When the sky darkened completely, the officers and soldiers of the Independent Battalion felt their hearts sinking into their stomachs.
They knew that the main force of the Japanese army they were worried about would never arrive here. They were not worried about continuing to fight, but they were worried about the captures all over the ground waiting for them to clean up.
It was the happiest moment after a great war and must not be disturbed.
In fact, the main force of the Japanese army that had been attacking Qinglongling Village for two hours did not know the news that the unlucky boy Takeuchi Yunshan was completely dead. Even if he knew, it was an eighty-year-old man who met an eighteen-year-old girl——
Feeling helpless!
After more than an hour of attack, in front of this iron walnut in Qinglongling Village, Kunizaki was stunned and his forehead was bruised. A full 180 corpses and more than 200 wounded were carried off the battlefield, but the opponent was still full of energy and would attack from time to time.
A cold gun was fired from the cracks in the rocks, killing officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain.
This means that the bottom line of Major General Kunizaki, who has lost an infantry brigade and an artillery brigade, has been stretched very low. Otherwise, he would have become angry and vomited blood again.
Therefore, the severe beatings in life can improve people quite a lot. At least at this moment, Major General Kunizaki's face turned blue. He ordered the entire army to continue to trap these trapped fish, and at the same time, he was still at ease in the field tent.
Waiting for the reconnaissance team he sent to bring back the information about Takeuchi Unzanbu.
In other words, he was waiting for dawn to give him another day. The heavy fog over the Navy couldn't last for two consecutive days!
Not too many, just one squadron of bombers dropping 12 heavy bombs can flatten the damn stone walls and deep trenches of the Chinese.
Unfortunately, no one knows whether the Japanese Navy's fighter planes will be able to take off normally tomorrow, but he is destined to not be able to wait for the information from Takeuchi Unzanbe tonight.
When the overall situation was basically decided, Tang Dao ordered Lao Hei to lead the guard platoon plus Yang Xiaoshan's infantry platoon and Gu Xishui's special operations team to quickly move to the east of the valley...
Sure enough, three small units that almost represented the most elite of the independent battalion encountered a Japanese squad-level search team in the mountains 1.5 kilometers away from the river valley.
Of the three squad-level search teams of the Japanese army, except for one squad that walked on the mountain road, the other two chose to advance through the more difficult mountain forests. This also seriously slowed down their marching speed, so that it took more than an hour.
I just walked less than 2 kilometers.
The Japanese army had no choice but to make this choice. In order to obtain information about friendly forces, they first had to ensure that they could survive. They could not put all their eggs in one basket when they might encounter the Chinese army at any time.
If we encounter an extreme situation, there will be a small team that can escape and report the news, right?
The Japanese search team, which had put themselves in the "weak" mentality, was cautious enough, but the price paid for this caution was that three elite Chinese teams, led by veteran hunters who were familiar with the terrain around the gold fishing pit, followed
They were blocked on two hills along an unknown path.
Of course they didn't know that their marching method would come under the eyes of the scouts sent by Tang Dao just 1.5 kilometers away from their main force.
In order to successfully ambush the Japanese troops that he had worked so hard to 'mobilize', Tang Dao had gone to an almost 'perverted' level to prevent Kunizaki's main force from changing.
As early as a day ago, Tang Dao had allocated 30 kilograms of rice per person per day and a sky-high price of 10 yuan from the small army rations as remuneration, and recruited 30 hunters from local villagers who had been hunting in the mountains for more than 20 years.
12 people moved forward with the infantry companies, artillery companies and other troops to avoid getting lost. The other 18 people each led two soldiers and hid on various hills along the way, covering almost all the roads leading to the gold fishing pit.
Abnormal situations were immediately reported to the soldiers of the cavalry platoon nearest to them. Lu Sanjiang's cavalry platoon became beacon messengers. Tang Dao, who was stationed in the gold pit, could obtain changes in the situation several kilometers away in the shortest possible time.
One success may be accidental, but subsequent successes are more likely to come from meticulous attention to detail.
The Chinese soldiers finally got their reward. While Lao Hei and others were still advancing on the mountain road, they received the news from Lu Sanjiang and immediately made corresponding deployments based on the characteristics of the Japanese army's march.
This time, both sides were on the same level in terms of their familiarity with the terrain and their combat capabilities. Especially since the two pure infantry units were paired with a special team led by Gu Xishui, who was familiar with the concept of special operations, their combat effectiveness was doubled.
