Chapter 142 Charcoal in the Snow?
Iwakoshi Hengichi's idea is right, such a deep snow, no heavy weapons, armored vehicles cannot be used, their large forces are absolutely at a disadvantage in the snow more than one meter deep, plus the opponent's marksmanship is extremely accurate, the person who was shot was either a headshot or was shot in the chest, and if no one was found, no matter how many people there were, they would be beaten.
After the order to hold on was given, the Japanese troops moved one after another, in the severe cold, put up a pot stove outside, hurriedly ate food, boiled water, cut the chimney from the inside, tied the ice ballast with a wooden stick and stabbed it with a bayonet, dredged all the chimneys, and then pasted them with mud again, and after three or four hours of busyness, finally, the chimney once again emitted curling green smoke.
It was time to burn the kang, except for those who guarded the ice bunkers, the rest of the Japanese soldiers were busy, lighting fires to keep warm, so that the frozen hands and feet could be warmed as soon as possible.
How can a frozen house recover its temperature in a short period of time? Even if you bake on a high fire, it is difficult to take off your clothes and pants in a short period of time. As a result, in all the barracks, the position of the guard stove pit and the kang head became fragrant dumplings, and the frozen and stiff Japanese soldiers were crowded there. And adding firewood, also forgot to save money, resulting in flames erupting from time to time in the chimney.
Looking at the flames erupting from the barracks in the distance, Dong Ku secretly laughed, the little devil is in a hurry to be reincarnated! He put down his binoculars, took off the respirator that had been used to prevent the lenses from frosting, and ordered, "Ichi, you will be in charge of the first wave after dark." Two hours later, the second company was in charge of the second wave, and the third company and the fourth company were on duty until nine o'clock to return to the station! Others go back to camp. ”
"Yes!"
The four company commanders shouted the order, and with their respective companies, they carried their skis down the mountain.
Dong Ku asked the rest of the group to return to camp, and he followed the figure behind him with his skis on his skis, quickly disappearing into the vast snow mist.
The sky was getting dark, and all the Japanese soldiers were huddled in the barracks except for those on duty, and they couldn't sleep on the hot kang, and they sat on the edge of the kang side, talking about the team attacking the barracks.
At this moment, the sound of the booming explosion resounded through the camp, the violent shaking shattered the glass of the barracks, the roof of the barracks sawdust splashed, and when the Japanese troops did not have time to react, the roof exposed the dark sky, and the snow fell with a hula la, burying the hot kang when those Japanese soldiers were hiding from the debris.
"Enemy attack!!"
The shouts of warning sounded one after another, and the Japanese soldiers rushed out of the barracks in a panic, and then all the searchlights were turned on, illuminating the snow within 500 meters around.
Guns poked out of their holes, and a human head popped out of the snow, muzzle shaking, looking for suspicious targets.
But their movements were in vain, and the surroundings were silent, except for the steaming heat from the large hole in the roof that had been blown out, nothing seemed to have changed.
After a tense search for half an hour, the Japanese found nothing, and the attack did not know where the road came from or what object it was, but it was obviously not a shell, and the power was not much greater than that of a grenade.
'Iwakoshi Hengichi' watched depressedly as the soldiers blocked the holes in the roof and covered the windows with broken glass with several layers of military blankets, the roots of his teeth itched with hatred, the other party bullied people too much, and they didn't confront each other head-on, how much effect could such harassment play?
In those barracks with destroyed roofs, the Japanese soldiers were busy, cleaning up the debris on the kang, blocking the roof, holding guns one by one, sitting on the edge of the kang without making a sound.
A few Japanese soldiers lit cigarettes in frustration, and the curling smoke drifted directly to the roof, as if there was a suction fan there.
The temperature in the house had already dropped to a low point, and it continued to drop even though the roof and windows were leaking, and it didn't take half an hour for the temperature in the house to drop below freezing.
The camp was silent, only the searchlights in the surrounding bunkers turned back and forth, revealing the cilia within a few hundred meters, not to mention people, even if a mouse crawled on the snow, it could not escape the eyes of the sentry.
At this moment, with a bang, a searchlight shattered, and the light disappeared immediately, and before the Japanese soldiers with the searchlight shouted, in the bang, the surrounding searchlights went out one after another, and in an instant, the camp fell into darkness.
Dada!
The sound of machine guns sprayed fire snakes at the mouth of the searchlight when the searchlight went out, and the thumping gunfire rang out chaotically. All the sentries fired their guns aimlessly, hoping that in the darkness the blind cat would meet the dead mouse and hit the enemy who approached.
As the light bulbs were replaced, the light returned to the camp. But the light didn't last a few seconds, and before he could see the situation in the distance, the searchlight went out again with a bang.
"Bastard!"
A Japanese soldier curled up in an ice bunker, cursing as he stared at the broken searchlight in the light of his flashlight.
The first time before, he only wore one hole, but this time he actually added three, and broke the lamp base, if he hadn't leaned sideways to hold the rocker of the searchlight, it is estimated that he would have been lying there at this time.
