In December 1942, the situation that worried the allies of the United States, Britain and France, but which would sooner or later arose, finally inevitably happened:

The squadron enters Africa!

Although there is only one regiment in strength, this means that China has officially intervened in the war in Europe and the United States. ^//^

The world war escalated again with China's full involvement.

Germany and Italy cheered.

This is what they have been waiting for for a long time, and it shows that they are still waiting for full reinforcements from China!

And this force that first entered the Manim region of Africa was the army commanded by Wang Ding, the son of Wang Hengyue, the president of the Republic of China.

The Germans are no strangers to Wang Ding, the young officer who once performed miracles in Belgrade, or on the African continent, he will create another legend.

And Wang Ding, who had just arrived in Africa, did not have time to rest, so he received the task assigned to him by General Rommel:

A company of his unit penetrated behind the British, reconnoitring intelligence and looking for an opportunity to deliver an offensive blow to the British.

8 Even.

This time interspersed, the 8th Company walked on an inaccessible mountain road.

It's a road, but it's not a road at all. There is a steep hill on the top, a high cliff on the bottom, and only about a foot of the sheep intestine trail can accommodate the foot. The rain washed away the gravel on the trail, and the trail gradually turned into a slope, which was smooth for your feet to step on.

In order to prevent the enemy from penetrating into their rear, the British army not only planted a large number of mines on various roads, but also planted a large number of bamboo sticks at the foot of the mountain, grass, bushes, etc. Whether you roll down a mountain or step on the ground, once you step on a bamboo stick, your feet will be pricked with blood.

In China, which had long been prepared for this, before Wang Ding and his troops went abroad to fight, they had already made a batch of stab-proof shoes with steel plates and followed them to Africa.

Before leaving, Bai Yanchao, the commander of the 8th Company, ordered everyone to change into shoes with steel plates. Wearing these shoes, although it is a little difficult to walk, when stepping into the grass, I am less worried.

But as soon as you set foot on this mountain road, big trouble came. Thanks to the steel plates, the softness of the sole is almost gone. The anti-slip function is even weaker. Although the soldiers walked cautiously and supported each other, they were about to become a small three-inch golden lotus, but many people still fell

Sometimes it's not enough to go down alone, and you have to pull one or two around you. The team screamed incessantly.

Fortunately, these people who fell down always climbed up from below soon after they fell. It can be seen how thick the artemisia grass under the mountain should be. On the other hand, it is also our fighters who are fully equipped with the experience of rolling down the hill. When you land, you must not stretch out your limbs, but shrink into a ball and land your back first.

If the British knew that our troops had passed through this area, they would have regretted it. Why did you neglect to bury bamboo sticks in this area!

The 8th Company walked about five or six kilometers in one go on such a mountain road. Although the journey was not long, it took too long.

Bai Yanchao was in a hurry in front and urged the back to speed up the pace.

In a hurry, the mountain road did not listen to Bai Yanchao's command, and still let the soldiers stumble and stop.

Due to the particularity of Bai Yanchao leading this reinforced company to complete the task, it is based on the original base

On a steep march on a steep mountain road, the infantry was okay, but those artillery were difficult.

An ammunition man has to carry four shells on his body, plus his own guns, ammunition and personal equipment, and the total weight of the materials he carries is about to reach 200 catties, even if he wants to go quickly, he can't go fast.

Seeing that it was getting dark again, the vanguard had to stop when they came out of the mountain, waiting for the follow-up personnel to arrive one after another.

At this time, Bai Yanchao found the junction of the mountain trail and the main road with his glasses, so he ordered the 2nd squad to be the sharp knife squad, and went out to occupy the main road and serve as a guard! …,

Gu Yuanyi, the leader of the 2nd shift, led the 4th class to the intersection of the road. As soon as I set up everyone, I looked up, and found that the road was turning again not far away.

In order to find out the situation, just in case, someone had to be sent over to reconnoitre.

"Cai Huachen, take your group and watch the situation on the other side of the road" Gu Yuan intended to assign tasks to Cai Huachen.

