Liu Tianshu and Shi Hu's sniper positions were about a hundred meters apart, and in the middle were hills with wild grass. They both chose the commanding heights on the hill, and the distance between them was exactly the length of five stuffy tank cars.

Liu Tianshu lay down in the position he had found, and casually put a few bridges full of bullets in front of him. Dong Zhao, a correspondent of the independent battalion, followed him.

Seeing that the military train had not yet come, Liu Tianshu raised his binoculars again and carefully observed the ambush situation of the 1234 companies, and saw that all the soldiers were ambushed behind the small hill on the side of the railway.

Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, Liu Tianshu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The troops have been put in place, and their respective combat missions are extremely clear, even if there are possible accidents, and they have also made plans in advance, and now he, as a commander, has nothing to do except for sudden changes in the battlefield.

This was also the main reason why he was relieved to let Zhu Aiguo stay at the battalion headquarters to sit in command and run to the front to snipe the enemy.

Of course, as the commander of an independent battalion, Liu Tianshu will not put the cart before the horse, and once the battle situation changes, he will command each company to change the battle plan as soon as possible.

Half an hour later, the whistle of the train sounded in the direction of Linheji, and after a while, I heard a rumbling sound coming, and the one running in front was indeed an ironclad patrol car, which quickly climbed the long slope and came to the gentle section of the road in front of the ambush position, and the turrets and heavy machine guns on the car turned to the mountains and forests on both sides from time to time to search for all suspicious targets.

Probably because the speed of the train climbing this long slope slowed down, the ironclad patrol car reached the middle of the railway opposite the ambush position, and slowly stopped.

Yu Yongzhong, the commander of the third company, saw the devil's ironclad patrol car parked on the railway, and his heart hung in his throat, but he saw that the train had not yet entered the ambush circle, and the signal in the battalion had not been issued, so he had to order the soldiers to calm down and prepare for battle.

In particular, the two soldiers who were responsible for activating the explosives grabbed the handles with both hands, just waiting for the company commander's order.

Fortunately, the train appeared on the other end, and the ironclad patrol car slowly began to move forward again.

When the train was climbing, it happened to be a big turn, and the reconnaissance platoon immediately took advantage of this opportunity, and two combat groups quickly climbed onto the locomotive, and then six fighters who had been begging for a life on the railway line quickly climbed to the middle of the stuffy tank car by taking advantage of the turn of the stuffy tank car and being in the blind spot of escorting the devil's sight.

The train gasped for breath and finally walked to the front of the ambush position, when the ironclad patrol car in front and the ironclad patrol car behind were just at the explosives burial point, the pistol raised by Zhu Aiguo suddenly opened fire into the sky, a crisp gunshot rang out, the soldier in charge of activating the explosives pressed the handle, and the rails at the front and rear ends of the train suddenly flew up with the explosion, and the two ironclad cars were overturned by the huge momentum at once, and they actually fell to the side of the railway.

At the same time as the explosion sounded, Tong Gufeng, who controlled the locomotive, suddenly pulled down the emergency brakes, the train slowed down sharply, and there was a piercing friction sound.

Seeing the train stop, the heavy machine guns of the machine gun company opened fire on the two flatbed wagons behind the stuffy tank wagon, weaving a red-hot metal net like bullets and spilling towards the devils guarding the wagons in the open air.

The devil in charge of escorting the car did not expect to be ambushed at this position, and before he could recover from the panic of the impact, he saw countless companions being beaten upside down and flying out, and the entire open-air wagon was in chaos.

Liu Tianshu saw a devil commander on the open-air wagon, hurriedly got up from the fall, and was directing the panicked soldiers to counterattack, immediately put him in the crosshairs, and then pulled the trigger, a gunshot rang out, the bullet flew out, and a bloody hole appeared in the head of the devil commander, and his body fell to the ground as soon as he was crooked.

When the rest of the devils saw that the squadron leader was killed, they immediately shouted and turned their guns and shot desperately towards the mountains and forests on this side, while the gunners of the 92nd Infantry also began to turn their barrels, preparing to bombard the hills.

It's a pity that the hill where Liu Tianshu is located is only more than 200 meters away from the train, and this distance, plus what he is holding in his hand, is a sniper rifle with a scope.

Seeing that the devil artillery was preparing to bombard, he immediately pulled the bolt, and as soon as he took aim, he immediately opened fire, knocked the artillery commander off the train with one shot, and then named the remaining three artillery officers one by one at a very fast speed.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight soldiers fell around one of the devil's 92 infantry guns, and among the remaining soldiers, there was no one who could operate the cannon.

Under Liu Tianshu's accurate shooting, the devils on the open-air wagon behind the locomotive were not able to fire a single shell at the mountains and forests on both sides, and at this time, the two combat teams of the reconnaissance platoon had already climbed onto the coal wagon behind the locomotive, condescendingly, and fired fiercely at the open-air wagon.

The devils on this open-air wagon lost more than half in a blink of an eye, and the remaining devils found that the attackers on the coal wagon in front were very threatening, and immediately more than 20 devils stepped forward and launched a counterattack.

