The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1996 This road is blocked

The night is still so dark.

It seems that the enemy and us have stopped fighting, but both sides understand that this is a sleepless night and the outcome will be clear after dawn. Now they are just competing against each other in secret.

In the darkness, Shang Zhen took advantage of the cover of rocks to strike a match, but the bean-sized fire was blown out before it turned into a flame.

But this little bit of light was enough for Shang Zhen to see that the hour hand on his watch was pointing to three o'clock.

I have to hold on tight, otherwise I might not be able to get out. Shang Zhen realized this, and then he carried a bundle of ropes and walked carefully towards the North Mountain.

Shang Zhen was here to "test the waters". He wanted to climb down the steep slope on the north side, but when he saw the Japanese army was strangely quiet, he decided to give it a try first.

Da Laoben and Bian Xiaolong climbed down the steep slope of the mountain. Shang Zhen certainly believed that he could do it, although going down the mountain in the dark was actually more difficult than going up.

Shang Zhen groped his way to the edge of the mountain. He squatted there and looked at the dark mountain below. He shook his head and then threw a small stone in his hand down the mountain with all his strength.

In fact, he could also use the stupid method and climb down directly with a rope.

But he was worried. He felt that with the battle going on tonight, who knew if there were any Japanese devils setting a trap for him down there?

It would be so stupid if I really fell into that trap!
The situation was just like when I was a kid and I used to trap hares with my friends. We would make a "dog-strangling trap" and place it at the exit of the rabbit's nest. When the rabbit came out, it would naturally crawl into the trap. Once the trap was tightened, the rabbit would have no chance of escaping.

Why is that called strangling the dog?
That's because no matter whether it's a dog or a rabbit, once it's strangled by a rope, it will struggle.

However, due to the special way the condom is tied, the more the prey struggles after entering the condom, the tighter it becomes.

It’s not necessarily that the prey was strangled to death in the end, but it is definitely that the prey strangled itself with the strength of its own struggles!

Because no rabbit has the intelligence to get out of the predicament on its own.

Although the slope was steep, it was not vertical. So even if his rope was long enough, he couldn't pull the stone tied to the rope all the way down the mountain. He could only try throwing a stone.

A moment later, the piece of gravel thrown by Shang Zhen hit the middle of the mountain. The sound of "clang" was faintly heard, and then there was the sound of the gravel bouncing up and colliding with the mountain again and rolling down.

Shang Zhen changed from squatting to lying down and then listened with his ear tilted. The sound of the stone had disappeared, but there was no movement at the foot of the mountain.

But if you believe that there are no Japanese troops below just because of this, then you are not Shang Zhen.

He then threw down a rope with a small stone tied to it.

When the stone hit the mountain, he shook the rope and slowly lowered it. The stone then weighed down the rope and made a rustling sound similar to that of a person climbing down the mountain.

But it was only for a while, and there were still a few meters of rope left, but it no longer made any sound.

This is of course because the mountain has a slope. After all, the wall is not as smooth as a mirror, so it will always be supported by the mountain.

Shang Zhen shook the rope for a while, and seeing that there was no movement below, he pulled the rope back. The rope then dragged the small stone up the mountain, making a sound.

I don't believe that the Japanese don't have an ambush, Shang Zhen thought to himself, but then he thought, it sounds like he doesn't hope to escape, which is unlucky!
But just at this moment, a "bang" sound came from the foot of the mountain!
Shang Zhen's heart jumped and he quickly pulled the rope upwards, and at this moment he saw a point of light flying up from the bottom of the mountain. Shang Zhen had no choice but to hold the rope and lie down, and at this moment the flare flashed above his head, and in an instant, the night disappeared and the day flashed!
This flare was fired by the Japanese army using a grenade launcher.

The flares fired by a grenade launcher, not a mortar, have a limited height. For a moment, Shang Zhen felt that the flare was hanging right above his head, as if he had suddenly returned to the Northeast, and was warming himself by a stove in the middle of winter while going into the house!
When Shang Zhen retracted his head, gunshots rang out from below. Although the gunshots were not as dense as from the south, there were still two light machine guns!

"Huh?" Shang Zhen was surprised at this time.

Shang Zhen was not surprised that the Japanese army's bullets did not hit him.

I was on the top of the mountain north of Wujiaopo, which was the highest point. If I lowered my head, the Japanese army couldn't see me at all. At most, they could see the rope clanging below.

So, what were the Japanese machine guns hitting when they made the rocks clang?

Shang Zhen had no idea that the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain did not discover him, but they discovered the dummy that Da Laoben had hung on the mountain wall during the previous operation!

Although he was at the top of the mountain, the slope was not drawn with a ruler. The mountain blocked his view of the dummy approaching below.

Shang Zhen felt that he still needed the rope, so he lay there and waited. At this time, there were continuous "bang" and "bang" sounds from other directions, and the Japanese army fired flares again.

This time the Japanese army fired a lot of flares. Although the flares had a limited height, they were brighter than in previous battles.

Seeing that it was impossible for him to go down the steep cliffs on three sides, Shang Zhen could only turn back carefully.

He was not very familiar with the top of Wujiaopo Mountain, where there were many mechanisms and traps. It took him more than half an hour to return to the south.

When he looked down the mountain, he was relieved to see that the Japanese army did not attack again.

He suddenly had the urge to smoke a cigarette, but he had never been addicted to smoking and never carried cigarettes in his pocket, so he finally suppressed the idea.

He just couldn't understand!
Logically speaking, given the terrain on the northeast, west and north sides, it would be impossible for anyone to climb up unless they were climbing experts like him and Da Laoben, and the Japanese army naturally should not have thought that anyone would climb down from there.

But why were the Japanese troops so strict in their defense on those three sides!
Moreover, the Japanese soldiers were firing their guns at the bottom of the mountain to the north. What on earth were they shooting at? This also made him feel strange.

Shang Zhen is not a fortune teller, so how could he know that Xu Lang has betrayed him and defected to the enemy?

Naturally, he didn't know that Big Laoben hung a dummy on the hillside at Bian Xiaolong's last-minute suggestion.

Since Xu Lang knew that he and Da Laoben climbed up to Wujiaopo from the back mountain, how could he not expect that Shang Zhen would climb down from the top!

This was because of Shang Zhen's cautious character. He did not climb down rashly. Otherwise, if he really made a noise and got shot, it would not be the dummy of the big stupid guy, but him!

Shang Zhen thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out, but he knew that no matter what, he couldn't climb down from the steep cliff.

Even though it's pitch black when you climb down, if the Japanese devils' flares hit you halfway down, you'd really just be waiting for death!
So the only direction I could go to escape was south.

While the Japanese army's flares were still on, Shang Zhen used the terrain and the cover of the corpses on the mountain road to secretly strip clothes off the Japanese soldiers.

While he was taking off his clothes, he was still thinking, could it be possible for me to disguise myself as a Japanese devil and sneak away?