Chapter 163 Li Guang Shoots the Tiger

When we entered the tunnel, gunfire on the position was still ringing. It was Gao Yongxiang's more than a dozen men bravely resisting the tentative attack of the enemy's small troops on the top of the mountain. However, this was not the cruelest, and we all knew what was going to happen.

A sense of desertion arose in my heart. Although I also knew that there was no way, and although I also knew that this was a helpless choice, it was not a good feeling to let my comrades take over the position and hide in the tunnel. Looking at the soldiers around me, they were all similar to me, and they looked a little as ashamed on their faces.

"Comrades!" Seeing this, I couldn't help but comfort me: "Comrades, don't have any psychological burden. The purpose of our work is to preserve our strength, save our lives, and attack the enemy more. What's more, we only have a dozen or so, and each group has more than a dozen soldiers standing on the position like Gao Yongxiang and others. In other words, we all have such opportunities, so there is no need to feel that we owe them!"

"The Chief of Staff is right!" Li Baocheng waved his fist and said to the soldiers: "The second platoon's spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice or difficulties is worth learning from. We will organize the second batch of soldiers stationed in the position now. The mission is the same as that of the platoon leader Gao. Who will participate?"

"I!"

"I……"

As soon as Li Baocheng finished speaking, the soldiers raised their hands one after another and rushed to stand in front of Li Baocheng.

"Company Commander!" Miao Huaizhi pressed down the hands of several soldiers beside him, and snatched Li Baocheng in dissatisfaction and said, "This lead is the lead, and the second... I have to give it to our third platoons no matter what I say!"

"How can this work?" When Miao Huaizhi said this, the other soldiers disagreed: "These are all revolutionary soldiers, why should you be ranked second!"

"Because...the platoon leader likes to quarrel with me!" In a hurry, Miao Huaizhi made an excuse, which only made the soldiers burst into laughter.

"Okay! I'll give you a placard!" Li Baocheng nodded and said to Miao Huaizhi: "Are you confident of completing the task?"

"Have confidence!" Miao Huaizhi stood up and saluted excitedly.

"Boom..." At this moment, a loud noise and a violent vibration suddenly came from above the head, which only shocked the soldiers to stand staggeringly.

I soon realized that the enemy plane was starting to bomb our positions again. I couldn't help but feel tight, and my eyes couldn't help but look at the entrance of the tunnel. At this time, I hoped that Gao Yongxiang and the others could come back in a hurry, but there was nothing outside the tunnel except for the scorched earth and corpses that were exploded by bombs.

The bombing stopped shortly after, and I immediately ordered: "Three rows are on standby in the tunnel, and the others will enter the position immediately!"

"Yes!" the soldiers responded and rushed out of the tunnel without saying a word.

I took the soldiers and flew out of the tunnel and ran towards the top of the mountain. Fortunately! There were gunfires on the position, which meant that there were still people alive. But outside, I also understood that there were not many people alive, because there were only two positions that shot. This means...

I didn't dare to think too much, and ran towards the direction of the gunfire in three steps. When I crossed the ridge, I saw that there was a soldier covered in mud and blood on the No. 9 position. The military uniform was blown to the point where only cloth strips were left with a machine gun and swept the foot of the mountain.

When he ran closer, he saw that it was not Gao Yongxiang or who? His military cap had long been flying where he flew, and his hair was burned to pieces. His eyes showed a fierce light like a beast. He gritted his teeth and held a turntable machine gun and kept firing bullets at the US military charging at the foot of the mountain!

The small US troops charged very quickly, and now they were only 40 or 50 meters away from our position, so I didn't dare to be slow, so I started to attack the US military in a mess.

While fighting, he ordered Gao Yongxiang beside him: "Platform Leader Gao, go back to the tunnel immediately!"

"Platform Leader Gao..." I shouted a few times, but I didn't hear any response from Gao Yongxiang. I turned my head in confusion, and found that his head was hanging weakly beside the machine gun, but his fingers were still holding the trigger of the machine gun, and the machine gun was still roaring and firing bullets downwards...

Seeing this, I was shocked and hurriedly rushed over to check his injuries. After turning it over, I realized that both of his legs had been blown away. When I came up just now, I didn't look at it seriously and thought that his legs were buried in the soil, but I didn't notice anything strange. At this time, he had already stopped breathing due to excessive blood loss.

In order to stop the enemy from rushing up, he held the position and shed the last drop of blood. Until he saw us coming to our side and handed over the position to us in a complete manner, he swallowed his last breath with confidence.

I gritted my teeth and finally glanced at his sacrifice. I didn't dare to stay in front of him for too long. I started my rifle and hit the US military rushing up several more bullets.

