Chapter 37 Battlefield Discipline

  The recruits of the reconnaissance squad, except for Chu Tian Ge, had all experienced being ambushed at night and were not only no longer afraid of fighting, but also eager to try. When they heard the sound of gunfire outside the gate of their barracks, everyone felt a little itchy. Later, when they heard gunshots coming from beside the barracks as well, they knew that the captain had launched an attack and couldn't help but worry about him. As the gunfire around them gradually died down and fell silent, someone asked Chu Tian Ge in a low voice, "Squad leader, won't the devils be completely eliminated?"

  Since hiding here, Chu Tiange's right hand had been holding a grenade. Due to tension and excessive force, his palm was already sweating. He said: "It won't be long, the front gate should be almost done, but there must still be some at the back door, everyone stay focused and keep an eye out." In his heart, he silently muttered: "Big brother, you absolutely can't get into trouble!" As for Ouyang Yun single-handedly taking on so many devils, if one were to say who was the least worried about, it would naturally be him, because he was most clear about his big brother's abilities. But if one were to say who was the most worried about, it would also be him, because the emotions between them surpassed anyone else here.

  The students did not disappoint, and soon the sound of footsteps came from outside the back door. As the footsteps grew clearer, everyone's eyes were fixed on the wooden door with a mix of excitement and tension. With a loud "bang", the door was kicked open, and a Japanese soldier carrying a rifle rushed in, followed by a large group of other Japanese soldiers.

  Chu Tian Ge pursed his lips, let out a loud shout: "Attack!" His right hand swung out and threw out a grenade. Due to the tension, his voice was somewhat distorted and became extremely sharp.

  In his sharp cry, the well-prepared student soldiers threw out hand grenades one after another. At the same time, four student soldiers operating machine guns also pulled the triggers.

  A dozen or so hand grenades plus a rain of bullets, although one of the hand grenades did not explode - Chu Tian Ge's masterpiece, this kid was on the battlefield for the first time, but it was enough to wipe out the Japanese army that squeezed in through the back door five or six times.

  It was still the Japanese soldier who kicked in the door, leading the way. In an instant, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who squeezed in through the back door were all knocked down and blown up. Almost everyone died at the same time, losing part of their body.

  Chu Tian Ge set up the ambush point next to a warehouse about forty meters away from the back door, with two light machine guns on either side. At this distance and with such firepower configuration, it would be difficult for fifty or so lightly armed Japanese soldiers to break through!

  The Japanese troops were immediately stunned, and at this moment, Ouyang Yun hugged the re-picked light machine gun and opened fire on them again.

  This time, he chose a good position, just facing all the Japanese troops. The Japanese army was attracted by the sound of guns in the wall, and because many people in their own team were also firing, they didn't distinguish that there were also gunshots behind them for a while, so they suffered heavy losses. Ou Yang Yun used only two magazines to shoot dead or injured at least twenty Japanese soldiers.

  Finally, the Japanese army found themselves caught in a pincer movement, and many immediately fell to the ground seeking cover, constantly paying attention to Hou Fengcheng behind them. He was the first to react, firing several shots at Ouyang Yun. However, what terrified him was that three or four bullets hit Ouyang's chest and abdomen, but that Japanese devil - from the moment he witnessed Gujing being blown up, Ouyang had been a devil in his mind - simply took a step back, as if those bullets had no effect on him at all, still calmly firing his machine gun.

  The machine gunners of the reconnaissance squad were red-eyed, and had already knocked down all the Japanese soldiers within their line of sight. They continued to fire incessantly. At this moment, Li Tieshu led his men in a charge, stopping them from wasting bullets like prodigal sons. He ordered them to stay put, then took dozens of subordinates and charged directly at the back door.

  The Japanese soldiers at the back door were suppressed by Ouyang Yun's powerful force, and since they found that bullets had no effect on him, they dared not even lift their heads. And that poor Kamei was directly shot in the head with several bullets by Ouyang Yun.

