Chapter 70: Riverside Encounter Battle

  Dong Li Mao and Zhu Yong Sheng parted ways at the side of the blown-up road, each leading half a special task force brother on their way.

  Wang Jiagui and Zhang Dali followed Dong Li Mao, Gu Hao and Liu Xingyu followed Zhu Yongsheng. The special task force was organized as an independent combat unit for each platoon, so each platoon was equipped with wireless telephones.

  Pan Guangzu was too fat, he only had a handgun on him and didn't bring any other weapons. Originally, he wasn't even considered part of the combat personnel, but this time he insisted on following the company to participate in the battle. Dong Li Mao didn't stop him much, the reason being simple: Pan Guangzu was his sworn brother Tu Hongbo, who was also someone who couldn't be killed.

  The banks of the Ren'an River are covered with dense tropical rainforests, and during this season, the rain is abundant, the shrubs are lush, the river flows rapidly, and what's most frightening are the venomous snakes and wasps in the shrub forests.

  Dong Li Mao led his brothers from the right bank of the river upstream, according to the map indications, as long as they followed the river and walked upstream, they could reach Ren An Qiang. The British army was surrounded in a flat valley on the right bank of the river, with mountains surrounding three sides, so Dong Li Mao chose to go upstream from the right bank.

  The sky had completely darkened, and the night air was filled with the rumble of thunder. Before long, several flashes of lightning illuminated the darkness, followed by a torrential downpour. The raindrops, as big as beans, pounded against the steel helmet, producing a dense, clanging sound.

  Dong Li Mao told Hu San to bring Wang Yonggui over, standing under a large tree root said: "Second, you take several brothers to scout ahead, I'm worried that there will be little devils' ambushes along the shore, be careful! If you find any devils, don't act rashly, send someone back to tell me."

  "Yes!" Wang Jiagui shouted and had five people follow him as he rushed forward.

  Zhang Dalì shouldered a machine gun and stood beside Dong Limào, saying: "Company Commander, the rain is too heavy, the road is too slippery, shall we let the brothers rest for a while before continuing?"

  "No way! This is heaven's blessing, only in such bad weather do we have a chance, otherwise, I'm afraid we won't make it to our destination before being caught by the devils." Dong Li Mao wiped the rain from his face and said: "Tell the brothers, no matter how difficult, we must arrive at our destination before dawn! Let everyone not be afraid of snakes and wasps under their feet, in this kind of weather, even wild beasts will avoid the rain, snakes won't come out to move around! Wasps have already been washed away by the rain into the river to feed the fish!" Dong Li Mao especially emphasized that there would be no snakes or wild beasts appearing, because the soldiers of the special operations company were not afraid of death, but each and every one of them was afraid of snakes. Dong Li Mao was dispelling the psychological fear of the soldiers in order to speed up their march.

  After Zhang Dalie loudly conveyed Dong Limao's words, it really worked. Everyone stopped walking carefully and started jogging with big strides. In their minds, Dong Limao was like a god. What Dong Lianchang said to them was more effective than Du Yuming's strict orders. They might not listen to the battalion commander, regimental commander or division commander, but everyone absolutely obeyed Dong Limao, believing that their own company commander would not treat them as monkeys.

  This is the trust that Dong Li Mao bought with his life, the warriors he rescued from the dead prison of Japanese intelligence agencies spread a good reputation for him to sacrifice his life for his brothers, in just a few days, he erected a flag in the hearts of these voluntary special agents. The warriors are two words: Trust!

  Around midnight, Wang Jia Gui sent someone back.

  "Comrade Commander, there's a firelight ahead, it seems like a group of little devils are also on the road, heading in our direction." The returning soldier reported to Dong Li Mao, panting heavily.

  "About how many people?" Dong Li Mao did not expect devils to come towards him in the direction he was advancing.

  "The sky is too dark and it's hard to see clearly how many people there are, but judging from the long row of torches, I estimate that there are about forty or fifty devils."

  Dong Li Mao hadn't even had time to deploy when a gunshot rang out from the front, followed by a burst of gunfire. Before long, the sound of hand grenades exploding also began to echo through the air.

  "Heavy machine gun! Bring your men and rush to support the Second Squad quickly! Don't let a single devil get behind us! The rest of you follow me!" Dong Li Mao ordered Zhang Da Li to take the machine gunner and go, with the intention of pinning down the enemy. He pulled up the bolt, not running forward, but rushing towards the mountain forest on the shore, he wanted to lead his men to attack the Japanese army's flank."

