Chapter 54: Night Attack (1)
"Retreat, retreat" Tan Fei ordered to continue firing while retreating, dozens of submachine guns fired at the crazy Japanese army together, and after a rain of bullets, there were more mutilated corpses on the ground that were hit by the rain of bullets. Tan Fei retreated with the submachine gunners, and the Japanese troops who appeared on the edge of the woodland did not have the strength to pursue again, and the two sides formed a temporary confrontation through small dirt bags. This encounter made Tang Cheng break out in a cold sweat, the national army detachment has been too smooth since its formation, if it weren't for Tan Fei's ambush organized by Tan Fei in danger this time, it is estimated that it is his own people who are lying on the ground now, even if they are not completely annihilated, it is estimated that the loss will not be small.
"Withdraw, if the little devil wants to chase, let's find a place to block it on the spot, if they don't come, let's turn around here again." Seeing that the dice were still scolding at the mountains and forests on the other side of the small soil bag, Tang Cheng persuaded a few words and ordered the troops to retreat. Although it was chased by the Japanese army once, in fact, when it comes to the results of the battle, there were only a few wounded on the Tangcheng side, and dozens of dead and wounded on the Japanese side. The two compared, but Tang Cheng took advantage of it, so Hou San and the others were just quite depressed about taking the initiative to retreat, but they were not very angry in their hearts.
The Japanese troops in the woods at the foot of the mountain had been paying attention to his movements in Tangcheng, and seeing that this group of troops had taken the initiative to retreat, a few Japanese soldiers cautiously followed to find out. In order to get rid of the Japanese soldiers who followed behind, the dice ambushed them once with a few snipers, but unfortunately the other party seemed to be a person who had been walking in the mountains and forests for a long time, and the dice they had been in ambush for a long time, but they didn't even find a figure, but the dice they had just caught up with the team, and the Japanese soldiers behind them reappeared.
It's just a few sharp soldiers, Tang Cheng doesn't care, he simply ignores them and just drives his soldiers to retreat. Seeing that the sky was starting to darken, Tang Cheng led his soldiers up to a mountain beam near the left, "Damn, you follow again, and if you follow again, you will knock on your Tianling cover." Condescendingly occupying the advantage of the terrain, the dice that had been indignant in their hearts finally succeeded in killing one of the opponent's spearheads, and shouted at the retreating Japanese spearheads.
Although they repelled the sharp soldiers sent by the Japanese army, everyone's mood was not very good, and they just followed Wushan silently and continued to cross the mountains and mountains to the north. No one can laugh, it makes everyone's mind a little dizzy, and when they walk, they are all one foot higher and one foot lower. All of them were afraid of the encounter just now, if they hadn't driven the Japanese army back, they might have encountered the whole army retreating, and they knew very well the fate of the retreat.
Tang Cheng was also exhausted at this time, and he was looking forward to a pleasant mouthful of warm water, a delicious meal, a clean bed, and a hearty sleep in front of him. It's a pity that these can only be the likeness that appears in their minds, and before they completely get rid of the Japanese army behind them, it is a luxury for them to even stop and rest. Over the mountains and mountains, Tangcheng and they walked into a canyon again, and this time everyone consciously distanced themselves from each other, so that even if they encountered the Japanese army again, there would not be too many casualties.
There was the sound of rushing water in the depths of the valley, although the stream was not very wide and the volume of water was not very large, but it was enough for Tang Cheng to replenish their drinking water and clean up the blood and stains on their bodies by the way. The grass by the stream looked very wet, and it was soft when stepped on, and people wanted to fall down and sleep on it. Unfortunately, now is not the time to really stop and rest, hastily filling his kettle with water, everyone continues to walk forward with a dizzy head and a low foot.
When we were about to cross the valley, there was a wind at the mouth of the valley, and the branches and leaves on both sides of the valley shook gently in the wind, of course, this could not stimulate everyone's already faint nerves, nor could it make everyone's heavy steps lighter. Out of the valley, a large open field appeared in front of me. There was a river in the middle of the grass, which was supposed to be the source of the water in the valley. Everyone waded across the river and looked at a mountain ridge at the end of the open field, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed, this was the perfect campsite.
"It's not safe to walk at night, so let's camp here, so that the brothers will be a little tired, dig bunkers first, and then rest." Tang Cheng chose the temporary camp on the mountain beam, and ordered his soldiers to immediately dig bunkers to guard against the Japanese attack. The Japanese army sent sharp soldiers to follow them, so they would definitely not let their people go lightly, and dug bunkers on the spot for the attack of the local Japanese army on the one hand, and on the other hand, they also wanted to confuse the Japanese army and make the Japanese army think that Tangcheng was intending to set up camp here.
When the scouts arranged under the mountain beam in Tang Cheng found the vanguard of the Japanese army in the valley, the bunkers on the mountain beams had been almost dug up, as long as the soldiers in the single bunker dug on both sides and connected all the bunkers, Tang Cheng and they got a ring trench. The Japanese army, which had suffered a heavy loss, naturally could not sit idly by and watch Tang Cheng and others wait for work, and carefully searched this valley, so there were Japanese officers commanding the soldiers to launch a tentative attack on Tang Cheng on the mountain beam.
