Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Great Victory

A bloody arm was thrown high, and the splattered blood splashed on Raymond's face, but this time, the slightly nervous Jewish sergeant major did not panic as he did half a month ago, but instead held his rifle in a crouched position, ready to jump before the charge. More than 10 Japanese soldiers who had escaped grenade attacks with craters had unprecedented courage to crash into the Thunder Line and collide with the Jewish soldiers.

The muzzle bullets and bayonets penetrated into the opponent's body almost simultaneously, and the Japanese soldiers who were shot and the Jewish soldiers who were stabbed by the bayonets fell to the ground in unison, but the sparsely numbered Japanese soldiers did not have much hand-to-hand combat in front of the strong, prepared Jewish soldiers. A sideways dodge the opponent's bayonet, Raymond's rifle forward, the short and thin Japanese soldier in front of him suddenly covered his chest and shortened half a length, with a pair of red eyes, one hand clutched the bayonet on Raymond's rifle, and slowly fell.

In just a few tens of seconds, the more than 10 Japanese soldiers who collided with the Jewish soldiers fell to their deaths in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, while the Jewish soldiers only seriously injured one and two were slightly injured. "Sergeant Major Raymond, take your people out and keep an eye out for those Japanese soldiers who are pretending to be dead" Zhao Zhi, who had been watching the entire stabbing battle as a bystander, changed his magazine, and by the way, kicked open a Japanese corpse facing down, and the other party's jaw was all lost by bullets, leaving a disgusting blood hole.

Goro Hashimoto's troops were suddenly attacked by thunderous artillery fire, and at first there were a few artillery counterattacks, but with the escalation and extension of the thunder artillery salvo, the artillery gathered by Goro Hashimoto could not withstand it. Compared with the Thunder artillery team, the speed of movement of the Japanese mountain artillery and the 92 infantry guns was a little clumsy, and they naturally suffered a big loss in the artillery battle.

The artillery of Goro under the bridge could not spare time to deal with Zhao Zhi's heavy machine gun squad, which made the Jewish machine gunners operating the heavy machine guns more energetic, and the dark red barrage almost covered the entire frontal front, and the Japanese puppet soldiers who were pressed could only lie on the ground with their weapons or behind the corpses of their own people. The team led by Zhao Zhi successfully broke through the Japanese front and firmly suppressed them, while the team led by Tang Lei and Hogan had already wedged into the middle of the Japanese army from both flanks like crab claws, and cooperated with Hanks's troops to completely divide the Luliang Japanese puppet army into two sections.

"Up, up, up, press up and defeat them" The officers led Thomson to command his soldiers to charge the Japanese army, as the two wings of the Jewish soldiers approached, more than 4 Browning heavy machine guns began to shoot at close range, under the cover of large-caliber heavy machine guns, the Luliang Japanese puppet army began to retreat, and those Japanese officers who were struggling to gather their troops could not withstand the thunderous offensive and were coerced by the retreating soldiers. "Yaga, the face of the empire has been lost by you" Goro Hashimoto slashed two retreating Japanese soldiers with his command knife, but everyone was retreating, and no one listened to him at all.

The choking smoke created by the explosion of the shells was blown away in the air by the wind, the gunfire was dense like the sound of rain, and the open space was full of bloody and dead Japanese puppet soldiers, and the few who had not yet lost their breath let out hoarse and weak calls. Thousands of Japanese puppet soldiers were screaming and running around like headless flies, and more Japanese puppet soldiers were huddled together with their weapons tightly in their arms, waiting for their fate with pale faces.

The Japanese puppet army, which tried to rush to the two wings several times in a row to stabilize its position, suffered a fatal blow from the Browning heavy machine gun from a hundred meters away, and the strange enemy who was slowly approaching in the distance was almost surrounded in a formation that was so thin that it could no longer be thinner, but with desperate weapons to kill the Japanese puppet soldiers who rushed forward one by one. "Haha, look, these Japanese monkeys are starting to retreat, they can't stand it" Makarov's platoon was lying on the east of the Luliang Japanese puppet army only a few hundred meters away, and more than 30 Japanese light and heavy machine guns captured from Pingyao were lined up beside him.

Looking at the approaching Luliangri puppet army, Makarov took out the kettle on his waist, poured a sip of liquor in his mouth, and showed a rough smile on his face, "Maybe at the beginning, we didn't need shelling at all, just a charge, we can catch them all"

"Ensign, since they're just rabbits, why don't we charge, why do we have to lie here and wait for them to come," Makarov's Jewish soldiers quipped with a laugh. These guys all followed Hanks from Zhangwu County, and almost didn't take Pingyao immediately, naturally they thought that the Japanese puppet army was vulnerable rabbits, looking at the fiery scene ahead, some bold guys couldn't wait to rush up and catch a few Japanese rabbits back to show off.

