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Chapter 59: 059, Mountain Fire Stops the Enemy, Hold on

There was no other way, so Li Yuexuan continued to bandage Lai Fu and act as his military doctor.

Li Yuexuan's movements were very quick. With a bandage, Lai Fu's wound was temporarily suppressed, and the amount of bleeding was reduced a lot. However, if safety was to be guaranteed, the wound still needed to be cleaned and sutured.

At this time, Lai Fu was not the only wounded soldier at the battalion headquarters. There were about a dozen wounded soldiers who were also staying at the battalion headquarters with the help of the soldiers of the supplementary battalion. It seemed that their injuries were not light.

"This won't do! Captain, we have to find a place to treat the wounded!" Li Yuexuan found Xing Weiguo, and he had to speak up for this matter.

"Well, I'll go find the battalion commander!" Xing Weiguo was not at all surprised at Li Yuexuan's change of identity, but went to Zhang Dabiao for instructions.

"Military doctor, you can't do this. You need to find help and teach your comrades!" Lai Fu's face turned a little yellow at this moment, but he still spoke while enduring the pain.

"Do you think I don't want to? There's simply no time! Look, Dabao and Dashan have fought a few battles with me. From now on, I'll pass the grenade launcher to them!" Li Yuexuan said.

"Someone still has to learn your medical skills! Hiss..." Lai Fu's wound hurt and he stopped talking.

"Okay, comrades, it's okay, let me take a look!" Li Yuexuan covered Lai Fu with his held-up military uniform, and took the Bai brothers to the wounded.

Following the same procedure as last time, Li Yuexuan first looked at the wounded and classified their injuries before providing simple first aid. For those with superficial injuries, the Bai brothers bandaged them, and for those with minor injuries, Li Yuexuan temporarily stabilized their injuries. For those with serious injuries... Li Yuexuan could only give up helplessly.

At this time, the bombing in the south had ended, but some of the dry grass ignited by the explosion had already caught fire. At this time, these flames were spreading from the ridge on this side to both sides, and at a faster speed, they were spreading to the higher mountains in the south. The wind helped the fire, and the flames were getting higher and higher, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger, like a raging wildfire.

Although there were no dense forests on the mountain, there were some perennial trees and shrubs such as jujube trees, prickly ash trees, vitex, and white ash trees. Moreover, the dead grass accumulated over the years was several centimeters thick. Therefore, this small mountain fire actually started like this, and gradually spread, burning half of the southern mountain.

From a distance, the entire mountain appeared in two colors: one was green and yellow, and the other was pure black.

Thanks to the fact that at that time, there were not many people in the mountains, and not many cattle, sheep and other livestock, so the wildfires on the mountains had enough fuel, and the flames one or two meters high were enough to form a barrier.

This resulted in a result - a small group of Japanese soldiers who had just climbed up the southern hill with great effort had to hurry down the mountain, otherwise they would become roasted pigs!
The First Battalion actually had no idea what was happening on the southern hill. They only saw a line of flames burning towards the hill over there. In the rising smoke, some wild rabbits that could not hide were fleeing frantically.

It took about 20 minutes from the time the wildfire started to burn to the top of the mountain, and Li Yuexuan was busy for more than 20 minutes.

During this period, the Japanese mountain artillery did not bombard, and the second company in the front kept exchanging fire with the Japanese on the opposite side. Where there is fire, there are casualties, and the wounded are sent down one by one. "Okay, military doctor, we need to move!" Xing Weiguo came over and said as he had just bandaged a soldier whose face was scraped off by a bullet.

"Where to transfer?" Li Yuexuan asked with blood on his hands.

"Let's go to Heshanggou, on the northern hill. That will be our final battlefield!" Zhang Dabiao answered him. Seeing Li Yuexuan's puzzled look, Zhang Dabiao continued, "We will hold on to our limit here, and then we will retreat. There is a big bend over there, so we can block the enemy once more! Then, it's Heshanggou!"

"I understand, Battalion Commander!" After Li Yuexuan finished answering, he saw the soldier who had just been bandaged put his hat on his head, stood up, and returned to the front line with his gun.

Not only this wounded soldier, but all the wounded soldiers who could still move and shoot, were returned to the battlefield to fight after a simple bandage. They really did not leave the front line even with minor injuries!
Li Yuexuan could not stop the wounded from returning to the front line. All he could do was to command the stretcher team sent by the supplementary battalion to take a dozen wounded soldiers and the fallen comrades and march towards Heshanggou. At this time, Li Yuexuan discovered that 21 soldiers of the first battalion, including the guerrillas, had been sacrificed!

The sacrifices, the wounded, and the slightly injured who were not on the front line, this side has suffered more than 100 casualties. This casualty is already very huge for the first battalion!

However, whether it was Zhang Dabiao or anyone else, they did not waver at all and continued to fight.

Boom boom boom... Boom boom boom... Just when Li Yuexuan and his men walked more than 300 meters, the sound of the Japanese mountain artillery came again. Looking back, they saw flames and black smoke from the explosions of shells from time to time on the front line. Seeing this scene, Li Yuexuan's heart was in a knot. How much sacrifice would this cost?

"Don't look at it. After this battle, if half of the soldiers in a battalion are left, it will be a profit!" Xing Weiguo patted Li Yuexuan on the shoulder and signaled the team to continue moving forward.

"Yes, we've made a profit! At least until now, the Japanese have suffered more casualties than us!" Li Yuexuan nodded and continued to move forward.

"Baga...the forest fire has prevented the troops from making a roundabout move, so let's continue the attack! What is our casualties?" Captain Suzuki said in the village over there.

"Reporting to the Major, our current casualties have exceeded 300..." A Japanese soldier with the rank of lieutenant looked at Suzuki carefully, and then said: "Fortunately, among the more than 300 casualties, we still have 49 soldiers injured... According to my inquiries, the largest casualties occurred near this position, which is the location of the first artillery bombardment!"

"At this location, the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce fire attack, especially the grenade launcher bombardment, which completely destroyed our heavy machine gun squadron and destroyed most of the Qingyuan squad!"

The lieutenant pointed to the initial location of the guerrillas on the map and continued, "Also here, the Eighth Route Army used a large number of grenades to block the bombing, and a large number of soldiers were sacrificed!"

"Damn it... The Eighth Route Army across from us is definitely not an ordinary Eighth Route Army! According to the intelligence from the brigade, this is really where the main force of the Eighth Route Army's Beiyue District is! I just don't know what happened to the Inukai Battalion? We haven't been able to contact them yet!"

(End of this chapter)