Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 91 Rush to Rescue
Because they were at the outermost edge, when the Japanese army formed an encirclement, the first group they encountered was naturally Kong Jie's New Second Regiment.

At this time, the Japanese had not fought a single battle and suffered no casualties, so they were naturally in high spirits and were able to inflict heavy damage on Kong Jie's New Second Regiment.

Then came the Independent Regiment and the New 1st Regiment. At this time, the Japanese had experienced one battle after another, so their morale and fighting will were naturally not strong, so it was easy for them to break through.

When Kong Jie heard that Wang Gensheng actually wanted to rescue other teams, the corners of his mouth twitched. In fact, Kong Jie didn't want Wang Gensheng to do such a dangerous thing.

To rescue other troops while surrounded by the Japanese army is like dancing on the edge of a knife!

You have to know that Wang Gensheng's special cavalry company was really supported by Kong Jie with a huge amount of money. Not to mention anything else, there were 20 light machine guns alone, which was equivalent to the number of light machine guns in other battalions.

Not only that, there were as many as twenty grenade launchers. You should know that the entire New Second Regiment had only forty grenade launchers in total, and Wang Gensheng's cavalry company alone occupied half of them.

This does not include the 38 submachine guns. If a company with such powerful firepower was destroyed, Kong Jie would be heartbroken.

But although he refused in his heart, Kong Jie still said:
"Then be careful! Don't try to be brave if you can't do it!"

Wang Gensheng saw Kong Jie's expression and immediately understood Kong Jie's worries, so he smiled and said:

"Don't worry, Commander. Even though the Japanese have cavalry there, with the firepower of our special cavalry company, those who can catch up with us can't beat us, and those who can beat us can't catch up with us!"

What Wang Gensheng said was not wrong. The Japanese did not actually attach much importance to cavalry, so the cavalry's firepower configuration was not strong.

Most configurations are still the cavalry sword and cavalry gun configuration.

Therefore, if you encounter a cavalry company like Wang Gensheng's, where one-third of the troops are equipped with submachine guns, one-quarter are equipped with light machine guns, and there are also grenade launchers, it will take at least one cavalry regiment to defeat Wang Gensheng's special cavalry company.

Of course, the Japanese cavalry regiment is organized differently from the infantry regiment.

Unlike the Japanese infantry regiment with 3,800 people, the Japanese cavalry regiment had only about 1,400 people. In terms of numbers, a Japanese cavalry regiment was only equivalent to the number of one and a half Japanese infantry battalions.

Of course, we cannot say that the Japanese cavalry is useless just because the Japanese cavalry regiment has fewer soldiers than the infantry regiment.

The Japanese cavalry played a very important role in the war of aggression against China, especially in the plains. The cavalry was mainly used for rapid assault, search, reconnaissance and maintaining public order.

Although the Japanese had much fewer cavalry than infantry under the same level of organization, their organization was the same as that of the infantry, with squadrons, battalions, regiments, and other levels of organization.

Among them, one of the Japanese cavalry squadrons had 144 people and the same number of horses.

But the situation is different between the cavalry battalion and the infantry battalion. The Japanese cavalry battalion only has two cavalry squadrons and a machine gun squad, with a total number of more than 300 people, which is incomparable to the infantry battalion of more than 1,000 people.

The cavalry regiment was composed of four cavalry squadrons and one machine gun squadron, with a total of about 1,400 people. Some even had only three cavalry squadrons with a total number of over a thousand people.

So Wang Gensheng naturally didn't worry about the Japanese cavalry coming to cause trouble for him. Not to mention the firepower of Wang Gensheng's special cavalry company, even if a Japanese cavalry regiment came to deal with him, Wang Gensheng would dare to fight it head-on.

However, just as Wang Gensheng and Kong Jie were discussing rescuing other troops, Watanabe Taro, the commander of the Watanabe Regiment that had previously surrounded the New Second Regiment, was slapped twice by the supporting troops of the Regiment. "Captain, I had no idea these cunning Eighth Route Army soldiers had prepared an escape tunnel!"

Captain Watanabe said this with a frustrated look, but the commander said:
"I'm not angry about this, but about you not ordering the Eighth Route Army to continue bombarding the village after they retreated from their positions. Instead, you ordered your men to enter the village to encircle and suppress them. If you had ordered the bombardment to continue, the Empire's heavy artillery would have destroyed the Eighth Route Army's tunnels, leaving them with nowhere to escape!"

The regiment commander Watanabe Taro was very disgusted with the regiment commander who was talking nonstop here. After all, why didn't he say anything at the time? What's the point of talking about it now? But he had no choice, even though this regiment commander was not his direct subordinate.

But in the Japanese army with strict hierarchy, the one level higher can really crush people, so Captain Watanabe could only bow his head and apologize repeatedly.

This situation was naturally reported to Yoshio Shinozuka. What could Shinozuka do about it? He could only order that the Eighth Route Army should be eliminated in the wild as much as possible and not to adopt the tactic of besieging the village.

Then he ordered the detachment and the Watanabe Regiment to continue the mopping-up plan.

At this time, Wang Gensheng waited until dark before leading the special cavalry company into the mopping-up encirclement.

To be honest, with Li Xiu's night vision, it is really easy to break into the Japanese encirclement at night.

Although it was an encirclement, it was like a sieve, with only one Japanese troop every several kilometers.

After all, the entire southwest of Shanxi is so large that it is difficult to form a complete encirclement hand in hand.

Not to mention the mere 120,000 troops of Yoshio Shinozuka's First Army, even if a million Japanese soldiers were mobilized, they would not be enough to form such an encirclement.

Such an encirclement was fine during the day, as the wide field of vision allowed them to see the Eighth Route Army soldiers trying to escape through the gaps between the teams.

But that won’t work at night. At night, even a few hundred meters or even tens of meters would be difficult, let alone a few kilometers.

In the plot of "Bright Sword", Li Yunlong took advantage of the poor vision at night to escape from the encirclement of the Japanese devils.

As soon as it got dark, Wang Gensheng, with his glasses, that is, Li Xiu, the guy with full night vision, directly inserted himself into the gap in the Japanese encirclement.

But halfway through, Wang Gensheng suddenly stopped and asked Li Xiu:

"Li Xiu, take a look. How many people are there in one of these little Japanese combat teams?"

That’s right, Wang Gensheng was planning to do something. After all, if the Japanese wanted to form a huge encirclement, it was naturally impossible for them to act one regiment at a time.

At the very least, we need to form a small-scale combat team such as a battalion or even a squadron to form an encirclement.

After hearing what Wang Gensheng said, Li Xiu took a look through the telescope and said:
"There are about a squadron of people. Deputy Regimental Officer, should we fight? But the distance between the two Japanese squadrons is only three kilometers! Will we be surrounded by the Japanese if we act like this?"

(End of this chapter)