The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2399: Living Towards Death (VII)

"We are not the protagonists in fighting the Japanese this time, so don't get ourselves involved." When Zhu Weiyan ordered his men to attack Houersai again, Shang Zhen was talking to Xiao Boji and of course everyone in their two groups.

Originally they were the supervisory team, although this appointment was really awkward.

But the embarrassment of this kind of thing can only be attributed to the embarrassment of appointment from above. They are just following orders, so why should they be embarrassed?
Besides, they are just mortals. There are millions of Chinese troops and they are just a drop in the ocean. They can just do their best. There is no hero who can take on the whole battle.

"Brother, I understand." Xiao Boji replied, and then he turned around and asked the others, "Do you understand what my brother means?"

The answer he got was, of course, "I understand."

So, all the people who were providing fire support in the rear found cover and dispersed.

In front, a company under Zhu Weiyan had already moved up the mountain again, but at this moment, a "white flag" suddenly appeared among the rocks in the middle of the hillside and waved towards the Japanese troops halfway up the mountain.

The white flag was just a temporary replacement of a white shirt. It doesn't matter. Both Chinese and Japanese know that if white appears on the battlefield at this time, it is a white flag, and the white flag represents surrender.

However, right behind the waving white flag was a boulder that was more than two people tall. The Japanese soldiers in front could see the white flag very clearly, but because of the obstruction of the boulder at the back, not only could they not see the white flag of surrender being raised in front of them, not even from the other side of the boulder, let alone at the foot of the mountain!

"Ergou, you waved the white flag well!" Meng Lingdong teased just below the white flag.

After Meng Lingdong said this, the soldiers around Ergou wanted to laugh but they were no longer in the mood.

Didn't you, Ergou, clamor for surrender? This time Meng Lingdong really fulfilled his wish and let him raise the white flag.

At the beginning, Ergou acted in a high-spirited and heroic manner, but when he took the rifle with the white flag in his hand and showed the white flag to the Japanese soldiers in front of him, he began to tremble!

Not only were his calves trembling, but his hands holding the gun were shaking involuntarily as well, so the flag was swaying without him having to wave it intentionally.

That's why Meng Lingdong made fun of him.

"We, we, we--" Ergou knew that Meng Lingdong was making fun of him, and he still wanted to refute.

What he wanted to say was, our surrender is fake, so if we really surrendered, wouldn’t I be trembling?

But he did open his mouth, but his body was shaking so much that his upper teeth hit against his lower teeth, and the soldiers next to him could hear the sound of the teeth colliding!

"Give it to me, you coward!" Meng Lingdong cursed angrily.

After saying that, Meng Lingdong reached out and took the rifle from Ergou's hand, then he stood up.

The Japanese soldiers in the position on the mountainside actually saw a white flag raised in front of them. The commander stopped his command knife and looked at the white flag in front of him in confusion. They were also confused. They couldn't understand why Chinese soldiers raised a white flag at this time!

Now that Meng Lingdong has raised the white flag, there is naturally no room for retreat.

"Everyone, get up and follow me. Raise your guns above your heads. You don't need to straighten your backs at this time." Meng Lingdong said.

After all, Meng Lingdong was still a platoon leader, so his courage was at least greater than Ergou's. He walked forward with his rifle holding the white flag. Then the soldiers on both sides of him stood up, raised their guns above their heads and followed him forward.

However, they just raised their guns above their heads without Meng Lingdong's instructions. They all bent over and kept glancing back to confirm their direction of movement.

Why did they look back from time to time? It was naturally because there was something behind them, such as a forest, a big rock, or a tall bush, which could block their view of raising their guns in surrender.

If their own people down the mountain found out that they had raised the white flag, the Japanese army wouldn't even have to open fire, because their own people could just shoot them to death!
Before they launched the attack at the foot of the mountain, their battalion commander Zhu Weiyan told them to boost their morale: "You can attack boldly, and we will cover you from behind!" Moreover, it was not only our battalion that provided cover, but also the supervision team. They had heavy machine guns and sharpshooters, especially the company commander Shang from the 226th Regiment, whose gun was very accurate!

