Yang Zhen has always been puzzled as to why these Japanese and puppet troops are always circling outside the mountain one after another. Looking at the mountainous area just around the corner, the reason why they don't go in is very simple. [.Com text] Yang Zhen
That stunning shot shocked not only Dong Ping, but also the top commander of the Japanese and puppet army. In the words of later generations, Major Kitano Takatsu was usually awesome but became impotent at critical moments.
When Yang Zhen shot the 38-type bullet shell that killed Yamada, Kitano Takatsu hesitated for a long time before sending search personnel to pick it up from the position where he shot and then brought it to him.
The major, who had been lying on the ground for more than half an hour, was almost scared.
He is a bit smart but short-sighted, but that doesn't mean he is a fool. Kitano Takatsu naturally knows what it means to shoot accurately from 200 meters away at night and kill the target with one shot.
Since the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements in the mountains are equipped with a full set of captured Japanese equipment, they should not have high-end equipment such as sniper rifles. Because as far as Kitano Takatsu knows, soldiers generally have good marksmanship, even up to the standard of sharpshooters.
Among the Japanese troops, which accounted for 30 to 40% of the rifleman establishment, only a handful of regular field divisions had a small number of specialized snipers.
Moreover, most of these snipers use ordinary Type 38 rifles. Special sniper rifles like those in European and American countries are not equipped at all. Even the Type 97 sniper rifle specially developed for the China battlefield, although it was used as early as the Three
The design was completed in seven years, but mass production was not started. Only a small amount of production was distributed to the battlefield in China.
Equipping a rifle with a scope is too luxurious for the Japanese army. Moreover, with the stable ballistics of the Type 38 rifle and the excellent ballistic performance of the Type 38 Tomosaka rifle bullets, equipping a special scope is also suspected of being a waste. So for
Kitano Takatsu simply didn't believe whether his opponent had a specialized sniper rifle.
Since it is not a special sniper rifle, what is the marksmanship of this shooter? Thinking of this, Kitano Takatsu became terrified. You know, even if there is a special sniper rifle, it can be so accurate two hundred meters away at night without any lighting.
Shooting is not something that ordinary snipers can do. Major Kitano can be sure that when the gunshot was fired, he did not find any suspicious light around him.
Major Kitano Takatsu stubbornly believed that Yamada Kaikai's death should be an accident. This shot should definitely be aimed at him, not Captain Yamada Kaikai.
Because he was the only person in this team who wore a Japanese senior officer's coat, which only officers above the rank of general could wear, he was naturally the first target for snipers. And the reason why he was able to escape was because he
The position is good. Most of the body is blocked by Yamada's opening.
As for the unlucky Yamada who opened his mouth, it was just a moment of luck that made him a scapegoat. Otherwise, as a captain, he would not be qualified to greet such a sharpshooter in his turn.
Thinking of the threat of this ubiquitous sharpshooter after entering the mountain, Kitano Takatsu felt a chill on his neck. Because as the supreme commander of the entire army, he would undoubtedly be the first target of this sharpshooter.
No, I am the second son of the second largest banking consortium in Osaka, and I have a huge fortune waiting for me to inherit from the huge loans made by the government and various arsenals that rushed to produce during the war against China.
I can't die in the wild mountains of northern Manchuria without knowing why.
After thinking about it, Kitano Takatsu immediately took off his well-made general's coat and asked the guard to find him a bulky cotton coat worn by ordinary non-commissioned officers. Then he returned as quickly as possible
The speed brought all the troops together, and the cordon was only extended for fifty meters. He used all his subordinates to build a large human shield for himself.
In addition to urging the mortar squadrons behind to catch up and gather all the troops around him, in order to protect his own absolute safety, Major Kitano also organized most of the light and heavy machine guns into several on-duty firepower
The team would fire violently at the slightest sign of trouble. As for what they could hit, that was not his concern.
If it weren't for the fear of punishment from his superiors, who really didn't dare to drop the officer's command knife in his hand, I'm afraid Kitano Takatsu, who almost wet his pants after being frightened by Yang Zhen's shot, would have taken off all the signs that he was an officer on his body.
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And if it weren't for the heavy weight, which he couldn't lift in his body that was emptied by alcohol and sex, and who was so shaken, Kitano would have almost put the cooking pot on his head to protect his own safety. No matter what,
, Kitano Takatsu had made up his mind that he would never enter the mountain until the mortar squadron that could provide sufficient fire cover arrived.
Kitano Takatsu is not in a hurry to enter the mountains, and his subordinates who have similar thoughts to him will naturally not be in a hurry. His master is not in a hurry, and those puppet Manchukuo troops who are fighting together and being used as coolies will naturally not be in a hurry. If he does not enter the mountains,
It was a good time to take a break from carrying these heavy supplies and ammunition, and being forced to clear thousands of meters of snow, which exhausted my body.
