Zhou Changfeng was awakened in a dream. He especially didn't like to dream while taking a break during a mission, because this would significantly reduce the quality of his scant sleep.
He gently shook his aching head, and then walked out of his tent while rubbing his eyes.
The task force of the 1st Marine Regiment is currently camped in the hills of Morimachi, Kakegawa City. Less than ten miles to the west is the boundary of Aichi Prefecture—that is, the sphere of influence of the Americans.
Zhou Changfeng raised his eyes and saw that the night was still there, and the sky in the east was just white. Because of the mist, the humidity was very high, and he felt damp all over his body.
However, Kakegawa City has long sunshine hours and a suitable climate, making it the largest green tea producer in Japan. After the sun rises, the mist here will soon disappear.
In the large tent where the headquarters was located, Zhao Hanfeng handed a telegram to Zhou Changfeng who opened the door curtain and walked in.
"They said they are ready to take action immediately, but they are not sure whether it will go smoothly or not."
"Wish them all the best, we have to do our own thing first." Zhou Changfeng stared at the map spread on the aluminum folding table, stretched out his index finger and clicked, "Get breakfast ready now, the reconnaissance team will set off at six o'clock sharp , the main force will leave at seven o'clock, and other arrangements will be made as planned. Understand?"
"clear!"
Zhao Hanfeng, Fan Qijin, Han Yi and others all responded with fists clasped in unison, and then dispersed to perform their duties.
As the sleeping soldiers were woken up one after another, the camp quickly became active. The sounds of packing things, the crackling of bonfires, and the gurgling of boiling water were all mixed together.
At this moment, Guanyin Mountain, which is only a few dozen miles away in a straight line...
From time to time, a few melodious bird calls could be heard in the mountains and forests. The two resistance soldiers standing guard on a ridge were listless and chatting wordlessly to dispel the waves of sleepiness.
"Boo-hoo--"
The slight sound of the crossbow arrows breaking through the air was so slight that it was almost completely covered up by the background noise of the natural environment.
Several crossbow arrows flying out at high speed contained more than a hundred joules of kinetic energy, and the sharp crossheads easily pierced through the clothes and torso.
The arrows, which are specially designed for silent assassinations, are highly dangerous. They have a hollow head and are filled with a mixture of tetrodotoxin extract and sodium kaempferol. They are a true seal of blood and will kill anyone who touches it.
Under the action of the negative pressure principle, the highly toxic mixture is automatically injected. The first reaction of the two sentrymen was as if they had been hit by something, and then the pain hit them. However, they opened their mouths and subconsciously shouted for half a second, and then quickly lost consciousness the next second.
The limp body fell down from the ridge and lay down on the ground. Several figures who quickly stepped forward quickly pulled it aside and stabbed it neatly into the neck with a sword.
After a while, a series of figures appeared from behind, one after another quickly running towards the path ahead.
Cai Zhichen glanced at the two corpses, then looked up at the sky, and ordered: "There is a training ground more than a mile away. Go around and go straight to the headquarters. The rest is not important."
Because it is laid out based on the terrain of the valley, the overall layout of the Resistance Army's base in Guanyin Mountain is an irregular acute-angled triangle, with training venues, warehouses for storing supplies, and barracks for ordinary soldiers.
Consistent with common sense, the security around the latter two is tighter, while the security around the training ground is looser, so this is the best route to the Huanglong, although the distance required is longer.
When the main force continued to penetrate deeper, more than thirty officers and soldiers of the third team separated from the main force and climbed onto a low mound on the right. They were responsible for providing fire support from the flanks for the entire operation.
Although it is not yet clear whether there are enemy soldiers here, from a common sense point of view, there must be sentries at such a strategic high point.
Two routes were running in parallel, and the 104 officers and soldiers of the first and second teams and the reconnaissance team who were responsible for the direct assault began to venture across the open training ground.
This is undoubtedly quite bold, because once discovered, it is difficult to even find cover in this empty flat land, which is equivalent to being directly exposed to the opponent's firepower.
Here, the officers and soldiers of the third team quickly climbed onto the mound.
Except for encountering two enemy soldiers carrying wooden buckets down to fetch water, the "climbing trip" in these few minutes went extremely smoothly.
There wasn't even an enemy soldier seriously guarding the top. The three groups were sitting on the ground and taking a nap. The remaining dozen enemy soldiers were also resting, snoring one after another.
After all, they are located at the side and rear of the base, and there are several sentries on the periphery. There is no need to worry about anyone coming to this place quietly.
