"I saw four, about a hundred meters away!" said the soldier on the side of the hill.
"There are five on my side, about a hundred meters away!" Shang Zhen on the other side of the hill also said.
"I don't see any! Oh, I haven't got a gun yet!" said the soldier on the top of the hill.
Each of the three people said a sentence that reflected a different situation.
The first soldier who spoke was preparing to stop the Japanese army, and he was obviously a veteran, as he could speak in meters.
Nowadays, the units of length used by the people are generally called chi or zhang.
It was only after Shang Zhen joined the army that he had a clear concept of meters.
This was taught to him by the veteran. One meter is one meter, which is approximately the distance between the shoulders and the outstretched arm to the fingertips.
Shang Zhen said that it was about a hundred meters on his side. This was certainly true, but it was the first time he said the word "meters" and he was afraid that others would look down on him.
If there is a war between two countries, the quality of the soldiers is also one of the factors. People who have no cultural foundation need to learn even if they want to serve as soldiers.
As for the soldier who climbed the hill, at least now Shang Zhen felt that he was not a very smart person.
Behind them was a series of hills. What was the point of wanting to see the Japanese troops chasing them from behind climb up the hills?
You can only see the hill when you are on the hill, and the Japanese army will be blocked by the hills behind, so they can only be seen on both sides of the mountain area!
And how could he have lost his gun?
With this thought in mind, Shang Zhen threw the rifle in his hand directly towards the hill and shouted, "Take the gun!"
Several Japanese soldiers were chasing them from behind. Now there were only three of them, and one of them had no gun. How could they fight this battle?
The hill was not very high, so Shang Zhen just threw his rifle up there in one go.
He just heard the soldier on the hill laugh a little foolishly when he saw the gun, and then the soldier on the other side spoke again: "Wait until the Japanese rush over the hill ahead, and then we will shoot together!"
Shang Zhen was stunned by what the soldier said.
There were five Japanese soldiers coming from their side, and four Japanese soldiers coming from his side, and the nearest hill was only seventy or eighty meters away from them.
It would be fine if it were Shang Zhen, after all, Shang Zhen has a fancy machine gun in his hand.
He could use short bursts of fire, and in the event of a surprise attack, he couldn't take down all the Japanese soldiers on his side, but it was almost the same.
But could that soldier, using a rifle that had to be reloaded after each shot, really take down four Japanese soldiers? Would he have enough time?
In addition, I don’t know how good the shooting skills of this soldier who speaks in a simple way on the top of the mountain are.
Shang Zhen's heart was beating fast, but seeing that the Japanese troops on the opposite side were approaching, he finally pulled the bolt and lowered his body a little.
Seeing the five Japanese soldiers in front of him holding Type 38 rifles and running towards him from the opposite hill like ferocious monsters, Shang Zhen became nervous. It was the first time for him to shoot at Japanese soldiers at such a close distance!
On the night of September 18th, he had his first close contact with the Japanese army and used a bayonet.
But it was dark, and he just stabbed forward with his bayonet and ran out.
In several battles after the September 18th Incident, he also shot at the Japanese army, but the Japanese army was far away.
He didn't know how many Japanese soldiers he had killed. Since they were far away, he wasn't very nervous.
But this time it’s really different!
At this time, Shang Zhen saw the four Japanese soldiers running out from the other side of the opposite mountain.
But the problem is that the unfamiliar companions on the Shangqiu side have not said a word.
Hey? Should we fight or not? If we don't, the Japanese will come!
Shang Zhen became anxious.
How far is 70 or 80 meters? Even if the Japanese soldiers ran as slowly as possible, they would reach the destination in 20 seconds!
"Plop", "Plop"! Shang Zhen couldn't figure out whether the "Plop" sound was the footsteps of the Japanese army or his own heartbeat!
The Japanese army was getting closer, and even Shang Zhen could see clearly that the Japanese soldier running in the front had a square mustache above his lips!
At this moment, Shang Zhen knew that he had no choice but to fight.
Shang Zhen, who already had some combat experience, knew that his brain could not be blank at this time, and he could only use short bursts of fire instead of emptying all the bullets in the magazine at once.
So when the Japanese army on the opposite side rushed to within 50 meters of him, Shang Zhen, who was hiding in the weeds, suddenly stood up and the machine gun on his shoulder began to make rapid sounds of "ta ta ta", "ta ta ta"!
What were the Japanese invaders? If I say that the Japanese invaders were human beings, many people would disagree.
Well then, even if they are considered animals, both humans and animals are living beings.
What are weapons? Weapons are used to kill people or living things.
Even a weak woman can kill people with a gun, let alone Shang Zhen who has killed Japanese soldiers and has been practicing shooting these days?
This type of submachine gun originated in Germany and was called the MP18 submachine gun. It was not used until the late stages of World War I.
It was not used for long before Germany was defeated.
As a result, a large number of MP18 submachine guns produced by Germany were destroyed by the victorious countries, and the remaining ones were sold to China.
China is currently in an era of warlord separatism. Every warlord is trying to build his own power. If he wants to build and expand his power, someone must have a gun.
So just like the German Mauser pistol such as C96 was called a box gun, the MP18 submachine gun, which was also an automatic weapon, was warmly welcomed and was called a flower machine gun or a portable machine gun. Warlords all over China imitated it.
In addition to being an automatic weapon, a submachine gun has another greater advantage, which is that its strong firepower requires relatively low precision shooting. In other words, the requirements for the shooter are not high!
From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, where can we find qualified soldiers given the quality of the Chinese people?
It doesn't matter if one, two or three shots miss, because we have so many bullets in the drum magazine or the magazine. We can just keep shooting if we miss a few!
But at this time, Shang Zhen was no longer the rookie in the barracks who had never been in a war or fired a gun.
With the crisp, rapid and paused "he he" sounds, three of the five Japanese soldiers running towards him were knocked over by him!
At the moment Shang Zhen fired his gun, gunshots were heard from the hill on the other side.
Although the gunshots were not as rapid as those from the submachine gun in Shang Zhen's hand, they were still continuous shots one after another!
Two of the four Japanese soldiers were actually knocked down!
Several details happened at the same moment. Shang Zhen even heard the soldier on the top of the hill shout in a muffled voice, "Here it is!"
Just when Shang Zhen's two men reacted and the Japanese soldiers pointed their rifles at him, a black dot hit the middle of the two Japanese soldiers and exploded with a "bang". The two Japanese soldiers fell down in the smoke and dust with screams.
It turned out to be the soldier on the hill who threw the grenade!
As a result, the only two Japanese soldiers left were the two people in front of Shang Zhen on the right.
The two Japanese soldiers were also fierce. Seeing that the terrain was unfavorable and there was nowhere to hide, they knew they could not outrun the bullets even if they wanted to retreat, so they continued to rush forward with their rifles.
This time Shang Zhen jumped up and fired all the remaining bullets at the two Japanese soldiers.
At the same time, the two Japanese soldiers were shot from the other side of the hill. They were finally hit by several bullets and fell down. However, the place where the two Japanese soldiers fell was only more than 20 meters away from the hill.
The nine Japanese soldiers who had chased after them were instantly killed by Shang Zhen and his three soldiers!
"Run!" Shang Zhen shouted and turned around and ran.