Although Huang Chengzhong was not very good at fighting, his ability to use clichés was first-rate. Not far after the cart had gone out, he had already figured out Dai Yan's identity. As Tang Cheng had guessed, Dai Yan and the others were not the National Salvation Army at all.
Dai Yan would be regarded as the leader by these locals, but it was because of the local reputation of the Dai family, and Dai Yan was a foreign student who had seen the world in Peiping. Therefore, after a large number of villagers were captured by the Japanese army, Dai Yan took the lead and gathered them together.
With so many locals preparing to cause trouble for the Japanese army, those fellow villagers would be captured.
"How else can we fight? Is it possible that you have forgotten how to fight?" Following the dozen guides left by Dai Yan to chase the Japanese soldiers who captured the people, Lao Dongbei asked all the questions along the way. It was not that he didn't
He knew how to fight, but he didn't understand why Tang Cheng decided to help the woman in the red coat. Tang Cheng's question was obviously intended to change the topic, but Old Northeast couldn't force Tang Cheng to answer his questions, so Old Northeast
Dongbei could only believe that Tang Cheng was coveting that woman's appearance.
With the help of these locals, it is no longer difficult to find the whereabouts of the Japanese army. In order to take small roads to catch up with the Japanese army as soon as possible, the dozen or so guides Dai Yan left with Tangcheng also served as ammunition carriers. Otherwise, only Tangcheng and the others could
It is simply impossible for an individual to complete a rapid march of more than ten miles with two light machine guns and enough ammunition. "Captain Li, we meet again." Following the guides, they took a small road and rushed to Huangnigang. Tangcheng met Li Chang again.
Shun and his guerrillas.
When the two sides met again, Li Changshun was obviously a little embarrassed. It was Li Changshun's idea that Dai Yan led the people to block the road to Tangcheng. Knowing that the Japanese troops taking the main road had not yet arrived at Huangnigang, Tangcheng did not have any extra time with Li Changshun.
After greetings and a brief exchange of information, Tang Cheng decided to take his own people to ambush the Japanese front line and leave the rescue of the captured people to Li Changshun's guerrillas.
"The enemy is coming! We are all ready!..." The battle order was passed quietly in the dense forest. Tang Cheng and the others were lurking in the wild bayberry bushes on both sides of the ancient trail. The guides who only had shotguns and muskets held their breaths one by one.
The people also quietly raised their shotguns and imitated Tang Cheng and others and aimed at the khaki figure that appeared on the trail. "Why are you so anxious? Be careful of misfire. The little devil is still far away." Liu Shitou, who looked like a veteran, said.
The overly excited guides lowered their trigger fingers.
"I used to be just like you, and I was so nervous. But once I accidentally fired my ambush hand and exposed the target. As a result, half of our brothers were lost." Liu Shitou muttered in a low voice, and everyone else around him fell silent.
"But don't be afraid, little devils can be killed by bullets, there's nothing to fear from them." As Liu Shitou whispered softly, the guides remained silent and motionless, and sometimes looked up from the bayberry tree.
A caterpillar fell on them, but the soldiers still lay motionless, but their eyes were staring at the khaki figures from far to near without blinking.
For Tang Cheng and others, ambush is as easy as eating and sleeping. From the time they left Nanjing, the method Tang Cheng used most when fighting the Japanese army was ambush. Compared with regular battlefield stations, Tang Cheng felt that he was more suitable for command.
In this kind of small-scale ambush battle, if you can't fight, you can leave. Tang Cheng himself didn't have the helplessness and frustration when he took the initiative to retreat. In his opinion, as long as he can kill the Japanese army, no matter whether it is a fight to the death or no retreat.
It doesn't matter if you retreat temporarily to preserve your strength.
Just like the ambush battles he had experienced, when the Japanese army's voice appeared on the trail, Tang Chengzhang, who was lying down, never gave the order to fire, so that the guides holding the shotguns frequently turned their heads to look at Tangcheng.
The three Japanese vanguard soldiers were let go directly. Tang Cheng's target was the large Japanese army following the vanguard soldiers. If he exposed his position and firepower just for the three vanguard soldiers, such an ambush would be worse than no attack, so Tang Cheng
They waited patiently for more Japanese troops to appear.
For some unknown reason, these three Japanese soldiers looked weak. Before setting foot on the trail, they did not even conduct fire reconnaissance and close-up searches of the woodland on both sides of the trail as stipulated in the infantry drill. However, this was enough.
It was convenient for Tang Cheng and the others. Tang Cheng, who was lying in the forest, slowly moved the angle of the telescope and carefully observed the Japanese troops that were about to appear on the trail. The number of Japanese troops was obviously smaller than what the guerrillas and Dai Yan had told him.
, Tangcheng estimated that this Japanese army was just a small Japanese army at best.
With full confidence in the leading soldiers, the large group of Japanese troops that came slowly finally appeared in Tangcheng's sight. As the Japanese troops moved forward, Tangcheng and the others could clearly see the Japanese soldiers on the trail with only their naked eyes.
Because the path was too narrow, the Japanese soldiers who were originally walking on both sides of the team to guard the civilians could only be divided into two groups: the front and the back. The more than a hundred civilians connected by long ropes were guarded in the middle of the team. Look.
