Chapter 3 "Strategic Village" Action 4. The conspiracy of Fez
Major Feis's face was as gloomy as a stone dipped in water: "Right before your eyes, one of my squads disappeared! Are you sleeping in the sky?"
Major Hanke, the helicopter squadron leader, raised his head and blew out a breath from his nose: "Major, do you understand the rules of helicopter cooperation with ground attack? Humph, without your call, how can we take action?"
Major Feis suddenly let out a few chilling laughs: "They are all dead, and their ghosts are calling you? Do you like ghosts calling you?"
Major Hanke was stunned for a moment, then continued to look at the sky and shook his head for a long time: "I am very disappointed. I couldn't even send out a signal of being attacked, and I lost a plane! I am disappointed, Lieutenant Colonel!"
Lieutenant Colonel Kaiyue had been sitting there, watching the two of them quarreling. Now he straightened his sturdy body and stared at Feis: "Major, are you still able to carry out the strategic village operation?"
Major Feis sneered: "As long as the lieutenant colonel does not dismiss me, I will not back down!"
Lieutenant Colonel Kaiyue turned back and stared at Han Ke: "Major, what about you?"
Major Han Ke straightened his back and said, "Soldiers always obey orders!"
Kaiyue laughed rudely: "War is bloodthirsty. You can kill more enemies to vent your anger instead of complaining in front of me!" He pointed at Feis and then at Hanke: "I will make up for your dead soldiers and lost planes. Continue the attack tomorrow!"
"We have to strike them again!" Tiger stared at Captain Chen, then shook his head, "Unfortunately we don't have that many knockout drugs, and they must be used at a certain time. So, let's go back to our old ways and fight guerrilla warfare!" He looked at Li Ying again: "Which village do you think the enemy will attack?"
Li Ying walked closer to Tiger and sat down. "So far, the M army has attacked five of the eight natural villages around Mangchang. There are still three villages left: Pinggu, Honggu, and Xishan. The three villages are not far from each other. They could attack any village."
The tiger looked up at the sky. The waxing moon had already set in the west, and the whole world became mysterious.
The helicopter was flying in the morning sky, and below was the fog rising from the river, rice fields, and woods, making people feel like they were traveling in a fairyland. This was how Major Hanke felt, while Major Feis was oblivious to the scenery in front of him, his eyes squinting like a cat in the daytime.
The helicopters were already above the target village of Pinggu, and many began to circle downward. Feis suddenly grabbed the microphone and said, "Attention everyone, the target of the attack has been changed from Pinggu to Honggu!"
Major Hanke laughed: "Brother Feis, you are such a sinister person."
Faith said coldly: "What's wrong with this?"
Major Hanke shook his head. He knew that arguing with Major Feiss would be stressful, so he chose to continue enjoying the scenery below the plane.
Tiger concentrated his troops on Hongshan, which was roughly equidistant from Pinggu, Honggu, and Xishan. At the speed of attack, it would only take fifteen minutes.
According to the M Army's practice of executing the "Strategic Village Operation", they would first send planes to surround the village, and then return to transport the attacking troops. This gap was about 20 minutes, enough for Tiger and his men to cover the transfer of the people. Therefore, when the M Army helicopter arrived in Pinggu and lowered its altitude, Tiger and his men bravely jumped down from the mountain.
Everything was planned, silently. Like a sword released from a bow, they charged forward bravely. Until the observation post on the mountain called out: "Tiger, Tiger!"
Tiger was very angry and grabbed the microphone from the walkie-talkie: "Speak!"
"M Army helicopters turn to Red Valley!"
"Bastard!" Tiger cursed and shouted into the walkie-talkie, "Everyone retreat to the top of the mountain!"
It was too late, and thick smoke rose from the direction of Honggu Village.
Only Tiger didn't look. He stared at the map and suddenly slapped it: "Okay! If you like to play, let's play!"
There is no fun in playing with tigers. Tigers play with people! The M army wants to eat people - eat ordinary people. The tiger is going to eat people too. He wants to eat the M army.
Major Feis's actions were always smooth, whether in the No. 9 area where even the colonel was captured, or in the strategic village operation, he was surprisingly smooth. This time was no exception. It took only two hours to complete the destruction of Honggu Village, and took the people of Honggu back to Mangchang.
This was a rough road, and Major Feis asked Major Hanke's helicopter squadron to keep three helicopters above the troops and the civilians. Therefore, the guerrillas did not dare to launch an attack. It was just a grenade, or a bullet, or the worst was a burst of machine gun fire.
However, the entire army almost stopped advancing, because with every step forward, a bullet would fly over. In other words, with every step forward, an M-army soldier would lose his limbs or even his life! But once the helicopters bombed, the troops stopped and bombed, and there was no sound from where the bullets flew.
Major Feis smiled coldly: "How many guerrillas do they have? Can they fill this eight-kilometer road ambushes?" He said coldly: "The helicopters will conduct search and sweep fire on the woods along the way. The troops will force the civilians to run forward. If they encounter cold guns or cold artillery, they will not fight back! Any civilians who delay the action will be shot on the spot!"
Tiger laughed: "Traveling on foot is our guerrillas' specialty. How can a fool like you learn it? Order all those who have completed the sniping to speed up their transfer. Every meter of this eight-kilometer road must be covered with traces of their blood!"
The guerrillas traveled along the road from Honggu Village to Mangchang, and moved immediately after firing a shot. The screams of the M army soldiers who were shot were like stimulants, motivating them to move to the next sniper site.
After only halfway through the journey and without seeing any trace of the guerrillas, the M Army troops stopped. When the troops stopped, the surroundings became quiet. The number reported by the squad leaders to Feis was 28 casualties.
