under fire

Chapter 987
Amid the dense gunfire, seven or eight puppet soldiers climbed up the mountainside panting.

The team leader is not low on vigilance. When he is new to a place, he naturally has to observe the environment first.

Looking down, the opponents in the mountain stream seemed to have noticed that the puppet army was going up the mountain and retreating westward while fighting.

Those guys wanted to run away after taking advantage of it, but there was no door!
The pseudo-squad leader immediately yelled at a group of his men to chase west along the hunting trail on the mountainside.

The pseudo-squad leader ran westward for a certain distance with his subordinates, and suddenly found that the deserters who ran along the mountain stream seemed to be rushing up the mountainside as well.

After roughly judging the distance between the two sides, they should be able to arrive one step ahead of the other party. The mountain road is winding and difficult, but it is faster than those deserters going up the mountain.

Hurry up and yell at your subordinates to speed up.

After running for about a mile, one of his subordinates stopped his progress: "Squad leader, there seems to be someone on the mountainside ahead"

The pseudo-squad leader put on the awning and looked west, and several puppet soldiers appeared in sight.

Look at that yellow military uniform, it's one of our own!
The pseudo-squad leader was happy, and said with a strange smile: "The ones in front are our own people, those guys go up, hehe, they just fell into the trap!"

on a steep hill.

The escaping blue army uniforms were using their hands and feet together, panicked and rushed up the steep mountain road, as if they didn't even know that there were "puppet soldiers" halfway up the mountain above their heads.

At this time, he had just climbed halfway up the mountainside.

As the position keeps getting higher, compared with the pursuers in the mountain stream behind, they are completely in a condescending and favorable terrain.

Therefore, the puppet army chasing at the mountain stream didn't dare to continue chasing at all, so they could only stare at each other and raise their guns to shoot at a long distance.

The false platoon leader had a different idea. It wasn't that he wasn't in a hurry, but that after several of his subordinates died and the wounded soldiers were added to the mountain stream, there were less than ten people left in total.

Now there is a squad under the subordinates outflanking, it would be best if they can get ahead.

If it doesn't work, at worst, send someone to the back to call for reinforcements.

Mountain roads are not like plains. If you want to run around, there are no doors!
Who can erase the footprints left on the mountain road that few people have walked for many years?

The puppet soldiers chasing on the mountainside are not in a hurry now. Seeing a person in front of him looking in his direction, the puppet squad leader rolled his eyes and shouted to the front: "Hey, everyone who is fleeing below, listen up. The imperial army said, as long as you put down your weapons and surrender, you will not die."

The pseudo-squad leader is not stupid. If he reminded him directly, most of the deserters on the hillside below would turn around. The meaning of his shouting was to remind the friendly troops on the hillside to pay attention to the situation below.

The pseudo-squad leader, who thought he had a plan, looked up to the west, and there were figures constantly appearing on the mountainside in front of him, and an official seemed to be setting up his defenses.

The pseudo-squad leader was quite satisfied. It seemed that the friendly army had fully understood their tactics, so there was no need to worry now, and they just rested on the spot panting heavily.

The men following behind panted and poured water down their throats, one of them suddenly raised his head: "I said brother, something is wrong with this."

The false squad leader shook his head: "What's wrong?"

The subordinate next to him frowned and straightened his back: "We have been busy all night before we discovered these deserters. If they are caught by those guys in front, wouldn't we have nothing to do with them?"

Hearing what his subordinates said, the pseudo-squad leader immediately lost his composure, and suddenly widened his eyes: "Your words seem to make sense."

The puppet army is highly motivated to capture prisoners. First, they can receive rewards, and second, they can gain benefits from the captured people.

The most direct way is to underreport the number of people caught!

There is a difference in interests, and the reward for catching a deserter is only 50 yuan, but the rifles in the hands of the deserters can be sold for 100 yuan on the black market!

If you catch more than a dozen deserters in front, Qian'er will cost at least 800 yuan, and the imperial army will not strictly investigate the whereabouts of these rifles. When the time comes, you will directly report that the deserters' guns have been lost in the mountains, who the hell knows.

Even if it is found out, it's fine, anyway, the prince doesn't pay much attention to this matter, invite them to have a drink, listen to a song and go to a brothel a few times, what's wrong with it?

Having money is the key.

It's just that it seems inappropriate to take credit from the friendly army at this time.

