Chapter 975 Encountering the Enemy

What Shang Zhen was worried about did not happen.

As the sky brightened, the distance he could see became farther and farther.

The hill they were on was covered with a variety of miscellaneous trees and shrubs, but there were also bare rocks. The area about a mile below the hill to the west was an open area formed by shrubs and puddles.

Seeing this, Shang Zhen felt relieved. At least there was no Japanese position here.

Shang Zhen heard that when it rained a few days ago, the soldiers at the main position of the Forty Army stood in waist-deep water and shot at the Japanese army.

He definitely believed that the Chinese army was suffering like this due to inferior weapons. If it was the Japanese army, forget it. As the attacker, the Japanese army could not build their positions in such a low-lying place.

There are sparse woods at the end of the open land, and a corner of the house is exposed in the southwest corner of the woods. As for how many houses there are behind the woods, we can't see them because of the obstruction of the woods.

After watching for a while, even Shang Zhen couldn't see anything unusual with his telescope. He couldn't even see a rabbit in the open field, let alone a dead person.

He should ask He Gui, Shang Zhen thought to himself, but he looked back and saw that He Gui was sleeping soundly with his arms around his rifle, so he turned his head back without saying a word.

Shang Zhen and the others spent a lot of time wading in the water before midnight yesterday. Although the temperature has risen now, their feet are still cold. Some soldiers simply took off their shoes when sleeping, and some were still wearing cotton hats. But he stuffed his feet into his cotton hat and went to sleep.

But when Shang Zhen looked closer, he was surprised to find that there was a small puddle about 200 to 300 meters below the hill. The color was wrong. It was faintly red!

Are there bodies there? Shang Zhen became nervous.

He looked carefully again, but didn't see it. He looked carefully with a telescope again, and still felt that the color of the water was wrong.

What's going on? Do you want to go down and take a look?

Shang Zhen knew that if the puddle had been a battlefield and many people had died there, then of course the water would be red, but as the fighting stopped, the water and blood would separate.

Although Shang Zhen didn't know that the specific gravity of blood is greater than that of water, he did know that blood is thicker than water, so after enough time for precipitation, the blood will sink and turn into clear water again.

While Shang Zhen was hesitating, the old man who had just climbed up to him said in a low voice: "I saw people coming over there! There seems to be a group of them!"

"Where?" Shang Zhen asked and raised the telescope in the direction pointed by Big Boss. After a while, he really saw someone in the telescope, but it was the Japanese army!

There were roughly thirty Japanese soldiers, but among them the black guy carried by four Japanese soldiers was the most obvious.

With Shang Zhen's combat experience, he knew at a glance that it was a Japanese heavy machine gun!

Shang Zhen had personally touched a real Japanese heavy machine gun, and his impression of that guy was just one word: heavy!

Shang Zhen didn't know how the so-called "shen" was spoken in the south. In Northeastern dialect, it meant that the weight was definitely not light.

That guy always has a hundred pounds.

One hundred kilograms is not too heavy, and Shang Zhen can lift it by himself. But the problem is that it is a machine gun and a weapon that needs to be used on the battlefield. It is definitely not possible for one person to do it by just throwing it around. It is also very troublesome for four people to carry a heavy object across mountains and rivers on the battlefield.

Therefore, just thinking about it, if you want to move a heavy machine gun and put it into battle, you will definitely need a lot of people, including those who carry the gun and those who carry ammunition, which all require manpower.

"It seems that the little devil wants to set up a heavy machine gun position here. If that's the case, we shouldn't go far!" Old Ball also crawled over.

As soon as they heard that Japanese troops were coming, the soldiers who were also awake went to call the ones who were not awake. Some of the soldiers who were still awake sat up immediately when they heard that the Japanese soldiers were coming, without being called.

The arrival of the Japs represents battle, which means life and death. When soldiers hear that the invaders are coming, they have to grab their guns and fight. But when the ignorant children hear that the Japs are coming, they can immediately stop crying in the middle of the night. , war is the best way to cultivate people’s conditioned reflexes!

The Chinese nation is a great nation.

And the reason why it is great is not only because it has created brilliance that other nations in the world cannot create, but also because it has endured too much suffering in its five thousand years of history.

It is just people's wishful thinking that there will be no more weapons in the world to rob people of their lives and work in peace and contentment. Only those who can stand up and seek happiness for the people and peace for the world in the face of natural disasters and man-made disasters can be the true backbone of the Chinese nation!

As soon as Lao Qiuzi said that the Japanese would set up heavy machine gun positions here, the hungry and sleepy soldiers became energetic. Although some of them still had timidity on their faces, many more were gearing up. .

"Oh, if you stupid little devil dares to set up a position here, he probably doesn't know we are here!" Li Dabai understood again.

"Eighty percent of it, they definitely don't know. How could they know that we came in the middle of the night?" Ma Erpao said angrily.

"I -" Li Daxin, who thought he was definitely right this time, didn't expect to be robbed again, and his face turned red at that time.

At this time, Ma Chuncai, who was not far away, had an expression of gloating on his face, but he remained silent.

Through the last incident of leaving the team, Ma Chuncai has now figured out a truth, that is, talk less at ordinary times, otherwise you will always say the wrong thing, then even if you are right once in a while, people will say you are wrong!

So, you bitch Li Da Ming asked you to pretend to understand, so you can get scolded, and I won’t fucking say anything!

But at this time, Shang Zhen looked at the Japanese troops coming from a distance and already had a pensive expression on his face.

Through the telescope, the Japanese army was not moving very fast. Four people could not move fast enough to lift the heavy machine gun, and the soldiers behind also needed to carry ammunition. Who knew that the bullets of the heavy machine gun would be consumed very quickly after the battle started.

The Japanese army was still far away, so Shang Zhen ignored it and started to observe the terrain in front again. However, with the forest in front of him, which was not big but enough to block his sight, he couldn't figure out the reason.

"Stop looking, the little devil is here, let's get ready to fight, right?" Lao Qiuzi said to Shang Zhen excitedly.

Of course the old man had reason to be excited. This was a piece of meat that was put to his mouth. Not many Japanese troops came. Even if there were thirty people in total, a platoon gun would knock down ten or eight of them, and then condescendingly kill seven more. There are eight of them, and the rest will be scared out of their wits if they are not beaten to death.

When Old Qiuzi said this, Shang Zhen immediately put down the telescope and retracted his head. Those who didn't know better would have thought that Old Qiuzi was an officer and Shang Zhen was a soldier.

However, Shang Zhen turned his head and ignored Old Qiuzi and instead asked, "Are you awake yet?"

"Sir, I'm awake." He Gui replied quickly among the soldiers.

"Can you tell how far this place is from the main position?" Shang Zhen asked.

"I looked just now. I have never been to this area. There are woods in front of me and I can't see anything." He Gui replied.

He Gui's answer is reasonable.

He is just a correspondent and not a local. It would be good if he could be familiar with the village roads. Now when I go to the wilderness, I randomly find a place and ask him, where is this? How could he know, unless he was the legendary Earth Lord.

"If this wasn't a battlefield, what were those little devils doing here with their heavy machine guns?" Shang Zhen seemed to be asking other people and just talking to himself.