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    Yang Zhen has always been puzzled as to why these Japanese and puppet troops are always circling outside the mountain one after another. Looking at the mountainous area just around the corner, the reason why they don't go in is very simple.  Yang Zhen's stunning shot shocked not only Dong Ping, but also the top commander of the Japanese and puppet army. In the words of later generations, Kitano Takatsu was usually awesome but was impotent at critical moments.  Major.

    When Yang Zhen shot the 38-type bullet shell that killed Yamada, Kitano Takatsu hesitated for a long time before sending search personnel to retrieve it from the position where he shot and then brought it to him.  The major, who had been lying on the ground for more than half an hour, almost stopped being frightened.

    He is a bit arrogant, but that doesn't mean he is a fool.  Kitano Takatsu naturally knew what it meant to shoot accurately from 200 meters away at night and kill the target with one shot.

    Since the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements in the mountains are equipped with a full set of captured Japanese equipment, they should not have high-end equipment such as sniper rifles.  Because as far as Kitano Takatsu knows, in the Japanese army, where soldiers are generally good at marksmanship and can even reach the standard of sharpshooters and can account for 30 to 40% of the rifleman establishment, there are only a handful of regular field divisions with a small number of specialized soldiers.  Sniper.

    ¡°And most of these snipers use ordinary 38-type rifles. Special sniper rifles like those in European and American countries are not equipped at all.  Even the Type 97 sniper rifle specially developed for the China battlefield, although the design was completed as early as 37 years ago, mass production has not started, and only a small amount of production has been distributed to the China battlefield.

    Equipping a rifle with a scope is too luxurious for the Japanese army.  Moreover, with the stable ballistics of the Type 38 rifle and the excellent ballistic performance of the Type 38 Tomosaka rifle, equipping it with a special scope is also suspected of being a waste.  Therefore, Kitano Takatsu simply did not believe whether his opponent had a specialized sniper rifle.

    Since it is not a dedicated sniper rifle, what is the marksmanship of this shooter?  Thinking of this, Kitano Takatsu felt terrified.  You know, even if you have a special sniper rifle, shooting so accurately from a distance of 200 meters at night without any lighting is not something that ordinary snipers can do.  Major Kitano was certain that when the gunshot was fired, he did not find any suspicious light around him.

    Major Kitano Takatsu stubbornly believed that Yamada Kaikai¡¯s death should be an accident.  This shot should definitely be aimed at himself, not that Captain Yamada.

    Because he is the only person in this team wearing a high-ranking officer's coat that only generals and above can wear in the Japanese army, he is naturally the first target for snipers.  And the reason why he was able to escape was because he was in a good position.  Yamada's opening blocked most of his body.

    As for the unlucky Yamada who opened his mouth, it was just a moment of luck that made him a scapegoat.  Otherwise, as a captain, he would not be qualified to greet such a sharpshooter in his turn.

    When he thought about the threat of this ubiquitous sharpshooter after entering the mountain, Kitano Takatsu felt a chill on his neck.  Because as the supreme commander of the entire army, he would undoubtedly be the first target of this sharpshooter.

    No, I am the second son of the second largest banking consortium in Osaka, and I have a huge fortune waiting for me to inherit from the huge loans made by the government and various arsenals that rushed to produce during the war against China.  I can't die in the wild mountains of northern Manchuria without knowing why.

    After Kitano Takatsu figured it out, he immediately took off his well-made general's coat and asked the guard to find him a bulky cotton coat worn by ordinary non-commissioned officers.  Then they shrank all the troops together as quickly as possible, and the cordon was only extended for fifty meters.  He used all his subordinates to build himself a big human shield.

    In addition to urging the mortar squadrons behind to catch up and gather all the troops around him, in order to protect his own absolute safety, Major Kitano also organized most of the light and heavy machine guns into several on-duty firepower  group.  As soon as there was any sign of trouble, they would fire violently.  As for what he could hit, that was not his concern.

    If it weren't for the fear of punishment from his superiors, who really didn't dare to drop the officer's command knife in his hand, I'm afraid Kitano Takatsu, who almost wet his pants after being frightened by Yang Zhen's shot, would have taken off all the signs that he was an officer on his body.  .

