Chapter 75

Continuous trap casualties made the search team extra cautious, even without orders. Although their pace slowed, they managed to traverse the entire forest before nightfall.

A day of searching found no trace of the Soviet team or their hideout, but it wasn't without gains. Whether it was mountain chickens, wild chickens, roe deer, elk, wild boars, or wolves, each team had its share of prey, almost like a successful hunt.

On the road, the Japanese soldiers sat around the campfire, and soon the smell of roasted and stewed meat filled the forest.

Shimayama Yumi and his group also improved their living conditions. Over 300 people received two adult elk and several wild chickens and pheasants as offerings by noon, and they feasted heartily. As night fell, they were still roasting meat. Apart from not allowing alcohol, the food was very satisfying, and the lively atmosphere was inevitable.

One Japanese soldier, possibly having eaten too much greasy food, hurried to the designated toilet area, pulling up his pants. In the dim silhouette of a sentry about ten meters away, he hastily took off his pants, preparing to squat down.

At that moment, he suddenly heard the sound of dry leaves being stepped on. Startled, he was about to turn around when he felt a sharp pain in his throat. The pressure inside his body instantly disappeared, and a foul odor spread.

"Damn! What a coward!"

Shunzi secretly cursed, quietly dragging the corpse into the woods, so quietly that even the nearby sentry didn't hear.

Dongku watched the tent through his night vision goggles. He hadn't seen the lieutenant colonel mentioned in the telegram, Shimayama Yumi, all day. Even if Shimayama Yumi appeared, he wouldn't take action. He wouldn't risk angering the Japanese by killing a lieutenant colonel. The current number of searchers could still be easily handled and their movements avoided. If the numbers increased, the situation would become tense, and it wouldn't be worth it.

In less than half an hour, after Huzi had also eliminated a Japanese soldier, everyone gathered at the designated location in the darkness.

Dongku briefly outlined the next action and then led the group, equipped with night vision goggles, into the night.

Shortly after they left, a Japanese soldier, noticing his companion hadn't returned for a long time, went to look for him with a flashlight. When he saw the bloodstains and drag marks on the ground, he was terrified and screamed.

With the scream, the camp immediately fell into chaos, with the light from flashlights flickering through the forest. However, after a night of searching, they only found the bodies of the eleven Japanese soldiers who had been attacked, with no other clues.

Although the enemy had infiltrated right under their noses and killed eleven soldiers, Shimayama Yumi's eyes gleamed with excitement. This indicated that the Soviet team had not escaped the encirclement and was still near his camp, hiding to avoid the search. This also echoed an old Chinese saying: "The darkest place is under the lamp."

Upon learning of the enemy's presence near the camp, he quickly ordered two regiments to enter the forest from both sides of the road, about seven to eight kilometers away, to silently surround a fifteen-kilometer radius around his camp.

After issuing the order, Shimayama Yumi spent the night formulating a search plan. He had successfully reduced the Soviet team's activity area. The next day, he would continue to compress it until their activity area was within ten kilometers, at which point he could conduct a thorough search.

Sunlight penetrated the noisy forest. Although it was not yet foggy, the moisture in the air made the forest hazy, impairing visibility.

All the Japanese soldiers searching the mountain concentrated in the fifteen-kilometer radius and began their search. Some moved very quickly, while others strolled leisurely, in a staggered formation, not the synchronized search method of the previous day.

A leading Japanese soldier, gun in hand, cautiously advanced. Suddenly, his foot moved, and intense pain shot through his brain amidst the rustling of dry leaves.

He screamed in pain, dropped his gun, and fell to the ground.

His cries alarmed the other soldiers, who bent down to search for the target.

After a brief panic, once they confirmed it was a trap, some soldiers approached to treat the injured man, who was grimacing in pain.

When they saw the iron trap deeply embedded in his flesh, one of the soldiers cursed, used his strength to pry open the trap, and pulled out the injured man's bloodied foot.

