Chapter 32: Death in Battle (2)
Tang Cheng gave sign language to the snipers, and before determining the exact location of the opposite side, Tang Cheng could now rely on these snipers who remained in the rear team. Everyone remained in place and prepared to shoot, two snipers made a detour to the left flank and the other to the right, and Tang Cheng and the other soldiers remained in place.
The snipers silently dispersed to the left and right, and when their figures disappeared into the forest mist, Tang Cheng gestured to Hou San in the bushes, and Hou San nodded immediately. Huang Haishan, who moved to the right flank alone, was ready to shoot in a crouching position at this time, and the left half of his body was hidden behind the trunk, allowing the barrel to be raised relaxedly, and also allowing the muzzle of the M1 sniper rifle in his hand to control the 90-degree fan fire in front of the wounded soldier.
Two minutes later, Tang Cheng stretched out three hands to Hou San in the bushes to count in turn, and when he counted to three, Hou San suddenly rushed out of the bushes. After all, he was a veteran who had rolled in the sea of corpses and fires, and Hou San understood what Tang Cheng meant, Tang Cheng wanted him to be a bait, pretending to save the injured vanguard, to deliberately attract the enemy to be exposed, and to create a chance for the snipers to fire. Rushing past the wounded soldier and Hou San did not stop, but directly rolled over.
Sure enough, as Tang Cheng expected, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet stuck to Hou San's heel and burrowed into the dirt. The rifle flame of the 38 rifle equipped by the Japanese army was extremely small, and the gunfire after the bullet was fired was even more fleeting, but this was enough. Just after the other party fired the second bullet, Huang Haishan, who was half-crouching, pulled the trigger almost at the same time, and with a scream, an earthy yellow body disappeared into Huang Haishan's scope. After succeeding, Huang Haishan did not fire a second shot, but held his rifle and flashed behind another tree trunk.
This is the discipline prescribed by the US military instructors to the snipers, never stay in the same position and shoot repeatedly, and the snipers must learn to hide their figures. Huang Haishan hit the target, and before Tangcheng could open fire, the Japanese troops hidden in the shadows preemptively opened fire. At the beginning, the firepower of the Japanese army looked very powerful, but as the Tangcheng side opened fire, in addition to a light machine gun, the Japanese side still had some firepower, and the remaining dozen or so 38 large covers were already weak and powerless under the suppression of the continuous fire of American guns. While the Japanese army was suppressed in the front, Hou San and Tan Fei had already led a team to touch the left and right flanks of the Japanese army and fire intensively.
Huang Haishan, who was hiding behind a tree, fired another shot, and the light machine gun of the Japanese army on the opposite side was dumb, and the secondary shooter had just made up for it when he was crushed in the head by the sniper on the left flank. One of their squad of Japanese troops who ambushed Tangcheng was completely stunned, is this still the Chinese army that was defeated by them in Burma? In the past, the strength of one squad of the imperial army was enough to contain and eliminate a platoon or even a company of the Chinese army, but now the situation seems to have been reversed.
The Japanese troops who were flanked on three sides chose to retreat, and they did not even have time to take the bodies of their fallen comrades, which could not have happened on their previous battlefields. It's a pity that the Japanese army wanted to escape, but Tangcheng they couldn't let go of these Japanese soldiers, and the bolt-action rifle faced the pursuit and pursuit of semi-automatic fire, which only lasted for a short time before the curtain came to an end, hiding in the shadows and ambushing Tangcheng, and one of their squad of Japanese soldiers was all killed here.
The gunfire gradually stopped, and the soldiers who were flanking left and right and pursuing dozens of meters slowly walked out of the smoke and surrounded their initial target. This is a model for the numerous jรน points that the Japanese army built in the field, where several foxholes were dug to form a small circular position, and then covered with shrubs or rattan. This kind of small position prefers to be close to the presence of trees, and the Japanese will also use the tops of trees or tree holes to build positions, and in the event of artillery fire, the canopy will block some of the artillery fire for them. "Fuck, the little devil is going to be a monkey!" Hou San raised his head and scolded.
After some searching, Tang Cheng and the others couldn't find any valuable information here, and they couldn't even find a piece of paper. The corpses of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers were piled up in the trenches, but Tang Cheng recognized the marks of the 114th Wing of the 18th Division on the Japanese uniform. didn't think too much about it, Tang Cheng only regarded these Japanese soldiers as the search troops stationed in the woods by the Japanese army in Magao, and he was not very familiar with the numbers of the Japanese troops.
The wounded vanguard is still alive, listening to the tone of the military doctor, this kid has a big life, as long as he goes back to recuperate for a while, he can go back to battle to kill the enemy. Hou San was so angry that he jumped to his feet, scolding this extremely lucky vanguard for getting in the way, but Hou San's scolding was full of joy, and everyone could hear that Hou San was rejoicing for this fateful vanguard. This was the first battle they fought against the Japanese army when they returned to Savage Mountain, and it was a complete victory with one wound to sixteen deaths, which was something that those supplementary soldiers had not even dared to think about before.