The enemy fell down when the bullet passed, and they all had brains burst and died in a very miserable state. If I had killed the enemy at such a close distance in the past, I might have felt unbearable. But at this moment, I only had hatred and hatred in my heart. No matter how miserable the enemy in front of me or how many, I would not have any mercy in my heart. Because I felt that everything in front of me was far from enough to repay the crimes they committed.

Although I know very well that it is not necessarily them who make mistakes. In the final analysis, this is still a political game and a struggle between countries. But I don’t care about so many, I only know that these guys in front of me made my comrades fall down one by one by one, and these guys in front of me made me nestle on Shangganling without seeing the light of day. It is these guys in front of me that make me worry about my life at all times...

So at this moment, all the hatred in my heart, all the depression that I had been holding in my heart these days burst out, and I only thought about: Kill! Kill! Kill!

One enemy after another fell in front of me, and I would not let go of the enemy who was lying on the ground. After the bullet was fired, I mechanically loaded a magazine, then raised my gun and fired again. Whenever I saw someone, I would pull the trigger without hesitation...

"Chief of Staff! Chief of Staff..." When I loaded the magazine into the gun chamber again, Li Baocheng suppressed my gun and said, "The enemy has retreated!"

"Um!" I woke up a little more and looked down, and sure enough, I saw that the enemy had retreated.

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng handed me a cigarette and said, "Have you noticed that the entire American devils' front was retreating more than ten meters!"

I didn't care at first, but after hearing Li Baocheng's words, I realized that the US military had indeed retreated more than ten meters away on the front line halfway up the mountain. Even if the retreating fox pit was empty, no one dared to hide, and there was nothing except the few corpses lying around.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel strange and asked in confusion: "What are they doing? Why are they retreating?"

"Why back?" Li Baocheng opened his mouth wide and looked at me incredibly and said, "Chief of Staff, don't you know why they backed?"

I shook my head blankly.

"Do you know how many people have been killed with this rifle just now?" Li Baocheng pointed to the m1 rifle in my hand, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "From the time I started counting, there were thirty-five!"

"So many?" I couldn't believe it when I heard this number.

"This is more than that!" A soldier next to him continued, "This is the number we killed the US military charge, the previous number... we are all concerned about fighting the Japanese, and we have no counts! It's indispensable if we think about it!"

Only then did I realize that the soldiers on the position were all looking at me with strange eyes, as if I was a monster.

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng continued: "You were quite scary just now! With a rifle, he forced the Americans' defense back more than ten meters!"

"What? I've just been killed?" I couldn't believe my ears.

"That's not?" Li Baocheng smiled and said, "After we attacked the American devils, we thought it would be fine if we retreated halfway up the mountain. The smoke was so big, and it was three or four hundred meters away. It was really difficult to see the target, so we couldn't fight! Didn't we stop all the guns, and just watch the Chief of Staff's gun pounding and hitting them right! In the blink of an eye, you knocked over more than 30. Do you think this American can't retreat? The soldiers are not convinced!"

I was stunned when I heard Li Baocheng's words, but when I thought about the fact that I kept shooting just now, it seemed that something was really wrong. I stuck my head out and looked halfway up the mountain, good guy! If I really wanted me to shoot now, I might not be able to hit it accurately. Why was it so brave just now!

After thinking about it, I felt that this was a state! Just like the story of Li Guang shooting a tiger, when a person was in a state, he only thought about shooting the tiger to death, so he shot deep into the stone with an arrow. However, he deliberately wanted to try it, but he could never achieve that effect again.

I just now seemed to be similar to this kind of phenomenon. At that time, Gao Yongxiang's sacrifice aroused hatred, so I kept trying to shoot the enemy, and I actually entered a state of selflessness. When I woke up, I realized that I had forced the enemy's defense back more than ten meters...

"The devils are coming!" With the observer's shout, the soldiers threw away the cigarette butts in their hands, and picked up their weapons and pointed them at the foot of the mountain.

In front of the position, the US military emerged from the smoke and dust like ghosts. They seemed more cautious and more careful than before. I think, maybe they felt the existence of snipers on the top of the mountain just now, so the charge was no longer as easy as before.

But this obviously did not dispel their determination to capture the 597.9 highland before dark. I took out my pocket watch and looked at it. It was about half an hour before dark. I couldn't help feeling relieved. I don't think they would have too many opportunities. At most, we would be safe if we bombed twice like this.

Of course, this does not mean that the 12th Army troops will come up immediately when it gets dark. In fact, the US military often bombards our supply line especially fiercely during the period when it gets dark. Therefore, it is not suitable to send reinforcements to our highlands at that time.

What I mean by safety means that once it enters the darkness, the US military will no longer have the courage to charge our positions, and their planes will not be able to bomb our positions in the darkness. Then they will be unable to play with this ground-to-air coordination now.

If nothing unexpected happens, this will be their last attack today.

