Chapter 472

  Those pseudo-army who fled to the outside of the village were also unable to escape successfully. As soon as they ran to the entrance of the village, they encountered a firepower interception composed of six 30-caliber heavy machine guns and twelve 24-caliber light machine guns.

  "Rat-a-tat-tat" a string of crisp machine gun fire, the fleeing puppet army was like grass and was immediately knocked down by the heavy machine gun in a large area. This round of shooting killed or wounded more than 40 puppet soldiers on the spot.

  When they saw themselves under attack, the surviving fake soldiers tried to retreat back into the village, but were met with a burst of submachine gun fire from special forces who seemed to appear out of nowhere, killing or wounding them all.

  The remaining pseudo-army was so frightened that they didn't dare to lift their heads, and could only lie on the ground. At this time, a horseshoe sound came from the small forest, and Jing Hu's cavalry rushed out of the forest, and the rain-like horseshoes trampled these pseudo-soldiers mercilessly.

  Some fake soldiers tried to get up and run away, but how can a person outrun a horse? Before they could take a few steps, their heads were chopped off by the horse's knife.

  Cavalry company commander Jing Hu was originally a sniper, and his marksmanship was extremely accurate. He rode out on horseback from afar and killed a puppet army soldier with a Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle. After firing this shot, he slung the sniper rifle over his back, drew his saber with his right hand, and held a Mauser pistol in his left hand as he charged into the midst of the puppet troops.

  "Kill!" The war horse rushed past a pseudo-army soldier who was running away, and Jing Hu took advantage of the horse's strength to make one cut. The pseudo-army soldier's head flew into the sky, and a blood arrow sprayed from his chest cavity towards the empty air. The headless corpse slowly fell down.

  Very soon, more than 100 cavalrymen neatly wiped out the entire battalion of puppet troops. Mainly because Li Bin still had to rush to Changbai Mountain, so he didn't plan to take prisoners this time. After all, it's very inconvenient to travel with prisoners. Otherwise, some puppet troops could have been captured and joined the team after persuasion and education.

  Not even the fake army was left, let alone those devils. Li Bin would never want to leave any devil prisoners behind. He ordered: "Snipers continue to suppress! Cavalry charge up and chop them to death!"

  Seventy-six devils, thirty-one have been killed, and thirty-five are still alive. They lay on the ground, hearing the sound of horseshoes getting closer and closer to them. Some devils tried to pick up their rifles to aim at the charging cavalrymen, but were immediately shot in the head by snipers.

  Li Bin was very clear that the devils' bayonet skills were superb, and he would not use infantry to send them to their deaths in vain. There are only two ways to eliminate these devils: one is with the guard company's pistols or special forces' submachine guns, and the second is to trample them with cavalry. Even if the devils' bayonet skills were even more brilliant, they would not be able to withstand the cavalry.

  "Kill!" The bright cavalry sword reflected cold light in the sunlight, the warriors' battle cry shook the sky, and more than 100 riders galloped towards the devils' heads.

  As the cavalry was about to charge in, those devils stood up with a stiff upper lip, ready to use bayonets to take on the cavalry.

  Jing Hu held a gun in one hand and a knife in the other, shooting dead one of the devils, then mounted his horse, swung his knife, and was about to behead another devil when he heard the sound of a sniper rifle. The devil's head turned into a bloody mist.

  Jing Hu charged towards another devil on horseback, but before he could get close, that devil was shot in the head and his brains exploded.

  "Damn it! Leave a few devils for me, will you?! I used to be a sniper too!" Jin Hu cursed those snipers who "stole his business".

  Perhaps Li Bin felt that the 7.62 × 54 mm Russian rifle cartridges were not easy to replenish, so he ordered the snipers to stop shooting and let the cavalry solve the problem.

  As soon as the sniper stopped firing, Jing Hu suddenly gained momentum. He swung his sword and chopped one of the devils who was rushing towards him with a rifle in hand, cutting him in half along the horse's charging direction. Immediately afterwards, he shot and killed another devil on his left side.

  There was a devil who knew that infantry were no match for cavalry, so he ran away, but was caught up by Jinghu and beheaded with one slash of his knife.

  Those poor devils, no matter how high their stabbing skills were, could not withstand the cavalry's rapid charge. A flash of knives, and the devils' heads flew into the air one after another. In a short while, the remaining twenty-six devils were all killed by the cavalry, either beheaded or trampled into pulp.

  This battle was fought cleanly and efficiently, and the fighting was resolved within a short 15 minutes. Seventy-six devils, 114 pseudo-soldiers, and one traitorous translator were all killed, while on Li Bin's side, except for one horse being stabbed by a bayonet, all the soldiers were unscathed.

  As for the quick victory in this battle, Li Bin didn't think it was anything special. Originally, using an independent regiment to fight a small team of devils, winning easily was not a problem at all, and there was nothing worth boasting about. As for that one regiment of puppet troops, it can be said that they basically had no combat effectiveness, and annihilating them was even easier.

