Chapter 43 Without airplanes, cannons and tanks, the little devils are actually nothing.

  On the mountain, the soldiers watched the commotion below, many of them pressed their faces to the ground, some stuffed their hands into their mouths, afraid that one burst of laughter would reveal their position.

  Chu Tian Ge couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of it all, and with great difficulty managed to stifle his grin. He leaned in close to Ou Yang Yun beside him and whispered, "Big bro, can we make our move now?"

  Ouyang Yun's face, which had originally still held a smile, suddenly turned serious and said: "Can you hear it? There are Japanese people inside."

  Chu Tian Ge concentrated and listened carefully, and indeed heard the cries of Japanese people. He couldn't help but feel a little ashamed, saying: "Big brother, I'm sorry, we actually didn't find out."

  Ouyang Yun waved his hand: "It's okay, it's already very good that you can do this for the first time. You and Zhe Liang quickly go notify Li Tie Shu and Chen Shi Chang to lock their first round of attack targets on the devils!" After the two people left, he saw Ma Benqian mixed in with the Japanese army, and finally understood why Xiao Guizi bought old military supplies from Chen Shaohua - it was to arm this traitor. A cold glint flashed in his eyes as he muttered to himself: "Xiao Guizi is indeed cunning, people who don't know the truth would think that Shi San is plotting something and wants to be a big shot, humph, unfortunately, they encountered me!"

  Five minutes later, Zhang Ma Zi led the people who were jumping and grabbing the couplets. The little devil was still recklessly talking about Shi You San's ugly affairs. When Ouyang Yun saw that Chu Tian Ge and Liu Zhe Liang had both made an OK gesture, he picked up a rifle, aimed at a ghost with a shotgun case on his back, and fired the first shot.

  That devil was standing with his hands on his hips, laughing loudly towards the sky. Suddenly, he heard a gunshot. His instincts were about to react when a sharp pain pierced through his brain. Before his laughter could stop, a bright red blood flower bloomed on his face, and he fell forward.

  The sound of the gun was the signal for the student army to launch an attack. Li Tieshu and Chen Shichang, who were ambushing at the foot of the mountain, shouted in unison: "Fight!" The students they led aimed at the target that had been locked in early and pulled the trigger one after another.

  The sound of gunfire burst forth, the group of devils who were being taken care of seemed to have been punched by a gigantic fist, their formation suddenly caved in a large chunk. Along with four mortar shells and nearly a hundred hand grenades falling closely behind, more than 200 devils fell down instantly, almost half of them.

  "Enemy attack!" Shi You San, no doubt tempered in the hail of knives and bullets, reacted immediately after the first gunshot, jumping off his horse and rushing into a nearby thicket, while loudly shouting for his bodyguards to hurry up and protect him.

  Pan Yu-Gui and Bai Jian-Wu didn't react as quickly, but since the student army's first wave of attack was focused on the little devils, these two men were shocked but unharmed. At this time, they fully demonstrated one of the most basic qualities of being a traitor - running away very quickly. Pan Yu-Gui tightly held onto the reins when his horse was startled, and surprisingly, he managed to turn the horse around and rushed towards the wheat field by the side of the road. Bai Jian-Wu was even more clever, taking advantage of the horse's fright, he stuck close to the horse's back, clenching his legs tightly around its belly, and rode straight past everyone, quickly disappearing from sight. This enraged Shi You-San, who fired three shots at his retreating figure, cursing him as a coward and a scoundrel, and began to regret cooperating with these two men.

  The three leaders' performance was so natural that it greatly disappointed the big and small traitors. These people allowed them to bully the good citizens, but once they encountered a real battle, they were useless. Zhang Ma Zi and others didn't even bother to recite couplets, they hugged their heads and rushed into the grass by the side of the road. Among them, there was one who didn't see clearly, he actually drilled towards the mountain, as a result, he faced a dark gun muzzle, let out a sad cry, and directly fainted. The traitors and hooligans behind Shi You San were completely defeated at this time, including the security team officers and soldiers who looked like they had some regular army momentum, one by one, like rabbits in an autumn hunting ground, or headless flies, immediately scattered, abandoning everything that could be abandoned, fleeing in all directions. A few of the harder ones lay on the ground, hiding behind trees, shooting aimlessly at the mountain.

