Chapter 16: The Narrow Road Battle Begins
"Enemy's 80 mortar!" Chen Shaoqin heard the series of explosions and the damage caused by them, immediately thought of the enemy's commonly used equipment mortar, and hastily rushed to Liu Daizi, "Quickly let your brothers disperse and retreat from here, find a favorable place to block the enemy!"
"We'll head to that mountain top, the terrain is higher there, I've stockpiled some ammunition and food, I believe we can hold out for a while!" At this time, Lao Liu didn't have the luxury of considering anything else, his first thought was how to deal with the enemy's attack. Upon hearing Chen Shaoqin's words, he immediately pointed to the back mountain with his hand, explaining the specific reason. After all, they were a bandit gang, making a living by robbing and plundering, those who had been wronged and the authorities would not let them off, how could they not leave themselves an escape route?
"Alright, you get the brothers to follow up, I'll take Xue Jiaotou to the top of the mountain first!" Chen Shaoqin dodged a burst of explosions around him and immediately told Liu Guaizai. After finishing speaking, he picked up the equipment of the bandit brother who was blown to death, pulled Xue Yumei's hand, and ran towards the top of the mountain without hesitation.
Behind the village is a narrow sheep trail, which passes through a narrow rock crevice that is over 200 meters long and winds all the way to the top of the mountain. At the top of the mountain, there are two defensive fortifications that have been repaired in preparation for an emergency situation when the village might be surrounded. However, no one expected that the first time they would be used would not be against government troops, but against the devils' pursuit.
Chen Shaoqin pulled Xue Yumei's hand, after passing through the rock crevice for a while, suddenly thought of a good way to ambush the little devils, so he stopped and took down the gun on his body, holding it in his hand, looking for two relatively suitable sniping points, then let Xue Yumei and himself hide behind a boulder, set up the rifle, and wait.
In less than ten minutes, Liu brought dozens of brothers from the mountain stronghold and rushed over to this side of the stone seam, quickly withdrawing, while not far behind was the sound of the little devils' guns. The dense gunfire almost caught up with the New Year's firecrackers, continuously making a loud noise, including twisted guns, 92-style heavy machine guns, and mortars. It seems that this time the little devils have invested heavily in annihilating Liu and his men. Chen Shaogin and the others happened to be at the right place at the right time.
When he saw the little devil's former teammates chasing into the stone seam road, Chen Shaoqin immediately pulled the trigger under his right index finger. The bullet passed through the air in the narrow passage and shot directly at the little devil's brow, only to see that the little devil fell to the ground on the spot, convulsed twice, and accompanied Yanluo Wang.
The little devils behind saw the little devils in front being shot, and they became vigilant with their guns at the ready, forming a battle line. Unfortunately, there was only one narrow path here, with towering rocks tens of meters high on both sides, making it impossible to deploy troops. What's more, they couldn't even advance two people side by side.
In such an environment, as long as someone with good marksmanship is guarding here, they will find it difficult to break through, which gives Chen Shaokan's second gun a chance.
Right after Chen Shaoqin pulled the trigger of the second shot, the bullet whizzed out of the barrel and directly penetrated another devil's head without any deviation. That devil was instantly killed on the narrow path, becoming the second obstacle to hinder the devils' team from advancing in an orderly manner.
Then Chen Shaoqin's third shot remembered that the little devil's third soldier was also hit in the head, and he died with a bullet in his brow. This time, the little devil was frightened and did not dare to move forward easily. However, at this moment, a lieutenant colonel of the devils appeared in the devils' army, seeing that the troops were ambushed by Chen Shaoqin and had no way out. He thought of a way to resist Chen Shaoqin's sniping, which was to let all the devil soldiers carry a bag of mud to rush over. With the cover of the mud package, even if there were bullets hitting the devils in the middle, they would not be able to penetrate the devils' bodies. In this way, the little devils could swagger back from the narrow path, completely destroying Liu's defensive position and leaving him nowhere to hide.
Liu brought his brother to retreat, saw Chen Shaoqin helping to block the little devils, and stayed to help. When he saw Chen Shaoqin's gun skills on the battlefield, he felt ashamed again. But when he saw the cunning little devils using earthbags to shield their bodies and heads, continuing to charge over, he became somewhat flustered: "Brother, the devils are cunning, we can't kill them like this, let's retreat to our position and defend!"
"No way, the geographical environment here is favorable to us. We just need to organize a few brothers with good marksmanship to guard here and strike those little devils who rush over from the narrow passage. That way, we can hold our position. Otherwise, our rear position will be lost under the enemy's bombardment in less than three minutes, and many of our brothers will die!" Chen Shaoqin opposed Liu's proposal, but at the same time, he gave Liu the most important position to decide for himself whether they could hold on or not, after all, he had no right to dictate others' thoughts.
"But these little devils used earth bags to block the bullets, and then they recklessly charged towards the narrow pass. I believe that within ten minutes, they should be able to break through the defense of this narrow pass!" Faced with the cunning of the little devils, Liu felt that there was no better way out, so his only choice was to retreat to the front line of the position and use the brothers' powerful firepower to counterattack.
"Like this, gather the hand grenades in your brothers' hands and bring them all here!" Chen Shaoqin seemed to have thought of a way, so he didn't wait for Liu's words to finish, and immediately discussed this matter with Liu, hoping that Liu could fully cooperate with him to ambush at this intersection.
"Don't worry, I'll gather all the grenades and whatnot for you. But listen up, brother - if things get too tough, fall back to our position and fight alongside the brothers against those little devils."
"Definitely!" Chen Shaoqin said, once again gripping the gun in his hand, focusing intently on the little devils coming from the opposite side, looking for an opportunity to take action against them. Meanwhile, Liu the Crooked went straight to the top of the mountain to gather grenades, not daring to hesitate for a moment.
In less than two minutes, Liu and a dozen or so brothers carried the hand grenades to Chen Shaoqin's face, then Liu rushed to Chen Shaoqin and said: "As you ordered, all the hand grenades are here, it's up to you now!"
"Brothers, pull the safety pins of the hand grenades and wait for my command to throw them at the little devils together!" Chen Shaoqin said after turning around to face his brothers who were holding the hand grenades.
