It was close to dawn, just when the Japanese army breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed their vigilance, and was thinking that they could take the opportunity to counterattack after dawn.

Several loud bangs, exploded in an area of the Japanese camp.

The devils around hurriedly went to investigate, but found that the artillery squad, that is, the only two infantry guns that accompanied the army, had been blown up.

Yamaguchi, the captain of the devil brigade, was furious and ordered to block the surrounding area of the camp and dig out the enemy who had sneaked up, but the whole camp was made to jump and no trace of the enemy was found.

Finally, the devils found some special metal fragments around the infantry artillery.

After speculation, the devil concluded: it's a time bomb!

All of a sudden, the entire Fourth Brigade camp was in the air, who would have thought that the methods of these Eighth Route Army would be so endless.

Even the time bomb was blown up.

What is even more terrifying is how the enemy, who planted time bombs around the infantry guns, managed to infiltrate the artillery squad station in silence?

The corpses of twelve devil soldiers, whose hearts had been pierced with precision with daggers, lay quietly on the cold ground.

No one can tell the little devil what really happened.

Under the turmoil of the army, Yamaguchi's headquarters did not seem to be safe, and Yamaguchi hurriedly ordered to strengthen vigilance and guard against the infiltration of small units of the Eighth Route Army.

……

"Deputy, the infantry artillery in this West Village has been touched, and I don't know what the situation is in Zhangjiazhuang."

Spark, the leader of the assault team of the independent regiment commando, was worried.

Deputy captain Ye Min smiled: "Don't worry, this kid is clever, it's no problem to have him lead the team." ”

It is true that all the way to Zhangjiazhuang, Mu Tou led another commando combat team and successfully touched the devil's artillery team.

The wonderful use of this time bomb was once again vividly brought into play by the night raid infiltration operation of the commandos.

In the words of the commandos:

The night belongs to our Eighth Route Army, and the moon belongs to our commando! Due to the moonlight, there is no place that our commandos can't reach, targets that can't penetrate, and operations that can't be completed......

……

The other side.

"Your Excellency Captain, at the Xiaohuanggou Pass, the Eighth Route Army has built a large number of concrete pillboxes, as well as machine gun fortifications everywhere, and the firepower is extremely fierce, only what we have observed, there are two heavy machine guns, more than a dozen light machine guns, plus grenadier fire."

"The front and both sides of the woods are all blocked by their fire."

"There is no doubt that the other party is the main combat force of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, their military uniforms are neatly aligned, and all they wear are combat military boots."

"There are not a few troops, at least two battalions of troops."

"Our unit launched an attack on an attempt, and the strength of the two squads was defeated in just a few minutes, and more than 80 people were killed, if it wasn't for the fast enough retreat, the two squads would have been there!"

Evacuated in embarrassment, Tsuda Ichiro, the leader of the Japanese squadron who returned to the brigade headquarters, calmed down and reported the situation to Captain Hirakawa.

Pingchuan, who listened to the report, frowned into Sichuan characters:

"Baga, what the hell is going on, aren't we facing a regiment of the Eighth Route Army? In the normal Eighth Route Army, there are only more than 1,000 troops in one regiment, and only 2 to 3,000 troops in the main combat regiment. ”

"Even if the strength of this independent regiment is larger, according to the intelligence, there are three to five thousand troops."

"The news from the direction of Yangquan that the troops who attacked the county town are all wearing military boots, and they should be the main combat force of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and there is nearly one main force of the regular regiment of the Eighth Route Army."

"At this moment, the two roads of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, as well as the troops of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, are blocking it."

"Right now, it's just a small yellow ditch, and this independent regiment actually directly deploys two battalions of troops?"

Hirakawa did not doubt Ichiro Tsuda's information.

In exchange for the information obtained from the lives of more than eighty imperial elites, if everything goes wrong, this Tsuda Ichiro can go to the disembowelment to apologize to the emperor.

"Suspend the offensive and make plans after I have reported the situation to His Excellency the Brigade Commander."

"Hey!"

The news soon reached the brigade command.

Yamaguchi Shube and Hideo Nakajima, who heard the news, were also suspicious.

The two of them immediately began to analyze the map of the surrounding area.

"Xiaohuanggou deploys two battalions of troops all the way, and it is the main combat force of the independent regiment wearing leather boots, so what about the other nodes? You must know that in the vicinity of our West Village, there are a total of nine nodes in total, and if so many troops are deployed in each place, even if there are two independent regiments, I am afraid it will not be enough. ”

Chief of Staff Hideo Nakajima said.

"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, in addition, there is also a news from Pingchuan, at these nodes, the Eighth Route Army has built a large number of concrete fortifications, the characteristics of this concrete we know, within a certain period of time, over time, the strength will continue to increase, once the strength reaches the highest point, we don't want to use artillery to easily blast away."

"Our artillery squad was raided, the infantry artillery was blown up, and eighty percent of the independent regiments were afraid that we would use infantry artillery to bombard their fortifications."

