Chapter 40: Rainy Night Raid (1)

The sky gradually darkened, and the rain became heavier and heavier, and the raindrops fell on the wide leaves of the subtropical trees, making a crackling sound, which was listened to by Tang Cheng at this time, but it was the best and most beautiful music of nature. The cold and humid air quickly eroded his and Hou San's bodies, but the blood in the two of them was slowly getting hotter, half an hour ago, Tang Cheng and they were ready to go, but Tang Cheng felt that it was still early, so they were just waiting in place now.

At one o'clock in the evening, when the time came to start the action, in the darkness the bull took out another kettle from his waist, which was not filled with water, but filled with a jug of liquor, which Tang Cheng had asked him to take with him on the day he left Mandalay. Tang Cheng took a sip and handed the kettle full of liquor to Hou San beside him, Hou San silently took it and drank it, and then handed it down in turn. Zhao Liang is a southerner and doesn't like to drink, but he can't resist the insistence of the dice, and he also took a sip, the wine entered his stomach, it was hot, and it was strange that he usually drank it in one sip, but at this time he felt that his limbs were full of strength.

The last to take the kettle was the bull, and there was still about half of the kettle, and the bull also raised his head and took a sip, then tightened the lid of the kettle, and handed the kettle to the two female soldiers to hold. "You two stay here to guard our things, if you are a qiē shun lì, I will send someone back to pick you up, if you can't see the person I sent after the gunfire stops, you two will have to rely on yourself," Tang Cheng quietly took out two grenades and handed them to the two female soldiers, in fact, the meaning is self-evident, if they are captured by the Japanese army, the consequences are far more severe than suicide and martyrdom.

Under the cover of darkness and rain, Tang Cheng and them advanced like ghosts in the pouring rain. Approaching the road that the Japanese soldiers patrolled during the day, Tang Cheng and Hou San threw away their raincoats and crawled on the ground and slowly moved forward. The heavy rain washed down the mud and sand on the mountain, and the mud was unbearable, and what was worse was that the water was so deep that he had to raise his head when he lay on the ground. The rain continued to pour down, but Tang Cheng was very excited, the heavy rain prevented the routine patrol of the Japanese army, and the Japanese soldiers in the camp had to sit under the canopy at the intersection fifty meters in front of them. With the faint light of the bonfire in front of him, Tang Cheng could faintly see the figures of two Japanese soldiers swaying around the campfire.

In this lonely cold rainy night, when it is dark in front of you, you can't see anything, and you hear only the same sound of rain in your ears, and your spirit will be in a relaxed state. Physiologically, drowsiness was intruding on them, even though the two Japanese sentries at the outpost were still open. But it was obvious that the spirit was already in a trance.

Tang Cheng took the lead, Hou San followed, and the two people who were already covered in mud and water slowly crawled forward, while the rest of the dice were still lying in place and waiting. The rain continued to fall, and his whole body was soaked in cold rainwater, shivering, and Tang Cheng suddenly regretted that he hadn't taken a few more sips of spirits just now. The sharp stones all over the muddy water had already cut Tang Cheng and Hou San's arms, and the military uniforms on their bodies had long been mixed with the muddy muddy water, but Tang Cheng and Hou San didn't care, they only thought about how to kill the two Japanese sentries in front of them if they succeeded.

Under the Japanese sentry bunker was an open-air trench, and during the day, Tang Cheng had already seen Japanese soldiers half-squatting in it, but at this time it had become a drainage ditch, and the sediment flowing down from the heights had already filled the trench. The turbid water must be red, which is the color peculiar to this land, like the water of the red river, but Tang Cheng could not see its face clearly in the darkness. His eyes were blurred by muddy water, and his ears were covered with mud and sand, and even into his mouth, which was a nasty smell.

It took more than half an hour for Tang Cheng and Hou San to crawl to a place less than 10 meters away from the two Japanese sentries, and reached out and patted Hou San behind him, who took the crossbow from his waist knowingly. Slowly pull the string and load the bolt into the crossbow. With the faint light, Tang Cheng also completed the preparation of pulling the string of the crossbow and putting the arrow on it, and after a few breaths, Tang Cheng nodded heavily and pulled the trigger of the crossbow. "Poof" and "poof" two soft sounds, before the two Japanese sentries who were hit by the arrow fell crookedly, Tang Cheng and Hou San, who jumped up from the muddy water like hungry wolves, had already rushed towards the two Japanese soldiers who were hit by the arrows on the sentry post with a terrifying murderous aura.

After the two men had fired their crossbow arrows, they had already discarded their crossbows in the muddy water, and when they rushed forward, they held the bayonet in their hands tightly in their mouths, which would undoubtedly be the best weapon in a night raid. Regardless of whether the two Japanese sentries who were hit by the arrow were killed or not, Tang Cheng and Hou San used the bayonets in their hands to stab them continuously, until Tang Cheng and the two could confirm that the two Japanese soldiers were no longer breathing, and then they finally stopped their movements and slowly put the corpses on the ground.

