"What the hell!" Wang Laomao cursed again and turned off the safety of his machine gun.
The reinforcements had all fled, so with just a dozen of them facing forty or fifty Japanese soldiers, how could they possibly win?
Wang Laomao gave his telescope to Shang Zhen. He was not sure how many reinforcements there were, but it seemed like there was at least a company. Shang Zhen was watching through the telescope.
At this moment, Shang Zhen suddenly said "Oh no!" and put away the telescope.
Shang Zhen's words made everyone shudder. They had become frightened birds. So many reinforcements had run away, and they no longer had the heart to fight the Japanese army.
Just when everyone was thinking of quitting, Shang Zhen found them another job.
"Run there quickly and go around it!" Shang Zhen said anxiously.
Seeing that Shang Zhen looked very anxious, everyone stopped asking why and followed Shang Zhen, shrinking their bodies and starting to run with their backs bent behind the hill line.
"What's wrong?" Only then did Wang Laomao have time to ask a question.
"The wounded!" Zhang Zhen only replied with two words.
Although Shang Zhen only said two words, Wang Laomao already understood what Shang Zhen meant.
Just now when the Northeast Army was fighting with the Japanese Army, the Japanese Army fired several grenades at that end.
Now Wang Laomao knew without asking that the Northeast Army had retreated in a hurry and it could not be said that they had intentionally abandoned the wounded, but Shang Zhen must have seen wounded soldiers on the other side through the telescope just now.
The Northeast Army withdrew. The survivors were fine, but the wounded were left behind. What would happen to the wounded if the Japanese army attacked again?
Oh, what a clumsy guy, Wang Laomao sighed in his heart.
How capable do you have to be to take on such a big job! The wounded are not one of our team, why are you interfering? Do you want us to lose a few more lives?
However, Wang Laomao only thought about this in his heart and would never say it out loud!
The wounded are the most difficult to deal with during war.
If the troops win the battle, it's fine. If they lose, the lightly wounded can run back, but the seriously wounded will basically die.
In fact, how an army treats its wounded is most related to morale.
He ran away with his good men, but left the wounded behind to be slaughtered by the enemy. Even Wang Laomao would never do such a thing!
What the hell is this guy from? Wang Laomao was already filled with resentment.
Because of this, Shang Zhen was now running towards the wounded, and Wang Laomao did not stop.
They kept running like this. Fortunately, the hill was not high but very gentle, covering a large area. The ridge of the hill provided them with enough cover.
After a long period of panting, Shang Zhen and his men finally ran to the edge of the hill. Now they could see the Northeast Army soldiers who had just been killed or wounded by the Japanese army.
There were seven people lying on the ground, six of them were motionless. It was obvious that they had died, and the seventh was struggling to crawl back and forth!
This is the battlefield. Just now, they were chasing the Japanese army with such high spirits, but in the blink of an eye, they were ambushed by the Japanese army and their main force retreated. The offensive and defensive positions changed in an instant, which was really sad and lamentable.
At this point, Wang Laomao had already determined that there must be something wrong with the command of the officers of this army, that is, they were all cowards who were greedy for life and afraid of death!
Shang Zhen took advantage of the cover of the edge of the hill and ran forward again, but he only ran a few dozen steps before suddenly lying down.
As soon as he lay down like this, the people behind him all fell down. Is there any need to ask in this situation? It must be the Japanese army coming out of the woods over there.
Shang Zhen turned around and looked at their group of remaining soldiers and defeated troops. Everyone was staring at him.
"I don't want the wounded soldier to die at the hands of the Japanese, and I don't want to implicate everyone. If you don't want to go, you can go around and chase the reinforcements." Shang Zhen said this.
"What are you talking about? You were the one who saved us all! Besides, what official doesn't want to be beaten and would leave the wounded behind!" After a moment's silence, Qiu Bo spoke his mind.
People like Jin Chengyu and the other three joined later, so they naturally didn’t know about Shang Zhen and the others’ experiences.
When Qiu Bo said that they were rescued by Shang Zhen, he was referring to the incident where Shang Zhen disguised himself as a communications soldier and crossed the stone arch bridge.
The human heart is a record.
They all knew how Shang Zhen led them in fighting against the Japanese army.
Shang Zhen certainly has shortcomings, but everyone believes that if they were to replace Shang Zhen with themselves, their command would still not be as good as Shang Zhen's!
This is war, the capable are promoted and the mediocre are demoted. That's why people get promoted quickly during wartime!
In addition, seeing the wounded man crawling forward did indeed arouse the indignation of these people.
Although they were too far away to see clearly, they could all imagine that there must have been a trail of blood where the wounded man had crawled!
Shang Zhen glanced at Qiu Bo with gratitude, and then looked at the remnants of the defeated soldiers who had been together. The expressions on each of them almost had "sharing life and death and hardships" written on their faces!
"Okay!" Zhang Zhen began to lay out the battle plan, "There aren't many Japanese soldiers, only about ten in total.
Qiu Bo, take a few men with rifles and retreat fifty meters to the top of the mountain. We'll fire first. Once those Japanese soldiers have fallen, you can start shooting. Each of you can kill one and then run back!"
Shang Zhen’s plan is actually very simple, which is to set up two groups of fire points for cross-fire.
Of course, with Shang Zhen’s current combat experience, he wouldn’t be able to come up with a more complicated combat plan.
However, as the saying goes, the effectiveness of the treatment depends on the results. What happened next was enough to prove that Shang Zhen's battle plan was effective.
There were a total of forty or fifty Japanese soldiers, and it was impossible for them to chase us all.
Under normal circumstances, the so-called human wave tactics do not exist for the Japanese army.
There is someone covering you from behind and someone chasing you in front, and then you cover each other and move forward. This is the correct way to pursue.
But how could the Japanese army have expected that there was a group of Northeast Army led by Shang Zhen on their flank?
However, because of the obstruction of this flat hill, Shang Zhen and his men moved forward to the edge of the hill. When Shang Zhen ordered to start shooting at the Japanese army, the Japanese army was only about 100 meters away from Shang Zhen and his men.
In just these hundred meters or so, the accuracy of the submachine guns and rifles in Shang Zhen and his men's hands was relatively high.
Just after Shang Zhen and his men fired their guns, five Japanese soldiers were shot and fell down.
When the remaining Japanese soldiers saw that there was an ambush, they instinctively lay down and started shooting at Shang Zhen and his men.
At this time, Qiu Bo and a few others emerged from the top of the hill. They were closer to the dozen or so Japanese soldiers than Shang Zhen and the others!
It was about sixty to seventy meters away, and Qiu Bo and his men were using rifles, while the Japanese were lying on the ground. They were shooting from a high position, and their shooting skills became surprisingly accurate.
They really just fired one shot each and then retreated. Among the Japanese soldiers who had just fallen down, four or five of them were unable to raise their heads again.
Why did Shang Zhen let Qiu Bo and the others fire only one shot? Of course, it was because he didn't want his men to suffer casualties. After all, there were still Japanese troops on the other side of the woods!
In one fell swoop, Shang Zhen and his men killed only a few of the Japanese troops. When the whistling sound of the Japanese grenade launchers rose again, Shang Zhen and his men had already gone southwest under the cover of the mountain.
No one knew how seriously the wounded man was injured, but he had already crawled a little further away.
I'll only update three times today, I need to save some manuscripts. Quality and quantity are always at odds with each other. Anti-Japanese war novels are difficult to learn, especially realistic ones, because they require searching for a vast amount of historical data, which takes time.