The valley winds.
There are towering cliffs on both sides.
A dark three-way intersection.
A team is taking a break.
The dejected Lieutenant Okawa looked at the footprints heading north in trance.
The canyon is full of forks.
There are no detailed markings on the map at all.
Most of the canyons are impassable, and entering the canyons is like walking through a maze.
The team entered the mountain from the east, and the guide has never been here before.
I don’t know where I am now.
Without a compass, I wouldn’t know where to go.
The advancing team's own combat goal is the Eighth Route Command, and it is not cost-effective to fight against the Eighth Route Special Agent Regiment.
After chasing in this terrain for most of the day, one was killed and four elites were injured, and not even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army was seen.
There are really not many people in the front eight groups, forty or fifty at most.
However, it is easy to be ambushed if you catch up.
Lieutenant Okawa has long lost his ambition and confidence.
There is no guide found deep in the mountains, and if we continue to pursue, we are likely to be attacked again.
In such a valley, not even the aviation force can do anything.
The headquarters had ordered the assembly, so they had no choice but to report the general location of the special agent group to the headquarters and had to give up the pursuit.
After lunch, we took the wounded out of the mountain to the west.
In the valley to the north.
The winding valley is like a maze.
A team full of wounded soldiers stopped at the three-way intersection.
There were more than 20 wounded people on more than ten stretchers.
Wang Yinzhi, the only female soldier, was changing bandages and applying medicine to the seriously injured.
Fortunately, Madman Yang knew the Japanese and seized the medicines in the medical box.
Liu Manhe was suffering from a high fever, and after being given an injection by a health soldier from the Secret Service Regiment, he fell into a coma.
At the front of the team, a soldier hurriedly came to report: "Report to the platoon leader and Company Commander Ma, about five or six miles ahead, a large number of puppet troops were found, at least one battalion, and a large number of Japanese soldiers behind them. They are coming south."
The special company commander's face darkened: "We are in serious trouble. The Japanese advance team is still lingering behind us."
Ma Liang, who was looking at the map with Madman Yang, also changed his expression: "No, we are stuck in the valley now."
The soldier who scouted eastward came back: "Report, the valley to the east is a dead end."
The special company commander looked stern: "It's strange, why are these forked roads all dead ends, with cliffs at the end?"
The platoon leader quickly asked the scout: "Is there a trail that can go up the mountain ridge?"
"The mountain road is too steep. If there are no injured people, it will be okay." The scout looked worried and shook his head: "And there should be no road on the mountain ridge."
Ma Liang turned around and walked towards the radio soldier who had turned on the radio: "Contact your staff and ask them where they are!"
The radio soldier shook his head: "The canyon is too deep, the power of the radio is insufficient, and we can't contact you temporarily."
A long haired man from the platoon said, "The Japanese from the advance team are left with at most one small team. How about we break out from the south?"
"Fight head on." Madman Yang next to him shook his head: "I can't beat him!"
The second special platoon leader muttered: "This time we are like rats drilling into the bellows and getting beaten from both ends."
Li Laosi replied: "Then chew the bellows."
The special company commander looked away from his head and looked at Ma Liang: "Otherwise, you can carry us into the Chadao Valley to lure away the Japs, and you can go up the mountain ridge."
"Don't be ridiculous." Ma Liang was startled. After speaking, he patted Madman Yang next to him: "Go up the mountain ridge and have a look?"
Madman Yang was not seriously injured and recovered quickly.
Behind Li Laosi and Ma Liang, a group of four people ran back for a short distance and looked at a trail attached to the cliff.
Ma Liang called Li Laosi: "Go up the path and have a look."
The platoon leader followed up and said, "This matter is still up to me."
Li Laosi looked at the cliff and felt a little nervous, and handed the rope to the platoon leader.
At this time, the team was more than thirty miles away from Hu Yi outside the mountain in the southwest.
The two people climbed to the top of the mountain ridge and were immediately dumbfounded: there was no road at all on the mountain ridge!
The narrowest point is less than the width of the sole of the foot.
At this time, the team was in the middle of a continuous S-turn. Even if they climbed over the mountain ridge, the canyon below was still this canyon.
