Chapter 20: The Bloody Battle of Huishan Begins!

  The sky gradually turned white, after a night of construction, the warriors had already built their fortifications early. After simply eating some dry rations, the warriors took up their positions in their respective defensive formations. Zhang Mingyu drank a mouthful of cool water and shouted loudly: "Brothers! Down the mountain are ten times as many little devils as I have soldiers, are you afraid?"

  "What's there to be afraid of? In Nanjing, we've encountered more devils than this. We still managed to defeat them and make them retreat in disarray, didn't we, brothers?" Zhang Biao was the first to speak up.

  "Right! With Master here, fighting those little devils is just like a game!" The soldiers all said.

  Zhang Mingyu was delighted to see this, the battle in Nanjing made these soldiers eliminate their fear of the Japanese devils, and established the confidence to defeat them. Unlike in North China, at the beginning of the war, a small team of Japanese devils dared to attack a regiment or even a division of the Shanxi-Suiyuan army, because they demonized the Japanese devils, and had an instinctive fear of them.

  "My brothers said it well! I've told you before: 'A narrow road leads to a chance encounter!'"

  "The brave win!" The warriors echoed.

  "The little devil is also a human being, and he was born of his parents. The bullet went through him, just like it would go through anyone else!" Zhang Mingyu said.

  "Brothers, the devils will definitely shell us again soon. Everyone quickly take cover in the artillery cave and wait for the devils to come up before beating them to death!" Zhang Mingyu ordered, extremely familiar with the enemy's tactics.

  The devils at the foot of the mountain set up 120mm mountain guns and 85mm howitzers, firing at the top of the mountain. With a wave of the devil's artillery commander's flag, more than ten various artillery pieces opened fire simultaneously. More than ten shells whizzed towards the independent regiment's position on the mountain, BOOM! BOOM! The shells landed and exploded, destroying the fortifications that the soldiers had painstakingly built. Fortunately, the soldiers were all hiding in the rock caves below and there were no casualties.

  The devils had been shelling for over ten minutes, Lieutenant Colonel Yoshida drew his command sword: "Charge! Brave warriors charge and kill the damned Chinese to avenge our regimental commander!"

  "The brave imperial army warriors" began to launch a group attack on the independent division's position. After the devil's cannon fire stopped, the warriors came out of the anti-cannon cave one after another, entered their respective positions, and the black muzzles of the guns were aimed at the devils below who were climbing up the mountain.

  As the devils drew closer, Zhang Mingyu shouted: "Fire!" The two heavy machine guns deployed on both sides of the high ground opened fire first. The soldiers rushed to open fire, and the deadly bullets shot towards the devils. The devils in front fell down with a thud, dozens of light machine guns and submachine guns roared out, and the sharpshooters led by Zhang Haisen and Ma Ligong took care of the devils' machine gunners and grenade throwers first. The devils were severely wounded under the suppressed firepower.

  Zhang Haisheng summarized the experience of blocking hands, usually the first shot would wound a devil, then at least two devils would come to rescue him, and he would kill them one by one until the devils discovered his position before turning around to change places.

  The warriors followed suit, first wounding a devil and then killing the others when they came to rescue him. A certain warrior was particularly vicious, targeting the devils' "crotch" area. Generally, when a devil was hit, he would cover that area and scream loudly. Soon, under the powerful firepower of the Independent Division, the devils' attacking troops suffered heavy casualties. The commander of the attacking squad shouted, waving his command knife: "Fall back! Those cunning Chinese have incredibly fierce firepower!"

  Watching the devils retreat, Zhang Mingyu lit another cigarette and held a submachine gun in each hand, shouting: "Brothers! Kill!" The soldiers jumped out of the trenches and opened fire on the retreating devils. Those who ran slower were shot down one after another.

  The squad leader was the first to run back, and he was greeted by Lieutenant Colonel Yoshida's powerful consecutive slaps! Slap! Slap! "You eight bastards, you've lost face for the Great Japanese Imperial Army!"

