Chapter 35: Flee and return to the village

With a loud scream, the shrapnel-wounded horses jerked up their front legs, then galloped forward and threw off the officers on horseback, causing even greater confusion in the ranks of the puppet army.

Before the explosions stopped, gunshots rang out, and from the woods beside the road, bullets flew out and shot at the enemy.

Letting go of the front and hitting the tail, this is the battle plan that was made. It is precisely according to the characteristics of the puppet army's fear of death and the discouragement of the army that it is judged that it does not dare to return to fight to the death.

Amid the sudden explosions and gunfire, the puppet army fell into chaos. Is it an assault, is it a siege? The puppet soldiers fired guns indiscriminately, scurrying around, screaming and screaming, which caused them to panic and delusion even more.

At this time, if there are officers to organize, although the puppet army has been hit, it will not be defeated. After calming down, they will judge from the sound of gunfire that there are not many enemies.

But the commander of this puppet army made an unexpected or reasonable move.

Hearing the explosion behind him and the sound of gunshots, this guy just looked back and saw firelight, smoke and dust, and the puppet army scattered in all directions. As soon as he grabbed the horse's belly, he turned his head and ran forward.

Isn't it a good example to take the lead as an official? Who cares about reinforcing their companions behind?

The other puppet soldiers also ran wildly, fleeing after the commander.

The more than 20 puppet soldiers who walked behind the team were unlucky, and the serial grenades buried in the road exploded violently, and most of them were killed and wounded. Before the smoke cleared, the chaotic bullets came again.

Not to mention the effect of shooting, this momentum is very strong. When they saw that the men and horses in front of them were fleeing in chaos, they were already a burden to be left behind, and the surviving puppet army was also completely warlike.

Shen Chen, Zhao Tie and the others ran quickly, and soon approached the battlefield, forming a two-sided attack with Lao Zhou and others in the woods beside the road, against the remaining puppet army.

There was no idea of total annihilation, and even the puppet army was so unbearable that it was unexpected, several puppet troops fled in panic, and they were not pursued ruthlessly, and they luckily became fish that slipped through the net.

"Smack!" Shen Chen chased a few steps, held the gun in a kneeling position, pulled the board machine, and a puppet soldier's body shook and fell to the ground straight like a log.

Pulling the bolt again, pushing the bullet to load, Shen Chen aimed at the enemy, and fired another shot, the puppet army staggered, only suffered minor injuries, and the ghost continued to flee with a howl.

Shen Chen shook his head, this distance is not very sure, he doesn't want to waste bullets, just let those few death-fearing ghosts flee for their lives!

Lao Zhou rushed out of the woods with people, there was no shouting and charging, they were only faced with corpses and a wolf-like battlefield.

A wounded puppet soldier on the ground was screaming in pain, and Erhuzi ran over and kicked this guy in the face, scolding in his mouth, "Dog, let you be a traitor!" ”

"Stop." Lao Zhou ran over and stopped Erhuzi's continued violence in a loud voice, "Let's treat the prisoners preferentially, you have to violate discipline!" ”

Shen Chen pursed his lips, stepped aside, and untied the blood-stained cloth burden from a puppet army's corpse. Inside were looted goods. While others were not looking, he took a few silver dollars and a silver bracelet and quickly put them in his pocket.

It's not all greedy for money, but after all, it's convenient to have money. Moreover, Shen Chen still thinks about his uncle's family, even if he doesn't move out of the Japanese-occupied area, life will always cost money.

If he has the opportunity, he will loot, Shen Chen has accumulated a lot of money, and he can be regarded as a little rich man, or a little rich woman.

Shen Chen shifted his attention to the ammunition again, picked up a bullet belt, and loaded the six or five bullets inside into the cartridge.

"Hey, the seizure will be returned to the public." Zhao Tie walked over with a few guns on his back, and his tone seemed to be ridiculing.

Shen Chen didn't care, rolled his eyes, filled the bullet box first, and then threw the bullet belt to Zhao Tie, "Okay, return to the public!" ”

Zhao Tie pinched it in his hand, there were still a few left, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, and said, "When the team grows, it can't be like this!" If you don't follow the rules, others will do the same, but you don't care. ”

Shen Chen smiled and said, "Okay, when the time comes, I will return to the public first, and then you can send it to me secretly." ”

Zhao Tie is very helpless, this girl is very good at fighting, but it's not easy to fiddle, but she has an old idea.

After winning another battle and capturing again, except for the three wounded puppet soldiers who were screaming in pain, Shen Chen felt that they were all perfect.

