Chapter 412: Sending the Puppet Army to Death
In Chongqing, Secretary Qi hurried into the office with a telegram.

“Four thousand people. The Japanese really think highly of those bandits in Xiaohuang Mountain.”

After reading the telegram, Boss Dai snorted coldly. He had previously issued an order for Wuhan Station to pay attention to Xiaohuangshan and report any situation in a timely manner.

He Rongtang never dared to neglect Boss Dai’s orders.

“Xiaohuangshan has geographical advantages, but it is useless if there are not enough people going there.”

Secretary Qi replied with a smile. Boss Dai thought for a moment and then said, “Ask He Rongtang to continue to pay attention and report at any time.”

Secretary Qi was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately.

The Japanese went to attack Xiaohuangshan, which was a battlefield, and the Military Control Commission was not so eager to pay attention to it.

But since Boss Dai was interested, He Rongtang had to do it, even if it was risky.

Secretary Qi understood why Boss Dai was so concerned about Xiaohuangshan.

Xiao Huangshan said they were bandits, but in fact they were about to become part of the Red Party. He was paying attention to the Red Party.

The Red Party has always been a major concern for the old man. Although they have no money and no equipment, they are developing very fast. Moreover, the Red Party has strong combat effectiveness and they are fearless of death. Such people have always been the most difficult to deal with.

Boss Dai is studying the Red Party.

It is true that now is a period of cooperation, but truly smart people understand that Guohong cannot coexist.

If it weren’t for the Japanese as an external enemy, the Guo Party’s goal against the Red Party would not have changed at all.

Even if the old man was forced to agree last time, he would try his best to eliminate the Red Party.

This organization is terrible.

Much more difficult to deal with than those warlords.

In Wuhan, He Rongtang soon received orders from headquarters.

After reading the content, he was stunned. How could it be so easy to spy on the battlefield?
Moreover, it was on the mountain and his men couldn’t get up there at all.

But this was an order personally given by Boss Dai from the headquarters, so he had to do it. He immediately called his confidant and asked him to take people to conduct reconnaissance.

The confidants mainly observe and command from behind to prevent their people from being captured without their knowledge.

That would bring great danger to Wuhan Station, even to him.

The people I brought this time were those who did not know the current location of Wuhan Station.

Even so, he still has to take precautions and patches, destroy important files in advance, and be ready to transfer them at any time.

On Xiaohuang Mountain, Niu Yuanxiang and more than 400 people were waiting at the second line of defense.

He did not dare to bring too many people to prevent Japanese planes from suddenly coming. Although he guessed that only Japanese people would come and no planes, he still could not rely solely on guesswork and had to take precautions.

Since they have few people, they can easily retreat if Japanese planes really come.

As for masturbation, he’s not that crazy.

Planes are not easy to shoot down, and it is also difficult to hit them with machine guns. The only advantage for them is that the terrain here is good. Planes cannot fly at this altitude and must fly higher.

This would reduce the threat posed to them by machine guns on board aircraft.

“Da da da.”

Niu Yuanxiang was just thinking when rapid gunshots suddenly rang out from the corner. He and the people around him were startled. Why did someone start shooting when they hadn’t even seen anyone?
And it’s a machine gun.

After Yoshioka gave the order, the Japanese supervision team did not show any mercy and opened fire with two machine guns.

However, they did not attack anyone at the first moment, but went to the open space behind the bandits.

If any bandit was killed or injured by stray bullets, he deserved it.

Suddenly, gunshots were heard from behind, startling the battalion responsible for the attack, and Ma Shuhuan looked back in shock.

He didn’t expect the Japanese to actually open fire.

When the people in the first battalion, especially those at the back, saw the Japanese opening fire, they dared not hesitate, for fear of being shot to death by the Japanese behind them, and they rushed forward in a hurry.

As they rushed forward, the people in front were forced to speed up, otherwise they would be the last ones.

The Japanese opened fire, which showed that their patience had reached its limit. It would be truly unfair if they were beaten to death by the supervision team.

In order to keep a close eye on the puppet troops in this battle, Yoshioka prepared a supervision team of more than 300 people.

With just these three hundred people, they can wipe out all the puppet troops on the front battlefield.

They have this confidence.

The Japanese soldiers at this time were indeed very capable in combat.

“Come on, call me.”

Niu Yuanxiang hadn’t figured out what was going on yet, but he saw someone running out from the corner ahead.

They are puppet troops.

The Japs were still as cunning as ever. Just like last time, they let the puppet troops attack first. Niu Yuanxiang felt sad for these puppet troops.

They thought they had surrendered to a new master, but in fact they were just dogs. When the Japanese needed them, they would not care about their lives at all. Even if all the puppet soldiers died, the devils would protect their own people first.

There are few Japanese people, and every Japanese soldier on the battlefield is their treasure.

