Chapter 37: Death in Battle (7)

"You can't sit here and wait for death, third brother, you don't care about it here, take your team to find a way to get out from the cliff we came in, and find an opportunity to touch the back of the Japanese army and beat them." Tang Cheng was discussing with Hou San what to do next, but the sound of gunfire suddenly sounded outside the valley, which was different from the gunfire of the Japanese 38 rifle, which reminded Tang Cheng and Hou San of the rock dragon who had temporarily lost contact.

Tang Cheng and Hou San guessed well, Yan Long and a dozen of his scouts were fighting with the Japanese army outside the valley, although Yan Long did not have the battlefield experience like dice, but Yan Long was not without ideas. When they were forced out of the village by the Japanese army, Yanlong had just arrived at the north side of the village with a dozen scouts, and the fierce gunfire from the entrance of the village also shocked Yanlong, but after the shock, Yanlong did not return to the village entrance immediately, but retreated to a small forest in the north of the village with a dozen scouts under his command.

The scouts were doing the work of pathfinding, and they were very good at hiding their whereabouts, and when the dice were chased out of the village and Tang Cheng ordered a retreat to the valley, Yanlong quietly hid in the grove with a dozen of his scouts. The Japanese army from the village pursued to this side of the valley, taking advantage of the fact that a small number of Japanese soldiers in the village were treating the wounded soldiers, Yanlong, who had been paying attention to the battle situation from afar, took the opportunity to kill his scouts into the village, and killed more than 20 Japanese soldiers left in the village by the Japanese army like mercury.

The Rock Dragons did not catch up with the first tentative attack of the Japanese army, but the bonfire lit by the Japanese army to gather troops provided a good target for the Rock Dragons who returned to the outskirts of the valley. Like Hou San and the others, Yan Long had an almost blind trust in Tang Cheng, and he always thought that as long as Tang Cheng was alive, these Japanese troops besieging outside the valley would not be able to bargain. Seeing that Taniguchi was silent, and the Japanese were organizing a second wave of attacks here, Iwalong finally ordered a surprise attack on the Japanese army that had just assembled with light machine guns.

Tang Cheng was very surprised by the sound of light machine guns bursting beans, and when he left the red clay slope, in order to reduce the burden of the soldiers, let alone machine guns, Tang Cheng did not even carry the mortars dropped by air. Tang Cheng wanted to believe that it was the rock dragon who was fighting with the Japanese army outside the valley, but the sound of the machine gun made Tang Cheng a little confused, if it weren't for the gunfire mixed with Garand's shooting, Tang Cheng would even think that this was a play rehearsed by the Japanese army.

Yanlong, who wanted to relieve the siege of Tangcheng, did not know that he had stabbed a hornet's nest by attacking the Japanese army, and the attacked Japanese soldiers were still a little flustered at first, but as the panicked Japanese soldiers were restrained by the officers, the Japanese army had already sensed Yanlong's attempt to attract their own firepower. So the Japanese began to use their firepower advantage to return fire with machine guns and mortars, and in an instant, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and grenadiers flew towards Yanlong and them from mid-air, and there were all kinds of foxes and lines crossed by tracer bullets.

The Japanese reaction was so strong that the artillery fire almost turned half of the sky red, and the shells kept falling on the rock dragons and their hiding place. Bursting with dazzling fires and thick black smoke. Looking at the orange tail flames outside the valley from a distance, Tang Cheng in the valley couldn't help but clench his fists, he could already imagine the danger that the rock dragons were facing now. The Japanese artillery shells rushed to the target with the sound of "day by day", and the smell of gunpowder was lifted again, and the cover of the Japanese artillery fire cut off the crown of the trees on the side of the rock dragon, leaving only the bare trunks and branches, which were more broken and ignited, and then caused a fire, and finally burned to ashes.

Seeing the machine gunner and sub-shooter disappear into the light of artillery fire, Iwalong, who ordered the sneak attack on the Japanese army, regretted it, he miscalculated the strength of the Japanese counterattack, and he did not have the command ability of Tang Cheng. "Withdraw, withdraw." The rock dragon had no choice but to order a retreat, and after taking the remaining scouts into the forest behind him, the rock dragon asked them to move in the direction of the valley, but he stayed.

After repelling Yanlong's gang, the Japanese artillery that had already hit the red eye immediately shifted the target, and Tangcheng in Taniguchi became the target of the Japanese artillery to vent their anger. The sound of artillery lasted for five or six minutes before it could be over, and the squad that was arranged by Tang Cheng at the mouth of the valley was almost completely wounded, and the scorched earth position of the valley mouth lay more than 30 corpses of the enemy lying in all directions, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood. The soldiers who were still alive wept bitterly while holding the mutilated body of the sacrifice robe, although they had long been ready to accept the sacrifice, but at this time, they couldn't help but cry bitterly when they saw their body that had begun to turn cold.