It is absolutely impossible for the other party to sit on the sidelines and wait for the rabbit, and to show up as a brother after he dies. Let them take advantage of it for nothing.

Immediately ordered to the subordinate who made a suggestion: "You run back quickly to get the rescuers, the sooner the better. If you use the money we caught up, he must die!"

"Huh? We followed the footprints on the ground for more than a dozen miles early in the morning. Going back at this time will take two hours to go back and forth. It's too late."

The pseudo-squad leader said with a dark face, "Don't be naughty, just go if you are told."

The puppet army had to run back with a sad face.

Looking at the back of the puppet soldier in the distance, another puppet soldier next to him suggested: "Squad leader, I don't think it's an option for us to wait, why don't we go over and have a look first? We have killed several brothers, this time we can't eat When it comes to meat, there is no problem in drinking some soup.”

"You have a damn reason for what you said!" The pseudo-squad leader also felt that waiting for reinforcements seemed unreliable: "Let's go! Go and have a look."

After talking, he waved his hands back, and the six subordinates followed the squad leader to the west.

Li Xiang didn't seem to understand the situation yet.

Previously, the underground comrades came to say that there were enemy troops in the mountain stream, but now they suddenly discovered that there were friendly troops in military uniforms appearing in the mountain stream.

The friendly army seems to be being pursued by the puppet army in two directions.

Now most of my subordinates have changed into the yellow military uniforms of the puppet army, but unfortunately, no friendly military uniforms have been obtained.

In fact, the uniforms of the friendly army and the Eighth Route Army are exactly the same!
The only difference is that the military cap on Balu's head does not have the blue sky and white sun emblem.

Therefore, he decided to deal with the group of puppet troops coming from the east first.

The mountain road is narrow, and the situation of east and west is unclear, so the soldiers naturally looked up the hillside.

The seven puppet troops on the mountainside in the distance kept approaching along the narrow path.

Company commander, the puppet army is here, what shall we do?
Li Xiang's face was calm: "How many puppet troops have come?"

"Seven?" The squad leader who asked the question was taken aback. Could it be that the company commander is testing his ignorance?

"How many do we have now?"

"A full platoon, plus the half platoon of half-immortals, there will be more than 50 soldiers?" The squad leader replied cautiously.

"More than 50 pairs of seven puppet troops who ran away when they heard the gunshots, what are you talking about here?"

"Eh, isn't there still under the mountain?"

"It's a mile or two away, are you afraid that his bullet will hit you?"

After a long while.

The squad leader spoke again: "That. Company commander, I found something."

Li Xiang turned his head and stared at the squad leader who talked a lot: "What's the matter?"

"I found that you speak more and more like the battalion commander."

"What do you say?"

"Cold and ruthless, talking in a cloud of fog and clumsiness!"

"Are you looking for smoke?" Li Xiang was angry, and he raised his hand like a big neck: "Who made you dare to say that?"

"You see, the battalion commander never cared about us ordinary soldiers. He kicked people at every turn. His face was as cold as the twelfth lunar month of winter. He always didn't make clear the orders he said. Many times we didn't understand them at all and could only guess. "

Li Xiang was stunned for a moment: "It's fine for me to understand, as for you? You just need to execute the order, and you will be able to understand when you become a company commander in the future."

"Look at the Second Company, Wang Pengying, Gao Yidao, they will speak to boost morale every time before a battle."

"To shut up."

on the hill.

The second lieutenant rushed up the hillside with a group of men, and the sergeant behind him was a little worried: "Mr. Gaoqiao, isn't it too risky for us to do this?"

"Shut up and call me Platoon Leader Gao. If you say something like Takahashi-san again, I'll kill you right now!"

Sergeant Cao was taken aback, and quickly changed his words: "Platoon Leader Gao, do you want to check our attire again?"

The high platoon leader is really good in physical fitness, and he didn't even catch his breath after climbing the steep mountain road for nearly a mile: "Usually training, I have practiced many times, you have to have confidence in yourself."

Juncao gasped and nodded: "Then, will there be any problem if the radio station is hidden in the bushes?"

Platoon Leader Gao shook his head: "This is not something you should worry about. You have to trust Captain Shigenobu's ability."

After Gao Platoon finished speaking, he emphasized again to the more than ten blue uniforms behind him: "From now on, if a bird's cry comes out of someone's mouth, I will directly cut seppuku when I go back!"

(End of this chapter)