Chapter 5: Going to the Front (Five)

The national army fought all night, and finally succeeded in breaking through to the south. Those who meet the above three conditions seem to be the only ones with the third battalion of the special service regiment led by Regiment Commander Ji. Lao Gou was overjoyed, and immediately took out a handful of fiat currency from his pocket, and without counting it, he handed it to the young man who provided him with good news, "Take it, these are yours!" ”

"I don't want money, I'm really not here for money!" The young man's face flushed and he shouted no. Lao Gou pulled his hand without saying anything, and forced the money into his palm, "If you take it, take it, and move quickly when you go back." The man surnamed Yang in your village is a bad breed, and the next time Japan comes, he will definitely hand you over as a scapegoat! ”

The young man was taken aback, thought about it, and knew that the chief who gave him the money was not talking nonsense, put the money away, bowed to Lao Gou, turned around and ran away quickly. Seeing his back disappear, the battalion commander turned his head and whispered to his brothers: "Look at it, I just said that not everyone is like the surname Yang. Let's go, let's try to climb over the three mountains in the east before the sun goes down today! ”

"Okay!" Shi Liangcai took the lead in agreeing, and his whole body immediately surged up and down. The group quickened their pace, eager to fly over the mountain immediately to check whether it was a member of the secret service group who fought with the little devil yesterday. It's a pity that Wangshan ran away from a dead horse, and the three mountains in the east didn't seem to be far away, and the height was unusual. Really got up, but it was not at all what I imagined. It took them more than half a night to conquer two hills, and the remaining one could not be climbed anyway.

In order to guard against encounters with the search team of Japanese devils, Lao Gou did not dare to let everyone completely exhaust their physical strength. He found a sheltered stone and ordered everyone to eat and rest. Dinner was still made of jerky and steamed bread slices, which were very difficult to swallow. But everyone didn't have the strength to care about the quality of the food, so they ate a few bites of cold water casually, and fell asleep.

In the early morning of the next day, Lao Gou woke everyone up one by one, "Work harder, turn over the hill in front, and we will know who is fighting the devil!" ”

"Got it, got it, long-winded!" Everyone got up, moved their numb limbs in the morning light, and wiped their faces with towels dipped in the water in the kettle. Then he chewed something casually to satisfy his stomach, dragged his heavy legs, and continued to crawl among the mountains.

The third mountain may be even higher than the first two combined, at least Zhang Songling thinks. He asked himself that his constitution was not too bad, but his arms and legs were as if they had been filled with lead. Thanks to Shi Liangcai's constant care, he didn't suddenly roll down the hillside because his knees were weak.

A few hundred meters near the top of the mountain, the brothers dragged him almost with ropes. The group was connected by ropes, like a string of sugar gourds, slowly moving forward and moving. Several times I almost fell under the cliff, but we slipped back from under the nose of Lord Yama with each other's arms. Before you know it, your fingers have been worn off. The bloody hands clasped over the stone, leaving a bright red mark with each movement.

If this continues, even if I encounter a devil, I will not be able to pull the trigger." For a moment, Zhang Songling regretted it in his heart. He regretted that he shouldn't have followed recklessly, and he shouldn't have dragged everyone back. But in the next moment, he stubbornly stretched out his hand to another stone, stubbornly grasping it, leaving a fresher trail of blood on the surface of the stone.

Suddenly, the pull from above suddenly increased. He took two steps forward and quickly looked up. I saw the battalion commander Gou wrapping the other end of the rope around a big stone. And Shi Liangcai, the leader of the guard squad, pressed his feet against the roots of the stone and pulled the rope hard. Everyone in the team was so excited that they wanted to cheer, and they used all their strength to climb the last part of the mountain with their hands and feet. They met at the top of the hill and beat each other's shoulders and lower backs with their hands. High-five, celebrate, then loosen the rope around your waist and slowly dip the rocks from the top of the mountain to the other side of the mountain. A stone the size of a millstone was loosened by the trampling and rumbled down, splashing a cloud of yellow smoke along the way. Immediately, the place where there was a tree halfway up the mountain disappeared, and the echo of "boom" was endless.

"Be careful. Pull the rope! Stone, you and the little fat man go last! Lao Gou wiped his sweat and gasped for orders. At the time of departure, the east had just revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly, and now, the sun was as hot as a big fireball.

"Hmm!" Shi Liangcai agreed weakly and pulled the rope tight again. One by one, they looked after each other to find their way down the mountain. If you are not careful, you will step on the rubble. Finally came to the halfway up the mountain, Hu Fengshou, who was walking at the front of the team, stopped, his nose twitched constantly, "What a big taste!" He grumbled under his breath, his brow tightly locked. It's a little bit northerly, it's blowing from that side! ”

Then he dropped the rope and, like an ape, pulled the tree halfway up the mountain, and quickly ran down the mountain. Constantly adjust your direction along the way so that you don't crash into the tree. It was a smell of gunsmoke mixed with flesh and blood, familiar to all veterans of the battlefield. Zhu Laofu, Huang Xiaomao, and a few other brothers followed closely, leaving the big trees behind. After about ten minutes of running, they reached the bottom of the valley and stood on the stone blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, silent.

