Chapter Eighty-One: Extraneous Branches
Relying on the three grenades thrown out first and the first volley of guns, Huang Haishan led more than a dozen soldiers of the Nationalist Army under his command to stop the Japanese troops who were eager to leave the battlefield. By the time Lu Yuan and the three of them pursued to the rear of the Japanese army, Huang Haishan's defense line was almost broken by the already crazy Japanese army, and more than half of the dozen or so national soldiers under him were killed or wounded. Snap, Lu Yuan immediately opened fire, first killed the two wounded soldiers sent by the Japanese army to the back of the line, and then took out a grenade and threw it vigorously.
There was a "boom" sound, and Huang Haishan, who saw the smoke column rising from a distance, couldn't help but shout, "Brothers, hold on, our people are here." Huang Haishan and others, who had already retreated, were ignited by this explosion and knew that the rescuers had rushed behind the Japanese army, and the soldiers of the national army under Huang Haishan immediately burst out with a combat power that amazed the Japanese army, and actually blocked the Japanese army in front of the defense line.
Syllable... Syllable... Smack, in Yan Zhengqing's surprised gaze, Lu Yuan tightly pressed the butt of the gun in his hand against his shoulder blade, and the whole person moved forward from the middle of the street without bias, and kept shooting while moving. This is a one-soldier tactic that Yan Zhengqing has never seen, especially the speed at which Lu Yuan moves forward is not slow, but Yan Zhengqing doesn't understand why Lu Yuan keeps stepping on small steps.
Syllable... Syllable... Bang, Lu Yuan's shooting has always been very rhythmic, and Shuchman, who was following him, was not idle, but whenever the Japanese soldiers who were knocked down by Lu Yuan's shot, Shuchman had to get close and make up for another shot. "Don't be stunned, replenish all the Japanese corpses here, if you don't want to be attacked by Japanese soldiers pretending to be corpses." Seeing that Yan Zhengqing hadn't fired a single shot at all, Schuchmann, who stopped to change the magazine, immediately shouted at him.
Lu Yuan, who had been walking in front of the "grenade", shouted, and Shuchman subconsciously shrank on the side of the street, only to hear a "boom" explosion, and a grenade thrown by the Japanese army exploded not far from Shuchman. Without saying too many words, Shu Heman, who was huddled on the side of the street, immediately got up and stood up again, and strode towards Lu Yuan, who was a few meters away, while Yan Zhengqing was busy mending the Japanese corpses he could see one by one with a bayonet.
Fighting for his own life and not retreating, Huang Haishan led his soldiers to block the way of this group of Japanese soldiers, coupled with Lu Yuan and Shu Heman's accurate shooting from behind the Japanese army, in just a few minutes, the Japanese soldiers who were caught here in front and back were almost killed and wounded. The two machine gunners under Yan Zhengqing finally rushed over, and seeing that there were still a few Japanese soldiers back to back preparing to fight to the death, they turned their guns and swept over.
The bullets that burst out with strong kinetic energy first pierced the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, and then hit the walls on the side of the street, splashing small red flowers, instantly adding a bit of charm to the originally charred wall. Even if there was unwillingness, the human body could not withstand the close-range fire of the light machine gun, and the few Japanese soldiers who were still alive in the end fell on their backs very unwillingly.
With strong firepower and surprise attack plus interception and pursuit, Lu Yuan's side finally killed these Japanese troops, but whether it was Yan Zhengqing or the soldiers of the national army under Huang Haishan, there were casualties of varying degrees, especially Huang Haishan, who was responsible for intercepting the Japanese army, and they had already suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties. Of the seven soldiers under Yan Zhengqing, there are now only two machine gunners and one grenadier left, and there are only five of the dozen or so soldiers under Huang Haishan at the moment.
In Lu Yuan's view, this is undoubtedly a tragic victory, but neither Yan Zhengqing nor Huang Haishan sees it that way, in their opinion, it can be regarded as a big victory if only one squad of soldiers is killed and killed by more than one squad of Japanese soldiers. Taking the full steel helmet bullets handed by Schuchman, Lu Yuan slowly walked to the side of the street, where there was the body of a national soldier, this young national soldier who looked not much older than Lu Yuan, did not close his eyes until the last moment of his life.
Putting down the steel helmet in his hand, Lu Yuan, who leaned down, carefully helped the national soldier to arrange his military uniform, and then put the rifle with a half-broken bayonet squarely beside the corpse, then got up and stood up and took two steps back, raising his hand to salute the corpse. This is Lu Yuan's first military salute after coming to this era, which also makes Schuchmann, who has always doubted Lu Yuan's identity, even more convinced that Lu Yuan was once a soldier.
After cleaning the battlefield briefly, Lu Yuan and the others gathered together again, Lu Yuan and Schuhman were busy loading the empty magazines, Yan Zhengqing was studying the mortar that was picked up from the ruins with Huang Haishan, and the other soldiers of the national army were either smoking or sorting out their bullet bags. "Boss, aren't they going to collect their companion's corpse?" Schuchmann still couldn't hold back, and finally asked the doubts in his heart.
