Chapter 19 Roll Call
When Liu Zhengfeng saw that Guo Wanlin finally sent troops, he immediately felt relieved.
Being attacked from both sides, the Japanese troops in the valley were in a real desperate situation.
Guo Wanlin was overjoyed. With such a good opportunity, it would be difficult for him to lose the battle. He immediately gave the order to attack.
Since most of the weapons in their own troops' hands were of Hanyang type and had insufficient range, everyone had to move quietly down the hillside under the cover of woods and weeds.
Due to the large number of soldiers, they were soon discovered by the Japanese army in the valley. The Japanese soldiers no longer cared about Liu Zhengfeng and fired at the soldiers who were rushing down the hillside.
Now Liu Zhengfeng can focus on sniping the targets he wants to kill without distraction. He still follows a principle, which is to give priority to sniping the targets that pose the greatest threat to his side - light and heavy machine gunners and grenade launcher gunners.
Guo Wanlin felt a little strange when he saw Li Rong and Wu Xiaoyun were also here, but he ignored them. He crawled beside Liu Zhengfeng, took out a telescope and looked at the Japanese positions in the valley.
Through the telescope, one could see Japanese machine gunners falling to the ground one after another after being shot in the head. Along with the sound of Liu Zhengfeng pulling the bolt, one of the Japanese machine gunners must have been shot dead. Every bullet hit its target.
The machine gunner fell silent, the Japanese army's lethality was greatly reduced, and the situation became increasingly unfavorable for them.
At that time, the evening mist was vast, the sky was dim with purple air, and the sky and the earth were shrouded in a dark green color.
Guo Wanlin was shocked. Such accurate shooting at such a long distance was simply unheard of. Fortunately, he was his subordinate and not an enemy.
Guo Wanlin's heart was filled with joy, a smile appeared on his face. He put down the telescope and tilted his head to look at the sharpshooter who never missed his target. He saw that his face was angular and his expression was focused. He kept repeating the actions of shooting and pulling the bolt. The time he spent on aiming was extremely short, almost negligible.
Liu Zhengfeng used up all the bullets in the magazine. While reloading bullets, he grinned at Guo Wanlin but said nothing.
Guo Wanlin watched Liu Zhengfeng's skillful movements with a smile, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter.
"Good marksmanship, young man."
Liu Zhengfeng didn't even raise his head and said casually: "Thank you for the compliment, Master."
Guo Wanlin laughed and said, "I see that you don't seem to need to aim when you shoot, you just pull the trigger casually, but you never miss a shot, how do you do that?"
Liu Zhengfeng loaded the bullet into the gun, gently pulled the trigger, and killed a heavy machine gunner.
“The highest level of aiming is not with the eyes, but with the heart.”
Guo Wanlin was stunned for a moment and said, "Really? Your statement is quite novel and refreshing."
He put the telescope over his eyes again and slowly looked at the Japanese position.
"At two o'clock, that grenade launcher is too threatening to the regiment. Can we kill the main gunner?"
"no problem."
Liu Zhengfeng pulled the bolt, moved the muzzle over, quickly locked it, and decisively pulled the trigger. The main gunner fell to the ground.
"pretty."
Guo Wanlin was so happy that he danced with joy, his face full of smiles.
At this time, the commander of the Second Regiment, Feng Hui, had led his soldiers to break through to the halfway point of the mountain, less than 200 meters away from the valley. The soldiers fired at the Japanese troops in the valley. Although the shooting accuracy was unsatisfactory, the Second Regiment had a large number of people and still put great pressure on the Japanese troops in the valley.
The Japanese commander, Naoki Yamamoto, waved his command knife, his face was ferocious, and he shouted at the top of his lungs to command his troops to counterattack. Although he was attacked from both sides, his face still showed an arrogant and fierce look.
"Damn it! The machine gunner is dead. Hurry up and replace him."
"Hayi."
A soldier rushed over and dragged his dead teammate aside, then squatted down, grabbed the handle of the Type 92 heavy machine gun with both hands, and pressed the shooting button.
“Thump, thump, thump…”
Flames burst out of the muzzle of the heavy machine gun, and bullets poured out like plowing through a yard. The Japanese soldiers had ferocious looks in their eyes, gnashed their teeth, and held down the firing button with both hands.
Suddenly, a bullet fell from the sky and pierced into his forehead with a "puff" sound. The powerful impact caused him to fall backwards and die instantly.
Yamamoto Naoki's eyes were about to burst, and he shouted frantically: "Hurry up and fill it up, hurry up..."
At this time, the sky was getting darker and the vision was getting blurrier.
This time, Liu Zhengfeng set his sights on the Japanese commander Yamamoto Naoki. The Japanese army was too strong. Many heavy machine gunners were killed, but people kept filling their positions and continued to fire fearlessly.
We can't go on like this. We have to capture the leader first. We have to defeat their commander and undermine their morale.
Liu Zhengfeng pointed the gun at Yamamoto Naoki, held his breath, and gently pulled the trigger. The hot bullet tore through the night sky, whizzed away, and with a "puff" sound, it penetrated Yamamoto Naoki's forehead.
Naoki Yamamoto fell backwards and died.
"Your Excellency, Lieutenant Colonel..."
"The commander has been shot..."
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The Japanese positions suddenly fell into chaos, and negative emotions quickly spread among the soldiers.
Liu Zhengfeng had a stern expression as he kept calling out the names of the Japanese machine gunners and grenade launchers one by one and fired all the bullets in the magazine in one breath. He knew that the Japanese soldiers were on the verge of collapse and that he had to keep putting pressure on them.
As expected, the Japanese commander died, the army was attacked from all sides, and its machine gunners and grenade launchers were silenced one after another. A series of unfavorable factors overlapped and finally overwhelmed the once invincible Yamamoto Battalion.
“Retreat, retreat…”
A captain officer shouted at the top of his lungs. The Japanese soldiers had been suppressed by the unfavorable situation for a long time. When they heard their superior's order to retreat, they immediately swarmed towards the valley entrance.
Originally, the Japanese army had a very high level of military literacy, and even when retreating, they retreated in an orderly manner and would not give the opponent a chance to take advantage of the chaos. However, they have been in a dilemma of being attacked from both sides since the evening today, and the psychological pressure has reached the limit. They no longer care about such illusory things as the Bushido spirit and the dignity of the Imperial Japanese Army.
"Assholes, what are you doing? Don't make a scene, retreat in an orderly manner."
"Musashi, you idiot, don't run, you come to cover us..."
No matter how hard the Japanese captain commander shouted, he could not stop the Japanese army's chaotic formation and their army was completely defeated.
The commander of the Second Regiment, Feng Hui, saw an opportunity and ordered his men to chase after them and shoot at them at close range.
A group of people on the opposite mountain also took the opportunity to rush down the mountain and fired desperately at the fleeing Japanese troops.
At this time , the Third Regiment, which had been lying in ambush at the valley entrance for a long time, opened fire at full power. The only two Czech light machine guns of the Third Regiment fired fiercely, blocking the Japanese army's escape route.
The three regiments attacked the Japanese army from the front and back, forming a situation of closing the door and beating the dog. As the Japanese army was already in chaos and had no desire to fight, they were beaten without any temper.
In less than an hour, more than 500 Japanese soldiers were wiped out. Guo Wanlin was happy and secretly glad that he had made the right choice. Now, he, the defeated general, turned defeat into victory and finally got to hold his head high.
Guo Wanlin knew very well that he had to thank Liu Zhengfeng, an unknown soldier, for his victory this time.
