Su Qing had a dream. In the dream, there was an endless dark space. In the darkness in front of her, there was a devil, which pounced on her ferociously. No matter how she struggled and called for help, she could not escape from this space, and finally fell under the devil. Suddenly, the devil opened his eyes in the darkness. They were a pair of narrow blood-red eyes reflected in the dark background. They seemed to be close at hand, but also seemed to be far away. Su Qing felt a little familiar, and she became inexplicably quiet, as if she was under a spell. In the darkness of the dream, she fell asleep peacefully again...
In the leeward side of the valley, Su Qing, who was curled up on a layer of wild grass, woke up slowly. She saw the morning glow and the strange and rugged landscape in the desolate place. She sat up in shock. It was not until she saw the back of a man holding a gun against the wind in the distance that she remembered her current situation.
Last night, in Shuxia Village, in the surrounded courtyard, Su Qing crouched under the courtyard wall in panic. She heard a light clicking sound from the dark corner of the wall, as if Hu Yi had hit something on the wall and then thrown it out; then there was a huge earthquake outside the wall, causing the wall around her to shake. One, two, three, four sounds, Su Qing was ready. After the fifth sound, she had to climb out of the wall and face the choice of fate.
However, after the fourth explosion, gunshots suddenly rang out all around, along with the panicked shouts of the puppet soldiers, mixed with the chaotic sound of footsteps...
It was the third company fleeing westward. They passed by Shuxia Village and were attracted by the sound of gunfire in the village. So they rushed into the village at night. Just after the fourth grenade exploded, they exchanged fire with the puppet troops outside the yard. Most of them were killed or wounded on the spot, and the rest fled in the chaos.
Hao Ping didn't expect that after a quick encounter, it would be Hu Yi and Su Qing who walked out of the yard. However, he didn't have time to ask about the details. The Japanese were still not far behind and would definitely follow them. The third company had to continue to lead the way, so he asked Hu Yi and Su Qing to hide nearby, and after avoiding the pursuers, they returned to the regiment, and he led the third company back on the road.
Hu Yi led Su Qing to avoid the Japanese soldiers chasing the third company, and headed east overnight. When passing near Xinghua Village, they heard gunshots again, which made Hu Yi suspicious. The situation was unclear, so in order to avoid accidentally running into the Japanese soldiers, he decided to rest in the valley and it would be safer to go again at dawn, so he set a sentry overnight.
The cool morning breeze blew past, unable to shake the rifle held horizontally, so it had to lift the cloth straps on the backpack, causing it to flutter. Hu Yi, who was standing on a high position observing the distance, heard the approaching footsteps behind him and slightly overestimated them.
"You're awake."
Su Qing just looked at the road under his feet, did not answer, walked past Hu Yi's position, and said without looking back: "Let's go now."
Hu Yi looked at Su Qing who was already walking ahead without moving: "Uh, wait!"
Su Qing stopped when he heard that and turned back coldly: "What? Do you want me to say thank you?"
Hu Yi understood what Su Qing was referring to. It was what happened in Shuxia Village last night. He replied helplessly, "Well, I mean, we shouldn't go in that direction."
Su Qing raised her head and looked around, then she realized that she had been heading north. She raised her hand and hastily smoothed the hair beside her ear, glared at Hu Yi, and said unhappily: "Then why are you looking at this side like an idiot? Are you doing it on purpose?" After saying that, she turned around and took slow steps towards the east.
Hu Yi was a little stunned by Su Qing's look. Is she... communicating with me? She has always been very frugal with words to me, except when she was cursing.
Hu Yi was still in a daze when Su Qing's cold voice came again: "Are you deaf? I said let's go!"
This voice sounded particularly pleasant to Hu Yi, like the music of the Ninth Heaven, and he hurriedly responded, "Uh! All right, let's go."
"Have you forgotten that you are a soldier? Have you forgotten that you are talking to your superior?"