  Among all, the little devil's performance is undoubtedly worthy of Shi You San's three praises. More than 200 devils persisted until the end. However, because they were sandwiched in between troops, to show off their superiority as imperial army, mortars and heavy machine guns were all taken away by Shi You San's minions. As soon as the battle started, their highest commander, Akita, was blown up by Ouyang Yun's first shot. In the end, with only six submachine guns as their sole heavy weapon, under the special care of the training brigade, when the friendly troops around them fled, they completely became targets on a shooting range.

  Although most of the student soldiers were not good at shooting, they had the high ground and the enemy was in plain sight while they were hidden. With such an obvious and dense target, if the first shot didn't hit, the second shot didn't hit, and the third shot still didn't hit, it would be a bit embarrassing. As one student soldier said after the war: "I didn't even aim properly, my finger trembled and accidentally pulled the trigger, and as a result, I actually hit one of those devils."

  Under such circumstances, it is worth doubting how big a splash more than 200 devils can make.

  Moreover, among the student soldiers, there were still many old soldiers. These veteran warriors from the original third company, although not necessarily every one of them was a sharpshooter, could still take out an enemy with just two bullets.

  The little devils were forced to send the bullets and grenades to heaven after being hit by the six anti-aircraft guns. The remaining hundred or so devils, unwilling to perish, crawled up from the ground under the leadership of a junior captain, screaming and launching a desperate charge towards Tudi Mountain with their rifles, only to turn themselves from dead targets into live ones.

  Under the crossfire of nearly three hundred rifles, six machine guns and dozens of light machine guns, more than a hundred devils only moved forward about ten meters before being completely knocked down.

  When the shadow of death loomed over these little devils, the imperial soldiers who were once invincible sadly discovered that after losing the support of planes, tanks and artillery, the supposedly invincible Imperial Army was nothing.

  "It's really nothing!" At the summary meeting after the war, when a student soldier questioned how his unit could easily annihilate the devils one after another, Li Tieshu said so after listening to Ouyang Yun's explanation.

  Ouyang Yun replied to that student soldier: "In the absence of cannons, tanks and aircraft, the Japanese army is actually nothing!"

  Once the Japanese troops were annihilated, there was nothing left to write about. The students' guns pointed at the remaining thugs who still resisted, shouting that they would fight to the end, but were quickly defeated by a barrage of cannon fire, leaving them dead and without a whole body. The survivors lost their will to fight and before the students could shout "Surrender or be killed", they knelt down on the ground, raised their hands in surrender, and cried out: "Have mercy, sir!"

  Shi You San was originally hiding behind a few bodyguards, observing the situation. Seeing that the situation had already turned against him and that the opposing troops were as ruthless as the "Imperial Army", he also gave up any thought of resistance. This old man's face was thick enough, judging from the uniforms of the soldiers that they were Nationalist troops, yet at this moment he still didn't understand the situation, stood up and said: "Brothers on the other side, stop fighting! I am Shi You San, it's a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!" He thought that with his years of experience on the domestic battlefield, the opposing side would show him some mercy, maybe even let him go. But instead, the soldiers rushing towards him had fierce faces, as if they had never heard of Shi You San before, their guns pointed at him, coldly shouting: "Surrender or be killed!"

  Shi You San didn't expect the other party to not buy his account, his face turned red and white, thinking that he still wouldn't give up, thinking that maybe the other party was just a small soldier who hadn't heard of his great name, probing to ask: "Brother, which part of the army are you from?"

  The soldiers who escorted him heard this, frowned and shouted: "Who is your brother, you dead traitor! Be honest!" He kicked his leg and kicked him in the stomach, immediately kicking him to the ground.

  Shi You San had never suffered such humiliation before, and in a fit of rage, he shouted: "I want to see your superior!"

  As it happens, Ouyang Yun was nearby and walked over upon hearing the voice. He asked the young soldier, "Xiao Chen, who wants to see me?"

  Xiao Chen pointed his gun at Shi You San and said: "Captain, it's him."