Cai Huachen agreed, and then ran to the front of the road with Zhou Zhen and another soldier.

Ran around the corner, only to see that the road was empty, and there was nothing. So, Cai Huachen sent another soldier back to report the situation to Gu Yuanyi, and Gu Yuanyi passed the situation to Bai Yanchao.

Bai Yanchao spread out the combat map on a big boulder, comparing the left and the right, but he couldn't find the geographical position in front of him.

Company Deputy Xie Qi came over and asked, "Company commander, where are we now?" ”

Bai Yanchao frowned and smiled bitterly, as if he was saying to Xie Qi, and as if he was talking to himself: "Why is it not on the map!" ”

This time, the 8th Company was interspersed with the occupation of the Shari'a battery in the Manim area, and the route taken was demarcated by the regiment according to the predetermined plan. However, this map is already old-fashioned, not to mention that the British army has rearranged it on various routes before the war. The signage and route have been greatly changed.

Bai Yanchao scooped up an outdated map, and of course couldn't find a standard location.

"Why don't you ask the villagers?" Xie Qi reminded Bai Yanchao.

"Where are the people who don't even poop birds?" Because he hadn't seen a village, a pedestrian, or even a single livestock along the way, Bai Yanchao thought so.

Cai Huachen hid behind a stone around the bend, staring at the road ahead.

Suddenly, there was a humming sound from a distance. The tune is frustrated, and no one can understand what "Jili Wow" is. But from that tone, it can be judged that this is an African folk tune.

Cai Huachen stared ahead, thinking, "Even the common people can't let him pass." ”

The singing became louder and louder, and a figure finally appeared on the road.

Walking over was a soldier in the uniform of a British unit.

Cai Huachen found that the British army was coming, and he was a little at a loss. He feared that there would be a large number of enemies behind the British soldier.

To fight or not to fight, I couldn't make up my mind for a while, so I had to ask the company commander first.

"Zhou Zhen, quickly report to the company commander, the enemy has been found here."

Zhou Zhen spread his legs and ran in the direction of the company.

After a while, Bai Yanchao ran over with someone.

More than a dozen people hid in the bend of the mountain, staring at the British soldiers who came by.

The British soldier, with a backpack on his back and a rifle in his hand, walked while singing, much like a drunken man.

Bai Yanchao ordered Cai Huachen softly: "Get him here." ”

Cai Huachen turned his body, and gradually hid behind the British soldier under the cover of trees and grass

The British soldiers turned around the bend of the mountain and suddenly found Bai Yanchao and others, and they were stupid for a while. He never thought that there was a group of ** people hidden here.

The soldier had just woken up and was about to shout, but Cai Huachen, who jumped up from behind, locked his throat, and couldn't speak, just whining loudly.

Although Cai Huachen locked the enemy's throat, he couldn't lock it. The Englishman was still kicking his feet and whining.

If the British soldier had raised his voice and alarmed the other enemies, the problem would have been great.

"A few more people." Bai Yanchao said.

Zhou Zhen and a few fighters ran over to help. Several people worked together to subdue the British soldier, and dragged him behind the rocks.

Bai Yanchao said to a Vietnamese interpreter: "Ask him, how to get to the Shariyah Fort?" ”

The translator uttered a long list of words that no one could understand. He shook his head vigorously.

The interpreter thought he really didn't know, and said the name of Manim. But the British soldier shook his head. …,

The translator was on fire: "Company commander, this kid is too hard to speak." ”

"Then use some means." Bai Yanchao said.

"I'll come." After Cai Huachen finished speaking, he walked up to the British soldier, "Zhou Zhen, come here."

Cai Huachen tied the soldier with a rope and dragged him to the woods with Zhou Zhen. Kick it to the ground and put the gun on the head.

"You don't say no, Lao Tzu shot you." Pull the gun and make a ready to shoot.

The British soldier's eyes widened, although he couldn't understand what Cai Huachen said, but he could see that Cai Huachen was going to shoot him.

The soldier was frightened and nodded vigorously to Cai Huachen. It means that I still have an eighty-year-old mother at home, please don't kill me.

