Chapter 14

  The vengeful Prince Hao said this, scaring Li Bin, who was shocked and pale: "Absolutely not, absolutely not! We only have 18 people, while a small Japanese team has 70 or 80 people! This move is no different from hitting a stone with an egg!"

  "Ah! I, a five-foot-tall man, will not be intimidated by any foreign devil! If I don't kill them, it's a sin against China!"

  "Right! Kill all the Japanese pirates!" The crowd erupted in a chorus of shouts.

  Even Hong Biao said: "Brother, last time we two dared to fight the devils, this time with so many brothers, facing a small team of devils, what's there to fear? Third brother is right, if we don't kill the devils, it's a sin!"

  After listening to everyone's words, Li Bin bowed his head in contemplation. He thought to himself: At this time, the Japanese army is made up of some very strong elite troops. Using a night raid might be possible, but the Japanese should not be careless! Li Bin secretly hated himself in his heart: Why did he only read about people who came from books and were versatile special forces, while he was just a tank soldier who could write but not fight? It seemed that he wouldn't be of much help in sneaking into the enemy camp. No, the power of wisdom must be stronger than those brave but thoughtless people! He would think again, maybe there would be a good way.

  Suddenly, Li Bin had an idea. He thought of a plan and said to Wang Zihao and the others: "The Japanese must be on high alert! If we launch a surprise attack on their barracks like this, I'm afraid our eighteen men won't even be enough for them to fill their teeth! Everyone, don't rush! In fact, I hate these devils just as much as you all do. Let me go and observe the surrounding terrain first, then decide how to deal with this small group of devils!"

  After finishing speaking, Li Bin stood up and began to observe the terrain around the ghost soldier barracks under the protection of Hong Biao and Wang Zihao.

  Originally, Hong Biao and Wang Zihao only symbolically asked for Li Bin's opinion because they regarded him as an elder brother. However, seeing Li Bin seriously going to observe the terrain, the two of them followed him with some doubt, wanting to know how much "energy" this so-called "big brother" really had.

  Li Bin, although only a tank soldier, was an excellent warrior who had received professional training at the Modern Military Academy. Otherwise, he would not have been able to take on the heavy responsibility of driving the advanced Type 05 tank. In terms of terrain, defensive deployment and timing of operations, he can be said to be an expert.

  Of course, Li Bin also knew that he had to fight well in this battle. Only by fighting well could he make Wang Zihao and the others surrender to him! Otherwise, his so-called big brother would forever be just a decoration.

  In fact, Wang Zihao was not convinced of this so-called "big brother" in his heart, but seeing that Hong Biao, who had a higher military rank than him, actually listened to and followed the plans of this short and young man, he reluctantly put down his face.

  Li Bin observed the deployment of the Japanese army around them under the protection of the two, and found that this group of Japanese troops and the nearest Japanese troops were more than ten miles apart. This was not a tactical mistake by the Japanese, but at that time, the total number of Japanese troops entering Northeast China was indeed small, and the Japanese overestimated their own combat effectiveness, believing that hundreds of them could defeat a North Big Camp with 7,000 people. So a small team of Japanese, they believed that the Northeast Army would not dare to attack them with more than two regiments. But where can you see a regiment of the Northeast Army nearby? Even if there is one, it has already been defeated by other Japanese troops.

  However, the Japanese never dreamed that someone would now want to take down their fully-staffed team with a force of just eighteen people!

  After observing the terrain, Li Bin already had a way to deal with the devils in his heart. He shouted to Hong Biao: "Brother, give you half an hour's time, you go south and take a look, see how many miles behind us there will be devils."

  Hong Biao didn't understand, and Li Bin smiled and said: "Brother, just go according to my plan!" In fact, Li Bin wanted to stage a good play of luring the snake out of the cave and then ambushing the devils. To prevent being counter-attacked, he specially let Hong Biao go take a look at whether there were any other devil troops behind him.

  An hour later, Hong Biao returned to report to Li Bin: "Big brother, according to my observation, there are no devils within five or six miles behind us!"

  "Good!" Li Bin smiled and said, "I have a plan that can lure the snake out of its hole. We'll set up an ambush here and take down those bastards!"

  Rumor has it that Li Bin had a good plan, and everyone leaned in to listen. Li Bin made the arrangements: the soldier who would execute the task of luring the snake out of its hole was one who knew how to use a grenade launcher. Li Bin handed over the captured grenade launcher to him, and he was to fire it 300 meters outside the Japanese army camp, then immediately run back into the encirclement. In Wang Zihao's team, two people were using Russian-made water droplet rifles, which were actually Mosin-Nagant 1891 rifles. The performance of these rifles was far superior to the old-fashioned rifles commonly used in China, including the Liaodong-made Mauser rifle, also known as the Mauser 1888 rifle. They had a higher accuracy and were therefore most suitable for use by snipers. Li Bin made the arrangements: Wang Zihao and Wu Congyu would each use one of these water droplet rifles to lie in wait 1,000 meters away from the Japanese devils, and when the person who fired the grenade launcher ran back towards the Japanese army, they would take long-range shots to pick off the enemy. However, Li Bin had a requirement for the two of them: "You two must change positions after each shot! You should know that the little devils have many snipers!"

  Next, Li Bin's arrangement was the most important one: to place a single machine gun on the flank, which was the direction-finding machine gun in Hong Biao's hands. His task was to wait for the Japanese to enter the fan-shaped shooting angle and then open fire fiercely. The angle chosen by Li Bin was the most favorable for the machine gun to exert its firepower. Unfortunately, there was only one machine gun, if there were two machine guns deployed on both flanks, that would be the so-called crossfire, which is the most effective firepower deployment against infantry.

  Li Bin has nothing to worry about, the Japanese won't be able to get through from Hong Biao's machine gun fan-shaped shooting angle, because Wang Zihao and Wu Congyu are firing one shot and then retreating a few steps, step by step luring the devils into the death fire circle.

  Finally, Li Bin's deployment was: except for one decoy grenade launcher, Hong Biao in charge of the machine gun, sharpshooters Wang Zihao and Wu Congyu, and himself in command, the remaining 13 soldiers were tasked with throwing grenades. They ambushed along the road where Wang Zihao and Wu Congyu retreated while fighting, waiting for Hong Biao's machine gun to fire before throwing their hand grenades at the devils.

  Li Bin himself, in addition to commanding tasks, also served as Hong Biao's ammunition loader.

  After everything was arranged, Li Bin pulled out a wooden-handled grenade from the waist of a soldier and said: "This domestically-made grenade is not powerful enough. Due to quality issues, it often appears that after throwing the grenade, it directly explodes into two pieces. Even if it can be successfully detonated, the number of fragments is still insufficient, so the lethal power is not great. I have a method to increase the power of the grenade, you guys watch!"

  After finishing, he pulled down a piece of cloth from the big car, wrapped small stones in it, and then tied the cloth with stones on the hand grenade: "You all learn from me, so that when the hand grenade explodes, these stones can fly out to injure the enemy! Can enhance the lethality of the hand grenade!"

  In fact, if time had not been pressing, Li Bin would have made several prefabricated fragmentation sleeve sets on his own. With those sleeves fitted onto the hand grenades, their power would be much greater than using stone blocks!

  After everything was arranged, Li Bin took out the canned beef he had brought from the big truck and opened it to let all the warriors enjoy a delicious dinner. After replenishing their energy, they would be ready to go into battle.