Chapter Five: Strange Thunder

  The female soldiers cheered and rushed down the mountain to strip the dead bandits of their fur coats and hats.

  Three people saw the warriors cheering and laughing, Wu Bing was very happy that at least the warriors would not lose morale due to the cold weather.

  Wu Bing turned his head and smiled at the leader of the three women's team, saying: "You see that the soldiers are all happy. Only when the soldiers are well-fed and warmly dressed will they have strong combat effectiveness and be more confident in their revolutionary work."

  Then he said to Li Ping beside him: Can you help me find some hand grenades? The more the better.

  Li Ping asked: "Wu Ge, what do you want it for?"

  We'll leave a little gift for the enemy after we retreat! Wu Bing said with a sly smile.

  Li Ping immediately ran to collect hand grenades as soon as she heard it was for dealing with the enemy, and she had a deep hatred for Ma Fei. In just a short while, she collected more than 20 of them and ran back holding them in her arms.

  Wu Bing kicked the captive soldier squatting beside him and said: "Damn, you're really blind, hurry up and take it over."

  The captive listened and hastily stretched out his hand to take the grenade from Li Ping's arms, but Li Ping turned her body to one side and looked at him with a suspicious gaze.

  The captive soldier was at a loss, unsure whether to extend his hand or withdraw it.

  Don't worry! If he dares to make a move, I'll let him accompany those few pieces of goods on the ground. Wu Bing said casually beside Li Ping, who was worried.

  Li Ping then handed over some of the hand grenades in her hands to this captive soldier.

  Wu Bing said to the two of them: Let's also go down the mountain and have these small gifts properly arranged for the bandits.

  As they descended the mountain, looking at the backs of Wu Bing's three men, the political commissar turned to the regimental commander and special commissioner and said: "This Wu Bing has an unknown origin, and I observed that his equipment is exceptionally good. I have never seen such equipment before. Moreover, he can shoot accurately at a distance

  He excelled at shooting enemy officers with his gun, and his identity was too mysterious.

  Yes! It's too mysterious! He solved our crisis all by himself. Captain Wang sighed.

  The special envoy continued to say: Since he helped us in our time of need, I think he won't make any moves that are unfavorable to us. Let Li Ping follow him first, and report back if there's anything unusual.

  The two of them thought about it and also agreed with the special envoy's idea. In a special period, they could only do so!

  What was the leader of the three women's group thinking? Wu Bing, walking on the road, asked the captured soldier beside him with great interest: You've been caught for half a day, and I still don't know what your situation is. Speak up!

  The captive hastened to follow the Wu soldier, taking two quick steps to catch up with him, and said: My name is Ding Ke, my hometown is in Shandong Province. Two years ago, my hometown was hit by a disaster and I fled here to escape the famine. I happened to arrive just as the Ma family army was recruiting soldiers, so I joined the army to make a living.

  "Is there anyone else at home?" Wu Bing asked.

  It's all gone, and now I'm the only one left in this household. Ding Ke said with a gloomy tone.

  Wu Bing patted Ding Ke's shoulder and said: "Kid, I'm still short of a orderly, follow me from now on!"

  Ding Ke hastily nodded and said: Since the officer thinks highly of me, I'll take it as a compliment. From now on, I'll follow you, Officer!

  With just a few words, Ding Ke's matter was settled. Wu Bing turned back to Li Ping with a smile and said: How was that?

  Li Ping pouted and said: What's so special about him? He was captured by our Red Army. You've made him your errand boy with just a few words!

  Wu Bing rushed to Li Ping, who was smiling and said: Oh oh, my sister is still angry! Got it, I'll go ask your team leader for instructions later, okay?!

  That's more like it. Li Ping was just about to retort with her mouth that could hang a soy sauce bottle.

  Wu Bing asked Ding Ke: Is this your first time on the battlefield?

  "How did you know, sir?" Ding Ke asked suspiciously.

  Wu Bing didn't answer Ding Ke's question, he just lowered his head and glanced at Ding Ke's crotch with his eyes.

  Ding Ke awkwardly smiled and said: Haha, just learned how to fire a gun and came straight to the battlefield! As for that thing, it was really scary when the officer shot those people!