It was perhaps the first time that ordinary infantry units and "special forces" cooperated in field battles, but the effect was unexpectedly good.
The first to suffer were the two Japanese squads that seemed safe in the mountains and forests.
Lao Hei's guard platoon and Yang Xiaoshan's infantry platoon each sent a squad to occupy the high ground, attack the Japanese troops from top to bottom, and suppress them in the mountains and forests. Their respective infantry squads drove them toward the sheep along the mountain line.
Press inwards as well.
The Japanese squad on the mountain road heard the gunshots and wanted to retreat, but it was too late. An infantry squad each from the guard platoon and the Yang Xiaoshan infantry platoon had already blocked them behind, leaving them in a dilemma and could only survive by relying on shooting.
Killing its two wings and then cleaning up the Japanese detachment on the mountain road was the choice of Lao Hei as the supreme commander of the team.
The two special operations teams under Gu Xishui were hidden in the jungle and carried out precise strikes against the Japanese troops in the mountains and forests.
Both special operations groups are equipped with the best sharpshooters and grenade launchers of the independent battalion. Needless to say, Niu Er's marksmanship is that within a straight line distance of 300 meters, any exposed torso as big as a palm will be his target.
After the whole battle, Niu Er alone shot and killed 8 people, accounting for one sixth of the Japanese killed.
But Niu Er and another sharpshooter who killed five people were not the decisive factor in the victory of this small ambush.
It was the two grenade launchers who really led the victory in this battlefield that took place on three sections of mountain road with a distance of 400 meters between all parties.
That was perhaps the first time that a Japanese squad met a Chinese grenadier who was somewhat more accurate than they were. With the accuracy of a veteran Japanese grenadier, he could control the third grenade within 10 seconds after two test rounds.
Throwing it within a radius of 3 meters to a distance of 500 meters is already a level that makes Chinese light and heavy machine gun shooters extremely frightened.
Since the war began, 50% of China's heavy machine gun firepower has been destroyed by such crude handheld mortars.
However, the accuracy of the two Chinese grenade launchers was more terrifying than that of the Japanese grenade launchers. Perhaps it was not because their level was much higher, but because of geographical advantages superimposed on psychological factors. But in any case, one test shot
, two rounds hit a target 400 meters away, which is a nightmare for infantrymen.
Two Japanese squads that were completely suppressed in the mountains and forests suffered such an extremely painful blow. After the light machine gunners and grenadiers accompanying the team were discovered and killed by the Chinese because of their counterattack, they became completely
Lamb for slaughter.
Shooters hiding behind rocks and trees can block bullets but cannot block grenades fired from hundreds of meters away. The Chinese infantry do not have to think about killing the enemy themselves. They only need to suppress the enemy with firepower. All the tasks of killing the enemy are handed over to the grenade.
Done by hand.
Coupled with the piecemeal attack of two sharpshooters, it took only 20 minutes for two Japanese squads of 30 Japanese soldiers to be defeated. The collapse of the psychological defense line made it even more difficult to maintain the defense line, exposing their backs to several precision shooters and snipers.
As a result, no one was left alive and was killed in the forest.
Then came the end of the remaining Japanese troops on the mountain road. It was almost the same pattern. Two horribly accurate grenade launchers joined the three grenade launchers from Yang Xiaoshan's infantry platoon to kill the Japanese troops hiding in the rocks.
The infantry carried out a beating.
Nearly 50 Japanese infantrymen were completely wiped out in the mountains of southern Anhui without causing a single splash.
Because all of them died in the battle, they did not achieve any results. Only two Chinese soldiers rolled into the bushes to avoid the desperate bullets of the Japanese infantry. Their faces were scratched by branches, and they were barely injured.
According to statistics after the war, as many as 20 Japanese soldiers died at the hands of two grenade launchers alone, accounting for almost one-half of the number of Japanese soldiers killed.
So much so that Tang Dao even revised the "Special Forces Training Manual" he wrote in his spare time during the march, adding lightweight mortar operators to the list of must-selects for the special forces team.
Before the advent of portable rocket launchers, 50mm or 60mm light mortars were the nightmare of all light infantry. Tang Dao in this era had no other choice.
The main force of the independent battalion, which had solved all potential dangers, completely entered carnival mode.
