Chapter 67 Hunting

The Korean Peninsula is mountainous, especially on the back of North Korea. The steep mountains are one after another, and the mountains are full of thousands of years of giant trees. Occasionally, you can also see the steep granite cliffs suddenly down from the mountains one or two thousand meters high.

If you take a bird's-eye view from the air or walk in the mountains and the seashore, the whole north of North Korea seems to be very beautiful, and even beautiful and heart-warming. Dangerous peaks, cypresses, and blue sky. The sea on both sides of the peninsula is boundless and clear... However, all this is by no means a good place for the army, especially for the army fighting in this terrain, or even a nightmare.

Here, the army can't cross the ridge with no way, maintain a solid front, or even maintain contact with each other. Throughout this area, the roads are winding and wide apart from each other. There are mostly sheep intestine paths in the mountains, and people and livestock can only pass through one by one. The forest here provides excellent shade for defenders.

Countless narrow valleys, headaches of sheep intestines and blade-like mountains can make it difficult for modern armies to enter the slightly larger mountains with no way out.

Although North Korea, which has entered North Korea to fight, it does not have cars, and its artillery is only light mountain guns and mortars. The soldiers are equipped with light equipment and only carry rifles, 200 bullets and 4 grenades in their hands. Although they are used to all kinds of extreme bad weather, they are also used to starving, in the most difficult Fight in the environment.

But when fighting in such a place, any army will encounter a situation that no one expected at the beginning. Many situations are even unexpected. Although the attacking troops don't know anything about the terrain of northern North Korea, they are not much better. When officers are used to using the map, they find that the map is wrong. Hundreds of out.

In the brown forest on the mountain with a layer of fallen leaves, a team of cavalry rode on the horse and looked at the environment in front of him from time to time. On the horse, Mao Zhiheng held the reins in his hands. The mountain wind roared on the treetops of the trees. From the horse, he looked at the hillside in front of him. The slope of the hillside was not big, and it was very steep. In the steep mountains, a winding mountain road passes through the valley, and a small river in the valley shines white in the bright sunshine.

He took a few steps forward and looked at the steep hillside of at least 80 degrees. He frowned. Mao Zhiheng looked at the squeaky North Korean mountain people beside him. If he had changed his temper, he might have cut him off with a knife, but looking at his fingering, he shouted behind him.

"Sergeant Li, call Liang's translator over!"

After a while, a pony came over from behind. On the horse sat Liang Jiacheng, a 40-year-old northeaster dressed as a farmer. He had a riding gun on his back, leather legs tied on his small feet, and his hands held the horse stiffly.

Because of running medicinal materials on the border between China and North Korea, Liang Jiacheng could speak fluent North Korean. Half a month ago, several big soldiers broke into his pharmacy and directly handed him a letter, which was a letter of conscription. Then whether he wanted to do it or not, he was put into the barracks and became the North Korea of the seventh battalion of the second regiment of the first division. Translation, enjoy the sergeant's salary of 15 yuan per month.

"Ask him how to lead the road. Where is Wu Lidong?"

After seeing the translation, Mao Zhiheng said to him. Liang Jiacheng hurriedly asked in Korean. After the North Korean mountain farmer who led the way pointed to the front and said something, he turned around and said to the officer.

"Son, he said, this is Wu Lidong!"

When Liang Jiacheng spoke, the ragged North Korean bowed and smiled humbly.

"The dog said, Korean stick!"

Spitting out the grass chewing in his mouth, Mao Zhiheng stared at the North Korean with sharp eyes, and then turned his eyes to the hillside in front of him. From entering North Korea, at first, he wanted to walk according to the North Korean map with a Russian slogan, but after walking for two days, he almost went crazy by the map and immediately gave up. Continue to use the idea of the map and change to a North Korean guide.

This guide pointed him the nearest way to Wu Lidong, but the problem is... On the 80-degree hillside of more than 100 meters in front of him, people can get down with a rope, but the horse can't get off.

"Why don't you take a detour?"

This idea was just a flash. The order he got was very simple, that was to cooperate with the main force of the regiment, to seriously destroy or destroy the main force of the preparatory second division, so as to ensure that the main force of the army could march unimpeded in northern North Korea, and his task was to rush to Wu Lidong to intercept the army.

Now that I have arrived, I may not have enough time for him to bypass this steep mountain range. Spread out the unreliable map on horseback and look carefully for a while. While he looked at the map, the old man of North Korea looked at the Chinese general behind him, and he was still gasping for breath.

"General..."

While talking, he turned his eyes to the translator.

"The area around the mountain pass is very flat. Walking a mile to the west, the terrain there suddenly fell into it. There is a deep canyon, just like..."

With that, he picked up the branch and rowed.

When Liang Jiacheng was translating, Mao Zhiheng looked down at the terrain painted by the old man, which was an 'L'-shaped canyon.

"...As long as the general sets up a large army here, he will be the gate, and he will not open it!"

After saying that, the old man looked at the Chinese general on the horse with some expectation. He didn't like him, so he led the way to [***]. Naturally, he hoped that these [***] would defeat him.