  Wu Bing listened to Ding Ke's words and suddenly said to the two people: Do you think I'm too ruthless? I'll tell you what I hate most is that people have no self-awareness, since they've become captives, they should have the consciousness of being a captive.

  Three people arrived at the foot of the mountain trail, Wu Bing let two people tie three hand grenades together and stick them on the slope on both sides of the road. He also took out transparent fishing line from his backpack. Although this backpack was just a prop to gain experience in crossing the fire line, it was actually quite useful in reality.

  Doraemon's all-purpose pocket has everything.

  Wu Bing pulled out one of the pull rings from each of the well-set hand grenades and tied them with fishing line, stretching the fishing line straight across the road at a height that was just above people's knees.

  Li Ping looked at Wu Bing as he connected a transparent silk thread to two sets of hand grenades and asked unclearly: "Brother Wu, what's this thing you're setting up? Can it blow up the enemy?"

  Wu Bing said after he finished: I've set up this thing called Guilei, just watch it! This is the enemy's only path to attack us, and we killed Ma Yuanhai's nephew, so that old guy will definitely be eager for revenge.

  This is done, let's go to the next deployment point.

  Three people came to the place where the enemy commander was killed before, and saw that the bloodstains in this place had dried up. The Wu soldiers carefully buried two hand grenades in the ground, and slowly pulled the tripwire made of fishing line tight, with a height just above the foot.

  Wu Bing said while adjusting his position, this is the best vantage point for the enemy to observe our formation, as long as they dare to come, we'll take down a few of them.

  "Alright, let's go back!" Wu Bing said.

  We'd better not make more and blow up a few more of them. Li Ping asked?

  You think the enemy is stupid? If there are continuous explosions, they will definitely conduct a thorough search of this area. Our hand grenades will be wasted, don't forget that our ammunition is not sufficient! Wu Bing replied.

  Three people walked up the mountain and saw that the dead bandit had only his sheepskin coat, hat, and shoes taken away, while his cotton pants were still intact on his body.

  Wu Bing said to the two of them: "Look, they didn't even thoroughly clean up the battlefield. Their pants haven't been pulled down yet. Let's go pull their pants down."

  Wu Bing and Ding Ke stepped forward to strip the bandits of their cotton pants, just as they were about to take action, Wu Bing saw that Li Ping was not by his side, turned around and saw her standing there covering her eyes with both hands, her small face already blushing bright red.

  Wu Bing slapped his forehead and laughed: Sorry sorry, I forgot. You go up the mountain first and wait for us to come!

  Watching Li Ping running up the mountain, Wu Bing sighed in his heart: It's really hard for them. The average age of these big girls is less than 20 years old, and they have to pull down the pants of the old men. Even if it were a dead person, they wouldn't be able to do it. Let us take care of it instead!

  After a while, Wu Bing and Ding Ke finally stripped the horse bandits' pants clean. At the same time, while stripping their pants, Wu Bing also set up several booby traps under these horse bandits' corpses.

  After finishing, Wu Bing and Ding Ke came back and forth several times to move dozens of cotton pants up the mountain. They called on the female soldiers to come and get the cotton pants, but everyone's face turned red and they just stood there without coming over.

  Wu Bing also said with a puzzled expression: You can't save face if we go and you lead the way, what's there to be ashamed of?

  At this time, Ding Ke poked Wu Bing and whispered: Officer, look at the mountain below.

  Wu Bing turned his head and looked down the mountain, he couldn't help but laugh too. No wonder these female soldiers didn't come over, the whole hillside was full of big white buttocks, making Wu Bing feel a bit embarrassed.

  Then the two men took the clothes and brought them in front of these female soldiers, saying: "You divide them among yourselves!"

  Wu Bing then went to find the battalion commander and political commissar, from whom he obtained several Red Army hats, clothes, and some broken guns. He also had Ding Ke move several corpses up to wear the clothes and hats and place them at the front of the formation.

  The three leaders of the women's group looked at Wu Bing silently as he set up the dummy soldiers. The three came to Wu Bing's side and asked him what was the use of these things. Wu Bing explained that they were used to delay the enemy, and since there were landmines below the mountain, the enemy would definitely observe their positions if they suffered casualties.

  At this time these few suspicious soldiers can help us defend our position.

  Squad leader, can we retreat now? Wu Bing suggested.