Chapter 3: The Sacrifice of Comrades-in-Arms

  Wang Hechun wasn't a talkative person either. After introducing himself to Gao Qiang, he finished bandaging Wang Dazhu and let out a low growl: "Let's go!" With a short gun in one hand and a big knife in the other, he charged into the midst of the enemy group.

  Gao Quan and Wang Tiezhu naturally followed closely behind. Wang Ying's long arms were skilled, his knife style was fierce, and his marksmanship was accurate. With the few people surrounding him who weren't pushovers either, they chopped and shot their way through, killing the devils left and right. The group of people charged forward like a light boat breaking through waves.

  "Ta-da! Ta-da!"

  In the midst of hand-to-hand combat and sporadic gunfire, the continuous firing of machine guns was particularly jarring. The devils' machine gun finally came into play, with continuous sweeps that inflicted heavy casualties on the 29th Army soldiers, as rows of blue-clad soldiers fell to the ground.

  Wang Hechun noticed the enemy's machine gun, and the enemy's machine gunner had also discovered them. Wang Hechun and his group were too conspicuous, wherever they went, many devils fell down. The surrounding friendly soldiers were also intentionally or unintentionally approaching them. If the enemy's machine gun wanted to avoid misfiring on their own people, it would definitely aim at a cluster of Chinese soldiers, so as to exert its massive killing power.

  The bullets of the machine gun drew an arc, quickly pouring over to this group of people. At night, you can clearly see that the bullets leaving the muzzle are like red raindrops with high temperature, flying quickly towards this side.

  "Take cover!" Wang Hechun shouted loudly. He knew the enemy's machine gun had spotted them and was now aimed at this group of people.

  Wang Yingchang reacted swiftly, shouting as he charged forward. However, humans are no match for bullets. The soldiers in front had barely crouched down after hearing the command when a crimson rain poured down on them! The three soldiers in the front row were instantly hit multiple times and fell to the ground convulsing, while Wang Hechun crashed to the ground, his condition unknown.

  Gao Quan was the first to see the trajectory of the machine gun bullets shifting in this direction, and before Wang Hechun had time to shout "Get down!", he had already fallen to the ground. In the urgent situation, there was no time to say much, while falling down, he stretched out his hand and pulled Wang Dazhu's ankle with a loud crash. Wang Dazhu did not expect Gao Quan to sneak up on him from behind, and this time he fell heavily, even biting his tongue, but also dodged the machine gun bullets. The two men fell early, and their position was not in the front, so after falling to the ground, Gao Quan pulled Wang Dazhu and rolled several times continuously, avoiding the possible impact point of the machine gun bullets.

  "Pffft! Pffft! Pffft! Pffft!"

  A row of bullets landed a few meters away from the two men, kicking up a cloud of dust on the ground.

  "Company commander!" Wang Dazhu shouted, with a slightly strange emphasis, and he didn't know if it was because he had just knocked out a tooth, using his hands and feet to crawl forward. Gao Quan's heart skipped a beat, earlier he also hadn't seen clearly whether the enemy's machine gun had hit Wang Hechun or not.

  Wang Hechun's body was only a dozen meters away from them, and the two of them crawled up to him in just a few movements. Wang Dazhu reached out and turned over Wang Hechun's body, "Battalion Commander!" This cry contained a hint of sadness. Men have tears but do not easily shed them, especially on this extremely perilous battlefield, where no one could guarantee that they would not be the next to sacrifice themselves. Wang Dazhu was just very close to his battalion commander and was deeply grieved in his heart, which is why he let out this cry, and then immediately jumped up and wanted to rush forward, seemingly wanting to go take down the enemy machine gunner and avenge Wang Hechun.

  Gao Quan's eyes scanned the scene, and Wang Hechun's head was hit with a bloody hole, he had already sacrificed himself. A surge of evil fire shot up from his lower abdomen to his brain. To say that Gao Quan came to this world without knowing why, and entered this battlefield, the people he truly knew were only two: Wang Dazhu and Battalion Commander Wang Hechun. The others, he didn't even know their names. On the battlefield, these two people were his comrades in life and death. Now, one of them was killed right in front of him by a Japanese soldier holding an inferior machine gun. For Gao Quan, that Type 92 machine gun was nothing but garbage equipment. As a champion scout who had seen countless high-end weapons, he didn't know how many fine machine guns there were. However, at this moment, Wang Hechun's sacrifice was a great shame for Gao Quan! Always proud of being an elite soldier, the arrogant Scout Major Gao Quan, who had been the champion numerous times, couldn't even protect his own comrade by his side. This feeling was no different from being slapped in the face and called an idiot!

  Damn little devil! Gao Quan picked up Wang Hechun's rifle and raised the barrel, firing a shot. "Bang!" The enemy machine gun responded immediately. Wang Dazhu stared at Gao Quan in surprise, just as he was about to smile humbly, but the machine gun suddenly started firing again after a few seconds of silence, "Rat-a-tat-tat"!

  Gao Quan's marksmanship was undoubtedly superb, but he had forgotten that the pistol in his hand now was a model he had never used before. The accuracy of this handgun couldn't be compared to those in later generations, and this was the first shot he fired with it, so how could he possibly hit the target so easily? At this moment, Gao Quan obviously couldn't think that much anymore. This damned machine gunner had already made him lose face time and time again, if he didn't take out this despicable thing now, his champion scout title would be ruined by this guy! This was something he absolutely could not tolerate!

  With a pull of the hand, Wang Dazhu, who was still in a daze, rolled over, and several machine gun bullets whizzed past their bodies. Although Wang Dazhu had been pulled down twice by Gao Quan, he fell to the ground covered in dirt, with several pieces of skin scraped off his arms, elbows, and knees, and even a front tooth loosened, but he didn't have any resentment. They were all rolling on the battlefield, knowing that this new brother had saved his life again, and his eyes looked at Gao Quan with gratitude and surprise.

  "Cover me here, I'm going to take him out!" Gao Quan patted Wang Dazhu on the back. He didn't care about the look of surprise in Wang's eyes; he was already in top gear. The last burst of fire from the enemy had hit two more soldiers, and Gao couldn't wait a moment longer - he had to take out that machine gunner right away!

  He rolled over and crawled away from Wang Dazhu's hiding spot, getting behind a slightly raised rock. He took out the compact red infrared binoculars that he had been carrying in his pocket. This tenfold telescope with night vision function was the only high-tech product from the future on Gao Quan's body, originally brought as a toy to play with, but now it came in handy.

  In the telescope, everything turned gray and white, and the scene on the battlefield was clearly visible. Soon, the devil's machine gunner came into view, hiding behind a bunker, holding a heavy machine gun to search for targets and firing wildly.

  After seeing the target clearly, Gao Quan was like a civet cat, quickly circling to the side.

  A soldier of the 29th Army lay beside him, and Gao Quan touched the soldier's neck. The soldier had sacrificed himself. Gao Quan quickly stripped off the martyr's uniform and put it on himself. On this chaotic battlefield, uniforms were undoubtedly the only way to distinguish between friend and foe, and his own clothes could easily be mistaken by soldiers from both sides.