The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2248: Cowardly Fight (I)

Shang Zhen certainly didn’t know the term “reverse thinking” because it didn’t exist at the time, but this didn’t prevent Shang Zhen from becoming very familiar with the term.

There was no other way. He wanted to fight the Japanese, didn't want to fight a positional war, and he also wanted to stay alive. As the saying goes, "Heroes are made by the times." He was forced into this by the current situation where the enemy was strong and we were weak.

There is another term in Buddhism called "cause and condition". It is too profound to explain, but the general meaning is that no matter whether it is an event or an object, it is the result of various factors coming together.

The same is true for Shang Zhen's fight against the Japanese. It is useless to just think in reverse, you also need to have this ability.

There are some things that many people can talk about, but what’s the point of talking about them? You have to have the ability to do them!

Shang Zhen happens to be the capable person!

Look, there are so many factors that contribute to the emergence of a character like Shang Zhen: the enemy is strong and we are weak, we don't want to fight a positional battle, he can think in reverse, and he has sufficient combat skills.

In addition to this, there is another factor: if you want to succeed, you have to have the destiny!

What if you are a person with little fortune? You have all the above factors, but you are too unlucky. You have not fought in many battles. Once you are on the battlefield, a stray bullet or a ricochet bullet may kill you heroically. That won’t work either!

Therefore, all kinds of factors must be present for a "freak" like Shang Zhen to appear, which is the so-called "combination of cause and condition".

Shang Zhen couldn't figure out how many Japanese troops had surrounded the brigade headquarters, but gunshots were indeed heard from all directions.

Shang Zhen did not lead his troops to attack head-on, but instead relied on his familiarity with the town to move out from the north. Just as he had judged, the Japanese army was anxious to attack the brigade headquarters directly, which meant they were attacking desperately and did not surround the entire town.

Moreover, the Japanese army was engaged in a long-distance raid and they did not have that many troops.

It can be said that Shang Zhen’s ideas were all correct, but he missed one point, which is the combat effectiveness of the independent brigade.

When he led his troops northward, Shang Zhen no longer cared about the gunfire and explosions in other directions. What he cared about was the situation on both sides of the path he was going to take and to the north.

The two squads he had sent to protect the two wings had not yet engaged the Japanese army when Shang Zhen suddenly heard someone shouting in front of him on the right: "Stop fighting, we surrender!"

At this time, the enemy is strong and we are weak, so how could the puppet troops brought by the Japanese army surrender? They must be soldiers from the independent brigade!

Shang Zhen realized that something was wrong. According to the location of the shouting he had just heard, the Japanese army was only a few houses away from them.

What was even more troublesome was that Shang Zhen suddenly heard the cries of the people in front of him on the right. Almost at the same time, he saw a fire appearing there, although it was just a flame.

The Japanese army actually set the house on fire!

Shang Zhen realized that the original breakout plan was difficult to execute. His brain was very quick, so he whispered, "Come with me, one squad with 20-shot rounds. You guys cover the brigade commander and go through the woods. I'll lead the others to lure the devils away! Oh, bring more grenades!"

Why is it said that it is easiest to find a leader in a battle? When everyone is at a loss, the one who can come up with the most effective plan in a complex situation at the fastest speed is the backbone, and there is no doubt that Shang Zhen is such a person.

The fat brigade commander also has guards under his command, and it is a guard battalion, which is also the battalion of Battalion Commander Liu.

Why would an independent brigade of less than 2,000 people set up a guard battalion? Is there any need to explain it? If the answer is two words, it is "cherish life". If the answer is four words, it is "fat man cherish life"!

There was another company in his guard battalion that used all box guns!

The fat brigade commander also had a hard life. He rose from a small soldier to become a brigade commander, so he naturally had his own struggle. When he really became a brigade commander, he felt like a poor man who had suddenly become rich.

Saving one's life is very important. When he was in the army, he envied the warlords from all sides. They said that so-and-so and so-and-so had a company of personal security guards, and they all used fancy machine guns, or they all used German-made 20-gun guns!

Really, forgive the current Chinese army, it is indeed too poor, the 20-shot gun that the Germans disliked became the favorite of Chinese soldiers, whether it was the National Army or the Eighth Route Army. The country was weak and had no foundation, so the box gun became a symbol.

Now that the fat brigade commander has become a brigade commander, how could he not equip himself with security equipment?

But then again, why is the independent brigade so weak in combat effectiveness? Just imagine that all the useful weapons were used by the fat brigade commander to arm himself. The guns used by the front-line troops might stop firing after a few shots, and some did not even have bayonets. How could they have combat effectiveness?

So it is normal for some soldiers to surrender immediately when the Japanese army attacks fiercely. It would be abnormal if they did not surrender!

Isn't that the case with Chinese people? There are too many Chinese people and they are too diverse. Some are servile to invaders, some forget their ancestors and sell out their masters for glory, but there are also some who would rather break than bend and march forward under enemy fire in the face of national crisis!

And now, Shang Zhen led that squad of soldiers towards the direction of the fire.

"Company commander, I'm here!" Hu Sheng's voice came from the shadow of the house.

On this side was the class led by Hu Sheng.

When Shang Zhen led his men to meet Hu Sheng, another voice came from the other side of the two rows of houses away from them: "Take us to your brigade headquarters quickly!"

If he just went to the brigade headquarters, Shang Zhen would just let it go. Anyway, the fat brigade commander had already withdrawn.

But then he heard the voice of the Japanese army again.

I don’t know what the Japanese soldier said, but then the puppet soldier’s voice came: “The lady said there is no more gunfire over there, intensify the search!”

Fuck! Just these words made Shang Zhen and Hu Sheng look at each other directly. The Japanese devils are not stupid!

Shang Zhen peeked out from the corner of the wall and saw the surrendering soldiers heading towards the brigade headquarters, followed by Japanese and puppet troops.

But if that were the case, Shang Zhen would have let those people go. However, he saw several Japanese soldiers running towards him with rifles.

"Grenade!" Shang Zhen shouted in a low voice.

He had already used his two grenades, so he had to use those of the fat brigade commander's guards.

It has to be said that this fat brigade commander is really stingy. In the last battle, Shang Zhen seized more than 20 grenades, but the fat brigade commander was so stingy that he only gave two to Shang Zhen and gave the rest to the guard battalion!

In the darkness, Shang Zhen took the grenade, pulled out the pin under the gaze of the soldiers, and knocked the grenade against the wall.

Just when the soldiers thought Shang Zhen would throw the grenade away, he paused for a moment, then turned sideways and threw the grenade away.

The fire was in front of Shang Zhen and his men. Without any houses to block their view, they could be seen clearly by the approaching Japanese troops.

The Japanese army even saw the process of Shang Zhen's arm throwing out the grenade and then retracting it, so they naturally saw the thrown grenade flying towards them with a metallic luster that was getting bigger and bigger under the firelight.

"**" some Japanese soldiers shouted, and then they either hid behind the house or lay down directly.

But this grenade is destined to be more lethal than other grenades. Who asked it to explode in mid-air before it even hits the ground?