Chapter 97

The forest was quiet, and there was no movement at all, as if Zhao Zhi and the others had escaped from the general silence. The Japanese troops who were chasing after them had already joined up with the Japanese troops rushing down the mountain, and the Japanese forwards set up two light machine guns to fire on the woods. The dense bullets hit the trees and crackled loudly, the leaves and broken branches fell to the ground, and Zhao Zhi, who was lying on the ground, strictly ordered the soldiers not to shoot without an order.

"The people of China have run away, the people of China have run away," the Japanese soldiers in the vanguard shouted as they pointed to the forest, and more than a dozen figures could be seen running in the forest, and they were about to flee to the depths of the forest. "Pursuit" A Japanese soldier held a command knife and drove the Japanese soldiers to rush into the forest. The frenzied Japanese soldiers, rifles in their hands, and shouts in their mouths, followed Shao Zuo towards the woods.

"Advance in battle formation" When he reached a distance of about 100 meters from the woods, Shao Zuo ordered the Japanese forward troops. His troops unfolded with a "swish", holding their guns, bending their waists, and walking forward cautiously step by step, the guns in their hands were already loaded and ready to fire at any time. This group of Japanese troops is the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, all veterans of jungle warfare, and have been fighting against the Chinese and British in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia for several years, and they are well aware of the dangers of the jungle, especially in the current situation where the enemy is dark and we are clear, and the enemy can use trees to cover but can only be used as a live target in the open area. With this marching posture, they can lie on the ground and shoot back in the shortest possible time, minimizing their losses.

They are getting closer and closer to the woods, fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters, they are already close enough to the woods, within the range of the Chinese, why didn't the Chinese shoot? This was somewhat unexpected by the Japanese army. Could it be that the soldiers of China really fled? If that happens, they will have the confidence to annihilate all of this group of troops in the woods.

They continued to approach the woods, the gunshots still did not go out, and the leader of the group, Ono Ichiro, made a gesture to stop the advance, he had to observe first. The surroundings were surprisingly quiet, and he panicked in his heart. Ono is a battle-hardened man, and he knows that danger often lurks in the calm of the battlefield, and the calmer it is, the greater the danger. After listening to it for a while, there was still no movement, Ono raised his hand and was about to make a gesture forward, but his eyelids involuntarily looked up, and he felt uneasy in his heart for a moment. He rubbed his eyelids with his raised hand, feeling a little inexplicable. Calming down, he was ready to give the order to move forward again, and the uneasiness in his heart became intense, mixed with sadness. The thoughts in my head seemed to be drained away for a moment, and my brain was blank for a while. This is not a sign, in his many years of war, he has never seen any bloody scenes, what kind of cruel battles have never been experienced, and this phenomenon has never appeared.

Although he sensed that there was a great danger ahead, there was no turning back for Ono. If he goes back and tells Watanabe that the woods are dangerous, all he can do is get a reprimand and a few slaps, and then he has to come back to the woods. Moreover, retreating without a fight would damage the dignity and honor of the imperial samurai, and anyone who did so would not escape the same outcome: suicide by caesarean section. Now, for him, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, he has to go to the tiger mountain. Just when Ono waved his command knife again and ordered the Japanese army to prepare to enter the woods, and the forward of more than 100 Japanese troops was still more than 20 meters away from the forest, a gunshot suddenly rang out in the woodland, and the head of Ichiro Ono, who led the team, cracked like a watermelon, and splashed blood and ** sprayed everywhere.

After a loud shout of "fire", the woods, which had been silent just a moment ago, suddenly boiled. Hundreds of tongues of fire suddenly erupted from the grass and behind the trees at the edge of the woods, and the Japanese troops, who had been pursuing with joy just now, fell into hell at this time. At a distance of more than 20 meters, there was no dead angle at all in the intensive shooting of submachine guns, and the Japanese forwards were knocked down by the rain of bullets, and they had no time and terrain to dodge, so they could only use their bodies to meet the flying bullets.

After hitting a magazine, Zhao Zhi didn't care about the results, kicked the guys who were still shooting, and urged him to retreat quickly. Just now the Japanese saw the people running in the woods, it was actually Edward and the gunners, Zhao Zhi asked Edward to take the only two light machine guns and mortars to go first, and retreat to the outside of the forest to set up a second line of defense. Zhao Zhilung, who was ambushed by the Japanese army, was about to explode, and he also had to give the Japanese army an ambush.

Zhao Zhi's shooting was very successful, and most of the more than 100 Japanese strikers were killed and wounded, and almost all of them were wounded. The edge of the woods was full of Japanese corpses and wounded soldiers lying in pools of blood and wailing, the Japanese soldiers were blinded, and they did not dare to pursue too closely for the time being, but fell far behind Zhao Zhi and them. In the woods, the mortar was just an ornament, and the huge canopy could block most of the shells, and it couldn't do any damage to Zhao Zhi and them at all.

