Chapter 38: The Chaotic War (4)
The Japanese army only suspended the attack, on the one hand, it was frightened by the flying mines used by the Eighth Route Army, and on the other hand, it was waiting for reinforcements, and the Black Mountain Brigade was also only a forward unit of the Japanese army. If Nakasa, who commanded this Japanese army, knew that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side of the position was also waiting for reinforcements, he would not have suspended the offensive under any circumstances, and his wrong judgment would often cause the battle to change and deviate, and he would also have suffered heavy casualties.
As night fell, Zhang Shan and his gang moved forward little by little, until they were close enough to hear the sound of chatter in the Japanese position. The Japanese soldiers who were stuck in the trenches did not expect the Chinese soldiers to reach a position that was only a dozen meters away from them, and the proud Japanese soldiers did not seem to believe that the Chinese soldiers would be so bold, because the Chinese troops they had seen were so vulnerable.
Zhang Shan slowly raised his head to look at the Japanese position more than ten meters away, and gestured to his subordinates on his side to compare the machine gun positions on the Japanese position. This will be nodding secretly, while busy loading ammunition into the bazookas, once there is an exchange of fire with the Japanese soldiers in the position, their bazookas must be responsible for the first time, the first machine gun fire points on the Japanese position.
The reloading of ammunition by the soldiers of the new army has been slowed and gentle, but it is inevitable that some sounds will be made, these subtle sounds are nothing if they were placed in the daytime, but now it is night. The Japanese soldiers in the trenches seemed to hear something, and the sound of small talk disappeared, and several heads with steel helmets soon appeared on the edge of the Japanese trenches. The Japanese soldiers, who looked out of the trenches for a while, seemed to notice nothing at all, and even though they listened intently for a while, they heard nothing but the wind.
Looking at the retracted heads carefully, Zhang Shan, who was lying on his stomach in the field, secretly rejoiced, fortunately they were downwind, otherwise it was very likely that he would have exposed his gang to the Japanese army just now. Listening to the sound of conversation coming from the Japanese trench again, Zhang Shan took out the dagger on his waist and bit it in his mouth, and then slowly moved towards the Japanese trench with his hands and feet. At this moment, except for the Bazooka shooters who had already loaded the bazooka ammunition and remained in place, the other soldiers of the New Army silently followed Zhang Shan and crawled towards the Japanese position.
It was already close enough to reach out and touch the edge of the Japanese trench, Zhang Shan stopped again, and climbed over this short distance of more than ten meters, Zhang Shan and they actually spent a full 20 minutes. Holding the dagger in his mouth tightly in his hand, Zhang Shan looked left and right, and saw that the soldiers of the new army who followed him were all in place, so he slowly curled up his right leg, and then with the help of the kicking force of his right leg, the whole person rushed forward and fell into the trench of the Japanese army.
Six or seven Japanese soldiers were sitting in this trench at the moment, smoking and chatting, and they had no idea that a group of killers would fall from the sky at this moment. Zhang Shan, who fell into the Japanese trench, happened to fall among these Japanese soldiers, and before the other party could react or shout, Zhang Shan waved his dagger again and again, slitting the throats of three of the Japanese soldiers. used his body to knock over a Japanese soldier who went to get a gun, and the remaining Japanese soldiers who were still alive had been strangled by the New Army soldiers under Zhang Shan.
Using a dagger to deal with the Japanese soldiers who were pressed under him, Zhang Shan immediately drew his pistol, and while signaling his subordinates who had fallen into the trench to disperse, he took out the silencer and screwed it on the pistol. The trenches guarded by this group of Japanese soldiers were about 20 meters long, and there were two anti-artillery holes, and Zhang Shan carried a pistol equipped with a silencer to carefully clean the two anti-artillery holes, and killed almost 10 Japanese soldiers. This section of the trench was not very important in the entire Japanese position, which may be why there were only a dozen Japanese soldiers guarding this section of the trench.
After successfully eliminating the dozen or so Japanese soldiers in the trenches, the New Army soldiers under Zhang Shan issued a code, and the Bazooka shooters waiting outside the position also followed into the trenches. Everyone squatted down, and Zhang Shan whispered to everyone's task, "Huzi, you and Lao Zhang and Bald Man go to the left to take down the machine gun over there, and Erzhu, you and Wang Zheng and Xiao Xu go to the right to take down the machine gun over there." The rest of the men and I rushed back along the communication trenches, and in the event of an exchange of fire, the Bazooka shooters should provide fire support as soon as possible, and your group occupying the machine gun position should not open fire in advance, but wait for us to retreat, and then open fire. ”
After briefly assigning everyone's tasks, Zhang Shan led most of his men to move along the communication trench to the depths of the Japanese position, while the other six people followed Zhang Shan's instructions to solve the machine gun positions on both sides. Whether it was to kill the enemy or destroy the Japanese position, Zhang Shan, as the commander, did not have a clear purpose of the action, which made the new soldiers a little confused.
