After a fierce battle with the 1st Marine Regiment in Tokyo, hundreds of remnants of the Fujiwara detachment retreated all the way west under the leadership of his adjutant Kobayashi Shoichi Shosa.

On the way, they were attacked by air raids and had to go out day and night, and finally by the time they entered the mountains, there were only about 100 people left.

At that time, the formation of the army to defend the land was very hasty, and there were so many people around Tokyo who volunteered to fight against the Ming army, and the speed of news transmission was limited, and outsiders could not catch up for a while.

But as the remnants of the Resistance "moved inland", youth, veterans, and reservists spontaneously joined along the way, and soon the number increased to more than 400.

But in fact, most of the people are indifferent to the situation in their own country, some are confused, some are indifferent, and some are full of hope, and for the poor people who are struggling to make ends meet, the future of the Yamato people seems too far away from them.

There were many villages and towns along the way, and in the end, about 300 people volunteered to join, and there were some young people who were hot-headed and did not think deeply.

Because there were several soldiers and soldiers from the 4th Wing of the 2nd Brigade in this group, they found an ordnance warehouse on the outskirts of Hachioji City, to which they had once belonged.

After physically "persuading" the remaining personnel, they pried open the warehouse, from which they replenished a batch of rifles, light machine guns, grenades, grenades and a large number of bullets.

This was the main reason why they were being pursued by the Ming army - the remaining personnel immediately reported to the Ming army stationed in Hachioji City, and the Ming army aircraft immediately conducted regular patrols of the area.

In order to boost morale and prove the significance of this team's existence, Kobayashi Shoichi decided to lead his troops to ambush the Ming army who came to reconnoitre.

The search detachment, numbering only fifty men, was formed from a platoon of the reconnaissance team of the 20th Regiment of the 7th Division, reinforced with mortars and heavy machine guns.

Under the cover of night, he quietly touched the close range of less than 100 meters and then suddenly launched a surprise attack, and wiped out this Ming army with a white-bladed charge that occupied a numerical advantage, which was Kobayashi Shoichi's plan.

Simple, but it works.

"Enemy Attack !!"

"Grass! Hit the flares! ”

"Machine guns? What about machine guns! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

In addition to the more than 200 people who directly launched a white-knuckle charge, some of the sudden enemy troops fired guns and grenades from a little farther away.

Even though it is in a rough mountain, the distance of 100 meters is only 20 or 30 seconds at most.

Most of the Ming soldiers had just fallen asleep, and according to the regulations, their weapons were not to be left when camping in areas where there was an enemy situation, so many of them grabbed the rifles next to them and got out of the tents after waking up.

"Bang! Bang! ”

"Dada-da-"

"Whoa—"

The flare fired by the flare gun was of limited brightness, and with the help of a brief and weak light, the soldiers were horrified to find a dense crowd of figures in the left, center, and right directions.

"Long live!"

"Don't stop! Kill them! ”

The hysterical roars of the enemy, the sound of bullets whistling through the wind, and the rumble of gun grenade explosions, the small camp within a radius of tens of meters was swept away by the flames of war in an instant.

"Don't mess with yourself! Machine gun! Defend the machine gun! ”

Even with the muzzle flame suppressor, the tongue of fire from the Type 33 light machine gun was still a punch long, and the hot shell casings flew out of the shell throwing window and rolled down to the muddy ground.

A tall machine gunner from Rizhao County, who arrived from the diagonal rear, woke up and rushed over with a light machine gun.

The situation is so urgent, it's too late to lie down and unfold the bipod slowly! He directly clamped the light machine gun, which weighed twenty-three pounds in battle, to his waist and pulled the trigger.

In the sound of "da-da-da" gunfire, from left to right and from right to left, two fan strafing directly knocked down five or six Japanese.

The 7.36×56mm step machine bullet containing more than 3,000 joules of kinetic energy is a standard lead-core all-metal armor bullet, even if the shape of the pointed step bullet cannot fully release the kinetic energy at close range, but after all, the denominator is large enough, even if only a few percent are transmitted to the human body, the large number of hundreds of joules is enough to cause human beings to be incapacitated on the spot.

The Resistance soldier who was hit took advantage of his inertia to rush forward a few more steps, and then fell to the ground, and the Meiji 41 rifle with a bayonet also fell to the ground, and his body struggled and convulsed, but soon went into shock from massive blood loss in a short period of time.

The confusion of the Ming search detachment lasted only a short time, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were keenly aware that the enemy forces, although menacing, were poorly organized—with no hierarchy, sparse firepower, and scattered formations.

The well-trained and quick-reacting Ming soldiers knelt or lay on their stomachs, leaning on the trunks, depressions, and large rocks around them, and opened heavy fire on the invading enemy.

