It is an indisputable fact that the puppet army has low combat effectiveness, but they are not without the ability to fight to the death. But the puppet soldiers are not fools. They have clearly heard the movements in the town before. After several Japanese soldiers in the stronghold were killed one after another, the remaining puppet soldiers were immediately frightened. It is better to die than live. This is their way of life. Otherwise, they would not have defected to the Japanese army and become puppet troops. At this moment, Tang Cheng had no time to pay attention to these puppet troops who had voluntarily surrendered. He just took them to another stronghold and asked them to shout inside the stronghold.
The Japanese and puppet troops in the second stronghold were much more cunning. After being killed by snipers hiding outside the stronghold, two people were killed in succession, and then they hid in the stronghold and could not get out. Even if they heard explosions and gunshots coming from the direction of the town, they still didn't show their heads until Tang Cheng brought someone over. The shouts outside the stronghold were clearly heard by the Japanese and puppet troops inside the stronghold. Several puppet soldiers with lively thoughts looked at each other secretly. They all understood that the current situation was very unfavorable to them.
But the five Japanese soldiers in the stronghold not only control the light machine guns in the stronghold, but other puppet troops in the stronghold may not be willing to join them in revolting against the Japanese soldiers. Just when the puppet troops in the stronghold were hesitant, a Japanese corps commander guarding the top of the gun tower suddenly widened his eyes. I saw a black dot flying from a distance, and then in the sight of the Japanese corps commander, it accurately flew from the shooting hole in the front of the turret into the second floor of the turret.
"Boom!" After several screams, an explosion occurred on the second floor of the turret. What just flew into the turret from the shooting hole was actually a grenade. The Japanese commander on the top of the gun tower could see clearly that the person throwing the grenade was at least fifty or sixty meters away from the gun tower. A trained veteran may not be able to throw a grenade a distance of fifty or sixty meters, but throwing a grenade into a shooting hole from a distance of fifty or sixty meters is not something that ordinary people can hide from.
When the Japanese commander on the top of the turret was secretly stunned, two more grenades flew from the distance. One of them flew into the second floor of the turret from the shooting hole, and the other one fell directly at the feet of the Japanese commander. After the continuous explosions, the two guerrillas hiding beside Tangcheng were already dumbfounded when they saw the dust pouring out from the firing holes of the turret. Among their guerrillas, there are some who are good at throwing grenades, but they have never seen anything like this in Tangcheng.
In fact, they didn't know that Tang Cheng, who had just thrown the grenade, had secretly activated his throwing skills, otherwise he would not have been able to throw the grenade into the gun tower through the shooting hole. Amidst the cheers of the crowd, the white flag was finally hoisted in the turret that had been unresponsive before. Several puppet soldiers with fearful faces opened the door of the turret and lined up from the turret with their hands raised. "Hurry up and clean the battlefield. Take away everything that can be used." When the battle in Tangcheng ended, donkey carts had already come out of the town.
The donkey cart loaded with supplies moved very slowly, and there were villagers behind the cart helping to push the cart, but Tang Cheng ignored it. After gathering his team members, Tang Cheng took them back to the town. At this moment, Captain Zhang was still busy loading weapons and ammunition into the borrowed carriage. "Lao Zhang, that's about it! I can understand that you want to take away the arms! But you can't take away even those things that are not needed!" The donkey cart that was stopped by Tangcheng contained two big mouths. The jar contains pickles.
Captain Zhang ignored Tang Cheng's teasing and just pulled Tang Cheng away, signaling the donkey cart to leave. "You come from a big city, so naturally you don't know the hardships in the village! Although these two jars of pickles are not good things, they are enough for every family in the village to get one. In these days, you can eat all the pickles in your stomach. , that’s a good thing! If it weren’t for the capture of Zhangjiaji, there would be no way to replenish the salt in the village.” The situation Captain Zhang was talking about at this moment was obviously more serious than Tang Cheng knew.
Hearing this, Tang Cheng did not speak immediately, but raised his eyebrows slightly. When Captain Zhang looked at him, Tang Cheng spoke. "I have solved the two strongholds outside the town, but I temporarily let go of some puppet troops who surrendered. I believe that soon, the Japanese and puppet troops in the county will mobilize their troops. So, on your side, You have to hurry up, I will take people to make arrangements first." In front of all the villagers, Tang Cheng did not mention the next steps of action, and Captain Zhang did not say much, but only asked Tang Cheng and the others to pay attention to safety.
The county town is 20 kilometers north of Zhangjiaji. After Tangcheng solved the two strongholds outside the town, it deliberately let go of the puppet troops who chose to surrender in order to lure the Japanese puppet troops out of the county town. Half an hour later, Tang Cheng and the others appeared at Woniupo, seven miles away from Zhangjiaji. The terrain here was Tang Cheng's favorite, and it was also an ambush terrain that the Japanese and puppet troops would never have imagined. Wo Niupo is a flat plain, which is not a suitable ambush location, but Tangcheng chose to ambush the Japanese and puppet troops from the county town.
