Chapter 44: The First Special Task (10)

  This railway, about ten kilometers away from the ammunition depot, indeed has a small station for passing vehicles to shunt, without a platform, with three tracks for shunting, and a guard's house is located on the left side of the station. At this time, a small truck carrying one and a half tons was parked in front of the house, and someone was moving boxes from the house to the truck. About ten meters away from the front and back of the truck, there were two Japanese soldiers wearing raincoats, holding guns and pacing back and forth.

  Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao ran to the nearby small station, panting and gasping for breath. After a few loud thunderclaps, it started raining. At first, it was just scattered raindrops pattering down, but soon the rain grew heavier, pouring down on Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao like a deluge.

  "Really heaven has eyes!" Dong Li Mao looked up at the sky and muttered to himself.

  It should have been daylight by now, but because of the heavy rain, the sky is still dark.

  The two of them took cover behind a small house in the woods where the watchman lived at the station.

  "It seems we haven't missed it, just in time." Dong Li Mao whispered to Gou Hao.

  "Come on, let's go!" Kou Hao said impatiently.

  "No, you stay here, I'll go alone," said Dong Li Mao.

  "Commander..."

  "Enough, follow my orders, you're in charge of covering me here!" Dong Li Mao took out a handgun from his waist and then said: "Hand over all the explosives on your body to me."

  Gu Hao handed over two unused timed high-explosive incendiary bombs from his body to Dong Li Mao.

  "Remember, if I fail, you continue to finish this task." Dong Li Mao instructed before leaving: "Absolutely cannot let the little devils drive the car away!"

  Gao stretched out his hand and wiped the rain from his face, nodding in response: "Yes, we must not let the little devils drive our car away!"

  Dong Li Mao patted Gou Hao's shoulder: "Good brother! I'm leaving!" After that, he went to the sentry at the back of the truck.

  Gao You hid behind a large tree and aimed his gun at the sentry post where Dong Li Mao was about to pounce.

  Dong Li Mao, just as he was about to approach the truck's rear guard post, holstered his pistol at his waist, squatted down and pulled out a military knife from his boot sheath. Taking advantage of the rain's cover, he sprinted like a football player with the ball, running even faster than usual. The distance of over ten meters was covered in less than two seconds, and he arrived behind the guard post in a flash.

  With his left hand covering the Japanese soldier's mouth, his right hand flashed like lightning from his left chest and inserted the military knife, a very accurate one-shot kill, without letting this Japanese soldier make any sound.

  Heavy rain, dark night, nothing can be seen ten meters away. Those patrolling and carrying boxes couldn't see Dong Li Mao killing the sentry either.

  Dong Li Mao gently laid down the dead Japanese soldier, put his knife back in the scabbard on his boot, took off the raincoat from the soldier's body and put it on himself, then picked up the rifle at the sentry post, pretending to be careless, strolling slowly towards the small truck.

  He needs to figure out as soon as possible whether the boxes being loaded onto the truck contain the bacterial bombs he's looking for.

  There were only two people wearing white protective suits and gas masks moving boxes, several soldiers in raincoats stood at the front of the truck, saying something that Dong Limao couldn't understand, occasionally bursting into laughter. Judging from the occasional distant howling of wolves, it's estimated that there should be quite a few devils patrolling around the small station, this is called an external tight and internal loose alert method.

  Dong Li Mao pretended to be careless and bumped into one of the two men wearing protective suits who were carrying a box out of the house. The box fell to the ground with a loud clang, and Dong Li Mao appeared to have fallen down carelessly, pouncing on the box and feeling it with his hand. He felt that his hand was extremely cold, with a large temperature difference from his body heat. In his heart, he had already figured it out - the box must contain the bacterial bomb that Li Yuanyuan had mentioned.

  The man who was knocked down got up and shouted loudly: "Bastard..."

  Dong Li Mao immediately stood up straight, hung his head and stood at attention, imitating what he had seen in the movies: "Hey......" to indicate that he was wrong.

  Fortunately, that person did not pursue it further. He pushed Dong Li Mao with one palm and carefully lifted the box that had fallen to the ground onto the car.

  The soldiers in front of the small truck glanced over here, but no one came over, possibly worried about getting infected with bacteria from the boxes.

