Chapter 38: Defeat the Ohno United! (Shameless vote request) Qin Yangming and others left Gangshi Village and after meeting up with the soldiers who had withdrawn from the camp, they hurried towards Baihu Ridge. When the Japanese captain on the outskirts of Baihu Ridge saw the fire coming from the direction of the main camp and could not contact the regiment commander, he hurriedly led his troops back for support. Qin Yangming, who was in the wild, looked at the situation and directly fired a red flare. Zhangye, who had been waiting for Qin Yangming's signal on Baihu Ridge, looked at the signal flares lighting up in the sky and directly ordered the troops that had been prepared long ago to rush out of Baihu Ridge along the hillside. The artillery company that pulled its guns up the canyon took the lead in launching the attack. Except for the location where the signal flare was located, artillery attacks were launched in other directions. The infantry who rushed out of Baihu Ridge quickly charged forward following the route of the artillery explosion. A squadron left behind by the Japanese captain to cover the retreat did not last ten minutes and was wiped out. Qin Yangming also led the assault platoon to harass the Japanese invaders from the periphery.
As long as they saw the reflection of the helmet, they would shoot a volley of bullets at them. For a moment, the Japanese captain was unable to organize a defense. Over there in the Japanese camp, the puppet soldiers outside saw the explosions and gunshots and they thought that a large force of the Eighth Route Army was attacking. Most of the puppet troops, led by their respective company commanders, quickly retreated to the back of the Japanese camp and protected the Japanese in front of them. Some puppet army company commanders who really thought that the Eighth Route Army had surrounded them were even smarter and directly set up heavy machine guns to deliver some ammunition to the Japanese. I hope that the Eighth Route Army will spare my life because they are also fighting the Japanese. Some puppet soldiers who wanted to rescue the Japanese were hit by bullets from the Japanese as soon as they entered the Japanese camp. The Japanese camp, which had just felt somewhat stable, became chaotic again. Some Japanese squadron leaders saw the puppet troops rushing over and thought that these guys wanted to take the opportunity to start a rebellion and use their heads to win credit for the Eighth Route Army. They fought for a long time but didn't find any Japanese soldiers. Just when the troops had stabilized, the puppet army rushed over. They didn't trust the puppet army in the first place and thought it was a conspiracy of the puppet army. The purpose is to use their heads to exchange for military merits from the Eighth Route Army. It is even possible that this puppet army has been instigated by the Eighth Route Army! As a result of this attack, the puppet army, which was originally wavering, directly rebelled. Originally, they came to rescue the Japanese with two ideas in mind. Rescue the Japanese. If they win, they will take this opportunity to seek credit from them. If the Japanese couldn't hold on any longer, they would immediately tie them up and bring them to the Eighth Route Army to claim credit. But now the Japanese are attacking them directly, thinking that what they have in their hands are fire sticks! The Japanese captain saw that the gunfire from the camp had suddenly become more intense, and he no longer cared about the Eighth Route Army behind him. He directly ordered his troops to speed up and rush towards Gangshi Village. "No matter what, we must rescue the Captain first!" This was what the Japanese captain was thinking.
