"Bang!" With a gunshot in the dark night, the Japanese infantry finally entered the battle.
However, the first battle between the First Division and the infantry of the Four Lines Regiment was not in the early morning of the second day, but late at night.
"At 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, all ministries will launch a ground attack!" Saburo Okabe looked at the casualty reports sent by the ministries on the table as the sun set. His face was as iron as steel. After a moment of silence, he ordered in a cold voice.
"Order the front army's special attack brigade to attack!"
The so-called special attack brigade was formed on the basis of Fujiwara Senio's original special attack squadron.
Although in the battle in mid-1938, the special attack squadron led by Fujiwara Senzuo ended in the annihilation of the entire army, after the war, after analysis and combined with the elusive scouts of the Four Troops, the departed General Sugisugimoto still remained
The role of this elite team was affirmed, and his successor also agreed with this view.
With the insistence of the two commanders, the special attack squadron was not only not abolished, but was even expanded and built from a squadron to a brigade level.
It's just that the personnel reorganized this time did not use domestic ninjas and warriors as the main personnel like the martial arts madman Fujiwara Senzuo. Instead, elite veterans with more than 3 years of military service were directly drawn from the divisions of the North China Front to assist with the best.
The equipment, coupled with some special training, is similar to the reconnaissance company of the Four Lines Regiment, and it already has some shadow of the future special forces.
The training lasted for a full year. After recovering from his injury, Senio Fujiwara also served as their fighting instructor and often participated in their training.
Although it is said to be a brigade, the number of personnel who can ultimately pass the training and assessment is actually only about 300, which is about the same size as the current reconnaissance company of the Four Lines Regiment.
But the rank is very high. Its commander is the rank of major, and the lowest rank among the officers and soldiers is also the sergeant. Its organization is also different from the ordinary infantry brigade. There are no squadrons under the brigade, only squads and detachments.
A squad consists of five squads of 12 people. The squad leader is a captain, and the squad leader is a lieutenant or second lieutenant.
The standard equipment of the team members is the newly developed Type 99 7mm 5-shot bolt-action short-barreled rifle. The penetration power of the 7mm ammunition into simple fortifications such as earth walls is far greater than that of the 5mm Arisaka bullet, which is shorter than the 5mm Arisaka bullet.
The cut barrel has no loss of accuracy within the effective range of 350 meters.
In addition, some members are equipped with German Empire MP28 submachine guns for fire support. Each member carries a Southern Type 14 pistol and a sword made of fine steel according to their own preferences, as well as high-calorie rations that can survive in the wild for a week.
Although there is no grenade launcher due to load-bearing reasons, in terms of medium and long-range firepower, this is definitely the most powerful existence among the Japanese infantry.
In this battle of Zishan, Duo Tianjun was finally willing to stab out the sharp knife that had been sharpened for a year, which was considered as another strong support for Saburo Okabe.
Saburo Okabe, who was the chief of staff of the North China Front and personally presided over its formation, naturally knew the tactical role of this elite force, and would certainly not be so stupid as to let them attack the Chinese frontline positions where they were well prepared at night.
Saburo Okabe had already broken this 290-man unit into small groups. The 501st Infantry Regiment led by Miyauchi Yoshio attacked a mountain 16 miles from the flank and bypassed the Chinese defensive position.
Climb the mountains, enter the Chinese defense area, and conduct reconnaissance and destruction behind enemy lines.
In fact, the Japanese army's usual attack method has always been to send small groups of troops to go behind enemy lines to carry out various harassment and sabotage, and to wait for opportunities to assassinate important enemy figures. In the past, General Zhang died while crossing the battlefield.
A sneak attack by a small group of Japanese troops.
Now, after many encounters with the Four Elements Group, the Japanese, who had been beaten so badly that their faces were bruised and bruised, finally let go of their arrogance, began to learn from their opponents, and gained a certain degree of destructive power.
It is conceivable that if such an elite force is allowed to penetrate into the Zishan defense zone, it will bring terrible destructive power.
However, the area of Zishan is too large. Even though Tang Tuanzuo, who has spent a year conducting detailed surveys of the mountainous areas around Zishan and is familiar with the defensible areas, can only set up defense lines in areas where people and heavy equipment can pass, he cannot stop light attacks.
The infantry entered over the mountains and ridges.
