Chapter 115: The Return of the New Plains (4)
Everyone, including Tang Cheng, did not expect that the Japanese counterattack would come so quickly, and when Tang Cheng ordered the use of Bazooka to bombard the Japanese hiding wooden house on the top of the mountain, the flames of the explosion happened to be seen by a reconnaissance force sent by the Japanese-Burmese mixed forces in Xinpingyang. Although the mixed squad of Japanese and Burmese soldiers was still two hills away, the flames of the explosion were so conspicuous in the night that a few minutes later, the Japanese troops stationed in Xinpingyang learned about it on the Guò radio.
At 3 o'clock in the morning, when they were cleaning up the battlefield and building wooden houses in Tang City, a 400-strong Japanese-Burmese mixed army had already set off from Xinpingyang and headed straight for this hill that had just been captured by Tang City. It may be that the Bazooka with self-aiming fire from the direct company was regarded as a mortar, and the Japanese-Burmese mixed troops sent by Xinpingyang also carried curved firepower such as mortars and grenadiers, and the Japanese-Burmese mixed troops who hurried to the foot of the mountain did not fully deploy their formation at all, but were intercepted by the sentry posts of the directly subordinate companies, and organized artillery fire on the spot and began to bombard the hilltop position.
The Japanese artillery shells from the foot of the mountain extended from the halfway up the mountain to the top of the mountain, and the continuous shells fell on the fortifications on the top of the mountain. Bursting with dazzling firelight and thick black smoke. Half of the sky was red under the Japanese artillery fire, and the low-rise trees in the middle of the mountain had been stripped off by scattered shrapnel, leaving only bare trunks and branches, and some of them were broken and ignited, and then caused a fire, and finally the red earth that was burned to ashes was lifted and lifted again.
Caught off guard by the Japanese artillery fire, Tangcheng had no way to prevent an effective counterattack for the time being, so they could only rely on the rocks on the top of the mountain or the bunkers that the Japanese had dug to hide first. Taking advantage of the shelter of several natural huge rocks and large trees on the top of the mountain, the temporary headquarters of Tang Cheng and his direct company were set up here, and the long folding antenna was erected and stretched out into the sky along a large tree, and the signal corps was busy debugging the radio station.
Fortunately, the Japanese shelling did not last long, this is the Hukang Valley, and the Japanese army has the same trouble trying to transport ammunition and supplies here. Listening to the sound of artillery outside gradually subsided, Tang Cheng couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that the Japanese troops who came to retaliate this time carried a limited number of shells, otherwise they would not have stopped the shelling so lightly. The Japanese stopped shelling, and the soldiers of the direct company had to leave their bunkers and prepare to engage the Japanese troops who were attacking to the top of the mountain.
God seemed to want to play a joke with Tang Cheng and the Japanese army, Tang Cheng and they were in the position of the battle, but they never waited for the Japanese army to attack the top of the mountain, the reason was very simple, it was foggy when the sky was bright. Even the most orderly soldiers in the world could not guarantee that they would be able to defeat their opponents in the foggy weather, so the Japanese-Burmese mixed troops at the foot of the mountain wisely chose to wait, while Tang Cheng on the top of the mountain could only secretly call out his good luck.
When the Japanese army came, they could no longer allocate manpower to build wooden houses, so they hurriedly gnawed some dry food, and the top and bottom of the direct company still waited quietly in the position, for fear that the Japanese army would rush up the mountain with the help of the cover of the fog. "I'll take a team of people to touch it down and take a look, so it's not a matter of waiting for someone to knock on the door, I'll go to the bottom first." Tang Cheng is not a person who likes to sit still, and after discussing with Mike and agreeing to go, Tang Cheng beckoned the dice and a few others to prepare to go down the mountain.
A short walk along the ridge to the southwest is a ridge trail that looks impassable, but if you cut off the obstructive rattans with a long knife, this seemingly impossible path can lead straight down the mountain, but of course the road is extremely steep. The mountain road is very difficult to walk, it is not a decent road at all, Tang Cheng doesn't know how many marks have been drawn on his body by unknown thorns in the bushes on the side of the road along the way, in fact, Tang Cheng They will not go to the main road, so the chance of encountering the enemy is greater.
Tang Cheng, who touched the middle of the mountain, they were all highly vigilant around, and the guards also watched behind them from time to time, and the cat turned around to cover and advance, Yanlong, who had been walking in the front, suddenly stopped, half-raised his left fist, and Tang Cheng behind Yanlong They immediately dispersed sensitively to find cover Tang Cheng crawled to Yanlong's side, and looked with a telescope in the direction of Yanlong's finger. At the foot of the hill, a line of Japanese troops of about a platoon was coming towards them.
