Chapter 3: The Willow Lake Incident

  In September 1931, the Northeast region had cooled down, and the crops in the fields were about to be harvested. Whether it was corn, sorghum or peanuts, they all bore heavy fruit.

  Liu Tiao Lake is a small village north of Fengtian City, adjacent to the South Manchurian Railway. The whole village has only thirty or forty households with over a hundred people.

  Lieutenant Kawa led a score of Japanese soldiers cautiously advancing through the cornfield, trying not to make a sound. They were on a special mission and couldn't afford any carelessness!

  Along the ups and downs of the ditch, Hei and others smoothly reached the railway side outside Liutiao Lake Village. After arranging people to keep watch, he lay down beside the railway sleeper and fixed the explosives that had been prepared long ago on the sleeper!

  The dosage of explosives had been carefully calculated by Hanoi, and as a top student at the Japanese Army Academy, this was child's play for him!

  After everything was ready, Hanoi took over the phone from another Japanese soldier and dialed the phone number of the independent guard unit of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

  As soon as the phone was connected, the voice of Sen Lian's team leader came through, "How is the preparation over there?"

  Although on the phone, Lieutenant Hanoi still stood at attention with his feet together and replied, "All preparations are ready!"

  Inside the Independent Guard Brigade's headquarters, Colonel Sen stood beside his desk, phone in hand, with a solemn expression. He took a deep breath and gave the order decisively, "Alright, let's move out!"

  "It is!"

  Lieutenant Kawauchi responded with a single word, hung up the phone, and personally grasped the detonator handle of the explosive, pressing it down fiercely!

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Explosions rang out one after another, thick smoke billowed from the railroad ties, fierce flames shot up, and in an instant everything was in disarray!

  "Objective completed, retreat!" Seeing the successful completion of the mission, Lieutenant Hanoi waved his hand and was about to lead his men back to rendezvous with Captain Shimajima, together attacking Beidaying!

  At this time, a Japanese soldier in charge of sentry duty suddenly shouted, "No good, there are Chinese people over there!"

  "What?!"

  Lieutenant Hanoi heard the sound and looked up to see several Chinese people wearing coarse cloth standing on a mound not far away, curiously looking over here!

  Captain Hanoi thought it was a bad idea, they are all wearing Japanese military uniforms now, if the League of Nations investigates later, these villagers will be unfavorable witnesses for them!

  At this thought, Lieutenant Hanoi gritted his teeth, drew his combat knife from his waist and pointed at the Chinese villagers, shouting "Kill them!"

  Japanese soldiers with bayonets on their Type 38 rifles chased after the Chinese!

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  "Follow me!"

  In a cornfield about 500-600 meters away from Hanoi, a team of soldiers wearing camouflage special warfare uniforms were rushing forward rapidly, heading straight to the place where they had placed explosives.

  The one walking at the front of the team was Luo Xiang. He was now wearing a full set of special forces camouflage uniform in grass green color, with a Kevlar helmet of the same camouflage color on his head, covered with a camouflage net outside. His entire body was equipped with a complete set of special forces gear, all neatly dressed. Although those equipment weighed around 70-80 kilograms, to his strengthened body, it seemed like he wasn't carrying anything at all!

  There were no roads between the fields, except for the ridges and some drainage ditches. Sometimes Luo Xiang and others had to make their way through the dense crops, but even so, their speed didn't slow down at all, still as swift as ever.

  Tiger Tooth Special Warfare Brigade has three special warfare battalions, namely the First, Second and Third Battalions. Each battalion is further divided into three special warfare companies, with each company having thirty combat teams. Each team consists of one assault hand, one sniper, one heavy firepower hand and one infiltration hand.

  The four-man combat teams can also be freely combined to form eight-man, twelve-man, and twenty-four man combat teams, with a flexible structure that is very practical.

  The entire Hu Ya Special Warfare Brigade, if calculated with the 300-man special task force of the brigade department and 800 logistics personnel, has a total of 2,000 people, with 300 combat personnel in each squadron!

  Although the Tiger Tooth Special Brigade has only 1,200 combat personnel, they are all seasoned veterans with rich combat experience. Although their numbers are small, they have a very strong fighting force. If equipped with the latest 95-style improved weapons, their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of a well-equipped infantry brigade.

  Arriving at a high cornfield, he waved his arm and signaled the team to pause. Then he grabbed the walkie-talkie and said, "Old Wild Goose, what's the situation with the target now?"

  "Through inquiry from the locals, there is a village called Liu Tiao Hu Village to your right front, about 600 meters away from you. There are over 30 households and more than 100 people in the village. The coordinates of the location are 174, 219!"

  "Alright, we'll head over right away!" Luo Xiang responded, then shut off the walkie-talkie, muttering to himself, "It's really troublesome without the electronic reconnaissance team's cooperation!"

