Chapter Seventy-Six: The Power of Sniping
In winter, the roads cannot be repaired, and the devils are not able to exert their power of rapid mobility.
In order to make up for the lack of continuous transportation and supply capacity and to ensure that the sweep could be maintained for a long time, the devils before the sweep still made relatively adequate preparations and recruited civilian vehicles so that the troops could carry as much ammunition and supplies as possible.
Therefore, this sweep lasted for a long time, and although it did not capture the main force of the Eighth Route Army, it caused great damage to the base area.
For devils, of course. Sweep and sweep the air, this is a common thing.
Arresting the people and levying carts, so tossed that fools can't see that you want to take military action.
The failure to capture the main force of the Eighth Route Army was not a surprise to Kono, but it was necessary to pursue it closely, but it was limited by the situation of materials and road transportation.
After sweeping and collecting troops, Kono Xiong was not very willing, but he felt that forcing the Eighth Route Army out of the base area could be regarded as achieving part of the military purpose.
Next, he planned to take a short rest and take advantage of the absence of the main force of the Eighth Route Army to withdraw part of his troops to carry out a clean-up operation against the local armed forces, with a view to completely consolidating the occupied areas.
The local armed forces are nothing but vassals of the Eighth Route Army, a few broken guns, broadswords and spears, where is the opponent of the imperial army? As long as a small number of Imperial troops supervise the formation, the troops of the Imperial Allied Army are almost capable of this task, right?
Kono Yu thought like this, and he was still in a good mood on the horse. Of course, he would not have thought that the local armed forces that he despised would dare to pick up the tiger's whiskers and attack the retreating devil brigade.
"Your Excellency, please pay attention to your safety." The adjutant approached the commander and persuaded: "Although the enemy has been scattered and fled, he has to guard against ......."
Kono Yu violently raised his hand to interrupt the adjutant's exhortation, and asked coldly, "Yamamoto-kun, is the glory of the samurai supreme?" ”
"Of course, every samurai should cherish honor." The adjutant replied simply without thinking about this question, and then understood what the chief meant, bowed his head a little apologetically, and said, "Your Excellency, I'm sorry, but I made a mistake in my humble position. ”
Primitive beliefs and worship often accumulate into the deep cultural psychology of a nation, and become a restrictive force for its cultural growth and value choice.
The essence of the bushido spirit that the Japanese revere is "loyalty, righteousness, and bravery." To put it simply, it includes the supremacy of loyalty, the importance of fame over death, and the foundation of martial arts.
Honor, on the other hand, means that if faced with the dilemma between reputation and life, the samurai will resolutely choose honor.
Therefore, not to mention that there is no danger, even if it is really a stone, the samurai will never back down, and should never be afraid, which is a great insult to the reputation of the samurai.
Forward in the face of danger. Putting life and death at risk, not hesitating to sacrifice his life to protect his reputation, this is the true nature of a samurai, and it is also the reason why Kono Yu refuted his staff.
In his opinion, greed for life and fear of death, cowering and hiding in the protective circle, are unforgivable tarnishings and violations of the samurai's reputation.
Driven between the arrows and stones. Born at the door of life and death. With this belief in bushido, Kono is moving towards death step by step without realizing it, but is complacent because of his strong faith.
"Hi, hi. Come over a big official, on horseback. Yu Baogen was lying on the top of the cliff, holding the binoculars and looking very hard, screaming in his mouth.
"Let me see." Shen Chen reached out and took the binoculars and looked carefully. After all, it's still far away, and although his eyesight is good, he also needs to be confirmed.
In the Japanese army, most of the captains are in the rank of Zhongzuo and Shaozuo, and this devil captain is the rank of Shaozuo, a bar of three stars.
In the Japanese infantry, as a rule, officers below the squadron leader marched on foot, and the captains of the squadron and above rode horses.
Shen Chen accurately distinguished the rank of the devil, and also judged that this devil officer was a big fish. Yu Baogen said it well, from the clothes to the expressions, to the demeanor of the devils around him, this can basically be determined.
"Captain, just hit him!" Yu Baogen pouted beside him: "Don't miss it, it's cheaper than the devil official." ”
Shen Chen nodded, pulled the rope, and went down the hiding hole, as if hiding in a small pillbox. From the outside, he was not threatened with a gun.
If it is a mortar, the probability of falling directly into the hole is also very small because it is the angle of the beam throwing.
Therefore, as long as the devil doesn't take a detour and climb up, Shen Chen feels that he can continue to fight with the devil here.
