The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2400: Living Towards Death (VIII)

The Japanese commander raised the sword in the air but did not drop it.

Once his knife fell, it meant that the Japanese army would open fire and directly shoot to death all the Chinese soldiers who appeared with white flags on the hillside.

The reason why he did not give the order was that he really just wanted to wait and see what these Chinese soldiers were going to do.

He could also think that even if these Chinese soldiers really came to pretend to surrender, what would happen? Their light and heavy machine guns were now pointed at those soldiers, and they could shoot every Chinese soldier into a "sieve" in a minute!
As for the Japanese army, they were looking at the Chinese soldiers who were slowly approaching because they were curious about the scenery and wanted to see what tricks the Chinese soldiers were playing.

However, for the Chinese soldiers who were heading towards death at this time, they were under tremendous psychological pressure.

"Platoon Leader Meng, is that all right?" Ergou's mouth twitched again.

"Move a little further, this place can't block bullets." Meng Lingdong replied.

This area can be used to hide people, after all, the trees have fallen but the bushes are still there, but there are too few or not many stones, and the Japanese army will shoot from a high position, and they will be destroyed just like the grass and trees in the mountains.

If they lie down now, there will be no point in pretending to surrender.

Meng Lingdong first looked forward again. Now they were still more than a hundred meters away from the Japanese position. The Japanese would also hide themselves, so he could not see anything.

Then he looked away and saw that there were stones of varying sizes under the bushes in front of him.

These stones were undoubtedly much smaller than the ones where they had hidden before, and the largest ones were not even higher than their knees.

But being able to hide behind that rock to avoid being shot is enough.

He still had to walk about twenty steps, Meng Lingdong judged, and his steps became slower and slower.

"Everyone is ready. Do you see the stone in front?" Meng Lingdong whispered, "When you get behind that stone, lie down and lie down again when I say so. No one is allowed to move ahead of time. If anyone moves ahead of time, the Japanese will either beat you to death or I will put you to military law later!"

"Yes, no one can move ahead!" A soldier also chimed in, "If one person moves ahead, it will harm everyone!"

That's the truth. Now everyone knows that the Japanese devils must have pointed their guns at them. If one of them suddenly moves, the Japanese army will surely concentrate their fire. Without stones to block the bullets, they will be in no danger.

Everyone glanced at the stone in front of them, but their pace was slowed down by Meng Lingdong who was walking in the front with a white flag. Why did they feel that these ten steps were the slowest he had ever taken in his life, and why was his body so heavy?

At this time, the person who also felt a little heavy was Shang Zhen. Shang Zhen's finger was already on the trigger. He felt the heaviness even though shooting was as natural to him as drinking water.

This was the first time he had encountered such a thing. He didn't know that the guy waving the white flag was pretending to surrender, so he was somewhat hesitant about actually shooting and killing one of his own soldiers.

Such a scene appeared on the battlefield.

More than thirty soldiers, led by a white flag in front, formed a sparse line and slowly moved forward. A hundred meters ahead was the black muzzle of the invader's gun, and farther behind these soldiers, a Chinese soldier was also aiming his rifle at the surrenderer in front who was waving a white flag.

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the stars shine at night and disappear during the day, everything has its destination and there is always an ending.

So at some point in the next moment, this scene on the battlefield began a new situation with the soldier waving the white flag shouting "Get down".

Meng Lingdong threw down the rifle in his hand and lay down behind a rock. Of course, the other soldiers did the same.

All of a sudden, the "clang" sound of guns hitting rocks, the "thump" sound of people falling to the ground, and the shaking of bushes being touched were all mixed together. Some soldiers even lay down, but when they saw that the rocks in front of them were too small to block the Japanese bullets, they quickly crawled to the side.

At the moment when Meng Lingdong ordered to lie down, two people were somewhat stunned, one was the Japanese commander and the other was Shang Zhen. Because both of them were focused on Meng Lingdong who was holding the white flag, how could they not be surprised when they suddenly found that the white flag and the person holding the white flag suddenly disappeared.