But Tang Tuanzuo is the strongest individual soldier from the strongest special forces on the border of China in the future. When it comes to large-scale group operations, Tang Tuanzuo is probably far from the top, but when it comes to special operations, he is the number one in this time and space.
none of them.
Tang Dao had long ago dispersed nearly 700 people from the reconnaissance company and mountain infantry company that had been recalled. However, this time Tang Dao did not focus on attacking the enemy as before. More than 100 people served as his eyes on the plains, and another 500 people
Many people can be inside the defense zone.
However, because the Four Lines Regiment has many logistics departments located in the mountains, most of its troops are deployed for defense around these troops, and less than one-third of them can be dispersed into the mountains.
Tang Dao told the two company commanders: "The prey coming this time may be very ferocious. You hunters should be careful not to miss the prey and be bitten by it instead."
Tang Dao's prediction of the Japanese army this time did not come from intelligence, but combined with the losses suffered last time when Fujiwara Battle led his troops to attack the defense area of the 17th Division in Southeast Shanxi. Based on his understanding of the Japanese, they had tasted the sweetness before.
Will not give up easily.
Moreover, Tang Dao has always had an intuition that he will meet Fujiwara Senio. That guy who is obsessed with martial arts is by no means the kind of person who gives up easily.
But this time, part of Tang Dao's intuition was obviously wrong. At this time, Fujiwara Senzuo was still training himself desperately on the training ground belonging to the special attack team in Pingbeicheng.
Fujiwara Senzuo, who had already failed twice in Tang Dao's hands, would never allow himself to fail a third time. Not only was he proud, but Fujiwara Senzuo knew very well that if he hadn't seen it, he could get back a brigade of equipment and hundreds of pieces of equipment.
For the sake of the captured people, given Tang Dao's personality, the grass on his grave may be taller than that of someone else.
That means that he has one and only one chance. Martial arts alone is no longer enough for him to fight that man to the death. He has to become stronger, no matter whether it is a cold weapon or a hot weapon.
But another part of Tang Dao's intuition was right. The prey had already arrived, and it was extremely ferocious.
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"Four." After Yuanxiao fired a shot, he quickly rolled over and rolled down the grass nest where he had just sheltered, while muttering to himself and counting.
Obviously, Yuanxiao hid in time, but a second later, the grass nest where he had been hiding was covered by several rounds of bullets. If he was still there, he would be dead or wounded at this moment. The little devil's shooting skills are amazingly accurate.
Quietly laying his body behind the thick exposed roots of a dead old tree, Yuanxiao looked to the other side of his right hand and happened to see the squad leader hiding behind a stone not far away giving him a thumbs up.
Yuanxiao smiled softly, revealing her beautiful white teeth in the watery moonlight.
In such a life-and-death moment, Yuanxiao, who has always been a little aloof, has never felt that the squad leader's encouragement is so important to him. Perhaps it is because he needs his companions to fight side by side with him more!
As a superior soldier in a mountain infantry company, Yuanxiao has always been a relatively unique existence.
Yuanxiao is not a nickname, it is his name!
Yuanxiao's experience of joining the Four Elements Group was a little different from others. In November 1938, Tang Dao led Long Yan and others back to his hometown and met him on the streets of the mountain city.
When I met Yuanxiao, this guy was actually a homeless man who was so hungry that his eyes turned green. Such homeless people can be seen everywhere on the streets of mountain cities, but this guy who was about to starve to death was a little different from the others. When facing passers-by,
He didn't even look at the cake thrown on the ground, unless he put the cake in his hand.
Of course, that may also be the time when hunger is not at its worst. Only those who have been hungry know that until the end of hunger, not to mention the pancakes thrown on the ground, even if they are thrown into the latrine, you will wash them and carefully stuff them into your mouth.
There won't be any scum left in it.
However, this young homeless man's tenacious willpower made Long Yan, who had also been hungry and knew what it was like, look at him differently.
Long Yan felt that he could become a soldier, so with Long Yan's persuasion and funding, the homeless man Yuan Xiao went to Tang Dao's hometown to join the new army, which could not only solve his problem of food but also solve the problem of soldiers. It was a double win.
What makes Long Yan dumbfounded is that this young man who looks extremely handsome after cleaning is actually lazy and can't even fold quilts. If ordinary soldiers can fold into tofu cubes after a few days of training, that guy
It's like a pile of shit.
