Chapter Thirty-One: Encountering the Enemy
"Come on, come on, hurry up." A hurried urging voice sounded, but no one could be seen, only piles of grass were moving rapidly.
"Gu Gu, Gu Gu." The two long calls of the cuckoo bird came over, this was the forward scout telling them that everything was normal up ahead, nothing out of the ordinary had happened. If you listened carefully to the cuckoo's call, it was slightly different from a real cuckoo's, with a hint of local accent inside.
This is their invention of sound transmission method. In less important occasions, in order to save the physical strength of the scouts, they all use sound to transmit messages.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp." Soon, several loud bird calls came from the troops, which was also a kind of bird call that could be heard far away. It indicated that the rear had received information from the front and that the march at the back was going smoothly as well. This sound had several ways of making sounds, representing many meanings, which perfectly solved the problem of having no long-distance communication capability.
This is already the seventh day since they came out, according to Liu He's estimate, they should have walked more than 400 kilometers. Fortunately, so far no one has fallen behind, and even those children are still very enthusiastic now.
Whenever they arrive at a place with a relatively large environmental change, they will change their camouflage. The two people cooperate with each other and quickly complete the change of camouflage. Now if you let them lie down on the grass, you can't even tell what is the grass and what are the people.
"Boo Goo, Boo Goo." Suddenly a different voice came from the front, proving that they had now entered enemy-occupied territory. Although no enemies had been spotted yet, the so-called "enemy-occupied territory" was based on what people in the surrounding areas had heard, with some claiming to have seen devils.
"Got it." Same response, tell them you know.
"Alright, everyone be alert. As we move forward, listen to what I have to say. We've now entered enemy-occupied territory and it's likely that we'll encounter something soon. From this point on, no one is allowed to speak. All actions must follow orders. Let me tell you, the devils are not bandits, they're also fed with bullets, their marksmanship is no worse than yours. You should know that when two guns meet, the brave will win. Get your spirits up, this is the start of your first battle. It's time to see what we're made of."
Liu He had already decreed that no one was allowed to speak, so there was no answer to him. However, the crowd responded to Liu He with firm footsteps, "We must be brave."
"Boo, boo, boo..." A sudden urgent cry came over, indicating that something was up. In this situation, someone would come to report.
"Report." "Speak." "Captain, at a place about ten miles ahead, there is a pursuing troop, the one running in front is ***, and the one chasing behind is the devils, *** has more than 300 people, and the devils also have more than 300 people, and the devils even have small cannons, Captain, what should we do now?"
Liu He Zhang looked around and saw that it was a desolate area, with some pumpkin fields and peanut fields on both sides of the road, and further ahead were several hundred meters of cornfields.
"Everyone pay attention, ambush in place, fifty meters away from the main road, divided into two sides, front and back distance is one hundred meters, wait for my signal to fire."
A loud noise, and then only the rustling of leaves on the ground was seen, without a single person in sight. Liu He then inquired about some details, and then specifically instructed each person to adjust their ambush location.
"Chirp, chirp, chirp." He meant that they were ready and the others could hide too. The person who had gone to report back quickly hid in the sorghum field as well, but he still needed to go forward to report.
"Bang, bang, bang." Gunshots echoed from a distance, and Liu He quickly found a spot with a wide view to hide. His heart was racing now, after all these years of preparation, it all came down to this one battle. If he didn't do well in this first fight, he would really have no face to return home to his elders and neighbors. Even if they lost a few men here, he wouldn't have the face to go back. He had trained everyone so desperately for what? Wasn't it just to reduce casualties?
"Hurry up, hurry up! Those little Japanese devils, why are they always chasing us from behind?" "Damn it, Comrade Commander, shall we go back and fight those little ghosts?" "Fight? What do you have to fight with? Do you still have bullets?"
No one was seen, but the sound was heard first. Then a rustling noise came from the sorghum field, and soon a group of soldiers covered in smoke and fire rushed out of the sorghum field. Perhaps because there were pumpkin vines tangled around their legs, they collectively ran onto the road and continued running forward, occasionally making popping sounds behind them. This was the devils shooting while chasing after them.
The little devils have shown their heads, they also appeared on the road from the high cornfield side, with a distance of more than 200 meters from the front. At this time, Liu He could feel that several lines of sight were staring at him, thinking that he was waiting for his command to attack. It's not time yet, the little devils have just shown their heads, slowly, fifty people, one hundred people, nearly two hundred people have entered the ambush circle. Looking back again, there is no one else.
"Gggg." At this time, another shout came, meaning that there was no one behind, they had already discovered that the message passed in front was wrong, less than 200 people, but it was spread to more than 300 people by them. However, the fleeing soldiers in front were indeed more than 300 people.
"Bang." "Bang bang." As Liu He's voice fell, he first fired two shots, these two shots were aimed at a ghost-like head, which was very recognizable, he was holding a command knife and shouting "Give give", and his face was turned towards Liu He.
Two shots, one shot hit his head and the other shot hit his chest, he was holding a command knife, sideways facing Liu He.
The devil's eyes widened in surprise, no, not two eyes, but three, including the gun barrel. He fell to the ground unwillingly, and until his death, he couldn't understand why there was a gunshot when all he saw in front of him was a field of crops.
At this time, as Liu He's voice fell, "pa pa pa pa", a burst of gunfire rang out. It was seen that the devils on the main road fell down with the sound of the guns, and some were still shooting randomly in confusion, none of them discovered where the shots came from.
At this time, Liu He's usual training results came out, each person had two shots, one shot exploded in the head, and one shot hit the body, then another shot was added to knock down those who were still standing.
"Company Commander, look! Behind us, which unit is that? Their marksmanship is so good!" The fleeing soldiers in front also stopped and stared at the scene unfolding behind them, shattering their thoughts. They had used thousands of men to attack a few hundred, but hadn't managed to kill many. And yet, these pursuers, not one escaped, all fell under the sudden onslaught of an army that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.
"Hurry, clean up the battlefield, enforce discipline." With Liu He's order, a bunch of straw piles emerged from the ground, and then they went forward to strip the corpses of their clothes. "Ha, these are the devils, not much different from us," some people stared at the devils' crotches, "Captain, should we take this off too?" "No way, that disgusting thing you want to wear?" "Captain, I just feel that their birds are so small, no wonder they can be covered with such a small piece of cloth. Is this the legendary toothpick bird?"
"Hahaha." Suddenly, a burst of laughter erupted from the troops, even the fleeing soldiers in front couldn't help but laugh.
