Chapter 14: A Victory Without Suspense
Shirakawa, who came out of the bulging stone wall, was about to reprimand Xiao Quan, but the latter said with a smile, "Listen, Cao Chang, there are still insects outside the cave, which means that there can't be an ambush outside the cave, otherwise those insects would have run away long ago." Koizumi's words made Shirakawa, who was about to have an attack, have to hold back his anger, because what the other party said was not wrong, where someone was ambushed, the insects could not be heard, and the perception of danger by insects, ants, birds and beasts was much higher than that of humans.
Bai Chuan, who had already walked to the edge of the cave, subconsciously stretched out his head to look outside, and then suppressed the palpitations that still existed in his heart, and turned around and beckoned the other soldiers in the cave to go out by himself first. "Okay, now that we've made sure that there is no danger outside the cave, let's all go out, and when the sentry posts arranged outside are withdrawn, let's leave here." The soldiers who had been waiting in the cave for a long time wanted to walk outside the cave with Shirakawa's words, but before Shirakawa's words were finished, Koizumi, who had been standing outside the entrance of the cave, saw several fires suddenly appearing not far from the entrance of the cave.
"Oops" Koizumi secretly screamed, and then shouted loudly to his companions who were walking out of the cave, "There is an ambush, go back, go back, there is an ambush." With Xiao Quan's roar, the few points of fire that Qiao Quan saw just now had been vigorously thrown towards the cave. The sudden burst of gunfire that broke through the night completely broke the silence of the night, from extreme silence to extreme movement, this sudden change could not help but make Bai Chuan, who was still in the cave, and the Japanese soldiers who had already made up the cave were all stunned.
The sudden gunfire was like a downpour after nine days of thunder, and dozens of dazzling gunfire suddenly bloomed in the night outside the cave, which was like the bright starlight that had existed in the night sky for thousands of years. The Japanese soldiers who were hit by gunfire outside the cave came down like mowing grass, and Shirakawa in the cave and Koizumi who forcibly squeezed back into the cave couldn't help but widen their eyes and look at the outside of the cave with a wooden expression.
Naturally, it was Tangcheng who created such an atmosphere for the Japanese troops in the cave, and when Shirakawa woke up from his nightmare and walked to the entrance of the cave to look outside, he was already being watched by the dice that were approaching the lurking dice. Later, Koizumi and the two veterans who volunteered to serve as the top soldiers were also stared at by the dice, and by the time Koizumi mistakenly thought that there was no danger outside Shandong and shouted out to his companions in the cave, Tang Cheng, who had been waiting for most of the night, was ready to open fire.
"Whew, it's so fucking enjoyable, it's still a machine gun." The replaced Heavy exhaled deeply, reached out and rubbed his somewhat stiff shoulder blades, and then leaned over to look at the cave in front of him, which was being shot at by countless gunfire. The sub-shooter who replaced the heavy had no time to pay attention to his self-talking companion, and the smoke of the cave in the distance had made the co-shooter's eyes suddenly appear with irrepressible obsession and murder.
"Sir, this is enough for the devil soldiers in the cave to drink a pot!" Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were swept by the machine guns and came down like mowing grass, the dice who were ordered to retreat couldn't help but say to Tang Cheng excitedly. "The machine gun is easy to use, but this ammunition is a little too fast. I'm afraid that thousands of machine-gun rounds have been fired in just a few minutes! In addition to the pleasure, the dice also complained about the speed at which the machine gun consumed ammo. If it weren't for the ammunition, maybe they could have brought an extra machine gun with them before crossing the river instead of freeing up half of their men to help carry the ammunition for the machine guns.
"Who's to say it's not, whether it's a light machine gun or a heavy machine gun, the rate of fire is about a few hundred rounds per minute. Based on the calculation of 10 machine guns, the bullets fired in one minute are several thousand, and in five minutes it is tens of thousands or more. If Wallace hadn't transferred almost a third of his ammunition reserves to us, we wouldn't have been able to afford to fight such a rich war. Looking at the British light machine gun that had never stopped firing, Tang Cheng also said with some emotion.
"Now, you understand why I agreed to Mike to join his joint U.S.-China force. There is no strong industrial base and economic strength to support it. Even if there are good weapons, our national army cannot afford to equip them, mainly because of the consumption of ammunition. Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and looked at each other with the dice, and then said in a deep voice. When we were in the jungle, you also saw George call the airdrop by radio, the Americans are not short of weapons and ammunition, as long as we are not short of weapons but have to be fed, what if we find the Japanese army to fight a few more battles. ”
The dice are not Tang Cheng, although what Tang Cheng said is already very clear, but the dice still can't figure out what Tang Cheng just said is related. "Ceasefire, ceasefire, stop shooting." The grass ball lit after being drenched with kerosene was vigorously thrown by the rout, and with the light from the burning of the grass ball, Hou San, who had been staring at the changes in the battlefield, shouted to stop shooting. There were no Japanese soldiers still standing at the entrance of the cave, and all Hou San could see was scraped meat and bloodstained corpses.