"Therefore, our follow-up offensive should not be delayed for too long."

Yamaguchi nodded, with a ruthless look on his face, and said, "What is this independent group calculating?" Do they have a large number of troops deployed at each node?

Just in the area of Xiaohuanggou, there were actually two battalions of troops, and we launched an attack at the same time to various nodes such as the small mountain pass in the north, the mountain road in the east, and the dirt road in the south.

I'd like to see if his independent regiment can really besiege us. ”

9 a.m.

The Japanese Army's independent 4th Mixed Brigade launched an attack on as many as four nodes around the West Village at the same time.

Each way of attacking the Japanese army, about a squadron of troops.

Yamaguchi, the captain of the devil brigade, even personally led a reinforced squadron and advanced south in the direction of the dirt road.

……

When the various units of the devils began to leave the camp, the sniper platoon leader Huang Baiyang and the deputy platoon commander Su Zhengqiang knew that the stage belonging to the sniper platoon had come.

Last night's perfect infiltration of the commandos, as well as the raid on the devil's artillery squad, taught the fighters of the sniper platoon a lesson.

The soldiers of the guard company in the platoon told Huang Baiyang that the assault team represented the highest level of infantry combat in small units of the independent regiment.

"Platoon commander, don't you know that those guys in the commando team have always been coaxed in front of other troops."

"The regiment commander is biased, and the equipment, ammunition, supplies, and food in the regiment are all coming to the commando first."

"As far as the rifle at hand is concerned, the four-four rifle rifle we have at hand is good, but you don't know, the commandos still have sniper rifles! The sniper rifle equipped with a quadruple scope can easily knock out the devil from a distance of 500 meters. ”

As soon as these words came out, Huang Baiyang and his entourage were all moved.

Sniper rifles!

Good stuff!

The soldier of the guard company continued: "But we can't be unconvinced, the commandos are powerful, armed to seize the cash flow of the enemy-occupied area, and attack the Japanese army at Mingbao Airport at night...... This pile is one by one, but it is a real and good record. ”

is carrying two shoulders and one head, Huang Baiyang naturally does not want to admit that the sniper platoon is not as good as the commando.

"In the past, the commando team was the best, that was because there was no sniper platoon, and in the future, with our sniper platoon, this limelight can't be robbed by his commando team!"

"This time, we can't let the commando team compare, we have to fight, and when the time comes, I can open my mouth to the regiment commander, let's get a few sniper rifles!"

The soldiers of the sniper platoon all nodded, and they were full of anticipation in high spirits.

After the sky brightened slightly, Huang Baiyang gathered the members of the sniper platoon, and said, "If the moon belongs to their commando team, then the sun belongs to our sniper platoon." ”

"The old rule, divide the combat team, snipe separately, and hit the target."

"Devil officers, artillerymen, machine gunners, shoot when they find an opportunity, observers cooperate with snipers, just say okay, prepare the evacuation route in advance, and the premise of shooting is to ensure your own safety."

"If you hit a shot, transfer immediately, we just want to make the devils feel that danger is everywhere, so that they are always on guard."

"Yes—"

The 10 sniper teams were immediately divided into two teams, one team and five sniper teams, which lurked in the mountains and forests around Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, waiting for an opportunity to strike at the target.

……

The commander of the Devil's Brigade, Yamaguchi Shubian, led the team to set off and advanced in the direction of the southbound dirt road.

Halfway through, the calm in the mountains and forests was broken by the sound of gunshots.

The bullets that flew from more than 300 meters away hit a staff officer next to him by the tree in the mountain pass, and the staff officer fell down in response, crying for his life.

The chief of staff, Hideo Nakajima, was bluffed and changed his face, and hurriedly shouted: "It's not good, there are snipers, protect the brigade commander!" ”

The devil guards hurriedly hugged the mountain pass behind them.

After determining the approximate location of the sniper, the devil used his grenadier to bombard the area for a while.

Huang Baiyang, who had already retreated in time, looked happy.

"Big fish, definitely big fish, I didn't expect to hit a small fish, it actually alarmed a big fish, Xiao Li, see it, as soon as the guns rang out, more than a dozen devils surrounded the old devil at that time."

"It's too far away, I can't see the devil's collar badge clearly, at least it's an adjutant, maybe it's still a middle adjutant, or even a big saddle!"

"Bring me the binoculars and see what kind of official he is."

After receiving the telescope, Huang Baiyang stared in the direction of the mountain pass.

It's just that the old devil was too tightly embraced, and Huang Baiyang waited for a while, and he couldn't see the rank on the mountain pass's collar badge.

On the mountain road.

Hideo Nakajima, chief of staff of the devil, said with a frightened face: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, it's too dangerous, I didn't expect there to be a lurking sniper of the Eighth Route Army here, no, it's too dangerous to go on like this." ”

"Right now, I don't know if the snipers lurking around here have been knocked out, and I don't know how many there are."

