Chapter 64 Continue Marching Towards Xuzhou

  As the devil's upper hand held a dagger about to pierce Chen Shaoqin's back, Xue Yumei anxiously pulled out the pistol that Chen Shaoqin had let her hold during the battle against the devils. With the gun pressed against her body, she was about to pull the trigger. Although she knew Chen Shaoqin had repeatedly declared that no one was allowed to fire a shot, she couldn't bear to watch Chen Shaoqin being killed by the little devil right in front of her. Her trembling hands tightly grasped the pistol, slowly aiming at the little devil, her index finger lightly pressing on the trigger...

  This string of movements that looked unfamiliar yet flawless was seen by Liu, who turned around and used his right hand to snatch the gun from Xue Yumei's hand, while his left hand threw out a flying dart. The dart hit the top of the little devil's stabbing knife with great force, directly causing the devil's thrusting knife to deviate from its target, not even touching Chen Shaobin's skin, and fell empty.

  Chen Shaoqin heard the metallic clanging sound of the dagger being struck by the flying dart, and immediately turned around to punch the little devil. This punch was neither biased nor deviated, and it landed squarely on the little devil's throat. At that moment, only a cracking sound was heard, and the devil's trachea was broken. The wound at the break split open to the carotid artery, and a stream of fresh blood gushed up from the fractured glottis, causing difficulty breathing instantly. His eyes rolled back, his face turned pale, and he fell to the ground struggling, and then died.

  When Chen Shaoqin took down the little devil, he returned the pistol in his hand to Xue Yumei. He was very clear that snatching Xue Yumei's pistol was his fault, but at that time, the situation was urgent, and if he didn't stop it in time, he was afraid that their whereabouts would be exposed to the little devils, and at that time, they would attract more little devils.

  Inside, the devils are pursuing and attacking, outside, the devils have a large encirclement, their fate is unpredictable. Therefore, Liu doesn't feel much guilt, after all, he did what he should do. If Xue Yumei really wants to calculate with him, then he can only endure it silently, after all, good men don't fight with women, the devils haven't been killed yet, where's the mood to calculate with Xue Yumei?

  Xue Yumei took the gun handed over by Lao Liu, while looking at him in surprise. At this moment, her heart was secretly grateful that Lao Liu did not intend to reveal that she had almost fired the gun without permission, otherwise it would be difficult for her to explain to Chen Shaoqin. However, she was also annoyed that he had taken the gun out of her hands, so in her gaze at Lao Liu, there was a mix of gratitude and resentment, leaving her unsure whether to thank or blame him.

  "Gather all the ammunition and hand grenades from those little devils, we'll use them later!" Chen Shaoqin didn't notice the unusual expressions between Liu and Xue Yumei, but after seeing all the little devils become corpses, he immediately ordered everyone to do so. He was very clear that their journey this time would be long, and ammunition replenishment would be a major problem, so as long as there was an opportunity, he would let his brothers collect as much ammunition as possible.

  The more ammunition, the better; as for guns, they only need these in their hands. After all, if there are too many, they will be too heavy to move around. This way, not only won't it be a good thing, but it will also increase the burden. Therefore, Chen Shaoqin only issued an order to collect ammunition and ignore the weapons.

  "We don't want so many weapons, but we can't leave them for the little devils either!" Xue Yumei put away the gun in her hand and came to Chen Shaoqin's side. When she saw that more than a dozen guns were still on the ground with no one taking care of them, she seemed to feel that something was not quite right and looked at Chen Shaoqin with inquiry.

  She knew that since Chen Shaoqin had given the order to only collect enemy ammunition, she naturally believed that Chen Shaoqin had considered this matter. She didn't want to speculate about anything, but with these guns in front of her, she felt that if they didn't do something about it, they would be letting the little devils off easy, and that was something she was not willing to do.

  "Don't worry, I won't leave a single one for the little devils!" Chen Shaoqin said to Xue Yumei as soon as he heard her words, as if he had already calculated it in his heart. Xue Yumei's concerns were simply unnecessary worries. It was well known that Chen Shaoqin was not someone who would easily let the little devils gain even a slight advantage. With so many guns right in front of him, even if he couldn't take them away, he wouldn't leave them for the little devils. This point was consistent with Xue Yumei's thoughts, but different from hers, Chen Shaoqin had already thought about how to deal with these guns. "Old Liu, later you bring a few brothers to unload the ammunition from these guns and let me use it myself. Then throw these guns together with the devils' corpses into the valley on our left. The air there is very thick and you can't see far. I believe the little devils will definitely not be able to find them!"

  "Are the corpses also to be thrown away?" Liu, the leader of the group, looked at Chen Shaoqin with a puzzled expression. The guns could be thrown away and forgotten, but these one or two hundred jin heavy corpses were also expected to be disposed of by them. He thought it was unnecessary, besides, his comrades were already exhausted from marching, how could they bear to carry such heavy corpses to the edge of the mountain valley? Therefore, he wanted to ask on behalf of his comrades whether there was any room for reconsideration of this order.

  "Lao Liu, how come you don't understand? This arrangement by Chen Shaoqin is to keep our tracks from being exposed to the little devils as much as possible. Why can't we increase the time for a safe breakthrough? Otherwise, if the little devils discover this body, they'll know our direction of advance in no time. With their advanced communication, they'll definitely notify the ghost troops ahead of us to increase their interception strength. At that time, won't we be looking for trouble ourselves?" Xue Yumei saw that Lao Liu didn't quite understand Chen Shaoqin's arrangement, so she explained it to him, with an increasingly knowing look on her face, making everyone envy her.

  "Alright, I'll go arrange for the brothers to do something!" Lao Liu heard Xue Yumei's words and seemed to understand Chen Shaoyin's intention. He immediately called out to several brothers to start doing things. Within less than ten minutes, they threw all the Japanese corpses and those broken guns without bullets into the valley. They even carefully cleaned up the tree leaves and ground stained with blood, making it look like nothing had happened.

  Afterwards, Chen Shaoqin led his brothers to continue walking in the direction of Xuzhou. At this time, in the command post of the Japanese army's Xuzhou garrison, Matsuda was scolding a major under him: "Hachiga, how did you do the security work for Xuzhou? Right in front of our position, an entire battalion of Imperial Army soldiers disappeared under your nose. Do you still have the face to see me?"

  "Major, I was derelict in my duty!" The captain immediately hung his head in shame, assuming a posture that took full responsibility.

  "Matsumoto-san, this is not Hashimoto-san's fault. I dare to say that it was done by the War Eagle Sniper Unit!" Nomura said immediately in front of Matsumoto.

  "It's impossible, the Chinese army's goal is to escape from Xuzhou battlefield and go to Chongqing to find their main forces, how can they appear here? You know that outside Xuzhou city, I have arranged two squadrons to take charge of the outer ring, preventing the Chinese army from counterattacking. If they come back, it's like eggs hitting a rock!" Matsuda clearly didn't believe Nomura's words, in his view Chen Shaokun and others would never return to Xuzhou.