Chapter 814: A Search in the Mountains and Forests
Huo Xiaoshan, Shen Chong, Chuan Kou Kuan, squatted in front of the corpses of the two Japanese soldiers and pondered, and the sachet on the Japanese soldier's body marked with the word "Slaughter" was turned out again.
On all sides, the soldiers of the battalion were on guard with guns, and even people passed by on the other side of the river, pointing their guns outward and shooting at any time.
Liu Shuangtian's leg that was injured by Yu Shikuan with a picker was bandaged with Yunnan Baiyao, and the bullet had been picked out by Huo Xiaoshan's dagger that had been roasted with fire.
At this time, Liu Shuangtian was enduring the pain and still chattering and thanking Yu Shikuan.
He naturally knew that Yu Shikuan was saving himself, if Yu Shikuan didn't shoot himself first, then he would never be able to escape from the black-clothed Japanese's Wang Ba box.
It is said that Wang Ba Box loves to get stuck, but it doesn't wait for him to kill people, Liu Shuangtian doesn't think that it will get stuck when the Japanese army shoots the first shot at him.
When it was already dark, Huo Xiaoshan ordered the team to be closed.
Naturally, he ordered his battalion to strengthen its vigilance, and at a distance of a hundred meters around his lodgings, he stopped it with a string that was only knee-high, and tied an empty canned box to it.
And the cordon was not one, but three, and dozens of meters behind were loaded machine gunners and cold gunners.
When night completely fell, Huo Xiaoshan left the campsite, carefully avoiding the strings that the sentries tied between the big trees, and disappeared into the forest one by one.
He was going to look around, trying to find the Japanese soldiers, and find out the truth.
Huo Xiaoshan knew that the Japanese special attack team had appeared again, and this time it was their direct battalion that was passive.
He didn't know how many Japanese soldiers there were, and if it was only a squad of thirty or forty people, it was destined to be troublesome to deal with.
Because it was obvious that the individual quality of this group of Japanese soldiers was very strong, and in such a patch of land that could no longer be called a forest but should be called a mountain forest, the elite soldiers with a small number had an advantage, and the side with a large number of people was passive.
Because the initiative is always on the side with fewer people, you can't figure out where they're hiding, when they'll show up and how many lives they'll take each time they show up.
If it weren't for Yu Shikuan, who happened to have a oar, then his two subordinates would definitely be in danger, and the reality of the battalion would be clearly felt.
Don't ask Huo Xiaoshan why he is so sure, just because Huo Xiaoshan has always done this with his direct battalion.
If the opponent is a team of more than 100 people, then they have to be more careful, after they find out the truth of their own battalion, it is entirely possible to touch the sentry and carry out a night attack.
This group of Japanese troops is obviously a strong opponent, they have put down the so-called invincible shelf of the Imperial Army, and they are real jackals in the mountains and forests.
The direction in which Huo Xiaoshan's battalion pursued the Japanese army was naturally from south to north, but the small river where the cooking squad went to wash the meat was to the west of their camp, and it was normal to understand that the Japanese army should have come from the west side of the river.
But Huo Xiaoshan didn't think so, because none of the rivers in this world were straight, and the water flowed low, and there were always high mountains that couldn't be bypassed.
And this small river is exactly like this, Huo Xiaoshan and they came over this river when they were marching, where it flows from east to west, but where Huo Xiaoshan and they camped, it has become a north-south flow.
Further north, that would be the retreating Japanese army, and since the Japanese army was retreating, if the way back to the south was theoretically the territory of the national army.
To the east, there was the main road for the Nationalist army to pursue the Japanese army, and to the west, there was a low mountain.
The direction Huo Xiaoshan chose was to go south and turn back.
He rejected the idea that Shen Chong and the others wanted to go out with him, and their sensitivities in the dark night were not as sensitive as their own.
In Huo Xiaoshan's opinion, if this group of Japanese troops fought with the top soldiers of their own battalion, they should be evenly matched.
