The Japanese were still in fierce pursuit, and even deliberately reduced the pace of the attack, and as soon as the machine guns rang out, the soldiers were driven by the commander to charge.

Although Huo Xiaoshan was curious about the identity of the Japanese pilot who fell to death, he knew that even if he found out, he would just make a note in the credit book of the directly subordinate battalion, and he didn't want to be a big official, so it was true that he could take the opportunity of the Japanese army to go crazy and kill more devils.

In fact, he had a chance to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army, but he did not run far, he wanted to use the Japanese pilot who had long died as a bait to kill more Japanese soldiers.

When the Japanese army once again desperately caught up, the rest of the battalion directly under the battalion wanted to be ruthless and completely annihilate the Japanese army.

But Huo Xiaoshan disagreed, he said, it is inevitable that there will be casualties if you are ruthless, and you will have to lose thirty of yourself if you kill a hundred enemies, it is better for us to slowly slip them like this, anyway, we have a guide who is familiar with the terrain, and we can run a little more in the sky, how good it would be if there were no casualties.

Huo Xiaoshan had already grasped the psychology of the Japanese army, but when the Japanese army caught up with dozens of people, he just didn't kill them all, and there was always a small part of the Japanese army left to flee back, so the Japanese army felt that there was still hope, so they naturally increased their manpower to catch up.

Even when the Japanese army was about to chase them away because they were not familiar with the terrain, he would let the soldiers escort Shen Chong to show the back of his head far away, so when the Japanese army chased after them again, they took the opportunity to fight coldly with machine guns for a while, earning him more than a dozen devils' lives and running away.

In this way, those who were chased did not run far, those who wanted to chase wanted to chase but couldn't catch up, it was a long time to pass, and when it was about to get dark, Huo Xiaoshan and a company of people finally got rid of the pursuit and "escaped" into a low mountain lined with trees.

Now that you have got rid of the enemy, it is natural to put a sentry and eat when you should eat.

The so-called meal this time is very simple, just chew the horse jerky, and drink some water from the military kettle when you are thirsty

Horse jerky is a good thing, but it is easy to bring when you are hungry, Huo Xiaoshan does not let everyone eat it when it can be cooked, and soldiers are only allowed to eat some when it is not suitable for fire in this kind of battle.

The horse jerky given to them by the Sichuan army was all salted when boiled, and the first batch of processed meat was sent to the direct battalion.

At present, the Anti-Japanese War has entered a phase of stalemate, food is very scarce, and it is said that someone has reduced the amount of three meals a day.

Compared with other troops, one meal of porridge a day, the horse jerky of the directly subordinate battalion can be regarded as a delicacies of the mountains and seas.

So much so that when a signal soldier who was not originally from this company came to report the news, he didn't leave, so he was with Huo Xiaoshan, and everyone laughed at him for wanting to eat jerky.

Although it is a joke, it also shows how difficult it is to have a full meal in today's China!

At this time, Shen Chong was sitting under the root of a tree, chewing horse jerky in his mouth and playing with the box cannon in his hand.

In the whole afternoon, the direct battalion fought four times with the Japanese soldiers who were tracking from behind, but he did not fire a single shot, this kind of unique thing made him itch his hands for a few days without fighting devils, how could he not be depressed?

"I miss that guy Nagumo Shinobu a little bit?" Shen Chong sighed.

"What do you want him to do?" Xiao Shisuo asked curiously.

"The devils in the back can't help but fight, and they don't need me to make a move." Shen Chong's tone was a bit of a lonely and defeating one.

"Why did I smell a sour smell, did those little Sichuan add vinegar to it when they were making jerky?" Huo Xiaoshan looked up at the gloomy and darkening sky and said seriously.

"Poof" Huo Xiaoshan's words made Meng Fanxi, who was drinking water, directly squirt out the water, and the people next to him also snickered.

"You're still looking forward to that guy, I don't want him, that guy is amazing, that knife almost killed me, and now sometimes I feel a little itchy on a rainy and cloudy day." Little Stone said.

"If that guy is chasing us in the back, we won't be able to kill so many devils today, maybe we're still running away now!" Meng Fanxi sighed.

"That's better than not firing a shot in the afternoon!" Shen Chong said.

As soon as he said this, everyone laughed again, because they remembered Huo Xiaoshan's words just now, it was obvious that the Dugu in front of him was pretending to want to fight devils, and it was true, and he finally told the truth.

"You want to make a move, huh? Simple! Tonight, let's let the 'little devil' in open crotch pants give us a sentry! Huo Xiaoshan said with a smile.

