Chapter 62: Killing in the Night
"Poof" "Poof" "Poof" The crossbow arrows shot from the grass harvested the lives of the surviving Japanese soldiers, and the mercenaries hidden in the grass kept shooting crossbow arrows at the Japanese soldiers who escaped the rolling wood like bloodthirsty beasts. Just a wave of rolling logs knocked out all the sharp energy of the three brigades, especially when the flares were lifted into the air, and the scene of more than 200 huge rolling logs tumbling down made the Japanese army begin to disperse. Beating the water dogs, not only is the Japanese army's specialty, Tang Lei's mercenaries are even more proficient in this way, after Tang Lei strictly ordered not to use hot weapons, the mercenaries who touched the mountain began to show their own unique skills to kill the scattered Japanese soldiers.
The weapon used by Xiao Beiping is different from that of other mercenaries, he carries a slingshot in his hand, a pure copper slingshot, a bowstring with four strands of ox tendon and a pig iron egg the size of a thumb, which makes his weapon extraordinary. The lethality of four strands of beef tendon and pig iron eggs is not small, even if it hits the thick flesh of the body, it can't stand it, not to mention that Xiao Beiping specializes in finding the two legs of the Japanese army. The Japanese soldiers who were hit by Xiao Beiping's slingshot had only one end, and they all rolled down the hill like rolling logs, and the lucky ones were only injured and fractured, and the unlucky ones may have broken their necks or been smashed by stones when they rolled.
Tang Lei didn't have those strange weapons on his body, he only had an adjutant command knife captured from the Japanese army in his hand, and the snowy blade drew a dazzling chain of light in the dim moonlight. The sudden attack of the mercenaries made the already panicked Sanben Brigade immediately appear to collapse, and after the captain Hideo Yamamoto was nailed with a crossbow arrow on his forehead, the soldiers of the Sanben Brigade who were struggling to support finally began to turn around and run.
"Yaga, what the hell are the damn three books doing?" The riot on the rolling dragon slope has already been seen by Okamoto Yasuyuki and them, although they can't really see it by the cold light of the flares, but they can still see it very clearly when hundreds of people retreat. The death of Commander Hideo Yamamoto was not the real cause of this rout, but the mercenaries who had been hiding in the shadows to release their black hands were the reason, and the officers and non-commissioned officers under Hideo Yamamoto were no longer able to control the troops, so they had to retreat with them.
With more than 100 mercenaries to push thousands of Japanese troops down the hillside, Tang Lei, who won a great victory, had a smile on his face, but on the contrary, he showed a hint of abnormality. The Japanese troops under the mountain were really calm enough, and they didn't make a move even when they watched the troops attacking the mountain being beaten, and it seemed that the damage tricks they prepared were useless. From the departure of the Yamamoto brigade to the rout and descent of the mountain, Okamoto Baoyuki and the others only heard a few gunshots, and they were all gunshots from Japanese-style 38 rifles, so before the enemy situation was unknown, Okamoto Baoyuki did not order a mortar bombardment of the mountain.
"Yaga, Yaga" Several officers who came back from the rout of the Yamamoto brigade stood in front of Okamoto Baoyuki in frustration, and Okamoto Baoyuki, who was wearing white gloves, slapped a big slap and slapped each of them, and slapped these unlucky people only to find that the commander Hideo Yamamoto was not here. "Where is your captain, Hideo Yamamoto? Okamoto Hoyuki sensed a hint of something wrong in his heart, Hideo Yamamoto is a very well-behaved officer, even if he loses the battle, he will never hide and not come to see him, is it because he was injured and left behind?
"Dazuo, our captain has broken his jade, please allow us to attack Rolling Dragon Slope" The officers of Yamamoto's brigade knelt on the ground and wept silently.
"Nani? Are you saying that Yamamoto has broken jade? And he was left on the hillside by you? "Okamoto Baozhi is angry, this time he is completely angry, it is true that Hideo Yamamoto lost the battle, but that person is a Nakasa officer after all, these incompetent guys will retreat, why did they forget to bring back Hideo Yamamoto's body? Okamoto broke free from the guards who stopped him, and kicked the officer closest to him on his back to the sky, and no one on the kneeling officer dared to move, so he had to watch the kicked guy crawl back and kneel again.
"It's too dark, we can't see anything clearly, there are a lot of traps on the hillside, that is, the kind of traps that are full of bamboo sticks and wooden thorns for hunting, and there are many deep soil holes with the size of bowls, and many of our soldiers twisted their feet because they accidentally stepped into that kind of soil hole" When Okamoto Hoyuki's anger subsided a little, the officers of the Yamamoto brigade told the original story of what they had encountered, "After we went halfway up the mountain, the mountain suddenly let the rolling logs come down, Many attackers who used cold weapons took the opportunity to attack us, and Captain Yamamoto was killed by them with bows and arrows."
