The sun has already set in the west, and it will set in more than half an hour.
However, since the weather has been getting warmer, the wet soil that has melted during the day has not yet been frozen.
There are more than 20 Japanese soldiers hiding in the woods. The guns in their hands are pointed in the direction of the mountain pass, but their ears are listening to the sound of gunfire in the distance.
The so-called distance refers to their southeast direction, where several gunshots can be heard from time to time.
These Japanese soldiers couldn't figure out why their squad leader Fukuhara Tsuka and some of his people went to hunt down the group of Chinese soldiers but they hadn't come back yet.
Now it seems that their people must have surrounded the group of Chinese soldiers on a certain mountain. They can only guess this, otherwise they cannot explain the gunshots.
At this time, just a few miles away from these Japanese troops, there were actually two soldiers wearing khaki Japanese uniforms shooting.
It's just that the military uniforms worn by these two soldiers were stained with blood, but the tops were still a little too small.
Therefore, the armpits of the shirts worn by the two people have been cut open, revealing the gray military uniforms underneath.
"This pretty boy, you look so unreliable!" The soldier in yellow leather spoke, but it was a fool's voice.
The pretty boy Erhanzi mentioned was of course Chu Tian.
Last night, when Shang Zhen took Erhanzi and Qiu Bo out to throw grenades, Chu Tian "lent" his box cannon to Shang Zhen. At that time, he said that he only had the ten bullets left in the gun.
And Shang Zhen really shot out all the bullets during the night attack on the Japanese army.
After all the bullets were fired, the box cannon was no longer useful at least for the time being, so Chu Tian took the box cannon back again.
But just when Shang Zhen and the others once again ambushed the Japanese troops who were chasing them, Chu Tian, who was fighting outside the long and narrow valley, at the critical moment, the box cannon went off again!
The box cannon that originally had no bullets fired again. Do you need to ask why?
There is no doubt that Chu Tian lied. He still had bullets in his hand but did not give them to Shang Zhen!
He was afraid that Shang Zhen would want his box cannon!
Therefore, even the always honest Erhanzi became angry when he found out about this.
"That's right, who can be as trustworthy as me!" The person who was with Erhanzi answered alone, but it was Huzhuzi.
"Are you serious? You are a tiger!" Erhanzi said rudely.
"What's wrong with me?" Hu Zhuzhu was still not convinced.
"Aren't you a tiger? Shang Zhen was directing the battle from the front and you were talking nonsense from behind. You almost got someone killed. You deserve to be shot!" Er Jiazi said again.
When Hu Zhuzi heard Er Hanzi mentioning this matter, he blushed and stopped talking. He put the rifle up again, pulled the bolt, and pointed at the target in the distance where he didn't know where it was, but "pop" again. of a shot.
"You're not allowed to offend tigers in the future, do you hear me?" Erhanzi taught Tiger Zhuzhu a lesson like a big brother.
"I know." It was rare that Hu Zhuzhu actually admitted his mistake, "I swear, I will recognize Shang Zhen from now on.
Unless I die, or he dies. "
This is the way Hu Zhuzi talks. He always has such a silly temperament when he speaks. If Er Hanzi didn't understand what kind of person he was, he would have thought that he would go to Shang Zhen to fight for his life!
"Why did you admit it this time?" Erhanzi asked again.
"Does that need to be said? I am convinced by an aunt like Shang Zhen! Look at the grenades we were throwing at that time. When I poked my head out from behind the rock, all I saw were dead Japanese, and there was not one standing there. All gone!" Hu Zhuzhu became excited.
"That's right, hehe." Erhanzi also became excited when he heard Hu Zhuzi mention the "grenade ambush battle" in the afternoon, and he also told Hu Zhuzi about the process of throwing grenades.
It's just that even when he was talking to Hu Zhuzhu about the tragic situation of the Japanese army, he didn't forget to shoot two more shots into the distance.
