Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Present Enemy
In the panic, some Japanese cavalry opened fire, and the remaining Japanese cavalry could be regarded as reacting, twisting their bodies and muzzles on horseback one after another, and shooting at Lu Yuan in the bushes. Lu Yuan took the initiative to show up, but it was a pity that there was at least a distance of more than 200 meters between him and those Japanese cavalry, and with the horse pistols equipped by those Japanese cavalry, he could not accurately hit Lu Yuan more than 200 meters away in the panic.
Lu Yuan, who had changed the magazine, continued to shoot unhurriedly, and at a firing range of more than 200 meters, one shot at a time, soon leaving all the remaining Japanese cavalry in this wilderness. The Japanese cavalry fell off their horses one after another, but the sound of gunfire had already spread, and Lu Yuan had no time to pay attention to the screaming horses at the moment, so he immediately put away his guns and turned around and ran. A few minutes later, from the direction from which the Japanese cavalry had come, several horses galloped again, and the same Japanese cavalry sat on horseback.
A squad of cavalry on the forward scout mission was all killed, and the Japanese cavalry who appeared behind were so surprised that they jumped off their horses to check the wounds on the corpses, only to find that they had been shot from a distance. "He should be a master, Kojiro's marksmanship is the best, but he only has time to shoot one bullet." After inspecting the magazines of several cavalry guns in succession, one of the veterans asserted with a calm face, and the other Japanese cavalrymen also had a cold look on their faces.
Their cavalry unit should not have appeared here, but on the way to encircle and suppress the local anti-Japanese forces, they met the Japanese puppet army that escaped from the valley. Knowing that there were anti-Japanese forces occupying the valley camp, the captain dispatched their cavalry squad to rush to the valley, but they didn't think about it, and before the enemy saw it, they lost a squad of troops first. Lu Yuan, who was lying on the ground, looked coldly at these Japanese cavalry in the scope, he thought that the other party might chase after him, but he didn't expect that these Japanese cavalry got on their horses and left.
"Hehe, why are you so afraid of death." Watching the Japanese cavalry ride away from a distance in the scope, Lu Yuan, who had been lying on the ground for a long time, immediately got up, turned around and ran towards the mountain wall where Huzi was hidden. Lu Yuan had just run to the mouth of the valley when he saw Xu Heizi appearing at the mouth of the valley with a light machine gun, and Lu Yuan waved his hand at Xu Heizi, "It seems that you are going to speed up, there are a lot of devil soldiers here, and they still have cavalry, but I killed more than a dozen of them." ”
Lu Yuan's words made Xu Heizi can't help but raise his eyebrows, if there are cavalry in the Japanese army, then they won't appear for a long time. Seeing that Xu Heizi seemed to have the intention of guarding the valley mouth, Lu Yuan, who had already walked in front of the mountain wall, immediately stopped, "There are a lot of Japanese soldiers, and if you come with them, you will never take advantage." I've already set up here at Taniguchi*, and if they storm Taniguchi, Huzi and I will be able to hold out for at least two to three hours, so you'd better speed up and move supplies. ”
Lu Yuan didn't say it too thoroughly, and Xu Heizi had already heard what Lu Yuan wanted to express, and after a moment of contemplation, Xu Heizi nodded at Lu Yuan, and then turned around and entered the valley with the light machine gun. Seeing Xu Heizi walk away, Lu Yuan climbed up the mountain wall into the gap, only to find that Huzi not only built a bunker with stones, but also cleaned up the rubble between the platforms leading to the back. Lu Yuan walked along the cleared passage and found that not only was the speed much faster, but there were also more stone walls on his side that could provide cover.
Quietly took out a kettle from the storage space and handed it to Huzi, Lu Yuan took out a cigarette and lit it and smoked it, and in less than half an hour, a small red dot representing the enemy appeared on the full-view map. Lu Yuan took a cigarette in his mouth, leaned forward and lay down on Huzi's bunker built with stones, grabbed the telescope and looked out from the gap in the stones. Similar to what Lu Yuan expected, the first thing that appeared in the telescope was the Japanese cavalry on horseback, but the number of Japanese cavalry was not very large, Lu Yuan counted it, and only found a dozen people.
These are a few Japanese cavalry, obviously the same as the cavalry that Lu Yuan shot just now, but the forward scouts of the large Japanese puppet army behind, thinking of this, Lu Yuan's face couldn't help but show a smile. As long as you're here, regardless of whether it's a scout or a large force, if you want to enter the valley from here, you'll have to pay a price. Lu Yuan immediately gestured to Huzi, signaling the other party to wait for his command before shooting, but Lu Yuan himself had already put the bullet on fire.
Lu Yuan and the others were condescending, and there were stones in front of them to cover and cover, so the Japanese cavalry who appeared far away from the mouth of the valley did not find Lu Yuan and the others. After searching the surroundings with a full-view map, Lu Yuan lassoed the target with the scope, then slowed down his breathing and pulled the trigger. "Poof!" With a soft sound, Lu Yuan immediately clearly saw in the scope that the bullet had pierced the target's steel helmet, and then shot a blood spark. The head of the Japanese cavalry who was targeted by Lu Yuan was raised, and his whole body was dragged back slightly by the recoil of the head, like a drunk man shaking on horseback, and then falling from the horse and turtle to the ground weakly.