    ¡°And if it hadn¡¯t been for the heavy weight, which he could not lift with his body emptied by alcohol and sex, Kitano, who was so frightened, he would have almost put the cooking pot on his head to protect his own safety.  No matter what, Kitano Takatsu made up his mind that he would never enter the mountain until the mortar squadron that could provide sufficient fire cover arrived.

    Kitano TakatsuIf he is in a hurry to enter the mountain, his subordinates who have similar thoughts to him will naturally be less anxious.  The masters are not in a hurry, and the puppet Manchukuo troops who are fighting together and being used as coolies will naturally not be in a hurry either.  If you don't go into the mountains, it's just a good time to rest. Carrying these heavy supplies and ammunition these days, and being forced to clear thousands of meters of snow, are exhausting your body.

    Yang Zhen didn¡¯t know that Kitano Gaojin was frightened by his shot. He was afraid that he would find an opportunity to shoot him again in a decent way, so he didn¡¯t dare to go into the mountain.  But Yang Zhen had already seen that the Japanese who huddled up in a ball were just right to take advantage of the firepower of the artillery that he had brought out from the secret camp with great effort.

    After arriving near the Japanese military station outside Guaipou Mizoguchi, Yang Zhen looked at his watch and saw that there were exactly three hours left before dawn.

    After carefully looking at the Japanese army's position, which was huddled together and the light and heavy machine guns in the position fired blindly from time to time, trying to alert the enemy and drive away the anti-Japanese elements who might be hiding around him, Yang Zhen waved his hand and led the team to execute  Wang Guangyu, who was on a lurking mission in front of the enemy, knowingly led three companies wearing cotton-padded coats backwards and crawled cautiously toward the Japanese camp.

    Watching the backs of the lurking troops walking into the thick pre-dawn night one by one, instead of only caring about whether there might be a deadly killer ambushed in the bushes on the edge of the mountain 200 meters away, the focus of the fire reconnaissance was on  Yang Zhen was even more worried about the fact that in the severe cold of minus 40 degrees, at least under the enemy's nose, he was obviously taking the firepower on duty at the Japanese position right under his nose.  Can the lurking troops down there persist for more than two hours as per their own requirements?

    Although the temperature in the mountains of northern Manchuria is extremely low, during the day, as long as there is no wind, the temperature is between 38-9 and 40 degrees. As long as people do not stay in one state for a long time, as long as they get up from time to time  Activities, it¡¯s not too cold.

    But at night, especially in the cold weather of the day, especially in the coldest morning of the day, Yang Zhen didn't have much confidence that the troops could hold on motionless for two hours under the enemy's nose.  The weather is so cold that no matter how much you wear, the north wind will make you feel cold all over your body.  After two hours of lurking, Yang Zhen really didn't know whether the troops could avoid being frozen.

    Although before departure, Yang Zhen found a way to cut all the ginger stored in the army into slices and gave a piece to the lurking troops so that when the body was too cold, he could take a small bite to ward off the cold.

    But after all, the troops have been training in the secret camp for nearly three months and have not received supplies from the outside. The amount of ginger obtained in Weihe County was limited, and each person could only give out a little.  It can be said to be a bit cruel in Yang Zhen's opinion to let the troops rely on only such a small amount of ginger to persist for more than two hours under the eyes of the enemy.

    But the reason why Yang Zhen chose to launch the attack at six o'clock was also a helpless move.  In the mountainous areas of northern Manchuria in winter, the sky just starts to light up at 6 o'clock in the morning. Although the visibility is still a bit insufficient, it is still much better than the total darkness at night.

    I don¡¯t have flares myself, and in this era there are no infrared, starlight and other night vision devices.  If you use a flashlight and hold a torch to fight the Japanese army at night, with the marksmanship of Japanese veterans, you will die too slowly.

    What's more, when there is only a single and simple identification method such as wrapping a white towel around the arm, and the military uniforms of both sides are almost identical, nighttime melees can easily cause large-scale accidental injuries.

