Chapter Eighty-Six: Occasional Meeting
"Company commander, we haven't even seen the shadow of a ghost soldier, let's go back, it's going to be oiled." Wang Xiaoer, who was hunched over like a shrimp with a rifle in his hand, muttered quietly, and the company commander Su Datong, who was walking next to him, glared at him, Wang Xiaoer immediately shut up, smiled and looked ahead with a cautious look. Several soldiers around laughed secretly, Wang Xiaoer was a fellow villager of the company commander Su Datong, Wang Xiaoer, who had no great skills, always looked like a company commander Su Datong's follower, and the rest of the company had already looked at Wang Xiaoer unpleasantly.
Seeing that Wang Xiaoer was deflated by the company commander, how could several veterans in the company just watch silently, and when they were about to fall into the well to mock Wang Xiaoer, they saw the company commander Su Datong suddenly lying down in the field. The reaction of the veterans was not slow, and without waiting for Su Datong to make a warning gesture, the veterans who followed Su Datong pulled the young soldiers around him to lie down together. The two veterans quickly crawled to Su Datong's side with their rifles, and then followed Su Datong's line of sight to look at an earthen beam not far ahead.
There were a few bright lights faintly on the grassy slope that had been slightly yellow, and it was noon, when the sun was hanging high, Su Datong and them were in the backlit place, and the mountain beam that he was frowning at was the place to welcome the light. This is a wilderness, a field infested with no people, how can there be a suspicious light in a grassy slope. This was a war zone, and Su Datong had to be careful to ensure that his soldiers lived, so he had to stop to make sure there was no danger before he could continue.
Su Datong is not the 71st Army, which is known as the descendant of the National Army, his unit belongs to the 30th Division of the Second Group Army, the Second Group Army is from the Northwest Army, and its armaments and materials are not as good as the 71st Army of the Nationalist Army. Without a telescope, Su Datong could only rely on his own eyesight to observe the suspicious mountain beam, but the mountain beam was about 200 meters away from his side, and Su Datong could not see exactly and clearly where he wanted to see.
"Third uncle, you take a few people to touch it and take a look, I'll let the machine gun cover you here." Su Datong was a little anxious, and after lying on the ground for a while, he assigned the third uncle of the veteran soldier to take three people up to investigate the situation. The third uncle is not Su Datong's uncle, the third uncle is just his nickname, Su Datong is called this by the people in the company, no one knows his real name at all, but everyone knows that the third uncle is the best soldier in the company, he has fought many battles but is unharmed.
The third uncle led the three familiar soldiers to get up and run forward, and the distance between the four of them was widened, so as to avoid being suppressed or killed by the other party at one time. The third uncle did not run forward with his waist like the other three, but rushed forward with his waist straight, and when he ran a distance of more than ten meters, he would stop and look left and right, and after looking, he would continue to rush forward. The third uncle's speed was very fast, Wang Xiaoer's blink of an eye, the third uncle and they had already rushed out of a distance of 100 meters, and when Wang Xiaoer's heart hung up, the third uncle, who had been straightening his waist, finally began to walk slowly.
The third uncle was not injured in the battle, but this does not mean that the third uncle will not be afraid, the closer to the mountain beam, the more the third uncle's heart beats harder, if it is not that he can't pull off his old face, he wants to crawl over the rest of the distance like a worm against the ground. After entering the 100 meters, the third uncle stopped on one knee, and the other three people who scattered and walked left and right also stopped, this is a tacit understanding between veterans, and it is a tacit understanding exercised by fighting life and death on the battlefield.
With a gesture, the third uncle suddenly rushed forward like an arrow, and the other three held their breath and held their breath and pointed their rifles at the mountain beam. Rushing out of Mo about 20 meters away, the third uncle stopped again, this time he no longer knelt on one knee, but the whole person was lying on the ground, the third uncle stopped, and the three soldiers who stayed behind followed and ran forward. After several successive alternating runs into the 50-meter distance, the four of them had already split into a formation of two people on each side of the left and right.
"Damn, I ran away for nothing." The third uncle with a rifle was the first to rush up the mountain beam, he did not encounter the danger he imagined, but he found the source of those few points of light. The bright light found by Su Datong was a few Japanese steel helmets that the third uncle found from the weeds, and the steel helmets naturally reflected the bright light under the sunlight, which happened to be discovered by Su Datong. Raised the steel helmet in his hand and shook it a few times to Su Datong's side, the third uncle and the four of them sat down on the mountain beam, Su Datong's mission is to search this mountain and field, and it is not yet the end of the task.
The third uncle was just a soldier, he only needed to complete the tasks assigned by Su Datong, so he didn't think about why the steel helmet of the Japanese army would appear on the mountain beam. Su Datong, who led people to rush up the mountain beam, was carrying those Japanese steel helmets for a while, the third uncle They just found the steel helmet, but they didn't find the Japanese soldiers here or the corpses of the Japanese soldiers. Su Datong couldn't find the answer even if he broke his head.
