Chapter 1: Cross into the past and annihilate a small Japanese army squad.

  Watching the captain still not waking up, guard Li Gang anxiously shouted "Captain"…

  Zhang Mingyu vaguely heard someone shouting "Battalion Commander" and slowly opened his eyes.

  "Captain is awake!" Guard Li Geng said excitedly.

  The rest of the squad leaders walked over, "Squad leader"...... Zhang Mingyu looked at the people beside him and found himself on a nameless small mountain! He was wearing grayish-yellow military uniform, with blood still flowing from his arm. It turned out that after being hit by the car, Zhang Mingyu inexplicably came to Shanxi in 1937!

  "Where is this place? Who are you?" Zhang Mingyu asked the people beside him.

  "We are your subordinates! I am your guard, Li Gang, you like to call me Little Li." The person who just called him said.

  A dark-faced man said: "Battalion Commander, your brain won't be blown up by the enemy's plane, will it? You're not suffering from amnesia, are you?"

  "It's possible that if someone gets their head blown off, they'll easily lose their memory! They just won't remember things from before," another person beside him said.

  "Then who am I?" Zhang Mingyu asked.

  "You are the commander of the 1st Battalion of the 46th Regiment of the 21st Division of the Central Army, a graduate of the 11th class of the infantry department of Huangpu!" said that dark-faced man.

  Originally, the 21st Division was defeated in the Battle of Xinkou due to the injury of its commander Li Xianzhou, resulting in significant losses. The division was forced to retreat and regroup. It turned out that the dark-faced man was Zhang Biao, the commander of the first company! Another person was Zhao Si, the commander of the second company, while the third company's commander had been killed. Because the Japanese were going to attack Taiyuan, Zhang Mingyu led his battalion to participate in the defense of Taiyuan, but on their way there, Zhang Mingyu was hit by a bomb dropped from a Japanese plane and was seriously injured but not dead!

  Zhang Mingyu understood the situation and didn't panic, starting to organize his thoughts to adapt to this new identity. Since he had been given a second chance at life in this world, with the country facing difficulties, what could he do for his motherland? He made an effort to remain calm. Zhang Mingyu thought to himself. After a series of mental struggles, Zhang Mingyu adapted to his current identity with a "make the best of it" attitude. "Little devil, I, Zhang Mingyu, have arrived!" Zhang Mingyu silently roared in anger.

  After learning that there are only 180 people left in his regiment, excluding those killed by the enemy's planes, they have more than 100 rifles made in Hanyang, 1,000 bullets, two light machine guns, 400 bullets, more than 300 hand grenades, one pistol and more than 50 bullets. Some soldiers are also holding long spears, big knives and other weapons. The most urgent task for him is to test what kind of people his subordinates are. If they are traitors who betray their country, he will immediately leave them and go to join the Eighth Route Army to make a contribution on the battlefield against Japan!

  "Brothers, the Japanese devils have now occupied Taiyuan and taken over more than half of Shanxi. They are all around us. Now we have two options: one is to surrender to the little devils and become traitors, or two is to fight the little devils to the end and be true Chinese soldiers!"

  "The little devils of the Japanese are not human, they have come to our China to loot and plunder, doing all sorts of evil. They rape my wife and daughter, kill my father and brothers, we would rather die than become traitors." Zhang Biao said in a fit of rage.

  "Yes, we can't be traitors. Let's fight the devils to avenge our dead Chinese comrades," said Second Company Commander and several platoon leaders in unison.

  Zhang Mingyu clapped his hands together and said to the first and second squad leaders: Well done! Let's work together to wipe out the little devils and drive them out of China!

  "Die rather than be a slave of a lost country, kill all Japanese pirates! Return my rivers and mountains!" Someone shouted, the soldiers followed suit.

  "It seems these subordinates still harbor deep resentment towards the Japanese devils!" Zhang Mingyu thought to himself.

  At this time a soldier on guard duty ran over. "The battalion commander has a company of devils coming towards us," the soldier said.

