Hearing that a chain of mines was found ahead, Xu Zheyou took off all the sniper rifles and 38-type big covers and handed them to Chu Ergou, and he came to Fang You with his own cat, and it took about ten minutes for the two of them to clear the minefield.

"Sir, this is a minefield left by the devils, and this minefield is not extremely secretive, and there is no way back." Fang You said, "Sir, based on the thunder speculation arranged by the devils, I suspect that the Japanese did not want to return from this road. ”

Xu Zheyou frowned and said: "The methods of planting mines are ever-changing, but no matter how they change, in the final analysis, there are only two major types, one is the desperate mine, and the other is the return mine. The so-called desperate mine means that after burying this mine, you will not go back; And when you turn back to the mine, you will leave a secret mark near the buried mine, in case your own people accidentally enter the minefield when they come back. ”

Fang You said: "In other words, if the devils don't return from this road, they will either return from Major Nie Yuanfeng's side, otherwise, they will only have to move closer to the center of the desert, and there is no third way to go." ”

Yan Zhi pondered, one thing he was sure of was that no matter how the devil returned from that side of the forest, he would not reopen the road, but would return the same way. The reopening of the road was time-consuming and laborious, the march was slow, and it was bound to be overtaken by the Chinese army.

If the devils returned from Nie Yuanfeng's side, Nie Yuanfeng's team of eighteen people would be able to cope with about a hundred or so devils.

What Yan Zhi is worried about now is that if he chases down the road that the devil has walked, but the devil has already found the wreckage of the plane, the two teams of devils join forces all the way and forcibly return from Nie Yuanfeng's side, what if Nie Yuanfeng's team can't stop it.

However, if the team moves to the right now, it takes the initiative to find another route to approach Nie Yuanfeng, but it is not easy to catch up with Nie Yuanfeng.

Yan Zhi speculated that the devil must have known that when the Chinese army received the news of the crash of the Japanese plane in the desert, it would definitely send troops to snatch the map of the atomic bomb, and the devil could also deduce from the map that the Chinese army would definitely divide into two forces and enter the forest from the left and right sides. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, how could the devil abandon his martial arts and cut off his left retreat first?

Yan Zhi empathized, if he was the commander of the devil, in this situation where the enemy and the enemy were unknown, he would definitely not cut off one of his two roads first, after all, no one could be sure, and the other road would be absolutely safe.

Yan Zhi concluded that the devil was going to enter the desert south of the forest, which was unexpected by everyone on the Chinese side.

However, according to the operational map, this desert is endless, the climate is impermanent, the climate is harsh, the environment is more terrifying than the forest, there can be vegetation in the forest to quench thirst, and wild fruits are nutritious, and there are wild animals to hunt, but after entering the desert, the first thing people have to solve is the problem of water sources. In the desert, if a person is out of water, he basically can't last a day.

Since the Japanese dare to enter the desert, then they must have a way to solve the problem of water sources, but now Yan Zhi has no time to think about what methods the Japanese will use to solve the water source.

"It seems that the Japanese had prepared a retreat in advance. I concluded that the devils would not return the same way they came, but would unexpectedly enter the desert and get rid of us after finding the remains of the plane and getting the drawings of the atomic bomb. Yan Zhi ordered the team to follow the trail left by the Japanese to pursue quickly, and he wanted to make up for the mistakes he had made before.

Hopefully, it's not too late, and there's still a chance to make amends.

Even if the Japanese followed the path opened up in advance, it was still difficult to march.

A short distance further on, the mountain, which split the northern half of the forest in half, was also coming to an end.

Yan Zhi ordered everyone to save water as much as possible, and when they were thirsty, they looked for wild fruits to replenish their water.

After walking for more than an hour along the road opened by the devil, a stream four or five meters wide appeared in front of me, which stretched in the middle of the entire forest, like a crooked python, meandering to the south.

After Fang You crossed the creek, he lost the trace of the devil.

From morning to now, it was already noon, six hours had passed, and the detachment had only marched forward for more than 40 miles, and there was still no news of Nie Yuanfeng, and now, even the traces of the Japanese had been lost.

The forest is wooded, and the march is difficult, which is not suitable for melee combat with heavy weapons, so this time when I went out on a mission, except for rifles, pistols, bullets and grenades, the squad did not even bring crooked handles.

At this time, Yan Zhi led the team and felt a helplessness that he had never felt before in the vast jungle.

In this era, there was neither satellite positioning nor navigation systems, and it was not easy to find a downed plane in this vast primeval forest of hundreds of square kilometers.

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out from afar, startling countless birds into the sky.

It's the sound of a fast or slow machine.

Yan Zhi said in a low voice: "Fang Youchu Ergou immediately checked at the place where the gunshots rang out, and everyone followed in columns, staying vigilant and preparing to fight. ”

Fang You and Chu Ergou immediately opened the rifle safe, and the cat's waist ran in the direction of the gunshot.

From a distance, Yan Zhi saw the wreckage of a military plane lying in a small open space, more than a dozen big trees were broken by the wings of the plane, the scene was in a mess, the fuselage was torn apart, and the parts of the plane were scattered everywhere.

The detachment quietly approached under the cover of the jungle and camouflage uniforms.

Next to the military plane, there were several corpses, one of them was still wearing a suit, stiff, half of his face was blurred with flesh and blood, almost gone, a few teeth could be seen still attached to the upper jaw, half of the skull was missing, and it was still stained with blackened blood plasma, crawling with black jungle flies.

A cup-thick trunk pierced the body through its chest, bloodstained and ochre-red. This corpse is supposed to have happened after being thrown out of the plane during the crash.

On the edge of a wing, there was a mutilated corpse of a devil surrounded by blood, with a grenade crater on the side, and a strong smell of gunsmoke.

There were fierce battles here not so long ago.

The corpse of another devil fell behind the tail of the plane, and it looked like it was the result of being fired by Thomson's submachine gun, the corpse was very fresh, and the blood that flowed out had not yet coagulated.

In Nie Yuanfeng's squad, the three Americans all had Thomson submachine guns in their hands, which could make up for the firepower advantage of not having machine guns.

Leaning on the trunk of a large tree, a deep slanted cut in his abdomen by shrapnel, and his internal organs were exposed, it was Nie Yuanfeng's adjutant Li Ping'an, who was also holding a Mauser M1932 in his hand, with a bullet hole in his right temple, and a large hole in his left head being opened by the bullet.

Yan Zhi judged that after Li Ping'an was shot, he knew that his injuries would not be saved, so he ended his life with one shot.

Li Ping'an's wounds were blurred and miserable, but there was no gauze bandage, which shows that the battle was already very fierce at that time, and Nie Yuanfeng's soldiers may not have had time to bandage Li Ping'an, or they may know that Li Ping'an's wounds have been incured.

In the army, there is a military rule that in the event of a battle, the troops are not allowed to stop for wounded soldiers. This is the cruelty of war, and it is also the helplessness of soldiers.

Li Ping'an once went to the Brotherhood with Hong Long, and ridiculed the independent company as a group of death row prisoners plus deserters and criminals, so the Chinese soldiers of the squad hated this person very much.

But at this time, the soldiers hid in the woods, quietly watching Li Ping'an, and instantly forgot all the hatred for him.

In the distance, there was another gunshot, which gradually became dense from sparse to dense.