The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1821 The monitor's decision

The sound of gunfire echoed across the fields, and just that sound made the soldiers of a certain squad feel extremely nervous.

"Sergeant, are we really going?" A soldier stretched his head from behind the bushes and looked towards the other end of the road, asking his squad leader.

There was black smoke rising from the place where he was looking; it was a wheat field that was on fire.

But they could see the burning wheat field but could not see clearly the fighting situation between the enemy and us.

Just now their squad leader said that the company commander and the others were in danger, so we have to go over and take a look.

And what this soldier said now was a response to their squad leader.

There is a lot of knowledge involved in speaking Chinese.

He asked the squad leader, "Are we really going?" In fact, at least he was not very willing to go. If he really wanted to go, he would definitely not have this attitude.

"What do you think?" asked the squad leader, who already had wrinkles on his face and always looked sleepy.

"I said, I said..." The soldier who was asking the question paused, and in the end he didn't say what he wanted to say. When the words came to his mouth, they turned into a sentence, "What I said doesn't count!" Then he added, "Alas, our terrain is wasted."

When this soldier mentioned the terrain, the other soldiers in his class also felt regretful.

The Japanese troops that attacked Shuiquan Town came from west to east along the highway.

According to Shang Zhen's order, they were lined up along the road in groups, and each group was responsible for its own area.

This road is sandwiched between hills, and on both sides of the road are wheat fields or wilderness with the wheat ears already harvested. It is not the kind of terrain where one man can block the passage of ten thousand men, so the battalion commander Shang Zhen divided their company and the other two platoons into small groups to fight as squads.

But the problem is that the unit in front of their class responsible for blocking the enemy is a class led by the company commander Cheng Peng.

According to their class's understanding, stopping the Japanese army was nothing more than firing one or two rounds of bullets, or at most three rounds, and then they could retreat.

But the problem is that since the gunfire from the area in front, where the squad led by Cheng Peng started, the gunfire has been intermittent.

  We were all veterans, and even the dumbest ones knew that it must be Company Commander Cheng Peng and his men who were entangled with the Japanese army, or were entangled by the Japanese army. So, should their neighboring squad go to rescue them or not?

There is a reason to save him. After all, his company commander is being entangled by the Japanese army and may be in danger.

But it would be understandable if we didn't rescue them, because the order given by the battalion commander was to block the enemy on the spot, but he didn't say to fight the Japanese after meeting up.

If they were to fight the Japs after the reunion, why did Shang Zhen let them split up into smaller units? Why not just build a position and fight a positional war?

Of course, this statement is just on the surface.

In fact, the main reason why the soldier hesitated whether to go to support or rescue the company commander Cheng Peng and others was that they discovered the beauty of the terrain they were in.

At that time, Shang Zhen brought the company commander Cheng Peng, three platoon leaders and squad leaders to "divide the areas".

It was already dawn, and the Japanese army had probably set out for Shuiquan Town. Shang Zhen couldn't have observed so carefully, so he could just point to Zhang San and say "your class is here, Li Si, you are usually there." At that time, the area assigned to their class was not ideal at all, because the top of the hill was about 700 to 800 meters away from the road.

Everyone can understand that with the current firearms of the Chinese military, it is impossible to fire at the Japanese army from a distance of 700 to 800 meters.

No matter whether the veterans were using Czech light machine guns or Type 38 rifles, they had to be at least 300 meters away from the road to be sure of killing the enemy.

  If you are far away, you will not be able to hit the enemy at all. To put it bluntly, the Japanese are attacking Shuiquan Town, and you are shooting at them from more than a mile away. Are you welcoming them by setting off firecrackers?

So even though that hill is the highest among the surrounding terrain, it’s useless!

On the contrary, after they finished shooting at the Japanese army from three or four hundred meters away and then retreated to the top of the hill, they were still shot by the Japanese army.

Because there were no trees on the slope of the hill, just some weeds, and the terrain was no different from an open area.

As for the Japanese army's marksmanship, if they don't admit that it is accurate, they are deceiving themselves, because their marksmanship is indeed more accurate than theirs.

However, just after their class was divided into this area of ​​terrain, their squad leader Liu Dashan, the guy who always looked sleepy, went into the hills to observe the terrain before the Japanese devils arrived. Then he was pleasantly surprised to find that they actually still had a way to retreat.

The reason was that there was an erosion ditch at the bottom of the hill, just a few dozen meters behind them!

Scour gullies are, of course, naturally formed.

That is, when it rains, water flows down from high places. The soil in some places is relatively loose, and as a result, a small ditch is washed out by the water. As time goes by, the ditch naturally becomes wider and deeper.

Although this ditch is only half a person deep now, it looks like a natural traffic trench, and it is also winding.

Then after shooting at the Japanese army from three or four hundred meters away, they could easily escape to the scour ditch behind them.

Liu Dashan observed the ditch. People who entered the ditch could completely avoid the Japanese army's shooting, and the bottom of the ditch was hard, which meant that there was not much fine sand produced by the water, so they could run faster.

When Liu Dashan told the soldiers in his class about his discovery, everyone was excited.

Who doesn't want to be alive? Moreover, the idea that Shang Zhen had instilled in them was that they should fight the Japanese, but they couldn't get themselves involved!

But as the saying goes, plans cannot keep up with changes, they did not expect that the gunfire from the company commander Cheng Peng's end had not stopped.

  So do you think they should rescue him or not?

"Da da da". "Da da da". Another round of Japanese light machine gun fire started.

They were now neither close nor far from the area where Cheng Peng and his team were, and the veterans could still tell what kind of gun it was.

"The Japs even used the Type 99 rifle." Squad leader Liu Dashan was surprised.

  What does the fact that the Japanese used light machine guns mean? It means that the Japanese have stopped. In other words, the Japanese have stopped. Doesn't that mean they have surrounded the company commander and his men?

Everyone could imagine that if the Japanese army was chasing Cheng Peng and his men, they would be the type who would run and shoot at the same time, so it would be impossible for them to shoot with a light machine gun!

At this moment, Liu Dashan felt that the "da da da" sound of the Japanese machine guns seemed to beat a drum in his heart. The drumbeat was so urgent that he stopped struggling and stood up and said loudly: "Don't waste time, Fang Xiaoyong, you stay here and take charge, and the others come with me to take a look!"