Rise from eight hundred.

"Bang!" With a gunshot in the dark night, the Japanese infantry finally entered the battle.

However, the first battle between the First Division and the infantry of the Four Lines Regiment was not in the early morning of the second day, but late at night.

"At 7 o'clock tomorrow morning, all ministries will launch a ground attack!" Saburo Okabe looked at the casualty reports sent by the ministries on the table as the sun set. His face was as iron as steel. After a moment of silence, he ordered coldly.

"Order the front army's special attack brigade to attack!"

The so-called special attack brigade was formed on the basis of Fujiwara Senio's original special attack squadron.

Although in the battle in mid-1938, the special attack squadron led by Fujiwara Senzuo ended in the annihilation of the entire army, after the war, after analysis and combined with the elusive scouts of the Four Troops, the departed General Sugisugimoto still remained The role of this elite team was affirmed, and his successor also agreed with this view.

With the insistence of the two commanders, the special attack squadron was not only not abolished, but was even expanded and built from the squadron to the brigade level.

It's just that the personnel reorganized this time did not use domestic ninjas and warriors as the main personnel like the martial arts madman Fujiwara Senio. Instead, elite veterans with more than 3 years of military service were directly drawn from the divisions of the North China Front to assist with the best. The equipment, coupled with some special training, is similar to the reconnaissance company of the Four Lines Regiment, and already has a bit of a shadow of the future special forces.

The training lasted for a full year. After recovering from his injury, Fujiwara Senzuo also served as their fighting instructor and often participated in their training.

Although it is said to be a brigade, the number of personnel who can ultimately pass the training and assessment is actually only about 300, which is about the same size as the current reconnaissance company of the Four Lines Regiment.

But the level is very high. Its commander is the rank of major, and the lowest rank among the officers and soldiers is also the sergeant. Its organization is also different from the ordinary infantry brigade. There are no squadrons under the brigade, only squads and detachments.

A squad consists of five squads of 12 people. The squad leader is a captain, and the squad leader is a lieutenant or second lieutenant.

小分队成员标准装备，步枪装备的是刚研发不久的99式7.7毫米5发栓动短管步枪，7.7毫米弹药对土墙这种简易工事的穿透力远超6.5毫米有坂子弹，短了一截的枪管在350米有效射程内也无损精度。

In addition, some members are equipped with German Empire MP28 submachine guns for fire support. Each member carries a Southern Type pistol and a sword made of fine steel according to their own preferences, as well as high-calorie rations that can survive in the wild for a week.

Although there is no grenade launcher due to load-bearing reasons, in terms of medium and long-range firepower, this is definitely the most powerful existence among the Japanese infantry.

In this battle of Zishan, Duo Tianjun was finally willing to stab the sharp knife that had been sharpened for a year, which was another strong support for Saburo Okabe.

Saburo Okabe, who was the chief of staff of the North China Front and personally presided over its formation, naturally knew the tactical role of this elite force, and of course he would not be so stupid as to let them attack the Chinese forward positions where they were well prepared at night.

Saburo Okabe had already broken this 290-man unit into small groups. The 501st Infantry Regiment, led by Miyauchi Yoshio, reached a peak 16 miles from the flank of the offensive direction and bypassed the Chinese defensive position. Climb the mountains, enter the Chinese defense zone, and conduct reconnaissance and destruction behind enemy lines.

In fact, the Japanese army's usual attack method has always been to send small groups of troops to go around the enemy's rear to carry out various harassment and sabotage, and to wait for opportunities to assassinate important enemy figures. In the past, General Zhang died on the battlefield. There was a sneak attack by a small group of Japanese troops.

Now, after many encounters with the Four Elements Group, the beaten Japanese finally let go of their arrogance, began to learn from their opponents, and gained a certain degree of destructive power.

It is conceivable that if such an elite force is allowed to penetrate into the Zishan defense zone, it will bring terrible destructive power.

However, the area of ​​Zishan is too large. Even though Tang Tuanzuo, who had spent a year conducting detailed surveys of the mountainous areas around Zishan and was familiar with the defensible areas, could only set up defense lines in areas where people and heavy equipment could pass, he was unable to stop light attacks. The infantry entered over the mountains and ridges.

