Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Gunshots Continue
"Report to the instructor, I didn't complete the mission!"
Staring at Zhang Chuang, who was full of wounds all over his body, but could still stand up like a javelin, Guan Xingjie couldn't help frowning even though he had always been moody.
Guan Xingjie really didn't know what he encountered in the jungle, which could make Zhang Chuang, a man who never gave up easily when he was strong, be beaten as a deserter. Look at the one who followed Zhang Chuang, an hour ago, twelve professional agents followed him into the jungle, but in the end, only two members of the team left the battlefield alive.
Guan Xingjie was silent for a moment and said, "Tell me, why did you lose." ”
"One, we're not familiar with the terrain."
Zhang Chuang clearly knew that what Guan Xingjie wanted at this time was not an explanation, not a prevarication after failure, but an objective evaluation and accurate judgment.
"We didn't have any preparation in advance, just sent a few scouts, carried out the simplest investigation, and then recklessly entered the jungle with extremely low visibility in the middle of the night and the terrain was obviously more influential. And in this unfavorable terrain, fighting with a group of indigenous people who have been prepared for a long time is in itself attacking the enemy's strengths with their own shortcomings, and committing a taboo! ”
Guan Xingjie didn't speak, maybe it was just a strategic arrangement, maybe it was an unintentional coincidence, maybe it was a knee-jerk move, in short, Fujiwara Kaede arranged their "companions" who had fought inextricably on the intelligence battlefield and the intelligence department of Yumoto, but now fought side by side, to a battlefield where personnel attrition was most dangerous and prone to personnel attrition.
"The vast majority of these indigenous people are untrained peasants, they have no standard weapons, and their firepower is uneven when they fire volleys, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a rabble. However, in a few encounters, I found that they relied on their knowledge of the terrain to advance and retreat in a measured manner, and they were always able to attack us when we were most surprised, or when our defense and counterattack were weakest. ”
Guan Xingjie's face was heavy, a group of honest farmers without formal training were not terrible. But the man who hid behind the scenes, who could unite these peasants into a team in the shortest possible time, was the most terrifying master of command who could turn the clouds and rain on the battlefield and turn sheep into lions!
"But it's one person who really bothers us! We were all trained in mountain and jungle warfare, and each of us was an expert in this area, but there was a clear gap compared to him. ”
"That guy is a top master of jungle sports combat, he can fly through the treetops with the help of a long whip almost without pause, but the most terrifying thing is that in this case, he can still use the strength of his arm and the long whip to constantly adjust the flight angle and speed, plus the cover of trees and bamboo, until he rushed near us, more than a dozen of us were stunned and didn't fire a shot!"
Guan Xingjie nodded slightly.
An enemy who is more nimble than an ape in the jungle and is better at assassinating and fighting is a lone enemy; Circling outside, under the leadership of a commanding officer with great command, the aborigines who advance and retreat in a certain way and constantly detour, and will suddenly turn their heads at any time and shoot back with a horse pistol; Plus a well-prepared jungle with traps laid everywhere...... "This battle is not your fault!" ”
Guan Xingjie sighed lightly: "I have been focusing on that arms expert, and after determining that he could not set a second minefield in this jungle, I really got a little carried away. But only now did I know that in addition to the munitions expert who could turn decay into magic, among them there were also combat defense masters with extraordinary command and rich combat experience, and even experts who were proficient in jungle warfare. This Lei Zhen's side is really full of talents! Without gathering enough information, I recklessly ordered you to go deep alone, and cooperate with Fujiwara Kaede's siege plan, and the failure of this battle is my fault! ”
Zhang Chuang bit his lip tightly, at this time, he really had nothing to say.
In the eyes of the world, Chairman Wang Jingwei, who advocated the salvation of the country because he believed in the theory of "resistance will destroy the country," was the biggest traitor of the Han Dynasty. And Guan Xingjie, who was originally subordinate to the Military Command Bureau, and later followed Li Shiqun to Chairman Wang Jingwei to serve as the chief of the Intelligence Section of the Shanghai Security Forces, and became an instructor who was a thorn in the side of the Yucheng Military Command Bureau.
