Chapter 31 Where does the Japanese get their confidence from? "Captain, are you sure your message is correct?" On a ridge in Shiquan County, Duan Peng was lying on the ground with his assault platoon, looking at the motionless road below. He couldn't help but look at Qin Yangming beside him. "Duan Peng, how did I teach you? Being a hunter requires patience, just like fishing. Can you catch a big fish without patience? " "But Captain, haven't we waited too long? We have been waiting here for a whole day.” Qin Yangming also felt a little strange when listening to Duan Peng's words. He received information from the brigade commander that a Japanese supply convoy from Taiyuan was about to enter Shiquan County from near Baihuling. Let him see if there is any chance to take down the convoy. Qin Yangming initially thought that the convoy would arrive soon, so he directly sent Duan Peng and the assault platoon to ambush. Qin Yangming, who had not killed any Japanese for a month, arranged for Zhangye to be in charge of the affairs in the camp and then came along.

On the one hand, it is to solve the problem of my own itchy hands, and on the other hand, it is to check the training results of the assault platoon. The assault platoon is not the kind of soldiers who specialize in charging. This is a special forces team trained by Qin Yangming according to the training methods of the special forces in his previous life. Qin Yangming spent a lot of money to form this assault platoon. Most of them are good fighters selected from the entire New 1st Regiment, and they are all veterans with at least two years of service! Everyone has meat to eat every day, has adequate nutritional supplements, and does various high-intensity training every day. I have also experienced the hell month in the afterlife! After a month of devilish training, even Zhong Zhicheng was scolding Qin Yangming for oppressing the soldiers, and even asked Qin Yangming to stop the so-called training more than once. Even Qin Yangming trained along with them. The regiment commander Li Yunlong couldn't stand it anymore and wanted Qin Yangming to stop training. But Li Yunlong never said anything again until Duan Peng appeared in Li Yunlong's room. Knowing that Qin Yangming was coming to attack his regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong deliberately strengthened the defense of the regiment headquarters. Two companies were directly mobilized from the first battalion to patrol the county town every day. Even so, Qin Yangming still managed to sneak in, and the chief officers of each company were also basically sneaked into the room by the assault platoon. If it was an enemy, I'm afraid the command system of the New 1st Regiment in the county would be destroyed in an instant! "Wait another five hours. If the convoy doesn't come after five hours, Just go to the turret in front to have dinner, and then go home. " After taking a look at the sky, Qin Yangming gave orders. Hard work paid off. In the last hour, a convoy of ten large trucks drove over. Several sidecars leading the way were equipped with Type 99 light machine guns. The Japanese were caught off guard and rushed directly into the ambush circle of the assault platoon. Duan Peng looked at the convoy below and the soldiers escorting it with some confusion.

"Battalion Commander, why are there so few Japanese soldiers?" Qin Yangming also felt something was wrong. "That's strange. I remember the brigade commander said that there was about a squadron of Japanese soldiers coming out. He even swore that it must be important supplies, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many Japanese escorting them.” Qin Yangming began to listen to the information told by the brigade commander. He also guessed that these might be the supplies prepared by the Japanese for a large-scale mop-up, so he brought the assault platoon out. "Fuck it, now that I'm here, I don't care what it is. If you rob someone, you can't go back empty-handed, right?" "Since the day our assault platoon was established, once we go out, there is no reason for us to return empty-handed." "Even if we don't catch the prey, we have to take a turret back with us." Listening to Duan Peng's words, Qin Yangming also nodded. The actual combat task he assigned to the assault platoon was to set an ambush and capture the artillery tower. While increasing practical experience, you can also bring back some supplies. "Captain, this is the only convoy. There are no others behind." The scout came back and reported. As the entire convoy entered the ambush circle, mortar gunner Wang Erniu and a few others directly grasped the barrel of the 60mm mortar and prepared to load the shells. With Wang Erniu's skills, the mortar can be fired at close range without a gun mount. After nearly a year of training, several gunners in the Pioneer Battalion had mastered this operation. Following Qin Yangming's orders, several gunners stuffed shells into the barrels. Five shells whizzed toward the convoy. At the same time, the MG42 general-purpose machine guns equipped by the assault platoon also opened fire quickly. More than 42 submachine guns, plus five MG general-purpose machine guns with super high firing rates, Dense bullets formed a metal barrage that swept towards the convoy below. The Japanese were stunned by the barrage of bullets for a moment. Several snipers in the assault platoon kept shooting and killing the Japanese soldiers who wanted to take the machine guns. As long as the Japanese soldiers show their bodies, the snipers can immediately seize the opportunity to knock them down one by one. In less than three minutes, all the Japanese soldiers in the convoy were wiped out by the assault platoon soldiers on the ridges on both sides. Qin Yangming led his troops down the hillside and quickly opened the tarpaulin on the back of the truck. He saw that the truck was not loaded with weapons, ammunition and other supplies as Qin Yangming had imagined. But they are cotton bags one by one.

"No, Captain, what is this? The devil's secret weapon?" Duan Peng picked up a cotton bag that was as tall as a person, his face full of curiosity. He had seen the world, but it was the first time he saw the Japanese give him this thing. "Damn it, this is a Japanese body bag!" Looking at the cotton bag, Qin Yangming recognized what it was at a glance. After cursing his bad luck inwardly, he arranged for the soldiers of the assault platoon to drive the truck home. …… "Captain, there are a total of 5,000 body bags, as well as a batch of bandages and other things. The assault platoon has made a loss this time." Zhangye found Qin Yangming with the list of supplies and reluctantly told him about the seizure. Qin Yangming on the side was wondering why the Japanese sent so many body bags to Shiquan County? There aren't so many Japanese devils in Shiquan County, right? "Could it be that the Japanese are planning to launch an attack from Shiquan County?" "And use Shiquan County as a logistics base?" It is impossible that all five thousand body bags were sent to the Japanese in Shiquan County. Two for one is too many. Considering the poor character of the Japanese devils, even one would be enough if they don't have two. So these are most likely all the body bags the Japanese prepared for this major raid! These body bags should have been delivered to the front line in the later stages of a battle, but now they have been delivered to Shiquan County before the battle even begins. "Damn it, how much do the Japs look down on us? Take this frontier position in Shiquan County and use it as a logistics base?" Thinking of this, Qin Yangming laughed out of anger. Zhangye, who was standing by, saw Qin Yangming suddenly burst into laughter and thought that it was because the spoils were too bad, so he spoke quickly. "Captain, the spoils this time are not bad. These cotton bags can be transformed into clothes or something. It just so happens that we don't have many new uniforms left." "I'm not talking about this. I'm wondering, how much do the Japanese really despise our Eighth Route Army?" "We are such a large new regiment right on the edge of Shiquan County. It can be said that there is a knife at the throat of Shiquan County. But the Japanese actually want to use Shiquan County as a logistics base?" "Where did the Japanese get the confidence to defeat our New 1st Regiment at the first moment of the battle?" Having said that, Qin Yangming explained the matter to Zhangye, and then called the brigade commander and Li Yunlong to tell them about his discovery. But unexpectedly, I heard bad news from the brigade commander. "This time, the Japanese not only sent back the division of the Japanese garrison in Shanxi,

We also added a division and two independent infantry brigades to launch a sweep in Shanxi!" "According to the intelligence sent over from Hebei, two regiments are now heading towards Shiquan." "The new regiment will most likely face pressure from two regiments." (End of this chapter)