"Little devil of dog day, you are finally here, Lao Tzu and other eyes are going to be spent." After a long wait, small flags on Japanese steel helmets and rifles finally appeared in the distance through the telescope, and Sun Dacai, who was crouching in the trenches, gestured to the machine gunners on the left and right. There was a sound of pulling the bolt to load the bullet, and the mercenary machine gunners hidden in the trenches were ready to fire at any time, and the ammunition men opened the lid of the spare ammunition box to ensure that they could supply ammunition at any time.

The ambush line in the east is just a general title, in fact, it is not an ambush line in the real sense, if in James's words, it is not an ambush line that is arranged by Zhao Zhi in the east, but a real ambush position, with active offensive and passive defense positions. The Japanese civilians here have been driven away, and the fields that should have grown crops are full of ashes after the fire, and just below some of the ash heaps, there are elite snipers under Zhang Jinquan's command, as long as the sniper rifles are equipped with silencers, the soldiers of the 23rd Division will not be able to detect them at all.

More than 300 meters away from the highway is the machine gun position of Thunder, behind which are grenadiers and mortar positions, and finally the mountain artillery and 92 infantry artillery positions operated by Zhao Zhi and the staff officers of the headquarters. Sun Dacai was the commander of the Thor Rotary Machine Gun Position, and with a range exceeding that of the light machine guns, they were arranged behind and on both flanks of the Japanese Light Machine Gun Position, but there were some Japanese 92 heavy machine guns mixed in between them.

Since it was an ambush, it needed to have a bait, and ten minutes before the 23rd Division entered the ambush circle, Sun Dacai and the others waited for the bait, and a mixed force of 1,000 people was transferred by Zhao Zhi from Kurume. American-style military uniforms, German-style steel helmets, and cowhide military shoes are the standard equipment of mercenaries, and the soldiers of the mixed army have long been extremely envious of the mercenary equipment. Now the opportunity has come, the command not only gave them the same equipment as the mercenaries, but also the weapons they were distributed, and there was only one task, to block the 23rd Division along the route demarcated by the command in sections until the command ordered them to retreat.

Garland rifles, Browning light machine guns, and American-style mortars made these guys who originally belonged to the Thai Defense Force very rare, and they had long seen the methods of mercenaries, and they had an inexplicable trust in American-style weapons, believing that the 38 rifles used by the Japanese army were not opponents of American-style weapons, and none of the newly renovated mixed soldiers were worried about whether they had escaped the pursuit of the 23rd Division. "As long as the main force of the 23rd Division can be defeated, it is cost-effective to sacrifice some weapons and equipment." Seeing the pain on the face of the staff officer who distributed weapons and equipment, Zhao Zhi couldn't help laughing.

According to the original ambush plan, the 1,000 redressed mixed soldiers had to first establish two interception lines in the east, and after exchanging fire with the forward troops of the 23rd Division, they would hold out for more than half an hour before retreating in the direction of Saga. In order to motivate these mixed soldiers to fight to the death against the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi promised that all mixed soldiers who returned to Saga alive would be promoted, and the 30 of them with the highest combat achievements would be allowed to leave the army early and go home.

The allure of rising ranks was no better than being allowed to return home early, and the mixed soldiers who landed on Kyushu Island were given varying amounts of money, and the only thing they could enjoy was the affluence of the spoils of war for the rest of their lives. Zhao Zhi believed that with this temptation, the thousand-man team selected from the more than 300,000 mixed soldiers would definitely be able to hold out on to the periphery of the ambush line for more than half an hour in accordance with the ambush plan. The longer the decoy troops hold out, the more Japanese troops will be intercepted by the interception line, and when the decoy troops retreat, a large number of Japanese troops will rush into the fire range of the ambush position.

As with the original plan, the mixed soldiers who entered the interception position did not open fire at first, and after the spearhead squad of the 23rd Division entered the range of light machine gun fire, the three Browning light machine guns only fired for one round, leaving all the spearhead squads of the 23rd Division in the field outside the interception position, and by the time the mortar bombardment of the follow-up troops of the 23rd Division was attacked, these mixed soldiers pretending to be mercenaries had already retreated back into the anti-artillery hole.

The commander of the 64th Wing, Chikuihara, had already crossed the unqualified division commander Hirota Rain to gather the 71st and 72nd infantry wings to move closer to the 64th Wing and tried to attack Saga in a group. The new division commander of the 23rd Division is a guy who has climbed to a high position by relying on his connections, and compared with the senior wing chief of staff of the division commander Hirota Rain is much more immature, and in the face of the matter of the other two wings commanded by the commander of the other two wings, the division commander Hirota Rain can only smile bitterly.

It was with the ultra vires command of Chi Ihara that Zhao Zhi's east had no chance of succeeding in an ambush, and in the face of the three Kwantung Army wings that swarmed in, the mixed soldiers in the first interception line only held out for ten minutes before retreating to the second line of defense. The mercenary officer who commanded the second line of defense of the "ignition" gave a deep order, and several Bazooka rockets were kicked out of the trench by the mercenaries of the accompanying team, dragging tail flames into the trenches of the first line of defense a hundred meters away.

