Chapter 1246 is approaching a desperate situation (1)
Chapter 1246: Forced into Desperate Situation (1)
The increasingly plump moon hangs diagonally on one side of the star-studded sky, casting a soft light over everything in the world. Two troop transport trucks with lights turned off, marched from west to east across the vast land of North China.
The rising dust and smoke swayed and floated like a hazy veil, and finally returned to silence silently.
After being inspected by the 17th Division guard post, the two trucks drove steadily across the century-old stone bridge over the Xiaobai River, drove eastward along the shore road, and were inspected again by officers and soldiers at the village entrance post.
A lieutenant colonel jumped on the up and down pedal outside the first cab and directed the truck to pass through a dense willow forest and stop in front of the Han family ancestral hall of the Eastern Front Headquarters of the Fifth Army.
A strong man in the cab of the first car jumped out, jogged in a few steps, and came to the front of Deputy Commander Lu Yixuan, Director of the Army's Political Department Huang Yingwu and other generals. He raised his hands in salute and reported in a deep voice: "Commander
Xiao Qian, captain of the Special Forces Brigade directly under the ministry, was ordered to lead a detachment to report!"
Lu Yixuan returned the salute and asked in surprise: "Colonel Xiao? The commander arranged for you to personally lead the team to carry out this operation?"
"Yes, deputy commander, Commander Hu personally gave instructions to his subordinates!" Xiao Qian replied solemnly.
Lu Yixuan stopped asking and waved his hand: "Okay, take your deputy in. I will give you some latest information and route maps."
"yes!"
Half an hour later, Xiao Qian, wearing the gray uniform of the 29th Army garrison, together with 16 special forces members under his command, and personally accompanied by Lu Yixuan's adjutant, left the Han family ancestral hall through the side door and disappeared on the south bank of the Daqing River.
On the edge of the reed marsh, two troop trucks were parked on the terrace in front of the ancestral hall. They loaded more than 20 wounded soldiers and returned along the way they came. They were moving slowly, but the lights of the trucks were still not turned on.
Zhang Zuying, commander of the 17th Division, looked at the two trucks going away and said with emotion: "It seems that this operation is of a very high level. It actually used the most ruthless man of our legion's special forces. He is not even qualified for our division's special forces."
Going there is enough to show that Commander Hu and others attach great importance to it."
Huang Yingwu laughed in a low voice: "After hearing this, Lao Zhang is not convinced?"
"Commander Hu personally spoke. Brother, how can I not be convinced? However, the Special Forces Brigade directly under the headquarters has snatched away all the best from our four main divisions. The equipment, training and treatment are also the highest in the army. It is also unreasonable to let them go.
Of course." Zhang Zuying smiled, but she was still a little unconvinced.
"Lao Zhang, if you hear the news tomorrow that the Japanese troops on the Pingjin front line and the 29th Army are going into full-scale war, I'm afraid you won't have any resentment at all."
After Lu Yixuan said expressionlessly, he turned around and walked towards the door. The director of operations and others hurriedly followed. Zhang Zuying scratched his head and was stunned on the spot.
Huang Yingwu shook his head and reached out to pat Zhang Zuying on the shoulder: "Old Zhang, this operation is highly confidential. Among the twelve division commanders in the entire legion, you are the only one who knows something about it. This is because Xiao Qian and the others need to go through your seventeenth division.
Because of the position, you should understand by now
Are you clear? If you don’t understand, let me remind you again. Although this is a small action, it is very likely to change the situation of the entire war of resistance in North China and even the whole country. Do you think that such an action is just for Commander Hu and a few of us?
Do you dare to make such a big decision?"
"Ah...that's it, I understand..."
...
Five o'clock in the morning, north of Wanzhuang Town.
Wanzhuang Town is 12 kilometers northwest of Langfang and 35 kilometers away from Peiping. The Ping-Tianjin Railway passes through it, and a flat road and railway extend almost parallel to each other.
