Chapter 8

  This officer, when he was in the Northeast Army, had used the Maxim heavy machine gun and also the Czech-style light machine gun, but none of those guns could compare to this one! He had never seen a heavy machine gun with such powerful firepower before! As he fired and observed the effect, he secretly exclaimed: "This gun is really too powerful! If we have more of these guns, then we won't be afraid of those devils!"

  Two men, relying on the protection of the tank, one on the top of the car sweeping wildly at the Japanese army, and another in the turret using a parallel machine gun to fire fiercely. Just two people, relying on the powerful firepower of the Type 95 Ha-Go tank, fought the Japanese squad until they were bloody and flying everywhere.

  As Li Bin had guessed, there were Japanese soldiers attempting to sneak up from behind and launch a surprise attack on them. However, the devils who attempted to sneak around did not escape the eyes of the young officer on the vehicle, he turned his gun around, took aim at the three sneaky devils who were trying to creep over, and fired a string of bullets, instantly blowing the three devils into two pieces.

  The devil machine gunner who tried to manipulate the twisted handle of the machine gun to cover the soldiers with firepower was killed on the spot by Li Bin's string of bullets. The deputy shooter came up, and was pierced by another string of machine gun bullets, falling to the ground and becoming a corpse that was still twitching.

  Seeing the powerful "gun emplacement", a Japanese lieutenant waved his command sword: "Organize a suicide squad to blow up the gun emplacement!"

  Three Japanese "suicide squad members" took off their shirts, bared their chests, and were bound all over with explosives as they prepared to charge towards the Type 95 tank.

  The three "dare-to-die" members had just rushed out a few steps when they were discovered by Li Bin and the young officer. The anti-aircraft machine gun and parallel machine gun fired dense bullets at the same time, and the first "dare-to-die" member fell to the ground with a thud, becoming a corpse covered in blood holes; The second "dare-to-die" member was shot by the young officer's heavy machine gun and was cut into two pieces; The third "dare-to-die" member was hit by machine gun bullets tied to his body with explosives, and a flash of fire was seen, that "dare-to-die" member was blown to pieces in a cloud of smoke.

  Continuous attacks were declared failures. Under the "rotating turret" opposite, more than 30 corpses lay scattered. In addition to the more than a dozen devils killed by the Type 95 short-barreled rifle earlier, this battalion had actually lost more than half of its men.

  Seeing the strong attack not falling, the little devil team leader felt fear in his heart. He drew out his command knife and danced: "We'll retreat first and send someone back to report! If all else fails, we'll wait for the artillery behind us to destroy this damn cannon emplacement!"

  Discovering that the enemy was about to flee, Li Bin anxiously shouted to the young officer: "We must wipe them out today! Otherwise, these devils will go back and report!"

  Seeing the Japanese wanting to escape, the young officer continuously swept those attempting to escape with a high-angle machine gun, while Li Bin left the vehicle commander's position and sat down at the gunner's position, skillfully manipulating the tank cannon.

  A high-explosive shell was loaded into the barrel, he rotated the turret, lowered the gun barrel, and the dark muzzle aimed at those fleeing devils.

  The muzzle of the cannon spat out a six-meter-long flame, and a shell flew towards the Japanese soldiers 150 meters away.

  A huge red fireball burst into the air, a scream of despair, and the Japanese lieutenant was swallowed up by the flames, leaving no bones behind. His five soldiers were blown into the air like birds in the firelight, torn to pieces by sharp shrapnel in mid-air. The powerful explosion not only annihilated six devils at once but also turned more than a dozen devils into wounded soldiers writhing in agony in a pool of blood.

  The young officer continued to fire at the Japanese with a burst of machine gun, the chain of bullets getting shorter and shorter until an empty sound was heard, the high-speed machine gun had run out of bullets!

  At this moment, the second shell entered the barrel, and Li Bin manipulated the artillery to shoot the revenge shell at the devils.

  The whistling shells tore through the forest, leaving no place for those devils to hide. The shells exploded on the ground, and one devil was blown into a bloody pulp on the spot. Two other devils were blown into the air with a blood-curdling scream. The powerful shockwave sent seven devils who failed to escape flying into the air before crashing heavily to the ground.

  The officer who had finished firing the high-speed machine gun bullets drew his Mauser pistol, aimed at the back of a fleeing devil and gently pulled the trigger. "Bang bang bang" he fired in succession, a string of bullets drilled into the devil's brain from behind, and a blinding blood sword spurted out of the devil's head, and he fell to the ground like a wooden stake.

