Chapter 20: Stealth Sniping
The Qing army built four forts outside the Peony Terrace, and the No. 1 fort was destroyed by Japanese artillery fire in the Battle of Pyongyang, and after the Qing army retreated, the Japanese 9th Mixed Brigade was stationed here. The Qing army built a fortress in the Peony Terrace, the base is five zhang high, the artillery mount is complete, the cover is strong, in the battle of Pyongyang, the breastwork of the fortress was destroyed, and later the Japanese army captured Pyongyang, in order to prevent the Qing army counterattack, it was repaired again, the fortress only 75 mm caliber heavy artillery has as many as 18 guns, and the Japanese army has hoarded a lot of ammunition.
The 9th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army was subordinate to the 5th Division, and in the air attack on 20 September, more than a dozen senior officers below the commander of the 5th Division were killed, including Major General Yoshimasa Oshima, the commander of the 9th Mixed Brigade. Therefore, the highest-ranking Japanese army stationed in Pyongyang was the wing commander of the 3rd Field Artillery Wing, Yoshihiro Shibano.
One of the major functions of the rank system is that when the wartime establishment is disrupted, it is convenient for command, and everyone just obeys the command of the highest-ranking officer. Although Shibano Yoshihiro was an artilleryman, he was also unambiguous about infantry warfare, and it has to be admitted that in the First Sino-Japanese War, the military quality of Japanese commanders was generally higher than that of the Qing army. So Shibano Yoshihiro left a large group of Japanese troops at the main fortress of Peonydae, numbering about three hundred.
A Z-25 carrying 35 marines on the Beijing ship flew to Peony Terrace by night, and in the mountains and forests outside the main fortress, Chen Fei and other marines were put down, Chen Fei and they sneaked to the periphery of Peony Terrace by night, and the door of the fortress was not closed, because the Qing army had retreated, and the rest were their own people.
There were only two defenders at the gate, and the main granary of the Japanese army in Pyongyang had been destroyed by the carrier-based aircraft on the Beijing ship, and the Japanese troops defending Taiwan only had a little bit of food every day, so the captain of the garrison ordered that everyone who could walk should go to the mountains to find food, and those who could get ten catties of meat would be given a military merit, resulting in less than one squadron left in the defenders in the fortress.
Chen Fei: Of course, they know about these situations, and the secret office on the Beijing ship is not a vegetarian, and these agents are no worse than doing secret work. Chen Fei and the others were all equipped with mufflers, and the purpose was to sneak in.
Chen Fei's hiding place is about 400 meters away from the gate of the fortress, the searchlight on the fortress wall sweeps back and forth, and any wind and grass can not escape the eyes of the sentry, I have to say that the quality of the Japanese soldiers is much higher than that of the Qing army, although they are hungry, but the Japanese sentries are still ready for battle.
Chen Fei is holding a Type 03 sniper rifle with a muffler, as a 5.8mm caliber gun family, one aspect of the Type 03 rifle that is superior to the Type 95 rifle is that the Type 03 rifle's tactical guide can be equipped with more components. Chen Fei stretched out his hand to measure the wind, the sky was beautiful, and the wind was zero-speed.
Compared to the enemy, the wind is the biggest enemy of the sniper, the so-called zero-speed wind is the wind that has no effect on the sniper, in this case, at a distance of four hundred meters, coupled with a shooter like Chen Fei, the two sentries fell in a pool of blood without even making a sound.
Chen Fei and they quickly touched into the fortress, Chen Fei and they sneaked into the artillery position, and soon the guards were cleaned up, the people who attacked the barracks were dumbfounded as soon as they entered, the people inside no longer needed to attack, they were already so hungry that they couldn't get up, our army has never been in the habit of killing and surrendering, so they just collected their weapons, and even a small soldier looked at a Japanese soldier who was pitifully hungry and gave him a compressed biscuit.
Chen Fei They were just the vanguard, they occupied the fortress, and immediately sent out a signal, and the helicopter on standby in the airspace not far outside immediately flew over, carrying mainly prisoners of war of the Qing army, most of them were artillerymen, Chen Fei looked at his watch, and thought: Fifteen minutes, the follow-up troops will come.
At this moment, the upheaval abruptly occurred!
A troop of more than 100 people walked up the hillside, and the fortress of Peonydae was surrounded by cliffs on three sides, and only the side facing Pyongyang City was a slope, so these people were discovered by the sentries as soon as they came up.
According to the past, the hunting troops should not come back at this time, but today the first squadron shot seven or eight wild boars, and the squadron leader saw good luck and was happy, so he came back with people, but he never expected to hit the muzzle of the marines, I really don't know if it was good luck or bad luck.
Chen Fei signaled his subordinates not to shoot, waiting for his order, four hundred meters, the silhouette of the person has appeared, three hundred meters, the figure of the person can already be seen clearly, two hundred meters, can already hear their laughter.
The squadron leader's clothes are the most eye-catching, Chen Fei put him into the scope, the height of a Japanese man is generally 160 centimeters, from the reticle of the scope he calculated, the distance between himself and him is 185 meters, he looked at the Japanese army on the bayonet of the military flag, the flag was blown up by the wind, the bottom edge of the flag and the bayonet are about 45 degrees angle, he applied a formula in his heart, Dividing 45 by 4 and multiplying it by 1.6 calculated the wind speed, and then calculated the wind deviation that needed to be corrected, this series of calculations was completed in his mind in an instant.
Then his finger pulled the trigger, and the sound of the bullet coming out of the chamber was mostly absorbed by the material used to absorb the sound energy in the silencer, so there was only a "plop" on the ground.
The squadron leader screamed miserably, covered his right leg and sat down on the ground, on the battlefield, it is more difficult to hit people's legs than to hit the head and torso, because the legs are moving all the time, and Chen Fei likes to hit people's legs, because such a wounded person is incapacitated, and the uninjured person has to work hard to take care of him.
If such a scene were encountered in modern warfare, the rest of the people would definitely hide quickly, because they knew that they had encountered snipers, but in this era, no one had heard of snipers, so the Japanese army thought that their guns had gone off.
Chen Fei gave an order: Fight!
Dozens of assault rifles fired together, and the bullets flew towards the Japanese soldiers like eyes, and in an instant, more than twenty of them fell to the ground, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers suddenly thought that the fortress was occupied by the Qing army, and they hurriedly held their guns and hid everywhere.
The Japanese army did not counterattack, and after a while retreated to the fortress in other directions, Chen Fei knew about the Japanese army's attempt: to use the artillery in other fortresses to strike at the fortress where they were located.
Chen Fei called for an air strike, and soon several J-24s were dispatched, and the remaining three fortresses were suddenly drowned in a sea of fire, and the defenders in Pyongyang saw that the Peony Terrace was occupied, and Shibano Yoshihiro hurriedly gathered forces to attack the Peony Terrace, and soon thousands of troops were gathered around the Peony Terrace, because these people were relatively scattered, so the air strike was too cost-effective, but the Krupp cannon on the Peony Terrace could exert more power.
Several helicopters landed in the fort, and the Qing soldiers stepped out of the helicopters and went up to the wall, they were experts at operating these Krupp cannons.
When the Qing officers and soldiers at the head of the wall saw the Japanese troops preparing to attack, they asked Chen Fei in horror: "Shangguan, are we surrounded, and are we still fighting this battle?" ”