Chapter 63: The Ghost Gate
"Da Da Da!" "Smack! Syllable! "Accompanied by dark clouds and faint thunder and lightning in the sky, people who pass through this mountain road will hear such sounds mixed with the barren mountains in the distance. For ordinary people, they often think that this sound is someone's house setting off firecrackers, and people with a little military knowledge can hear that this is the sound of gunshots.
At this time, this rudimentary mountain road was crowded with trucks, and around the trucks and on both sides of the mountain road were full of soldiers with loaded guns, some of them lying next to the trucks, some squatting on the lawn by the side of the road, and some lying behind the corpses of their comrades. Coupled with the onlookers in the safety zone behind and the passing cars blocking the roadside, it was lively for a while.
Soon, several speeding jeeps appeared at the end of the mountain road, and a guy who looked like an officer hurriedly waved his hand, and soon, the jeep stopped in the middle of the road, once again attracting the curious eyes of the soldiers who did not know the truth around them.
A second lieutenant officer with a beard on his face jumped out of the jeep with some impatience, and the officer who had just waved at the jeep immediately greeted him. The bearded man looked at the chaotic scene around him, and couldn't help but roll his eyes helplessly, and then shouted to the lieutenant officer who was obviously one level higher than himself, "Let these nests be scattered, the little devils in front of you will naturally be solved by my people." ”
Bearded's words immediately aroused public outrage, but unfortunately the few people who got out of the jeep with Bearded ignored them as if they were ignorant of them, and just picked up their binoculars to carefully observe the terrain in front of them, and then several people whispered something around one of the jeeps. The gunfire in the distance was much weaker, but it still rang out again and again, and the much sparse gunfire was like a heavy hammer striking the hearts of these soldiers around the mountain road, because they knew that it was their own brother Pao Ze who was fighting against the devil soldiers in front of them.
"Alright, that's it, Kiko, you take two brothers and touch along the dirt slope, and the others follow me to the front. Don't care about any bullshit orders, as long as you can kill the little devils, I'm impatient to see the living little devils, and I'll kill them all. After a while, a dozen people scattered around the jeep, watching the very imposing bearded man personally take down a few long cloth bags from the jeep with several of his subordinates, and when they opened the cloth bags, the soldiers with good eyesight had already seen that the bags contained sniper rifles with scopes.
"You just wait here, we don't call, don't come here, the little devils have good marksmanship, don't rush to give yourself to them as a target." The bearded man grinned at the soldiers staring at him around the mountain road, and then led his soldiers along the roadbed to the front under the cover of trucks. Although I don't know what the origin of this beard is, it can be seen that the other party is only a dozen people, but each has a sniper rifle, and the soldiers who are watching around can't help but look red, and even more have already said sour things that are not good.
"Okay, shut up, people can use sniper rifles, that means they really have the ability, and the Americans' sniper rifles are not cabbage, do you think they can be issued by individuals?" The lieutenant who took the initiative to greet them with a beard but was ignored by the other party was also holding back his anger, but he was an officer after all, and he knew the details of the other party, and it was because he knew the details of the other party that he would try his best to restrain his soldiers, so as not to provoke those guys who even the British troops here in Ledo did not want to provoke.
"Company commander, who are these people? Why do you look at one more bullish than the other, is it possible to be more powerful than those people in the 114th regiment? I don't think it's any different. One of the lieutenant's veterans approached with his own gun, looked at the back of the bearded man from afar, and asked in a whisper. Although they are engineering troops, these veterans have also seen the battlefield is tragic, and some of them have also fought face-to-face with Japanese soldiers, and they are ignored like this, and the veterans are a little unhappy in their hearts.
"Lao Chuang, you are all old people who have followed me all the way, don't you know my temper? These people are not those guys of the 114th regiment, they are not easy to mess with, even the British soldiers in Ledo Town are hiding when they see them, how many of you can be more capable than the British big nose? The lieutenant handed a circle of cigarettes to the veterans who approached him, and finally lit his own cigarette and took a long puff, and then continued, "I heard that these guys are all guys who have walked through Savage Mountain three times in a row, and their military camp was originally British, and now they have taken it for nothing. ”
Hearing what his company commander said, the veterans who came around felt that a cool breeze was blowing on the back of their necks, but fortunately they didn't provoke those guys in front of them just now, otherwise they would have to suffer a big loss. The beard that was sick by these sappers was none other than the most popular dice around Tang Cheng, and I don't know who I listened to, the originally unkempt dice actually had a beard on their faces after a few months of hard work, and people who didn't know would think that the dice were a skirmisher who had just escaped from the Savage Mountain.
