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Chapter 276 We Are the Guard of Honor; Reaper's Scythe!
Prior to this, the clothing styles of other resistance troops active on Honshu Island were very chaotic—those who wore their own civilian clothes, those who wore old-style military uniforms, and those who wore new-style military uniforms.

And Hideo Inoue's basic measure to try to unify the resistance force is to uniform the dress as much as possible. Therefore, in this resistance base area located in Kannon Mountain, the military personnel sewed a batch of crude military uniforms, which are based on the local army of Anojin. The military uniform was designed, the difference is that the material of the clothing is worse, and the color is yellow-green.

Several staff officers were shot dead on the spot by the soldiers of the Ming army who broke into the house. The two dying people were still struggling in pain, but within a few seconds they were shot again.

The noise of shooting indoors was far greater than outdoors. The corporal, whose ears were buzzing, glared at the soldier who was replenishing his gun, and then stepped forward quickly.

He glanced roughly at the documents on the table, and recognized that they were maps of Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, as well as a stack of wire-bound proposals and more than a dozen telegrams.

"This is supposed to be a telecommunications room or something. The enemy general's lair must be nearby!" The corporal shouted loudly while changing the magazine for the submachine gun in his hand: "Call the people behind to hurry up, damn it! If Let them slip away for nothing."

Later, more than a dozen soldiers came one after another, and one of them picked up the scattered documents on the table and stuffed them into his backpack regardless of the date.

The rest of the people rushed out of the brick building without stopping, and continued to move forward.

"boom!"

A four or five-meter-high wooden sentry tower was blown down by a grenade, and sawdust was scattered everywhere. The sentry on it fell to the ground screaming, and was knocked down by a bullet just as he staggered up.

The imposing officers and soldiers of Yiluan Division quickly broke through the thin line of defense. The ignorant resistance army was unable to parry and had to retreat in panic. A few stragglers were also quickly killed by fast and accurate shooting.

In the headquarters in the middle of the camp, Hideo Inoue finally figured out what happened—a Ming army unexpectedly attacked the camp?And it was not discovered until it was close at hand?
But less than a quarter of an hour had passed since the start of the battle, and the boiling water flowing from the broken thermos that fell off the table was still warm.

Everything happened so fast, and the resistance army never expected to encounter such a strange situation. They could not understand how the Ming army sneaked into the deep hinterland silently.

Looking at the figures flashing from the houses seven to 80 meters away, a confidant urged eagerly: "Your Excellency, retreat quickly! It will be too late, they are less than one town away from us!"

"Bang! Bang!"

A dozen or so guards nearby were shooting desperately in that direction, regardless of how many friendly troops were fleeing in embarrassment halfway.

Running in the middle area where the two sides are shooting is obviously tantamount to courting death, but a person in such a state of despair has long been unable to think rationally, and just wants to stay away from the devil behind him.

After a while, accompanied by about 20 people, Hideo Inoue and his party began to retreat to the north.

There is a cave that is used as a large shelter. Inside the cave, there is a trail leading to the northern foot of Guanyin Mountain.

The so-called three caves of the cunning rabbit, the Japanese are not stupid, they have figured out the surrounding terrain and environment very early, and regarded this natural cave path as a secret passage.

At this time, Cai Zhichen suddenly caught a glimpse of a white and a yellow signal flare rising from the flanking mound.

According to pre-agreement, this indicates the arrival of own aircraft.

Because the plane was coming from the east, it happened to be in the direction of the rising sun, so the officers and soldiers squinted their eyes for several seconds before vaguely seeing three small black dots.

"Bang!" They immediately used rifle grenades to fire red smoke bombs in the direction of the enemy camp, and at the same time threw a blue smoke can next to their position.

The dive bomber fleet of Tianshi Zuoyuan was code-named "Yan". Three Type [-] dive bombers, Yan [-], Yan [-], and Yan [-], flew over Guanyin Mountain in a standard formation. smoke signal from the ground.

After descending the altitude, the three planes passed by the low altitude, but they did not launch an attack, but only inspected the current battlefield environment.

After returning in a circle again, the pilots flew the plane and started bombing at a small depression angle.

Because they were blocked and suppressed by the firepower on the side and rear mounds before, a large number of resistance soldiers were lying or kneeling, relying on ridges, sandbags, low walls and other bunkers to shoot aimlessly, and this air strike directly It gave this group of Japanese who lacked air defense awareness an unforgettable lesson.

