Chapter 38: Sniper Suppression of Flying Kites

  Chikami Shōzuki burst into a rage, loudly cursing: "Hachigaya Road, the Eighth Route Army is despicable and shameless, ordering engineers to lie on the ground and lay mines!"

  The sappers had to lie on the ground and slowly move forward to clear the mines, which was extremely slow. The devils didn't dare to shoot either, as Liu Feng's team wouldn't fire in the dark. Their goal was to hinder the devils' rescue of the Xixian shop village stronghold, not to annihilate the Guangping County devilish puppet army. As long as the devils slowed down, Liu Feng wouldn't open fire.

  An hour passed quickly, and Chi Shaozhu only opened a passage of less than 100 meters in front of the North Gate. The two small teams of devils who detoured from the East Gate and West Gate also encountered the trouble of bullet rain at this time. They left the city very smoothly, but during the process of detouring to the North Gate, they kept stepping on bullet rain. This was at night, even if Liu Feng and his men buried the bullet rain in a hurry, it would be difficult for the devils to discover, let alone they had to rush on their way.

  So now the two squads are in a desperate situation, with around ten soldiers injured on each side, and each soldier needs another to support them, which means that the combat effectiveness of the two squads has been reduced by almost half. This made the faces of the leaders of both the mountain and riverbank squads turn black, but they were powerless to do anything about it.

  Another half hour has passed, and the troops who have been circling around the east and west gates still haven't arrived. Chiyojo Shuzuka can no longer wait, he orders the commander of the puppet army Zhang Changfeng: "The thunder is already set up, your, lead the Imperial Army from the exit passage to charge forward, don't stop, and don't look back. Otherwise, you'll be dead!"

  Zhang Changfeng knew that the little devil was going to let the puppet army tread on thunder, he saw the fierce and cannibalistic gaze shot out from Chi's eyes, and did not dare not to do it, so he ordered the puppet army to charge forward along the small path laid out by the devils, specially emphasizing the machine guns set up by the Imperial Army behind them, whoever dared to turn back or stop would be swept away by machine gun fire.

  He also said that even if he stepped on a bullet, it would only hurt his foot. If they were swept by the imperial army, they would be dead. The puppet soldiers had no choice but to charge forward.

  Just rushed out a few dozen steps, two pseudo-soldiers stepped on the bullet mine, fell to the ground and howled. The pseudo-army immediately hesitated, but the devil's machine gun behind them started firing, although it was shooting into the sky, the pseudo-soldiers were still scared and charged forward fiercely. As a result, the pseudo-soldiers stepped on the bullet mine one after another, fell to the ground, but because of the continuous firing of the machine guns behind them, these pseudo-soldiers really did not dare to stop.

  After taking down another twenty or so fake soldiers, the fake soldiers finally made it through this minefield. Chī Shàng Xiǎo Zhù's face broke into a smile: "Heh heh, heh heh, the Imperial Cooperative Army is still somewhat useful."

  He ordered the remaining devils to advance along the road where the pseudo-army had retreated, and he didn't even dare to ride a horse, but instead mixed in with the devil troops and walked forward. However, just after walking a few steps, three gunshots were heard in the darkness, "pa pa pa", and the head of the devil at the front was blown open, and the devils immediately fell to the ground.

  The puppet army in front also fell to the ground, now the puppet soldiers found that the Eighth Route Army in the dark did not fire at them, and even when they passed through the minefield, they did not fire. They were resentful of being forced by the devils to tread on mines, but now seeing the Eighth Route Army only attacking the devils and not them, they all laughed and watched the joke, each one lying on the ground without caring about the devils' lives or deaths.

  "Bastard!" Pool Shang-yu cursed, lying on the ground. The Eighth Route Army was really bad. When the puppet army passed by, they didn't fire a shot, but when the Japanese Imperial Army came, they started firing. Because it was dark, the devils couldn't see where the bullets were coming from and could only judge the direction roughly from the wounds of three devils, firing wildly.

  "Fire the grenade launcher!" Chi shouted from the ground.

  Two devils immediately got up to set up the grenade launcher, but as soon as they got up, there were two more "cracks" of gunfire, and they fell silently to the ground.

  The devils came out of the city with torches. Although they were lying on the ground, the torches did not go out and still illuminated the devil's troops.

  "Put out the torches! Put out the torches!"

  The devils immediately reached out to put out the fire, but due to their physical activity, part of their bodies were exposed under Liu Feng's gun. Then there were three more shots, and three devils who exposed their bodies were hit. One devil was shot in the arm, one devil was shot in the buttocks, and one devil was shot in the shoulder. They immediately started wailing on the ground.

  No one dared to move anymore, not even to extinguish the torches. The opponent's marksmanship was simply too eerie. Such marksmanship suppressed an entire squad of devils at the north gate of Guangping County, and they didn't even dare to lift their heads.

  The puppet army didn't dare to move, the Eighth Route Army wouldn't attack you anymore, but you still don't behave yourself. What if you provoke the Eighth Route and they turn around and use this kind of marksmanship on you? Would you still be alive? So these puppet troops all lay obediently on the ground, watching the Japanese make fools of themselves. Anyway, even the Japanese were suppressed to the point where they couldn't get up, how could their puppet army be stronger than the Japanese?

  In less than a few minutes, two dark objects suddenly flew in from the darkness in two directions towards the place where the devils were hiding. Chi Shang took one look and knew they were in trouble, because those were sweet potato-shaped hand grenades. Unfortunately, the hand grenades drew an arc in the air and exploded in mid-air before hitting the ground. Immediately, the pre-made shrapnel from the hand grenade rained down on the devils hiding on the ground.

  "Ah——" Several little devils were injured right away.

  They were attacked by hand grenades, and the little devils were also human, how could they remain motionless? Then, the voice of death sounded again, "bang bang" and two more devils exposed their bodies, hit by bullets. The entire battlefield was filled with the wailing of the devils.

  Ikegami Yayoi could no longer bear it, when did the entire squad of the Great Japanese Imperial Army get beaten by a few bandits? And looking at the current momentum of the bandits, they are not just blocking, but want to eliminate themselves. This is simply an insult to the Great Japanese Imperial Army!

  Although Ikegami is the company commander, he has not received any education on sniper warfare or special warfare tactics. He does not understand these tactics at all. His tactical thinking, or rather the enemy's tactical thinking, is still stuck in the stage of massed charges during the Russo-Japanese War. At most, the current phase of coordinated infantry and artillery operations is slightly better than during the Russo-Japanese War, but it is still a method of artillery bombardment followed by infantry charge, and then infantry charge followed by artillery bombardment.

  "He shouted loudly: 'The Great Imperial Japanese Army is invincible, charge forward!'"

  He knew the enemy could throw hand grenades, which meant he was very close to himself, with a distance of less than 100 meters. As long as all the Japanese troops stood up and charged, the distance of 100 meters would be reached in just over ten seconds. In this short time, how many shots could the opponent fire?

  So he used his baton to point in the direction of the hand grenade and ordered the devils to charge.