Chapter 28: The Shocking Ambush (Part 1)

  Li Baoguo swept his eyes over the team members, "Those who are good at swimming raise their hands." Without mobilization or preaching, the soldiers all knew that this was a time to show real skills. Li Baoguo often said that people can't be good at everything, and the characteristic of special warfare is to gather everyone's strengths to achieve the greatest effect. So here, only practical results are sought, no need to show attitude. It's possible that it won't work sometimes, there's no need to force it just for show, because this is war! This is special warfare!

  Six warriors raised their hands, "Two more are needed."

  "I'm going with Liu Jian!" Nan Wei Ren had already instructed the soldiers to erase the traces and clean up the battlefield, and walked over. The bodies of the devils were buried in the pit where they had hidden earlier, and the camouflage was done very carefully, almost the same as before.

  Li Baoguo nodded, "Others cover us, after we pass by, eliminate the traces, and retreat to the forest to gather. We," he turned around to face the soldiers who raised their hands, "keep a distance of two meters, look at the devils in the direction of the pontoon bridge, when rushing down the gentle slope to the riverbank's flat ground, we must be fast, and lower our bodies. I'll go first."

  Nan quietly took the binoculars from the warrior's hand and followed him to the south end of the slope, crouching in the grass. "Ready, go!" Li Baoguo lowered his body, ten meters away, and rushed over in a few seconds. On the riverbank, there was again a dense thicket of grass, and Li Baoguo bent down to carefully observe the sentry posts on both sides of the pontoon bridge. After a while, he slowly crawled towards the river water.

  Xu De was the second, carrying three water mines, and quickly rushed to the riverbank. Nan Wei Ren was originally a sniper king, with comprehensive and accurate observation of the enemy, grasping time extremely accurately. When he himself finally rushed to the riverbank, the soldiers on this side quietly withdrew from their positions and hid in the woods.

  The weather has already turned cold in the ninth month of the lunar calendar. Although it's said that autumn is a tiger in the north, the water temperature in the afternoon was already very chilly. Li Baoguo was the first to enter the water and had swum to the middle of the river. The autumn water wasn't very deep, and the current wasn't very rapid, but the water temperature made it difficult for them to withstand. Looking back, Li Baoguo quickened his pace. In order to make the explosive devices arrive at the floating bridge simultaneously, he had to release the two ends first. Li Baoguo saw Nan Zhenren arrive and placed three explosive devices in sequence, then swam upstream. The soldiers in the middle didn't dare stay in the middle of the river after Li Baoguo and his team released the explosive devices, quickly releasing them and chasing after them. At this time, the devils also discovered people in the river, and machine gun bullets whizzed over. The soldiers behind began to swim underwater and approached the north bank. However, the small helmets on the water surface became tiny black dots in the sunlight near dusk, in the long shadows of the riverbank, making it easy for them to be overlooked. The devils on the floating bridge looked at the people in the river who were being shot at by machine guns and laughed loudly, pointing and shouting. Someone discovered the small black dots in the river - they were the helmets of the Imperial Army! The steel helmets that had been turned upside down were actually floating on the water surface! As they got closer, it was clear that there were branches supporting them. No! There were so many! That person from earlier... Ah!

  The helmet finally stopped at the edge of the floating bridge, and a devilish figure bent down to pick up this strange helmet! Drip, drip, drip... Bang! Bang!

  It is said that after the event, Yayoi Kunizuka was deeply impressed by this helmet bomb and repeatedly praised its genius design.

  Watching the pontoon and the devils on it disappear in the explosion, Li Baoguo lay down gently, letting out a breath. The devil's military uniform that had been put on was not suitable, but it was better than being wet and cold. It was just the shoes, which couldn't be found to fit so well for the time being, and many devil uniforms were wasted before they could barely make the shoes half dry, no longer making a squelching sound when walking. Nan Weiren and his Blood Blade Company really didn't have anything to say, one shot killed them without saying, there was no bullet hole on this uniform, all of which were shot in the devil's neck, the main artery was crushed, so although they died ugly, it ensured that the enemy did not make a sound.

