Chapter 27: The Battle of 40,250 People (1)

  The enemy has come into view. The latest chapter is 200 meters ahead on this road, so as soon as the enemy comes out of the forest, they will arrive in front of Tianhu's defense line.

  The Heavenly Tiger was just about to give the order to fire when he suddenly saw all the devils come to a stop.

  What are those devils up to? Tianhu muttered to himself, have they discovered us?

  Suddenly standing in front of the Japanese soldier scattered for two days, a row of mortars was exposed in between.

  Tianhu immediately understood: The devils were going to shell them.

  There's no reason for it, how would the devils know they're here? Tianhu can't understand.

  "Boom, boom, boom..."

  The devils didn't show any mercy, they started fighting as soon as they said they would, and the howitzers came crashing over one after another.

  Tianhu was worried that the devils had already appeared and knew their hiding place, but when he saw a row of cannonballs fired by the devils all fall to the ground tens of meters away in the back, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

  "What's so funny, Tianhu?" Li Fei asked curiously.

  "I laugh at the cowardice of the devils."

  "Didn't you see that all the enemy's shells landed tens of meters behind us?"

  "What does this have to do with the Japanese being cowardly?"

  "This shows that the devils don't know if there's anyone behind, they're just probing with stones, so there's no target. Tell everyone to calm down and not move, wait until the devils' artillery is done and their infantry comes up before opening fire."

  "Yes!" Li Feifei went forward.

  Little devils, you can continue to make a fuss, but if it goes on for another hour, I won't play with you anymore. Tianhu thought to himself as he looked at the devils. Because once an hour has passed, Guo Yinan and the overseas Chinese will all enter the fork in the road leading into the mountains. It's said that the terrain there is extremely complex, and even locals can get lost, let alone these little devils who don't understand the mysterious nature of this great mountain at all.

  "Haen Eid, are you familiar with the road to Shen Shan?" Tian Hu suddenly had another idea.

  Hahn Eid shook his head and said: "Not too familiar, but should still be able to walk into the mountains."

  "Do you know if anyone on our team is familiar with the road into the mountains?"

  "There shouldn't be, because we're not locals. We've been here once or twice before, and the guides brought us in, if we were to go by ourselves, it would probably take a very long time to get in."

  "It would be great if we could find a local guide."

  "Or I'll go take a look."

  "It's no use, the enemy is about to launch a charge, you can't leave. Leaving one person behind means losing one unit of strength. Let's wait until we retreat and search for him while retreating."

  "Yes."

  Tianhu had originally thought that if he could find a guide, as long as he could hold off the enemy for an hour, he could fight while retreating and lure them into the mountains, then use the terrain to slowly finish them off.