But in the eyes of Zhang Chuang and those professional agents who believe in the instructor and are willing to follow the instructor, Guan Xingjie is a serious, but amiable and respectable man.
Guan Xingjie is forty-eight years old, but with the purpose of "what is the country going to be home", he is still single, and he has never been close to women, let alone has no children. He doesn't drink, smoke, gamble, has almost no bad habits, and doesn't get involved in all the glamour of entertainment. He is like a stopwatch that does not have any **, as long as he is wound well, it will beat accurately step by step, doing his own work mechanically and stably.
Such a person can really be called desireless and desireless for material enjoyment, and it is absolutely a big joke to say that he is tempted by interests and is willing to fall and become a slave of a foreign race!
On the training ground and on the battlefield, no one is not afraid of not smiling and being strict with others and self-discipline. But everyone prefers such an instructor and commander.
In front of the students, Guan Xingjie never concealed the consequences caused by his own mistakes, let alone pressed his mistakes on others for the sake of the so-called dignity and face problems. Correspondingly, if there is a reward for the merit, Guan Xingjie will definitely not receive it in his name in a big way, but strive to distribute the reward to his subordinates fairly and justly.
This style of dealing with people and things is an absolute exception in the party-state where corruption, bribery, gangs, and deduction of military salaries are commonplace. It is precisely because of this series of characteristics that when Guan Xingjie was sentenced to the Military Unification Bureau, a group of students led by Zhang Chuang followed him and transferred to Chairman Wang Jingwei's camp together, fighting to the death with his original classmates and colleagues.
For professional agents like Zhang Chuang, born in such a stormy world, instead of blindly believing in the rhetoric of those politicians and becoming a random chess piece in their hands, it is better to follow an instructor who can be trusted, can be relied on with confidence, and has great strength and extraordinary insight.
Putting aside the future history, the evaluation of these people will be made, Guan Xingjie's actions have his own beliefs and persistence, and he is indeed not regretted by this group of students who follow him. Even on the battlefield, Guan Xingjie is still their best instructor, and he still likes to open the treasure house of wisdom of each student through the analysis of the current situation.
"Do you think that after we have lost almost half of our members, with only the remaining manpower, what method can we use to eliminate the enemy in front of us at the lowest cost?"
"The enemy's tactics are to defend and attack, and their biggest bargaining chip is to use flares to constantly harass and take the opportunity to direct a group of indigenous people armed with muskets to launch a surprise attack."
Zhang Chuang said flatly: "If we can wait until dawn to attack, the effect of the flares will be greatly reduced, and their usual tricks will be ineffective." And those natives with earthen guns, including the character who moves more flexibly than apes in the jungle, without the restraint of flares and the loss of geographical advantages, they are simply a group of insignificant and scattered characters! ”
"You and I made the same mistakes."
Guan Xingjie shook his head slightly and said, "It was because of the contempt for Lei Zhen that I made everyone pay a terrible price." Now our Shanghai Security Force Intelligence Section, the bandits led by Zhang Huzi, plus the special execution force led by Fujiwara Kaede, these three forces are twisted together, and the total strength is far beyond the limit of Lei Zhen's ability to confront head-on. He won't, and can't be stupid, to bump into us! ”
"In this case, if I were Lei Zhen, I would use all kinds of terrain to snipe layer by layer to weaken the opponent's vital strength, until the balance of power between the two sides is reversed, and he thinks that the opportunity has come, and he will jump out to fight our army."
Looking at the thoughtful Zhang Chuang, Guan Xingjie said indifferently: "Think about it, he can't be sure at all when we will launch an attack on the small mountain village." Could he have bet all his bets on our night raids? Even if Lei Zhen dared to gamble like this, I think that the conductor with a dozen peasants who can guard this jungle impeccably, and whose surname is absolutely calm and restrained, will definitely not take this risk. ”
"Instructor, what do you mean......" Zhang Chuang pondered, "Even if we choose to attack during the day, Lei Zhen and they have a way to use some special means to create an artificial advantage in this jungle?" ”
"You don't need any special methods."
