under fire

The sky is filled with stars.

A flashlight flashed across the field.

Bicycles walking on the road made a squeaking noise.

From time to time, people rush off the road and fall into the ground, and from time to time there are strange screams that echo through the night sky.

"My leg is injured, so I'll stay there and wait for Battalion Commander Hu." The semi-mechanized vanguard platoon led by Big Dog was moving very fast: "If the car breaks down, carry it with you!"

After hearing this, the soldier who had just climbed out of the ditch stood on the side of the road in a daze: "Hey, can't you leave your bicycle and run forward?"

"Can you throw away the gun hanging on your waist?"

"That won't do!"

"Can soldiers of the reconnaissance company leave their bicycles?"

"I'll find a way to repair it." The warrior gritted his teeth and shouted to his comrade who had done Ding Ding Dang: "Hey, whoever knows how to repair a bicycle, I'll give him two shells."

"Sending beggars away?" The man on the back seat of a bicycle dismissed it.

"Hey, hey, whoever knows how to repair a bicycle, I'll give him four or eight rounds of shell gun bullets."

Finally I saw a familiar dark figure: "Brother Qi, help me."

"Oops" the bicycle with people on the back seat was pulled to a stop: "What the hell are you doing!"

"Help me with my bike."

Brother Qi parked his bicycle on the side of the road, looked at the bicycle with its chain off under the starlight, and directly made an offer: "A small yellow croaker, no two prices!"

"Why don't you go and grab it?"

"Aren't I just robbing?" Seventh Brother sneered: "There will be no shops after this village. You can just run away carrying these dozens of kilograms in a while."

"You must keep accounts first."

"No problem, you have to sign a note later." As he spoke, the bicycle chain was hung up.

The bicycle team ran very fast on the plain dirt road with a cloud of mud and mist.

Donglu Village is not that far away, only thirty miles away.

Riding the bike at full speed, even under the stars, only takes about half an hour.

The sky is still full of stars.

During the last quarter of the moon, the moon will not come out until the second half of the night.

The team stopped advancing about five miles after reaching Donglu Village.

The village in the distance was blazing with fire, which stood out in the darkness, and occasionally there was the faint sound of explosions.

When field troops are fighting, they are different from ordinary raids on camps and sending out sentries far and near.

The Japanese raids were equivalent to ordinary camping, and generally the outposts would not be more than two hundred meters away.

Because, in Shandong Province, the invincible imperial army carried out raids every spring, summer, autumn and winter, killing people and arson. There were only massacres. Many Chinese like quails did not even have the courage to escape except trembling and crying.

There was an explosion in the village!

At least...it's not that bad.

"Where did the traffic officer... the traffic officer... die? Find the liaison officer quickly and report the situation to me!" The big dog ran around in the crowd, constantly shouting in a low voice.

"Report to the platoon leader. The traffic officer went to the nearby underground liaison officer to verify the situation. He said he would be here in a minute." A veteran soldier who had just joined the reconnaissance company pouted. Why did Tang Dagou look like a different person? The big dog stood still: "Don't pretend to be a dead dog on the ground. Get up quickly and hide the bicycles in the ground!"

After a burst of tinkling, the big dog suddenly shouted: "Stand at attention!"

"Take a break!" Big Dog began to assign tasks: "The first squad is north, the second squad is south, spread out in a battle formation and search forward. If you encounter Japanese soldiers, say they are the Guanxian Imperial Alliance Army."

"What if the little devil doesn't believe me?" Big Dog was interrupted by a squad leader: "Besides, we don't understand the little devil when he asks for the password."

"That's a good question. Did the little devil's bird chirping reveal his position? Is that a fire stick in your hand? Are you hanging a grenade on your chest to give you two cubs during the New Year?"

"Platoon leader, I understand! Shall we attack this time?" The squad leader rubbed his hands excitedly: "But the task assigned to us by the battalion commander seems to be reconnaissance."

