SEC Chapter 393 Little White Dragon in the Waves
Chapter 393 Little White Dragon in the Waves
As they were talking, the gunboats and small wooden boats came into the range of the light and heavy mortars.
"fire!"
Two training shells were fired and landed about ten meters in front of Ishihara Satomi's gunboat, splashing water all over the sky.
Ishihara Satomi, who was standing on the gun deck, shivered, grabbed the railing with both hands, and then bent down.
Although he did not suffer any harm, the splashing water still made him feel cold all over.
"Baga! Find the location of the enemy artillery immediately!"
In fact, you don’t need to look for it to know that according to the direction from which the shells came, you can roughly lock onto the unnamed island ahead.
After all, the surrounded anti-Japanese forces did not have gunboats, and it was unlikely that they would fire mortars on small wooden boats.
"Target island! Attack at full speed!"
The Japanese's two gunboats began to fire at the nameless island, and the Japanese's wooden boats, under the cover of artillery fire, gradually advanced forward.
Several shells landed about ten meters away from Wei Heshang and others, scaring them so much that they broke out in cold sweats.
Fortunately, there were sparse reeds blocking the way ahead, so their artillery positions had not been discovered so quickly.
"Hurry, hurry, retreat as soon as all the shells are used up!"
The artilleryman stretched his arms and finally fired all the shells.
Monk Wei picked up the telescope and looked through the reeds. The effect was quite good. Although the gunboats were unharmed, more than a dozen wooden boats were overturned, and it was estimated that at least dozens of Japanese soldiers were killed.
"withdraw!"
Monk Wei and his companions immediately dismantled the mortars, laid several ghost mines next to the reed marsh on the nameless island, boarded the wooden boat, and entered the endless green tent again.
Seeing that no more shells were fired at the nameless island, Ishihara Satomi also suspended the shelling. However, to be on the safe side, she still ordered the two gunboats to move, and only landed on the island after making sure it was absolutely safe.
The small wooden boats of the Japanese and puppet troops trembled as they approached the shore.
As expected, the unlucky puppet soldiers were once again driven off the boat first, tripped over the ghost mine, and were killed.
The Japanese were glad for their wise decision! Otherwise, it would be difficult to find the ghost mines in the reed marsh.
"Silly, give it to me!"
The Japanese's Type 99 light machine gun began to spit out tongues of fire, like a sickle, and bullets poured like rain at the nameless island, flattening half of the reed marsh.
After completing the firepower reconnaissance, the Japanese and puppet troops tiptoed ashore. As a result, they found nothing except traces of mortar positions, a few shell boxes and a mess of footprints!
Ishihara Satomi landed on the nameless island cursing, and also faced this uninhabited island in silence.
"A squad of soldiers plus a platoon of the Imperial Army will stay behind to help garrison, and the rest of the troops will continue to advance!"
A squad of the Japanese army is equivalent to a squad of the Chinese army, consisting of two rifle groups, a machine gun group and a squad leader.
步枪组：编制每组4人，其中1个作为组长，其余3人都是组员，武器是4支38式步枪。那么两个步枪组也就是8人和8支步枪。
Machine gun crew: A team consists of 4 people, including 1 commander, 1 shooter and 2 ammunition handlers.
In addition to a Type 1 light machine gun, the machine gun team is also equipped with a Type 11 Nambu pistol by the commander and the gunner respectively, while the other two ammunition handlers are equipped with Type 14 rifles.
Squad leader: There is one person in the team, which is equivalent to the squad leader. His general rank is sergeant or corporal, which is equivalent to a sergeant or corporal in China.
A platoon of puppet troops was very simple. All of their equipment were Hanyang rifles captured from the Japanese, and even the platoon leader was no exception.
Therefore, Ishihara Satomi sent a mixed force of more than fifty Japanese devils and puppet troops to guard this nameless island.
After completing the arrangements, Ishihara Satomi boarded the gunboat again and commanded the eastern formation to continue the attack.
Looking at the reed marsh, Ishihara Satomi wanted to burn them all to ashes, but because it was summer, it was impossible to light a fire.
Therefore, he could only let two gunboats lead the charge, with the mortars on the gunboats and the machine guns on the wooden boats firing at the reed marshes. After firing a round, they slowly searched and advanced.
The first reed marsh was very peaceful. Apart from the feathers of wild ducks scattered all over the ground, there were no other living creatures.
After passing through the first reed marsh, Ishihara Satomi used the same old routine, fighting around randomly first and then going deeper into the reed marsh.
In the second reed marsh, there was a wooden boat hidden in a corner, but there was no one on board.
However, there were nine people hiding beneath the water.
That’s right, it was Wei Heshang and Peng Liang and a few others. The reason they hid in the water was that they were afraid of being hit by the Japanese machine guns.
They didn't come out until the gunfire stopped.
"Old Peng, is it safe here?"
"It's safe, absolutely safe! In this remote place, even wild ducks can't be found! When the Japanese came to raid, we hid in it! If this place wasn't too small, I really want to hide the entire independent battalion in it!"
"Shh!"
Hearing the little ghost's yelling, several people shut their mouths again and were ready to dive into the water at any time.
Just as Peng Liang said, this place is indeed hard to find.
The voices of the Japanese soldiers on both sides could be heard clearly, but they were not discovered.
"Go ahead! Or try not to shoot!"
"Well, I am not called Little White Dragon of the Waves for nothing!"
The nine people were divided into two groups, and the Japanese troops moved forward.
The gunboat led the way, followed by hundreds of small wooden boats.
These wooden boats were arranged in a long line, with the longest horizontal distance being one hundred meters and the shortest being no more than twenty or thirty meters.
However, because of the reed marshes, even the two wooden boats, which were more than 20 meters long, could only be seen vaguely.
At this time, Wei Heshang and Peng Liang dived from the water to the vicinity of a small wooden boat, and then nine people grabbed the side of the boat, used the buoyancy of the water, and jumped up. They either stabbed the dagger directly into the neck of the Japanese soldier or pulled the Japanese soldier into the water and suffocated him to death in the water.
The nine people worked in perfect harmony and it was easy to capture those five or six Japanese boats.
Wei Heshang and Peng Liang specifically targeted the Japanese boats that were slightly isolated, and before they knew it, they had capsized more than a dozen small boats.
When they came out of the second reed marsh and Ishihara Satomi counted the troops again, she found that a small team of soldiers was missing.
"Baga, there's a ghost in this reed marsh!"
"Major, should we search this reed marsh again?"
After thinking for a long time, Satomi Ishihara decided to give up.
There was no large-scale battle in the reed marsh, which means there were not too many enemies in it. At most, it was just enemy harassment. We must not lose the big picture for the sake of small gains.
"Use flag signals to command the three wooden boats to form a formation! If you encounter any situation, fire your guns immediately!"
Ishihara Satomi also ordered another gunboat to cover the rear and provide support using its higher field of vision and firepower!