Chapter 80: The Heroes of the End
At noon, an area of nearly one square kilometer was scattered with hundreds of Japanese soldiers armed with rifles and military backpacks. Abusive, cursing, and occasionally yelling from their superiors, the Japanese soldiers, who had been alive a few days ago, were now sweating like a group of lost children who had lost their parents, hobbling forward in the woods with weapons in their hands and searching.
There was another scream in the distance, followed by the chaotic sound of gunfire, and it seemed that another soldier had been overshadowed by the trap of the Zhina, and dozens of Japanese soldiers nearby nervously held rifles and aimed around, and the officers hurriedly organized reinforcements in the direction of the gunfire. Somewhere in the woodland, a large mouth opened in the leafy ground, and a pale soldier squatted beside the mouth, and a dozen panicked and aimless Japanese soldiers formed a circle in all directions, and the slightest disturbance would cause several gunshots.
"These damn Shina people! If I catch any of them, I'll hang him alive from a tree" Looking at his subordinates who were pierced through the body by a few spikes in the trap, Second Lieutenant Koyama Jiro slashed the command knife in his hand on the trunk of the tree on one side, and looked around at the soldiers beside him with a pair of red and terrible eyes, "Noda, take your squad to cover on the left, along the well, and your squad should watch the back." When you find the traces of the Shina people, you shoot immediately! ”
Before the words fell, a string of figures suddenly appeared from the surrounding trees, and a dozen sharp sticks about one and a half meters long shot like lightning towards Koyamajiro and them who were standing around the trap. Screams rang out, and several people were impaled through the body by sticks on the spot, covering the wounds gushing with blood, and their bodies were soft on the ground and convulsed. Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire in the woods, figures rolling, bayonets fluttering, and screams of pain erupted.
"Don't pester them, fence them all! Surround them and kill them all" Jiro Koyama was about to go crazy, holding his command knife to chop the sticks flying towards him, and at the same time shouting loudly at the soldiers who had been beaten around. The fierce hand-to-hand combat continued, but more Japanese soldiers from all sides formed a temporary defensive circle under the organization of Koyama Jiro, trying to encircle and annihilate all the Shina who jumped from the trees.
"Grenades, grenades" were thrown around by the attackers, and the shock wave and smoke of the explosion rose and fell in all directions, mixed with the miserable shouts of the Japanese soldiers after they were wounded. "Retreat! Get out! Use bullets against these damned Shina people" Seeing that his subordinates suffered heavy casualties, Jiro Koyama could only give up the idea of capturing Shina alive, beckoning the gathered soldiers to retreat and open the distance before shooting.
As soon as Koyama Jiro and the others retreated, the attackers who were against them were not slow to react, and after a whistle, the attackers disappeared into the woods, along with a few 38 rifles and a few cartridge boxes. "Chase them up, pursue" lost 8 of his subordinates Jiro Koyama angrily commanded his soldiers to chase in the direction of the attacker's withdrawal, "boom" a cloud of high-temperature and expanded gas shook the forest, the flames and smoke were filled, shrapnel, soil, and branches swept and splashed in the narrow space, and the violent explosion shock wave, shrapnel and burning flames almost turned out a passage 2 meters wide and 5 meters long in the forest, and the smoke dispersed, Jiro Koyama, who had lost one leg blown off, was lying in a pool of blood wailing. Unfortunately, Jiro Koyama and his soldiers were only interested in pursuing the enemy, but accidentally triggered an improvised bomb buried in the ground, which consisted of cluster grenades and a large number of shells, sending Koyama Jiro into his return home ahead of schedule.
Ten minutes later, under the cover of the Japanese machine guns, the Japanese soldiers who had suffered enough rushed forward with all kinds of vulgar slogans. The speed of the advance was amazing, and more than 100 Japanese soldiers rushed directly through the woodland, and they found at least a dozen dead and destroyed bodies of their comrades at the scene. Looking blankly at the bloodshed around them, the Japanese soldiers who hurried in began to look for their comrades who were not dead, and Jiro Koyama, who had lost one leg from the blow-up, was also carried out, while the attackers were lost without a trace.
In the depths of the woodland, several mercenaries with branches camouflaged and already soaked with sweat were resting weakly against the roots of several large trees, a stretcher was put aside, a wounded mercenary was in a coma, and several hidden mercenaries were carefully guarding several key positions nearby. It's been the fourth day, far beyond the maximum action time scheduled by Yu Dazhi, and the ration supplies that everyone carried have long been exhausted, and everyone has survived until now by relying on the wild survival skills of the mercenaries.
On the day they were separated from Miao Jinhua, a mercenary was shot and wounded while ambushing the Japanese army, causing Yu Dazhi and others to reveal their whereabouts and have to choose to continue retreating, and the wounded greatly slowed down the speed of retreat. The hunter became the prey at once, and the Japanese army began to chase after Yu Dazhi and them with revenge, and Yu Dazhi's only advantage was that they successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese army, and won space and time for Miao Jinhua and their evacuation.
