Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 143 The Consequences of Not Giving Face

After all, Xie Baoqing wasn't stupid; he could distinguish between the firepower of a light machine gun and that of a rifle.

Therefore, although the other side only had about a hundred people, they were still extremely difficult to deal with. However, Xie Baoqing had been a bandit leader for so many years.

Therefore, it was impossible for Xie Baoqing to surrender directly. So, Xie Baoqing immediately clasped his hands in a fist salute and said to Wang Gensheng and the others:
"My name is Xie Baoqing. May I ask which unit you brothers belong to?"

Wang Gensheng didn't waste any words when faced with Xie Baoqing's situation and immediately said:
"Eighth Route Army, Cavalry Regiment, Commander Wang Gensheng, Commander Xie, these supplies must have been looted by you just now! However, there are no signs of battle or Japanese corpses, so what you looted shouldn't be Japanese supplies, right? Could it be supplies belonging to our Eighth Route Army?"

Upon hearing Wang Gensheng's words, Xie Baoqing immediately waved his hand and said:
"Misunderstanding! Misunderstanding! Commander Wang, these aren't supplies for your Eighth Route Army. They belong to Chu Yunfei of the 358th Regiment of the Jin-Sui Army..."

However, before Xie Baoqing could finish speaking, Wang Gensheng interrupted him, saying:
"The supplies of the Jin-Sui Army are also inadequate. Now we are fighting the Japanese together, so the supplies of the Jin-Sui Army can also be considered our supplies. So, Boss Xie, for the sake of your past battles against the Japanese, please give our Eighth Route Army some face, quickly lay down your weapons and surrender, and strive for lenient treatment!"

Indeed, Wang Gensheng did not immediately start firing machine guns. In his view, although these bandits had even robbed supplies for the War of Resistance, they were still better than the puppet troops. At least they had not surrendered to the Japanese and become their henchmen; on the contrary, they had robbed the Japanese.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng decided to give these guys a chance. If they surrendered voluntarily, they would be interrogated separately, and only those bandits who had committed heinous crimes would be executed. As for the bandits who were forced to make a living, they would not be pursued.

However, Wang Gensheng had barely finished speaking when Shanmaozi, the second-in-command of Black Cloud Stronghold, said with a disdainful look:

"What a joke! What face do you Eighth Route Army soldiers have? We'll go our separate ways. This is what we brothers do. We can't just surrender because of your Eighth Route Army's reputation..."

Bang bang bang!
Three short gunshots rang out, and the three leaders of Black Cloud Stronghold, who were riding on horseback, were shot in the head by Wang Gensheng with machine gun fire!

That's right, it was a machine gun firing in bursts to headshot people. It's called a burst headshot because Wang Gensheng held the trigger and then moved the gun to aim at the second person during the interval between the first bullet and the second bullet.

It is important to know that it is very difficult to achieve this. Although the Japanese Type 96 light machine gun does not have a rate of fire of more than 1,500 rounds per second like the G42 machine gun, it still has a rate of fire of 550 rounds per second.

That means it can fire nine bullets per second, with each bullet fired only 0.01 seconds apart.

To complete the muzzle shift and re-aiming within 0.1 seconds, and to control the recoil during firing, is naturally extremely difficult; most people simply cannot do it.

However, coincidentally, Wang Gensheng is no longer an ordinary person. After more than three years of fighting on the battlefield, Wang Gensheng has enhanced his physical attributes to three times their original level through the "killing enemies to enhance" cheat.

This three times also includes the speed of neural reaction. The limit of human neural reaction speed is about 0.1 seconds, but after Wang Gensheng was enhanced, he directly reached 0.03 seconds.

With this reaction speed, although it's not fast enough to dodge bullets, it's enough to control the muzzle rotation during machine gun fire.

Of course, although Wang Gensheng's reaction speed has broken through the limits of humans, it has not broken through the limits of living organisms. At least the reaction speed of cats is still faster than that of Wang Gensheng. After all, the reaction speed limit of cats is 0.02 seconds!

Of course, while a cat's reaction time is considered fast, it's still not the fastest in the biological world. The fastest reaction time belongs to the Camilla ant, whose reaction time reaches 0.023 milliseconds, or 0.000023 seconds, which is more than 400 times faster than a human's. Although Wang Gensheng's reaction speed is still not as fast as a cat's, to others, especially the bandits of Black Cloud Village, it seemed as if Wang Gensheng simply raised his gun, and their three leaders were shot in the head and fell to the ground.

Especially the second-in-command, Lynx, even when he fell to the ground, the arrogant expression on his face hadn't faded! There was no way he could react to the sudden headshot, so the arrogant expression naturally remained on his face and he didn't have time to take it off.

The sudden opening of fire and the unexpected deaths of the three leaders left the five hundred or so bandits of Black Cloud Stronghold somewhat bewildered, but Wang Gensheng spoke up:

"Anyone who doesn't want to surrender now will suffer the same fate as your three leaders!"

Wang Gensheng's move, coupled with the fact that they were leaderless, immediately terrified the bandits. After all, this was something that only a light machine gun could do, while they were now surrounded and aimed at by more than a hundred light machine guns!
So under Wang Gensheng's intimidation, the bandits obediently threw down their weapons and surrendered!

Seeing that the bandits had chosen to surrender, Wang Gensheng naturally had no intention of continuing to shoot them.

Despite possessing the cheat ability to become stronger by killing, Wang Gensheng did not stoop to the point of indiscriminately killing in order to become stronger.

However, after the battle, Wang Gensheng was in a dilemma when he looked at the supplies. After all, these supplies belonged to Chu Yunfei, and if Wang Gensheng chose to keep them for himself, it might be suspected of deliberately causing trouble.

Although the Japanese are now weak, they have not yet surrendered, and they are currently in a period of cooperation, so they have not broken off relations. Therefore, Wang Gensheng is not so bored as to mess with Chu Yunfei.

Therefore, Wang Gensheng thought for a moment and decided to hand it over to Li Yunlong and let them fight each other. Right now, Wang Gensheng only wanted to go back and figure out how to take down the Japanese in Taiyuan City. As for Daguzhen, there were definitely no Japanese left there.

After all, in the storyline, this batch of supplies seems to be intended as a supply for Chu Yunfei's artillery battalion in Dagu Town.

Just as Wang Gensheng was about to set off, he saw a troop of cavalry rushing towards them.

Seeing this, Wang Gensheng guessed that it must be Kong Jie's cavalry company that had arrived.

As Wang Gensheng had expected, Kong Jie and the cavalry company of the New Second Regiment arrived.

Kong Jie looked somewhat surprised when he saw Wang Gensheng, so he asked curiously:

"I was wondering what wind blew this commander of the Eighth Route Army's directly subordinate cavalry regiment here!"

Wang Gensheng smiled and said:
"I originally intended to attack Da Guzhen, but I unexpectedly encountered bandits blocking my way, so I just dealt with them!"

(End of this chapter)