The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2246: Attempted “Deserter”!

Shang Zhen’s thinking is very clear.

Everyone has his own destiny. He has done his best by bringing the recruit company to the present day and turning those former able-bodied men into soldiers.

Although we don’t know what their future will be, at least for now they can pick up guns to protect themselves.

Instead of being like many able-bodied men nowadays, who may not even have the chance to hold a gun and go to the battlefield, and die on the way to being captured.

So he didn't plan to notify anyone, neither his own soldiers nor any officers of the independent brigade. He would just take two guns, one long and one short, and set out alone as a deserter. How could anyone catch him?

During the day, Shang Zhen, who had made up his mind to leave, made an exception and did not let his platoon leaders and squad leaders conduct training. Instead, he gave them a systematic lecture on how to lead troops and how to deal with situations that might be encountered in actual combat.

He wanted to make these squad leaders understand that being a soldier and fighting in a war was not something out of reach. It was the same as an old farmer planting crops. As long as you are familiar with it, you will learn the skills.

Veterans like Shang Zhen have naturally encountered countless situations in more than ten years of fighting, which cannot be described in one day. Even if Shang Zhen only talked about the important ones, he still talked until the sun set and the day passed as they started to eat dinner.

When night fell and everyone was asleep, Shang Zhen walked out of the barracks with his rifles and a bag.

Of course he had to choose to "escape" at night. With that night he could run far away. But if he got up early and left, no one would be able to find the company commander after a while. Wouldn't that cause trouble?

Shang Zhen has stayed in the independent brigade’s base for such a long time, so he certainly knows how to avoid the sentries and get out.

Today happens to be another full moon night. The round moon is hanging high in the sky. It is a bit far-fetched to say that it is as bright as daylight, but what the land under the big moon looks like is known to everyone who does not always live under the neon lights of the city.

Soon, Shang Zhen passed through the messy houses and appeared in the gap between the two thatched houses on the north side.

Going out of this gap means leaving the town, and this place is next to a forest. This forest is where the townspeople throw their garbage and slop. There is a fishy and foul smell even in the hot summer. Which sentry would be on duty in this place?

According to Shang Zhen, even though this is the location of the independent brigade headquarters, the level of defense there is so high that, to use the Northeastern dialect, it's "out of this world"!

If this is the enemy's lair, Shang Zhen has at least ten passages to sneak in. Similarly, he can also sneak out without being discovered by the sentries.

There's no way, this is how the Independent Brigade is.

The independent brigade has at least a thousand people who can fight with guns, and with the logistics support personnel, there are at least two thousand people.

Of course, it is impossible for so many people to live in this town. Those living in the town now are the brigade headquarters, the battalion of Captain Liu, and Shang Zhen’s company of new recruits.

The Japanese troops are now in the east and north, so other regiments of the independent brigade are also stationed in the east and north of this town to protect the brigade headquarters.

Because of this reason, the defense of the brigade headquarters became lax.

Shang Zhen, who had already started to walk out of the town, couldn't help but shake his head, thinking, I've already become a deserter, what does this matter have to do with me? It's better to worry about it!

He lowered his head and walked carefully through the woods so as not to make any noises from the leaves. All he could see were the mottled shadows of the leaves under the moonlight. At the same time, he listened carefully, for he knew there was a sentry about thirty meters away.

Of course he didn't hear any other noises. Was it because all the soldiers in the independent brigade were asleep, whether they were sentries or not? He really couldn't stay in this independent brigade. Otherwise, with such sentries, if the enemy really sneaked in, he might die without knowing how he died!

Shang Zhen couldn't help but be distracted again, but his distraction did not affect his listening. He was walking forward with his back bent when he suddenly stopped because he suddenly heard some movement not far to the right.

The old soldier's habit made him instinctively turn sideways and kneel on one knee beside a tree. At the same time, he gently put down the rifle in his hand, and his left and right hands moved at the same time, and he pulled out the 20-shot box gun.

Shang Zhen didn't even think about this process, it had become a conditioned reflex formed after going through so many battles!

But just as he pulled out the gun, he laughed at himself in his heart, wondering if he was being a little too neurotic.

But then, Shang Zhen's face changed. He heard a "rustling" sound getting closer and closer. This sound was too familiar to him. It was the sound of soldiers marching at night. He had done this many times!

Shang Zhen dodged branches and leaves and tiptoed towards the edge of the woods. When he found that the woods in front of him were becoming thinner, he changed from walking to crawling.

When there were no more obstacles in front of him and he saw a large moonlit area, he saw the Japanese army!

Yes, it was the Japanese army. It was not a place with a big moon, but if there was just a little bit of light, Shang Zhen could be sure that the dark mass bending forward were the Japanese army!

He had been fighting the Japanese for more than ten years, and was very familiar with the little Japanese devils. Just by looking at the way they were bent forward with their long rifles, they were definitely Japanese soldiers! Even without a helmet, they were definitely Japanese soldiers!

How did the Japanese devils sneak into the heart of the Independent Brigade without anyone noticing?

Why didn't the outer troops send any information?

Did the Japanese devils use traitors?

Otherwise, how could they have found the location of the independent brigade’s headquarters so accurately at night?

A series of questions came to Shang Zhen's mind, but then he put them behind him. He gently pulled the bolt of the gun. He had to sound the alarm.

But then he changed his mind and decided to use grenades!

Two grenades have now become Shang Zhen’s standard equipment when he goes out.

Just as Shang Zhen was reaching into the bag to take out the pin of the grenade, he heard someone in front of him shouting, "Password!"

An interrogation, no matter how late it comes, is still an interrogation. Although that interrogation came a little late, it finally came.

Although there was a scream of "Ah" after the "command", there was the sound of wind when the grenade was thrown out by Shang Zhen! Then there was the white light formed by the grenade exploding on the left and right sides of the invader's head!

The explosion of a grenade was enough to wake up the sleeping people, not to mention that there were more than one grenade? After the first grenade exploded, Shang Zhen threw the second one.

The Japanese troops who launched the sneak attack had no idea where the grenades came from, and were knocked down by the air-burst grenades.

After throwing the grenade, Shang Zhen did not shoot. He turned around and hid in the woods. After a few steps, he picked up the rifle he had placed on the ground by memory and went to the other side of the woods.

There are quite a lot of Japanese soldiers coming back this time, and he has to go back to lead the new recruits. He can't let the soldiers he has brought out with great difficulty be killed or wounded in such a sneak attack by the Japanese army!

According to Shang Zhen's original combat habits, he would probably just leave the rifle there and not use it anymore.

But now it’s not possible! For a team like the Independent Brigade, a Type 38 rifle is very valuable!