They swept through more than a dozen villages in succession without encountering any resistance; they didn't even see a single chicken or duck.
Hidehiko Yamashita was puzzled. "Strange, why are the Chinese so cowardly? Did they run away?"
"Baka!"
"At this rate, how long will we have to continue this sweep?"
"If we fail to complete the mission assigned to us by General Yoshizawa, we're definitely going to die!"
"Damn Chinese!"
Hidehiko Yamashita grew increasingly enraged and immediately ordered, "Send out a reconnaissance team to search for any trace of the Chinese! I want to tear these despicable bastards to pieces with my own hands!"
"Hi, Commander!"
"..."
Fifteen minutes later, the Japanese soldiers in charge of the reconnaissance mission returned and reported that they had found a populated village to the east.
"Yosh! Let's go right now! Let's wipe out everyone in that village!" Yamashita Hidehiko exclaimed excitedly.
"Hi!"
A moment later, the 17th Regiment of more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, following the route sent back by the scouts, marched in a mighty procession toward the village that Hidehiko Yamashita had mentioned.
At 6 p.m. on February 24, the 17th Regiment arrived at a mountain valley.
In the distance, there is a village.
Smoke curls from chimneys, and lights shine brightly.
That is—Wu'an Township.
Hidehiko Yamashita squinted at the village, his mouth practically twitching with laughter.
"Yoshi! Great, we've finally found the village!"
“There must be pretty girls working here.”
As he watched the wisps of smoke rising from the distant village, a beautiful picture immediately came to mind.
"Quickly, enter the village, burn, kill, and loot!"
"Hai!"
The Japanese soldiers of the 17th Regiment roared and charged toward the village.
However, they discovered something was wrong as soon as they reached the edge of the village.
Although the village appeared to be filled with wisps of smoke from chimneys, there was no sound at all; even more eerily, there wasn't a single dog barking.
This situation is very unusual and abnormal.
If this were anywhere else, the Japanese soldiers would have already stormed in, opened the village gates, grabbed the women, and tortured them severely.
However, they hesitated at this moment because a sense of fear arose in their hearts, as if the village ahead concealed great danger.
"73rd Infantry Battalion, you will go first to probe the area, remain vigilant, and do not approach rashly!" Yamashita Hidehiko ordered.
"Hai!"
The commander of the 73rd Infantry Battalion immediately took orders and led a thousand Japanese soldiers to sneak towards the village entrance.
At the village entrance, all was quiet and still, without any movement.
This made the Japanese soldiers increasingly panicked and afraid, especially the inexplicable fear, which became even stronger.
"Commander, this village is no ordinary place!"
"Nonsense, I'm not blind, do you think I wouldn't see it?"
Hidehiko Yamashita snorted coldly. He had also noticed the unusual situation at the village entrance, but he did not back down.
As a senior general in the Imperial Army, he knew when to retreat and when to attack.
At that moment, behind the village wall, hundreds of fully armed soldiers were hiding in the shadows, watching the Japanese soldiers outside.
"Commander, the Japanese are coming up."
Battalion Commander Zhang Xiaowu, watching the approaching Japanese troops, couldn't help but swallow hard. "Should we make our move now?"
Lin Feng shook his head slightly: "No rush, let the Japanese devils get a little closer, then we'll take care of them all at once and save ourselves the trouble!"
"Okay, whatever you say."
Zhang Xiaowu grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.
At this point, the Japanese soldiers had reached a position about fifty meters away from the village entrance.
Upon seeing this, Lin Feng revealed a ferocious smile.
"Brothers, prepare!"
"Whoosh~"
Hidden in the shadows, the light machine guns and heavy machine guns tore off their covers, pulled the bolts to load their rounds, and aimed at the Japanese soldiers outside.
A murderous glint flashed in Lin Feng's eyes. "Brothers—kill all the Japanese devils!!!"
Lin Feng pulled the trigger of the Type 92 heavy machine gun, and the machine gun bullets tore through the air and flew towards the chests, heads and necks of the Japanese soldiers.
Immediately, the Japanese soldiers screamed in agony and fell to the ground one after another.
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!"
“Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!”
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!!!!"
As Lin Feng fired his gun, the militia's Type 38 rifles, Type 96 light machine guns, and heavy machine guns also opened fire in succession.
"Da da da—"
"Put-put ...
"Put-put-put—"
In an instant, a dense hail of bullets poured out.
The barrage of heavy machine guns covered the densest area of the Japanese soldiers, forming a blockade and suppressing the 73rd Infantry Battalion.
The Japanese soldiers were stunned by the sudden burst of gunfire.
This firepower, this density, is even more ferocious than theirs.
"Grenades—ready!"
Zhang Xiaowu shouted, and hundreds of militiamen immediately took out the grenades they had prepared in advance from their waists and threw them out.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"..."
Round grenades fell to the ground and exploded.
In an instant, the Japanese soldiers lay dead everywhere, and blood flowed like a river.
"Smack—!"
The Japanese battalion commander was killed on the spot by a stray bullet.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
In an instant, the Japanese soldiers were thrown into chaos, scattering and fleeing in panic.
Under the relentless fire of heavy machine guns, they had no chance of escape and could only await their deaths.
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