The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1984: Second Visit to Wujia Slope

I ran here with great effort, and now you have destroyed the Japanese mortar. How can it be easy for me?

Even though Shang Zhen usually had a good temper, at this moment, he couldn't help but shout out as he was almost halfway up the south slope of Wujiaopo.

However, even though he was dissatisfied, it did not stop him from jumping up and running down the mountain in the darkness when the flares had fallen out.

Going back to Wujiaopo, this was the way Shang Zhen came up with to survive in a desperate situation.

But it’s hard to explain how he ended up halfway up the mountain road!
At that time, he was covering the Qu squad and fighting the Japanese army in the rear. The flares made the area below bright and clear. It was impossible for him to run to the open area, as that would be courting death.

He couldn't stay where he was because the Japanese army had discovered him. For him, the only safe place was Wujiaopo.

His idea was, I ran to the south slope of Wujiapo, how did I get down? How would I get back?

The weapons of the Japanese and puppet troops there had not been completely confiscated, so they could completely hold their ground on the southern slope of Wujiaopo.

With my marksmanship, it should be possible to kill some Japanese soldiers, right?
He just didn't believe that the Japanese devils could keep shooting flares into the sky. If they waited until dawn, maybe they could find a rope and climb down another slope!

Or, if he took a step back and thought about it, what if he could hold out on Wujiapo for a day? There were weapons, ammunition, and food on the top, and then he could wait until nightfall and climb down from the cliff.

In order to achieve this goal, Shang Zhen could only act when the flares fired by the Japanese army passed over the top of Wujiaopo and a shadow appeared on the mountain side. Then he had to use the cover of the rocks at the foot of the mountain to move closer to the entrance of the south slope step by step.

However, anyone could imagine how short the time was for him to use the flares to pass the top of the mountain and create a shadow on this side of the mountain while running to the other side of the mountain road.

After all, before this flare fell, the Japanese flare rose again. He could only grab that flare and cross the top of the mountain. He ran towards the mountain road before this flare rose.

Since the moment when the flare fell and rose was so short, Shang Zhen certainly remembered clearly that it took him three such moments to run to a place more than 40 meters away from the entrance of the mountain road.

At that moment, he saw more than a dozen Japanese soldiers running towards the entrance with guns in hand from afar.

At that time he thought, this guy is in trouble!

He didn't have the ability to kill more than a dozen Japanese soldiers without making any noise. If he wanted to kill them, he had to shoot.

But by firing the gun, he was exposed.

Once exposed, it would mean the Japanese army would swarm in, and it would be hard to say whether he could reach the top of the mountain on this mountain road!

Fortunately, after the next flare from the sky fell, the Japanese army's new flare rose a little late.

In the darkness, Shang Zhen rushed towards the entrance of the mountain road like a leopard in the dark. In his mind, he was still silently calculating the obstacles he would encounter while running more than 40 meters.

These included four large stones that were slightly higher than his waist and two "small stones" that just reached his knees. He had to dodge those stones.

Finally, when the flares rose up and brought light to the world again, he happened to jump into the intersection, but he was tripped by the body of a Japanese soldier at the entrance.

The fall was so severe that Shang Zhen even blamed himself for not noticing that there was a dead body here when he was going down the mountain!
But he knew that complaining was useless, and he could only hide behind the corpse of the Japanese soldier and watch the dozen Japanese soldiers coming from a distance. The safety of the box gun had been opened, and Shang Fei was ready for another gunfight with the Japanese army.

However, when the dozen or so Japanese soldiers were more than 100 meters away from him, they turned and headed towards the west of Wujiaopo.

This made Shang Zhen feel relieved.

After the Japanese soldiers went away, he walked up the mountain cautiously.

The entire road was littered with corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers. When stepping on them, there was always a muddy feeling. Shang Zhen knew that it was blood!

But he happened to be wearing a pair of cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, which people in Northeast China commonly call "lazy man's shoes".

Without shoelaces, you just pull up the heels and walk around. Aren’t these shoes for lazy people?
Normally, these shoes are extremely convenient, but on this muddy road with blood everywhere, the soaked shoes would be stuck to the blood from time to time after walking for a while!

The reason cannot be blamed on the shoes not being tight enough, but only on the blood being too thick, just like mud!
Shang Zhen, a participant in the war, certainly didn't know that if there was another person present at that time, everyone would think that he - the man holding a box gun, wearing tattered clothes, covered in blood and mud, with the flares of the Japanese invaders in the distance as the background, was a killing god walking on the Shura battlefield of hell!
But Shang Zhenzhen himself did not have the awareness that he was a killing god. He couldn't fight barefoot, could he?

After climbing the mountain, he had to wait until the Japanese flares stopped rising, and then climb down the steep cliff in the dark!
How can you go barefoot without shoes?
Shang Zhen had no choice but to put on a pair of rubber-soled lace-up shoes found among the corpses of the puppet soldiers.

This delayed us a bit.

While climbing the mountain, he still could not walk up Wujiaopo openly when the flares were shining brightly above his head. He had to avoid walking up when the flares were brightest, that is, in the extremely short period of time when the sun was just setting but not yet rising.

He needed to crawl or jump over the corpses of the Japanese and puppet soldiers, then hide for a while, look back to see what was happening down the mountain, and then turn around and move forward.

By the way, Shang Zhen found six or seven grenades on the bodies of the Japanese soldiers. He then cut off one of the Japanese soldier's trouser legs with a knife, tied it up, and held it in his hand!

But just when he was about to climb halfway up the mountain after much trouble, he suddenly heard gunshots coming from the direction of the village in the distance.

The gunshots were much clearer than those coming from the northwest, and Shang Zhen instinctively turned around as soon as he heard the first gunshot.

Why do we say it was the first gunshot instead of the first gunshot? The reason is that the first gunshot was the sound of a short burst of fire from a box gun.

For a gun expert like Shang Zhen, even though the village is more than a mile away, if he can't tell that the first gunshot is a short burst, then all the battles he has fought in vain over the years!

When did the Japanese use box guns? Very rarely!
So Shang Zhen could be 100% sure that the gunshots were definitely caused by his own people!

Only the old men in his camp dared to launch a sneak attack on the Japanese artillery positions at this time!
The sound of gunfire gave Shang Zhen hope at the time, although it was later replaced by chaotic gunfire. As Shang Zhen was watching, he saw and heard the explosion coming from the place where the Japanese flares were raised!

Shang Zhen ran up the mountain because he was afraid of the Japanese army's flares.

If they went to Wujiaopo once to find Chen Sankan's wealth, this time was the second time.

Now, the mortars that fired flares had been blown up by his own people, so why was he still running to the mountain? Why not take advantage of the darkness of the night to rush out of the Japanese encirclement?