Volume 1 Chapter 16

  After Li Bin's "special processing", the hand grenades fell one by one into the crowd of devils, exploding and opening up. The powerful machine gun also suppressed the devils, making it impossible for them to lift their heads. Furthermore, Wang Zihao and Wu Congyu, the two godly marksmen, accurately picked off targets, and soon this group of devils discovered that they were completely unable to defeat the enemy in front of them.

  When they saw Li Bin's "processing" method for hand grenades, the Northeast Army soldiers were deeply impressed by this short man. By now, they had begun to admire this "big brother".

  In the dark, the devils didn't know how many anti-Japanese warriors were in front of them, they didn't even know where the enemy was, it was like being blindfolded and beaten up.

  Especially those two machine guns, they were simply pointing and shooting wherever they wanted. The Japanese crooked-handled machine guns, grenade launchers, and snipers all became Hong Biao's "priority targets". In front of the two crooked-handled machine guns, more than a dozen corpses were scattered about.

  No matter how strong the enemy's combat effectiveness is, it cannot play a role under the condition of being suppressed by others' firepower.

  When the Japanese devils found themselves unable to defeat their opponents, there was only one way out: "transfer", which means running away with both legs open. The Japanese never say "retreat", they only "transfer". In the late Pacific War, the Japanese "transferred" from Indochina to the Philippines, and then "transferred" from the Philippines to the Ryukyu Islands, finally "transferring" to mainland Japan, preparing to fight against the "invading Allied forces". Unfortunately, the two atomic bombs dropped by the Americans saved Japan. Otherwise, the Soviet Union would have sent troops from Hokkaido, attacking all the way to Honshu, and Japan would have been cut in half like the Korean Peninsula!

  Since the Japanese are going to "change their tactics", how can Li Bin let these little devils who harm the Chinese people get away? He waved his hand: "Brothers, the devils want to run! Don't let them get away!"

  After finishing speaking, he picked up his Type 95 submachine gun, jumped out of the position and chased after the direction where the devils were escaping.

  The Northeast Army soldiers hiding in the dark jumped up, holding their rifles and firing at the devils who were escaping from behind. A burst of crisp gunfire rang out, and five more devils fell to the ground.

  However, those old-fashioned rifles had to be recocked after each shot, and the soldiers' marksmanship was not very accurate. They had to shoot and then recock, so they couldn't catch up with the enemy. Therefore, after each person fired a shot, they charged forward with bayonets fixed on their rifles, chasing after the devils from behind.

  Wang Zihao threw away his rifle, pulled out the Mauser pistol and chased after the devils from behind. He fired shot after shot, and three devils who were fleeing fell under his gun.

  Wu Congyu also "cracked" the gun bolt and fired a bullet, hitting the back of a devil's head with a loud bang.

  The warriors behind came up with bayonets, and the devils who were running away suddenly turned their heads, "whirring" and retreated all the bullets in the barrel. Then, three people formed a group, back to back, forming a "hedgehog array", facing the Northeastern Army soldiers who rushed up.

  Li Bin saw the situation and anxiously shouted: "Don't go up! Solve the problem with guns!"

  But before the words had fallen, a warrior who couldn't stop his footsteps in time rushed to the front of the "hedgehog array". He stabbed at one of the devils with his knife, but was blocked by the devil. The devil counterattacked with a backhand stab, piercing the warrior's chest!

  The second warrior who couldn't stop his pace also rushed to the "hedgehog array", and in a flash of an eye, he was stabbed down to the ground by the devils.

  Seeing two comrades fall in a row, Li Bin was so heartbroken that he gritted his teeth. He didn't have time to rush over and open fire, and could only anxiously shout: "Don't get close to the devils!"

  These Northeastern Army soldiers initially had no idea how fierce the devils were with their bayonets. Seeing two of them being stabbed down one after another, and then hearing Li Bin's shout, they naturally didn't dare to move forward, and could only stand still, holding their rifles with fixed bayonets, staring at the devils, without anyone daring to make a move.

  This small team of devils, although having been annihilated by two-thirds of their strength, still had twenty-three men. When they saw that their opponent had only over ten people, they suddenly gained courage.

  The little devil captain drew out his command knife and shouted loudly: "Kill!"

  Twenty-three devils charged towards the Northeast Army soldiers with bayonets, just as Li Bin arrived, he raised his Type 95 short-barreled rifle and fired a burst, "Rat-a-tat-tat" The muzzle spat out dazzling flames, a string of bullets flew out, eleven devils let out miserable cries and fell.

