Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Chapter 192 Street Fight 4

After the tricycle sent away several wounded soldiers, Deputy Company Commander Tan Zuoping immediately rearranged the defense line. He first asked people to push away some of the sandbags to allow the bulldozer that would arrive soon to pull the tanks. Then he moved the line forward to the intersection of Baoshan Road and protected the two tanks behind the position.

Previously, in order to lure the Japanese tanks deeper into the territory, the heavy machine guns were hidden. Now, in order to prevent the Japanese from seizing the tanks, two heavy machine guns were moved out and set up at the intersection. He also asked two squads equipped with Sten submachine guns to bring enough grenades, climb up the stairs and hold on tightly.

Not long after Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping completed his arrangements, the Japanese launched an attack. This time, more than 200 Japanese soldiers came directly. It seemed that new reinforcements had arrived and they wanted to take back the tanks.

How could Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping do as the Japanese wished? He ordered his soldiers to fight back resolutely. Two heavy machine guns kept firing, knocking down several Japanese on the street. The rest fled to the buildings on both sides.

The Japanese knew that there was heavy firepower on the street and there were also pre-set positions, so they could not force their way in and tried to attack from the buildings on both sides.

A squad of Japanese soldiers rushed into a building. Not long after they went up, they heard a burst of continuous gunfire from the building. The Japanese soldiers downstairs were all terrified. Before they could figure out what was happening, two grenades were thrown from the second-floor window. After two loud bangs, the Japanese soldiers downstairs wailed. Two soldiers using Sten submachine guns leaned out of the window and fired at the chaotic Japanese soldiers below. They locked the magazines when they had emptied them.

Many Japanese soldiers were killed. They never thought that such elite soldiers could not even break into the enemy's building!

The Japanese attacked continuously for more than half an hour, but could not make any progress. Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhaoping could not help but sigh, "This submachine gun is too useful!" If it weren't for the submachine guns of the two squads, they would be under much greater pressure.

When the Japanese launched a third attack and was also thwarted, the sound of an engine rumbling came from behind Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping, and the businessman named Li had arrived.

Two large bulldozers drove onto the street. The hulls of the two vehicles were covered in gray, and looked like they were covered with thick armor. The front windshields were also protected by gray-black armor, leaving only an observation port as thick as two fingers put together. Even the tires were well protected, with pieces of armor covering three-quarters of the tires, making it difficult for the Japanese bullets to hit the tires.

The forklift stopped, the cab door opened, and Li Liangwei stuck his head out.

Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping stepped forward and saluted, "Mr. Li, I am Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping. The enemy tanks are right in front of us. Their artillery can no longer be used, but the vehicle-mounted machine guns can still fire. We just covered the enemy's eyes with cloth. If you want to take it away, I'm afraid you will have to deal with it."

Li Liangwei quickly jumped out of the car to return the gift, took out a box of cigarettes from his waist bag and handed it to the other party, then took out a match to help the other party light it.

"Thank you for your hard work, soldiers of the 19th Route Army. You are worthy of being the heroes of China. It was a piece of cake for them to capture two enemy tanks!"

Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping waved his hand.

"The anti-tank gun provided by Mr. Li is more useful. It is smaller than a heavy machine gun. We can ambush and shoot the enemy tanks without them being able to react. It's a pity that its power is limited and there is a chance that it won't penetrate the front of the tank."

Li Liangwei showed a wicked smile on his face: "Don't worry, Captain Tan, I will be able to sell better anti-tank weapons right away, which can 100% penetrate the enemy tanks!"

The two men didn't say a few words. Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping immediately started new arrangements. Li Liangwei also started working, driving two bulldozers to the side of the paralyzed Type 89 tank.

Because there are still living Japanese soldiers inside the tank, it cannot be towed directly. It needs to be rendered harmless. Otherwise, it will be very troublesome if the Japanese soldiers' mounted machine guns shoot at it halfway through towing.

