Chapter 1441 Lucky Soldier (Part 1)

Shi Dakuan was not impulsive. He had already aimed at a small hill 600 meters away from the front-line blockade position.

There was a small group of Japanese stationed there!

The Japanese dug two trenches on this hill. In order to avoid being wiped out by a saturation bombardment, the two trenches were nearly 80 meters apart, and a shallow communication trench was dug between the two trenches.

All of this was actually carried out under the eyes of the Chinese side. Shi Dakuan had observed it several times through the telescope handed to him by the regiment commander.

If it weren't for the order from the commander Tang of the Four-Line Regiment, the entire army was only responsible for the siege and not to waste troops for a strong attack. This small hill could be taken down by an infantry company in less than 2 hours.

Since the commander Tang issued the "cold gun and cold artillery" attack and killing order to each unit, the 31st Regiment has also organized at least 10 elite teams to attack the Japanese positions within the kilometer defense line area, but they all focused on those Japanese positions with more garrisons.

When there are more people, it is easier to make mistakes, and it is easier to find the target and gain military merit. This underlying logic is actually correct.

But Shi Dakuan thought that if the devils had fewer troops, wouldn't it be easier to carry out the attack? Would they suffer fewer attacks? Anyway, the military order of Captain Tang required that they only be Japanese, and there was no military rank or anything like that.

Today is New Year's Eve. The devils estimated that the Chinese soldiers were celebrating their own New Year, and they would relax because they had been in a state of mental exhaustion. This relaxation was an opportunity for Shi Dakuan, who had been planning for two days.

The Japanese army was naturally completely right to think so. Although the various units responsible for encircling the Japanese army were still on the battlefield, considering that today was New Year's Eve and the various units had just experienced a bloody battle, in order to boost morale, they were still given a holiday in disguise.

Except for the officers and soldiers on duty, the rest of the officers and soldiers could gamble and drink in the trenches, but they could not leave their guns to prevent the Japanese army from taking advantage of the Chinese side's relaxation of vigilance during the New Year to break through.

Of course, Tang Dao and several army colonels who came to the front line to supervise the battle were all experienced in the bloody battlefield. They would not make such a mistake. The infantrymen should relax a little. The artillerymen and heavy firepower were all on high alert. If the Japanese did not charge, they would be beaten to pieces.

In fact, these people were eager for the Japanese to charge to their death. The 10th Army Group specially sent a baggage unit to the Shipai defense zone to deliver 1,300 mines. In the past two days, all units buried them in front of the positions. Nearly 100 Japanese infantrymen who wanted to launch a sneak attack at night were killed and maimed. Since last night, Yamada Masayoshi gave up this kind of behavior of actively sending heads and honestly retreated into the simple tortoise shell.

Now the Chinese soldiers and Japanese in the two war zones know Tang Tuanzuo's plan. He just wants to trap these thousands of Japanese soldiers to death. No matter how many trenches and anti-artillery holes are dug on the hilltops, you still have to eat and drink water!

Maybe Wushan is not short of water, and people can survive for a few days by eating tree bark and grass roots, but human life is very long, and Chinese soldiers can wait for a few days.

This is a dignified and open plan of Tang Tuanzuo, and even if the Japanese army knows it, they can do nothing about it.

Even far away in Nanjing, someone at the China Expeditionary Army Headquarters has proposed the idea of ​​letting the 231st Infantry Regiment in the encirclement surrender.

However, this extremely insulting idea was rejected before it was even brought to the formal meeting. Since its establishment, the Imperial Japanese Army has never had a case of collective surrender of infantry regiment-level troops. Even if all members died in battle, the sense of shame is much better than this.

To put it bluntly, face is more important than heaven.

However, surrender is just the wishful thinking of some high-level officials in the Japanese China Expeditionary Army, and the Chinese have never thought about it this way.

The Chinese side can accept a smaller number of people, but if thousands of devils surrender at once, the prisoner-of-war camp will cost money to build! Food must be provided!

Even the ambitious one had never thought of forcing all the Japanese in the two encirclements to surrender.

Poverty! It limited the Chinese imagination of being proud.

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Shi Dakuan was certainly not stupid, and he would not rashly go over and cause trouble for 15 Japanese devils.

As the acting company commander of the future 9th Company, and now the personal soldier of the regiment commander, Shi Dakuan was also a well-known figure in the remnants of the 31st Regiment these days. He went directly to the guard squad and found two soldiers who were only two years older than him and also had a blood feud with the Japanese army. After his persuasion and with the military order of Tang Tuanzuo as an endorsement, the two soldiers carried submachine guns and set off with Shi Dakuan in the dark.

3 people, equipped with 2 submachine guns, a 20-shot revolver and 9 grenades, and the other three people had bayonets from the upper and lower parts of the captured Japanese Type 38 rifles on their waists. From the equipment alone, it is definitely an elite infantry group, but it is a little bit short of long-range cold shooting.

