032 Airport death squads
After listening to the battalion commander's words, Zhu Jingxing, who was standing in the second row, thought for a while, and after a while, he took a step forward and said, "Zhu Jingxing of the second company and one platoon volunteered to sign up for the death squad!" ”
The battalion commander glanced at it and said, "Okay! The first one, Lao Tzu will appoint you as the captain of the daredevil! ”
After speaking, the battalion commander picked up a bowl of liquor and handed it to him. Zhu Jingxing took it and drank it all.
"Li Defu of the second platoon of the third company volunteered to join the death squad!"
"The second company and a platoon of Hu Liqun volunteered to join the death squad!"
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The sound of signing up kept coming, and after a while, more than 50 people stood at the forefront of the line. The battalion commander's eyes showed a look of relief, and he raised his head and said to everyone: "Okay, sure enough, they are all good men in my special service battalion!" Don't say anything, you are in a surprise attack over there, Lao Tzu who can come back asks for merit for him, come back, brothers go and take care of your family! ”
The battalion commander's words were simple and emotional, and everyone was in a bowl of wine, and their chests were already burning.
"Let's go!" The battalion commander waved his hand, and the members of the death squad lined up and walked towards the team headquarters. They went to collect their equipment, and the death squad raids were sure to be dominated by melee night combat, so they were all replaced with American-aided M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles and Thomson*.
The special battalion is mostly equipped with automatic firearms, so it is not difficult to concentrate dozens of these guys at all. After a short while, the ammunition and weapons were fully equipped. Next, the team members began to carry out camouflage, which was learned from some special units of the National Defense Force, and the dense jungle in Myanmar can help them perform their tasks better.
The daredevils smeared their faces black with the ashes of the pots, and the steel helmets wearing nets were also stuck with a lot of leaves and other things, and some of the soldiers also hung some leaves on their clothes, and at night they looked almost integrated with their surroundings.
"Battalion commander, you should be ready here, as soon as it is past midnight, we promise to give you a signal of success." Zhu Jingxing was carrying a Thomson* and looked at the battalion commander with a grim face.
The battalion commander nodded, "Are you familiar with the route of the attack or something?" ”
"Well," Zhu Jingxing said affirmatively.
"Although you are death squads, don't take unnecessary risks. Remember, bring back all the brethren in order. "The battalion commander has some mothers-in-law, maybe they were nervous before the war, or they may be a little panicked in the face of this group of young men.
"Yes, don't worry, battalion commander." Zhu Jingxing snapped and saluted. Then he waved his hand and shouted, "Let's go!" ”
The death squad took advantage of the darkness to quietly reach for the airfield occupied by the Japanese army. With nearly a kilometer to go, they began to slow down and the team began to crawl.
Although the Japanese occupied the airfield for less than a day, they had already built a tight defensive line here. The barbed wire fence that had been pulled up next to the airport has been repaired, sandbag fortifications are piled up at the entrance, and searchlights scanning back and forth from the high buildings illuminate the front of the position as if it were daylight.
"It's very well defended on all sides, and it doesn't look like it's easy to break in. If it were to be attacked, it is estimated that many brothers would be killed or wounded. Li Defu, the company commander of the third company of the special agent, felt that it was inappropriate to attack from the original direction after observation. Originally, he had a higher rank and rank than Zhu Jingxing, but because he was one step slower, Zhu Jingxing became the captain.
However, this captain is the same, and the captain of the death squad has nothing to fight for, the set tasks have been issued, the mode of action and time have been stipulated, and all the remaining captain has to do is to take these people to carry it out.
Zhu Jingxing agreed with Li Defu's opinion, he put down the binoculars, pointed to the houses in front of him and said, "Look at that!" ”
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and there were indeed some private houses not far from the airport. After the construction of the airport in Tonggu, the surrounding residents were not evacuated, and there are still some people living near the airport.
Hu Liqun seemed to understand what Zhu Jingxing meant, and he frowned, "Captain, you won't say that let's pretend to be a Burmese citizen, right?" ”
"Pretending to be Burmese? The clothes on our bodies are all military uniforms, and besides, even the Burmese people in the middle of the night will be suspicious of the Japanese army. One soldier questioned.
Zhu Jingxing shook his head, "It's obviously not okay to pretend to be Burmese, our figure and appearance are different from Burmese." My idea was that when I slipped over there with a few brothers, the target would be much smaller and the Japanese would be more difficult to spot, and then we would attack from the side of the house. ”
Zhu Jingxing turned his head and whispered to Li Defu: "Wait a while, once our side succeeds, you will rush over to respond." ”
"Thirty minutes! Whether you succeed or not, we will rush to it. Li Defu knew that they had no other choice.
"Good! That's it. After speaking, Zhu Jingxing waved his hand to a few brothers behind him in a low voice, and a few brothers in his platoon followed behind.