Their mission should be to serve as a defensive fulcrum and defend the right wing of the base area. In other words, they can wait until fighting breaks out outside before setting off.
Seeing blood with a knife is no longer something that can make people nervous for the officers and soldiers of Yiluan Division. In addition to its original intention, "killing people like numbness" seems to also mean making people numb?
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, the angle, direction, and strength of the knife are becoming more and more refined - the backhand is strangled around the neck and the knife is thrust into the concave cartilage under the back of the opponent's head, and the sharp blade goes straight into the brain!
The eyes of the enemy soldier who had been stabbed were extremely wide open, his body was twitching, and he even died after just kicking his legs.
Stab the heart? Cut throat? In fact, it cannot cause death instantly. It will leave the opponent with a chance of dying from a few seconds to dozens of seconds, which is very troublesome.
Breaking the brain directly from the back of the head is far more deadly, safer and faster than other operations. It also bleeds very little and makes it less likely to dirty your hands.
While the first enemy soldier was knocked down and dealt with, the rest of the Ming army soldiers also swarmed forward with their swords raised.
The price of being careless is an unknown death. The resistance soldiers who were attacked in the early morning had no chance to react. More than a dozen corpses with still body temperature fell on the mound in random directions, as if they had been beaten. Abandoned doll.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, this concealment skill is quite good," a second lieutenant exclaimed: "Probably there is on-site guidance from former regular army officers."
What was in front of the officers and soldiers was a well-camouflaged position, with shelters, traffic trenches, and machine gun bunkers in an orderly manner. It was quite standard and can be described as "beautiful."
In addition to several Lewis light machine guns and Vickers heavy machine guns, there is an Oerlikon Ms-cal.70 20mm anti-aircraft gun on the left and right sides of this position, which is an unexpected surprise.
The barrel is 70 times the diameter, has a rate of fire of 300 rounds per minute, uses a 20-round magazine for ammunition, and fires 20×101mm high-explosive bombs. The total weight including a tripod is 163kg.
Was this transferred along with the remnants of the Resistance Army? Or did you buy it from a nearby merchant?
The officers and soldiers had no time to think about these unimportant matters. They directly used long-handled iron pliers to break the iron seal of the wooden ammunition box and took out the ammunition.
Before the Type 3 and Type 4 anti-aircraft guns were put into production and installed, the Ming Army was equipped with many Oerlikon cannons. To this day, the Ming Army still loves this lightweight small-caliber cannon and regards it as a "high-powered anti-aircraft gun for shooting aircraft and a low-powered aircraft gun." "Taiwan Balm that can hit all things with a flat shot."
The officers and soldiers of the Yiluan Division operated the two cannons without any difficulty, inserted the magazines, loaded the guns with the rotary wrench, and shook the turntables of the tilt and steering gears!
The slender barrel that was originally pointing diagonally toward the sky was flattened, and even tilted slightly toward the direction of the enemy camp.
The remaining three Lewis light machine guns and one Vickers heavy machine gun also had their magazines inserted and canvas belts hung up, with their black muzzles pointing straight into the distance.
Sniper rifle? There are machine guns and cannons, who would use those things?
More than a hundred officers and soldiers below carefully crossed the empty training ground. During this period, Cai Zhichen only felt on tenterhooks. He had never been so nervous.
When a group of wooden barracks and brick buildings came into view, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The battle broke out at this time - six or seven patrolling enemy soldiers bumped into the Yiluan Division team that was approaching the camp.
"Bang! Bang! Ta-ta-ta-"
Short and intensive gunshots suddenly erupted, and a series of 9.6mm pistol bullets and 7.36mm rifle bullets killed this group of unlucky enemy soldiers immediately, before the opponent even had time to take off the rifle from his back.
"Do it! Line up left and right, get on!" Cai Zhichen gave the order sternly, and at the same time he took out the signal gun and pulled the trigger toward the sky.
A red flare dragged smoke into the air, making it particularly conspicuous.
Coincidentally, the sun happened to jump above the horizon, and the first ray of morning light of the day was sprinkled on the earth.
In the headquarters of the camp, Hideo Inoue, who was half asleep, was also awakened.
The sixty-four-year-old Inoue Hideo is undoubtedly a very experienced general. He participated in the war that decided the fate of the two countries more than forty years ago, and later rose to the rank of general in the local army of the Anōtsu Domain.
He had actually retired and returned to his hometown for several years before this, but now faced with such a situation, many people asked him to come out, and he also took over the mess after hesitation, and devoted himself to the secret support of the Americans. Organize a resistance army that can coordinate all parties and reverse the current situation of fighting independently.
