Chapter 106: Divide the troops and sneak attack
The Japanese army's attack was repulsed again, but Tang Cheng's heart did not dare to relax, the soldiers of the direct company had already suffered more than 30 casualties, and if they continued to entangle with the Japanese army like this, the number of casualties of his brothers might increase in the end. Along the dirty trench he found Mike, who was being examined by the medic for his wounds, not badly wounded, but only by shrapnel from a grenadier grenade in the butt.
Although the injury is not very serious, the injured place is a little difficult to speak, which is why Mike resists the military doctor's rectification so much. "17 were killed, 22 were wounded, all the light machine guns we captured from the Japanese army were broken, and now we can only rely on the light and heavy machine guns we brought, but bullets are a big problem, and your heavy machine gun is a bottomless pit that eats bullets." Ignoring Michael's embarrassed expression, Tang Cheng lit a cigarette and stuffed it into the latter's mouth, which made Mike feel a little better.
"Withdraw, didn't Yanlong say that he had found the way, take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army under the mountain did not attack, leave here quickly, as long as we enter the forest, we will be safe." Mike, who had treated his wounds, couldn't squat, so he could only pout his ass and lie on a pile of floating dirt, without enough ammunition, and his heavy machine gun was a pile of scrap metal at best. But without the powerful firepower of the heavy machine guns, the Japanese troops down the hill would have attacked sooner or later, and Mike could now tell the priority of the matter.
Listening to Mike's words, Tang Cheng just shook his head silently, "I can't go, we still have so many injured brothers, if we leave the battlefield at night now, the injured brothers may not be able to keep up, and I can't do it, and I won't do that." Tang Cheng's insistence made Mike a little dumbfounded, could it be that Tang Cheng would continue to hold on here, continue to confront the Japanese army under the mountain, and then wait for the other party to gather troops to attack the mountain?
"I'm going to take a team of people and touch down the hill to finish off their mortar positions first, and then engage them in hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese army is still using bolt-action rifles, which may not be the opponent of American firearms, as long as we plan properly, maybe we still have the possibility of turning the tables. Tang Cheng's words shocked Mike, the direct company now has not many people left, if Tang Cheng's action fails, the direct company will not be able to do it well, but the whole army will be wiped out here.
Xu saw the struggle and swaying in Mike's heart, Tang Cheng said with a smile, "Don't stop me, besides, you can't stop me, I have fought with the Japanese army many times, and I know a lot about their ability to fight in close combat." If I don't have complete certainty, I won't make this decision, and if we nest on the top of the mountain and suffer their shells, maybe we will die more, and once the ammunition is exhausted, do you think we will be the opponent of the Japanese army if we just fight bayonets? β
Tang Cheng failed to completely convince Mike, but Mike couldn't stop Tang Cheng, the two were deadlocked, but Hou San's side had already selected 30 agile soldiers to serve as commandos according to Tang Cheng's orders. "Third brother, Mike is injured, and the top of the mountain will be handed over to you. Seeing a large-scale explosion at the bottom of the mountain, you will shoot a flare on your side, and then lead people to press down from the mountain, and we will flank the Japanese troops on both sides. When he finally sorted out the weapons and ammunition, Tang Cheng did not forget to tell Hou San carefully, among the few people that Tang Cheng could rest assured, only Hou San could be regarded as an honest and serious person.
The dice insisted on going with Tang Cheng to attack the Japanese artillery position, and when the dice passed by Hou San's side, the latter suddenly grabbed the dice, stared at the dice word by word, and said, "We are brothers in life and death, there is one thing you must keep in mind, once you find that the war cannot be reversed, you must protect the commander and leave here, no matter what, you must promise me to protect the commander." The dice didn't speak, just flicked slightly, and then nodded to Hou Sanzhong.
Seeing more than 30 of them in Tang Cheng slowly disappear into the night, Hou San turned around and urged the remaining soldiers to hurry up and strengthen their positions, and even Cai Jincheng and a few of them were sent by Hou San to help the military doctor take care of the injured soldiers. If you want to leave here after walking the mountain, the direct company must first step on the cliff to cross a half-overhanging mountain, and cross such a steep mountain wall in such a night when you can't see your fingers, those injured soldiers can't do it at all, so Tang Cheng will choose to take the initiative to attack, trying to disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army under the mountain, and find a way to survive for the trapped direct company.
As the commander, Tang Cheng knew the risk of taking the initiative to attack at this time, and Hou San and Mike, who were staying on the top of the mountain, also knew about it, so Hou San would quietly tell SΓΉ Dice that the dice who wanted to go down the mountain together would escort Tang Cheng away first when there was a crisis. The direction chosen by Tang Cheng to descend the mountain was the flank of the entire Tushan, which may have been due to the topography, and in the round of Japanese attacks just now, no Japanese troops appeared in this direction. Now it is Tangcheng to sneak attack the Japanese army, of course, you can't care about the convenience of the terrain, the more you are covered by the Japanese army, the easier it is to sneak attack the Japanese army.
