Chapter 1597 Surrounded(2/2)
After Tian Xiaohu finished speaking, he climbed up the tall pine tree again, and the mountain ridge returned to calm. Even in the direction of the bandits' den, no one was sent out to die.
Almost an hour passed before and after, Tian Xiaohu in the treetop suddenly said, "Here we come!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran, who was smoking against a tree, immediately put out his cigarette butts. He and Zhao Jinyu picked up the grenade tubes at hand one after another, and then each picked up a grenade and got ready.
“Almost there”
In the treetops, Tian Xiaohu held up his telescope and reminded, "The ones walking in the front seem to be the gangsters. It seems that there are only shopkeeper Cao and his four beams and eight pillars. It's over. They probably don't have the courage to attack the Japanese."
The puppet troops are in the back, and the Japanese are in the back! Good guy! A bunch of mule sledges! There seems to be cannons on them! No, something is wrong!"
"What's wrong?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked.
"I made a rough estimate. There are definitely less than a hundred Japs, but there are about a hundred puppet troops!" Tian Xiaohu exclaimed, "It's bad! Not all the Japs have come! They must have divided their forces! Maybe the captain's side
There is still danger!”
"Then we have to fight. Come down quickly!"
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already stuffed the grenade into the barrel.
After a while, Tian Xiaohu climbed down from the tree, raised his 38 cap as a pusher and loaded the gun, "The Japanese must die, and so does the manager of Cao Da. Let's tie up his son. This time the beam is bigger.
If he survives, he will definitely bring his gang to cause trouble for us."
"Can you hit it accurately?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
"no problem!"
Tian Xiaohu said, already placing the gun in his hand on the branch of a birch tree.
At the same time, Wei Ran finally saw the large army walking back along the frozen stream through the gaps between the trees.
Soon, this large army got closer and closer, and finally stopped in front of the bandit who was kneeling on the ground, his body covered with a layer of snow.
"Let's get started"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he and Zhao Jinyu beside him had already pulled the firing trigger of the grenade.
"Tum! Tum! Bang!"
As soon as the two grenades were fired, Tian Xiaohu opened fire and fired a bullet. Then he threw the rifle in his hand over his shoulder and picked up the two grenades.
"Boom! Boom!"
Almost at the same time that shopkeeper Cao Da was shot in the chest and fell from his horse on the snow, two grenades exploded in the middle and rear of the team. At the same time, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu also each picked up the grenade.
A second grenade was inserted into the barrel.
"Tum! Tum!"
As soon as these two rounds were fired, the shells Tian Xiaohu held in his hand were also inserted into the muzzle.
"Tum! Tum!"
After two more blasts, two grenades produced by themselves exploded in the Japs team again.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Before the fourth round was fired, the Japanese counterattack came first, and the surrounding trees shook off the snow from their bodies under the impact of the bullets.
The three Wei Ran people lying in the snow did not stop or retreat. They fired the fourth and fifth rounds of grenades with bullets flying above their heads.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
At just this moment, grenades from the Japanese on the opposite side also came up, and the closest ones to them were probably less than 20 meters away.
"Last round! Prepare to withdraw!"
Wei Ran said, stuffing the grenade in his hand into the barrel, and he and Zhao Jinyu quickly pressed the trigger one after another.
"Tum! Tum!"
Two more grenades flew out. Without even waiting for them to explode, Wei Ran called on Zhao Jinyu and ran behind him. At the same time, Tian Xiaohu also picked up his schoolbag with not many anti-personnel grenades left.
He turned around and followed the two of them.
"Boom! Boom!"
There were two more explosions coming from the Japs, but Wei Ran didn't know that the shot he fired only killed four or five Japs here and there, but it was actually the last shell fired by Zhao Jinyu in panic.
Although it failed to hit the Japanese, it accidentally hit the sledge on which the only Type 92 mountain gun was "riding"!
Unfortunately, Wei Ran and the other three did not have time to look back and confirm the outcome of the battle, so they risked their lives by jumping off the mountain ridge, each mounted their horses or mules, and while firing randomly, began to retreat in the direction where the guns had been buried.
