Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 157 Chu Yunfei's Feast at Hongmen

For example, before attacking Heyuan County, Wang Gensheng had inquired about the situation multiple times and found that there weren't many people living in the county.

Moreover, most of them were actually family members of puppet troops, which is why Wang Gensheng dared to take action. Of course, more importantly, the Japanese in this county town only had one battalion with less than a thousand soldiers.

That's right. Although there is a large battalion, it is no longer at full strength because it is not receiving reinforcements.

However, what Wang Gensheng was somewhat relieved about was that, although it was not a full-strength unit and the amount of ammunition captured was not much, there were still quite a few light machine guns, a total of thirty-six light machine guns, which was still the number of light machine guns required for a battalion.

Unfortunately, the reinforcements from the Japanese that Wang Gensheng had been hoping for never arrived, even after waiting for half a day.

It seems that the Japanese have decided to abandon Heyuan County. In fact, Wang Gensheng had entered Heyuan County twice before. The first time was when he killed Hirata Ichiro. However, what Wang Gensheng did not expect was that after he wiped out Hirata Ichiro's entire military police battalion, the Japanese later sent another battalion to garrison the area. Clearly, they did not intend to give up.

However, with the Japanese mainland being bombed and their forces insufficient, they are probably planning to truly abandon Heyuan County this time.

So Wang Gensheng had no choice but to decide to return home. However, to his surprise, Li Xiu spoke up at this moment:

"Commander, now that we've taken the county seat, why don't we stay there? Look, Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment has already moved its entire regimental headquarters to Anhua County!"

After hearing Li Xiu's words, Wang Gensheng looked at Li Xiu seriously and said:
"He is Chu Yunfei, but I am not. Besides, we are an army, we fight and annihilate the enemy, not to enjoy ourselves. Li Xiu, don't forget our Eighth Route Army's mission, and don't forget what your situation was back then!"

Wang Gensheng still held considerable prestige within the entire Special Cavalry Regiment. Even though Li Xiu had now become the leader of the Special Cavalry Regiment's reconnaissance team, which was equivalent to a battalion commander (after all, Li Xiu was the battalion commander of the Third Battalion of the Special Cavalry Regiment), he was still intimidated by Wang Gensheng's imposing presence and dared not say anything more.

However, just as Wang Gensheng was leading two thousand men from the special cavalry regiment back to Majia Village, he encountered Li Yunlong and Wei Dayong on the road.

Seeing that Li Yunlong only had Wei Dayong with him, he smiled and asked:

"Hey, Commander Li, you're a commander, where are you going with just one bodyguard? Aren't you afraid of being ambushed by the Japanese?"

Upon hearing Wang Gensheng's words, Li Yunlong sighed:

"Sigh! What else could I do? Chu Yunfei sent me an invitation to Anhua County for drinks, and to chat about returning the equipment! Oh, by the way, where did you come from? Looks like you've won a battle!"

Wang Gensheng smiled and said:
"It's nothing major. After we wiped out the military police battalion in Heyuan County last time, the Japanese actually sent another battalion to garrison there. So we had no choice but to wipe them out again!"

Li Yunlong could only admire Wang Gensheng's ease in describing how he captured a county town and wiped out a battalion of Japanese soldiers.

"You're really something! You said you'd wipe out an entire battalion of Japanese soldiers, and you did!"

After saying that, Li Yunlong's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he said to Wang Gensheng:
"By the way, Chu Yunfei invited me out for drinks this time. I heard he prepared a feast for me. Why don't you come with your old regimental commander? After all, even though you're now a cavalry regimental commander, you still came from my Independent Regiment. I can't forget about you when something good happens!"

Hearing Li Yunlong's words, Wang Gensheng naturally did not refuse. After all, Wang Gensheng, who was very familiar with the plot of "Bright Sword", naturally understood that Chu Yunfei was setting a trap for Li Yunlong!

Despite the trap of this banquet, Wang Gensheng remained unfazed and immediately said:
"Then I shall accept your offer. It seems I, Wang Gensheng, am in for a treat today, able to follow Commander Li and satisfy my appetite!" Of course, Wang Gensheng's cavalry regiment of two thousand men could not be taken along, so he could only have them rest outside Anhua County.

Wang Gensheng, along with Li Xiu, followed Li Yunlong to Anhua County for a banquet.

The reason for bringing Li Xiu along was that Wang Gensheng discovered some minor problems with Li Xiu's thinking, so he planned to let Li Xiu see the world and correct her thinking.

There's nothing we can do; they haven't sent a single politician to his cavalry regiment so far!

However, Wang Gensheng had a backup plan. He gave Duan Peng some instructions, because Wang Gensheng remembered that Chu Yunfei had only moved the headquarters of the 358th Regiment into Anhua County, but not the entire 358th Regiment.

How many people could a regimental headquarters have? Even with the addition of the guard company, it would only be about a hundred people. So Wang Gensheng didn't hold back.

After Wang Gensheng followed Li Yunlong into Anhua County and met Chu Yunfei, he had even less regret about his decision.

Because Chu Yunfei's regimental guard company was indeed very well-equipped, with no rifles in sight.

They were almost all submachine guns, and judging from the models, they were Sten submachine guns.

This was something Wang Gensheng hadn't expected; he hadn't anticipated that Chu Yunfei had obtained the Sten submachine gun so quickly.

It should be noted that this gun was almost never issued during the entire War of Resistance against Japan. However, later in the war, a batch of Sten submachine guns entered the country.

However, these Sten submachine guns were not manufactured in Britain, but in Canada.

But considering that Chu Yunfei has now been incorporated into the Jin-Sui Army as a core force, it's not surprising.

Despite its many drawbacks, such as its tendency to misfire and low accuracy, the Sten submachine gun quickly became a widely used submachine gun due to its low manufacturing cost and rapid production.

More than four million of these submachine guns were produced during the entire Second World War.

Actually, Wang Gensheng was quite envious of this submachine gun. It wouldn't do to use a light machine gun as a submachine gun!

It was quite strenuous to lift the 9-kilogram weight, and apart from Wang Gensheng and Duan Peng, the other soldiers in the assault team found it rather difficult to use this light machine gun.

Therefore, if Wang Gensheng had this submachine gun, he would naturally consider replacing it with a large number of these submachine guns. As for the light machine guns, they could be left to the fire support team.

For assault teams, submachine guns paired with full-body armor are more suitable for close combat than half-body body armor paired with a heavy light machine gun. Equipping them with full-body armor would also significantly reduce the injury rate of assault teams.

(End of this chapter)