The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2379 Betting on Life
"It's really like a turtle climbing onto the stove!" exclaimed the little dustpan.

After Xiao Boji said this, Shang Zhen and some soldiers who were with him looked at him strangely. His words were like a bolt of lightning, extremely abrupt. As the saying goes, "Why do you say that?"

“There are so many strange and weird things.” replied Xiao Boji.

After he explained it this way, others naturally understood.

Now they really came to the front line as the supervisory team according to the order of the regiment commander Zhou Jingyong.

The division gave the task of conquering Houersai to the 223rd Regiment. No one knew what the division was thinking, but they asked the 226th Regiment, where Xiao Boji was located, to send people to form a supervision team.

Everyone knows what the supervision team does. While the troops in the front are attacking, the supervision team sets up machine guns in the back.

You little brats, move forward! If you dare to take a step back, I will beat you to death!
Logically speaking, this kind of task would never fall on their regiment.

The 223rd Regiment launched an attack on the Japanese troops in Houersai. If there was a supervising team, they would either be from the 223rd Regiment itself or sent by the division. So how could such a task be given to them?

But I don’t know what the division was thinking, but they gave this job to their regiment!
The supervision team is not a decoration. With the character of the 223rd Regiment, how can they have a firm will to fight when they launch an attack on the Japanese positions?

But if the soldiers no longer have the fighting capacity and are afraid to advance towards the enemy, it is not the turn of their 226th Regiment to enforce battlefield discipline!
Xiao Boji told the regiment commander Zhou Jingyong everything he had to say, but Zhou Jingyong's answer was that the division had issued a death order! This death order was that the 223rd Regiment must take down Houer Sai, and their 226th Regiment sent out a supervision team, which was also a death order! There was no room for negotiation! So the orders I gave you were also death orders!

Well, a higher-ranking official can crush a person, Xiao Boji had to execute the order even if he didn't want to, so would Shang Zhen not execute it? Shang Zhen also had to execute it, although no one said that he had officially joined the 226th Regiment.

In fact, it’s useless to say whether he joins or not, Zhou Jingyong has already regarded Shang Zhen as his subordinate.

At that time, the Kuomintang army often fought in disarray or was defeated, and the remnants of the army were incorporated into other units and became members of other units. This kind of thing was too common!
There was no other choice, so Shang Zhen and Xiao Boji brought some soldiers to the bottom of Houersai to serve as the supervisory team.

Now they are behind a mountain. If they go around the mountain, they will be able to see Houersai. Of course, after they come out, the Japanese troops on Houersai will also be able to see them.

However, Houersai was still more than a thousand meters away from them. Even if the Japanese saw them, they were unlikely to shoot, unless a Japanese heavy machine gun happened to be aiming at them.

In fact, the Japanese heavy machine guns would be of little use even if they were aimed at this place.

The terrain of the Dahongshan area is complex after all. Although the mountain where they are hiding now is adjacent to Houersai, the terrain within a thousand meters between the two mountains is also extremely complex, with small rivers, rocks, woods, shrubs and small hills.

Unless the Chinese troops who bypassed the mountain stood in the open and allowed the Japanese to attack, the Japanese heavy machine guns would not be able to play much of a role.

The trouble with attacking Houer Pass lies in the complex terrain between the foot of Houer Pass and the two mountains. There is a narrow and long bush of more than 200 meters long.

For the attacking troops, this area is the most dangerous.

They would certainly come under concentrated fire from the Japanese army while charging through the 200-meter-long bushes, and by the time the Chinese army rushed through the bushes and reached the foot of the mountain, the terrain up the mountain would become complicated again.

Although the Japanese army had the advantage of being high up on the mountain, there were still rocks on the hillside and there were places to hide.

If the attacking 223rd Regiment could really rush to the hillside and fight the Japanese army again, it would be a life-and-death battle.

The reason why Shang Zhen and his men did not move forward now was because the 223rd Regiment, the attacking force, had not yet arrived. So what was the 223rd Regiment doing?

The officers of the 223rd Regiment did not shy away from the presence of Shang Zhen and his men. Just a few dozen meters away from them, a regimental commander and three battalion commanders were arguing about something.

Ever since Shang Zhen, Xiao Boji and others received the order and arrived here, they saw the four officers talking there. Now half an hour has passed, but they are still talking, sometimes with quite loud voices, and their expressions seem very excited.

"What are these officers doing? It seems like they have been doing it for quite a while." Tang Li, who came here with Shang Zhen and the others, asked curiously.

It was normal for Tang Li to feel strange. Although Shang Zhen's subordinates who followed him were also curious, they were not as curious as him, although they were also confused.

Seeing that the company commander Shang Zhen did not answer him, as if he did not notice that the officers were still chatting, Tang Li looked at the old soldiers led by Xiao Boji, such as Lao Gu, Ai Duidui, Qi Baozi, Cheng Sanduo, Liu Laoyao and others.

"You can't even guess that, stupid!" Liu Laoyao finally replied to him disapprovingly, but he didn't say what the four officers of the third battalion of the regiment were doing together.

However, since someone had spoken, the veterans under Xiao Boji also began to speak in a low voice.

"Captain, what tricks do you think they will use?" asked the old consultant Xiao Boji.

The little dustpan grinned and said only two words: "Draw lots."

"Draw lots?" After hearing what Xiao Boji said, Tang Li became even more confused.

Seeing that no one was answering his questions, he wanted to ask more, but Hu Sheng said, "There are so many things to say, just watch and you will know."

Well, Tang Li could only watch coldly.

At this time, the commander of the 223rd Regiment actually took something out of his pocket and handed it to one of his battalion commanders.

Then, Tang Li saw that the battalion commander no longer looked like a battalion commander. He put his hands together and bowed in the four directions of east, south, west and north one by one!
After all, he was a battalion commander. When Shang Zhen saw the battalion commander bowing in their direction, he whispered, "Turn around!"

They turned around quickly.

After all, the one who clasped his hands together and bowed was a battalion commander. Although the battalion commander was definitely not bowing to them, they were in that direction and they dared not accept the battalion commander's bow, as that would shorten their lifespans!
When Tang Li and their men turned around, they saw another battalion commander bending down to pick up an extremely small object from the ground. It turned out to be a dice!
When he saw that it was a dice, Tang Li finally understood why Xiao Boji had just said to draw lots. Isn't this just throwing dice? Isn't throwing dice just drawing lots?
But why do these officials draw lots?

Tang Li continued to look down with confusion. The battalion commander who picked up the dice also held the dice between his hands, put his hands together and started the four-way bowing mode.

At least in Tang Li's opinion, the two battalion commanders looked extremely pious and solemn while rolling the dice. As a bystander, it seemed to him that they were not gambling at all, but rather deciding an extremely important matter concerning life and death!
A matter of life and death? Tang Li suddenly understood. Didn't the three battalion commanders roll the dice to decide which battalion would go up to attack the Monkey Pass first?
Tang Li figured it out, and the third battalion commander also finished rolling the dice.

At this time, the bystanders saw that the two battalion commanders in front were happy, while the third battalion commander's face had turned pale.

At this point, everyone can see that when rolling the dice to compare the size, no matter whether the biggest or the smallest loses, the third battalion commander loses anyway!

Damn it, this is really a gamble with your life!