Suddenly, a companion fell off his horse with blood on his head, and the other Japanese cavalry did not fully react, otherwise they should have chosen to hide rather than stretch their necks to look at their fallen companions. Lu Yuan naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, and after pulling the trigger again, one of the Japanese cavalry was shot. It's just that Lu Yuan's shot didn't hit the vital point, and the Japanese cavalry who fell off the horse just screamed in pain on the ground, covering the wound with his left hand, blood flowing out of his fingers, and his right hand was clutching something in the dirt next to him.
"Poof" Lu Yuan then fired a third bullet, this time it was a Japanese cavalryman who looked like a veteran, the bullet hit him in the chest, and then spewed out a bloody arrow more than a meter long. Lu Yuan first saw the Japanese cavalry who was shot in the chest fall from the horse, even if he had fallen to the ground and was no longer moving, the blood was still spurting out, Lu Yuan felt that the shot just now should have hit the target's heart. No gunfire was heard, but a succession of companions were shot and fell from their horses, and the Japanese cavalry outside the valley soon became chaotic.
At this point, they are faced with a difficult choice, whether to stay here and find an opportunity to fight back, or to retreat immediately. After a few seconds, the Japanese cavalry chose the latter, leaving behind the wounded and the dead, and galloped away in a posture that was irregular and did not cover each other at all. The Japanese cavalryman who had been wounded by Lu Yuan earlier was still alive, looking at his companions who rode away, the wounded Japanese soldiers with half of their bodies covered with blood stains shouted helplessly and struggled, and watched their companions leave without looking back with disbelief.
The wounded Japanese soldier who fell to the ground on his side couldn't believe this fact at this moment, and stretched out his hands in pain and struggled desperately, but no matter what, it couldn't change the fact that he was about to die. "Poof!" Lu Yuan, who was on the mountain wall, coldly pulled the trigger and fired a bullet that freed the wounded Japanese soldier from his pain, but his face full of disappointment remained in Lu Yuan's mind forever. Seeing those Japanese cavalry gallop away, Lu Yuan withdrew his sniper rifle, and then sat quietly on the stone wall.
A lot of physical exertion made Lu Yuan suddenly a little tired of this kind of life of fighting and killing, but when he turned his head and saw the self-satisfied tiger who was busy wiping the heavy sniper rifle, Lu Yuan felt that all this did not seem to be in vain. The Japanese cavalry in charge of exploring the road was killed and wounded by Lu Yuan twice in a row, and the Japanese cavalry, who escaped by luck, reported the news to the commander Heizaburo Yokota. Heizaburo Yokota, who learned that the other side had a weapon that did not release the sound of gunfire, but the infantry commander was also very surprised, firearms* have appeared in Europe, but they are only used in pistol melee combat, and they are used for rifles*, even in European and American armies.
Yokota Heizaburo was only a small infantry lieutenant, and he didn't even know the existence of *, and when he heard those cavalrymen report that the other side had weapons that could eliminate the sound of gunfire, Yokota Heizaburo himself was also surprised. But in any case, the valley camp must be recaptured, otherwise he would not have been so anxious to urge his troops to speed up their march and rush here. After some thought, Heizaburo Yokota immediately ordered a part of his soldiers to be drawn and tried to find a shortcut into the valley from the flank, while he himself led a large army to attack from the front.
At the insistence and urging of Heizaburo Yokota, Lu Yuan on the mountain wall did not rest for long before he found that the Japanese puppet army of the brigade had appeared very close to the mouth of the valley. The cat went around to the platform, and Lu Yuan found that the people in Xiaojia Village had not yet completed the transportation of materials, while Xu Heizi and their dozen or so Eighth Route Army dresses had disappeared. Lu Yuan randomly took out a small yellow flag and planted it on the platform, and didn't care if the people in the valley noticed the flag on the river, so he turned around and returned to the mountain wall.
After the bullet was loaded, Lu Yuan had better be ready to shoot at any time, and the Japanese puppet army assigned to the flank by Heizaburo Yokota did not escape the search of the full-view map. The opponent divided his troops into two ways, and Lu Yuan was not surprised by this, because the Japanese army has always been very skilled in the roundabout attack tactics on the battlefield. Lu Yuan focused all his attention on the frontal place, and after a while, more than a dozen trembling Imperial Alliance troops moved towards the mouth of the valley, and at a distance of a hundred meters behind them, dozens of Japanese soldiers were faintly followed.
Lu Yuan moved the muzzle of his gun and aimed at a soldier of the Imperial Allied Army, and at the moment of the great enemy, there was actually no difference between shooting the Imperial Allied Army and shooting the Japanese soldiers. It seems that they were forced to explore the way, the movement speed of these dozen Imperial Association soldiers was not very fast, just a short distance of 100 meters, and these Imperial Association soldiers spent at least a minute, which made Lu Yuan, who was waiting for the battle, want to give up shooting.