"If you don't kill you, then what do you have to ask and say?"

The soldier seemed to understand, and nodded vigorously.

"Zhou Zhen, get him back."

Wu Donglong and Zhou Zhen brought the soldier back to Bai Yanchao again, "Company commander, this kid has confessed, you ask!" ”

This British soldier is really well-behaved, and when the interpreter asks him, he will follow along. The interpreter kept asking, and the British soldier kept talking. After figuring it out, the translator explained it to Bai Yanchao.

The interpreter pointed to the map and said to Bai Yanchao, "According to the prisoner's confession, we have taken a wrong route, and here is still twenty kilometers away from the Sharia Fort. ”

"How to turn around."

"Go here, go here." The translations are connected in a line on the map.

"Okay, let's go, let's go." Bai Yanchao made a decision.

"What about the captives?" Cai Huachen asked.

"Yes!" Cai Huachen was full of unhappiness, he was originally a top soldier, but after making this burden, he turned into a guard. What's the point of a defender, always eating other people's leftovers.

A team of more than 100 people set out in a column. Fearing that he would run into enemies on the main road, he looked for a mountain road where no one was around.

After climbing over a mountain, I vaguely saw a light under the mountain.

At this moment, an order was heard from the front of the troops not to be spoken.

In order not to alarm the enemy, the unit had to go around the village.

Along the way, the British soldier kept giving Cai Huachen problems, even though Cai Huachen tried his best, he still dragged his feet and just didn't go quickly. Gradually, Cai Huachen's combat group separated from the entire company at a great distance.

If it weren't for Bai Yanchao's order, Cai Huachen really wanted to deal with this prisoner on the spot.

Cai Huachen's group carefully circled the mountain with the captives, and after turning a bend in the mountain, the lights in the village flashed.

The captive's sharp eyes saw someone shaking in the bamboo tower in the village, and he knew it was a sentry. And so I started to be dishonest. After walking a few steps, he squatted on the ground and couldn't leave, pretending to be in pain.

Cai Huachen had been walking in front of him, and when he heard Zhou Zhen urging the captives to leave quickly. When he turned around, he saw the captives crouching on the ground, and he urged them vigorously.

Cai Huachen walked back and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"This guy squatted on the ground and said he wasn't going to leave." Said one of the fighters.

Cai Huachen bent down, pointed to his stomach, and then pointed to the captive's stomach, and made a painful expression. The captive nodded.

"This guy doesn't really have a stomachache!" Cai Huachen said to Zhou Zhen.

The crouching captive took advantage of Cai Huachen's back to turn his back and slammed into him, knocking Cai Huachen to the ground, and then he ran down the hill.

Even though his hands were still tied, he still ran fast.

Zhou Zhen was stunned by the sudden appearance, and by the time he came to his senses, the captives had already run far away. Seeing that he could not catch up, he raised his gun and shot at the captive.

"Bang Bang!"

After a few shots, the captives fell to the ground and rolled a few meters away. …,

Cai Huachen ran over to see that the captive was not only not dead, but also struggled to make a sound. Apparently the bullet did not hit the fatal position.

As soon as the gunshots rang out here, the village under the mountain remembered the sound of bangzi when it was neutral. Many people rushed to the mountain with a shout. °

"You say you, how can you shoot!" Cai Hua complained about Zhou Zhen.

"I, I didn't shoot, he ran." Zhou Zhen also wanted to explain.

"Alright, the enemy is rushing up. You go first. Cai Huachen urged Zhou Zhen.

"And what do you do?" Zhou Zhen asked.

"You guys go first, don't worry about me," Cai Huachen said, taking off the bayonet from the gun: "This guy can't let him live, he has to be solved." ”

"Just kill him." Zhou Zhen asked in horror.

"That's right." Cai Huachen was ready to start: "Don't talk nonsense, you two go quickly." I won't be able to leave for a while. ”

Zhou Zhen and another fighter ran forward.

Cai Huachen approached the captive. The captive saw Cai Huachen's intention from his expression, and he was so frightened that he kicked his legs and crawled forward.

