Chapter 45: Annihilating the Kōriyama Squadron's Airbase

  The next morning, Yokoyama Niji received an order requiring his squadron to sweep through Dongniu Village.

  Yokoyama Shinji has already reported the situation of last night's battle to ōyama Kazuo. ōyama Kazuo, apart from scolding Yokoyama Shinji severely, didn't have any good plan and just ordered him to strengthen the guard.

  Yokoyama Shinji finished his breakfast and led two companies of puppet troops towards Dongniu Village.

  This time, Yokoyama Shinji put a battalion of puppet troops in the front to open the way and another battalion at the back to guard against any possible attack from behind. The Japanese army marched in between. If there were landmines, let the puppet troops clear them out. No need for the Great Imperial Army to make sacrifices.

  Unfortunately, however, nothing out of the ordinary happened along the way, and Yokoyama Nizo gradually let his guard down.

  The troops entered a terrain with one side being farmland and the other a small hillside. Commander Liang ordered to strengthen vigilance, the fake army in front walked forward cautiously, bending their waists, but there was no movement at all. The fake army even sent a squad of soldiers up the hill to check, but nothing was found.

  Until a battalion of pseudo-army had passed through this section of about 500 meters, Kozukayama Ni led the Japanese army to start passing. When Kozukayama Ni led his troops to the middle, a big explosion suddenly occurred among the devils, and almost every section of the road had a blasting point, each blasting point was extremely intense, and various bullets poured towards all directions like rain.

  Originally, Liu Feng and his team had laid down the captured explosives on the road that the little devils were about to take, placed a large number of bullets around the explosives, and then connected all the explosives with electric wires. They pulled them up to the mountain slope, covered them with mud, and buried them. Liu Feng and his three comrades dug four individual foxholes, added lids on top, and covered the lids with mud and grass. The excavated soil was thrown far away behind the mountain slope. Therefore, even the reconnaissance squad of the puppet army did not discover their tracks. Of course, they just came up to take a look around and went down to report after finding no one.

  Liu Feng and his men set up five explosive points on the road below, each about 20 meters apart, just enough to cover a column of devils. After Liu Feng and the puppet army passed by, all the devils entered these explosive points, and then they detonated the explosives. The high-explosive bombs at the five explosive points exploded together, shooting bullets like rain towards the devils within over 100 meters.

  Yokoyama Shinji walked in the middle and was blown to smithereens.

  The devils lost more than a hundred men in this round of explosions, basically wiping out half of their troops. Those who didn't die were mostly injured and lost their combat effectiveness.

  Liu Feng and his men immediately lifted the cover and picked up their rifles as soon as they heard the explosion, calling out to the Japanese devils who hadn't died yet below.

  The little devils were suddenly bombed and lost their commander, most of them were injured, so they were killed by Liu Feng and others in a few seconds. At this time, they finally reacted and lay on the ground to shoot at the mountain slope. However, the distance from the slope to the mountain slope was about 250 meters, and the little devil's shooting skills were good, but the level of Liu Feng and several professional snipers was too far apart. So their confrontation with Liu Feng ended quickly with the devils being shot dead.

  The little devils didn't even have time to set up their rocket launchers before they were completely annihilated.

  While the two battalions of pseudo-army in front and back saw the little devils being blown up like this, they immediately lay down on the ground at the first time.

  The false army commander Fan Shih-hu took out his handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat on his head fiercely. He was walking in front of a false army company, just passing by the blast point where those little devils were blown to death. These attackers didn't think about attacking the false army at all, otherwise neither he nor a whole company of false soldiers would have survived.

  Of course, he saw that the little devils were almost wiped out in the first place, so he didn't even think about attacking the attackers on the hillside. For him, being a fake army officer was just a way to make a living, and it wasn't worth risking his life. These attackers had such precise shooting skills, would he let the fake army send him to death? Moreover, since the little devils were all annihilated, he had even more reason to say that he was defeated.

  So they lay on the ground and fired their guns loudly into the air, but the bullets flew towards the sky. They didn't have any intention of attacking the mountain slope at all.

  Liu Feng knocked down the last devil, then shouted to the puppet army: "We are the Eighth Route Army, the little devils have been completely defeated. Chinese people do not fight Chinese people, you hurry up and run away. We will not fight you."

  The pseudo-armies looked at each other in dismay, what's going on? Don't the Eighth Route Army need captives anymore? The Eighth Route Army, which can wipe out a company of devils with its main force according to experience, must be the main force. How could such a main force not attack our pseudo-army?

  Fan Shih-hu certainly did not want to become a prisoner of the Eighth Route Army. It seemed that the other side's numbers were not many, and they could not capture so many people. However, even if the other side's numbers were not many, their combat strength was too strong for him to deal with. So he immediately ordered a company of fake soldiers to run away first and see if the Eighth Route Army would really let them go.

  They were a group of puppet soldiers who immediately got up and ran away, Liu Feng and his men didn't even fire a shot. They ran far away. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army wasn't chasing them, the puppet soldiers in the back and front immediately got up and ran too. Fan Shih-hu saw that the puppet soldiers weren't listening to his orders and started running, he couldn't help but scold loudly. Of course, scolding was all he could do, soon he also joined the fleeing crowd. He didn't want to stay behind and become a prisoner of the Eighth Route Army.

  Liu Feng and his men waited until the fake soldiers had run away without a trace before coming down to clean up the battlefield.

  Han Da Tou collected ammunition while saying disdainfully: "The fake army is really useless, it's not even like this yet and they're already running away quickly. Can the little devils rely on the fake army to fight?"

  Liu Feng smiled and said, "Big Head, most of the puppet troops are just mixed in to make a living. The little devils don't rely on the puppet troops to fight battles, but rather have them guard cities and strongpoints. When these puppet troops see that the little devils have been wiped out by us, will they still be willing to sacrifice themselves? Of course not, they'll run away. And even if the little devils are defeated and retreat, they'll still have something to say for themselves."

  "Director Liu, I found you are very kind to the puppet army," said Yu Daqing.

  Liu Feng said, "We are all Chinese, and many of those who became puppet soldiers did so out of desperation. If it weren't necessary, I wouldn't be willing to kill Chinese people. If we can win them over and get them to contribute to the resistance against Japan, then our anti-Japanese forces will expand. Isn't that a good thing? Of course, I must emphasize one point: as special troops, sometimes we have to take drastic measures and not leave any prisoners behind. Han Dingtou, tell Yu Daqing about our past battles and let him know when it's necessary to be ruthless and when it's okay to show mercy to the puppet soldiers!"

  "Goodness, Yu Daqing, I don't understand, you actually dare to challenge the Chief of Staff, you don't know how ruthless he is when it comes to killing...” Han Dantou began to enthusiastically recount Liu Feng's glorious military history to Yu Daqing.

  I'll be on a business trip next week, so from today onwards I can only update one chapter per day. These chapters were written in advance and will be sent out at fixed times. After I return, I'll resume updating two chapters per day.