Spy Wars: I can get rewards by being a bully!

Chapter 1144 This is the old Japanese devil

Liu Chengzhi whispered, "Keep it steady! Veterans watch the new comrades, get close and fire, don't waste bullets, and be careful to protect the machine gun!"

The Japanese soldiers responsible for scouting ahead numbered about a company of over two hundred men. They lacked powerful mobility devices, with only a few soldiers at the front riding two three-wheeled motorcycles, moving slowly forward.

Seeing the enemy enter firing range, Liu Chengzhi decisively gave the order, "Fire!"

Gunfire erupted. The weapons of the local guerrillas were a motley crew, mainly captured Type 38 rifles, some of which were rifles produced by the Southern Army, and even a few guns salvaged from the Jizhong base area's equipment repair shop. Although these guns were not very good and often jammed, the soldiers still cherished them immensely, wishing they could clean them ten times a day.

Unlike what's shown in TV dramas, the Japanese soldiers didn't panic when the gunshot rang out. The three-wheeled motorcycle stopped immediately, and several Japanese soldiers rolled off and quickly checked their surroundings.

They quickly located the small hill.

A Japanese officer shouted, "Get closer to the hillside for cover! Get closer to the hillside for cover! They're on higher ground!"

Liu Chengzhi pulled the bolt, aimed, and fired. The Japanese officer he was targeting was very alert; he rolled several times and landed in a depression, causing the shot to miss.

Veteran comrades with rich combat experience exclaimed in surprise: "That's an old Japanese devil!"

The so-called "old devils" refer to the first batch of Japanese soldiers who entered North China, not the child soldiers who were later transferred there.

These veteran Japanese soldiers underwent very rigorous military training, possessed exceptional military skills, and were incredibly accurate marksmen, causing the soldiers in the base area a great deal of trouble!

Liu Chengzhi shouted, "Machine gun! Machine gun!"

That's right, in the regional squad, firing machine guns requires permission!

Bullets are precious!

The machine gun fire provided temporary suppressive fire, allowing the soldiers to focus more calmly on the Japanese soldiers who had not yet found cover.

In a short time, the Japanese left behind seven or eight corpses, which greatly boosted the soldiers' morale!

The Japanese officer, hiding in his bunker, shouted in Japanese, "Grenade launchers! They're on the slope at the top! Use grenade launchers!"

Several Japanese soldiers then went down into the ditch on the other side of the road and quickly took out the grenade launcher.

The grenade launchers commonly used by the North China Area Army at this time were 50mm caliber. To ensure lightweight design, the overall weight exceeded eight kilograms, making them perfectly portable for individual soldiers.

There is a curved support plate underground that can be nailed to the ground. Because there is no support frame, the front of the grenade launcher has to be dragged by hand.

During the Pacific War, the Americans captured a lot of this equipment, but they initially carried it on their knees instead of by hand, which caused many American soldiers to suffer serious knee injuries.

The firing angle of this thing is fixed at 45 degrees, so you have to keep moving it to adjust the firing point.

Two Japanese soldiers worked together. First, they fixed the grenade launcher on a small mound of earth. Then, they used the aiming line on the launcher to aim at the small hill where Liu Chengzhi and the others were. An older Japanese soldier used his thumb to measure the distance. After that, they loaded a Type 91 grenade with a propellant charge.

Several grenade launchers were arranged in a staggered pattern to expand the strike range.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Several grenades were fired, landing on Liu Chengzhi's position and exploding immediately.

The Type 91 grenade was a fragmentation grenade, and the resulting explosions caused considerable damage to the local soldiers.

A young soldier was killed instantly when a shrapnel lodged in his temple because he failed to protect his vital organs.

The soldiers' eyes were bloodshot. Liu Chengzhi shouted, "Grenades! Take those grenade launchers!"

A short soldier gritted his teeth and stood up. He began to maneuver around the back slope. When he reached the other side and was about fifty meters away from the enemy, he took out a grenade, pulled the fuse, and threw it with a bang!

"boom!"

The grenade landed precisely next to a grenade launcher, instantly killing two Japanese soldiers.

Liu Chengzhi was overjoyed, "Well done! Little bald guy, well done!"

Little Baldy used to be a shepherd boy. When he was herding sheep on the hillside, he would throw stones whenever he had nothing to do. By throwing them back and forth, he actually developed excellent accuracy!

The base assessed the soldiers' grenade throwing skills. The best throwers could throw grenades within a range of 50 to 70 meters and also had to "enter the circle," meaning the grenade would land near the target.

The bald guy can throw more than 90 meters, and the error is far less than the training requirements.

The bald guy crouched down and began to weave his way to another slope, where he threw another grenade!

The Japanese officer roared, "Machine gun! Machine gun! Aim at that Eighth Route Army soldier!"

The Japanese soldiers immediately opened fire with their Type 96 light-duty rifles.

"Ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta!"

Just as the bald man raised his upper body, intending to throw the grenade again in a prone position, his chest and above were exposed because the slope was too low!

"Da da da!"

The bald boy threw a bullet with all his might!

He then spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, looked down, and saw a bloody hole in his right neck.

He opened his mouth, and blood gushed out again. In the last moment when he could control his body, the bald man tied the remaining three grenades together, wrapped the fuse of one of them around a button on his clothes, and then pressed the grenades under his body.

On the hillside, Liu Chengzhi's eyes were bloodshot!

"Machine gun! Machine gun!"

"Comrades, get a good look, flank westward and suppress that machine gun!"

"Grenadier, send another one up and take out their grenade launchers!"

The brutality of this small-scale skirmish far exceeded the expectations of both sides.

The Japanese company commander never expected that the peasants with only two machine guns, who only fired occasionally, could inflict such casualties on them!

The soldiers of the local detachment did not expect that this group of Japanese soldiers was not like the previous puppet troops who would run away as soon as someone died. Now, they had left nearly twenty corpses lying haphazardly on the road, and under the command of their commander, they were still carrying out a counterattack in an orderly manner!

More than an hour later, the soldiers who had moved to the low slope to the west to hold the enemy back sent someone to deliver a message.

"Squad leader! Squad leader! More Japanese soldiers are coming from behind!"

Liu Chengzhi gritted his teeth and said, "Comrades, the villagers are still evacuating. Let's retreat to the north and lure the Japanese away!"

If they retreat eastward and then cross the Fuyang River southward, they will soon find a foothold in southern Hebei.

But if they head north, the Japanese have motorized vehicles; two legs can't outrun military trucks. If they get caught up or blocked there, they're doomed.

Even if they weren't blocked, they had no supplies, not even enough for tomorrow's rations!

But no one offered any opinions; instead, they all rushed to make requests.

"Squad leader, I'll stay behind with some men to cover the rear, you all go first!"

"I stayed!"

"I'll stay! Squad leader, you take the men and retreat quickly!"