At this time, in the bushes a few hundred meters away from the mountain pass, Shang Zhen and most of his group were also lurking in Japanese military uniforms. The telescope in Shang Zhen's hand had been observing the Japanese troops on the opposite side. .
"That's almost it. Let's go and summon Erhanzi and Huzhuzi back as we discussed!" Shang Zhen ordered, so the little dustpan hiding at the end got up, bent down, turned around and ran towards the southeast.
Shang Zhen knew that they had to rush back from the mountain pass tonight. If they didn't go back, they would run out of ammunition but no food.
But Shang Zhen didn't know that at the other end of the mountain pass, Li Le, the commander of the brigade guard company, was talking with the people of the regiment, battalion and company.
"You said those guys we went out with only three days of food rations?" Li Le asked.
"Yes, sir." An officer next to him was about to salute Li Le.
"No, no, no!" Li Le quickly stopped him, "I am the company commander and you are also the company commander, what salute do you give me?
Besides, didn't you listen to what the brigade commander said? From now on, you should not salute even when you see the brigade commander on the battlefield. That little devil’s marksmanship is spot on! You'd better let me live for two more years! "
"Yes, sir!" the company commander said hurriedly.
It's normal for him to feel restrained when he sees Li Le.
Just because he was originally a platoon commander of a regiment, a battalion and a company, this time their company commander was killed by the Japanese army, but he was directly promoted to the company commander by the brigade commander Liu Chengyi.
Otherwise, it would be easier to be an official during the war!
When Liu Chengyi promoted him, the process was very simple. Liu Chengyi asked him, if the Japanese attack again, will you be regarded as a deserter?
The platoon leader's answer was very simple, only four words in total, unless I die!
With just this sentence, he became the company commander.
"Sir, what do you think those boys were doing out there?" the company commander asked when he saw that Li Le was very kind.
Li Le actually doesn't mind if people call him "sir". What he cares about is that they don't salute him here.
Seeing someone asking him this question, he thought for a moment and smiled: "Who is a deserter who would run away instead of going back?"
"Sir, you mean they-" The new company commander did not dare to clarify his words.
The group of people he and Li Le were talking about now naturally meant Shang Zhen and the others. He didn't think that Shang Zhen and the others would fight the Japanese army if they ran out, so one could imagine what they would do if they ran out of the mountain pass.
"Where are you thinking? They will not surrender to the Japanese. If they want to surrender, why do they have to come here to surrender? These guys are willing to do anything to not defend their position!" Li Le sighed.
"Is there really such a madman?" The company commander expressed surprise.
"Aren't you crazy? The results will be available tonight or tomorrow," Li Dong said.
In his opinion, Shang Zhen and the others were only bringing three days of food rations anyway, so why not run back if they had nothing to eat? If they didn't run back, they would have been driven out by the Japanese army, or they would have all been killed.
Li Le was thinking about it when a soldier ran over and said "report" and then said: "Company commander, the brigade commander asked you to go back to the brigade headquarters."
"Okay, then I'll go back. Don't forget what you said." Li Le said.
"Yes, sir!" the company commander responded quickly.
Of course he remembered what he said. How could he not know how he became the company commander?
At this time, Li Le and the soldier had just walked away, and the soldier had already whispered to Li Le: "Company Commander, I heard an order from above at the brigade headquarters, asking our brigade to retreat after dark."
"Huh?" Li Le couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Retreat? Li Le naturally had no idea about the order above, but he couldn't help but look back at the mountain pass. Can those boys come back?
At this time, in the direction of the main position of Gubeikou, Commander Du of the 25th Division had just given an order to withdraw the cameras after dark.
From behind, he looked at the smoke that had not yet dissipated over the main position of Gubeikou with a very complicated expression.
More than 2,000 people from his division have died on the Gubeikou defense line!
The reinforcements did not arrive at the expected time, so he could only lead his troops to retreat, thirty miles back to the second-line position - Nantianmen.
