Siheyuan, Shazhu: I have both parents in this life

Chapter 136 Leaving the Enemy with a Big Move Before Departing: Retreat
Just as He Yuzhu was becoming a little dazed from the blood transfusion, Wu Qianli's hand twitched and his eyelids began to blink. Xiong Jie and the others quickly told He Yuzhu to remove the needle because He Yuzhu's face had turned pale.

You know, this kid used to be the healthiest-looking person among everyone, with a rosy complexion, not at all like someone who had been suffering from hunger and hardship on the peninsula. But now he does look like it, his face is frighteningly pale.

"The company commander is awake! The company commander is awake!" Yu Congrong shouted.

"I'm not dead yet? I had a very long dream!" Wu Qianli looked at Yu Congrong and Wu Wanli who were guarding him.

"You're not dead, you're not dead, Squad Leader He saved you." Wu Qianli wiped away his tears.

"Why are you crying?" Wu Qianli wanted to reach out and touch his younger brother's face, but he didn't have the strength, and his hand only moved slightly.

“I’m happy,” Wu Wanli said.

"Is the position still there?"

"Yes, the third company is holding up the top now."

"Zhu Zi helped us a lot by taking down the enemy's artillery position."

“Here I am, Company Commander Wu,” He Yuzhu said weakly.

What happened to you? Are you hurt?

"It's nothing, I'm just tired."

"What do you mean you're tired? This kid performed the surgery and then gave you a blood transfusion, otherwise you would have been a hero." Xiong Jie's loud voice rang out.

"Zhu Zi, I can't thank you enough! Wan Li, will you remember this?"

"Got it, bro!"

"Alright, you just barely escaped with your life, and you still have so much to say," Xiong Jie said.

"I'm worried," Wu Qianli said, though he was actually forcing himself to stay awake; his eyelids were drooping.

"I'm worried about you because you can't move, but I'm not worried about losing the position. Even though I, Old Xiong, am lame, I still have my hands."

"Okay, that's enough." Wu Qianli fell into a deep sleep again.

"Zhu Zi, eat something, look how pale you are."

He Yuzhu didn't hold back either, and he treated everyone to a feast of canned food, compressed biscuits, and chocolate.

This was probably the first time he had felt so hungry since he transmigrated. After eating, he felt a little sleepy. In his drowsy state, he felt someone come over and touch his nose and breath, and then cover him with something.

He Yuzhu didn't know how long he had slept, but he felt someone pushing him.

"Squad Leader He, Squad Leader He."

He Yuzhu struggled to open his eyes and saw an unfamiliar soldier holding a flashlight, waking up the wounded one by one.

The sounds of gunfire could still be heard. "What time is it? Is something happening on the front lines?"

"It's five o'clock, almost dawn. Instructor Mei told me to wake up all the wounded."

"It's five o'clock?" He Yuzhu calculated that he had slept for more than three hours. He looked around but did not see Xiong Jie, Yu Congrong and the others, nor Huang Liwen.

Then he asked, "Where are Company Commander Xiong and Yu Congrong?"

"They're on the front lines."

Where is Company Commander Wu?

"Over there." The soldier pointed to He Yuzhu's right side.

He Yuzhu felt his strength return, grabbed a handful of snow from the side and rubbed it vigorously on his face to clear his head.

"How is the battle going now?"

"We can't stop them on the highway anymore. We've run out of rockets and artillery shells. There are still many seriously wounded soldiers who can't be evacuated, and they're jumping off the road with grenades strapped to their hands to blow up enemy tanks." The young soldier choked up a little.

"I'll go take a look at the front."

"No, Instructor Mei wants you to stay with the wounded."

"I'm fine now, you take good care of the wounded." He Yuzhu got up and looked around, noticing that his two guns were leaning against the side. He picked them up and checked them; they were fully loaded with bullets.

He slung his gun over his shoulder and ran toward the position.

Passing by the artillery position, there was no one there, only a few cannons that had run out of ammunition sitting there all alone.

There was no one there when I passed by the place where the reserve team was waiting.

Thinking back to where the wounded were resting, there were no lightly wounded left. He thought to himself, "They've all gone up there. It seems the fighting was quite intense while I was sleeping!"

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard the sound of stones colliding coming from the side. Sensing something was wrong, he quickly lay down and looked in the direction of the sound.

Then he saw dozens of furtive figures sneaking towards the main position.

