Chapter 47: The Great Battle of Mianhu (Six)

  Li Erdou is a squad leader in Chen Jun's troops, and he is now cautiously approaching the village. Although his side has a significant advantage, Li Erdou still dares not to underestimate his opponent.

  The reputation of the Huangpu Children's Army, he had heard of it. The merchant group pacified the rebellion, attacked Dongguan, and fought in Danshui. This group of children who were not taken seriously by them actually created miracles time and time again.

  "Squad leader, can't you hurry up? The people in front are almost approaching the village." A soldier behind him urged, looking at the squad leader's slow movements.

  It's not that they yearn for war, but because it was said earlier, killing a Huangpu child soldier is rewarded with one dollar, killing a company commander or below is rewarded with five dollars, killing a battalion commander or above is rewarded with ten dollars, and promotion of two ranks.

  "What's the hurry? Hurry up and go die?" Li Er Gou glared with his eyes and said fiercely.

  The soldiers saw that their squad leader was in a bad mood and didn't dare say anything else, fearing they would provoke Li Er Gou's anger.

  The troops in front had already approached the village to less than a hundred meters, but the doll army on the opposite side still didn't have any reaction. This abnormal reaction made Li Er Gou even more cautious.

  Li Ergou held his Japanese-made Type 38 rifle, aiming at the village inside, wanting to find some clues. Unfortunately, the village was very quiet, with no movement at all. If he hadn't seen those puppet soldiers retreating into the village with his own eyes, Li Ergou would have suspected that there was nothing in the village at all.

  "What's going on with the WaWa army, have they abandoned their outer defenses?" The platoon leader in front stopped his footsteps and asked Li Er Gou behind him in confusion.

  The friendly forces in front of them have already entered the village.

  Just as Li Erdou was about to answer, a fierce gunshot rang out.

  Li Erdou's conditioned reflex made him lie down on the ground, his rifle aimed at the village, but he didn't see any firepower points, only hearing the sound of machine guns.

  The first hundred or so people who entered inside have all run out, but only thirty or so people are still alive, and more than seventy people have fallen inside.

  "Hurry up." The officer behind him shouted loudly.

  As the second echelon, Li Erdou's unit began to move towards the village.

  Before entering the village, Li Er Gou saw the corpses of friendly troops inside the village, and even on the roads outside the village, there were bloodstains flowing out from the bodies.

  "Charge forward at once!" The officer behind yelled loudly.

  A troop of nearly two hundred people, like a swarm of bees, rushed into the village. However, Li Er Gou left a mind and intentionally slowed down a few steps, pulling away from the main force.

  Just as the troops had just entered the village, Li Erdou did not hear the sound of machine guns, which made him feel much more at ease. However, in a short while, Li Erdou heard the sound of artillery fire.

  Li Erdou could determine that it was the sound of artillery, but he had no idea what specific type of artillery it was or what caliber it was. Relying on his many years of battlefield experience, Li Erdou quickly lay down on the ground.

  The shell landed in front of the troops, and more than a dozen people were thrown into the air, then quickly fell to the ground. More than twenty others fell to the ground, their eyes wide open until death, and even after they died, their eyes remained unblinking.

  A painful wail spread through the troops, and more than a hundred people left quickly opened up distance. Li Er Gou wanted to move, but then he heard the sound of machine gun fire.

  More than 100 people on the move became targets of light machine guns.

  Bullet after bullet was fired at Chen's soldiers, and many of them fell to the ground.

  However, Chen Jun's soldiers were fortunate that the Browning automatic rifle only had twenty rounds of ammunition. If they had encountered a Maxim heavy machine gun, it is likely that their small force would have been completely annihilated here.

  "Well done." Pai Changwei Song looked at the results of his own troops in front of him and a smile appeared on his face.

  After this adjustment, Wei Song is now serving as the platoon leader, and his military rank has been promoted from junior lieutenant to senior lieutenant, equivalent to the position of deputy company commander. Once the company commander and party representative are killed in action, he, as a platoon leader, will have to bear the heavy responsibility of commanding the entire company.

  "Order First and Second Platoons to cease fire temporarily." Wei Song saw that Chen Jun's troops had taken cover, and hastily issued the order.

  Wei Song's three classes, according to the product word deployment, three Browning light machine guns, then built three firepower points, each class two Thompson submachine guns responsible for cover, as for the rest of the infantry, they were scattered deployed around the firepower point, long-distance shooting at Chen Jun's troops.

  Wei Song's order was passed down, and the first and second squads at the front stopped firing.

  The remaining eighty-five Chen Jun soldiers were still hiding and did not dare to take any action.

  Li Erdou retreated to the back, but the rear guard team opened fire and shot, which made Li Erdou dare not continue to crawl backwards, but instead found a suitable hiding point and hid.

  Although the officers behind shouted to charge, the eighty-five Chen army soldiers in the village did not dare to make any moves until more than a hundred reinforcements arrived from behind, and they still hid in hiding places without launching any attacks.

  In the headquarters, Sun Xinghua listened to a series of reports from the communication soldiers, and a smile appeared on his face.

  This defensive method is Chen Cheng's specialty in the civil engineering system. Sun Xinghua had read Hu Lian's related articles and learned this defensive method from them, but he didn't expect that it would come in handy today.

  "Regimental commander, preliminary statistics show that over 200 of Chen's troops were killed or wounded, while our side has no casualties at all." Zheng Dongguo walked over excitedly and said to Sun Xinghua.

  Zheng Dongguo's expression was extremely excited, such a cheap victory, he had never seen before, the casualty ratio was two hundred to zero, such a battle, since he participated in the Eastern Expedition, he had not encountered it, now encountering such a situation, made Zheng Dongguo very excited.

  "Our weapons are at an advantage, Chen Jun's weapons are at a disadvantage. We are on the defensive, they are on the attack. These are the main reasons, of course, the most important one is their tactical problem. The method of charging like a swarm of bees will eventually be eliminated, and since the invention of machine guns, this kind of charge has no effect." Sun Xinghua looked at Zheng Dongguo and said with a smile.

  "Captain, now that we've lost contact with the regimental headquarters, shouldn't we dispatch a small team to break through and report our situation?" Staff Officer Chen Shan walked over and said to Sun Xinghua.