Relying on the Japanese military uniforms on their bodies, Zhang Shan and his gang marched forward smoothly to a distance of more than 100 meters, and all the sporadic Japanese soldiers they encountered during the period were killed by Zhang Shan and hid in the anti-artillery hole. There was a soft sound of "Kata", and Zhang Shan, who was walking in the Japanese trench with his cat's waist, suddenly stopped, and the soldiers of the New Army who followed him also squatted down immediately, but the assault rifle in his hand had already pointed to the corner of the trench in front of him.
A few meters in front of Zhang Shan is a corner of the trench, which usually means that the trench will turn or there will be a fork in the corner ahead. Although the sound of Kata just now was almost inaudible, Zhang Shan, who had been attentive and careful all the way, still keenly captured the sound. Veterans who are accustomed to bolt-action rifles know that when they pull the bolt, there will be some noise, and the carta sound that Zhang Shan heard just now is likely to be the sound of someone pulling the bolt.
Zhang Shan turned around and made a gesture, and two New Army soldiers with short-barreled Xia shotguns immediately stepped forward, only to see Zhang Shan wave his arms hard, and the two New Army soldiers with short-barreled Xia shotguns rushed to the corner with broken steps. There was a muffled sound of "boom", a short-barreled Xia shotgun was still fired, and before the dull gunfire disappeared, another gunshot sounded immediately after the "boom", and then Zhang Shan and others heard the screams of Japanese soldiers coming from the back of the front corner.
The sound of gunfire had already exposed everything, and Zhang Shan simply shouted, "Assault, full firepower assault." "The New Army soldiers who penetrated into the Japanese position, led by Zhang Shan, who was armed with an assault rifle, rushed all the way along the Japanese trenches with strong firepower. Zhang Shan's surprise attack was launched too suddenly, so that neither the Japanese army nor the Eighth Route Army came to their senses at that time, and when Zhang Shan and they had killed a large number of Japanese soldiers and had retreated along the trenches, the panicked Japanese army could be regarded as coming to their senses.
"Baga, Bageyalu, you must catch them." The annoyed Montenegro had begun to be a little incoherent, more than half of his position was on fire, and seeing the imperial soldiers in the position who were panicked to fight the fire and treat the wounded, Montenegro felt that he had come to the wrong place to lead the team to rescue Cishan Town this time. During the day, one of his infantry squadrons had been killed and wounded by the Chinese army on the opposite side using unknown weapons, and it was only less than 12 hours before his position was successfully attacked by the opponent.
The two machine gun teams left by Zhang Shan in the forward position of the Japanese army did not make a move, and when Zhang Shan and his soldiers successfully withdrew, the two machine guns controlled by the machine gun team were taken out of the Japanese position, and finally became the trophies of the new army to support the Eighth Route Army. "Battalion Commander Zhao, you don't have to worry about us, just take care of your position, and wait until dawn." Crossing the open ground between the positions of the two armies, Zhang Shan handed over the two machine guns captured from the Japanese army to the Eighth Route Army, and disappeared into the night again with his soldiers.
Zhang Shan is not so arrogant that he will deal with a Japanese brigade with dozens of people on his own, but he is absolutely confident that the Japanese troops on the opposite side will not sleep tonight, as long as they can inflict a lot of casualties on the Japanese troops on the opposite side, Zhang Shan and them will not be busy in vain tonight. When the position was attacked, the angry Montenegro immediately strengthened its defenses, but the Japanese did not expect that the attackers would come to their position again after less than 2 hours.
The sound of gunfire and explosions sounded again in the Japanese position, and Zhang Shan and the others did not approach all the way to the distance as they did last time, but after they touched in from the flank of the Japanese position, they returned all the grenades they had captured from the Japanese army last time. A series of explosions set fire in the Japanese position, and the panicked Japanese soldiers were at a loss for what to do with their rifles, because it was pitch black everywhere, and they had no idea where the attackers were.
"Pap" "Pa" was ordered to hide outside the Japanese position of the four snipers to open fire at the right time, the Japanese position of the fire for the snipers to guide the target very well, but all the Japanese soldiers who were surrounded by the flames were the targets of their shooting. The Japanese machine gunners immediately counterattacked, judging the general direction of the snipers according to the direction from which the bullets came, and tried to stop the snipers from continuing to fire with the strafing of the machine guns.
The gunfire in the Japanese position was loud, and the flashing gunfire had exposed the position of the machine guns in the Japanese position, and now it was the turn of the Bazooka shooters to appear, and after a few explosions, the machine guns in the Japanese position were muted one after another. After knocking out several machine gun positions of the Japanese army one after another, Zhang Shan did not show joy, but before the Japanese army fully reacted, he led his soldiers to retreat again under the cover of night.