Although Ichiro Kato was the chief of staff of the 12th Mixed Brigade, he was appointed by the commander of the Suzuki Brigade to take his place in commanding the battles of all units of the brigade.

But he also knew that it was difficult for the people to be angry, and seeing that his subordinates Shao Zuo and Zhong Zuo were unanimously planning to dispatch sappers and use artillery carefully, he nodded and agreed: "Since everyone thinks so, let the engineer brigade attack first, but the artillery unit also needs to be prepared, so that it can give support and cover to the engineer unit when it is most needed."

At the same time, the 1st Brigade served as the escort of the engineer troops, protecting the safety of the sappers and allowing them to complete the mine-clearing operation smoothly! ”

"Hay! Humble this is to build artillery positions. The captain of the artillery group and several other Japanese officers bowed their heads in response.

"Commander, the devil is up again!" Qiao Youhua was taking a break in the trench with his eyes closed, and Zheng Yunshan's suddenly excited voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

Qiao Youhua immediately opened his eyes, quickly turned around and stood up, his right hand had already raised the telescope in front of his eyes, and through the telescope, he could clearly see that on the rugged mountain road, about dozens of devil sappers were advancing towards their minefield under the escort of hundreds of infantry.

Qiao Youhua couldn't help laughing and said: "The little devil is really unrepentant, the last time the sappers suffered so much from us in minesweeping, this time they didn't know how to change their tactics, notify the sharpshooters of all classes, prepare for battle, and specialize in fighting devil sappers!" There are no sappers, look what they take for demining! ”

Qiao Youhua has wronged Ichiro Kato, an old devil, because the officers of the Japanese puppet army who participated in the war last time were almost dead, and Ichiro Kato didn't know that the last time Hayashibe Nakasa and Nonaka used the same minesweeping method, and suffered a big loss.

Zheng Yunshan immediately took the order, and Qiao Youhua put down the binoculars, picked up a Type 38 rifle, pulled the bolt, raised the gun and put it on the trench fortifications and began to aim at the target.

After receiving Qiao Youhua's notice, Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao and other sharpshooters they had cultivated in the outer positions raised their rifles one after another.

The 12th Mixed Brigade has an engineer brigade directly under the brigade headquarters, and although it is a brigade, the number is only 200 people, and this time a quarter of the engineers were directly dispatched to clear the mines.

Forty or fifty devil sappers carried minesweepers on their backs and held minesweeper iron rings in their hands, and began to search and detect carefully.

At this moment, Qiao Youhua took the lead in pulling the trigger!

A rifle bullet whistled into the head of a devil sapper, and the hot bullet pierced his steel helmet, killing him with one shot, and his whole body suddenly softened like a puddle of mud and fell to the ground with a bang.

......A row of gunshots rang out one after another, and dozens of sharpshooters such as Jiang Haidong and Ma Biao opened fire one after another, aiming directly at the forty or fifty devil sappers.

These sharpshooters are all elite veterans who have experienced a hundred battles, and they have been specially trained by Jiang Haidong and other super soldier kings, although their marksmanship is not as good as Qiao Youhua and them, but they are also outstanding.

The devil's sappers are almost stationary, and the difficulty of shooting is not so high.

In this round of shooting, the sharpshooters hit more than 90 percent, and forty or fifty devil sappers were shot one after another on the spot, and more than half of them fell.

Only four people were left to escape.

However, after discovering that all the companions around him had fallen, the remaining four devil sappers immediately howled in horror and turned around and ran away, as if they had seen a ghost.

The leader of a Japanese squadron who led the team in charge of guarding the sappers in the back waved his command knife angrily: "Baga Yalu, open fire, suppress the Chinese army!" ”

Dozens of gunmen opened fire at the same time, and the gunfire and smoke were still very loud, and the devil squadron leader found the target.

Hundreds of devils hurriedly opened fire, and dense bullets whizzed towards the position where the Dragon's Tooth officers and soldiers were hiding.

It's just a hasty shot, the distance is relatively far, and most of the dragon's tooth officers and soldiers are lying in the trenches and don't show their heads, only those dozens of good sharpshooters who are hidden, and the hit rate of these bullets shot by the devil is basically zero.

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There are no Dragon's Tooth Sharpshooter shots.

Qiao Youhua waved his hand and motioned for the sharpshooters to all hide back in the trenches, allowing the devils to shoot indiscriminately and waste ammunition.

Zheng Yunshan was overjoyed, and said with a smile on the side: "Regiment leader, this is too cool, one round of salvo killed more than forty little devils, we were unscathed, and the devils are still wasting ammunition here!" ”

"Don't be happy too early, the little devil doesn't have a long memory, he will suffer a big loss, tell the brothers, no one is allowed to show his head rashly, we don't have to take risks before the official firefight." Qiao Youhua was also in a good mood, and lit a cigarette and instructed.

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"Sir, the people of China have ambushed a lot of sharpshooters, and the engineering team sent out is almost completely wiped out." In the Japanese army headquarters, the captain of the engineer brigade ran to Kato Ichiro to complain and report his grievances.

Ichiro Kato immediately stood up and said with a shocked face, "What did you say?" A sapper squad is so good at kung fu that the whole army is wiped out? ”

The captain of the engineer brigade nodded with a sad face: "Yes, Your Excellency, only four ran back, and the others were all shot by the sharpshooters. ”

"Baga Yalu, these cunning people!" Ichiro Kato was furious, his fists clenched, and he slammed his fist on the table in front of him.

"Chief Kato, please calm your anger, the people of Shina are very cunning and have ambushed the sharpshooters, and we can also use the sharpshooters to continue to work hard to suppress them." A Japanese soldier Shao Zuo built yì road.

"It's easy to say, the sharpshooters of the Zhina people are all hidden in the fortifications that have been built, and the sharpshooters of the imperial army are not used as live targets for the Zhina people if they go up so lightly?" Another devil Nakasachi.

It was still the captain of the engineer brigade who was eager for revenge, and said in a hurry: "Chief Kato, there is a way to humble your position." ”

Ichiro Kato was in a state of anger, and said in a cold tone, "Say it quickly." ”

"The humble approach is simple, we take the form of earthwork, we also dig a trench up to the vicinity of the minefield of the China, and then dig a trench horizontally that can be hidden by the Imperial sharpshooters.

In this way, the sharpshooters of the Imperial Army will also be able to hide and snipe the sharpshooters of China! So as to cover the mine-sweeping operation of our engineering unit and complete it smoothly! The captain of the engineering brigade said.

Kato Ichiro, his eyes lit up when he heard it, and he couldn't help but nod and said, "Yo Xi!" This method is greatly dripped, and it will be implemented immediately! The 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade fully assisted the engineering units in their earthwork work! ”

"Hay!" Several devil officers present, including the captain of the engineer brigade, bowed their heads in unison, and immediately took the order.

"Commander, why hasn't the devil moved?" In the trenches of the Longya officers and soldiers, after the gunfire of the devils on the opposite side stopped, Zheng Yunshan took Qiao Youhua's binoculars and began to quietly stand up to observe the enemy situation.