Chapter 56 The Devil Suddenly Calmed Down (It’s the Beginning of the Month, Please Give Me a Guaranteed Monthly Ticket!)

"The damn Japanese are so cunning! They are using airplanes as bait to lure us in, and then they will use artillery fire to kill us all." Deng Ying wiped the cold sweat and looked relieved.

"Fortunately, the commander is wise!"

"Little stool! If I had your ability to flatter the commander, I would have run back to the position and called my brothers to prepare for battle."

Lei Xiong was now smugly boasting.

"Look at your understanding, and see how fast I react. As soon as Brother Tang Dao reminded me, I immediately knew what the Japanese were up to."

Lei Xiong and Shangguan Yun are both veterans, but the second company commander Deng Ying and the third company commander Shi Hao were only promoted in the last one or two years. Usually, Lei Xiong would not bully them with formal shouting, but now he was proud of seeing through the Japanese army's tricks, so he naturally had a bit of teasing meaning.

Deng Ying certainly would not blame the big brother for this.

"Bah, I don't know who just shouted to teach the Japanese plane a lesson. Lei Dapao, can you have some shame?" Battalion Commander Yang Ruifu, who had just walked down from the observation post on the roof, laughed and scolded.

"Battalion Commander, you can't say that. Red flowers need green leaves to set off. I have to let my Tang Dao brothers show their faces!" Lei Xiong took it for granted that I was deliberately stupid to help my brothers.

Tang Dao... I really believed it!

"Haha, you Lei Dapao are really a good guy! I believed your lies." Yang Ruifu couldn't help laughing.

After breaking the Japanese plan, the army lieutenant colonel was obviously in a good mood. He let his subordinates joke with each other and looked at Tang Dao again: "Platoon Leader Tang, what do you think the Japanese will do next?"

The command center became quiet and everyone looked at Tang Dao.

If these captains only thought that Tang Dao was a strong, ruthless and fierce man before, and after Tang Dao's most accurate judgment of the battlefield situation just now, they actually regarded Tang Dao as at least equal or even higher level.

His opinion seemed to have gradually influenced the decisions of the two commanders.

"It's nothing more than organizing infantry to attack. Now their howitzers have set the firing range. As long as the infantry does not enter 200 meters, they can cover the warehouse with artillery fire at any time. The meaning of machine guns on the roof is not great." Tang Dao thought for a while and replied.

"I just don't know what new tricks they have this time. If it's just infantry, the Japanese army should know after the last test, unless they are determined to pay huge casualties."

Tang Dao's answer this time is quite standard, nothing new and unconventional.

However, the lieutenant colonel of the army nodded slightly, "Yes, if I'm right, the reason why the Japanese army is so eager to get rid of our machine guns is not because of the infantry, but because..."

"Tanks!" Deng Ying and Lei Xiong answered almost at the same time.

"Have you become smarter now because of my influence?" Lei Xiong grinned.

"Hehe, the little Japanese are going to hit a wall this time. I don't have only one machine gun, but two. I'll show them what it means to be full of peach blossoms later."

"Sir, transfer a machine gun to my left wing position! I think the Japanese army may attack the left wing position." Deng Ying did not argue with Lei Xiong, but turned his eyes to the lieutenant colonel of the army and asked.

"Are both machine guns ready?" The lieutenant colonel of the army paced slowly in the room and suddenly stopped:

"No, but all companies are on high alert, but without my order, the machine guns cannot be moved for the time being."

"Why?" Deng Ying was slightly stunned.

"Didn't the Japanese army even use the trick of "startling the snake"! If we, the snake, don't accompany them to play this scene, how can they, the "hunters", be willing to use all their strength?" The lieutenant colonel of the army had a confident and faint smile on his face, but his eyes were flashing with coldness.

Extremely dangerous light.

He is indeed a ruthless man! No wonder he could command these 400 people in the past and hold out for three days and nights under the siege of a Japanese infantry regiment without letting the Japanese advance an inch.

How could he do it without some tricks?

Tang Dao certainly knew that this lieutenant colonel wanted to use the trick to dig a big pit for the Japanese army.

If he were the commander of the Japanese army, after seeing that the opponent's machine guns did not speak for a long time, wouldn't he use a small number of troops to test and then invest a large number of troops to achieve success in one battle?

After all, this is no longer a simple fortress attack and defense, but a "show" that neither China nor Japan can lose!

In the concession, I don't know how many pairs of reporters' eyes and how many cameras are staring at this battlefield.

The performance of China and Japan on the battlefield, whether excellent or ugly, will be magnified by the pen in the hands of the uncrowned king---reporters, and then spread to the whole world.

Especially for the Japanese army that was about to occupy the entire Songhu metropolis, it was not enough for them to just win, they had to win beautifully and brilliantly.

Excellent students are expected to have higher expectations, that's what it means.

Unexpectedly, scumbags became an advantage at this moment.

The lieutenant colonel of the army seized the Japanese army's mentality of still wanting to win quickly.

He would rather show weakness and let the Japanese army take advantage first, and then, when enough Japanese soldiers fell into the pit, he would fill the pit with soil and suffocate a lot of people.

This person is the ruthless person who is not afraid of death, let alone killing people!

The Japanese army began to act.

Not only did the Japanese army in the front begin to move tactically from various trenches to the front of the warehouse, but the Japanese army on the east and west flanks were also ready to move.

But this time, the Japanese army became more cautious than before.

Perhaps to prevent being strafed by the heavy machine gun fire of the Chinese defenders in the warehouse, the Japanese army did not deploy as many troops as expected, and the gaps between the infantry were larger.

However, the infantry did not immediately launch the attack as expected.

The busiest Japanese army was the engineers.

Like hardworking little ants, more than 200 Japanese engineers built fortifications on the north, east and west sides of the warehouse with sandbags, wood and even steel plates, relying on the houses in the ruins.

That should be built for heavy firepower points such as heavy machine guns or 37mm cannons, mainly to prevent being "hung" by the mortars in the warehouse.

However, the Japanese tanks imagined by several officers did not appear on the battlefield.

"The Japanese are more determined than we thought this time!" A trace of solemnity flashed in the eyes of the lieutenant colonel of the army.

The faces of several lieutenants who took turns to use the telescope of the battalion commander Yang Ruifu to watch the battlefield in front of them were no longer relaxed as before.

The Japanese army only dispatched infantry, which was similar to Tang Dao's previous prediction. They just wanted to test whether the machine guns were really defeated by them. However, they suddenly went to great lengths to build semi-permanent fortifications. It was a headache for them to play the game of sharpening the knife before cutting wood.

As a curved gun, the mortar is a magical weapon for attacking infantry. As long as it is within the firing range, it has almost no dead angle. But its biggest shortcoming is that it has no ability to break through fortifications or tin cans such as tanks, it can only stare blankly.

If the Japanese army deploys infantry guns or 37mm rapid guns to the front line of 400 to 500 meters like this, it will not be a disaster, but casualties will be inevitable.

The windows of the front position are mainly piled with sandbags and logs, which can't withstand the bombardment of direct-aiming guns.

Even Tang Dao, facing this situation, can't come up with a good solution.

Unless they use machine guns to bombard them.