A group of five people quietly touched it with guns on their shoulders, and the searchlight swept back and forth, and they used the gap to feel that way. Since there were only five people, it wasn't a hassle to touch them. In less than a moment, they touched the side of the house.
These houses are no longer inhabited by Burmese, and yesterday there was a lot of artillery fire and bullets flying here, so the Burmese people who lived here moved out.
When he arrived in front of the house, Zhu Jingxing was about to enter when he heard the sound of someone talking inside, and when he heard it carefully, he knew that it was Japanese, and he knew that the Japanese had already sent soldiers here to stand sentry.
The Japanese soldiers did not fall asleep, but kept their guard vigilantly. It was a secret sentry, and the soldiers hid around the house, and they did not make a sound when they handed over the sentry. However, because there were too many mosquitoes just now, the soldier who was guarding was bitten all over his body, so he complained to the soldier who came to pick up the sentry.
His complaint could completely expose its location, Zhu Jingxing made a gesture, and Li Dang, a soldier who was crawling on the outermost periphery, quietly pulled out the short blade on his waist.
The Japanese soldier had not been on guard for five minutes when a short blade was plunged into his neck, and he died.
Li Dang waved his hand to the back, Zhu Jingxing and the other four people rushed in and came to the surroundings of the house, Hu Liqun waved his hand after observing it, and several people quietly touched towards the Japanese army.
"Up!" Zhu Jingxing was the first to jump out, and at the same time as he jumped out, the * in his hand also rang at the same time. Close night battles don't require any accuracy at all, they rely on ferocity of firepower. He swept over with such a drum, and the three Japanese soldiers in front of him made a sieve.
Five people and five teams* formed a huge firepower network, and the Japanese soldiers rushed to meet the battle, so naturally there was no suspense to be crushed. After Li Defu heard the gunshots here, he saw that the searchlight had been knocked out, and he also stepped up* and rushed out with dozens of daredevils.
At this time, the Japanese army had already reacted, although the front several firing points were removed, but they still deployed a lot of machine guns at high places.
After hearing the shouts of killing, the Japanese began to shoot without searchlights.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun and Taisho Type 11 light machine gun behind the sandbag fortifications kept spitting tongues of fire, tracer projectiles shot out straight lines that were not connected, and the sound of gunfire like bursting beans continued to sound, and hot bullet casings were scattered all over the ground.
Dozens of daredevils braved the fire network composed of Japanese machine guns to fight, and the two sides shouted for a while. The brothers in front fell in waves, and the latter immediately made up for it.
At this time, a soldier tied the * on his body together, pulled one and rushed to a Japanese fire point, and was blown up with a bang and several Japanese soldiers.
Although the attack paid a lot of casualties, the Japanese army gradually began to be at a disadvantage. After the gunshots rang out here, the defenders of the airport would definitely move towards reinforcements on this side, and after judging the approximate reinforcement time of the Japanese army, Zhu Jingxing decided to speed up the attack and take this stronghold.
Li Defu took the lead, and he didn't care about any command, so he picked up a * and fired. Although the Japanese occupied favorable terrain, their firepower was not as fierce as that of the death squads, and after ten minutes, their firepower was obviously suppressed, and finally they had to be beaten into a sieve by the members of the death squads.
After taking this stronghold, Li Defu shot a signal flare into the sky, and the main force of the special service battalion, which had been in ambush on the left flank for a long time, was ready at this time, and after seeing the signal flare, the battalion commander knew that the death squad had succeeded.
The battalion commander stood up and shouted to the brothers behind him: "Our more than fifty brothers have opened a gap for the little devils on the right, and it is up to us whether we can recapture the airport below!" Follow me, brethren! ”
The special service battalion of several hundred people began to attack the left flank with great fanfare, and the infantry artillery smashed towards the Japanese fire point, and for a time the sound of guns and shouts of killing shook the sky.
On the other hand, Zhu Jingxing decided not to follow the original plan to defend the captured stronghold. His reasons for judging this were based on two points: first, Japanese reinforcements were coming from their rear, and fighting a positional battle with them was undoubtedly hitting a stone with an egg; The second is that they are too few in number, and they lack heavy machine guns and other firepower weapons, so fighting positional warfare is to play up their weaknesses and avoid their strengths, and if they don't do it, they will all fall here.
After thinking about it, it is safer to continue the attack, now that the left and right flanks are attacking, the Japanese army has been stunned, and it is better for them to start attacking than to wait here to be beaten.
After he explained his thoughts to the brothers, the brothers had no opinion, and they all had their heads pinned to the waistband of their trousers, and no one thought about anything else at this time.
The charge just now killed and wounded more than a dozen brothers, Zhu Jingxing let the wounded retreat first, and then he said to the other brothers: "Let's continue to attack and catch them by surprise!" ”
In this way, more than 30 people of the death squad fought towards the airfield occupied by the Japanese army, and the fighting lasted all night.