Chapter Twenty-Three: Encountering the Enemy Li Jiapu (4)
Aoki Hongichi was very depressed, and Shosa Yamamoto was killed by the cold gunner of the Shina people, and his lieutenant became the commander of the squad. If it was in normal times, he would definitely jump up happily, but now he can't be happy at all, because the Yamamoto team, which was originally brave and good at fighting, has been disabled, and more than half of the 32 people in the entire team who can still hold guns and continue to fight are injured.
There was no rule in the Imperial Army that the lightly wounded should not participate in the battle, but Aoki knew that the combat effectiveness of these lightly wounded would be greatly reduced because of the injuries on their bodies. Encountering successive attacks but not finding the attacker made Aoki Hongichi's heart hesitate, especially the shot that hit Shaosa Yamamoto just now was a god and ghost, and he didn't know if he would be shot through the chest by a bullet of unknown origin like Shaosa Yamamoto.
But no matter whether Aoki Hongichi was depressed or hesitant, the position of the squad commander did fall on him, and the military cao who was chasing out in front had already returned the gesture, and Aoki Hongichi immediately ordered a machine-gun ceasefire. Jun Cao, who made a ceasefire gesture, looked carefully at the ground, and suddenly found the blood on the ground, and then looked at the direction in which the blood stains extended, and finally realized that something was wrong.
Tang Cheng and the others hid only more than 50 meters away from that military cao, and the bloodstains left in place were not expected by Tang Cheng, and those bloodstains came from the bodies of the two guerrillas. Seeing that Jun Cao seemed to be about to turn around and shout, Tang Cheng in the grass instantly pulled the trigger, and with a "snap", the Japanese soldier Cao was shot and fell to the ground, and Lao Dongbei and the remaining two guerrillas also opened fire one after another.
The six or seven Japanese soldiers who followed Jun Cao down the gentle slope were stunned by this sudden attack, and there was almost no concealment, and after they fired accurately in Tangcheng, they all fell down after firing only a few shots.
"If you go, if you don't leave, the Japanese grenadiers and shells will be smashed over." Letting go of these Japanese soldiers who rushed down the gentle slope, Tang Cheng immediately ordered to stop shooting and quickly retreat. The whole attack process started from the first shot of Tang Cheng to the end of the battle, but in just a dozen seconds, before Aoki Hongichi and other Japanese soldiers on the mound reacted, Tang Cheng under the gentle slope They were already scattered like rabbits being chased by hunting dogs, and they ran away in the blink of an eye.
As soon as they withdrew from the ambush position in Tangcheng, the Japanese soldiers on the mound had already discovered them running in the open field, so the Japanese soldiers on the mound began to suppress and shoot again. But there are only four of them in Tangcheng, and the small number of people naturally means that the target is small, and they who are scattered and fleeing are not running in a straight line, but running in an arc to the next gentle slope, because they are blocked by the continuous gentle slope, the Japanese troops on the earthen hill have to carry out full firepower coverage, but unfortunately they failed to hit Tangcheng.
Aoki Hongichi was depressed again, as an elite graduate of the Imperial Army Non-commissioned Officer School, he was deeply proud of his status as an Imperial soldier. Since entering the Chinese battlefield last year, his unit has been almost invincible, and although it has sometimes been resisted by the Chinese army, it has always seemed vulnerable and the damage caused by the powerful offensive of the imperial army has always been insignificant. The tactically dull Chinese government forces were nothing to fear, but the damned communist guerrillas, who were constantly harassing the logistical supply of the imperial army, but never openly confronting the imperial army.
It was not the first time that Aoki Koichi had fought with the so-called anti-Japanese guerrillas, and the day after they crossed the Yangtze River, Yamamoto's squad encountered a guerrilla force of 30 men, and as a result, Yamamoto's squad wiped out the so-called guerrillas who still used broadswords and spears in a single charge. As the highest-ranking officer present, Aoki Hiroichi immediately assumed the responsibility of directing the remaining Imperial soldiers to continue the battle after Kameda's death, and began to direct his Imperial warriors to fight back.
Seven Imperial warriors attacked the enemy's position with the support of machine-gun fire, only to receive a report from them that the enemy position was empty. However, Aoki Hiroichi had just ordered a ceasefire when hateful gunfire rang out from below the gentle slope. The moment the gunshot rang out, Aoki's first reaction was, "Oh no! There is an ambush! But then the sparse gunfire of the attackers overturned his suspicions. Aoki was depressed again after seeing the four attackers running in the open field, these damned guerrillas were as disgusting as maggots on the tarsal bones.
When he suppressed it again with fire and led his team down the gentle slope, he saw only 2 seriously wounded Imperial soldiers and 5 corpses. Several of the fallen warriors had not yet closed their eyes, their white and cloudy eyes wide open, as if to complain of dissatisfaction with their command mistakes. Looking at the corpses of the warriors, Aoki Hongichi sounded again the appearance of Shaosa Yamamoto after being shot, when Yamamoto was shot and the jade was broken, Aoki Hongichi was by Yamamoto's side, and when Yamamoto fell, Aoki Hongichi happened to see the blood flowing from his head and his miserable white eyes.
