Several Japanese soldiers walked forward carefully with guns in hand, but at this moment they saw a man suddenly run out of the farmhouse and go straight to the goat.
"Don't shoot." The leading Japanese sergeant gave the order directly.
Now they were behind their artillery again. If there was no combat mission, he wouldn't mind shooting and killing the civilian who ran out.
But that’s not possible now. If they open fire, the artillerymen in front will hear the gunshots and think something happened behind them, which will affect the battle.
What's more, the commoner obviously noticed the four of them walking down the hillside, but he hid directly behind the tree.
The tree was very thick, and the man was very thin, like a bamboo pole. The man was hiding behind the tree to untie the rope, and they had no angle to shoot!
Seeing this scene, the Japanese soldiers quickened their pace and laughed.
They didn't think that the commoner was a member of the Northeast Army. Although they looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Northeast Army, they also admitted that the Chinese were much taller than the Japanese!
The man they saw clearly did not have the temperament of a soldier.
At this time, they saw that the man had untied the rope and was leading the goat into the yard.
The four Japanese soldiers burst into laughter. If the man had taken the sheep to some other place, they might not have had time to chase him, but he hid in his own yard, which was exactly what they wanted!
The four Japanese soldiers chased after him with guns drawn, but they had no idea that after the man led the sheep into the adobe courtyard wall, the situation inside was completely different!
"Here we come, get ready!" The man leading the sheep said nervously and excitedly. He was Shang Zhen!
Shang Zhen's nervousness and excitement were inevitable at this moment. He was nervous because they were going to have a hand-to-hand fight with the Japanese army. This was the first time for both him and their group.
And he was excited because he was the one who came up with this move!
After arriving at this small village, Shang Zhen and his team no longer needed to scout the enemy situation, as the local people had already done it for them yesterday.
How could the people in the village not know when the Japanese army opened fire on Ningyuan City?
But since it is difficult to leave their homeland, the only solution they have to adopt is to endure it!
Taking advantage of the dense forests and hidden mountain roads, no one lit a fire to cook, and the Japanese army did not come in to search because they saw that there was a forest behind them.
So since yesterday evening, the Japanese army was firing artillery in the front, and the villagers in the village behind selected a few fast-footed people to watch from afar on the mountain, and no one lit a fire in the house.
In their minds, they would naturally wait until the war was over. As long as the Japanese army did not discover their small village, they would have escaped.
But it was different when Shang Zhen and his men came. They came to harass the Japanese army.
Shang Zhen came up with an idea and simply asked the three families to light the fire directly. The smoke really attracted the Japanese army.
Of course, the common people do not agree with the actions of Shang Zhen and others, but what can they do at this point?
Wang Laomao said to the common people at that time, "You are confused. You can hide from the first day, but how can you hide from the fifteenth day? As for your village, while it is not cold now, quickly go to your relatives and friends and hide away from the county town!"
Even if the common people disagreed, what could they do? The Northeast Army was an army, and the Japanese army was an invader's army. The Japanese army was already notorious for massacring villages, so the common people had no choice but to hide.
The people here started to hide, and Shang Zhen and his men started to take action.
Just as they sent people to light fires and create smoke, most of them had already hidden on the hills and watched the Japanese army.
Seeing from afar that the Japanese army had sent a total of five people over, Shang Zhen blurted out a sentence, which even scared himself.
Because Shang Zhen said, how about we not shoot, just kill these five bastards, and then pretend to be them and go over there?
Shang Zhen's idea made everyone's heart pounding at the time, and it took them a while to calm down.
If they just wanted to kill these five Japanese soldiers, it would not be difficult at all.
There are 13 of them now.
At first, Wang Laomao and his group consisted of 6 people, and Lao Huotou's group consisted of 7 people. However, when they broke out last time, Hu Zhuzi rushed out with them, and with Xiao Boji, there were 15 of them in total.
Hou Kanshan was sent back by Wang Laomao to find reinforcements, so another person left, and as a result, there were still 14 people in total.
There were 14 people, each holding a gun, including veterans like Wang Laomao, Lao Huotou, and Qiu Bo.
With 14 people fighting 5 Japanese soldiers, as long as the gunshots were heard unexpectedly, the 5 Japanese soldiers would surely die.
However, Shang Zhen proposed to kill the five Japanese soldiers without making any noise, which was another matter!
If they don't shoot, they have to use bayonets, and using bayonets means hand-to-hand combat. They have never fought the Japanese with bayonets before. Who can guarantee that the 13 of them can definitely stab the 5 Japanese soldiers to death with bayonets?
Shang Zhen was elected as the leader by everyone, so logically speaking, what Shang Zhen said was an order and should be final.
But Shang Zhen naturally understood that he had never fought a similar battle, so how could he make such a decision directly?
After hearing Shang Zhen say this, Qin Chuan said, "You want to fight the Japanese with bayonets? With your small body, you charge first and I will follow you!"
Everyone understood that what Qin Chuan said was just angry words.
As for Shang Zhen's physique, even though he intensified his training, the Great Wall was not built in a day or two, and the big blisters were not formed by a few days of rain. Shang Zhen's foundation is too poor, and no matter how much he trains, he is still thin.
How could he, so frail as he was, fight a bayonet duel with the Japanese? He was afraid that a flick of his rifle would send his rifle flying!
At this point, some people raised objections to the suggestion put forward by Shang Zhen, but since Shang Zhen had already started thinking about it, he thought about it and suddenly said, don’t worry about whether I dare to fight the Japanese soldiers with bayonets, but I have come up with an idea to lure the Japanese soldiers over without shooting.
What idea did Shang Zhen come up with? He thought of the goat in the village, whose owner was unknown.
When Shang Zhen suggested using the goat as bait, Lao Huotou and Wang Laomao's eyes lit up, but Lao Huotou then asked Shang Zhen, what are you going to do next?
Shang Zhen said, "Didn't I tell you? We can pretend to be Japanese soldiers and go over there. I don't think there are many people near the Japanese artillery. We can catch them by surprise."
We are just a small group of people and can't do anything big. If we manage to blow up the Japanese cannons, it will cause a big commotion and then we'll be done with it. Then we'll be able to do justice to our brothers in the city.
After Shang Zhen finished saying this, everyone felt their hearts, which had just calmed down, start beating again.
But at that time, it was not the time for them to think too much.
Because of his young age and limited experience, Shang Zhen can only make suggestions; he cannot make the final decision on such matters.
It's just that he can't make the decision, but someone else can. Wang Laomao and Lao Huotou exchanged glances and said at the same time, "I think it's okay!"
With the approval of Wang Laomao and Lao Huotou, the matter was settled.
So when the five Japanese soldiers reached the first hill, they didn't know that there were still two soldiers secretly monitoring them in the woods next to them, with their rifles pointed at them. Shang Zhen and his men, who had retreated to the village, had already begun setting a "trap".