The resistance base located in Guanyin Mountain currently has more than 2,000 people, but excluding handymen, there are only more than 1,300 troops. This is the result of absorbing the remnants of more than a dozen resistance armies.
Although the number of troops is not small, due to the absorption of other forces, power struggles and dissatisfaction inevitably occurred. For example, some people thought that they should at least serve as squadron leaders with dozens of people, but in the end they were only divided into small groups. The captain was dissatisfied.
Therefore, Inoue Hideo was also very busy during this period. He knew very well how serious the consequences of internal instability were.
At this time, gunshots from not far away rang out again, extremely dense, accompanied by explosions and shouts one after another.
"What's going on?! Where is the enemy?!"
He asked a guard loudly, but the latter didn't know and could only shake his head.
Awakened by the huge noise, the resistance soldiers crawled out of bed, picked up their rifles and ran outside the house.
The officers, big and small, were shouting greetings at the top of their lungs, trying their best to get the frightened and confused subordinates to obey their orders.
On the mound behind the camp, the tall lieutenant who led the team stood upright. He observed the situation in the distance with binoculars, and then ordered to concentrate firepower to suppress the direction of the barracks and block enemy reinforcements.
"Dong dong - dong dong dong -"
Amidst the roar, each 20×101mm high-explosive bomb jumped away from the muzzle with a muzzle velocity of more than 800 meters per second, carrying more than 30,000 joules of kinetic energy and flying into the distance.
The two Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns deployed on the high ground on the flanks were supposed to be used to defend the base, but now they became the weapons used by the officers and soldiers of the Yiluan Division to massacre the resistance forces.
Any meaningful target was bombarded mercilessly, and tents, houses, stables, caves, warehouses, etc. were all covered by a series of shells.
Dozens of panicked enemy soldiers were rushing for reinforcements, but they were suddenly enveloped in intensive firepower. 20mm high-explosive bombs mixed with 6.5mm machine gun bullets fell like raindrops.
What would it be like to be hit in the torso by a cannonball containing a huge amount of kinetic energy?
The upper and lower body seemed to be torn in half by invisible hands, the internal organs fell like a piece of rotten meat, the broken clothes flew apart, and dark red blood and body fluids splattered on the ground.
A little further away, two resistance soldiers were manipulating a Lewis light machine gun and were desperately firing at more than a hundred Yiluansi soldiers who were approaching step by step. However, they were soon poured out by an Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun with seven or eight pieces of fire. Fire cannonballs.
"Hahahaha, it's so enjoyable!"
"Grass! It's so enjoyable!"
"Oh my God, this is like a fucking dream!"
It is too enjoyable to be so condescending and rely on more powerful weapons to kill unilaterally. This state of being in control of life and death makes people feel as if they have become the master of the world.
The more than thirty officers and soldiers who were red-eyed were so excited that they completely forgot that anti-aircraft guns in actual combat should not fire continuously for such a long time, because the army's light anti-aircraft guns did not use thickened barrels and water-cooled sleeves in order to control weight.
The root of the gun barrel has shown a fascinating dark red color, and the fired shells have gradually become chaotic and scattered, becoming larger and larger.
One of the anti-aircraft guns had just fired two rounds after replacing another magazine. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion inside the gun body!
Several soldiers who were intoxicated with the state of "going on a killing spree" were thrown to the ground. Their bodies were covered with scratches from broken parts and debris, and the exploding gun barrel was also twisted and deformed.
Because the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun adopts a relatively special "forward impact firing" automatic principle, the shell sent into the chamber will move forward for a certain distance before being fired, thereby offsetting part of the recoil force, while the red-hot barrel makes the shell The insurance mechanism has deformed and failed.
Although there were small accidents, the overall situation was determined.
Most of the resistance forces were at a loss, and the chaotic situation made coordination more difficult. Several groups of people who came to help in a hurry were hit by fierce fire, causing heavy casualties.
On the front, more than a hundred officers and soldiers of Yiluan Division acted quickly and decisively as if they were in an uninhabited territory. The combination of Type 34 submachine guns, Type 20 automatic guns, Type 36 semi-automatic rifles and other light weapons made it possible to rush to block their resistance. The soldiers were helpless.
After throwing a grenade, a corporal rolled forward to find cover next to the half-collapsed low wall, and then rushed into a brick house in front of him with two other soldiers.
Four or five resistance officers who looked like staff officers were arguing fiercely. When they saw someone breaking in, they immediately took out their pistols in surprise.
Just a "tap-tap-tap" fan sweep, and in the blink of an eye, these people were knocked to the ground.
(End of chapter)
