Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Changjin Lake, a Hundred Battles, a Hundred Victories

Chapter 3 War of Annihilation

After throwing the grenade, Chen Ming immediately ran back to rejoin his teammates, without paying attention to the effects of the explosion.

Once the explosion is heard, the puppet troops in the nearby camp will surely be awakened.

Staying here is too dangerous.

"Where are you firing the cannons?!"

Get up! War is breaking out!
Inside the puppet army camp, all thirty-seven puppet soldiers were awakened and plunged into chaos.

After a brief commotion, they finally came together.

"Go and see what's going on," the puppet army platoon leader shouted at a soldier, his voice stern but his tone weak.

"Platoon leader, I...I dare not!"

The puppet soldiers who were assigned the task were so frightened that their legs trembled and they dared not go out no matter what.

"If you don't go, I'll shoot you right now!"

The puppet army platoon leader roared again.

The soldier is too afraid to go; should we send him instead?

Under the threat of gunfire, the puppet soldier trembled as he took his gun and walked out of the camp into the area where the explosion had occurred.

I glanced inside and immediately ran back.

"Platoon leader, the entire Locust Army is wiped out."

His voice trembled, filled with fear.

Without knowing anything, the elite Japanese squad next to them was completely wiped out.

Who is the enemy? Where are they? How many are there? What is their method of attack?
He knew nothing of these things.

"What? The Japanese are all wiped out?"

The puppet army platoon leader was also taken aback.

Just how powerful was this enemy that they could so easily wipe out a small Japanese detachment?

However, before he could ponder this for long, shouts came from outside.

“Listen up, you traitors inside! You are surrounded. All the Japanese devils have been wiped out.”

"Do not put up any futile resistance. Lay down your weapons and surrender, and we will guarantee your safety."

"Otherwise, we will open fire. You have all seen what happened to the Japanese devils. Lay down your weapons and surrender immediately."

Chen Ming's shout was very serious, but to the puppet troops in the camp, it sounded like heavenly music.

The other side has persuaded them to surrender, so they probably won't attack directly, and they might not have to die.

"Sir, we surrender! Can you really guarantee we won't be killed?"

"Don't try to bargain! Put down your weapons immediately, tie your hands and feet with your belts and surrender, or I'll open fire!" Chen Ming continued to shout.

Under Chen Ming's threats, some of the puppet troops laid down their resistance and prepared to surrender.

Some are still observing.

There were also a few puppet soldiers who knew they had committed too many sins and would not survive if captured, so they still wanted to resist and escape.

But as soon as he ran out the door, a burst of gunfire rang out, and he was shot dead on the spot.

"Surrender immediately! Do not put up any futile resistance!"

The shouts became even more stern and intimidating.

The convulsing corpse at the entrance shocked the fragile nerves of the remaining puppet troops, and under the threat of shouts, their psychological defenses were completely broken.

"We surrender, we surrender!"

One by one, the puppet soldiers began to lay down their weapons, and their actions led to the surrender of even more soldiers.

Before long, the puppet soldiers had tied each other's hands and feet and laid down their weapons.

After checking the 3D map and discovering that everyone had surrendered, Chen Ming finally revealed a satisfied smile.

He called over a team member: "Go and call Dafei and Tiesheng over here."

"Yes."

The two soldiers from the district squad who are now following Chen Ming are completely in awe of him.

The captain, all by himself, wiped out a small squad of Japanese soldiers and was about to capture a platoon of puppet troops.

This guy is practically a god of war! The captain truly lives up to his reputation as a veteran of the Red Army who has traversed snow-capped mountains and grasslands.

Not long after, two soldiers who had covered the retreat from behind the village returned.

"team leader!"

The two soldiers were very excited.

When they heard the explosions and gunshots behind the village, they were terrified and nervous, worried that their captain and the other two brothers had met with misfortune.

But after hearing that the captain had single-handedly wiped out a small squad of Japanese soldiers and captured a platoon of puppet troops.

The tension and fear immediately turned into ecstasy.

"Clean up the battlefield immediately and take possession of the prisoners."

Chen Ming gave the order.

"Yes, sir." The soldiers saluted and said happily, "Wow, our squad is going to be rich now. More than fifty enemies, we can at least capture more than forty guns."

"Even the regular army isn't as wealthy as us, so we're going to be pretty powerful from now on."

In this era, for soldiers fighting behind enemy lines, guns and cannons were more precious than their wives.

I can hold him and sleep with him at night without letting go, and I take him everywhere I go.

The four soldiers in the district squad are now as happy as if they had married more than forty wives at the same time.

Thirty-three puppet soldiers were captured in a string, each one hanging their heads dejectedly, occasionally glancing up at the soldiers who had captured them.

After instructing two soldiers to guard the prisoners who had lost their weapons and whose hands and feet were bound, they gave instructions.

Chen Ming led the remaining two soldiers to clear out the Japanese camp.

The simultaneous explosion of four grenades was extremely powerful, killing eight of the eleven sleeping Japanese soldiers on the spot.

Three others are still alive, but they were either knocked unconscious by the explosion or have lost their ability to move.

"Captain, what should we do with these three Japanese prisoners who are still breathing?" a soldier asked, his eyes red.

He wished he could kill the surviving Japanese soldiers right now to commemorate his fallen comrades and the villagers who were killed in the village.

He always obeyed orders and the discipline of not killing prisoners was etched in his mind.

"Prisoners? Where did these Japanese prisoners come from?" Chen Ming asked, feigning ignorance.

Prisoners of war—that applies to humans. The Japanese devils, those beasts, are not included in Chen Ming's definition of prisoners of war.

Upon hearing Chen Ming's words, the two soldiers immediately understood and looked at the three Japanese soldiers with eyes that seemed to spit fire.

"Be careful, the Japanese are cunning. We need to incapacitate them first," Chen Ming warned.

"Understood, Captain."

Dafei immediately understood: if his limbs were cut off, he would have no ability to resist.

Even after being wounded, the Japanese soldiers continued to put up a stubborn resistance, forcing our side to launch a counterattack.

Chen Ming handed over the cleanup work to two soldiers to deal with the remaining Japanese soldiers inside the camp, and also called over the soldiers guarding the puppet army prisoners.

He then carried the captured light machine gun back to guard the prisoners, waiting for the soldiers to take revenge and vent their anger.

Before leaving, Chen Ming solemnly handed the three bullets to Da Fei.

"It's up to you now. Handle it as you see fit."

Chen Ming held his hand and said earnestly.

Dafei nodded; he understood what the captain meant.

Use these three bullets, which Erdan risked his life for, to finish off these three Japanese soldiers and avenge him.

Under normal circumstances, if they could use knives, Dafei and Tiesheng would never waste bullets; bullets are precious.

But this time, he did not hesitate at all.

Chen Ming nodded and left the guards.

About half an hour later, with three gunshots, the raid officially ended with the complete annihilation of the Japanese squad and the capture of all the puppet troops.

A voice also rang in Chen Ming's mind.

[Congratulations, Commander! Your team has successfully completed an annihilation battle and has earned the Level 2 Infantry Badge.]

[Level 2 Infantry Badge: Training experience gain rate of subordinate units +40%]

(End of this chapter)