Four, single-handedly fighting alone

  The van drove to the foot of the mountain, and behind the top of the mountain was the narrow valley where Sakae and Sakura's grandfather, Yamamoto, had just met. The highway turned around the mountain here. From here on, there is no road up the mountain.

  Zhan Biao shook off Zhan Dongdong and County Magistrate's support, insisting on walking up the mountain road by himself for a while.

  County head asked in a low voice, "Grandpa Biao, I know you never regret what you do, but I've always been puzzled. When Tan Junzhang invited you to join the New Fourth Army for the first time, didn't you refuse? Weren't we all resisting Japan at that time? Why didn't you join the Communist Party troops who were very active in this area and resolutely fighting against Japan?"

  Zhan Biao smiled slightly, raised his head as if he had twisted his neck, and said a very ordinary sentence: "The order of a soldier with a broken arm is something I must complete!"

  "What if it's just sprained and not broken?"

  Zhan Biao listened and immediately turned his head to glance at Sakura, that gaze was too familiar, it was the sharp and ruthless gaze every time Zhan Biao shouted "干". Sakura's body trembled under Zhan Biao's gaze.

  Zhan Biao turned his head and said lightly, "Then there's no such task." As if he himself had looked too heavily, Zhan Biao turned back to Sakura, who was lowering her head, and said, "You're still young, you can't know the actual situation at that time."

  Zhang Dongdong said to Sakura with some dissatisfaction: "If it weren't for the bombing of Japanese planes, how would Commander Gao's arm be broken? How could the whole regiment have so many casualties? If it weren't for Japan's invasion, would Grandpa and others have been forced to resist in the caves back then? The Chinese people wouldn't ask such a question."

  Looking at Sakura's flushed face, Dongdong handed her a bottle of mineral water: "I suggest Miss Sakura study the Chinese people's life and death trust, study the Chinese people's loyalty and integrity, study the things in the bones of the Chinese people. Don't always look at those who fawn over Japan and Korea, some of them do not represent the real Chinese people, and even if they are pro-Japan, there is a bottom line."

  Matsumura, exhausted and hungry from the long day's work, handed over to Yoshino saying: "I've found all of China's National Army, New Fourth Army and guerrilla forces. The rest is up to you." Yoshino stood at attention to Matsumura: "Please let Major Matsumura return to the county town to rest. I will avenge the fallen Imperial Army heroes and wipe out the remaining Chinese scattered soldiers."

  Songshan led his remaining 30 special troops officers onto a truck.

  Zhan Biao was observing with binoculars. He saw the Japanese army's heavy machine guns and shouted: "This time we have an opponent, a devilish heavy machine gun company, 12 'chicken necks'. Ah, bring up four Type 92 infantry cannons, that's enough for us to drink a pot! What's going on? Songshan old ghost wants to leave?"

  He manipulated the powerful Markov gun, adjusting the angle, slightly upwards, and fired at the truck that had just started below.

  The effective range of the M2 Browning machine gun is about one kilometer, but the maximum range can reach four or five kilometers in this situation. Although it's not easy to hit the target, bullets are falling around the trucks on Songshan, and a special soldier on the truck fell into the carriage with his head down.

  Songshan could have accelerated the armored car to get out of range, but he didn't want to give the enemy the satisfaction of seeing him retreat, so he ordered the driver to stop. He looked up at the mountain with binoculars. As soon as the car stopped, Zhanbiao also ceased fire. After Songshan got back on the car and started it again, Zhanbiao opened fire once more, this time adding the "chicken neck" in Dajun's hands, another hail of bullets poured down. The car stopped again, and the heavy machine gun fell silent once more.

  Songshan realized that he was not going to let him go! He jumped off the car, waved his command knife towards the mountain, and roared a few times.

  Zhan Biao also shouted loudly on the mountain: "A life for a life, a debt to be repaid! Songshan, you have the ability to not leave -!"

  Matsuyama was a Chinese speaker, and he vaguely understood. Facing the Shina man on the mountain, he felt reverence for the Chinese people for the first time.

  He recalled the eight machine guns that had successfully lured the enemy in, the encirclement of the special forces team being broken by that flying car, the enemy patiently hiding two heavy machine guns and suddenly opening fire, the bodies of a group of 10 special soldiers and two dogs, the enemy's ambush at the foot of the mountain with seven or eight light machine guns... and then he recalled an enhanced class and a squad being annihilated, recalling last year when hundreds of soldiers were slaughtered in the valley... and just now they had even used heavy machine guns to leave him behind. Ha! This time, Songshan finally met his match. Come on, let's formally engage, the game begins!

  Yoshino looked at Songshan, who didn't move, and revealed a strange expression, meaning how could he be scared back by the machine gun's stray bullets. Songshan waved his hand and said: "You command yours, I'll take a look at what other tricks this Chinese government army has."

  Yoshino, seeing the heavy casualties among his troops, did not dare to be too careless against the enemy on the mountain. He organized soldiers to dig heavy machine gun emplacements and choose infantry artillery positions. Songshan also ordered Yoshino to move all trucks back 500 meters, dispatching a small team to guard them, lest they be destroyed again. He and Yoshino also found a relatively hidden command location.

  On the mountain, Zhan Biao welcomed Tan Yingchang and Gui Secretary, Single Team Leader who climbed up. Gui Secretary introduced Tan Yingchang to Zhan Biao, Zhan Biao stood at attention, Qiangzi shouted: "The 45th Army's 125th Division's 81st Regiment Machine Gun Company Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Squad -" At this time, more than 20 soldiers on the mountain wearing steel helmets all stood at attention regardless of their position. Qiangzi shouted: "Salute!" Again, it was a neat and uniform salute. Although the new recruits did not do it very standardly, this momentum was enough to make the newly arrived New Fourth Army and guerrilla troops look at them with admiration.