The twelve 100kg aerial bombs that fell one after another seemed to send down a burst of thunder. When the TNT explosive exploded, it burst out with dazzling flames and fierce air waves, setting off huge clouds of smoke and dust.

All of a sudden, the power of the aerial bomb fragments cannot be underestimated. Large pieces of high-speed fragments can almost cut off a person's arm!
The broken limbs and arms that were blown away by the shock wave flew tens of meters away in the air. When several soldiers of the Ming army stopped to enjoy the magnificent scenery, a torn palm fell in front of them, and the fracture was still there. Oozing blood.

The huge movement that shook the sky and the earth made Hideo Inoue and his team couldn't help but look back. They couldn't help feeling as if their pains were pierced when they saw that their painstaking efforts for more than a month were annihilated in the smoke and dust of the explosion.

More than a hundred resistance troops were killed by air strikes in this way, and the pilots would not be satisfied with this-it is not easy to come here, how can it be done by just throwing bombs?
After turning around again, the nose of the aircraft pointed to the ground, and the firing button was pressed!

"Da da da da-"

Two strings of 7.36mm incendiary bombs and tracer bombs flew out from the muzzles at the root of the left and right wings, and two rows of dust splashed on the ground in an instant.

The resistance soldiers who were knocked down by the bullets screamed miserably on the pool of blood, but in this chaotic situation, no one could take care of the wounded at all.

At this time, more than 50 officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance team and the second team had cleared the headquarters here, and the six or seven enemy soldiers who were stubbornly resisting were all killed in a snap.

"Team Wang, they're heading north!"

Seeing that the big fish was about to slip away, the captain who led the team became impatient.

"The enemy's mind is already in disarray, and there is not much threat." He turned his head and glanced at the direction of the enemy camp filled with gunpowder, and waved his hand: "Go, follow me!"

The soldiers followed closely behind, pursuing all the way to the north.

These dozens of people broke away from the main force and chased Hideo Inoue and his party alone.

Captain Wang's immediate decision disrupted the original deployment to a certain extent, but the actual combat situation is ever-changing, and it is definitely not feasible to fight a war solely by a fixed plan.

Cai Zhichen understood this well. He took a deep breath and calmly analyzed the current situation between the two sides.

Although the enemy army suffered heavy casualties due to being caught off guard right now, there are still thousands of them anyway, and it will become more and more detrimental to our own side as time goes on.

The primary goal of this trip is to solve the command center of this resistance army, and the secondary goal is to destroy supplies.

Because the Japanese store all kinds of weapons, ammunition and medicines in caves, air raids cannot destroy them, and the importance of these things is self-evident-without supplies, it is impossible to pull up a team to fight against the Ming army. It's just getting harder.

So Cai Zhichen quickly made a decision. He pointed to the North Command and said, "The original plan won't work. Let's fight and retreat to the north to catch up with Old Wang and the others, and take the warehouse here by the way!"

"But we don't know which hole is for hoarding supplies!"

"Try your luck! Just leave if you can't find it. This is not a major matter related to the fate of the country, so preserving yourself is the first priority, go!"

"Order!"

At the same time, dozens of people from the reconnaissance team and the second team have chased to the north of the camp.

Because it is located in a gentle valley in the middle of the mountains, the edge is naturally a series of cliffs. In front of the officers and soldiers is a dark cave. The dense footprints on the ground are undoubtedly proof of signs of escape.

Everyone looked at each other, and immediately turned into a staggered two-way column and rushed into the cave.

"red deer!"

The pursuit of the Ming army surprised and annoyed the Japanese in front. In order to get rid of the brown sugar-like pursuers, they began to use grenades to make booby traps.

Pull out the pull ring of the MkII grenade and press it with a wooden board, so that the handle will not bounce off, and the delayed powder fuse will not be ignited.

Hearing the sound of footsteps and shouts getting closer behind them, several resistance soldiers hurriedly pressed on the board, and then ran away.

The narrow cave path can only accommodate one person, and it is very difficult for two people, and it is dark.

The soldiers of the reconnaissance team who rushed to the front wrapped their flashlights under the Type [-] submachine gun or the side of the Type [-] automatic gun with cloth strips, and walked through them as dexterously as possible.

Suddenly, someone seemed to be stepping on something in a quick step. The "click" sound was quite obvious in the narrow passage, and five or six people in front and behind heard it.

The second-ranked soldier swung his gun to the ground, and the light from the flashlight happened to illuminate the grenade that had bounced off the handle.

He widened his eyes in horror, and half realized that he kicked it forward with force.

"There are booby traps!"

"Grass! Lying..."