  Li Bin had just finished firing and hadn't even had time to reload when the devils were about to mix with the soldiers. Just then, Hong Biao arrived with two handguns and Wang Zihao with a Mauser pistol. The three Mauser pistols fired in succession, and in an instant, ten more devils fell one after another.

  The last remaining Japanese soldier charged forward with his bayonet, but a single enemy had already lost its power. The warrior in front made way, and the two soldiers on either side stabbed him in the ribs from under his armpits.

  The last one left was the little devil captain, who wielded his command knife and pounced on Li Bin with a loud shout, but was shot by Hong Biao with a single bullet, which hit the devil's forehead and drilled a bloody hole in his head. The little captain slowly fell to the ground.

  Looking at the bodies of the devils scattered all over the ground, the warriors never dreamed that with their own strength of eighteen people, they could annihilate a small team of devils so easily! However, due to complacency and underestimating the devils' bayonet fighting skills, two warriors were stabbed to death by the devils.

  In fact, the victory of the eighteen people is also a great victory. Although only two comrades were sacrificed, they were Wang Zihao and Wu Congyu's sworn brothers who went through thick and thin together.

  "Hurry up, you have three minutes to clean up the battlefield and leave immediately, or you'll suffer the devils' revenge!" Wang Zihao and his men hadn't even realized what was happening before Li Bin yelled out loudly.

  In this battle, a total of 78 Japanese devils were killed, and three light machine guns were captured, one of which was damaged by Hong Biao's machine gun and could not be used; three grenade launchers were captured; sixty-six Type 38 rifles were captured, excluding seventeen rifles that were damaged by hand grenades or machine guns, the remaining forty-nine rifles were intact. One officer's sword, twelve South Manchurian type pistols, more than 7,000 rounds of 6.5mm rifle ammunition, more than 300 rounds of 8mm pistol ammunition, and more than 200 sweet melon hand grenades were captured. And from the bodies of the Japanese devils, more than 300 silver dollars, more than 600 yen, as well as watches, fountain pens, water bottles, and Kobe canned beef were found.

  Li Bin glanced at his luminous watch and when the time was almost up, he shouted: "Withdraw!"

  The already damaged rifles and machine guns were thoroughly smashed by the warriors. Originally, Wang Zhihao and others wanted to take away the Type 14 Nambu pistol from the south, but they were stopped by Li Bin: "This kind of gun is really rubbish! Leaving it will only increase our burden, why not destroy them?"

  The warriors loaded the captured spoils of war and the bodies of two fallen comrades onto a large cart, then followed Li Bin, Hong Biao, and Wang Zihao out of the devils' activity area, quickly disappearing into the forest.

  At dawn, two new graves appeared in the woods. Wang Zihao and his soldiers knelt before the graves, with tears in his eyes, Wang Zihao kowtowed to the two new graves: "Two brothers, may you rest in peace! Thank you for avenging the people of Wangjia Village! Your blood has not been shed in vain! From now on, we will definitely kill more devils and use their heads to sacrifice to you!"

  After achieving the first victory, Li Bin also felt that this battle, although it did not kill those who killed Wangjiacun, but also achieved a significant result, annihilating a full-strength Japanese squad, which was a very good achievement. So he said to Wang Zihao: "Brother, we have eliminated a small team of devils, if we continue northward, I'm afraid it will attract the attention of the devils! Therefore, in my opinion, we should quickly head west and then south to Jinzhou to find General Huang Xiansheng! We must preserve our own strength before we can eliminate more devils!"

  Wu Congyu interjected: "Are we not going to rescue the squad leader's sister? And what about the murderers of Wangjiavillage, haven't we taken care of them yet?"

  Wang Zihao glared at Wu Congyu and shouted: "Is this how you speak to your elder brother? If it weren't for my plan, would we have won that battle last night?"

  When Wu Congyu lowered his head, Wang Zihao lowered his tone and said: "Brothers, what Big Brother said makes sense! We can only eliminate more devils by saving ourselves first! Last night we didn't encounter strong enemies and won with Big Brother's clever plan! But if we continue to move north, it's no different from moths flying into the fire!"

  When the prince said this, Wu Congyu and others had nothing to say. They bowed their heads in succession to the graves of the two martyrs, and then followed Li Bin, Hong Biao, and Wang Zihao, first westward, all the way to Suiyuan, until they arrived at Liaoxi with sparse population, and then southward, towards Jinzhou.