How far you can see, how far you can go.
There is a gap between Hao Ping and Hu Yi, and Hao Ping himself understands this, but he does not think the gap is very big. He feels that he lacks in experience and details, so he is not discouraged. What he needs to do is to learn lessons and accumulate experience, and he will become perfect sooner or later.
However, the sound of the heavy machine gun was too terrifying. As long as they were infantrymen, they were all afraid of it, including the Japanese, let alone the third company. Many soldiers even heard the sound of heavy machine guns for the first time, and many soldiers heard the sound of the Type 24 Maxim rifle for the first time. They howled for a long time and felt that it was more terrifying than the Japanese's "pheasant neck" heavy machine gun.
Therefore, Hao Ping decided to move the entire company eastward. Hu Yi said that there would be plenty of light machine guns on the east side, but relatively speaking, the east side was the weak side in terms of firepower, at least it would not be taken care of by the sluggish heavy machine guns. In addition, Hao Ping also had a lucky mentality, hoping that he could prove Hu Yi was wrong, as maybe the enemy had also set up a siege with three sides missing one.
Hu Yi was not interested in considering how big the gap was between him and Hao Ping. After countless life-and-death experiences, his battlefield thinking was no longer bound by constraints. No matter what kind of predicament he was in, as long as he remembered the two words "purpose", he would not get lost. Then, for this "purpose", he would spare no expense, use any means, and leave success and failure to fate without regrets.
Hao Ping regarded the enemy in front of him as an enemy, while Hu Yi cared about the Japanese. Even though he was surrounded on all sides, he still cared about the Japanese who had not arrived yet. The moment the Japanese arrived would be the real desperate situation. Therefore, Hu Yi believed that the key to the third company was "time" and they should not hesitate or worry about gains and losses. They had already thrown two platoons to the north, and at least the firepower position in the north was known. The situation was clear, so they should make a prompt decision and head north for the entire company, exchanging losses for time and leaving.
Therefore, the gap between Hao Ping and Hu Yi can be measured. Hao Ping's sight distance is about 500 meters, and Hu Yi's sight distance... is still on the way, approaching, maybe 30 miles, maybe 20 miles. This is roughly the difference value.
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"Free activities?" Luo Fugui stared at Hu Yi's cold face with his eyes wide open: "What do you mean?"
Xiao Hongying pouted at the confused bear: "What I mean is that we don't want to be friends with Sanlian anymore! Let's play house by ourselves!"
Ma Liang stood up: "Brother, if that's the case, then I think..."
"Go ahead." Hu Yi knew what Ma Liang was going to say without waiting for him to finish. Shi Cheng was probably still lying among the dead bodies in the middle of the town, because he was not wearing a military uniform.
At this moment, Ma Liang finally remembered to wipe his dirty face. As he walked towards the side street, he tried to wipe it with his sleeves. The bloodstains had already become part of his face and were falling off like mud, one after another.
"Are you going?" Xiao Hongying asked Luo Fugui.
"I'm not going! I don't want to see Shi Cheng being that stupid!" Xiong said angrily, stood up from under the wall, patted his butt, and staggered away.
Only Xiao Hongying was still sitting at the foot of the wall, covered in dirt, without moving. The gorgeous clothes that Jin Chunxiu had customized for her were completely ruined. Now she looked like a gorgeous little beggar. Her beautiful big eyes were still clear, without a trace of loneliness or sadness, they were just blinking calmly.
Hu Yi suddenly felt much better because of the little girl's indifference. Ma Liang and Mule still couldn't surpass her. If it weren't for her age, she was not small and she had seen the most.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Do you want me to leave the team again?"
"… "
"You saw it too, right? I can still make a name for myself even if I leave the team!"
Thinking back to the first time she left the team, she went to the county town to take over the military police headquarters; this time in Xinglong Town, she also left the team, firing the first shot to destroy peace. Hearing this now, Hu Yi was even more speechless.
"Speak?"
"I didn't say anything, did I? Didn't you say it all?"
"Then why are you looking at me like that? Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"
"I just... want to ask you, old man, if you are interested in eating osmanthus cake together?"
"You did..." The following words stopped abruptly, and Xiao Hongying turned to look at the messy street not far away. There was not only the corpse in the sun, but also everything messy on both sides of the street. Then her big eyes became brighter and brighter.
