Chapter 61: Successive Ambushes (2)
"You've always been beating little devils like this?" When moving in the direction of Huandiqiao Town, Tan Fei asked Hou San who was running beside him in a low voice, but the latter just glanced at Tan Fei with slanted eyes but did not answer. It's not that Hou San doesn't want to deal with Tan Fei, it's that he doesn't understand why Tan Fei asks such a question at all, Hou San, who was born as a bandit, has only been accepted into the second company by Tang Cheng for half a month, so he will only act according to Tang Cheng's orders, and everything else is superfluous to him, including thinking.
Seeing that Hou San didn't answer him, Tan Fei rolled his eyes, then leaned over to Zhao Baokun's side with a pant and asked the same question. Zhao Baokun didn't ignore Tan Fei, but Zhao Baokun's answer was simply a preface and a postscript, "What's the matter?" Isn't it right to fight devils like this? If only one more machine gun could have been added, maybe it would have taken down the town. Zhao Baokun was proud, Tan Fei could feel his pride from Zhao Baokun's tone, he just wanted to understand Tang Cheng's tactics and tactics, but he didn't want Zhao Baokun to give him such an answer.
Liu Shi was left in the field to clean up the battlefield, and Lao Dongbei followed Tang Cheng closely, Tan Fei really couldn't find a suitable person to ask, so he had to bury the question in his heart first, maybe after the battle was over, he could ask Tang Cheng again. The scattered panicked Imperial Allied army was in a hurry to run back to the town to report the news to the Japanese army, but Tangcheng their destination was the slope that Liu Shi had pushed to Xiaoshu before, and there were dozens of pits on the slope that Tangcheng had dug overnight.
The previous question has not been answered, and a new question has appeared in Tan Fei's mind, it is rare to say that Tang Cheng still wants to use the same means to ambush the Japanese army? was taken by the old northeast to find his own pit, the question in Tan Fei's heart was also answered, uncovered the turf and jumped into the pit to squat, Tan Fei couldn't help but look at Tang Cheng, did it really work to ambush the Japanese army with the same means? The unstoppable combat effectiveness of the Japanese army when attacking Huangshi made Tan Fei remember it vividly.
Tang Cheng's reverse ambush is also from the battlefield notes left by Xie Bo, echelon ambush is a common mode in ambush warfare, but this tactic requires troops and firepower that Tang Cheng can't meet now. As long as the Japanese puppet army is ambushed at the first ambush point, it will naturally be cautious in the next march, and once it finds a suspicion, it will carry out a strong firepower strike, such a situation is absolutely not wanted to be seen by Tang Cheng, who is currently weak.
The reverse ambush will not have such a dead end, Tang Cheng The place where they ambushed the Japanese puppet army just now is more than 2 miles away from the town, even if the Japanese puppet army in the town sends reinforcements, they will only target 2 miles away from the town or more, they would never have imagined that they would ambush them only 1 mile away from the town. "It's still the same, waiting for my order to open fire, if you can't hear my gunshot, no one is allowed to fire, otherwise we're all going to die here." Tang Cheng's deliberately suppressed voice sounded on the slope, and Tan Fei in the pit pursed his lips and released his finger that hooked the trigger.
Of course, Tang Cheng's words were not untargeted, their hiding place was on a slope with only weeds and scattered saplings, and what protected them was only a pit one and a half meters deep and one and a half meters wide and one and a half meters narrow, once the location was exposed before the ambush began, they would not even have a chance to escape. Carefully adjusting the turf in front of the pit, Tang Cheng looked in the direction of Huandiqiao Town with a telescope, those soldiers of the Imperial Alliance Army who fled for their lives should also find their Japanese masters, Tang Cheng's hand holding the telescope began to tremble slightly, he was not afraid, but eager for the next battle.
"Yaga" Kameshima Gohara, who had a gloomy face, rounded his arms and slapped all the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army standing in front of him. He clearly knew what it meant for a squad of Imperial soldiers and a platoon of Imperial Allies to be ambushed, which meant that there was a resistance force of the Zhina people hidden near Huandiqiao Town, and the number of this resistance force would definitely not be small. "Niu Sanman, this idiot, damn idiot." Kameshima Gohara scolded Niu Sanman in his heart, if it weren't for Niu Sanman's insistence on going out with a squad of imperial soldiers, maybe only the Imperial Association Army would be ambushed this time.
"You say they have machine guns? And more than one? Unlike Kameshima Gohara's outburst, Kurosin, who is neatly dressed in military uniform, always treats the person he talks to as his own. The Imperial Association Army who was questioned by Hei Xin did not dare to hide it, and recounted the entire process from leaving Huandiqiao Town to being ambushed to Hei Xin, and several other Imperial Association soldiers even added to it on the side, for fear that there would be something missing.