    So Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time and set the start time of the battle at six o'clock in the morning.  It's just dawn at this time, so visibility should be enough.  If you launch an attack at this time, the chance of accidental injury is much smaller than in a night battle.

    Looking at the pitch-black wilderness except for the bonfires lit in the Japanese camp, Yang Zhen sighed slightly in his heart and called Liu Changshun over.  Worry is nothing but worry, but the plan needs to continue to be implemented.  Now that you've started taking action, there's no turning back.

    After Liu Changshun received the order and rushed over, Yang Zhen pointed at the Japanese camp and said: "You take your two heavy machine guns and set off immediately to the back of the Japanese camp. It is about a hundred meters away from the Japanese camp.  There is a bush there, and when you arrive, you will hide there and wait.¡±

    "Twenty minutes after Deputy Chief of Staff Wang launches the attack, you launch the attack from the rear of the Japanese army. Remember, after launching the attack, you have to penetrate the core of the Japanese army's position like a sharp knife."

    "I will give you a flare gun. After you capture the core position of the Japs, fire three red flares, and I will attack across the board. And if you want to be like a nail, nail it firmly to the core of the Japs.  On the ground."

    After giving the order, Yang Zhen looked solemn.He looked at Liu Changshun and said: "When you launch an attack, there will be no fire cover. All the artillery fire of the main force will hit the Japanese front-line defense and cover Deputy Chief of Staff Wang."

    "In other words, you have to get as close as possible to the enemy. As long as the enemy doesn't notice you and doesn't shoot first, don't shoot. But once you shoot, don't have any scruples. If Deputy Chief of Staff Wang's offensive is blocked,  Zhi, your actions behind the Japanese will be the most fatal blow to the Japanese and puppet troops. Do you understand what I mean?"

    "Understood, I will execute it immediately. Please rest assured, captain, I will definitely get as close as possible to the enemy before launching an attack. As long as I capture the core position of the Japanese, I will nail it as firmly as a nail on the core position of the Japanese." Yang Zhen confessed  Liu Changshun repeated the words almost verbatim.

    After repeating the order, Liu Changshun saluted Yang Zhen and then gathered his troops and set off.  Looking at Liu Changshun's back, which looked hazy in the night, Yang Zhen was silent for a moment, then raised his binoculars to carefully observe the situation of the latent troops approaching the Japanese and puppet army camp.

    Although in the thick darkness, without any lighting means, and it is impossible to adopt any lighting method, even if the observation point chosen by Yang Zhen is the Japanese camp where he killed Captain Yamada, it is only two meters away.  Among the 100 meters of bushes, he couldn't clearly see the movements of the lurking troops.

    ¡°However, although he could not clearly see the movements of the troops, the impact points of bullets fired from the light and heavy machine guns serving as security guards in the Japanese and puppet camps could clearly tell him whether the actions of the latent troops had been exposed.

    The period from approaching the Japanese and puppet camp to launching the attack has almost become the most difficult hours for Yang Zhen since he returned to this era.

    Even half an hour after the latent troops set off, Yang Zhen was still worried when he received a report from the correspondent sent back that the latent troops had successfully approached the best lurking position less than 100 meters away from the Japanese camp.  Let it go a little bit.  But next, under the enemy's nose, in the ice and snow, whether the troops can hold on for two hours is still Yang Zhen's biggest worry.

    With the exception of artillery, the other firepower, troop skills and tactics, and even the number of people did not have an advantage compared to the Japanese and puppet troops in front of them, Yang Zhen did not want to fight a tough battle.  Because even if such a battle is won, successfully defeating the Japanese and puppet troops in front of him will not be worth the loss for himself.

    Because the price of such a battle is something Yang Zhen simply cannot bear now.  Although he had a certain degree of confidence in his nearly three months of training, Yang Zhen was still feeling uneasy and a little unsettled.

    Fortunately, these three months of training were not in vain. Within nearly two hours, in the severe cold of more than 40 degrees below zero, through the good discipline and physical fitness gained from these three months of hard work in the secret camp,  , the lurking troops did not move at all, and did not make any sound.

