The vanguard behind the back reported the latest situation. The Japanese were not walking fast all the way. Li Yuan didn't know that the Japanese had been chasing them for a long time and were in poor physical strength.

The mountains are different from other places. The road is not easy to walk on. The narrow road is full of bamboo forests. The footprints left on the ground after the rain cannot be erased. It is impossible to hide in the forest on both sides.

If you really want to enter the bamboo forest, you will definitely leave more obvious footprints behind you. If you are not familiar with the road, you will be more likely to go to death. When you enter, you will have to fight with the Japanese and attack head-on. This is not enough for the Japanese to get stuck in the gaps.

The guerrilla vanguards turned into defenders to block the attack, but there were still constant news coming, and the Japanese had already started to catch up.

Li Yuan's idea was that the Japanese should have released the vanguards and discovered their own team.

He had no intention of taking the Japanese toward Langxi again, and turned north at the Sancha Road intersection, following the steps of the National Army guerrillas that he didn't know yet. The team bypassed a small hill and advanced northwest. The vanguard finally found traces of others walking on the ground, and found a thunderbolt on the road, which was also a torch at night. The technique of burying this thunder was a bit poor. There were few people walking on this road, and it was difficult to find it when it was almost dark. When it was about torch at night, I saw it.

Li Yuan took Chen Yong quickly to the front of the team. Looking at the grenade left on the ground, the person who arranged the thunder should have done a hurry, and the hemp rope looked particularly obvious in the fire.

This is a typical national military technique. The guerrillas don’t have so many ropes, and they usually pull a vine on the ground. It is almost the same color as the grass on the roadside, and it is not easy to be discovered.

Only then did I find that there are still a lot of footprints on the ground, and it seems that there are many people passing by here.

Finally figured it out, this group of Japanese soldiers were chasing the team in front.

Now there are two options. Quickly lead people to catch up with the team in front and make plans after meeting up. However, the people in front have buried thunders on the road. Of course, it is very easy to remove thunders. Send two people to run forward quickly, hold a branch with a hook on the ground, and then pull the thunders strings. The speed is slightly faster and you can run out of the explosion range of the grenade.

Of course, if you encounter a landmine, you will die.

Another way is to go to the opposite direction of the team ahead and there is a fork in front. The roads in the mountains are well connected. The map shows that there is no dead end here. There are wounded people in your team, so you don’t walk fast and there is no problem with walking slowly, but it is not suitable for long-term marches and you have to rest.

There are only lines on the map, but I have to walk with my feet. I can’t finish a line after a long time. At this night, the Japanese were determined to chase after them.

After walking carefully for more than half an hour, there was another hill ahead, and finally there was a fork in the road. Looking at the footprints on the ground, Li Yuan decisively led the people to a road with no footprints to the east. This is also a way to get rid of the Japanese. There are few people here, so the Japanese will definitely chase a team with a large number of people.

The Japanese who were not in charge of the back could only hear footsteps. They walked about five miles ahead and for more than an hour, the physical strength of the wounded soldiers began to have problems.

At this time, the vanguard behind came up.

With the latest information from the vanguards, the Japanese began to chase the team with more dense footprints in the west. The Japanese puppet army did not divide the troops. The vanguards followed the puppet army behind the Japanese and kept observing from afar.

The exhausted Independent Company could finally take a breath. When he arrived at the ravine, he found a small river. When Li Yuan ordered some soldiers to continue forward, he came back with his footprints. The other soldiers took off their shoes and entered the stream, wandered upwards for about a hundred meters from the stream, found a place where the stream bends, and found a small open space in the bamboo forest next to him, and the ground was not flat.

Chen Yong was arranging the soldiers to simply level the ground with their engineer shovels and prepare for camping. The mountains in spring are still quite cold, and the guerrillas camping is very simple. They are covered with rain cloth on all sides, and one piece is covered with a piece of ground, two soldiers are in groups, one with a quilt on the back to mat the floor and the other is used to cover it. There are many people in the small space, so it will not be cold.

When Li Yuan arrived at the guerrillas, all the soldiers developed the habit of washing their feet, otherwise, like some troops, the sour smell of sleeping would make people vomit.

There were whistles at both ends of the road below, and there was no need to worry about being touched by the enemy.

There are many dead bamboos in the forest. Although it has just rained, there is no problem with setting up a fire. It is easy to find fire in the dark forest. It is good to choose this stream. The terrain is relatively short. It is easy to find a pool of water that has been washed by the shallow pits washed by years of running water. It is easy to build a stove on the mountain. The engineers cut down some bamboo, covered the top with the rain cloth he brought, and started boiling water. Fortunately, they brought a cook, and the meal was settled.

It is forbidden to camp in the valley in summer, so that mountain torrents should be prevented, and it is difficult to evacuate if the enemy surrounds it.

There were many bamboos in the mountains. Under the command of the cooks, several soldiers cut some tender bamboos into sections, poured about one third of the rice from one end of the opening, then cut the bacon with them into strips and stuffed them in strips, added some water, and stood in a small pot. No drinking of raw water is allowed in the guerilla hygiene regulations.

The soldiers still had water in their kettles, and if they wanted to drink boiled water, they had to wait for a while.

Chen Yong arrived next to Li Yuan and began to analyze the next itinerary.

"Brother Li, I have a view. If this Japanese can catch up here, I guess our guerrillas have been swept away by the Japanese."

Li Yuan had no expression: "It should be nothing. I told your brother that he should keep the whistle away. If he did what I said, there would be no problem."

Chen Yong felt a little embarrassed: "I'm not talking about my brother, I'm talking about Independence Company."

Li Yuan was a little surprised: "Don't worry, Company Commander Qing is experienced and it seems that he doesn't deal with me. You have never seen that guy. He is very powerful in war. He has been fighting for more than ten years and is very smart. Last time he went to the base of Wuxing guerrillas. He should see them when he goes back this time."

"Now the Japanese have chased them. Will our trip tomorrow follow the Japanese's way?"

"This is not possible. The Japanese will definitely arrange for the communication soldiers to convey orders back and forth on this road. If the messenger meets us, if one or two of them hide in the forest, we may be discovered at any time. Even if people solve the messenger, you know that the troops will transmit information regularly. If the Japanese find that the messenger does not transmit information on time, it will also cause suspicion. If the Japanese send a search team, we will be attacked from front to back."

Chen Yong was a little impulsive: "We have injured brothers this time, otherwise we could find a favorable terrain to attack these Japanese puppet troops like last time. What do you think?"

Li Yuan was a little funny: "You think too much about this, like a terrain that is hard to come by, you have to try your luck."

Chen Yong was a little excited: "Brother, will you, that mortar?"

Li Yuan said in surprise: "If you have used it, you should be able to do it. If you are a machine gunner in the army, you must cooperate with the mortar during training, and it should be able to use the mortar, right? You also know that there are at least four people in a mortar team. Even if we both know, we may not be able to shoot it accurately. In this bamboo forest, the mortar is a useless thing." I was thinking to myself that Krupp had fought, but he was not very accurate, but he knew the basic principles.
Chapter completed!