It was already three o'clock in the afternoon, and it was less than ten hours before the brigade launched its attack. Fei Tianhe turned his head and looked at his men who were sitting in twos and threes among the reeds, either sitting and cleaning their guns, or lying down and resting.
I feel extremely satisfied and proud. These are the soldiers of the Japanese Empire. They have no regrets and are extremely loyal to the empire and the emperor. They have been lurking for dozens of hours without anyone speaking casually or showing impatience.
They just silently cleaned their guns, checked their weapons, and recharged their batteries, just like a pack of wild wolves, waiting for the call of the alpha wolf, and then swooped forward and tore apart the prey in front of them.
Just when Fei Tianhe was satisfied, a man with reed leaves trotting over his body came up to him and reported in a low voice: "Your Excellency, Captain, there is a Chinese army coming from the west. I think there are hundreds of people."
, like a camp.”
Feitanohe heard the sound and asked: "What formation are they in?"
"It's a marching formation, it doesn't look like they found us."
Utanogo turned around and ordered a second lieutenant officer next to him: "Murakami-kun, let the soldiers prepare for battle. Ikawa, take me to the front to observe."
"Hey!"
"Hey!"
The Japanese soldier with reed leaves on his uniform was the most favored scout and sharpshooter of this detachment, Sergeant Yasuo Igawa, and he was the secret sentinel sent by this detachment.
Not long after, Igawa Yasuo led Feitanohe to the edge of the reed marsh where they were hiding, and carefully observed the west with a telescope. Sure enough, he found a Chinese army of several hundred people walking in this direction. They were lined up in four lines.
In the marching column, no vanguards or mobile sentries were sent out.
Feitanohe despised the commander of this unit in his heart. He actually marched in a dense formation not far from the front line. If he didn't have a more important mission, he would only need to lead his 80 tiger and wolf elites to head on.
By concentrating fire and attacking with one more charge, this Chinese army with poor tactical quality can be completely defeated.
He observed patiently, and finally saw the army turning north along the country road when it was still nearly four hundred meters away from the reed swamp, and then gradually disappeared from his sight.
Feitanohe also breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, he was not afraid of this group of Chinese troops who were just a ragtag group of people in his eyes, but in a few hours he would usher in a glorious moment in his life. He really didn't want to cause trouble and be thrown into trouble by a few people.
A bad thing ruins a good thing.
What Feitanohe didn't know was that just as the opponent's dense queue was turning around, a figure in the team used the cover of the queue to quietly lie down in the weeds on the roadside.
The terrain is slowly creeping towards the reed swamp.
This person is none other than Zhou Wen.
It turns out that Zhou Wen's so-called mountain man's clever plan is to use the marching cover of the two infantry companies of the mercenary regiment to quietly lurk one person when approaching the area that needs to be reconnoited, and then slowly approach to conduct reconnaissance.
You must know that the terrain in the suburbs of Shanghai is relatively flat and you can see far away. It is very difficult to get close to the target without being discovered.
Zhou Wen and the others had previously judged that the number of lurking Japanese troops would not be less than 50, and any less would not form an effective combat force.
So, if a team of more than 50 people were to be hidden behind the Chinese army, it would not be possible to hide in crowded places such as villages and towns. It would only be possible to hide a team of more than 50 people in the widely distributed reed swamps on the outskirts of Shanghai.
There were only two reed swamps within 3 kilometers southeast of the temple that could hide people, so a team of several hundred people marched over in a swaggering manner. No one could tell when someone was missing in the middle. Anyway, it was not far from the front line.
It is normal to mobilize troops locally, and it is not easy to arouse the enemy's suspicion.
In this way, when the enemy is in darkness, we are also in darkness. It depends on whose reconnaissance skills are better later.
Not far from the first reed marsh, Zhang Xiaoping lurked, and the second one was Zhou Wen.
In the mercenary group, when it comes to the level of covert investigation, brothers Zhou Wen and Zhang Xiaoping are the only two candidates who are worthy of the spot.
In fact, before Zhou Wen could lurk, he intuitively sensed that the reeds ahead were the Japanese army's hiding place, because when he was marching, he felt like he was being stared at by wild beasts. The closer he got, the more obvious the feeling became. He knew
Someone in the reeds is observing the team, peeping...
Zhou Wen thanked the Buddha beads from the bottom of his heart for the gifts he had received, not only the physical and sensory transformation, but also the intuition of danger. This was the second time he felt threatened, the first time going back several years.
A few days ago, when I met bandits on the road where Xu Dacheng and I were kidnapped just a few days ago, I didn't get the warning from my heart until the bullet was about to come, but this time it was so obvious and so far away.
I felt the deep hostility and murderous intent.
So Zhou Wen knew that the enemy was there.
But what is still uncertain is whether it was a few Japanese reconnaissance personnel or the Japanese squad.
Half an hour later, Zhou Wen had relied on his superb lurking skills to quietly touch a cluster of weeds less than a hundred meters away from the reed swamp. Instead of using a telescope, he observed with his naked eyes and listened carefully with his ears.
Holding it and sniffing it with his nose, he always believed in the saying that wherever he walked, there would be traces.
He just wants to use his super vision and perception to find the enemy.
Sure enough, not long after, he noticed that a slightly higher tuft of grass on the edge of the reed marsh was shaking abnormally. When he looked carefully, he found a slightly different color. That was the color of the belt. He found it.
Belt, quickly infer a person's outline.
It was a lurker with reed leaves all over his body. His face and eyes were hidden in the grass, and he was observing the situation outside through the gaps in the grass.
This was a well-trained soldier, a soldier who had been specially trained in reconnaissance and lurking. Zhou Wen sighed in his heart that there were still experts in the Japanese army. Zhou Wen judged that this man was the secret sentry of the Japanese army.
In the evening, a gust of wind blew from the east. As the reeds swayed, Zhou Wen smelled a very light smell. With his sense of smell, he instantly judged that it was the smell of meat. The enemy was eating, and what he was eating was canned meat.
There was a lurking post outside, and someone was serving food inside, and the food was canned food. All of this has completely confirmed Zhou Wen's previous judgment that this is the hiding place of the Japanese lurking unit.
Now, hunters and prey have finally changed their roles. This strengthened Japanese army team has moved from darkness to light. Then, they have naturally changed from hunters to prey.
At this time, Zhou Wen did nothing, not even bothering to look at the enemy's position. He just waited for dark, then quietly evacuated, and then lurked over with his brothers, and then... the hunting began.