But Tang Tuanzuo is the strongest individual soldier from the strongest special forces on the border of China in the future. When it comes to large-scale group operations, Tang Tuanzuo is probably far from the top, but when it comes to special operations, he is the No. 1 in this time and space. , no one.

Tang Dao had already dispatched nearly 700 of the recalled reconnaissance company and mountain infantry company, but this time Tang Dao did not focus on attacking the enemy as in the past. More than 100 people served as his eyes on the plains, and another 500 Many people can be inside the defense zone.

However, because the Sixiang Regiment had many baggage and logistics departments located in the mountains, most of its forces were deployed for defense around these troops, and less than one-third of its forces could actually be deployed into the mountains.

Tang Dao told the two company commanders: "The prey coming this time may be very ferocious. You hunters should be careful not to miss the prey and be bitten by it instead."

Tang Dao's prediction of the Japanese army this time did not come from intelligence, but combined with the losses suffered last time when Fujiwara Battle led his troops to attack the defense area of ​​the 17th Division in Southeast Shanxi. Based on his understanding of the Japanese, they had tasted the sweetness before. Will not give up easily.

Moreover, Tang Dao has always had an intuition that he will meet Fujiwara Senzuo. The guy who is obsessed with martial arts is by no means the kind of person who gives up easily.

But this time, part of Tang Dao's intuition was obviously wrong. At this time, Fujiwara Senzuo was still training himself desperately on the training ground belonging to the special attack team in Pingbeicheng.

Fujiwara Senzuo, who has already failed twice at the hands of Tang Dao, will never allow himself to fail a third time. Not only is he proud, but Fujiwara Senzuo understands that if it were not for his sake, he could get back a brigade of equipment and hundreds of For the sake of the captured people, with Tang Dao's personality, the grass on his grave might be taller than that of someone else.

That meant that he had one and only one chance. Martial arts alone was no longer enough for him to fight that man to the death. He had to become stronger, no matter with cold weapons or hot weapons.

But another part of Tang Dao's intuition was right. The prey had already arrived, and it was extremely ferocious.

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"Four." After Yuanxiao fired a shot, he quickly rolled over and rolled down the grass nest where he had just sheltered, while muttering to himself and counting.

Obviously, Yuanxiao hid in time, but a second later, the grass nest where he had been hiding was covered by several rounds of bullets. If he was still there, he would be injured or dead at this moment. The little devil's shooting skills are amazingly accurate.

Quietly laying his body behind the thick exposed roots of a dead old tree, Yuanxiao looked to the other side of his right hand and saw the squad leader hiding behind a stone not far away giving him a thumbs up.

Yuan Xiao smiled softly, revealing her beautiful white teeth in the watery moonlight.

In such a life-and-death moment, Yuanxiao, who had always been aloof, had never felt that the squad leader's encouragement was so important to him. Perhaps it's because he needs his companions to fight alongside him more!

As a superior soldier in a mountain infantry company, Yuanxiao has always been a relatively unique existence.

Yuanxiao is not a nickname, it is his name!

Yuanxiao's experience of joining the Four Elements Group was a little different from others. In November 38, Tang Dao brought Long Yan and others back to his hometown and met him on the streets of the mountain city.

When I met Yuanxiao, this guy was actually a homeless man who was so hungry that his eyes turned green. Such homeless people can be seen everywhere on the streets of mountain cities, but this guy who was about to starve to death was a little different from the others. When facing passers-by, He didn't even look at the cake thrown on the ground, unless he put the cake in his hand.

Of course, that may also be the time when hunger is not at its worst. Only those who have been hungry know that until the end of hunger, not to mention the pancakes thrown on the ground, even if they are thrown into the latrine, you will wash them and carefully stuff them into your mouth. There won't be any scum left in it.

However, this young homeless man's tenacious willpower made Long Yan, who had also been hungry and knew what it was like, look at him differently.

Long Yan felt that he could be a soldier, so with Long Yan's persuasion and funding, the homeless man Yuan Xiao went to Tang Dao's hometown to join the new corps, which could not only solve his problem of food but also solve the problem of soldiers. It was a double win.

What makes Long Yan dumbfounded is that this young man, who looks extremely handsome after cleaning, is actually lazy and can't do anything else, even folding quilts. If the average soldier can fold into tofu cubes after a few days of training, that guy Stacked, like a pile of - shit.