"White pig?" He Yuzhu gently took off a gun and looked at it through the scope.

The moonlight was dim, and he could only make out a vague outline, but judging from the size, he was right.

"Bang!" The gun in He Yuzhu's hand rang out.

"Enemy attack!" He Yuzhu heard in English.

Then those people scattered in a flash, pointing their guns everywhere.

"Bang, bang, bang!" Before the enemy could spot him, He Yuzhu quickly emptied his M1 and then moved to a new location. The spot where he had just been hiding was now ablaze with enemy fire, sending rocks, dirt, and snow flying everywhere.

While running, He Yuzhu changed the magazine. He could do it even in the dark now; he knew this gun like the back of his hand.

After another round of sniping, He Yuzhu almost got hit by a bazooka, but as soon as he moved to a new location, he took out the enemy rocket launcher soldier.

Upon hearing the commotion, the soldiers on the front lines sent half a squad to provide support. It wasn't that they didn't want to send someone; they simply had no one else available.

Once the soldiers arrived, they opened fire. There was no need to distinguish who was on the front lines; everyone who could go up went up. The side with more people was definitely the enemy. As for how they were able to hold their own against so many enemies, they probably guessed it, because there was no one left behind. The only one who was still alive was probably He Yuzhu.

With these people providing cover, He Yuzhu was much safer when he moved his sniping position, and then the enemy was in trouble.

He Yuzhu had already taken out the heavy firepower in the first instance. With both sides using rifles, what did He Yuzhu have to be afraid of?

As the fighting progressed, He Yuzhu circled around to the back of these people. He didn't hold back and first unleashed a barrage of grenades, causing the enemy to cry out in despair.

The enemy never expected that a grenade could be thrown so far, at least 70 meters. They didn't even know it was thrown because they couldn't see it. They only realized how far the grenade had been thrown after He Yuzhu fired his gun after the explosion.

In less than 30 minutes, He Yuzhu dealt with the group of enemies who had sneaked up. After cleaning up the battlefield, He Yuzhu realized how these guys had gotten up there. They must have climbed up the cliff. No wonder there were only so few of them.

As for why the people who came from the other direction at night didn't come up again, He Yuzhu knew from the distant rumbling of artillery that they had been caught by the main force of the Volunteer Army. It was also possible that there were their own troops blocking the way on the other side of the mountain pass, otherwise they would not have given up.

These people must have had no other choice but to climb up here. He Yuzhu noticed them during the fight; they were the same people he had encountered when rescuing the 6th Company.

While cleaning up the battlefield, He Yuzhu casually took out some bazooka rockets, mortars aside, and also retrieved two 10-kilogram backpacks of TNT.

He gave the enemy a big gift when he was preparing to leave.

Of the five soldiers who came to provide support, two were killed and one was wounded. The other two came over to take a look.

"It really is Squad Leader He! You're really amazing. Weren't you resting in the back?" a soldier said.

"I woke up, and since I was worried about the position, I came over to check on it, and that's when I ran into them."

"You woke up just in time, otherwise the consequences would have been dire if they had touched you."

"Alright, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, prioritize collecting grenades and rockets."

"Yes."

When the two young soldiers discovered two bazookas and three ammunition pouches containing eight rockets each, they cheered quietly. This was exactly what they needed; with these, the soldiers wouldn't have to jump down and blow them up.

Upon discovering this, the two soldiers ignored everything else and ran back to the position carrying their bazookas and ammunition pouches.

He Yuzhu didn't leave anything behind. After collecting everything except the corpses, he took some out and piled them in one place. Then, carrying a gun and two backpacks full of explosives, he ran towards the position.

When He Yuzhu arrived at the position, he was somewhat speechless. There were less than 50 people left on the position, which he judged from the muzzle flashes of gunfire.

The entire position was blasted down by the artillery fire. All the rocks that could have served as cover were gone, and the few trees that were there were all snapped in half, some of which were still sparking.

The soldiers lay prone in craters of all sizes, firing continuously at the road.

Mortar shells and rockets were occasionally fired from below.

"Zhu Zi, why are you coming up here?" He Yuzhu was crouching down and walking forward when someone grabbed him.

The man's voice was hoarse, and his entire body looked as if it had been burned, even his face was black. He didn't recognize him at first.

Seeing He Yuzhu in a daze, the man said again, "I am Mei Sheng. Why did you come up here? Didn't I tell you to stay in the back and wait for the retreat? Who's watching over the company commander and the others?"