“Tattoo.”

The machine guns opened fire first. Niu Yuanxiang deployed two heavy machine guns and eight light machine guns. The machine gun firepower was very strong. The others took rifles and kept shooting at the people who ran out.

Many of the puppet soldiers who had just escaped fell down instantly.

Many of the wounded but not dead were wailing on the ground. Seeing the fierce firepower of Xiaohuangshan, the rest of the puppet troops were frightened and hurriedly ran back.

They were originally rushing forward, but now they were running backwards. The two groups collided with each other and fell to the ground.

Yoshioka frowned. He knew that the puppet army had weak combat effectiveness and he had not had any expectations for them, but he did not expect them to be so bad.

Without firing a single shot, the bandits fought back?

Even if we bring more than a thousand pigs, we are probably stronger than them. At least the pigs will charge forward instead of retreating.

“Supervisory team, shoot, we must make them move forward.”

The role of the puppet army is to consume the bandits. His engineers are waiting. If they don’t attract the bandits’ attention, how can the engineers build fortifications?

Artillery fortifications are not that easy to build.

This is a mountain road and heavy artillery cannot pass through. Yoshioka only brought a few 105 mountain cannons, and the rest were all mortars.

If he didn’t build up the artillery position well, he wouldn’t be able to inflict heavy damage on the people of Xiaohuangshan.

They were high up, well hidden and strong, so their grenades couldn’t reach them and their bullets couldn’t hit their heads, so they would just become sitting ducks.

This is a big taboo on the battlefield.

Yoshioka would certainly not make such a mistake.

“Da da da.”

The supervision team opened fire with machine guns again. This time it was no longer a warning. They would directly shoot anyone who retreated.

They killed more than a dozen puppet soldiers in an instant.

The Japanese made their attitude clear: we must move forward or we will die.

“Captain, the First Battalion is in such a pity. The Japanese are so hateful. They really killed people.”

The commanders of the Second Battalion, the Third Battalion and several companies directly under the regiment came to Ma Shuhuan and cried. There were more than 400 people in the First Battalion, and they had suffered heavy losses. Some of them were killed or injured by the bandits from Xiaohuangshan, and many were killed by the Japanese later.

There were also people who were injured because of the collisions and tramples.

It can be said that in just a few minutes, the first battalion lost at least seventy or eighty people, equivalent to a 20% combat loss.

Although not all of the seventy or eighty men died in the battle, their combat effectiveness was greatly weakened after being injured, or they lost their combat effectiveness and needed care. These people could no longer continue to fight.

“Damn it, damn it.”

Ma Shuhuan’s eyes were red, but he could do nothing. Behind him were all Japanese, who outnumbered them by far.

If they resist, all of them will die here.

His First Battalion was in complete chaos at this time. When the Japanese behind opened fire, they could only charge forward and had no way to retreat.

The people in front did not dare to charge, and the firepower was even stronger when they rushed out, and they were in a mess, without any order. Yoshioka frowned and suddenly ordered: “Let them all rush over.”

“Hay.”

The subordinate took the order and went to give orders to Ma Shuhuan.

Ma Shuhuan was stunned when he received the order.

The first battalion was already in chaos. Letting them all go would only make the situation even more chaotic, and his entire regiment might even be wiped out here.

“I’m going to see Colonel Yoshioka.”

“No need to go. The colonel won’t see you. This is a death order. Execute it immediately.”

The Japanese officer who came to deliver the message immediately shook his head. Yoshioka would not give him a chance. The puppet army was used to consume the bandits’ ammunition and provide them with opportunities to build fortifications.

“Don’t see me?”

Ma Shuhuan stood there in a daze, not even noticing that the Japanese officer had left.

“Captain.”

As soon as the Japanese left, others gathered around, their faces full of worry.

The Japanese asked them to attack by force in order to save all their lives and create opportunities for the Japanese to fight.

No one wants to die. They are surrendered traitors and they don’t want to die even more.

“Captain, why don’t we rebel and help Xiao Huangshan fight the Japanese, so that we still have a chance to survive.”

A battalion commander suddenly said that moving forward would mean death, and retreating would also mean death. The only way they could have hope of survival was to rebel and join Xiaohuangshan.

“No.”

Ma Shuhuan suddenly shook his head. His family was all in Wuhan. If he rebelled, all his family members would be destroyed.

He is not like his subordinates. He has elderly parents and young children to take care of, and he attaches great importance to his family.

“Let everyone attack and hold on. We can achieve merit and also fight for our survival.”

Ma Shuhuan shouted, and the others looked at him with strange eyes.

And this is a graduate from a military academy?

There are a lot of people in Xiaohuangshan, and their weapons and equipment are not bad. In such a place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack, let alone more than a thousand people, even if there are three times more, they may not be able to break through.

