Chapter 19: The Phantom of the Night
Isamu Oshima leaned on the pillar of the sentry tower and comfortably picked the shredded meat between his teeth with a bamboo branch, tonight's dinner was stewed beef, the meat was snatched from a nearby village, as a great hero of the cattle robbery, Oshima Isamu ate two lunch boxes of beef alone, and he couldn't sit down at all, so he had to lean on the pillar and pick his teeth. The purpose of Isamu Oshima, who was born as a farmer, was to stutter and eat, but what he didn't expect was that after entering China, he would be able to eat meat every once in a while, as long as he dared to shoot and kill, there were cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks in the village of the Chinese people.
It was already dark, the lights were lit up in the train station, and the sentry tower where Oshima was located was also electrified, but he had just picked up the sentry and ignored the searchlight for the time being. Standing on the first shift at night with Isamu Oshima was his fellow villager Mizusawa, but Mizusawa had a little diarrhea, Isamu Oshima had to come first to take over the post, if the officer on duty found that he had delayed the change of guard, he would be punished, and Isamu Oshima didn't want to be stripped naked, standing in front of the public and being whipped.
"Who? Password? "Isamu Oshima, who was picking his teeth, suddenly heard the sound of someone walking under the sentry tower, Mizusawa likes to hum a hometown tune when he walks, and he never walks so quietly, and Isamu Oshima only saw a few shadows hidden in the night, and he couldn't see the faces of the people who came at all, and a spirit in his heart shouted out.
"Baga, what are you shouting about? Do you want to recruit dirt eight roads? A stern voice sounded, which temporarily eased the tension in Oshima's heart, and he could tell that the person who spoke just now had a Kyoto accent. It's just that Isamu Oshima immediately frowned, there seemed to be no soldiers and officers from Kyoto in the Japanese army stationed in Madian, and Isamu Oshima, who had doubts in his heart, reached out to grab the machine gun on the sentry tower, but before his hand was on the machine gun, a short knife with a cold air was already under his neck.
"Don't move, I'll kill you if you move" A voice with murderous intent sounded in Oshima's ears, still Japanese with a Kyoto accent, and Oshima Isamu knew that he had met Yachiro, who could speak Japanese, after more than 5 years in the army. Oshima Yong, who was held to his neck with a knife, had no choice but to raise his hands high, and slowly spread his hands and feet and lay on the sentry tower according to the instructions of the person behind him, after his hands and feet were tied with hemp rope, Oshima Yong's mouth was also blocked, and he quietly squinted and saw that there were two more people on the sentry tower in addition to himself, and they were two strangely dressed people.
I saw that the slightly taller man turned on the flashlight in his hand and shook it towards the hillside in the distance, and a large figure of people standing up on the hillside that was still silent and black pressed rushed towards the sentry tower like the tide at high tide. Isamu Oshima's squinting eyes were already sore, but he still tried his best to squint, he wanted to see clearly who these people were hidden in the night, but he was afraid that this wish would not be fulfilled, because a big foot had already stepped on his neck. With a crisp click, Isamu Oshima's head took on a strange shape, and his neck had been trampled on.
"Sir, our people have all come, and the sentry tower over there has also been removed by the leaves" Yu Dazhi, who had a charcoal black face, went up to the sentry tower and waited for Zhao Zhi's next instructions. The order to attack Madian Railway Station was given by Zhao Zhi temporarily, and most of the mercenaries in Zhangwu County were taken away by Zhao Zhi, leaving Yan Wudao and Luo Ying to watch the remaining mercenaries, Yu Dazhi and several of them followed Zhao Zhi to Madian's side. Zhao Zhi has not seen the Japanese tanks returned by the scouts, but this does not hinder his determination to take the railway station, as long as he takes the railway station at night, no matter how many Japanese tanks are his trophies.
More than 100 mountain roads, Zhao Zhi and they walked for nearly 7 hours, and when they arrived at the periphery of Madian, it was already the second half of the night, Zhao Zhi thought about it repeatedly, and simply took the mercenaries to squeeze in the ravine not far from the Madian Railway Station and rested for a whole day, only waiting for the sky to get dark, and then the whole team set off, ready to take this place in one fell swoop. The scouts who had just gone out during the day reported that the Japanese army had just driven the tanks out of the carriage and placed them on the platform, and it had been a whole day, and they had no intention of driving out of the platform, which made Zhao Zhi, who had been worried about the sudden departure of these tanks, put his heart down.
As early as when he set out from Zhangwu County, Zhao Zhi's telegram was sent out and sent to the National Army and the Eighth Route Army respectively, asking them to immediately send people to Madian to discuss the matter of tanks. As Zhao Zhi thought, the National Army and the Eighth Route Army were very interested in this batch of tanks, and they both called back and said that they would immediately send people to Madian to see these Japanese tanks, and for this opportunity to make a lot of money, Zhao Zhi must take the Madian Railway Station tonight.
"Eugene, you take all the submachine gunners to follow me, the snipers are all on the sentry tower and the commanding heights, with the help of searchlights and the lights of the railway station to provide fire cover, the machine gun team follows Dazhi around to the south of the railway station to ambush, once the Japanese reinforcements coming from the direction of Madian are found, they will immediately fire, and the artillery of the hammer will also follow to help" called the designated commanders of each squad together, Zhao Zhi simply repeated the discussed battle plan again, and urged everyone to start acting separately.
Zhao Zhi and they are currently only taking the two guard towers outside the railway station, the guard tower is separated from the platform of the railway station by an open field and railroad tracks, and the defense of the railway station is very tight, from time to time there are Japanese patrols back and forth, if you want to successfully seize the materials while reducing the casualties of the mercenaries, the best way is to send people disguised as Japanese soldiers to sneak in and kill those patrols first. Most of the mercenaries under Zhao Zhi can speak a few words of Japanese, but only Zhao Zhi and Ye Kong can speak Japanese fluently, so the task of disguised Japanese patrols falls on Zhao Zhi and Ye Kong.
After Zhao Zhi and the others took Zhangwu County, they specially counted out some of the Japanese military uniforms and matching equipment from the barracks, which came in handy this time, and it was not in vain that the mercenaries came here all the way from Zhangwu County. disguised as the Japanese army, Eugene and their burly guys are naturally not good, Zhao Zhi selected 10 people from the scouts under Yu Dazhi, the Sichuan people are about the same size as the Japanese, and those Japanese military uniforms will not show their flesh everywhere.
Or Zhao Zhi lost some weight after being injured, otherwise there was really no suitable Japanese military uniform for him, the second lieutenant military uniform on Zhao Zhi's body was left over from the ambush of the Kwantung Army last time, except for the shoulders were a little tight and the sleeves were shorter, other places looked okay, especially after Zhao Zhi put on the officer's soft military hat, and then put the command knife and the southern pistol across his waist, the whole thing was the appearance of a Japanese second lieutenant.