  The squad leader was beaten until he was dizzy and saw stars, but he still stood up straight: "Hai!"

  "Platoon leader: 'Company commander! The cunning Chinese have not been annihilated by our artillery, their firepower is extremely fierce!'"

  "Blast them! Blast those damned Chinese to death!" Colonel Yoshida bellowed. But the soldiers of the Independent Regiment had already cleaned up the battlefield and retreated into the artillery-proof caves designed by Zhang Mingyu himself, as the devils were lightly armed this time and did not bring heavy artillery, and those small-caliber cannons could not blast down the caves with rock structures.

  At this time, a pseudo-army corps rushed from Wuhu to reinforce, and the regimental commander was called Lai San. The cunning Yoshimasa summoned Lai San, patted his shoulders with both hands and said: "Lai Jun, you are very loyal to the Imperial Army, right?" After listening to the interpreter's translation, Lai San nodded vigorously and said: "I am very loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! Heaven and earth can bear witness!"

  "Rai kun! Your conscience is very good! Now I order you to lead your troops to attack those damned Chinese on the mountain!" Rai stood up straight and replied in a half-foreign, half-native language: "Hai!"

  Rai San led his "brave" troops forward, with the even more "brave" Imperial Army following behind to launch an attack on the Independent Regiment.

  Look, the devils are coming up again! Zhang Biao burst out laughing: "Damn it, this time it's the second devil, haha!" Zhang Mingyu shouted: "This is a devil sent to be cannon fodder, the goal is to consume our ammunition, brothers try to save bullets, use hand grenades to blow up the second devil, then rush up and kill them.

  To say that these two devils were originally the Nationalist Party's local security team, to put it bluntly, they are not much different from bandits. When the National Army was defeated, they surrendered to the Japanese and followed them in bullying and oppressing the people, doing all sorts of evil deeds. However, when it comes to fighting strength, they are far inferior to the devils. Even before the independent regiment's troops arrived, the puppet army had already begun firing their guns aimlessly, bang bang!

  The devils were less than fifty meters away from the independent division's position, and still hadn't discovered the independent division's men. A fake army deputy officer said to Lai San: "Battalion commander! Have these independent division people all been blown up by the great king's cannons? Why isn't there any movement at all?"

  Lai San slapped the deputy officer: "Stupid pig! If the Japanese artillery was so powerful, how could they have lost so many men? Look at all these corpses of theirs on the ground."

  At this moment, a large number of smoke-emitting hand grenades suddenly flew out from the "unmanned" trenches in front and fell into the crowd of Japanese devils, blowing these fake soldiers to pieces! Dozens of soldiers with big knives suddenly jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the fake soldiers. These Japanese devils, who usually bullied ordinary people, were already frightened by a series of explosions earlier and were now running around like headless chickens! At this time, Wang Tien-han led dozens of special warfare team members into the fray, beheading the fake soldiers one after another.

  These special warfare personnel are all seasoned and highly skilled fighters, dealing with these Japanese devils is just a piece of cake. Some Japanese devils tried to sneak up and shoot cold guns, but as soon as they raised their guns, they were shot through the head by snipers hiding in secret. At that time, the pseudo-army crowd was filled with miserable cries, knives rose and heads fell!

  The fake army quickly abandoned over a hundred corpses and retreated down the mountain! It's said that they're not good at attacking, but when it comes to escaping, they're quite skilled - each one running faster than a rabbit!

  Kijirō Taisha hadn't even heard the sound of gunfire when he saw Rai San leading his troops in a retreat! Enraged, he jumped up and down! Grabbing Rai San, he slapped him dozens of times while scolding: "You're useless! The Chinese haven't even fired their guns yet, and you're retreating!"

  Lai San was beaten until he was dizzy and pleaded: "Your Excellency spare my life! The National Army on the mountain is too powerful!"

  Commander Yoshida kicked Lieutenant Rei out of his daze and shouted "Charge!" as he drew his command sword. The enemy troops formed a skirmish line, using mortars and heavy machine guns to cover their fierce attack on the mountain!

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