Chapter Ninety-Two: Pursued
Although Sun He was born in the 74th Army, he was just an unqualified sergeant squad leader when he was in the 74th Army, and he did not have much experience in close combat with opponents. This was the first time Tang Cheng had commanded a battle alone, and coupled with the night battle, his shortcomings were immediately revealed. Tang Cheng only thought about hiding his body and preparing to make a move, but he only forgot the smell of blood and gunpowder on their bodies, and when they left Beishan, Tang Cheng and they only carried weapons and ammunition, but completely forgot that their military uniforms were already stained with blood.
It was precisely because of Tang Cheng's negligence that their current position at this time was not very far from the edge of the woodland, the breeze blowing from the wilderness outside the woodland had turned Tang Cheng and them into the upwind position, and the wind blowing from the wilderness into the miscellaneous wood forest had already brought the smell of blood on their bodies to their enemies, but they didn't know that Tang Cheng, who was extremely nervous. Tang Cheng didn't notice anything abnormal, he just gestured to the people around him according to his normal reaction, signaling them to lie down and lower their bodies, if there was a real exchange of fire for a while, they would take advantage of them if they found cover in advance.
The sound of broken leaves and branches being stepped on was getting closer and closer, and just as Tang Cheng was about to level the shell gun in his hand, the figure closest to him suddenly stopped. Tang Cheng's first reaction was quite normal, he thought that the guy closest to him was listening to the movement in the woods, but then the other party's sudden squatting figure made him secretly scream, Tang Cheng had already realized the existence of the problem, but he didn't know that it was the wind blowing into the woods that exposed their location.
"Run, they're going to throw grenades." Tang Cheng's familiar voice suddenly sounded in the silent woods, it was the sound of the safety bolt of the Japanese-style grenade being pulled open, Tang Cheng was very familiar with this kind of Japanese army's oval grenade, and when he was fighting with the Japanese army in Nanjing, he and Li Shanyou did not use this kind of grenade. Tang Cheng didn't know that the other party was the one who found out about us, but the sound of the grenade ring being pulled out sounded, and Tang Cheng's first reaction was to shout for Sun He and the others around him to retreat, but he had already pulled the trigger of the barge gun in front of him.
The sudden sound of gunfire broke the silence in the woods, lighting up the dark gunfire and giving Tang Cheng a chance to live, but at the same time, it also exposed their location to the Japanese soldiers who pursued into the woods. The shell gun in Tang Cheng's hand spit out a burst of gunfire, and the Japanese soldiers who were chasing had to hide behind the trees, "Go, go." Seeing Tang Cheng raise the shell gun in his left hand again, Sun He threw out a grenade in a panic, stretched out his hand and dragged Tang Cheng to follow Lao Liu and the others to the field at the edge of the woodland.
Tang Cheng retreated to the mixed wood forest at the beginning, because he felt that the field outside the forest was not safe, but now he was still following the pursuers, which made Tang Cheng have to follow Lao Liu and them to rush out of the woodland and into the field. "Boom" The grenade thrown by Sun He burst out into a ball of fire, and he struggled to break free from Sun He's pull, Tang Cheng looked back in response, and under the cover of the fire regiment, the figure of the pursuer was fully revealed. "Six, there are six Japanese soldiers behind us." Without waiting for Sun He to speak, Tang Cheng shouted first.
If it was placed on weekdays, maybe Tang Cheng and a dozen of them would still be able to fight with these 6 pursuers, but Lao Liu and they are now frightened birds, and they only care about escaping, only Tang Cheng and Sun He are not opponents of the 6 Japanese soldiers at all, and there is no place to hide in this wilderness. Regardless of the danger or not, Tang Cheng and a dozen of them used all their strength to run in the field, completely ignoring the bullets and shouts from behind, and now they had completely forgotten about their plan to sneak attack the Japanese artillery position, and there was only one thought in their minds, that is, to get rid of the pursuers and let themselves live.
When they left Beishan, Lao Liu and each of them brought 100 rifle cartridges and 6 Japanese-style grenades, plus rifles and captured steel helmets, and the weight on each of them was not easy. Tang Cheng didn't have a rifle, but in addition to the two shell guns, he also brought his flower machine gun and 5 magazines full of bullets, plus 6 spare magazines and 3 grenades for the shell gun, Tang Cheng's responsibility was not the lightest among the dozen of them.
The long and fast running made Tang Cheng's lungs seem to explode immediately, and he is now somewhat glad that he didn't wear that German-style steel helmet, otherwise his neck might have been broken. The violent running made Tang Cheng's body squeeze the air in his lungs, and Tang Cheng heard a weird snoring sound in the running, as the distance between them and Lao Liu became closer and closer, this snoring sound became louder and louder, and when Tang Cheng caught up with Lao Liu and them, they found that this snoring sound was their panting sound.