Tang Cheng picked up a piece of firewood with flames from the campfire and swung it vigorously in the direction of the dice and them, if nothing else, the dice and a few of their follow-up guys on standby would come over soon. Pushing the bodies of two Japanese soldiers into the muddy water below the sentry post, Tang Cheng and Hou San hid in the dark with bayonets in one hand and short guns in the other, staring at the trenches and bunkers not far ahead. Seeing Tang Cheng's code, the dice that had been waiting anxiously immediately rushed over to this side, the darkness swallowed the light, providing cover for the dice to move forward, and the sound of the rain covered up a qiē, and completely covered the sound of the dice when they moved forward.

Before the dice and others who rushed to the sentry post had time to catch their breath, Tang Cheng and Hou San, who had already changed into the raincoats of the Japanese sentries, had already gotten up and walked towards the machine gun position closest to them. Tang Cheng and Hou San covered their heads and faces with raincoats, and walked casually along the trench full of muddy water, while the follow-up dice could only continue to move forward with the help of Tang Cheng's cover.

The two machine-gun firing points in the Japanese camp were only separated by a distance of about ten meters, and firing at the left and right at the same time could form an unbreakable crossfire, so Tangcheng and they had to take out these two machine-gun firing points of the Japanese army first. Obviously, it was the heavy rain in the middle of the night that said that the vigilance of the Japanese army had dropped to the lowest point, and even the Japanese soldiers at the machine gun fire point shrank under the canopy to smoke and chat, and they did not have any suspicion at all about Tang Cheng and Hou San wearing Japanese raincoats, they really regarded Tang Cheng and Hou San as companions who were keeping vigil in front.

"Do you have cigarettes?" Tang Cheng, who was wearing a raincoat, stretched out his left hand to the Japanese soldier closest to him, and before the other party could react and reach out for a cigarette, Tang Cheng made a gesture to Hou San, who was standing behind him, covertly. Two bayonets, which had just been stained with the blood of the enemy, pierced the enemy's chest again in the surprised eyes of the three Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers who were covered in their mouths did not even have time to scream for their lives.

Tang Cheng wiped his face, I don't know if it was rain or sweat, and the dice not far behind him immediately rushed over, leaving Yanlong and Zhao Liang to take the rear position at this firing point, and the others began to move towards another machine gun firing point according to the original plan. The steps were almost exactly the same as just now, after the three Japanese soldiers in the firepower point lost their basic vigilance, Tang Cheng and they killed the three Japanese soldiers in the firepower point smoothly, leaving Ma Dazhuang alone at this firepower point, Tang Cheng and they divided into two groups and began to move along the trench to the bunker.

Ma Dazhuang's eyes widened and he stood alone in the rain, maintaining a posture of holding a machine gun flat, although his whole body was cold and stiffened, but he did not dare to move even if the rain flowed down his neck. The cold rain seemed to cool his blood, but he could only keep this action like this, at least not before the battle started, once the moving Tangcheng they were discovered by the Japanese army, and the sneak attack had to be changed to a strong attack, the machine gun in his hand had to provide fire support for the Tangcheng in front of them in time, so Ma Dazhuang could only do this to himself and did not dare to relax.

Stepping on the muddy water in the trenches, Tang Cheng, who was slowly moving forward, could even hear the muffled sound of the hand-cranked generator in the bunker in front of him. Taking advantage of the darkness, the dice also moved to the bunker where the Japanese were resting, and the bunker seen from a distance during the day was actually a semi-underground civil structure, and there was a sentry at the entrance to the bunker. The dice took the bull and the rock tiger from the darkness towards the entrance of the bunker, probably because they stepped on the muddy water too loudly, and the three of them had just touched the entrance of the bunker, and the sentinel who leaned out half of his body opened his mouth to ask for the password. Not to mention the dice, they can't understand Japanese, and even if they can speak Japanese like Tang Cheng, they won't know the Japanese army's password.

A "snap" of a gunshot rang out, and the dice, who could not answer the order, fired first, and the Japanese soldier who flashed half of his body to ask for the password was shot and fell backwards into the bunker. At the same time, Tang Cheng and the others, who could already hear the sound of the radio in the bunker on the other side, immediately rushed into the bunker with short guns as soon as they heard the gunshots. For a while, dense gunshots rang out in the two bunkers, and in a panic, the three dice threw several grenades into the bunker where the Japanese soldiers slept one after another according to Tang Cheng's previous arrangement.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The grenades thrown into the bunker burst one by one, and the three dice who flashed sideways outside the entrance of the bunker obviously felt the trembling of the bunker wall, and with the fire and smoke gushing out of the bunker, there was a huge echo, and the explosion amplified by the bunker almost deafened the ears of the three of them. Ignoring the screams in the bunker, the three of them brushed and threw three more grenades into it, with the lesson just now, they learned smartly this time, after throwing the grenades into the bunker, all three of them moved back slightly and reached out to cover their ears.