Chapter 53: Fishing in Troubled Waters
Zhao Zhi looked quite relaxed when arranging the task, in fact, only he knew that the scene just now could only be performed like that, to be honest, Zhao Zhi himself was not very sure about winning this battle. The strength of the Japanese army is several times that of his own, and the reason why Zhao Zhi will bring most of the airborne troops to meet the 18th Division is mainly because the airborne troops are not good at jungle raids, and this is exactly what Zhao Zhi is worried about, and the actual strength that he can use is only the hundreds of mercenaries around him.
"Sir, which Japanese army shall we deal with first?" Tang Lei, who was following Zhao Zhi, saw that his husband didn't speak for a long time, and thought that Zhao Zhi already had a plan in his heart, so he asked a little eagerly. In fact, Tang Lei was a little anxious, at this time Zhao Zhi was still thinking about the comparison of forces between the two sides, where did he have the time to think about which Japanese army to deal with first.
"We fought guerrillas, created conditions for Yan Wudao and them to meet the 18th Division, and tried our best to attract the attention of the Japanese army to us." Zhao Zhi did not think about going north, the Japanese army in the north was the 42nd Wing of the Fifth Division, and the airborne troops under the command of Yan Wudao would turn to the 2nd Wing of the North Entanglement once they broke through the defense line of the 18th Division. But Zhao Zhi only has a few hundred mercenaries around him, so if he fights the 42nd Wing head-on, I'm afraid he will only be defeated.
"Looking for an opportunity to ambush a small group of Japanese troops, and then stripping off their military uniforms and disguised as Japanese soldiers, we fished in troubled waters and fought guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army." Zhao Zhi's thinking gradually began to become clear, the terrain here is not suitable for large-scale marching attacks, if the Japanese army wants to encircle and suppress the Thunder troops here, the best way is to use small forces to intercept and blockade, and small forces fighting is exactly what mercenaries are good at. There was no hope of attacking head-on, so Zhao Zhi simply went around in circles with the Japanese army, looking for an opportunity to consume their forces little by little.
In addition to the mercenaries assigned to Yan Wudao and Yu Sheng, Zhao Zhi also had nearly 400 thunder mercenaries around him, of which the cleaning team and Tang Lei's Qingfeng troops accounted for more than half. Using a short knife to draw a rudimentary map on the ground, Zhao Zhi called Tang Lei and several of the officers leading the team over, "This area, we will divide it into four pieces for the time being, and we will divide it into four groups and scatter it in these four areas." Remember that the purpose of our operation is to fish in troubled waters, and that we are not to use automatic weapons until we have to, and when the situation of the Japanese army is clear, we will show our name to attract their attention. ”
The battlefield chosen by Zhao Zhi is more than ten miles away from the airborne field, and there are more than a dozen mountains in the middle, which is a place where you can attack and retreat. This operational arrangement was carefully considered by Zhao Zhi, and he divided the 400 mercenaries at hand into four groups, although it further weakened the forces around him, but to some extent, it pulled out an interception line that could both act alone and work together. "If you don't have an opinion, just do it" Zhao Zhi made a long speech, and seeing that the officers had no other opinions, he waved his hand and ordered the immediate division of troops.
Compared with the Thunder Jungle Training Camp, the mountains and jungles here seem to be somewhat ordinary, at least there are many fewer drought locusts and poisonous snakes in the jungle, and the mercenaries with heavy backpacks are moving quickly. "Shhhh
After a short time, the mercenary who was lying down and hiding in the bushes heard a Japanese conversation, and through the dense bushes, Zhao Zhi saw about 50 Japanese soldiers marching along the mountain. Just thinking about how to pretend to be a Japanese soldier, the Japanese army was sent to the door, Zhao Zhi pressed the ecstasy in his heart, and slowly moved his body backwards. Playing a series of sign languages, the mercenaries around him began to make arrangements before the operation according to Zhao Zhi's requirements.
The Japanese squad that was whispering while searching had no idea that there was a trap waiting for them in front of them, and according to the arrangement of the wing, there was a follow-up team only 1 mile behind them. Being able to encounter Thunder's troops early is exactly what they are looking forward to, as long as they exchange fire here, the follow-up teams will rush over to participate in the attack in a short time, so they are not worried about encountering Thunder's troops here, on the contrary, they are still a little impatient.
The unsuspecting Japanese soldiers slowly entered the encirclement set by Zhao Zhi, and with a gesture from Zhao Zhi, the on-site command officer with a bamboo whistle in his mouth let out a burst of birdsong. "Poof" "poof" "poof" "poof" After the silencer was installed, the guns emitted a tiny gunshot, and the bullets that erupted had already killed most of the soldiers in this Japanese squad, "poof" "poof" "poof" did not wait for the Japanese army to react, the second round of bullets from the shadows arrived again, and the Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the first round of shooting were not so lucky this time.
