Chapter 952: Gunslinger’s Showdown (5)
"I don't know if the Japanese can be fooled." Li Dabai whispered in the woods.
"Is there anything else you, Li Da, don't understand?" Old Qiuzi replied teasingly.
Li Da knew nothing.
Now the two of them are hiding in the woods together.
There were several people hiding behind the tree not far away. They were all veterans. There was even a machine gun next to the Ma Second Artilleryman who was lying behind the tree, but the machine gun was not set up.
"Pa", another shot of a Type 38 rifle came from behind them.
But this time none of the veterans looked back.
The gunshot was not fired once or twice, just because Shang Zhen used a trick this time.
Shang Zhen believed that the Japanese troops chasing after him probably didn't know that all the Japanese troops in the woods had been wiped out by them.
Then Ma Erpao and others were driven over by the Japanese army from outside the woods. If there was gunfire from this end, the Japanese army chasing after them would judge that their Japanese soldiers were attacking and killing the Chinese army.
Therefore, Shang Zhen hoped to eliminate the Japanese snipers by setting up such a small ambush. This is why he asked the soldiers to drag most of the Japanese corpses into the woods.
The Japanese team they encountered this time was too difficult to deal with. They originally numbered more than 80 people, but now they only have more than 30 people left. And what about the Japanese army? The corpses they have seen so far are only eleven people.
In Shang Zhen's words, this group of Japanese devils are a big scourge. If we can take this opportunity to kill them, it will be considered a scourge for our Chinese army!
The veterans also expressed different opinions on Shang Zhen's combat plan just now.
They believed that they had eliminated 11 Japanese soldiers by losing 50 of more than 80 people. Then how many more Japanese soldiers could they destroy with more than 30 people? In the end, they were afraid that all of them would have to be left here.
But Shang Zhen didn't think so, and instead analyzed the reasons for them.
Shang Zhen said that many of our people died in battle because the Japanese army occupied favorable terrain and their marksmanship was extremely accurate, so we suffered a hidden loss.
But now the tide has turned, and it's our turn to plot against the little devils. So what if their marksmanship is accurate? Let's put them about a hundred meters away, and even if we give them a platoon gun, they will die!
Besides, don’t you want to avenge your fallen brothers?
Originally, Shang Zhen was their commander, and Shang Zhen mentioned hatred again. So what can improve morale? The answer is undoubtedly hatred!
In the end, they lurked in the woods. From this position, they could see the two Japanese corpses left on the edge of the woods. The Japanese soldiers chasing after them were likely to go over to explore the corpses, and then they could shoot at the Japanese soldiers.
"The commander also said that we can decide whether to retreat after killing two little Japs. This is looking down on us." Li Da understood and spoke again.
This person always talks but can't come up with any ideas. He wants to explain everything but can't. Naturally, he will be looked down upon by others. This is how he got his nickname, Li Dabai.
When Shang Zhen assigned them tasks before, they were not very demanding. Even if the Japanese army only sent two people to investigate, if they could kill the two Japanese soldiers who were investigating, they could decide whether to retreat based on the situation.
And this is also the reason for Li Da's complaint.
"You know a lot about ball!" Old Ball naturally said to him again.
"You understand, just tell me." Li Da Ming did not argue with Lao Qiuzi. In fact, when he fought side by side with Lao Qiuzi, Lao Qiuzi was his backbone.
"We have almost fifty casualties now. How many Japanese have died? When you see the dead bodies, it's eleven. This means that five of us can equal one person.
If we could kill two Japanese soldiers at that moment, it would be equivalent to saving ten of us at once.
If that's the case, do you think it would be better if we killed two Japanese devils? "Lao Qiuzi settled the account for Li Dabai.
"If you say that, it seems right." It seemed that Li Da did not really understand. He was convinced by the old ball settler.
At this time, Shang Zhen was already in front and left of Lao Qiuzi and the others.
The woods in the wilderness are not so regular. Shang Zhen's position in the woods was just right in front of him, so he could see the two dead Japanese soldiers beside the woods.
The distance between Shang Zhen and the two dead bodies was more than 200 meters, but it didn't matter. Who said he was a good marksman? What's more, he now had two rifles beside him, one was a sniper rifle that had just been seized, and the other was. Ordinary Type 38 rifle.
As long as the Japanese troops appeared within a distance of five to six hundred meters, he thought that his marksmanship could always keep a few more Japanese troops behind.
Now, while Shang Zhen was observing the movements of the Japanese army with a telescope, he was still sighing. Sometimes in a war, all that is needed is equipment.
When he first joined the army, the first time he encountered the Japanese army was a bayonet. At first, he treated the bayonet as a treasure, but later he didn't know where it went.
From now on, I will have more weapons, such as Hanyang-made, 38-type, and box guns, but saving my life is the most important thing in battle. In order to survive, those weapons are gained one by one and lost one by one.
For example, his favorite twenty-ring box gun was used. In order to survive last time, he hid the gun and bullets in the wild without hesitation.
At that time, I thought I would go back to get the gun again if I had the chance, but now that I have traveled from the north bank of the Huaihe River to Shandong, there would be no chance to get the gun again.
Maybe the gun will be discovered by the shepherd boy, maybe it will be discovered again after a few years, but by then he may be dead, and the Japanese invaders should be driven out of China by then.
Of course, the most likely possibility is that no one discovered the gun, and it eventually rusted and rotted into scrap metal.
Maybe future generations will regard it as an antique when they discover it, just like people today get porcelain from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Who knows what future generations will think of people like us. Maybe they will say that people like us are really stupid. Three or five people can't defeat a Japanese devil!
Alas, forget it, think too far, weapons are tools after all, and the most important thing is that you are alive now. Only when you are alive can you have hope of defeating the enemy.
No, don't you have your own weapons now? Therefore, talent is the greatest wealth!
As the saying goes, the tiger still has time to take a nap.
Shang Zhen thought to himself that he was not the kind of talented person.
Although he is always in the middle of a battle, he can't always maintain his concentration. If he is always like that, he may collapse before the enemy can finish beating him.
Therefore, Shang Zhen's experience is that at a critical moment, he should not be distracted, and he has to flee when he should. He has a telescope in his hand and it's not like he can't see the Japanese troops coming.
A few minutes later, Shang Zhen finally saw the Japanese troops appear, but there were only two of them.
The two Japanese soldiers, also wearing camouflage clothes, really advanced towards the woods one after the other.
This should be the top soldier of the Japanese army, Shang Zhen thought.
This group of Japanese soldiers was well-trained. Although they also judged that their group (who was actually dead) was shooting at the Chinese army, they were still afraid of being ambushed.
Thinking of this, Shang Zhen turned his binoculars to look at where his side was ambush. His people were all ambush in the woods, so naturally no one could be seen, so he looked at the corpses of the two Japanese soldiers.
He turned the telescope to the distance on the opposite side again, and inadvertently he felt a figure suddenly flashing in the telescope's lens!
Shang Zhen hurriedly moved the telescope back, and this time he could see clearly that the thin man Qingfeng Li was hiding in a pit that was only fifty feet away from the two Japanese corpses!
Shang Zhen's arrangement was like this. There were several people shooting at the other end of the woods to attract the Japanese army. The veterans were ambushing at the edge of the woods. Qingfeng Li and more than a dozen recruits were ambushing opposite him.
Li Qingfeng and the others were more than 200 meters away from the two Japanese corpses.
The two Japanese corpses were a "trap", and Shang Zhen designed a semi-surrounding ambush formation.
But this time, Qingfeng Li came forward without permission!