Chapter Forty-Six: The Flames of War Break Out

"Will there be fraud?" Liu Goat ordered to continue to march towards Beishan, but Tang Cheng always felt that something was not quite right in his heart, and carefully recalled the things he encountered after leaving the city, Tang Cheng felt that the cold gunman who was captured alive by himself seemed to confess a little too smoothly. Besides, the gunfire just now kept ringing, and the grenade he threw out was not small, why is there only one bandit cold gunner here? Where are the other bandits?

Liu Goat secretly applauded Tang Cheng's series of questions, although Tang Cheng at this time was still far from the successor he expected, but being able to start trying to think and doubt was already a good start. "That kid shouldn't dare to tell me a lie, there are people who went to Beishan to collect medicine in the early years of the traditional Chinese medicine brought by Dr. Tian, I asked them, the terrain and location that the bandits said should not be false, let's be careful when we enter the mountain, it's just more than 40 bandits, don't be too careful."

After Liu Goat ordered to move on, Tang Cheng divided the 60 regiments under his command into two, and the 30 people in the front team were personally led by him to continue to advance, and the remaining 30 people were handed over by Tang Cheng to a group named Huang Hu to follow behind his front team. Qinglongling was their target, and it was the only place they knew of bandits' presence until they had an accurate track record.

As the name suggests, Qinglongling is a mountain range, and in the entire Beishan mountain system, Qinglongling is not the highest altitude, but it is the most complex terrain. The side near the county seat of Mengcheng is completely steep rock walls and steep slopes, while the side facing the north mountain is a gentle slope and woodland overgrown with trees, and the mountain road in He Guang's mouth is from Qinglong Ridge across the entire mixed wood forest to the depths of the North Mountain. The 30 people of the front team commanded by Tang Cheng did not go directly down the steep slope to Qinglong Ridge, but went to a woodland under Qinglong Ridge in the confusion and confusion of the rear team members.

"Don't be in a hurry, wait a little longer, tell the brothers to rest for a while." Liu Goat also saw the sudden turn of the front team in the binoculars, but he was not in a hurry, because he showed Tang Cheng, who commanded the front team, what new tricks he had played. "Damn, I just know that this kid has a lot of ideas." Liu Goat put down the telescope with a smile, and scolded Tang Cheng who appeared in the telescope just now. The front team that entered the mixed wood forest has appeared, but the 30 people of the front team who appeared in the eyes of the back team at this time surprised **.

The leaves and weeds on his body made Tang Cheng and his 30 regiments look more like a group of wild people living in the mountains and forests, if they stood still under the Qinglong Ridge, people who didn't know the inside would definitely treat them as a miscellaneous tree. Tang Cheng did not wear his German-style steel helmet, but wore a soft cloth military hat like other regiments, but his brand-new soft cloth military hat was completely covered by a grass circle made of weeds and leaves at this time, not only the military hat, but even the military uniform on his body was also full of weeds and leaves, and the 30 people in the front team he commanded were dressed the same as him at this moment.

Using weeds and leaves as a camouflage was not a method that Tang Cheng had come up with on his own, but something he had learned from Xie Bo's notebook. There were military instructors from Germany in the 88th Division, and the camouflage methods for field combat were taught to Xie Bo by German instructors, and now Tang Cheng just copied Xie Bo's notes. The regimental members who were divided into the front team by Tang Cheng didn't know what Lu Dao was doing this for, they didn't understand what Lu Dao's clothes were good for, they had to use bayonets to cut a lot of small holes, and why they had to cut off the branches and leaves of miscellaneous trees and insert them into those small holes.

"Qinglongling. Let's go. There were no words for it, Tang Cheng was the first to carry his rifle and head towards Qinglongling, and the former team members who followed him were naturally not as calm as him, but when they went to the shell gun in Tang Cheng's hand, no matter how complaining they were, they had to follow him honestly and move towards Qinglongling. Stopping again, Tang Cheng, who was a little out of breath, half-knelt on the ground and looked at the place in the distance where there was still green smoke with the telescope in his hand, and it took about an hour, Tang Cheng and the 30 people of the front team finally climbed up to Qinglongling, and the place where they found the bandits was 300 meters away from them.

Tang Cheng, who breathed a sigh of relief, frowned, and there was only a pile of ashes that had not been extinguished in the place where the green smoke was still emitting, but the bandits in He Guang's mouth had long since disappeared. It is specified that He Guang has an unsympathetic hatred with the bandits, so Tang Cheng never doubted the news that He Guang and he desperately brought back, but he did not find the traces of the bandits at the first time, which cast another shadow on Tang Cheng's heart, and he now has no confidence in this anti-bandit operation.