"Why am I on duty?" Shen Chong was not happy, there were two people wearing open crotch pants, but there was only one "little devil" wearing open crotch pants.

"Because you didn't fight devils today! We're so tired of fighting devils, you didn't fight devils, you were very easy today, who are you worth? Huo Xiaoshan continued.

"That's why you asked me to pretend to be a devil, why are you unreasonable?" Shen Chong protested.

"Look here!" Huo Xiaoshan pointed to his military rank, and then said, "Do you know what this is?" The rank of major, does the major need to reason with you? Now the Major orders you to go to the sentry! Huo Xiaoshan resolutely carried out his chief's majesty to the end.

"Uh-well." Shen Chong was out of options.

The battalion directly under it is really one thing and one thing, and this kind of "falling" is not fear, it can be said to be restraint.

Shen Chong specially restrained those who were naughty and mischievous and could speak (including Zheng Youjian), and spoke with his fists when he was angry.

Huo Xiaoshan specifically restrained Shen Chong, because Shen Chong couldn't compare to Huo Xiaoshan in terms of his heart-warming eyes or his ability to fight devils, so he couldn't accept it.

On the contrary, Huo Xiaoshan is sometimes a little pampered with those naughty and mischievous soldiers, as long as he does not violate military discipline and provoke the people, he is not in a hurry, but sometimes it is Huo Xiaoshan who intercedes when Shen Chong punishes those soldiers.

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It was late at night, and it was really dark when you couldn't see your fingers, and you couldn't even see a star in the sky, not to mention the moon, because it was cloudy.

During this period of time, due to the passage of the cold snap, the land of Xiangchu first snowed heavily, and then the temperature rose slightly but it rained and snowed, so the weather was very cold.

Shen Chong naturally came to be on duty, but the place where he stood at the sentry post was different, he rode on a tree.

There is actually only one reason why Shen Chong chose to be on duty on the tree, and that is that he doesn't like the cold on the ground.

Although it was late at night, the snow was not completely frozen, and if he stood on the ground, he would inevitably get his shoes wet, and the shoes that had been marching during the day were already wet, but he had now replaced his other pair of dry shoes.

Therefore, if you ride on a tree, you will not have to worry about getting your shoes wet, but how can you get your shoes wet if your feet are hanging in the air or stepping on a branch?

The so-called tree is windy, and the tree is naturally colder than the ground, but Shen Chong wrapped himself in the marching quilt he carried with him.

He wasn't really worried that the Japanese would touch the camp, because they had already thrown the Japanese far enough away before dark.

But for the sake of safety, it would be safer to stay in the trees on such a dark night, and even if the Japanese army touched the camp, they would never have imagined that the sentries were hiding in the trees in such temperatures.

Shen Chong himself is a master of touching the battalion, and he even touches the Japanese sentries more often than Huo Xiaoshan, after all, no matter how good Huo Xiaoshan is, sometimes he needs to see the overall situation and cannot do everything himself.

As for sleeping while on duty, it is impossible, Shen Chong touched the Japanese sentry too many times, he naturally encountered a situation where the Japanese sentry fell asleep or fell asleep, and that kind of sentry really died and didn't know how to die!

So Shen Chong was wrapped in the march and rode on the branches, looking at the heavy night.

He recalled that when he was a child, he practiced martial arts under the supervision of his mother and pressed his legs so painfully that he cried, he recalled the wandering on the rivers and lakes because he stole a bowl of rice from a restaurant and was chased and bitten by several big vicious dogs behind, he remembered the first hug with the fine girl in the black shed of the house in the flood, and he remembered the first kiss that the fine girl gave him when the two of them were in the woods after sending the little girl back to the New Fourth Army......

He thought about it until he felt something unusual under the tree.

That kind of abnormality might have been ignored if it had been replaced by someone else, but Shen Chong wouldn't, he had touched the enemy camp too many times, and some things had become instincts in his bones.

So, he looked under the tree, and he saw two ghostly lights under the tree in the dark night.

Even if the heart is frightened, Shen Chong will not make a sound, this is also a habit developed by the whistle, if there is a sound when touching the whistle, it means that the whistle fails, which means that someone in the back of the large army will die.

Wolf? Shen Chong looked at the two ghosts, is there a wolf here? I'm not a local, how would I know if there are wolves in the wilderness here?

He couldn't read if it was a wolf or a dog's eyes, and if only Xiao Shanzi was there, he would be able to tell the difference.

So, he listened intently, and immediately he concluded that there was a great Japanese wolf dog below, for he heard the sound of small, almost inaudible footsteps!