After George was pulled into the plan by Huang Hanju, Mike, who Tang Cheng hadn't seen for a long time, became the next person to be pulled into the plan by Huang Hanju. Mike was not a conformist or a pure patriot, and after being shamelessly abandoned by politicians in Congress, Mike had to plan ahead for his future. Huang Hanju's gold-making plan happened to Mike this opportunity, and it almost hit it off with Huang Hanju, and Mike promised to do his best to maintain the smooth implementation of this plan.
Originally, Mike was still fighting with Stilwell all day for the U.S. military detachment under his command, but in order to unfold the money-making plan, Mike found Stilwell and said that he only needed the command of their national army detachment in Tangcheng, and as for the U.S. military detachment that had been transferred to receive mountain combat training, he could completely let go. It has always been Stilwell's greatest wish to reconcile and sort out the command of the various units of the expeditionary force, and Michael is so reasonable, how could Stilwell disagree.
Mike and Huang Hanju, who had completely shifted their minds to the gold-making plan, were busy organizing weapons, ammunition, and various supplies for Tang Cheng's troops, and Cai Jincheng became a messenger back and forth between Lambgar and Ledo. As more and more troops of the 38th Division marched into Liedo, the engineering units began to pave the mountain road leading to Savage Mountain, and the attacks of the engineer units by the Japanese army often occurred and intensified. The engineer unit was attacked by the Japanese army, and the 114th Regiment of the 38th Division stationed in Ledo naturally had to take up the responsibility of defense, but the troops of the 114th Regiment were all clearing the Japanese army in the mountains, and the engineer unit had to find Wallace, who was also stationed in Ledo.
Since the battle against Don City to help retake the forts on the outskirts of Ledo, Wallace has no intention of military affairs, and spends his days only enjoying himself and waiting for the end of the war, and he dares to send his own soldiers to help the engineering troops enter the mountains to clear the Japanese army. When the engineer unit asked Wallace for help, Tang Cheng, who was idle, happened to be on Wallace's side, and learned that Wallace didn't want to send troops to help, and Tang Cheng, who was worried about being tossed by the dice, took the initiative to send dice to help the attacked engineer troops, which can be regarded as a reason for the idle dice to kill time.
Tang Cheng They are not very famous in Ledo, but it can't be said that they are not known, and the lieutenant who waved at them just now but was left out is the one who knows Tang Cheng them. More than 20 kilometers south of leaving Ledo is the famous Savage Mountain, the mountain road connecting Ledo and Savage Mountain has a dangerous terrain before entering Savage Mountain, which is called Ghost Gate Pass by the locals, which means the mountain gate connecting Huangquan Ghost House. The place where they are now is a mountain road 2 miles away from the Ghost Gate Pass, and the Japanese soldiers who attacked the engineer unit are hiding in the forest in front of the mountain road.
When the engineer unit was attacked, it could only use trucks or the grass and bushes on the side of the road as cover to confront the Japanese troops hidden in the mountains and forests. With his snipers striding forward, the dice stopped next to a large rock on the side of the road with the binoculars, and after a careful look at the binoculars, the dice finally locked on the most suspicious places.
Pointing out the key points of his locking to his snipers, the dice and the others quickly dispersed and disappeared into the mountains and forests on the side of the road under the gaze of the sappers who did not dare to show their heads. Although the sniper rifle has a long range, in order to make the snipers under his command not deviate when locking on the target, the dice finally decided to move to a high place with the cover of the mountains and forests, and it is best to shoot at the same level as the Japanese army, so that the certainty of killing the target will be greater.
Fighting with snipers as the dominant force is the most monotonous, and the sappers, who are bystanders, can only hear the intermittent sound of gunfire, but do not see the shooters and robbers. Officers with the better fortune could still see some suspicion in their binoculars, and ordinary soldiers could only hide behind cover and speculate and pray to themselves that the dice would win. The sky has been cloudy, but the heavy rain that everyone is worried about has not yet fallen, and Mo Yue has a meal, and the dice with a disdainful face still retreat from the mountains and forests with his snipers.
"Which of you is in charge?" The dice took the cigarette from the sniper under him and took a puff as he shouted at the sappers who were watching him. "The Japanese soldiers are all dead, just in the forest in front, let's say first, everything on the corpse is yours, but the grenades on the corpse must all belong to us."