Don't be afraid of darkness. Darkness can make people lost, but also safer. Darkness can make people doubt everything, but also make people believe in themselves or fate more.
When the second flare went out, Ma Liang desperately shrank back to the slope. His position had become the target of the outflanking puppet troops on the left wing. They desperately tried to find a position to avoid machine gun fire, and then tried to suppress the place where the flare was fired.
Unable to see anything clearly, he could only hear crackling sounds from all directions. In the darkness, Ma Liang was unwilling to climb up again to try his luck. He felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest. He turned his head and shouted to Liu Jianqiang, who was still lying next to him and shooting desperately in the darkness: "Stop shooting, move on... There are too many of them, we can't hold them back... Let's go!"
When the second flare went out, Luo Fugui pulled the machine gun that had just emptied its magazine and moved in panic. In the darkness, the continuous flames of the machine gun were too conspicuous, and the puppet soldiers who were covering in the opposite village almost all used their bullets on him, and there was a constant whistling sound above his head.
Luo Fugui stopped only after he was sure that the earthen ridge in front of him completely covered him. He pulled off the empty magazine with his shaking hands and replaced it with a new one with great effort. The shaking was due to both fear and excitement. He was excited because he saw that before the flare went out, three enemies fell under his trajectory. They were definitely not falling, but were knocked down by bullets. It was the posture of their souls leaving their bodies. This was the first time he saw an enemy die under his gun. In this dark battlefield, under the pale light of the flare, the scene was too profound, and he could not forget it even though he was always afraid.
"I'm opening a business... Damn it... I'm opening a business... When should the machine gun fire... I don't know, whatever happens..." Luo Fugui muttered unconsciously, feeling flustered and not knowing what to do next, so he placed the machine gun on the spot, and squeezed the trigger again at the position before the flare went out. The dark red continuous shooting line splashed out again, rushing towards the darkness, and pounced on the muzzle flames that flickered on and off.
Until now, Xiao Hongying had not fired a single shot. There were chaotic gunshots all around. She could hear Luo Fugui mumbling something in the distance, and she could also hear Shi Cheng shouting at his timid subordinates on the right wing. But she didn't want to pay attention to these. She just lay quietly in the darkness, opened her clear eyes, and tried to look at the darkness in front of her, ignoring the occasional streaking lights, hoping to see the figure of the fox, waiting for him to come back...
When Hu Yi held the bicycle tightly with both hands in the dark and made up his mind, a sharp whistle broke the silence of the darkness. Hu Yi knew it was a signal flare just by the sound. He turned his head in the dark to see the flowing white light in the south of the field. It was Ma Liangyu's. There were two sneaky platoons in the path of the light.
The enemy was finally going to use the darkness to make a detour. The time was just right. Now they could complete the task in the chaos and then retreat. After the gunshots suddenly rang out, Hu Yi finally pulled up the bicycle and hung it directly on his shoulder. In this case, there was no need to drag it with a rope. Time was the most precious thing. Team 9 had to retreat as soon as possible. He carried the bicycle, crossed the dark field, and rushed to the trench with all his strength...
Suddenly, in the far north of the field, a long and eye-catching flame flashed, and there was a loud noise. It was a volley of seventy or eighty guns. Shi Cheng felt an overwhelming noise around him, and felt panic. Dozens of bullets were all hit on the right wing of the ninth squad. Fortunately, there were few people and it was dark. Two people were injured on the spot, one was a team member, and the other was Shi Cheng himself.
Shi Cheng was a little dazed, and he didn't care about the pain of his wound. He looked to the right in the darkness in the north, in the direction of the volley just now. It was definitely not the puppet army in the village. Two-thirds of the puppet army in the village was on the left wing in the south, and one-third was in the village firing at the ninth squad. Where did these seventy or eighty guns come from? It must be the enemy reinforcements.
Although nothing could be seen, one could feel that this sudden enemy reinforcement was approaching rapidly from the right wing after firing a volley.
"Hurry up and go to the machine gun to meet up with squad leader Hu and the others, quick!" Shi Cheng shouted to his men. Without caring about treating his wounds, he fired the bullets in his revolver into the darkness to the north, emptying the magazine in one breath, and turned around to run towards Luo Fugui's roaring machine gun...
Hu Yi finally ran out of the trench and came behind Luo Fugui. In the darkness, the little girl shouted in surprise: "Fox!" Then there was a noise, and two hurried blurry figures just jumped into the pit near Luo Fugui, and shouted in the darkness: "Is the squad leader back?" Then there was a clattering noise on the right wing, and Shi Cheng was running over with a few people, shouting at the same time: "Enemy reinforcements have arrived, squad leader Hu, the enemy is in the north..."
Hu Yi had already seen the sudden situation in the north. Gao Yidao had set an ambush in the direction of Hekouying, so this enemy group definitely did not come from Hekouying. They came from the north and the direction was wrong, so it was impossible to judge. It seemed that they were attracted by the gunshots.