Slowly stretching out the muzzle of the gun, Shen Chen squinted his eyes, observing the reference, the strip of cloth on the branch, calculating the wind speed and deviation, and adjusting the gun.
Yu Baogen saw that Shen Chen was about to make a move, so he hurriedly lay down in the snow and looked at the queue of devils with a telescope.
It's closer, it's getting closer. Shen Chen took a deep breath, held his breath, and aimed at Kono Yu, who was a few hundred meters away.
Suddenly there was a loud gunfire behind him, and Kono couldn't help but be startled, reined in his horse, and turned to look back.
The target's chest was exposed, right now.
Shen Chen gently pulled the trigger, and the bullet that had been waiting for a long time couldn't wait to fly out of the muzzle, and with the accumulated energy and hatred, it shot through the arm of the devil captain and drilled into Kono Xiong's body.
The Type 38 rifle has a long range, high muzzle velocity, good quality, and high hitting accuracy, but it is often easy to penetrate after hitting, the wound is smooth, and it has two eyes in one hit, and it does not cause much damage to the surrounding tissues, and its lethality is insufficient.
However, after penetration, the velocity of the projectile decreases, and after the second hit, the projectile will form tumbling and deformation, and the trauma caused will be more serious.
This is also the main reason why the devil asks to withdraw the bullet when he fights in close combat. The bullet has strong penetrating power, and it is easy to accidentally injure one's own people behind the target. And the opponent who is injured by the breakthrough may not lose his combat effectiveness on the spot, and he can still fight back!
Fighting cattle across the mountains?! Well, if this sentence is used to describe the two people who were penetrated and injured by the bullets of the three or eight bullets, it seems to be very appropriate.
Those who are penetrated may not immediately lose their combat effectiveness, and they will still be able to resist; The second one who is hit could be seriously injured and fall to the ground.
Kono Xiong unexpectedly caught up with such a result because he was twisting his body.
The bullet pierced his arm and burrowed into his chest, rolling and shattering countless alveoli. He fell off his horse with a scream, and blood foamed with gas gushed out of his mouth and nose.
"Hit, hit." Yu Baogen was so happy that he said like a child: "What did I say, what did I say, I must be a big official, I can't be wrong, I can't be wrong!" ”
As he spoke, he was still expecting someone to respond. It's a pity that there is no one around, and he can only wait for the future if he wants to find someone to talk about it.
With a sudden shot, the chief turned over and fell off his horse, seriously injured, and the devils next to him surrounded him for a while.
The devil adjutant who had just advised looked at the injuries and immediately knew that Kono was hopeless and would soon die. He only felt a fever all over, and after howling angrily, he drew his command knife and pointed in the direction of the gun.
Based on the sound of gunfire, you can only determine the general direction of the enemy, but you cannot determine the exact location of the enemy. But the angry devils set up several machine guns and began to fire blindly.
Shen Chen was unmoved, as if he had just killed a mosquito. He reloaded his bullet and took aim again.
A bizarre, almost dreamlike feeling occupied Shen Chen's mind. His body, mind, and mind seemed to have been poured into the chamber of the bullet that was about to be fired.
If someone sees Shen Chen now, if he knows how to do it, he will feel that his current state is like an ancient well, deep, arrogant, and like a sculpture, cold and unusual.
Gently pulling the trigger, the gun body stepped back briskly, and the bullet flew out at a speed of 765 m/s, before the enemy heard the gunshot, one of the devil officer's eyes suddenly burst, and there was an extra bloody hole on his face, and the devil shook and fell backwards.
Kono's captain of the guard was going crazy, and he pounced on him to see the adjutant lying on the ground with dead fish-like eyes, already dead.
The bullet entered from the bridge of his nose, and due to the angle, it was slightly oblique, and it burst one of his eyes, piercing his brain, and blood gushed out of the large hole in the back of his head.
"Yaga, Yagayalu." The anger of the captain of the guard rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, his eyes were about to burst out of his sockets, and the blood in his whole body boiled.
He looked back, the four fields were vast, the cold wind was blowing, he could only use the command knife to sweep half a circle in the general direction, and roared: "Scatter the search, catch the murderer......"
"Smack!" The gunshots were loud again, Shen Chen had completely adapted to the wind speed and deviation, aimed accurately, hit fast, and shot the Japanese devils with the command knife on his shoulder.
The captain of the guard stared at him with reddened eyes and raised his command knife, but the howl stopped abruptly, and blood gushed from his chest, and he fell to the ground like a log.