"Kameshima-kun, the other party has two machine guns, I'm afraid it won't be as simple as a small force. I think we should report the situation to the wing first, wait for the orders of the superiors before making a decision, and we must not rush into battle. "He Kamejima Five was originally a fellow villager, and he served in the same squad for more than a year, so Kurosin naturally knew his temperament as a fellow villager. Looking at Kameshima Gohara's reaction at this time, Heixin knew that Kameshima was planning to go out to find the group of ambush troops, no matter what, Heixin wanted to stop Kameishima's blind decision.
"Heixin-kun, if you are afraid, you can stay here and wait for us to return triumphantly. A dozen Imperial warriors are still outside the town and don't know whether they are alive or dead, are we just waiting here without doing anything? As soon as Kameshima Gohara said this, Heixin knew that he had no choice, just the disdain in the eyes of the few imperial soldiers around him had already made him feel like a pins and needles, if he still wanted to stop Kameshima, maybe the other soldiers in the squad would also secretly say that he was a coward.
In the end, Kurosin was unable to stop Kameshima Gohara's decision to send troops, but at his insistence, Kameshima Gohara still promised to leave a squad of Japanese soldiers and a squad of Emperor Cooperative Army to garrison Huandiqiao Town. Light machine guns, grenadiers, mortars, Kameshima Gohara brought all the strong firepower weapons of the squad, and the life and death of a squad of imperial soldiers did not know what made Kameshima Gohara angry, and he only had one thought now, to find those Shina resisters, and then kill them and cut off their heads.
The Imperial Allied Army, who had the life to flee back to Diqiao Town, could hide some things, and if Hei Xin knew that the Japanese soldiers who went out with Niu Sanman had all been killed, he would never agree to Kameshima Gohara's decision to take the troops out. For the sake of a squad of soldiers who have died in battle to catch almost the strength of the entire squad, even the commander who is confused will not make such a mistake, but unfortunately Kameshima Gohara was already furious at this time, and he couldn't listen to anyone's persuasion at all.
More than 30 Japanese soldiers plus more than 50 Imperial Cooperative Army, and the Japanese puppet army with more than 80 people moved quickly along the official road in the direction of Luojiazhuang. When the figure of the Japanese soldiers appeared in the Tangcheng telescope, Tang Cheng in the pit couldn't help but shudder secretly in his heart, he originally thought that there should not be too many Japanese puppet troops going out of the town, but now it seems that these guys are out of the nest. 24 people against more than 80 Japanese puppet army troops, this is already a one-to-three ratio of numbers, Tang Cheng doesn't know if this battle can be as smooth as the last time, but the arrow is already on the string, and he can't afford to retreat.
Tang Cheng's ambush place at the moment was only 1 mile away from the town, not only Tan Fei didn't believe that Tang Cheng would put the location of the second ambush here, but even Hei Xin, who was cautious by nature, didn't believe it, and the three Japanese soldiers naturally didn't believe it. The three spearmen sent by Kameshima Gohara were not at all as cautious as the scout spears, and although they had their rifles flat, they definitely didn't put their fingers on the trigger, because they absolutely didn't believe that anyone would dare to ambush them so close to the town.
The three Japanese soldiers didn't even have the intention of searching uphill, but they just stood on the official road and looked into the distance a few times before striding away with their rifles. Tan Fei, who was squatting in the pit, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his pit was not the closest to the official road, but being so close to the Japanese soldiers was a challenge for Tan Fei, and he even had the feeling of eye contact with one of the Japanese soldiers just now.
No one would have believed that the resisters would ambush them again only a mile from the town, this time with the Japanese at the front of the line, with the Imperial Allied Army following at the end. The Japanese army's arrangement also attracted Tang Cheng to focus on the 30 or so Japanese soldiers in the front of the team, as long as these 30 Japanese soldiers can be defeated, the remaining dozens of Imperial Allied troops are not a problem at all, and the last ambush of the Imperial Allied Army has given Tang Cheng the motivation to win.
The Kameshima Gohara on the official road still had a gloomy face, and even the war horse under his crotch only cared about striding forward, and Hei Xin, who was riding a horse beside Kameshima Gohara, couldn't help but twist his face and glance at his fellow countryman and superior. Hei Xin is envious of Kameshima Gohara, the two of them enlisted together before joining the war, but a year has passed, Kameshima Gohara has become a captain commanding a team, and he is only a second lieutenant. Kurosin asked himself that he was not less striving than Kameshima Gohara, and he was also brave when he fought, but no matter what, Kameshima's military rank was two levels higher than his own.
Sitting on horseback, Kameshima Gohara didn't know what Hei Xin was thinking at this time, after leaving Huandiqiao Town, Kameshima Gohara actually regretted it a little, his task was to take Huandiqiao Town and stick here. Such a reckless dispatch of troops is obviously not in line with their own tasks, but the soldiers have already been brought out by themselves, and now it is impossible to go home, only to continue to march forward, at least to bring back the bodies of those dead soldiers.