Spy Wars: Get the Predator equipment at the beginning

Chapter 775: The Japs' Firepower Reconnaissance

Luojiayu.

Liu Wanxiong met guerrilla Zhang Dabiao again next to a large rock on the hillside to the left of the railway.

"Captain Zhang, my Loyal and Patriotic Army has been deployed on the right hillside. There are 68 of them in total. How is the situation on your side?" Liu Wanxiong asked.

Zhang Dabiao shook hands with Liu Wanxiong and said, "We have a total of 72 people here, and we are all deployed! By the way, Commander Liu, are the explosives buried? Make sure nothing goes wrong. If the explosives don't go off, this operation will be a failure!"

Liu Wanxiong patted his chest and assured, "Captain Zhang, don't worry. I just sent people to check it. I checked it three times. There are no problems. I can ensure that the explosives will explode at any time!"

"I feel relieved now that Commander Liu said that!"

Liu Wanxiong asked again: "Captain Zhang, what is the situation with your weapons and equipment? Can you tell me about it? It will give me a better idea!"

"What's there to hide? We have 14 pistols, 1 light machine gun, and the rest are rifles. Among them, there are 11 Mauser rifles, 21 Type 38 rifles, and the rest are old-style, Hanyang, and Zhongzheng rifles! Oh, and there are 6 grenades."

Liu Wanxiong nodded and said, "Not bad. It's really good that your guerrillas can gather so many, especially under the Japanese blockade. I have 13 pistols, the rest are medium-sized rifles, a box of grenades, a light machine gun, and a 60 mortar, but without shells, it's useless!"

"Ah? You have mortars? I have shells here, 6 of them, which were captured from the Japanese before. I'll send someone to get them for you. If we have mortars, we will have a much greater chance of success!" said Captain Zhang.

Liu Wanxiong was overjoyed: "That's great, Captain Zhang, I really don't know how to thank you."

"Forget about the thanks. You and I are here for a common purpose. Helping you is also helping ourselves!" Zhang Dabiao said with a smile.

After saying that, he called a guerrilla fighter and said, "Go and bring that box of 60mm mortar shells over to Commander Liu!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Not long after, Liu Wanxiong got a box of 60 mortar shells. When he opened the lid of the box, he saw that there were 6 shells. He was very happy. Now he didn’t have to worry about lack of firepower!

"Sir, sir..." A Blue Shirts agent came running over breathlessly and reported, "Sir, the brothers at the train station sent a telegram saying that freight train K1885 has departed!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Wanxiong said to Zhang Dabiao, "Captain Zhang, it will take about two hours to get here at the speed of a freight train. Both sides should arrange their personnel for concealment, make a good pre-war mobilization, and arrange the ambush plan for everyone, telling them what to do. Then, when the fighting starts, there will be no chaos."

"Also, we have to think about retreating. According to intelligence, there are 280 prisoners of war. We hold 6% of them, and the remaining 4% are yours. How to retreat then is no small matter. We must evacuate as soon as possible. If we get caught by the Japanese, I'm afraid we won't be able to save anyone, and we might even get ourselves into trouble."

Zhang Dabiao nodded and said, "Commander Liu has thought it through. Let's discuss this matter. Please come over here and sit down!"

"it is good!"

About an hour and a half later, a Japanese rail car drove along the tracks towards the ambush site of both sides.

"Captain Yamamoto, there is a place called Luojiayu 5 miles ahead. The railway tracks pass through it. There are mountains and forests on both sides of the place. Although the vegetation is not lush, there are many rocks, which is very suitable for an ambush!" A Japanese special forces member reported to Ichiro Yamamoto.

Ichiro Yamamoto walked to the front of the rail car and looked forward with a telescope.

As time passed, Luojiayu appeared in Yamamoto Ichiro's telescope. The vegetation on the hillsides on both sides had turned yellow, but there were many large rocks on the hillsides, which was indeed suitable for an ambush.

In the footage, Yamamoto Ichiro observed for a while and found nothing unusual, but he still said to the special forces members around him: "Tell the others to be alert, especially the few people outside, use binoculars to carefully observe if there is an ambush!"

"Hayi!"

The guard post on the hillside near Luojiayu also noticed the arrival of the railcar and immediately reported to Zhang Dabiao and Liu Wanxiong: "Commander, we've spotted a Japanese railcar heading this way!"

Zhang Dabiao said to Liu Wanxiong after hearing this: "I think it's a normal patrol. There are often Japanese rail cars patrolling on the tracks. There are usually more than a dozen Japanese on the rail cars, half of them are inside and half are outside."

Liu Wanxiong said: "In this case, let's hide well, brothers, and don't let the devils on the rail car find us, otherwise our operation will fail!"

Under the orders of the two men, the troops on both sides hid themselves tightly after receiving the orders.

After a while, the rail car arrived at the entrance of Luojiayu. There were indeed six Japanese soldiers standing by the guardrail with rifles in their hands. They were observing the surrounding mountains and forests, and they were all very vigilant.

Standing in the front of the car, Ichiro Yamamoto used a telescope to observe the hillside on the left. He turned his head and said to the Japanese soldiers beside him: "Have the machine gunners outside fire a burst of ammunition at the hillsides on both sides to conduct fire reconnaissance!"

"Hayi!"

Upon receiving the order, the machine gunner in the open-air fortification on the rail car immediately pulled the trigger towards the left hillside, firing a series of bullets, and then turned the gun and fired a burst of ammunition towards the forest on the right.

"Captain Yamamoto, no abnormalities were found on the hillsides on both sides!" reported a Japanese special forces team.

Yamamoto Ichiro frowned at this time, shook his head and said: "No, something is wrong!"

"Sir, is there something wrong?" asked the special forces member next to him.

Yamamoto Ichiro said, "It's autumn now, the time when birds are foraging and resting in the mountains and forests. So many shots were fired just now, and the noise was so loud, but not a single bird took flight. Don't you think that's unusual?"

"This... is it possible that there are people hiding in the mountains and forests on both sides?"

"It's very likely, but we shouldn't make it public. Let's just drive past as if we didn't notice anything unusual!" said Ichiro Yamamoto.

"Hayi!"

After the Japanese rail car passed by, the troops from both sides hiding on the hillside breathed a sigh of relief.

On the guerrilla side, Instructor Liu crouched down and walked over to Zhang Dabiao and whispered, "The Japanese railcar's fire reconnaissance just now caused one of our men to be shot and killed, and two others to be injured!"

Zhang Dabiao's face darkened when he heard this, and he said, "Ask about the casualties on the other side!"

"I asked, and two people were beaten to death over there!"

Zhang Dabiao slammed his fist on the ground and shouted angrily, "Damn Japs! Tell everyone to get ready for battle! Train K1885 should be arriving soon!"

"understand!"