Not only that, he was also very cold, and no one took him seriously.

If he hadn't seen him living on the street with his own eyes, Long Yan would have definitely regarded him as a dandy young man who was indifferent to food and work. For a guy like this, he didn't eat what he called the food he brought and didn't starve to death. He was really blind.

However, the origins mentioned by Yuan Xiao can well confirm his performance. A young man from a wealthy family was forced to start a new business in central Sichuan due to differences between his brothers in the family and suffered heavy losses. In the end, he ended up living alone on the streets due to an accident.

But what is surprising is that after Tang Dao's father learned about this situation, he gave Yuanxiao 20 yuan in silver to let him go home, but he refused.

Yuanxiao followed the Sichuan Army's new regiment all the way to Tongguan and Zhongtiao Mountain until they entered southeastern Shanxi. Regardless of combat experience or time, he can be called a veteran, but in reality, he is still a new recruit.

Because Yuanxiao barely participated in the battle, the new company commander was afraid that this guy would cause trouble, so he asked him to be a clerk, helping the entire company's officers and soldiers write letters home and collect statistics on battle results and material distribution. Even when they arrived in southeastern Shanxi, all the recruits were dispersed and reorganized. Yuanxiao was selected by Long Yan to join the elite mountain infantry company. He also served as a clerk at the company headquarters and was a purely civilian superior soldier.

But what impressed Gu Xishui was not Long Yan's recommendation, but Yuan Xiao's extreme intelligence. From a person who could be said to have no ability, he caught up with many recruits who were stronger than him in just one month. All skills are not the strongest, but his smart mind is his biggest advantage.

What makes people speechless is that no matter it is training or assessment, this lazy but talented guy is always ranked at the front, a little worse than the veterans, but a little better than the recruits. Even Gu Xishui could only shake his head and let it go.

It's a good piece of steel, it just wasn't heated enough.

Gu Xishui was not helpless, but he believed that only after going through the war, Yuanxiao, a somewhat unusual soldier, would become a good soldier like his comrades.

Therefore, before the Battle of Zishan, Gu Xishui kicked Yuanxiao, a veteran with more than a year of military service, into the infantry squad and became a new recruit in the front-line infantry.

Now, Yuanxiao, who is both old and new at the same time, is going through the most difficult test in his life.

The moonlight is as bright as the stars tonight, which is not actually a good weather for killing people.

The woods in the north are mostly coniferous forests, which are not too dense in themselves. Under such starlight, the visibility is not low, and the enemy's shadow can be seen ten or twenty meters away.

However, this was not the main reason why Yuanxiao harvested the fourth head within half an hour. The main cause of the death of four Japanese soldiers was some small traps set by Yuanxiao while retreating.

The sound and the moment's hesitation will all wait for the bullet that will arrive in a blink of an eye.

But even so, Yuanxiao and the veteran squad leader are still in danger.

I don't know if it was too unlucky, but the hunting group composed of two of them actually encountered a small detachment of the Japanese army, an enemy that was six times more powerful than them.

Now, they have killed 6 people, but there are still 6 people hiding opposite them. If they are not careful, the two of them will suffer disaster.

Half an hour passed, and no reinforcements were approaching the two of them. The sporadic gunshots and grenade explosions that kept coming in the distance showed that the comrades in the platoon had also encountered their enemies.

If you want to survive, you can only rely on yourself. At least, we have to hold on until reinforcements arrive. Yuan Xiao lowered his head and scanned the surroundings with only the corner of his eyes, while listening vigilantly to all the sounds coming from around him.

Everything was very quiet, so quiet that it felt like you were suffocating to breathe.

The remaining 6 Japanese soldiers were no better than the 2 soldiers of the Fourth Army. After half an hour of fighting, they finally determined that the ones who sniped at them were just two Chinese soldiers.

What they couldn't accept was that two Chinese soldiers shot and killed six of their comrades. Especially judging from the accurate hit of the opponent's last shot, the two opponents were still alive and well. The comrade who was shot in the head was lying quietly in the grass. Like the first five, he had long lost the value of saving him.

The elites of the Chinese people are actually more terrifying than their elites selected from an army of more than 20 people? When they first entered the battlefield, the smug Japanese elite were frightened by the attacks of two Chinese soldiers whose marksmanship was terrifyingly accurate.