Of course, neither the three Wei Ran nor the Japanese or puppet soldiers who were chasing behind them noticed that with the death of shopkeeper Cao Da, the four beams and eight pillars around him also took advantage of the chaos to leave the frozen stream.
He burrowed into the surrounding woods and completely lost his shadow.
Not to mention the little calculations of the bandits, although the three of Wei Ran ran away, the Japanese who were seduced were extremely cautious. Under the cover of the grenade, they drove the puppet troops they brought to attack from the front.
On the deserted mountain ridge, a team of Japanese soldiers was also dispatched to make a detour from the side.
As expected by Wei Ran, after the Japs finished their trick and successfully occupied the uninhabited mountain ridge, they immediately sent a team to chase them along the horse hoof prints left by them, and successfully detonated the guns.
For a moment, after a series of muffled sounds and sporadic gunshots, a series of screams rang out in the forest.
During this series of tricks, the three of Wei Ran stopped again, dismounted as quickly as possible, set up the grenades, and fired three rounds of grenades at the maximum range behind them.
After a series of explosions or no explosions but smoke and fire, the three Weiran men mounted their horses again and ran in an unknown direction under the leadership of Tian Xiaohu.
Sure enough, after this provocation, the Japanese behind them actually chased them with the puppet troops.
At the same time, some Japanese soldiers and puppet troops rushed towards the bandits' den with the wounded from before.
"One more round!"
Seeing that the pursuers behind him were once again pulled away from each other and even blocked by the trees and could no longer be seen, Wei Ran dismounted again, raised the grenade and fired another smoke grenade purely to scare ghosts.
Almost at the front and back, Zhao Jinyu and Tian Xiaohu each used their guns to fire randomly at the invisible enemies behind them, just to make them continue to follow.
"How many shells are left?" Wei Ran asked as he got on his horse again.
"There are five more bombs that can explode, and three more flares."
Tian Xiaohu, who was responsible for carrying the artillery shells, immediately replied that before this, Wei Ran had taught them how to distinguish different grenades.
“It should work”
Wei Ran gained some confidence. Although the snow was much lighter, as long as the distance was 300 meters away, even if there were no trees blocking it, there was no way he could see clearly.
This undoubtedly gave them considerable confidence. As long as they kept such a distance and firepower, the Japanese behind them would most likely be chasing them, and they would also have a great chance of getting out alive.
"How about we get close and give them a good beating?" Zhao Jinyu came up with a bold idea impulsively.
"Come as close as you can!"
Tian Xiaohu hurriedly expressed the latter's worries before Wei Ran could speak, "The Japs like to contain the enemy from the front and outflank them in a roundabout way. At this time, a group of them may have already come around from the side. Run quickly and climb over this beam before talking!"
"Go quickly"
Seeing what Zhao Jinyu wanted to say, Wei Ran reached out and slapped the other horse's butt, urging the black horse to run again.
However, as the saying goes, what you are afraid of will come true. When the three of them finally climbed up the mountain ridge on horseback, they unexpectedly saw a large group of Japanese soldiers and a small number of puppet troops on the opposite hillside, pulling skirmishers upward.
climb!
"It's over there!"
Just at this moment, a puppet soldier who was walking at the front spotted them first. He shouted and raised the rifle in his hand!
"Bang! Bang!"
Wei Ran and Tian Xiaohu, who was less than a second behind him, each shot, hitting the puppet soldier's chest one after another!
"Run!"
Wei Ran didn't have time to cover up, so he directly put away the box cannon in his hand, and slapped the black horse riding in a daze, Zhao Jinyu, on the butt again!
"Crack!"
This crisp slap immediately made the black horse run! Zhao Jinyu almost subconsciously lowered his body and lay on the horse's back, and at the same time pulled the reins, letting the horse run back to the bottom of the mountain ridge.
Almost at the same time, the Japanese and puppet troops on the other side of the ridge also opened fire one after another, hitting the trees on the top of the ridge and shaking off large swaths of snow, which was considered a curtain of snow for the three of them.
"Where to run!" Wei Ran, who was also galloping on horseback, shouted and asked.
"Move forward!" Tian Xiaohu responded loudly, "First keep the distance!"
"Do you think there will be a bunch of people waiting for us ahead?!"
Chapter completed!