"If I don't come up here, you'll get poked in the butt from behind."

"You always have a point. Are you feeling better?" Mei Sheng was speechless. "I've recovered a little. Killing the enemy is no problem. What about Company Commander Xiong and the others? Who's in command of the position now?"

"Xiong Jie, the company commanders and political instructors of those two companies have both sacrificed their lives, and Political Instructor Huang has also sacrificed his life."

"Instructor Huang sacrificed his life?"

"He lost another leg and was carrying grenades when he blew up a tank." Mei Sheng's voice was low, but He Yuzhu heard it clearly.

"Where is Company Commander Xiong? When are we leaving?" He Yuzhu's voice was dry.

"It'll be soon, dawn is approaching, and he's at the very front."

"I'm going to find him," He Yuzhu said and left.

When He Yuzhu arrived at the front, he looked at the situation on the road. There were only two trucks that had been blown up and stopped there. They must have been hit by bazookas just now. The enemy was pushing them with armored vehicles. They didn't even need tanks anymore.

The highway was full of craters that had been filled in after being bombed, some of them particularly large, probably from explosive charges rather than mortars.

The enemy troops temporarily halted, but He Yuzhu could see a long line of headlights ahead of the road, indicating that quite a bit had passed, especially at Shuimen Bridge where the searchlights were brightly lit.

He Yuzhu didn't call out to Xiong Jie. He took off his gun and started shooting at the machine gunners, rocket launcher soldiers, officers, and other important targets below.

After He Yuzhu lay down next to Xiong Jie and fired a few shots, Xiong Jie realized that someone else had taken his place and that the shooting wasn't right.

"Zhu Zi, what brings you up here?"

"If you don't come up now, shouldn't you just jump?"

"You know it all?"

"Shouldn't we withdraw now that we've fought this far?"

"I'm not reconciled, but there were no orders."

"Are you satisfied with just wiping out everyone? Orders! We've held off the enemy all night. Are you expecting us to fight their tanks with our fists and teeth?" He Yuzhu roared.

"It's fine if you say these words to me, but you can't say them again."

"Tell them to evacuate. If we don't evacuate now, we won't be able to get back to the starting point. Are we just waiting for the enemy planes to burn us with incendiary bombs? I've prepared a big gift for the enemy, enough to delay them for two hours. Is that enough?"

"What kind of gift?"

"20 kilograms of explosives, yellow powder, is enough to blow this whole area down."

"Where did this come from? I remember we ran out of explosives, we used them all up."

"Just grabbed it," He Yuzhu said irritably.

"Okay." Xiong Jie gritted his teeth and said. He was prepared to take the blame himself if the higher-ups punished him, since he was the only company commander left on the front line out of the four companies, not counting Wu Qianli's serious injury.

"Have someone go and move the wounded first, and leave a few who know how to use explosives to cover my rear."

"I'll leave you here."

"No way, I know what you're thinking. Can your legs even run? How can you expect to go down with the line? No way, the higher-ups still need someone like you to hold the line."

"No, that's not what I meant," Xiong Jie said urgently.

"Then do as I say. You are the company commander. Only when you leave will the soldiers leave."

"Okay." Xiong Jie no longer hesitated.

"Leave the bazookas, two light machine guns, two demolition experts, and the rest of you go."

"I'm going to join the army! I'm going to join the army!" Xiong Jie shouted.

“Here.” Yu Congrong crawled over from somewhere.

"You take the wounded and evacuate first."

“I’m not leaving. If you want to leave, then you leave. This is our 7th Company’s position.”

“This position also has the blood of my 6th Company. My 6th Company’s political instructor is still watching from the road. Look at the soldiers behind you, 7th Company, how many men are left in the 7th Company?” Xiong Jie grabbed Yu Congrong by the collar, pointed to the road, and then pointed to the soldiers behind him.

"Yu Congrong, carry out the order." Mei Sheng had climbed over at some point.

"Instructor."

"They're not even obeying my orders anymore?"

"But if we just leave like this, all those comrades who sacrificed themselves overnight will have been left empty-handed?"

"Who said we defended for nothing? We eliminated so many enemies in one night, and the main force eliminated even more. Have you calculated it? Even if we wiped them all out, would we be able to stop the enemy?" He Yuzhu was furious. He himself had killed at least a hundred people that night. He didn't know how many he had killed earlier, but with 200 people left and only 50 remaining, and a large number of enemy vehicles unable to pass through the rear, how could he say we defended for nothing?
"Pillar, you."

