Chapter Forty-Six: The Show Begins

When the sound of the Japanese army's military shoes stepping on the ground sounded on the stone beach, Zhao Zhi and Ye Kong and a few people had already squatted in the covered trench, and the Japanese search team that had passed from the stone bridge had not found such a trench on the slope opposite the river bank at all, although they had searched this place and left the soldiers in charge of vigilance, they did not know that there were several fierce gods hidden under their feet.

Zhao Zhi quietly poked out an artillery mirror from a hidden place, good guy, in order to guard this area, when the Japanese search team left, there were a lot of people here, Zhao Zhi counted with wide eyes, at least a dozen Japanese soldiers were walking back and forth around the trench to guard. The trench dug by Zhao Zhi and Yan Wudao was just opposite the stone beach on the opposite side of the riverbank, and naturally became the main defense object of the Japanese search team.

The 225th Wing of the Japanese Army from Yuncheng was obviously much more cautious than Mitsui, not only sent sharp soldiers in advance to contact the Japanese search troops guarding the opposite bank, but also sent two Japanese squadrons to spread out along the river bank and suppress the position with machine gun groups, so as to avoid the rush to mess up the formation when attacked. Wing Commander Takeda Dingzo and a few of his cronies stood on the riverbank and pointed at the other bank, while the other officers only restrained his soldiers to assemble on the riverbank and tidal flats, and did not mean to cross the river in a hurry.

"Don't worry" watched Tang Lei's hand on the generator, Zhao Zhi's hand tapped Tang Liang's back rhythmically, he couldn't speak in the trench, Zhao Zhi and Ye Kong's communication could only be to knock Morse code. Although a lot of Japanese soldiers have been gathered on the tidal flats on the opposite bank, but now is not the time to detonate the explosion, Zhao Zhi's target is the heavy weapons formation that the 225th Wing has postponed, if they can't destroy their heavy weapons in this round of explosions, it will only be a laughing stock to stick to Zhangwu County and fight with the Japanese army, Zhao Zhi will never allow himself to make such a mistake.

Before the Japanese search team reached the stone beach, Zhao Zhi took the radio station by his side and received a report from the old cat who had sneaked to the vicinity of Madian, and the Japanese 225th Wing concentrated most of the heavy weapons in the middle formation of the queue, artillery, mortars and heavy machine guns were all in this column, and there were only a small number of mortars and grenadiers in the vanguard and the broken queue, not light machine guns. Zhao Zhi, who didn't have time to think about it, only left Ye Kong, Tang Lei and a few of them with fast legs and feet by his side, and hid deep in the trench with the generator, just waiting to destroy the heavy weapons of the 225th Wing in one fell swoop, and then return to Zhangwu County.

"Something is wrong" Eugene, who had been carrying the walkie-talkie on his back, suddenly frowned, and there was an agreed tapping sound from the earphones, which meant that someone was approaching the area where they were hiding, and it was unknown whether it was friend or foe. The warning signal was issued by a team of scouts led by Yu Dazhi, their lurking point was on the mountain 1 mile away from Zhao Zhi and them, and it was natural to stand high and look far away, but the frequency of Yu Dazhi's tapping of the warning signal did not represent the four lengths and two shorts of the Japanese army, which made Eugene, who was carrying a walkie-talkie, very puzzled.

When Eugene typed the news on Zhao Zhi's back with Morse code, Zhao Zhi was also confused, what is called friend or foe is still unknown? Could it be that there was a third party besides Zhao Zhi and the Japanese army who came to Stone Beach. The first reaction in Zhao Zhi's mind was Xu Yunzhao who was driven away by himself, could it be that after Xu Yunzhao was driven out of Zhangwu County by himself, he was angry in his heart, and after learning about the movements of the Japanese army, he also brought his people here to ambush the Japanese army? As soon as this idea came out, it was ruled out by Zhao Zhi himself, if Xu Yunzhao was such a kind of guy, he would not have dragged himself to think about it in the long run when he was in Zhangwu County.

Who could it be? Zhao Zhi, who had doubts in his heart, slowly turned the artillery mirror sticking out of the ground, it was noon, and Zhao Zhi who was stuffed in the trench was also sweating, especially Zhao Zhi, who was half-squatting inside and observing the movement outside, was even more unbearable, just when he reached out to wipe the sweat from the corners of his eyes, a figure seemed to shake past in the artillery mirror. Zhao Zhi, who was very surprised, turned the artillery mirror back to the direction just now, could it be that Dazhi was talking about them just now? Zhao Zhi's head was full of question marks.

What appeared in the mirror of Zhao Zhi's artillery team was a group of guys covered in thatch and branches, and I don't know where these guys learned such a disguise, but not to mention, if it weren't for Zhao Zhi himself who was good at disguise, it would be difficult to find these guys sneaking over. Not to mention the slightly stiff movements of these pretenders, the thing that surprised Zhao Zhi the most was that the commander of these pretenders was actually a woman. Looking at the Japanese-style weapons on the pretender's body and the cowhide document bag on the woman's waist, Zhao Zhi didn't need to guess to know that this was a *** guerrilla force, but how could such a guerrilla team commanded by a woman come here, could it be that they thought that they could defeat a Japanese infantry wing with just a few guns in their hands.

