Chapter Thirty-Eight: Death Gunfire

The heavy machine gun fortifications at the four corners of the airfield have lights, which are the only places in the airfield that have lights other than the watchtower, so that the machine gunners in the fortifications can see their own firing range clearly, the Japanese army also installed searchlights on these four heavy machine gun fortifications. Tang Lei took the three mercenaries who were in the first group with him and went straight to the machine gun fortification in the east corner of the airport, this machine gun fortification was facing the direction of Yuncheng, Tang Lei and they took here, once the Japanese army in the direction of Yuncheng came to reinforce, the heavy machine gun in this fortification will block the Japanese reinforcements for Tang Lei and them.

According to the formation of the Japanese patrol, Tang Lei and the four of them lined up in a line, neatly walking towards the heavy machine gun fortifications, the searchlights in the machine gun fortifications were very bright, but the searchlights installed on the steel frame had swinging dead ends, Tang Lei, who pretended to be Japanese soldiers, and the direction they came over was exactly the blind spot of the searchlights, and several Japanese soldiers in the machine gun fortifications couldn't see Tang Lei's faces clearly at all, so they could only rely on their military uniforms and the three rifles they carried on their shoulders to determine that they were their own people.

"Downstairs, didn't the patrol just pass? How did this patrol come so quickly, it didn't seem to take 10 minutes? Cao Nagakubo, who was in the machine gun fortification, asked the machine gun shooter Yamashita Shunfumi with some uncertainty, the five of them had been nesting in the sandbag machine gun fortification for three hours, everyone was bored and dozing off, only the main shooter Yamashita Shunfumi who was lying on the heavy machine gun looked still a little energetic.

"I didn't look at my watch, I don't know how long the patrol has been, could it be that Cao Chang is wrong, the route and speed of the patrol are almost fixed, they shouldn't be mistaken about the time" Yamashita Toshifumi glanced back at Okubo, he has a fellow villager who is in the patrol, so Yamashita is very familiar with the airport patrol. The sound of uniform footsteps came in this direction, and the patrol, which was suspected by Okubo, did not bypass the machine gun fortifications this time, but walked straight towards them.

"Hey, is there a fire? Borrow a fire" Tang Lei, who was at the forefront, carried the 38 rifle on his shoulder, pretended to take out a cigarette from his jacket pocket with his left hand, lowered his head and raised his arm to cover his face, and as he spoke, Tang Lei walked to a place less than 2 meters away from the heavy machine gun fortifications. The patrols on patrol at night are not the same as walking back and forth, and they occasionally ask their companions at fixed posts to borrow fire and smoke or something, so Toshifumi Yamashita, who is holding a heavy machine gun, did not suspect it, and directly took out a match from his pocket and handed it over.

"No, why haven't I seen you? Who are you? Getting closer, Okubo, who had always been skeptical, finally saw Tang Lei's face clearly. As Cao Chang, he has been guarding this airport for half a year, and he can almost remember the soldiers who come and go in the airport, especially the soldiers in the patrol, he knows them all, but he can't remember Tang Lei's face.

"Well, how can you not remember who I am? Think about it again, I'm a newcomer" Tang Lei lit the cigarette in his mouth with a match, and swept the situation in the heavy machine gun fortification with the corner of his eye. There were five Japanese soldiers in the fortifications, one Cao Chang and four soldiers, but only Cao Chang and the machine gun shooter were still awake, and the other three were already dozing happily in the corner. Okubo is actually a little sleepy, if he is still awake, he should be able to hear from Tang Lei's broken Japanese, because Tang Lei's Japanese is really bad.

Tang Lei finished lighting the cigarette, put the match into his pocket, and then pulled out the pistol inserted in his waist and pulled the trigger on Okubo. The muffler-mounted pistol made only a slight sound when fired, and the Bazooka shooters, lurking on the east side of the airfield, only saw the flash of fire formed by the gunfire during five consecutive shots, and then the searchlight on the heavy machine gun fortifications was removed, and in its place was a flashlight with a three-long and two-short code.

"It's finally time to go in and smoke," the Bazooka shooter patted his ammunition man, and the two of them rushed towards the heavy machine-gun fortifications with heavy bazooka and spare rockets on their backs. Leaving two people to guard the heavy machine gun fortifications to pick up the Bazooka shooters who were about to arrive, Tang Lei himself took one of the remaining mercenaries and walked along the dark to the watchtower, there were four Japanese soldiers on duty on the watchtower, they also changed their guards every four hours, Tang Lei needed to take down the watchtower to provide shooting positions for the snipers in the second echelon.

The wooden watchtower is the second largest building in the airport after the tower, and even the newly built hangars are not as tall as it, and the Japanese troops stationed at the airport have arranged a squad of Japanese soldiers in the watchtower, and every 4 people will be on a shift, and every 24 hours another squad of soldiers will be replaced to take over their defense. The wooden watchtower is divided into three floors, the top floor is where the sentries stay, the middle is the place where other soldiers rest, and the bottom floor is where they eat and smoke.

