Chapter 7: Crazy Revenge (Part 2)

  "Bastards! What are your intelligence departments eating? Until now, you still don't know who our enemy is!" Lieutenant Colonel Ikeda Ichiro of the Imperial Japanese Army yelled at his intelligence officer in anger. He had been driven mad by the frequent attacks on the strongholds around the city where he was stationed. Moreover, they were often fatal attacks, and each time the soldiers inside the stronghold were brutally killed by the enemy, and defensive structures such as artillery towers were also destroyed by the enemy. What was most unbearable was that until now, his intelligence department had not investigated which troops were attacking them.

  "It's like this! According to our intelligence, the number of attackers won't be too many, and their firepower is quite strong. We analyzed that it was the same group of Eighth Route Army who attacked Xincun stronghold last time. However, as far as I know, our stronghold can hold on even if it's attacked by a battalion, but the stronghold under attack often falls before our reinforcements arrive." The intelligence officer replied with a bow.

  "Hmm! I've already seen these, what does this mean?" asked Ichiro Iida.

  "We found that apart from some soldiers who were stabbed to death with bayonets, the rest of the bodies were burned. However, we have already found military doctors to examine the bodies and found that among those burned bodies, some people were shot dead with bullets piercing their heads, and no bullet marks were found on other parts of their bodies." The intelligence officer continued.

  "Really?" Iida Ichirō stood up involuntarily, walked out from behind his desk and came to the map in the room, carefully examining the tactical chart.

  The intelligence officer continued on the side, "We analyzed that they wanted to burn these bodies in order to cover up these secrets."

  "Ikawa! You immediately go and investigate whether the Nationalist Army has made any military movements near our Wu Xiang recently!" Ikeda Ichiro suddenly turned around and instructed.

  "Yes! I'll go take care of it!", "I suspect this is an elite squad of the Nationalist Party.", "Hmm, my judgment is the same, after all, apart from the Nationalist Party's small squads, other troops are unlikely to have such strong combat power."

  "In addition, we must continue to investigate the Eighth Route Army troops that attacked the Xincun base last time."

  "Yes! Our people are investigating their identities."

  Li Xinmin's current idea is to focus on attacking the small strongholds of the devils, avoiding places with many people, after all, there are too few people in his hands now, and once they engage in a large-scale battle with the devils, they will be surrounded by the devils, which is very unfavorable for them. During this period, he has been continuously attacking, making the devils unable to cope. The purpose of his actions is twofold: one is to avenge the death of his parents and fellow villagers, and the other is to seize materials from the devils' hands. Now his troops are equipped with the most advanced equipment among all the Shanxi combat troops. Through this phase of fighting, they have captured 3 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 10 submachine guns, 5 grenade launchers, and 102 rifles, killing a total of 162 devils.

  For the Type 92 heavy machine gun, Li Xinmin never thought of keeping it. That thing is too heavy and only effective for blocking battles and firepower confrontations. In Li Xinmin's eyes, the enemy's weapons are too cumbersome and not conducive to rapid troop movements. Li Xinmin's equipment focus is on light machine guns and grenade launchers, with these two types of weapons working together being sufficient. Don't forget that he has Gao Dabao and his trump card in hand, during battles, once there is an opportunity, they can take out the enemy's machine gunner and grenadier first.

  During this period, Li Xinmin constantly sent people to deliver captured materials and equipment to the regiment, making other comrades in the regiment jealous.

  "Zhang Paichang, you're back again? Won another battle? What good stuff did you capture this time?" The team's security guard saw Zhang Dawei, the third squad leader, and came over to greet him warmly. Now Zhang Dawei has become a celebrity in the team department, basically every soldier knows him, and every time he is responsible for transporting supplies back to the team department, coming and going, he has become familiar with the soldiers of the team department.

  "Hehe! Nothing much! Just a few dozen guns and some grain, a small harvest." Zhang Daquan said lightly.

  "Haha! Is this also a small gain? Even the Type 92 heavy machine gun is here?" Security guard Little Zhang's eyes grew even more envious.

  Zhang Daweien smiled and entered the regimental headquarters to report to the regiment commander and political commissar, while other soldiers in the regimental headquarters began to discuss it.

  "Look at them winning one after another, and this time they even have spoils of war." "Yes! I don't know how Li Lianzhang became so divine either."

  "Wow! Look at them winning, I'm so thrilled too!", "Exactly! Haven't you seen they even changed into new shoes?"

  "That's all they got from the devils!" "Yes indeed!"

  "Go, go, go! Everyone should just go and do what they need to do! Stop wasting time here!" The soldiers dispersed in an instant.

  At this time, Li Xinmin and others were brewing an ambush against the devils.

  "Sunjiakou is 70 li north of Wuxiang, 50 li south of Xiangyang, and 60 li northwest of the county seat of Qin County, located at the intersection of three counties. It now belongs to Xiangyang County. Sunjiakou is right on the highway, which has about 1 li in the village, with two big turns within this 1 li. The highway exits the village from a stone bridge in the north of the village, spanning the Qin River. This terrain forces any incoming vehicle to slow down. And the higher embankments and houses built for flood control inside the village provide good shooting positions." Li Xinmin introduced the target of this operation to his brothers.

  Now the whole regiment's warriors not only obey Li Xinmin's orders, but also worship him. The warriors worship Li Xinmin's martial arts skills, worship his marksmanship, in short, they have boundless admiration for him. Several platoon leaders are even more admiring of him, to the point of being completely won over.

  "Alright, Platoon Leader, assign the tasks!" Zhang Daquan said hastily. During this period of time, he had been envied by too many people. Every time he went to the battalion headquarters to deliver supplies and saw the soldiers' envy towards him, he felt extremely proud, proud that he could be in the first company. Therefore, he performed very bravely in every battle. When he heard that there was another battle to fight, he was naturally very excited.

  "The local people in Sunjiakou have suffered greatly at the hands of the devils, and many villagers are willing to cooperate with our actions. There are many anti-Japanese activists in the village, and with their cooperation, we will definitely succeed this time." Li Xinmin said afterwards.