Yang Zhen knew that Kitano Gaojin was frightened by his shot. He was afraid that he would find an opportunity to shoot him again in a decent manner, and he dared not go into the mountain. But he shrank into a turtle.
Yang Zhen had already seen that the regiment's Japs were just right to take advantage of the firepower of those artillery pieces that he had worked so hard to bring out from the secret camp.
After arriving near the Japanese military station outside Guaipoumizoguchi, Yang Zhen looked at his watch and saw that there were exactly three hours until dawn.
After carefully looking at the Japanese position that was huddled together and with the light and heavy machine guns in the position firing blindly from time to time in an attempt to alert the enemy and drive away the anti-Japanese elements who might be hiding around him, Yang Zhen waved his hand and led the team to execute
Wang Guangyu, who was on a lurking mission in front of the enemy, knowingly led three companies wearing cotton-padded coats backwards and crawled cautiously toward the Japanese camp.
Watching the backs of the lurking troops walking into the thick pre-dawn night one by one, instead of only caring about whether there might be a deadly killer ambushed in the bushes on the edge of the mountain 200 meters away, the focus of the fire reconnaissance was on
Yang Zhen was even more worried about the fact that in the severe cold of minus 40 degrees, at least under the enemy's nose, Yang Zhen was very worried about the on-duty firepower on the Japanese army's position that was obviously taking it lightly.
Can the lurking troops down there persist for more than two hours as per their own requirements?
Although the temperature in the mountains of northern Manchuria is extremely low, during the day, as long as there is no wind, the temperature is between 30 degrees and 40 degrees. As long as people do not stay in one state for a long time, they can get up from time to time.
It’s not too cold to do some activities.
But at night, especially in the coldest morning of the day, which is called ghost weather by the people, Yang Zhen didn't have much confidence in whether the troops could hold on motionless for two hours under the enemy's nose. Weather.
It was really too cold. No matter how much he wore, the north wind would make his whole body cold. After two hours of hiding, Yang Zhen really didn't know if the troops could avoid being frozen.
Although before setting off, Yang Zhen found a way to cut all the ginger stored in the army into slices and gave a piece to the lurking troops so that when the body was too cold, they could take a small bite to ward off the cold.
But after all, the troops have been training in the secret camp for nearly three months and have not received supplies from the outside. The amount of ginger obtained in Weihe County was limited, and each person can only give out a little. Let the troops only rely on this
A little ginger, holding on for more than two hours under the eyes of the enemy, this can be said to be a bit cruel in Yang Zhen's opinion.
But the reason why Yang Zhen chose to launch the attack at six o'clock was also a helpless move. In the winter mountainous areas of Northern Manchuria, the sky just started to light up at six o'clock in the morning. Although the visibility was still somewhat insufficient, it was still much better than the complete darkness at night.
I had no flares, and in this era there were no infrared, starlight or other night vision devices. If I had used a flashlight and held a torch to fight the Japanese army at night, with the marksmanship of the Japanese veterans, I would have thought that I would die too slowly.
What's more, when there is only a single and simple identification method such as wrapping a white towel around the arm, and the military uniforms of both sides are almost identical, nighttime melees can easily lead to large-scale accidental injuries.
Therefore, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time and set the time for the battle to start at six in the morning. At this time, it was just dawn, and the visibility should be sufficient. If an attack was launched at this time, the chance of accidental damage would be much smaller than in a night battle.
Looking at the dark wilderness except for the bonfires lit in the Japanese camp, Yang Zhen sighed slightly and called Liu Changshun over. He was worried, but the plan still needs to be implemented. Now that it has begun
Once you take action, there will be no turning back.
After Liu Changshun received the order and rushed over, Yang Zhen pointed at the Japanese camp and said: "You take your two heavy machine guns and set off immediately to the back of the Japanese camp. It is about a hundred meters away from the Japanese camp.
There is a bush there, and when you arrive, you can hide there and wait."
"Twenty minutes after Deputy Chief of Staff Wang launches the attack, you launch the attack from the rear of the Japanese army. Remember, after launching the attack, you have to penetrate the core of the Japanese army's position like a sharp knife."
"I will give you a flare gun. After you capture the core position of the Japs, fire three red flares, and I will attack across the board. And you want to nail it to the core of the Japs like a nail.
On the battlefield."
After giving the order, Yang Zhen looked at Liu Changshun solemnly and said: "When you launch the attack, there will be no fire cover. All the artillery fire of the main force will hit the Japanese front-line defense and cover Deputy Chief of Staff Wang."
"That is to say, you have to get as close as possible to the enemy. As long as the enemy doesn't notice you and doesn't shoot first, don't shoot. But once you shoot, don't have any scruples. If Deputy Chief of Staff Wang's offensive is blocked,
Stop, your actions behind the Japanese will be the most fatal blow to the Japanese and puppet troops. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Understood, I will execute it immediately. Please rest assured, captain, I will definitely get as close as possible to the enemy before launching an attack. As long as I capture the core position of the Japanese, I will nail it as firmly as a nail on the core position of the Japanese." Yang Zhen confessed.