"Don't look at it, go, go" Zhao Zhi dragged a guy who was still watching behind, urging the team to run out of the woods quickly. This ambush by the Japanese army in the valley caused Zhao Zhi to lose more than 30 people, almost all of whom were killed in battle and not injured. The group of people ran out of formation, but fortunately the weapons and equipment were not lost.

"The wounded go first, the mortar is mounted 200 meters behind, hurry, hurry" Zhao Zhi, who ran out of the woods, rushed into the ambush position that Edward and they had found, without raising his head, panting for breath while constantly giving orders. Edward and the others found a good place, 200 meters outside the woods there was a dry riverbed, this section of the riverbed was tightly blocked by dense thatch, just Zhao Zhi used it to ambush the Japanese army.

"Uncle, don't concentrate your people together, be careful of being wiped out by the Japanese army" Zhao Zhi grabbed Uncle Guo, and told him uneasily, Uncle Guo They are all rifles, and the power of intensive shooting is not great. The Japanese soldiers who were chasing after them had already appeared at the edge of the woods, but this time the Japanese soldiers were much more careful, and they couldn't dodge and dodge.

"Huang Mao, bang a few times, hook the Japanese army out" Zhao Zhi shouted Edward on a walkie-talkie, he wanted to see how endurance the Japanese army was. "Boom" "Boom" A few mortar shells blew the edge of the woods into a cloud of smoke, and the panicked Japanese soldiers lay on the ground one after another, dodging the flying branches and wood chips, which would also kill people if they were not careful. The Japanese also began to set up mortars to fire back, but the shells they fired in the woods were affected by the canopy of the trees.

"Uncle Guo, shoot their gunners" Zhao Zhi pointed to the group of Japanese gunners who carried the two mortars out of the woods. A distance of 200 meters is not a problem at all for a sniper rifle. The sniper gunners fired only two shots each, and the Japanese gunners suffered casualties. Annoyed and angry, the Japanese began to shoot heavily at the riverside with machine guns, trying to suppress them and snatch back the mortars.

The Garand riflemen, who were scattered in the ambush position, kept changing firing positions along the river, firing a few shots and then changing places, so that they were covering the real gunners --- sniper gunners. The Japanese soldiers and machine gunners who rushed out of the woods to bring back the mortars had already changed several times, and a mortar shell that rolled on the ground became the target of the uncle, and several shots were fired in succession, and the fused shell was finally exploded. With a "boom", the shells on the mortar position of the Japanese army exploded, and several Japanese soldiers who had just run out of the woods were thrown high, and before they could fall, the explosion caused other shells on the gun position to also detonate. The air wave once again threw the Japanese soldiers high in the air, and when they fell again, they were already broken limbs and broken arms.

Edward's shelling turned to Zhao Zhi's flank, and the Japanese prepared to attack on the flank of the ditch in a detour. The smoke of the "boom" and "boom" explosions continued to rise in the formation of the Japanese troops, and some Japanese soldiers were constantly hit by shrapnel and fell or were thrown up by air waves. However, the Japanese army had gone crazy, and still rushed to Zhao Zhi's ditch from the side regardless of casualties. 200 meters, 150 meters, 100 meters, 60 meters, regardless of the impact of casualties, the Japanese finally attacked 60 meters away from Zhao Zhi and them.

"Holy shit, they're crazy" Zhao Zhi looked at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in one place with a telescope, and secretly sighed at the madness of the Japanese army. In order to rush to 60 meters away from Zhao Zhi and them, the Japanese paid nearly 30 casualties. The Japanese soldiers who finally rushed to 60 meters away couldn't wait to set up their machine guns and shoot at Zhao Zhi's ditch, and the Japanese soldiers also began to shoot with 38 rifles, covering the Japanese brigade that was about to rush out of the woods.

Zhao Zhi's side has begun to have casualties, the accurate shooting of the Japanese rifle is really powerful, as long as Zhao Zhi's people are not careful, the body exposed to the ditch will be hit by the bullets of the three or eight shots. "Hidden, hidden" Zhao Zhi pulled a guy who was just about to probe back to the bottom of the ditch, and snapped a few bullets at the position where he was about to poke his head out just now. "Damn, Huang Mao, bomb them a few more times" Zhao Zhi called Edward with a walkie-talkie, the number of Japanese troops was too large, and Zhao Zhi was afraid that he would not be able to stop the momentum of the Japanese charge with only submachine guns and two machine guns.

The Japanese troops who rushed out of the woods withstood Edward's artillery fire, and used more than 40 Japanese casualties to shorten the distance between them and Zhao Zhi from 200 meters to 60 meters. "Dog's day, there are so many people" Zhao Zhi looked at the Japanese soldiers crawling on the ground opposite with a telescope, and there were no less than 500 people in the dark. Zhao Zhi only had more than 100 people in the ditch, and he didn't expect that the Japanese army would not follow the routine, and it would not be a forward attack at all, but a nest.