  Many of the guerrilla squad members were fellow villagers with the new recruits from the Anti-Japanese Class, and the new recruits enthusiastically greeted everyone as masters. The two big items each person had made the guerrilla squad members who had joined the resistance war earlier look envious. Da Yu also seemed to be very enthusiastic about the New Fourth Army soldiers.

  Tan Yingchang patted Zhou Biao's shoulder and said, "So young and already so skilled in battle, what a talent! We also have to thank Comrade Zhou for helping the guerrilla troops break through the encirclement, and we got so many spoils of war." He pointed to his own troops, a company of soldiers from the New Fourth Army, including guerrilla fighters, who were all carrying two or three Type 38 rifles and over ten light machine guns, which was equivalent to the equipment of an entire Japanese battalion. However, some New Fourth Army soldiers still carried their old bolt-action rifles and couldn't bear to throw them away.

  The squad leader said to Zhan Biao with embarrassment: "Zhan, these weapons are all your spoils of war. Should we leave them for you..." Zhan Biao waved his hand and said magnanimously: "We're all anti-Japanese soldiers, don't be polite - Liu Yang!"

  As Liu Yang shouted "To!", Zhan Biao ordered: "Give each of the New Fourth Army and guerrilla fighters two boxes of bullets! Four hand grenades." The standard ammunition carried by Japanese infantrymen was a pair of cartridge cases, each containing 60 rounds, so the packaging in the ammunition box was also one box of 60 rounds. The soldiers of the New Fourth Army were overjoyed, 120 rounds! Zhangzi thought to himself, when we go into battle later, we should give them more bullets too.

  Tan Yingchang saw that there were still four hidden heavy machine guns on the mountain, and his eyes lit up. He sincerely said to Zhan Biao: "Zhan Squad Leader, you have so many weapons, come to our New Fourth Army! The New Fourth Army and the common people need you. I'll give you a company establishment, a machine gun company. Your brothers under your command will all be promoted to platoon leaders. Let's fight against the devils together!"

  Zhan Biao looked around at the quieted warriors and sincerely said to Tang Camp Commander: "I, Zhan Biao, am a martial artist and a soldier, I value loyalty and duty most. Before completing my current task, I won't accept another one. Of course, we will not be ambiguous when fighting against the devils. Thank you, Tang Camp Commander, and I hope that in the future when we encounter difficulties, we can get your care."

  Tan Yingchang patted Zhang Biao's shoulder and said: "Well said, we'll discuss this later. Now, hurry up and prepare to deal with the devils at the foot of the mountain."

  Zhan Biao said to Tan Yingchang: "This battle will be commanded by General Tan and General Shan. I am young in years and have little experience."

  Tan Yingchang smiled: "No, I think you've been doing great all along, and we're all praising you. Just go ahead and do it, we'll fully cooperate." Zhan Biao smiled a bit shyly: "Thanks for the praise. Then I won't be polite. My way of fighting is to make the heavy machine gun the main character, so there's a condition."

  Secretary Gui and the others listened quietly, the mountain wind blowing away the smell of gunpowder from just now. Zhan Biao said slowly but forcefully: "Please ask your New Fourth Army and guerrilla troops to come down the mountain, we'll fight ourselves!"

  This loud and clear sentence was beyond the expectation of the battalion commander and the company commanders, because their soldiers had already dispersed on the mountain top more than 400 meters wide under the leadership of the platoon leaders and squad leaders, with each one three or four meters apart, tensely building shelters. Everyone looked at each other in dismay, Guan Biao's words made them so surprised that they couldn't say a word, even the experienced Secretary Gui was stunned.

  Zhan Biao twisted his neck and continued to say: "This time the Japanese army brought infantry artillery and heavy machine gun squads. With so many of us crowded on the mountain, we can only take a beating and increase casualties. We can't open it now. You should withdraw from the north immediately, it's still possible. We're going to act now, otherwise the good opportunity will be lost. Let's meet in the next battle."

  "Get ready to throw grenades! Get ready for heavy machine guns!" Then he turned around and stood at attention, saluting the battalion commanders with his hand raised to the edge of his helmet, as if to say that he would continue to salute until they left.

  Tan Yingchang looked at the mountain below, then at the surrounding soldiers. He also knew that the casualties and consumption of the battle were the greatest. However, with Zhuang Piao fighting this battle together, with so many heavy weapons and geographical advantages, they wouldn't suffer too much. Moreover, he had sent out a reconnaissance team to order the other two companies to approach here, encircle and respond from the outside.

  But I never thought that the squad leader of this country's army would not accept this favor and wanted to fight alone! Is it really afraid of our casualties or looking down on us as a burden? In fact, Xiaofeng and Qiangzi roughly understood in their hearts that Biao Ge wanted to fight alone for two reasons: one was to personally avenge Long Jie, and the other was that Biao Ge had always been used to eating alone and was willing to do things independently. Biao Ge said that once others intervened, they couldn't bring out the level of the Ninth Brigade brothers.

  At this time, Da Yue walked up to Tan Yingchang and said: "Tan Yingchang, listen to our squad leader's words and withdraw your troops. If the enemy's artillery fires over, the more people we have, the greater the casualties will be. Don't worry about us, we have a place to hide and can easily escape."

  Tan Yingchang looked at Zhan Biao again, who was still standing at attention. He couldn't help but feel a deep respect and admiration for the Han man, so he stood up straight and returned a very standard military salute. After the salute, his hand chopped forward with a hint of annoyance. The surrounding squad leaders and new fourth army company and platoon leaders also followed Tan Yingchang in returning the military salute to Zhan Biao. Then, Tan Yingchang turned around, waved his hand towards the north, and led the troops away without looking back.

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