Chapter 117 Adjusting the Combat Deployment
Dong Limao lay on the bed and followed up last night's reconnaissance, tracking, setting up an ambush and encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army. The latest information provided by Li Yuanyuan made him dare not be careless at all. This is a major event related to the lives of more than 100 brothers in the spy company. How can he not only wipe out more than 300 elite Japanese advance teams, but also minimize the casualties of his brothers?
"Wild Wolf Death Squad...Pangolin Operation...Wild Wolf..." Dong Limao plunged his hands behind his head, muttering words: "Kill the Wolf...Kill..." He suddenly sat up: "Yes, kill the Wolf! Before the Japanese could take out their weapons from the horse's pack..."
Dong Limao thought of this and forgot that it was late at night and shouted loudly: "Little Mustache..."
Hu San was not called, but the sentry standing guard ran forward to report at the door.
"Go and find the quarantine officer for me!" Dong Limao got out of bed and put on his shoes and ordered loudly.
He lit the light, spread the map on the desktop, raised the light with his left hand, and slid back and forth at Songshan where he was preparing to set up his ambush.
"Report..." Pan Guangzu yawned outside the door and shouted for a report.
"Come in quickly, fat man." Dong Limao did not look up, but still bowed his head on the map.
The door creaked and pushed open: "Company Commander, what's the matter with me so late?" Pan Guangzu rubbed his eyes and walked over to ask.
"You have to prepare more than a hundred sharp machetes for me before dawn." Dong Limao put the lamp on the table and looked at Pan Guangzu and said.
"It's midnight, where do you ask me to get more than a hundred machetes!" Pan Guangzu answered while sitting on the chair.
"You are my quartermaster. Now I need to equip every brother with a machete. Even if you transform into magic, you must get it for me before dawn!" Dong Limao said with glaring eyes.
"I said the company commander, we are the spy company, the best-equipped company in the entire expeditionary army. The brothers are not woodcutters who chop firewood. Is it appropriate to equip cold weapons into a mechanized company? Is it worth it? This is not the era of cold weapons." Pan Guangzu couldn't understand why Dong Limao wanted a machete.
"For killing wolves!" Dong Limao replied coldly.
"Kill... Kill the wolf... Haha..." Pan Guangzu laughed: "Brothers have submachine guns, pistols and grenades on them. That is not a powerful weapon to kill wolf. Company Commander, you will never abandon these advanced modern weapons and use machetes instead..." Pan Guangzu seemed to think of something, and slapped his forehead and said: "Oh, I understand. Company Commander, you killed a wild wolf with a machete last time. Do you think the machete is very good? So..."
"This time it's not killing wild wolves, but cutting off the Japanese's heads!" Dong Limao interrupted Pan Guangzu's words.
Pan Guangzu became even more surprised, stood up, blinked his little eyes and asked, "You mean, you want your brothers to use machetes to the Japanese..."
Dong Limao immediately took over the sentence and said, "That's right, we have to kill the Japanese with a machete!"
Pan Guangzu reached out to Dong Limao's forehead and touched: "Company Commander, you are talking in a sleep, are you?"
"Go! You're just talking in your sleep!" Dong Limao pushed Pan Guangzu away: "You go find Brother Ma, he is a local, let him accompany you to find a machete."
"You really want to use a machete to kill the Japanese?" Pan Guangzu didn't believe that Dong Limao would come up with a machete to kill the Japanese.
"Fatty, how come you have so much nonsense! If you can't find enough of the number of machetes I mentioned before dawn, then I will chop you up as a Japanese first!" Dong Limao's eyes widened and he shouted loudly.
Pan Guangzu was really afraid that Dong Limao would get angry, so he walked out the door obediently, but his mouth was muttering: "You don't need so many weapons with huge lethality, you can kill a few Japanese with a machete!"
Even though he complained, Pan Guangzu still followed Dong Limao's instructions and brought a bald horse and a soldier who could drive. Before dawn, he actually found more than a hundred machetes used by locals.
Dong Limao looked at the jeep's shaking machete and asked with a smile: "Fatty, you are worthy of being my quartermaster. How did you get these machetes?"
Pan Guangzu pointed to the bald horse and said, "If it weren't for Brother Ma, even if I had Ritian's ability, I wouldn't have been able to get these machetes."
