The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2223 Reconnaissance (Part )

This is the outskirts of Tongbai Mountain.

Shang Zhen didn't know how high the main peak of Tongbai Mountain was, but looking at those mountains, it was only a few hundred meters high, and the periphery of this mountain was naturally low mountains and hills.

The road winds and zigzags among the low mountains and hills like a white silk ribbon.

Shang Zhen also made a special observation and found that many of the mountains were rocky, which were very suitable for ambushes.

Although Shang Zhen said he wanted to get closer for reconnaissance, he would never go to the highway. After all, this was the Japanese army's transportation line.

He took Niu Jingrui and walked along the side of the road where they could hide. Even if they were temporarily out in the open, there were always bushes and woods nearby. If they encountered any emergency, the two of them could hide as quickly as possible.

"Are you scared?" Shang Zhen asked Niu Jingrui.

"A little bit." Niu Jingrui told the truth.

“There’s no point being afraid of war, if you feel scared you can imagine it.

Of course, what I said may not sound nice, but you can imagine that if your family members were killed by the Japanese devils, you would not know what fear is because you would want revenge.

No one is born to be a soldier. Most of the people I met fighting the Japanese were like this." Shang Zhen counseled Niu Jingrui.

Niu Jingrui responded in a low voice, but his eyes were fixed on the road. He was really afraid that some Japanese devils would suddenly appear.

Shang Zhen and Niu Jingrui walked forward while talking. They climbed over a low hill covered with trees.

But just when he reached the foot of the hill and was about to exit the woods, Shang Zhen suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?" Niu Jingrui sensed something was wrong with Shang Zhen.

"Don't talk, hide and don't move." Shang Zhen hid himself behind a tree and looked to the left front.

Niu Jingrui became nervous and looked in the direction Shang Zhen was looking.

But after looking for a while, he only saw a relatively high mountain in front of him on the left. He couldn't see anything else about the mountain except the lush bushes and trees all over the mountain and the fact that it was not far from the road.

He looked to the front right again, and saw a shorter hill with trees on it as well, but they were taller.

"I didn't see anything!" After five minutes, Niu Jingrui, who had gained nothing, finally couldn't help but say.

But just as he finished speaking, he suddenly noticed a flash of white light on the higher mountain in front of him on the left.

"What is that?" Niu Jingrui finally realized that something was wrong.

"The reflective thing, if I'm not mistaken, should be the reflection of the bayonet." Shang Zhen replied.

"That means there are Japanese devils here?" Niu Jingrui became nervous again.

"Don't worry, it's about seven or eight hundred meters away from us. Follow me." Shang Zhen said.

When Niu Jingrui hummed, he saw Shang was shaken. This time he did not walk along the road to the left front, but walked to the right front in the woods.

The reason is simple. There is another hill and trees in the right front. Both the trees in the middle and the hill in the right front can provide cover for their figures.

After more than ten minutes, the two of them finally climbed up the hill in front of them, panting. The trees on this hill were taller, and Shang Zhen found an open space facing the hill in front of him, and their vision became wider.

At this time, the two of them were only about 400 meters away from the higher mountain.

This time, when they looked towards the top of the mountain in front of them on the left, they really saw a Japanese soldier standing on an open space on the top of the mountain, and the guy was holding a rifle with a bayonet in his hand.

It turned out that they were both not mistaken, there really was a Japanese soldier standing there with a rifle.

Although the Japanese soldiers were all very short, the bayonets on their Type 38 rifles were quite long and were visible through the bushes.

Since Shang Zhen and the other two were walking from east to west, and it was morning, the sunlight was in the east, so the Japanese soldier's bayonet just reflected the sunlight over there.

"See? There's a wooden house there. It must be the stronghold set up by the Japanese." Shang Zhen said softly.

Niu Jingrui looked carefully and found a wooden house built among the bushes.

It is obvious that the Japanese army has set up a stronghold here for some time. Since the leaves on the felled trees have withered, the color is different from the surrounding green background.

Niu Jingrui thought that he didn't know how many Japanese devils were hiding in the wooden house. Even if he pulled the whole company over to rob the wooden house, he probably wouldn't be able to steal anything to eat. Of course, if he won the battle, he should be able to grab a few guns.

When he told Shang Zhen about this idea, Shang Zhen hesitated for a moment and then replied: "It would be fine if we can grab guns and bullets. If we can grab more, we can use the guns and bullets to exchange for food from the brigade."

"What kind of army is this? They don't let us eat enough, and if we want to eat enough, we have to fight with our own people." Niu Jingrui complained.

Shang Zhen smiled and said nothing.

Shang Zhen did not find the situation of the independent brigade strange.

You can use your good guns to exchange for food, and then the fat captain may keep the good guns he handed in and give them to his own people. Of course, he may also sell the guns for money.

Many military chiefs nowadays are like this. Saying they are fighting the Japanese is just a cover, but in fact they are selling dog meat under the guise of selling mutton.

Of course, Shang Zhen’s soldiers also lacked guns. Some of the guns they had could only fire effectively, and Shang Zhen even suspected that some of the guns could not even fire a hundred meters.

At this time, Liu Jingrui shouted in a low voice: "Captain, look, there are more Japanese devils coming out."

In fact, Shang Zhen saw it without Liu Jingrui's reminder that four or five more Japanese soldiers appeared next to the Japanese soldier holding the rifle.

Shang Zhen couldn't see clearly what the Japanese soldiers were doing without a telescope.

He just continued to observe until the Japanese soldiers returned to the wooden house. Then he said, "There are probably five or six more in the house. If we can seize seven or eight guns, that would be a lot."

Shang Zhen was quite content.

If he could kill less than ten Japanese soldiers in the first battle with a group of new recruits, that would not be considered a small number.

Whether it is more or less depends on who you compare with.

If compared with his original veterans, it is of course less, but compared with the independent brigade, it is not a small number. Shang Zhen even doubts the independent brigade's combat method. How many Japanese devils have been killed by the thousands of people in the brigade?

You really can’t blame Shang Zhen for thinking this way.

The entire anti-Japanese team was a mixed bag. In a team like the Independent Brigade, which was afraid of death and the enemy like a tiger, Shang Zhen did not find it strange that only dozens of Japanese soldiers could chase away thousands of people in the Independent Brigade once the Japanese army launched an attack on the Independent Brigade.

"Go back and ask Qian Feng and Zhou Quan to come over as well. We'll keep a close eye on this area and see how many Japanese soldiers are living in the wooden house. If we can't steal food, we'll steal guns!" Shang Zhen said.