Guan Xingjie said indifferently: "This jungle is not big, but it is not small, as long as the firewood and grass that can be collected in the entire small mountain village are piled up in a downwind place outside, and then covered with some damp wood, and a fire is lit, the entire jungle can be covered with thick smoke." At that time, you will only be in a worse situation than you are now, and you will no longer need to use any earth-made flares, and the enemy, who is more nimble than a monkey in the jungle, will be able to sneak up on you and destroy you one by one! ”
Cold sweat soaked Zhang Chuang's underwear in an instant, and he had to admit that if it was really like what the instructor said, he and his twelve subordinates might have been wiped out in that jungle! In this situation, even if Instructor Guan Xingjie personally leads the rest of the people to attack, I am afraid that it will not change much.
The most important thing is that the tactics that the instructor can come up with without thinking, Lei Zhen has no reason not to think that the tricks he prepared for this jungle sniper battle will only be more ruthless and effective.
Looking at the jungle shrouded in the night in front of him, raising a bit of weirdness and hideousness, Zhang Chuang was really stunned, he couldn't think of any other way to break through this jungle with the limited personnel at their disposal. In the end, Zhang Chuang set his eyes on Guan Xingjie's face, and said sincerely: "Please teach me the instructor!" ”
"If you want to deal with them, the way is very simple!" Guan Xingjie said word by word: "Don't move!" ”
…… Zhang Chuang was stunned again.
"Fujiwara Kaede has given us the order to attack the village from the west, so that not a single enemy is caught. But you have also experienced it yourself, the enemy has been premeditated, the whole jungle is full of traps, we are not familiar with the terrain, if we force our way in, maybe we have not broken through the western defense line, we have already fought a single one. Instead of this, we should place a fire net outside the jungle, at least it can also play a role in deterring and containing the enemy. Once the troops led by Fujiwara Kaede attack the small mountain village, this temporary balance between the enemy and us will be broken, and at that time, there will be no need for us to rush into the jungle at all, and the enemy inside will run out and fight us! ”
Listening carefully to the instructor's words, Zhang Chuang nodded vigorously.
"On the contrary, if we insist on taking the initiative to attack, even if we wait until dawn, the situation on the battlefield will not change at all. Of course, if we don't cooperate with Fujiwara Kaede's department, no matter what the reason and reason, the Fujiwara Kaede Council will take the opportunity to attack us through the special agency in Shanghai. So ......"
As Zhang Chuang listened, Guan Xingjie said in a low voice: "Every half an hour, you take a few brothers and walk into the jungle, and within the range that our fire support group can cover, fire more than ten or twenty shots in the jungle, and then throw a few grenades, if you can attract the other party to shoot back, it will be even better!" ”
Zhang Chuang was really dumbfounded, this is definitely a tactic to cheat the dead and not pay for his life! And the target of the deception is their friendly army, Fujiwara Kaede and the execution force of the intelligence agency led by him!
"Of course, it is good that we can capture the enemy's position in one go, but because the enemy occupies a geographical advantage, relying on various terrain to snipe layer by layer, the enemy is dark and I am clear, in this case, we are making slow progress, even if it is His Excellency Fujiwara Nakasa, there is nothing to say, right?"
Guan Xingjie's eyes were as calm as stagnant water, and two small flames suddenly bloomed, and he put his hands behind his back and said freely: "Although we have paid a considerable price, we still move forward bravely, fighting the enemy to the death all night!" It is a testament to our loyalty to our allies, and our passionate support and respect. After Fujiwara Nakasa broke through the enemy's defenses and successfully stormed the small mountain village, we even withstood the enemy's counterattack on our own battlefield and did not let go of a single enemy! ”
Speaking of this, the corner of Instructor Guan Xingjie's mouth raised slightly, and he made a final summary of this order: "This is called constant gunshots, endless killings, step by step, be cautious!" ”
Zhang Chuang nodded again and again, no matter what the final result is, who dares to say that the instructor did something wrong?!
(To be continued)