  Li Bin raised a Type 95 short-barreled rifle and also crawled out of the tank, firing at a Japanese soldier who was trying to escape from this terrifying "killing field". The bullet entered from behind the devil's back, leaving a dazzling blood flower on his back. The devil fell to the ground with his head down, turning into a corpse that was still twitching.

  "Drive them out and kill them!" Li Bin shouted.

  Two men jumped out of the tank, and the young officer raised his Mauser pistol with both hands, firing left and right, almost every shot hitting its mark. The three devils running for their lives fell to the ground one after another.

  Another devil trying to escape was also hit by the officer's consecutive bullets in the heart, and a blood mist spurted out from his back. This devil fell to the ground with a thud.

  The devil on the ground turned around and fired a shot at the young officer, but he dodged the bullet with agility. The young officer countered with a shot of his own, the bullet knocked off the devil's helmet, penetrated his skull, and after entering the cranium, the 5.8mm bullet rolled about wildly, tearing apart brain tissue along with blood and bone fragments before exiting from the other side. The devil didn't even let out a cry as he fell to the ground dead.

  Li Bin, who had just jumped out of the tank, looked at the 22 wounded Japanese soldiers struggling on the ground. He pulled out his Type 92 pistol and was about to fire when he was stopped by a young officer: "We are Chinese, we cannot kill prisoners."

  Li Bin, with a furious expression, pointed at the devils and said: "Can't kill prisoners of war? That depends on what kind of prisoners! These damn things can't even be considered human! They can only be considered beasts!" After finishing speaking, he pushed away the young military officer, took out his Type 92 pistol, and shot each of the devils in the head at close range, quickly emptying a 15-round magazine. He replaced it with another one and continued firing until all the wounded devils were killed.

  After he killed all the devils, he turned to the young officer and said: "My tank is damaged and cannot move. I can't keep these devils here. If they go back and report, the enemy will come and take away this tank!"

  It wasn't until then that the two had time to calm down and get to know each other. The young officer's name was Hong Biao, a lieutenant in the Northeast Army's Seventh Independent Brigade Reconnaissance Battalion, who was familiar with various firearms and hand-to-hand combat techniques, and his marksmanship was extremely accurate.

  This time, Li Bin had picked up a treasure.

  Hong Biao looked at the strange tank and suddenly pulled out his Mauser pistol, aiming it at Li Bin: "You'd better confess honestly, what kind of person are you? Are you a spy for the Russians?"

  Li Bin was completely unprepared for this move, and he really didn't know how to respond. With a basic understanding of history, he knew that since 1929, Zhang Xueliang's relationship with the Soviet Union had been extremely poor. Zhang Xueliang was determined to regain control over the Chinese Eastern Railway, while Stalin refused to give in. As a result, there had been several clashes between the Northeastern Army and the Soviet military.

  Li Bin thought to himself: My tank, and the weapons I carry, are things that could never have been had domestically back then. No, not even any country in the world had them! How was he supposed to explain this?

  Seeing Li Bin speechless, Hong Biao was even more certain that this person must be a spy of "Red Imperialism". He laughed loudly and said: "No need to explain, you must be a Russian spy! But don't worry, I won't kill you! After all, you saved me, and now our biggest enemy is Japan!"

  Li Bin hastily explained: "No, I'm not a Russian spy, I'm a patriotic researcher who returned from the United States. What I developed in the US is tanks. Look at this gun, whether it's workmanship or accuracy, it's something the Russians can't make! And this tank, with their technology, can they do it?"

  Hong Biao looked at Li Bin with a mixture of trust and doubt, thinking to himself: This person claims to be a researcher, but the clothes he's wearing seem to resemble Soviet military uniforms. And how did he manage to bring this tank here? Thinking about this, Hong Biao asked: "Where did this tank come from? How did you transport it? Why did it break down right here?"

  "Brother, some things I'll tell you later. I have two brothers who came here and were killed by the Japanese, they're buried over there." As he spoke, Li Bin pointed to two graves in the woods.

  Hong Biao looked in the direction Li Bin was pointing and indeed saw two graves in the woods near the tank. Then he continued to ask: "Excuse me, brother, what do you want to do when you come to our Northeast?"

  Li Bin replied, "My colleagues and I developed this new tank and new firearms, originally intending to return and serve our motherland. However, the September 18th Incident occurred, and we didn't even have time to join the battlefield before these untested weapons were damaged. Those two brothers were also killed by the Japanese! This grudge, I will definitely avenge!"

  Hong Biao let out a bitter laugh and said to Li Bin, "Do you think that with just your own strength, you can stop the Japanese? Our 400,000-strong Northeastern Army couldn't even stop the Japanese advance! If those in charge don't plan on resisting, then no matter how advanced your weapons are, what's the use?"