Shang Zhen and the others ran northwest, thus bypassing the village in front of them.
They didn't dare to get close to the village, otherwise if the Japanese army ran off the road, they would also pass by the village. This was not what Shang Zhen wanted to see.
But then Shang Zhen and the others faced a new situation. Although the Japanese army was just a little closer, Shang Zhen said a more important situation while running: "There should be a river ahead called Hu ( hū) Tuo River, I don’t know how wide it is.”
When he decided to follow the 691st regiment to fight the Japanese, he had seen the map from the regiment leader Lu Chao, and he even drew a simple map based on the map.
When he saw the name of this river, he really didn't know how to pronounce the word "湹" in Hutuo River? At that time, he just copied it and asked Chu Tian to find out.
"Why don't you run quickly?" Mr. Wang said panting.
"Run, run as fast as you can!" Shang Zhen ordered.
So everyone quickened their pace again.
Shang Zhen and the others are no longer landlubbers. They actually learned to swim during the special training.
Of course, as far as their water quality is concerned, there is no need to mention white dragons in the waves. They just can't drown.
When Shang Zhen took everyone to the west for business, he had already considered the river.
Although he didn't know how wide the river would be, he could guess that the water would not be very fast because this was a plain.
"Fellow fellow!" After running forward for a while, Shang Zhen suddenly saw a middle-aged man working in the field next to him.
Of course the middle-aged man recognized the Chinese army, but he was a little confused when he saw Shang Zhen and the others running out of breath and fully armed.
"How far is it from the Hutuo River in front of me, fellow villager?" Shang Zhen asked.
"One mile." The middle-aged man replied.
"Hurry up and hide, the Japanese are coming! Can we swim over?" At this time, Mr. Wang also said.
"Ah?" The man in the middle was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly replied, "You can swim across it if you know how to swim, but it's wide or narrow, deep or shallow, I'll take you there!"
"Okay!" Shang Zhen was overjoyed.
So they ran forward again under the guidance of the middle-aged man.
One mile sounds very far, but in fact it is only five hundred meters. After a while, the middle-aged man really led Shang Zhen and the others to the Hutuo River.
It's just that the section of the river where the middle-aged man led Shang Zhen and the others was not the narrowest, it was more than 60 meters wide.
"The shallowest water here is no more than waist level. You can wade through it. The deepest part is there." The middle-aged man pointed to the left front.
Shang Zhen glanced at the terrain there and then said.
"Thank you, brother. Hurry up and hide. The Japanese will be chasing you soon." Shang Zhen expressed his thanks, then waved his arm, "Cross the river!"
"Where should I hide? Only by crossing the river with you can I have a place to hide." The middle-aged man said.
Shang Zhen responded "Okay", and all of them actually held up their weapons and clattered into the river.
This guide arrived just in time. The speed of flowing through the river is definitely different from swimming across it.
After crossing the Hutuo River, Shang Zhen pointed to the front right, "There!" Then he took the lead and accelerated and ran forward.
Fortunately, it can only be regarded as early autumn, the river is not cold, and everyone's lower body is wet, but how can it stop? The shoes under their feet were stepped on so loudly that they made a "squeaking" sound.
When Shang Zhen and the others hurriedly ran into the woods more than a hundred meters away, Shang Zhen shouted "stop".
"Brother, run forward and find a place to hide. We'll get a guy for the little devil!" Shang Zhen said.
"Then you should be careful. If you run to the west from here, there will be Liu Jianao ten miles away. I'll leave first." After the middle-aged man said that, he really ran forward.
He had to run away. How could they compare to Shang Zhen and other soldiers in terms of physical fitness?
"How to fight? We seem to be a little low here!" Qiu Bo said at this time.
The river bed binds the river water, and the river bed must be higher than the river water.
However, Shang Zhen and the others were already more than 100 meters away from the river bed. From their current position, they would not be able to see the Japanese troops if they did not reach the river.
But they must not stay on the river bank. The river is only a few dozen meters wide, and they will never shoot at the Japanese troops who are chasing them.
They can't stand it if they call a squadron and have a platoon gun. What's more, the Japanese Kwantung Army is not said to be all sharpshooters, but they are about the same.
"Climb the tree!" Shang Zhen blurted out. He had already thought about how to beat the Japanese!
"What a great idea!" Others praised in unison!
They just dragged the Japanese soldiers all the way. If they could kill a Japanese soldier, it was all in vain.
As they spoke, they really climbed up the tree.
The tree wasn't even waist-thick, but it was still as thick as the ocean. It wouldn't be a problem to climb a few meters high and restrain a person.
"Don't climb too high. If I say shoot, everyone will shoot. Once shot, they all jump down!" Shang Zhen shouted when he climbed up a tree like a monkey.
"Hey! I said Erhanzi Guan Tiedou, you two go up the tree? Can you two set up a machine gun on the tree? You two run forward, if there are really little Japs rushing over, you can cover us!" At this time! Mr. Wang shouted.
Erhanzi and Guan Tiedou had no choice but to run west with their assistant shooters.
As soon as Shang Zhen and the others climbed up the tree, they saw that the Japanese army was really catching up with them.
Facts have proved that all rivers must have a river bed. If there is no river bed, it is called a lake or an ocean. However, there may not be willow bushes on all river banks, and they may also be bare.
And now Shang Zhen and the others are in such a situation by the Hutuo River.
The Japanese soldiers who were chasing them were still running desperately. They didn't realize that there was a river in front of them.
"Get ready! Just have some fun, and then jump off the tree!" Old Hat Wang shouted.
They really adhere to the principle of taking advantage and running away. They will never shoot at the Japanese army, just because most of them use traps.
If this allowed the Japanese troops to recover and find them in the tree, they would be a living target!
Seeing that the Japanese army was within range, Shang Zhen shouted in a deep voice: "Get ready - fight!"
At this moment, the flower traps in their hands rang into pieces, bullets flew towards the other side like dense raindrops, and smoke rose from the woods.
"Withdraw!" Shang Zhen shouted again.
Then there was a splashing sound of people jumping down from the trees in the woods.
And in the midst of this thumping sound, there was also the sound of "he, he, he" from the flower mechanism, and then when the plop of everyone landing stopped, one person finally jumped down from the tree, that was the tiger pillar.
"Why don't you obey the command?" Qian Chuan'er got up from the ground and started running back and asked when he turned around.
"It's so fun! I fired all the bullets!" Tiger Pillar said as he climbed up.
"I don't want to save any ammunition!" Qian Chuan'er complained.
"Save money, doesn't the 691st Regiment have bullets now? Just go and get them if you run out of them!" Hu Zhuzhu said disapprovingly.
Everyone started running away again, but this time they didn't know how many Japanese soldiers they defeated because Shang Zhen didn't even look.