And her goal can be regarded as basically achieved, so that this nascent guerrilla team has formed a basic combat mode, that is, a tactical style of play centered on her and centered around her sniping.

This is very important, to avoid to the greatest extent possible the passive situation in which a layman leader has to carry out his orders in the future.

After cleaning the battlefield, everyone returned to Zhangzhuang, although they were ruined by the puppet army, fortunately, they did not set fire to the house, and there was no problem with living in it.

Now, the warning post can be placed outside Zhangzhuang, and the message tree or smoke warning is built, and the safety factor of Wangjiawa has been improved by several levels.

Lao Zhou and Zhao Tie decided to temporarily stationed in Zhangzhuang and sent people into the mountains to inform them that the people there would return to Wangjiawa to rest.

Shen Chen felt that he was still comfortable living in Aunt Wang's house, so he followed the team members who went into the mountain to report the news back to Wangjiawa.

Although Lao Zhou and Zhao Tie conducted military training for the team members in Zhangzhuang, Shen Chen felt that he had finished teaching the essentials of shooting, and the rest was hard training. As for tactical actions such as lying down and prostrate, there is no need for him to teach.

When I returned to Wangjiawa, it was almost dusk. When he came to Aunt Wang's house, Shen Chen found that the family had returned.

It turned out that the old couple of the Wang family found that Juzi had sneaked away soon after entering the mountain. Don't think about it, I must be going back to the village. Fearing for their daughter's safety, the old couple ventured back.

When Shen Chen came back this time, he relieved Juzi. Aunt Wang is not good at counting her daughters, anyway, people and families are fine, and she is happy in her heart.

"Da Mei, this kang has just been burned, you sit by the stove for a while, it's warm here." Aunt Wang greeted Shen Chen warmly.

She listened to Juzi's story, and although she was skeptical, it was amazing that this girl could follow the men to carry guns and fight.

"Auntie, I'm not so delicate." Shen Chen refused Aunt Wang, but returned to his house, wanting to pack up all the things on his body.

Juzi followed in front and back, spread a wolf skin on the kang, and pestered Shen Chen to teach her how to shoot.

It is easy to learn to shoot, and after Juzi got the gun, Shen Chen taught her. Now Juzi wants Shen Chen to teach marksmanship, and she thinks that Shen Chen must have some tricks up his sleeve if he is so accurate.

"Well, there must be a trick." Shen Chen couldn't be entangled, so he had to explain patiently: "But it's useless to tell you now, you have to practice the basic skills first, such as the stability of holding a gun, the accuracy of measuring distance, and so on." ”

"Then what do you say, let's start now!" Kikuko is obsessed with guns, and she doesn't seem to be interested in anything other than fiddling with guns.

Shen Chen shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "Then you know how to do math, that is, arithmetic." ”

Juzi thought for a while, and said uncertainly: "I followed my father to the market to sell mountain goods and skins, but I will calculate a small account." ”

"Well, forget it!" Shen Chen knew that he couldn't ask too much, he would calculate a small account, and if he added rote memorization, he could still master the ranging with the jumping eye method.

The so-called eye-jumping method is a method of measuring distance with fingers and eyes.

The principle is to multiply the width of the measured object by ten based on the distance between the two pupils about one-tenth of the length of one's own arm, and the distance from the standing point to the target is obtained.

In other words, in order to use the jumping eye method, it is necessary to be able to estimate the size (height, width, etc.) of the object to be measured, so as to be able to estimate the lateral distance of the object to the position pointed by the thumb.

Therefore, in addition to basic mathematics, you must also be familiar with the dimensions of common objects. For example: the length of the car, the height of the person, the height of the building, etc.

For Juzi, and even the other team members, Shen Chen did not have the luxury of cultivating a sniper. Being able to hit a target at 180 meters was already a very powerful fighter by the standards of the time.

Thinking about it carefully, Shen Chen felt that there was no need to learn the eye-jumping method, and it was enough to be able to roughly judge the distance of about 100 meters.

Moreover, the 38 big cover used by Juzi now is a vertical frame ruler, which has an advantage: when the firing distance is about 50 meters to 100 meters, the meter frame can be erected, and the target and the front sight are set in the vertical frame at the same time for general aiming and rapid shooting.

At a level like Shen Chen, if he didn't pursue a headshot, it would not be a problem to hit a gun at a distance of 100 meters.

It was already dark, and the distance estimation training had to start tomorrow.

