Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Li Zhengying brought several officers and carefully came to the outskirts of the Japanese headquarters to observe, while other officers and soldiers were resting quietly three hundred meters behind them.

"Battalion commander, this is it. Over there is an intersection. If you go down this road, you will reach Hue Gate." The soldier who was in charge of reconnaissance whispered to Li Zhengying.

Li Zhengying took a telescope and looked carefully at the intersection not far away. At this intersection, the Japanese army set up a small position with sandbags. Through the bright light in the Japanese fortifications, he could clearly see that the Japanese army had a heavy machine gun in this fortification, and there were about ten Japanese soldiers on duty here.

After observing for a while, Li Zhengying and the officers retreated. As soon as they arrived at the rest area of ​​the army, Li Zhengying called the officers of the suicide squad over and ordered: "I just observed the Japanese position at the intersection. It is definitely not possible to charge head-on. Liu Daoba, you lead your men to act according to the previous plan. Staff Officer Hao, I will rely on you in a while. Chen Sanpi, you lead your men to remove all the Japanese sentries around. Don't make any noise. As long as we control the position at this intersection, the subsequent actions will be much easier."

After hearing Li Zhengying's order, all the officers and soldiers began to prepare nervously. The first to be dispatched were the officers and soldiers led by Chen Sanpi. They were in groups of three to five and slowly moved towards the Japanese sentries around. They needed to kill the sentries quietly to prevent their actions at the intersection from being discovered by these sentries.

Li Zhengying looked at his watch. It was already 12:10 in the evening. There was only one hour left before the troops inside the city launched a counterattack. At this moment, a soldier sent by Chen Sanpi came to Li Zhengying and reported in a low voice: "Battalion Commander, Captain Chen asked me to come back and tell you that the Japanese sentries around have been cleared. Captain Chen is leading his men to continue searching around to see if there are any Japanese sentries left."

After hearing the soldier's report, Li Zhengying was relieved. Then he said to a soldier beside him, "Go and inform Staff Officer Hao and Captain Liu. They can take action now."

After the soldier left, Li Zhengying whispered to the officers and soldiers behind him: "Get ready and keep quiet." Then he raised the telescope and stared at the Japanese position at the intersection.

Ishikawa Ango is a soldier in the guard squadron directly under the 101st Division Headquarters. Since following the troops to Hongcheng, he has been guarding the position at this intersection. Two hundred meters behind this intersection is the headquarters camp of the 101st Division.

In the past few days, Ishikawa Ango has seen too many soldiers on the front line being carried on stretchers to the field hospital in the rear. Today, he also learned from the team leader that the attack of the front troops was not going smoothly and many soldiers were killed and wounded. Even the tank troops that had just come to reinforce had all fallen into the traps dug in advance by the Chinese army.

In the past few days, the officers passing by here every day had a stern face, which looked very scary. The team leader also specifically instructed everyone on their position that if they met an officer or someone coming from the front, try not to conflict with them, because those people are in a very bad temper now.

Just as Ishikawa Ango was daydreaming, he found that a group of soldiers seemed to be coming from the direction of Hongcheng. He glanced at his other companions who were sleeping in the fortifications, and after thinking for a while, he decided not to disturb their rest.

When the group of Japanese soldiers on the road were less than fifty meters away from the intersection, Ishikawa Ango could roughly see that this was a team that was withdrawing from Hongcheng to transport the wounded. Many soldiers in the team had gauze tied around their necks, and some were supporting each other as they walked towards this side.

After Ishikawa Ango remembered what the squad leader had told him, he decided not to have any contact with these angry wounded soldiers. Who knew if they were angry right now? He decided not to get involved. As for checking the password, he felt it was unnecessary. The gates of Hongcheng had now been occupied by the 101st Division, and it was impossible for the Chinese troops to come to such a far place quietly.

When the team full of wounded soldiers reached the front of the position at the intersection, the lieutenant officer leading the team looked at Ishikawa Ango and asked, "Soldier, what is your name? We are the wounded soldiers of the 101st Regiment. Is the field hospital in the back?"

After hearing the lieutenant's question, Ishikawa Ango groaned in his heart. He didn't want to talk to these defeated and resentful people, but why did they still want to cause trouble for him? What a shame.

"Report, my name is Ishikawa Ango, and I'm a soldier in the division guard squadron. The field hospital is right behind us, about eighty meters from the tents of the division headquarters." Ishikawa Ango had no choice. Since his superiors asked him a question, he had to answer it. He must not let them find his problem and make a fuss about it.

