The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2322: Meditation on a Tree

Shang Zhen crouched down and continued to move forward in the woods, trying not to bump into any trees.

He had to run far away. If he didn't lead the Japanese troops away, wouldn't his soldiers still be in danger?

Unlike Shang Zhen, the Japanese army might be eager to encircle and kill the Chinese team that was causing chaos behind them, or perhaps they were relying on their large numbers to cause a bigger disaster.

Shang Zhen ignored the back and only looked forward. He saw rows of branches and leaves swaying in front of him, which was roughly a semicircle. More Japanese soldiers rushed over after hearing the sound.

At this point, Shang Zhen knew that he had no room to dodge or move.

I saw a small patch of dense larch about ten meters ahead. The pine tree was not big, let alone how thick the trunk was, because the trunk was only slightly thicker than a wormwood stem!

Shang Zhen had seen this situation before during his marches. He thought it was the pine seeds from the big trees that fell and sprouted and grew on their own.

Because the trees are small, they are densely packed together. Although the patch of small trees is only a few meters square, the dense pine needles are dense enough to make it impenetrable.

Shang Zhen ran over a few steps, squatted behind the tree, stretched out his left hand, pulled out another 20-shot box gun and used it as a countermeasure.

At this moment, he heard the dense footsteps of the Japanese army!

It's useless to think too much. Shang Zhen leaned behind the small tree and saw that the Japanese army was only a few meters away from him. The box guns in his hands fired at the same time!

The Japanese army never expected that their opponents would suddenly appear in front of them. At this distance, they could have fought with bayonets, and they had no time to raise their guns and shoot.

In just a moment, Shang Zhen rushed out, and the Japanese soldiers fell down when the gunshots were heard. Because the distance between the enemy and us was too close and they were running towards each other, it seemed as if Shang Zhen "trampled" the Japanese soldiers and rushed out!

As soon as the enemy in front of him fell, Shang Zhen swung the box gun in his hand to the left and right and fired at the enemies on both sides.

To be honest, Shang Zhen didn't know whether he had knocked down the Japanese soldiers on both sides with the box gun while running. He relied entirely on the strong firepower of the twenty-round box gun and fired short bursts without interruption.

It was an instinct formed by long-term fighting. When he saw a figure, he would just fire a short burst of shots.

At the same time, as he ran forward, he did not forget to move in a zigzag pattern under the cover of the trees!

Shang Zhen rushed forward more than 20 meters and then turned around and hid behind a big tree. As soon as he shrank behind the tree, he heard a "puff" sound behind him. It was a Japanese soldier who shot a bullet into the tree trunk behind him.

Fortunately, the tree was thick enough and the bullet did not penetrate it.

Shang Zhen secretly exclaimed "lucky", this was his fate.

He was rushing out in such a hurry, how could he possibly notice the thickness of the tree in front of him?

The tree was thick enough to deflect the bullet.

If this tree had been a little thinner and pierced by the bullet, he would have definitely been hit!

But Shang Zhen also understood that now was far from the time for him to catch his breath.

Just after the gunshot, he waited for a moment, then suddenly leaned to the left behind the tree, but then he turned around and went out from the right side of the tree.

The moment he waited was giving the Japanese soldier time to pull the bolt of his gun. When he swayed to the left and turned to the right, a bullet really flew past from the left side of the tree, and it was not just one bullet!

Turning left was fake, turning right was real, but Shang Zhen successfully deceived several bullets from the Japanese soldiers behind him.

Whether it is the Japanese army or Shang Zhen, they are all veterans, and this is the fighting rhythm among veterans.

If any Japanese soldier had reacted a little slower and didn't shoot when Shang Zhen feinted, he would have been shot again when he ran to the right!

At this time, Shang Zhen had already rushed out and glanced back, but this time he could no longer see the Japanese army.

The whole area was originally a mixture of pine and poplar trees, but here poplar trees are the majority.

No matter how tall a poplar tree is, there will be small branches underneath it. When there are so many small branches, they will grow leaves in the summer. If there are several trees between them, you won't be able to see the person behind the tree.

If there were mostly pine trees, Shang Zhen would never be able to escape, because the pine trees are tall, with green shade above and very few branches below. It looks very transparent at a glance, and it is not surprising to be able to see hundreds of meters away in the pine forest!