Tang Cheng took a few more closer glances with his binoculars, and suddenly grinned, he and Yanlong had all misjudged just now, the soldiers in this platoon were not Japanese soldiers at all, but Burmese soldiers, and a whole platoon was Burmese soldiers. "To fight or not to fight?" Yan Long snatched the sniper rifle from the dice beside him, looked at it with the scope for a while, and then turned his face and asked Tang Cheng.
"Fight, of course you have to fight, of course you will fight if you send it to the door" Tang Cheng's words led to several people nodded again and again, last night's sneak attack, but these snipers did not have the opportunity to fire, this will just take these guys who are in a hurry to send them to the door out of anger. "This battle must be fought cleanly, not a single enemy can let go back, and when they get closer, the snipers will fire first, and their grenadiers and machine gunners must be eliminated at the first time, and they will never be missed, do you understand?" ”
"Listen to my order to fire, wait for the enemy to go up the hill and enter the ambush circle before fighting, the enemy has a total of 27 people, the dice are in charge of the officer, the first 9 are in charge of the snipers, the middle 9 are solved by the scout team, and the last 9 are taught to me and the rest of the brothers. When we shoot, let's fight together, don't startle the snakes, let's get rid of them at once. The 20 or so Burmese soldiers at the foot of the mountain began to move upward, and the order from Tang Cheng's mouth changed immediately.
Most of the 20 or so Burmese soldiers climbing up the hill are barefoot, all of them short and dark, but they seem to be agile. The enemy army was getting closer and closer, and finally reached the halfway point of the mountain, and the dice had already locked on the commander who was standing next to a rock and looking around with a telescope, as long as Tang Cheng gave the order to fire, the dice dared to guarantee that one shot would bring down the target that was locked by him.
After looking through the binoculars for a while, the commander, who didn't seem to notice danger, waved his arms and urged his soldiers to continue moving towards the top of the mountain. Tang Cheng and the others, who were hidden in the bushes, couldn't help but laugh secretly, the commander of this group of Burmese soldiers was small and withered, and he looked similar to the monkeys that roamed in the forest all day. "Fire" The enemy finally entered the ambush circle, Tang Cheng shouted and shot first, and the dice next to him also opened fire.
The Burmese officer, who had been locked by the dice, instantly released his pupils, and fell backwards with disbelief in his eyes, and the other team members also opened fire one after another, and for a while the gunfire was loud, and the dense bullets rained down on the enemy. Without cover, most of the enemy was killed in a matter of seconds, without even having a chance to pull the bolt. Several Burmese soldiers at the back of the group turned to flee when they saw that the situation was not good, but the bullets fired by the snipers chased them down, and at the moment they fell, another burst of bullets entered their bodies.
There were no enemy troops to stand up for a long time, but a few of the submachine gunners were still firing frantically at the corpses, until the bodies of the Burmese soldiers they thought suspicious were finally stopped. The team straightened up and cautiously walked towards the ambush circle with their guns in hand, the center of which had already become a large area of blood red. Each corpse had a number of bullet holes, some of which were bloody and bloody, and the bullets went in front and a bowl-sized pit came out in the back. The most pitiful thing was the enemy officer who was taken care of by the dice alone, two bullets were shot in the chest, one into the head, and a large piece of the head was broken, and the team members looked at the corpses on the ground, and they were speechless and shocked, this is the cruelty and ruthlessness of war. It is a victory to let them outmaneuver their opponents with a slight advantage in numbers, but it makes them understand that no matter how well-trained their opponents are, they can only lose in this situation Fortunately, they are ambushers and not ambushed. "Has anyone been hurt? Tang Cheng asked this question first, and it was also the question he thought was the most important.
The dice who followed closely held their sniper rifles, carefully counted the number of people, and then told Tang Cheng with great certainty that there were no wounded or killed on their side. "In the future, when we march, we must pay attention to the distance between each other, don't follow too closely, and keep our eyes open to pay attention to the movements around us, otherwise we will also die like today's enemy, this is the lesson of blood" Tang Cheng was very happy to learn that there were no casualties on his side, but his tone was extremely stern when he spoke.
No one refuted Tang Cheng's words, because everyone knew that Tang Cheng said this for everyone's good, and after a few battles under his direct company, all those who could live now had become veterans. "Leave the corpses alone, I think the Japanese soldiers should be able to hear the gunshots here, maybe they will be able to come over and collect the corpses themselves in a while, and we will save some effort." Chong Tang Cheng squeezed his eyebrows, grabbed two grenades with the dice, and learned Tang Cheng's technique to set up a trick mine under the corpse.
The dice just started, and the other team members also took out the captured Japanese-style grenades and began to set up tricks under the corpses. Tang Cheng and the others came down the mountain to test the reality of the Japanese army under the mountain, but since they had already come down, they had to kill enough. Tang Cheng didn't stop the dice and them, and continuously received material support from the headquarters, and the direct company was already short of ammunition now, if it wasn't for the trick of fishing here, maybe Tang Cheng would have killed the mountain with the help of strong firepower.