Chapter 205: Windswept Clouds
“Hurry, hurry, hurry, move faster.”
“Withdraw quickly, withdraw quickly.”
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After Li Yunlong and the others obtained some tungsten ore, they quickly withdrew.
But the Japanese Army garrison at the war reserve warehouse did not pursue them, so Li Yunlong and the others, carrying the tungsten ore, first retreated a few li away.
“Damn it, what’s going on? Why didn’t the Japanese Invaders pursue us?” Li Yunlong and the others looked at each other in bewilderment, completely baffled.
We snatched your Japanese Invaders’ tungsten ore, so why didn’t you pursue?
For this tungsten ore, you even sent out airplanes, so you’re really not anxious?
“Ding Wei, look at the rotten idea you came up with.” Gao Liujin couldn’t help but complain to Ding Wei, “If we’d known, we should’ve had all five regiments attack together. The Japanese Invaders didn’t take the bait—this is just wasting time!”
We only have one night. Once day breaks, the Japanese Invaders’ aircraft will come, and the task will fail.
Cheng Xiazi glared at Gao Liujin: “What are you complaining about, Gao Liujin? The Japanese Invaders not pursuing definitely means there’s something fishy. Fighting among ourselves now would just be wasting time—we need to find out what’s going on.”
“Find what? I say we just have the five regiments unite immediately and attack right now.” Gao Liujin shouted.
Ding Wei didn’t argue with Gao Liujin but grabbed a handful of tungsten ore and placed it in front of him: “Gao Liujin, is this stuff the same as the tungsten ore you seized before?”
“Nonsense, of course it’s the same.” Gao Liujin nodded, looking at Ding Wei suspiciously: “Ding Wei, are you suspecting this tungsten ore is fake? It can’t be fake—we snatched it from the Japanese Invaders’ warehouse.”
Immediately after, Gao Liujin called over the reconnaissance platoon leader and said, “Tell Ding Wei what you saw.”
Gao Liujin’s reconnaissance platoon leader immediately said to Ding Wei: “Regimental Commander Ding, my reconnaissance personnel and I saw it clearly—this stuff is indeed what the Japanese Invaders unloaded from the military train and carried into the warehouse.”
“That’s strange then.” Ding Wei scratched his head, questioning, “If there’s no problem with this tungsten ore, then why didn’t the Japanese Invaders come out to snatch it back after we took it? Could it be that the Japanese Invaders are worried we have an ambush outside?”
Gao Xigang followed Ding Wei’s words: “This is tungsten ore—even if there’s an ambush outside, the Japanese Invaders have to come out.”
Cheng Xiazi agreed with Gao Xigang: “Right, exactly. Not to mention an ambush outside—even if it were a mountain of knives or sea of fire, the Japanese Invaders would still have to come out. Him not coming out means something’s wrong.”
“Where could be wrong?” Ding Wei pondered.
“I say, no matter where it’s wrong, let’s have our five regiments unite immediately and continue attacking in.” Gao Liujin shouted, “Let’s snatch all the tungsten ore first and take the stuff back.”
“Here’s the plan.” Ding Wei quickly finalized the idea and said: “Since this tungsten ore isn’t fake and the Japanese Invaders aren’t coming out, we’ll reunite and attack in again. Then we can see if we can capture a few prisoners and ask the reason. Until we figure out this reason, I just don’t feel secure.”
“Sounds good, let’s do it.” Li Yunlong nodded and said, “This time, no more pretending. We’ll directly concentrate all the Hell Cannons and Type 92 Infantry Guns and bombard fiercely, use artillery fire to wash the ground, rush in at top speed to occupy the warehouse, and quickly capture a few prisoners.”
The regimental commanders quickly reached a consensus. The seized tungsten ore was left here, and someone was sent to notify Zhang Wanhe to come pick it up.
The troops of several men immediately merged into one force and charged again toward the Japanese Invaders’ war reserve warehouse.
On the Japanese Invaders’ side, the garrison officer saw the Eighth Route Army retreating and was still laughing: “These Eighth Route Army took the marked tungsten ore back—they’ll definitely bring it to their arsenal. Tonight at midnight, our personnel will lead the military dogs to track the scent, and we’ll surely have major gains, haha.”
“Yes, as long as we find the Eighth Route Army Arsenal, we can uproot the Eighth Route Army, and the lost tungsten ore can all be seized back…” Regimental Commander Okamoto’s words weren’t finished.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Four Hell Cannon shells landed on the defenses of the war reserve warehouse.
The Japanese Invaders who were repairing the defenses were directly blasted into the sky.
The defenses that had just been repaired were violently destroyed by the cannonballs.
Then the Type 92 Infantry Guns provided supplementary bombardment, tearing the breach even larger.
After another round of Hell Cannon bombardment, the front of the war reserve warehouse had a gap as big as a canyon opening, with not even a decent firepower point left.
Toot toot!
Toot toot!
Toot toot!
The charge horn sounded, and the troops of the five regiments surged forward like a tide.
Rocket launcher, grenade launcher, and mortar shells rained down, paving the way directly.
This dense artillery fire, like a huge broom, swept away the clouds and mist, rapidly clearing the Japanese Army forces.
Even the troops’ light and heavy machine guns had no chance to be used.
Without any effort, the five regiments’ troops killed their way back to the warehouse storing the tungsten ore.
“With this warehouse as the center, rapidly bloom in all directions, quickly clear out the remaining enemies. Remember, if you encounter wounded soldiers, spare their lives for now.” Li Yunlong and the other regimental commanders ordered their respective troops.
The five regiments directly broke through from the center, with artillery fire extending in five directions.
