Anti-Japanese War: When I get promoted, the system will explode with soldiers

Chapter 1123 Killing Japanese Soldiers, No Matter How Many

After most of the Nationalist government's institutions retreated to Hankou, they quickly realized that Hankou was not so safe. After the fall of the capital, most of the troops retreated to northern Anhui. However, these troops had lost their fighting spirit, and supplies were insufficient. Therefore, for safety reasons, the Nationalist government had to continue its retreat, aiming for the mountain city.

However, the order for this supreme military conference has already been issued. If the meeting location is changed at the last minute, it will not be good for our morale. Therefore, the officers have decided to hold the meeting in Hankou.

The last of the three carriages was equipped with a radio. Although this thing might be dangerous on the road, Li Shaoyi could store these things in his system space at any time, so there was no need to worry about the Japanese seeing them.

He publicly claimed to be a tea merchant. The Japanese weren't particularly fond of tea. Apart from a few high-ranking officials who were just trying to appear cultured, the soldiers probably still preferred plain water. So when they saw Li Shaoyi's goods, they at most collected a toll and didn't try to rob them.

After leaving Pujiang, we passed through several checkpoints along the way. Although these checkpoints were all menacing, as long as you paid them money and you weren't armed, they wouldn't give you any trouble. Having gone through their initial period of burning, killing, and looting, these guys were now looking for a long-term way to make money.

According to the information obtained by Li Shaoyi, the Japanese army's military funding is currently less than half of what it was originally intended for. The higher-ups have ordered them to find ways to earn back the remaining money on Chinese territory, and setting up checkpoints in various places is a good way for them to make money.

"Damn it, another whole village is gone."

Dai Yong is a guard company commander under Li Shaoyi, and has just graduated from a military academy in the north.

He had seen bloodshed at Ma Leizi's hands.

Li Shaoyi greatly admired this young man during his inspection of the battlefield in Ma Leizi, so he summoned him to his guard regiment.

“Giving them a piece of our minds won’t solve anything. I don’t think we’ll get any sleep tonight; we can’t sleep anywhere like this anyway. There are two Japanese checkpoints nearby. Let’s take them out and then head out through the night.”

Looking at the lifeless village before him, Li Shaoyi felt as if he had been punched twice in the heart. This place was much like other villages in Jiangnan; perhaps if it weren't for the war, he could still beg for a bowl of water from the villagers. But now, not a soul was in any of the houses, making it look terrifying. Moreover, the walls were blackened by fire, and corpses were scattered everywhere.

One can imagine the despair the people here had endured. When Li Shaoyi entered a house, he saw an old man sitting blankly on the ground inside the gate, with a hole in his stomach from which he had bled to death. He must have been stabbed through the stomach by a Japanese soldier when the Japanese soldiers entered.

Further in on the left, a young man was hanging from a tree. Li Shaoyi ordered his men to lower the man down; he was already dead. Furthermore, having been hanging from the tree for so long, both his arm joints were broken, and he would fall down on his own soon.

Judging from their appearance, they must be a father and son. Li Shaoyi didn't have the courage to go any further, because in the main room, there was a woman completely naked, covered in countless wounds.

Li Shaoyi took a deep breath and then ordered his men to find a way to bury the entire family. Sleeping tonight was out of the question. Although the 100-plus men at these two outposts weren't particularly relevant to the overall war, just remember this: if I kill over 100 men every day, that's over 3000 a month, and 30,000 to 40,000 a year.

"Don't refrain from doing good just because it's small. That's what I want to tell you today. No matter what mission you're carrying out, if you can take out one or two Japanese soldiers along the way, then you should do it. Our 72nd Army has hundreds of thousands of soldiers. If we could do this every day, these Japanese soldiers might not even be enough for us to kill."

When Li Shaoyi faced his men again, he was already dressed in combat gear. Today, he had to go to the battlefield with his men. If he couldn't understand the feeling of a bullet piercing a Japanese soldier's body, Li Shaoyi could picture the families of the victims with his eyes closed.

If I hadn't seen it, your family might have ended up like everyone else, sinking into oblivion. But now that I've seen you, we can consider ourselves acquaintances. Although I don't know if it was the Japanese soldiers at that checkpoint who ravaged your village, tonight I will slaughter everyone at the checkpoint as a sacrifice to your villagers.

Dai Yong originally didn't want Li Shaoyi to participate. Two outposts with about 200 men were as easy a task for them as eating. The brothers were all armed with light machine guns and submachine guns. The Japanese Type 38 rifles and Type 96 light machine guns were completely useless against them.

Despite repeated attempts to persuade him, Li Shaoyi had already disappeared into the night. Dai Yong could only order his men to hurry and catch up. "Even if we all die," he said, "we absolutely cannot let anything happen to our commander-in-chief. Our impact on the war might just be killing one or two more Japanese soldiers, but if our commander-in-chief plans carefully, it could mean killing hundreds of thousands."

The checkpoint was less than 700 meters from where Li Shaoyi was. I wonder if these Japanese devils are afraid at night. They've ravaged the surrounding area, yet they still manage to set up a checkpoint here, all of them putting on a respectable act and inspecting the goods in the vicinity.

Enemies meeting are bound to be filled with hatred. There aren't many merchants left now. The checkpoint in front of Li Shaoyi is already having dinner. Some Japanese soldiers are bringing out the wine and meat they seized during the day, and some, already tipsy, are singing and dancing.

Li Shaoyi silently took out a grenade, and the people around him followed suit. After Li Shaoyi threw the grenade, more than 40 grenades were thrown into the checkpoint at the same time. They threw them down from the mountains on both sides, and the entire checkpoint was instantly engulfed in smoke from the explosion.

However, Li Shaoyi did not order his men to go down and kill people. Instead, he continued to throw grenades. After each man threw an average of three grenades, he sent people down to check if there were any survivors.