After hastily cleaning the battlefield, everyone's hearts were overflowing with unprecedented confidence, and they continued to advance towards the depths of Savage Mountain. They began to believe in the command of Don City, they believed that they could fight back to Burma, they could fight back to their homeland. Compared with the military maps of the expeditionary force when they entered Burma before, the accurate military aviation map of the Indian army can be regarded as a shotgun for a cannon, and Tang Cheng has such a map in his hand. After experiencing the short confrontation just now, Tang Cheng, who had already walked far away, suddenly felt a little strange, judging from the map, his group had not far away from Ma Gao, why did a team of Japanese soldiers suddenly appear here?
After what happened just now, Tang Cheng became more cautious, and even Hou San and the others began to get nervous. The sound of dice came from the walkie-talkie, and when Tang Cheng rushed to the front with Liu Shi and Zhao Liang, he found that the dice were stopped on a rock, standing on a boulder, and there was another mountain not far away, and there was a small basin under the mountain.
The dice handed his telescope to Tang Cheng, "I took a look just now, although it looks very empty in front of me, I always feel that something is wrong." After a while, I will lead people from this side of the cliff to touch the side of the mountain first, and then control the entrance in front of the mountain on that side, and when we are sure, you will bring the others down the mountain. Tang Cheng took the telescope handed by the dice and looked at it carefully, and found that the basin that the dice said was actually not very big, but what happened just now had alerted Tang Cheng, no matter what, the dice were careful and correct.
The dice led a few of his scouts down the cliff nearly two feet high, and came into contact with the ground below the cliff, and the dice and the others immediately dispersed. The valley below the cliff looked about two or three feet wide, and there was thick grass and some bushes growing everywhere. The dice were looking up and looking around, but one of his scouts reached out and poked them away, reaching out to remove a clump of weeds, and the dice followed the scout's line of sight to see a path that looked deserted. Although the path looked deserted, they could still tell that the path had obviously been walked by people recently.
The dice made a cautious gesture, then lowered their bodies and shrank themselves into the grass. There was no figure anywhere as far as the eye could see, the boulder on the right was abrupt, and the figure on the cliff on the left was his own person, the dice waved his hand, and he slowly moved forward with the scout cats with his guns on his waist, and while moving, he opened his eyes and pricked up his ears, and was always on high alert. Tang Cheng, who stayed on the cliff to serve as a guard, also saw the abnormality of the dice they had just expressed, so he leveled his binoculars and searched carefully in the valley.
Just as the dice were trying to move forward, a muffled voice came from the right rock, which had not been paid attention to by the dice. The dice quickly overtook the scout who had touched forward, half-crouched behind a rock, and looked over the rock on the right. Still didn't see anything, but after a few seconds, the dice could hear more clearly, and a very slight voice was indeed coming from the direction of his right.
This time it wasn't just the dice themselves who heard it, even the scouts who were hiding behind him heard it, and the voices didn't sound very clear, but at least it was certain that there were two or three people. The scout who was at the end of the queue turned around and made a gesture to Tang Cheng on the cliff to stop advancing and bow down and hide, Tang Cheng was nervous in his heart, could it be that the dice they found something? Tang Cheng hurriedly jumped off the boulder, kneeling leaning against the boulder and using a telescope to observe the dice in front of them.
The dice that had already descended into the valley were just as nervous, moving a few meters forward against the hidden rocks, and after going around a raised rock, the dice hidden in the grass finally saw a figure shaking about a hundred meters away. The dice had already left the telescope to Tang Cheng, and now he could only use the scope on the sniper rifle to observe the figure he saw, and a distance of 100 meters was nothing to the scope. "Damn, these little devils are enough thieves, they are all hidden in the cave, no wonder they only hear the sound but can't find anyone."
Using the scope to confirm his judgment, the dice lying in the grass slowly retreated behind the boulder he was leaning on just now, and made a string of sign language to Tang Cheng on the cliff. Tang Cheng also did not expect that there would be Japanese troops in the valley under the cliff, according to the judgment of the dice, this group of Japanese soldiers was hiding in a cave in the valley, and it is not yet possible to determine the number of people and weapons and equipment to be paid.
"What to do? Now is it time to defeat this group of Japanese troops or to retreat and bypass here? Tang Cheng's heart was full of contradictions, according to his temperament, as long as he found a small force of the Japanese army, he must kill it, but they couldn't be sure of the opponent's number and weaponry. If the order to start fighting rashly would make the whole team fall into a bitter battle with the Japanese army, Mike gave himself the order to return to Ledo, but not to fight the Japanese in the woods.