There is a distance of 400 meters from the mountain beam riding line to the foot of the mountain, which is a distance for the Japanese soldiers who use the 38 rifles, and only their machine guns, grenadiers or mortars can pose a threat to them in Tangcheng, but the snipers can rely on the scope to accurately kill the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain. Even the tentative attack failed to take advantage, and the Japanese troops who rushed to the foot of the mountain finally lost their temper, so they had to camp down and wait for reinforcements to come. The sky finally darkened completely, and thinking of the madness of the Japanese army, Tang Cheng had to arrange a very right sentry post to guard against the night attack of the Japanese army.
Time passed quickly, after the clouds in the night sky gradually dispersed, the light under the night sky became better and better, and now the fog and the low and thick clouds in the sky have dispersed for a long time, there are more and more stars in the sky, and the visibility of the night is many times better than just now, and you can see far away, which is very suitable for the night guards on duty. The chirping of insects sounded, like a light music ensemble, under the half-clear night sky, in such a silent night, the sound of insects was more like an ensemble song very soothing, very soft. My ears were filled with this heavenly sound, and I unconsciously felt a kind of intoxication, as if I had forgotten that I had come here to kill.
Tang Cheng did not close his eyes, and was sitting alone in a single bunker with his head bowed and smoking, with a light machine gun captured from the Japanese army in front of him. Stopping to camp here to rest was already the most disorderly decision Tang Cheng had made, and by the time Tang Cheng reacted, the soldiers digging bunkers on the mountain beams had already lost their strength. Knowing that the Japanese army had chased after him, he also ordered to stop and camp here, which undoubtedly dragged the more than 200 lives around him into a dangerous situation, and Tang Cheng couldn't even imagine that this order was given by himself.
Strength does not mean victory in war, but keeping morale as high as possible can still have a positive impact on the final outcome, is a sentence written on the front page of Xie Bo's notebook, which Tang Cheng still remembers vividly. Squatting in the cramped single bunker, Tang Cheng's limbs seemed to be sleeping on the hard floor for a week, his joints felt sore, and his whole body seemed to be inexplicably drained of energy. Tang Cheng untied the buckle under the steel helmet with his right hand, held the cigarette with a slight trembling in his left hand, took a big puff hard, and threw the cigarette butt that was about to burn his fingers under his feet and stepped on it.
Throwing away the steel helmet, Tang Cheng curled up in the corner of the foxhole, took out a cigarette and lit it again, Tang Cheng smoked very quickly, and he would take a puff every few seconds. It may be that nicotine has played a role, Tang Cheng's sore hands and feet joints are not so uncomfortable, and even the strength in his body seems to have recovered a little. Until Tang Cheng stepped on the cigarette butt again, the sentry in the bunker next to him suddenly pulled the bolt, and Tang Cheng in the single bunker got up and squatted, slowly poking his head out and looking down the mountain.
Tang Cheng, who was not wearing a steel helmet, seemed very cautious, just stretched out his head to look at it and began to look for his steel helmet. There were already a large number of voices under the mountain, and although they couldn't see their faces clearly, Tang Cheng knew that those were the Japanese soldiers who wanted to steal the camp at night. "Call them all up, half of them go into the position to defend, and the remaining half continue to rest." Tang Cheng put on his steel helmet and whispered to the sentry next to him to find Hou San.
It was very light to push the bullets on the light machine gun in front of him, and while the Japanese troops in the camp were still far away, Tang Cheng took the two vacant machine gun magazines and began to fill them with bullets. With this kind of light machine gun with a capacity of only 30 rounds, Tang Cheng misses the M2 heavy machine gun that was buried on the red soil slope by his own order, and the big guy who uses the bullet chain is the representative weapon of strong firepower, unlike this kind of light machine gun, which has to change the magazine after a few hits.
Knowing that the Japanese army was coming, Hou San and the others had already gotten up and entered the position, and the bullet and rifle grenade were also placed in front of them, ready for a while, and now they were just waiting for the Japanese army to touch them and send them to death. Hou San took over the light machine gun in Tang Cheng's hand, and Tang Cheng, who was free, walked through the trenches with his carbine, and drove back a few guys who looked a little panicked to continue to rest. "They may not have fought a war, but at least there is no problem in flowing through the forest, and it is also good to keep them as baggage soldiers."
Returning to Hou San's side, Tang Cheng stretched out the Garand rifle that had been snatched from someone else's hand, and seeing that the stupid Japanese army had entered his firing range, Tang Cheng firmly pulled the trigger. "Bang" accompanied by the sound of gunshots, and Tang Cheng witnessed the Japanese soldier who was hit by himself trembling suddenly as if he had been electrified. Immediately, the upper half of his body stiffened, and his limbs seemed to be instantly drained of strength, and the whole body fell backwards in a terrifying twisted posture. Before he fell to the ground, the rifle in his right hand suddenly snapped, and the muzzle of the gun jumped with bright yellow flames, and the bullet that shot out of the muzzle only swept up a cloud of mud on the ground next to it.