  "The devils' search party is here!" Liu Jian came to report, Xu De, Song Yan Chun and Zhang Qian Kui adjusted their troops, looking at Li Bao Guo and Nan Wei Ren. Li Bao Guo was lying still, with a blade of grass in his mouth, his head resting on his hands, his legs crossed, gently swaying his calf. Nan Wei Ren leaned against Li Bao Guo's side, "How many people?"

  "A squadron, about three hundred people." Liu Jian replied softly, "Still three hundred meters away from here."

  "You take people to withdraw to the front forest first, and I will observe with Captain Li again."

  Liu Jian handed over Nan Weiren's sniper rifle and turned to leave. He knew that Nan Weiren's gun had been specially modified, it was his own handwriting. The title of Nan Weiren's "Gun King" was also derived from this unique skill. After being modified by him, the overall coordination of the gun was better, and the accuracy was higher.

  When Liu Jian withdrew 100 meters, two teams each left a class of troops in the woods behind a depression in the grassland, led by Song Yanchun and Zhang Qiankui.

  Li Baoguo gently patted the grenade in his pocket, for him who preferred heavy firepower, grenades were a more convenient thing in this era. (The grenade launcher is a device mounted on the muzzle of a rifle when firing a grenade. In fact, at that time, the National Army had already equipped with a small number of grenade launchers, which was simpler than Japan's. The Japanese Type 91 grenade required the launcher to be placed on the ground, and the grenade had four rear wings; while the National Army used the Zhongzheng rifle to fire the Erba grenade. Here, for convenience, it is hung under the rifle.)

  Nan Wei Ren crouched quietly beside a pine tree, watching the devils slowly search over. If there were no military dogs, the devils really wouldn't have been able to find the buried bodies of the patrol team, and naturally, they wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses. When the devil sergeant used his bayonet to gently lift up the grass above, he discovered one corpse after another, shiny and smooth, apparently those of Imperial soldiers, their necks slashed with bloody flesh. The sergeant let out a long cry, his angry expression visible even from hundreds of meters away - of course, through binoculars. Immediately, devils rushed over to lift up the devils in the pit.

  Obviously, the sergeant recognized the dead devils and his painful appearance was quite sympathetic. When people are distracted, aren't they all a bit careless? When people are sad, aren't they all a bit confused?

  "The show is on!" Li Baoguo had somehow crept over, slowly loading the grenade launcher. Nan Weiren was slowly adjusting the sight, inside which was framed the Japanese platoon leader who was directing the search.

  The devils in the pit were just lifted off the ground, and around the pit where the devil's corpse was located, a radius of tens of meters simultaneously triggered an explosion! In fact, no matter which corpse the devils moved, there would be such a result.

  Just as the explosion sounded, Li and Nan's guns also fired. Without looking at the result, the two quickly retreated backwards. The devils must be coming after them, they had to run far away before the devils arrived.

  A massive explosion shocked the Japanese garrison, and Captain Kobayakawa Toshio was in a simple yet elegant room sipping tea. He was a university professor specializing in classical Chinese literature and had a deep understanding of Chinese culture. His favorite things were a cup of clear tea, a melody of clear singing, and a painting that was truly a national treasure of China, created by Tang Bohu*. As an art piece to appreciate, it was also a kind of beautiful vehicle for his fantasies.

  Looking at the woman in the painting, Kobayakawa suddenly thought back to his university days. The image of a pure female student appeared, and he was deeply stimulated. Although he was already over 50 years old, he considered himself still vigorous and had often been with female students in the academy, especially those who were newly enrolled and innocent.

  Kobayakawa fantasized about the beauty in his mind, "Xiu Xiu, you've come? Come here, my treasure!" He thought of how he had deceived and seduced Xiu Xiu before going to war. The feeling of pleasure when he first had her was still vivid in his memory. Xiu Xiu's delicate face scrunched up, her white teeth lightly biting her red lips, and she couldn't help but let out a painful moan.

  "Oh, Xiu Xiu!" Looking at the painting, Kobayakawa's fantasy was about to reach its climax when suddenly an explosion started. It almost made him jump in surprise. The explosion of the floating bridge earlier had not caused him to panic. In his words, some people were just like that - they wouldn't give up until they achieved their goal.

  From yesterday's attack, he thought that the floating bridge being blown up was only a matter of time. So when he heard the explosion, he felt a slight sense of satisfaction.