Cai Huachen raised his head to listen to the shouts that were getting closer and closer, and said to the captive: "You can't blame anyone if you die, you brought it on yourself." With that, he stabbed the bayonet into the heart of the captive.

Cai Huachen pulled out his bayonet from the captive, wiped the blood on the corpse, and reinserted it into the muzzle of the gun.

It didn't take a few steps before the bullet flew from behind.

Due to the unfamiliar terrain, Cai Huachen walked around the mountains and couldn't run far after all. Seeing the flashlight light getting closer and closer. Cai Huachen can't care about distinguishing between east and west, north and south, and he will run in which direction where it is smooth.

At this time, Zhou Zhen's voice came from behind a tree: "Team leader, we are here." Zhou Zhen and Jiang Duofu, a soldier from the same group, were hiding behind a tree and waiting for him.

Cai Huachen heard that it was Zhou Zhen shouting, ran over with the voice, and reproached as soon as he came up.

"Why are you still here?"

"We're waiting for you."

Zhou Zhen and Jiang Duofu didn't run a few steps before they sensed that something was wrong. is also a member of the same combat group, how can he leave the team leader alone. So the two stopped and prepared to return to help Cai Huachen.

Just then, the shouts from below the mountain were getting closer, bullets were whizzing, and a few flashlights flashed.

Zhou Zhen said to Jiang Duofu: "Let's not go over, just pick up the team leader here." ”

So the two of them laid an ambush behind the tree and waited for Cai Huachen to come over. Seeing Cai Huachen jumping around and running vigorously, Zhou Zhen called Cai Huachen behind the tree.

"Don't be here, get out." Cai Huachen shook his waist and then ran forward.

As soon as Zhou Zhen got up, he saw several figures running towards him, so he raised his gun and fired

"Da Da Da!"

As soon as the gunshot rang out, the person on the other side lay down and returned the bullet after him.

"What a stupid x, aren't you reporting to the enemy?" Cai Huachen turned around and scolded: "Don't run yet." ”

The three of them didn't care about the fight behind them, they bowed their heads and bent over, but they could jump forward vigorously.

The enemy who was chasing Cai Huachen was a platoon of the British troops who were stationed here.

After the war began, the enemy reached a state of full military readiness and alertness.

Therefore, as soon as the gunfire rang out on the mountain, this British platoon reacted extremely quickly, almost all of them were dispatched, and they quickly outflanked here from three directions.

The first to arrive were the enemy who came directly from the bottom of the mountain, and the other two had already jumped up the mountain

This enemy does not know how many troops we have. Cai Huachen also didn't know how many enemies were chasing them.

Neither side cares about anyone anymore. Anyway, you have to run. If you want to chase, you still have to chase.

Cai Huachen's three-person team ran forward desperately, and they were simply panicked. As I ran, I suddenly found that the mountain had come to an end.

At the bottom of the hill is a short slope, and below the short slope is a large empty flat land. Only by crossing this short slope and then through the flat land can you reach another mountain.

Going deep into the enemy's hinterland, Cai Huachen didn't want to walk in an unsheltered open field. Even if it was a very smooth, 100% smooth road, he was not willing to take this risk, who knows if the enemy has done anything here.

But now I don't want to leave, I can't go, and if I want to go back, there is no door.

The enemy, pressed down from both the ridge and the mountainside, was approaching. Gunshots rang out, bullets flew indiscriminately, and shouts shook the sky.

Look at Zhou Zhen, who is in trouble, if he doesn't shoot, how can there be such a thing? However, Zhou Zhen was not wrong to shoot. If the prisoner is not killed, waiting for him to run back to the village may expose even greater trouble. The entire 8th Company, and even the idea of a battle will be thoroughly understood by him.

Ay! Die and die! Exposed, exposed! It's a big deal.

When Cai Huachen thought about it, he had nothing to complain about. glanced back at the two comrades who were following closely behind him. Secretly thought to himself: "It's a pity, it doesn't matter if I die, you two will also suffer!" ”