Listening to the translation's explanation, Mao Zhiheng rode his horse for dozens of meters to the west, and then took out the telescope from the telescope box at the edge of the hillside and adjusted the focal length. The scene in the eyepiece became clear. As he said, there was a canyon less than 100 meters wide a few hundred meters away, connecting the canyon pass to this side. After a little, there was finally some smile on his face, and his vision was very wide. If a company and machine gun platoon were placed there, he could completely control the canyon within two kilometers.

"One company commander, you immediately take the machine gun platoon to control the commanding heights of the gorge, ... the second machine gun platoon and the second company..."

After a while, orders came out of Mao Zhiheng's mouth. When he gave the order, he kept pointing to the position of the troops to build the position, that is, to stop the enemy, then fight a position defense battle!

The cavalry originally gathered in the forest immediately dispersed with the order and walked towards the defensive position commanded by the officer under the leadership of the officer.

"After this battle, even if I sue the Nanjing Army Department, I will have to sue those bastards from the surveying and mapping office!"

After the army executed the order, Mao Zhiheng rubbed the map and scolded it with hatred. The dog's map was very harmful. If he hadn't believed in this map, he would not have walked the wrong road for two days. In fact, the road found on the map often did not exist, or the cavalry could not pass at all. Fortunately, he immediately changed to a North Korean guide, otherwise he would not arrive on time. After the war, it would be easy to go to the military court, and he may directly practice battlefield discipline due to the mistake of the warplane.

When Mao Zhiheng was secretly shouting for luck in his heart, he did not know that the second regiment he cooperated with would still be rotating between the mountains of Xianjing North Road. He was not the only one who encountered the map problem. After all, these maps were just simple maps drawn by Russian explorers and the Huai Army. For habits For the guards who rely on combat maps, the wrong map will only bring fatal errors.

The mountainous areas in northern North Korea have brought unexpected difficulties to the march of troops. Even for the Guards Army Air Force flying in the sky, the complex mountain terrain will also bring some problems. When there is no accurate military topographic map, the earth is extremely fair to infantry and aviation. .

A bird-like "Hawl Eye" reconnaissance aircraft is flying over the mountainous area. The cloudless blue sky is definitely a good weather for flying. But at this time, for Li Qinyun, who is flying in the plane, he can't feel the pleasure of flying in the blue sky at all. He is lost!

"I said, Brother Qin, are you sure we are going in the right direction?"

Mu Shaoqiu, who was sitting behind, still focused on searching for suspicious targets on the ground while talking.

After taking off from the field airport on the border between China and North Korea, the six "Hawk Eye" reconnaissance aircraft in the air searched for the main force of the Japanese army according to the route. After flying in the air for more than three hours, they still failed to find the Japanese army mentioned in the intelligence.

"Do you think we will go wrong from the beginning?"

At this time, Li Qinyun also became uncertain. The wrong map brought trouble to the air force more than once or twice. Although they have done the navigation standard correction, the formation of the formation is "impossible" almost every day.

Mu Shaoqiu immediately asserted and denied that he was an observer, a machine gunner, and also a navigator, and half of the responsibility of the Trek was on him.

"There are mistakes everywhere on this map, but the squadron leader has also corrected more than a dozen times, and 43 landmarks have been confirmed. I will never tell the wrong way!"

Although he said so, when he spoke, he took out the map board again and began to re-determine the orientation with the finger needle, ruler and quadrant.

At this moment, Li Qinyun saw the No. 5 on the left wing shaking its wings and then flying to the southwest.

"The target was found on the 5th. Do you remember what we said?"

Li Qinyun's words fell. Mu Shaoqiu, who was doing the route correction, immediately put away the map board and took out the light machine gun tied with cloth from the side of the cockpit.

"Today, let's greet these people!"

After the top of the gun frame was inserted, the 100 flat-top drum was equipped with a machine gun. After the ring sight was inserted, Mu Shaoqiu stood up and leaned on the machine gun. At this time, his only security guarantee was the two waist buckles at his waist. While he was preparing, the No. 5, which had originally left the formation, flew back again. Within the line of sight, No. 5 The plane first shook its wings left and right, and then made a beautiful dive circle, which was a signal to find the enemy.

Between a passes in Dongli Mountain, a blue march marched at a slow speed. However, the quiet scenery in the field beside it sets off the dragon, but it is not harmonious. From time to time, sharp soldiers on horseback ran back from the front and reported something to the officers who were also on horseback in the team.

From time to time, this blue-blue long dragon confuses the formation because it wants to mess up some carriages or mule horses. This chaos makes the vertical column somewhat uncoordinated. In the marching team, most of the soldiers with rifles have relaxed smiles on their faces.

Although the mobilizers in their 30s and 40s were carrying guns and marching, they exchanged topics such as women from time to time. Occasionally, bursts of laughter came from the column. With the laughter, the captains and squadron commanders also laughed, and the march seemed to be like an outing to enjoy cherry blossoms.

"Your Excellency, division commander, look at our soldiers. They are very relaxed. It seems that we will definitely defeat them [***]!"