"How many people are left in your 7th Company? Did you count them?"

Yu Congrong was unaware that Mei Sheng had counted the remaining soldiers; there were fewer than a full squad left, including those who were seriously injured.

"I."

"Excuting an order."

"Yes."

“Zhu Zi, I heard what you just said to Lao Xiong. I’ll stay.”

"What are you going to do here? Detonate the explosives and perish with this mountain?" He Yuzhu was speechless; these people were too stubborn.

“Old Mei, let’s go. Zhu Zi is right. If we stay, we’ll only be a burden,” Xiong Jie advised, having come to his senses.

"Everyone leave, just leave the people I need behind. Be quick, it's almost dawn."

“Alright, Zhu Zi, you need to come along. We’ll be waiting for you up ahead. See you there.” Mei Sheng said in a deep voice.

"Alright, let's go quickly. Seriously wounded soldiers can't move fast, and we'll need to find a place to hide later. You know how powerful enemy planes are."

"Alive." Xiong Jie saluted He Yuzhu. He didn't even remember how many times he had saluted a soldier.

"I guarantee I'll complete the mission!" He Yuzhu replied.

Xiong Jie arranged for those who were to stay, and he was helped away by the soldiers, limping away. Mei Sheng did the same.

When they arrived at the place where the wounded were staying, they all received the same treatment: they all got on snow sleds, including Yu Congrong. After coming off the battlefield, his nerves relaxed, and the kid immediately passed out.

He Yuzhu discovered that Wu Wanli was among those who stayed behind, and thought to himself, "This kid's life is pretty tough."

After a brief nod, He Yuzhu began assigning tasks. His goal was to blast down the entire cliff, ideally like a landslide, making it difficult for the enemy to clear it out.

The soldier with the explosives looked at it and replied, "Squad Leader He, the kind you're talking about is too difficult. We don't have enough explosives."

"How much would be enough?"

"Give me another twenty kilograms."

"Let's leave it at that for now. Whatever the result, it'll be fine. It would be best to blast down as many boulders as possible." He Yuzhu said this because he already had a plan in mind.

"it is good."

The soldiers began planting explosives. What they didn't know was that after they finished planting at one point and went to the next, He Yuzhu said he was just checking, but actually he secretly planted another box of explosives at that point.

The 20 kilograms were buried at four points, and with the addition of He Yuzhu's own, a total of 60 kilograms of explosives were buried, which exceeded the amount the soldier had just mentioned.

After the installation was completed, He Yuzhu had the Bazooka team destroy two tanks, and then he led his men to retreat.

He Yuzhu had the soldiers pull the detonator's fuse to its maximum distance, unaware of the immense power of the extra explosives he added.

However, when it was time to detonate, He Yuzhu told everyone to lower their bodies, but not to lie down, and to keep their mouths wide open.

The soldier who used explosives was experienced, but he didn't think that 20 kilograms would have such great power at such a distance, but he did it anyway.

The detonator was pressed by He Yuzhu, and four loud "booms" were heard. The soldiers with He Yuzhu were so shocked that they were dizzy and had ringing ears, and almost fell to the ground.

When they looked up, they saw that a third of the cliff in front of them had been removed.

The soldier who planted the explosives looked astonished. How could 20 kilograms have such power?

He Yuzhu didn't give them time to think, and shouted, "Let's go!"

They took the lead in chasing after Xiong Jie and his men. Even so, the soldiers couldn't help but look back out of curiosity, but unfortunately, they couldn't see what was happening below.

What He Yuzhu and the others didn't know was that the explosion actually had a chain reaction. This mountain area was connected, and part of the mountain above the right-angle bend was also collapsed by the explosion.

In particular, a huge rock more than ten feet long stood across the bend of the road like a broken dragon. Because it was covered by soil and rocks on the mountain, the soldiers of the White Eagle Army were dumbfounded when they finally dug it out. In the end, they managed to push it off the cliff, but this section of the mountain took the enemy more than four hours to dig through, even with digging on both sides.

The direct result of the four-hour delay was that the Bald Eagle's 1st Division lost all its heavy firepower, and the last rearguard regiment was wiped out. The number of people who escaped was half that of the historical figure.

(End of this chapter)