In front of us is the place where one man can block the passage of ten thousand.

“This is an order, execute it immediately.”

Seeing that none of his men moved, Ma Shuhuan shouted, and his men had no choice but to leave and convey Ma Shuhuan’s order.

When they heard that they were going to charge, Ma Shuhuan and his men were also dumbfounded.

Just look at the First Battalion and you’ll know what will happen if they rush forward.

With the Japanese supervising the battle behind them, soldiers were everywhere cursing the Japanese. Anyone who was driven to die would have bad words.

The puppet army was in chaos, but under pressure from the Japanese behind them, they continued to move forward.

The person at the front has no way to retreat and has no choice but to rush forward.

Ma Shuhuan deployed more machine guns, hoping to suppress the firepower of Xiaohuangshan and allow more people to rush over.

As long as his men rushed to the Xiaohuangshan position and disrupted them, the battle could be won.

But even if it was a victory, it was a pyrrhic victory.

Where there is life, there is hope.

We can recruit more people when there are none left. There are many Chinese people, and we can quickly replenish the manpower by conscripting young men.

He made sacrifices for the Japanese, and the Japanese will definitely support him in reconstruction when the time comes.

This is Ma Shuhuan’s greatest hope and his most optimistic idea.

For a man who still had illusions on the battlefield, it was no wonder that he only became a regiment leader. Most of his classmates were of higher rank than him.

Under his strong oppression and the threat from the Japanese, the puppet army had to charge forward.

The machine gunner ran over, set up his machine gun and started firing.

Unfortunately, their fighting ability is too poor.

These machine gunners failed to even aim and fired randomly. Their firepower seemed strong, but in fact the threat was limited.

At first, Niu Yuanxiang was indeed shocked, but after realizing that their marksmanship was far inferior to that of the Japanese, he decisively ordered his men to stop these machine gunners.

Just like the Japanese artillery before the sniper.

If we shoot them down, without the cover of machine guns, the remaining people will have no chance of getting through.

“Send the engineers over there. They can use the corpses of these puppet soldiers to build fortifications immediately.”

Yoshioka gave a decisive order that the role of the puppet army was to assist his artillery. The bandits in Xiaohuangshan were on a high position, so the fortifications must be built high enough to block the bullets.

Yoshioka understood that the most important thing in attacking a terrain like Xiaohuangshan was artillery.

As long as the artillery fires smoothly, the mortars he brings can plow all the Xiaohuangshan positions.

The battlefield was very chaotic, but under strong pressure, the puppet army still advanced a considerable distance.

“Throw a grenade.”

Seeing the puppet troops approaching and within the range of the grenade, Niu Yuanxiang immediately gave the order.

They are at a high place, so they can throw the grenades farther and use some auxiliary tools to throw the grenades.

“Boom boom boom.”

Grenades kept exploding, and the puppet troops were immediately blown into screaming and howling.

In particular, they made a simple catapult out of a basket, which could throw out more than a dozen grenades at a time.

Niu Yuanxiang did not feel sorry for the ammunition. After this battle, they would be able to seize a lot of weapons, and the extra ones could be exchanged for more grenades.

You can also apply to the organization.

The most important thing is to protect Xiaohuangshan.

The accuracy of the grenades thrown from the basket is definitely not good, but the puppet troops are all concentrated together, so accuracy is not important.

Some of them fell down the mountain, which made many people in Xiaohuangshan feel very sad.

It would be better if all these were blown up on the puppet troops.

No, it would be best to bomb the Japanese and kill them all.

“Military Advisor, what are they doing?”

Someone with sharp eyes noticed that not far in front of the corner, the Japanese were piling up sacks, which had been piled up more than half a meter high.

They were stacked in layers, making four layers in total.

The mountain road is narrow, so several layers of fortifications must be arranged so that three to four mortars can be placed on each layer.

The fourth floor can hold up to sixteen doors.

Let alone sixteen, even if there were only nine mortars, as long as they could fire continuously, Yoshioka believed that with the strength of the Japanese artillery, they would be able to blow the positions on the heights of Xiaohuang Mountain to pieces.

“No, they are building fortifications.”

Niu Yuanxiang’s face changed. He had received professional training and understood what these Japanese were going to do.

Once they are built, it will be difficult for them to pose a threat to the people behind the fortifications unless they have artillery.

Artillery is Xiaohuangshan’s biggest weakness. Not to mention them, even the Wuhan organization doesn’t have many artillery pieces, including the guerrillas.

“Hurry up and don’t let them finish building.”

Niu Yuanxiang quickly gave orders and arranged snipers to specifically target the Japanese engineers.

These engineers didn’t carry guns before, and they weren’t sniper targets, otherwise they wouldn’t have built so fast.

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(End of this chapter)