  When Li Tieshu saw Ouyang Yun, he initially thought he was a ghost, raised his gun and was about to fire at him, only to find that the muzzle was actually pointing at Little Ghost. He was first bewildered, then suddenly enlightened. He hastily stopped his subordinates who were about to shoot Ouyang Yun, saying: "That's the captain!" Then he led everyone to carefully identify the ghosts, whether dead or alive, and shot an extra bullet into each of their hearts or heads.

  A moment later, the devils were all annihilated. The reconnaissance squad led by Chu Tian Ge began to join in cleaning up the battlefield. At this time, Li Tie Shu and his men discovered a cruel scene: the recruits of the reconnaissance squad had actually started cutting off the devils' heads. He said: "What are you doing?! They're already dead!"

  Ouyang Yun tore off the Japanese military uniform on his body, walked over with a smile and said: "Leave some memories for the Japanese, hey, aren't little devils most afraid of beheading? We'll just cut their heads off, we want to cut them so that when they hear the words 'Student Army', their necks will feel cool!"

  Li Tieshu furrowed his brow and said, "This isn't good, is it? Abusing a corpse will be hard to explain if word gets out."

  Ouyang Yun snorted and said: "Abuse the corpse?! Li Lianzhang, don't you forget that when these beasts were alive, they brutally harmed the Chinese people! This is called fighting fire with fire, fighting poison with poison! I want to let the Japanese devils know that the Chinese are not easy to bully, we will fight to the end and be ruthless! From now on, beheading the dead and wounded devils will be a battlefield discipline of our learning brigade!"

  Li Tie Shu was silent for a moment, thinking of the persecution his fellow villagers in the three northeastern provinces had suffered. He gritted his teeth and said, "The commander's instructions are correct, it was I, Tie Shu, who was wrong." Then he shouted loudly to his subordinates: "Brothers, let's enforce battlefield discipline!" After that, he drew out his bayonet and led the way in enforcing the new battlefield discipline of the training brigade.

  Ouyang Yun held a machine gun, standing like a god of death under the moonlight, his eyes occasionally sweeping over the bodies of the little devils on the battlefield, strictly preventing any fake corpses. He shouted loudly: "Everyone hurry up! Tian Ge, take a few people to search behind, there are still many devils back there, remember to bring back all the weapons and ammunition." Remembering that the Japanese army came by truck, he said to Li Tieshu: "Li Lianzhang, take a few people to drive the devil's cars back, be careful." He also said: "The Japanese are quite good at being human, they know we lack troop carriers, so they sent over six of them, haha!"

  Many students found what he said amusing and laughed too.

  Li Tieshu exerted himself and cut off the head of a ghost, straightened his waist and said: "Captain, I have arranged for someone to go, Zhang Xiaofeng is leading the team, should be back soon."

  Zhang Xiaofeng was the platoon leader of the original Sanlian, who was cautious and had a set of skills in battle. Li Tieshu let him lead the team to prevent unnecessary casualties caused by the Japanese army's desperate struggle.

  Ouyang Yun nodded in satisfaction with his arrangement, feeling genuinely delighted to have such a capable assistant under him, and decided that after the student army had settled down, he would promote him to be a deputy commander. The student army was currently most lacking in this type of commanding talent.

  About half an hour later, the student army finished sweeping the battlefield. Chu Tiange and his group took a closer look and found that at least thirty-four Japanese soldiers had died at Ouyang Yun's hands. They couldn't help but feel a little incredulous. Chu Tiange was okay, after all, he had seen Ouyang Yun's terrifying power before. But Li Tieshu and the others were inevitably stunned by this fact.

  Li Tieshu took another look and found that except for one of the students in charge of the back door who got burned because he was too excited to wait for the machine gun barrel to cool down, all the others including Ouyang Yun were unscathed. He couldn't help but feel a sense of shame and finally had a sincere admiration for Ouyang Yun.