Without thinking too much, Hu Yi fumbled around in the dark and hastily hung his equipment on his body, and said without hesitation: "Now call the roll. Ma Liang has a runny nose."
“Yes.” “Yes.”
"Girl."
"have."
"Mule fool."
"Yes." Only Wu Shitou, who was standing behind Hu Yi carrying a bicycle, answered. Luo Fugui was still on the ridge beside him, firing his machine gun. He was completely oblivious to the situation and didn't hear anything.
It didn't matter whether this person answered or not. Hu Yi immediately asked the people who were running over from the right wing: "Shi Cheng, are your people all together?"
"All are here."
"Now move towards Hekouying. Everyone must be able to see the person in front of them. No distance is allowed. Ma Liang will lead the team."
After saying this, Hu Yi crouched down behind Luo Fugui and pulled him: "Give me the machine gun. Carry the girl on your back and go."
Luo Fugui, who had just lowered his head to change the magazine, came to his senses at this moment, left his machine gun and crawled back, after crawling a few times he suddenly stopped and said to Hu Yi: "Uh... By the way, this is the last magazine, it's full." Then he stood up and ran towards the blurry team with a hunched back.
Hu Yi was slightly surprised. After eight hundred years, this mule finally seemed to have made some progress.
A row of blurry figures disappeared in front of him in an instant. From time to time, stray bullets streaked through the darkness nearby. The enemy who was making a detour to the south was suppressed by Luo Fugui with four magazines. The distance was still far. The biggest threat in front of him came from the unexpected enemy in the north. They were obviously approaching quickly. So Hu Yi turned the machine gun around and had to give them a burst of bullets before leaving, so that they would learn to slow down in the dark.
Rely on feeling, guessing the distance, and recalling the bright position of the muzzle flash in the previous volley. Hold the butt steady, adjust your breathing, and pull the trigger.
Da da da da…
In the darkness, a dark red fan suddenly appeared, fine and even, close to the ground, slowly unfolding to one side, so gorgeous that it was creepy. When the viewer was finally stunned, it stopped abruptly and returned to darkness.
I don't know why. Even though I had already fled quite far away, the sound of gunfire behind me was getting smaller and fainter, but it never stopped. I don't know what those puppet soldiers were thinking. Are they wasting bullets just to give themselves courage or to show off
In the darkness, Ma Liang did not dare to run too fast because of the lack of visibility, fearing that the people behind him could not keep up. He was only focused on moving forward in a hurry, not knowing how far he had run, but anyway, it was far enough that he could no longer hear the gunshots. He was not careful, tripped, and fell on the road.
A row of figures staggered to a stop.
"What's going on?"
"Ma Liang fell in front."
"Brother, come and take a look." Ma Liang, who was getting up, suddenly shouted back.
What tripped Ma Liang was a half-stretched leg on the roadside, and the upper body of the body was hidden in the darkness on the roadside. Hu Yi and Ma Liang looked around in the dark and found more than one body, scattered everywhere, they were puppet soldiers.
It seems that this is the place where the Second Company ambushed. Hu Yi chose to run in this direction for the Second Company. There was not even a trace of embers around, and the corpses were stiff and firm. It was obvious that the ambush had ended a long time ago, probably before dark.
"Brother, where do you think Erlian will go?"
"Hekou Camp." Gao Yidao was brave enough to ambush the puppet army reinforcements halfway, and then directly tried to attack Hekou Camp. Hu Yi didn't even have to guess, this was Gao Yidao's style.
"So... should we continue looking for them, or should we head north?"
Hu Yi was thinking about this problem. Since the Second Company was not on this road, there was no need to look for it. If he went to Hekouying, he might just have to participate in another battle. Why bother
"Let's rest here for a while and let Shi Cheng and the others take care of their wounds. Then we'll leave the path and head north."
As soon as he finished speaking, an unusual noise was heard in the darkness on the east side of the path. With a loud "Hide!", the people from Class 9 immediately disappeared into the darkness on both sides of the path.
There was total silence. There must be people in the east. It seemed that they also heard the voice of Class 9 and hid themselves as well.
The two sides faced each other quietly in the dark for a long time, and finally the other side spoke first.
"My superior is Gao Yidao, who are you? If you don't speak up, I'll be rude to you."
Hu Yi was speechless. It turned out to be someone from the Second Company. Gao Yidao was really a little clever. The Second Company asked a good question. If the other party was a puppet soldier or a traitor, as soon as they heard the word "Commander", they would be less suspicious and would only wonder what the title of Gao Yidao was. If it was someone from the Independent Regiment, who wouldn't know Gao Yidao? This name... The chance of having the same name as someone else seems to be very small.
Suddenly, a clear and angry voice came from the darkness: "Gao Yidao, you shameless bastard, you are a treacherous bastard, give me back my grenade..."
The sound echoed in the silent dark forest, and then there was a plop sound from the opposite side. Based on his experience, Hu Yi judged that someone over there accidentally fell down...