After the Japanese Second Mixed Brigade occupied Langfang, they attacked northward along the railway in one go. Without firing a shot, they occupied Anding Town, a transportation hub 20 kilometers south of Daxing County, and were ordered to retreat to the Huangcun Camp in the south of Daxing City.
Two brigades of Zhang Zizhong's division faced each other at a distance.
The newly formed 3rd Infantry Regiment of the North China Garrison also rushed to Anding at noon yesterday, and then, together with the Okazaki Regiment of the 2nd Mixed Brigade, assumed a posture of attacking the Huangcun defenders at any time. Therefore, the troops located in Langfang
The Wanzhuang Town in the middle of Anding became an important stronghold for the Japanese army, providing logistical support for the Japanese army that might attack Daxing at any time.
Xiao Qian's team was crawling on a hill less than a hundred meters away from the road, motionless, watching closely the checkpoint that the Japanese army had just set up in the north of the town less than two days ago.
Since the three small railway bridges between Langfang and Wuqing have been blown up by the Anjia Army, railway transportation has actually been interrupted. The Japanese army had no choice but to recruit vehicles from Tianjin's overseas Chinese and major enterprises and trading companies.
, ensure logistic supply, more
After the doors of more than 300 civilian trucks were painted with plaster flags, they transformed into Japanese military transport convoys. This information was promptly released by the Tianjin Intelligence Station of the Fourth Department of the General Staff to the Nanjing headquarters, and then transferred from the headquarters to the Nanjing headquarters.
of the Fifth Army Corps Headquarters.
An infantry squadron and an engineer squadron of the Japanese Second Mixed Brigade were stationed in Wanzhuang Town. In the past two days, the Japanese engineer squadron forcibly captured more than 700 young men from the town and nearby villages, and repaired the railway bridge day and night.
Due to the urgent military order, almost the entire Japanese engineering squadron was dispatched, with food and accommodation at the construction site three kilometers south of Wanzhuang Town. Now there is only one infantry squadron stationed in the entire Wanzhuang Town, responsible for road patrols and the defense of the temporary transit warehouse in the town.
Task.
...
At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was already dark, and the guard was changed on the Zhenbei Highway one kilometer away. The four sentries saluted with the fifteen Japanese soldiers who came to attack, and the four sentries who had completed their tasks lined up and walked into the town.
The second lieutenant who led the troops shouted a few words and led the remaining ten Japanese troops to continue heading north and begin a highway patrol every two hours.
This is what Xiao Qian and his brothers have been waiting for.
Seven minutes later, the eleven Japanese soldiers lined up and walked to the bend of the road below the hill. On the right side of the road, there was a small low hill, with a relative height of less than eight meters. It was covered with dense weeds and low trees. The bottom of the hill was surrounded by
Looking at half a circle of high and low graves, the Japanese patrol team did not want to take a second look at it. Many people turned their heads and looked at the railroad separated by a pool of water in front of them on the left.
A shepherd boy who got up early had a bamboo basket on his shoulder and led a skinny old cow to graze on the side of the road. The Japanese second lieutenant who was leading the team said something, which caused ten Japanese soldiers to burst into laughter and scared the people beside the railway.
The two shepherd boys were trembling. They didn't know that the sickles in their hands and the bamboo baskets on their shoulders had fallen to the ground. They stared at the laughing Japanese soldiers with frightened eyes and did not dare to move.
The eleven patrolling Japanese soldiers laughed even more happily when they saw this, and the spears on their shoulders were swinging wildly.
The Japanese soldiers who were laughing wildly did not expect that from the moment they entered the bend of the road, two sniper rifles and a light machine gun on the hillside were already aimed at them. From the tangled grass on the left side of the road, seven guns were steadily sticking out.
With only the pistol attached to the silencer, the other two teams were lurking in the north and south of the hill respectively, guarding the sentry in the south and the road in the north.
Amid laughter, the Japanese patrol entered the shooting range of the special forces.
