Chapter 118: Advance
Tang Cheng, who was also lying in the field, suddenly panicked in his heart: although the soldiers of the second company were lying down in the field, how could this unobstructed field hide the figures of so many people. It's over, it's over, this time it must be over, I don't know if Lu Dao will die under the fire of the Japanese army, or be swept into a sieve by the Japanese machine-gun bullets. The next second, maybe the next second, the two Japanese soldiers will scream, and then there will be a dense barrage of guns and shells, maybe there will be a chance to escape back into the woods.
Although his mind was full of panicked thoughts, Tang Cheng finally did not lose his mind and got up and turned back and retreated, it may be that the prayer in Tang Cheng's heart worked, and the expected gunfire did not sound for a long time. Tang Cheng raised his head slightly and looked forward, the light around him was rapidly dimming with the extinguishing of the matches, Tang Cheng did not see the Japanese artillery fire or combat troops in his sight, he only saw two dark red cigarette butts. Secretly relieved, Tang Cheng couldn't help but reach out and wipe the cold sweat on his forehead, it seemed that the two Japanese soldiers were just smoking together, and they didn't find the second company lying in the field.
The dark red cigarette butts were very conspicuous in the night, Tang Cheng and they lay on their stomachs in the field and didn't dare to get up, they could only wait, and wait for the two Japanese soldiers who were smoking to move elsewhere, otherwise Tang Cheng could only find a way to solve them on the spot. The fields are very humid, and the clear night sky cannot hold the heat of the daytime sun on the earth, so the temperature is extremely low. Just lying on his stomach in the field for a while, Tang Cheng's chest, belly, and legs all felt the chill that penetrated his clothes, especially the wounds on his body that made Tang Cheng feel unbearable pain after being cold.
Maybe it was because it was far away from the battlefield, the two Japanese sentries who were smoking together were chatting while smoking, Tang Cheng had no intention of listening to what they were saying, and all his thoughts were on guard. The dark red cigarette butts in the night approached, and two Japanese sentries who kept talking walked towards Tang Cheng, who was lying on the ground with a bayonet in his backhand and watched coldly. Listening to the two Japanese soldiers whispering, and from time to time there was a burst of relaxed but not harsh laughter, Tang Cheng couldn't help but clench the bayonet in his hand.
The human eye could only discern the general shape of the object in the darkness that enveloped the earth, and the limited light provided by the flashlight could only make people see the object within a few meters, and from the position of Tang Cheng, two Japanese soldiers approaching him could be seen. Looking at these two Japanese soldiers who were obviously stronger than themselves, Tang Cheng, who had the heart to get up and attack them, couldn't help but make a difficulty, just now he solved a Japanese soldier face-tossed himself enough, this will need to face two Japanese soldiers, in case he misses, a sneak attack at night will become a strong attack.
Seeing that the other party was about to walk by without noticing, several figures suddenly rushed out of the darkness on Tang Cheng's side, and the sound of "poof" bayonets entering flesh was a little muffled in the night. The smell of blood slowly diffused in the air, Tang Cheng crawled over against the ground, and the two Japanese soldiers who were smoking and chatting were being pressed under them by Lao Dongbei, and like Tang Cheng just now, Lao Dongbei's face was also full of blood splashes.
Seeing that it was Tang Cheng coming, Lao Dongbei and a few of them moved their bodies to rummage through the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, looking for usable things. Tang Cheng carefully examined the bodies of the two Japanese soldiers, the two Japanese soldiers were not very old, and their young faces looked extremely pale at this time. One of them tilted his head, looking into the distance with a stunned face, and the other turned his back to the sky, and a pair of eyes under his thick eyebrows stared round, thinking that he had not figured out what had happened until he died.
The Japanese soldier on the left was stabbed three times in the chest, the one on the right was stabbed four times, the first three were all in the chest, and one was stabbed in the neck of the Japanese soldier. Although he couldn't clearly witness the scene of Lao Northeast and their quietly hunting target, Tang Cheng could fully imagine the tension just now, after all, he had just killed a Japanese soldier.
Tang Cheng suddenly had a bold idea, as long as he cleaned the blood spots on his face, he could completely use his Japanese military uniform to blend into the opponent's camp. This would not only give them the opportunity to find out the actual deployment of the opponent before the raid was launched, but also create chaos when Niu Laogui and them went on the attack. However, this idea was just thought about and then gave up, because Tang Cheng knew that Niu Laogui would not agree with his idea, thinking of this, Tang Cheng had no choice but to get up and continue to move forward.
With jumping bonfires, swaying figures, muffled singing, and vaguely recognizable tents, Niu Laogui and his party finally found the Japanese army's field hospital. Crawling on the cold ground, Tang Cheng, who had already taken off his Japanese military uniform, looked up slightly. Obviously, judging from the current situation, the Japanese observation post did not find this small unit of the national army that crossed the defensive line, and Tang Cheng himself did not expect that the operation would be so smooth.