  Dong Li Mao walked in the direction of the sentry post, walking very slowly, looking at the two people carrying boxes re-entering the house. He quickly turned back, swiftly crawling under a small truck, taking out two high-explosive incendiary grenades. These grenades were only palm-sized, extremely convenient to carry, but their power was not small. They had timing and metal attachment functions on them, making them very easy to use. Generally, anyone could learn how to use them after a brief explanation from an expert. This was a new American-made gadget, specially designed for special agents carrying out special missions, including the ones Dong Li Mao used in the train station warehouse, which were all prepared by the local resistance organization for them, with the purpose of countering bacterial bombs.

  Dong Li Mao had used this type of high-explosive timed bomb at the station warehouse before, so he skillfully set two bombs to explode in two minutes and stuck them under the oil tank of a small truck.

  Look at the two people carrying boxes, put the boxes on the small truck, and when they walked back to the house, Dong Li Mao's body rolled out from under the car, stood up, and walked towards the position where he had just killed the sentry. In his heart, he was silently calculating the time step by step, waiting for the two high-explosive bombs placed at the bottom of the truck's fuel tank to explode, and then he would go back to blow up that house.

  In a place tens of meters away from the truck, Dong Li Mao leisurely whistled a tune, surprisingly blowing out a melody he had never known before. When he realized that he had unconsciously blown out a strange tune, he was shocked in his heart, because what he thought he would blow was the True Hero theme song, but what came out was a small unfamiliar tune.

  "Have I really become someone else? Have I truly turned into Tai Gongye?" He was stunned by his own unintentional action, it seemed that everything he had done was something Tai Gongye had personally experienced in the past, including what he did with Li Yuanyuan under the tree root. But he clearly felt that it was him and Li Yuanyuan who did it, and yet they hadn't even fully enjoyed themselves before it was over. Was this also Tai Gongye's true feeling back then?

  Dong Li Mao Zheng was in a state of true and false conjecture, when suddenly a loud noise shook the cement floor beneath his feet, and a truck tens of meters away burst into flames. The fire was not affected by the heavy rain, and instead, it burned even more wildly in the rain.

  The explosion woke Dong Li Mao from his daze, dropping the Type 38 rifle in his hand because he didn't know how to use it. He pulled out a pistol from his waist and rushed towards the truck that was burning fiercely, not running into the woods. He saw two Japanese soldiers who had been blown away by the explosion several meters away from the small truck, stumbling as they tried to get up. Dong Li Mao raised his hand and shot one of them, making them fall to the ground and stop moving. Then he pulled out two grenades from his pocket, pulled out the pins, and threw them into the house that hadn't been destroyed by the explosion. He turned around and ran away, and soon after, a series of explosions sounded behind him.

  Dong Li Mao didn't need to turn his head back, he believed that those two hand grenades were enough to blow up the small house and everyone inside.

  The Japanese army patrolling in the distance had already closed in on him.

  After the small truck was bombed, Gou Hao shot and killed the sentry in front of the truck at the first time, then aimed his gun at the patrol soldiers who were approaching Dong Li Mao and suppressed them with a burst of fire, slowing down the Japanese army's advance.

  The first to rush to Dong Li Mao's side were two wolf dogs. Before these two beasts could pounce, Dong Li Mao raised his gun and shot them dead.

  Gao Bian shouted loudly while firing at the Japanese army surrounding Dong Li Mao: "Company Commander, come back quickly..."

  Dong Li Mao fired all the bullets in his pistol's magazine, threw his last hand grenade at the Japanese army, and ran towards the woods where Gou Hao was hiding. He could hear the bullets whizzing past both sides of his body.

  Li Yuanyuan and Xu Hongming arrived just in time to see the small truck explode, she guessed that Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao had succeeded, and together with Xu Hongming ran towards the location where Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao were.

  "Quick retreat!" Dong Li Mao ran to Gou Hao's side and said.

  The two of them ran into the mountain forest, and the Japanese army that was chasing them also entered the woods, with gunshots constantly coming from behind.

  "Jia Cheng... come here!" Li Yuanyuan and Xu Hongming shouted from behind a large rock.

  After Dong Li Mao and Gou Hao ran to the stone, Xu Hongming said: "Follow me!" He pulled up Li Yuanyuan's hand and ran.