  "How many people?" Zhang Mingyu asked.

  "About several dozen people"

  "Go take a look," Zhang Mingyu led the long Zhang Biao and the soldier in the direction of the devils, quickly running to a small hillside, where he saw the devils walking below, about thirty or more people, with two machine guns, a devil officer walked at the front, followed by the devils in two rows, and behind them were several men, who looked like Chinese, their hands tied up with ropes, two devil soldiers shouting behind.

  "Will the battalion commander fight?" Zhang Biao asked.

  "Hit! Why don't you hit the devils and go back"

  Returning to the previous position, Zhang Mingyu said to Zhang Biao: "You and the second company commander each lead 50 men to ambush on both sides of this mountain head, set up machine guns. Must be quick, the devils will arrive here in at most 20 minutes, I'll lead the remaining brothers to block the devils and lure them over."

  Zhang Mingyu led thirty soldiers towards the direction of the devils, and walked to a small hilltop, using the trees as cover. Zhang Mingyu saw that the group of little devils didn't move, it turned out they were tired and sat down to rest. He asked a soldier for a Hanyang rifle, pulled back the bolt, took aim at one of the devil soldiers, "Bang"! The bullet missed its mark, hitting a rock two meters away from the devil soldier instead. "Ah! Zhang Mingyu's marksmanship is not worthy of praise!"

  However, it still startled the devils. The devil officer drew his command knife and pointed at Zhang Mingyu: "Kill the chicken", the sound of Type 38 rifles rang out!

  The enemy's combat effectiveness was still high, and the two light machine guns of the "Ta Ta Ta" devils also shot out tongues of fire. Zhang Mingyu quickly lowered his head, and the bullets flew over his head. A soldier behind him dodged too late and fell to the ground with a gunshot wound! "Ah! This is combat effectiveness! Lack of experience," Zhang Mingyu said, leading the remaining soldiers to carry the sacrificed soldier back to their original position.

  The devils fired for a while without any movement, thinking that the person who ambushed them had been killed by them. They sent two soldiers to check and the two devil soldiers quickly climbed up the slope, saw only a pool of blood on the ground, ran back to report: "The enemy is injured but not dead." "Bah! Wasted so much ammunition, didn't even kill two Chinese stragglers, get after them!" Lieutenant Kamei roared.

  "Ha Yi" led more than 30 Japanese soldiers to chase Zhang Mingyu and others, seeing the devils coming, Zhang Mingyu ordered the soldiers to fire backwards to attract the devils, the soldiers retreated while firing and finally retreated into the ambush circle! Everyone rushed up the hillside and hid.

  Kamei saw that dozens of Chinese soldiers were gone, and he was furious: "Eight teeth road, the Chinese must have run up the mountain slope, aiming at the top!" Kamei waved his command knife. The devils shouted and pushed forward towards the mountain head, getting closer and closer, 80 meters, 60 meters, 50 meters. Just as Zhang Biao was complaining that the battalion commander had not given orders yet, the devils were less than thirty meters away from them.

  At this time, Zhang Mingyu took out his pistol and stood up to shoot the devils. The gunshot was a signal, and the soldiers hiding behind the bunker suddenly exposed their guns and fired fiercely at the devils. The devils were caught off guard and fell down in large numbers!

  The remaining dozen or so devils wanted to escape, but were ambushed by the second company commander on the opposite side and given a head-on blow! Leaving behind more than ten corpses, Zhang Mingyu raised his arm and shouted: "Brothers, charge! Kill!" The soldiers jumped out of their shelters and rushed down the mountain slope! Gujing led two wounded devils, three people formed a triangle, holding command knives and shouting loudly: "Eight ga! You cunning Zhina people dare not fight to the death with me?" "Bang, bang" Two gunshots rang out, and the two wounded devils fell to the ground in response.

