Chapter 44 Hide and Seek
Chapter 44: Hidden and seek
In the winter in North Korea, there are often gusts of cold winds at night. The cold wind keeps pouring into the open car window, making me tremble while sitting inside. I originally wanted to close the car window, but Kobayashi stopped it because after closing the car window, he could not hear the roar of the planes in the sky. So for my own life, I had to sit in the cab and persevere.
As for whether the wind is northwest or northeastern, it is really a problem for me who has a weak sense of direction. I only know that the cold wind is mixed with a few rays of the ocean. The reason why the Korean Peninsula is called a peninsula is because it faces the sea on three sides and borders China on the north, so the wind here is all blowing from the ocean, and there is even a hint of saltiness here.
The snow is still falling, and the lonely and cold moon is passing through the dark clouds, sometimes passing through the clouds, and sometimes disappearing, spreading it into the boundless snow, smearing it as dim as water.
The car was struggling and slowly spreading on the snowy road. Everyone in front of the car loaded guns like a big enemy. The grenade was lifted. Zhang Mingxue even climbed onto the roof with a machine gun, and put the machine gun above the cab despite everyone's opposition.
This position may be able to discover the enemy at the first time and provide cover for the soldiers in the car to gain some time, but there is no doubt that doing so will expose yourself to the enemy's gun and become the first target for the enemy to attack. However, I did not stop Zhang Mingxue's actions, because I think that this was what Zhang Mingxue, a guard, should do. If Zhang Mingxue was just to cover me alone, maybe I would stop it, but now he is trying to cover two cars of warriors...
But to our surprise, the ambush we were worried about did not appear. The puppet army agents never appeared again, and the air around us returned to peace, and nothing except the sound of wind and the roar of cars.
This may be the reason why the puppet army agents did not have much time to arrange this assassination. If there were volunteer soldiers stationed everywhere in this area, it would be impossible for them to lurk near this place for a long time. If they lurked too far, they would not be able to arrive here in time to set up an ambush. So after more than twenty minutes, the car successfully stopped in front of the 65th Army's checkpoint.
Compared with the machine gun positions next to the US military's checkpoint, the Volunteer Army's checkpoint is like a bailout. It is surrounded by tunnels and deeply dug trenches. Volunteer soldiers holding machine guns can be seen everywhere, and even the barrels of several anti-aircraft guns and the raised anti-aircraft machine guns can be vaguely seen.
I think this is because Americans often go deep into our positions to bomb! If volunteer soldiers set up a few tents to sleep at the checkpoints like Americans, or make a few open-air machine gun positions, it would be strange if the US planes were blown to the bottom of the genius in just a few seconds.
"Comrade!" After checking the documents, I was careful and asked the two soldiers who came to check: "Does there any other vehicles or suspicious people pass by you within the past half an hour?"
"No!" One of the hunched soldiers shook their heads with certainty and replied with an authentic Sichuan voice: "Just an hour ago, four or five cars transporting wounded were 12th Army! There is even less suspicious people. In such a cold day, who can still walk!"
"Oh, thank you!" Kobayashi responded and started the car and drove forward.
As soon as they passed this level, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Because under the hazy moonlight, the high ground on both sides of the road were filled with volunteer sentries standing guard and guarding everywhere on the snow. Not to mention whether the enemy could set up an ambush for us in this situation. Even if they set up an ambush, unless we were blown to death with one shot, it would be basically the same as seeking death.
So the atmosphere around quickly became relaxed. With the sound of matches burning, a few faint smell of smoke came from behind the carriage.
"Comrade on the roof of the car! Come down!" Someone greeted Zhang Mingxue, who was still lying on the roof of the car: "It's very cold outside, come in and smoke a cigarette to ease it!"
"Okay!" Zhang Mingxue responded and climbed down from the roof of the car.
I took a photo of Wang Xianru who was still standing outside the car window and signaled him to go back to the car. The temperature outside was very low, and even standing outdoors could not stand it, let alone on the car that was driving.
Wang Xianru nodded, lifted the canvas behind and was about to climb in. Suddenly, he stopped his movements as if he had found something, and looked into the sky. Kobayashi also felt something was wrong. He turned off the headlights of the car as soon as possible, and then slowly leaned against the roadside. However, the engine did not turn off. First, because he had to be prepared to be discovered by enemy planes at any time, and the other was because in this cold weather, the engine was easily frozen and could not be activated.
"Comrades, please be careful, it's an airplane!" After listening carefully, Kobayashi issued a warning.
In an instant, the soldiers in the carriage did not dare to breathe. Wang Xianru also took this time to climb into the carriage behind.
