Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

call!call!

Ahem! Ahem!

Aoki was running out of breath. He didn't know how long he had been running. When he felt that no one was chasing him, he stopped and gasped violently.

The same was true for the other Japanese and puppet troops. At this time, there were only about twenty Japanese soldiers left with Aoki, and less than thirty puppet troops.

Looking at the defeated troops under his command, Aoki felt mixed emotions.

Thinking about Aoki, such an excellent commander, he has ended up in this situation.

If he knew who ambushed him, he would make the other party pay with blood.

After a fierce look, Aoki finally calmed down and checked the surrounding terrain.

He didn't know where he was running to at this moment. He had just retreated in a hurry. In order to escape the battle quickly, he changed direction several times, so at this moment, he didn't know where he was.

There are towering ancient trees all around, with intertwined branches and leaves that block out the sun. Only in very few places can you see the blue sky and the mottled shadows cast by the sunlight.

They were now in a long canyon, with dense forests and high mountains on both sides. It was a perfect place for hiding.

Even Aoki was a little impressed by himself at this moment, as he actually brought people here.

It was obviously impossible for the pursuers behind to catch up here.

But at the same time, new problems arose because Aoki was lost.

Lieutenant Colonel Aoki stopped and slowly took out a wrinkled map and a slightly old compass from his waist.

Aoki narrowed his eyes and carefully compared the surrounding terrain with the markings on the map.

The compass needle swayed gently in the silence.

Aoki's brows furrowed increasingly. He adjusted the angle several times, trying to determine the location of Phoenix City through the compass.

But for some reason, the compass was severely disturbed and became extremely unstable.

"Damn it, what's going on with the magnetic field here?"

Qingmu was angry, but he could do nothing. The compass was no longer usable, and he needed to rely on other things to determine the direction first, and then determine his current location.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm his anxiety, and searched around for any natural signs that might point the way.

But unfortunately, apart from the endless greenery and the occasional calls of unknown birds and animals, the surroundings were dead silent.

Lieutenant Colonel Aoki realized that they were completely lost in the vast forest.

He wanted to find the sun, but the weather was not good and a large dark cloud floated over the clear sky.

The sun's rays were completely blocked, making it a luxury to use the sun as a symbol.

All that was left at this time was to cut down trees and determine the direction by the tree rings.

Of course, a more convenient way is to rely on the tree canopy.

However, they were in a dense jungle at the moment, and it was completely futile to judge the direction by the treetops.

So Aoki had no choice but to order two Japanese soldiers to go into the woods to cut down trees, and then use the tree rings to determine the direction they were in at the moment.

The two Japanese soldiers carried engineering shovels and went to look for some smaller trees, otherwise they would not be able to cut down the big tree that was as thick as an arm even if they waited until dark.

Soon the two found a small tree as thick as a bowl in an open area.

This is also the reason why Aoki did not allow the puppet army to cut down trees, but instead allowed the Japanese to do it.

The people under his command were all professionally trained. On the contrary, what did the puppet soldiers know? If they were asked to cut down trees and then point the way, they might be able to walk back to the enemy's encirclement.

Qingmu watched his men chopping trees with shovels, and his slightly anxious heart finally calmed down. But at this moment, a gunshot was heard, and the Japanese who were chopping trees hard suddenly fell to the ground.

The other Japanese soldier was so scared that he dropped the ordnance shovel in his hand and crawled back.

  How could he fight the enemy with only an ordnance shovel and no weapons?

When he ran back, he collapsed to the ground, feeling as if he had lived two lives.

"Baga, you idiot!"

Aoki scolded the Japanese soldier who ran back, because it was obvious that this Japanese soldier was deliberately released back by the other side.

In other words, the other side did not find the location of their main force, so they killed one imperial soldier and released one back in order to find the location of all of them.

However, why is Aoki so sure?

Because with the opponent's marksmanship, there is absolutely no possibility for his subordinate to come back.

At the same time, the Japanese soldier who ran back also realized it.

Before, he was only concerned with running away and didn't think too much about it, but now that he thought about it, it was indeed the other party who let him come back.

But it was too late to say anything now, he had already run back.

And Aoki did not continue to scold his men, but quickly gave orders: "Quick! Find cover and prepare for battle!"

After saying that, he quickly found a big tree as a cover, drew the pistol from his waist, and looked around vigilantly.

The surrounding trees were dense and the vision was blocked. Aoki knew very well that in such an environment, the enemy would probably use the terrain to approach him quietly.

He was thinking to himself that he must determine the enemy's position and number as quickly as possible so that he could formulate appropriate countermeasures.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, another gunshot was heard, but this time, it was a puppet soldier who was looking out and had his head blown off.

"Sniper, it's a sniper."

A Japanese soldier shouted in panic.

Because what is the scariest thing in the jungle? Not poisonous snakes or wild beasts, but snipers.

A poisonous snake may not bite you, and a wild beast cannot defeat the gun in your hand. Only a sniper is the most terrifying existence.

He can pull the trigger without you noticing, and by the time you hear the gunshot, your head may have already exploded.

Because the speed of a bullet is twice that of sound.

So when the Japanese shouted that it was a sniper, the Japanese and puppet troops present were all very panicked.

Aoki was still trying to calm himself and gave orders to his men to organize themselves.

Order two devils to check the dead puppet soldiers.

Of course, Aoki was not concerned about the life or death of the puppet soldiers, but wanted to see the general direction of the enemy's shooting from the puppet soldiers' wounds.

The machine gun team is ready to open fire at any time to provide fire coverage to suspicious areas.

The sniper team must shoot and kill the enemy directly after they reveal a flaw.

Judging from the sound of the gunfire, Aoki thought there were one to two people on the other side.

On the contrary, they had more people, nearly 60 in total. Although most of them were puppet soldiers, they could send them out to die at a critical moment.

So at this time, he was not afraid of outnumbering others, but was a little worried that this sniper was just an enemy scout, and the enemy's real main force was about to arrive! (End of this chapter)