Chapter 241: Peak Duel Section 2 A glimmer of life
Shimizu Dazuo asked everyone to bring all the military blankets, cut the blankets into strips with bayonets and daggers, and then braided them into three strands, just like rubbing hemp ropes, a blanket can probably be braided into a rope more than two meters long, and the devils worked together, and soon braided more than a dozen long blanket ropes.
In the past two days on the mountain, Qing Shui didn't sit there complaining and sighing, this guy wanted to die, but after understanding that he and the wing he formed were going to be completely abandoned, he remembered that he was almost abandoned once in Beiping, and he was angry, so he decided to risk his life to break through once and ask for an explanation!
According to his observation, the west peak they occupied, the north side is a large cliff that goes straight up and down, there is no way to go, and there are also troops from the Eighth Route stationed on the slope under the cliff, and when you look up, you can see the movement on the cliff, which is a dead end.
Needless to say, the east side is the cliff facing the pass and the mountain peak to the east, although it is not as steep as the slope and high vertical height of the north, you can't go down from here, and the pass and the east peak can be seen clearly.
The only way that seems to be able to walk is the west and south of this hillside, the semi-circular hillside stretches down obliquely and intersects with the mountain beam, to the west is a big ravine, the map marks this ditch called the hidden leopard ditch, probably in the past here used to be the place where the leopard haunted, so it is called the hidden leopard ditch, stretching for more than 20 miles, reaching the west of the water spring mountain to the top of the head.
Although this ditch is not connected to the upper and lower rivers and Tieyingpan, that area is also a barren mountain and wild ridge surrounded by ravines and mountains, and Qing Shui means that he wants to get into this ditch and run to Shuiquan Mountain in one go, and then turn to the northwest, maybe he can catch up with the rescue team from Kato United and Datong who are about to evacuate.
But the problem also arises. The west and south sides are also the most heavily fortified areas of the Eight Roads. You can see it by the number of campfires they lit. The entire western slopes and ridges are full of flickering bonfires, and the shadows are full of people, and breaking through from here is not the same as an egg hitting a stone!
Besides, there are big slopes and ravines in the west, and there is no need to cut the blanket to make a rope. Follow the rope down from the north cliff, sneak attack the camp of the Eighth Road, not afraid of being discovered, the more fierce the fight, the better, before the north death squad descends the cliff, in advance of another death squad of about 50 people lurking at a distance of about 50 meters from the west position of the Eighth Road, and as soon as the north is connected to the fire, the west will rush into the position of the Eighth Road, and fight randomly!
The remaining 200 people took advantage of the chaos to protrude from the west, and Qing Shui looked at it with a telescope. About a thousand meters to the west was a cliff, and when the brigade rushed there, it slipped down the cliff with a blanket rope. Entering the Hidden Leopard Ditch, Qing Shui judged that the cliff and the Hidden Leopard Ditch should be the weak defense force of the Eighth Road, that is the place of death, and the Eight Roads could not imagine that they would survive from the dead, and maybe there was a glimmer of life to escape.
In order to act quickly, Qing Shui ordered all the staff to reduce their burdens, the military blankets were all rolled into ropes, and the backpacks and other things were thrown off, leaving weapons, ammunition and rations on the body, and the excess things were thrown off, he simply suggested that the coat should not be worn, this kind of coat is too heavy, and it is clumsy after wearing it, he has already found that when the two armies are fighting hand-to-hand, the eight roads who only wear cotton clothes and cotton pants are much more flexible than the soldiers who wear long coats!
All steel helmets are not wanted, this thing is reflective at night, not conducive to hiding, this is good, all the little devils are only wearing short military uniforms inside, with a single hat, and the water is enough for thieves, so that all the soldiers can wrap their bayonets with broken blanket strips, and the provincial ones are also reflected by the firelight.
There are few people who sign up for the death squad, except for a few lieutenants of the Shaozhuang faction who have signed up, and the rest of the soldiers you look at me and I look at yours, no one goes forward, Qing Shui ordered to do it according to ten, all stood in a circle, lined up and nodded heads, randomly started counting from a soldier, and the tenth was automatically counted as a daredevil, and after all the numbers were repeated, then choose a soldier to start with until the point was enough for eighty people.
