Chapter XVII
After following the guerrillas to touch the middle of the mountain, Tang Cheng was very surprised that the guerrillas did not dig a bunker, Song Tieshan and they just put a circle of weeds around their heads, even if everything was fine, such an ambush method was unheard of for Tang Cheng. On the first day of entering the second company, Liu Shanyang taught Tang Cheng the concept of preserving himself before killing the enemy, whether it was positional warfare or ambush warfare, digging bunkers was the first priority, like the guerrillas, just looking for a stone was counted as cover, Tang Cheng was really speechless, could they really be Japanese soldiers are muddy.
When Tang Cheng was secretly worried, Lao Dongbei hurriedly ran up the mountain from the mountain road, shaking his head at Tang Cheng again and again, Lao Dongbei, who had carefully observed the terrain, was the same as Tang Cheng, and was not optimistic about the ambush position chosen by Song Tieshan. "Captain Song, I don't think it's as good as you taking your men to set up defenses in the middle of the mountain, and I will take my men to ambush on the flanks of the mountain road, so that we can also form crossfire against the enemy, and the chances of winning the ambush should be greater." After a slight groan, Tang Cheng and Song Tieshan proposed to take the initiative to go down the mountain and ambush.
There are only three of them in Tang City, no matter whether Tang Cheng is from the national army or not, Song Tieshan will not allow the three of them to go to the flank of the mountain road to ambush, it is too dangerous. But Song Tieshan underestimated Tang Cheng's persistence, and in the end, Song Tieshan, who was helpless, had no choice but to transfer 5 people from his guerrilla team to follow Tang Cheng down the mountain, but Tang Cheng didn't want to be equipped with guns, but just asked for 5 people with big knives.
The ambush location in Tangcheng was chosen by Lao Dongbei, and in order to avoid accidental injury, the ambush point chosen by Lao Northeast did not face Song Tieshan and them in a straight line. "The five of you will follow the stone for a while, I don't know how your guerrillas fight, but now that you are under my command, you must follow my orders, and you must not rush out casually, otherwise our ambush will be useless." Tang Cheng repeatedly told the five people of the guerrillas, but the other party was very unimpressed with Tang Cheng's advice.
"What are you telling them to do this, they will beat them in a while, let's just beat us, they will go out and send us to death, what do we do." Old Northeast shook his head at Tang Cheng's troubles, these 5 guys with big knives were inferior to Liu Shishi to Old Northeast, and like Mengzi, Old Northeast did not completely disperse their vigilance against Song Tieshan.
Tang Cheng was not familiar with the guerrillas' combat methods, and the other party was also not familiar with Tang Cheng's combat methods. "Our guerrillas have never dug any bunkers to fight devils, we are not the same as devils, your national army has dug holes and dug well, but you haven't stopped the little devils in the end, come to me, let's not waste this matter." The leading guy among the 5 people was sarcastic about Tang Cheng's identity as a national army, and Liu Shishi was about to scuffle the leading man, but was stopped by Tang Cheng.
"Since you don't want to obey my command, then please go back halfway up the mountain to find your captain, I don't want to trouble us because of your negligence." Seeing that Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi were impatient with these five guerrillas, Tang Cheng had no choice but to let them go back to the ambush position in the middle of the mountain. "Okay, now it's just the three of us, now you two are happy." With a smile and a curse, Tang Cheng dug his bunker in the field by the side of the road with a bayonet.
Seeing that all the people he sent to Tang Cheng had returned, Song Tieshan was also very surprised, and wanted to change a few people to help, but was stopped by Mengzi. "Captain, I think forget it, people don't want to be with us at all, I think you're just a cold ass with a hot face. Since they think they can do it, let them stay down there, and when they call for help, I'll see where their faces go. Mengzi's words were full of schadenfreude, Song Tieshan wanted to reprimand Mengzi, but when he saw the approving eyes of these team members around him, Song Tieshan had no choice but to keep silent.
There were only three people, which deviated a lot from Tang Cheng's line of sight, so Tang Cheng had to order Lao Dongbei to take Liu Shi to plant a grenade as a trick mine on the outer edge of their ambush point, and moved the ambush point more than ten meters in the direction of the Japanese army's coming road. The soil of the wild land on the side of the road is quite soft, when the old northeast took Liu Shi to arrange the thunder, Tang Cheng dug three soil pits in one go, although these three soil pits are not deep enough and not big enough, but as long as they are slightly repaired, it is enough for Tang Cheng to use them as covers.
"Stone, you will stare at the officers in this group of Japanese soldiers in a while, we can do without weapons and ammunition, but we must get the binoculars and watches on the Japanese officers." When arranging the bunker, Tang Cheng told Liu Shishi again, and Lao Dongbei also muttered that Liu Shishi remember to check the grenades and grenadiers on the corpses of Japanese soldiers. If the attacking Japanese soldiers were the same Japanese soldiers they found in Shuixi, they might have been able to capture mortars, but neither Tangcheng nor Lao Dongbei were interested in mortars.