Regimental Commander Okamoto’s regiment was routed and massacred, retreating rapidly.
“Baka, the Eighth Route Army was really pretending—their troops have two more regiments now. There really was a trap outside. Now all five regiments are pressing in, showing their true colors. Hold on, hold on for me.” Regimental Commander Okamoto desperately waved his commanding sword, his voice like a pig being slaughtered.
But it was useless—the Eighth Route Army’s artillery fire directly drowned out his voice.
“Regimental Commander, we came as light reinforcements with only light weapons—we’re no match for the Eighth Route Army at all.” A Japanese officer shouted to Regimental Commander Okamoto, “And the Eighth Route Army has too much artillery, two or three hundred guns—what do we hold with? Better to withdraw.”
“Baka, if we withdraw, the tungsten ore will be completely taken by the Eighth Route Army.” Regimental Commander Okamoto’s eyes turned red, “Then we’ll all have to commit seppuku.”
“Regimental Commander, the soldiers can’t hold against the Eighth Route Army’s artillery fire. Continuing to fight hard is just like an ant trying to stop a chariot—we’ll be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.” The Japanese officer shouted, “Our regiment can’t be completely annihilated here—we need to preserve some seed, or the unit designation will be canceled.”
“You take some men and withdraw.” Regimental Commander Okamoto said to this Japanese officer.
The other’s words made sense.
In this war so far, no regiment had had its designation canceled due to total annihilation.
If Regimental Commander Okamoto’s regiment was totally annihilated and its designation canceled, it would bring shame to the brigade commander’s face.
With the designation canceled, there’d be no way to take revenge anymore.
“No, Regimental Commander, you take the men and withdraw—I’ll hold them!” The Japanese officer said.
“Execute my order and get out now!” Regimental Commander Okamoto angrily rebuked, “If you delay any longer, you won’t be able to leave.”
“Yes, Regimental Commander.” The Japanese officer shed tears as he led several hundred Japanese soldiers to withdraw rapidly.
The warehouse garrison was already unable to hold against the Eighth Route Army’s attack, and now several hundred more Japanese Invaders had withdrawn.
On Li Yunlong’s side, it was even more unstoppable.
Before dawn, they completely occupied the entire warehouse.
Regimental Commander Okamoto was blasted away by a mortar shell to meet Amaterasu.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry, quickly check carefully what’s good stuff is inside the warehouse!” Gao Liujin shouted.
“Regimental Commander, shouldn’t we move the tungsten ore first?” Someone said.
“No need, the logistics transportation team will come up soon—they’ll handle the moving. We’ll first see what good stuff there is.” Gao Liujin rubbed his fists and said, “Best if it can replenish us with some ammunition so we can do another task.”
“Regimental Commander, we’ve got the tungsten ore—still do another task?”
“Nonsense, we have five regiments—better seize the time for one more haul, or we probably won’t get such a good opportunity again.”
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Ding Wei, Gao Xigang, and the others’ troops also quickly went into the warehouse to search for supplies.
“Regimental Commander, we’ve captured over seventy Japanese Invaders wounded soldiers.” Sun Desheng came up to Li Yunlong and said, “But none of us understand the Japanese Invaders’ language—how do we interrogate?”
“Isn’t there a translator in this Japanese Invaders’ war reserve warehouse?” Li Yunlong asked.
“No, the translator was blasted by our Hell Cannons—not a single one left.” Sun Desheng replied.
“Old Ding, what do you think we should do about this?” Li Yunlong found Ding Wei.
“First take the men and…” Ding Wei’s words weren’t finished.
Zhang Wanhe arrived excitedly with the transportation team.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry, take everything in this warehouse back for me—no need to prioritize tungsten ore, grab whatever you see. Anyway, we have plenty of manpower.” Zhang Wanhe ordered the transportation team, and they immediately got to work.
Then Zhang Wanhe came up to Li Yunlong laughing: “Hahaha, Regimental Commander Li, you fought this battle so fast—not even dawn and the warehouse is taken. Five carts of tungsten ore all ours, hahaha.”
“Old Zhang, do you have a translator on your side?” Li Yunlong had no time to waste with Zhang Wanhe now.
If they didn’t quickly figure out why the Japanese Invaders didn’t pursue earlier, he still wouldn’t feel secure.
“What do you need a translator for?” Zhang Wanhe asked.
“Why ask so much—just say if you have one!” Li Yunlong emphasized his tone, showing he had no time to chat idly with Old Zhang.
“Yes, yes, yes.” Zhang Wanhe saw Li Yunlong’s serious expression and realized the gravity.
Soon, Zhang Wanhe brought over a young man wearing glasses and said: “This is the Japanese language from Beiping University…”
Before Zhang Wanhe finished speaking, Li Yunlong interrupted and said to the young man: “I’m Li Yunlong. I need to interrogate some Japanese soldiers right now—help with translation.”
“Okay.” The young man nodded solemnly.
Soon, Li Yunlong brought the young man to the Japanese Invaders wounded soldiers and said to him: “Start interrogating these Japanese Invaders wounded soldiers now—find out why they didn’t pursue after we seized the tungsten ore earlier.”
“Okay, Regimental Commander Li.” The young man nodded.
Immediately after, Li Yunlong pulled Wei Dayong to his side and said: “The translator is important—don’t let the Japanese Invaders wounded soldiers get a chance to approach him. You understand what I mean?”
“Yes, Regimental Commander.” Wei Dayong nodded.
“Also, if these Japanese Invaders wounded soldiers aren’t honest or don’t cooperate, you know what to do.” Li Yunlong added again.
“Yes, Regimental Commander.”
