Chapter 34: Sniper Duel (1)

Katayama Yoshikawa, nicknamed Wood, Japanese Kwantung Army Commander Cao. Katayama Yoshikawa, who was born in Orion, has a wooden personality, and because of a conflict with his superiors after drinking, he was transferred south to supplement the second-line garrison. Because he participated in the encirclement and suppression of anti-Japanese forces many times in the Kwantung Army, and his marksmanship was outstanding, he was promoted to second lieutenant of infantry after going south. The Kwantung Army, influenced by the German officer corps studying abroad, had been conducting a sniper training program, and if Katayama Yoshikawa had not been transferred south, he might have been transferred to the sniper training unit.

Special talents, of course, must be treated specially, and not only was Katayama Yoshikawa promoted to the rank of second lieutenant, but the weapon he used was a standard sniper rifle. German snipers were trained in small groups, with sniper rifles for the main shooter and regular rifles or * for the secondary shooters. But Katayama Yoshikawa likes to be alone, so Katayama Yoshikawa has never had a secondary shooter, which is his choice and his privilege.

Without a sub-shooter, everything has to be done in person, and Yoshikawa Katayama is now on one knee on the ground, using a telescope to search the surrounding target area in front of him. Today's weather is good, sunny and windless, and it is a good weather for sniper warfare. Yoshikawa Katayama, who hadn't participated in actual combat for a long time, hoped to participate in a battle today to turn his shooting record, which had not increased for a long time, into a new number.

Finally, Katayama Yoshikawa spotted the enemy's figure in his telescope. Not far from Katayama Yoshikawa, a straggler line composed of more than a dozen Imperial Alliance soldiers was slowly coming towards him, and the target that appeared in Katayama Yoshikawa's telescope was obviously preparing to avoid these dozen Imperial Alliance soldiers. From the moment he entered this forest, Katayama Yoshikawa felt that the enemy this time was very different from the anti-Japanese forces he had encountered before, although they looked the same, but the enemy in this forest frequently showed some standard tactical moves.

The enemy looked careful, but Katayama Yoshikawa didn't care at all, he had fought a lot of battles, and he knew what the so-called Dohachi guerrillas were. The rookie who only knows that he rushes with his head down is no different from the old bird who knows how to use evasive moves to advance, and whoever he wants to die, he will definitely die. The enemy was still far away, at least six or seven hundred meters away from him, and Katayama Yoshikawa did not rush to put down his binoculars and grab his rifle, he had to wait for the enemy to enter the firing range before holding his gun.

Now, it's better to observe the enemy's movement habits more, and after finding out the enemy's movement patterns, it will be more convenient to shoot later. Looking at the enemy not far away, he began to shout, and one by one began to clutch his rifles and prepare to shoot the soldiers of the Imperial Army. Yoshikawa Katayama, who had a cold face, sighed from his heart, rookies are rookies, if these were soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, they would definitely not behave like this. It's a rookie if you haven't gone through actual combat, and the enemy is still out of range, so what's the tension.

Katayama Yoshikawa's sniper rifle is a Type 97 6.5mm sniper rifle with an effective range of 600 meters, but Katayama Yoshikawa is used to putting the enemy within a range of 400 meters, so he will have more certainty. So, Katayama Yoshikawa had been waiting silently, and he decided that it was not too late to wait for the enemy to enter within four hundred meters before starting to aim. A veteran is a veteran, a recruit is a recruit, and a recruit with rigorous training is still a recruit. Katayama Yoshikawa was calm and laid-back, while the other Japanese troops who entered the forest with him could not keep it easy.

However, Martin's appearance made his comrades see it, and gradually, these Japanese soldiers scattered in the forest began to stabilize from the slightly panicked mood when they found the enemy. Yoshikawa Katayama, who has a wealth of experience in mountain warfare, was able to bring experience to recruits who lacked actual combat, which played a great role in his team. All in all, Katayama Yoshikawa's performance at the moment made his comrades-in-arms feel a lot more at ease.

Katayama Yoshikawa's mission was to encircle and suppress the enemy forces in the mountains and forests around the valley, but after dawn, Katayama Yoshikawa suddenly received an order to draw part of their forces into the valley. Katayama Yoshikawa was naturally not the part of the people who entered the valley, and in his opinion, although there were still enemy troops in the mountains and forests, they were much safer than in the valleys.

Japanese soldier Cao Laichuan Kenichi, who was more than ten meters away from Katayama Yoshikawa, whispered to him: "Second Lieutenant Katayama, let's see who of us has better results today, how about it?" Although Katayama Yoshikawa is already a second lieutenant officer, he has a very good relationship with his soldiers, especially Yorikawa Kenichi, a fellow Kumamoto countryman. For his friend's challenge, Katayama Yoshikawa is happy to accept it, and being able to put forward the challenge shows that Yorikawa Kenichi has relaxed from his nervousness.