The urgent shortage of ammunition led to the extremely difficult counter-pursuit battle on the way to retreat, the injuries of the mercenaries who were injured by the bullets began to worsen, and they launched a high fever, Yu Dazhi and they had no medicine on them to treat the wounded, and they could only rely on the herbs they found to ensure that the wounds of the injured mercenaries did not continue to deteriorate. Since this morning, more and more Japanese troops have besieged them, and as they continue to change their hidden positions, the Imperial Alliance Army has also begun to join the ranks of pursuing them, and Yu Dazhi knows that they have fallen into an embattled situation.
"Head, they're touching again!" A mercenary hidden on the flank ran back, bowed down to Yu Dazhi's side, wiped the sweat on his face and asked, "It's the Imperial Association Army who came back this time, did you fire to repel them?" We're running out of food and ammunition, so it's time to replenish it."
"Huazi, you take someone to escort Shui Sheng to leave first, give me the sniper rifle" Yu Dazhi grabbed the Japanese-style 97 sniper rifle in the other party's hand, and turned over the cowhide cartridge box on his waist to determine the amount of ammunition, and then pointed in the direction of the west, "You can't go to the north, you go around from the west, maybe you can meet the guerrillas of that woman"
"But," the subordinate was stunned, and immediately went to grab the gun again, "I'd better break the queen!" Before he finished speaking, the familiar sound of fire from Hanyangzao could be heard in the forests to the east and north, and a few screams could be faintly heard. Dozens of soldiers of the Imperial Association Army surrounded from 2 directions, several bullets flew with a whistling sound, one of them snapped and nailed to the trunk of a tree only a few meters away from Yu Dazhi, and then with a muffled snort, Hua Zi, a mercenary who was still fighting with Yu Dazhi for a sniper rifle just now, let out a cry of pain, and a bullet hit his back shoulder.
Yu Dazhi hurriedly rolled around, hid behind a fallen small tree, and then quickly got up to aim, and a second later the gunshots rang out, and the corpse of the Imperial Allied Army rolled down a small dirt slope. "Quick, retreat to the west! Leave me some bullets, I'll break it" Yu Dazhi pulled the bolt and loaded it, and while giving the order, he raised his gun again to aim, and then hit a soldier of the Imperial Association Army who touched it.
The mercenaries who retreated and retreated, including the guys who were aiming and shooting around, had to obey Yu Dazhi's orders. They lifted stretchers to support the wounded, while the remaining few covered the sides and struggled to retreat westward. The mercenaries could no longer pay attention to the constant gunfire behind them and the dying screams of the Imperial Army, and stiffened their tired bodies and retreated quickly with their injured companions. They knew that the captain Yu Dazhi did not have many bullets in his hands, even if they added the two bullet bridges they left behind, it would still be useless, and only when they left smoothly could the captain Yu Dazhi have a chance to withdraw.
Yu Dazhi leaned on the trunk of the tree tiredly, stuffed the plant tuber that was still sticky to the soil in his hand into his mouth, and chewed slowly, and the plant tuber with thick juice replenished the body with more water than nothing. He couldn't remember how many Japanese puppet soldiers he had killed in the battle, but he knew that there were at least a dozen Japanese puppet soldiers around and behind him who were tracking and killing him, and the cartridge box tied to his waist had already been thrown by him, and the last five bullets had been filled in the magazine.
After firing these five rounds, the 97 sniper rifle brought out from Zhangwu County became a burning stick, and in the end it could only be used as a spear with a bayonet. The pistol in the leg belt, there is still the last bullet left, which Yu Dazhi is going to leave for himself, the people of Thunder must not be a prisoner of the Japanese army, and Yu Dazhi, who voluntarily left the broken one, has already regarded himself as a dead man at the moment of making a decision.
Swallowing the bitter juice in his mouth with difficulty, and looking up at the sky split between the leaves overhead, Yu Dazhi's face showed a wry smile. Before leaving Zhangwu County, Mr. Zhao Zhi once said that when choosing between bandits and guerrillas, it is better to choose to recruit bandits than to rashly cooperate with guerrillas. The set of things that buy people's hearts is very powerful, and Yu Dazhi is very righteous in the rivers and lakes, once Yu Dazhi takes the guerrillas as his own person, it will definitely affect his judgment when making decisions, isn't the current predicament caused by his soft-hearted desire to help the guerrillas rescue the people?
There was a faint sound in his ears again, and the insight ability that he had quickly cultivated in tracking and counter-tracking made Yu Dazhi realize that the Japanese puppet army was approaching again. He tried to stand up and continue to get rid of his opponent, but he hadn't eaten anything for a day and a night, and his body, which was already extremely weak, made Yu Dazhi get up suddenly and fall back to the same place. Move your body behind the trunk with your hands on the ground and hide, then pull out your pistol and place it beside you. Yu Dazhi tried hard to adjust his breathing and slowly picked up the sniper rifle.