After all, the longest effective range of these three guns will not exceed 150 meters, and the attack distance of grenades will not exceed 60 meters.

That is because Shi Dakuan's tactical plan is not to use long-range cold shooting at all. He wants to sneak into the first trench of the Japanese in the dark and attack.

As long as the Japanese fell asleep and let the three of them sneak into the first trench, he would have the confidence to kill a few Japanese in the first trench and then sneak away in the dark.

Shi Dakuan had already observed carefully in the afternoon. There were at least 10 Japanese soldiers on the hill in the second-line trench at a higher altitude. That meant that there were at most 5 people in the second-line trench. The continuous firepower of two submachine guns and a box gun was enough to kill the 5 Japanese soldiers. By the time the 10 Japanese soldiers above reacted, the three of them had already run away in the bushes.

5 little devils! That was 5 boxes of cigarettes, 10 kilograms of refined rice, and 10 cans of beef canned food. Anyone would be drooling. Shi Dakuan also used this to make the two guards give up their hesitation.

The three soldiers were all very daring. At about 10:30 pm, the three of them quietly moved to a position less than 30 meters away from their target position.

Shi Dakuan could even hear the conversation of the Japanese soldiers in the first-line trench. Although they were all speaking in low voices in Japanese and he couldn't understand what they were saying, he could tell that the Japanese soldiers didn't dare to sleep at all and were still very awake at this moment.

The three men simply lay down in front of the position to take a short nap, and waited until midnight to get ready to fight the devils.

The moonlight and starlight on that day were actually quite bright. It was not pitch dark, but the visibility was no more than 3 meters.

But the three Chinese soldiers, including Shi Dakuan, did not notice that more than 200 meters away, there was a pair of eyes looking at their position.

"I don't know if these three guys are brave or stupid, but they are ready to rush directly into the trenches to fight the devils." Cao Yingchong widened his eyes, looking at the figures that could not be seen clearly in the dark, and lowered his voice to express his amazement.

Although he had also had the experience of shooting against more than a dozen devils alone, it was all forced out by desperate situations. He took the initiative to find a devil squad to fight alone. Thinking carefully, he really didn't have the courage. The three Chinese soldiers who just crawled past him less than 3 meters away from his hiding place did what he, a second lieutenant of the reconnaissance company, did not dare to do.

That's right, when Shi Dakuan and the other two crawled through the bushes, they were focused on the front, but they didn't notice that a man holding a Czech semi-automatic rifle was lying quietly under the wild grass a few meters away.

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In fact, if Shi Dakuan and the other two knew that there was more than one Chinese Army second lieutenant in this area, and even a Chinese Army colonel, they would be no less frightened than the dozen Japanese soldiers they wanted to kill.

"Haha! Isn't that what you, Deputy Platoon Leader Cao, are going to do? Calling others stupid is also scolding yourself!" A metallic low voice chuckled from two meters away.

Pang Zilong on the other side couldn't help grinning. To be honest, this is really not the idea of ​​Lieutenant Cao, but you, Commander Tang, are going to do this, okay?

Originally, as promised to Director Ye, Commander Tang was just going to take the two of them to meet and greet several commanders of the 18th Army and inspect the various defense lines.

As a result, after meeting with the 31st Regiment Commander Lu, not too far away, Tang Tuanzuo said: "Do you two want to drink and eat meat and bring some cigarettes back to give to the brothers?"

What else can I say about this good thing? And it was the superior who spoke, so the two officers who were considered small leaders in the reconnaissance company naturally nodded without hesitation.

This nod is not a big deal, it turns out that the superior is not going to give everyone benefits privately, but you have to earn it yourself.

Tang Dao has a general understanding of the Japanese army's defense terrain and troops through the simple sand table at the 31st Regiment Headquarters and the introduction of the 31st Regiment Commander Lu. Like Shi Dakuan, he took a fancy to the small hill where only a Japanese infantry squad was stationed.

On the New Year's Day, the 31st Regiment Commander Lu thought of offering dumplings, cigarettes and alcohol to commemorate his dead subordinates, but Tang Tuanzuo, who was designed by the two big guys and wanted to vent his negative emotions, was thinking about the heads of the Japanese.

Fresh heads!

Therefore, the guard squad was ordered to stay on the spot, and two officers were "coerced" by Tang Tuanzuo to enter the battlefield. According to the tactical plan, Pang Zilong was responsible for sniping cover from a distance, Cao Yingchong used semi-automatic rifle fire cover, and Tang Tuanzuo had to sneak into the trench to assassinate the devils.

If it were another commander, the two reconnaissance company officers were not stupid, and it would be a job to let the commander take risks in the tiger's mouth. No matter how "one hand covers the sky", they would not do this stupid thing, but who is Tang Tuanzuo?

He is the best in the regiment.