Zhao Zhi burst into laughter in his heart, but at the same time, he was a little worried that the Japanese soldiers who were gathering together to smoke outside the trench would probably ruin Zhao Zhi's affairs if they found this group of uninvited pretenders. Zhao Zhi turned the artillery mirror and observed the direction of the Japanese soldiers who were smoking, which happened to be in the middle of the trench. The top of the trench excavated according to Zhao Zhi's request was covered with a wooden stake thicker than the mouth of the bowl, and the top of the wooden stake was also thickly covered with a layer of soil up to one meter thick.

What to do? Zhao Zhi was a little embarrassed, and if he didn't make a rash move, he would alarm the Japanese army on the other side, but if he didn't make a move, it would also alarm the hidden dangers of the Japanese army, and Zhao Zhi was a little in a dilemma at this time. The wooden stake is also covered with a one-meter layer of soil, Zhao Zhi, who is hiding in the trench, wants to shoot not without a chance, but then he will destroy a section of the trench, as long as he breaks a few wooden stakes under the top cover to support, this section of the trench will collapse, and Zhao Zhi and they can show themselves out of the trench and kill the few Japanese soldiers who smoked. But if he did that, there might be dust rising from the collapsed trench, which would arouse the vigilance of the Japanese troops on the other side, which was also what Zhao Zhi was most worried about.

The artillery mirror moved slowly, and the pretenders were still quietly approaching here, but fortunately, they also found these Japanese soldiers smoking, and in Zhao Zhi's prayers, these pretenders finally stopped and quietly hid in a bush. Seeing that they finally stopped, Zhao Zhi quickly turned the artillery mirror back to the river beach, the 225 Wing on the other side of the river was still unhurriedly assembling soldiers, completely unaware that the tidal flat under their feet was just two days ago, and there were still thousands of corpses of puppet soldiers, and this place could also become their burial place.

Zhao Zhi's artillery mirror rotated back and forth between the Japanese troops on the other side of the river and those pretenders, and the time passed minute by minute, until the watch hand on Zhao Zhi's wrist pointed at four o'clock in the afternoon, and the 255th Wing, which had stopped on the river beach on the opposite bank and had eaten dry food, finally began to cross the river as a whole. The total strength of the 225th Wing was about 3,200 people, plus an artillery squadron specially allocated to them by the wing commander when they left Yuncheng, and the number of the 225th Wing reached more than 3,500 people.

Regarding the establishment of the Japanese army and the rank of the officers, Zhao Zhi specifically consulted Dai Li and some young officers who could talk to him when he was in Chongqing, so he can now judge what size of the other party is and how many soldiers there will be as long as he sees the configuration of the weapons used by the Japanese army and the rank on the collar of the officers. Silently counting the queues of Japanese troops who had crossed the river in his heart, and resisting the idea of sniping the opposing commander, Zhao Zhi finally saw the Japanese heavy weapons formation walking in the middle. The battle defense guns and mountain guns drawn by mules appeared on the river beach, and at the same time, Yu Dazhi on the hill also tapped with Morse code on the walkie-talkie, where they had already found the vanguard of the Japanese army crossing the river.

Before Zhao Zhilin's action, the ghost turned the artillery mirror to the bushes where the pretenders were hiding, and a light flashed in the bushes was taken in by Zhao Zhi, which was the reflection of the bayonet in the sunlight, this group of guerrillas was bold enough, so they wanted to kill the Japanese soldiers standing on the slope, why didn't they want to think about how they could get out after killing those Japanese soldiers. Zhao Zhi, who had already watched the heavy weapons of the Japanese army pouring into the tidal flats on the opposite bank, didn't want to let go of this opportunity, but just hooked Tang Liang, who had been guarding the generator, with his foot, and a roar of generator start-up sounded, and Tang Liang had already started the generator.

The Japanese soldiers walking on the slope naturally heard the sound coming from the ground, and they all grabbed their rifles and ran along with the sound, and this sudden change caused the guerrillas who were hidden in the bushes to lie down again. "The show begins" Zhao Zhi, who was hiding in the trench, endured the roar of the generator, and after waiting for the roar of the generator to become normal, he immediately activated the power switch on the controller. The powerful electric current generated by the diesel-powered generator was instantly transmitted along the wires buried under the soil and headed straight for the blast sites on the tidal flats on the other side of the river.

"Go, go" After flipping the power switch, Zhao Zhi didn't bother to look at the grand scene after the explosion, hurriedly withdrew the artillery mirror, turned on the flashlight at hand, and urged Ye Kong and the others to retreat along the trench quickly. At the same time that Zhao Zhi turned on the flashlight, an earth-shattering explosion had already sounded on the tidal flats on the other side of the river, and if he could not seize the opportunity to get out quickly, once the Japanese troops scattered on the slope discovered their traces, they might fall into the pursuit of the Japanese army. Eugene, who was carrying a walkie-talkie on his back, took the lead in the first place, and the trench with a height of only 1.5 meters was a little narrower for Eugene, but when he ran for his life, he couldn't take care of it so much, Tang Lei, who was following him, simply snatched the walkie-talkie from Eugene and held it in his arms with one hand, so that Eugene's speed could be faster.