Perhaps considering that this place was still nearly ten kilometers away from the front line, or perhaps because they did not expect that the Chinese army, which had been beaten to dust during the day, would still be able to organize night infiltration, the Japanese soldiers who were in charge of the night patrol here were not very vigilant. Tang Cheng had been observing for half an hour, except for the medical guards walking back and forth in the camp, Tang Cheng did not see the existence of the so-called patrol at all, if those sparse Japanese troops sitting around the bonfire were night patrols, then Tang Cheng was already 100% sure of the sneak attack here.
Even though it was far from the battlefield, it was the front line after all, and the Japanese army had set up some security facilities around their camp. Machine guns were placed in the mud bunkers, and Tang Cheng found a total of three such machine gun positions, but he did not see any Japanese soldiers entering or leaving these machine gun positions. The Japanese may have other settings in their camp, but there is no time to think about them now, as they have already sneaked to a position no more than 200 meters from the Japanese field hospital.
The distance of only 200 meters is a matter of half a minute at the speed of a normal sprint, because the head is lowered, the cat is bent on the waist, and the movements are trying to keep light, and the second company, which is advancing with all its strength, has only reached two-thirds of the usual sprint speed. Fortunately, everyone abandoned kettles, bayonets, shovels and other objects before leaving the grassy slope, and only the sound of dull footsteps sounded during the run, but there was no clanging sound of iron tools colliding with each other.
When the soldiers of the second company rushed closer, the Japanese soldiers who were sitting around the campfire, smoking and dozing off, noticed the anomaly and began to shout and alarm their comrades. In the dark, before these Japanese officers and soldiers could organize a fire defense, the three machine guns commanded by Lao Dongbei had already opened fire, and the attacking Second Company quickly shot most of the Japanese soldiers on this side with superior firepower, while Niu Laogui rushed into the Japanese camp with submachine gunners and soldiers of the second company with short guns.
Just as the cavalry rushing from ancient times rushed into the opponent's camp, the sudden appearance of the second company caught the Japanese officers and soldiers in the field hospital by surprise, and many Japanese soldiers gathered around the campfire were still singing happily just now, and they were swept down by the dense bullets before they could grab their weapons. The use of machine guns, submachine guns, and short guns allowed the 30-man sneak attack unit to burst out with a formidable firepower that only a company-level unit can have.
Many of the men of the 2nd Company simply charged and fired without aiming, and the furious roars of the machine guns completely drowned out the wails of the Japanese soldiers when they were shot. Bullets swept from the campfire splashed countless sparks, and the horrific image of Japanese soldiers being shot in the light of the swelling fire gave a glimpse of the helplessness of sheep in front of wolves.
Tang Cheng once again fell behind, but this time it was not caused by his slow movements, but because Niu Laogui asked Liu Shishi to pull him. There were only 30 people in the second company, and the night attack was a melee, Niu Laogui was worried about the safety of Tang Cheng, he couldn't watch Tang Cheng being submerged in the Japanese camp. Shaking off Liu Shishi's hand vigorously, Tang Cheng, who fell behind the team, also rushed into the Japanese camp without hesitation with his shell gun.
Tang Cheng did not blindly follow the large army and shoot wildly, but rushed to the other side of the Japanese camp with Liu Shishi, and when he was on the top of the slope, he had already taken a look at the Japanese camp in the telescope, and he knew that there were several military vehicles parked on the other side of the Japanese camp. At this moment, the Japanese trucks were all silently in place, as if they were a group of sleeping steel monsters. Tang Cheng wanted to control these trucks, as long as there was one, he and his soldiers who were still alive would be able to return to the Xiaojieling defense line faster and safer.
The sudden sound of gunfire and shouts of killing woke up the entire camp, and when Tang Cheng ran towards the Japanese military vehicles with Liu Shishi, a group of Japanese soldiers were rushing out of a tent with weapons in a panic. Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi stopped one after another, and they didn't look for cover, so they stood in the gap of the camp and raised their guns to shoot. The muzzle of the shell gun jumped rhythmically, the bright yellow tongue of fire burst out from the muzzle, Tang Cheng's shoulder slightly fell back and moved forward, and the crisp and pleasant sound of the gun composed a beautiful battlefield sound.
A skilled Japanese soldier fought with a 38 rifle, and it took only five or six seconds from pulling the bolt to load the bullet to raising the gun to shoot. But what they faced Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi were holding in their hands were the shell guns known as the king of the Anti-Japanese War of Close Combat, especially the two 20-ring fast and slow machines in Tang Cheng's hands, three seconds was enough for the fast and slow machines in Tang Cheng's hands to send out half a cartridge of bullets. After the first round of rapid fire in Tang Cheng, the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who rushed out of the tent in a daze lay on the ground, but the 38 rifles in their hands had no chance to shoot out of the chamber.