The commanding second lieutenant first reported the situation and then ordered, "Carry the trap, you two support Hori, and continue forward."

With the trap in front, the leading Japanese soldier learned his lesson. He used a stick to sweep the dry leaves on the ground. If he touched the highly sensitive pressure plate, the trap would be triggered.

He walked confidently on the swept ground, thinking he could avoid the trap. As he walked, suddenly his body lurched downward, and a bone-scraping pain shot from his foot to his calf.

A惨烈的叫声随着刺痛传来，响彻了山林。

当旁边的同伴将他半截腿陷进枯叶中的身体拖起时，所有人都倒吸了一口凉气。

只见他脚踝处套着一块一寸厚、两尺见方的劈材板，周围钉满了半尺长的三棱铁钉，铁钉斜着呈漏斗状，牢牢卡住了他的脚，尖端深深刺入他的肉里，整个小腿被划得一道道深可见骨的伤口。

“混蛋！！”

救治的日军咒骂着，用刺刀劈着劈材板做成的捕捉马鹿用的“捉脚”。

大约一公里外的另一支小队同样遭到了陷阱的袭击，连续受伤五人，使得三十人的搜索小队除去搀扶的和受伤的，仅剩下十五个还能自由行动的了。

神山优弥接到汇报后，得出一个结论：苏俄小队似乎没有炸弹了，只有这种土制的陷阱。但在大军面前，他们又能有多少夹子呢？

“这就坚持不住了吗？”

神山优弥并不因为几人的受伤而打乱计划，所以连命令都没有下达。

几人的受伤并不影响搜索，两个小队搀扶着伤者，搜索很快又继续了。

走在队尾搀扶伤者的两个士兵突然被勒住了脖子，不等挣扎，就在喉咙剧痛中被按倒在地。

中间被搀扶的伤者在两边士兵一动的刹那，陡然被身后伸出的大手捂住了嘴，紧接着后背一阵刺痛，鲜血流逝中，他脑海里升起一个念头：被袭击了。

念头升起的一刻，他的意识就陷入了无边的黑暗当中。

前面的几组伤兵在悉悉索索的踩动枯叶中并不知道死神临近，依旧左顾右盼地前进着。他们谁也不相信在大军包围中，苏俄小队还敢露面。

行进中，一组组的伤兵悄无声息地被消灭，前面的日军浑然不知身后的伙伴正被他们的日照大神召唤着。

队列中的少尉隐隐感觉有点不对劲，经历过战场的他感觉身后像被狙击手盯着一样，让他的后背直发紧。他猛地回头看向身后，这一回头，他心胆俱裂，身后的伤兵一个不见了，就这么悄无声息地没了踪影。

“不……”

他的示警还没喊出，瞳孔中一个黑点迅速放大，扑哧水泡刺破声音中，他眼球一涨，头颅里一木，意识就停在了要示警的那一刻。

少尉的喊声虽然没能发出，但他身边的士兵还是看出了异状。

“敌……”

他声音同样没能发出，一个尖锐的物体在他喊声刚要出口的瞬间，自他的胸前透了出来。

他慢慢低头看向鲜血喷涌的前胸，还没等看清是什么，眼前一黑，意识就停止了。

在他垂头的一刻，嘣嘣的响声骤然飘起，数支弩箭在那名少尉身体还没倒下时，十几个士兵就先后中箭，连开枪的机会都没有，整支小队就在弓弦震动声中全军覆灭。

董库在弓弦震动停止的一刻，一手泵式连弩一手匕首，从不远处的草丛中窜了出来，几步到了近前，挥动匕首挨个在还在抽搐的身体上补刀，隔断了他们的咽喉，在其他身影赶到打扫战场的一刻，他快速收起连弩匕首，将一枚迫击炮炮弹和一枚手榴弹埋在了尸体旁的草丛里，小心地将拉线拴好，在众人结束战场打扫的时候，抓起身边尸体上的手榴弹袋，纵身向另一方向的伤兵小队奔去。