"Quick! Initiation! ”

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Directional mines, which have not yet been put into mass production, shine in the special military operation to pacify the Japanese state, and when defending their own strongholds and positions, this inconspicuous "iron box" is truly extraordinarily powerful.

Several preset directional mines are intersected at this location, so that the sector kill area overlaps slightly, ensuring the maximum kill range and increasing the power.

Thousands of short steel rods gushed out, and prefabricated fragments as dense as hail came to the face!

At this moment, a whole row, about 20 people, was knocked down by the same brush. In the midst of the terrible and high-pitched screams, some people fell forward, others fell backwards.

In the other corner of the camp, more than a dozen enemy troops rushed into the battle line, and the bayonets covered in mud gave a different kind of intimidation.

"Click-"

"Bang! Bang! ”

Two of the Ming soldiers here were shooting with submachine guns, and the others didn't have time to put on their bayonets, so they threw away their rifles and met them with sapper shovels and pickaxes; A medicdic also drew his pistol and opened fire with one gun in one hand.

The speed and cruelty of close-quarters combat is beyond imagination, the fight between you and me in film and television dramas is really child's play, and hand-to-hand combat is almost life-threatening and ferocious.

"Brethren! Fuck it! ”

Amid the shouts and shouts in both languages, bayonets stabbed and shovels waved, blood spilled everywhere!

Being stabbed into the abdomen with a sharp bayonet, internal bleeding caused by kidney and liver damage can kill a person in a short time; The sharp side of the sapper shovel can cut the pork ribs, and the effect of chopping the human body can be imagined.

Under the swift and stubborn defense of the Ming army, this terrible night attack, which is quite characteristic of Japan, was quickly dismantled.

Dozens of corpses of Resistance fighters lay strewn across the rugged ground in the mountains, and Kobayashi Shoichi was wounded in the left side by a stray bullet.

There is no doubt that Kobayashi Shoichi was overconfident in his own military superiority, and he overlooked a very important matter.

Throughout the ages, the reconnaissance units of any army have without exception been the most well-trained and the most powerful in combat, and the officers and men who can be selected for the reconnaissance units are not ordinary people.

In ancient times, the Ming army's night guards, detective troops, and sharp posts were all brave and resourceful elites, who often went deep into the enemy border for several months to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and their courage was extraordinary.

Now, the reconnaissance team attached to the 20th Infantry Regiment is the most elite combat detachment of the regiment's 3,000 people—most of the members are selected from veterans; Each year, when a recruit joins the army, the best or smartest of them are also prioritized as scouts.

But every infantry unit at the grassroots level will also "grab people" - there are only a few good seedlings, if all of them are snatched away by the reconnaissance team, won't the recruits who replenish the progressive corps be mediocre guys?

Now, after the sudden night attack was dismantled, the failure of this ambush had actually been declared.

Dozens of men from the Ming army's search detachment pulled the battle line apart and formed a circular position, with the prototype Type 37 heavy machine gun deployed on the right flank, and mortars and wounded soldiers in the center.

The long-stroke piston in the air duct moves back and forth, the metal chain is pulled into the receiver by the automaton, the empty shell is thrown out of the shell window by the shell hook, and the bullet is pushed and pulled into the load and fired!

Under the control of the machine gunner, the heavy machine gun rains fire in long points to a range of 120 degrees diagonally in front of it, and the strings of machine gun bullets are mixed with tracer bullets as if they were spears thrown by the Grim Reaper.

The 80mm personnel anti-personnel projectile flew out of the muzzle of the Type 28 mortar, and fell down in a steep parabola with a large absolute value of the quadratic term coefficient, and exploded with a bang!

The 64 diamond-shaped prefabricated fragments of personnel personnel munitions were sprinkled around its explosion point with dense fragments, and the body of the projectile made of cast iron itself was fragile into small fragments, and with the diamond-shaped prefabricated fragments, the defeated and retreating Japanese fell in the blink of an eye.

The five Lewis light machine guns used by the Resistance were completely unable to compete with the four Type 33 light machine guns and one Type 37 heavy machine gun of the Ming search detachment, whose majestic fire was like a waterfall washing through it.

In the face of automatic firepower, the numerical superiority will undoubtedly be largely neutralized, as evidenced by the tens of thousands of bones of British officers and soldiers along the Somme.

The falling mortar shells kicked up the dirt and severed limbs, and the resistance troops who retreated to the periphery suffered huge casualties, whether they were strong or weak in firepower or good in training.

The close exchange of fire at the beginning of the battle actually gave the Ming army a lot of casualties, especially the explosion of grenades and grenades killed and injured at least ten people, but after the sudden night attack was disintegrated, the unexpected advantage was gone, and the situation gradually turned to the downside.

