Chapter 45 Harvest
"Brother, where are you going? I've been looking for you for half a day and couldn't find you!" Fang Zhenghai asked anxiously as he entered the trench.
"I'm going to prepare a gift for the devils!" Zhang Lieyang said, looking around before telling Fang Zhenghai about putting the grenade under the devil's corpse. Fang Zhenghai listened and gave a thumbs up, saying: "Brother, you're really something! I admire you to death!" Then Fang Zhenghai said to Zhang Lieyang: "Brother, I'm still saying the same thing, no matter what, you must survive, not for my personal sake, but to live for driving the Japanese devils out of China!"
"Brother Fang, don't worry! I won't die until the Japanese devils are driven out of China!" Just then, Zhang Lieyang heard the phone ringing. Fang Zhenghai picked up the phone and asked, "Who is it?!"
"I am Zhu Zhiming! What's the situation now?" Zhu Zhiming asked seriously.
"The devils have been repelled by us many times, and now they are still quiet! Comrade Tang, can you arrange for someone to send some ammunition over? We're almost out of bullets and food!" Fang Zhenghai said anxiously.
"I know! I'll think of a way right away!" Zhu Zhiming thought for a moment and asked, "How many people do you have left now?"
"Our camp still has more than 70 people who can fight with guns! The reinforced company you sent didn't lose a single man! Now they are the main force defending the position!" Fang Zhenghai said seriously.
"I know! You must be careful not to let the little devils touch your position tonight!" Zhu Zhiming hung up the phone. Then Zhu Zhiming dialed Jiang Guangnai's phone and said, "Commander-in-Chief, the position on Qingyun Road is still in our hands, it's just that their ammunition is running out!"
"How many more of them are there?" Jiang Guangnai asked seriously.
"They still have four hundred men! Seventy of them are from our First Battalion, the rest are reinforcements you sent!" Zhu Zhiming said seriously.
"I'll send someone to deliver the ammunition as soon as possible!" said Jiang Guangnai, hanging up the phone. After hanging up the phone, Jiang Guangnai thought for a moment and called Xiao Shixiong.
"Chongyuan brother, I'm so sorry! It's so late to call and disturb you, I really shouldn't be bothering you!" Jiang Guangnai said with a smile.
"What's going on?!" asked Xiao Shixiong seriously.
"Chongyuan brother, I think after this battle is over, I'll keep that reinforced company you lent me! Are you willing to let it go?!" Jiang Guangnai said with a smile.
"Ha! Brother, I'll tell you the truth! This reinforced company is not in the National Revolutionary Army's order of battle! What I say doesn't count for this company!" Xiao Shi-xiong replied with a cunning smile.
"Then who has the final say?!" Jiang Guangnai asked curiously.
"This company commander is the grandson of Mr. Zhang Jingzai!" Xiang Shixiong said with a smile, "To be honest, I've been thinking about this regiment for a long time, but no matter what method I use, it's useless! If you have a way, then I'll congratulate you right here!" With that, Xiang Shixiong hung up the phone.
Around one o'clock in the morning, Akiyuki Akane said to Shoutarou Hidaka: "You immediately lead your troops to take advantage of tonight's moonless night and sneak into the enemy's camp, killing all the Chinese soldiers!"
"Cough! Lieutenant Colonel, rest assured that our battalion is most skilled at night raids! Just wait for our good news!" With that, Yoshio Kōda left.
Xiang Tianyi dispatched a company to probe the Qingyun Road position. As soon as the company approached the Qingyun Road position, a soldier accidentally triggered a mine laid by Zhang Lieyang. Suddenly, explosions erupted everywhere, and snipers in the position took advantage of the explosion's flames to continuously kill multiple devils.
The heavily damaged enemy squad quickly retreated. Under the illumination of the flames, Zhang Lieyang looked at the retreating Japanese army through binoculars and said to Zhang Xiangwu: "Let our brothers take back all the ammunition from the devils!"
The platoon leader of the retreating Imperial Japanese Army reported the situation to the battalion commander, Yoshio Kōda. After listening to the report, Yoshio Kōda angrily said: "Hachigata! You idiot! You've disgraced us, the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire! I now order you to take the Chinese position at all costs! If you can't take it down, you'll have to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Cough! Don't worry, Captain! I will definitely complete the mission!" With that, the deputy captain turned around and left.
In the trenches on Qingyun Road, Zhang Xiangwu held up a grenade launcher and said to Zhang Lieyang: "Young master, what is this thing? It doesn't look like a mortar?!
Zhang Lieyang looked at it and smiled: "This is called a grenade launcher! Not much different from a mortar, how many of these things did we get?"
"Master, we've got a total of four, each with twenty rounds of ammunition!" Zhang Xiangwu said with a smile.
At this time, Zhang Lieyang looked through the telescope and said to himself: "I knew I should have brought night vision goggles when I came for a night battle!" Zhang Lieyang asked: "Xiang Wu, is the ambush set up?"
"Master, don't worry! Everything has been taken care of. We've also set up landmines at the intersection ahead where the devils must pass through. As soon as they come over, there will be movement!" Just as Zhang Xiangwu was about to continue speaking, an explosion sounded.
Zhang Lieyang smiled and said, "The devils will be here soon! Let the brothers get ready! As long as they reach one hundred and fifty meters, you use grenade launchers to greet them! Remember each can only fire ten rounds!"
"Got it!" Zhang Xiangwu said and left.
Looking at Fang Zhenghai who had just returned, Zhang Lieyang asked with a smile: "How is the situation now?"
"It's all right!" Fang Zhenghai said with a smile.
"That's good! We still have a total of 400 soldiers on hand, I'll divide them into two shifts to take turns sleeping. This way, we'll be in high spirits tomorrow to defend the land!" Zhang Lieyang said seriously.
"Alright! You take the first watch and I'll take the second!" Fang Zhenghai said with a smile.
"No need, you go down and rest for a while, night battles are my specialty! At most tomorrow morning I'll sleep, you command!" Zhang Lieyang said with a smile.
"Alright! I won't argue with you!" Fang Zhenghai said, patting Zhang Lieyang's shoulder before walking away.
After Fang Zhenghai left, Zhang Lieyang crouched and arrived at the front line. Through the faint firelight, Zhang Lieyang slowly calculated the number of devils. When the devils approached about 150 meters away, the four mortars started roaring at the devils! In an instant, the devil's formation was disrupted by the sudden hail of bullets.
After seeing the ghost child fall to the ground, Zhang Xiangwu, who had fired twelve shots in a row, suddenly stopped.
The devil platoon leader saw that the artillery fire had ended, and immediately stood up with a command knife and shouted: "Kill!" He had just shouted twice when the platoon leader was taken out by a special forces sniper. Seeing the devil officer fall, Zhang Lieyang laughed and said: "Well done! One bastard has gone to report to Yasukuni Shrine!"
At this time, the Japanese soldiers saw that their platoon leader was dead and suddenly became brave! Under the fire of the grenade launcher, they charged forward bravely. When they approached the position one hundred meters away, Zhang Lieyang immediately shouted: "Fire at them!" The special forces' firepower advantage soon emerged.
The devils fell down like wheat being harvested, in large patches. Looking at his soldiers falling down, Shohei Higashiyama angrily ordered: "Cannon fire! Give them a good beating!"
Zhang Lieyang took advantage of this brief moment to lead the soldiers back about 100 meters. As soon as they retreated, an explosion sounded behind them. About half an hour later, Zhang Lieyang led his men back to their position.
