Chapter 30: Jungle Warfare (1)
Bullets whizzed over Kameda's hiding bunker, and all he could do now was try to hide himself as well as he could avoid being hit by stray bullets. "Boom" and "Boom" made two explosions in a row, and two clouds of smoke rose up a few meters away from Kameda, "Shaozuo, come out quickly, come here." Before the sound of the explosion had completely disappeared, Kameda heard a rough shout, and a fierce spirit flashed in his heart, Kameda couldn't help but be overjoyed, he had already heard the shouting person was one of his own Cao Chang.
There was another bang, and Kameda, who had mustered up his courage, took the opportunity to flip out of cover and move his hands and feet to his left side. The posture of using his hands and feet together made Kameda look very embarrassed, but he couldn't care about that much at the moment, and Kameda was already extremely nervous at this time, because he had already focused all his energy on how to quickly move behind those corpses. Kameda's speed was not slow, crawling to the nearest corpse to him, Kameda's eyes had a little joy, as long as he crossed this corpse, maybe he would be able to get out of trouble.
"Boom" There was another explosion behind Kameda, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Kameda, who had been crawling on the ground, straightened up and pounced forward. It's just a pity that just as Kameda tried to get past the corpse on the ground, the moment Kameda stood up, two bullets from behind hit Kameda in the back. The blood mist then splattered out, and Kameda, who had already seen hope, fell heavily to the ground, and the only fortunate thing was that Kameda, who had been hit by two bullets, had not yet lost his breath.
Seeing that the commander was shot and fell, the Japanese soldier Cao Chang, who had been hiding behind the corpse and covering Kameda with a grenade, couldn't stay any longer, and hurriedly rushed out with an arrow to try to rescue the injured Kameda who was not dead. With a soft "poof", the Japanese soldier Cao Chang, who stepped forward, slammed heavily on Kameda's body, and the blood arrows splattered from the bullet hole in his chest poured Kameda in the face. The sound of the wind brought by the "poof" bullet swept across Kameda's cheeks, and another Japanese soldier who tried to save people was shot and fell, and by the time Kameda was able to breathe and speak, in order to save him and Na Caochang, the Japanese army had already taken no less than five lives.
"Don't come, don't come, they want me to be a bait to lure you into being fooled." Kameda endured the pain from the wound and hissed at the Japanese soldiers who were not far away from him. In the corner of Kameda's eye, he could see the soldiers under his command on the other side, but this short distance of a few meters had already separated him from them. Kameda, who could still move his hands and feet, groped around several corpses on his side until he found a grenade, Kameda didn't think about killing himself with a grenade, he just hoped to use this grenade to teach the attacker a lesson.
The gunfire gradually subsided, and the continuous explosions finally died down, but the sporadic gunfire never stopped, and each shot always took the life of a Japanese soldier. The snipers who followed Zhuo Fei had an excellent opportunity to practice, and they were already equipped with sniper rifles equipped with 6x scopes, which was a nightmare for Japanese soldiers.
Kameda, who was lying with the corpse, had been waiting, waiting for the attacker to clean up the battlefield, because only by getting close to the attacker could the grenade he found burst out with power. But in fact, Kameda's careful thinking was in vain, and Zhuo Fei didn't want the scouts to clean up the battlefield at all. After the sudden attack caused heavy casualties to Kameda's squadron, Zhuo Fei left only a few snipers on the side of the riverbed camp, and the remaining scouts had already been taken by him to the upper reaches of the riverbed, because another group of Japanese troops was about to appear.
The tactics used by Zhuo Fei at this moment were very similar to the encirclement points used by the Eighth Route Army, but the encirclement and reinforcements of the Eighth Route Army were aimed at a certain target to create the illusion of an all-out attack, luring Japanese reinforcements to come and ambush them. However, Zhuo Fei did his best to cause large casualties to the besieging target first, and then found an opportunity to ambush the military reinforcements who came in a hurry.
If you want to deal with the Japanese army that is about to approach your side, Zhuo Fei chooses to fight a round of jungle warfare with the other party, Myanmar is mountainous, and the Burmese jungle located in the subtropics is even more famous, and you can't avoid jungle warfare when you fight in Burma, Zhuo Fei also wants to take this opportunity to see with your own eyes the scouts' ability to fight jungle warfare. Jungle warfare is definitely the most troublesome type of battle, everyone knows that frontal combat casualties are large, but the casualties of jungle warfare are not smaller than positional warfare, especially in the tropical jungle, every jungle battle will be accompanied by a super high casualty rate.
