Chapter 44: Forming a Sniper Team (Three Updates, Please Bookmark)

After checking the entire project of the system, Wei Jichen sighed and left. He was worried about the main task.

It is not easy to recover the lost territory. Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Chinese army has been on passive defense and has not counterattacked many times. Wei Jichen does not believe that Nie Shicheng will consider how to counterattack after this victory.

The most ideal situation is that Nie Shicheng will consider counterattack after the Japanese are helpless against the Dagaoling defense line and cannot attack for a long time.

Therefore, the most important thing during this period is to defend the position. Fortunately, as the defending party, it must be in a favorable position, so that the Japanese can be killed happily.

Of course, as Mengzi said, killing ordinary Japanese is a waste of bullets. If you want to kill, kill the Japanese generals.

When Wei Jichen was thinking about how to kill the Japanese.

The Japanese 10th Brigade station at Caohekou.

The 10th Brigade retreated dozens of miles today until Caohekou. Li Jianshangwen ordered the army to stop retreating and set up camp on the spot.

At first, Naofumi Ritsumi was very happy that he had escaped the enemy's encirclement and had seen through Nie Shicheng's conspiracy. However, it didn't take long for this happiness to turn into anger.

Because he later learned that the number of Qing troops stationed in Dagaoling was not hidden, and that the Qing army did not pursue him on a large scale after he led his troops to retreat.

Everything showed that he had been fooled, and fooled thoroughly.

At this time, Nie Shicheng must have secretly sneered at Naofumi Ritsumi's cowardice. Naofumi Ritsumi squeezed the teacup in his hand hard, and with a click, the teacup was crushed by him.

The staff officer Xiao Zhengshu, who was kneeling opposite the tea table, looked at Naofumi Ritsumi with some concern, fearing that he would lose his mind and make a wrong decision.

However, after Naofumi Ritsumi crushed the teacup, he seemed to have let out a breath of anger, and his expression slowly changed from anger to calmness.

Then, Tachimi Naofumi actually smiled softly and said lightly: "The Chinese can only use some tricks. Tomorrow, I, Tachimi Naofumi, will let them see what strength and irresistibility are."

"Your Excellency the Major General is right. The Chinese used such a low-level strategy because of their lack of strength. Otherwise, they would not have dared to step forward when our army retreated hurriedly today." Xiao Zhengshuren nodded in agreement.

After a pause, Tachimi Naofumi asked again: "By the way, has the identity of the enemy commander of the main attack position today been found out?"

Xiao Zhengshuren took out a document from the folder, placed it on the coffee table, and said with a smile: "This is the intelligence just sent by the Imperial Intelligence Department."

During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan's intelligence department played an important role, and espionage activities were rampant. In addition, the Qing court did not pay attention to confidentiality at the time. Countless important intelligence was continuously collected by the Japanese from the rear of the Qing army and then sent back to the front line.

Even before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Li Hongzhang showed off by bringing the head of Japanese intelligence to his Lushun military base, showing the country's weapon to others, making the military deployment map easily known to the Japanese army.

I wonder if Li Hongzhang regrets his original decision now that Japan has launched a war of aggression against China.

Li Jianshen became interested and opened the document solemnly. He valued the enemy general who repelled his attacks several times today.

"Wei Jichen, now a sentry officer of the Luyu Defense Army, was a failed scholar before joining the army. Well! This person was also captured by our army. He blew up an arsenal in our Jiuliancheng. After escaping from Jiuliancheng, he ambushed and killed Saito Masaaki..."

Li Jianshen was more and more surprised. He found that Wei Jichen was like the nemesis of his 10th Brigade. When he just escaped from the prisoner camp, he killed the generals at the level of second lieutenant and captain. Not long after returning to the Qing army, he killed one of his majors and some other officers.

"The intelligence on Wei Jichen is not detailed enough. Let the intelligence department send me his information continuously." Li Jian Shangwen said with a gloomy face.

Xiao Zhengshuren agreed immediately and continued: "Kin Tianzheng has always reported to the staff that the fortifications of Wei Jichen's defensive positions are very different from the previous Qing army's defensive fortifications, which can effectively stop our army's advance. In addition, some soldiers of the infantry regiment also reported after the war that Wei Jichen's position did not seem to lose many people after the bombardment."

"Well, since Wei Jichen's position is a hard bone, tomorrow we will choose other positions of other Qing army generals as the main attack direction."

Li Jian Shangwen now regrets that he did not carefully study some changes in the Qing army's position before the war, otherwise he might be able to capture Dagaoling today, but it is too late to regret it now, and he can only adjust the offensive strategy.

At dawn the next day, Hu Dianjia found Wei Jichen and several other sentry officers to make some pre-war arrangements and mobilization.

The Japanese are coming aggressively, and they will definitely not stop advancing just because of the setback in yesterday's attack.

After coming out of Hu Dianjia's tent, Wei Jichen went to the defensive position with five Mauser sniper rifles. He spent 1,250 merit points to buy these rifles from the system after getting up this morning.

Fortunately, these rifles can use ordinary bullets, otherwise he would really be reluctant to buy them.

After killing Takeda Hideyama, Wei Jichen tasted the sweetness. He planned to select four more people with outstanding marksmanship from the sergeants, and then form a five-man sniper team, led by Mengzi, to shoot and kill enemy generals.

Of course, he planned to keep one for himself.

