Chapter Ninety-Six
Early the next morning, Zhao Zhi received a call back from the 114th Regiment, and the brigade was about to enter the mountains to pave the road. Several batteries around Ledo were to be abandoned, and the 114th Regiment did not have much manpower to hold these places. Zhang Tianxiang asked Zhao Zhi to immediately blow up the cannon on the top of the mountain, and then withdraw to Leduo to rest. Although the Japanese army was cleared and the artillery was recaptured, Zhao Zhi and his casualties were also very large, and half of the troops had been reduced. However, even such casualties are smaller than Zhang Tianxiang's casualties in the early stage, which can almost be ignored.
"Boom" A cloud of fire rose from the battery on the top of the mountain, a large puff of smoke rose, and the shells and explosives that had been piled up next to the cannon exploded. Those things were enough to blow up the cannon several times, and the long-haired who had always been lazy had long been tired of carrying those explosives all the way, so he took the opportunity to use up all the explosives.
Uncle Guo, who was covering his buttocks, kicked Long Mao angrily, "How much explosives did you put on a dog day?" The stones coming down from the mountain almost smashed Lao Tzu's buttocks" Li Qu's long hair dodged the flying feet of his uncle, pretending to be pitiful and hiding behind others, and shouted Qu in his mouth, "I know that the Americans' explosives are so powerful, and I won't next time"
"Let's go, let's go" Zhao Zhi parted the two who were chattering endlessly, and beckoned the team to hurry down the mountain so that they could rush back to Ledo as soon as possible, Zhao Zhi was very worried about the old cannon and a few of them who were sent back to Ledo Hospital. The speed of the descent was much faster, and everyone was very excited to return to Ledo alive, and their feet couldn't help but be a little faster.
Walking a short distance along the foot of the mountain in the direction of Ledo, a grass dam appeared in front of me, right in the middle of the two mountains. Looking at this terrain, Zhao Zhi's heart swelled up with that feeling of uneasiness again, and he hurriedly waved his hand to stop the team. "What's wrong?" Uncle Guo, who was walking at the end of the line, caught up and asked Zhao Zhi with a solemn face.
"Something is wrong" Zhao Zhi observed the surrounding situation with a telescope, but he didn't find anything, nothing unusual. The scouts were released, but Zhao Zhi still sent a guard post uneasily, not far from Leduo, Zhao Zhi didn't want to throw his life here because of a small negligence.
Zhao Zhi climbed a dirt slope with a few elites, and continued to observe the mountains on both sides with binoculars. Can't stay here for too long, if Zhao Zhi's hunch is true, the longer he stays here, the greater the potential danger. Zhao Zhi observed the mountains on both sides intently, it had been almost half an hour, and there was still no movement, but the uneasiness in Zhao Zhi's heart still did not subside, but became more and more serious.
The guys below are already faintly restless, and Uncle Guo can't hold it back. Just when Zhao Zhi was about to give up observation, suddenly, Zhao Zhi saw a trace of earthy yellow in the telescope. The sudden appearance of earthy yellow on the green mountain was very conspicuous, and Zhao Zhi was excited, and carefully observed the earthy yellow shrub on the left side of the mountain with a telescope. Zhao Zhi saw a line of earthy yellow in a bush, and then saw a reflective spot. Zhao Zhili felt chills all over his body, it was the kind of cold that was cold to his bones, and his back was instantly wet and cold sweat. If Zhao Zhi is not mistaken, the highlight is the reflection of the steel helmet in the sun, the people in the team are all American-style steel helmets, and the net ropes outside the steel helmet are inserted with thatch or branches, which will not reflect in the sun at all. The only explanation is that there are Japanese troops in ambush, and that highlight is the reflection of the Japanese steel helmet.
Zhao Zhi slowly retreated down the dirt slope with his waist bent, looking at the dog-legged people who had gathered, Zhao Zhi was ready to ask Uncle Guo to return the same way with the people first, and he stayed to meet the scouts who came out. Just as Zhao Zhi was about to speak, gunshots and shouts were already heard in front of him. The voice of a goat came from the walkie-talkie, and they found a Japanese ambush at the end of the grass dam in front of them, and they were already entangled by the Japanese army. The goats repeatedly asked Zhao Zhi and them to withdraw first, and the scouts would entangle the Japanese army in the back to buy time for everyone.
