Chapter 0255: Surprise attack on the tower
I don’t know how Li Yunlong fooled Zhao Gang. On the afternoon of the second day after the general was sent to the brigade headquarters, Li Yunlong quietly left Yangcun with a platoon of soldiers.
The target was a Japanese artillery tower located in Jiejiazhuang 20 miles east of Linshui Town. According to Li Yunlong, he looked at this artillery tower because when he came with 200 sets of military uniforms some time ago, the Japanese artillery tower in Jiejiazhuang actually dared to shoot at him Li Yunlong. A small stone splashed from the bullet floated past his eyes, which made him very uncomfortable.
On the way to the artillery tower, Li Yunlong said: "I, Li Yunlong, don't promote the saying that a gentleman takes revenge for ten years. If the Japanese devils dare to make me uncomfortable, I will have to fight back soon!"
Zheng Yingqi looked at his regiment commander suspiciously. Why did he think that Li Yunlong had a crush on the ammunition supply in the Japanese artillery tower?
This kind of artillery tower located in a non-transportation road usually has a Japanese squad. According to the Japanese configuration, it is a four-person machine gun team with eight riflesmen holding 38 major covers. However, the ammunition in the artillery tower is quite rich, usually about 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Even if it is a little less, it will be 1,500 rounds.
I just shot the target the day before yesterday, and the entire set consumed 2,000 bullets. Zheng Yingqi thought that it must be because his own team leader felt distressed and wanted to make up for it.
The team marched urgently and set off in the afternoon. At around 9 o'clock in the evening, they arrived less than four miles from the artillery tower.
The artillery tower was built in an open place more than 400 meters away from the entrance of the village. The height of ten meters allowed the Japanese to look down from a high place, controlling the surrounding area of hundreds of meters. The entire artillery tower was covered with 15 small shooting holes and six slightly larger gun holes. At this time at night, the Japanese arrogantly lit the lights, and they were hooking up with people to attack it like a lighthouse across a kilometer!
Li Yunlong signaled the troops to stop and asked the squad leader and the platoon leader to go over and investigate first. After the investigation was completed for more than an hour, Li Yunlong called out the second platoon leader, the three squad leader and Zheng Yingqi, saying: "There is a strengthened squad of Japanese troops stationed in this Japanese artillery tower. Tell me, how can we take it down?"
The Japanese strengthening squad was to add a three-person grenade launcher team based on the ordinary squad. The grenade launcher is similar to a small mortar, but is particularly light, and the grenade launched can be hit by a curve to a distance of nearly 200 meters.
The 2nd platoon leader thought, "The terrain on the east side of the artillery tower is slightly higher, and Zheng Yingqi's shooting skills are accurate, so we can suppress it there. We attack from the east."
The three squad leaders all had similar meanings, and Li Yunlong looked at Zheng Yingqi again, hoping that Zheng Yingqi could give a different answer.
Zheng Yingqi said: "I can find a way to touch it. As long as I go in, the battle will be easily solved."
"Bah!" Li Yunlong spat Zheng Yingqi and cursed in a low voice: "I thought you were saved, but I didn't expect you were just a reckless man! Do you think you were Zhao Zilong, what do you think of them as fifteen Japanese devils?"
Li Yunlong has never underestimated the Japanese, whether it was during or now, whether he led troops to fight with Japanese soldiers, the best time was the casualties one to one. Then it was the New Yi regiment who ambushed the Japanese team with a battalion and fought for three hours!
"Boy, do you really think the Japanese are made of mud? Within two or three hundred meters, the Japanese's hit rate is amazing. If our beheadings cannot catch up, they cannot catch up. You can beat three Japanese, five? What about ten?"
After Li Yunlong gave Zheng Yingqi a lesson, he taught the second platoon leader and three squad leader a lesson: "I will take you to fight the artillery tower in the dark, you guys are all thinking that we have a Zheng Yingqi during the day. Do you think the Japanese are made of mud?"
Obviously, Li Yunlong was very dissatisfied with his subordinates’ simple combat ideas. Fighting artillery towers is a technical job, not a pile of life. If you use your life to pile up, is one platoon enough? Take one platoon and lose one platoon, which is even a big fucking artillery tower!
Zheng Yingqi could understand Li Yunlong's idea, but he insisted on his opinion on this point and felt that letting him attack the most cost-effective.
He insisted: "Captain, give me two pistols and three grenades, and I will issue a military order and I will definitely be able to take down the artillery tower!"