The bald horse replied: "There are several such knives in every household in every household. They are happy to hear that they want to use machetes to chop the Japanese. Almost every household is willing to give us all their machetes. Brother Dong, do we want to use these machetes, just like you took us to chop the Japanese like the last time you took us to chop the wild wolf?"
Pan Guangzu muttered: "The Japanese are not wild wolves."
"Municipal, you don't understand this. Brother Dong and Instructor Gou used this machete to kill eight Japanese devils." The bald horse picked up a machete and tried to use his thumb on the blade to try to sharpen it: "They are all very sharp, and they can be used without grinding."
"Distribute these machetes to every brother. In the future, this machete will become a special equipment for our spy company. Tell brothers to keep the machete sharp at all times." Dong Limao ordered Pan Guangzu.
Liu Yudong's reconnaissance platoon was all put on local clothes and found some mules and horses. The packs were filled with weapons and ammunition. If necessary, they could ride mules and horses on their way.
Zhao Yong's main attack platoon and Zhang Dali's machine gun platoon were all ready to go to Songshan and find a suitable place to set up an ambush.
Before leaving, Dong Limao called Zhao Yong and Liu Yudong aside alone and explained the new countermeasures he had thought of last night to both of them.
Dong Limao's judgment was correct. The Japanese advance team, code-named Operation Pangolin, set off from a market town in Myanmar at noon on April 26, and the troops were divided into six routes and walked on the steep mountain road. The only difference was that they did not drive too many mules and horses like horses. Each team only used more than a dozen mules and horses to transport light and heavy weapons and ammunition. In order not to attract the attention of the people, they changed into horse-driving men's clothes, wore straw raincoats, and hats. In addition to carrying short swords as a general self-defense, they did not carry guns. This was to avoid attracting the attention of the people along the way, and to guard against plainclothes detectives of the Expeditionary Force. Their purpose was very clear, that was to go straight to Huitong Bridge, Nujiang.
When night fell, it started drizzling in the sky, and it continued.
The wild wolf suicide squad led by Nagato Matsushita began to cross Gaoligong Mountain from six steep paths, and passed the China-Myanmar border one after another around midnight.
The report of the reconnaissance platoon was successively transmitted to Dong Limao. After he accumulated the number of people passing through each mountain road, there were a total of 358 people, which was consistent with Li Yuanyuan's latest information. Moreover, the six people were moving quickly in one direction without stopping.
Dong Limao marked six arrows on the map with a red pen and said to Wang Jiagui and Gou Hao: "The wolves are drilling into the pockets we set up, recalling all the brothers at the checkpoints of the major traffic roads. It's time for us to get on the way!"
Dong Limao slightly adjusted the previous combat deployment. The platoon of Wang Jiagui led by him no longer surrounds the back, but instead lies with Zhao Yong and Zhang Dali and others, ambushing in the woods on both sides of the mountain road that the Japanese advance team must pass. After the Japanese advance team entered the ambush circle, the reconnaissance platoon was responsible for blocking the retreat. Wang Jiagui led the sniper squad to cover the trees and shoot the enemy. The other spies rushed towards the Japanese army from both sides of the forest. Before the Japanese army had time to take out their weapons, they used pistols and machetes to eliminate them at close range.
This plan seems stupid, but it is very practical. It can not give the Japanese army the chance to get weapons from horse packs. As long as the Japanese army does not have the chance to take out the guns, the casualties of the spy company will be reduced a lot. Otherwise, as long as the gun is fired, the Japanese army will definitely organize a counterattack immediately. This will delay the battle. The longer the delay, the more unfavorable it will be for the spy company. After all, the number of Japanese soldiers is dominant. Using a madman to rush up to fight at close range is better than using guns. With a pistol and machete, I believe that every soldier can fight ten against the Japanese devils with one or ten, and suddenly disrupt the Japanese devils' position. At the same time, Wang Jiagui's sniper squad monitors the enemy on the tree. Anyone who wants to take a gun from horse packs or threatens the spy company's brothers will be shot and killed. Those who want to escape will be shot and killed, and those who retreat will be intercepted by the reconnaissance platoon.
Chapter completed!