Beyond the woods was an open field that stretched to the bottom of a hill where the Japanese prisoners said there was a fort. However, this open area is more than 500 meters long, and it is impossible for Zhao Zhi and his team to cross this open land without being discovered by the Japanese army, and there is no way to do it with the machetes leading the team. Zhao Zhi had no choice but to order the troops to stop in the woods first, and he used his binoculars to look around and see if he could find a way. Wait, wait until the evening. Zhao Zhi ordered the scout team to search along the side of the mountain, and the rest of the people rested in the woods.

The sky was getting dark, and smoke was rising from the hillside opposite, where the Japanese were cooking dinner. "This dog can sleep" Zhao Zhi was in a daze and heard someone talking beside him, stretched, Zhao Zhi sat up, and the old cannon and Xiucai who were squatting beside him hurriedly walked away, hiding aside and muttering without knowing what he was talking about.

Flipping over the steel helmet beside him, there was a pack of biscuits and a box of canned food underneath, and Zhao Zhi, who was hungry for a long time, didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and ate the canned food as soon as he opened it. "Where's Uncle Guo?" Zhao Zhi threw the biscuit to Lao Pao and looked for Uncle Guo in the crowd.

Xiucai and the old cannon with an injured arm compete for cookies, and only when the old cannon is injured, Xiucai can take advantage of it. Xiucai pressed the old cannon with his body, stuffed compressed biscuits into his mouth, and said vaguely, "Uncle Guo took his people to go around elsewhere, saying that he would come back in a while" Zhao Zhi has always had an attitude of not intervening and not stopping the hand-to-hand combat between the dogs, so he pretended to turn a blind eye to the battle between the old cannon and Xiucai, and continued to fight with his canned food, which attracted Zhao Zhi more than those two rotten people.

Uncle Guo and his men did not go far, but went around to the side of the mountain, and Uncle Guo tried to find a way up the mountain. But it was almost dark this day, and Uncle Guo and the others were still at a loss, so they had to return to the woods where everyone camped first.

"You mean you didn't notice any Japanese troops around?" After Zhao Zhi heard Uncle Guo finish talking about the scope of their search, he asked Uncle Guo in surprise, did he believe that the Japanese army would huddle on the mountain. If the Japanese army just blindly stuck to the forts on the mountain, then they would not have lost their true intention to venture through the jungle to the Indo-Burmese border. No, there must be something wrong here, Zhao Zhi felt that he had thought of something, but it was not very clear.

Zhao Zhi stood up violently and pulled Uncle Guo to the edge of the woods, "Uncle Guo, let your people each shoot two shots, facing the mountain" The puzzled Uncle Guo still followed Zhao Zhi's meaning, and asked the riflemen to shoot a magazine on the mountain together. The ballistics were very obvious at night, and the riflemen were well concealed to avoid being discovered and hit by the Japanese, after all, those machine gun nests were very scary.

Ten minutes later, the expected Japanese counterattack did not appear, except for Zhao Zhi, everyone froze. "Old artillery, hit a few times with your grenadier, and hit those machine gun nests" Zhao Zhi asked the old cannon to continue to test the Japanese army with a grenadier, he was afraid that this was a trap for the Japanese army.

"Boom" "Boom" With Edward's assistance, the old cannon hit very accurately, and the machine gun nests found by Zhao Zhi were all blown up in a mess, and there were people in ambush inside, and it was estimated that this would also become a corpse.

"Let's take a look at a few people" Zhao Zhi took his rifle and led out of the woods and towards the foot of the mountain. The guys in the forest watched Zhao Zhi rush out of the woods in amazement, and they were all frozen. "You don't go soon, if there is a mistake in the little white face, Lao Tzu will skin you" Uncle Guo kicked the goat fiercely, and the old face was hideous and scary. The goat hurriedly led the remaining submachine gunners to follow, and the uncle's riflemen still spread their vigilance to provide long-range fire support to the guys who came forward.

Zhao Zhi and more than a dozen of them took advantage of the night to run quickly on the lawn. The distance of 500 meters is not too long, but Zhao Zhi and the others are still running out of breath, not tired, but nervous, Zhao Zhi can even hear his violent heartbeat. "Sir, it's all empty, no one" The goat that jumped into a machine gun nest shouted Zhao Zhi loudly, the machine gun nest was already empty, and there were only a few empty ammunition boxes left.

"Spread out and search" Zhao Zhi took the two scouts to the bushes on the left, and behind them was the road to the top of the mountain. Zhao Zhi and the others had to be on alert in the direction where the Japanese army might appear to avoid being attacked by the Japanese army. "Sir, I didn't find it, the devil may have withdrawn a long time ago" The goat ran back with the scouts, and the surrounding area had been searched, but no trace of the Japanese army was found. "Damn, I was fooled" Zhao Zhi patted his thigh with remorse, the Japanese army used a trick to get rid of the golden cicada. The mountain must be empty, the Japanese army has long since taken refuge in other places, such a large jungle, hiding in dozens of people is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and they can't be found at all.