After a few slight shots, the heads of the seven soldiers in front and behind the Japanese patrol burst out with blood mist, and they fell to the ground. The three in the middle had no time to scream and were accurately shot to death again.
The Japanese second lieutenant walking on the inside of the road opened his mouth wide. As soon as the hand on the scabbard tightened the handle of the knife, three bullets hit his head almost at the same time. The broken brains and bones were mixed with blood and scattered everywhere.
The corpse, which looked like half a rotten watermelon, spun twice before suddenly falling to the ground.
The eight special team members flew out of the grass and jumped onto the road. Without saying a word, they picked up the body on the ground and crossed the ditch, throwing it into the depths of the grass. They turned back and picked off a few branches and swept the road as fast as they could.
, after a burst of dust and smoke, the thick loess covered the blood stains on the ground.
Xiao Qian hung the Japanese second lieutenant's saber that he had picked up on his waist, pretending to adjust the tortoise hat on his head, patted the dust on his yellow uniform, raised his head, and ordered in a low voice: "Line up...guns on
Shoulders, there are those who open the way!"
The ten hard-trained special forces members showed no expressions when they killed. Now when they heard the weird command from their leader Xiao Qian, they all couldn't help but grin. However, they were still smiling. The work on their hands and the steps on their feet were not slow at all.
Soon, he was carrying the 38 big cover as expected, and continued to patrol north along the road. He saw the two groups of guard brothers on the mountain, grinning happily.
The patrol went all the way north, farther and farther, and the two shepherd boys who were frightened beside the railway finally woke up. The younger child threw himself next to the older child, panting heavily and shaking:
"Brother, brother...he killed someone, right? He killed someone..."
My brother, who was about eight years old, was so frightened that his face turned pale. Only the old cow grazing seemed to be uninterested in everything around it and still kept eating.
The eldest child grabbed his younger brother's coat tightly and looked at the retreating Japanese soldiers in horror, then at the mass grave where no corpses could be seen. The little boy trembled a few times and finally made up his mind:
"It's terrible... It's terrible! Let's go back immediately and tell Dad and Uncle Shen that the imperial army will kill the imperial army by itself... Something is going to happen. Hurry up, Genzi. I'll pull the cow. You pick up the sickle. Hurry up.
ah……"
Xiao Qian, who was wearing the uniform of a Japanese lieutenant, walked beside the team with steady steps, his eyes shining brightly, staring ahead warily. The brothers who were walking neatly beside him were also wearing Japanese military uniforms. Everything looked so normal.
Unless you get close enough to see the handleless submachine guns behind the two commandos, even if they pass each other head-on, they will not arouse the enemy's suspicion.
The only biggest flaw is that his team of patrolling Japanese troops are a bit too tall, but Xiao Qian has no time to worry about so much. What he wants to know most at the moment is whether there will be any Japanese military vehicles within an hour.
go through?
The patrol team had to turn back after continuing to walk one kilometer. It was time to return to the checkpoint north of Wanjiazhuang Town, three kilometers behind them. Xiao Qian had already made up his mind to find a way to get close to the checkpoint north of the town even if he did not encounter a passing Japanese transport truck.
Only by eliminating the four sentries at the Japanese checkpoint could they successfully enter the town and destroy more than a hundred barrels of gasoline in the temporary transit warehouse.
After completing the mission, you still have to eliminate as many Japanese troops in the town as possible.
Following Xiao Qian's order, the team turned around and walked back. Their gait was still as neat and firm as ever. The only difference was that the speed was much faster.
After walking a hundred meters, a team member suddenly took two steps sideways, quickly fell to the ground, jumped up after a few seconds, and ran to Xiao Qian in a few steps:
"Boss, there are cars to the north. I hear about three cars."
"His grandma's is finally here!"
Xiao Qian raised his thick eyebrows and gave a decisive order: "Everyone is ready to fight. Stop the car and try not to make any noise. Zhuzi, take off the flag on the head of your gun and stand in the middle of the road for me!"