The searchlights on the lookout tower scanned back and forth in the airport from time to time, and the sentries on duty were all open-eyed, not dozing off like Okubo and the others. Tang Lei and the mercenary who followed him approached the watchtower on the south side of the airport step by step in the shadows, and solved this place, so that the hidden second echelon could enter the airport runway from here, and then plant bombs on the fighters on the runway to destroy them.

Standing sideways outside the door of the first floor of the watchtower, Tang Lei replaced his pistol with a new magazine, and the spare magazine was bitten in his mouth, because his other hand needed to grab a flashlight, and the mercenary standing opposite was also in the same shape. Old Bark's day-long lurking reconnaissance showed that there were at least 13 Japanese soldiers in it, Tang Lei and them only had two people, and due to the limitations of the terrain, it was impossible for them to solve all the Japanese soldiers in the watchtower with short knives, and the pistol with a muffler was their only choice.

"Let's start" nodded to the mercenary under him, Tang Lei gently hooked the door with his foot, the wooden single door opened silently outward, and the mercenary standing close to him on the opposite side flashed in and disappeared into the darkness. Tang Lei, who went in closely, turned on the flashlight, and the light that came out of his fingers looked a little dim, but it was enough for Tang Lei and them to see clearly the internal environment on the first floor of the observation tower.

There are some tables and chairs in the center of the first floor of the watchtower, which is almost more than 30 square meters, and there are some sundries in the corner, which are nothing more than some tattered clothes and old military shoes packed in wooden ammunition boxes, and Tang Lei can even smell the stench they emit. "Go up" Tang Lei pointed to the wooden staircase, the two of them tiptoed up the stairs, the flashlight had been turned off, and the earth-shattering snoring sound on the 2nd floor just hid the movement of Tang Lei and them going upstairs, "Damn, there are really a lot of people" Tang Lei stopped at the corner of the 2nd floor, listening to the snoring sound coming from inside, listening to the sound, at least 8 or 9 people were sleeping inside.

"I'll go up and down, count to three and shoot together" Tang Lei gestured to the mercenary, upstairs is where the sentry stays, the four are all open-eyed, and the slightest carelessness will cause a big disaster. Tang Lei thought about killing these guys sleeping on the 2nd floor first, but he was afraid that he would make a movement and alarm the guys above, so he planned to start up and down together, there were only less than ten dead pig-like guys sleeping on the 2nd floor, and he believed that his subordinates could solve them.

"1, 2, 3" stood at the corner leading to the third floor, Tang Lei gestured with his fingers to the mercenary under his hand in turn, from one to three, and at the same time as the third finger stretched out, Tang Lei had already rushed up the stairs like an arrow. "Poof" "poof" Tang Lei, who had just drilled out of the third layer of his upper body, shot a magazine first regardless of whether he saw it clearly or not, and the Japanese soldier guarding the machine gun was knocked to the ground first, and then the Japanese soldier with a searchlight on it, at this time there were only two Japanese soldiers left on the third floor of the watchtower, one was smoking in the corner, and the other was wiping his bayonet with a piece of cloth.

Tang Lei's sudden appearance and sudden accumulation of shots made the two Japanese soldiers who were not able to react for a while, "Die" Tang Lei quickly changed the magazine, and opened the pistol for a burst of shooting, until the empty gun hung up, and the Japanese soldier who was smoking in the corner was shot and died, and the cigarette with green smoke was still in his mouth. didn't stay too long, Tang Lei, who put on a new magazine, put on a new bullet to make up the guns on the corpse's head one by one, and then turned over and went down the 2nd floor, there were too many Japanese soldiers on the 2nd floor, and he wanted to help his own men. A thick smell of blood filled the upper two floors of the watchtower, and the flash of gunfire was like a twinkling star in the sky, but they represented death.

"Mend the gun" Tang Lei commanded, changed the magazine again, and then carried the gun up to the third floor, time waits for no one, Tang Lei They have entered the airport for an hour, leaving less and less time for them to act, the sooner they withdraw from the airport Tang Lei The more likely they are to retreat, and the more dangerous it will be. Rubbing his knees that had been hit by the plank bed on the 2nd floor just now, Tang Lei drew two circles in the direction they sneaked in with the searchlight, which was a code for an appointment with the second echelon, indicating that the watchtower in the south had been controlled.

"Fast, fast, pass" The mercenaries of the second echelon carried guns and quickly ran towards the watchtower where Tang Lei was shrinking, and the snipers who were assigned to Tang Lei at the front were at the forefront, Tang Lei hoped to solve the battle before dawn, but no one can say the actual situation, so the snipers must occupy favorable terrain, only in this way can they provide fire support for Tang Lei when the Japanese army counterattacks at the airport. It was not only the second echelon that had just received the cipher that had entered the airfield, but also the Bazooka shooters in the north and south directions of the airfield's perimeter, and now only the heavy machine-gun fortifications and watchtowers on the west side of the airfield had not been taken.