The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2257: Being clever but being misled by cleverness

Although he was running for his life, Shang Zhen would glance back from time to time, and when he turned back, he would use his body as a shield and wave his hands towards the front.

Xu Defu, who was running behind him, was already anxious. "Shoot quickly!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. Of course he was very anxious. The Japanese cavalry behind him were catching up with him again, and he didn't want to be killed by the Japanese cavalry's sabers!

But he didn't know that Shang Zhen had been waving his hands forward, indicating that there was no rush to shoot.

Why did Shang Zhen signal not to rush to shoot? He had been chased by the Japanese army. To the south was a large open area, several miles long. If they could not eliminate the Japanese cavalry, they would be in big trouble!

As Shang Zhen kept looking back, he finally saw the last war horse coming around the back of the mountain. Fortunately, there were not many Japanese cavalry this time, only about thirty or forty of them.

At this time, the Japanese cavalry in front of them was only about 200 meters away, but they were still more than 100 meters away from the forest in front of them.

This is an arithmetic problem. When the warhorse behind catches up with the person in front, can the person in front run into the woods?

No need to calculate, it definitely can’t happen!

When Shang Zhen and his men were still more than 60 meters away from the woods ahead, Shang Zhen suddenly shouted, "Turn around, lie down and shoot!"

The soldiers did not expect Shang Zhen to give such an order suddenly. Some of them turned around and lay down to shoot with Shang Zhen, some turned around, some lay down but did not turn around, and some were stunned for a moment and neither turned around nor lay down but continued to run wildly into the woods.

If you ask why there are so many different performances among the dozen or so people in total, it all depends on whether they have undergone rigorous training.

People like Sancai, Husheng and other recruits have undergone rigorous training by Shang Zhen. Regardless of their military quality, at least they can follow orders.

They lay down, but soldiers like Ma Changgui, Xu Defeng and others from the original independent brigade had not received such training.

They all heard Shang Zhen's order. Ma Changgui and Xu Defeng hesitated and then lay forward. However, there were still three soldiers who, out of inertia, were as slow as the soldiers of the independent brigade and they still ran forward after a while of inertia.

At this moment, intensive gunfire rang out. The gunfire was not only from the box guns in the hands of the soldiers led by Shang Zhen, but more from the shooting of the new recruits in the woods.

Bullets whizzed past Shang Zhen and his men's heads like rain. The Japanese cavalrymen who were chasing them from behind originally had dozens of horses galloping, but they were hit head-on by the rain of bullets. It was visibly that people and horses were thrown to the ground. In the first wave of shooting, only five or six horses were still able to run, and the rest were horses whose owners had fallen off.

"Pah, pah, pah" "Pah, pah, pah"

The box guns in the hands of Shang Zhen, who was lying on the ground, also started firing.

Although the pressure on them was greatly reduced due to the timely action of the recruit company, the Japanese horses were too close. By the time they could not figure out whether it was they or the people from the recruit company behind them who knocked down the horses again, the nearest Japanese soldier who fell off the horse had already fallen in front of Xu Defu.

How can a person who fell off a horse look good? The guy's hat directly scraped off Xu Defeng's glasses and pressed Xu Defeng's rifle underneath.

Just as Xu Defeng drew his gun and shouted, Shang Zhen's gun went off, and a flower of blood bloomed on the Japanese soldier's head!

"Old Dutou! Old Dutou!" Ma Changgui also shouted. He shot and knocked down a Japanese soldier who was crawling up from the ground. He saw Old Dutou falling between the Japanese soldier and the horse.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm still alive!" But at this time, Old Du, who had been judged dead by Ma Changgui, unexpectedly crawled up.

Although Old Dutou didn't reach the old man's level, he was still in his forties, and his physical strength was definitely not as good as others. He ran at the back again, and the constant running made him feel that he couldn't breathe, so he just lay on the ground and died!

And at this moment, gunshots were heard from the recruit company, and no Japanese war horse really stepped on him!

This can be said to be his good fortune, or it can be said to be a blessing in disguise.

Compared with Old Du, who was lucky in his misfortune, there were three soldiers who were unfortunate. They were not killed by the Japanese army. They were the soldiers who did not obey Shang Zhen's order to "turn around, lie down and shoot."

Under Shang Zhen's order, everyone else lay down.

Why did Shang Zhen ask them to lie down? That was to make room for the new recruits in the woods ahead to shoot.

If this was a disciplined team, they would have just lay down when Shang Zhen told them to, and nothing would have happened to them.

But in order to survive, they have their own little Jiujiu, but they still run forward. So when the recruits start shooting, aren't they seeking death?

Not to mention whether their actions violated military discipline, how could the new recruits' shooting skills be so accurate? Then it was inevitable that they would be hit by stray bullets.

"Bang", "Bang", "Bang", Shang Zhen fired several more shots, killing the Japanese soldiers who were still struggling and twitching in front of them. Then he raised his left hand, and the gunfire in the woods stopped.

He looked at the fallen warhorse in front of him and couldn't help but feel sorry.

If they could capture these war horses, even if they were not alive but dead, then they would have food supplies.

But what to do now? You can't use bayonets to cut the horses into pieces, right? Even if you use the Japanese devils' sabers to chop the horses' legs, you can't remove them. If you are a little slower, do you really think that the Japanese infantry behind you are lame?

"Clean up the battlefield! Husheng, Sancai, and Niu Jingrui are responsible for vigilance!" Shang Zhen shouted.

That means taking back the Japanese army's horse rifles, bullet sabers and so on, and as for the rest, forget it.

Oh, and there were also two bags of grain carried by the horse that Ma Changgui was leading at the beginning. The horse was also knocked down, but the bags of grain were still there.

When Shang Zhen turned around, he saw the three soldiers lying in a pool of blood. Ma Changgui, Xu Defeng and others, who were in the same squad as the three men, were looking at Shang Zhen's expression.

The Japanese cavalry didn't fire any shots at all, so is there any need to ask how these three soldiers died?

"Company commander, the three of them didn't lie down, and we don't know who hit them." Qian Feng, who had already run here from the woods, reported.

"I don't blame you." Shang Zhen said calmly, "Too clever is foolish!" Then he waved his hand expressionlessly and went into the woods. The soldiers behind him could only follow him.

Everyone knew that there were Japanese infantrymen behind them, and they had no time to bury these three soldiers.

But when Old Du came over, he sighed and said, "Who can be blamed for this? Alas."

Old Du was the first to fall down because he was exhausted, so he saw the whole process of these three soldiers being knocked down by their own people.