Chapter 42: Suppressing Bandits (1)

The bandits on the Zouma Mountain did not have binoculars, and they could not see things very clearly from a few hundred meters away, but Tang Cheng had a telescope captured from the Japanese army in his hand, not to mention a few hundred meters, even if it was far away, he could also see it clearly through the telescope. Speeding along the road led by Zhao Baokun, after encountering the last scout, Tang Cheng ordered the attacking troops to stop and rest.

With Zhao Baokun and Lao Dongbei, the two climbed up the dirt slope in front, and several figures dressed as ordinary people appeared in the sight of the three. Although he already knew the general situation on the mountain, Tang Cheng was not sure about exterminating this gang of bandits, and after really seeing this gang of bandits, Tang Cheng had already planned the next steps to attack.

Unlike the bandits that Tang Cheng exterminated around Mengcheng, the gang of bandits who occupied Zouma Mountain did not build any cottages, but built a lot of shacks or earthen nests to accommodate them. The shacks scattered everywhere were very scattered, but Tang Cheng only had a dozen people, and they rashly launched an attack on this gang of bandits, and the commander ordered those bandit leaders to flee by the way, Tang Cheng had to come up with a complete plan to annihilate this gang of bandits in one fell swoop.

It was now October, and the weeds in the mountains had already withered and yellowed, and Tang Cheng and a few guerrillas, who were covered with weeds, were slowly crawling forward. According to the agreed arrangement, Tang Cheng will take these guerrillas to serve as the main attack of the bandits, Lao Dongbei and Zhao Baokun will each take two people to outflank the bandits on both wings, and use strong firepower to strike at the bandits, while the remaining guerrillas will be led by Tie Niu to the evil tiger gang in Zouma Mountain to intercept the bandits' retreat.

Song Tieshan, who was already a wounded, did not take the opportunity to fight, and Liu Shishi took two lightly wounded people to take care of Song Tieshan and the other wounded. Tang Cheng's plan is a bit big, he wants to deal with this gang of bandits at one time, originally Song Tieshan was a little not optimistic, but after hearing Tang Cheng's designated plan, Song Tieshan, who applauded repeatedly, chose to fully support Tang Cheng, but he was a little annoyed when Tang Cheng left him behind to watch the battle.

This is not the first time Tang Cheng has disguised and sneaked, but the last time he disguised and sneaked was when he was fighting with the Japanese army, and now he is facing a group of bandits. Tang Cheng didn't take it lightly just because the other party was a bandit, and he could despise the bandits when making a plan, but when it came time to really start the plan, Tang Cheng, who had calmed down, was very careful. No matter who he fights with, as long as he fights, he will definitely die, and before leaving, Song Tieshan repeatedly said a lot, reminding Tang Cheng not to cause too many casualties among the guerrillas under him.

After crawling forward for about 100 meters, Tang Cheng stopped and used his telescope to observe the terrain and situation in front of him. There weren't many bandits in sight, there were more than a dozen. Among them, there were two men in black cotton clothes who were particularly conspicuous, and Tang Cheng knew that these two guys were the hardcore followers of the big bosses that Cai Shuisheng said. Observing the two men in black carefully, Tang Cheng saw the rifles placed beside them, and after just one glance, Tang Cheng, who was lying on the ground, almost laughed, daring to love these two bandits with old sleeves.

At the beginning of the formation of the Mengcheng garrison regiment, those regiments used old sleeves, so Tang Cheng was very familiar with this kind of old-fashioned rifle. The old sleeve is actually made in Hanyang in the early days, and it is a product of the Hubei Hanyang Gun Factory, which began to produce imitation rifles in small quantities in August 1895 and the 1888 commission rifles produced in Germany in winter. Because there is a set of barrels outside the German 88 barrel, this rifle imitated by Hubei Gun Factory is commonly known as the old sleeve, and the reason for increasing the sleeve is because the barrel material used at that time is not good, and the rifle is often blown up when shooting, for the sake of safety, a steel tube is put on the outside of the original barrel, so it is called the old sleeve.

Although the old sleeve is an imitation of a German-style rifle, the range and power of the old sleeve are far inferior to the German-style 1988 rifle, and this rifle is stretched out for a long time, and it will fail when it is not kept in continuous fire. The guerrillas who were lying in the field with Tang Cheng were already a little anxious, but Tang Cheng, who was holding a telescope, was still lying on his stomach without moving, and people would die in battle, in order to avoid major casualties, Tang Cheng would never give the order to start fighting without really understanding the enemy's situation.

Caution is a sentence that Xie Bo gave to Tang Cheng, and it was these four words that made Tang Cheng, who had broken away from the second company, appear alive in Nanjing City from Qiandeng Town alone. It is precisely because of his own personal experience that Tang Cheng will carry out a reverse deduction before the start of each battle, if you want to kill the enemy, you must first learn to save your own life, otherwise everything will be in vain. Glancing left and right, he motioned to the guerrillas to calm down, there was a bulge not far from them, and Tang Cheng was ready to use it as his grenadier position.