"Yes! Let's go!" After a firm and low answer, a deep smile appeared on Hu Yi's lips. She was finally willing to admit that I am a soldier...
On the small road leading to Dabei Village, the scattered squad 9 fought against the superior Japanese again. Xiao Hongying and Luo Fugui, relying on the bunkers and machine guns, continued to confront several Japanese soldiers in the west, occasionally firing one or two cold shots at each other.
In the middle of the south slope, two Japanese soldiers pressed Ma Liang and refused to let go. Ma Liang occasionally peeked out from the other side, or deliberately exposed the butt of his gun to attract attention, but he did not leave his position and ran back, putting the two Japanese soldiers on the opposite side in an awkward position. The three people who went up were probably dead. They wanted to go up again, but they were afraid that Ma Liang would rob them from behind. They wanted to retreat down the slope, but they were also afraid of being shot. They wanted to attack the low hill where Ma Liang was, but the distance was not close. The key point was that there was a valley in the middle. If they went over, it would become an upward attack. There was no geographical advantage, and the opponent could retreat and escape at any time, so they had to stay here.
On the top of the south slope, Liu Jianqiang hugged the surviving Japanese soldier and rolled into a pit. The two of them dug out each other's eyes, tore each other's hair, and fought with each other's teeth. They were completely intertwined, so entangled and sad. They almost turned into two blood gourds, but they still fought tenaciously.
The leading Japanese soldier was silent. He was really happy when he heard the explosion on the top of the mountain just now. He thought that the south had succeeded. Later he found out that it was not the machine gun bunker, nor the sound of the grenade, but the wooden-handled grenade. This was not optimistic. Although the gunshots could still be heard on the south slope, it seemed that they had been staying on the mountainside and had not moved.
Although the enemy had machine guns and there were several wounded soldiers on our side, this should not have been the result. The Eighth Route Army was all about mobile warfare, ambushes, and cold guns. When did they become proficient in positional warfare? Besides, if it was the Eighth Route Army, why did they have so many bullets? They were wasted without any ambiguity! This is definitely not the Eighth Route Army! The Japanese were so angry. They were used to chasing the Eighth Route Army and didn't take the enemy's machine guns seriously. They didn't expect that the machine gun was so accurate and could suppress people from a long distance. At this moment, it would be easy if they had a grenade launcher to directly blow the machine gun into silence.
There was no point in regretting it, the dilemma had to be resolved. The leading devil again gave orders to the people nearby, since the attack on the south slope had failed, then they would add another route, and he decided to attack from the north himself, to avoid being detected, he would go alone.
Suddenly, five or six Japanese soldiers poked their heads out at the same time and fired rapidly at the top of the mountain. Although it was more than 300 meters away and the bunker was relatively hidden, the effect of five or six rifles firing at the same time was still considerable. There was a crackling sound near the bunker, and sometimes there were whistling sounds flying overhead. The little girl could only hide her head obediently and wait for them to empty their chambers before going out to fight back.
Taking advantage of this fierce rifle suppression, the leading Japanese soldier suddenly rushed out horizontally and ran desperately towards the north side of the foot of the mountain until the gunshots began to become sparse. He immediately changed to crawling and climbed into the low area.
Ta-da, ta-da, ta-da…
The little girl started to fight back again, and beat the Japanese soldiers who were shooting into a turtle and hid obediently. However, the Japanese soldiers' cover was successful, and Xiao Hongying did not find the target that was detoured to the north.
After crawling to the foot of the mountain in the north, the Japanese finally began to climb up the mountain, carefully, quietly, and quietly approached the top of the mountain after passing the halfway point. He clearly saw the north side of the bunker and heard the sound of someone inside reloading bullets into the magazine.
It's time to end it, you murderer of the Imperial Japanese Army! The devil gently grabbed a grenade, slowly pulled out the safety pin, and then decisively smashed the ignition cap on the stone beside him...