Chapter 70: Night Raid
"Your Excellency Dazuo, in the battle when the imperial army entered the village, two hundred and twenty-five people were lost, and another twenty-five people were wounded!" On the sortie position, a Japanese liaison officer reported to Saburo Aoki.
"Yaga Yalu!" Aoki Saburo's face was pale, this is a big deal, and more than 200 people have been killed and wounded, so that more than half of the 2,000 people he brought have been killed or wounded, and they haven't even touched a single hair of the enemy.
"Aoki-kun, the people of China have underground tunnels, and the imperial army is not suitable for entering the village to fight, it seems that for now, the only way to do this is to occupy the outer fortifications of the people of China and block the entire village, I think the food hoarded by the people of China is definitely not unlimited, as long as we continue to blockade it.
You can trap them alive! Saburo Nakagawa said with a vicious face.
Aoki Saburo nodded with a grim face and added: "Order the artillery squadron again, bombardment with all your strength day and night, I will raze the entire village to the ground, bury all the damned cunning Shina people in the ground, and turn them into real ground rats!" β
The two old devils fought a good wishful thinking, after a day of fighting, although they suffered heavy losses, they still had more than 1,000 troops, although the strength to attack the underground tunnel was insufficient, but it was more than enough to blockade.
After all, they occupied the outer fortifications of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, which were all ready-made, and saved the time and energy of the devil soldiers digging trenches.
It's just that they want to get it, it is the grave left by Qiao Youhua for them, from the beginning Qiao Youhua didn't plan to fight a protracted war with these devils, and the two thousand Japanese soldiers were not qualified.
Qiao Youhua's goal is to lead the troops to Nanjing next, change history, and strengthen himself as much as possible during this trip to Nanjing, where to meet this little devil outside the village for too long.
Therefore, while the devil ordered the siege and blockade and artillery bombardment, in a relatively spacious underground tunnel, Qiao Youhua summoned his three squadron leaders and two platoon commanders directly under him to deploy the next battle plan.
Suddenly, there was a violent vibration on the ground overhead, and from time to time there was dirt falling, Qiao Youhua slapped the dust above his head, and said with a smile: "It seems that the little devil has begun to retaliate by shelling." β
"It's just a Type 92 infantry gun, 70 mm caliber, that's it." Jiang Haidong pursed his lips and said casually. With the underground tunnels they constructed, the devils would have to mobilize at least two hundred millimeters of super cannon to collapse here.
If it's just a Type 92 infantry gun, there are only four of them, that is, the tickling Cheng dΓΉ, at most bullying the ordinary houses made of earth, wood and bricks on the ground.
"Now all the houses in the village should be destroyed!" Zhang Yunshan said with some pity.
Ma Biao smiled and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't be afraid, these pots and jars will be broken and we will build them again when we win the battle." β
"That's right, the house can be rebuilt, but the little devils can't let it go, this time all the devils in the periphery will be killed, and tonight next year will be their sacrifice day!" Qiao Youhua's expression suddenly became abrupt.
"Captain, what are your plans? Let's talk about it quickly, the brothers can't wait to go out and teach the little devils a lesson! Liu Yidao said.
"The devils are now out of the village and are occupying our outer trenches, trying to trap us, hehe, this gives us a golden opportunity to defeat and annihilate them in one fell swoop!" Qiao Youhua paused and said: "After a day of fighting, the devils outside have suffered heavy losses, which can be described as sleepy and demoralized.
Tonight, we all set out at three o'clock in the morning, quietly went out from various tunnels in the trenches, and launched a surprise attack on the Japanese troops outside the village, vowing to defeat them in one fell swoop and lift the siege of Zheng Village! β
"Good idea, this way, we can win this battle!" Wu Ming slapped his thigh fiercely and said.
"But there is one thing that you must pay attention to, that is, you must be careful when you go out of the tunnel, don't alarm the devils, otherwise we will fall into passivity, and once the raid fails, the devils will find the tunnel entrance in the trench, which will be very disadvantageous to our soldiers!" Qiao Youhua instructed.
"Yes!" The five men answered at the same time, and then dispersed.
In the underground tunnel, only Qiao Youhua was left, he lit a cigarette and smoked it, muttering that it was time to end the battle here, and it was time to go to Nanjing.......
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In the trenches outside the village, most of the ghost soldiers who had been panicked for a day hastily ate dinner, and most of them fell asleep, leaving only a few soldiers to be on guard.
In a short time, snoring sounded in the trenches.
Time passed little by little, and in a blink of an eye, it was about three o'clock in the morning, and the devils in the trenches were sleeping the deepest, and even the sentries in charge of the guard were a little drowsy, holding their rifles, and yawning again and again.
In the distance, the direction of the Japanese army's sortie position was already pitch black, and the two old devils, Aoki Saburo and Nakagawa Ichiro, fully learned Sasaki's lesson and turned off the lights as soon as it was night to prevent a sneak attack by the Shina people in the village.
In fact, they were too worried, first of all, their location was not within the effective range of the Mortars of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force, and Qiao Youhua did not plan to risk attacking them again, after all, the outside of the village had been blocked by devils, and it was not easy to sneak through.
Moreover, Qiao Youhua's plan was to launch a surprise attack from the front and completely defeat this Japanese army, and the Dragon Tooth Task Force under his command was no longer the small force with only one reinforced platoon size at the beginning.
Instead, there are more than 400 strong combat forces, and even if you resist head-on, you can compete with the little devils, let alone take sneak attacks.
Qiao Youhua only follows one principle, that is, to get the maximum victory at the least cost and defeat the opponent. As a last resort, he will never use his limited strength to fight the little devils.
What's more, he also plans to take this team to Nanjing to change a historical tragedy.
Under the endless night sky, the ruins of the houses that were still burning after the bombardment of the devils in the village made occasional noises, and the snoring in the devils' trenches was a little harsh, but in addition, the entire Zheng Village was extremely silent inside and outside.
In the dark night, the trench was even darker, and suddenly a trench wall quietly moved away, and just half a meter away from it sat many ghost soldiers sleeping with guns in their arms.
After a moment to make sure that no devils had noticed, the wall began to slowly move again, revealing a pitch-black hole large enough for a man to get in and out of the cat.
A sturdy figure came out of it, with a dagger in his mouth, it was the deputy platoon commander and monkey of the reconnaissance platoon, he immediately quietly touched to the side after he came out, and more figures came out one after another.
The monkey came up to a sleeping ghost soldier, quietly covered his mouth and nose with one hand, and quickly wiped a dagger at his neck with the other.
With a snort, the sharp dagger easily cut the throat of the devil soldier, blood gushed out, and the devil soldier woke up suddenly, but was held down by the monkey, and he couldn't make a sound. οΌ
At this time, there were no less than 100 task forces who had passed through more than a dozen tunnel entrances and exits with the monkeys into this trench, and were launching a bloody attack on the devils around them.
At the same time, such scenes are also playing out in the trenches in the other two directions, and the Dragon's Tooth Task Force seems to be incarnated as a ghost in the night, quietly killing the devils one by one in their sleep.