I habitually raised the telescope and looked towards the direction of the US military signal board. I couldn't help but be stunned when I looked... There was only a vast white area in the telescope's aperture, and I could not see anything!

Seeing this, I couldn't help but scream in secret! As the sun slowly sets, the light becomes weaker and weaker, and I can no longer see the movement of the signal board at my location.

Then I thought again that since I couldn't see the signal board, the US pilots in the surprise could not see it either! The US military might switch to fire or lights to contact each other. I have no idea what they would do, but I know one thing very clearly, that is, the US military would not be so stupid that I could see the fire or lights that contacted the pilot...

Thinking of this, my face changed, which means I can't tell when the enemy plane will come to bomb, and I can't control the time to let the soldiers retreat into the tunnel!

The battle started again, and it was easy for the soldiers to deal with the small US troops charging upwards, so it was very easy to fight. But only I was breathless as if I had a big rock in my chest. I really wanted to tell the soldiers about the current situation and I really wanted to tell them that enemy planes would come to bomb at any time, but we did not rush to withdraw the tunnel, but I didn't know what to say. At the same time, it was useless to say it because I had no solution at all...

Under the cover of machine guns, recoil guns and other firepower, the US army was charging forward and retreating on the position. Their charge was not very fierce, and they often just fell down a few people and retreated, and then another group of people repeated such seemingly meaningless actions again. But I knew that they did this with a purpose. Their purpose was to stick to us and prevent us from withdrawing from the tunnel. Once we retreated to the tunnel, their feint would soon become a real attack.

The worst thing is that every time they retreat, I can’t tell which retreat they were driven by us, and which retreat was to avoid the bombing of their planes!

Wait! Most of their retreats were defeated by us. What if we don’t fight?

Thinking of this, I hurriedly shouted to the soldiers: "Everyone has it! Stop shooting, don't shoot!"

The soldiers were stunned when they heard my order. The enemy was charging! But I ordered not to shoot... Although they were puzzled, their strict discipline still made them stop shooting.

"Chief of Staff!" Li Baocheng hugged his waist and ran to me step by step and asked, "What's the situation? Why don't you let the fight?"

"Look at those Americans!" I proudly wrote the US military in front of the position.

Not only the volunteer soldiers were confused by my order, but the US military in front of the position were also confused. They didn't expect that we would stop shooting. At this time, they were not going to advance or retreat!

Keep rushing up? On this terrain, such a few people are not our food at all. I can wait until they get close before fighting. If not, we can fight with bayonets and fight them.

Just retreat like this? No one can retreat even if he shoots. It is undoubtedly a sign that the plane is coming to bomb, so you can also withdraw the tunnel!

So, the US troops could only use weapons to shoot at our positions on the spot, with recoilless cannons and mortars bombarded in waves, but they did not dare to rush up and did not retreat!

"Hey!" Looking at the US military's appearance, Li Baocheng was a little confused: "Look at this battle, aren't these Japanese charged? Why don't we shoot and they won't rush..."

"They are waiting for the plane!"

"Oh!" Li Baocheng understood after I said this, and smiled and said, "Chief of Staff, everyone says American devils are treacherous. Let me see! They can match one ten thousand of yours..."

"Go and go..." I cursed angrily: "You mean I'm more treacherous than the enemy, right?"

"No, no...I don't mean that!" Li Baocheng realized that he had used the wrong word and quickly changed his words: "I, I mean cunning..."

"cunning?"

"Oh!" Li Baocheng sighed: "The more he said, the more he was, the more wrong he was!"

As they said that, they couldn't help but smile at each other.

The US troops were a little patient, just five or sixty meters away from our position, neither attacking nor retreating, and were lying on the ground and fighting at us. There were gunfires and cannons, but no matter how they looked, they didn't seem to be fighting, because the volunteer soldiers were hiding in the position and watching them perform like watching a show!

Occasionally, some soldiers are itchy or angry when they look at the arrogant Americans, and they will use an enemy to practice their marksmanship. I will not stop this. Anyway, even if you die, you can't be able to become a cover for the US military's retreat.

So the battlefield was in such a dramatic stalemate, and I was not in a hurry. Anyway, with the Americans here, I didn't believe that the enemy's planes dared to bomb when the two armies were so close. Until the roar of the planes came faintly in the sky, the US military lost its patience and suddenly retreated to the foot of the mountain...

"Retreat!" Seeing the US military retreating, I didn't dare to hesitate. As usual, two observers were left behind and the soldiers retreated to the tunnel.

As soon as we ran into the tunnel Miao Huaizhi followed up: "Chief of Staff! What's going on? We don't have to go up?"

"I don't have to go up this time, I'll do it next time!" I replied.

"Hi!" Miao Huaizhi took off his hat and said frustrated: "I thought I had taken an important task! I didn't expect that this task would be to squat in the tunnel and not be able to fight anything!"
Chapter completed!