In order to avoid making a noise when going down the mountain to be discovered by the Japanese army, Tang Cheng even ordered all the people who came down the mountain not to even carry water bottles. Almost against the back of the person in front of them, Tang Cheng, who was hidden in the night, finally touched the position of the middle of the mountain, vaguely heard the voice of the Japanese soldiers, and the dice that walked in front squatted down on the spot, stretched out his hand and handed his sniper rifle to the soldier behind him, and pulled out the bayonet on his waist with his backhand.
If the Japanese army wanted to take the direct company on the top of the mountain, it was necessary to encircle the mountain, perhaps because of the troops, and there were only a few Japanese soldiers guarding the direction of their descent from Tangcheng. Putting the bayonet in his mouth, the dice quietly moved forward with two scouts with the best skills, the night was the best cover, but when they were covering themselves, it was also because the night affected the dice their movements and sights. The three of them, who held their breath and concentrated on it, sneaked all the way, and finally stopped at a distance of only a dozen meters from the Japanese soldiers, and then saw that the Japanese soldiers were still chatting with each other.
The Japanese soldiers guarding the mid-mountain did not have bonfires, and no one smoked, which made it impossible for them to confirm the exact number of enemies, so they could only judge how many Japanese soldiers were in front of them from the sound of the Japanese soldiers talking. For the dice, the Japanese language is jerky and difficult to understand, and it hurts to listen to it, if it were in the daytime, Guan Bao would have smashed a grenade over it. The dice flexed and stretched one finger at a time, and it was not until they were sure that there were five Japanese soldiers in front of them that they held the bayonet in their mouths in their hands.
Just as the three dice tensed up and were about to rush out, one of the scouts behind the dice picked up a piece of gravel and threw it far away from him. The Japanese soldier who was talking more than ten meters away could naturally hear the sound of gravel falling to the ground, and hurriedly stopped his mouth and carefully looked in the direction of the sound with his rifle in his hand. "Poof" Before a Japanese soldier who hurriedly turned around could call out, he had been pierced through the chest with a bayonet by the fitting dice, and the Japanese soldier next to him only felt that his face was hot and full of fishy smell, and then he felt a chill on his neck, and the bayonet in the hand of the dice had cut his neck.
Two of the five Japanese soldiers were knocked over by the dice before they could wake up, and the remaining three were each knocked over by two scouts, and the last Japanese soldier was the most cunning. Although he couldn't see the situation clearly, the sound of the bayonet entering the flesh was enough to wake him up, and before the dice could pounce again, the Japanese soldier finally dodged and ran straight down the mountain. "Did you run?" As soon as the dice raised their hands, the bayonet that was still dripping with blood in his hand had already come out of his hand, and a cold light pierced the back of the Japanese soldier's heart.
Luckily killed the 5 alert sentries arranged here by the Japanese army, Tang Cheng and his gang finally touched the dirt mountain, according to the range of the Japanese mortars, Tang Cheng roughly determined a search range, and the rest was how to find the Japanese mortar position. I don't know why, a gunfire suddenly burst out on the top of the mountain, and then two explosions came from the position of the mountain, with the help of the light of the explosion, Tang Cheng, who was on the flank, suddenly found that there were more than a dozen Japanese soldiers in the middle of the mountain who were evacuating to the bottom of the mountain.
It was Noyama Jun who secretly retreated down the mountain, and the Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive, all the officers who commanded the squad had been killed, and among the remaining 20 or so Japanese soldiers, only Noyama Jun had the longest military experience. After discussing with two veterans who were one year less than themselves, Noyama Jun and the others decided to take advantage of the gap between the Shina army on the top of the mountain and the battlefield to leave quickly, if they waited for the enemy on the top of the mountain to come and clean up the battlefield, none of them who were lucky enough to survive would not survive.
Among the more than 20 Japanese soldiers who were still alive, not all of them were uninjured like Noyama Jun and Kira Aijo, most of them were wounded, so when they retreated down the mountain, they accidentally made a noise, so that some nervous Mack on the top of the mountain mistakenly thought that the Japanese army was attacking the mountain again, and immediately ordered machine gun fire. The bullets of the powerful M2 heavy machine gun not only tore apart the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, but also happened to detonate two grenades on the Japanese soldiers, which is why they could see an explosion halfway up the mountain in Tangcheng.
Compared with those unlucky companions around him, Noyama Jun and Kira Xiangcheng, who have been chanting about the blessing of the Buddha, are lucky, and the two have been retreating halfway up the mountain, and their bodies have been unharmed, but when they reached the foot of the mountain, Noyama Jun used his own bayonet to cut several wounds on himself and Kira Xiangcheng. "As long as you do what I say, you'll be fine, if we want to return to our hometown alive, we have to use such a small means to save our lives." Although he couldn't understand what Noyama Jun was doing, Kira Xiangcheng still nodded in disbelief, he felt that his fellow countryman would not lie to him.