Liu Changshun repeated it almost word for word.
After repeating the order, Liu Changshun saluted Yang Zhen and then gathered his troops and set off. Looking at Liu Changshun's back, which looked hazy in the night, Yang Zhen was silent for a moment, then raised his binoculars to carefully observe the latent troops camping towards the Japanese and puppet troops.
The ground is close to the situation.
Although in the thick night, without any lighting means, and it is impossible to use any lighting method, even if the observation point chosen by Yang Zhen is the Japanese camp where he killed Captain Yamada, it is only two meters away.
Among the hundreds of meters of bushes, he could not clearly see the movements of the lurking troops.
However, although he could not clearly see the movements of the troops, the impact points of bullets fired from the light and heavy machine guns serving as security guards in the Japanese and puppet camps could clearly tell him whether the actions of the latent troops had been exposed.
The period from approaching the Japanese and puppet camp to launching the attack was almost the most difficult few hours for Yang Zhen since he returned to this era.
Even half an hour after the latent troops set off, Yang Zhen was still worried when he received a report from the correspondent sent back that the latent troops had successfully approached the best lurking position less than 100 meters away from the Japanese camp.
He was a little relieved. But whether the troops could hold on for two hours under the eyes of the enemy, in the ice and snow, was still Yang Zhen's biggest worry.
Except for the artillery, other firepower, troop skills and tactics, and even the number of people did not have an advantage compared to the Japanese and puppet troops in front of them. Yang Zhen did not want to fight a tough battle. Because such a battle would be considered a victory and a success.
Defeating the Japanese and puppet troops in front of me would be more of a loss than a gain for me.
Because the price that such a battle requires is something that Yang Zhen simply cannot bear now. Although he has a certain degree of confidence in his training in the past three months, Yang Zhen is still in a state of confusion and some dissatisfaction.
Too stable.
Fortunately, these three months of training were not in vain. Within nearly two hours, in the severe cold of more than 40 degrees below zero, through the good discipline and physical fitness gained from these three months of hard work in the secret camp,
, the lurking troops did not move at all, and did not make any sound.
Looking at the time on the watch getting closer to the scheduled time, Yang Zhen felt as if his days were like a year. His heart almost reached his throat and slowly began to drop. The lurking troops in front did not disappoint him. After two hours,
Inside, right under the noses of the Japanese and puppet troops, the Japanese and puppet troops who were so close did not feel anything unusual.
When the scheduled attack launch time, six o'clock in the morning, finally arrived, when Xiao Huzi, who had been following Yang Zhen, heard "start" from Yang Zhen, who had been observing with a telescope, after these two heavy words
, he had already raised the signal gun in his hand and fired two red flares into the sky that had just begun to light up. This was the signal for the start of the artillery bombardment.
Qiu Jintang, who was lying in ambush at the preset artillery position less than 300 meters behind Yang Zhen, saw the two red signal flares rising into the sky, and gave the order to fire without any hesitation. Along with Qiu Jintang's voice
As he fell, the artillery company behind him that had been prepared for a long time had no time to move its almost frozen hands and feet, so it quickly loaded the cannonballs in its hands into the barrel.
Accompanied by the whooshing sound that is unique to the firing of mortars from the artillery position, the 90mm mortar shells made in Japan hit their original owners one after another.
Since the artillery position was no more than one thousand meters away from the set target in a straight line, and Yang Zhen had an extremely accurate shooting calibration in hand, the first batch of mortar shells were fired accurately without any correction.
It fell in the camp of the Japanese and puppet troops and blew up the Japanese and puppet troops who had just woken up.
Unlike his subordinates who were covered by artillery fire as soon as they got up and suffered heavy casualties because they were completely unprepared. They were still sleeping when the artillery bombardment started. It was not until the shells exploded that they were blown up from the bed and luckily escaped the first attack.
After hearing the heavy rain of mortar shells falling on his head, Major Kitano, who was hit by rounds of artillery fire, his first reaction was not whether there were anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements sneaking up on him, but whether the neighboring troops had taken the wrong medicine.
, treating themselves as bandits who want to be exterminated.
In Major Kitano's impression, no resistance force had such powerful firepower. Although before setting off, he had already received instructions from the Fourth Division headquarters about the targets he planned to destroy because they had attacked Weihe County.
A military train of the Kwantung Army transporting arms. Some of the artillery carried on the vehicle are likely to fall into the hands of the army. All troops entering the mountain to clear up and suppress the enemy's situation are required to pay more attention to the enemy's announcement.
However, Major Kitano did not take this notice of enemy status seriously. Because he had contempt for all Chinese armed forces.
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