Bright Sword: Infinite Logistics

Chapter 31 The transport team that can’t wait

Meng Zhige continued to supply new batches of supplies at a rate of three days, and two batches of supplies had been delivered this week.In addition to the immovable five hundred meat cans, fifty [-]-inch cans and ten Czech machine guns were given.

The new regiment was snatched away by the brigade commander. These supplies not only replenished the new regiment, but also increased the number of machine guns to 24.

In addition to the three machine guns at the regiment headquarters, each battalion has seven, which greatly increases the combat effectiveness.This ambush in Hejian Nao is proof of this.

"Okay, let's go down and clean the battlefield." Sun Desheng stood up. The soldiers of the Seventh Company who had bayonets installed bayonets on their guns, and those who didn't also took out their swords and began to clean the battlefield.

As soon as the Seventh Company made a move, the other two companies also ceased fire. The soldiers stood up from their shooting positions and rushed down the hillside.

A few Japanese and puppet soldiers who were still resisting while hiding in the bunker were quickly killed by the soldiers who rushed down. Then the soldiers started busy with smiles of joy like a harvest.

Some collected scattered firearms and ammunition, some counted the number of corpses, some collected items from the corpses, and some followed behind to remove the clothes from the corpses.Several people work in groups, with a clear division of labor. The collected materials are piled together, waiting to be transported.

"Hurry up, hurry up!" the third battalion commander kept urging.This place is not too far from Guizi County, so we should quickly pack up the battlefield and leave.If you are unlucky and another wave of Japs comes, then who might suffer the loss?

Soon, the soldiers collected all the supplies on the battlefield.The carts that were still usable were pulled away directly by mules. When the carts broke down, the materials on the carts were carried away on the shoulders. Several mules that were killed by stray bullets were also towed away.

As for the surrendered puppet troops, a group of soldiers were also assigned to guard them, and they left the battlefield like mules.

From the beginning of the ambush to the time when only the naked corpses of the Japanese soldiers were left on the ground, it only took a little over 10 to [-] minutes.After withdrawing for more than ten miles, the Third Battalion put down their things and took a good inventory.

"Old Geng, we grabbed a lot of good things." The instructor held the list he had just compiled with a smile on his face.

"Nearly a hundred rifles, three machine guns, six thousand rounds of ammunition, more than 100 grenades, and eighteen grenades for grenades."

"There are a lot of supplies on the transport truck. There are no weapons and ammunition, most of them are food. Thirteen trucks of rice, flour and vegetables, thirty boxes of canned beef, seventeen jars of wine, and some clothes, medicines and the like."

The number of weapons seized does not match the enemy, but this is normal.

Many Japs will destroy their weapons before death, such as machine gunners and grenade launchers.This was the case with the grenade launcher we met this time. He detonated a grenade directly inside the grenade launcher, destroying the grenade launcher.

But there is a lot of ammunition.This time it was a siege from all sides. Thanks to the good terrain, the Japanese could hardly find a suitable bunker.Moreover, the machine guns did not cease fire throughout the whole process, and the battle did not last too long. The Japanese were completely wiped out before the ammunition on them was consumed.

Geng Jingshan nodded: "What about the losses?"

"Four people were killed and seven seriously injured. Two hundred grenades were thrown, more than 7000 bullets were fired, and more than [-] old guns had problems. Overall, it is within our acceptance range."

"But we killed 32 Japanese soldiers and captured 47 puppet soldiers. This record, hehe..."

"Not bad!" Geng Jingshan laughed: "I will go to the regiment leader to claim the credit. Let's change the taste tonight. Instead of eating consultant Meng's canned pork, we will eat the Japanese canned beef!"

The instructor smiled, then put on a serious face: "But we agreed in advance that the dozen jars of wine will be discussed after we return to the station. The troops are outside now, so be careful about drinking and causing trouble." "I know this. I am not Commander Li. I like drinking so much." Geng Jingshan fired a shot at Li Yunlong.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Wangjiazhuang stronghold.

A group of Japanese soldiers were hiding in the stronghold, waiting for the arrival of the transport team.The veterans played tricks on the new recruits out of boredom, and the squad leader had nothing to do. He sat in front of the door and watched the new recruits being humiliated - this was a game that "helped exercise".

"Nishida, your cigarette case."

Koji Nishida took the tinplate cigarette box thrown by another squad leader, and his eyes fell on the four words "Serving the public with righteousness and bravery" stamped on the cigarette box, and he couldn't help being startled.

Everyone in this stronghold knew that he was attacked while peeing, and he peed all over his pants while hiding.But only he knew it. After chasing him out that day, when the bullet grazed his head, he peed again.

Seeing this "soldier's edict" at this time, he naturally felt guilty towards Tian Locust.

But this feeling of guilt had been felt for several days, and he was already used to it, so it didn't last long.In less than a second, Nishida Koji opened the cigarette case, took out a "Golden Eagle" brand cigarette, and lit it with a match.Locusts and the like are not as important as smoking when you are bored.

The squad leader who threw the cigarette case to him was already sitting next to him, holding an illustrated magazine and looking at something.

"Asahi Pictorial? Isn't this thing in the hands of the squad leader? He doesn't read it?"

"I read it several times and threw it to me. He was playing shogi with that guy in the room."

Nishida Koji nodded, "that guy" was the third squad leader in the stronghold, and they were old enemies.After the two of them went out to pursue and lost men, this person kept using this incident to laugh at their incompetence.

The two of them were naturally uncomfortable with this: How could a coward who had never gone out to chase the Eighth Route Army have the nerve to scold them?It's a pity that the team leader knows the strength of the Eighth Route Army outside, and is unwilling to let him prove his bravery and lead others out, otherwise he has to ask the Eighth Route Army to show him some color.

Several officers were looking for something to kill time, and Nishida Koji could only hold a cigarette in his mouth and watch the group of veterans in front of him playing tricks on the new recruits.

They were playing a game called "Cardinal's Flight Over the Valley."Arrange the tables one meter apart from each other.The recruits pretended to be "birds" and got under the table, while the veterans stood on the table.When the veteran asked the recruit to "fly", the recruit would crawl quickly, then stick his head out of the gap between the tables and imitate the chirping of birds; while the veteran would hit the recruit hard with debris.

The conditions in the stronghold were not good, and there were not many tables. Therefore, some veterans moved two shorter benches as props to make it more difficult for the recruits to crawl.On the side, there was a veteran playing the shakuhachi to accompany this ridiculous game.

Koji Nishida looked at these people and shook his head.He was forced to play this game when he was a new soldier.Later, I became a veteran and forced new recruits to play this game.Now that he is the squad leader, he has many things on his mind and is no longer interested in this game.

But it’s okay to take a look occasionally. It’s better than a child staring at a nest of ants crawling around.

"You two, come in." The squad leader walked out of the room and called the two squad leaders in.Nishida and the other two put down the illustrated magazine they had just read a few paragraphs on, and the other put out the cigarette they had just taken a few puffs on, and walked in.

"We just received a bad news call from the Wei Zhuang stronghold. The transport team was robbed by the Eighth Route Army. The scene was full of bullet holes and corpses." The squad leader took a deep breath: "Our supplies are gone!"

(End of this chapter)