Matsumotogawa, who was riding on a horse, looked at the relaxed soldiers in the marching column and turned to the Zhenmeimoto beside him and said with a smile that he had been a squadron leader in the Qing Dynasty War. He knew more about those [***], so he was as relaxed as a soldier.

"We are not a tired army with insufficient ammunition. Besides, as long as we can stop them for a few days, a steady stream of troops will go to North Korea. At that time, the end of the Chinese will come!"

When he said everything so easily, Zhenmei, as the head of the division, didn't say anything. He just glanced into the air.

"Since we left Cheng Neidong, the Chinese planes have been in the air at least three times a day. We have been marching under their eyes, and all the way is full of passes and canyons. You and I know that the Chinese cavalry have crossed the Tumen River, if they ambush along the way!"

The beautiful face looking up at the sky is a little worried. The Chinese occupation of North Korea is unacceptable to the General Staff. After the mobilization of the 2nd Reserve Division, can the Tumen River, which has loopholes on the defense line, still stop the Lu army? If the Lu army takes the opportunity to attack North Korea, Lucia's threat to Japan will far exceed that of the Chinese.

"This war has been a mistake from the beginning. The contradiction between Japan and China is the contradiction between the rising national strength of the empire and the awakening of the Chinese nation. If we look at China from the old perspective, it will inevitably lead to the expansion of the contradiction, and eventually force the Chinese people to adopt the way of war. Now the Chinese people are the two most The place of life pierced the heart of Japan. It can be said that once the Lu Chinese intervenes in North Korea, they will be forced to accept the harsh peace conditions proposed by China!"

Before receiving the order to leave, negotiations with Akinosuke Hisaishi, the chief of staff of the Third Reserve Division, came to his mind from time to time. Now the war in North Korea is directly related to the fate of Japan in the next few decades, whether the Second Reserve Division can stop the Chinese army, and whether the Third Reserve Division can defend the Tumen River defense line. It directly determines whether Japan will actually lose the war.

"Little Shijun, you must stay there!"

"Airplane!"

When Zhenmei turned her head and looked at the Tumen River, there were suddenly a few screams from the marching column. The Japanese army in the column looked at the northeast sky, and several black spots appeared in the sky.

It's a Chinese plane!

Seeing that there was no chaos in the aircraft column, they just looked at the plane in the air with envy. When could the plane be built?

If he didn't have an air force, then... When this idea came up in Zhenmei's heart, he saw the black spots on the horse's back more and clearer. They were six planes. They seemed to be descending the bottom altitude. When the planes descended the bottom altitude, they lined up above the valley in turn.

"What are they going to do?"

The formation and behavior that are completely different from the past made a trace of doubt in the heart of the true beauty. At this time, when the marching army saw the plane descending at the bottom altitude, he couldn't help slowing down, and even stopped and looked up at the "robot bird" in the air. It was difficult to just see the robot bird, which might become the capital for them to show off in the future.

"I'm ready..."

After lowering the bottom of the plane to a height of 500 meters, Li Qinyun's voice was about to come out. As soon as she turned her head, she saw the magazine frame on Mu Shaoqiu's loosened fuselage, and the two 120mm mortar shells that fell from the left and right sides of the fuselage.

That's... Looking at the black spots thrown by the plane, the valley stopped and watched the plane prepare to describe the "robot bird" to the ignorant person in the future. They were most of them with surprise on their faces. They had seen the Chinese plane more than once, but it was the first time that something was thrown down on the plane.

"Drop a bomb!"

Thinking so, Mu Shaoqiu once again released the ring of the two mortars. At an interval of one second, only six mortar shells were carried on the plane. Although the aviation team had dropped grenades in the capital as early as during the restoration campaign, it was the first time to throw an "aviation bomb" like this.

At the end of the third drop, the left wing of the plane, which was originally flat, tilted slightly downward, and the rear observer held the machine gun again.

"Bomb!"

I don't know who looked at the empty spots in the air and shouted first. Before the Japanese army, who stopped to watch the robot birds, had not reacted, they saw several black spots falling on the hillside between the columns or next to the columns. The violent explosion almost exploded almost directly in the column that was completely unmasked, and the steel fragments were like a sickle mowing grass. In the same way, it blew up those Japanese soldiers who "appreciate the scenery".

In the continuous explosions, the roar of bullets like wind treetops came head-on. The war horse was shocked by the explosion and dropped Matsumotogawa off the horse, which saved his life.

Matsumotogawa, who fell down from the horse, before he could stand up, saw that at the moment of the wind roar, the division commander had fallen from the horse and lay in the grass by the roadside. Blood kept surging in his chest. In the explosion and shooting, the column fell into chaos. The running soldier's neck was broken by a bullet, and the blood broke his neck. It spewed out like fog.

"Old son's, this mother's..."

Mu Shaoqiu, who kept aiming at the Japanese army running in the valley, howled excitedly. It felt like... Well, just like hunting in the forest in the past, the only difference is that the hunter is in the sky!

(to be continued)