  Inside the Special Warfare Base, Luo Xiang's Tiger Tooth Special Forces Brigade is mainly an assault brigade. In addition, there are armored brigades, airborne brigades, biochemical brigades, and electronic reconnaissance and countermeasures brigades, among other special forces brigades. They work together, but each has its own emphasis, forming a comprehensive, multi-faceted, three-dimensional combat system.

  Without the support of the electronic reconnaissance battalion, Luo Xiang's feeling was as if his thousand-mile eyes were covered, and everything he did felt a bit awkward.

  Luoxiang thought of the several mini multi-functional reconnaissance drones that Hu Ya's special forces team had brought this time, although their coverage was only a few kilometers, but if they could be used in conjunction with the vehicle-mounted radar on the battlefield command vehicle, it should still have a good reconnaissance effect.

  "Let's ask Old Wild Goose later if he can get those miniature reconnaissance planes to move, it would be much more convenient!" Luo Xiang thought to himself.

  After determining the accurate position of the other party, Luo Xiang led the combat team to correct the military map in his hand while advancing. This map was brought from the original era and had a huge deviation in accuracy in this era, requiring continuous correction to be used.

  Through the two villagers and their speculation, Luo Xiang basically confirmed that the era he was in should be 1931, and the location should be the Qipan Mountain area north of Shenyang. He had led a team to participate in exercises in this area before, and had also carried out special tasks many times, so he was still relatively familiar with the terrain here!

  Although the terrain in the 1930s has undergone great changes compared to now, the overall terrain will not change, so Luo Xiang can find his way relatively easily and move more smoothly!

  For now, Luo Xiang still had some doubts about whether he had crossed over or not, but he could only face reality first.

  600 meters, for Luo Xiang and his special forces team who had undergone long-term high-intensity wilderness training, was just a few minutes' journey. Even with the obstruction of crops in the fields, it didn't take up too much time, and soon they arrived near their target!

  "Squad leader, look!" a Tiger Tooth special forces member suddenly shouted, pointing forward to the side of the canal!

  That was a drainage ditch dug by local villagers for irrigation, not deep, with more than one foot of accumulated water inside, and a corpse lay on the side, staining the water red!

  He made a gesture of stopping and being vigilant on the spot, and Luo Xiang took an arrow step to the side of the corpse!

  The corpse was dressed in a coarse linen garment, and from the dark and rough skin as well as the calloused palms of his hands, it could be inferred that he was a local farmer.

  "But how could he be killed here?" Luo Xiang stared at the bullet hole on his forehead, thinking to himself.

  Just as he was thinking, a gunshot suddenly came from more than 100 meters in front of him, very clear in the quiet night sky.

  Luo Xiang's heart tightened, he turned around and let out a loud shout to the special duty team soldiers: "Prepare for battle!"

  The warriors of the Tiger Tooth Special Warfare Brigade were scattered, and the vanguard was the assault team responsible for breaching, each equipped with a domestically-made 95-improved assault rifle, whose powerful firepower could make any target temporarily avoid its edge!

  The four snipers of the sniper team were like ghosts in the dark night, silently and quietly merging into the darkness. The sniper scope cover of the domestically-made 88 improved sniper rifle had been opened, and through the night vision-equipped sight, they searched for targets. Their fingers were always lightly touching the trigger, ready to take down their target with just one shot!

  The special warfare operatives of the infiltration team held micro-voice assault rifles, nimbly spreading out behind and to either side of the assault team members, quietly enveloping them from both flanks, ready at any time to coordinate with the assault team's actions.

  The most impressive ones are the heavy firepower teams, and the general-purpose machine guns in their hands are not just for show: the golden bullet chain extends from the small box, one end plugged into the magazine, and the black muzzle can spew out a storm of bullets at any time!

  Luo Xiang and his men ran with their waists bent in the fields, rushing quickly towards the direction of the gunshot!

  The place where the gunshot sounded was a small village with only about twenty or thirty households.

  As they got closer to the village, Luo Xiang could hear the villagers' panicked shouts, and even smell the faint scent of blood in the air. The sound of Japanese Type 14 Nambu pistols also echoed in everyone's ears!

  Khaki uniforms, thin steel helmets, the iconic Type 38 Arisaka rifle of World War II, and those puttees and hobnail boots - all these made Luo Xiang, who was familiar with Japanese equipment from various periods, immediately identify these soldiers as belonging to the Kwantung Army of Japan during World War II.

  "Fire!" When he saw a Japanese soldier stabbing a villager in the chest with his bayonet through the telescope, Luo Xiang let out a loud roar!

  For a beast who has lost his conscience and gone mad, Luo Xiao, who is familiar with that period of history, will not have the slightest bit of sympathy for women!

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