"You idiots, all military greatness lies in making your opponents unthinkable, if you dare to complain again. I'll let you stand all night tonight," Makarov glared at the whiners in his platoon and turned his gaze to the battlefield. The complaining ghosts looked at the platoon commander with a hideous smile on his face, but his mouth opened several times, but he didn't dare to make a sound. Makarov deliberately said that he was just not nervous about the novices in his platoon, who knew that these guys would really think that the Japanese army on the opposite side was vulnerable, and if they continued to be so arrogant, they would one day be defeated miserably.

The battle lasted less than 2 hours, when the brigade of Jewish soldiers with bayonets and rifles rushed into the position of the Japanese puppet army in Luliang, there were no Japanese puppet soldiers who dared to shout with weapons in their sight, thousands of soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army stood tall and knelt on the ground with their weapons held high and waited for someone to receive their surrender, and the wounded Japanese soldiers who were wounded by the thunder had already become the surrender of the Imperial Allied Army and turned into corpses, and Goro Hashimoto began to retreat to the east side of the position with the remaining Japanese troops, And there is exactly where the Makarov platoon ambushed.

The Makarov platoon, which had been in ambush for a long time, finally had a chance to fire their first shot of the day, and it was also the one that decided the final fate of the puppet army of Lu Liangzhi. The salvo of more than 30 light and heavy machine guns was huge, and the barrage that burst out in an instant hit the Japanese troops who fled for their lives, and the Japanese troops who were physically fit and healthy and ran in the front were all engulfed in the barrage, and Goro Hashimoto and some of his officers were among them. The machine guns were constantly firing at the Japanese troops, and the empty ammunition boxes scattered around them were the best proof of their combat prowess.

"Quick, move the artillery position" The artillery unit of Hanks's regiment moved forward with the charging infantry to take the artillery position abandoned by the Luliangri puppet army, and the officers who commanded the artillery squad greeted and ran over the infantry around them to help transfer the gun position. There are still three 75 mountain guns left in the artillery position that was blown up by the Japanese army when they evacuated in a hurry, and the Thunder's artillery training not only came into contact with the guns of European-style countries, but also the equipment of the Japanese-style artillery system, and they were familiar with the 75 mountain guns and the 92 rifle guns.

With the rumbling of artillery, the Japanese troops who had been blocked by the Makarov platoon outside the mountains and forests ushered in the most unforgettable memory of their lives, the first shell fired by the test shot fell in the crowd of Japanese soldiers, and the Makarov platoon on top of them had stopped shooting and began to retreat into the mountains and forests. Unlike mortars, the 75 Mountain Gun had a large range when its shells exploded, and the use of mountain artillery to bombard the Japanese Jewish gunners could not guarantee the safety of the Makarov platoon, so they had to retreat into the mountains and forests to hide before the shelling began.

Makarov's platoon walked out of the forest after the shelling stopped, and everywhere he went, the ground was littered with traces of the shelling, and more of them were the bloody corpses and stumps. The whiners in Makarov's platoon had seen such a scene, and some of the guys with shallow stomachs even vomited at the beginning, and Makarov, who had a cigarette in his mouth, swept around the soldiers in his platoon contemptuously, just shook his head but said nothing.

In the battle that defeated the puppet army of Lu Liangri, the only one who did not suffer casualties was the Makarov platoon, and even the mercenary troops under Zhao Zhi who participated in the battle had several wounded mercenaries. The troops under Makarov's command did not suffer any casualties, but the ammunition consumed was very large, and more than 30 captured Japanese light and heavy machine guns were fired for more than half an hour, and the bullets that Hanks got in Pingyao City were exhausted, and half of the machine guns that kept firing were no longer usable after the Japanese army was defeated and became scrapped.

Groups of unkempt Imperial Allies were escorted to Pingyao by the Jewish soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield, the prisoners of war were lined up in a long winding snake, flanked by Jewish soldiers who were in charge of monitoring and escorting them with weapons in their hands, and more than 700 Imperial Allies who surrendered on the battlefield were lined up like a large string of grasshoppers on a rope, all of them were like dead ashes. However, compared to the fate of those Japanese soldiers, their surrendered Imperial Allied troops are obviously very good, at least they still have their lives to survive, and Thunder will never accept Japanese prisoners of war.

"Sir, a soldier reported just now that a small number of Japanese troops broke through Hanks and ran in the direction of Luliang, do you need to send troops to pursue?" Sergeant Major Raymond came over with a few soldiers and reported the latest situation to Zhao Zhi. No matter how good the encirclement is, there are also omissions, the Japanese army broke out with strong combat power when they desperately broke through the encirclement, after all, the Jewish soldiers in Hanks's regiment were the first time to really fight the Japanese army, although they had the advantage of weapons, but they still allowed more than 200 Japanese troops to escape and break through the encirclement.

"No need to chase, there are no other villages they can take refuge in this radius of more than ten kilometers, Tang Lei has already sent a team of people over there, they can't run" Zhao Zhi's face showed a contemptuous sneer, he was determined to win this victory, but then Luo Ying sent someone from Pingyao City sent a telegram that made Zhao Zhi's face lose a smile - something happened to Yu Dazhi from Yangquan.