readytorunbook Chapter 222 It would be nice if Brother Kaixuan were here
Chapter 222 It would be nice if Brother Kaixuan were here
The combination of motorcycle formations and aerial drones is not incapable of defeating the Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun team and the remnants of Maruyama, but if they insist on attacking by force, the price they pay will be too high.
If there was any other way, Zheng Kaixuan would never let his brothers risk their lives.
So the artillery battalion arrived at the battlefield as quickly as possible.
With the precise positioning of the drone in the sky, Yang Wanli's artillery battalion is even more powerful.
“Boom boom boom boom boom…”
Without any hesitation, Yang Wanli launched a full-scale bombing, allowing this wave of Japanese soldiers to see the power of the artillery battalion.
In just a few minutes, hundreds of artillery shells poured onto the Japanese positions.
Then, Yang Wanli waved his hand casually towards the front and picked up the walkie-talkie in his hand.
"Report to the captain, the mission is accomplished."
"Brothers of the Assault Company, start cleaning up the battlefield."
"Brothers of the artillery battalion, retreat!"
Yang Wanli didn't even take a look at the place that was bombarded by the artillery. He turned around and left. He got on the chariot and led the five chariots of the artillery battalion back directly.
He has absolute confidence.
Just a few hundred people, just a few hundred meters of battlefield. Even if the Japanese were made of iron, hundreds of Triumph mortar shells would blow them all to pieces!
This was indeed the case. When the soldiers of the motorcycle unit stood up from behind the bunker and walked towards the battlefield, all they saw were corpses and broken limbs everywhere. There was not a single Japanese soldier still standing.
"Refill the gun!"
The soldiers sent all the Japanese soldiers who were not yet dead to hell one by one, and then began to clean up the battlefield.
The biggest gain was fifty Type 1 anti-aircraft machine guns!
This was what Zheng Kaixuan had always wanted, but not many bullets were seized.
After all, the Japanese didn't bring much with them, and they had consumed a lot just now.
Just as the soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield, Song Pengcheng arrived on a motorcycle with more than a dozen large trucks.
"Reporting to the regiment commander, I have completely wiped out the entire transport force of the Japanese machine gun team and successfully seized sixteen carts of ammunition and supplies!"
Zheng Kaixuan's guess was absolutely correct. The Japanese anti-aircraft machine gun ammunition and supply troops were right behind them.
Due to the urgency of the battlefield, these devils had to ride horses and take shortcuts to arrive first.
However, they only came to deliver food to the spearhead group. Not only did they not solve any problems, but they also got themselves hurt.
These fifty anti-aircraft machine guns completely made up for the lack of air defense of the spearhead regiment.
The Vanguard Regiment and all the local people completely ended the nightmare of the Japanese's constant air raids.
Although these machine guns are fixed and inconvenient to carry, this is not a problem for Zheng Kaixuan.
Hands-on ability is his strong point, and modification is a piece of cake for him.
He can fix these anti-aircraft machine guns on light tanks or trucks and use them as self-propelled machine guns.
However, compared to the Tier 14 Triumph anti-aircraft machine gun, the performance and power of these machine guns were significantly inferior. Whether it was the gun body material or the lifespan, they were far from comparable to the Triumph machine gun, but they were still usable.
Neither Maruyama Sotaku nor Saito Sho could escape, and they were all blown to pieces along with the Japanese machine gun team.
For the first time, Zheng Kaixuan received the shoulder strap of the Japanese major general rank, which was also the highest shoulder strap he had ever received from the Japanese military.
The fighting on the main battlefield has now ended. More than 10,000 Japanese devils have been killed, blood has flowed like a river, and corpses are everywhere.
In this battle, the Sharp Knife Regiment lost a total of 300 soldiers, most of whom were militia soldiers, and 500 were injured.
When cleaning up the battlefield and dealing with the corpses of the Japanese devils later, Wang Xikui made a statistics. Including the Battle of Changyugou, a total of more than 13,000 Japanese devils were killed.