At this scene, Tang Cheng couldn't help but frown. He was afraid that the common people would not be able to escape the stray bullets that would be fired after a while.
The Japanese soldiers and civilians on the trail were getting closer and closer. Seeing that the Japanese soldiers in the front team had passed the position where Tang Cheng was lying down, Tang Cheng, who had been motionless, finally waved his arm towards Hou San on his left. "Bang bang"
Hou San and Tan Fei, who were more than ten meters away, each fired a shot. Two Japanese soldiers in the front team were shot and fell. The other Japanese soldiers were horrified by the sudden attack and lay down on both sides of the path.
The people who were tied together by ropes were so excited that they rolled and crawled to the pit on one side of the trail.
"Folks, hurry up, run this way." Just as the Japanese soldiers and civilians on the trail were panicking, someone from the guerrillas not far away stood up and shouted loudly, directing the panicked civilians to run towards them.
Move to a slightly safer place. "Fire!" Tang Cheng, who seized the opportunity, shouted and opened fire, "Da da da da da da...!" Tang Cheng's machine guns on both sides of the trail suddenly roared, not the kind of two or three.
The continuous fire swept across the Japanese army.
"Throw grenades, just do what I taught you just now." The machine gun fired furiously. Liu Shitou, who was lying down with a dozen guides, was not idle. He took out a grenade and showed it to the guides. Melee combat
Unlike positional warfare, where the opponent's grenades can be thrown at your own firepower point at any time, what is important is to concentrate your firepower to annihilate the enemy in the shortest possible time.
As Liu Shitou shouted, grenades in the bushes on both sides of the trail also began to be thrown out. You must be very careful when throwing grenades in mountain warfare. When setting up an ambush, you should pay attention to where to throw them and where to throw them.
Otherwise, it is easy to get tripped by a branch next to you or the grenade will be blocked by the trunk of the tree and bounce back. More than a dozen grenades were thrown out with great force and fell towards the trail ahead, "Boom!" "Boom!" violently.
The sound of the explosion was amplified by the unique echo of the mountains and became extremely majestic. The Japanese troops under attack had no way of judging where the enemy was coming from. They only knew that they were surrounded by enemies.
The screams were mixed with the roar of bullets, and the violent explosion tore away all hearing. From the beginning of the battle, the one-mile-long mountain road turned into a slaughterhouse. A small team of Japanese soldiers who were escaping in a panic had almost no chance to fight back and were killed.
The beating was so exhausting that corpses were scattered on the ground. "Kill!..." There was no charge horn, only the cry of killing. The guerrillas, who were also familiar with mountain road ambush warfare, knew when to pounce.
The Japanese soldiers lying on the ground who had escaped the rain of bullets and shrapnel looked helplessly at the ambushers who had rushed in front of them in just a few steps. However, they could not get up. Their swaying bodies were still trying to find their balance before they were stabbed by bayonets.
Once it was pierced, the blood quickly dyed the mile-long mountain road red, smoothed by the cloth soles collected by countless generations.
A dozen Japanese soldiers in the rear of the Japanese army were already fighting with Li Changshun and the others, but Tangcheng continued to suppress the Japanese in the front with gunfire. In Tangcheng's memory, the results of the battle were not powerful enough to control
Before the entire battle, anyone who foolishly rushed out to engage in close combat with the Japanese army would die. When they left Longgang Town, Tangcheng and the others not only brought two light machine guns and a grenade launcher, but also a large amount of ammunition.
This ammunition was enough for them to remain concealed and kill all the Japanese troops on the trail.
Without looking at Li Changshun and the others, Tang Cheng had already focused all his attention on the Japanese troops in front of him. The strength of a Japanese army team would not be less than 60 people, although Li Changshun had already started a close combat with the Japanese rear troops.
, but most of the Japanese troops were on the front team's side. "Pa!" Tang Cheng's gun muzzle shook slightly. The Japanese machine gunner he was targeting more than ten meters away fell crookedly, and did not wait for the opponent's deputy shooter to help him up.
The second bullet from Tang Cheng's light machine gun had also been fired, and "poof" the deputy shooter also fell down with a bloody arrow in his chest.
"Grenade, throw the grenade." Amidst the thundering gunshots and explosions, Tang Cheng heard Liu Shitou's cry very clearly, and more than a dozen grenades were thrown out by the guides, and then very
It accurately landed in the area they had predicted in advance and exploded. "How's it? Did you kill it happily? When you fight with us, you don't have to worry about ammunition, and you don't have to worry about how powerful the little Japs are. You just have to worry about the grenades you throw not missing.
That's it." Between bombings, Liu Shitou showed an expression like a veteran and began to lecture his temporary subordinates.
The dozen or so guides sent by Dai Yan certainly didn't expect that Liu Shitou was not a veteran, but it was their first time to fight the Japanese like this. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" the grenade that fell on the trail
The grenades exploded one after another, and Liu Shitou's throwing of grenades regardless of ammunition consumption caused great losses to the Japanese troops on the trail. The flying shrapnel gave them no chance to hide.