Su Datong is a person who likes to be more serious, and the more he can't think of an answer, the more he wants to find the answer, so Su Datong ordered his soldiers to conduct a careful search on the mountain beam, and finally found something suspicious under a few bushes. Digging through those bushes, several corpses of Japanese soldiers were dug out of the pit by Su Datong's soldiers, a total of five corpses, all of which were killed by sharp weapons with sharp weapons, and in addition, there were no scars on the corpses of these Japanese soldiers.
"Company commander, everything on these little devils is gone, including their weapons and ammunition." Wang Xiaoer ran over to report the situation of the corpse, and Su Datong couldn't help frowning again. Took everything from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, but buried the corpses deep under the bushes, and threw their steel helmets in the field at will, which did not seem to be the work of the national army, but looked like the behavior of the bandits of the horses. But Su Datong thought about it, and couldn't think of any bandits in this area, the national army was fighting with the Japanese army here, and the bandits and bandits here had long disappeared, so it was impossible that there were still bandits in this area?
After staying on the mountain beam for a while, Su Datong couldn't come up with an answer, seeing that it was not early, Su Datong had no choice but to order the troops to continue to advance. "Bang", "Bang", "Dada", the sudden gunfire caught Su Datong off guard, and they had no place to hide when they just walked down the hill, completely exposed to the sudden gunfire. Su Datong's veterans reacted quickly, and they had already crouched down on the spot and raised their guns to return fire, and the only light machine gun under Su Datong also opened fire immediately, providing fire support for the robes who were rounding from the flanks.
"Little devil, it's a little devil." The sharp-eyed soldiers under Su Datong had already pointed ahead and shouted, and the eye-catching steel helmets of the Japanese army were already clearly visible, and the two sides were only more than 100 meters apart. Su Datong Company could have taken advantage of the terrain in a condescending position, but they only had a light machine gun, and the opponent's terrain was low, but they took the lead in taking the lead, and Su Datong had no place to hide, and under the strong fire of the two Japanese light machine guns, Su Datong's casualties were increasing rapidly.
Just when Su Datong was at a loss, "boom", "boom", "boom" suddenly appeared a few explosions, and the Japanese machine guns were dumb. The smoke rising from the Japanese army slowly dispersed, Su Datong seized the opportunity to give an order, and his soldiers rushed down the terrain, although there were still sporadic Japanese rifles to return fire, but in the face of the tide of more than 100 national soldiers, the remaining dozen or so Japanese soldiers were already washed away before they finished the bullets in the magazine.
"Stay alive, stay alive." The last three living Japanese soldiers had been surrounded by soldiers with anger in their eyes, and Su Datong shouted to keep him alive, but he was still a step too slow, because the bayonets of the soldiers under him had already pierced out. The smell of blood filled the air little by little, mixed with the smell of gunpowder, which made the recruits who had exchanged fire with the Japanese for the first time want to shout excitedly.
After the battle, Su Datong, whose face was not very good-looking, remembered the person who had helped them just now, he had already checked the soil pits left behind after the explosion, those soil pits were too shallow, not from mortar shells, in Su Datong's cognition, only Japanese-style 50 mm grenadiers could make such soil pits. "Company commander, there are people over there, all wearing the uniforms of the national army." The sycophant Wang Xiaoer pointed out the direction to Su Datong, and looking in the direction of Wang Xiaoer's finger, Su Datong saw more than a dozen national soldiers who appeared on the left side of his company.
Wang Xiaoer was right, these dozen or so people who suddenly appeared were all wearing the uniforms of the national army, and they all wore the same German-style steel helmets as those descendants of the 71st Army. "We belong to the reconnaissance company of the 30th Division, which part are you?" The other party got closer and closer, and Su Datong greeted him with a smile. After all, the other party had helped himself, Su Datong tried his best to put his tone more friendly, if it was in normal times, Su Datong might have asked his soldiers to raise their guns and be on guard.
The commander of the other party is a captain whose face is stained and he can't see his age, which is the same as Su Datong's military rank, but as soon as the other party spoke, Su Datong frowned slightly, this person is probably not very old. "We are the 88th Company of the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment of the 2nd Division, temporarily serving as the forward reconnaissance mission of the group army, and I am the company commander Tang Cheng." Su Datong has already taken the initiative to identify himself, and the commander of the other party, who has added camouflage to his face and body, also reported his home, but the other party's self-reported home made Su Datong put his hand on the holster on his waist, the defense area of the 88th Division is on the left flank of the entire group army defense area, how can their troops appear in front of the defense area of the 30th Division?