"Smack! The gunfire was unhurried and rhythmic, but for the devil, it was not a pleasant sound, but the call of death.
Five devils fell one after another, from Shao Zuo to Cao Chang, and then there was a long pause. Shen Chen was changing the magazine, and Yu Baogen was screaming excitedly.
Finally the enemy's location was discovered, and the bullets rained down on the cliff, and the stone chips flew sideways, and the two tenacious trees that were crisscrossing the cracks in the rocks were also broken to the roots.
While firing fiercely and sending people to find the way, the devil brigade actually stopped advancing because of a sniper.
Commanded was a squadron leader, who hid behind a boulder on the side of the road, howling and roaring.
Mean, shameless, cowardly, cunning, vicious and insidious...... This guy almost used every word he could think of, and he couldn't describe the hatefulness of his opponent.
To add insult to injury, his opponent seemed unscathed and shot again.
This time, the interval between shots was longer, and Shen Chen needed to find the exposed and poorly concealed devils to attack.
After running out of another magazine, Shen Chen no longer lingered in the nostalgic battle, and beckoned Yu Baogen to pull him up. The two men bent on their waists and began to evacuate.
In fact, from the first shot to now, it has only been ten minutes in total. Shen Chen also knew that the devil wanted to find a way and climb up around it, and he couldn't do it in half an hour.
But Shen Chen is still in line with the principle of safety first, if the mortar arrives, his safety is more guaranteed, and Yu Baogen will not be blown to pieces!
Moreover, Shen Chen was still a little worried about the team led by Cao Xiaobao, and wanted to go to support as soon as possible.
Shen Chen and Yu Baogen didn't run far before they heard a continuous explosion of "boom, boom, boom" behind them. It was a mortar brought in by the devil, and it bombarded the cliff fiercely.
The two of them continued to retreat quickly. The devil's firepower may be extended, and the killing of the chief will make their anger rise, and whether they can fight or not, they must always vent.
And just as the two of them were getting closer and closer to the ambush site, a series of explosions rang out, and the ambush battle began.
The urging of the officers and the desire for revenge made the devil neglect reconnaissance, and he only desperately wanted to climb the cliff, catch the murderer, and execute him by the most cruel means.
Therefore, it was not a dangerous ambush place, but it unexpectedly became the burial place of the devil.
"Boom, boom, boom......" continuous explosions came and went, and in the smoke and firelight, the devil was hit hard.
This is really a particularly vicious trick, which was manually triggered by a hidden point forty meters away, a chain of more than a dozen large and small mines, and covered with a lot of rubble.
The long-suppressed anger of the team turned into shrapnel, rubble and fire for revenge, mercilessly reaping the lives of the invaders.
The smoke, dust, and snow slowly dissipated, and the scene was an extremely bloody scene.
The wounded devils wailed and screamed on the ground, and more than a dozen mutilated devil corpses fell among the rubble.
Some of the devil's corpses were hornet's nests, burlap bags, stumps and broken arms were thrown everywhere, blood and brains mixed and flowed on the ground.
The devil's momentum was shattered, and although his courage did not all disappear after this violent explosion, the sunlight seemed to have become gray and gloomy.
"Enemy, enemy is there!" A wounded soldier with a bloody face screamed and pointed out.
That's right, the team member responsible for pulling the string to detonate is running for his life, and figures flash between trees and snow bags, running along the winding path to the top of the mountain.
"Kill the chicken and give it." A devil officer commanded a knife and made a wolf-like sound.
Gunshots rang out, and the devils regrouped and chased upwards on bloodstains, stumps, gravel, and snow.
"Fire!" Cao Xiaobao gave the order and shot with the team members, covering the team members out of danger.
One side occupies the favorable terrain and is condescending; One side has high fighting quality, fierce and brave; An exchange of fire ensued between us and the enemy.
Shen Chen and Yu Baogen soon arrived and immediately entered the battle. Although it was only two people, they formed a flank with Cao Xiaobao and others.
The gunfire was mixed, and Shen Chen joined later, and the position he occupied was still some distance from Cao Xiaobao and the others, and the sniper knockdown played an unexpected role.
The devil officer was still howling wolf with the command knife, and a bullet crept in and shattered his head.
Well, it's still cooler to get a headshot, and it's as enjoyable as smashing a watermelon with an iron rod. Seeing the devil officer's head turn into a rotten watermelon, Shen Chen couldn't help but show a cold smile.
"Smack!" On a battlefield where gunfire is intensive, unhurried shooting is not at all inconspicuous.