"Bang bang!" At this time, several gunshots came from the darkness. I knew that it was an air defense gun fired by volunteer soldiers. The purpose was to notify nearby soldiers that an enemy plane was coming, so that the soldiers could seize the time to hide.
I looked out of the car window and frowned. There was a flat snow nearby. Looking around with the moonlight, the nearest high ground was also two or three miles away. Our two military-green victory trucks were as obvious as two rat shit in a pot of white porridge. As long as the enemy plane hits two flares at our position...
But this is unlikely. Then I soon thought that the US military planes could not see anything on the ground in the dark. They were sailing in the dark completely on radar, and they could detect only the mountains. This is why there are many dangers in the US aircraft sailing at night. Of course, in addition to the "Black Widow" night flight aircraft equipped with large night vision instruments, but for so long on the battlefield, even I, a rookie, could hear that the enemy's plane was not "Black Widow", but fighter planes.
Fighters have specific missions when sailing at night. If they fire flares somewhere, there are only two possibilities. One is that there are suspicious lights at this location, such as headlights. But we turned off the headlights just now before the soldiers fired anti-aircraft guns, and the headlights were covered with black cloth, so it is unlikely that they would find them. Another possibility is that they have already flown over the target...
I said intimately, no! Maybe we are the targets of these planes!
How could I forget that those puppet military agents did not need to set up ambush on our way forward. They just needed to report our location to the US military and let the US military send planes to bomb us!
"Drive quickly! The target of these planes is us!" Thinking of this, I hurriedly ordered Kobayashi.
Kobayashi couldn't help but be stunned. He soon realized that he didn't turn on the lights. When he stepped on the accelerator, the car rushed out like an arrow that was taking off the string.
With a "Teng!", before we could drive far, there was a sudden lit up around us, and a few flares illuminated the road we were moving forward in snow-white. At this moment, the dazzling light made me unable to open my eyes, but the car did not stop and rushed forward for a moment, even faster than before.
Because the road is not flat, the car sways violently along the way. Sometimes the car that flew into the air made me wonder if it was about to overturn, but the next second the car returned to the highway safely.
"Woo..." A strange roar came from the sky. Under the light of the flare, the enemy's plane soon discovered our car running forward, so they immediately chased after him.
I couldn't help but turn my eyes to Kobayashi who was running the steering wheel, and said in my heart, "Didn't you say that as long as you have good skills, you can't do anything to you?" Now is the time for you to show off."
Kobayashi seemed to know what I was thinking, so she turned her head and smiled at me, without saying anything, just stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, then reached out to pull the rearview mirror outside the car window.
Kobayashi's actions made me puzzled. What should I do when I look at the rear mirror? Looking at the plane behind? Even if you can see the plane, can you still avoid its bullets?
But it seems that this is true.
Kobayashi looked at the rear mirror without blinking, and sometimes she was listening to the sound, as if she was waiting for something.
The sound is getting louder and closer...
Suddenly, without any warning, Kobayashi stepped on the brakes suddenly, and the car squeaked and slid on the snow for a long distance before stopping. The huge inertia pushed me forward without preparation, and I stood up and hit my head hard on the glass in front of me. Fortunately, I was wearing a thick cotton hat on my head, so the glass was fine!
Almost at the same time, a whistling sound of machine guns mixed with "da da da..." was heard, and a string of bullets almost flew to the road in front of us against the roof, causing only snow to splash everywhere, and a ball of snow powder exploded in front of us.
I touched the big bag on my head and looked at the butt of the plane whizzing past our heads in front. I couldn't help but curse in my heart: Xiaolin, if you want to play this trick, you should tell me earlier! The glass was almost knocked out by me, and I didn't have the moral character to care for public property. If it weren't for the extraordinary period of being chased by the plane, I would have to teach him a lesson...
Before I could react, Kobayashi stepped on the accelerator again, and the car rushed out again and rushed behind the butt of the plane. I looked at it and was stunned again. I thought this guy was driving a rocket, and he was chasing the plane...
Of course, the car couldn't catch up with the plane, so I watched the plane leisurely adjust its head in the air, then adjust the direction and dive towards us again.
Just as I was holding the handle on the car door tightly and planning to greet Kobayashi's sudden brakes again, he calmly slowed down the speed of the car.
Although the engine was roaring, the car was slowly moving forward on the road like a snail. Kobayashi was still staring at the plane ahead without blinking. I was thinking about what he would do next, but suddenly he stepped on the accelerator and accelerated the car...