Aoki Hirokazu, who was already in disarray, did not want to make another mistake, and immediately ordered the grenadier to fire two rapid shots in succession on the gentle slopes below, and he wanted to teach the despicable guys who sneaked up on them a profound lesson. A few minutes later, almost at the same time as they rushed into the stream, Aoki Hiroichi rushed to their second ambush position with the remaining Japanese soldiers in Tangcheng, at this time, Tangcheng they were more than 500 meters away from Aoki Hongichi's Japanese army.
Although Aoki Hongichi and the others discovered their second ambush position in Tangcheng, they had already fled far away from Tangcheng, and the angry Japanese army naturally found nothing but bullet casings in one place. Hiroichi Aoki, who pretended to be calm, straightened out his thoughts, pretended not to see the eyes of the soldiers around him looking at him like idiots, and ordered the soldiers to carefully examine the gentle slope to make sure that there were no more attackers in ambush, and then picked up the binoculars that were still stained with blood and carefully walked to the side of the gentle slope near the stream.
The mission of Yamamoto's team is to cross the river to capture Huahu Town and intercept the broken army of China from Ezhou south to Huangshi, although he knows the danger of this mission, Aoki Hongichi also knows that the imperial army crossing the river is not the only Yamamoto team. Although he knew that Yamamoto's team was not fighting alone, Aoki Hiroichi couldn't contact other imperial troops who crossed the river at all, and the actual situation he faced at this time was that Yamamoto's team had really been disabled.
Even with the addition of the 2 medical soldiers who stayed on the mound to take care of the wounded, there are only 24 Imperial soldiers left in Yamamoto's squad who can still fight, no, plus he should be 25 people, but among these 25 people, only 7 people, including himself, are not injured. Shaking his head vigorously, Aoki Hongichi seemed to want to drive all the hesitation and anxiety in his heart out of his body, but the more he did this, the more intense the hesitation in his heart became.
"Damn the Shina people!" Aoki Koichi, who was holding the telescope, muttered something in a low voice again, and then focused his attention on the telescope in his hand. Looking through the binoculars, there was no one on the river or in the river under the mound, and there was not a single figure in the open field on the other side of the river, so it was impossible to hide people by the river or cross the river in concealment under such a good view. Aoki Koichi moved the telescope slightly to the right, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and there was a large rice field not far from the stream, and perhaps this rice field would be a good place for Tibetans.
Aoki Koichi immediately pulled out his saber and swung it vigorously in the direction of the rice field, shouting, "Kill Gur! The goal, the rice field under the mountain! The two medics who were still taking care of the seriously wounded on the mounds did not need to be notified, and after leaving two soldiers on the top of the mountain, Aoki Hiroichi led the remaining 22 men to the rice paddies under the mound. Aoki Hongichi, who thought he had found the attacker's hiding place, didn't know that Tang Cheng and they were hiding in the stream and river at the moment, but Tang Cheng's location was a little off, and it was not on the path that Aoki Hongichi and them had to travel in a straight line.
The two guerrillas were unbelievable to successfully ambush the Japanese army twice in a row, but only paid the price of minor injuries. Especially after successfully shooting 7 Japanese soldiers for the second time, he was able to safely evacuate to this stream and river, Tie Niu and Gouzi were even more happy, and when they faced Tang Cheng again, there was a little more convincing in their eyes. "Check the ammunition, if this ambush is successful, this Japanese squad will not be far from being completely annihilated." As soon as the four of them gathered, Tang Cheng, who was already wet with the stream, immediately gave an order.
The lack of ammunition was the biggest problem Tang Cheng faced, and his Mauser rifle still had three bridges, and counting the remaining 3 rounds of ammunition in the rifle magazine, he only had 18 rifle rounds and 40 shell bullets on his body. The two guerrillas only had firing rifle bullets left, but Lao Dongbei had more bullets, but he used a light machine gun, and the dozens of Arisaka rifle bullets could be fired in just a few seconds, and what was even worse was that the grenades on the four of them were gone.
"I can't care so much, I calculate that the number of Japanese troops left should not be very large, and there will be no more than 30 people in total." Tang Cheng whispered the results of his calculations to the other three, but Lao Dongbei looked indifferent, but the two guerrillas were a little panicked. "The rice field across the stream is a dead end, the Japanese army will definitely think that we are hiding in the rice field, what we have to do now is to hide and hold the troops, and when the Japanese army comes down from the mound and focuses on the rice field, we will attack them from behind."
When it comes to the means of concealment, no one dares to admit the first when the guerrillas recognize the second, but Tang Cheng in the stream has taught these two guerrillas a good lesson. Tear off the strip of cloth and stuff the muzzle, grab the silt in the river and paste it all over the body, and then insert the weeds in the river into the body, if you don't open your eyes and don't open your mouth, look at it from a distance, Tang Cheng and the four of them have completely integrated with the river.