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Before, Jiang Feng and others had asked Xu Le for instructions on the specific plan for treating the puppet army, whether to treat them equally as they did the Japanese devils, or to give them a chance to mend their ways.

Xu Le's answer was: Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are determined by God! As long as the battle is not over, they are enemies. If they surrender before the battle is over, they can be brought back for transformation!

The meaning is very simple. That was the puppet army's own choice. As long as they stood with the Japanese when the war broke out, they were the same enemy.

Take this battle as an example. Unless all the Japanese devils are killed or surrender, the remaining surrendered puppet troops can stay, and they have to surrender voluntarily!

On the contrary, if the puppet troops persist in fighting the Japanese and refuse to surrender to the end, they will all be killed.

In other words, even if the puppet troops surrendered because they were forced into a desperate situation, they would still be killed!

Of course, no surrendered Japanese soldiers would be left alive. This was an iron order issued by Xu Le. Our troops’ food would not be given to the Japanese soldiers.

If the puppet army surrenders wisely, except for officers above the rank of company commander, the lower-level soldiers can be reformed and retained. If they have not committed any serious mistakes, they can even be recruited into the combat units of the 176th Division!

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The first battalion had a great time killing people here, because a battalion of puppet soldiers from Xinjiang stupidly rushed to the front, and were the first to be shot, and almost all of them were killed by Gatling guns and MG42s.

This is their fate, the price to pay for their treason!

On the other side, the Japanese are heading towards Fencheng!

Captain Guo naturally rushed to the front, but he discovered a clue!

That was two minutes before the charge. He was going to ask the Japanese captain if he had any instructions. Before he even entered the door, he heard the Japanese captain making a loud noise in the barracks.

He knows a little Japanese and is flexible in his approach to people and things, which is why he gradually rose to the position of group leader.

He vaguely heard that the regiment headquarters had lost contact with the Jishan assault force for two hours.

Being a sensitive person, he immediately realized something was wrong. The Jishan Commando was the only lifeline for the Japanese attack on Zhaozhuang. If they lost contact at such a critical moment, there would be only one outcome!

All dead!

Then the siege of Zhaozhuang is doomed to fail!

Instead of going in to disturb the Japs, he left quietly!

The 667th Regiment's counter-encirclement from the north and south were carried out almost simultaneously. Regiment Commander Guo, who had already sensed something was wrong, ordered his men to disperse and march as slowly as possible, even if it meant stopping where they were.

But the prerequisite is that you have enough reasons to prevent the Japanese from suspecting you!

Then, a funny scene appeared!

After the captain of the Fencheng Japanese battalion ordered an attack, some members of the puppet army suddenly started making a big fuss.

Some said the bullet was missing, some said the barrel was broken, some said he sprained his ankle...

There are endless reasons, some people even take off their pants to poop. People have three urgent needs, and that thing can really suffocate people to death.

Of course, there were not so many clever puppet soldiers, so everyone had to do their best, and those who couldn't find a reason could only start moving forward.

Then another scene appeared!

The 666th Regiment of Zhaozhuang started firing sporadically, just for show, to tell the enemy that this position was defended, and if you dared to come up, you'd better be careful for your life.

So it was considered a warning shot, and most of them were fired randomly from hiding inside the fortifications!

However, the puppet soldiers started to perform again. It doesn’t matter if they don’t come up with fancy excuses, at least I can pretend to be dead!

One after another, the puppet soldiers fell to the ground and twitched with their mouths twisted and their eyes slanted, expressing the pain after being shot vividly!

This made the guards who were hiding in ambush dumbfounded. What kind of acting is this?

It would be unfair to their efforts if we don’t give them the Best Performance Award!

In just one minute, only a few hundred people were left standing in a security group of more than 1000 people. Just as Captain Guo was preparing to find something to delay, shouts of charge came from behind the Japanese's temporary barracks.

The density of gunfire was so high that it was impossible to distinguish them. It was not the result of thousands of guns firing. Even a division did not have the firepower to do so!

It's no wonder that Captain Guo thought so. The second and third battalion commanders of the 667th Regiment took over the job of the Gatling gun shooter. One of them swung a Gatling gun in the front to clear the way, leaving the shooter speechless. He could only act as an ammunition man and desperately loaded bullets in the back!

They had 6 mortar platoons, and 36 M1 mortars slowly extended the impact points according to the advancing speed of the troops, leaving the Japanese no room for counterattack.

This made the two battalion commanders completely unscrupulous!

Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, anyone who touches it will get addicted, just like eating Xuanmai, you can’t stop at all!

In addition, the MG42 general-purpose machine gun served as a light machine gun. The 100-round magazine drum had to be replaced one after another. The assistant gunner was standing by and handing the magazine drums to them, and several ammunition handlers were too busy to reload.

There were also officers in the escort who could accurately shoot, so under such firepower, the soldiers of the 176th Division were like wolves among a flock of sheep.

This resulted in the infantry squad having nothing to do, as the automatic rifles could not keep up with the firepower of the MG42 and Gatling!

That won't work. What about the military merits? What about the rewards? What about the braised beef that the logistics department sells? One month's salary is not enough to provide a special meal.

As a result, some infantrymen directly joined the ammunition group of the machine gun squad to help load ammunition.

Anyway, the military merits were mainly taken by the artillery and machine gun units. I was too lazy to compete with others for the remaining small fry, so I might as well get acquainted with the people in the machine gun crew.

As long as the machine gun shooting keeps up and the military merits increase, we can share the rewards equally!

The military merits of the machine gun crew and artillery squad are not counted on the shooter alone, but are shared by everyone in their group. Otherwise, the ammunition carrier will never have a chance to stand out in his life!

A very serious battle turned out to be so funny.

This scene must have been discovered by Captain Guo at the first moment. He immediately realized that this was a conspiracy, a conspiracy that could not be bigger, and both he and the Japanese had become the objects of others' manipulation.

Without thinking any more, he threw the gun to the ground, tore off a corner of his white underwear, and lay prone on the ground, holding the white cloth strip high with both hands!

He had to hang up a IOU because several of his men who had just pretended to be dead were shot to death while running around.

Moreover, the Japanese battalion captain has not been seen for such a long time, and no orders have been received from the battalion headquarters. It seems that the Japanese battalion headquarters is gone, and the captain must be dead.

The soldiers under his command also followed suit, but not everyone could afford to wear white underwear, so the densely packed puppet soldiers desperately took off their pants and took off their white underwear and held them high.

Some impatient people simply grabbed the edge of the underwear and pulled it upwards with force, and a pair of tattered underwear was lifted high above the head!

I don’t know if it hurt their balls, but compared to losing their lives, they all chose the former.

Just bear with it and it will pass!

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