Chapter 47: Cleanup
The sound of the explosion alerted Xia Yuan, raised his head and looked at the place where the sound floated over, and the explosion sounded for no reason, he was not the only one here.
He quickly cleaned up the battlefield, replenished the grenades of the Japanese devils, and did not forget to bring a gun and a magazine for the scholars.
"Let's go, let's go to another place and eliminate the other team of Japanese devils, and the Japanese devils in the Lin family house will not be our opponents."
Xia Yuan stuffed the gun into him, raised his head and continued to look at the place of the explosion, the ruins blocked his vision, and he couldn't see what was going on over there or what the situation was, so he took the scholar and touched it.
"Brother Yuan, have you wiped out all the Japanese devils over there?" The scholar grabbed the gun in his hand and briefly familiarized himself, Xia Yuan gave him the gun, which basically showed that the Japanese devils over there had been eliminated.
But he still felt a little incredible, the process and outcome of the battle was inevitably too easy, too fast, so that he had the illusion that the war seemed to be so simple.
If he weren't on the battlefield, he really simply thought that war was so simple, and it was not difficult to be easy.
When they were training in the past, the squad leader told them a lot about the cruelty of war, and the scholar knew in his heart that it was not that war was so simple and easy, but that Brother Yuan's combat effectiveness was too strong.
"Wiped out." Xia Yuan said very briefly, and suddenly made a silent gesture, gestured to the scholar, and motioned for him to go to the front.
The scholar nodded, retracted the messy thoughts in his mind, and cautiously touched forward with the gun, while Xia Yuan bypassed the ruins in front of him and touched it from the side.
The ruins are very large, in the ruins, raise your head and look around, almost all of them are surrounded by the ruins of the town, the war has made many houses here no longer exist, turned into a series of dazzling ruins, you can see the corpses of the national army everywhere, these corpses are not collected, just exposed in the ruins, the weather is hot, the corpses are rotting, and after the heavy rain, the corpses become more broken and dazzling.
The scholar withdrew his gaze from a broken corpse with difficulty, he didn't want to be a corpse on the ground, Brother Yuan said, if you don't want to be a corpse, then let the enemy become a corpse.
Xia Yuan's departure made him realize that he had to learn to be independent and fight.
Taking a deep breath, the scholar looked around, got into the ruins, found a corner and got up, staring into the distance through the gap, Xia Yuan didn't tell him the battle plan, so he had to wait, and when the Japanese devil arrived, he shot the Japanese devil to death.
On the other hand, Xia Yuan did have the idea of sharpening the scholar, and when he was moving forward, he always paid attention to the direction of the scholar, but the scholar found a ruin cat to get up, which really surprised him.
"Street battles are too cruel for recruits, and the same is true for blocking battles, small-scale battles are the most suitable for them, but where will there be a small number of troops in the Battle of Songhu, there are only in such ruins, alleys."
Xia Yuan had no choice but to withdraw his attention from the scholar, moving quickly with his gun, he lost his grasp of the situation of another Japanese detachment, however, he could roughly guess that the Japanese troops of one detachment were responsible for containing the front, and the Japanese troops of the other detachment made a detour and carried out a surprise attack from behind them.
"This Japanese detachment may not have thought that the battle in front of it would end so quickly, hehe, the little Japanese devils at the beginning of the outbreak of the war of aggression against China, the combat effectiveness was very amazing, but now, this kind of small detachment-level battle is simply easy for me."
With a cold smile on his face, Xia Yuan walked through the alley, hid behind the half-collapsed wall, squatted on the ground, poked his head out to make a detailed observation of the houses on the other side of the street, and the eagle eye swept over, leaving a particularly clear picture in his mind, and after processing and analyzing, he found the Japanese soldier who was hiding.
"It's quite tightly hidden, and if you don't look closely, you really can't see it."
This street is very wide, Xia Yuan expected that the Japanese devils would hide people on the street, and if they set up three guns here, they would be able to radiate the entire street, and if it was him, he would also build a firepower point here and keep an eye on this street.
Whether or not the enemy will go from here, the street is basically under their control.
"Three Japanese soldiers, not bad, the little Japanese devils also fancy this street, so how can I get there?"
"Wait, maybe you don't need to go over."
Xia Yuan put away his gun, got into the alley where he came, and approached the bunker where the three Japanese soldiers were hiding from the other direction.
