Bright Sword: Iron Will 10

Chapter 10: Level 2 Panel, New Functions Unlocked

January 21, 2025

Chapter 10: Level 2 Panel, New Functions Unlocked

The battle ended.

Zhao Fangyuan was the first to return to the command post to report.

When Wang Feng saw him again, his entire military uniform was heavily stained with blood, with numerous holes of various shapes.

His face was also covered in blood, with drops sliding down his jawline to his collar.

Wang Feng gasped, hurriedly asking, “Are you injured?”

Zhao Fangyuan grinned, the blood almost spilling from his mouth, he saluted, “Commander, mission accomplished!”

Wang Feng patted his shoulder, “Well done, you truly live up to being a soldier I trained!”

In a short while, the other battalion commanders returned with their units.

In this battle, the 414th Regiment sacrificed over three hundred men, but the result was the complete annihilation of two Japanese platoons, killing over four hundred enemies.

This was a supply convoy carrying weapons, ammunition, and food.

Five trucks of supplies were captured.

These included over one thousand Type 38 rifles, two Type 92 machine guns.

Over three thousand Type 97 hand grenades.

Six grenade launchers.

Over fifty thousand rounds of various ammunition.

And some scattered canned food and rice.

Zhang Hu, holding a grenade in each hand, grinned at Wang Feng, “Commander, we struck it rich, we struck it rich!”

Wang Feng looked at the long list before him and couldn’t help but be secretly surprised.

Indeed, they had struck it rich!

The Japanese advance on the front lines was extremely rapid.

Relying on the strategic material reserves accumulated before the war, the Japanese army was extremely generous at the beginning of the war.

They used ammunition as if it cost nothing, bombarding relentlessly.

When the logistics units transported supplies, they were always fully loaded, as if they wished even the accompanying infantry would carry ammunition boxes while walking.

In a couple of years, they’ll be much more frugal.

The supplies seized in this battle were enough to keep Li Yunlong busy for half a year, at least.

Wang Feng put away the list and quickly turned to enter the temporary command post: “Quickly clean the battlefield, and in half an hour, we’ll advance towards Weixian.”

The officers saluted, “Yes!”

First Xianyang, then Weixian. This was following the advance route of Lieutenant General Ban’gōn Seishirō’s Fifth Division.

While the troops were cleaning the battlefield, Wang Feng’s consciousness fell upon the panel in his mind.

After leveling up to Lv2, a new function had been unlocked—Army Deployment.

Wang Feng’s consciousness delved into it, clicking on the button on the panel.

A familiar, yet slightly different interface from his memory appeared in his mind.

After a quick glance, he discovered three core functions.

One was the ability to display the basic information of various units.

Down to the company level.

The information displayed was abundant, including but not limited to unit organization, infantry lethality, armor lethality, breakthrough value, experience value, etc.

At the bottom of the information panel, there was a small line of text:

[The information displayed on this panel is derived from countless virtual calculations by the system’s computer, summarizing the specific performance results into specific numbers for the commander. Data is for reference only, and actual results may vary.]

Wang Feng suddenly understood.

When he saw the numbers on the panel, he had been puzzled.

Battlefield situations change rapidly; a unit that was originally high-spirited and invincible might suddenly scatter and flee.

With so many uncertainties, how could it be represented by data?

So it was just a reference value.

“Not bad, not bad!”

Wang Feng nodded.

This function was very practical; it allowed him to quickly grasp the basic situation of each unit.

The second was the unit editing function.

This function was derived from the previous data panel.

The minimum editing unit was the company level.

It was also the result of the system computer’s virtual calculation. By changing the internal composition of units at the company level and above, the relevant data for that type of organization could be obtained.

Taking the current 414th Regiment as an example.

It has three infantry battalions, one mortar company, and three reserve companies.

In the unit editing panel, removing an infantry battalion and adding a medical company and an engineering company.

Then the basic information of the unit would change accordingly.

Infantry lethality and armor lethality would decrease, while organization would increase, etc.

But it would not affect reality; it only provided a virtual calculation function.

Wang Feng was also quite satisfied with this function.

In the future, when configuring troop types, he could more intuitively feel the changes in the troops.

He could deploy troops better suited to the current combat situation.

These two functions could essentially be considered as one.

The third function, however, was quite amazing.

It was a three-dimensional, bird’s-eye view real-time combat map.

The range was only about two kilometers, but the viewing angle could be freely changed.

It could even pinpoint every leaf on a tree, every soldier.

The environmental image was extremely clear, almost indistinguishable from what the naked eye could see.

On the map were individual unit markers, indicating the unit’s organization and type.

An infantry unit was a simple steel helmet; an artillery unit was a large cannon.

With a movement of Wang Feng’s consciousness, he could display the basic information of various units.

Commander, organization, remaining troops.

It could not only display friendly forces but also enemy perspectives.

This was powerful.

It was equivalent to having a bird’s eye view of the entire situation, and the enemy’s ambushes and every tactical deployment were clearly visible.

With this, what need was there for scouts?

The only drawback was the limited range.

The depth and width of a fully deployed infantry regiment would, in any case, far exceed two kilometers.

But Wang Feng was quite satisfied, as if he had discovered a new continent. He used the three-dimensional map to check the expression of every soldier.

“Hey, this guy dares to slack off!”

“Let me see which unit he’s from, make a note of the name.”

Wang Feng was having a blast, standing there with a slight smile on his lips.

In just a short while, he had already found several soldiers who were goofing off while cleaning the battlefield.

Zhao Fangyuan, standing beside him, watched Wang Feng’s strange expression and wanted to ask but was afraid to disturb him.

“Commander?”

Seeing that Wang Feng didn’t react, Zhao Fangyuan looked conflicted but still mustered the courage to say:

“Commander?”

Feeling someone calling him, Wang Feng snapped back to reality.

“What is it?”

Zhao Fangyuan immediately stood up straight: “Commander, about today’s battle, should we report it to the commanders?”

Wang Feng frowned, resting his hands on the table, and after a moment of thought, said:

“Alright, send a coded telegram to Commander Yan, and then we don’t need to worry about it.”

After all, they were still under the Shanxi Defense Army’s operational sequence. After winning a battle, they had to report upwards.

Maybe they could even get a batch of weapons and equipment from Yan Laosi.

Although it was unlikely.

But they had to try.

As for whether doing so violated the taboo of bypassing superiors in reporting,

Wang Feng considered such worries purely superfluous.

He didn’t have any superiors anymore.

He didn’t know if Li Fuying was still alive.

Based on his historical memory, Yan Laosi was going to make an example of him, to kill the chicken to scare the monkey.

The various regiment commanders and division commanders below him, even if they survived, would be demoted or transferred.

Even if someone wanted to give him a hard time for this, they would have to wait until they were still alive to do so.

(End of Chapter)

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