Shen Chen taught Juzi the most common lying position to shoot without support, and repeatedly corrected and instructed her to confirm that she was able to form a more stable three-point support with the gun through the erection of her arms, and then sent Juzi away.

The temporary training ground, the fire kang, was finally vacated, and Shen Chen lay on his back on the ground, burning warmly under his body, humming comfortably.

After dinner, Shen Chen went back to the house to rest. Now, it was obvious that Aunt Wang's family was more enthusiastic and close to him, but when Shen Chen relaxed, he felt tired.

It's no wonder that I didn't get a good rest for a few days in a row, running and bumping, and fighting again.

Shen Chen put everything into a captured rucksack, and when he went out again, he didn't have to affect his actions with bits and pieces.

Sitting on the warm kang, Shen Chen held a file and a knife, carefully handling the bullets under the oil lamp.

Only more than 20 were made, and sleepiness struck. He put away his things, blew out the lights, lay down on the kang, covered the quilt, and soon fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but Shen Chen was awakened by the noise outside.

Despite no one calling him and no warning of gunfire, he got up with his bones, quickly got dressed, put on his backpack, and rushed out with his gun in hand.

In the courtyard, Aunt Wang was wearing a cotton jacket, and just opened the courtyard door, when the door behind her rang, and when she looked back, she saw Shen Chen running out in full gear.

The village chief, who was about to step into the courtyard, and Aunt Wang were stunned, and several people behind the village chief also saw it, and their voices suddenly disappeared.

"Why is it so messy, is it the enemy coming?" Shen Chen asked with a frown.

Ahh Aunt Wang woke up from her daze, hurriedly waved her hand and said, "It's okay, Damei." It's the folks and comrades in the mountains who have come back and scared you, right? ”

The village chief has seen Shen Chen twice, and he is not very familiar with him, but looking at his dress, looking at the attitude of Zhao Tie and others towards him, he probably knows that this girl is not simple.

At this time, seeing Shen Chen's appearance as if he was facing a great enemy, he hurriedly explained: "Comrade Damei, these are comrades from the District Women's Rescue Association, and I want to squeeze with you." The village is small, and there are many comrades who have returned from the mountains, and the houses are really not enough. ”

It's very polite, this should have been the landlord's mistake!

Shen Chen put away the gun, knowing that the village chief was telling the truth, women, it's normal to sleep together. If there is really no place, during the war years, men and women will not pay much attention to together.

Seeing that Aunt Wang was also looking at herself, Shen Chen felt like a master. He smiled abruptly and said, "This is Aunt Wang's house, as long as her old man agrees, you don't have to ask me." ”

Aunt Wang hesitated, and before she could speak, Juzi came out of another room and said, "Sister Da Mei, you and I can squeeze into one room and let those comrades live in that room." ”

Saying that, without waiting for Shen Chen to express his position, Juzi had already stepped forward to pull him, obviously he liked to be with him very much, and now he had a chance.

Shen Chen nodded and said with a smile: "That's good, I should carry it, take what I should take, and even clean it up." ”

This time it was considered to be a relief, Aunt Wang smiled happily, and warmly beckoned the female comrades of the Women's Rescue Association to hurry into the house to warm up, and asked Juzi to boil water.

Good guys, there are more than a dozen women coming over to Huhula, and just some of them are outside the courtyard gate.

Carrying luggage rolls, carrying school bags, some middle-aged, some young, and a few who still look like students. Although they are different, they also have one thing in common, and that is the tiredness that cannot be hidden.

Shen Chen looked at them, and they also looked at Shen Chen curiously. Although they were curious, they were still very friendly, some smiled at Shen Chen, some greeted him, and some apologized to him for bothering.

Juzi lit the fire, ran out again, and pulled Shen Chen into her house.

This room is much smaller, with a small kang, but it is not too crowded to sleep two people.

"Sister Da Mei, you rest first." Juzi diligently helped Shen Chen take off his backpack, patted the quilt and said, "It's still hot inside!" I'll be back when I'm done. ”

Shen Chen felt that he didn't have anything to do, but he just changed rooms to sleep, which was much better than the treatment of those crowded kangs.

Juzi was busy a few times, and then went out of the house to add firewood and watch the fire, and Shen Chen was the only one left in the house.

Shocked by this, Shen Chen's drowsiness disappeared, he stripped off his clothes and went to the kang, and lay down for a long time before falling asleep again.

Juzi was still busy outside, a big pot of boiling water was brought into the house, and those women drank it all in a blink of an eye.

The hot water dispelled the chill on the body, and although they were tired, they were not sleepy, and the women were still talking.