Also coming with them were two guerrillas. Their task was to maintain communication between Tangcheng and Captain Zhang, that is, the messengers. One of the guerrillas was about to speak and make suggestions to Tang Cheng, but Tang Cheng had already begun to assign tasks to his team members. According to his arrangement, two team members carried three bundles of grenades seized from the puppet army and went down to the road. Start digging a hole. As for the other team members, they also dispersed and started digging pits at selected locations on Wo Niu Slope.
An hour later, a team member sent by Tangcheng to guard them quickly came back. About a hundred Japanese and puppet troops who came out of the county seat had already appeared 2 kilometers away from here. Tangcheng immediately called a guerrilla over, "Go back immediately and tell Captain Zhang that I will give him another hour. If he still hasn't finished his work in one hour, then wish yourself well!" The guerrilla who received the order , also knowing that this was not the time to procrastinate, turned around and ran quickly in the direction of Zhangjiaji.
The Japanese and puppet troops from the county were eager to rescue them. It only took them more than ten minutes to complete the 2-kilometer journey. When Tang Cheng and others saw the Japanese and puppet troops appearing from a distance, they immediately hid in a pit. The pit was covered with turf. If one hadn't taken a closer look, no one would have thought that there would be an ambush here. Moreover, this is Wo Niu Slope, and this kind of place is not suitable for ambush operations at all. The Japanese and puppet troops who came along the kilometer were completely unprepared. They didn't even send out their top soldiers, and more than a hundred people came along the highway in a crowd.
Tang Cheng, who was crouching in the pit, watched carefully and saw that the mortars of the Japanese and puppet troops had entered the explosive point. Tang Cheng immediately blew the whistle in his mouth. When the two team members heard the whistle, they immediately opened the turf above their heads and took out the light machine guns in the pit. It was at this time that Tangcheng fired first, and the bullets fired in succession accurately hit the two bundles of grenades buried on the road. "Boom! Boom!" Two bundles of grenades a few meters apart exploded one after another. Although the grenades were not as powerful as explosives, they also knocked the mortar operators in the ranks of the Japanese and puppet troops to the ground.
A total of three bundles of grenades were planted on the road, but Tangcheng had only detonated two of the explosive points at this moment, but Tangcheng did not detonate the last remaining explosive point immediately. After the explosion, there was rapid fire from two light machine guns. As for the team members hiding in other positions, they could only continue to hide until they heard the next round of whistles from Tangcheng. Tang Cheng was using a Garand rifle at the moment, and his shooting target was only the Japanese troops on the road.
The dust raised by the explosion on the highway had not completely dissipated. There were close to 20 Japanese soldiers who had been shot and fell. Especially their machine gunners, three of them had been shot down by Tang Cheng in a row. This is not the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, the Japanese army had many veterans with outstanding marksmanship and the corps commander Cao Chang who was capable of commanding small-scale operations. As long as the current Japanese army suppresses their long-range firepower and loses their advantage, they can only fight stupidly and badly.
Tangcheng's precise shooting, coupled with the crossfire coverage of the light machine guns on both sides, caught the Japanese and puppet troops on the highway by surprise. When they came to their senses and hurriedly ran off the road, trying to fight back, Tang Cheng blew the whistle again. In an instant, there were several more firepower points on the originally smooth Woniu Slope. The other team members, who had been impatient to wait, immediately joined the battle.
Tang Cheng, whose marksmanship was precise, had no time to pay attention to the rest of the time. He was just concentrating on suppressing the machine guns and grenade launchers of the Japanese and puppet troops. Without the machine gun firepower and grenade launchers, the Japanese and puppet troops were quickly defeated. Coupled with the puppet troops' panic and fear of fighting, they had the advantage in strength, but they were completely reduced to a suppressed party. The development of the war did not exceed Tang Cheng's expectations, but he did not relax his vigilance. After all, there were more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops.
Huang Cheng, who was placed several hundred meters away, had been waiting for the bombardment signal from Tangcheng. Unfortunately, he waited until his eyes were straight, but the signal still did not appear. "Boom!" The last explosive spot on the road was finally detonated by Tangcheng. The two Japanese soldiers who tried to rush onto the road to pick up the mortars were immediately submerged in the dust of the explosion. The Japanese and puppet troops lying under the roadbed immediately lowered their bodies subconsciously. They did not expect that their opponents would be so cunning.
After a cigarette, the gunshots gradually became sparse, but the accuracy of the bullets after they came out of the barrel did not decrease. The casualties of the Japanese and puppet troops continued to increase. Originally, most of the more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops were puppet soldiers, and there were only less than 50 Japanese soldiers. After experiencing the explosion and the first round of machine gun fire, there were less than thirty Japanese troops rushing down the road. After that, coupled with Tang Cheng's precise shooting, there were now less than twenty Japanese troops left, including many wounded. .