Major Feiss was too lazy to even get angry. He sighed and said, "Let your helicopter drop the tanks, Hanke! If too many people die, the government will go bankrupt!"
Tiger couldn't let these bastards be quiet. He aimed at the flag on an M Army steel bandit from a distance and shot it open. Immediately, all the sharpshooters opened fire.
The helicopter spun down, knocking down the trees on the roadside and setting them ablaze. Tiger laughed loudly. He was not stupid enough to leave his troops nearby .
He laughed loudly and said, "Bomb it, burn it, I'm sweating all over! Let's drink some water and take a break!" A roar came like thunder, and a large group of helicopters came over in a black mass.
"These idiots, they're not going to blow up all the jungles, are they?" Big Mouth shouted.
The tiger also cursed as if he had a toothache.
But the M Army helicopters did not disperse, but circled down the road one after another.
Everyone saw clearly that the helicopters of the M army were carrying tanks. Soon, tanks armed to the teeth started moving on the road, and the entire road was shaking. Soon, the tanks formed a steel barrier on both sides of the road, and the people of Honggu Village were marching towards Mangchang.
Some unconvinced soldiers were about to rush forward with guns pointed, but the tiger turned around and walked away.
Captain Chen asked softly, "Don't we have any other options?"
"The solution is not found by asking, but by thinking!"
Captain Chen shook his head: "I really don't want to accept this!"
"We can't waste our bullets, let alone our lives! If you ask stupid questions again, I will punish you! Go back to the camp and rest."
"Yes!" Captain Chen stood at attention, turned around and loudly ordered the troops to retreat.
When he woke up in the afternoon, Lao Hu slapped Gong Yangzi so hard that he jumped up and said, "Go and call Captain Chen, the three platoon leaders, the three platoon leaders on duty, and all twelve of us brothers!"
He stood up and walked in circles in the jungle, faster and faster, until the last person arrived. He suddenly turned around and pointed at Captain Chen: "Do you know the Chinese saying of knocking on the sticky candy?"
Captain Chen was stunned for a moment. He had basically adapted to the tiger's jumping thinking, but he didn't know the meaning of this strange term.
Li Ying said: "Niupi candy, also known as hemp candy, is a kind of candy made from rice. It is very sticky, and when selling it, vendors use iron sheets to knock on it and call for sale. When selling, they use iron sheets to knock on it, and only one can be knocked down at a time."
Tiger clapped his hands: "Well said! Let's use the tactics of cracking the sticky candy and break the sticky candy of the M army into pieces bit by bit!"
He immediately divided the troops into nearly 50 tactical teams. He and each person who attended the meeting led a team to attack. The other teams rested and were assigned numbers. Each team could only launch an attack for a maximum of one day. If there were casualties, they should return to the camp unconditionally. After a team returned, another team would be replaced to attack, of course, with the exception of Captain Li. "You lead the remaining soldiers to stay in the camp and organize logistics support."
Li Ying shook his head: "Either I go to fight alone, or let me fight with you, I have already arranged the logistics!"
Before Lao Hu could say anything, Li Ying turned around and left.
The tiger didn't dare to let her, who could fly on the trees, get away in the jungle, because he would definitely not be able to catch up with her, so he hurriedly called out: "Captain Li Ying, join my tactical team!"
The attack teams had their meal at dusk and disappeared into the jungle.
Tiger used a telescope to observe the entire Mangchang Town. Soon, flames of varying sizes rose from all directions, and the sound of gunfire rang out like frying beans. In fact, it was mostly the M army fighting, and helicopters also took off, constantly dropping bombs in the east and incendiary bombs in the west.
Lao Hu clapped his hands: "Those who have suffered losses always shout the loudest! Let them fight!" He turned around and looked at Li Ying who was observing excitedly in the last ray of sunset, and smiled: "Let's go into the tunnel!"
Li Ying stared at Tiger: "I don't know why, with so many people in the M Army and such powerful weapons, why is it always you who are attacking and they are defending!"
The tiger said calmly, "Because I am not afraid of them from the bottom of my heart, because I have many ways to deal with them! Of course, wild animals will bite people, not to mention they are ferocious beasts. If they find you, they will pounce on you fiercely! Therefore, we must hide cunningly and be vigilant at all times!"
"Let's go!" They went down to the valley below Mangchang Town and disappeared into the grass.
It was getting dark.
The searchlights of the M army were all turned on, shining everywhere outside the town. They caught the bullets flying from time to time, but the bullets were too fast and had already locked onto the target. So, from time to time, the M army was injured. The most hateful thing was the rocket launcher, which kept changing its location and always fired a shell from an unexpected place.
Lieutenant Colonel Kaiyue was holding a cocktail party in his wooden building to celebrate Major Feis' decisive command today. He didn't care about the few gunshots at all, and even if it was a cannon, he just frowned. But the gunshots became more and more frequent, and he had to go out.
Major Feis smiled coldly: "This should be what the Chinese taught them. The Chinese always do this!" He knocked on the wooden fence, "Hiding in the fortifications, not showing their heads easily, making them lose the sniper target. They have no ability to attack Mangchang Town!"
Lieutenant Colonel Kaiyue nodded: "That makes sense!"
So, after a while, the enemy's gunfire weakened, and the searchlights became less frequent. All the sentries outside Mangchang Town were hidden in the fortifications, and no one could be seen. Suddenly, the gunfire of the guerrillas outside the town also slowly stopped.
Lieutenant Colonel Kaiyue hugged Major Feis's shoulders and said, "Brother, with you, we can continue drinking!"
Major Feiss laughed softly like a cat: "They are insidious, so we must be more insidious than them! I can do that!"
"Open the champagne for Faith's insidiousness!"
They both burst into laughter.
