The people sent by Liu Goat to Beishan to report the news had not yet arrived in Beishan on horseback, and they had already heard the sound of gunfire from Beishan, in fact, Beishan, where Tangcheng was stationed, discovered the Japanese army earlier than the county seat. The Japanese troops who appeared in Beishan came from Bengbu, and it was from the fork in the road that Liu Goat found at the beginning. About a squadron of Japanese soldiers suddenly appeared at the Kitayama Pass, probably not expecting that the Shina defenders would set up a checkpoint here, this Japanese squadron did not even arrange the top soldiers, so they swaggered out and killed along the fork in the road.

Tang Cheng's 1st Company was about the same number as the Japanese squadron, but Tang Cheng did not think that the 1st Company, which had a slight advantage in numbers, could defeat this Japanese army, so the most advantageous tactic was to sneak attack and ambush. The veterans are the best at this kind of tactical play, and the soldiers who first discovered the Japanese army informed Tang Cheng of the news, and Tang Cheng, who didn't have time to think about it, directly ordered to ambush this group of Japanese soldiers first. After inflicting a certain number of casualties on the other side, they will occupy the trenches dug earlier to form a confrontation with the Japanese army, and they cannot let this group of Japanese troops rush to the county seat from the north mountain.

The swaggering earthy yellow military uniform appeared in Tang Cheng's binoculars, making Tang Cheng's eyes have a tingling feeling, those once familiar faces have disappeared from this world because of these colors, and Tang Cheng itches the roots of their hateful teeth. "Don't shoot without my orders, put them close before shooting." Tang Cheng's orders were conveyed one by one, and everything in the checkpoint had been removed, and people who were not familiar with this place could not see that there had ever been a checkpoint here.

The Japanese troops who appeared in the Tangcheng telescope had moved from 300 meters away to a distance of only 150 meters away from him, and as the Japanese troops got closer and closer, Tangcheng in the trench clenched the rifle in his hand. At 150 meters, 130 meters, and 110 meters, the Japanese army finally entered a distance of 100 meters, but Tang Cheng in the trench still did not give the order to open fire. The distance of 100 meters was enough for those with good eyesight to see the faces of the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side, and the cold light of the Japanese bayonets under the light, and the heavy and neat footsteps, all of which brought unprecedented pressure to the soldiers of the 1st Company in the trench.

"Bang" A recruit a few meters away from Tang Cheng finally couldn't bear the pressure in his heart and pulled the trigger of the rifle, although the 1st company of live ammunition training used a 100-meter target, but this will be different from the usual training, the novice who was facing great fear and pressure did not be able to hit the target, and the bullet that shot out of the chamber did not know where it flew. "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" There were already people who couldn't resist the pressure and shot first, and the 1st and other soldiers hiding in the trench also pulled the trigger, not that they deliberately wanted to disobey Tang Cheng's orders, this was just a common nature of people, and it was their subconscious reaction.

The smell of gunpowder after the shooting was permeated in the trench where the 1st Company was hiding, and under the restraint of the officers and veterans, the dozens of novices who disobeyed the order to fire first finally stopped the frantic shooting. Tang Cheng couldn't care about reasoning with these guys who disobeyed orders, because the Japanese soldiers who came along the fork in the road were gone, and there were several corpses of Japanese soldiers lying in sight, and those Japanese soldiers who were alive had all fallen to the ground, and some had even turned over and thrown into the weeds and bushes.

The panic of the novices of the 1st Company only hit no more than 10 Japanese soldiers, and this result greatly deviated from Tang Cheng's plan to kill a quarter or even a third of the opponent in the first round, and the 1st Company was now in an extremely embarrassing situation. The Japanese machine guns reacted quickly, and as soon as the novices were restrained on the Tangcheng side, the two light machine guns of the Japanese army had already fired. Under the cover of two machine guns, there were already Japanese troops crawling forward trying to drag their wounded companions back to safety.

"Uncle An, the people with you seal their machine guns, others can't fire without my orders, and those who disobey orders will be killed." Tang Cheng, who had already lost an excellent opportunity to ambush, had no better way for the time being, but to adjust his plan with the changes on the battlefield. Uncle An is the captain of Tang Cheng's independent squad, and he is the mountain bandit captured by Tang Cheng when he took the 1st Company to clear out the bandits, Tang Cheng took a fancy to his marksmanship, so he begged Liu Goat to put Uncle An and more than a dozen of his subordinates into his 1st Company.

Tang Cheng, who had experienced the battlefields of Shanghai and Nanjing, was obsessed with sharpshooters as much as nine catties of grenades, and the marksmanship of the gang under Uncle An was already good, and after Tang Cheng's month-long live-fire training, their marksmanship was much stronger than when they were mountain bandits. The machine gun firepower cannot be exposed, and the nine-pound bomb throwing team is not useful for the time being, and the only thing Tang Cheng can use now is Uncle An's gang.

