Chapter 18: The Weapon of Mass Killing
Afternoon is the hottest time, there is no wind on the hillside, the grass blades are hanging weakly, and a few small insects are flying around in the grass and are busy, that is, they can still enter the play in such a hot time. Everything was as usual on the hillside just over 200 meters away from the train station, and nothing unusual happened to the patrols patrolling the train station and the sentries standing on the high sentry towers. A clump of thatch slowly emerged from a large rock full of mossy vines, and if one looked closely at the thatch, it seemed to be different in color from the other thatch, and looked a little yellow.
"What do you see?" Yu Shuzi leaned on the stone and whispered to the motor standing on his shoulder, but the motor holding the telescope did not make a sound, but from time to time he used a pencil to write and draw in a small notebook to make records. After occupying Zhangwu County, Zhao Zhi asked Yu Dazhi to send two scout teams to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Madian, and the sniper team of the motor was also among them, and Yu Shuzi was the observer of the motor.
Snipers have always been Zhao Zhi's most relied on killer weapon, after the Geyue Mountain training camp, Zhao Zhi has a full 100 sniper rifles in his hands, leaving 30 sniper rifles for the troops of the national army, Zhao Zhi has a separate observer for each sniper under his command, so that they can guide the sniper target for the sniper. Zhao Zhi only set up a sniper team of 20 people by his side, and the other 50 snipers were scattered and divided into various mercenary teams to enhance the team's long-range attack.
"Alright, alright, let's go" The motor slid down the stone wall, grabbed his sniper rifle and threw it on his back, carefully loaded the notebook, and left. The direction directly opposite the motor just now is the railway station of Madian, he took Yu Shuzi and the scout team at a distance of about 100 meters, from the big stone they just hid in the past is really Madian Railway Station, so the motor stood on the shoulder of Yu Shuzi, observed the movement of the railway station for half an hour with a telescope, and also drew a sketch and recorded the approximate deployment of the Japanese puppet army in the railway station.
Following the thatch behind the stone wall, the motor and Yu Shuzi ran out a hundred meters all the way west, and they ran into the scout team. The scout team had just finished scouting and had withdrawn, and when they heard that the motor had also drawn a sketch here, they compared it on both sides, and found that the situation was similar. According to the deployment of the Japanese puppet army at the railway station, this railway station should still be very popular with them, there are no less than 5 machine gun nests found by the scouts alone, and there are armored vehicles deployed on the railway to patrol back and forth, if you want to take the railway station, I am afraid it will be difficult to reduce casualties. After summing it up, everyone planned to send the situation back on the radio first for Zhao Zhi to decide, and they would stay on the periphery of Madian to explore the situation.
The train is a new thing for a person like Mada who is out of Sichuan for the first time, and he doesn't understand how such a big iron guy can run on the tracks, and he still drags such a long carriage, so the motor hiding on the hillside outside the train station always likes to stare at the train with a telescope when there is nothing to do. Snipers and scouts have different ways of concealment, and after snipers have set up a hiding point, they will also set up a few temporary firing positions, and they must have a safe retreat route. Behind the dirt pit where the motor and Yu Shuzi are lying now is a dark ditch covered with weeds, which allows the motor of the dirt pit road and Yu Shuzi to jump down the hillside smoothly along the dark ditch in a short period of time.
"Mom, it's a tank, the little devil of the dog day uses a train to transport a tank, but it's cunning enough" Yu Shuzi, who was holding a telescope, kept muttering, he was a national army rout who had participated in several major battles, and he had seen the power of the Japanese tanks on the battlefield, so when he saw the tank driving out of the train car, he couldn't help but scold. Yu Zhuzi actually didn't know that what he saw through the telescope was not a tank, but a kind of the latest armored vehicle of the Japanese army, which was called a new type of armored vehicle called the Type 95 light tank by the Japanese Army.
In 1932, Japan successfully developed the Type 92 heavy armored vehicle, which was used to equip Japan's "cavalry combat convoy" to carry out reconnaissance combat missions. However, the main armament of this armored vehicle is two 6.5mm Type 91 machine guns, which have weak firepower, and the Type 89 medium tank developed in 1929 has poor mobility, so the Japanese military decided to develop a light tank with both the mobility of the Type 92 armored vehicle and the firepower of the Type 89 medium tank. What Yu Zhuzi saw was the Type 95 light armored vehicle that had just been equipped with the Japanese Army, because this armored vehicle was equipped with a Type 94 37mm tank gun like a tank, so the Japanese Army called it a light tank.
"One, another," Yu Bolt counted the Type 95 light tanks that drove out of the train car from the telescope, and when he drove one, he put a broken stone in his hand, and waited for the last to count the total again. "Obediently, there are a total of 6 tanks, you have to inform Mr. quickly, this little devil of the dog day is afraid that he is going to start some big moves again" Yu Shuzi and the motor said hello, ignoring the oil drums that the Japanese soldiers were rolling down the carriage, and hurried down the hill along the dark ditch, looking for the radio soldiers of the scout team.
Every time the scouts take action, Yu Dazhi has to repeatedly emphasize that they should not overestimate their skills and firepower, go to fight with the Japanese puppet army that is several times their size, and immediately send back to the headquarters if they find information. Yu Shuzi, who was well aware of the power of Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, naturally would not disobey Yu Dazhi's orders, so he was in a hurry to inform the scout team of his new discovery. Most of Yu Dazhi's scout team are recruited Jianghu guests, although they are good, but they don't know much about some of the equipment of the Japanese army, and they also found out about the tanks on the platform of the railway station, but they don't know what those iron guys do, if they hadn't been told by Yu Bolt, they would have thought it was the same thing as a railway patrol car.
When their telegram reached Zhangwu County, it was when Yu Dazhi and Zhao Zhi were hiding in the house to count the money, and a table full of 100 gold bars was piled up, and Yu Dazhi's eyes were full of golden light. "Good thing, really good thing" Zhao Zhi looked at the telegram in his hand and couldn't help but be happy. Zhao Zhi didn't look down on the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles at all, and compared with the German tanks, the tanks equipped by the Japanese army were simply papier-mâché toys, and heavy machine guns with larger calibers could shoot through their armor.
Zhao Zhi is not rare Japanese tanks, does not mean that the national army and the Eighth Route Army are not rare, with the current weapons and equipment of the national army and the Eighth Route Army, if it is against the formed tank formation of the Japanese army on the plain, it will only retreat or lose. But if they also have tanks in their hands, as long as they use them properly, maybe they won't be so embarrassed when they face the Japanese army. At this time, Zhao Zhi had already regarded the Japanese tanks in the Madian Railway Station as his own bag, and was waiting to sit down with the people of the Eighth Route Army of the National Army to negotiate the price.