Pressing him and cursing, he replaced the base with his frozen and stiff hands, and the searchlights that had been replaced with bulbs did not dare to stay bright, and they quickly went out when they were lit, and then they were lit up again, and then they were extinguished again.
The lights of the dance party made the camp look like a stage. The flickering lights are beautiful from a distance.
But even so, the thud continued, and the searchlights were extinguished again. This time, the searchlight did not come on in time, not because the speed of replacing the bulb was slow, but because most of the bases were broken and could not be replaced.
At this time, the Japanese army was also ruthless, and several machine guns took turns to strafe at a position, and the sound of gunfire never stopped. The muzzle of the gun goes up and down, purely with the eyes closed and the trigger pulled.
During the shooting, the machine gunner in one of the bunkers leaned back, and the gunfire stopped, and the man fell to the ground with a pop.
Immediately afterwards, the machine guns in several places were silent, and in only a minute or two, all of them stopped firing.
The machine guns, whose muzzles were still hot, were righted by the secondary shooter, but no one dared to shoot again. The camp fell silent all of a sudden.
The Japanese army is both angry and frightened at this time, they are an elite division, and it is okay to dare to fight, but they can't even see the enemy, so who do they want to fight? And the bullets that couldn't be prevented made them even more afraid, and they didn't know when they would chase after those comrades who couldn't sleep for a long time.
The commanders at the command post were also vomiting blood in frustration, they had fought countless battles, but they had never felt so powerless as they do now. Even in the face of enemies several times their size, they will not hesitate to charge. But now, he has no place to use his strength, and he can't stop the opponent's attack by all means, and he can't grab the enemy's tail.
In the silence, Hijin nervously listened to the movements around him, clutching their respective weapons tightly in his hands, and raising his gun to shoot at the slightest movement.
Time ticked by, and the temperature slowly dropped. The hands of the Japanese soldiers clutching their weapons had stiffened, and they were unaware of it, still listening with their ears open.
Suddenly, a thumping sound came from two or three hundred meters away, and then the Japanese saw the fire.
"There it is!"
The Japanese soldiers shouted and raised their guns.
But after a long time of not moving, although the hand has not been frozen, the fingers are so stiff that it is difficult to bend.
A few scattered gunshots rang out, but the bullets did not know where they went, and then the booming explosions rang out one after another, and in the midst of the fire, clouds of snow and fog rose from behind the defensive line.
"Shoot!!"
The officer at the command post hissed.
The searchlight then lit up, and the Japanese soldier, who had moved his finger several times, also pulled the trigger.
But there was no one under the bright searchlights, and then the searchlights were blown one after another, and the camp fell into darkness again.
Without the light of the searchlight, the machine gunners stopped firing, and the soldiers also held their guns, not daring to pull the trigger again, for fear that the fire would attract bullets, and it would be too worthless to be shot before the enemy was hit.
The fiery bustle only lasted for a minute or two, and the surrounding world was quiet again.
I waited for more than an hour in a tense atmosphere, but there was still no movement around.
At this time, whether it was the sentry post squatting or the Japanese soldiers waiting in the open field, they were all cold.
And the Japanese troops in the house are no better, I don't know how much damage caused by explosives in the road, anyway, seven or eight barracks are no longer inhabitable. The houses either had their roofs blown out and could not be repaired, or their gables had collapsed and their windows shattered.
After observing the houses, a major general brazenly ordered that the timber of the barracks be removed and the soldiers moved to barracks where people could still live.
As a result, in the shaking of the flashlight, these houses were demolished, leaving only the four frames of the gables, and the doors and windows were all demolished.
The soldiers began to divide the barracks from one barrack to another, plugging up and thickening the newly blown holes. Barracks were full, and the stove pits were filled with firewood to keep the leaky rooms at a pitiful temperature.
The attack did not occur until ten o'clock. At this time, the severe cold reached more than 30 degrees, and the other party was carrying the stove on his back, and it was difficult to squat in the north wind at such a low temperature, and he had obviously evacuated.
The Japanese army arranged sentries every half an hour, and after several hours of nervousness, they returned to the barracks and slept in their clothes.
"Iwakoshi Tsuneichi" didn't sleep, his brows twisted into pimples in the room, he seemed to understand the other party's intentions, this was not just harassment, it was an attack with a strategic purpose. From arson burning firewood, to attacking soldiers who cut chimneys, to now staring at the camp like wolves, and only blowing up houses without fighting, the other side wants to eat themselves, and the way is to take advantage of the cold.
Although I thought of the other party's intentions, I had no way to deal with it at this time. The opponent does not show his head and cannot fight, and the gun used should be a sniper rifle according to the analysis of the special high class, and the shooting accuracy is far from being comparable to them. After all, Soviet Russia has produced sniper rifles with scopes since 31 years, and it is not new for Soviet Russian squads to have sniper rifles.
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