Chapter 17: The Forest of Crisis
In the woods, Japanese soldiers cautiously searched forward!
Outside the forest, they didn't feel anything unusual, but once they entered the forest, they discovered that it wasn't as simple as they had imagined!
The tall pines and poplars blocked the moonlight from outside, making it very dark in the forest. Although it wasn't pitch black, the visibility was still low, and you couldn't see more than a few steps ahead.
Underfoot were fallen leaves and withered branches, which had accumulated a thick layer over the years. When stepped on, they sank downwards, giving people a feeling of being suspended in mid-air, unable to reach the ground, making them feel very uncomfortable.
The trees were entwined with ivy and thorns, the ground was overgrown with thickets of shrubs that constantly snagged at their backpacks and clothes, making every step forward a laborious task.
"What kind of terrain is this? It's so hard to walk." A Japanese soldier whispered to his companion beside him.
"Yes, it's so dark and difficult to walk, why not go around? It won't take much more time!" His companion also deeply agreed, but they had no choice, the orders from above could only be unconditionally obeyed!
Two people were walking, when he suddenly felt a gentle breeze passing by his side, making his cheeks feel cool. He quickly looked up and gazed forward, but found nothing in front of him.
"Hey, Ikeda-kun, did you hear something?" Although he didn't find anything, his body hair still stood on end and a wave of fear rose from the bottom of his heart, as if an invisible hand had grasped it.
There was no movement around me, not a single sound, even the footsteps that had sounded somewhat eerie before were gone!
The Japanese soldier's heart skipped a beat, and he hastily stopped in his tracks, slowly turning around to look back. As a result, he found that there was no one behind him, and suddenly he quickly raised his gun and cautiously made his way back along the road he had come from.
The rustling of leaves underfoot was extremely clear in the dead silence of the forest, and it also made the Japanese soldiers' nerves tighter and tighter, almost to the point of collapse.
Finally, he tripped over an object on the ground and almost fell to the ground. He quickly squatted down, stretched out his hand to touch it, and suddenly his hands were covered with warm, smooth **.
He raised his hand and saw a faint crimson stain on it. The faint smell of blood wafted into his nostrils, making him almost shout out loud.
The rifle was suddenly raised, and he tensely scanned the surroundings, hoping to find where the danger came from, but all around was still a piece of darkness, without any discovery.
"Who exactly is it? Come out!"
Under the oppressive silence and fear, the Japanese soldier finally had a nervous breakdown, letting out a beast-like scream before firing all the bullets in his gun forward.
A burst of gunfire sent leaves falling from the trees, drifting to the ground, but none of them hit their target.
Just as he was panting and turning around to escape, a gentle breeze passed by his back, followed by a severe pain in the back of his head, and then he lost consciousness.
On a tall poplar tree about ten meters away from him, a Tiger Tooth Special Warfare Team member wearing jungle camouflage viewed the two Japanese soldiers' bodies on the ground through a sniper scope with night vision installed, then put down the horizontally held T514 sniper crossbow and reloaded the quiver that had shot out two crossbow arrows.
He is waiting for the emergence of the next goal!
In fact, he was not alone in the fight. In this forest of hundreds of meters, at least fifty members of the Tiger Tooth Special Team were hiding, each with a T514 sniper crossbow, waiting for the Japanese to fall into their trap.
The body that was just blown up was actually a rubber inflatable dummy, used to deceive Kogoro Mouri and his troops, so they would let their guard down.
This is one of the sequels to Operation Roar, that is, annihilating the Japanese army reinforcements!
There are released sleeve reconnaissance machines for real-time monitoring, and the Japanese army's every move near Beidaying is all in sight of Yanbei Wind, and then the message is sent to Luo Xiang, so he can grasp the enemy's movement in time.
Because he predicted that the Japanese army would definitely send reinforcements, he let Yan Beifeng take out the first and second special warfare teams of Hu Ya, gather near Bei Daxing to prepare for the battle, and prepare to intercept the Japanese troops who came to reinforce. Equipped with all improved 95-style firearms, they had only more than 200 people in each team, but the firepower formed by automatic weapons was absolutely stronger than that of the Japanese army equipped with Type 38 rifles.
Moreover, Luo Xiang had no intention of engaging them in a field battle, but rather planned to use the terrain to gradually weaken their strength, and when they were almost exhausted, he would annihilate them in one fell swoop!
Unfortunately, the First and Third Battalions of the Independent Guard Regiment became the opening game for Tiger Tooth Special Forces to enter this world, destined to become two miserable troops.
Fifty elite special warriors, armed with equipment far beyond the level of that time, used the favorable terrain to carry out special missions such as ambushes and assassinations. If they suffered another loss, the Tiger Tooth Special Forces should be renamed the Pig Head Special Forces, and Luo Xiang, the devilish commander of this special forces base, could also die by smashing his head.
Outside the forest, Xiao Hei Yu was waiting patiently for the outcome of the pursuit battle. He had no doubt about the result of this battle. A branch of the Chinese army that was frightened by two shells and turned around to run, what else could they do?
At this time, he was thinking about how to deal with the captured Chinese soldiers in the past. Should the soldiers practice bayonets or be tied up as shooting targets? Or bury them alive, behead them, or disembowel them...
"Squad leader, the soldiers from three squads have entered the forest and not a single one has come out!" A Japanese sergeant ran up to him on horseback, saluted and reported, "Except for the occasional sound of our own troops' gunfire, no other sounds can be heard coming from the forest!"
"Is that so, there isn't even the sound of the enemy counterattacking?" Ogawara Uji's heart suddenly tightened, and that ominous premonition struck again. He took a deep breath and said, "This doesn't feel right, they should be struggling desperately!"
"It's clear that those Chinese soldiers knew they were no match, so they didn't even have the courage to fight back and just fled for their lives!" A Japanese military commander said with a smile, then added another sentence, "Who knows, maybe when they were fleeing, they dropped their guns too!"
"Gun——gun——gunshot！！！""
Kogawa Haruo muttered to himself, suddenly his face changed greatly, he roared, "No way, the gun sound from that Chinese just now was an automatic weapon. From the sound, you can tell that the rate of fire and power are extremely strong. With such a powerful weapon, it's impossible for him to run away without firing a single shot!"
"Ah——" Several Japanese commanders were all stunned, never expecting things to turn out this way!
"Hurry up and get the soldiers out of the forest immediately, don't stay for a moment!" Ogawa Urajirō was getting furious, shouting loudly.
Several squad leaders under his command hastily gave orders, letting the communication soldiers inform the soldiers approaching the forest to stop, and then sent people in to inform the soldiers inside!
Unfortunately, Ogura's realization came a bit too late. Of his three companies, only the 4th company remained intact and stayed by his side. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies had each sent two platoons into the forest, leaving fewer than a company of soldiers outside.
With this, he lost nearly half of his troops!
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