Chapter 111: The Kiss of Death
Lying on a small hillside not far away, Lu Hua saw several Frenchmen half-lying in the pergola, and several subordinates served them, which was in stark contrast to the dire construction site - a laborer accidentally fell, and immediately after, the overseer's leather whip flew in, and the overseer's whipping seemed to show no signs of stopping, until the overseer was exhausted, and did not stop trampling, and the laborer, He also lay motionless on the ground.
What made Lu Hua feel most angry was that the overseer turned out to be a Manchu official, who seemed to be an overseer sent by the imperial court! Who can bear it, who can't bear it! The servants of the imperial court are so hard-working, and they have no pity for their compatriots! Lu Huaqiang endured the grief and indignation in his heart, carefully observed the defensive situation of the construction site, and briefly described it.
After returning to the temporary camp, Lu Hua summoned the three team leaders to discuss. Through the observation of the whole day during the day, it can be determined that there were 312 French soldiers, colonial soldiers, and overseers of the imperial court, of whom 210 were armed with guns, and the greatest threat was a heavy machine gun placed in the center of the construction site, and the overseers had no firearms. Of course, it is not excluded that there are no enemy soldiers and firepower that were not found.
During the day, the overseers were scattered throughout the site, the guards were stationed at various important points to prevent the laborers from escaping into the mountains, and the French soldiers were all blessed in the pergolas. In the evening, everyone would return to a camp near the site, surrounded by a fence made of trees but without more defense, and the heavy machine gun would be carried back to the camp, but it was unclear where it would be placed. The camp is surrounded by four watchtowers, each manned by two people.
The battle plan was quickly drawn up, and that night, the 5th Squadron went into action. The team members who had rested for an afternoon were full of energy and entered their respective areas according to the division of labor.
Song Hao and Jiang Maosheng climbed a big tree fifty meters outside the camp, and the auspicious clothes merged the two of them with the big tree. Jiang Maosheng set up the sniper rifle and observed the movement in the camp through the scope. Song Hao's weapon is a light machine gun, and he will provide Jiang Maosheng with observation and fire cover.
As the night wore on, the camp was quiet, and the animals crawled out of their burrows, and the sounds of strange animal chirps were heard, as if they were unaware of the uninvited guests who had intruded into their homes, foraging for food, courting, and having fun.
The team watched all night, and the camp was small, with more than 5,000 laborers crammed into thirty wooden huts, and they did not know how they slept with their legs outstretched. The overseers and soldiers were noticeably better in their accommodation, and late in the evening they could be seen with oil lamps lit in the houses in good condition, and bursts of laughter could be heard from inside.
In the dark night, Lu Hua's gaze became colder and colder, and what happened on the construction site during the day was still echoing in his mind, more than 30 corpses of laborers were thrown aside, and then buried in simple soil pits by other laborers. All of them died in the course of a day, some because of accidents on the construction site, some because of the whipping of the overseers, and some fell directly to the ground and never got up again. These are their own compatriots, they should not bear such suffering, I really hope to relay this scene to the chief, let the Zhenguo army overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty and unify the country as soon as possible, and this kind of tragedy will not happen again!
Time flowed, the sky was getting brighter, Song Hao looked at the mechanical watch on his wrist, there were still ten minutes to five o'clock, and ten minutes was the time to attack. After a night of waiting, I already made myself a little impatient. His partner, sniper Jiang Maosheng is really a natural sniper, the training time is not long, and he has maintained a state of concentration all night, and he has not felt the vibration around him, which means that he has remained motionless all night! It's not bad, Jiang Maosheng has already received Song Hao's initial approval, and he has seen the battle performance for a while.
Time's up! Through the telescope, Song Hao could clearly see that the sleepy sentinels on the four lookouts were hit by arrows one after another and fell silently on the lookout. The figures of the team appeared on the grass outside the camp, they hooked the outer wall with ropes, and then climbed in nimbly, and several team members climbed onto the lookout, occupied the high ground, and set up light machine guns. In this process, Jiang Maosheng and Song Hao's task is to cover the sneak attack of the team members, and on the other side of the camp, there is also a group of snipers who are responsible for covering the task on that side.
Without a single gunshot, the team members successfully entered the camp and the sneak attack was successful! According to the division of labor, fifteen members of the team ran to the rooms of the soldiers and overseers, three members of the team went to the warehouse, where the soldiers' provisions and food and grass were placed, and the other five members ran to the wooden shed to prevent the gunfire from causing a riot among the laborers.
