In other words, as long as Wang Gensheng can successfully pick up Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others, there is no need to worry about not being able to escape.

Just as Wang Gensheng was waiting for the opportunity to fight, Zhang Dabiao, Li Yunlong's close confidant and the only old man brought from the New 1st Regiment, could not wait any longer.

He said anxiously to Wang Gensheng:

"This must be the result of a fight between the regiment commander and the Japanese. Let's go and rescue the regiment commander!"

However, Wang Gensheng looked at Zhang Dabiao calmly before saying:

"How can we rescue them? There are over 2,000 Japanese soldiers and 2,000 Japanese soldiers on the periphery! Their numbers alone are more than three times ours. If we fail and are entangled by the Japanese, not only will we not be able to rescue Captain Li, but we might also have to sacrifice hundreds of our men."

"Are you afraid of getting entangled and not saving me? Wang Gensheng, don't forget that you also served in the Independent Regiment, and Li Yunlong is considered your old squad leader!"

When Wang Gensheng heard what Zhang Dabiao said, he could also hear the anger in Zhang Dabiao's words.

Wang Gensheng was also a little angry and said:
"When did I say I wouldn't rescue them? It's just that the time hasn't come yet. Look, the Japs are still being blocked at the village entrance by Captain Li and his men, unable to enter! But Captain Li doesn't have many men or artillery, and he's sure to be unable to stop the Japs' attack. When the time comes, Captain Li will definitely conduct guerrilla warfare in the village, using the houses for street fighting. More importantly, most of the Japs will definitely enter the village to search, and that's when we should move out."

Wang Gensheng's words also dispelled Zhang Dabiao's idea of ​​immediately sending people to rescue people. After all, he was a battalion commander, and he naturally understood that Wang Gensheng's plan was the most successful plan.

Just as Wang Gensheng finished speaking, the Japanese had already set up a mortar position.

The Japanese mortar positions were not equipped with ordinary 60mm mortars. Because they already had 50mm grenade launchers, the Japanese mortars were all 90mm mortars.

Its power is far beyond that of a 60mm mortar.

Therefore, after just one round of artillery fire, the hastily built simple positions had to be abandoned.

Thus, the defensive positions built by Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang at the head and tail of the village respectively were broken.

At this time, Li Yunlong, who had retreated back to the village, met Zhao Gang. Zhao Gang said anxiously when he saw Li Yunlong:

"Old Li must organize his troops to drive the enemy out, or we won't be able to hold out until dark!"

Hearing Zhao Gang's words, Li Yunlong objected:

"We can't drive them all out. If we do, we'll be bombarded again! I suggest we build two lines of defense in the village. As long as we hold these dozen or so courtyards, the Japanese artillery won't be able to withstand the attack!"

When Zhao Gang heard Li Yunlong's suggestion, he immediately nodded in agreement:
"That's a good idea!"

Just as Li Yunlong and his men retreated into the village and most of the troops surrounded by the Japanese soldiers also followed them into the village, Wang Gensheng knew that his opportunity had come and immediately said to Zhang Dabiao:
"Captain Zhang, I'll lead the assault team in a charge. The rest of you will follow us on our left and right flanks. Once we've opened a gap in the Japanese encirclement, you will immediately set up defensive positions on both sides. We must not let the Japanese block the gap for retreat. Do you understand?"

"understand!"

After arranging a simple tactic, Wang Gensheng led 38 commandos wearing bulletproof vests and bulletproof helmets and carrying light machine guns and rushed into the encirclement of the Japanese devils.

It would have been best to use a submachine gun, but the bullets in the submachine gun had been used up when they rescued Sun Desheng's cavalry company, so they could only make do with a light machine gun.

Since most of the Japanese soldiers had already entered Xinzhuang to search, the Japanese soldiers were responsible for the blockade outside Xinzhuang, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers was obvious to all.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng led the assault team to easily kill their way into Xinzhuang.

Zhang Dabiao, who was following behind, immediately began to organize the defense task. Of course, he only made simple arrangements based on the terrain, without digging a large number of trenches and underground palaces. Wang Gensheng rushed into Xin Village and began to shout Li Yunlong's name.

Although we encountered some Japanese soldiers entering the village along the way, the ordinary Japanese soldiers were no match for us because of the threat of bulletproof vests and light machine guns.

As soon as they rushed into the center of Xinzhuang Village, they met Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong looked at Wang Gensheng and asked curiously:

"Aren't you from the New Second Regiment? Why are you here? Has the New Second Regiment been disbanded?"

Wang Gensheng could only explain:

"The New Second Regiment has already escaped the encirclement. We are here to support them! Alright, Captain Li, quickly lead your men to retreat!"

Li Yunlong also understood that the situation was critical and it was not the time to chat any more, so he immediately ordered the soldiers who were still ambushing in the rooms to retreat.

The retreat was very quick. In just five minutes, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and the remaining soldiers had all retreated.

Then Li Yunlong saw thousands of war horses and Sun Desheng who was leading a war horse for Li Yunlong to mount. Yes, with the hundreds of war horses originally from the special cavalry company and Sun Desheng's war horses, as well as the more than 800 captured war horses, there were naturally thousands of war horses now.

However, Li Yunlong naturally understood that now was not the time to ask.

He immediately mounted his warhorse and galloped towards the plain with a group of people. As for the Japanese soldiers who were chasing him, they could only stare blankly.

After seeing that he had shaken off the pursuers, Li Yunlong approached Sun Desheng and asked:

"With so many war horses, you must have wiped out the entire Japanese cavalry regiment!"

Sun Desheng replied while riding his horse:
"Captain, I don't have that ability. It was Wang Gensheng who almost wiped them out! I was just the bait!"

As Sun Desheng was speaking, he encountered a Japanese cavalry regiment that was chasing him relentlessly. Then, when his army was about to be wiped out, Wang Gensheng suddenly came with his cavalry company. The cavalry company, with almost every member armed with a machine gun, immediately wiped out the Japanese cavalry regiment, and the more than 800 war horses became the trophies.

Of course, Sun Desheng also mentioned that Wang Gensheng had given him three hundred war horses.

Li Yunlong immediately smiled and said:

"Not bad, not bad, it seems you were not in vain as bait!"

After rescuing Li Yunlong, they naturally went straight to Zhaojiayu. After all, they had already agreed with each company to gather in Zhaojiayu in advance.

Of course, since they headed straight for Zhaojiayu this time, there was naturally no story of Wang Xikui dying to cover Li Yunlong's retreat, nor was there any incident of Wei Dayong hiding in a civilian house and bravely fighting the Japanese devils.

The war horses galloped at an extremely fast speed, and they arrived at the destination in just one hour, covering a distance of more than 20 kilometers.

The sky was only slightly dark at this time.

The militiamen standing guard at Zhaojiayu were also very panicked when they saw thousands of war horses charging towards them. However, when they got closer and saw clearly that the people riding on the horses were actually Eighth Route Army soldiers, their panic turned into surprise. At the same time, they were also very confused, because they had never heard of any nearby regiment having so many cavalrymen.

(End of this chapter)