Li Yunlong frowned and said fiercely: "Do you really think you are Zhao Zilong in Changshan?"
The 4th class leader Sun Dazhu hurriedly said: "Zheng Yingqi, stop making trouble."
Zheng Yingqi looked at Li Yunlong sincerely and said, "Captain, what I am telling the truth."
"Okay, I'll see how you play the game today. The second platoon leader, give him the box gun." Li Yunlong gave his wrench gun and the second platoon leader's wrench gun together, gave him the only four magazines, and signaled his guard to give the grenade to Zheng Yingqi.
The grenades his guards were seized from the Japanese, not the kind of grenades made by the border arsenal. The grenades made in the border area will only explode into a limited number of pieces after they explode. The lethality is far less powerful than the Japanese grenades.
"Captain, I will sneak in. I expect to launch a sneak attack at five or six o'clock. Don't alert the snake before there is no movement."
After Zheng Yingqi finished speaking, he quickly melted into the darkness. Li Yunlong had a black face, and didn't know whether he agreed to Zheng Yingqi's adventure was right or wrong. Seeing the second platoon leader and three squad leader looking at him with a gaze, Li Yunlong said angrily: "Look at what I'm doing? Order the troops to prepare and find a few soldiers with good marksmanship to sneak around the artillery tower. If that kid is discovered, he will cover him and withdraw!"
After his subordinates dispersed to make arrangements, Li Yunlong took off his hat in anger and cursed, "I, Li Yunlong, have a lot of brain today!"
The guard hid aside without saying a word, cursing this guy Zheng Yingqi in his heart, thinking that he must find the right position when he goes back (don't touch this phrase) and sued him and let the right position deal with this kid!
At this time, Zheng Yingqi was approaching carefully in the darkness.
Infiltration is a test of patience, and what Zheng Yingqi lacks most is patience. After one mile away from the artillery tower, he slowed down his speed and slowly crawled forward, looking for the depressions on the ground to explore and move forward. At the beginning of three hundred meters away from the artillery tower, he slowed down infinitely and kept staring at the Japanese guarding at the top of the artillery tower.
It has to be said that the Japanese's seriousness during duty cannot be ignored. Even according to the intelligence officers in Jiejiazhuang, the Japanese have not conducted a tentative attack or harassment for more than two months since the construction of the artillery tower, but the Japanese sentries are still stubbornly performing their duty, constantly circling around the observation deck at the top of the artillery tower.
Zheng Yingqi was not impatient at all. Even after more than three hours, he still crawled forward slowly. In the next two hours, he arrived at the trench outside the artillery tower.
The trench is more than three meters wide and more than two meters deep. It is covered with canned boxes deliberately placed by the Japanese. If there is any movement, it will make a jingle sound. The trench is still more than sixty meters away from the main body of the artillery tower. As long as it makes a sound, the Japanese can react at the first time. These sixty meters distances will become the road to death.
But this arrangement only made Zheng Yingqi smile disdainfully. He groped slowly, and while the Japanese on the roof turned around, he jumped into the trench gently, took off his military uniform and cotton jacket, and gently covered the canned scalp connected with iron wire under his feet.
In this way, even when he climbed the trench, he would not let the fallen dirt sound the can alarm. Then he took a look at the loophole, climbed up quickly, and hid in a shadow, and continued to grop forward slowly.
Finally, he came to the bottom of the artillery tower. It had been five hours since Zheng Yingqi sneaked in, and it was four o'clock in the morning.
"You little Japanese, it's been a long time since!" Zheng Yingqi smiled and looked at the ten-meter-high artillery tower. After taking a deep breath, he climbed up the numerous shooting holes on the artillery tower. Although the height of ten meters is an unsolvable height for many people, this team of Zheng Yingqi is nothing.
Soon, he climbed to the highest point and quietly poked out to see the Japanese patrolling on it. The Japanese were looking away with their backs on their backs. Perhaps because they were too sleepy, he actually squatted down and started lighting a cigarette.
"God helps me!"
Zheng Yingqi was overjoyed and jumped like a raccoon cat. He had already reached the gun tower watchtower, and then he rushed to the Japanese who were lighting a cigarette like a hungry tiger. The Japanese subconsciously turned around, but happened to run into Zheng Yingqi who was rushing toward him. Before he could even make a sound, Zheng Yingqi stabbed him into his throat with a bayonet.
The Japanese slowly disappeared in Zheng Yingqi's arms. Zheng Yingqi gently placed the body down, looking at the square skylight with a length of only half a meter, and smiled and chuckled.
Chapter completed!