Chapter 17: The Ambush (1)
The weather was fine the next day, and the rising sun drove away the chill of the soldiers' sleep in the trenches, and everyone moved their frozen hands and feet. Because it was an ambush, it could not be ignited, and the soldiers could only gnaw on compressed dry food and eat cold cans, and after eating, the soldiers continued to lie down in the trenches to rest, recuperate, and wait for Zhao Zhi's order.
The convoy of the Japanese army transporting Danyo supplies also slowly drove out of the temporary station with the rising sun, exactly 200 cars. Except for the first two cars loaded with full of devil soldiers, as the vanguard of the convoy, the rest of the cars were all loaded with ammunition. Just in case, each car is kept at a distance of almost 15 meters from each other in strict accordance with the regulations. And in the middle of every two cars was a squad of Japanese troops. Mortars and heavy machine guns, all carried by dismounted horses, followed behind the car, and it took nearly half an hour from the time the car set off to the time it all drove out of the camp.
Morita sat in the passenger seat of a car, leisurely enjoying the scenery outside the window, not worried about the safety of the convoy at all, knowing that he had more than 2,000 troops, and that the troops of the Zhina Army dared to move him. However, the wind was calm along the way, and after nearly 2 hours of marching, there were no accidents. Suddenly, the car that Moriki was sitting in stopped on the side of the road. "Nani?" Moriki opened his eyes and looked at the driver suspiciously, and following the driver's gaze, Moriki saw a signal soldier standing outside the car.
"Yaga, what's the matter?" Moriki, who had been disturbed from his good dreams, asked the signal soldier in front of him dissatisfiedly.
"Report to Your Excellency, the Wuxiang team reports that the terrain ahead is dangerous, do you want to pause the convoy and wait for the Wuxiang team to complete the reconnaissance before marching." Seeing Mori Mu, whose face was full of unpleasantness, the signal soldier replied a little nervously.
"Yaga, Wuxiang's courage is too small, we have so many samurai in the Imperial Japanese Army, are we still afraid of the ambush of the Shina people? I very much hope that someone will come and ambush my convoy. In this way, I can command the elite Imperial Army to destroy them. Go and tell the second lieutenant of Wuxiang to open the road quickly, we must rush to the next county seat tonight, otherwise we will have to sleep in the wild again tonight. After listening to the report of the signal soldier, although he was annoyed by the timidity of Takego, Takego, who served as the vanguard soldier, was after all thinking about the materials of the imperial army, so he waved his hand and asked the signal soldier to convey the order.
"Hi" The frightened signal soldier saw Nakasa waving his hand to convey the order, and his nervous heart suddenly relaxed, and he ran to the front of the team. After the communication soldiers caught up with the vanguard team and told the original words of Nakasa, Takego did not feel ashamed because Moriki said that he was timid, as a samurai of the empire, Takego thought that his caution was necessary, and if these munitions were really attacked by the Shina people because of his own negligence, let alone himself, even Moriki, who was the captain, would not be able to eat the end of walking around.
"Forget it, let's continue to hurry" Wu Xiang wanted to go to Sen Mu to explain the situation in person, but when he thought of Sen Mu's ugly face with a fat head and big ears, he felt helpless in his heart for no reason. He is just a small second lieutenant, but Sen Mu is the supreme commander of this transport team, and he was sent by Sen Mu to lead this spearhead team, not because after he got drunk last time, he said that Sen Mu didn't know how to fight, and this would really touch Sen Mu's moldy head, maybe he would be sent by the Sen Mu who would repay him to carry the cauldron as a man.
The mountain pass where the second lieutenant of Wuxiang has just stopped advancing is the mountain pass of the ambush position ~ Xiangtangpu, and on the mountain next to the road, there are two companies and 6 mortars under Zhao Zhi, ready to close the door and fight the dogs at any time to block the retreat of the Japanese army.
The scouts who were ambushed in the mountains and forests along the way had already passed the news of the appearance of the Japanese army to Zhao Zhi and them, and when they saw the Japanese convoy suddenly stopped outside the mountain pass, Xiao Ziyun and their hearts were raised, and they were sweating profusely, afraid that the Japanese army would find out their ambush plan. However, it didn't take long for Xiao Ziyun and their hearts to relax again, because the Japanese convoy began to move again, and 200 cars slowly drove into Xiangtangpu under the guidance of the first two cars.
The 200 cars, plus their own length, the distance between the cars was 15 meters, and the entire convoy stretched for nearly 4 kilometers. On the entire 4-kilometer-long front, Zhao Zhi only had 4,000 troops on his hands, and it was impossible to completely encircle the 4,000-meter defensive line, so he could only carry out key strikes, intersperse on the battlefield, divide and encircle and eliminate the enemy's escort forces.