  Wang Jiagui and four other snipers, each hiding behind a tree, saw the Japanese vanguard approaching. He worried that the soldier who had returned to Dong Li Mao's side had not yet arrived, so he took aim at the man holding the torch in front and shot his head off with one bullet. The other four followed suit, wiping out the first few Japanese devils. However, this also exposed their own ambush position. The Japanese behind extinguished the torches and began to charge forward. Wang Jiagui and the four snipers threw a few hand grenades, aiming to use the explosion's light to illuminate the Japanese positions, so they could be shot with sniper rifles.

  The Japanese army had three machine guns firing, and Wang Jiagui and his men didn't even have a chance to stick their heads out or raise their guns. The dense bullets whizzed past the tree trunks they were hiding behind and through the trees, amidst the intense machine gun fire, there were also tracer bullets.

  The Japanese army was approaching them step by step, and Wang Jia Gui was a sniper after all. He remained calm and composed, which was his basic quality. He didn't panic. He knew that if he ran back at this time, he would only be shot in the back by the Japanese army like a living target.

  So Wang Jiagui made a gesture to let the other four people fall down at the root of the tree, using their prone position to aim and shoot at the Japanese army. They didn't bring powerful submachine guns or machine guns, relying on their sniper rifles, which couldn't suppress the enemy's firepower. The several Japanese soldiers who charged in front were less than thirty meters away from them, and they also used the tree trunk as cover, step by step approaching Wang Jiagui and his men.

  Just as Wang Jia Gui and his men were running out of ammunition, they heard a loud shout from behind: "Brothers! Kill the devils!" Then the sound of machine guns started to ring out from behind them. Bullets flashing with heat flew over their heads, shooting three Japanese devils who had almost closed in on them, while several others began to retreat.

  "Second company! Are you still alive?" Zhang Dalie shouted while firing his machine gun at the Japanese army.

  "What the devil are you doing, shooting at me from behind! Do you want to help those little devils kill me?" Wang Jiaogui dared not stand up, as bullets were flying everywhere, and he loudly replied in a language that both he and Zhang Dali could understand.

  Zhang Dalì ran a few steps to Wang Jiagui's side, got down on all fours, placed the machine gun on the ground at the base of the tree, and chuckled while firing: "You little devil is quite clever, you actually knew I would shoot from behind, so you hid here in advance."

  "Cut the crap! Use your machine gun well! Don't let them get close!" Wang Jiagui turned his head to look back, didn't see Dong Limao and others, so he asked strangely: "Where are Commander and other brothers?"

  "Just you wait, soon we'll see how to deal with these little devils." Zhang Dali's mouth said as he spoke, his hands didn't stop, the machine gun spat out a tongue of fire, reflecting off his eyes that were about to burst into flames.

  Dong Li Mao led dozens of brothers, walking a hundred or two meters up the mountain by the riverbank, then quickly advancing forward. He could see from above the light emitted by the bullets flying back and forth along the riverbank below, knowing which side was the Japanese army and which side was his own people. He didn't immediately charge down, but instead almost circled around to the rear of the Japanese army, dispersing his men into a fan shape, slowly closing in from above. When they were within fifty meters of the Japanese army, he raised his rifle and shouted: "Brothers! Not one will be left! Kill them all for me!"

  He first took out two devils at a Japanese military machine gun firing point, then aimed the muzzle at the person who seemed to be in command, swept over with one shot, and saw that the man pointed his right hand towards the mountain slope on Dong Li Mao's side, and fell backwards.

  The rest of the warriors, hesitating to go down the mountain, including Pan Guangzu, shouted loudly: "Kill! Not a single one is left!" Hand grenades were thrown into the enemy's team like hail from the sky, and the bullets of the submachine guns that swept from top to bottom were denser than raindrops. Under such firepower, dozens of Japanese soldiers had no power to fight back. Several raised their hands in preparation for surrender, but under Dong Li Mao's order to leave not a single one, even those who knelt on the ground and surrendered were shot dead by the special agent soldiers.

  The battle lasted only a few minutes and all Japanese troops were annihilated by the special agent team.

  After counting the number of people, it turned out that no one was injured or killed in this battle, but a lot of ammunition was consumed. Dong Li Mao let Pan Guang Zu lead a few men to clean up the battlefield and replenish some ammunition from the Japanese devils' bodies.