Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 173 (Part 172): Underwater Battle
Wang Cuiyun's words naturally stirred up the villagers' interest, after all, which of these villagers hadn't been bullied by Qiu Dana, otherwise they wouldn't be living in such poverty.

At this moment, Qiu Dana stood up and said:

"No matter how exciting the story sounds, he'll have to leave sooner or later, so please don't believe it!"

With Qiu Dana's departure, many villagers also left, but some unwilling villagers stayed behind. This was just the beginning. After all, unless someone is dead, who wouldn't have the will to resist, and who would be willing to endure the oppression of others?
So Liang's son's father decided to go with Wang Cuiyun to divide the land.

Because the land deed for his family's land was stolen by Qiu Dana, who took advantage of Liang Mancang's illiteracy to trick him into signing the land deed and thus obtained the land.

With Liang Mancang as the initiator, naturally more and more villagers joined in.

Therefore, the renovation proceeded smoothly.

Of course, the reform also greatly weakened the strength of the Fourth Field Army. In order to carry out the reform smoothly, the reform working group naturally needed to be armed.

Therefore, one-third of the Fourth Field Army's forces were temporarily assigned to the land reform working group. The purpose was simple: to ensure the implementation of the land reform. After all, how could they take land from the landlords and give it to the people without some kind of force?

Moreover, some landlords also owned guns; not all landlords were like Qiu Dana.

However, the general headquarters changed its operational strategy. Instead of focusing on the gains or losses of a single city or region, it concentrated its efforts on rural areas and reforms.

As the reforms progress, more and more people are joining the Liberation Army because everyone is afraid after the reforms!
They were afraid the medaka would take back their land, and that's exactly what happened, because the medaka actually did just that.

This is outrageous! The land we finally acquired is about to be snatched away like this.

How could they possibly agree to that! So they all joined the Fourth Field Army, their purpose being simple: to protect the land they had painstakingly acquired.

As a result, the population of Siye successfully grew from over two hundred thousand to one million.

However, this has nothing to do with Wang Gensheng. As a member of a directly subordinate unit, Wang Gensheng was not under the command of the Fourth Field Army.

Meanwhile, Wang Gensheng was preparing for the third wave of port raids!
For this surprise attack, Wang Gensheng prepared more than twenty underwater bombs.

Furthermore, this time Wang Gensheng also brought a frogman commando team of over a hundred people. They were not there to plant bombs, but to protect the personnel who were to plant them.

Therefore, they were all equipped with harpoon guns and twenty arrows each. Don't underestimate these arrows; in order to increase their lethality, the arrowheads were equipped with blood grooves, making their blood-draining ability quite terrifying.

"Long pipe, there's movement in the water. It's probably the ship-destroying unit that's back!"

Upon hearing this, the head of the security team at Qinhuangdao Port replied without hesitation:

"Then what are you waiting for? Why don't you send people into the water to intercept it? Are you going to wait until the ship is sunk before you go into the water to intercept it?"

Urged on by the port garrison commander, hundreds of port garrison soldiers with good swimming skills jumped into the water with bayonets.

Indeed, the port garrison soldiers understood that firearms were less useful than sticks in the water, so they carried only bayonets from their rifles.

Although Wang Gensheng chose to launch a night attack, he couldn't have chosen a moonless night with extremely poor visibility. Tonight, the moonlight was very bright, bright enough to easily see the bottom of a person's shadow within a hundred meters. Therefore, even in the water, one could see a person's shadow twenty or thirty meters away.

At this moment, Wang Gensheng was leading the way with a harpoon gun and a team of frogmen, followed by the demolition team carrying underwater bombs to blow up the ship.

Wang Gensheng naturally saw the guards who had jumped into the water, so he used a rubber hose to dive more than three meters into the water and raised his fish gun without hesitation, aiming at the nearest person and starting to shoot.

As Wang Gensheng pulled the trigger, the arrow, propelled by the elasticity of the rubber band, shot out rapidly and struck the man's chest with remarkable accuracy.

The Mitsubishi arrow easily pierced the man's chest, and the triangular wound immediately caused him to bleed profusely. Then, seawater poured into his lungs through the wound, making it difficult for him to breathe.

So, this guy only survived for less than three minutes before suffocating to death under this arrow.

As soon as Wang Gensheng spoke, the frogman special forces team began to shoot. More than a month of training had made the frogman special forces team's shooting skills very impressive, with a hit rate of over 90% within 30 meters.

So this volley of arrows immediately caused more than half of the enemy to be killed or wounded. If this were on land, after the first volley of arrows, close combat would definitely have to follow.

However, this is in the water, which is different from being on land. On land, it is difficult to fire a second shot at a distance of thirty meters, after all, the rate of fire of a bolt-action rifle is limited.

Reloading the harpoon with arrows is not much faster than bolting the rifle, although this is in the water, so reloading the harpoon with arrows is more time-consuming.

But the speed at which a person swims in water is much slower than the speed at which they run on land!
Professional swimmers can only swim a maximum of 120 meters per minute, while the average person swims only 70 or 80 meters per minute. So it would take 30 seconds to swim 30 meters!

Those thirty seconds were enough for the frogman special forces team to fire a dozen or so arrows.

It was precisely because of this fish-shooting gun that Wang Gensheng's frogman special forces team was able to kill over a hundred people on the other side without suffering any casualties.

The deaths of over a hundred people turned the seawater red, but it did not affect the operations of Wang Gensheng's frogman special forces team.

The port garrison commander was furious to see that all the soldiers he had sent out were dead. The remaining soldiers, seeing this, naturally claimed that they couldn't swim, and even those who could swim said they had leg cramps.

Despite the garrison's promise to reward anyone willing to go to sea to fight with silver dollars, no one was willing to do so.

Just kidding, they're all here to make a living. They say a big reward will attract brave men, but you have to be alive to collect the money!

Seeing this, the garrison had no choice but to order their troops to fire into the water.

Unfortunately, Wang Gensheng and his men's rubber hoses were three meters long. At a distance of three meters underwater, bullets would have no killing power. So this time, Wang Gensheng planted the underwater bombs right under the noses of the garrison, and then sank almost all the transport ships in the port, including two small gunboats of more than 100 tons.

As for warships over a thousand tons, Wang Gensheng naturally wanted to bomb them, and even wanted to bomb aircraft carriers!
After all, the highest achievement of the frogman special forces is sinking an aircraft carrier, but unfortunately, Lao Ji doesn't have an aircraft carrier!

So Wang Gensheng could only wait until Lao Mei herself took the stage before trying to get involved.

(End of this chapter)