Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 81 Bait
Of course, in addition to a five-kilometer-long underground escape passage, Wang Gensheng also had people dig a trench around Wangjia Village that surrounded the entire village.

However, this is not enough. We have to attract most of the Japanese troops. Only by attracting most of the Japanese troops to besiege Wangjia Village, there will not be many Japanese troops visiting the village of the New Second Regiment's base. And by attracting more Japanese troops, we will not encounter them in the wild, and naturally we will be able to easily break out of the encirclement.

But it was different from Wang Gensheng's tactics. This time, Li Yunlong, the king of ideas, had no idea how to deal with the Japanese raids, so he began to break out in a dispersed manner according to the arrangements of his superiors.

Li Yunlong has already gathered all the soldiers of the independent regiment and started the pre-war mobilization speech:

"Comrades, everyone knows that the Japanese have launched a raid on our base. This raid is different from the past and the situation may be even worse. I only want to say one thing: there is no unbreakable encirclement. For our independent regiment, I don't regard it as a breakout battle. What else do I regard it as? An offensive, launching an attack on the enemy in front of us. Do you have the courage? Remember, even if there is only one person in the regiment, we must continue the attack and die on the way to the charge! If anyone is afraid, I can give him a chance to take off his uniform, hand over his weapons, and move with the civilians. I, Li Yunlong, will never make things difficult for him!"

"no!"

The independent regiment soldiers responded loudly, and Li Yunlong was very satisfied when he heard it.
"Sharpen my bayonets, load my rifles, and unscrew the grenade caps! If they want to annihilate the Independent Regiment, they're still short of good teeth! Time is running out, so I won't say any more. Now, please allow Zhao Zhengwei to conduct the pre-war mobilization!"

After Li Yunlong's speech, Zhao Gang also spoke:

"Comrades, I don't have much to say. I just want to tell you that since the beginning of winter, the Japanese have been carrying out a brutal sweep in the Yizhong area. The troops in the Yizhong area have been engaged in fierce battles with the enemy. At the same time, the enemy has also swept into the southeastern and northwestern areas of Shanxi. The enemy has formed a huge encirclement in the Huali area and wants to swallow us up in one bite.

I don't want to hide anything. I must tell you the truth. We are about to face an unprecedented bloody battle. The fighting will be extremely brutal, and many of us will die. What I want to say is that no matter how great the sacrifice, it is a price we must bear. Because we are soldiers, we shoulder the mission and responsibility of defending our homeland and resisting the enemy. If we don't sacrifice, will we also sacrifice our fellow countrymen? Comrades, although the enemy outnumbers us and the strength is greatly disparate, we dare to fight the enemy with honor and carve a bloody path. When two meet on a narrow road, the brave will prevail. We must fight to the death and show the prestige of the Independent Regiment!

Not to mention the independent regiment that was planning to fight the Japanese head-on, at this moment, Wang Gensheng had already led the cavalry company to break through the Japanese encirclement.

After coming into contact with the slowly advancing Japanese soldiers, the cavalry company did not hold back. The firepower group equipped with twenty light machine guns opened fire almost instantly.

Although they were four or five hundred meters apart, many Japanese soldiers and traitors were still shot and fell to the ground under the dense barrage of machine gun fire.

At full firing rate, the Type 96 light machine gun can use up a magazine of bullets in less than four or five seconds.

After using up a magazine of bullets, the cavalry company's firepower team immediately turned around and ran away.

That’s right, the ones used as bait to lure the Japanese this time were naturally the special cavalry company with the strongest mobility.

In order to serve as a good bait, Kong Jie added eleven Type 96 light machine guns to the special cavalry company, bringing the cavalry company's light machine guns to a terrifying number of twenty.

Then the special cavalry company carried a large amount of ammunition and began to look for the Japanese everywhere, and took the initiative to attack.

Of course, this proactive attack was not a hard fight, but rather the fire group's twenty light machine guns formed a fleet and opened fire directly at a distance of four or five hundred.

Although the light machine gun's hit rate had dropped to a very low level at a distance of 400 to 500 meters, the marching Japanese soldiers and the second Japanese soldiers were in a very dense formation. Therefore, the overall killing power was still very good. Of course, Wang Gensheng's purpose was not to kill or injure them, but to attract the attention of the Japanese soldiers and make them shrink the encirclement towards Wangjia Village, thus sparing the ordinary villages.

Obviously, with this move, the Japanese encirclement began to shift, letting go of those ordinary villages and began to shrink towards Wang Gensheng's cavalry company, trying to surround Wang Gensheng's cavalry company. It seemed that they intended to trap the cavalry company to death.

Wang Gensheng was really looking forward to this! In fact, what Wang Gensheng feared most was that the Japanese would kill the common people without any regard for them. You know, not to mention the New Second Regiment, even many soldiers in the Cavalry Company were from nearby villages.

Therefore, if Wang Gensheng caught and killed ordinary people, his battle plan would definitely fail.

After a day of stirring up hatred, Wang Gensheng returned to Wangjia Village in the evening to rest. Kong Jie was naturally very concerned about the baiting behavior. When he saw Wang Gensheng coming back, he immediately asked:

"How is the plan? Did it succeed? How many Japanese soldiers will come this time?"

Wang Gensheng thought for a moment and said:
"If our predictions are correct, at least a regiment of Japs will come! Of course, there might be more! But as long as we can hold off the Japs' attacks for a short period of time, then given their behavior, Japs from other places will surely come to support us. The more Japs we attract, the less pressure there will be on the civilians and even the troops elsewhere!"

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"Kishida-kun, I heard that your brigade leader, Watanabe Ichiro, died in Wangjia Village two years ago! So you better be careful this time!"

The person who spoke was the Japanese battalion captain Yumoto Ichiro who had already arrived at Wangjia Village. He and Kishida-kun were captains of the same regiment, and Kishida-kun was the new captain of the Japanese battalion that attacked Wangjia Village two years ago.

He is the one who takes over the position of Captain Watanabe who was shot dead by Baili Xiu.

Of course, Kishida should thank Baili Xiu. After all, if it weren't for Baili Xiu's shot, Kishida would not have had the opportunity to be promoted.

Kishida-kun also responded without giving in:

"I think they're focusing on you! Don't forget, our team's mission this time is to encircle Wangjia Village, and your team is responsible for the main offensive!"

Sure enough, Captain Ichiro Omoto's face turned extremely ugly after hearing this. After all, as the captain responsible for the main attack, it was impossible for him not to be at the forefront of the battle line in person.

In this way, the possibility of being sniped will naturally increase greatly.

(End of this chapter)