The mountain wind howled, and the darkness slowly swallowed up the last ray of sunshine hidden in the clouds.
A second lieutenant hurriedly came to the lieutenant's side halfway up the mountain and suggested that the attack at night should be stopped because the losses would be too great.
The team that went down first had been fighting for an hour, with nearly half of their casualties, and not even a shadow of the Eighth Route Army was seen.
The lieutenant couldn't suppress his anger and roared: "This bastard Dachuan wears local clothes and doesn't even have a military uniform. They are sleeping before dark. They are just watching our jokes! They can't defeat such an attack. Maybe, That guy in Okawa is betting! He is betting that troops will come from the north to outflank us!"
"Anyway, we can't attack, and there's no point in letting the warriors die in vain. Besides, his military rank is also a lieutenant... We, or we can stay in the ravine, and they... don't know!" the second lieutenant suggested cautiously.
"Eight, you have disgraced the imperial soldiers! Do you want to suggest that I give up at this time?"
"My subordinates are incompetent. I'm embarrassing you! Now I'll take the troops down to reinforce them. I'll think of a way to continue the attack!" The second lieutenant saluted and prepared to turn around and go down to the ditch to reinforce the troops that went down earlier and continue the attack.
"Idiot, are you a pig? Are you smarter than me? Can you still come up with a solution?" The sweat on the roaring lieutenant's dark face shone under the torch.
"My subordinates are incompetent!"
"Yours, go down to reinforce and attack in the ravine. Yours, understand?"
"In the ravine? Attack...Hai!"
It was obvious that he was embarrassing himself, thinking that the reinforcements were all elite advancing troops and that he could take advantage of them. As soon as they arrived, he was eaten to death by Lieutenant Okawa of the same rank and used as cannon fodder in the valley.
He scolded himself for being stupid, but the second lieutenant was still very happy after being scolded. At least, with this order, he no longer had to try his luck in the dark, and there would be no more casualties!
Anyway, by dawn at most, there should be troops coming from the north. At that time, all the eight groups on the hills will have to fight to the death.
Half an hour later, Japanese reinforcements arrived in the ravine. The eight soldiers above were very cunning. They kept throwing burning dead tree roots down from the mountainside, causing sparks to fly when they fell.
Until now, half a team of Japanese soldiers who were preparing to attack in the dark had to hide far away behind rocks and in the pits created by flying bombs in the afternoon. If it were daytime, they would definitely not dare to lie here. They would become the enemy of Eight Road on the opposite mountainside. A living target.
A few dozen meters away, the nearly straight ladder hanging diagonally on the cliff became the biggest obstacle to the attack.
On the eighth road on the mountainside, it was disgusting to throw a few stones down every now and then. This is where most of the casualties of the warriors came from!
Almost all the gunfire came from the Japanese shooting blindly into the sky. The Eighth Route Army could not actually see the situation of the Japanese at the bottom of the ditch, and they did not even bother to shoot. The primitive weapons achieved an obvious victory.
Those tactics taught in the infantry school are of no use at all.
The second lieutenant who had just come down told his thoughts to the team leader who was still furious and looked like a second lieutenant.
Nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers were densely packed, each looking for a bunker.
"Na Li? You mean feint?"
"Do you have a better way to fight?"
The captain of the attacking team thought he had the courage to supervise the battle, but he killed more than twenty warriors. They were carried away and sent to the hills, and their strength was reduced to only a dozen or so.
Hiding behind the rocks, I used my feeling to shoot from a distance towards the bright light on the mountain. In addition to throwing rocks down the mountain, I only fired a few shots occasionally, but they were not very accurate. There were no casualties on either side, and no more shots were fired now.
The previous carelessness caused a lot of losses. The team leader's anger naturally became the only choice. Hearing the suggestions from his colleagues, he became even more angry. Could it be that...the blood of the warriors was in vain!
Reason finally defeated anger, because anger is useless and will only lead to greater casualties.
After arriving in this barren land, this was the first time I suffered such a setback. I got used to chasing the Chinese who were as timid as mice and escaping like rabbits like dogs. I chased them out of habit, treating the cliff as a mountain. After landing on the flat ground, I was stunned by the stones of primitive people, but I still angrily thought that I had suffered a loss due to the terrain.
After losing his troops, his anger and regret were meaningless. Fed up with the mocking eyes of his colleagues, he suddenly slashed his command sword hard, pointed at his men and said: "Let's retreat!"
Halfway up the mountain.
Chen Chong looked at the stones in front of the soldiers. There were not many stones anymore. There were only a few fist-sized ones in total. Not far away, there was a fire burning in the gap of the cliff, with a few half-lengths of wood burning.
"Hey, squad leader, we are so old here, I knocked over four Japanese guys!" A soldier withdrew his head from the edge of the cliff, desperate.
"Yes, I will repay you later. Let me ask you, do you dare to fight against the Japanese?"
"Platoon commander, don't criticize me. We just have a geographical advantage. The company commander said that in war, we need to study more and use our brains more!"
"How many words do you know? You're still learning, see what you can do!"
"Don't tell me, the company commander is really awesome. If you let Japanese planes blow up Japanese soldiers, then that's awesome!" His eyes were filled with admiration.
The two of them were muttering for a while, but Tian Sanqi appeared behind them at some point. His sweaty face, with his facial features squeezed together due to the intense panting, looked even more ugly.
Finally he breathed a sigh of relief: "What are you two doing here chattering? The company commander ordered us to retreat!"
"Retreat? We are guarding the squad tightly. Why should we retreat?" The soldier asked first without waiting for the platoon leader to reply.
"Retreat as soon as I ask you to. Have you learned to talk back? Believe it or not, I will beat you up, you bastard..."
Chen Chong hurriedly stopped him: "Um... Platoon Commander Tian, Company Commander Hu really said... evacuate everyone... do you want to keep someone behind?"
"You are just fooling around, which one to cut off? It's okay to cut it off, you can do it yourself. Anyway, the company commander and the others left half an hour ago!"
"What a shame, where are we going?"
"I don't know either. Hurry up and someone from the secret service class will lead the way. Ask yourself."
After finishing speaking, the two of them looked around at the dark and empty valley, with the star-like firelight at the bottom. Finally, they felt it was a pity and sighed with emotion: It would be such a waste not to use such a good terrain to fight the Japanese...
After sighing, the fire was put out, a flashlight was lit, and a few stones hit the mountain wall and bounced to the bottom of the valley.
A group of people secretly retreated to the mountain...
On the way north, there is a kind of march called with great fanfare, such as the Ninth Company. The torches are bright, and the torches made of twisted tree roots are hunting in the mountain wind. The marching team is finally no longer lazy.
They had no idea what kind of fate awaited them on the road ahead. It was a boring march. The two men from the special agent class led the way and were very dissatisfied with the team holding open fire.
The company commander surnamed Hu had a mental problem. He insisted on lighting torches and marching hastily. The speed was fast, but the target could easily be exposed.
But everything he saw today kept popping up in his mind, and he couldn't understand how the Ninth Company of the Independent Regiment in front of him could do all this.
how can that be possible? Why are the Japanese planes so obedient? If they hadn't all come out of the division headquarters together, one would even suspect that the Ninth Company must be wearing the same pants as the Japanese!
He didn't pay attention to the downhill terrain with a hundred-foot cliff on the side of the road. He stared blankly at the road. He staggered and was grabbed by the soldiers next to him. There was a cliff at his feet. His legs became weak when he saw it. He quickly put his mind back and cautiously walked forward step by step. Move your steps down.