To be precise, these Japanese troops have begun to intend to retreat, and they don't even want the honor of being the Imperial Army of the Empire of Japan.

They would rather die on the battlefield than in this silent jungle. They shuddered at the thought that their bodies would become food for the wild beasts in this jungle.

However, the two Chinese soldiers returned to the darkness and maintained terrifying silence, which made it clear to these elite Japanese soldiers that the other side did not intend to let them go.

If you try to run, you will only die faster.

If you want to live, you can only kill the enemy.

At this point, soldiers from both China and Japan have a common understanding.

If you don’t die, I won’t be able to live well!

Under the constant waving gestures of a Japanese second lieutenant, the remaining Japanese soldiers gathered their courage, spread out, and approached the two opponents.

As long as the distance is shortened, the two Chinese soldiers will die.

Time passed little by little, and the night became darker and darker, but the moonlight and stars in the sky seemed to become brighter and brighter, so bright that it made people palpitate.

The two Chinese soldiers and the Japanese group were still entangled. Due to the imbalance in numbers, the two Chinese soldiers were obviously much more tired. For safety reasons, the distance between the two people was also getting farther and farther, and they were separated by more than ten meters. Protecting each other.

On the opposite side, there were only 4 Japanese soldiers left. In the nearly three hours of entanglement, another Japanese soldier was caught and accidentally stepped into the trap set by Yuan Xiao. However, Yuan Xiao and his squad leader did not need to replenish their guns and learned to fight on their own. Professor Tang Tuanzuo's booby trap technique directly broke off a leg of a Japanese soldier who touched a grenade under a leaf.

When the Japanese soldier closest to him was so frightened that he ignored the danger and tried to save the Kyushu Island compatriot whose thigh had already flown more than ten meters away, the veteran squad leader who was more than ten meters away shot him in the head.

The two soldiers used the tactics Tang Tuanzuo wrote in the pamphlet, using injured enemy soldiers as bait to kill their rescue companions, which was considered a miniaturized siege and rescue operation.

The most typical case is that in the war in the 80s when the Republic of the past time and space taught a disobedient little brother a lesson, a Chinese soldier hiding in a cat's ear hole used an Annan soldier who was seriously injured and unable to move to kill him. Killed more than one class of enemies.

In the end, even the Chinese soldiers themselves became a little soft-hearted, but the Annan people were still determined not to give up their plan to rescue their comrades. In the end, more than 20 soldiers participating in the rescue died, and the wounded soldiers still died in the same place after bleeding. That's the end.

Unfortunately, the Japanese were not from Annan. The remaining four Japanese soldiers were obviously determined enough. After discovering the intentions of the Chinese soldiers, the leading Japanese second lieutenant did not hesitate and shot the compatriots who were still wailing.

When the war reaches this point, it is no longer a question of whether to be afraid or whether to live or die. The only thought on both sides is to kill the other side. One side wants to protect the country and the other side wants revenge.

The final result can only end when one party falls down.

The Japanese's marksmanship is also extremely accurate, almost on the same level as the veteran squad leader. If we have to judge the ranking, Yuanxiao is ranked last in the overall rankings of both China and Japan.

It's just that Yuanxiao was smart enough to make full use of the right time and place to completely make up for this gap. Otherwise, due to the huge disparity in strength, the two Chinese soldiers would have been cold.

The two fought and retreated, and the space was compressed little by little.

The veteran squad leader kept gesturing towards Yuanxiao, but Yuanxiao just pretended not to see him.

Although he is still aloof, after living together for a year, not to mention the deep friendship he has formed with these rude soldiers, he has already recognized them in his heart.

What's more, if it hadn't been for the squad leader's desperate rescue, he might have died in the jungle. How could he leave the squad leader alone to stop the four Japanese soldiers and escape by himself?

Even if he can go back alive, not to mention not being able to see the company commander and brothers, even his stubborn father, who has been completely blocked in his heart, will be disappointed again!

"Hey, what a pity for this guy!" Seeing that Yuan Xiao was not moved at all, the veteran squad leader sighed inwardly. He finally let go of his worries and looked ahead with a calm heart.

Since the first-class soldier with the best handwriting in the company doesn't want to escape alone, then let's face death together!

It is best to kill one or two more before death. A veteran who completely disregards life and death and calms down is undoubtedly terrifying.