After Liu Tianshu named the devil heavy machine gunner on the wagon in the open air, he saw that the four infantry companies had hit less than 50 meters away from the train, and immediately ran down with their guns.

The devil artillery on the two open-air wagons behind the stuffy tanker, under the precise attack of Shi Hu, the sniper, failed to fire a single shell in the end, although the two heavy machine guns spat tongues of fire towards the rushing eight, but after Shi Hu eliminated the gunner of the 92nd infantry gun behind, their good luck also came to an end.

According to Liu Tianshu's instructions, the sniping went smoothly, and the primary focus this time was the devil commander, artilleryman, and heavy machine gunner.

Yu Yongzhong saw that the devil's heavy machine gun was not powerful at all, so he immediately led the third company to shoot while rushing towards the train.

There were more than 100 devils defending the open-air wagon in front, but the train was blown up by the railway, and after the reconnaissance platoon took control of the locomotive, it had stopped on the railway, and the devils became a live target.

With the fire support of the heavy machine gun company, the 3rd Company rushed to a place less than 50 meters away from the train with great difficulty, and the bullets rained down on the train.

At this time, the devils faced by the Third Company were less than fifty people, and without the support of heavy firepower, they were not the opponents of the Third Company at all.

In the blink of an eye, three companies and a platoon rushed to less than thirty meters from the train, and grenades were constantly thrown at the open wagons.

At this time, the two combat groups of the reconnaissance platoon had repelled the attack launched by the devils on the coal wagon, and when they saw that the devils were constantly retreating, they immediately condescended and kept firing downward.

Under the attack of the reconnaissance platoon and the third company, after 20 minutes, all the devils guarding the open wagons behind the coal wagons were sent back to their hometowns.

As for the iron patrol car in front, after being subjected to four consecutive and three self-made ******, it immediately turned into a raging fire, and after ten minutes, the ammunition in the ironclad patrol car exploded, and the ironclad patrol car, which was originally proud of its might, was blown into countless burning iron blocks.

When the 3rd Company and the reconnaissance platoon eliminated the devils who were escorting the car in front, the 1st and 2nd companies, with the support of two platoons of the machine gun company and the artillery squad, had broken the devils' defenses and rushed to the side of the train.

Yokokawa, the Japanese army captain in charge of this escort mission, was sipping tea in the back of the bus when the explosion sounded.

In his opinion, it was purely a big fuss to let him take three squadrons to escort laborers to Qingdao this time.

Last time, Yokoyama defeated Ma Xuekui's department and was rewarded by the Japanese army headquarters in North China, which made him very envious. It's just that the biggest threat along the railway line has been eradicated by Yokoyama, and the independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army in Fuya Mountain has Watanabe Wing to deal with it.

However, although he knew that this trip should not be dangerous, he still took serious precautions, two ironclad patrol cars opened the way, and on both sides of the stuffy tanker, heavily armed Japanese soldiers stood on the flatbed trucks, built fortifications with sandbags on each plank, and arranged two 92 heavy machine guns, four crooked machine guns, one 92 infantry gun, and four grenadiers.

A squadron is responsible for a flatbed car, and in his opinion, even if the Chinese send a division, they may not be able to stop the train.

Even if the train is stopped, with its own powerful firepower, as long as it lasts for an hour, a large number of Imperial troops can arrive.

Therefore, in his opinion, this transportation of prisoners of war is really foolproof.

Who would have thought that in the east of Linheji, Jiping County, which he thought was the safest, he was attacked by the powerful firepower of the Chinese, and his troops were covered by the intensive fire of the Chinese before they could be deployed. In particular, the three squadron leaders were killed in less than a minute after the battle, and then the artillerymen and heavy machine gunners suffered heavy casualties, so that their heavy machine guns and artillery could not provide the slightest fire support for the defenders.

Through the glass of the bus, Yokokawa saw that the heavy machine gunner, squadron leader, and artilleryman were shot in the head one by one, and a term immediately flashed in his mind: sniper.

The Chinese have snipers ambushed in the distance.

Thinking of this, a chill broke out of his back.

In this kind of ambush warfare, the Chinese have taken advantage of the geographical advantage, and now there are snipers to provide fire suppression from a distance, and the Chinese's machine gun fire seems to be only stronger than their own troops.

Could it be that the newly reorganized mechanics from Chongqing suddenly rushed to Shandong?

Yokokawa was shocked and heard that the heavy machine guns of the Chinese were all Empire-made Type 92, and suddenly, he thought of the independent battalion.

Seeing that the subordinates in front kept falling, the ironclad patrol car behind was burned by the Chinese, and at the same time, there were shells falling on the flatbed wagon from time to time, a flash of despair flashed in his eyes, and he suddenly pulled out his command knife and said to the dozens of Japanese officers and soldiers around him: "For His Majesty the Emperor, please." ”

The two soldiers opened the car door, and the devil soldiers immediately howled and jumped out of the car, firing desperately at the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd companies who rushed towards them.

Guo Donglai didn't expect the devil to suddenly run out of the carriage, his face couldn't help but change, and he shouted violently: "Comrades, follow me." As he spoke, he raised his pistol and fired as he rushed towards the gang.

(To be continued.) )