In the street battle in Changsha City, the direct battalion lost dozens of brothers, Huo Xiaoshan could not afford to be injured, and the directly subordinate battalion could not afford to be injured either.
Huo Xiaoshan didn't want the day in the future when the Chinese soldiers and civilians really drove those Japanese dwarfs away, and his brothers were almost withered like autumn leaves.
The joy of victory should be shared with one's brothers, not one man with an altar and one cup of wine sprinkled in front of each brother's grave, saying, Brothers, rest in peace, little devil has been driven away by us.
The night was very dark, but there was starlight in the sky, Huo Xiaoshan was very grateful for the sky tonight, because of this little starlight, he could clearly perceive the place where there was no snow on the ground.
Where there is snow, it is resolutely not allowed to step on it, because there will be a sound when stepping on it, and the sound is enough to remind his enemies to raise the gun in their hands in the dark, although Huo Xiaoshan does not know where the group of enemies is hiding.
Huo Xiaoshan relaxed his state of mind and walked quietly through the forest.
He often taught his soldiers to be appropriately nervous when facing the enemy.
If you are too nervous, your body will stiffen, and once you have a situation, you will react too excitedly, and it will be unnatural and uncoordinated.
But this does not mean that you can be too relaxed, too relaxed will lead to slow reactions, this is a battle, by no means sitting on a raft with a river of stars in your arms and looking up at the Cowherd and Weaver Girl.
However, the so-called moderate tension was only addressed to the soldiers.
But Huo Xiaoshan himself is not like this, he is completely relaxed, and Ren Zen's aura shines alone, as if he is a leaf in the woods, to perceive this fresh and lively world that cannot be felt by Zen.
If you don't look on the outside and don't move inside, it is for Zen, and there is a great virtue who says that walking, living, sitting and lying are all Zen, and Huo Xiaoshan can't reach that realm.
He only has that kind of experience when he meditates, and when his body moves, the state of Zen is more inferior, and his perception is not as sensitive as when he is seated.
That's because he can't reach the realm, but he subconsciously feels that he is unlikely to reach that realm in battle, his own nature is Buddha, and that self-nature is not used to kill people, although it is the enemy who kills.
After Huo Xiaoshan walked in the dark for more than an hour, he heard the sound of the water of the small river in front of him, and after walking a few dozen meters, the small river arrived.
So far, he has not found any trace of the Japanese army in this southward direction, and he plans to cross the river to see, and if he has not found it, then he will look for it to the west and return.
He did not think that the Japanese would hide in the east and sandwich themselves between the battalion and the main force of the Nationalist army pursuing the Japanese, so that in the event of an exchange of fire, the Japanese would be flanked.
Nor did he think that the Japanese would be in the north right now, even though it was closest to the retreating Japanese.
With the combat strength of this group of Japanese troops, they don't need to be so cautious, even if that guy Nanyun Shinobu is not with this group of Japanese soldiers, this group of Japanese soldiers must have a certain understanding of the directly subordinate battalion, and with their ability, they dare to target the direct battalion, which must have combat effectiveness that the average Japanese army does not have.
There is a small wooden bridge across this small river, and Huo Xiaoshan's entire battalion walked from this small wooden bridge after the Japanese cavalry entered the mountain forest during the day.
Huo Xiaoshan crouched on the bank and looked at the black single-plank bridge on the starlit river, and then looked at the opposite bank, which was also in the dark, and walked along the river in the woods along the river.
After about a hundred meters, he began to take off his cotton trousers, and he wanted to wade through the river, and he had no idea of going up the bridge.
Don't look at the rear of the national army now, but God knows if there are Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river with guns pointing at the small bridge, and I, Huo Xiaoshan, am not a little daughter-in-law in confinement, but I never knew that cold water would make people sick.
Ten minutes later, when Huo Xiaoshan crossed the river on the other side of the river and approached the small bridge, he knew that he was right not to go to the bridge, because he had discovered the secret sentry of the Japanese army!