The War of Resistance

The night became quieter.

However, according to the writing method of literary writers, in order to express silence, it is not enough to just write about silence. There must always be some sound to make a reverse comparison.

For example, the room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

For another example, the ancient Chinese said that the moonrise frightens the birds, and they sing in the spring streams, using the birdsong to contrast the silence of the night.

For another example, when a person is quiet, he can hear the sound of his own tinnitus.

And it's the same now, the night is vast, and everything around is quiet, but there is one place where the sound of walking and breathing is made under the guidance of the flashlight.

The flashlight was held in the hand of a Japanese soldier. It was used to illuminate the road.

But right behind the Japanese soldier were three more Japanese soldiers, two walking and one lying down.

Of course, he couldn't walk while lying down, so naturally two Japanese soldiers were carrying a wounded person on a stretcher and heading towards their campsite ahead.

They didn't have enough stretchers, so the Japanese army temporarily cut some wood and tied them with leggings to make a simple stretcher.

Since it would take some time, they were at the very end of the retreat of the Japanese troops.

The beam of the flashlight swayed in front of them, and they could finally see a low hill in front of their feet. Their campsite was behind the hill. It was pitch black elsewhere, but there was some light there after all.

The sound of breathing became heavier, the light was shining brightly, and people were being lifted. But when these Japanese soldiers were halfway to the hill, the Japanese sentry suddenly heard shouting and asking in front of them.

Questions were answered naturally, and who knew what the Japanese said. So, the three Japanese soldiers took the wounded man and moved forward.

After a while, they climbed over the gentle hill, and the beam of flashlight finally disappeared, while the Japanese sentries continued to hide in the darkness of the night and watch the dark night vigilantly.

The night was too dark. Even if the Japanese sentry opened his eyes, what could he see? Naturally, he didn't know that someone at the foot of the hill was looking at the slightly bright night sky behind the top of the hill. That person It's Shang Zhen.

Shang Zhen wanted to find the place where the Japanese army used flares again, but he happened to encounter the three Japanese soldiers with their wounded.

Of course he could kill these three half-Japanese soldiers, but he thought about it and decided not to do so.

Forget it about the "half-pull" Japanese soldier lying on the stretcher, but Shang Zhen thought that he was not that stupid. It would still be difficult for him to secretly kill three Japanese soldiers. But if he used a gun, then It’s a bit of a fuss again.

But if you have to use a gun, then with these two box cannons, you have more than 200 rounds of ammunition. Then why should you only fight three Japanese devils? Wouldn't it be better if you touch the Japanese devil's camp and kill a few more?

Therefore, Shang Zhen had the idea of ​​​​taking a long-term view to catch the big fish. He discovered that these Japanese soldiers were lagging behind and followed them secretly.

There is a hill in front, and there is light behind it. Although the light is not very bright, it outlines the gentle and curved ridge of the hill in front of me.

I don’t know what the kid’s camp is like behind the hill. Forget it, never mind him. Let’s try to get to the top of the mountain first, Shang Zhen thought.

Shang Zhen had been following the Japanese soldiers from before. Naturally, the Japanese soldiers in front were shining their flashlights on the road and could not just point at the road. He also took a look at the terrain here.

The Japanese soldiers had flashlights and naturally followed the road, and there were patches of bushes on the right side of the road. It was absolutely impossible for them to get up from there, because they would make noise no matter how they walked.

There is some sparse dead grass on the hillside on the left side of the road. It is relatively safer to go there.

Forget it, there's no need to worry anyway, it would be best if you can touch it in the middle of the night to launch an attack on the Japanese army.

Thinking of this, Shang Zhen was no longer anxious.

The Japanese army must have fallen asleep in the second half of the night, and the best time to launch an attack on the Japanese army was then.

This time the night was completely quiet. There were no more gunshots or flares in the distance, and there was no longer the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air. If it weren't for the faint firelight behind the hill, Without seeing the night sky, who would have thought that this area was a battlefield?

For people who are sleeping, a night passes very quickly, just in the time it takes to open and close their eyes.

But for those who refuse to sleep in the dark, time passes little by little.

In the middle of the night, Shang Zhen finally squatted on the top of the hill, and in the darkness beside him, a Japanese soldier had fallen down. The smell of blood filled the air. That was the Japanese sentry. Shang Zhen used a bayonet to bleed him.

This is not the first time Shang Zhen has touched the whistle.

It cannot be said that it is easy to touch the sentry, but Shang Zhen knows that there is no watchman in this world who does not take a nap, and the sentry can barely be regarded as a kind of watchman.

The fire in the Japanese camp was still not extinguished, even though they were half dead.

But precisely because the fire was not extinguished, Shang Zhen could already roughly see the situation of the Japanese army's camp. It turned out that the Japanese army's camp turned out to be a village in the mountains.

Even though the houses in the village were dark, Shang Zhen could estimate that there were seventy or eighty households in these houses.

This is an ordinary village. Shang Zhen doesn't think there are ordinary people in this village.

The war has started, and the Japanese invaders have long been notorious. The people in the village must have fled. Even if there are old men and old ladies who cannot leave their hometown, they must have been killed by the Japanese army.

Therefore, as far as Shang Zhen is concerned, he no longer has any psychological burden at this time.

Shang Zhen examined the situation in the village by the firelight, and in his heart he was thinking about how to kill more Japanese soldiers.

The village is in a mountain col and is naturally surrounded by high ground. But now if he had some companions in front of him, he would definitely be able to kill more Japanese soldiers. However, Shang Zhen no longer thinks about it, because fantasy itself is meaningless. , you still have to look at yourself.

After observing for a while, Shang Zhen had an idea. He didn't even take out the cannon but slipped into the village under the cover of night.

Of course, it was impossible for the Japanese army to place just one sentry around their camp, but it was already late at night. Even if the sentries were not asleep, their attention was focused on the outskirts of the village, but they did not expect that the village was already occupied. It was a Chinese soldier who slipped in.

So, Shang Zhen carefully walked and stopped among the houses in the village.

Not every such sneak attack would involve Japanese troops getting up at night, and Shang Zhen was always careful, so no accidents occurred. An hour later, Shang Zhen returned the same way, but this time he ran very fast.

And just when he lay back behind the ridge of the hill and put the cannon on his shoulder, the village had already become brighter!

This is the darkness before dawn, which is the darkest time. How can the village get brighter? There is only one answer, and that is - fire!