Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 117 Qian Bojun's Rebellion
When the Lion Commander heard what Wang Gensheng meant, he naturally understood that Wang Gensheng wanted to learn from the Japanese special forces!
But thinking about the high-ranking officials of the Japanese, most of them were staying in the heavily guarded county town, so he immediately said worriedly:
"The Japs' decapitation tactics are not easy to learn! The Japs are different from us Eighth Route Army soldiers. We Eighth Route Army soldiers stay in the villages, without high walls and heavy troops, so it's easier to succeed. But the Japs' high-ranking officials stay in the cities, with high walls and heavy troops. Even if your cavalry regiment is fully equipped with light machine guns, it will be difficult to attack the Japs' county towns!"

"We can wait for an opportunity, and we don't necessarily need to resort to decapitation. We can use the high mobility of the cavalry to annihilate small groups of Japanese in a very short time, just like what I did during the mop-up operation last year!"

Finally, under Wang Gensheng's persuasion and considering the 700 Type 38 rifles, the Lion Commander agreed with Wang Gensheng's idea and no longer withdrew the 400 light machine guns captured by Wang Gensheng.

So after getting the consent of the Lion Commander, Wang Gensheng happily returned to the cavalry regiment and began to modify the 400 light machine guns.

Of course, it is not a big transformation, just a small change, removing the bipod of the Type 96 light machine gun and installing a handguard on the gas tube under the barrel of the Type 96 light machine gun.

The reason for such modification is mainly to facilitate holding for shoulder shooting and hip shooting.

Unlike the famous G42 machine gun of the United States, the Type 96 light machine gun of the Japanese army imitates the structure of the Czech light machine gun.

The gas-operated automatic bolt is far away, so when shooting, the gas tube under the barrel will become very hot like the barrel due to the infusion of high-temperature gunpowder gas, making it impossible to hold it for a long time.

Therefore, when shooting from the hip or shoulder, you hold the bipod under the gas tube to shoot.

After adding a handguard to the gas tube, there is no need to worry about the gas tube getting hot. More importantly, with this handguard, there is no need for a bipod. You should know that the bipod on the Type 96 light machine gun is made of iron.

Therefore, it is not light in weight. Wang Gensheng once weighed it and found that the Type 96 light machine gun weighs 9 kilograms, but after removing the bipod, it weighs only 7 kilograms.

In other words, the weight of the bipod directly reaches two kilograms. The light machine gun with a two-kilogram weight reduction is naturally more suitable for shoulder-fire aiming.

After all, if you save one kilogram of weight, you can aim and shoot for a little longer.

Of course, despite the reduction of two kilograms, the weight of the Type 97 light machine gun is still seven kilograms. Therefore, in order to enable the soldiers of the cavalry regiment to better perform standing aiming and shooting, Wang Gensheng also added standing shoulder shooting training to the training of the cavalry regiment soldiers.

Use a wooden stick to support your shoulders, hold it up with both hands, and tie a 20-jin stone to the wood. After such training, you will naturally not care about the weight of the Type 97 light machine gun.

However, just when Wang Gensheng was leading the cavalry regiment in low-key training and development, the Japanese had set their sights on Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment.

So the Japanese military police captain, Lieutenant Colonel Ichiro Hirata, began to plan a large-scale sweep of Chu Yunfei's base. You must know that last year's large-scale sweep was aimed at the 129th Lion Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and not at Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment. Even though the 358th Regiment was not far from Li Yunlong's Independent Regiment, it still did not target Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment.

So naturally, they had to take action against Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment this year. However, the 358th Regiment was no pushover. The entire regiment had a total of 5,000 people, making it a reinforced regiment. In addition to the three battalions, there was also an artillery battalion, whose strength could not be underestimated.

So Ping Tianyilang planned to first instigate the strongest battalion under Chu Yunfei to rebel, because the first battalion had two thousand men, so if the first battalion was instigated to rebel, then Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment would be half-crippled.

The battalion commander of Chu Yunfei's first battalion was Qian Bojun, and the deputy battalion commander was Zhang Fugui.

What's more crucial is that the 1st Battalion of the 358th Regiment was not stationed with Chu Yunfei, but more than ten kilometers away, which gave Qian Bojun an opportunity to take advantage of. When Chu Yunfei sensed something was wrong, he immediately came to check it out in person.

After arriving at Qian Bojun's First Battalion, Chu Yunfei immediately questioned:
"Why aren't your troops moving? Why isn't the phone working? Qian Bojun, what the hell are you doing?"

"Commander, please listen to my explanation..."

However, before Qian Bojun could finish his words, Chu Yunfei interrupted him:
"Are you afraid of death when you hear there's going to be a war? It takes a thousand days to raise an army, but only a moment to deploy it!"

Facing Chu Yunfei's rage, Qian Bojun was not afraid at all. After all, he was about to rebel and become a puppet soldier to enjoy life. So he made up his mind and said:
"Just listen to me and then it's not too late to scold me!"

Chu Yunfei calmed down immediately after hearing Qian Bojun's tough words. He pulled up a chair in the conference room and sat down. He said to Qian Bojun:

"Okay! I'm all ears!"

"Commander, I'm your old subordinate. During the Zhongyuan War, I followed you in battles across the country. I won't mention the bloodshed and injuries I suffered. Even if I don't have any merits, I've certainly worked hard!"

However, Chu Yunfei was not moved at all by Qian Bojun's sentimental words. Instead, he said with a cold face:

"Qian Bojun, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, just say it!"

Seeing that Chu Yunfei was unmoved, Qian Bojun immediately glanced at his deputy Zhang Fugui before saying:
"Commander, let me be frank. I, Qian, intend to change my ways and accept Mr. Wang's changes. Deputy Battalion Commander Zhang and I have made up our minds. I hope you won't force us! We have no past or present grudges against the 358th Regiment. We are all brothers who have fought together. Now we have different aspirations. I hope you can understand!"

Qian Bojun's words were equivalent to breaking off relations with Chu Yunfei, so Chu Yunfei's expression became even colder. He squinted his eyes and looked at Qian Bojun and said:

"Qian Bojun, you want to be Han Jian!"

At this moment, the deputy battalion commander Zhang Fugui said hurriedly:

"Commander, you can't say that! Who really wants to be annihilated by the Han? This is just a strategy! We will obey the Japanese on the surface and accept their food, wages and equipment, but the troops are still ours. Once the time is right, we will rebel against them!"

After hearing Zhang Fugui's explanation, Qian Bojun immediately said:

"Commander, I, Jiao, want to use the Japanese to eliminate dissidents. This is as obvious as lice on a bald head. In the Battle of Xikou, more than half of the 358th Regiment was killed or wounded, and I, Jiao, didn't provide us with a single soldier. Now the 358th Regiment has 5,000 soldiers and horses, which were expanded by ourselves. We don't owe me anything. A man like him is not worth our brothers risking their lives for!"

(End of this chapter)