In the main position of the 2nd Brigade of the 55th Wing, Suzuki Osa hurriedly walked out of his residence and found the captain of the 2nd Brigade, Mikami Nakasa.

Mikami Nakasa stood in a semi-underground command room in the position, holding a telescope and looking west.

Through the observation hole, Suzuki Daisa saw Japanese soldiers hurrying back to their positions through the bushes, some of them carrying wounded on their backs.

Soon, a lieutenant walked into the semi-underground command room, saluted and said: "We went out on patrol under the leadership of Captain Sakamoto, and encountered about a platoon of Germans halfway, we ambushed them, but the enemy's reinforcements came too quickly and failed to annihilate them, Captain Sakamoto was killed, and our casualties are being counted." ”

Suzuki Daisa frowned and asked, "You are two squads?" Two squads ambushed a platoon of the enemy and failed to annihilate them? ”

The lieutenant hung his head and said: "We first suppressed the enemy with machine guns, and then launched a charge, trying to quickly deal with the enemy, but the enemy's firepower was too strong, they were all fully automatic or semi-automatic firepower, and only a small number of people rushed into their ranks. The troops they followed quickly rushed up, and we had no choice but to retreat. ”

While the two were talking, the casualty statistics were sent to Suzuki Daisa, and forty-seven of the patrols of the two squads did not return.

To the west of the position, there were sporadic gunfire, followed by machine gun fire, and Suzuki Osa said, "You guys go and rest first, and the others prepare for battle." ”

In the dense forest more than 400 meters west of the Japanese position, Captain Fokker led the second and third platoons of the company to chase the retreating Japanese troops all the way to the vicinity of the Japanese position, but they were ambushed by a mysterious enemy.

"There are snipers nearby, everyone disperse." Captain Falk shouted.

Behind him, a medic crouched beside a mountain infantryman, tending to a wound in his chest.

"Damn, his lungs were pierced." The medic shouted angrily.

Before the medics' voices had subsided, two more gunshots rang out in the woods.

A cloud of blood shot out from the back of the medic's head, and the steel helmet flew out, slamming headlong into the wounded.

Captain Falk didn't notice the medic behind him, but followed the direction of the gunshot, carefully looking for the sniper, but all he could see was a green color that could not be seen.

I can't see them, how do they see us?

This kind of asymmetrical battle gave Captain Falk nowhere to vent his anger.

Suddenly there was a shout in the woods, followed by the firing of the MG42 machine gun.

"In the trees, the enemy is in the trees."

Captain Falk immediately looked up, and under the fire of the MG42 machine gun, broken branches and leaves fell like snowflakes, and on the tree in front of the right, there was also a humanoid object that fell.

After finding the approximate location of the Japanese snipers, Captain Falk and his men gradually lost their anxiety, and the troops searched the dense canopy overhead as they continued their march in the direction of Yubang Ferry in the east.

The troops walked out more than 100 meters, and on the far right side of the straggler formation, on the woodland where the soldiers of the second platoon had walked, a grass field with a diameter of nearly one meter suddenly moved.

The dirt on the ground and the green grass above lifted up, revealing a small gap, in which a pair of murderous eyes looked at the backs of the German soldiers in front of them.

The muzzle of a gun sticks out of the ground and spews tongues of fire at the back of a soldier, who suddenly puffs of white smoke from his back and falls to the ground.

The sudden gunfire caused the other soldiers to stop advancing and look for concealment.

However, all the eyes of the searching enemy were focused overhead, and no one noticed that the attack was coming from the underground behind them.

It wasn't until the fourth soldier was knocked out by a cold shot from behind that the Japanese were spotted in their bearings.

"The enemy is behind, follow me."

One of the corporals was the first to notice the anomaly, shouted and rushed behind his wounded comrade, searched the grass, and soon four more soldiers ran to him and joined the search.

When the corporal searched under a large tree, a piece of the originally green ground suddenly flew up, and a rattan manhole cover with the dirt and green grass on it suddenly flew up and smashed straight on the corporal.

When the manhole cover flew up, it revealed a single foxhole below, and the Japanese soldiers hiding inside.

One shot knocked down the panicked German corporal, and the Japanese soldiers quickly pulled the bolt and fired at the other German soldiers.

About seven or eight minutes later, Captain Falk walked over to the one-man bunker and looked at the bloody Japanese soldiers lying in the bunker, his eyes almost bloody.

"It's this shady guy who killed six of us. Inform the other soldiers, carefully search the ground and beware of this tactic of the Japanese. ”

Learning war in the midst of war is a process that every unit must go through, but the tuition fee paid is life and blood.

Cold guns from overhead and from the ground slowed down the march of Captain Falk and his men until about two o'clock in the afternoon, when Captain Falk received a report from the advance guard.

Barbed wire was found in front!

Captain Falk hurried to the front of the troops and hid next to a large tree.

Under the guidance of a platoon commander, I saw a continuous barbed wire fence across the dense forest.

The anger in Captain Faulk's heart burned brightly, and this fire burned not to the Japanese, but to his own people.

Serious mistakes in intelligence.

The Japanese here are not at all a dozen Japanese with a group of puppet troops, and they even have complete fortifications.

Struggling to restrain the anger in his heart, Captain Falk quickly divided his forces into three directions.

All the way to the rear, send the wounded to the rear, and at the same time inform the battalion headquarters of their findings.

The other two searched left and right to find out how long the barbed wire was.

Until the evening, the three-way troops returned one after another.

Major Meyer was leading the main force of the battalion to advance here, and after the reports from the other two roads were summarized, Captain Faulk learned that the barbed wire fence covered an area of nearly a kilometer.

After hesitating for a while, Captain Falk decisively gave the order for the troops to retreat.

A Japanese position of this size is not something that a crippled company of its own can deal with, and it needs more troops and heavy weapons.

Toward eight o'clock that night, Captain Falk arrived at the battalion headquarters in the village of Ubang to join Major Meyer, and also met with the other three company commanders in the battalion.

After listening to Captain Fokk's personal report, Major Meyer said: "I asked the guide that the Japanese position encountered by the first company was still nearly three kilometers away from the Yubang crossing. I ordered the 2nd Company and a platoon of the Heavy Fire Company to bypass the right flank of the enemy's position and penetrate straight into the Bang Ferry Pass to cut off the Japanese forces here and the rear.

The other troops followed me, pinning down the Japanese army here, while waiting for the heavy weapons to arrive here. When heavy weapons are delivered here, it is expected that the second company will also arrive at the Yubang ferry, and then we will launch a general attack to destroy the Japanese army here in one fell swoop. ”