Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 26: Big Harvest and Gaining a Firm Foothold
Of course, it will hurt when you use your palm to slap a grenade away, after all, your palm is not a racket.

However, Wang Gensheng didn't care about the pain in his palm and immediately gave a loud order:

"Stop throwing grenades! Keep your heads away!"

I have to say that the Japanese's shooting skills were so accurate that even Wang Gensheng was a little scared.

He touched the bullet hole on the helmet. If the muzzle of the Japanese soldier's gun had moved down a little bit, the bullet would have hit Wang Gensheng's forehead instead of his helmet.

Of course, Wang Gensheng was not scared by this. Just when Wang Gensheng was about to continue throwing grenades, he heard the sound of the charge horn.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

Wang Gensheng knew that Kong Jie had given the order to charge and was planning to engage in close combat with the Japanese with bayonets.

But there is no way around it. Even though the 500 people in the New Second Regiment are not new recruits, the number of times they have actually fired guns is very few.

In terms of marksmanship, they were no match for the well-trained Japanese devils.

It is naturally a very unwise choice to shoot back at the Japanese, so it is a wise choice to charge after suppressing them. Otherwise, when the Japanese come to their senses and the battle turns into a tug-of-war, the New Second Regiment will suffer the loss.

As for the bayonet fight, they had the advantage in numbers. In the last wave, Wang Gensheng's grenades alone killed more than 30 Japanese soldiers. Adding to the casualties of others, this wave of attack resulted in not more than half of the casualties, but at least one-third of the casualties.

Therefore, with 500 Japanese soldiers against a hundred or so, the advantage is on the side of the New Second Regiment.

But he was different from others. Other soldiers rushed forward with bayonets or broadswords, but Wang Gensheng rushed towards the Japanese soldiers with a throwing knife in one hand.

With the help of the two-handed flying knife technique, all the Japanese soldiers within three meters of Wang Gensheng were stabbed in the head.

The slender and sharp tip of the flying knife could not be blocked by the Japanese's iron helmet.

Of course, Wang Gensheng led dozens of people out of the bunker, and Kong Jie led 400 people out of the trench.

More than 400 people surrounded more than 100 Japanese soldiers tightly. In fact, the Japanese soldiers had no way to retreat once they entered the trench circle of the bunker.

The entire trench circle only had a three or four meter wide intersection, so the Japanese either killed the New Second Regiment or were killed by the New Second Regiment.

Kong Jie, who was leading the charge, was still as fierce as ever. He used a big knife to chop down four or five Japanese soldiers in a row.

Of course, Kong Jie's bravery naturally attracted more attacks from the Japanese soldiers. Just as Kong Jie cut off the attack of one Japanese soldier with a knife, another Japanese soldier, without any moral principles, planned to take advantage of Kong Jie's opportunity to stab Kong Jie in the chest.

But before he could stab Kong Jie in the chest, the Japanese soldier staggered and fell limply to the ground.

At this time, Kong Jie looked down and saw that there was a flying knife stuck in the back of the Japanese soldier's head.

And this flying knife was naturally the one that Wang Gensheng shot at the critical moment.

That's right, at this time Wang Gensheng had already relied on his flying knife skills to break through the Japanese formation. It must be said that the flying knife technique is still very useful at this close distance because the flying knife has limited penetrating power.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the flying knives piercing the Japanese soldiers' bodies like bullets and injuring your comrades.

After all, even pistol bullets, except for the .22, can easily penetrate a person's body and injure those behind them. Of course, if you want to practice knife throwing skills to the level of Wang Gensheng, it will take two to three years, if not ten years, and that's only if you have talent.

With the help of Wang Gensheng's flying knife, the battle was over soon, and this was the consequence of being ambushed in the era of hot weapons.

Without any preparation or cover, the Japanese squadron suffered more than one-third casualties in the first wave of attack, so they were unable to organize any effective counterattack afterwards.

"You're amazing, kid! You killed over thirty people with just your throwing knives. From now on, it seems like the soldiers of our New Second Regiment should just stop practicing bayonet fighting and learn knife throwing from you!"

Kong Jie looked at the results of the post-war statistics and said with emotion, "You won't know how great the situation is until you see it. It's really shocking. There were only more than 180 Japanese devils in total."

Wang Gensheng alone killed one-sixth of the enemies, not to mention the Japanese soldiers killed by the grenade thrown by Wang Gensheng earlier.

After all, Wang Gensheng was not the only one throwing the grenade, so it is naturally impossible to calculate Wang Gensheng's specific casualties.

But throwing flying knives is different. In the entire New Second Regiment, only Wang Gensheng can do it.

Moreover, the Japanese soldiers killed by flying knives all had flying knives stuck in their heads, so it was naturally very easy to count them.

However, Wang Gensheng ruthlessly attacked Kong Jie's fantastic idea:
"Forget it then! Knife throwing is not something you can master overnight. Besides, I've practiced it before in the independent regiment. Look at how long I've been practicing, and it's hard for me to even hit the target from ten meters away, let alone continuous shooting with knives."

Wang Gensheng's flying knife training in the independent regiment was not very ideal. Flying knife is easy to learn but difficult to master. If you want to practice it well, you have to go through a lot of training to form subconscious memory. Only when you practice flying knife to become an instinct will it have practical value.

But this takes too long and is far less efficient than bayonet fighting.

It’s like there were many people playing with flying knives before Wang Gensheng traveled through time, but only a few of them could become internet celebrities with over 100,000 fans.

Of course, after this complete victory over a squadron of Japanese devils, what was left was not more than a hundred Type 38 rifles, a Type 97 mortar, and several grenade launchers and light machine guns.

What is more important is that after this battle, the New Second Regiment gained a firm foothold in this area, and made nearby villages including Lijia Village aware of the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army.

It also broke the myth of the Japanese invincibility and let people in this area know that the Japanese were just that bad.

After Wang Gensheng said this, Kong Jie gave up the idea of ​​having the whole regiment practice throwing knives. The next step was naturally to count the supplies. This battle was no different from the one yesterday when Wang Gensheng destroyed a bunker.

More than 20,000 rounds of ammunition and more than 100 Type 38 rifles were enough for Kong Jie to expand the Second Battalion, which was originally not fully staffed, to its full strength.

That’s right, Kong Jie’s newly formed Second Regiment consisted of 500 people, based on the full strength of the First Battalion, which had more than 300 people, and the Second Battalion, which was not fully staffed, had only one company.

The most pitiful thing is that his third battalion only has one platoon.

So even though Wang Gensheng contributed the most in this battle, he was the one who suffered the most when the benefits were distributed.

But there was no way around it. After all, Wang Gensheng was promoted across levels, directly from deputy company commander to battalion level, so he naturally had to accumulate some merits. So Wang Gensheng, who understood all this, didn't care too much.

Unlike the first and second battalion commanders, these are veterans who have walked the grasslands. Therefore, compared with them, Wang Gensheng is still a little green, so naturally he needs a lot of credit.

(End of this chapter)