Uncle An's independent squad was equipped with a Mauser rifle, which was the best rifle that Tang Cheng had picked out from the entire garrison regiment, and each person's 100 rounds of ammunition was also better than the other soldiers of the garrison regiment, and now it was time to test their actual combat ability. It is not advantageous to shoot with rifles and machine guns, but Uncle An's people occupy the advantage of numbers, and seven or eight rifles are shooting the same machine gun at the same time, and the winning chance of Tang Cheng's side is not small.

The machine guns were stopped twice in a row, much to the annoyance of the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and they obtained information that there was only one garrison regiment in Mong, which was converted from a militia regiment, and the entire garrison regiment was formed by deserters, farmers, and bandits. Although the Japanese army obtained this information half a month ago, the arrogant Japanese army did not think that after only half a month, those farmers in Mengcheng learned to fight. "Baga, those bastards of the special high class, is this what they call the farmer of China?" The machine gun was stopped for the third time, and Kenichi Okamoto, who commanded the Japanese squadron, scolded the intelligence mistakes of the special high division.

"Mortars, hidden, hidden, Japanese mortars." The Okamoto squadron, which was blocked at the fork in the road, finally came up with long-range firepower, and the two light mortars began to spit out projectiles thrown into the sky, and the Okamoto squadron also had grenadiers, but Kenichi Okamoto, who commanded the battle, thought that the grenadier was too lethal, and he used the mortar directly in a hurry to solve the battle. The difference between a mortar and a grenadier is not only in its lethality and range, but also in its deterrent power over a grenadier, and Kenichi Okamoto wants to defeat the Shina soldiers on the opposite side, and he is not going to eat them in one bite.

Use your powerful firepower to crush your opponents, then command your troops to follow in pursuit, using the opposing rout to break down any second line of defense or even more of the opponent's defense. Since Okamoto's squadron landed in China, this tactic has been used countless times, and they once chased a regiment of Shina soldiers all the way to the battlefield in Shanghai, until the branch of that regiment broke through a divisional defense line of the Shina Army. Kenichi Okamoto's goal today was the county seat of Mengcheng, and he tried to force this group of soldiers to flee to the county seat, so that his squadron could follow and take the county seat directly.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The mortar shells that fell with a scream exploded on the trench position of the 1st Company, and the trench dug by the garrison regiment here in Beishan was completely built with reference to the German-style trenches of the 88th Division. The zigzag trench is snake-shaped, and even if explosives such as shells and grenades fall into the trench, the flying shrapnel cannot create more lethality, which Tang Cheng has personally experienced on the battlefield, so when digging trenches, Tang Cheng pays special attention.

The smoke rising from the position dispersed, and Uncle An and his gunners were affected by their sight and accuracy, and the machine guns of Okamoto's squadron were fired again, this time with a clear goal. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The mortars of Okamoto's squadron continued to spit projectiles, and the position of the 1st Company, which had not received the order to open fire, could only silently withstand the Japanese shelling. Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench, couldn't figure out why the Japanese army didn't use grenadiers, and in Tang Cheng's consciousness, the kind of single-man flexible grenadiers were far more terrifying than mortars.

The soldiers of the 1st Company held their heads and curled up in the anti-artillery holes and did not dare to show their heads, in fact, they did not need Tang Cheng's orders, and their recruits, who had only fought with bandits, did not dare to fire rashly. The veterans of the 1st Company obviously enjoyed their leisure at this time, and some even squatted in the anti-artillery hole with their rifles in their arms, while still smoking cigarettes relaxedly. These veterans who have already experienced the baptism of the battlefield know that it is useless to be afraid, and that fear of death will only make them die faster, and what they need to do is to shoot the bullets out of the chamber before they die.

The sound of gunfire rang out here, and under the intermittent fire of Uncle An and them, it was the side of Okamoto's squadron that dominated the battlefield. "No, half of my men have already suffered casualties, and if we continue to fight like this, my men will be dead." When Uncle An squatted down to reload the rifle, he kept muttering. Tang Cheng was lying on his stomach very close to Uncle An, so he could naturally hear what Uncle An was talking about, but he was not worried, as long as these unchangeable guys wanted to disobey the order and withdraw from the battle, the shell gun on his waist would definitely be able to leave them all in this trench.

The mortar had been fired three times, and Kenichi Okamoto found that the gunfire on the opposite side had stopped, and Kenichi Okamoto, who suspected fraud, carefully observed the opposite position with a telescope, and saw more than a dozen staggering figures running into the distance. "Yo Xi, these Chinese farmers are starting to flee." Under the command of Kenichi Okamoto, the two light machine guns continued to fire at each other, until he saw another wave of more than a dozen soldiers running through the binoculars, and Kenichi Okamoto ordered the troops to get up and pursue.

He didn't care how many people the other party fled, what he wanted was to pursue, follow these fleeing Shina farmers into the county seat of Mengcheng, because only in this way would his rank of Shaozo have a chance to be promoted, and the already declining Okamoto family would have a chance to revive and gain glory again.