Chapter 46: The Enemy Manifests
Wearing a steel helmet with a straw ring, Tang Cheng slowly poked his head out of the trench and used his binoculars to observe the black line that appeared in front of the position. The black line is not a line, but the bandits wearing dark clothes, bandits with a size of five or six hundred people wear everything, but they are still mostly dark clothes, so what appears in Tang Cheng's sight is only a black line, but in the telescope, Tang Cheng can see their figures.
As the previous bandits had said, the bandits who appeared later were almost all on foot, and Tang Cheng moved his binoculars to try to find the leader among the bandits, and he didn't think that the skinny monkey-like guy sitting on horseback in his telescope was the bandit leader. The thin monkey who was stared at by Tang Cheng with a telescope for a while didn't know that he almost became Tang Cheng's preferred target, this guy wearing a placket was riding on horseback and waving the short gun in his hand, and he didn't know what to shout at the bandits around him, but Tang Cheng didn't think that this guy at least was the bandit leader, because this person didn't have the momentum to lead so many bandits in the Wuthering Mountains and Forests.
After looking left and right twice with a telescope, Tang Cheng didn't find out which bandit leader was, so he had to squat down a little stupidly, "Inform the machine gun to be ready to fire, and when I shoot, throw the grenade, the grenade goes off, and the machine gun fires again." "In the eyes of most people, infantry battles when both sides are not heavily armed are nothing more than machine guns and grenades after a strong attack, taking advantage of the panic of the enemy army, the whole army rushes up to cover the kill.
But in all the battles Tang Cheng has experienced, he only had a cluster hedging melee cover with Japanese dramas when he was in Guanghuamen, and more often, Tang Cheng chose those German-style positional battles recorded in Xie Bo's notes. The positional warfare of the German army must rely on the powerful ground-to-air artillery fire and the assault ability of the armored forces as the backing, but Tang Cheng now has neither ground-to-air artillery fire, nor the so-called armored troops, so he can only rely on the cooperation between the soldiers and the firepower arrangement that he has figured out, and has experienced the accurate and terrifying artillery strike ability of the Japanese army. But the ammunition men assigned by Tang Cheng had another task, to carry those machine guns to change firing positions at any time. Only by constantly changing the firing position of the machine guns could it be possible to avoid the Japanese shelling, and the battle of Guanghuamen left a deep impression on Tang Cheng, and most of the machine guns of the 2nd Regiment of the Teaching Team were destroyed in the Japanese artillery fire.
The order to prepare for war has been handed down one by one, and the soldiers of the second company in the trenches began to check their guns and bullets, although they had already checked their guns when they entered the position, but the tension of the coming big war still made the novices stiff and overwhelmed, and the veterans did not reprimand the novices who repeatedly checked their rifles too much. "Quiet, no shots can be fired without an order." Tang Cheng twisted his face and looked around left and right a few times, and Niu Laogui beside him immediately understood and lowered his voice to ask those novices to calm down.
The trench dug by Tang Cheng outside the city was level with the ground, and the excavated soil had already been moved by the people to a depression outside the city with carts, and with the irrigation of two rains, a lot of weeds grew around the trenches. These bandits who came belatedly had actually been deliberately slowing down, they were preparing to wait for Yang Tianlei's horse team to break through the gate of Macheng, and then go into the city to pick up bargains, but they never expected that Yang Tianlei's horse bandits had been wiped out in Tang Cheng's hands.
"Big brother, the brothers really can't walk, don't you stop and take a breath first, there has been no movement in the county, maybe it has been taken down by Yang Tianlei a long time ago, anyway, we are also going to fight the autumn wind, we can't be in such a hurry, you say yes?" The thin monkey on horseback turned over and dismounted, and ran quickly to one of the carriages in the crowd, and asked the bald man who was sleeping on his side in the carriage in a respectful tone.
The bald man who had been pretending to sleep suddenly opened his eyes, and the thin monkey with a terrifying light in his eyes couldn't help but take a step back, "Big brother, see for yourself, it's really not me who is a monkey to lie to you, the brothers really can't walk." Seeing that the bald man didn't mean to blame himself, the thin monkey who was careful to accompany the smiling face came to the carriage again and asked in a low voice.
Before the bald man who turned over from the carriage and sat up could speak, the bandits in the front team suddenly rioted, and a bandit in variegated clothes ran over panting. "Big brother, Biaozi and a few of them found blood stains in front, the blood looks fresh, Biaozi said that it shouldn't be more than an hour." The bandits, who had returned to report the news, looked up at the bald man who had risen and stood in the carriage, who was looking forward with a telescope in his hand.
"Monkey, tell the brothers to bear with me, Yang Tianlei's people should have opened the door of Macheng, if we grind again, the good things in the county will be robbed by Yang Tianlei of the dog day." The bald man who jumped out of the carriage snatched the reins from the hands of the bandits next to him, and one of them turned over and rode on horseback, and then galloped towards the rear team.