    Watching the time on the watch getting closer to the scheduled time, Yang Zhen felt like his days were like a year, and his heart almost rose to his throat and slowly began to drop.  The lurking troops in front did not disappoint him. Within two hours, under the noses of the Japanese and puppet troops, the Japanese and puppet troops who were close at hand did not feel any abnormality.

    When the scheduled attack launch time, six o'clock in the morning, finally arrived, when Xiao Huzi, who had been following Yang Zhen, heard "start" from Yang Zhen, who had been observing with a telescope, after these two heavy words  , he had already raised a large flare gun in his hand and fired two red flares into the sky that had just begun to light up.  This was the signal for the bombardment to begin.

    Qiu Jintang, who was lying in ambush at the preset artillery position less than 300 meters behind Yang Zhen, saw the two red flares rising into the sky and gave the order to fire without any hesitation.  As Qiu Jintang's voice fell, the artillery company behind him, which had been prepared for a long time, had no time to move its almost frozen hands and feet, so it quickly filled the cannon barrel with the shells in its hands.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????With the unique whooshing sound of the shells when the mortars are fired from the artillery position, one after another 90mm mortar shells made in Japan hit their original owners hard.

    Since the artillery position was no more than one thousand meters away from the set target in a straight line, and Yang Zhen had an extremely accurate shooting calibration in hand, the first batch of mortar shells were fired accurately without any correction.  It fell in the camp of the Japanese and puppet troops and blew up the Japanese and puppet troops who had just woken up.

    Unlike his subordinates who were covered by artillery fire as soon as they got up and were completely unprepared, they suffered heavy casualties.  When the shelling started, he was still sleeping. It was not until the shell exploded that he was blown out of bed. Fortunately, Kitano escaped the first round of shelling. After hearing the dense rain of mortar shells falling on his head,  , No. ?The first reaction was not whether there were anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements sneaking up on them, but whether the neighboring troops took the wrong medicine and mistook themselves for the bandits who wanted to be exterminated.

    In Major Kitano¡¯s impression, no resistance force has ever had such powerful firepower.  Although before setting off, he had already received instructions from the Fourth Division headquarters about the targets he planned to destroy. Because a Kwantung Army military train transporting arms was attacked in Weihe County, some of the artillery carried on the vehicle were likely to fall into the vehicle.  In the hands of the Ministry, the enemy's situation notice is required to be paid more attention to by the troops entering the mountain to clear out the enemy.

    But Major Kitano didn¡¯t take this notice of enemy status seriously.  Because in his view, who despises all Chinese armed forces to the extreme, operating artillery, even mortars, is a difficult job.  The poorly equipped Chinese people would not be able to use these powerful weapons even if they captured them.

    Even if you use some occasionally, there won¡¯t be that many.  The mortars that hit him on the head were enough to constitute a squadron even according to the Japanese army's organization.  Those bandit armed forces that have no arsenal and rely on fighting against the Manchukuo Army or the Imperial Army for all their supplies, where can they get so many artillery and artillery shells?

    Although during the suppression of the Xiajiang area, a large number of suppression troops were more or less exposed to the mortar shells of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  But for those who claim to be a division or even an army, it is already very good to have a mortar.  Will there be as many there as there are now?

    Another important reason why Kitano Major believed that the mortar shell that fell on his head was a misfire was that he knew that the Japanese troops on the southern route from Lao'emu Town had already reached the Pipa Dingzi line.  The straight-line distance from his location is only a few dozen miles.  According to the predetermined plan, this force will eventually get closer to him at the Alzhan West Ditch.

    From the perspective of Major Kitano, who did not believe that his opponent would have so many artillery and mortars, the mortar shells falling on his head were probably the friendly forces moving closer to him.  At that time, he regarded himself as the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed forces who were about to be wiped out by him.

    But when Major Kitano, who took it for granted that the mortar shells that fell on his head were accidentally fired by friendly forces, ordered his subordinates to hang up a large plaster flag for identification, the density of the shells that fell on his head was not only  When it didn't decrease, but actually increased a lot, I realized how wrong I was.
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