Not only that, he was very cold and no one took him seriously.
If he hadn't seen him living on the street with his own eyes, Long Yan would have definitely regarded him as a dandy young man who was indifferent to food and work. For a guy like this, he didn't eat what he called the food he brought and didn't starve to death. He was really blind.
However, the origin mentioned by Yuan Xiao can well confirm his performance. A young man from a wealthy family was forced to start a new business in central Sichuan due to differences between his brothers in the family. He suffered heavy losses. In the end, he ended up living alone on the streets due to an accident.
But what is surprising is that after Tang Dao's father learned about this situation, he gave Yuanxiao 20 yuan in silver to let him go home, but he refused.
Yuanxiao followed the Sichuan Army's new regiment all the way to Tongguan and Zhongtiao Mountain until they entered southeastern Shanxi. Regardless of combat experience or time, he could be called a veteran, but in reality, he was still a new recruit.
Because Yuanxiao barely participated in the battle, the new company commander was afraid that this guy would cause trouble, so he asked him to be a clerk, helping all the company's officers and soldiers write letters home and collect statistics on battle results and material distribution.
Even when they arrived in southeastern Shanxi, all the recruits were dispersed and reorganized. Yuanxiao was selected by Long Yan to join the elite mountain infantry company. He also served as a clerk at the company headquarters and was a purely civilian superior soldier.
But what impressed Gu Xishui was not Long Yan's recommendation, but Yuan Xiao's extreme intelligence. From a person who could be said to have no ability, it only took him one month to catch up with many recruits who were stronger than him.
All skills are not the strongest, but his smart mind is his biggest advantage.
What makes people speechless is that, whether it is training or assessment, this lazy but talented guy is always at the front, a little worse than the veterans, but a little better than the recruits. Even Gu Xishui is only
You can just shake your head and let it happen.
It's a good piece of steel, but it's just not heated enough.
Gu Xishui was not helpless, but he believed that only after going through the war, Yuanxiao, a somewhat unusual soldier, would become a good soldier like his comrades.
Therefore, before the Battle of Zishan, Gu Xishui kicked Yuanxiao, a veteran with more than a year of military service, into the infantry squad and became a new recruit in the front-line infantry.
Now, Yuanxiao, who is both old and new at the same time, is going through the most difficult test in his life.
The moonlight is as bright as the stars tonight, which is not actually a good weather for killing people.
The forests in the north are mostly coniferous forests, which are not too dense in themselves. Under such starlight, the visibility is not low, and the enemy's shadow can be seen ten or twenty meters away.
However, this was not the main reason why Yuanxiao harvested the fourth head in half an hour. The small traps Yuanxiao made while retreating were the main reason why the four Japanese soldiers died.
The sound and the moment's hesitation will all wait for the Lantern Festival's bullet that is about to arrive.
But despite this, Yuanxiao and the veteran squad leader are still in danger.
I don't know if it was too bad luck, but the hunting group formed by the two of them unexpectedly encountered a small detachment of the Japanese army, an enemy that was six times more powerful than them.
Now, they have killed 6 people, but there are still 6 people hiding opposite them. If they are not careful, the two of them will suffer disaster.
Half an hour passed, and no reinforcements were approaching the two of them. The sporadic gunshots and grenade explosions that kept coming in the distance showed that the comrades in the platoon had also encountered their enemies.
If he wanted to survive, he had to rely on himself. At least, he had to hold on until reinforcements arrived. Yuanxiao lowered his head and scanned the surroundings with only the corner of his eyes, while listening vigilantly to all the sounds from around him.
Everything is very quiet, so quiet that one feels suffocated to breathe.
The six remaining Japanese soldiers were no better than the two soldiers of the Fourth Army. After half an hour of fighting, they finally determined that the ones who sniped at them were just two Chinese soldiers.
What they couldn't accept was that two Chinese soldiers shot and killed six of their comrades. Especially judging from the fact that the opponent's last shot accurately hit the target again, the two opponents were still alive and well. They were shot in the head.
His comrades were already lying quietly in the grass. Like the first five, they had long lost the value of rescuing them.
Are the elites of the Chinese people more terrifying than those selected from an army of more than 200,000? The Japanese elites who were smug when they entered the battlefield were frightened by the attacks of two Chinese soldiers whose marksmanship was terrifyingly accurate.