There seems to be a path on the mountain ridge opposite, but even if it can be climbed, there is no way to bring the wounded up in a short time.
After the second platoon leader came down the rope, he said with a dark face, "It's better to fight the Japanese directly."
Li Laosi retracted the rope and climbed down the cliff to the opposite ridge.
The four returned to the team.
The correspondent from the front came in a hurry: "Report, the vanguard of the puppet army is three miles away."
"Keep your voice down." Just after Wang Yinzhi finished speaking, he saw Liu Manhe blinking: "Counsel Liu, you're awake."
Liu Manhe was a little confused. After listening to the special company commander briefly explain the situation, he shook his head and tried to clear his mind: "There is no point in walking anymore. If you can move up the mountain ridge, all the wounded will be left behind in the valley."
The special company commander was stunned for a moment: "No, let the soldiers find a way to take you up the mountain ridge, I will stay."
"Look at me like this, with a rope tied to my chest and strangled to death?"
"With the stretcher." The special company commander no longer hesitated: "Platoon commander"
"arrive"
"Hurry up and get ready to go up the mountain ridge."
The correspondent from behind arrived panting: "Report, the Japanese from the advancing team behind have not come up and are still stopped at the three-way intersection."
Liu Manhe called the special company commander: "There is no time. Your injury is minor. Hurry and lead the soldiers up the mountain ridge."
Ma Liang and Second Platoon Leader Yang Kuangmao murmured for a while. Ma Liang suddenly gave the order: "First Platoon Leader, immediately lead a squad and go forward to stop the vanguard of the puppet army!"
The special company commander was angry: "What are you going to do?"
"Since it's all about attracting people, we can also attract them when we go to the top of the mountain ridge and hide the wounded in Chadao Canyon. If the puppet troops dare to come in and search, we can kill them with stones on the mountain ridge."
The special second platoon leader looked excited: "Yes, this way we can drag the enemy here, and when it gets dark, we can slowly pull the wounded up in the east valley."
Staff Officer Liu thought for a while: "It is impossible for the puppet army to search all the valleys. If they retreat a certain distance and hide in the valleys,"
"Yes, we can hide in any valley. There is a path on the mountain ridge to the east. We can take cover on the mountain ridge."
"As a platoon leader, you don't need to fight them hard. Don't expose all your firepower. People can be hidden everywhere in the valley. The important thing is to buy time."
"Second Platoon Commander, will you immediately lead a squad to harass and shoot at the little Japanese advance team behind you?"
"Why?"
Ma Liang explained: "The puppet army definitely does not have a radio station, and we cannot let the enemies on both sides know that we are stuck in the middle!"
The team in the valley immediately started to move.
There are rocks and shrubs everywhere, and the road is difficult to walk.
The speed of carrying the wounded to the east valley could not be increased at all.
A platoon leader led a squad continuously northward.
Until they meet up with the vanguard.
The platoon leader briefly looked at the figure of the puppet army's leading soldier to the north and immediately ordered: "Continue to move forward and occupy a favorable position to engage the enemy."
A platoon of more than thirty tired puppet soldiers slowly appeared in sight.
A long row of people pulled the bolts and pushed the bullets into the chamber: "Squad leader, shoot with me, the others stand back to form a ladder."
They were all veteran soldiers who cooperated tacitly. They were not too nervous and immediately dispersed according to the platoon leader's order.
The puppet troops in front were less than a hundred meters away.
With such a distance, whoever attacks will suffer!
Even if there is only one squad, it will be no problem to stop the puppet troops for a whole day!
The key is that there are Japs behind the puppet army, and the Japs have grenade launchers!
Being left behind and unable to shoot the Japanese and puppet troops, a soldier felt that it was not enough: "Hey, platoon leader, how about we go up the mountain ridge?"
"Don't go up. If you go up the mountain ridge, the little Japs will follow you up, and you will be in big trouble. Let's fight and retreat in a while, and hold on until dark. The little Japs won't take the initiative to go up the ridge."
A platoon leader aimed his rifle at the leading puppet soldier and slowly pulled the trigger.
boom.
Gunshots rang out.
Echoes in the canyon.
