Chapter 47: Sporadic Sniping Flying Kuo Net

  Yu Dajing, who had been listening to Han Datou recount Liu Feng's heroic deeds, was shocked and asked with his mouth agape: "Isn't this a violation of the Eighth Route Army's discipline? Doesn't your Commissar Chen care?"

  "What's the point of not managing? Managed, and we had a big argument with our chief of staff. But the chief of staff said that since we are special forces, we can't let discipline constrain us. Commissar Chen even sent a telegram directly to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, you guess what, the headquarters replied, saying that discipline can be flexibly grasped." Han Da Tou shook his head and said.

  "Ah?" Yu Daqing had never heard of discipline being flexible before. Was this still the Eighth Route Army?

  Han Da Tou proudly told Yu Da Qing about the special features of the special forces, and also took out some theories that Liu Feng usually lectured on to show off. He left Yu Da Qing stunned. Suddenly he felt like he was really ignorant.

  Liu Feng thinks that this kind of troop self-education method is very good. This can make new recruits quickly integrate into the collective, learn the combat principles and skills of the assault team.

  The original members of the assault team were not highly qualified, but since Chen Zhengwei required every soldier to learn cultural knowledge while stationed in the assault team, most people became literate after Liu Feng arrived. The troops had a certain cultural foundation, making it easy for Liu Feng to conduct training and instruction on this basis. The assault team made rapid progress in Liu Feng's battle-and-training exercises.

  Now any member of the assault team can calmly snipe enemies at a distance of 200 meters alone. This makes Yu Dajing, a newcomer to the assault team, admire Liu Feng's training methods.

  He kept asking Han Dadao questions, and time passed quickly.

  The four of them finished sweeping the battlefield and mainly replenished supplies such as ammunition, dry rations, explosives, and hand grenades.

  Then the four men mounted their war horses and quickly left the battlefield. Their war horses were tied far away in a quiet small forest, and naturally would not be discovered by the little devils.

  ……

  Akiyama's command center, Akiyama Ichiro burst into a rage and shouted: "Kogure Kameji, you idiot! Kawahara Jirō, you fool! Yokoyama Shinji, you moron! The three of you have ruined an entire company!"

  The puppet army has retreated, and the puppet regiment commander Fan Shih-hu tearfully reported to Commander Akio that the Ogura detachment had been attacked by a large-scale Eighth Route Army raid. First, they were subjected to fierce landmine attacks, then ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and finally annihilated. Although the puppet army fought bravely, they were outnumbered and ultimately defeated. Less than 100 men from the two detachments of the puppet army could be rallied.

  Akiyama Kazuo slapped Fan Shih-hu a few times, but didn't blame him much. In Akiyama's mind, the puppet army was just a tool, and even the great Japanese Imperial Army had been defeated, so what could the puppet army do? So he told Fan Shih-hu that a large group of Eighth Route Army troops had attacked the Japanese army, and he believed it without a doubt.

  He immediately led a large team to the location where Xiaocang's unit was annihilated, just like a cat smelling fish. However, there was no trace of the Eighth Route Army troops at all.

  He called Fan Shih-hu over and slapped him several times, scolding: "You damned fool, you're not honest, telling lies! Are you dead? Where is the main force of the Eighth Route Army here?"

  Fan Shih-hu's face was swollen, and he could only cry with a sad face: "At that time, the battlefield was chaotic, and the Imperial Army was annihilated in a very short period of time. The little man thought that the Eighth Route Army that could annihilate an Imperial Army battalion must be a large battalion of the Eighth Route Army, so I reported it like this."

  Akiyama Kazuo was so angry that he drew his saber and cursed, "You idiot! You didn't even fight the Eighth Route Army, you ran away with your tail between your legs! You're dead!"

  He finished speaking and killed Fan Shih-hu with a single slash on the spot.

  Akio Akiyama now has only over 700 Japanese troops in his hands. He ordered the immediate dispatch of Japanese reconnaissance units to investigate the Eighth Route Army's raiders. The reason for sending out Japanese reconnaissance units was that he did not trust the puppet army and did not think their reconnaissance would have any effect.

  He must have a say in this, if he were to lose an entire company like that and not even catch one real Eighth Route Army soldier, then he would have no way to explain himself when he got back to Lieutenant General Sakai Koji.

  However, in less than half an hour, he heard continuous gunfire coming from the west. Then it quieted down. Akio Akiyama sent a reconnaissance team of six devils riding two motorcycles with sidecars to the west. Each motorcycle had a light machine gun on it, but he only heard the sound of 38 rifles firing and did not hear any machine guns. It seemed that they had discovered the trail of the Eighth Route Army, but there were very few people in the Eighth Route Army, so there was no need to use machine guns at all.

  However, Akio Akishima waited for a long time, but there was no response from the west. Akio Akishima felt that something was wrong and hastily sent someone to check on the west.

  They soon brought back six bodies, which were the scouts sent out by Akiyama Ichiro. Each person was shot in the head with a single bullet, without any other wounds on their body, meaning they were almost simultaneously killed and had no chance to fight back at all. Their motorcycles and machine guns were also gone.

  Qiu Shan took a deep breath, knowing that the motorcycle was moving and swaying, making it difficult to hit the riders with a Type 38 rifle, let alone hitting their heads. This requires such precise shooting! When did the Eighth Route Army's shooting skills reach this level?

  But soon Akiyama got his revenge, he sent out scouting parties to the south, north and east, all of which were ambushed. Eighteen men were killed in action. Most had been shot in the head. Only a few had been shot in the body. Two more had been shot and then bayonetted after they lost fighting strength. In just a short while, dozens of excellent soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army had been lost.

  The small troops that went later did not find any trace of the Eighth Route Army, except for picking up some shell casings, nothing was found.

  "Hachiko, the conscience of the Eighth Route Army has greatly deteriorated." Akishima realized that there were such skilled Eighth Route Army snipers active in all directions, and his brow furrowed.

  At this time, sending a small reconnaissance team is obviously inappropriate. Apart from giving the enemy a victory, there is no effect. However, if you don't reconnoiter, who knows where these small groups of Eighth Route Army snipers are? You can't even find them, let alone eliminate them.

  "Colonel Akaike, we don't need to go find them, we can make them come to us!" said Lieutenant Colonel Kawada Kiyoshi.

  Akiyama's spirit lifted at this, and he asked, "Captain Hidaka, what's your plan?"

  "We won't divide our troops, but instead the whole army will continue to sweep. Then use Chinese lives to compensate for the deaths of our Great Japanese Imperial Army soldiers. At that time, the Eighth Route Army will definitely appear. As long as the Eighth Route appears, we'll pounce on them and tear them apart!" Kawada Hisahide stretched out his palm, then clenched it tightly, as if grasping the Eighth Route Army in his hand.

  "Alright, let's continue our sweep. We'll head to Dongniu Village in the east. I'll make the Chinese pay the price! If they dare kill one Japanese person, I'll kill ten Chinese people!" Akio Akiyama said with a ferocious expression, gritting his teeth.

  "Hey! Advance to Tōnō Village immediately!" Lieutenant Colonel Kawada Ryūshō went to convey the order at once.