Katayama Yoshikawa immediately whispered, "Okay, whoever loses will have a treat, believe me, you won't ......" Who knew that Katayama Yoshikawa hadn't finished speaking, and something strange suddenly appeared, and Katayama Yoshikawa couldn't help but open his mouth wide in shock. Because Lai Chuan Kenichi, who was talking to him with his head up, suddenly disappeared from the neck upwards, and disappeared completely. Yoshikawa Kenichi, who was talking to Yoshikawa Katayama, became a headless corpse, blood spurting from his neck cavity, staining a large area of land in front of him red.

Seeing that Lai Chuan Kenichi was talking to him, and the blood that spurted out fell to the ground, Katayama Yoshikawa heard two dull gunshots in a row. The two gunshots woke up Katayama Yoshikawa, whose brain was blank, in an instant, and then he realized that it was not only Raikawa Kenichi who died in front of his eyes. The machine gunner, who was lying behind Lai Chuanjian's body, was also killed, and the bullet entered the heavy from the shoulder, shattering the left side of the chest cavity of the entire upper body. Katayama Yoshikawa reacted immediately, immediately carrying his sniper rifle and moving behind a big tree.

Yoshikawa Katayama, who was hiding behind a big tree, was dry and his heart was beating faster, and he secretly turned his head to look at the wound on the body of the machine gunner, and Yoshikawa Katayama quickly understood that it was caused by a large-caliber weapon. It was absolutely impossible for the Tsuchihachi guerrillas to have large-caliber weapons, and thinking of the mouth of the valley that was heavily defended by the enemy, Katayama Yoshikawa's heart secretly jumped wildly. "The enemy has heavy weapons, bastards, why didn't those bastards in Hashimoto's squadron inform us, those damn ......"

The whining not far from Katayama Yoshikawa suddenly stopped, and Katayama Yoshikawa looked at the unlucky guy in a daze, the noisy guy had broken in two at the moment. Katayama Yoshikawa's mind was in turmoil, he didn't dare to kneel on one knee anymore, but lay on the ground with his whole body, then grabbed his sniper rifle and aimed the muzzle of the gun in the direction where the bullet came. Katayama Yoshikawa's mind was confused, and his eyes saw the enemy's movements, but what he thought in his heart was the tragic situation of the imperial soldier being beaten in two just now.

As a veteran and officer, Katayama Yoshikawa is in a state of chaos that he should never have, and at this moment he behaves like a rookie egg. Because his enemies showed more behavior than he could have imagined, he was subjected to a more severe psychological shock than a recruit. "Concealment, attention to concealment!" While Katayama Yoshikawa deliberately remained silent, the hoarse shouts of Japanese veterans rang out one after another in the mountains and forests, and Katayama Yoshikawa woke up like a dream, and he immediately lay on the ground and squirmed backwards and retreated.

The need to remind his companions who had not been through sniper combat made Katayama Yoshikawa feel very ashamed, but at this time Katayama Yoshikawa knew that it was important to save his life first. Katayama Yoshikawa did not dare to stand up and move, and just as he was rolling and rolling to transfer positions, a machine gunner who was more than twenty meters away from him shouted and opened fire. Katayama Yoshikawa's heart was at a loss, their enemy was still hundreds of meters away, and their machine gun bullets couldn't hit that far in the forest, and now firing was just a waste of bullets, and it didn't even have a suppressive effect. But what can you do without shooting? At this time, you don't open fire, and you keep watching the enemy approach?

Just as Yoshikawa Katayama was beginning to fall into a state of confusion, he suddenly saw the machine gunner's head tilt and then fall to the side. The Heavy was also shot, but his death looked much better and was not torn apart. The bullet that killed the machine gunner was not that powerful, and although Katayama Yoshikawa did not know what caliber it was, it was certainly not the previous large-caliber one. It's just that the enemy is still six or seven hundred meters away, and even if it is a 7.62 mm bullet, it is impossible to hit so far in such an environment.

Suddenly, a shadow flashed quickly from the corner of Katayama Yoshikawa's eyes, and Katayama Yoshikawa couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, the daring enemy had approached from six or seven hundred meters away. Finding the enemy's figure, Katayama Yoshikawa cheered up, if he couldn't solve this opponent, he and the others around him would face great danger. Katayama Yoshikawa's attention was focused on the forest at the moment, but he didn't pay attention to the Japanese soldiers who entered the valley at all, if he could spare some time to pay more attention to the direction of the valley at this moment, he would find that the Japanese soldiers who entered the valley were all strangely gone.

Lu Yuan, who had already switched to a sniper rifle, moved quickly in the forest, and found that the Japanese troops on the surrounding hills began to enter the valley, so Lu Yuan left enough ammunition for Huzi, but he went down the platform to the valley along the rope. The sniper rifle equipped with * is very sharp, especially Lu Yuan, who entered the valley first, is considered to be waiting for work, and when the surrounding mountains enter the valley one after another, he was caught off guard by Lu Yuan.

The members of the index team scattered in the forest fought very hard, facing the Japanese search force several times their size, and the members of the direct team had already suffered casualties one after another, and in the face of such a situation, Lu Yuan had to kill himself in the forest. The strange figure that Katayama Yoshikawa saw was Lu Yuan who rushed into the forest, and when Katayama Yoshikawa was trying to find Lu Yuan, Lu Yuan, who was lightly armed, had already detoured to Katayama Yoshikawa's back.