"Pile up firewood and light a fire, smoke all the Japanese soldiers hiding in the cave, and if they don't come out, then wait for it to be made into bacon." The corpses of the Japanese soldiers outside the cave were obviously not enough for 50 people, and Tang Cheng was not interested in playing hide and hide with the remaining Japanese soldiers, so he directly ordered to light a fire and set off smoke according to the original plan. The bushes that had been chopped down by the routs were piled up at the entrance of the cave, and after Hou San, who was leaning sideways against the stone wall, poured kerosene on the bushes, all a match was needed, and a fire was lit at the edge of the cave full of corpses and blood.
"Add grass, add grass quickly, you can't let the fire be too hot, and if the fire is too hot, there will be no smoke." Hou San picked up a Japanese rifle and used a bayonet to move the lit bush branch into the cave. The grass cut by the defeated soldiers was then thrown into the cave in large quantities, and once the fresh weeds were covered in the fire, the smoke they needed would fill the entire cave.
"Yaga, damn the Shina people want to smoke us out." Bai Chuan and the others, who were hiding in the cave, secretly shouted and cursed Tang Cheng and them outside the cave, but they really couldn't stop the smoke from spreading in the cave. "Use grenades, blow up fire extinguishing piles with grenades." Desperate, Shirakawa finally came up with a solution, although it was dangerous to blow up the fire with a grenade, it was better than being smoked alive in this cave.
"Boom ......!" The exploding fireballs and rolling flames illuminated the entire cave, and they also suppressed the Tang City outside the cave, they didn't expect the Japanese soldiers to be so ruthless to themselves, and the use of grenades in such a small cave was not to rush to find death. "Your uncle, Lao Tzu will also reward you with a few little melons to taste." Seeing that the fire he set was extinguished by the Japanese army using grenades, Hou San, who was a little angry, threw more than a dozen grenades into the cave in one go.
"Boom..."Just like a volcanic eruption, a ball of fire and smoke suddenly erupted from the cave that was not very large, and the vibration caused by the continuous explosion of the grenade made Hou San and the others guarding outside the cave become rolling gourds. Grandma's, I didn't expect the movement of throwing grenades into the cave to be so big, I would have thrown a few fewer if I had known. Hou San, who got up from the ground, kept shaking his head, and it was very uncomfortable to buke in his ears from the explosion just now.
As Hou San threw more than a dozen grenades into the cave and caused a big explosion, the ambush battle that was supposed to happen after dawn came to an end, and Hou San and the others, who were too close to the entrance of the cave and were shocked by the explosion, finally became everyone's laughing stock. Pessimism is contagious among soldiers, but optimism is faster than pessimism, and a group of more than 50 Japanese stragglers was wiped out with zero casualties, which the rout had never thought of before, but it happened anyway, and it happened right in front of everyone's eyes.
Without Tang Cheng's order, the defeated soldiers still strictly guarded their positions and did not clean up the battlefield, and even Hou San, who was closest to the entrance of the cave, only added some firewood and withdrew, everyone was waiting for the moment of dawn. Time passed little by little, the routs who were not sleepy smoked cigarettes, chatted quietly and laughed nonsense, Tang Cheng did not stop the routs from being out of line, and after a victory, they had to give them a little free space.
The sky finally lit up in everyone's expectation, and everyone was looking forward to the dawn, because only when the day dawned could everyone really see their own achievements. I don't know if it's because they waited too long, but when they really waited for the sky to dawn and the sun rose, the defeated soldiers who had been waiting for a long time didn't look at their own achievements. The soldiers with leisurely faces gathered together in twos and threes, and many people just lay down together and basked in the sun comfortably. The sun has already come out, although it is a little dazzling, but when it shines on the body, it makes people feel warm.
Tang Cheng was also basking in the sun, and when he remembered such a leisurely mood basking in the sun, it seemed that he had just arrived in Kunming and was placed in Dabanqiao. Looking down at his watch, Tang Cheng immediately got up, "Let's all get up, let's all go clean up the battlefield, and then we'll go back, and when we go back, the wine and meat will be enough to eat." Tang Cheng's words made the defeated soldiers cheer, winning the battle should have been like this, if it wasn't for the guys who came to the expeditionary force headquarters last time, maybe everyone would have experienced a feast of wine and meat.
Under the pretense of going out to clear the remnants of the Japanese army, Tang Cheng was mainly to avoid the guys sent by the expeditionary force headquarters, and George said that Mike would come to Ledo with a batch of supplies in two days. It has been two days since Tang Cheng and they left Ledo, and now it is time to go back, and Tang Cheng is also anxious to see the big surprise that Mike brought to him and the batch of American aid materials.