"You can't sit here and wait to die. Third brother, don't worry about this place. Take your team and find a way out from the cliff where we came in. Find an opportunity to get behind the Japanese army and hit them." Tang Cheng was discussing with Hou San what to do next.
What to do, gunshots suddenly rang outside the valley. The gunshots were different from the Japanese 38 rifles, which reminded Tang Cheng and Hou San of Yanlong, who had temporarily lost contact.
Tang Cheng and Hou San guessed well. The ones fighting the Japanese army outside the valley were Yanlong and a dozen of his scouts. Although Yanlong didn't have the same battlefield experience as Dice, Yanlong was not without ideas. Dice and the others were
When the Japanese army came out of the village, Yanlong and a dozen scouts had just arrived at the north side of the village. The fierce gunshots coming from the entrance of the village also shocked Yanlong, but after the shock, Yanlong did not
Instead of returning to the village entrance immediately, he led a dozen of his scouts and retreated far into a small forest to the north of the village.
The job of scouts is to explore roads, and they are very good at hiding their whereabouts. When Dice and the others were chased out of the village and Tang Cheng ordered to retreat to the valley, Yanlong took a dozen of his scouts with him.
Quietly hiding in the small woods. The Japanese troops who came out of the village pursued them to the valley. While the few Japanese troops in the village were treating the wounded soldiers, Yanlong, who had been paying attention to the battle situation from a distance, took the opportunity with his scouts.
They rushed into the village and killed the 20 or so Japanese soldiers who had stayed in the village like mercury. Ganlong and the others immediately returned to the valley with a captured light machine gun.
Yanlong and the others failed to catch up with the Japanese army's first trial attack, but the bonfire lit by the Japanese army to gather troops provided good target guidance for Yanlong and the others who returned to the outskirts of the valley. Like Hou San and the others, Yanlong
He had an almost blind trust in Tangcheng. He always believed that as long as Tangcheng was still alive, the Japanese troops besieging the valley would not be able to gain any advantage. Looking at the silence at the entrance of the valley, the Japanese troops were organizing a second wave here.
Attack, Yanlong finally ordered to use light machine guns to attack the Japanese attacking troops that had just assembled.
Tang Cheng was surprised by the shooting sound of the light machine gun, which sounded like exploding beans. When leaving Hongtu Slope, in order to reduce the burden on the soldiers, Tang Cheng did not even carry the mortars dropped from the air, let alone the machine guns. Tang Cheng wanted to believe that in the valley
It was Yanlong who was exchanging fire with the Japanese troops outside, but the sound of machine gunfire confused Tangcheng. If the gunshots were not mixed with the sound of Garland's shooting, Tangcheng would even think that this was a play rehearsed by the Japanese army.
Yanlong, who wanted to rescue Tangcheng, didn't know that his sneak attack on the Japanese army was a hornet's nest. The Japanese army was a little panicked at first, but as the panicked Japanese soldiers were restrained by the officers, the Japanese army had noticed that Yanlong and the others were attracted to them.
The Japanese army began to use their own firepower advantage to fight back with machine guns and mortars. In an instant, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and grenade launchers flew towards Ganlong and the others from mid-air, mixed with tracer bullets.
The various degrees and lines produced.
The Japanese army's reaction was too strong. The artillery fire almost turned half the sky red, and the shells kept falling on Yanlong and his hiding place.
A dazzling ball of fire and thick black smoke bloomed. Looking at the orange-red tail flames outside the valley from a distance, Tang Cheng in the valley couldn't help clenching his fists. He could already imagine the danger Yanlong and the others were facing now.
.The artillery shells fired by the Japanese army rushed towards the target with the sound of "day after day". The dust smelling of gunpowder smoke was lifted up again and again. The coverage of the Japanese artillery fire cut off the crown of the trees beside Yanlong and the others.
, only bare trunks and branches were left, and more were crushed and ignited, causing fires, and finally burned to ashes.
Watching the machine gunner and assistant shooter disappear in the flames of the artillery fire, Yanlong, who ordered the sneak attack on the Japanese army, regretted it. He miscalculated the strength of the Japanese army's counterattack. Besides, he did not have the commanding ability like Tangcheng. "Retreat, quickly.
Withdraw." Yanlong had no choice but to order a retreat. After taking the remaining scouts into the forest behind him, Yanlong asked them to move toward the valley, but he stayed behind.
After repelling Ganlong's group, the Japanese artillerymen who had been red-eyed immediately changed their targets. Tangcheng and the others at Taniguchi became targets for the Japanese artillery to vent their anger. The sound of artillery lasted for five or six minutes before it ended. Tangcheng was
A small team deployed at the mouth of the valley suffered almost all casualties. The scorched earth position at the mouth of the valley was littered with more than 30 corpses of the enemy, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood. The soldiers who were still alive were holding the mutilated sacrifice robes.
Their bodies were crying bitterly. Although they had long been prepared to accept the sacrifice, but now they could not help but cry bitterly when they saw that their bodies had begun to turn cold.