The grenade passed by the first soldier, hit the side of the cave wall two meters away, and then exploded.

The explosion in the small space made everyone's eardrums hurt and their heads buzzed.

Both soldiers were wounded by fragments. Their arms, abdomen, and thighs were bleeding. The injuries were serious, but at first glance, it seemed that their lives were not in danger?
The cursing captain assigned two people to stay for ambulance, and then led the rest to continue the pursuit.

The officers and soldiers who were aroused became furious and vowed to skin and cramp these guys.

After twisting and turning like this for a long time, finally, a light appeared in front of him.

In an instant, they suddenly realized that they had reached the halfway up the mountain at the northern foot of Guanyin Mountain, and the grass and shrubs in front of them could clearly see the traces of being trampled out.

After nearly 10 minutes of pursuit, dozens of officers and soldiers who were chasing after him succeeded in catching up with the exhausted Hideo Inoue and his party.

Except for the guards who were physically strong, the others were already out of breath and had no strength left to run away.

The aura of officers and soldiers of Yiluan Division who "chased to the ends of the earth and killed them all" made the group fall into deep despair.

"They didn't move!"

"Scatter left and right, go up!"

After a cup of tea.

There was no suspense in the short exchange of fire, and the cost of one death and five injuries resulted in the complete destruction of the center of the resistance army.

More than [-] guards and several officers were all shot dead; Hideo Inoue shot himself, one of the three confidantes followed and killed himself, and the other two were shot dead during the escape.

An officer of the resistance army who was seriously injured and dying tried his best to ask vaguely in Chinese: "Which army... are you..."

"We, Yiluansi. Well, it's the guard of honor."

"Crack! Kick!"

A sergeant took out his camera and took several pictures of Hideo Inoue's body in succession.

"Old fox!" The captain surnamed Wang, whose shoulder was scratched by the bullet, spat, kicked the corpse with red and white flowing on the ground, and then found two small notebooks, pens, and photos from his pocket. And so on.

But when others checked the other corpses, they found something unexpected. In a briefcase, they found some English documents, some were handwritten and some were typed.

So far, after many hardships, the primary goal of the operation has finally been achieved.

At this moment, the main force of more than a hundred people in Yiluan Division also found a cave where supplies were hoarded while fighting and retreating, but it was not sure whether it was the only one.

"Tsk! What the hell is going on, the airship hasn't come yet... Let's just leave it at that and arrange the explosives."

Since the situation did not allow further careful search, Cai Zhichen directly ordered the installation of explosives, and then quickly evacuated the place.

To be on the safe side, there were four fuses in the three bombing sites that were burning sizzlingly. Cai Zhichen, who looked normal, looked at the slowly moving sparks and showed a satisfied smile.

At this time, in the sky, the belated Type [-] seaplane finally flew over Guanyin Mountain.

There are a total of four engines in the middle of the slender and wide wings, and two openings, one large and one small, are neatly cut on the left side of the huge middle part of the fuselage.

The pilot and navigator were looking left and right to observe the situation on the ground. Suddenly, the ground seemed to be hammered by a hammer!
"Boom—boom—"

Short continuous roars swept across the sky and earth, a huge explosion resounded through the sky, and a thick gray-black smoke emerged from the mountains and soared into the sky.

The crew members on board were taken aback, the pilot pulled the lever subconsciously, and the whole plane immediately climbed up.

After circling around and seeing that there were no more accidents, they descended again to prepare for fire support.

During this more than a quarter of an hour, the resistance army finally reorganized its formation, and was about to pursue the Ming army who was fighting and retreating, but the huge explosion attracted their attention to a large extent.

The seaplane that came alone made the resistance army feel puzzled. How could the Ming army send this thing over?Huge, slow-moving seaplanes don't seem like a threat?

But because so many uncommon-sense things happened in just half an hour, some clever Japanese felt that there must be a monster if something abnormal happened, and began to run away in a panic.

At this moment, the gunboat numbered "Zuoshandiao No. [-]" stabilized its flight attitude and began to circle over the valley.

Looking at the bewildered tiny bugs on the ground, the gunners wearing windproof glasses were extremely excited.

"boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom-"

Under their control, the Type 80 12.8mm mountain gun with a truncated barrel and the Type [-] [-]mm aviation machine gun roared in unison.

Explosive bombs exploded in the crowd, and the blown corpses rolled and fell to the ground like rag dolls; large-caliber machine gun bullets waved back and forth like death's scythes, killing them with a touch!

(End of this chapter)