"I think so, although the mortar has good firepower, but that thing is too heavy, and the supply of shells is also a troublesome matter, we only need a grenadier canister is enough, with a little devil's grenade, the grenadier can be hit, better than a mortar." Liu Shishi followed Tang Cheng's topic and was arranged at the back, Liu Shishi's heart was somewhat unconvinced, but he really didn't dare to ignore Tang Cheng's order. He could only try his best to curry favor with Tang Cheng and Lao Northeast, and see if he had a chance to follow the attack after he really fought with the Japanese army for a while.
Song Tieshan did not have a telescope, and the ambush position in the middle of the mountain was more than 300 meters away from their position in Tang City, and when Tang Cheng covered the bunker with the weeds they got from a distance, Song Tieshan on the middle of the mountain completely lost Tang Cheng and their figures. "It seems that this Tang Cheng still has some means, at least the ability to fight ambushes is no worse than ours, but I don't know if the fight really starts, what is this kid's ability." Song Tieshan originally wanted to send people down to support Tang Cheng again, but after thinking about the members of the fierce son and their prejudices against the national army, Song Tieshan could only give up for the time being.
The silent and long wait was unbearable, and the three of Tang Cheng lay quietly in the bunker, covered with weeds and bush branches, as long as they didn't come to them, they would never be able to find them. Tang Cheng lay on his stomach in the bunker with his eyes closed, drowsy from the moisture of the earth and the smell of grass, his bunker was only a dozen meters away from the mountain road, which was enough distance for Tang Cheng's shell gun to shoot bullets into the bodies of all living creatures on the mountain road.
The slight tremor of the earth made Tang Cheng in the bunker break open his eyes violently, and at the same time, the old Northeast who was hiding on Tang Cheng's side also learned to call a bird and make a code, and the Japanese army finally came. The first thing that appeared in Tang Cheng's sight were two men dressed as Zhuang households, looking at their movements when they ran and the shell guns in their hands, Tang Cheng knew that these two people must be the spies sent out by Song Tieshan. Sure enough, as Tang Cheng expected, only a quarter of an hour after Song Tieshan's spies were picked up halfway up the mountain, Tang Cheng's familiar earthy yellow color appeared on the mountain road.
Like the Japanese troops encountered in Tang Cheng, the Japanese squad marching along the mountain road also arranged forward sharp soldiers, although this Japanese squad looked like there were less than 70 soldiers, but they still sent 6 sharp soldiers, who were in front of the two and four in the back of the mountain road from time to time looking left and right. The rear of the Japanese squad was about 400 meters away from the top soldiers, and the distance was too far, and Tang Cheng had not yet discovered where the Japanese officer with the binoculars was. But as long as this Japanese squad appeared, Tang Cheng, who had been waiting for a long time, was bound to get the telescope.
Perhaps because of the southward movement of the Japanese army, the six spearheads sent by the Japanese squad were not as vigilant as they were when they attacked Nanjing, although they were all carrying rifles, but their fingers were not pressed into the trigger guard as in the infantry drills, and the muzzles of the guns were low on the ground. Curled up slightly, Tang Chengxiang retracted his neck, he almost met the gaze of one of the Japanese soldiers just now, although he was not worried that he would be discovered by the other party, but the look in that kind of eyes still shocked Tang Cheng's cold sweat.
The six Japanese soldiers crossed Tang Cheng and their hiding place gradually moved away, and the Japanese brigade followed, and Tang Cheng could already hear the rough breathing of the old northeast on his side at this time. The Japanese officer that Tang Cheng was interested in finally appeared, and like the other Japanese soldiers, the Japanese officer who commanded this Japanese squad also wore a steel helmet, and the telescope that Tang Cheng coveted was hanging on the chest of the Japanese officer at this time.
As the Japanese rear team approached, the muzzles of Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi slowly poked out of the weeds, Tang Cheng had already ordered them to fire in advance after Song Tieshan's side did not fire. Seeing that the Japanese officer came into his sight little by little, Tang Cheng also secretly pulled the hammer of the barge gun, he was only worried that Song Tieshan's side would shoot these Japanese soldiers early, if that happened, all his thoughts would be in vain.
Song Tieshan listened to the information brought back by the spies he sent out, and he was also quite in a dilemma, if he let the six Japanese soldiers go over and did not fight, then after they shot and ambushed the Japanese rear, the six Japanese soldiers who were let go by themselves might be able to flank themselves with their rear. Once he was flanked by the Japanese army, Song Tieshan didn't know if the guerrillas under his command could withstand it, and the distraught Song Tieshan had completely forgotten about the Tang City ambush on the side of the mountain road.
"Captain, do you want to fight? If you don't fight again, the little devil will pass. Song Tieshan was hesitating, and Mengzi came over with his rifle. Like the old Northeast, Mengzi is also a master who does not want to die in battle, seeing that the 6 Japanese soldiers are about to get out of their ambush circle, Mengzi can't help but feel anxious, he only cares about fighting, but he doesn't think about how to deal with the remaining Japanese troops.