Along the way, some soldiers saw Wei Jichen passing by and saluted to show their respect.

Not long after, Wei Jichen arrived at his outpost's defensive position.

"Mengzi, come here!" Wei Jichen couldn't help but shouted with a smile when he saw Mengzi wiping his rifle.

"Wei Shao, you're here." Mengzi didn't know that he had made a great contribution yesterday, so he walked over with an honest face.

Wei Jichen put down his rifle and said with a smile, "Do you know who you killed yesterday?"

"Who is it?" Mengzi asked nonchalantly.

"He's a Japanese major, you're just waiting to be promoted and make a fortune!" Wei Jichen said with a smile, giving him a surprise.

Unexpectedly, Mengzi groaned for a long time, then touched his forehead and asked with some confusion: "Major, are you a big general?"

Wei Jichen smiled, feeling that his hot face was pressed against his cold ass. He had been happy for him for a long time, but he didn't care.

"Wei Jichen, even if I get promoted, I will continue to work for you." Mengzi thought for a moment and then said seriously.

Wei Jichen nodded and said, "Don't worry, I, Wei Jichen, can't bear to transfer you. You can find four guys with great marksmanship. I'll be of great use."

Birds of a feather flock together, and people flock together!

If you want to find someone with great marksmanship, you don't need to ask them one by one. Mengzi knows it all.

Mengzi didn't ask any more questions, but responded and left immediately.

Not long after, he led four soldiers over. To Wei Jichen's surprise, one of them turned out to be Xiaosi.

"Wei Shao, these four are brothers with great marksmanship in the Shao." Mengzi introduced them one by one.

Um!

Wei Jichen nodded slightly, then stood up and said: "Everyone is envious of the good guns in the hands of Brother Mengzi, but you don't have to be envious now, because I have got four more guns, and I am ready to hand them over to you. "

"Wow, it's really great. I'm not allowed to touch Brother Mengzi's gun on weekdays."

"That's right, I've always wanted one in my dreams."

The four of them almost jumped with excitement, their faces full of excitement, especially Xiaosi, whose eyes were almost motionless as he looked at the rifle placed next to Wei Jichen.

"Okay!" After the four of them calmed down a little, Wei Jichen pressed his hand down and stopped him: "This gun is hard-earned. If you lose it, it will be gone. You must take good care of it."

"Wei Shao, if I lose my gun, no matter how hard you punish me, it won't be too much." Xiaosi's smiling eyes narrowed into slits.

"That is, if the gun is there and the people are there, the gun will kill the people."

These four people did not ask about the origin of the guns. The Qing army's weapons came from a wide range of sources. They not only purchased them from Western countries, but also imitated and produced them themselves. Not to mention the soldiers, even the generals would be dazzled by the various rifles. .

What's more, in terms of appearance, this Mauser sniper rifle is not much different except that it is a little more beautiful than the old Mauser rifles used by everyone.

This is also the reason why Wei Jichen dares to buy casually.

"Wei Shao, you gave the boys this gun. Do you have any tasks for the boys to complete?" Xiaosi asked what a few people were thinking.

"Not bad!" Wei Jichen picked up the rifle and handed it to them one by one.

Then he continued: "I believe you have also seen that Mengzi killed countless Japanese generals with this gun."

Seeing Mengzi smiling happily at the side, Wei Jichen continued to joke: "He doesn't even bother to kill soldiers now. Therefore, I am going to form a team of sharpshooters who specialize in shooting Japanese officers, which is you." "

"From now on, you will follow Mengzi, practice your marksmanship to perfection, and then specialize as a little Japanese officer. Do you understand?" Wei Jichen asked with a serious expression.

"I know." Mengzi and the other five people quickly replied with their heads held high.

"Okay, now take off the gun and get familiar with it. The Japanese will attack at any time." Wei Jichen raised his hand and said.

Several people happily walked away holding their guns as if they were holding their wives.

Li Yunfei was directing the men to repair the fortifications. Ever since Wei Jichen handed over the digging methods of air raid shelters and individual soldier pits to the soldiers, he had been taking charge of the job.

The Japanese bombardment was very fierce yesterday and many defenses were destroyed. They have not been repaired since the Japanese retreated yesterday.

Before Wei Jichen could step forward, Li Yunfei had already walked over.

"Wei Shao, you old man made a big splash last night." Li Yunfei said with a smile on his face.

"Really? Why didn't I know?" Wei Jichen's relaxed look made people want to punch him.

The two joked for a while, and then got down to business.

"Yunfei, a group of new recruits will arrive soon. You have to keep a close eye on me. Don't let others pick away the strong ones, leaving me with the old, weak, sick and disabled in the end." Wei Jichen will get what he got. The gossip came out.

There is one thing he didn't say, that is, Nie Shicheng told him yesterday that once the new recruits arrive, that is when he will be promoted to battalion officer.

In essence, the Huai Army can be said to be Li Hongzhang's private army. Most of the appointments of officers at the level of battalion officers are made by the commander-in-chief, and they only need to report the list to the court afterwards.

And war is the best opportunity to expand troops. Think of Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army and Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, which slowly expanded during the war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

In today's Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, armies that fought fiercely had a greater chance of expansion, while armies that suffered too many losses after defeats naturally ended up being disbanded.

So Nie Shicheng's army today is the 10th battalion of Gongzi, but tomorrow it might become the 15th battalion of Gongzi.