Although only more than 30 people were still able to persist in the battle, this small Ming army was as stubborn and tenacious as a fire hedgehog.

Flares are constantly rising into the air, illuminating the surroundings.

Kobayashi tried to launch a roundabout attack, but was detected by the Ming army, and the roundabout group of dozens of people retreated in confusion after being subjected to heavy machine-gun fire and grenade fire.

Neither side was willing to give up, and they continued to fire at each other, but the intensity of the exchange of fire has been greatly reduced. The resistance continued to insist on the encirclement, and the Ming army sent a few men to the dead Japanese to collect weapons and ammunition in case of emergency.

In this way, the confrontation was inextricable until dawn, and the two Ming Air Force Type 36 fighters on routine patrol discovered the signal flare launched from the ground, so they sensed the engagement here and lowered their altitude to prepare for support.

"Defeated, it's time to retreat." Xiao Lin Zhengyi gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice.

In addition to being uneasy, he felt a deep powerlessness.

With more fights and fewer fights, or a night surprise attack that occupies a favorable location, in the end, even these dozens of Ming troops can't be annihilated? but there were as many as 70 or 80 casualties.

With most of the ammunition consumed and heavy casualties, the search team was naturally unable to continue its mission and returned to its starting point.

The next day, in the morning.

The news that the Resistance forces operating in Yamanashi Prefecture had ambushed the search detachment soon spread throughout the Ming Army stationed in Japan.

In the past month, there have been frequent attacks by opponents on the Celestial Empire's royal divisions, but this is the first time that the Resistance has acted in such a "flamboyant" manner after the defeat of the initial large-scale, organized defense of Tonkin Bay.

The 20th Regiment reported: "...... The officers and men of this detachment bravely responded to the battle, and although they were attacked in a hurry, they were not afraid of danger, and they were almost caught in battle. There are hundreds of enemies, about 500, and there are also 1,000 people. Hold on for a long time, kill countless enemies, the sky is light, the plane comes to help, the enemy retreats, after investigation, there are hundreds of corpses......

Because the Kwantung region and its surroundings were under the responsibility of the Second Army, Nie Quan summoned the main generals of each department to come to the General Army for a meeting.

As we all know, if you dream when you sleep at night, the quality of sleep is significantly lower than that of no dream, and Zhou Changfeng had a very outrageous dream last night - he became a student, Xia Xiaoshi became a teacher, and she was whipped by her with a ring ruler.

So, I still feel a little sleepy when I get up this morning, and I don't feel like waking up refreshed after a dreamless night.

After swaying around in an off-road vehicle for a quarter of an hour, it can be regarded as a bump in the body to sober up, when you can distinguish the banner of "Admiral/Second Army/Major General/Chief Officer" hanging vertically.

Although the noun has changed, the naming rules of the official titles of the Ming Dynasty are still as clear and easy to understand as ever, "Admiral of the Second Army" is the affairs of the dispatch, "Major General" is the military rank, corresponding to the official rank in ancient times, and "Chief Military Officer" is the official position.

The staff officer of the General Command Department briefed everyone present about what had happened last night, but everyone was obviously unimpressed.

The commander of the Fourth Division said casually: "This battle report has moisture, how can there be thousands of people?" The fighting spirit of the Japanese army is not bad, and they are not natives with sticks, so it is impossible that dozens of people will not be able to eat them with more fights and fewer ambushes, and I estimate that the enemy army is only two or three hundred. ”

"It's hard to recognize at night, so it's not uncommon to recognize more." said the chief of staff of the 7th Division.

"It's just a straggler, don't be afraid, continue to organize a cleanup." The commander of the Seventh Division looked at the map and added: "This is like suppressing bandits in the past, it shouldn't be difficult." ”

"I'm talking nonsense again, how can this place be comparable in China?" Nie Quan glared at him, "The country can mobilize tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to besiege the outer line, where did you get so many troops here?" Do you think the slippery loaches are easy to catch? ”

When he said this, the generals present were silent.

Zhou Changfeng felt that the resistance commander who planned this ambush was overconfident, and misassessed the gap in combat strength between the two sides, and finally the bamboo basket was empty.

In this case, priority should be given to ambushing weaker baggage units, and doing everything possible to avoid engaging infantry units. As for the elite search units? It is an existence that cannot be touched, and can be avoided as far as it can.

And the difficulty of clearing and suppressing that Nie Quan said is helpless, after all, it is not local.

So, that's when special forces come into play.

So Zhou Changfeng suddenly asked, "Hmm... Do you know that there is such a unit as 'Yiluan Division'? ”

(End of chapter)