Chapter 45: The Fierce Battle of Erdaoling (5)
After confirming that the Eighth Route Army had come, Lu Yuan fired several shots at the Japanese stronghold, and then quietly retreated. The sound of gunfire is the best signal, Cheng Liang, who had already seen a large amount of loot, immediately led people to run towards the location where the gunshots sounded, and soon he saw Lu Yuan. "Company Commander Cheng, you came in time, since you came, you can do me a small favor first."
Lu Yuan unceremoniously took Cheng Liang and the others to a firing position of his choice, and then pointed to the Japanese stronghold not far away and said with a smile, "The Japanese have now retreated back into the stronghold, but the Japanese army still has scattered small troops outside the stronghold, you and your people are here to keep an eye on them first, just don't let the Japanese troops inside run out, I'll go and clean up the other Japanese troops." Lu Yuan's request sounded a bit excessive, but in fact, Cheng Liang knew that Lu Yuan had already taken on the most dangerous part.
Not long after Lu Yuan left, gunshots rang out intermittently outside the Japanese stronghold, but whether it was the Japanese troops in the stronghold or Cheng Liang who was hidden outside the stronghold, all they heard was the sound of shooting from the Japanese-style 38 rifle. Cheng Liang couldn't help but secretly wonder, what he heard before was the gunfire of Lu Yuan's big gun, but when he brought people here, he didn't see Lu Yuan's big gun.
Just when Cheng Liang was secretly puzzled, the soldier on his side was already pulling the bolt, Cheng Liang immediately looked at the soldier on his side, and just saw two embarrassed Japanese soldiers running towards him. "Don't shoot, let them go, our task is only to keep an eye on the Japanese soldiers in the stronghold, and we can't expose the target for them." Cheng Liang calmly stopped his soldiers, and the two Japanese soldiers were obviously going to flee back to the stronghold.
The two panting Japanese soldiers ran slower and slower, but they were getting closer and closer to the Japanese stronghold, Cheng Liang and they found the two Japanese at the same time, the Japanese soldiers in the stronghold also saw them, and at this moment there were already Japanese soldiers shouting on the wall of the stronghold, urging the two Japanese soldiers to speed up. The urging of their companions made the two pale and panting Japanese soldiers use their strength to feed, and at the last moment, they finally went a little faster.
But just when these two Japanese soldiers crossed the trench outside the Japanese stronghold, there was a muffled sound of "bang", and one of the Japanese soldiers instantly turned into a cloud of blood mist, and the stumps and broken arms flew everywhere. Cheng Liang turned back in response, only to see that a large cloud of dust had risen in the open field hundreds of meters away from him, and when Cheng Liang was not so shocked, a ball of gun flames flashed under the dust, and another Japanese soldier who crossed the trench didn't even have a chance to scream, and his body was broken in two by the large-caliber bullets that came from him.
Two shots and two hits, just a firing range of hundreds of meters is nothing to Lu Yuan, but the Japanese soldiers in the stronghold don't think so, and the two horrific bloody corpses by the trench made the Japanese soldiers in the stronghold panic. "Hachigayalu, this should be the gunman outside demonstrating to us, otherwise he wouldn't have let Kojiro and the others go through the trench and then shoot." Maeda Yve, who had a fierce look in his eyes, laughed angrily, and several Japanese officers standing beside him also echoed his words.
Maeda Yeve was not the commander of this Japanese stronghold, and he and the Japanese officers beside him were ordered to go south to Shijiazhuang, and during their stay in Baoding, they were invited by Jiro Kamei, a classmate of the military academy, to hunt in Erdaoling. It's just that Maeda Yves never thought that his military academy classmate and the commander of this stronghold, Jiro Kamei, would die in the wilderness, and he and others would be blocked in the stronghold by an extremely dangerous gunman.
Caution is Maeda's greatest reliance on his promotion from a small second lieutenant to Nakasa, and a gunner who can force two squads of Imperial soldiers to return in vain will not be a low hand no matter how you look at it. Therefore, after the remnants of Jiro Kamei's troops retreated to the stronghold, Yoshio Maeda, the highest-ranking soldier in the stronghold, ordered the gate of the stronghold to be blocked, and he had already made up his mind that he would definitely not give the order to take the initiative to attack until reinforcements arrived.
Although Maeda was also surprised by the weapons his opponent had just used, he was even more surprised by his opponent's provocation, and based on his previous experience in encircling and suppressing the resistance forces in the Rehe area, Maeda thought that the gunman outside the stronghold might also be waiting for reinforcements. Lu Yuan, who was outside the stronghold, didn't know what the Japanese soldiers in the stronghold thought, and shot the two Japanese soldiers who almost missed the net in a row, and Lu Yuan immediately left the open field and moved to a firing position that he had planned in advance.