"I propose that an immediate order be given that all officers should remove their collar badges, not salute their superiors, not surround their commanders, and that sentries be kept guard by relying on their bunkers, and that they should not expose their bodies to cover for long periods of time."

The frightened Yamaguchi nodded, "That's it!" ”

Yamaguchi said, tearing off his epaulettes as soon as he could.

Huang Baiyang, who was looking through the binoculars, finally saw the mountain pass through the crowd, but found that the collar of the old devil was missing the collar.

"Holy shit, why did this old devil take off his collar badge?"

Xiao Li said: "Platoon commander, this devil is afraid of being attacked by us, and recognizes him as a senior official, so he took off his collar badge." ”

Huang Baiyang nodded and said, "This old devil, don't think that Lao Tzu won't recognize him if he takes off the collar badge." ”

"I've already written down the face of this old devil, Xiao Li, we'll change it in a while, I'll be your observer, you beat this old devil for me, if it's a devil official, you can make a great contribution."

"How about it, the platoon commander will give you this opportunity to make meritorious contributions."

"Hey, thank you platoon commander!" Xiao Li was almost overjoyed.

…… Bang –

One of the guards beside Yamaguchi fell in response.

Huang Baiyang saw that the devil immediately set up a grenadier, and hurriedly took Xiao Li to retreat, on the way, Xiao Li gasped in depression and said:

"Platoon commander, this ...... The devil's guards are so annoying that they keep in the way of the old devil...... Around, I was obviously aiming at that ...... just now The old devil hit him, but he was blocked by the devil guard again. ”

Huang Baiyang said: "Don't worry, as long as this old devil doesn't run, he can always find an opportunity." ”

On the mountain road, Yamaguchi was shocked and angry at the moment, and the sniper was still there.

The previous bullets were definitely aimed at him.

Hideo Nakajima had a headache and said: "Brigade commander, it seems that this enemy sniper in the dark is targeting you, and if you go further, I'm afraid there will be danger." ”

"Let the guards escort you back to headquarters!"

"Roar!" Yamaguchi nodded.

Then, the devil guards were vigilant all the way to Huang Baiyang and the others in the woods, escorted the mountain pass and Nakajima, quickly hid on the path on the back side of the mountain, and made a detour to return to the temporary headquarters.

"Holy shit, let this old devil run away."

Huang Baiyang felt a pity, and then put his anger on the remaining devils, "Xiao Li, don't be in a hurry to shoot, the devils are already eyeing our area, and the cannonballs will hit at any time." ”

"Wait patiently, and wait until the devil and the comrades on the southbound dirt road exchange fire, and then we will secretly attack."

"Yes!"

……

On the battlefield, the presence of snipers is undoubtedly terrifying, and when there are still quite a few such snipers, it is even more terrifying.

Just when Huang Baiyang and Xiao Li were eyeing the mountain pass, the other four sniper teams were not idle.

The teams that attacked the nodes in various places were attacked by the devils one after another.

After the observers locked on to the target, the soldiers of the sniper group often fired a shot and immediately retreated, and no matter how fierce the devil's artillery fire was, under the cover of the leafy mountains and forests, the shells did not have time to follow.

The comrades of the sniper team first picked on the devil officers to fight, and the devil officers fell into great bad luck because of this.

When the order of the Yamaguchi command to guard against sniper fire was issued, no salute was allowed to be given to the commander, and officers were not allowed to wear collar badges......

The news reached the troops, but it was only delayed for about ten minutes, and the devil's officers were killed by the sniper team one after another.

Among them, there are many devil squad leaders, and even squadron leaders.

The casualties reached the command, and Yamaguchi and Nakajima were silent for a long time.

Until 10 a.m.

News came from various nodes such as the small mountain pass in the north, the mountain road in the east, and the dirt road in the south, and the attacking troops encountered heavy fire from the Eighth Route Army, and all the attacks launched were repulsed, and the casualties of the troops were not small.

According to the information that came back, at each node there were at least two hundred or more people of the main combat force of the separate regiment.

He independently mixed into the Fourth Brigade and was completely besieged by the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army with the help of the fortifications of the node.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible, there are nine nodes around Xicun, each with at least two hundred main combat troops, and there are even two battalions of troops in Xiaohuanggou, where did his independent regiment come from so many soldiers?"

No one could tell Yamaguchi the answer, and the attacking forces were defeated again.

Yamaguchi, who finally panicked, originally wanted to ask the Ishii Wing for help, but ...... "Report to the chief, there is a message from the Ishii Wing Headquarters, requesting reinforcements from our department as soon as possible!" ”

Yamaguchi: "......"

Yamamoto, who finally realized that the battle situation had changed, did not dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly conveyed a message for help to the surrounding sweeping troops.

"The independent regiment is prepared, and the nodes are firmly held according to the danger, and continuing to attack will only increase casualties in vain, notify all troops to retreat to the unnamed mountain on the outskirts of Xicun Village, build fortifications on the spot, and wait for reinforcements!"

Unable to break the mountain pass defended by the independent regiment, the order to defend was reluctantly given......

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