This group of wounded Japanese soldiers were actually disguised as the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad. Before setting off, Li Zhengying called all his officers together. He needed to brainstorm and get everyone to help come up with ideas. They needed to think about some situations that might arise and how to deal with them.

In order to ensure the success of this operation, Li Zhengying specially asked Chief of Staff Ouyang Heng to borrow Staff Officer Hao from the division headquarters who could speak Japanese. His purpose was to enter the Japanese command center as quietly as possible and launch a sudden attack when the Japanese were unprepared.

As for the Japanese equipment, it was too easy for the new 100th Division, which was currently fighting the Japanese in the city. Even the blood stains on the Japanese uniforms worn by these officers and soldiers were real.

When Staff Officer Hao heard that the Japanese soldier in front of him had told him all the information he wanted to know so easily, he found it hard to believe that the Japanese garrison would be so lax. Didn't the Japanese even ask him for the password?

After getting the answer he wanted, Staff Officer Hao waved to the "Japanese wounded soldiers" behind him, signaling everyone to continue moving forward.

When Ishikawa Ango saw the officer instructing the team of wounded soldiers to keep moving forward, he felt relieved. He was afraid that the officer would cause trouble for him and give him a few slaps in the face. That would be too frustrating for him.

Ishikawa Ango saw that there was nothing for him to do here, so he held his gun and turned his back to the advancing wounded soldiers. He was afraid that if he looked at them a few more times, he would be accused and cursed by them.

Seeing that the Japanese soldier on guard was so cooperative, the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad stopped waiting and followed the plan they had agreed upon before. Two members suddenly rushed out of the team. One of them suddenly covered Ango Ishikawa's mouth from behind, and the other took out a dagger and quickly stabbed Ango Ishikawa in the neck.

Other team members rushed into the roadside fortifications and killed the sleeping Japanese soldiers with bayonets and daggers.

At this time, the last few officers and soldiers in the team quickly stood in the Japanese fortifications and took on the task of guarding the fortifications, while also preventing the Japanese army from discovering the problems at the intersection.

Li Zhengying saw through the telescope that the team led by Staff Officer Hao had successfully occupied the Japanese position, so he quickly ordered all officers and soldiers to follow him and rush to the intersection quickly. They needed to reach the vicinity of the Japanese division headquarters as soon as possible.

When Li Zhengying led his troops to the position at the intersection, Staff Officer Hao quickly said to Li Zhengying: "Captain Li, the Japanese division headquarters is about 200 meters behind this road, and further back is their field hospital."

After listening to what Staff Officer Hao said, Li Zhengying nodded, and then led all the officers and soldiers to carefully sneak towards the Japanese division headquarters from the roadside. Staff Officer Hao, with more than a dozen suicide squad members disguised as Japanese soldiers, guarded the fortifications at the intersection.

Li Zhengying commanded the members of the suicide squad to sneak all the way to the tents of the 101st Division Headquarters. It took them more than ten minutes to cover the short distance of meters. There were several mobile sentries of the Japanese army next to the division headquarters. Li Zhengying could only slowly lead the officers and soldiers to kill these Japanese sentries.

Looking at the tents twenty meters away, Li Zhengying was extremely excited. Up to this point in the mission, he already felt that it was a great success. He had never thought that he could lead his men to the headquarters of the 101st Division so smoothly and quietly. It was simply God's will that he would go down in history.

Li Zhengying looked at his watch. The time had come to 0:40. In twenty minutes, the troops in the city would launch a counterattack to cover their actions. But now Li Zhengying thought that his troops had already reached the Japanese division headquarters, so why not sneak in and kill some of them first while the Japanese haven't discovered him?

Li Zhengying couldn't hold back his restless heart when he thought of this, so he told the death squad members behind him: "Let those with good skills sneak into the Japanese army's tents and kill as many as they can, with officers first. Remember to take down the ranks of those who are killed. This is all military merit, understand?"

After receiving the order, more than ten members of the suicide squad at the back came out of the team and crawled towards the tent in front. This kind of stealth assassination was commonplace for them, but for the officers and soldiers in the 101st Division Headquarters, they were devils in the dark, and they were hard to guard against.

Now in the entire 101st Division camp, most of the officers and soldiers have rested. Only a few officers on duty are sitting together in the division headquarters tent smoking and chatting. They are completely unaware of the danger outside the tent.