Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 21: Bunker's Searchlight
But what worries Wang Gensheng now is whether it is allowed to mobilize troops.

So Wang Gensheng immediately asked:

"Captain, how do we determine the right to mobilize troops?"

"I asked the commander about this as well. He said that when mobilizing combat units below the battalion level, there's no need to report for approval first. All you need to do is write a combat report afterward!"

Wang Gensheng was naturally very happy about such relaxed conditions for sending troops. With such conditions, Wang Gensheng could also formulate his own combat plan based on the actual situation.

After getting Kong Jie's definite answer, Wang Gensheng returned to the accommodation area for his third battalion personnel.

Of course, what was unexpected was that the new Second Regiment chose Wangjia Village as its base this time. Yes, it was the village where the entire village was massacred by the Japanese devils.

This is also the village where Wang Gensheng was born, and the choice of this village as the garrison point was also decided by the higher-ups, because this time the higher-ups decided to establish a new second regiment, naturally wanting to open up a new base behind enemy lines.

Unlike the Independent Regiment, Yang Village, where the Independent Regiment was stationed, had become a base behind enemy lines, so the villagers naturally lived in harmony with the Eighth Route Army in the village.

After the Eighth Route Army was stationed in the village, at least small groups of Japanese and Japanese soldiers no longer dared to enter the village to rob.

The reason why they did not choose to station in those villages with people when opening up a new base, but instead chose to station in such a dead village that had been massacred, was mainly because those villages with people were controlled by the Japanese and the traitors.

The village chief, who is also the chairman of the maintenance association, is a member of the Japanese army. If Kong Jie moves in with the soldiers of the New Second Regiment at this time, they might be reported as soon as they move in, and then be surrounded by the Japanese army.

As for what a maintenance association is, it mainly refers to the old times when the imperial power did not extend to the countryside, so many villages were in a state of self-governance by villagers. In order to solve this situation, the Japanese set up a puppet organization in the occupied areas, the Public Security Maintenance Association, abbreviated as the Maintenance Association.

The chairman of the maintenance association is naturally the village chief recognized by the Japanese in the countryside.

Of course, the reason why the Japanese wanted to manage the countryside was naturally to gain benefits. For example, the Japanese military rations naturally had to be collected from the villagers by the chairman of the maintenance association.

In addition, after entering the strategic stalemate phase, the Japanese started the Cage Plan in order to effectively control the occupied areas and prevent rebellion in the occupied areas.

That is to say, a large number of bunkers and trenches were built to prevent the Eighth Route Army from fleeing.

Of course, collecting a large amount of grain and conscripting a large number of civilians to build bunkers is not a big deal. It is a bit hard, after all, this is how the feudal society has been going for two thousand years.

But the most intolerable thing is the practice of conscripting a large number of women from various villages to serve as military technicians. This is simply unprecedented!
We also know that in rural areas there is a tradition that the three greatest acts of unfilial piety are not having descendants, so people in rural areas attach great importance to getting married and having children. And when the Japanese devils do this, how can we tolerate it?

If you can't tolerate it, you will naturally resist. This is what happened in Wangjia Village where Wang Gensheng was born. The Japanese wanted to recruit military skills in Wangjia Village, but naturally they were resisted by all the men in the village.

In the eyes of most Han men, if you collect some food and let me do hard labor for a few days, that is not a big deal, but if you steal my woman, that is intolerable.

Of course, it's not just humans; most animals do this. Male lions engage in life-and-death battles for the right to mate with the lionesses in their pride. Even docile goats will fight to the death for mating rights. This view is almost an instinct etched into the genes of all male animals.

Faced with resistance, the Japanese naturally chose to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, and kill one to warn the hundred. So Wangjia Village was taken as an example and the whole village was massacred. This trick was very effective. After learning that Wangjia Village had been massacred, the villages near Wangjia Village also became obedient.

Then, under the threat of the maintenance chairman, the honest villagers built bunkers for the Japanese, delivered food, and even offered women from the village. There was no other way. After all, under the threat of death, many people also knew that it was better to live a miserable life than to die.

What's more, this is no longer the era of cold weapons. There is not much difference in combat effectiveness between a soldier with a knife and a farmer with a hoe. Now, how can we defeat the Japanese without firearms and relying only on the hoe and sickle in our hands?
But now that Wang Gensheng has guns and bombs in his hands, he naturally has to fight the Japanese devils. On the first day after returning to Wangjia Village, Wang Gensheng was ready to cause trouble.

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"Battalion Commander, we need to attack this Japanese bunker! But we only have a grenade launcher. If we want to attack this bunker, we need at least an infantry gun!"

The person who spoke was a company commander under Wang Gensheng. Of course, although he was called a company commander, he was actually no different from a squad leader.

Wang Gensheng waved his hand nonchalantly and said:
"Don't worry about this. If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't dare attack the Japanese bunker. Now listen to my instructions. Find me some grass and make a grass ring. I'll need it later!"

Then, after putting on camouflage, Wang Gensheng slowly crawled towards the Japanese bunker in the dim night.

However, when he climbed to the defensive trench of the bunker, Wang Gensheng did not move forward because this was already within the lighting range of the gas searchlight.

That’s right, it’s different from the movies and TV dramas where the Japanese used high-power searchlights to attack Japanese bunkers during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

You have to know that during the Anti-Japanese War, the electricity access rate in the country was not 99% as it was before Wang Gensheng traveled through time.

At that time, except for some bunkers near big cities and coal mines that had power supply to start searchlights, the searchlights used for lighting in bunkers in more places were either powered by diesel generators or coal gas searchlights.

However, the most commonly used ones are coal-gas searchlights. After all, a diesel generator is not cheap. Therefore, except for important bunkers, most bunkers still use simple and cheap coal-gas searchlights.

The so-called gas searchlight is actually an upgraded version of the kerosene lamp. By increasing the pressure, more kerosene is sprayed, thereby producing brighter light. Then, some mirrors are added to naturally form a gas searchlight.

Of course, the illumination range of this searchlight is only a few dozen meters, and the weather tonight is very good, especially since there are no dark clouds in the sky and the moon is almost full.

So even though Wang Gensheng was lying at a distance of 80 meters, he could still clearly see the bunker building.

But what is more important is that the firing holes on the top of the bunker used for shooting can also be seen clearly.

Although there are many firing ports on the top floor of the bunker, the openings are very small, smaller than a washbasin. Of course, it is difficult for ordinary gunners to hit such a small firing port without some skills.

(End of this chapter)