Three hundred soldiers and overseers each lived in more than fifty wooden houses, and if they were killed one by one, they would exhaust fifteen members to death! Under the cover of machine gunners on the lookout and snipers outside the camp, the team members security explosives outside each house, in addition to explosives, but also connect the detonation lead, such a workload is not small, the most likely to attract the detection of the guards, this is also the most nervous time period for Jiang Maosheng and Song Hao.
Sure enough, a door suddenly opened, and a confused guard walked out with his pants pulled, and was about to pull out his life as soon as he stepped out of the door. What's worse is that there is a team member pulling the lead three meters on the right side of him, and the team member is motionless, seeing that he has not been found, he took out a dagger and walked over slowly.
Even if the team's voice was small, it was still noticed by the guard, and when he turned his head to see what was happening, Jiang Maosheng knew that the sneak attack was going to fail, as long as the guard shouted loudly, the whole camp would be alarmed! Since this is the case, there is no need to hide it, this is also the arrangement of Captain Lu Hua before.
"Bang!" Jiang Maosheng shot decisively, and the guard fell to the ground. Hearing the gunshots, all the team members in the camp knew that the sneak attack had failed, and quickly found cover and entered the combat state.
"All of them retreat to the side of the shed, and activate the explosives that have been placed!" Lu Hua quickly ordered, and when the team members moved to the side of the shed more than 50 meters away, several people had already walked out of the door to check the source of the gunshots. "Bang! Bang! Jiang Maosheng and the sniper on the other side fired one after another, covering the team members to transfer, Song Hao put the binoculars in front of his eyes, and kept talking about the enemy's location.
A few gunshots finally alarmed everyone, and the workers in the shed were frightened by the prepared team members with guns and did not dare to move. In such a critical moment, the threat of violence is the most effective, and in order to prevent the workers from rioting, such actions are also a last resort.
The guards who walked out with guns were knocked down one after another, and some people in the guards' rooms shot indiscriminately through the windows. However, at this time, the team members were hiding near the shed, and with a wave of Lu Hua's hand, the demoman slammed the detonator, "Boom!" "More than a dozen explosives that have been planted have all exploded!
The amount of explosives was strictly controlled, and the thirteen bombing sites only destroyed less than 20 wooden houses, and the team members and wooden sheds more than 50 meters away were not affected. However, the guards who lived in those wooden houses suffered a huge blow, and they entered the cycle of reincarnation before they could fully awaken from their slumber.
"The first squad attacks head-on, the second squad and the third squad detour on both sides, maximum fire attack, don't let one enemy escape!" Lu Hua's order was quickly executed, and the fire of light machine guns and submachine guns was at its maximum effect at a distance of several tens of meters, and the bullets passed through the planks and burrowed into the room.
Finding that they couldn't hide from the bullets in the house, the guards rushed out of the house and tried to organize a counterattack, but provided the machine gunners with good targets to fire at. Several guards who managed to break out lay in the dead corner between the houses and started shooting at the team.
"Boom!" Since there were no laborers in those wooden houses, the team members did not have to be polite, and the grenades became a weapon in melee combat, and the three bazookas brought the battle to a climax.
"Behind the third house on the left, there are five enemies ready to rush out!" Song Hao said. Jiang Maosheng turned the muzzle of the gun slightly, and a bullet was pushed out of the muzzle by gunpowder, and accurately hit an enemy who tried to rush out and detour to the back of the team, and the enemy who tried to run out behind the house retreated. Jiang Maosheng didn't wait for Song Hao's instructions, and another bullet flew out, passed through the plank, and hit another enemy hiding behind the plank.
The surviving wooden houses were constantly hit by grenades and bazookas, one after another was destroyed, and there were fewer and fewer places for the remaining enemy to hide, and there were no more guards to rush out. Finally, several shouts came from the rubble, but were again muffled by gunshots and explosions. Perhaps the enemy was in a hurry, and a wooden stick carrying a piece of white cloth rose from the ruins, making Lu Hua realize that the enemy had surrendered.
The team slowly approached from three sides, and at gunpoint, more than forty enemies slowly rose from the rubble, raised their hands high, and a Frenchman shouted surrender in French. The Frenchman glanced out of the corner of his eye, and through the smoke and dust, he saw the special operators with strange equipment and oil paint on their faces, and thought they were hell messengers, so they simply fainted.