There was a blower loaded on the back of the bulldozer driven by Li Liangwei, and the blower was connected to a burning stove. He first threw a pile of rubber powder particles into the stove, and the stove immediately began to emit black smoke. Then he plugged a leather hose connected to the blower into the hole on the Type 89 tank, and then started the blower.

There was a buzzing noise, and the blower pumped the exhaust gas from the stove burning rubber into the tank, and the Japanese inside immediately started screaming.

They looked for gas masks and put them on, but it was completely useless. The space inside the tank was too small, black smoke was emitting from all the gaps in the tank, and the amount of exhaust gas pumped in was too large for the individual gas masks to filter out.

Five minutes later, the Japanese crew could no longer bear it and opened the tank hatch to breathe fresh air. However, as soon as he stuck his head out, the 5th Route Army soldiers with guns surrounding the tank shot and killed him.

Li Liangwei then pulled out the pipe and came to another tank. After the same harmless treatment, all the Japanese in the two tanks were suffocated to death. Next, he tied up the tanks with an iron chain connected to the back of the bulldozer.

Before leaving, Li Liangwei said to Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhaoping: "Captain Tan, I am a businessman. There are many valuable things on the battlefield. You can pay attention to them and bring them to me to exchange for supplies, whether it is food, weapons or anything else!"

Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping had an idea and asked him to wait for a while. He ran to a shelter and took out five samurai swords.

"Mr. Li, do you want to accept this?"

Li Liangwei's eyes lit up.

"Samurai sword? It's a good thing. Take it. You must take it! I'll take as many as you can get!"

Li Liangwei remembered that one of the secondary tasks of their group of clones was to use the Japanese samurai swords to twist and make a metal kneeling statue. This was a cruel job that Li Weiguo thought up. They had only seized a few hundred samurai swords in the previous Jiangqiao Battle, and they didn't even have a frame to build the kneeling statue. Now they were fighting the Japanese again, so they had to take the opportunity to grab more samurai swords and leave a spiritual totem for the future Chinese people.

Li Liangwei took the samurai sword and asked, "Captain Tan, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Hey... Mr. Li, what do you have? I only have five knives. I don't know how much I can exchange for them."

Li Liangwei thought for a moment and said, "I still have several hundred sets of cotton-padded clothes, which are enough to equip a company of soldiers here. However, those clothes were taken from the Japanese soldiers. I sewed up the bullet holes and dyed them blue. You don't mind the clothes of the dead, do you?"

"Hey, in the current situation, it's a great blessing to let the brothers wear warm clothes. Why are you complaining about dead people's clothes! It's just 5 knives for hundreds of clothes, this..."

Li Liangwei waved his hand quickly? He was only here to provide support in the name of doing business, how could he really make them feel embarrassed in this regard? To put it bluntly, they risked their lives to come here to fight the Japanese, did they expect anything in return?

"It's okay, Captain Tan. Just pay it off for now. When the time comes, let the brothers keep an eye on the battlefield and keep an eye out for samurai swords, cars and the like."

How could Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping not know what Li Liangwei meant? As a soldier himself, he might die in battle. Who would he ask for the money he owed then?

He was touched and stepped forward to hold his hand: "Mr. Li, you are really a patriotic businessman. If there were more people like you in our country, how could we end up in this situation now!"

Li Liangwei did not feel any embarrassment when a man held his hand. He just scratched his head as he felt the other's cold hand.

"Captain Tan, wait a moment!"

Li Liangwei climbed onto the forklift and took out two cardboard boxes from under the forklift seat. He placed the boxes on the ground, opened them, and took out a thin ceramic steel cylinder.

"Captain Tan, ask the brothers to boil some water. This can warm us up."

Deputy Company Commander Tan Zhuoping took the bowl-like object and turned it over and over, not knowing what it was.

"what is this?"

Li Liangwei opened the lid on top of the cylinder and displayed the dough inside.

"This is Longlong Store's new product, instant noodles in a bucket."