It can be said that these three Japanese soldiers were well camouflaged, and they wrapped a layer of linen cloth on the steel helmet, so that their steel helmet did not look so abrupt, and it was impossible to see that there were three Japanese soldiers hidden there without looking carefully.
No matter how well they hid it, they couldn't escape Xia Yuan's eagle eye. Eagles are one of the most eye-catching species in birds, and at an altitude of several hundred meters, they can keenly catch the traces of prey on the ground.
What's more, these three Japanese soldiers were only more than a hundred meters away from him, and they were easily swept by Xia Yuan's eagle eye.
Xia Yuan approached the range where the three Japanese devils were hiding, and within the range of the bomb that could be dropped, he took out a grenade and threw it over, with a roar, the three Japanese soldiers didn't even react, and they were reimbursed by a grenade.
"Hey, they're all in that direction."
A grenade, like a fish falling into a calm lake, blew up a lot of Japanese devils, using Eagle Eye, he locked the figure of the Japanese devils shaking in the ruins, more than ten Japanese devils were not his opponents at all, and eliminated the Japanese devil sentry looking at the wide road, he passed the street smoothly, like a ghost, under the nose of the Japanese devils.
Even if this group of Japanese devils was already very vigilant, Xia Yuan, who had experienced a hundred battles and had various powerful skills, was still in a state of special vigilance, smoothly touched it, sneaked into a tiled house, put the muzzle of the gun on the window, and aimed it at a Japanese soldier in the distance.
Bang!
The sound of gunfire tore through the solemn air, startling the vigilant Japanese devils, and when they reacted, one of them fell in a pool of blood.
The battle was on the verge of breaking out, but with a few explosions, it calmed down again.
The Japanese devils on both sides of the Lin family house were almost cleaned up by Xia Yuan alone, and there may be Japanese soldiers in the house, but they don't pose much of a threat to him.
Xia Yuan found the scholar and began to retreat with him.
The Lin family house is basically a matter of nine out of ten, and the next thing is to notify the platoon leader Qiu that they will enter the Lin family house and clean up the excess Japanese soldiers.
Then, when he returned, he found that things had changed.
Platoon Commander Zhao found Xia Yuan and hurriedly asked, "Xia Yuan, you didn't see Niu Hai." β
"Didn't Niu Hai follow you?" Xia Yuan was stunned for a moment, and the joy of destroying the Japanese army was gone.
"Niu Hai, Niu Hai" Platoon Commander Zhao heard this, and with many years of battlefield experience, he immediately realized that Niu Hai might have had an accident.
"What the hell is going on!" Xia Yuan's brows furrowed.
"Company Commander Xu sent someone to tell me that Platoon Commander Qiu seized the command, and he thought that you would take them to their deaths, and only if you died on the battlefield, they would be safe." Platoon Commander Zhao said through gritted teeth.
"So, he wants me to die in front of me so they can be safe." Xia Yuan squinted his eyes, and he remembered what Platoon Commander Qiu said when he looked at the defeated soldiers.
These were the soldiers of the 401st Regiment, and last night's attack did not make effective progress, and the troops suffered too many casualties, so they had no choice but to withdraw from the battle. This is not to blame them, the Japanese fire equipment is too fierce, a Japanese squad that held its position was equipped with two heavy machine guns, several light machine guns, and the fire completely crushed us. β
At that time, Platoon Commander Qiu said very sincerely, even Xia Yuan didn't find any flaws, but he never thought that this Platoon Commander Qiu was the same as the two company commanders he met.
"So, you just ask Niu Hai to inform us, be careful." Xia Yuan asked again.
"This is Niu Hai's own request, and I originally planned to let Zheng Da use it." Niu Hai did not come back, and Platoon Commander Zhao blamed himself very much, they had only been fighting on the front line for more than 20 hours, but they already had a deep friendship with each other.
Niu Hai didn't come back, Platoon Commander Zhao thought that he also had a lot of responsibility, if he insisted a little and didn't let Niu Hai go, maybe Niu Hai wouldn't have an accident.
"You don't have to blame yourself, maybe he'll be fine." Xia Yuan remembered the explosion for no reason, and said: "If he dies, then we will avenge him, and as for Platoon Commander Qiu, I will go to him." β
Xia Yuan turned around and was about to leave, but Platoon Commander Zhao hurriedly said: "The surnamed Qiu wishes you died, you go over now, or you will follow their way." β
"Brother Yuan, you have to calm down, the platoon commander is right, the surname Qiu wants you to die, if you go, won't you follow their way, he is from the Central Army, and he has an inseparable relationship with Commander Qiu, if he really wants to kill you, it is easy to explain to Commander Qiu."