This time, the plane in the sky didn't even shoot a machine gun. I think that's because the pilot had no time to press the machine gun button, the car had already escaped from his shooting range.
Only then did I realize what Kobayashi said, as long as he practices his skills well, even the plane will not be able to do anything about them.
I couldn't help but smile bitterly. This is more than just practicing skills. It's simply playing with the enemy's plane! It's easy to say, but it's even more difficult to do. This not only requires good psychological qualities, but more importantly, it's important to have a clear understanding of the time when the enemy's plane dives to and at what height. Otherwise, if you are not careful, it will be the end of a car being destroyed and a person being killed.
I don't know what the pilot on that plane thought, but I knew that if it were me, I would definitely be so angry that I would jump into the plane and commit suicide. This is of course what I hoped, but unfortunately the pilot obviously did not do this, and he quickly turned the nose and chased us again.
Everything is okay, but the pilot was deceived by us for the first time, the second time, and the third time? At this time, I couldn't help but worry. After all, Kobayashi's move was only played by the enemy plane pilot's surprise. After all, the pilot had to do it for so many times. As long as he had to be more careful before getting close, he would have measured it in advance, and it would not be necessary for him to play whoever he played!
Kobayashi ignored the gaze I cast at him and still stepped on the accelerator to drive the car quickly. After a while, the car drove between the two high grounds. Only then did I realize that only one high ground had been dug out of the middle, and the road penetrated straight through the middle, and from a distance it looked like two high grounds.
The plane followed us all the way, watching it diving down and about to shoot. I originally thought Kobayashi would still use the trick of brakes, so I held the front guardrail tightly with both hands and placed all the center of gravity behind.
but……
Kobayashi's speed did not decrease. He suddenly blew the steering wheel. The moment the car drove out of the high tunnel, it made a 90-degree turn and turned into the side of the high ground.
"Dadadada..." The machine gun sounded then, and the bullets hit the high ground like peeling tofu, causing soil and rocks to fly. However, with the cover of the high ground, this time it was the same as the previous two times, and the car was still unscathed.
The car is fine but I don't mean I am fine. At this time, my whole face was pressed against the windshield because of this sharp bend. If I hadn't shaken the glass in advance, I think I would have flew out of the car window. I once again paid a heavy price for my wrong estimate.
But this is pretty good. As soon as the car stopped, I heard a tight vomiting sound coming from the carriage, and a smell of smell quickly floated over.
But this is not over yet. I think the plane was already furious at this time. It was about to get along with us with all its might, and it turned around in the sky and flew towards us.
Kobayashi felt relieved at this time. He smiled and controlled the car calmly and turned his head beautifully. Looking at the direction of the plane flying, he drove the car back and hid it on the other side of the high ground. The plane still had no choice but to deal with us.
After that, a plane flying from the sky and a car driving on the ground, both sides ran around like hide and seek. If the plane caught up horizontally, Kobayashi drove the car to the high ground and faced the side of the plane. There are two sides of the high ground, either to this side or to the other side. Because the high ground is blocking, the machine gun cannot hit the car at all.
If the plane caught up vertically, Kobayashi drove the car to the road between the two mountains, and the machine gun could not hit the car. In the end, the plane had to throw two bombs randomly and flew away in great anger. Of course, the two bombs were helpless to us except that they caused some earth and rocks to hit the car!
"You really are!" I patted Kobayashi on the shoulder weakly, because at this time I was already overwhelmed by the car's tossing, which made me feel uncomfortable in my stomach and I no longer had the strength to say extra things.
But I believe that I am definitely much better than the soldiers in the back compartment, because there is nothing behind the sound of vomiting!
"This is nothing!" Unexpectedly, Kobayashi said indifferently: "This is still a big car. If it is a jeep, I don't need to be so nervous! But to be honest, this is also because the enemy only comes one plane. If there are two, one comes horizontally and the other comes firmly, we will only have to jump out of the car and escape!"
"Yeah!" I nodded as I suppressed the nausea in my stomach, and looked at Kobayashi almost with begging eyes, "Then we... should we rest for a while and then go on the road? I see that the soldiers are almost vomiting..."
In fact, this is just an excuse I found for being unable to hold on.
"I can't see it!" Kobayashi poked her head out of the window and looked at the sky, and replied calmly: "We have to get on the road as soon as possible. After such a struggle, it's almost dawn. When the sky dawn, the Americans' planes will be one or two!"
As he said that, he stepped on the accelerator and blew the steering wheel suddenly, and then made another sharp turn and poured the car into the highway.
"Wow..." I couldn't help it anymore and finally spit out everything in my stomach.
Chapter completed!