连续两只小队里没有发现伤兵，董库一行人像狸猫一样穿行在林间，避过了这两支小队，向最后一支小队摸去。

当林间小队里被搀扶的伤兵身影出现的一刻，董库快速做了几个手势，带着猛子、顺子就隐入了林间。

其他人则迎头绕过小队，在一处灌木密集的位置潜伏下来，等待搜索小队靠近。

当五组伤兵被董库他们消灭后，仅剩下十六人的小队在两轮连弩爆射中，步了之前那支小队的后尘。

快速打扫战场，董库在虎子将最后一支弩箭拔出，擦净血迹收起时，将一枚手榴弹和最后一枚迫击炮炮弹埋在了土里，拉线则拴在了一具尸体的腰带上。

他抓起一挺歪把子，确认这里已经打扫干净后，一挥手，带着众人就消失在了树丛里。

在董库猎杀日军的同时，刘忠带着猎户已经在蜜蜂山深处进行了一整天的疯狂射击训练。

经过一天的射击，他挑出了十个枪法和意识都属上层，有望成为狙击手的猎户，挑出了八名与牤子、猛子类似的机枪手。

其他人虽然差点，但也比一般的老兵强，毕竟他们都摸了几年甚至十几年的猎枪，稍加训练，在射击上就要比一般的士兵强，所差的只是战斗经验而已。但也胜在会潜伏隐迹等狩猎经验，这些，可不是老兵能在短时间内学会的。

孙涛没有参与训练，他每隔半小时监听一会电台外，剩余时间就是研究董库给他的资料，那个四角号码，他只用了半天就完全学会了使用；这些资料最多再有两天，他就可以全部看完记住，只是吸收还需要时间而已。

一切似乎都很顺利，唯一的遗憾就是这些猎户里没有找到可以学习电台的人选。这些猎户不同于他和山子，他上过私塾，山子祖上世代行医，识字开方子时必须的，而这些猎户就鲜有识字的了。

放下四角号码，孙涛暗自琢磨着。

“看来得跟董大哥说下，学电台要另找人了，要不这些人认字可不是仨月俩月就成的……”

PS: 捉脚是早年猎户捕捉马鹿的一种简单有效的工具。马鹿的嗅觉极为灵敏，很远就能闻到枪管里残留的火药味，让仅有四五十米射程的老式沙枪洋炮难以靠近，所以，猎户就用板子扣个洞，斜着钉一圈长钉，卡出马鹿的蹄壳，并在木板上用铁链拴上重物，让马鹿拖着行走无法奔跑，从而猎杀。这就叫捉脚。

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A惨烈的叫声随着刺痛传来，响彻了山林。

When the sharp pain struck, a惨烈的叫声 (a terrible scream) echoed through the forest.

As the nearby companions dragged him out of the dry leaves, where his leg was half-sunk, everyone drew a sharp breath.

They saw a one-inch-thick, two-foot-square piece of wood with a hole just large enough for a foot, surrounded by half-foot-long triangular iron nails. The nails were angled in a funnel shape, firmly trapping his foot, with the sharp points deeply embedded in his flesh, and his calf was cut with deep, bone-visible wounds.

“Damn!!”

The Japanese soldier treating him cursed, using a bayonet to split the wooden board used to trap the elk.

About a kilometer away, another small team also fell victim to the traps, with five consecutive injuries. This left the thirty-man search team with only fifteen members still able to move freely.

Upon receiving the report, Shimayama Yumi concluded that the Soviet team seemed to have no more bombs, only these homemade traps. But how many traps could they have in front of such a large force?

“Is this all they can do?”

Shimayama Yumi did not let the injuries of a few soldiers disrupt his plans, so he did not issue any orders.

The injuries of a few soldiers did not affect