"I heard what the eldest brother said just now, if we continue to rub it off like this, the good things in the county will be robbed by those bastards in Qingfeng Hall, and the good things will be taken away by them, let's eat and drink, speed up, go into the city to rob money and rob women." The thin monkey who jumped into the carriage shouted loudly with his hands on his waist as the bald man just now, and the bandits who had entered the city to rob money and women suddenly came to their senses, and they all looked up to the sky and barked like wolf dogs.
"Miyamoto Taijun, my people found blood stains in front, I estimate that it should be Yang Tianlei's people who have already fought with the Macheng garrison, there will be no movement in the county, will Yang Tianlei have already entered Macheng? Do we need to speed up our way into the city? The bald man who rode his horse to the rear team did not have the momentum just now, and the bald man who had jumped off the horse was hunched over and standing in front of a round-faced man wearing a felt hat.
Tang Cheng's guess was right, there were indeed Japanese soldiers among the bandits who came belatedly, but the number of Japanese soldiers who acted with the bandits was not very large, and it was a Japanese infantry squad that was fully counted. Although the Japanese army suffered a great loss in the Battle of Taierzhuang, after the national army troops withdrew from Xuzhou one after another, the Japanese army regained their invincible face, and in the next series of battles of the Japanese army, there were often cases where a Japanese squad chased a company or even a battalion of the national army around.
The infantry squadron where Miyamoto Takego was located was originally withdrawn from the front line to rest, but the operation of the special high school to attack Macheng was strongly supported by Miyamoto Takego's squadron. As the advance unit of the squadron, Miyamoto Takego, who was already with the rank of second lieutenant, temporarily assumed the position of squad leader, and took off the uniform of the imperial army and changed into the variegated clothes of the Shina bandits.
Capture Macheng to open the east gate to Wuhan, this is the task that the squadron leader personally taught before leaving, Miyamoto Takeshi, who hopes to be promoted, firmly remembered the task, and at the same time he also needs to use this battle exploits to help himself get the rank of lieutenant. Listening to the bald bandit leader say that the gate of Macheng may have been breached, Miyamoto Takego's breathing became rougher, and his mind was full of scenes where the squadron leader personally wore the lieutenant rank mark for himself, and the battle exploits and military rank represented everything for Miyamoto Takego, and it was also the ladder for him, a person from a peasant family, to rise to the upper class.
"Taro, hang out the gun flag, we are soldiers of the empire, and when we enter the city, we should let those people take a good look at the momentum of our imperial warriors." Miyamoto Takego didn't have much to think about the news brought by the bald bandit leader at all, so he directly reached out and tore off the front lining of his jacket to prepare to change into the Japanese military uniform on the carriage. The Japanese soldiers who followed Miyamoto Takego in disguised bandits also endured all the way, and if it weren't for the squadron leader's order, they wouldn't be willing to put on the clothes of the Shina people and wear such ridiculous hats.
"Xiao Sang, you are very friendly to the Japanese Empire, after this mission is over, I will apply to the squadron leader for a reward for you, money, women, big things." Takego Miyamoto, who had changed into a military uniform, seemed to be affectionately reaching out to wrap his hand around the shoulders of the bald man. Miyamoto Takego, who is only one meter six tall, is like a dwarf winter melon in front of a bald man with a height of more than one meter eight, but he can't stand the bald man and secretly bent his legs and collapses his waist, if not, it is difficult for Miyamoto Takego to reach out and hold the shoulders of the bald man.
"Thank you Miyamoto Taijun, I Xiao Dapeng has nothing else, but this loyalty to the Japanese Imperial Army is something to learn from heaven and earth, as long as you Miyamoto Taijun speaks, the fire comes and goes, I Xiao Dapeng will never frown." Xiao Dapeng, who thought he had been appreciated by Miyamoto Takego, slapped his chest with a loud sound, but he didn't know that Miyamoto Takego, who reached out to hold his shoulder, was sneering in his heart.
"Xiao Sang, since the gate of Macheng has been opened by the people of Qingfeng Hall, then hurry up and enter the city, you take your people first, and I will arrive after changing my clothes." The cunning Miyamoto Takego didn't plan to let his Japanese soldiers take the lead, didn't he bring Xiao Dapeng's gang of bandits to serve as cannon fodder, and now is the time to use cannon fodder.
"Come on, Miyamoto Tai-kun, just look at it, I'll get it for you properly, then I'll go first." Learning from the appearance of a Japanese officer and bowing to Miyamoto Takego with a smile on his face, Xiao Dapeng, who was already a little impatient, turned over and galloped forward, with Miyamoto Takego's words just now, Xiao Dapeng seemed to have seen countless money and women shaking in front of his eyes.