And this best is not because he is the commander, everyone praises him, that is the real battlefield and training ground. Even Mingxin, a ruthless man who killed more than 30 Japanese soldiers with a big sword, admitted that he had almost no chance to survive when he met Tang Tuanzuo on the battlefield.

Moreover, it was not the first time that Tang Tuanzuo had run into the Japanese trenches. He had done it in the Battle of Sihang Warehouse, the Battle of Jindong, and the Battle of Zishan. The blood of the Japanese he had spared with his three-edged bayonet could have made the seedlings of an acre of rice field grow vigorously.

Besides, the brothers of the reconnaissance company must be very happy to exchange 15 little devils for so many canned beef and cigarettes. The officers of the two reconnaissance companies could not resist this temptation either.

So, the three of them sneaked into the Japanese position more than 200 meters in front of the Japanese position, waiting to sneak into the Japanese position after midnight to harvest heads. Unexpectedly, this "sweet cake" was also remembered by others.

The three young men crawled over from their hiding place and hid in an area less than 30 meters away from the Japanese position in one breath. Even Cao Yingchong, who was so brave, was worried about them.

"Sir, what should we do?" Cao Yingchong asked in a low voice, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Since the brothers of the 31st Regiment want to steal food, we, as the host, can't be too stingy, right?" Tang Dao looked at the dark opposite side, and his eyes flashed with admiration. "Let's plunder the three little brothers!"

There are many such battles in the Four-Line Regiment, because he, the future little butterfly, has provided guidance based on countless successful battles in the past hundred years, especially with a lot of experience during the ten-year war in the southwest. For these three soldiers of the 11th Division, this method of warfare is almost a brand new model.

But these three Chinese soldiers actually started this innovation with courage without any guidance, which made Tang Dao very appreciative.

Cao Yingchong was so envious of the three unknown Chinese soldiers. They could steal Tang Tuanzuo's job and let him personally plunder for them to ensure their safety. This is probably rare in the Four-Line Regiment.

The treatment that few officers and soldiers of the Sihang Regiment could enjoy was just encountered by the three soldiers of the 11th Division. The green smoke from the ancestral grave could be seen clearly from more than ten miles away!

Shi Dakuan had no idea that there was an army colonel silently watching him from behind. He was now quietly waiting in the bushes for the Japanese soldiers to fall asleep.

Although the young soldier was very young, his gradually bulging biceps and the green hair on his lips showed that he was approaching the peak of his physical fitness, and the battle of Gaojialing on the 23rd made his fighting will and spirit completely enter a new realm.

Blood and death were no longer the fear that made the young soldier's hair stand on end. It would even make him enter an extremely excited state. Just like now, although he was lying in the bushes like a hunting wolf, every cell in his body seemed to be cheering and singing for the bloody battlefield that was about to come. His eyes were full of the desire to kill that could not be concealed.

The dumplings given to his dead brothers by the regiment commander were fake, and the real hope was to use more Japanese lives to commemorate his dead brothers.

At that moment, Shi Dakuan even forgot his mother and sister who were still waiting for him to return home in the mountain city, and forgot that if he died, his family would lose their only livelihood.

He only wanted to pay blood debt with blood!

For the rest of his life, he would never forget the scene where the squad leader knelt on the ground holding the Japanese soldier's blade that pierced his chest and shouted at him.

"Kill!"

Shi Dakuan buried his head in the grass. The whole hillside was so quiet that a pin drop could be heard, but the roar in his heart that only he could hear was deafening.

At midnight, the Japanese soldiers who were still talking in a low voice finally fell asleep. Shi Dakuan and the two soldiers were like turtles waking up from hibernation, and began to slowly crawl up in the grass.

The three of them were very slow. It took them half an hour to crawl 30 meters, and they were only one step away from the Japanese trench.

"Check the guns, get ready!" Shi Dakuan gestured to the other two companions, but he opened the safety of the Mauser pistol.

The Mauser pistol was a relic left by the company commander, and was handed to him by the regiment commander for safekeeping. In the past few days, Shi Dakuan used two magazines for live-fire training. The regiment commander also specially assigned the guard squad leader to be his instructor. Although he could not guarantee that he would hit the target every time from 20 meters away, in this trench environment, he was still confident that a volley of bullets would hit the enemy more than ten meters away.

Taking a deep breath, Shi Dakuan was ready to issue an order to enter the trench.

At this moment, something strange happened!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The loud bangs resounded through the sky.

The fiery red light illuminated half of the sky, and the dumbfounded faces of the three soldiers who had been ready for a long time and were full of murderous intent were extremely conspicuous in the firelight.

"These three unlucky guys!" Cao Yingchong, who was 200 meters away, looked at Shi Dakuan's open mouth with a telescope and could only give such an evaluation.

However, Cao Yingchong wanted to know how these three would react now that the sneak attack had failed.

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