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The clear sky was clearly blue, but it looked gray in the eyes of the hurried soldiers.
Straw sandals, cloth shoes, grey leggings, stepping over corpses and treading on clotted blood, running in a disorderly manner through the alleys, and on the hard streets with uneven stone surfaces. The young faces were hurriedly blurred like Chengdu, with sweaty faces, expressionless dark faces, passing by again and again as if endless.
The platoon leaders and squad leaders urged their men as they ran. Outside the town on the east side, gunshots had already begun to be heard. The Third Company also knew that time was running out, so those who arrived first, under the order of the company commander, rushed out of the town and joined the battle. Every second counted.
The ninth platoon of the third company advanced first to a hundred meters outside the eastern town. The howling of a Czech light machine gun was heard from the left front, and the howling of a Czech light machine gun was also heard from the right front. Then a large rain of rifle bullets came, knocking down more than a dozen soldiers on the spot. The rest threw themselves into the weeds and continued to suffer, experiencing firsthand the nightmare of being caught in crossfire.
They wanted to fight back but couldn't. If they didn't stand up, all they could see was weeds. The enemy only needed to blindly scan their approximate position over and over again. The grass leaves broke again and again, the yellow flowers were folded again and again, and the roar of death was heard from all directions.
Some soldiers were groaning in the green confusion, some were struggling with the only two bullet clips they carried, and some finally realized that the right decision was to keep crawling forward, but they were unable to wake up the confused comrades nearby, so they shouted hoarsely for the platoon leader, but the platoon leader was dead, and then they shouted for the deputy platoon leader, but there was no response in the endless whistling.
"I'm in command now! Nineth Platoon! Don't stop! Crawl forward! Forward..."
These were his last words as a young man, hoarse with reluctance, yet brave with fear, but they came to an abrupt end when a passing bullet pierced his neck.
The enemy's firepower position was revealed, and Hu Yi's prediction came true. The terrain was not very undulating, and the enemy had established three temporary firepower positions at three slightly higher positions. A platoon of troops was deployed at each point, forming a horn-shaped layout. The west side could rely on heavy machine guns, so a whole company was deployed on the east side. This was not an encirclement, but it was even more disgusting than being surrounded.
When fighting the Japanese, this formation was unable to hold any position, because the Japanese could always flatten one wing, blow up the machine guns, and then form a counter-encirclement; but in front of the Third Company which was short of guns and bullets, they could only fill the gap with men, but the Third Company was not the Second Company, and they did not have enough experience in filling the gap with men and charging.
The eighth platoon of the third company moved out of the town to the right wing. Their mission was to attack the enemy's right wing position. Of course, it was a feint and they had to advance cautiously because the seventh platoon would then move from behind them to the right and outflank the enemy's right wing.
Maybe Hao Ping had never shouted like he did today in his entire life. Soon his voice became hoarse and his voice sounded like a duck. In fact, the shouts on all the battlefields sounded like ducks. Since ancient times, there have been no pleasant sounds on the battlefields, only hoarse voices.
The 7th Platoon of the 3rd Company had just reached the back of the last wall. Dozens of soldiers were panting in panic and fell behind the wall like throwing sandbags. Behind the wall was the Eastern Wilderness. The sound of gunfire seemed to echo everywhere. The top of the wall kept falling due to the impact of stray bullets. Some of the soldiers who inhaled the bullets coughed violently. Before the panic and exhaustion were over, the company commander's resolute hoarse voice came: "7th Platoon! To the right, outflanking to the right! Now! Do you want to wait until 8th Platoon is dead? Ah? I said now..."
The equally exhausted platoon leader of the seventh platoon rushed out of the wall carrying the Hanyang-made rifle and waved to the entire platoon behind the wall: "Get up and follow me!"
He is very fearless and does a good job. He stands in the whistling rain of bullets without bending his legs or waist. It is right that he wants to be a role model, but now is not the time to charge. Although his inexperienced performance gives his soldiers courage, it also makes his soldiers as blind as him. The low-key encirclement becomes a blatant appearance.
At the same time, a platoon of enemy troops in the south of Xinglong Town was on their way to the east to provide support. They were like a group of mice in the wilderness, sneaking around and moving cautiously...