In the dilapidated and desolate fields, wild dogs with bloody teeth were gnawing in groups on the white bones on the roadside. The charred and blood-stained armbands had been torn into pieces and blown into the stinking ditch by the cold wind.
The stinking ditch exudes the stench of decay. The corpses floating in the water have turned white and swollen, bulging as if they were inflated. The Japanese planes are constantly roaring. These brave Chinese soldiers did not die on the battlefield.
, but lost his life on the way back.
On the muddy path, Jiao Chaoming carried a cold and dirty 38-meter rifle and trotted back to the road with a few brothers who were all black, looking for the health team that had broken up.
Yang Ling and others were bitten by Japanese soldiers in the fields. They stayed to block and cover the evacuation of the health team, and then retreated while fighting. They ran for more than an hour until they wiped out all the pursuing Japanese soldiers in the woods.
But the health team didn't know where they had gone.
Most of the health team are young female students. Now the war is chaotic, with Japanese soldiers and broken troops chasing them everywhere. If there is a mistake, the consequences will be disastrous.
Although Jiao Chaoming has not been in the army for a long time, he also knows that these powerless female student health workers will not be able to resist if they encounter Japanese soldiers. It is also dangerous if they encounter some veteran ruffians with ill intentions.
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However, he and several brothers searched for the way they came from for a long time but could not find the health team. Jiao Chaoming was so anxious that he was like ants on a hot pot. How could these dozens of living people disappear without running away?
Just when Jiao Chaoming couldn't find the health team and wanted to go back and report to Yang Ling, a brother who was following him suddenly pointed to the cotton field in the distance and shouted: "There is a person lying on the ground over there!"
Jiao Chaoming looked in the direction of his finger. In the cotton field a few hundred meters away, there was a person squirming hard on the ground, as if crawling. He guessed that he was a defeated soldier who had fainted from hunger or someone who had been thrown down.
Wounded soldiers.
"Let's go over and have a look." Jiao Chaoming took the lead with his gun in hand and ran over quickly.
When they got closer, they could see clearly that the man who was struggling to climb on the ground was covered in blood and flesh and was dying. The place he crawled behind turned into a bloody path, and his hands were deformed by the friction of stones.
Jiao Chaoming hurriedly knelt down and helped the dying man up. He turned over his face and felt something familiar. He wiped the blood on his face and realized that this was not the monkey with the health team.
"He's injured and his leg is bleeding."
Jiao Chaoming pulled open the monkey's ragged trouser legs and found that his thigh had been hit by two bullets and was bleeding gurglingly. Seeing the monkey's appearance, Jiao Chaoming had a bad premonition in his heart.
He hurriedly shook the slightly unconscious monkey awake: "Monkey, wake up, wake up, I am Jiao Chaoming, where is the health team?"
The monkey's brain was drowsy due to excessive blood loss. He opened his eyes and saw Jiao Chaoming with an anxious face. Before he could say anything, tears flowed out without holding back: "The health team... the health team is finished..."
"What's over?! Where are the others!" Jiao Chaoming suddenly became anxious and shouted anxiously that the female health worker he liked, Luo Fangfang, was still on the health team.
The monkey was injured and had crawled such a long way, and was now a little weak. Several brothers debrided his wound and bandaged it to stop the bleeding. Jiao Chaoming gave him several sips of water before he regained consciousness.
"We encountered the Japs' cavalry. We couldn't fight or run away. The health workers were dead, and the rest were captured by the Japs soldiers..." The monkey choked and told the whole story for Jiao Chaoming to listen to.
As if falling into an ice cave, he knew that these female health workers fell into the hands of those Japanese soldiers who were worse than beasts, and there was no need to think about the fate.
Although Jiao Chaoming had already guessed the result, he still held on to a glimmer of hope unwillingly in his heart: "In which direction did the Japanese cavalry go?"
"West Side"
Jiao Chaoming didn't care to continue questioning at this moment, and hurriedly found a broken wooden board, asked several brothers to put the seriously injured monkey on it, carried it, and ran back to report to Yang Ling.
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Yang Ling and others in the grove wiped out most of the squadron of Japanese soldiers in one battle. A total of 130 Japanese soldiers were all killed, leaving no one alive.
Although more than a hundred Japanese soldiers were killed, their own casualties were not small. Almost everyone was injured. More than twenty seriously injured died within a short time. A total of more than 150 people died.
More than the devils.
Although more people died than the Japanese soldiers, the surviving brothers rarely smiled. In their eyes, this was an incredible victory.
You must know that when they were on the Songhu front line, sometimes they might not be able to kill so many Japanese even if half the battalion died. The Japanese's small steel cannon blasted the whole company, and there were so many dead.
Now that the Japanese pursuers were defeated at almost the same ratio, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Especially at the last moment, Yang Ling and Liu Yidao singled out more than a dozen Japanese soldiers and killed them all, which became a talking point among these brothers. They all gave Yang Ling and Liu Yidao a thumbs up.
"Why do you think Platoon Leader Liu is so powerful?" A newly joined brother asked curiously, tilting his head while handing the cigarette he took out from the Japanese soldier to the veteran when he saw Liu Yidao showing off his power for the first time.
"He is from the Northwest Army. He has fought many battles with the Japanese in the north. He is good at killing the Japanese with a big sword. There is nothing strange about him."
"Isn't this awesome?"
"How awesome is this? Do you know that our boss Yang, when we were in Yunzaobang, knocked off the heads of at least thirty Japanese soldiers by himself and shot them in the head! Do you think it's awesome?"
"Is it really that evil?" Some people didn't believe it.
"Did you see the scar on his face? It was from that time. The red-hot shrapnel flew on his face and he didn't even make a sound. He rushed up and killed five Japanese soldiers, and their heads were chopped off.
Already."
When the brothers around heard what the veteran said, they thought of Yang Ling's ferocity in killing the Japanese soldiers, and they immediately believed it. The eyes they looked at Yang Ling were different. They were full of admiration. This is iron.
A strong-willed man.
While the remnant soldiers were cleaning the battlefield that was littered with broken flesh and blood, they were chatting with some anecdotes about the officers. Their decadent and depressed expressions had been swept into the garbage by this victory, and their morale was rising again.
Yang Ling found the platoon leader Qin Shou and discussed how to integrate these broken soldiers into a group to keep warm, so that they could easily deal with the enemy's pursuit.
Platoon leader Qin Shou was originally full of complaints and resentments because Yang Ling and the others led the Japanese soldiers and put them in danger. But now that Yang Ling led them to victory, his view of Yang Ling changed greatly. So after thinking about it for a while, he felt that Yang Ling was right.
, now that everything is in chaos, joining a group to keep warm is the best way, so I nodded and agreed.
With the platoon leader Qin Shou's nod, everything was much easier to handle. The others were scattered soldiers who were eager to follow the team, so Yang Ling immediately decided to temporarily reorganize the more than 300 people gathered together into
A reinforced company.
The reinforced company is divided into four platoons, each with more than 80 people. Liu Yidao, Yang Dashu, Qin Shou and Wu Jiang serve as platoon commanders respectively, while Yang Ling serves as company commander and is responsible for unified command of operations.