With the character of a goat, Zhao Zhi knew that if it weren't for the strength of the Japanese army, the goat would never fight with the Japanese army. Zhao Zhi had already faintly felt the tremor of the ground under his feet, it must have been the Japanese army shelling the goats. Because of the topography, after the ground shook, Zhao Zhi heard a roaring explosion, which was the explosion of a mortar.
The roaring explosion first alarmed the Japanese troops on the mountains on both sides, and Zhao Zhiying had already seen Japanese soldiers burrow out of the bushes and grass and rush down the mountain. "Suppress them" Zhao Zhi preemptively shot at the Japanese soldiers who were coming down the mountain, and the Japanese soldiers also raised their guns to shoot back. From time to time, bullets from the Japanese army flew over, and the crazy Japanese soldiers fell down one after another, crawling towards the dirt slope, trying to occupy this commanding height, and use the terrain to surround Zhao Zhi and them.
"Go up, resist them" lost the only commanding height, everyone would be in danger, Zhao Zhi shouted and ran to the dirt slope, to occupy the territory slope in front of the Japanese army. Ignoring the sight obscured by the long grass, Zhao Zhi threw himself on the dirt slope and shot a shuttle of bullets with a submachine gun below. A perfect fan shot, and a few Japanese soldiers who were just about to rush up the dirt slope screamed and rolled down the hill.
Zhao Zhi, who had emptied the magazine, didn't have time to change the magazine, so he half-knelt on the ground, pulled out the pistol on his waist and fired a few shots, knocking down the remaining Japanese soldiers who had just rushed up the dirt slope one by one. "Be careful" An elite who had just rushed up slammed down Zhao Zhi, and a grenade exploded right next to them, and the flying shrapnel blew up the entire back of that elite. When the smoke fell, Zhao Zhi pushed away the corpse that was pressed on his body, shaking his dizzy head, his chest was stuffy but he couldn't speak.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Uncle Guo, who rushed up the dirt slope, was anxiously groping on Zhao Zhi, with an anxious look on his old face. It's okay, I'm fine" Zhao Zhi pushed away Uncle Guo, pulled out the soil in his ears, and his ears buzzed. "Let's go, let's go" Uncle Guo saw the goats from a distance and fled back in embarrassment, and hurriedly pulled Zhao Zhi to go down the dirt slope.
The black pressure of the Japanese troops rushing over the mountain and the grass dam, the green of the entire grass dam seemed to be drowned out by the earthy yellow, and Uncle Guo estimated that there were 7 or 800 Japanese soldiers in this group. "Pyro, Pyro, burn this dirt slope for me, hurry up" Zhao Zhi called an elite with a flamethrower on his back, and shouted loudly as he pointed at the Japanese soldiers who were about to rush up the dirt slope.
The flamethrower clumsily knelt and held the flamethrower at the Japanese troops under the dirt slope, and the "whew" "whew" on the dirt slope suddenly ignited a raging fire. There are flames within a range of more than ten meters below the soil slope, and everything that can be burned is burning, and the dead and living Japanese soldiers are all flames, the only difference is that the dead lie on the ground and will not move, while the living ones are scurrying around like ghosts crying wolves.
Zhao Zhi and Uncle Guo, who were not wary of the power of the flamethrower, were all knocked down by the incoming heat wave. "Okay, okay, let's go, let's go" Zhao Zhi dragged the still unfinished flamethrower, and the uncle of the country rushed down the dirt slope in embarrassment, the round of blows just now was enough to make the Japanese army rush up the dirt slope for the time being.
The goats were fighting and retreating, only more than 200 meters away from Zhao Zhi and them, and the Japanese troops chasing after them were getting more and more crazy. "Bomb the Japanese soldiers who are following the goats for Lao Tzu, change places every 2 shells, and retreat into the woods" Zhao Zhi didn't care about being verbose, and pulled Edward and ordered him to take the gunners to meet the goats. If the old artillery was still there, it would have been done with the Japanese army a long time ago, and Edward had to give the order before starting the shelling.
Uncle Guo and the riflemen had retreated into the woods, and were using the cover of the trees to prepare to provide fire support to the goats. Zhao Zhi and most of them are submachine guns, and only the more than 20 people under Uncle Guo use Garand rifles, and there are only seven sniper rifles, which can provide limited fire support to the goats. "Boom" "Boom" Edward's accurate artillery bombardment temporarily suppressed the speed of the Japanese army's tail pursuit, and the goats finally retreated into the forest, and there were less than 10 of the dozen scouts they brought out.