The opening of the bright sword leads a battalion

Chapter 9

A regiment drove a division, and a brigade drove a brigade. This was not an exaggeration in the early years of the War of Resistance.

Even, the real situation is sometimes much more desperate than this.

Take the firepower of machine guns as an example. The troops of the Eighth Route Army lack heavy machine guns. In some troops, only one regiment has one Maxim heavy machine gun. This is no joke.

But in the Japanese army, a brigade has four infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron, and an artillery squadron under its jurisdiction, plus the headquarters personnel and transport team directly under the brigade, with a team of nearly a thousand people.

In this brigade, the machine gun squadron alone has 8-12 Type 36 heavy machine guns, and each infantry squadron has nine light machine guns, for a total of [-] in four squadrons.

It can be seen from this that there will be a huge disparity in the firepower comparison between it and the Eighth Route Army.

But at this moment, after the soldiers of the Kinoshita Brigade reacted, the first thing the Eighth Route Army had to face was the enemy's fire suppression like a storm.

Many fighters were directly hit by the sweeping metal storm, leaving huge blood holes on their bodies and collapsing to the ground.

Casualties... all of a sudden increased, and the powerful firepower of the devils immediately took advantage.

After looking around, the deputy head of the 772 regiment returned to Cheng Xiazi's side. He dodged for a while and was almost hit by a ricochet.

After taking a breath, the deputy head reported:
"Our soldiers are almost out of ammunition. I checked before departure. Each of us has about 9 rounds of ammunition in reserve, but now there are only about 3 rounds left. This amount of ammunition is very dangerous!"

Hearing this, Cheng Xiazi gritted his teeth and glanced at the 771 Regiment on the opposite side. It should be a similar situation over there.

The devils have raided one after another, and the Eighth Route Army has had a hard time in the past few months.

So he said:
"According to the original battle plan, throw out all the grenades and blow the charge!"

Next, it's time to charge forward and fight hard.

I hope that after this hand-to-hand battle, the casualties will be less.

"Alas...it's a pity that my soldiers are not as powerful in hand-to-hand combat as Chu Qi's soldiers, or else...huh? Chu Qi?"

Thinking of this, Cheng Xiazi grinned as if he had thought of something.

Perhaps, with someone around, hand-to-hand combat can really make this battle easier!
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When Cheng Xiazi was thinking about Chu Qi's excellent hand-to-hand combat strength, he ambush in a forest 40 meters away from the battlefield.

Watching Kinoshita Morita lead his soldiers back to fight back, he focused all his attention on the 771st and 772nd regiments. At this moment, Chu Qi was slowly approaching the Japanese army with a battalion.

According to the battle plan notified by the two friendly army commanders, next, it should be the time for the two regiments to charge at the same time.

And just when Chu Qi led the team to approach the Japanese army and shorten the distance of the follow-up charge, behind Chu Qi, a soldier suddenly asked:
"Battalion Commander, let's just hide aside like this, without firing a single shot, is that okay?"

Hearing this, Chu Qi glanced at the soldier, but he didn't have any impression, he should be a recruit.

But just in a good mood, Chu Qi explained:
"Why can't it work? We are called the reserve team!"

Seeing that the soldier was still puzzled, he went on to explain:
"The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing. At any time, we have to reserve a hand to prevent the enemy from escaping, or if there is any accident, someone has to stop it. Therefore, this is called the reserve team."

"Besides, with the hand-to-hand combat strength of our [-]st Battalion, this battle is all about rushing to see the red with the bayonet. Why shoot? Of course, we have to approach the enemy cautiously and stab the enemy in the heart."

Hearing this, the soldier seemed to understand, and nodded.

Chu Qi didn't care, he asked the elite soldiers of the first battalion beside him to focus on them, and pointed to Kinoshita Morita Nakasa, who was protected by layers of Japanese troops.

He said:
"Something must have happened to the 771st and 772nd regiments. At the beginning of the battle, they didn't kill the enemy commander first."

"When I start to charge later, I'll try to fire a shot. If I can't kill the lieutenant officer, then you can stab me hard in that place, and I must kill that old devil Kinoshita."

Hearing this, the soldiers beside Chu Qi all nodded their heads, they seemed very confident.

These fighters were all drawn by Chu Qi from various companies and platoons. They were all fighters who showed extremely high melee talent in the training a few days ago, and they were very good at hand-to-hand combat.

And gathering these fighters together, Chu Qi wanted to create a sharp knife squad.

——In hand-to-hand combat, a team with excellent melee skills can bloom in all directions in the enemy army, tear the enemy's defense, and damage the enemy's morale.

And with such a sharp knife team opening the way, when the follow-up fighters keep up, a gap has been torn in the enemy's defense and the enemy is divided, and the subsequent killing of the enemy will become easier.

This is also the reason why Chu Qi formed the sharp knife team.

"..."

"The 771st and 772nd regiments have begun."

Seeing the bursts of explosions suddenly sounded in the devil army, Chu Qi took a look, and it was the soldiers of the two regiments who were constantly throwing grenades.

He turned his head, glanced at the soldiers, and said hastily:

"Ready to fight!"

Hearing this, there was a clatter of bayonet loading.

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The Eighth Route Army soldiers began to charge.

The gray and white military uniforms all over the mountains rushed down the hillside quickly while the enemy was dodging the grenades.

Seeing the enemy rushing down, the devils repeatedly pulled the bolt of the gun, ejected the bullets from the chamber, and put a bayonet on the muzzle.

——For hand-to-hand combat, the Japanese army has always been very confident and not afraid of opponents.

And at the beginning of the hand-to-hand combat, Kinoshita was still very relaxed after making close combat contact with the enemy.

In his opinion, this group of Tuba Road is similar to the 28th Regiment who had previously formed an enmity. There is not much merit in hand-to-hand combat. They are simply idiots in hand-to-hand combat, and their level is low.

Sure enough, although the Eight Routes rushed down, in the hand-to-hand combat, the Eight Routes still suffered heavy casualties, and the charge could not change the situation.

"Hmph, how about hand-to-hand combat with our imperial army? This group of Eighth Route Army is decades earlier, and they are here purely to die!"

Kinoshita hummed lightly.He held the Zuoguan knife with both hands, and stood in the middle of the Japanese soldiers leaning on the handle of the knife, watching the soldiers under him fighting hand-to-hand with the Eighth Route Army leisurely.

In his view, the Eighth Route Army is still at a disadvantage in this battle, and his brigade just has to pay some casualties in exchange for the destruction of the two main Eighth Route Army regiments.

But soon, he had no time for complacency.

Because the next moment, behind him, an imposing Eighth Route Army army rushed out.

Confident in defeating the 28rd Battalion of the [-]th Regiment, the soldiers under Chu Qi's command had high morale and rushed towards the devils with their swords and spears in hand.

"... Nani?! There is an army from the Eight Route Army behind you?"

Kinoshita was startled immediately, he didn't expect that the Eight Route Army not only dispatched two main regiments this time, but also left a group of reserve teams, which didn't show their strength until now.

And this reserve team was actually different from the general Eighth Route Army. Although they were dressed in rags, their melee combat skills were all very good. They immediately penetrated into the devil's army and killed a lot of soldiers.

After killing the surrounding soldiers, the leading soldiers of the Eighth Route Army rushed towards Kinoshita Morita without paying attention to making up the knife.

——Target, kill the enemy's lieutenant!
Along the way, death or injury!
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(End of this chapter)