Chapter 18: Bloody Jungle

  "Squad leader, the enemy seems to have detected our ambush, and the devils in the woods are starting to retreat!"

  On the highest pine tree in the forest, Yao Tianhua, the squad leader of the first special warfare squadron of the Tiger Tooth Special Warfare Battalion, hid among the branches and leaves, observing the movement below while communicating with his team members through the intercom.

  Although the pocket reconnaissance plane can be used to detect the dynamics of the Japanese army's main forces, it is still not possible to do so in such detail, so the situation in the forest can only rely on the intelligence provided by the team members, summarize and make judgments, and then determine the countermeasures.

  Several miniature reconnaissance planes were invented by a technician at the Arsenal, powered by lithium-hydrogen button batteries, flying almost silently and stealthily, making them ideal for espionage, surveillance and monitoring. However, their coverage area is only a few square kilometers, and their endurance is relatively weak!

  Yao Tianhua was the commander-in-chief of this jungle ambush, and he commanded all 50 special warfare team members. Their mission was to ensure that not a single Japanese soldier who entered the jungle would escape.

  If it's a head-on battle, this task is difficult to complete. Fifty people, even if they are elite special forces who have been through hundreds of battles, can easily defeat nearly five hundred enemy soldiers, but wanting to annihilate them all is almost impossible!

  However, in this jungle, it was different. Since the Japanese soldiers entered the jungle, nearly two hundred people had fallen under the sniper crossbow of the team members, and almost everyone had knocked down three or four Japanese soldiers.

  However, this is still far from enough. There are nearly three hundred devils in the jungle. If they rush out desperately, the dense trees will become the biggest obstacle for the team members to snipe!

  "Yao Tianhua, have the team members on the edge of the jungle snipe every Japanese soldier who comes to send messages, cutting off their contact with the outside. The Wolf Hunt operation has begun ahead of schedule, and the team members are allowed to act freely now, no longer afraid of exposing themselves!" Behind the jungle, on a high ground, Feng Changyuan, as the captain of the First Special Warfare Squadron, gave the order after a moment's thought, starting the annihilation operation against the Japanese army in the jungle!

  Operation Hunting Wolf, this is the code name given by Luo Xiang to this ambush action against the Japanese army. In his eyes, the Japanese soldiers are like wolves: ruthless, greedy, cunning, and extremely ferocious, so when fighting them, one must strike without mercy, just like hunting wolves.

  "I understand!"

  After ending the call with Captain Feng, Yao Tianhua immediately opened the channel with his team members and shouted in a cold voice, "Cut off the contact between the Japanese army inside and outside, Operation Wolf Hunt begins!"

  As the order was given, several special forces soldiers hiding at the edge of the forest had already aimed their crossbows at the target. They finally pulled the trigger, and the bolts made of special alloy shot out silently from the crossbow, flying nimbly between the trees before embedding themselves in the vital parts of the Japanese army's target.

  In just a few seconds, more than a dozen Japanese communication soldiers who were ordered to come in and transmit instructions all fell down within ten meters of the edge of the forest, forever unable to deliver information to those Japanese soldiers who still did not know they were already in danger.

  After confirming the target was killed, several special forces members reported to Yào Tiān Huá, and then a red signal flare suddenly rose from the woods, hovering in the sky before slowly falling down.

  Pfft!

  A dark grey arrow shot from behind the tree, knocking down a Japanese soldier who was looking around to the left and right. Immediately afterwards, another Japanese soldier had his throat cut by a dagger and his body fell softly beside a large tree.

  "Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!"

  The remaining Japanese troops seemed to sense something was amiss, they fired wildly while running aimlessly in the jungle, crashing into things like headless flies.

  The special team members unfolded their killings from their hiding places, some of whom were excited and jumped out, holding automatic rifles and firing in bursts, beating the Japanese soldiers to the point where they were fleeing in disarray, wailing and screaming.

  The forest was in a state of complete chaos, with gunfire and shouting, wailing sounds rising and falling, extremely lively!

  Outside the forest, a small river flowed quietly. In the midst of this serene landscape, Lieutenant Colonel Haruto Yokoyama gazed intently at the forest with a stern expression. The forest, which had been eerily silent just moments before, was now teeming with life.

  From the sound of gunfire, he could tell that there was not only the Japanese army's unique Type 38 rifle, but also a strange gunshot that sounded like an automatic weapon.

  "It's strange, but somehow this gun's gunshot sounds unfamiliar?" Little River Original Uji thought quickly, thinking.

  When he was studying at the Japanese Army Officer School, the school had imported a batch of automatic rifles from Germany. He was lucky enough to have close contact with them and even tried shooting one!

  The powerful firepower of the submachine gun left a deep impression on him, and also made him understand that automatic weapons are the trend for future development. For this reason, he wrote to the school several times, expounding his views, but in the end no one paid attention!

  Now, the information he heard from these gunshots told him that this team might not be so easy to deal with!

  "Captain, send someone in to inform those soldiers!" A company commander couldn't bear his subordinates being slaughtered inside and stepped forward to suggest, "Otherwise they will all die at the hands of the Chinese!"

  "Hakka, sending more people in now is purely suicidal! The soldiers inside are done for!" Ogawa's voice was icy cold, but it was the truth!

  It's not hard to hear from the increasingly sparse gunfire of the 38th Division that the two companies of devils who went in with the first company of the Independent Guard Brigade are probably no longer lucky, and there is little chance of escape!

  "What to do now, Captain!" several company commanders were anxious, letting them watch their soldiers being slaughtered and unable to do anything, the feeling was about to suffocate them.

  Koganei Urahara let out a cold hum, his eyes flashing with a hint of icy glint. He paused for a moment, took a deep breath, and then suddenly said, "Order, artillery squadrons and mortar teams, full-force bombardment of the forest, expend half of our ammunition!"

  "What?!"

  Several company commanders were stunned, they did not expect the battalion commander to issue such an order, and actually disregarded the soldiers who were still fighting in the thicket, letting them burn together with the jade.

  "Commander, you can't do this! There are our soldiers inside, you're committing a crime!"

  "You are really muddled, this is the best way to let them die with honor, otherwise they will also be killed one by one by the Chinese soldiers. Since they have to die anyway, let them die a little more gloriously, and let them become heroes who sacrifice themselves for the prosperity of the Great Japanese nation!" Ko River's expression was solemn, it could be seen that he had really made up his mind and would not adopt the advice of the people below.

  Several squadron leaders fell silent, because Lieutenant Commander Koharu's words also made sense!

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