  "Barbaric road! You don't talk about the spirit of Bushido, despicable and shameless Chinese people!" Kamei shouted loudly "What's the point of talking about Jianghu righteousness with you beasts, go see your Dainichi Nyorai!" Zhang Mingyu raised his hand and shot Kamei, whose head burst open, with a mixture of red and white flowing out.

  "Sweep the battlefield, and strip off all the devils' clothes as well." Zhang Mingyu played with Kamei's command knife. "Battalion Commander, why do we need to strip off the devils' clothes?" Zhang Biao asked.

  We are now surrounded by devils on all sides, and if we accidentally encounter the devil's troops, our small number of people is not enough to fill the devil's teeth. It's still useful to wear the devil's skin," Zhang Mingyu explained.

  At this time, Second Company Commander Zhao Si ran over and said, "The people who were captured by the devils want to see you."

  "Oh, bring them over!"

  Before long, Zhao Si brought those people over, a total of five people, all dressed as peasants. The leader, a Han man, said to Zhang Mingyu: "Officer, we want to join the army, please take us in!" "Please take us in!" The few people behind him also begged together!

  "Going to war means shedding blood, making sacrifices, and possibly dying! Aren't you afraid?" Zhang Mingyu said.

  "Our family members were all killed by those damned devils, we're not afraid of death, I want to join the army and follow our officers to kill those devils!" one of them said.

  "We are not afraid of death, take us down, sir!" The crowd exclaimed excitedly.

  "Alright, from now on you are all my soldiers. Do you know how to use a gun?" Zhang Mingyu asked.

  "We're all hunters from the village, we know how to use guns."

  "Oh! Zhang Biao gave each of them a gun,"

  "Yes, company commander." After receiving their guns, the five men excitedly asked: "Sir, can we try firing a shot?"

  "Okay,"

  Five people each fired a shot, and their marksmanship was not bad. It can be said that they were much better than ordinary soldiers. Among them, there was a person named Zhang Haisheng whose marksmanship was particularly accurate. He hit a sparrow at a distance of 300 meters. It turned out that Zhang Haisheng's family had been hunters for generations, and from the age of ten, he followed his father to learn hunting and developed good shooting skills!

  Zhang Mingyu gave Zhang Haisheng five people each equipped with a Type 38 rifle, ten rounds of ammunition per person, and three hand grenades.

  This battle annihilated 36 devils, one lieutenant, captured 34 Type 38 rifles, 1,500 rounds of ammunition, one revolver with 30 rounds, two light machine guns with 800 rounds, 150 hand grenades and 20 "egg" hand grenades. One lieutenant's military sword, 37 sets of Japanese military uniforms, as well as some dry rations and medicines were also seized.

  Zhang Mingyu's troops now have a total of 185 people, with 140 Hanyang-made rifles, over 900 rounds of ammunition, two light machine guns, and over 300 rounds of ammunition. In addition to the captured weapons, they now have 174 rifles, four light machine guns, and a total of over 3,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as over 500 hand grenades. After clearing the battlefield, Zhang Mingyu began thinking about where to go next. He wondered if he had a radio station, but even if he did, no one would use it! He didn't know where the main force of the 21st Division had retreated to.

  In Shanxi, the Eighth Route Army can definitely be found! However, he didn't want to join the Eighth Route either. At that time, the old man's Nanjing government had reorganized the Red Army into the 18th Group Army, but they only provided military pay and did not provide guns or ammunition, so the Eighth Route Army had to rely on themselves to capture everything! He didn't want his soldiers to be forced to engage in bayonet fighting with the Japanese devils who were clearly superior to them every time they ran out of ammunition after firing a few shots.

  To launch a large-scale resistance against the Japanese, we must first find the 21st Division and obtain weapons and ammunition from the Nanjing government to counter the enemy on the battlefield! After all, this is the period of cooperation between the KMT and the CPC! The whole nation is united without party affiliation, without distinction between you and me, to resist Japan together! Who knows what will happen in the future, as long as we can kill more Japanese devils on the battlefield against Japan.