The scholar thought about it carefully, and immediately realized something, and hurriedly stopped Xia Yuan.
Xia Yuan is very calm, his talent for calmness has always played a role, and he can't give up the position of the Central Army, so he still has to fight for it.
With the position of the Central Army, they can recruit troops on the battlefield, and even if they are discovered by the troops of other national armies, they also have a number and official position, and there are traces to follow if they find him above.
The new barracks, without any official position, are not noticed, and no one knows about their deaths.
"I know, I have my own plans, the little Japanese devils didn't kill me, they want to kill me, it's still too naΓ―ve."
Xia Yuan's voice was a little cold, "And now that the enemy is present, if Qiu Zhengfu is engaged in a nest fight, don't look at his relationship with Head Qiu, Head Qiu will not spare him." β
"But if there is a problem" Platoon Commander Zhao was very worried, Xia Yuan was their backbone, everyone else could die, but Xia Yuan couldn't die.
"There will be no problem, Qiu Zhengfu wants to move me, and he can only use the means of the Japanese devils, he will not do it to me openly."
Xia Yuan thought about it for a while, and then said, "In this way, you go with me, and call Company Commander Xu by the way, so let's do it." β
The boy thought about it and nodded.
When Company Commander Xu saw Xia Yuan coming back, he was very surprised, and pulled him to say something.
Xia Yuan got straight to the point: "I already know about Qiu Zhengfu, in addition, the Japanese army in the Lin family house has been cleaned up by me, and I only need to organize an attack to defeat the Lin family house, see what Qiu Platoon Commander means, if Qiu Platoon Commander chooses to give up, then I can't help it." β
Company Commander Xu groaned and didn't speak yet, Xia Yuan looked at the ruins of the town in the distance, and there was gunpowder smoke rising everywhere.
He said: "Niu Hai died, a very good soldier, with a family's blood debt on his back, and in order to inform us, he was discovered by the Japanese devils. β
Company Commander Xu opened his mouth, "I should wait for you to come back before telling you." β
"No, you told me very well, Platoon Commander Zhao has been on the battlefield, but Zheng Dayong and Niu Hai are both on the battlefield for the first time, including scholars, they follow me, and everything is led by me, so that they forget the danger of the battlefield."
Xia Yuan took a deep breath and expressed his worries: "This is desperate, if you are not careful, your life will be gone, sometimes you hear that ten or twenty people died in a battle, and the simple number is completely unaware of the horror of the battlefield, but it is ten, twenty lives, it is different." Last night we were surrounded by Japanese troops, and I rescued them, and I single-handedly eliminated most of the Japanese devils, and they survived very safely. β
"The safe environment will make them forget the danger of the battlefield, the cruelty of the battlefield, forget the corpses of the recruits everywhere last night, forget the mutilated corpses that were bombed by Japanese planes on the way back."
"The battlefield is not only the cruelty of the battlefield, but also the test of human nature."
Company Commander Xu looked at Xia Yuan and always felt that there were a lot of things hidden in this guy.
"When I die, their mission will be over." Xia Yuan sighed, he also felt a headache and helplessness about this, in the face of life, any truth seems very fragile, the concept within the national army is similar to that of Old Man Wang, people are not for themselves, heaven and earth are destroyed, they are crazy to make money, just to make themselves live better, as for the good work of those low-level soldiers, they don't care at all, this situation is reflected in the barracks, and when it comes to the battlefield, it is vividly embodied.
Company Commander Xu is a rare good company commander in the national army, and in his opinion, Qiu Zhengfu is the same as in the Tang deputy division, only caring about his own life and the life of his team.
Xia Yuan didn't know how to judge them, and he didn't have anything to judge, so be it.
"Company Commander Xu, I'm going to find Qiu Zhengfu, do you want to go?"
Company Commander Xu groaned, as if he had concerns.
"In this case, I will take the people first, and you will arrive later." Xia Yuan saw Company Commander Xu's concerns, smiled, and said.
"What happened to the Lin family's house?" Company Commander Xu asked about the situation on the front line with concern, he hesitated, hesitating that once he went with Xia Yuan, it meant that he was standing on the opposite side of Platoon Commander Qiu, if Xia Yuan left, he would return to the 401st regiment, which would definitely be sad.
In fact, he is still very optimistic about Xia Yuan, after all, soldiers like Xia Yuan are very rare, but the environment of the national army is too poor.