The open field outside the woodland was convenient for Tang Cheng and them to run, but this kind of terrain was not conducive to them hiding their figures, and after those few pursuers chased out of the miscellaneous woods, Tang Cheng's doom finally came. With a few gunshots coming from behind, Tang Cheng who was running and they were shot and fell two people, Tang Cheng on the left side escaped, but a soldier of the 1st Company next to him was not so lucky, the bullet shot from behind hit the back of the heart, and when Tang Cheng leaned down to look, the man had already lost his breath.
"Hurry up, you can't take it with you if you've been shot, let's go." Tang Cheng also wanted to see another guy who was shot and fell to the ground, but was pulled by Sun He and continued to run forward. "Hit by the bullet of the little devil, that's his bad luck, if you take him, it will only affect us who are still alive and yourself, one dead or all dead, which one do you choose?" Tang Cheng was no stranger to Sun He's words at this time, and when he was in Nanjing City, Liu Goat had said such things to him more than once.
Robert has not given Tang Cheng this principle since he was a child, since he fought Tang Cheng and entered the national army, many things that Professor Robert gave him have changed, Robert wants Tang Cheng to learn to forgive and fraternity, but Liu Goat wants him to learn to ignore and be cold-blooded. Although the purpose of both of them is to make Tang Cheng live better, the two ways of living are indeed completely different, Tang Cheng asked himself if he could be fraternity, but he also couldn't be absolutely cold-blooded and indifferent.
However, Tang Cheng also agreed with Sun He's words just now, fighting a war is not only based on one's own ability, but also depends on luck, people with good luck are like veteran ruffians like Liu Goat, who has been in the army for more than ten years but has not been seriously injured once, unlike Tang Cheng who makes himself like a dumpling after every battle. In order to catch up with all the people alone, of course Tang Cheng would not make such a choice, but if he wanted to watch his own people die in front of him and be indifferent, Tang Cheng didn't seem to be able to do it.
Lao Liu, who was running at the front, disappeared into the flames with a bang, and the two soldiers of the 1st Company who were chasing Lao Liu also fell to the ground screaming. "Grenadiers, it's grenadiers, spread out, spread out, don't get too close." After the second fireball bloomed in the field, Tang Cheng reacted, the pursuers had already used grenadiers, otherwise their grenades would not have been thrown so far. The soldiers of the 1st Company, who had been in the fog, widened the distance between each other with Tang Cheng's shouting, and only Sun He was left by Tang Cheng's side.
"No, I can't run anymore, so let's fight." Tang Cheng, who was already stumbling, stopped his heart and stretched out his hand to stop Sun He. "Let's go a little further, and when the Japanese soldiers who are chasing us run to these flames, we will shoot." Tang Cheng relied on the flames left behind by the explosion of the Japanese grenadier grenade. This is a wild field, mostly weeds and low shrubs, and after the grenade grenade from behind by the Japanese army burst out of the fire ball, it ignited a few weeds, although the fire was not very large, but it helped them to see the pursuers clearly.
Surprise was the reason why Tang Cheng wanted to do this, the remaining few people of the 1st Company were still running for their lives, and the Japanese soldiers who were chasing them would never have imagined that the rabbit-like soldiers of China who had been chased would dare to stay and ambush them. And most people would think that the escapees would not dare to be within the range of the firelight, but Tang Cheng planned to do so, he gambled not only on the mistakes of the pursuers, but also on the luck of himself and Sun He.
Appearing in the firelight, the only way is to pretend to be a corpse, Tang Cheng followed Liu Goat in the street battle with the Japanese army in Nanjing, he had already pretended to be a corpse to ambush the Japanese stragglers who entered the city, he was just returning to his old business this time. Half of Lao Liu's body was dragged over his lap, Tang Cheng smeared the blood stains on his hands on his face, and then lay down face up. Tang Cheng gave up using his own shell gun, under such conditions, it is correct to use a flower machine with a shell capacity of 10 rounds more than the shell gun Sun He, who was lying 2 meters away from Tang Cheng, also gave up his rifle and held the shell gun on his waist in his hand, Sun He's shell gun is not a 20 fast and slow machine, his shell gun is only a 10-round magazine, but 10 rounds of ammunition is enough for Sun He, not to mention that he has two Japanese-style grenades on his waist. Tang Cheng's vision had already seen a blurred figure of the pursuers, but Tang Cheng didn't plan to shoot now, he wanted to wait for all the pursuits to appear before shooting, so that he would be more sure.
The weeds on fire burned less and less, and the fire at first had turned into smoking sparks, but when the sparks gathered more, it became a fire, and the pursuers who appeared on the edge of the fire were still very conspicuous. Tang Cheng squinted his eyes and secretly counted the number of those pursuers, counting twice that there were 6 people, and then he slowly opened his right hand and grabbed the flower machine gun beside him. The distance of less than ten meters was not the closest distance Tang Cheng had to the Japanese soldiers, "Yamamoto-kun, is that you?" Tang Cheng, who suddenly got up and sat up, came out with a standard Japanese sentence, which made the six pursuers who appeared on the edge of the fire all stunned.