"Bury it on the spot!" Tang Chengqiang held back the grief in his heart and said, no matter whether the Japanese army pursued them or not, these soldiers who had died could not be brought back to China. They could not be brought back to the country, so they could only be temporarily buried in a foreign land, or else the bodies of the fallen soldiers would be cremated first, and then the ashes would be brought back. The military doctor led people to carefully bury the bodies that had been gathered together, and then found a location facing north to bury the bodies. The dirt was shoveled up one by one, and looking at the young and pale faces of the fallen soldiers who were gradually covered by the mud, the dice that were as strong as iron could not help but redden.

"If there is a future. I promise to welcome you back to your homeland in a glorious manner and to engrave your great deeds on the monument. Let our grandchildren always remember that you were once in your prime! Tang Cheng secretly swore in his heart, and then raised his hand to salute these tombs, Hou San and the others also stood in front of the new tomb, and followed Tang Cheng solemnly raised his hand and saluted.

"The current situation is very unfavorable for us, this valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only the valley mouth can go out, but the Japanese army does not know that the cliffs behind the valley can be climbed. The sappers were responsible for laying mines in the bunkers that had been dug, and the third brother team immediately set off to go out from the cliff. The other squads must be highly vigilant at night, the Japanese army will not sit idly by and watch us idle, it is likely to sneak attack us at night, the Japanese army is also good at night battles and sneak attacks, I don't want us to be taken advantage of by the Japanese army at night. "Already preparing to leave, Tang Cheng carefully told Hou San and them before the operation began.

The soldiers in the valley began to act according to Tang Cheng's orders. Sappers began to collect explosives and grenades, and planted mines in the bunkers that had been dug up. Other soldiers also began to set up traps at the entrance of the valley, so that they didn't care whether these traps were lethal to the Japanese army or not, as long as they could delay the Japanese army's entry into the valley at that time.

Yanlong loves to kill people with a knife, especially after his younger brother Yanhu died in battle, Yanlong's habit of killing people with a knife has been well known to Hou San, and there are all kinds of legends about him in the mouths of those supplementary soldiers. A knife with a thin blade can easily slit the opponent's throat, causing the opponent's blood to gush out, and then convulsions to death. Instead of killing people with bullets, Iwalong prefers to slit the throats of Japanese soldiers with a blade, and only in this way can he slightly dissipate the hatred of the Japanese soldiers in his heart.

At the foot of the mountain, the rock dragon with a short knife in his mouth had been lying on his stomach for a while, hiding in the woods and watching the Japanese soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield return, and the rock dragon ran out of the woods alone and sneaked towards the Japanese army. Lying on his stomach in the grass, the rock dragon's dark eyes stared at the Japanese soldiers in the distance, since the death of his younger brother Yan Hu, the rock dragon who didn't like to talk much has changed and become more taciturn. That brother who loves to talk and laugh and is full of sunshine has disappeared, for this reason. Iwalong hated that he couldn't kill all the Japanese soldiers he could see.

So far, how many Japanese soldiers he has killed with his own hands, Yan Long can't remember clearly, but the first Japanese soldier who was cut by him with a knife is very pleased. The Japanese soldier looked very young, he must have been eighteen years old, but Iwiryu had to end his life because he wanted to avenge his brother. Fighting a war is a game of death and death, but when the young Japanese soldier's life gradually faded away, the expression of fear, pain or helplessness on his face made Iwalong unforgettable.

The rock dragon thumped his fist on his somewhat swollen head, trying to think of something happy. It was pitch black at the foot of the mountain, and the endless darkness made him feel that time was passing too slowly, and he looked forward to the dawn and the early escape from this oppressive darkness. He would rather face a tenfold enemy than endure the darkness in front of him. The gunfire of the Japanese troops and Taniguchi in front had already stopped, and Yan Long was still waiting, he was waiting for a suitable opportunity, because he wanted to catch a live mouth, and he knew that Tang Cheng must need a live mouth to ask for the information of this group of Japanese soldiers.

Suddenly, there was a faint sound from the waist-high grass twenty meters away, so small that it was almost impossible to count, and if it weren't for the rock dragon who had been holding his breath and waiting, he might have missed this sound. The sound was like the sound of someone stepping on a dead branch, but it appeared and disappeared as quickly as it had never happened. For a moment, the rock dragon thought that he had misheard, some cranky illusion, but the voice was silent for a few seconds before it reappeared.

The rock dragon bit the short knife in its mouth and lay motionless in the grass, but its eyes stared at the direction from which the voice came from without blinking. Finally, in the bitter waiting of the rock dragon, three figures came out of the grass opposite. All three of them were bent over their waists, walking as quietly as bobcats in the weedy and shrub-strewn wilderness. Yan Long remained silent, and when he waited for the three Japanese soldiers to get close to him, he not only had a short knife in his mouth, but also a pistol in his right hand. The pistol had already been loaded and ready to fire at any time, if it weren't for the fact that Yan Long wanted to catch the live port, maybe he would have shot when he found the other three just now.