  Shi You San suddenly scrambled up and hastily said to Ouyang Yun: "Commander, I'm Shi You San, it's a misunderstanding!"

  Ouyang Yun was looking for him, and seeing that he had come to his doorstep himself, he couldn't help but take a closer look at the other person's eyes and ask: "Are you Shi You San?"

  "Yes, yes, I am Wing Dong, Commander of the Security Guard, Lieutenant General rank——"

  "Stop," Ou Yang Yun waved her hand and pointed at the couplet saying: "Surnamed Shi, do you know who wrote that couplet?"

  He followed the direction of his finger and glanced at the couplet banner that was still fluttering in the wind. Under the banner, Zhang Ma Zi and others were kneeling with their heads bowed, making the words on the banner particularly meaningful - Traitor General, Five Surnames' Family Slave, Shameless Shi! He vaguely guessed the answer, and the banner seemed to have turned into a sharp sword, piercing his heart, his face suddenly turning pale.

  Ouyang Yun smiled and said: "I wrote it!" Then he sternly ordered: "Take him down, watch out!" After finishing, he let out a snort of laughter and turned to leave.

  Behind him, Shi You San spat out a mouthful of blood with a "pu" sound, his eyes rolled back and he fainted directly.

  The land is a mountain, the student army sacrificed seven people and four lightly wounded, annihilating the Japanese Akita unit, killing or wounding more than 300 people from Shi You San's three battalions, capturing more than 600 people under Shi You San, and seizing some military equipment and supplies. It can be said that they won another big victory. However, when the students were cheering for their victory, they found that in the face of such a huge victory, their small team leader not only did not show joy but instead had a worried expression, which made them all doubt.

  Ouyang Yun's melancholy was only understood by Li Tieshu - in order to minimize casualties, Ouyang Yun and Li Tieshu formulated a very detailed and conservative battle plan, stipulating that no one could launch an attack until all dangers had been cleared. The reason they issued this self-binding command was simply because they thought the battle was already won, and since everyone was Chinese, there was no need to fight to the death. Under these circumstances, it was only natural to minimize casualties in their own troops as much as possible.

  The appearance of the Japanese army was unexpected, and it was precisely because of this that Ouyang Yun and Li Tieshu felt the correctness of this decision. The combat effectiveness of the little devils compared to those Han traitors and hooligans is simply not in the same league. Since they had confidence in winning, then being able to reduce some losses, why not do it? Anyway, the Student Army now has plenty of guns, cannons, and bullets, it's just that the consumption of ammunition would be a bit greater. However, the ferocity of the Japanese army was still beyond their expectations. The ordinary soldiers' marksmanship was so accurate that even in situations where the enemy was visible but they were not, they could inflict such heavy casualties on the Student Army - all seven martyred students were shot in the forehead, this being the only part of the body that the enemy could aim at, and it can be seen how precise the little devils' marksmanship is.

  "It seems we should issue helmets to the troops as soon as possible," Ouyang Yun said to Li Tieshu.

  Li Tieshu nodded, thought for a moment and said: "At the summary meeting later, you can't mention this. The troops have just won a victory, morale should be boosted, not leaked. What about Shi You San and those traitors?"

  "Shi You San must be killed!" Ouyang Yun said, suddenly slamming his hand on the table and saying: "What a pity! That old scoundrel Pan Yu Guai actually managed to escape."

  "Unexpectedly, he also became a traitor, this person has some reputation in the cultural circle of Beiping."

  "It's even more hateful this way! An ordinary old hundred surnames surrendering to the enemy is nothing, but if a famous person surrenders to the enemy, what a bad influence it will have?!"

  Li Tieshu was furious and gritted his teeth, saying: "You hate Pan Yuangu so much?"

  Ouyang Yun furrowed his brow, saying nothing. The reason he hated Pan Yuangu was naturally because of the thick brushstroke he had drawn in the history of the 29th Army, resulting in the loss of over a thousand hot-blooded young men from the Student Brigade, leaving only 600 remaining. If this person were not eliminated, how could Ouyang Yun, as the current commander of the Student Brigade, face the spirits of those who had already died in another time and space?

  This is something that cannot be told to outsiders.