Liu Goat, who had been waiting for the rear team, also climbed up, and Tang Cheng, who was holding a telescope, still didn't move, they came to suppress the bandits, but they didn't come to find them to die. If you don't stay here, the most you can do is lose the bandits' whereabouts or return in vain, but if you rush forward, it may cause them to fall into the trap set by the bandits, and if they fall into the trap in such a terrain, they will probably not be able to go back alive, so Tang Cheng is not in a hurry.

"What do you want to do?" Liu Goat did not force Tang Cheng to move on, but waited for Tang Cheng to make his own choice, and those Tuan Ding, who had lost their breath, could only stare at Tang Cheng with their mouths closed and their eyes under Liu Goat's forced gaze. It's just to deal with more than 40 bandits, such a battle is nothing to Liu Goat, but for Tang Cheng, who he has pinned a lot of hopes on, it is a good opportunity to practice, so when he decided to ask Tang Cheng to command the first team of regiments, he was already ready to hand over the task of fighting with the bandits to Tang Cheng first.

Tang Cheng, who was in deep thought, didn't notice Liu Goat's eyes, he was already immersed in his own contemplation, and according to what Xie Bo said in his notes, Tang Cheng deduced in his mind what he was going to do and take next. Tactical deduction is a preparation that needs to be carried out in advance in the face of the enemy, but he now has neither a map nor the sand table required for tactical deduction, so Tang Cheng can only deduce the steps in his own mind.

According to the general distribution of the terrain of Beishan obtained from the mouth of the Chinese medicine doctor, Tang Cheng repeatedly deduced in his mind, "I plan to take the front team with me, and the back team will follow me 50 meters away, so that even if I encounter an ambush by bandits, the entire first team will not be in danger." Liu Goat wanted to say that Tang Cheng was too careful, but this was the first time that Tang Cheng had independently commanded the troops to fight, and Liu Goat, who was just going to be a bystander, did not insist on his opinion.

"Machine gunner, follow the front team, once you exchange fire with the bandits, don't think about saving bullets and give Lao Tzu a hard beating." Seeing that Tang Cheng already had a plan, Liu Goat did not persuade him, but transferred the machine gunner who followed him to the front team commanded by Tang Cheng. As long as there is abundant and powerful firepower, even if the front team led by Tang Cheng himself falls into the trap of the bandits, the bandits should not be able to resist the shooting of machine gun fire.

"Follow me, you can't stagnate without an order, you can't retreat from the battle without an order, and you can't shoot at will without an order." Tang Cheng's three must not let the 30 people of the front team who followed him face to face. But Tang Cheng didn't give them extra time at all, just waved his hand, "Let's go", Tang Cheng was the first to get up from where he was kneeling and move towards the position of the pile of ashes. The mountain road He Guang said was at the other end of the ashes, and if you want to take that mountain road to the depths of the North Mountain, it is naturally necessary to cross the pile of ashes.

The closer he got to the pile of ashes, the more Tang Cheng's footsteps slowed down, and the 30 former team members behind him didn't know what was wrong with Tang Cheng, and the smarter ones also secretly slowed down and followed behind Tang Cheng, of course, there were a few brains that turned slower, and directly crossed Tang Cheng and rushed towards the pile of ashes. "Be careful" Tang Cheng's shout had just exited, and the pile of ashes in his sight had already exploded in all directions with a "boom", and the few regiments that crossed Tang Cheng were drowned in the smoke and flying ashes of the explosion, and Tang Cheng and the others who were far away from the explosion were also hit by the explosion gas.

"Get down, get down." Tang Cheng, who was also flustered, picked up the rifle in his hand, and repeatedly beckoned the regimental soldiers around him to lie down and avoid possible attacks. In fact, Tang Cheng didn't have to worry at all, in the face of the shrapnel scattered in the smoke, the regimental members who followed him had already crouched down with their heads in their hands and tightly on the ground, in the face of life and death, no one would want to lose their lives.

Liu Goat and the others, who were 200 meters away, were also taken aback by the sudden explosion, regardless of the drag of the group around them, the anxious Liu Goat ran to Tang Cheng and them, of course, he did not forget to bring his rifle. "It's all on your stomach, put the gun on fire, you can't shoot casually without my order." Tang Cheng, who had settled his mind, leaned on his elbows and quickly moved towards the few regiments lying in front of him who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, the explosion just now was definitely not a grenade, and the movement was like a landmine used on the battlefield.

Five careless men lay in a pool of blood, three of them were no longer breathing, and the remaining two were also hit by shrapnel to the vital point of the body, and it would only take a few minutes or less to stop breathing. "Damn" Looking at the crater left by the explosion on the ground, Tang Cheng couldn't help but curse in a low voice. It seems that this crater, which can be more than 1 meter deep, will definitely not be made by a grenade, and it seems that my guess just now is correct, and there are mines planted under or next to the ashes to resist a large-scale attack.