Jungle warfare usually refers to battles that take place in tropical forests, and the biggest trouble with jungle warfare is that forests provide unparalleled concealment for both warring parties. Fighting in the jungle, the most important factor that determines the outcome is the regional factor, whether you are absolutely familiar with the local environment determines the success or failure of the battle, people who are particularly familiar with the local terrain and landforms, vegetation, climate, and creatures, even if they only have the most basic weapons, will have the absolute upper hand, and if you don't know these at all, the jungle itself will become the biggest obstacle and enemy.
High humidity and high heat, a large amount of rainfall, are severe tests for combatants and equipment, and the extremely limited field of vision makes excellent fighters in other environments can only be helpless here. A good sniper could have dealt with the enemy from a few hundred meters or even thousands of meters away, but with no vision in the rainforest, his long-range advantage is completely nullified.
In the jungle, sheltered by trees and dense vegetation, the telescope is almost a waste. Heavy long-range weapons such as heavy machine guns and mortars are unthinkable in the jungle, and tank artillery can't get in. The plane dropped the bomb and could not see the target. The jungle environment doesn't just affect the combat distance, the trees block bullets, absorb blast waves and debris, and even when you invest in grenades, the canopy or branches will bounce back at you and smash the grenades you throw at you.
There are also many unknown troubles and dangers in the jungle, such as the ubiquitous poisonous insects, poisonous animals and plants, poisonous snakes, pythons, and all kinds of fierce beasts, which will become a nightmare for both warring sides. In fact, in jungle warfare, non-combat attrition figures tend to be higher than casualties in normal combat, and diseases and the variety of creatures in the jungle can give both warring sides an indication of who is the master of the jungle.
From the day he began to prepare the final plan, Zhuo Fei was already looking for jungle warfare experts and retired soldiers from various countries who were proficient in jungle warfare, and the umbrella company received the support of the coalition government to set up the Ruili training camp, and there were more than 300 instructors responsible for training scouts in mountain warfare and jungle warfare alone, and these more than 300 people were the masters of the umbrella company from all over the world. Zhuo Fei didn't care whether he recruited murderers or local African natives, as long as the other party had the ability, Zhuo Fei would pull them into the umbrella company as training instructors.
After more than a year of rigorous training, the scout unit in the independent army can exceed the scale of 1,000 people, according to the comments given by those training instructors, these more than 1,000 scouts can already be regarded as an elite, but Zhuo Fei is not very satisfied, he is preparing to select the most elite 100 people from the more than 1,000 scouts, and form a special force belonging to the umbrella company. It was almost a one-to-ten elimination rate, which made Zhuo Fei personally lead more than 100 scouts to fight, but the scouts did not know Zhuo Fei's true intentions.
The scouts had no idea whether the 33rd Division was proficient in jungle warfare, but they knew that they had been training in the jungle for a whole year in the past year. When the red dot representing the Japanese army appeared in the map system, Zhuo Fei handed over the command to the captain of this scout team, and in the next battle, Zhuo Fei only wanted to take Zhuo Yan as a spectator.
Although he was mentally prepared, after Zhuo Fei and Zhuo Yan entered the jungle, the dense jungle still put Zhuo Fei under great pressure. Through his own map system, Zhuo Fei already knew that the Japanese army that came this time was still the size of the squadron, and the number of troops between the two sides was obviously unequal, in such an environment and situation, Zhuo Fei did not know whether these scouts could win the final victory.
Everyone has already held their breath and hidden, now they are just waiting for the unwitting Japanese army to break into the encirclement that has been set up, Zhuo Fei and Zhuo Yan have already changed to short-barreled assault rifles that are more suitable for jungle combat, and everyone is waiting for the arrival and appearance of the Japanese army. There was no road in the jungle at all, and the Japanese would only appear along the edge of the riverbed, and the place where Zhuo Fei and them hid was a prominent woodland, and if they wanted to continue south along the riverbed, they had to pass through this woodland that protruded to the riverbed.
The Japanese army's khaki uniforms were conspicuous at the edge of the riverbed, and the outposts had already sent back the signal, and the scouts crouching in the woods were in good spirits and ready to attack. Zhuo Fei, who was squatting in the shadows, secretly wrote down the respective reactions of these scouts, and already had a general outline of the candidates for the special forces in his heart.
It may be that he received the distress wave from Kameda's squadron, this wave of Japanese troops is moving very fast, and Zhuo Fei's side is a little contemplative, and this wave of Japanese soldiers has already appeared in everyone's sight. The sporadic gunfire in the lower reaches of the riverbed continued, and the gunfire was the signal, and the few Japanese soldiers were provoked to ignore the danger lurking at their sides. Let those Japanese soldiers pass, the scouts immediately pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet, and the group of Japanese troops immediately following the top soldiers was about to appear, and it would be the time for them to make a big move.