  Li Bin gave the warriors five minutes to clean up the battlefield, taking away all the guns, ammunition, helmets, shoes and useful items from the devils. In this battle, a total of three submachine guns, three grenade launchers, 52 Type 38 rifles, 14 South-style pistols, one command knife, more than 6,000 rounds of 6.5mm bullets, and over 200 sweet potato hand grenades were captured. From the puppet army's hands, 23 Liaoning Type 13 rifles, 21 old-fashioned tube rifles, 8 water-pearl rifles, 31 worn-out Yuan-year-style rifles, 6 Mauser pistols, 2 Czech-style machine guns, more than 2,000 rounds of various bullets, and 100 wooden-handle hand grenades were captured.

  What made Li Bin the happiest was that the eight water droplet pearl rifles they captured used bullets that were exactly compatible with their sniper rifles, and there were over 200 rounds of ammunition.

  In addition, more than 3,000 ocean shells were found on the body, 26 "small yellow fish", 8 "big yellow fish", 4 pocket watches, 6 pens, 2 wristwatches, and a large number of yen. The Browning powerful pistol carried by the devil translator also fell into Li Bin's bag.

  "Strange? The devils' military pay isn't high, how do they have so much money?" Li Bin muttered to himself in puzzlement. Suddenly he remembered: Ah, wasn't Ben Zhuangfan originally going to return Young Marshal's private belongings to him? But Young Marshal refused. Later when this batch of goods was being transported back to the Northeast, it was looted by the devils' soldiers! So it seems that most of this money still belongs to Young Marshal, it's just been snatched back again!"

  Those two little girls were rescued by Li Bin and his men. Li Bin asked them their names, and learned that the elder sister was called Qiu Qiu, and the younger one was called Qiu Rong. Their mother had died in childbirth when giving birth to the younger sister, and their father had been killed by the devils (Japanese). Li Bin pitied the two children, and decided to take them with him. The elder sister could be a female soldier, while the younger one, although small, was quite clever and also a good seedling.

  The villagers in the village were frightened by the sudden change and lost their minds. When they saw the devils being killed, they came out of their homes one after another. From the village chief's mouth, it was learned that when the puppet army came to collect grain, these villagers did not want to hand over the grain they had grown with great difficulty. The puppet army falsely accused the villagers of "collaborating with the Righteous Brave Army" and called in the devils to suppress them.

  Li Bin gathered all the villagers together and said to them: "Fellow countrymen, we are the Northeast Volunteer Army! We just killed those devils! They will definitely investigate when they find their soldiers missing! Once the devils discover that their men were killed here, they will definitely come back to take revenge on you! Fellow countrymen, you'd better leave quickly and go somewhere else to survive!"

  Several young men jumped out: "Sir, we want to join the volunteer army!"

  Someone took the lead and almost all the young men in the village shouted: "Officer, we want to join the army to fight against the devils!"

  Li Bin looked at those young people, he nodded and said: "I need the elite, you want to join the army, you have to go through my selection! If you can't be selected, then hurry up and take your parents, wives and children away from here!"

  After finishing, Li Bin personally went down to select and chose eighteen of the strongest men from among them to join his Righteous and Brave Army. The remaining villagers were each given a silver dollar and then allowed to leave. In order to supplement the soldiers' rations, Li Bin also purchased a batch of grain from the fellow villagers.

  "Brother, what about the captured weapons? Those old-fashioned rifles and Type 11 rifles are really too bad! And there's no place to replenish the 6.8mm bullets for the Type 11 rifle." Xiao Bo asked.

  Li Bin thought for a moment and replied: "Take them all away! In the future, we will need militia to develop our base, and these old-fashioned weapons can be provided to the militia later."

  After everything was arranged, Li Bin also knew that it was impossible to wait until dark here now. Because soon the enemy would find out that the soldiers were missing and would definitely come out to search everywhere. At this time, they had to change their plan of action, leave Zhangwu quickly, head north into the Tongliao mountain area for temporary shelter, and wait until nightfall to look for an opportunity to set off. In Tongliao, where the forest was dense, it was the best place for Li Bin and his men to rest and regroup.

  A detachment of eighteen new recruits and two little girls left Da Leng Township, heading north into the Tongliao mountainous area. After a night's rest there, they continued on the next day along the foot of the mountains in an easterly direction for half a day before stopping to rest in a large forest, planning to wait until nightfall before entering the plains region.

  After the enemy found that a small team of devils and a company of puppet troops were missing, a large team of devils stationed in Zhangwu came out to search everywhere. Soon, the devils found the corpses and realized that their men had been ambushed.

  But these devils were also powerless, after all, the number of Kwantung Army personnel was not very large at that time. The devils themselves did not have the ability to search for the Righteous and Brave Army everywhere, they could only send the puppet army to find these "killers of the Imperial Army".

  As the sky gradually darkened, Li Bin ordered to set off again and head in a southeast direction towards Kangping. After a night of rapid march, when the sky was about to brighten up, Li Bin and his men arrived at a small hill forest in the southwest of Kangping, where they rested for another day after which they continued their journey at night, entering a forest in Tianqiao Mountain before dawn to rest again.

  After entering the forest, Li Bin knew that tonight would be the most critical night. He convened a meeting of all cadres: "Brothers! We rested here during the day and will rush at night! Tonight will be the most critical night! Because tonight we have to cross the plain, cross the railway line where the devils and puppet troops are patrolling, and reach Mojie Red Mountain! We must arrive at Mojie Red Mountain within one night from here! So, everyone cannot take it lightly!"

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