Cheng Liang, who had doubts, ran over quickly, but when he saw Lu Yuan alone, his expression was in a momentary trance. According to Cheng Liang's judgment, Lu Yuan should not be alone, after all, it is not possible to pursue the Japanese army with that big gun. It's just that he never thought that when he saw Lu Yuan again, Lu Yuan would really be alone.
Lu Yuan did not take the initiative to deal with Cheng Liang, but took out a magazine with armor-piercing bullets and mounted it on a heavy sniper rifle, and after Cheng Liang honestly lay down behind him, Lu Yuan immediately pulled the trigger. A plume of smoke rose from the wall of the Japanese stronghold in the distance, and a fist-sized hole appeared in the wall, while a Japanese soldier crouching behind the wall was cut into a large hole in his chest by a bullet passing through the wall.
With a crisp sound of "dang", another Japanese soldier farther away suddenly twisted his neck and fell backwards, and the bullet that passed through the wall and flesh was still not gone, and actually hit the steel helmet of the Japanese soldier again, although the bullet that had not been dissipated could not penetrate the steel helmet again, but it also instantly broke the neck of the Japanese soldier. With two shots and two shots, Yeve Maeda, with his mouth wide open, couldn't believe his eyes, but this was clearly a fact that he saw with his own eyes.
There was a muffled sound of "bang", and another unlucky guy with his back against the wall was hit through the body by a large-caliber bullet passing through the wall, although the Japanese soldier who was torn off half of his arm by a large-caliber bullet was not killed on the spot, but looking at the speed of his blood loss, it was obvious that he was not far from death. Lu Yuan kept running out of the first magazine, and there were five more fist-sized bullet holes on the wall of the Japanese stronghold, and a faint smell of blood wafted out of the Japanese stronghold with the wind, Cheng Liang knew that the Japanese troops in the stronghold must have suffered casualties.
Maeda Yves was no longer angry at the moment, but instead full of horror, a gunman who could shoot accurately at the target through the wall, Maeda Yeve was unheard of. But the facts were in front of him, and the mysterious gunman outside the stronghold did it, and he hit five Imperial soldiers in a row. "Gentlemen, do you have anything to say?" Yeve Maeda looked around at the officers beside him, but no one spoke.
Maeda couldn't think of a good way to do it, and so did the others, the officers did the same, and the ordinary Japanese soldiers in the stronghold were even more terrified. "Bang" Another unlucky guy was knocked down by a bullet that passed through the wall, looking at his companions who fell in a pool of blood and couldn't stop screaming*, some Japanese veterans in the stronghold really couldn't stand it anymore, rather than being blocked in the stronghold like being shot helplessly like a pig and a sheep, it was better to face the hand and save the last face of the soldier.
"Da Da" Two tongues of fire suddenly appeared on the wall of the originally empty stronghold, and at the same time, more than 30 Japanese soldiers raised their guns and shot outside the stronghold, Cheng Liang's heart sank, but he didn't care when he saw Lu Yuan lying in front of him. The "bang" heavy sniper rifle roared again, accompanied by a scream, and the machine gun fire on the wall of the Japanese stronghold was instantly reduced, and the Japanese light machine gun was also broken into parts by large caliber.
"Bang" Lu Yuan turned the muzzle of the gun and fired again, and the Japanese light machine gun also followed the dumb fire, and when Cheng Liang was secretly stunned, Lu Yuan, who had succeeded continuously, stuffed a grenadier on his side to Cheng Liang. "Will this thing work? Don't save ammo, shoot me all these grenades. After getting Cheng Liang's affirmative answer, Lu Yuan handed the backpack stuffed with grenades to the other party, and then turned his attention back to the wall of the Japanese stronghold.
Cheng Liang has used Japanese-style grenadiers, but he only has experience with three grenades, and the backpack that Lu Yuan stuffed into him can contain no less than 20 grenades. In a trance, Cheng Liang remembered that Lu Yuan turned around and pushed himself, and then Cheng Liang turned into a humanoid machine, and in just 2 minutes, he shot all the more than 20 Japanese-style grenades in his backpack into the Japanese stronghold with a grenadier canister.
The continuous explosions filled the Japanese stronghold with smoke and dust, mixed with the screams and shouts of Japanese soldiers, and when Maeda Yeve and others fled from the other side of the stronghold, Lu Yuan had already gotten up and rushed towards the Japanese stronghold. At a distance of hundreds of meters, Lu Yuan took the shortest time to touch the wall of the stronghold, and after blasting the wall with a grenade, Cheng Liang and others, who rushed up, found that the Japanese troops in the stronghold had fled.
"They can't run, so stay and clean up the loot." Lu Yuan was not satisfied with this, and after confirming that most of the Japanese troops in the stronghold had fled, Lu Yuan ignored Cheng Liang's dissuasion and chose to leave alone again. Cheng Liang's eyes have always followed Tang Cheng's figure, but when he was annoyed, he never found a possible helper of Lu Yuan, and from beginning to end, all he saw was Lu Yuan himself.