To be precise, these Japanese troops have begun to intend to retreat, and they don't even want the honor of being the Imperial Army of the Empire of Japan.
They would rather die on the battlefield than in this silent jungle. They shuddered at the thought that their bodies would become food for the wild beasts in this jungle.
However, the two Chinese soldiers returned to the darkness and maintained terrifying silence, which made it clear to these elite Japanese soldiers that the other side had no intention of letting them go.
If you try to run, you will only die faster.
If you want to live, you can only kill the enemy.
At this point, soldiers from both China and Japan have a common understanding.
If you don’t die, I won’t be able to live well!
Under the constant waving gestures of a Japanese second lieutenant, the remaining Japanese soldiers plucked up their courage, spread out, and approached the two opponents.
As long as we close the distance, the two Chinese soldiers will die.
Time passed little by little, and the night became darker and darker, but the moonlight and stars in the sky seemed to become brighter and brighter, so bright that it made people palpitate.
The two Chinese soldiers and the Japanese team were still entangled. Due to the imbalance in numbers, the two Chinese soldiers were obviously much more tired. For the sake of safety, the distance between the two people was also getting farther and farther. They were separated by more than ten meters.
Protecting each other.
On the opposite side, there were already four Japanese soldiers left. In the nearly three hours of struggle, another Japanese soldier was caught and accidentally stepped into the trap set by Yuanxiao. However, Yuanxiao and his squad leader did not need to replenish their guns and learned to fight on their own.
Professor Tang Tuanzuo's booby trap technique directly broke off a leg of a Japanese soldier who touched a grenade under a leaf.
When the Japanese soldier closest to him was so frightened that he ignored the danger and tried to save the Kyushu Island compatriot whose thigh had already flown more than ten meters away, the veteran squad leader who was more than ten meters away shot him in the head.
The two soldiers used exactly the tactics Tang Tuanzuo wrote in the pamphlet, using wounded enemy soldiers as bait to kill their rescue companions, which was considered a miniaturized siege and rescue operation.
The most typical case is that in the war in the 1980s when the Republic of the past time and space taught a disobedient little brother a lesson, a Chinese soldier hiding in a cat's ear hole used an Annan soldier who was seriously injured and unable to move to kill him.
Killed more than one class of enemies.
In the end, even the Chinese soldiers themselves became a little soft-hearted, but the Annan people were still determined not to give up their plan to rescue their comrades. In the end, more than 20 soldiers participating in the rescue died, and the wounded soldiers still died in the same place after bleeding.
That's when it ends.
Unfortunately, the Japanese were not from Annan. The remaining four Japanese soldiers were obviously determined enough. After discovering the intentions of the Chinese soldiers, the leading Japanese second lieutenant did not hesitate and shot the compatriots who were still wailing.
When the war reaches this point, it is no longer a question of fear or death or life or death. The only thought of both sides is to kill the other side. One side wants to protect the country and the other side wants revenge.
The final result can only end when one party falls down.
The Japanese's marksmanship is also very accurate, almost on the same level as the veteran squad leader. If we have to judge the ranking, Yuanxiao is ranked last in the overall ranking of both China and Japan.
It's just that Yuanxiao was smart enough to make full use of the right time and place to completely make up for this gap. Otherwise, due to the huge disparity in strength, the two Chinese soldiers would have been cold.
The two fought and retreated, and the space was compressed little by little.
The veteran squad leader kept gesturing towards Yuanxiao, but Yuanxiao just pretended not to see him.
Although he is still aloof, after living and eating together for a year, not to mention the deep friendship he has formed with these rude soldiers, he has already recognized them in his heart.
What's more, if it hadn't been for the squad leader's desperate rescue, he might have died in the jungle. How could he have left the squad leader alone to stop the four Japanese soldiers and escaped by himself?
Even if he can go back alive, not to mention not being able to see the company commander and brothers, even his stubborn father, who has been completely blocked in his heart, will be disappointed again!
"Hey, what a pity for this guy!" Seeing that Yuan Xiao was not moved at all, the veteran squad leader sighed inwardly. He finally let go of his worries and looked ahead with a calm heart.
Since the first-class soldier with the best handwriting in the company doesn't want to escape alone, then let's face death together!
It's best to kill one or two more before death. A veteran who completely disregards life and death and calms down is undoubtedly terrifying.
