Chapter 21: The Song of the Great Blade
"Charge!" Major Yamashita drew his command sword and several hundred Japanese soldiers around him immediately formed an attacking formation, each holding their weapons and making preparations for battle.
On the battlefield, other positions also had scattered Japanese troops approaching the regiment's position. In a short while, the soldiers under Major Yamashita approached five hundred. However, the major was still feeling suffocated, to think that half an hour ago, his regiment had nearly two thousand soldiers!
This time the sneak attack was actually a secondary adventure, Li Jintang led a team of soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's machine gun position at night, and then launched a surprise attack on the enemy's artillery battalion. This artillery battalion did not have as many infantrymen as the infantry battalion, nor did it have strong close combat capabilities, but after all, it was also a battalion-level combat unit. The number of non-artillery personnel in the battalion, including the direct guard, transportation soldiers, logistics soldiers, and so on, was already a considerable figure. The enemy artillery battalion did not rest tonight, they were still fighting, which naturally increased the difficulty of the sneak attack. It is not impossible for Li Jintang's team to launch a frontal assault to take down this artillery battalion, but the casualties that will be paid are definitely too great to bear.
Li Traveling long of course clearly this point, just in order to annihilate this devil artillery regiment, even if it means sacrificing the entire division, he doesn't care! The battle at Luo Wenyu has already reached that point, and the division commander is getting anxious. The temporary second division has really borne too much pressure. If they must win the war with one division, Li Jintian still thinks it's worth it!
The assault troops rushed in from a long distance, and it was impossible to carry any heavy weapons. The Second Division didn't have many heavy weapons anyway. Each soldier had enough hand grenades on them. It just didn't occur to us that the hand grenades wouldn't be very effective against machine gun nests, but they worked wonders here in this artillery position! If not for the large-scale and high-density throwing of hand grenades at the beginning, it would have been impossible to kill so many devils right from the start. Adding to that, the unexpected explosion of the ammunition box caused the devils to lose almost 80% of their strength in our first wave of attack. What was left was just a matter of time before victory. As for winning or losing, it had already been decided at the moment the ammunition exploded.
This pitcher grenade explosion shell, is actually still high all of a masterpiece. Yesterday he killed that ghost cannon battalion when, used this trick. Just that the battalion's big gun not so much just. Today large troops approached the ghost cannon battalion position, high all thought of yesterday's classic battle, without saying a word, first threw out a hand grenade, mouth while pretending to pass on the imperial edict shouting: "Superior officer orders to throw hand grenades first!"
The soldiers' impression of the charge was still waving their big knives and shouting loudly as they rushed towards the enemy, and when they got close, they swung their big knives and cut the devils in two with one knife. However, the explosion of hand grenades and the loud shouts made the soldiers mistakenly believe that this was a tactic devised by Li Jintang. After all, for fake orders on the battlefield, ordinary soldiers wouldn't dare to do it, let alone think about it. As a result, Gao Quan's order as a company commander was faithfully executed by the entire regiment, with more than 2,000 soldiers forming a barrage of hand grenades that directly detonated the devils' ammunition boxes, causing this unprecedented tragic accident.
After the explosion stopped, Li Jintang found that a large number of devils gathered behind the devil's position, and immediately led the soldiers to launch a charge against the devils.
This time it was a real charge, the soldiers of the Temporary Second Division shouted and fired while rushing towards the devils. The devils on the other side were also charging back with rifles. Fortunately, the devil's artillery battalion had only two light machine guns in addition to the necessary rifles, and did not have heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns or grenade launchers. During the charge, the soldiers of the Temporary Second Division did not suffer any particularly heavy casualties.
The two sides were not too far apart, and they clashed with each other. Within tens of seconds, the soldiers on both sides came into contact with each other, and a fierce hand-to-hand combat unfolded instantly!
"A mighty slash with the broadsword, swinging horizontally to block the waist. With the wind at its back, it sweeps like autumn leaves, and the enemy cannot escape the swift and fierce attack. Striding forward with a sudden burst of speed, it lifts and strikes with a slanting blow. Protecting left and right with quick movements, it shifts and changes shape to launch a sudden thrust."
If you say that Gao Quan still had some understanding of this majestic "Big Knife Song" before, now he has truly witnessed its power. Li Jintian and his guards, each with a big knife, swung it up and it was really magnificent.
The devil's knife thrusts forward, the big knife sweeps from bottom to top, and after the knife back opens the thrusting knife, it cuts off the devil's neck with a slant. Li Jintian is an old soldier of the Northwest Army, who has received orthodox training in the Big Knife Team, and his guards have also undergone specialized knife technique training classes. The troops still maintain the good tradition of playing big knives during exercises until now. This set of knife techniques has few moves, only eight moves in those four sentences, but it is extremely practical on the battlefield. This knife technique is a sharp tool for killing people, and it is not comparable to the fitness knife technique that people practice in the park in the morning.
The knife techniques practiced in the park are mainly for show, looking good and not too strenuous. The knives are light and it's a great way to exercise and breathe fresh air in the morning. This set of Broken Wind Knife Techniques is different, every move is a killing move, every change is designed to injure the opponent. The knife is heavy and sharp, one strike can hurt someone, this is the true nature of this technique.
The mighty battlefield combat technique has no fixed moves, it's a very practical type that can defeat the enemy with one move, which is also widely used in later armies, with high efficiency, but always feels less majestic than other northwest soldiers. It wasn't noticed before, but now when fighting alongside the main force against the devils, Wang Dazhu on the side was killing with excitement, while fighting the devils, he sang out the knife technique's oral formula like a war song, and as he sang sentence by sentence, the big knife in his hand was windy and powerful, and the devils were beheaded one after another. Among them, the sentence: "Cross-step thrust, swift as lightning, linked ring, willow leaf slash." is the most practical, Gaoquan has seen Wang Dazhu use this move to behead devils more than once.
Although it's not the best time to learn martial arts now, Gao Quan deliberately observed Wang Dazhu for a while during the fight with the devils, silently pondering the changes in his knife skills.
"Ah!" A Japanese soldier charged towards Gao Quan with a bayonet attached to his Type 38 rifle. Gao Quan had been thinking about the Broadsword technique all along, and with the large chopping knife in hand, he naturally used the move he had observed earlier. With both hands gripping the knife, the blade facing down and the back of the knife on top, from bottom to top, he swept it up, "Clang!" The Japanese soldier's bayonet was knocked askew, and taking advantage of the rebounding force, Gao Quan chopped downwards diagonally, "Splat!" A light sound, the sharp blade sliced across the Japanese soldier's neck, and the little devil's head rolled directly to the ground. Indeed, it was a special move for killing devils!
At that time, the little devils were generally shorter, and the soldiers of the 29th Army were mostly tall and strong men from the northwest. They used big knives to chop off the devils' heads, which was extremely easy for them. Gao Quan's height, which would be considered ordinary in later generations at 1.73 meters, would immediately get lost in a crowd of people. However, when facing the little devils who were generally no taller than 1.65 meters, his tall and strong physique stood out, which gave him the greatest satisfaction deep down in his heart. When he swung his knife to kill the little devils, it felt even more natural and effortless, as if he had entered a state of perfect harmony.