In the face of a long defensive line, it was impossible to arrange all the heavy troops to defend, and in order to block the route of the Japanese army's breakthrough, at least three heavy machine guns were placed on each hill along the mountain road. Similarly, in order to divide and intersperse the tired devils, Zhao Zhi readjusted the arrangement of the troops at the last moment, and transferred two companies of troops as reserves, leaving the defensive line that needed reinforcements at any time. Coupled with the 50 explosive packs along the mountain road and the arrangement of the Bazooka group, Zhao Zhi was full of confidence in the 2,000 Japanese troops on the road of total annihilation.
"Sir, the main force of the Japanese army has begun to enter the ambush position," Xiao Ziyun, who was lying in wait next to Zhao Zhi, reminded in a low voice. Sure enough, the main convoy of the Japanese army had already had several cars carrying the smoke and dust rolled up across the mountain pass, and slowly drove into the ambush circle arranged by Zhao Zhi. Watching the enemy convoy march into the long-prepared ambush circle, Xiao Ziyun and the others were excited for a while. The hands holding the binoculars couldn't help but tremble, and in the same way, everyone hidden in the bunker looked at the huge convoy in front of them with their mouths wide open. For cars, Jewish soldiers were familiar. The convoy of so many cars reminded them of the time when they were transferred from Myanmar to China.
This section of the road can be said to be in the worst condition of all the roads along the way, facing the potholes, the Japanese can only slow down, and the whole convoy is like an earthworm moving slowly between the mountains. Captain Moriki Nakasa is powerless in the face of slow speed, he has walked this road twice, each time is so helpless, after being exposed to the dust outside the window, Moriki is no longer in the mood to enjoy the scenery outside the window, depressed closed the window, closed his eyes, and began to rest. With his eyes closed, he had no idea that his life would be lost in a battle. Similarly, the Japanese soldiers outside the car were not alert at all, frolicking with each other, talking and moving forward, completely ignoring the hateful eyes on the top of the mountain.
One after another, the Japanese cars drove into the ambush circle, until the vanguard of the devil's convoy disappeared from everyone's field of vision, and the enemy's main convoy was not finished. Zhao Zhi was waiting, and the Jewish soldiers in the ambush were also waiting, everyone quietly watched the cars passing in front of them, holding their breath, and the muzzle of the gun was firmly aimed at the Japanese soldiers in the convoy.
Finally, the last car full of soldiers appeared in everyone's field of vision and slowly drove into the ambush circle. Finally entered, Zhao Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. Xiao Ziyun's binoculars appeared in the hidden scouts' vigorous figures, the scouts who came down from the mountains and forests were very smart, using the dust rolled up by the convoy, they hid their figures very well, and quietly followed the last car, trying to kill the last car of the devil as soon as possible after the start of the attack, block the download road, and complete the important task of closing the door and beating the dog. And the two Jewish companies hidden on the Xiangtangpu mountain pass began to build simple fortifications on the road where the Japanese convoy had walked, so as to block the Japanese soldiers and trucks breaking through at any time.
Watching the Japanese convoy enter the ambush circle little by little, Xiao Ziyun, who was excited, put down the binoculars almost at the same time, and all looked at Zhao Zhi who was lying in the middle, waiting for Zhao Zhi to give a combat order. "Detonate" Zhao Zhi stared at the road in front of him with a low cry with a telescope, and the foot soldiers who received the order passed on the order to detonate the explosives almost at the same time.
"Boom", "boom", "boom", the entire 4-kilometer-long highway sounded with thunderous explosions, and the explosive packets buried on the mountain road exploded one after another, and Zhao Zhi, who was lying in the bunker, felt a stuffiness in his chest and a buzzing in his ears. In Zhao Zhi's telescope, there was almost no firelight, only stones flying everywhere, and even a powerful shock wave, strong and strong spirit pushed down everything encountered, and the Japanese soldiers who were close to the explosion point were thrown high at the moment of the explosion, but it was not the corpse that was thrown up, but the stump and broken arm that were blown up. The soldiers who were a little farther away were thrown far away by the powerful shock wave, and the lucky ones were only stunned, and the unlucky ones were shocked by the powerful shock wave and bled out.
The sound of the explosion is an order, hearing the explosion, the Browning heavy machine guns along the entire mountain road have opened fire on the enemy on the road, and the dense bullets rushed to the panicked Japanese soldiers on the mountain road with a loud whistling sound, and the metal torrent composed of dense bullets and rain of bullets continued to reap the lives of the Japanese soldiers. However, the number of Japanese troops was too large after all, and there were also elite soldiers who had just been transferred from the front line, except for the soldiers who died in the explosion at the beginning, those elite Japanese veterans, one after another, used their weapons, in the shortest possible time, lying on the ground looking for cover to hide, and at the same time did not forget to pull the trigger and shoot back at the machine gun fire of the Jewish soldiers.