Shang Zhen ran forward a few more steps and suddenly stopped. He threw away the box gun in his right hand, bent down and picked up a dead branch. He ran forward and threw the dead branch out with his right hand.

The dead branch hit the branch below a poplar tree in the front left, and the branches and leaves there began to tremble. The Japanese army's gunfire then hit the poplar tree with a few "puff" sounds.

The branches and leaves were so dense that the Japanese soldiers behind could no longer see Shang Zhen, but they could only infer his position by the shaking of the branches and leaves. This was how Shang Zhen threw the dead branches to escape.

The vast green mountains provided the best shelter for Shang Zhen. When Shang Zhen was sure that there were no enemies ahead of him, he only ran forward about a hundred meters, then turned around and ran towards the mountains.

If that saddle is climbable, how can other places not be climbable? It's just that the saddle is the lowest, the slope is relatively gentle, and the trees are dense.

As for other mountain ridges and peaks, they are very tall and have few trees, and there is no place to hold on, so of course it is impossible to climb up.

But this does not mean that there are no trees on the mountain.

It is impossible to climb up, but he can climb up the hillside and hide in the woods on the hillside. No matter what others do, at least Shang Zhen can do it.

When the Japanese army was searching through the woods at the foot of the mountain, Shang Zhen had already hidden in the woods on a steep cliff.

He didn't climb very high, only about fifty meters, but Shang Zhen didn't believe that the Japanese army would climb up the mountain just to find him.

Don't underestimate these fifty meters. Shang Zhen climbed very fast. He had exhausted all his strength to climb these fifty meters. Now he was riding at the root of a tree, gasping for breath. His back was wet with sweat.

Shang Zhen just tried not to make his breathing too loud to prevent the Japanese soldiers who might pass by below from hearing it.

Looking down from his perspective, all he could see were tree trunks and branches, and he couldn't see the trees on the ground at all. So how could the Japanese soldiers on the ground see him?

If the Japanese army really has the ability to set the entire mountain on fire, then Shang Zhen will admit it!

But what did the Japanese use to burn? There were lots of green trees, and it had rained heavily a few days ago, so it was impossible for the fire to start.

This is a tree, not a thatched grass with last year's dry branches.

Later, Shang Zhen simply rode on the trunk of the tree below him and leaned against the mountain wall to rest.

The Japanese troops below were still searching everywhere without giving up, and just as they were leaving the saddle, Qian Feng and his soldiers climbed up. However, seeing that the Japanese troops below had not given up looking for them, they could only hide in the woods on the steep hillside.

For a while, the Japanese army was searching for the Chinese soldiers in the woods below, while the Chinese soldiers were hiding in the woods on the hillside and resting quietly.

At this time, it happened that the Japanese army on the road outside the woods did not launch an attack on the Qingfeng Mountain position. For a moment, the whole world became unusually quiet. Instead, the wind brought the sound of pine waves and a hint of the smell of gunpowder.

Shang Zhen gradually felt hungry while riding on the tree.

This time he had no rations on him, and all his rations were with his messenger Xiao Ge.

It seems that I still can't leave the dry food in Xiaogana in the future. What other commander would run around like me and even the messengers can't keep up?

Shang Zhen thought about it with self-pity, but then he smiled freely.

If you say that others are starving, they must be starving badly, but who is Shang Zhen? He has plenty of experience in enduring hunger.

He meditated to empty his mind and body, no longer paying attention to the wind and the rustling of the trees around him.

The body is sometimes a burden. This is one of the insights Shang Zhen gained from meditation during his recovery.

First you feel hungry, and have a nauseous feeling.

But as you get used to being hungry, even though you are meditating, you feel a sense of letting yourself go. Your body and mind feel relaxed, as if you are wandering freely between heaven and earth.

At that time, Shang Zhen thought, if what Da Laoben said was true, people have a next life, and if he doesn’t have to fight the Japanese in the next life, then he wondered what it would feel like to become a god.

Shang Zhen ignored the Japanese troops struggling in the woods below and just sat on a tree and meditated on the steep cliff.

It was already afternoon when they arrived at the saddle, but as he sat there, time seemed to pass quickly. Before he knew it, it was finally dark.