It took the Sharp Knife Regiment seven full days just to deal with the bodies of tens of thousands of people, even with the help of many villagers.
The old Japanese soldier Sakata and several hundred people from the Sakata Regiment escaped and their whereabouts are unknown.
Hideo Nakamura also escaped with his brigade commander and several hundred Japanese soldiers.
In addition, Zheng Kaixuan estimated that there were thousands of Japanese soldiers who fled and were not captured.
After the battle, Zheng Kaixuan only got 8000 epaulettes.
The rest of the epaulettes were all consumed during the battle to support the front-line troops with ammunition.
Among these epaulettes, there are countless epaulettes of low-level Japanese officers and soldiers.
However, due to the escape of high-ranking Japanese officials such as Sakata and Nakamura, not many high-level epaulettes were captured.
There are only five colonel shoulder straps and one major general shoulder strap.
Countless weapons, ammunition, food and supplies were seized.
Zheng Kaixuan led the soldiers to help the villagers bring back all the crops, corn and other food crops in the fields.
Then, he modified and upgraded the weapons, trained the soldiers, and asked the soldiers to help the villagers rebuild their homes.
A few months later, Zheng Kaixuan reorganized the Sharp Knife Regiment.
The spearhead regiment added two new battalions, namely Niu Dashan’s guard battalion and Lin Weilai’s weapons support battalion.
This Lin Weilai is a simulated intelligent robot, the original leader of the weapons support team.
The total strength of the spearhead regiment also expanded from more than a thousand to three thousand. Of course, these elite soldiers were all selected from the Niujiayu Militia and Changyugou Militia.
There are 200 people in each battalion of combat troops, and the number of other troops is slightly larger.
The Thirteenth Battalion of the Sharp Knife, each one of them is the tip of the knife.
The requirement that Zheng Kaixuan issued to all the troops in the regiment was that no matter whether it was the transport troops, the baggage troops, the logistics troops or the auxiliary troops, each troop must have strong combat effectiveness, put down the steering wheel, throw away the ladle and go directly into the battle to launch the main attack!
Every troop must be the tip of the knife!
In addition, he also formed and trained a large number of militia forces.
In addition to the existing Changyugou and Niujiayu, he formed more than ten militia groups.
The entire Xiyang, with a radius of more than 100 kilometers, from Longquanyu Niangziguan in the east to Changyugou in the west, was all under the rule of the Sharp Knife Regiment. The Japanese had to take a detour when passing by here.
Zheng Kaixuan is gathering strength, preparing to march westward to attack Taiyuan!
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A few months later, it snowed heavily again.
Southeastern Shanxi, Cangyunling.
In order to cover the transfer of the division headquarters, field hospital and the masses, the New 129st Regiment of the 386th Brigade of the th Division of the Eighth Route Army, led by Regiment Commander Li Yunlong, fought a desperate battle with the Japanese at the Cangyunling position!
The main peak position was lost and recaptured, and lost and recaptured again, changing hands repeatedly.
Li Yunlong led his troops to launch several counterattacks, but was always pushed back by the Japanese who outnumbered him several times.
Both sides suffered heavy casualties.
"Zhang Dabiao, this damn Japanese army across the way is quite difficult to fight. Go, catch a Japanese soldier who is breathing and ask him which unit they are from."
Hearing Li Yunlong's question, Zhang Dabiao, his face covered in dust, ran over immediately.
"Captain, they are the Sakata Regiment of the Japanese 4th Independent Brigade. They are known as the elite of the Japanese elite. This team is well-equipped and will not be easy to deal with."
Li Yunlong snorted disdainfully.
"What the hell are these elite troops? Weren't they beaten to a pulp by our Fourth Battalion Commander, Brother Kaixuan?"
When Zheng Kaixuan's name was mentioned, Li Yunlong couldn't help but look up and look into the distance.
"I haven't been in contact with the Sharp Knife Regiment for over a year. I don't know how Brother Triumph and the others are doing. If Brother Triumph were here, there's no way that old devil Sakata would be so arrogant!"