Chapter 49: Trapped Again, Thinking of an Escape Route

  "Mr. Matsuda, the Chinese army has abandoned its position and is fleeing into the forest. Shall we continue to pursue?" A lieutenant approached Matsuda, not bothering to calm his anger, but instead asking if the troops should continue to attack. After all, these Chinese had caused them significant casualties on their front line, and if they did nothing and let them disappear from view, none of them would be able to bear it.

  "Damn the Chinese! Order the troops, continue to pursue them! Don't let a single one escape!" Matsuda's trembling voice almost echoed throughout the mountain forest, it was clear that he hated Chen Shaogin and his men to the bone, if he didn't capture Chen Shaogin and his men, his heart wouldn't be at ease.

  "Ah hai!" The lieutenant colonel immediately responded, then beckoned to the troops behind him. Two squads of devils immediately followed him with their Type 38 rifles in hand, charging into the woods while continuously firing, disturbing the quiet forest with the sound of gunfire. Soon, under the leadership of the lieutenant colonel, the little devils charged into the second line of defense where Chen Shaoqin and others had previously been.

  Originally intended to continue the charge, but at this time, that lieutenant carefully discovered the phone's lanyard and the nearly transparent silk thread. He then searched in the direction of the thread and found a hand grenade near a relatively hidden sandbag. He walked forward: "Baka, cunning Shina people!"

  After finishing, he tried to use the command knife in his hand to gently separate the transparent pull line of the grenade, and then turned around to say to the little devil following behind: "There is a trap set by the Chinese army here. The vanguard is responsible for clearing the mine, and other soldiers follow behind!"

  As soon as he finished speaking, a team of Japanese vanguard immediately drew their bayonets from their waists and slowly approached the sandbags and trees on the battlefield, carefully searching for hand grenades and tripwires. Once found, they would cut off the tripwire at the first time, gently remove the grenade, place it on the ground, and then continue to search for the next one. The other little devils were about 20 meters behind the vanguard, following in a steady pace.

  At this moment, Chen Shaoqin still did not know that the guerrilla was discovered by the devils. He led more than a dozen brothers to continue rushing forward in the forest. However, after running for about half an hour, all the brothers were short of breath due to intense exercise and were panting heavily. They temporarily rested on the side, leaning against a big tree, gasping for air.

  "It's strange, why didn't our booby trap go off?" Chen Shaoqin stopped and looked back with a puzzled expression. Originally, when they were pulling the devils into the forest, if the little ghosts had chased them out, they would have definitely triggered the booby trap. At this distance, they should have heard the sound of many hand grenades exploding, but strangely, until now, they hadn't heard any sound at all. This couldn't help but make Chen Shaoqin wonder, "Xiao Shi Tou, A Si, when we retreated, did we hang up all the booby traps?"

  "Don't worry, Officer Chen. Every single one of the installed Thunderbolt we left with the string pulled!" Xiaoshi said affirmatively, recalling clearly that he and Ah Si had indeed pulled the strings before leaving during their retreat.

  "Didn't the little devils pursue us this time?" Xue Yumei guessed, she believed that Xiaoshi and the others were telling the truth, and besides, when they installed the booby trap, she was right next to them, so she thought it was more likely that the little devils hadn't pursued them, otherwise they should have heard the sound of the hand grenade exploding.

  "Or did the little devils discover our ambush?" Liu Guai guessed, in these few battles with the little devils, they would never let them off easily. Every time after the main force retreated, the little devils would always launch a pursuit attack from behind, and the scale of the pursuit was quite large. So this time he absolutely did not believe that the little devils would show mercy and change their usual pursuit measures.

  "No matter what, this isn't a place for us to stay for long. If those little devils are as Liu said, then they're already behind us now. We have to leave here immediately!" Chen Shaoqin suddenly felt a chill run down his back, as if something big was about to happen, and he couldn't shake off the feeling that lingered in his mind. He began to feel uneasy, and after saying this, he immediately rallied all his brothers, "Brothers, let's make haste! First, let's get out of the woods!"

  The brothers used the long guns in their hands to support their bodies, slowly leaving the big tree that was leaning against their bodies, and then continued to move forward with difficulty. Although their bodies had already reached the limit of physical exhaustion, no one wanted to move again. However, they all knew that if they stayed here to rest, the devils would catch up soon, and there wouldn't be any good fruits for them to eat. So they all persisted in getting up and continuing their march.

  Just as they were about to leave, a large group of little devil soldiers suddenly rushed out from behind them. The little devil walking in the front saw Chen Shaobin and his men, immediately pulled the trigger, and fired at Chen Shaobin's team, causing another casualty.

  Three or four brothers were shot dead by the devils, and the other brothers hid behind a large tree after hearing the gunfire, using the tree as cover to dodge the little devils.

  "Lao Liu, it seems you were right this time. The little devils have discovered our minefield and cleared it in the shortest time possible. They've even accelerated their march and caught up with us!" Chen Shaoqin cocked his pistol, hiding behind a large tree, and glanced at Lao Liu, who was also hiding behind a nearby tree.

  "Director Chen, this is not the time to talk about that, we are surrounded by devils, think of a way to break through!" Liu, who was holding a long gun, asked Director Chen to think of a solution while shooting at the incoming devils.

  "Yes, the devils are getting more and more, if we delay here again, I'm afraid none of us can get out!" Xiaoshi also saw that the situation was not right, while shooting at the little devil, he said to Chen Shaoqin, they put all their hopes on Chen Shaoqin, hoping that Chen Shaoqin could think of a way as soon as possible, and lead them to escape from this forest, escape from the encirclement of the little devils.

  "That's right! Brothers, we can't fight hard here anymore. The enemy's firepower is too strong, and if we continue to fight hard, we'll all have to pay the price here. So we must transfer to the back mountain!" Chen Shaoqin thought for a moment, and when he saw the high mountains in the dense forest behind the mountain, he immediately had an idea.

  "How to transfer? Our surroundings are all little devils!" Xue Yumei also held a Southern 14, while talking to Chen Shaoqin, she fired at the little devils. At this time, she seemed to have matured a bit more, at least when firing, her hands no longer trembled and she didn't drop the gun and cover her ears...