"You're saying that the attackers have been using cold weapons?" After receiving repeated assurances from the officers of the Yamamoto Brigade, Okamoto Hoyuki rubbed his chin with his fingers and began to secretly ponder a way to take down the rolling dragon slope. Since the other party has been using cold weapons, that means that there may only be a group of Burmese people on the rolling dragon slope, and there is no existence of thunder soldiers, and his own wing is full of guns, is he afraid that a group of Burmese who use cold weapons will not succeed.
"Order the troops to rest in place and pass through the rolling dragon slope after dawn" The hour hand has pointed to 3 o'clock in the morning, and it will be dawn in more than two hours. Knowing that the Burmese on the Rolling Dragon Slope only had some cold weapons, Okamoto changed his plan to pass through the Rolling Dragon Slope, he only needed to send a guard force to make a guard along the way before the large army passed the Rolling Dragon Slope, and the Burmese bows and arrows could not shoot a distance of 500 meters from the top of the mountain to the road, right?
"It's going to sleep, no way, tell the brothers below to set fire" Tang Lei, who was hiding in the middle of the mountain, had already noticed a hint of breeze, the wind was pointing directly in the direction of the Japanese army, but their location was upwind. Several rockets were shot into the air, and then fell on the rolling logs under the hillside in an arc, and the "boom" that had already been splashed with kerosene immediately burst into flames, and the rolling logs that were piled together instantly burned into a piece, illuminating the bottom of the rolling dragon slope.
"Inform the vigilant troops to be on guard, as long as they do not take the initiative to go down the mountain, the troops are not allowed to shoot" Okamoto Yasuyuki, who received the report, believed that this was just a method for the Burmese on the mountain to disturb the enemy, and the burning log also happened to serve as a light for the Japanese army to guard against the Burmese on the rolling dragon slope, and he did not believe that cold weapons could be the opponent of guns. More than 200 rolling logs under the rolling dragon slope crackled and burned, and the smoke slowly drifted to the Japanese army with the wind, and no one in the Japanese army who received the order to rest in place took these ordinary fireworks seriously.
"Let's start" Tang Lei, who went down to the bottom of the mountain after cleaning the battlefield in the middle of the mountain, finally gave the order to start the operation after measuring the wind. Dozens of mercenaries who had moved to the bottom of the mountain early sneaked to both sides of the line of fire, took out gas masks and put them on their heads, and gently threw the hair-pulling erosive gas bombs to a distance of more than ten meters from the line of fire. The yellow smoke attached to the ground slowly dispersed, drifting along the wind towards the Japanese army, if it was only the poisonous gas, the Japanese army would definitely be able to detect it, but if the poisonous gas was mixed with the smoke of the burning wood, unless they had already inhaled the poisonous gas, they would never be able to find it.
Tang Lei's timing for releasing the poison gas was very accurate, just after Okamoto Bao's order to rest in place for an hour, during this period, not only the Japanese soldiers who were forced to serve as guards were also mostly drowsy, but even the guards who guarded Okamoto Baoyuki also sat together and closed their eyes. The yellow poisonous gas mixed in the white smoke was inconspicuous in the dark night, and when the first cough sounded in the temporary camp, the poisonous gas released by Tang Lei and them had already diffused to the edge of the Japanese camp, even if the soldiers of the 13th Wing now felt out their gas masks, the poisonous gas spread by the wind could occupy a quarter of their camp.
"Open the artillery, it's now" silently calculating that the time was almost up, Tang Lei used the walkie-talkie to notify the mortar arranged on the rolling dragon slope to fire. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The Japanese camp temporarily rested under the roadbed on both sides of the highway and set fires, and the Japanese soldiers who were awakened began to assemble and defend according to the orders of the officers, but except for a few explosions, there seemed to be no shadow of the attacker. "It's bad, it's poison gas," shouted an officer who began to rummage through his gas mask as he saw a soldier foaming at the mouth and convulsing.
With this shout, the soldiers of the 13th Wing were completely confused, just yesterday they had released poison gas against those attackers, and when they were cleaning the battlefield, the death of those attackers made many people vomit on the spot, and now it was their turn not to be afraid. The officers tried their best to control the situation, but the soldiers ignored the officers' orders and only cared about wearing gas masks, and some soldiers who could not find gas masks simply snatched them from their companions.
"Idiots, is it too late to put on gas masks now?" Tang Lei, who had already withdrawn to the top of the rolling dragon slope, chuckled and lit the cigarette in his mouth. The few mortar shells that entered the Japanese camp were completely intentional by him, and only when the Japanese soldiers were panicked and on guard, they would not pay attention to the poisonous gas that had already drifted into their camp, and when they found out, the poisonous gas had already drifted to their side, it was a corrosive poisonous gas, which would cause ulceration as long as it touched the skin, let alone inhale it into the lungs.
"We were downwind, and the situation was unfavorable to us, so we immediately ordered the troops to turn around and retreat, and immediately" the panicked 13th Wing retreated along the road in the direction of Mandalay. Okamoto Hoyuki could have ordered his troops to rush through the line of fire to seize the upper hand, but he didn't dare, since the enemy had poisonous gas in his hands, wouldn't there be ambushes and heavy weapons? So he chose to retreat at night to avoid the poison gas.