"Refill the gun, quick." The commanding officer on the scene waved his arms, and more than a dozen mercenaries hidden in the shadows jumped out of the grass with pistols and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who had fallen. "Security" After a burst of gunfire, the mercenaries who led the attack turned around and made a safety gesture, and the other mercenaries showed their bodies with weapons, while Zhao Zhi was faintly protected by the mercenaries in the middle.
"Leave 10 people to clean up the scene, and the others carry the bodies away, and you can't stay here for long." Just looked around, Zhao Zhi, whose face changed greatly, reached out and picked up a light machine gun on the ground and turned his head to leave. A flock of frightened birds was flying over a forest not far away, which meant that there must be something in the forest that startled the birds, and at this time, the only people who could appear in the forest and startle a large flock of birds could only be people. Zhao Zhi's other three groups were all in the mountains and forests on both flanks, and the only explanation was that the forest was the Japanese army's follow-up troops.
Zhao Zhi led people to carry the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and quickly retreated, and the cleaning team members who stayed behind cleaned up all the traces of the battlefield one by one, if it wasn't for paying special attention to the dead leaves and rotten grass under their feet, no one would have thought that there had just been a small-scale ambush here. Everything was as if nothing had happened, no bodies, no bullet casings, no blood, and as the sweepers withdrew, silence returned to the forest.
According to the orders of the wing, the Japanese troops who followed the ambush team appeared 20 minutes later, and their number was also a squad, but unfortunately when they found here according to the marks left by the forward team, they did not see the forward team that should be standing still. "Bageyalu, this idiot of Rice Field, shouldn't he stay here and wait for us to act together? Is military merit so important? Didn't even listen to the orders of the division? Second Lieutenant Kurosawa, who commanded the follow-up team, waved his knife with some dissatisfaction to vent, a small tree had been cut down by him with a command knife.
"Hidden, there's someone ahead." One of Kurosawa's soldiers pointed to the forest in front of him and shouted, and everyone, including Kurosawa, lowered their bodies on the spot, and the machine gunner with the fastest reaction had already pulled the bolt to load the bullet. "Don't shoot, it's your own people." In the depths of the woodland, the figure of a Japanese soldier appeared Cao, and with him several ordinary soldiers. Seeing that it was his own people wearing Japanese uniforms, Kurosawa and the others subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and the machine gunner, who was ready to shoot, also released his finger holding the trigger.
"Which unit are you? We are the search team of the 12th Engineer Wing of the 18th Division, and our sappers are laying mines in front, so you better change directions and be careful of stepping on our mines. The 12th Wing Sergeant Cao, who looked a little embarrassed with a gray face, saluted Kurosawa with a military salute, and then pointed out the direction to Kurosawa, "It's safe to go over there, there are mines planted behind me, and we will retreat in a while."
"We are from the 42nd Wing of the Fifth Division, and we have another squad that should have just passed through here, did you see in what direction they were going?" Kurosawa, who was in a good mood, nodded at Na Juncao and planned to direct the troops to leave in the direction he pointed. According to the military department's action plan, the direction of the 18th Division is the west side, and their engineer wing will appear here, indicating that the 18th Division is moving very smoothly, maybe this so-called encirclement and annihilation battle will end soon, Kurosawa is a little nostalgic for the barbecue in Jingdong City.
Kurosawa, who had talked to Jun Cao for a few words, did not doubt the identity of these soldiers of the Engineer Wing of the 18th Division, because whether it was the Japanese accent of Jun Cao or the performance of several of them, there was no difference between Kurosawa's impression of the soldiers of the 18th Division. "Did you just pass by the team here?" The military Cao of the 12th Wing shook his head with a somewhat strange expression, "I don't know, we just arrived here, and we met you as soon as we arrived here." ”
When the 12th Wing's Cao lowered his head to take a cigarette from his pocket, Kurosawa's eyes suddenly tightened, this 12th Wing's military Cao and his soldiers had a problem. Kurosawa found that there was a bullet hole in the belt of the 12th Wing soldier's jacket, and if it weren't for the crooked belt when the soldier took the cigarette from his pocket, the bullet hole under the belt would not have been easy to find.
The abnormality of Kurosawa's eyes did not escape the eyes of Jun Cao, the cigarette that was being handed to Kurosawa suddenly fell to the ground, and Jun Cao and several soldiers who appeared with him suddenly fell to the ground, shouting, "Hurry up, we have been recognized." Dozens of tongues of fire burst out of the bushes, and the Japanese soldiers who had already realized that they were in ambush had no time to dodge, and Kurosawa, who was still stunned, was the first to be shot, followed by the soldiers under him.