This is not the first time that Tang Cheng has teamed up with the guerrillas, Tang Cheng is not very optimistic about the combat effectiveness of the guerrillas, these people are not afraid of death, and they are brave in battle, but they are too economical in bullets, and every time they don't even finish the first bullet bridge, they will rush out with their weapons and play stabbing with the enemy. It is good to have the courage to face the enemy head-on, but Tang Cheng does not dare to agree with such combat tactics, in his opinion, people come first, if all the soldiers under his command are dead, no matter how many bullets are left, it will not help.

Knowing that his small physique was not a material for close-quarters stabbing, Tang Cheng brought his grenadier with him when he set off, and he planned to find a suitable place to use the grenadier to provide long-range firepower, so that he could cover the attack without playing spurs, killing two birds with one stone. After moving his stiff fingers slightly, Tang Cheng, who had withdrawn his binoculars, finally made a gesture to continue advancing, and the impatient guerrillas who had been waiting for a long time crawled forward with their hands and feet, and the speed was much faster than just now.

Knowing the truth of this gang of bandits, Tang Cheng didn't bother to lecture these guerrillas who accompanied him, maybe he used a grenadier to smash a few grenades over, and this gang of bandits could lose their camp and escape. The dozen or so bandits that Tang Cheng saw in the telescope just now should be regarded as the alert troops of the bandit battalion, but unfortunately they only gathered together to chat and spend time, but none of them paid attention to the movement in the distance, Tang Cheng and they had already touched less than a hundred meters away from them, and these dozen bandits didn't know.

Finally crawled to the bulge in the field, although the bulge was not very large, but it was enough to hide Tang Cheng's figure from being discovered by the other party. Tang Cheng, who stopped again, picked up the telescope again and looked forward, and when he got closer, he naturally saw more clearly, carefully observed the dozen or so bandits who appeared in the telescope, and repeatedly confirmed that among the dozen bandits, there were only the two old sleeve rifles, and Tang Cheng, who was lying on his stomach behind the small dirt bag, began to untie the grenadier canister tied with a rope from his thigh.

Not far behind these dozen bandits was the shack they had built, and Tang Cheng was still sixty or seventy meters away from these dozen bandits, according to the current marksmanship of these guerrillas around him, Tang Cheng did not dare to rely on the rifles in their hands to kill those two black-clothed bandits in the first place. Although the grenadier is a weapon of the Japanese army, it can be said that from the bloody battle between Nanjing City and the Japanese army, Tangcheng began to contact this weapon, although it is not as accurate as the Japanese grenadiers, but one of the two rounds can always accurately hit the target.

A distance of sixty or seventy meters is perfect for using a grenadier canister, and after calculating the distance and the angle of the grenadier with the set of steps he figured out, Tang Cheng motioned to the guerrillas around him to continue moving forward. Holding the grenadier in his left hand and stuffing the grenade into the barrel of the grenadier with his right hand, Tang Cheng stared a little nervously at the dozen bandits opposite. If they didn't find the guerrillas lurking closely, this grenade in Tang Cheng could be saved, as long as they were close to a distance of 30 meters, those guerrillas could at least get rid of the two black-clothed bandits with guns, not to mention the guns.

Like Cai Shuisheng and them, these dozen bandits also gathered in a slightly sheltered place, but when there were many people gathered together, there were always people leaning on the outside. A bandit with a black mole on his cheeks was listening to the excitement, only to feel a pain in his abdomen, so he squeezed out of the pile of people to find a secluded place to facilitate it, just now unbuttoned his trouser belt and before he squatted down, the whole person stood in place and stunned. Not far away from him, the weeds were obviously moving towards him, and then he rubbed his eyes and looked over, Mom, he saw that the moving weeds had become a patch.

The bandit, with his pants in hand, turned around and ran back, shouting at the top of his voice as he ran. He doesn't believe in any gods or ghosts, and since he is not a ghost or god, the only possibility is that someone has touched the mountain. The dozen or so bandits who were attracted by the slightly poignant scream turned their heads to look at him in unison, but before he could shout his words clearly, a whistle sounded in mid-air, and a group of bandits looked up in the air in unison, and a black dot fell from small to large with a whistle.

The whistle that fell into the crowd exploded, and as the screams rang out, the two black-clothed bandits who had just reached out and grabbed their rifles fell to the ground with a splattered mist of blood. The old bandit who was still holding his pants was dumbfounded, and the dozen or so people who were gathered around and chatting just now all lay down at once? The movement from behind him led him to look back, only to see several weedy figures under the mountain rushing towards him, and the bandits, who were in a hurry, turned around and ran, but his trouser belt had not been tied yet, so he couldn't run fast at all.

With a scream of "ah", the bandit who was running desperately with his pants was smashed on the back with the butt of a gun, and the bandit who fell to the ground only had time to scream before he was pierced through the stomach with a bayonet. The dozen or so bandits who were overturned by Tang Cheng with a grenadier were really killed by only three or four, and the others were just knocked over by the explosion, but after these guerrillas were killed, they were stabbed with bayonets, and those who didn't die just now would all become dead.