The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2260 Chapter 2222 Going up the mountain at night

"Was there anything unusual when you came here?" Shang Zhen asked Qian Feng when it got dark.

"I didn't find anything. If the Japanese were hiding in the mountains, we wouldn't be able to get here because the gunfire would have already started." Qian Feng replied.

Shang Zhen has always been a person who thinks about things in detail.

As the saying goes, if you are complicated yourself, you will think others are complicated as well.

In the process of designing battle plans, he often puts himself in the enemy's shoes and thinks about what he would do if he were the enemy.

For example, in this operation, he imagined what the enemy would do if they found the food. One possibility, of course, would be to directly transport the food away or burn it.

Another possibility, of course, if it were him, he would leave the food where it was, maybe he could lure the other party out.

This is Shang Zhen's advantage as a grassroots military officer, but it can also be said to be his disadvantage.

He takes everything very seriously and does not neglect any detail. However, if he were to become a high-ranking official according to his complicated mind, he would probably be exhausted to death because it is impossible for a person to take care of everything.

Shang Zhen was very surprised last night that the Japanese army was still chasing their company.

As for the Japanese pursuit, Shang Zhen was most afraid of two things. One was the Japanese cavalry, four-legged beasts that ran faster than humans. Therefore, whenever he found cavalry catching up, he had to kill them first.

Another thing Shang Zhen feared was the Japanese army's wolfhounds.

It is also a four-legged beast. Although it may not be as fast as a war horse, as the saying goes, a dog's nose is very sensitive, and it can smell things!

Because of this, Shang Zhen had to kill or injure the dog last night, as long as the dog could no longer work normally.

After he fired the gun, the Japanese army would definitely search for him and hunt him down. Shang Zhen's top priority now is to get food, not to kill as many Japanese soldiers as possible. That's why he would wake up the soldiers in the middle of the night and ask them to return directly to their original place, which is the area of ​​the granary, while he would lead the Japanese army to deal with the mountains and fields.

In order to prevent possible situations, such as the Japanese army setting a trap where they failed to take away the grain, he specifically instructed Qian Feng to try to avoid the sight of the mountain behind the granary while moving towards the granary.

Of course, it is impossible to avoid it completely, but it is still better to be careful.

This is what Shang Zhen asked Qian Feng just now.

Since the Japanese army did not open fire, it means there was no Japanese lookout on the top of the mountain.

But when he thought of this, Shang Zhen couldn't help but reveal a hint of self-mockery on his face.

"Captain, what's with that expression on your face?" Someone in front noticed something unusual in Shang Zhen's expression.

"I'm laughing. We've been busy for such a long time, but if all the people in the company get into the mountain and the Japanese devils have taken away all the food, don't you think all our efforts would be in vain?" Shang Zhen shook his head.

Qian Feng was speechless for a while, but what he said made Shang Zhen look at him with a higher eye.

Qian Feng said: "After working so hard for so long, I may not be able to get food, but if I don't come out, there will definitely be no food. I can't chew my cheeks, right?"

Since Qian Feng had trained Ma Changgui on the way here, the new recruits were very obedient and no one said a word in the entire forest.

The situation before him made Shang Zhen think of Wang Laomao and the old soldiers under Qin Chuan and Qian Chuan'er. If they were here now, there would be no movement and they would all be talking nonsense.

It’s still easier to manage new people! Zhang Zhen couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, but he knew that this was a self-deception. If his original group of old people were here, how could they make him work so hard?

However, Shang Zhen instantly threw this obsession with the past behind him. People always have to face reality.

Today is the seventeenth day of the lunar calendar. The sky is gradually getting dark and the moon has not risen yet.

It was at this time that Shang Zhen and Hu Sheng came to life. The two of them quietly came out of the woods, holding box guns in their hands, and ran quietly towards the mountain in their memory.

The changes in the moon's phases are of course regular.

After the fifteenth, the moon will rise later and later, and the sky will be dark during this process.

But as time goes by, the moonlight will be bright after it rises, and even the first half of the night may be dark, but the second half will become bright.

With Shang Zhen's usually cautious character, he would not wait until the full moon is bright before running to the mountain. It would be safest to act in the dark.