"Bury them on the spot!" Tang Cheng said, holding back the grief in his heart. Regardless of whether the Japanese army pursued them or not, these dead soldiers could not be brought back to the country. If they could not be brought back to the country, they could only be temporarily buried in a foreign land.
, otherwise the corpses of the fallen soldiers could only be cremated first, and then the ashes were taken back. The military doctor led the people to carefully bury the gathered corpses, and then found a position facing the north and buried the corpses.
During the burial, the soil was shoveled up one by one. Looking at the young and pale faces of the fallen soldiers who were gradually covered by the soil, even the most hard-hearted Dice couldn't help but have red eyes.
"If there is a future, I promise to welcome you back to the motherland in a glorious way, and engrave your great achievements on the monument. Let our descendants always remember that you were once in your prime!" Tangcheng secretly said.
He swore an oath in his heart and then raised his hands to salute the tombs. Hou San and others also stood in front of the new tombs and followed Tang Cheng in solemnly raising their hands in a military salute.
"The current situation is very unfavorable to us. This valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Only the entrance of the valley can be exited. However, the Japanese army does not know that the cliff behind the valley can be climbed. The engineers are responsible for laying booby traps in the dug bunkers.
My team will set off immediately and go out from the other side of the cliff. Other teams must be highly vigilant at night. The Japanese army will not sit back and let us sit idle. They may come to sneak attack us at night. The Japanese army is also good at night fighting and sneak attacks. I don’t want us to be taken advantage of by the Japanese army at night.
Let's take care of our old nest." He was ready to leave. Tang Cheng carefully warned Hou San and the others before starting the operation.
The soldiers in the valley began to act according to Tang Cheng's orders. The engineers began to collect explosives and grenades, and planted booby traps in the dug bunkers. Other soldiers also began to use local materials to set up traps at the entrance of the valley. They didn't care.
Whether these traps are lethal to the Japanese army will only matter if they can delay the Japanese army's entry into the valley.
Yanlong likes to kill with a knife, especially after his younger brother Yanhu died in battle. Hou San and others are familiar with Yanlong's habit of killing with a knife, and there are various legends about him among the supplementary soldiers. A thin handle
A knife with a thin blade can easily cut the opponent's throat, causing the opponent's blood to spurt out, and then convulse and die. Compared with killing people with bullets, Ganlong prefers to use the blade to cut the throat of Japanese soldiers. Only in this way can he
The hatred towards the Japanese army in his heart dissipated a little.
At the foot of the mountain, the rock dragon with a short knife in its mouth had been lying down for a long time. Hiding in the woods and watching the Japanese soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield return, the rock dragon rushed out of the woods alone and sneaked towards the Japanese army. Lying down there
In the grass, Yanlong's dark eyes stared at the Japanese soldiers in the distance. After his younger brother Yanhu died in the battle, Yanlong, who didn't like to talk much, changed and became even more taciturn. The one who loved to talk, laugh, and was full of sunshine
His younger brother has disappeared. For this reason, Yanlong wishes he could kill all the Japanese soldiers he can see.
Ganlong has lost count of how many Japanese soldiers he has killed with his own hands, but he remembers the first Japanese soldier whose throat he cut with a knife very clearly. The Japanese soldier looked very young and must have just been killed.
He must be eighteen years old, but Ganlong must end his life because he wants to avenge his brother. War is a game of death and death, but when the life of the young Japanese soldier gradually disappears, there is fear on his face
The expression of pain or helplessness is something Yanlong can't forget to this day.
Yanlong hit his swollen head with his fist and tried to think of some happy things. It was pitch black at the foot of the mountain, and the endless darkness made him feel that time passed too slowly. He looked forward to the dawn and hoped to get out of this situation as soon as possible.
Depressing darkness. He would rather face ten times the enemy than endure the darkness in front of him. The gunfire from the Japanese army and Taniguchi in front had stopped long ago. Ganlong was still waiting. He was waiting for a suitable opportunity, because
He wanted to arrest someone alive, and he knew that Tangcheng would definitely need someone alive to ask for information about this group of Japanese soldiers.
Suddenly, there was a faint sound coming from the waist-high grass twenty meters opposite. The sound was so subtle that it was almost insignificant. If Yanlong hadn't been holding his breath and waiting hard, he might have missed this sound. Then
The sound was like the sound made by someone stepping on a dead branch, but the sound appeared and disappeared quickly, as if it had never happened. Yanlong thought for a time that he had heard it wrong and had some random illusions, but this sound
After the sound was silent for a few seconds, it appeared again.
Yanlong lay motionless in the grass with a short knife in his mouth, but stared at the direction of the sound without blinking. Finally, while Yanlong waited patiently, three figures walked out of the grass on the opposite side.
The three of them were all crouched, walking in the wild fields full of weeds and shrubs, as silently as bobcats. Yanlong remained calm. He waited for the three Japanese soldiers to approach him, and he kept silent.
He was holding a short knife in his mouth, and he was holding a pistol in his right hand. The pistol was already loaded and ready to fire at any time. If it weren't for Yanlong trying to catch him alive, he might have already fired when he discovered the three of them.