Originally, when Meng Lingdong and his men were attacking upwards, they did not take the cover from behind seriously. How could they not understand that no matter how wonderful the battalion commander Zhu Weiyan's words were, wasn't it just for them to fight the Japanese devils and die?

But now they are really about to "surrender", but they remember that there is a sharpshooter coming from behind. Don’t you think it’s sad?

If they really surrendered, it would not be unfair for them to be beaten to death. However, according to Meng Lingdong's idea, they were pretending to surrender, and it was impossible for them to communicate this fake surrender to their own people behind them. If they were seen by the people behind them, then they would really surrender.

If the sharpshooter behind them had shot them with a "bang hook", or shot them directly with a heavy machine gun, do you think their death was unjust?

And when the battle is over, if there are still people among them who are alive, they will say that our raising of the white flag is a lie, that we just pretended to raise the white flag to deceive the Japanese devils, but who would believe it? They must be regarded as traitors who want to surrender to the Japanese devils and be shot!
Meng Lingdong and his men just wanted to fight for a way to survive in this situation where they were sure to die, so they walked forward carrying the white flag, and the Japanese army really did not shoot at them.

Of course, maybe the Japanese were not in a hurry to shoot at them. After all, they were still about 200 meters away from the Japanese position.

Now they had walked out of the rocks where they were hiding and onto the open ground covered with bushes. All the Japanese soldiers' guns were surely pointed at them and could knock them down in minutes.

Meng Lingdong and the others certainly knew that it was extremely dangerous.

But what they didn't know was that the white flag that Meng Lingdong was holding was not seen by Zhu Weiyan and others at the foot of the mountain, but it fell into Shang Zhen's eyes!

Why did this happen? The reason was that Shang Zhen was not with others now. He appeared alone on a large mound on the flank of the Chinese army.

There are rocks and bushes on the mound, which is also a good place to hide.

Shang Zhen knew that whether Zhu Weiyan’s camp could capture Houersai depended on this one move.

He fired from behind to provide cover, and this time he found a new position in order to see the Japanese position more clearly.

In the previous battle and at his original position, Shang Zhen had found it difficult to spot the Japanese troops.

Shang Zhen couldn't figure out the reason. Perhaps it was because his shooting was too accurate. Almost all the Japanese soldiers who were targeted would be shot.

It didn't take many Japanese soldiers to be killed by him. As long as three or five of them were shot from the same direction, the Japanese soldiers could also think that there were sharpshooters of the Chinese army in this direction.

The terrain of the mountain is complicated. If a Japanese soldier is on the left side of a rock, he only needs to hide on the right side of the rock, and Shang Zhen will not be able to see him.

That's why Shang Zhen changed his place.

Shang Zhen first saw Zhu Weiyan’s battalion launching another attack. Of course, the Japanese on the mountain did not fire, and they did not fire at the foot of the mountain either. According to Shang Zhen’s rather bizarre combat thinking, they were fighting a war of attrition with the Japanese.

There was a squadron of Japanese troops on the mountain. If they could kill most of them, they would naturally be able to take the monkey back.

Shang Zhen was using a telescope to observe the hiding place of the Japanese troops on the mountain, when he suddenly saw a white flag appear on the open ground leading to the Japanese position!
Shang Zhen frowned. He really couldn't imagine that at this time, Zhu Weiyan's soldiers who had already attacked the mountain would surrender!
What was going on? Should we fight or not? He couldn't shout loudly. If he said that some soldiers had surrendered to the Japanese devils at this time, wouldn't it be a blow to morale?

There is no point in thinking too much. How could Shang Zhen know that there was a platoon leader named Meng Lingdong under Zhu Weiyan on the hillside? And in order to survive, Meng Lingdong came up with a weird idea.

Shang Zhen slowly put down the telescope and pointed the rifle over.

Anyone who surrenders on the battlefield must die, which is more shameful than being a deserter. His supervision team will eventually have to play a role!