Sure enough, as Zhao Zhi expected, everyone searched the entire mountain, except for some tattered garbage and a cannon, there were no Japanese troops on the mountain at all. The battle between Zhao Zhi and the Japanese army on the slope must have been discovered by the Japanese army on the mountain, and the Japanese army found that there was no way to stop Zhao Zhi and them, so they quietly withdrew.

"Send a report to the 114th Regiment, the batteries have all been recovered, and ask to send someone to receive it" Zhao Zhi asked Edward to send a report to the 114th Regiment while releasing a warning post, even if there were no Japanese troops on the mountain, Zhao Zhi did not dare to take it lightly. The task was completed, and everyone was very happy, only Zhao Zhi was not happy, he was still thinking about where those Japanese soldiers were hiding.

"Don't think about it, let's just recapture the fort, nothing else has anything to do with us" Uncle Guo patted Zhao Zhi comfortingly, and left with his hands behind his back first. A few brothers died, and almost all the others were injured, which was enough for Zhao Zhi to be annoyed. The night sky was full of stars, Zhao Zhi sat on the hillside, and with a flashlight, he wrote down the names of the brothers who died in the war in his notebook. This is the habit that Zhao Zhi developed when he promised to take the brothers home, he could not go back with the bodies of the brothers who died in battle, at least he had to go back with their names, Zhao Zhi did not want to and could not forget these brothers.

"Ah" Zhao Zhi, who couldn't stand it, stood on the hillside and roared loudly, venting his sadness, anger and loss in his heart, this damn war once took Zhao Zhi's family, and now it took Zhao Zhi's brothers. Ever since he boasted in the jungle that he wanted to take everyone home, hesitation and helplessness had been with Zhao Zhi, and he didn't know how long he could hold on.

"Oops, I'm going crazy again, I really can't stand it, I'll come here like this in a few days, I'm worried to death" Uncle Guo covered his ears, muttered helplessly, wrapped the military blanket on his body tightly, changed his position and continued to sleep. Looking at the soldiers who were startled by him, Zhao Zhi smiled with satisfaction, lit a cigarette, and Zhao Zhi's mood gradually calmed down. Yes, Uncle Guo once said, how can there be immortals in war, these veteran ruffians are all people who pin their heads to their trouser pockets, and they have long been dead and dead. The only thing Zhao Zhi can do is to do his best to live with the remaining brothers, isn't he doing this now, yes, he has been doing it.

Just as Zhao Zhi was pondering, there was a sudden sound of gunfire on the mountainside, and the soldiers who had already been lying down got up one after another to look for concealment. Zhao Zhi took his rifle and ran quickly to the mountainside, "What's the matter?" Where to shoot? Zhao Zhi grabbed an elite.

"Sir, it's a sentry, and he said that he had discovered the Japanese army" The elite was also pale from the surprise of the gunshot. The goat was aiming at a nest of bushes with a few dogs, and when they saw Zhao Zhi coming, they hurriedly pulled Zhao Zhi and squatted down. "The little devil of the dog day didn't know where it came from, and was hit by the sentry" The goat pointed to the bush, and the Japanese army came out from that direction.

There were two rifles in the bushes that were firing back, they were Japanese 38 rifles, and they must have been Japanese soldiers. Zhao Zhi and the doglegs were crouching behind the concealment, and the Japanese counterattack could not pose any threat to them, but after a few rounds of shooting by the doglegs, the gunfire of the bushes to return fire stopped.

"Go up and take a look" An elite trembled and touched the bushes with a gun, "Sir, there's a hole down here" The elite turned around and shouted Zhao Zhi excitedly. A gunshot rang out, and the elite shook his body and fell to the ground, a bullet shot from the hole in the ground that hit him in the thigh.

"There's someone in the hole, there's someone in the hole," the shot elite moved desperately, the farther away from the cave as possible. "Dada The fire and smoke rose up, and the cave was calm again, and if it weren't for the choking smoke of gunpowder, no one would have thought that there had been a fierce battle here.

"All dead, about a dozen wounded Japanese soldiers" threw in a few torches, and the goats saw clearly what was going on in the burrow. The small hole in the ground was littered with parts of guns and broken corpses, and looking at the broken military uniforms and bloody gauze, it should be the wounded soldiers left here by the Japanese army. "Dog's day, it's so good to your own people, just throw it here to fend for yourself" An elite spat out fiercely, discarding his comrades, which was the most despised behavior by the soldiers.

In fact, Zhao Zhi and everyone did not know the traditions of the Japanese army, and the casualties of soldiers were never considered by the Japanese commanders. They only need results, and any casualties are acceptable. Only if you can win, anyone can give up, including yourself. The wounded soldiers, who could not be healed, became the part that had to be discarded, and the discarding of these wounded soldiers, who could no longer fight or march, was taken for granted.

These wounded Japanese soldiers who were left behind were either waiting to be killed or captured by the enemy, or like the guys in the holes, taking advantage of the night to raid the enemy, even if they were killed, it was better than being discarded as garbage.