However, the shock only lasted for a moment, and the two of them reacted immediately.

For Shangzhen, his logic is very simple. If all the people have disappeared and the white flag is gone, then they will not surrender.

Even if those soldiers still wanted to surrender, what could they do? He was so far away that he couldn't see them even if he wanted to fight!

So, let's continue to fight the devils! He raised the muzzle of his gun slightly, looking for the Japanese target.

As for the Japanese commander, his logic was very simple. His idea was the same as Shang Zhen's. If the white flag was gone, then the Chinese soldiers would not surrender!
Compared with Shang Zhen, he had a hint of annoyance. I knew that you Chinese were here to deceive our Imperial Japanese Army!

His raised command knife fell down, and he shouted, which was his order to start shooting.

It is common sense that light travels faster than sound in the air and that we see lightning before we hear thunder on a rainy day.

The Japanese soldiers were all aiming at the place where the Chinese soldiers had just disappeared. They had to hear the commander's order before they could shoot.

Shang Zhen, who had already raised his gun, happened to see a flash of light in the Japanese position. The flash was produced at the moment when the Japanese commander dropped his command knife.

Shang Zhen just moved the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger.

The sounds of gunfire from both sides rang out at this moment. Compared with the Japanese army's light and heavy machine guns, Shang Zhen's gunshot sounded so inconspicuous that it was completely blended into the gunshots that resounded through the mountains.

But with this shot, the Japanese commander fell down, and the sword in his hand fell to the dust.

Just as someone on the Japanese side discovered that their commander had been shot, gunshots were heard from Zhu Weiyan's camp at the foot of the mountain.

The Japanese troops on the mountain had already opened fire, so how could the remaining people in Zhu Weiyan’s camp not open fire?
There were three companies in their battalion. One company had suffered almost all casualties, and the second company was already attacking the mountain. The third company was naturally responsible for cover. For a moment, both sides opened fire, and bullets crossed each other on the top of the hillside. The smoke produced by the shooting from the hiding places of both sides dissipated into the sky.

But neither the enemy nor us knew that at this time, in the open field full of bushes near the Japanese army, Meng Lingdong was shouting: "Hide if you want to live!"

However, he stopped shouting right after he finished shouting because the Japanese soldiers were firing bullets at the rock where he was hiding. It was a short burst of fire from a light machine gun. Although some bullets flew over his head, some bullets also hit the rock.

The stone was too small and provided limited protection, so the stone chips stirred up by the bullet splashed onto the back of Meng Lingdong's head, causing him to feel a burning pain.

Meng Lingdong stopped talking and just pressed his face against the ground. What he was thinking was, I have already hidden behind a rock, so how could the stone foam from the bullet splash onto the back of my head?
But battle is like this, the situation is so chaotic, what can he come up with?
The Japanese army did not forget that there was a group of people pretending to surrender. Wherever the bullets were pouring down, there were all kinds of sounds related to death. Meng Lingdong could only hope that he would survive.

Flying a white flag and pretending to surrender to the Japanese army was only part of Meng Lingdong's plan to survive.

He had no intention of surrendering to the Japanese army, nor did he expect that they would be able to reach the Japanese positions under the "cover" of the white flag and then launch a final charge against the Japanese army.

Even if they are determined to die, they should not treat the Japanese devils as fools.

They just held up the white flag and bet that the Japanese would not open fire soon, and then they hid in the stone area in the middle of the open area with bushes. This was all Meng Lingdong's plan.

Although what he did was risky, the advantage was that they first used the stones to save their lives, and then used the bushes to hide on both wings of the battlefield.

In this way, they neither surrendered nor avoided their battalion commander ordering them to charge the Japanese army. They could hide first and come out when the time was right. According to Meng Lingdong, why are we so unlucky? It was the turn of the people behind to fight desperately!
Chapter 2364: Living Towards Death IX