Because of the Jade Rabbit that was about to rise in the east, Shang Zhen had no choice but to act early. Shang Zhen had already reminded Hu Sheng in advance that he should try not to make any noise, whether he was on the way forward or when he reached the foot of the mountain and entered the woods.

Hu Sheng expressed his confusion about this, and Shang Zhen replied that although it was unlikely that there were Japanese soldiers hiding in the mountains, it was always better to be careful.

Perhaps Hu Sheng was feeling anxious and uneasy, but for Shang Zhen, this was just a mission, because he believed that if there really were enemies in the darkness, there must be some kind of anxiety in being in the darkness.

In any case, when Shang Zhen and Hu Sheng reached the foot of the mountain, the two of them did not make any big noise, and Shang Zhen did not notice anything unusual on the mountain.

"Wait here. Don't come up unless I tell you to." Shang Zhen whispered to Hu Sheng.

Hu Sheng nodded slightly in the darkness, but when he realized that Shang Zhen could not see his action, Shang Zhen had already crawled forward alone.

How to move in the dark and keep the same route depends entirely on one's feeling.

In fact, even among Shang Zhen’s original group of people, he was the one who did the most testing.

So when he had nothing to do, Shang Zhen actually trained himself.

Not to mention moving forward in the dark, during the day he would just choose a target and walk towards it in a straight line with his eyes closed.

After a period of training, he was able to reach his desired target seven or eight times out of ten.

Before it got dark, Shang Zhen chose the straight-line distance to the hill, and the end point on this side was set on the small path up the hill at the foot of the hill.

Shang Zhen didn't know whether there was originally a road to the top of the mountain, but the night before yesterday when Ma Changgui and his men were carrying grain up the hillside, they somehow managed to trample a way out even if there was no road.

This is also the reason why Shang Zhen must be careful in this operation.

He could imagine that if the Japanese army paid a little attention, they would be able to find this path up the mountain, not to mention that he was firing shots on the mountain at that time.

In fact, Shang Zhen had no hope of finding the food forgotten by the Japanese army here.

But since the food had to be found and robbed anyway, he came with the hope that the Japanese army would not find the food.

If there is no food here, then just take it as an opportunity for our company to train. In Shang Zhen's opinion, the soldiers in the recruit company are still far from good enough!

Of course, according to the current standards of the Chinese military, the recruits under his command would be considered veterans as long as they could shoot and had fought the Japanese army face to face.

But what kind of veterans are they? They are veterans who fought in positional warfare. As long as you hold a gun and dare to charge forward under the Japanese artillery fire, regardless of whether you are afraid of death or not, you are considered a veteran.

The reason we talk about whether you are afraid of death or not is because war is war, who cares whether you are afraid of death or not.

If you are ordered to charge forward, you have to charge forward. If you do not get shot to death, you may have a chance to survive. But you retreat. Do you really think that the machine guns of the supervision team are just aiming for random firing?

Shang Zhen seldom fought in positional battles. The old soldiers learned from him how to fight as a lone wolf or even in a small wolf pack, which required a high level of overall quality from the soldiers!

You have to dare to fight the devils, you have to have the courage and ability to act alone. In other words, when you are alone, you have to not only dare to fight the devils but also know when to advance and retreat, and how can you save your life? This is a high requirement!

Shang Zhen tried to crawl forward cautiously, but no matter how good his skills were, it was impossible for him not to make noises while touching the leaves.

When the first "crash" sound was heard, Shang Zhen stopped and began to listen carefully.

After waiting for a while, there was no movement. If it were someone else, they might have moved, but Shang Zhen did not. He still waited.

He remembered that there was a slight breeze today, although it was only gusts, so let's wait a little longer.

Shang Zhen just lay there waiting.

This time I have to thank him for the time he spent meditating after waking up from a serious injury. Don't worry, there's no use in being anxious, the moon hasn't risen yet anyway.

When the wind from afar brought the sound of leaves rustling in the mountains, Shang Zhen took advantage of the sound to quickly climb up the hillside.

He stopped after climbing only more than thirty meters, and his mood suddenly became mixed with joy and worry.

The good news was that he had found a bag of grain! There was another one somewhere else, so it was definitely not that the Japanese had missed a bag of grain.

What’s worrying is that these grain bags are actually still there! Shang Zhen would not believe it even if he were beaten to death if he said that the Japanese devils didn’t find out!