"Huh" first raised some black smoke, and then the sky was full of fire, and the Japanese troops who were about to attack the trenches were blocked by the fire from the first line of defense. The second line of defense suddenly burst into gunfire, and the decoy troops not only splashed oil in the first line of defense, but also piled up flammable materials, and the kilometer-long first line of defense was now completely engulfed in flames. Time passed little by little, and the Japanese troops blocked by the fire filled the trenches with the corpses of their comrades, and finally rushed through the trenches of the first line of defense and rushed towards the second line of defense with murderous vigour.

The artillery commander of the 64th Wing of the "Open Fire" pulled out his command knife and swung it down vigorously, and the mortars of the three wings, large and small, were concentrated together to bombard the machine-gun fire points on the second line of defense, and the smoke that splashed with the sound of the artillery almost covered the sky. The mixed soldiers in the trenches were squatting in the anti-artillery holes with their heads crossed, and the mercenaries who accompanied the team had already evacuated, leaving behind the soldiers of the decoy unit, and none of them could retreat in advance until the retreat order arrived.

The officer who led the command of these decoy soldiers counted the time almost second by second, and after three consecutive all-fire repulsion of the attacking Japanese troops, the order to retreat finally came, and their 1,000 men had intercepted the 23rd Division for more than half an hour. "Throw a grenade." Finally able to retreat, the more than 600 surviving decoy soldiers threw all the grenades they had brought, and then prepared to withdraw from the battle with the help of the smoke after the explosion. Unfortunately, the mixed soldiers were not soldiers of the regular army after all, and most of the grenades thrown by them only flew at a distance of more than 20 meters, and in the series of explosions, the Japanese soldiers who charged at the grenades were only 30 meters away from them.

At a distance of 30 meters, even the bullets fired from the pistol are lethal, not to mention the highly accurate Type 38 rifle, and the more than 600 people who withdrew from the position of the decoy troops only escaped 100 meters away, and half of them were already knocked down by the bullets fired from behind. Seeing that the enemy had retreated in disarray, and without waiting for the search force to search the two flanks of the position, Shakuihara ordered the follow-up troops to chase after him, and the anxious Shakuihara planned to chase straight to Saga in one go.

Seeing the locust-like Japanese army pass under his nose, Sun Dacai's palms in the middle of the ambush line already had cold sweat, he was not afraid, but excited before the big battle. The mercenaries who can be left by Zhao Zhi are the best elites in a hundred, and Sun Dacai, who was singled out to command the Thor team, has experienced almost all the major battles of Thunder, and during the Taiyuan offensive and defensive wars, Sun Dacai's mercenary team was the first to attack Taiyuan City, and Sun Dacai used a Japanese-style 92 heavy machine gun to shoot more than 100 Japanese puppet soldiers.

The bullet had already been loaded, but Sun Dacai was not on the firing position ready to fire, Sun Dacai, who was the commander of the Thor squad, was squatting in the trench at the moment, and the officers under Zhao Zhi who were in charge of logistics were doing everything they could, but they forgot to cross the sea with a signal flare. There was no signal flare, and the order to ambush and fire could only be given by walkie-talkie, and Sun Dacai was holding a walkie-talkie at this time waiting for the order to fire.

The gunfire continued, but it had thinned out a lot, and the number of decoy soldiers who were being chased by the Japanese army had been reduced to 200, and I didn't know what the officer leading the team was pumping. The only Browning light machine gun that was not discarded was erected on the high point of the slope, and the rest of the soldiers using Garand were scattered around the machine gun, and the 200 Garand guns burst out in an instant, smashing the arrow triangle in the Japanese formation into a flat angle.

The Browning light machine gun was connected with two bullet chains, and the flat corners were concave, and the opponent's instant burst of combat power made the Japanese army unable to resist and stopped the pursuit. He had always heard that the thunder was scheming, and he was also afraid of the thunder's tricks, but after two consecutive attacks by the forward troops, it was already certain that the enemy number of the other side would not exceed 200 people, and he finally made a decision that he regretted for the rest of his life - to order the shelling of the high ground in front.

When the 23rd Division bombarded the interception position before, the Thunder artillery observer did not lock on the artillery position of the 23rd Division, but this time the 23rd Division had already entered the ambush position, and the Thunder artillery observer locked on the artillery position of Shakuihara as soon as possible. The coordinates had been sent back to the command headquarters, and according to the speed of the fighters, in less than two minutes, the aerial bombs falling from the sky would be able to blast the spotted spot by the observer into a crater.

Just press the firing button of the machine gun, Sun Dacai's Thor machine gun can cover the mortar position of the 23rd Division, but unfortunately he has not received the order to open fire, so the anxious Sun Dacai can only act as a bystander like the other mercenaries in the trenches, watching the bait soldiers on the top of the slope fall one after another under the Japanese artillery fire.