"Something found, something found!" Zhang Songling didn't have any mental preparation, and was the last to rush to the battlefield. At the first glance, he felt that his five abdomen and six organs were surging to his throat and eyes. Corpses, corpses everywhere, one or two hundred! The head of each corpse was aimed at the valley mouth on the north side, and each corpse was covered with bullet holes.

They were the corpses of Chinese soldiers, one by one, telling those who came after them what fierce battles had taken place here. The corpses of the little devils were taken away by their people, and as the victors of this chase battle, the devils had plenty of time to clean up the battlefield.

Although most of the corpses had been stinking from the sun, the valley was full of flies large and small. Lao Gou still took everyone and turned over all the corpses. If you can put them in the right place, try to put them in the right place. If you can help them close their eyes, try to close them. Many of these faces are very familiar to everyone, and when they look at it, they can't help but cry. However, they were unable to collect the remains of the brothers who had died in battle, and before leaving, they did their best to collect a large number of hay and branches, pile them up among the corpses, and use lighters and bullets to light a flame.

The flames were blown by the mountain wind, quickly igniting half of the valley. Lao Gou took Zhang Songling and the others to rush to the south side of the valley before the flames burned his clothes. On the mountain road outside Taniguchi, a lot of loot that the Japanese devils thought was worthless. Following the trails left behind by these trophies, they will very easily bite the tail of the army of devils.

No one asked if they were doing so at their own death. can beat the third battalion of the special service group to the point of breaking through, and the size of that devil team is at least one to two complete squadrons. With a team of twelve people, to copy the back of two squadrons of Japanese devils, no matter how you look at it, it is a moth to a fire. But they couldn't help but do it, if they allowed the regimental leader Lao Ji and the remnants of the third battalion to be wiped out by the devils, they would not be able to sleep peacefully in their lives.

For the rest of the day, they all followed in the footsteps of the devil. On two occasions, he even ran into a head with the liaison soldiers sent back by the devils, and directly pulled out the box cannon, beating the opponent's people and horses into a honeycomb. At this moment, they are not afraid to reveal their whereabouts! They even wish they would be discovered by the devils immediately, in which case the devils would have to divide their troops and take care of the back road. The pressure on Lao Ji's side will be immediately reduced a lot.

This crazy move, before the evening came, finally had the desired effect. The tactics of the little devils cautiously changed after four consecutive groups of liaison soldiers sent to the rear were eliminated. Surrounded by rolling mountains, no one wants to risk being attacked on their backs. After a short break, about half of the squadron of devils began to search backwards along the road they had come, shooting at suspicious places along the way as they went. The bullets landed on the surrounding rocks, sending sparks in all directions.

"Hey, see it, the little devil really looks down on us!" Hu Fengshou, who was in charge of exploring the way at the front, ran back, with an unconcealable excitement on his dirty face.

"Spread out, look for favorable terrain, and try to drag the devils until dark!" The battalion commander Lao Gou held two box guns, first grabbed a vantage point on the side of the road for himself, and then calmly assigned tasks. "I'm at the forefront with Lao Hu. Lao Huang and four people guarded my flank, and Lao Zhu led four people to follow me to fill in the leaks. Xiaoshi and Zhang Xiaochuan, you two follow last. After dark, one of them must go back alive to deliver a message to Master Chi and them! ”

"Yes!" Everyone knew that tonight might be their last battle, but they still answered cleanly. The battalion commander nodded proudly, no longer rambling, poked out the box cannon that had sawed off the crosshairs from behind the stones, and aimed at the nose bone under the steel helmet of a devil soldier.

The devil's vanguard didn't know that death was close at hand, and Wu Ziping held the 38 big cover, looking left and right. He saw the sunset, like an egg yolk, stuck on the top of the mountain in the distance, burning the stones on the top of the mountain red. Then the whole world was set on fire, engulfing both its body and its soul.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Several other devils in charge of pathfinding shouted warnings, and at the same time raised the 38 big covers, looking for the traces of the sneak attackers. Zhu Laofu'er, Huang Xiaomao and others poked out of the muzzle of their guns from behind the stones they were hiding in, and shot hot bullets into the devil's chest. The five devils were killed on the spot, and blood flowed everywhere along the cracks in the stones. Four other devils were seriously injured, screaming and rolling back and forth in pools of blood.

"Hit, hit me hard!" Lao Gou shouted loudly, and the box cannon opened the bow left and right. Two more devils were hit, and rolled down the cliff on the side of the road with their stomachs in their arms, and the screams echoed repeatedly in the valley along with the sound of gunfire!