"That's right! The first squad is left as a reserve to guard the heavy weapons and stationed in place, the second squad is south, and the third squad is north!"

"Hey, what do you mean?" The first class was left behind? The squad leader immediately quit: "I just said, you..."

"Did I ask you to express your opinion?"

"What kind of comments should I make?" The squad leader knew the big dog's temper. He basically said exactly what he said. He just said one more sentence and was directly demoted from the main force to the reserve team. The squad leader felt regretful in his heart: "Platoon leader, you are such a dog. Does your face really change just by asking?"

"You're on the battlefield, you have to obey the command!" Big Dog's face turned serious: "Because you questioned my order, I now order you to follow me in frontal defense and receive instruction."

"First squad leader, let me tell you, even if we encounter a small group of Japanese, we can fight him to the end. We can't wait for the whole group to arrive and then go into battle together." The third squad leader who was supposed to be the reserve team Proudly showing off: "Please express your condolences. I will clean up the battlefield later and I will leave you some Japanese crotch cloths."

"Hey, squad leader, I must make a forty-eight petal this time." A soldier from the third squad untied the grenade lanyard hanging from the ammunition pouch on his chest.

About ten minutes later.

Two black figures came to the big dog surrounded by warriors.

"Hello, Chief!" The person who spoke sounded like he must be over forty years old.

"Hey, don't yell, call me Platoon Leader Tang!" Big Dog held the visitor's hand seriously: "Uncle, please introduce the situation to me!"

"It's like this. Yesterday, Wei Ergou's daughter-in-law in our village went back to her parents' home in the south and planned to ask her family to help harvest the crops. She was supposed to bring people back that day, but she was nowhere to be seen until dark. Wei Ergou Worried about an accident, I went to his father-in-law's house in the middle of the night yesterday to look for him. I went to his father-in-law's village in the dark. I was afraid of the negative impact of calling the door because it was too late, so I climbed over the wall and entered his wife's boudoir before she got married. As a result... I found out that the person living in that house was him. Don't know him at all.

Moreover, there were some people he was familiar with in his wife's natal village, but Wei Ergou sneaked under the wall and eavesdropped. As a result, there was no one he was familiar with. Did he become a ghost? It scared Wei Ergou half to death."

"Fuck, are you talking about Liaozhai?" the squad leader muttered.

"Uncle, can you please be brief?" The big dog couldn't bear his temper, and while the squad leader was muttering, he quickly interrupted the uncle's nagging.

The traffic officer quickly added: "That's right. It was already dawn after Wei Ergou crawled back. He found me and was going to go to his father-in-law's village to see what was going on. When he passed by Donglu Village, the territory of Wangshun Hedong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Commander, he discovered that there was a There was a bayonet reflection. We discovered it early, so we quickly detoured. In the afternoon, we found a large number of puppet troops outside Wei Ergouzhangren Village, so we hurried back. On the path we took on the way back, we saw Commander Wang leading people to Donglu Village, and then the village continued Gunshot."

"Commander Wang?" The big dog was stunned for a moment: "You dare to fight with the Japanese... you are a man!"

"Commander Wang is quite a man of justice and never insults the people. The district has been doing his work and trying to join the anti-Japanese team." The traffic officer said with a trembling tone: "They have been fighting since the evening until now. They are probably fierce. "A lot of luck but a lot of bad luck"

"How many people do Commander Wang have?" Big Dog went straight to the point: "What is the strength of the Japanese troops?"

"According to the news from the south, there should be one or two hundred Japs coming out this time. Commander Wang only took a dozen or so to Donglu Village."

The big dog was stunned.

Isn't that a squadron if it's one or two hundred?

He looked around and quickly gave the order to the second squad leader and the third squad leader: "Listen carefully, don't get entangled with the Japanese sentries on the outside during the reconnaissance process!"

So, in the darkness, the soldiers rearranged their equipment.

The light machine guns and grenade launchers that were originally not intended to be carried during light reconnaissance and were left for the reserve team began to be strapped and hung on the body.