Neither one of these devils took the initiative to sign up as a death squad, this kind of ten out of ten was picked out, and no one complained, and when they became a death squad, they silently went to the side to pack up their things, and they were usually good enough to come over and say goodbye, the big guys thought about the same, but they were not selected, and it was just the difference between dying early and dying late.
The devil's death squad took off their short military uniforms, and wore the thin clothes inside, wrapped blankets and weeds and shrubs and branches around their bodies, and made a camouflage, and the thirty death squad members of the North Road arrived at the edge of the cliff at eleven o'clock, and more than a dozen ropes were tied to the rocks at the top of the peak, and Qing Shui gave them a military salute, and the devils went down the rope one by one.
In the southwest, the fifty daredevils were all rifles with bayonets, two grenades on their waists, also dressed in short clothes, and their bodies were also camouflaged with weeds or something, and they were slowly crawling down the slope one by one.
Shimizu divided the rest of the men into two teams, only the two remaining machine guns were at the front of the line, and the others were also loaded with bayonets, waiting for the time to fire from the north.
It was very cold tonight, the northwest wind came out of the valley and poured into the mountains, and the sky in the dark night was dark and dreary, not to mention the wind, but it was very depressing, and it looked like it was going to snow again.
The devils who slipped down from the north cliff against the rock wall did not dare to slip too fast, and the bonfire at the eight points on the slope of the mountain had not yet been extinguished, and people could be faintly seen moving, and the speed of descent was too fast for people to notice.
I finally reached the bottom of the cliff with trepidation, and there were a few small stones that fell in between, and I was scared to sweat! Fortunately, the mountain wind was howling, and the movement of small stones falling to the bottom of the cliff seemed to be unnoticed by Balu. Finally, when I reached the bottom of the cliff, I could vaguely see that the Eighth Road had built a stone wall on the slope below the cliff with branches and stones, half a man high, and surrounded the hillside.
After crawling past, a few pacesetters took a look behind the stone wall, such a cold day, the eight roads also hid to avoid the wind, a few stone walls and trenches built on the hillside, there was no one to see, just north of the stone wall there were two standing guns with guns, it seemed to be sentinels.
These devils are also cold, they are thinly dressed, they are frozen through the mountain wind blowing on the cliff, and their hands and feet are stiff! Besides, the death squad is here to send them to death! The lieutenant who led the team jumped up, raised his saber and shouted, and thirty devils jumped over the stone wall in a hula!
The four fastest-moving sentries outflanked the two eight-way sentinels, and jumped over in a few arrows at a distance of more than ten meters! The four bayonets pierced the backs of the Eighth Route Sentinels almost at the same time, but the stabs in the hands of the little devils were so strong that no blood splattered out, nor did they hear the sound of the bayonets stabbing into the flesh, let alone screaming or something!
The four devils were still in a daze, and the other devils had already rushed towards the makeshift shacks on the bonfire! Kick open the broken quilt of the shack with your foot, raise your hand and hold the fire, or throw a grenade into it! All of a sudden, the entire north slope was full of gunshots and explosions! The little devil's scream is louder than the mountain wind!
Fooled! The four little devils who outflanked the eight-way sentinels understood that these two sentinels were fake! It was wrapped in weeds and branches, and poked on the hillside with sticks! The military uniform on the outside, even the gun in his hand is wooden!
At this time, it was too late to shout that they were fooled, and the other devils were running around in the camp like crazy, and these four devils saw that they were already messed up, and they wiped their heads and ran back, and just arrived at the stone wall, and wanted to raise their legs and jump over, the suddenly protruding rifle muzzle almost opened fire against their stomachs!
In the ground under the stone wall, rows of stone slabs were lifted in the ground, and dozens of black shadows jumped up in an instant, and each of these four little devils was hit by at least a few bullets, and was stabbed by a few bayonets! Not only here, but on the hillside between the two stone walls, countless stone slabs were lifted, and behind the second stone wall, rows of guns shook in the firelight! (To be continued......)