But he didn't know that the captain he had been thinking about had become cold. The soldiers of the vanguard battalion behind them pursued them relentlessly. Similarly, except for the necessary soldiers who stayed behind, all other troops of the vanguard battalion also rushed out of Baihu Ridge. After receiving the message, Captain Wu, the head of the New 1st Regiment's recruit camp nearby, quickly gathered with the recruit camp, the county brigade, and the teams from each district. A force of nearly four thousand men directly blocked the Ohno Regiment. When the captain learned that the regiment commander had died in battle, he did not hesitate and directly organized the flag guard squadron and the gathered soldiers to break out to a point. The cruelty of the Japanese devils was fully displayed at this moment. There were Japanese soldiers in front engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Eighth Route Army, and the artillerymen behind opened fire directly to cover the front positions, killing both the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese soldiers. A path to break out was opened up in this ruthless way. When the puppet troops were halfway through the battle, they discovered that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had not arrived at all, and they were about to give up the fight. As a result, the Eighth Route Army's charge immediately sounded behind them. This time, the puppet soldiers fought even harder. "Brothers, our reinforcements are coming! Kill the devils and avenge our fellow countrymen!" A puppet army company commander wanted to show off in front of the Eighth Route Army, so he led his troops to charge towards the Japanese camp. Inspired by the company commander's words, many puppet troops from other companies also launched the charge. The Eighth Route Army who rushed over were stunned for a moment when they saw the puppet army madly attacking the Japanese. It was not until Captain Wu arrived at the front line and took command of these puppet troops that the attack was successful. These puppet soldiers were also afraid. Just now, they were almost chopped off by the Eighth Route Army who rushed over from behind. Those puppet soldiers who were still alive were secretly thankful that their company commander reacted quickly enough and led them to fight against the Japanese first. Otherwise, he would have been beheaded one by one like those Japanese soldiers who were surrounded. The battle lasted for a whole night. Many puppet troops and soldiers from the New 1st Regiment searched the nearby area, trying not to let go of any Japanese soldiers. Some puppet soldiers even felt that things were a little too magical. Originally they were still fighting the Eighth Route Army with the Japanese yesterday, but today they were searching for the Japanese together with the Eighth Route Army. After Qin Yangming and Captain Wu met up, he was stunned when he heard Captain Wu say that there were nearly two thousand puppet troops who had directly surrendered to the Eighth Route Army. Now is not a period of rest and recuperation. There is time to carry out reform training for the puppet army. Right now is the time when the Japanese are conducting a large-scale sweep. Directly recruiting these puppet troops into the army will definitely affect the combat effectiveness of the New 1st Regiment. If we let them leave, they might appear again in the puppet army's ranks the next day. "Captain Wu, how do you think we should deal with these puppet troops?" Qin Yangming felt his scalp tingling when he thought about these things, so he directly handed the problem over to Captain Wu.
Captain Wu had anticipated this and spoke out his own plan for dealing with the situation. "Add three puppet prisoners to each infantry squad of the new regiment. This will not reduce combat effectiveness, but will also prevent the puppet troops from surrendering to the enemy again. The remaining puppet troops will all be incorporated into the logistics support battalion, responsible for transporting ammunition and digging fortifications, and will not be issued weapons." "In this way, after a day of high-intensity labor, these puppet soldiers should not have the intention to escape, and our engineers and logistics personnel will be able to get enough rest and can be responsible for guarding these puppet prisoners." "Okay, let's do as you say. By the way, Captain Wu, how many people are there in the new recruit camp?" "Seven hundred people, what's wrong?" "I want half of the loss." "What the hell? No, Captain Qin, that's too much. You only said half of it. What should I say if the other captains come to me?" "A thousand rifles." "Well, for other battalions, we can use half of our trained recruits and half of our prisoners to supplement their manpower." When Captain Wu heard that Qin Yangming was willing to give him a thousand rifles, he was very happy. Most of the soldiers in his new camp were equipped with the old Hanyang-made rifles, or the old Type 65 rifles or Type 38 rifles used by the main force. Several company commanders under his command asked more than once to replace them with better guns. He is one of the logistics managers of the New 1st Regiment. The warehouse of the New 1st Regiment has been empty for a long time. Where can he get some good guns? This time he agreed to help Qin Yangming fight the Ono Regiment with the intention of getting some equipment from Qin Yangming. There was no way around it. The commanders of several main battalions were as stingy as misers and kept all the captured weapons in the warehouses of their own battalion headquarters. They would only hand over a portion of the captured supplies to the regiment headquarters warehouse if a large-scale operation was carried out. It is much more difficult to get some equipment from those people than to get it from Qin Yangming. Qin Yangming did not take the five hundred rifles seriously. The Ohno Regiment had about 3,000 people, and was almost wiped out, along with more than 2,000 puppet troops. Even if we don't want the prisoners' guns, it would be no problem to gather a thousand good guns. After cleaning up the battlefield, Qin Yangming gave Captain Wu a thousand rifles and then returned to Baihu Ridge with his troops and new recruits. Captain Wu led the new recruits and the prisoners and quickly rushed towards the county town. (End of this chapter)