  The troops, with the loss of eight men and twenty-one wounded, annihilated 139 Japanese soldiers at a cost, captured six trucks, six light machine guns, two heavy machine guns, two mortars, more than twenty pistols, over one hundred rifles and bayonets, and a large number of bullets and shells.

  When Chen Shichang counted these numbers, Li Tieshu was informed and felt ashamed and strange. He asked Zhang Xiaofeng: "Xiaofeng, how many armored soldiers did you kill?"

  "Six."

  Li Tie Shu was puzzled and said: "How did that add up to two more? It should be one hundred thirty-seven."

  Ouyang Yun didn't think much of it at first and asked: "Are you seeing things?"

  Li Tieguai was very confident in his own eyesight and said: "No, they set out with only 131 people."

  Chen Shichang remembered something and said, "There were two people who were discovered by Lu Chengren in the vegetable field unintentionally when the battle had not yet started. When they were found, both of them were wearing casual clothes, one with his throat cut off, and the other with a sharp blade piercing through his heart, they had been dead for a long time, we thought it was done by the regiment commander."

  Li Tieshu looked at Ouyang Yun, saw him shaking his head and said: "Comrade Tang Za, this matter must be investigated. If it wasn't done by our people, then no matter what the other party's identity is, at least it shows that there is another hidden force around us."

  These two are actually the two subordinates left behind by Ishikawa to monitor the Gakuto, but no one in the Gakuto knows their identities.

  Ouyang Yun originally wanted to hold a post-war summary meeting, so he gathered all the personnel together. When asked, no one in the whole team knew who did it. He and Li Tieshu exchanged a glance, and both read a sense of gravity from each other's eyes.

  It seems that around the student army, there is indeed another hidden force, and whether this force is an enemy or a friend, they are all unaware.

  Ouyang Yun said to Li Tieshu: "After the war, it seems that we can only start after taking over Wan Cun."

  Li Tieshu nodded and said: "Tianjin is now a place of right and wrong, the student army is also isolated, it's better to withdraw first."

  Ouyang Yun ordered the bodies of the martyrs and the wounded to be carried onto the trucks first, then let the scout platoon of the student army, the original third company get on the vehicles, while the rest of the students followed on foot. Chu Tian Ge led the team, and the whole regiment immediately set off towards Wan Village.

  As they had originally planned to set off immediately after the war, everyone's bedding and other things were already packed, so it only took about ten minutes for the whole team to finish packing and be ready to depart.

  Li Tieshu was taken aback when he heard that the reconnaissance platoon and the original third company's soldiers were taking a ride, while others were walking. He looked worriedly at the pale-faced, slightly floating-footed new recruits and said: "Comrade Commander, haven't you gotten it backwards? The reconnaissance platoon and the original third company are in good spirits, they should be the ones walking, these new recruits almost all threw up just now, how can they...

  Ouyang Yun smiled and waved his hand, saying: "Li Lianchang, you don't know this. A certain person said that when people are mentally tense, exercising more can be helpful for psychological treatment."

  Li Tieshu was taken aback and asked: "A certain son? Psychotherapy?"

  Chu Tiange, sitting in the driver's cab, heard this and laughed loudly, saying: "Big brother, won't this certain son be that Zhang something Mou again?!" This kid actually still remembered the explanation Ouyang Yun gave him about "certain son" for the first time.

  Ouyang Yun felt slightly embarrassed, knowing that some modern things were too difficult to explain to them. He started playing a trick on the recruits who were about to march: "Comrades, Commander Li said you're vomiting so much that you can't even walk. I'm asking you all, are you still able to walk?"

  The recruits stood at attention, with their heads held high and chests out, answering loudly: "We can march!"

  Ouyang Yun burst out laughing and with a wave of his hand said: "Alright, let's go!" Then he led the way to the gate.