"Schuchmann, it's not that they deliberately want to neglect these things, it's that the current situation doesn't allow them to do those things. The most important thing now is to recover our strength, once we encounter the Japanese army again, without sufficient physical strength, they may be the next to die in battle. While Lu Yuan and Shu Heman were talking, they suddenly heard a series of gunshots a few blocks away from them. The sound of gunfire is the best signal, and the soldiers of the national army who were still gathered together to smoke just now all stood up, and the slightly faster ones had already pulled the bolt to complete the action of pushing the bullet to load.
"Let's go, go over and have a look." Lu Yuan paused slightly, and after not finding anything unusual around him in the full-view map, he got up and stood up, and followed Yan Zhengqing with Shuchman and ran in the direction where the gunshots rang out. Lu Yuan's all-view map can now only cover a kilometer radius around himself, and the place where the gunshots came from at this moment is obviously more than a kilometer away, so Lu Yuan, who is eager to figure out what happened, must move his position.
Running down the street for two blocks, Lu Yuan suddenly stopped, and on his full-view map, he could already clearly see small red dots appearing. There are not many red dots, but they are coming towards Lu Yuan, who is already very familiar with the terrain here, and Lu Yuan, who is already very familiar with the terrain here, can set up an ambush here and wait for the other party to collide with him. "It's a bit bad, and I feel like I can't move on." Facing the surprised eyes of Yan Zhengqing and Huang Haishan, Lu Yuan knelt down on one knee and put the gun up.
"I don't know if you've noticed, the gunfire over there is always changing, if you look closely, you can see that the gunfire is coming towards us, I'm wondering, can we use the terrain here to ambush again." Lu Yuan's words were crisp and neat, and he didn't drag his feet at all, and now he was just waiting for Yan Zhengqing and Huang Haishan to make a decision.
"I think it's okay, no matter what you say, we can give it a try, even if there is no Japanese army coming for a while, the arresters can't rush in." Without waiting for Yan Zhengqing to speak, Huang Haishan took the lead. They now have less than a squad of men left, and if they rush into the battlefield, they will probably be eaten without even a bone. An officer who has no soldiers under his command is still a kind of officer, Huang Haishan said this, in fact, he also wanted to preserve his strength.
Yan Zhengqing did not speak, but waved his head at the two machine gunners under him, and the two machine gunners strode to the side of the street to find a suitable firing position. Just do it, Lu Yuan and his gang quickly scattered and hid in the streets, and the only remaining grenadier was also sent to the roof, once the fight started, the grenadier must take on the task of suppressing the opponent's long-range firepower. "Damn, we didn't find a shell for the mortar we captured, otherwise, Guan Bao told the little devil to drink a pot of fierce food." Huang Haishan, who was lying in a bomb crater, scolded in a low voice, and nodded in agreement with Yan Zhengqing in one of his bomb craters.
"Here we are." Stretching out his hand to pull Shu Heman onto the roof, Lu Yuan didn't have time to lie down, so he hurriedly gestured at Huang Haishan and them. In the eyes of everyone, a Japanese soldier wearing a khaki military uniform suddenly appeared in the distance, and more than ten seconds later, several Japanese soldiers appeared, and behind those Japanese soldiers, there seemed to be more Japanese soldiers following. The bullets had already been fired, the back cover of the grenade had been unscrewed, and the crowd of people who had spread out and hid quietly waited for the Japanese army to approach.
Lu Yuan and Shu Heman on the roof did not dare to continue to move their positions, so they could only keep their figures as low as possible to avoid being discovered by the Japanese soldiers who came over. The sound of gunfire and explosions appeared very suddenly, and from a building more than 100 meters in front of Lu Yuan, countless gunfire suddenly burst out, and the Japanese soldiers who tried to bypass the corner were instantly knocked down several people. "Hidden, hidden." Some of the Japanese soldiers shouted and ordered the soldiers to disperse and hide, and a few seconds later, the Japanese light machine guns and grenadiers were fired one after another.
The fight was hot in front, but Lu Yuan and the others were almost unsuccessful, because they knew that exposing their positions too early would not benefit them at all. "Boom" "Boom" The grenades fired by the Japanese army with grenadiers exploded continuously, and the gunfire in the building instantly decreased, and some Japanese soldiers who were brave and fearless of death began to break through to the building. The situation seems to have been beyond Lu Yuan's expectations, if the Japanese army captures that building, they can defend the building, and Lu Yuan's ambush will not be useful.
"Kill, kill all these little devils of turtle sons." A chaotic shout came from behind the Japanese soldiers, and Lu Yuan looked carefully through the binoculars, and what appeared behind the Japanese soldiers were dozens of national soldiers who were thin and wearing straw sandals. "It seems to be the people of the Sichuan army, I see that they are wearing straw sandals." Huang Haishan, who was lying in the crater, also saw those soldiers of the national army, and just looking at the straw sandals worn by the other soldiers, Huang Haishan could already confirm that those were from the Sichuan army.