32: Chapter 32 Burning the Sewers
The young man's words woke the people present from their daze.
"That's right!"
Just because they couldn't save people didn't mean they couldn't kill people!
If they couldn't save the wounded, couldn't they at least kill the Japanese soldiers?
Since they weren't afraid of dying anyway, if they could drag a Japanese soldier to hell with them when they died, wouldn't that mean fewer comrades would get hurt?
Zhou Xiaoyi was also jolted into realization upon hearing the young man's words.
"We know what to do now."
The sounds of gunfire and shelling outside continued to ring out.
The audience in the livestream room was also moved by the young man's words.
"What a brilliant point: killing to save, and killing is saving."
"On a battlefield like this, even if you have medicine or actual medical skills, they don't really do much. In combat, there aren't many people you can actually save. You only have a chance to live if you win; if you lose, you just die."
"In just this one charge, dozens of people died. Flesh and blood are still too fragile in the face of a torrent of steel."
On the other side, the Suicide Squad in the Sewer.
After hearing the loud roar of the explosion, they rushed straight out of the Sewer entrance.
They were well-equipped with plenty of ammunition.
With a few shots, they knocked down all the Japanese soldiers patrolling the area.
They were elites specifically selected from the entire regiment, trained in marksmanship, and their shooting was better than the others.
In a situation where everyone else was short, they could be considered tall.
Although their sneak attack was successful, it also attracted the attention of the Japanese soldiers inside the Airport.
When the Japanese soldiers discovered they were a squad of over thirty people, a squad of Japanese soldiers immediately came to surround them.
The members of the Suicide Squad had originally thought everything would go smoothly.
But when they saw the Japanese heavy machine gun, they were all stunned.
The heavy machine gun opened fire at full force, suppressing them so they didn't dare to pop their heads up.
The offensive was immediately thwarted.
"It's no good, the Japanese firepower is too fierce; we can't charge up!"
Two members of the Suicide Squad were hit by machine-gun fire because they didn't retreat in time, and blood stained the ground.
Taking advantage of the night, they dragged the two injured men and retreated quickly.
Fortunately, the Japanese soldiers were worried about a counterattack and didn't dare to pursue immediately, allowing them to retreat to a safe place.
Having retreated to a safe place, their expressions were somewhat grim.
Looking at the two injured members of the Suicide Squad, they could only use bandages to dress their wounds and stop the bleeding.
But this was only treating the symptoms, not the root cause.
"Not good, the Japanese are coming, be careful and get ready to fight."
"There are too many Japanese soldiers, we have to leave quickly, otherwise we'll all end up dead here," a young man with a blackened face said.
At this moment, the two injured men spoke up.
"Cough, cough, don't worry about us, you guys retreat quickly, we'll cover the rear."
"But..."
"Don't 'but' me, we are the Suicide Squad, if you hesitate any longer, no one will get out."
"Alright." The young man with the blackened face nodded solemnly upon hearing this.
"Right, take our weapons, we just need to keep two grenades." The injured man on the ground handed his weapon supplies to the young man.
"This won't do..."
Before he could finish, he saw the man on the ground smile and raise his hands. One hand was just an arm; his palm was missing.
The other arm had been pierced through by machine-gun bullets.
"Look at my hands, can I still fire a gun? I can even trigger a grenade with my mouth."
"Since we're going to die anyway, we might as well drag a few Japanese soldiers down with us. It won't be a loss if we die."
The young man was silent.
"Brother, take care!"
"Take care!"
After they left, the sound of two grenade explosions rang out behind them.
But they were not out of danger yet.
More Japanese soldiers were still chasing after them.
Soon they returned to the Sewer entrance.
"We can't just retreat like this, we have to kill at least some Japanese soldiers."
"But there's no cover here, we can't fight at all!"
They had originally wanted to find the Japanese soldiers' The Warehouse, but there were too many garrison troops inside this Airport.
The Sewer plan had completely failed.
"Let's go into the Sewer. If the Japanese soldiers dare to come in, we'll kill one for every one that enters."
The captain leading them was named Li Cheng, a small-time streamer.
However, because he had become the captain of the Suicide Squad, the number of viewers in his livestream room had unknowingly reached over ten thousand.
"Alright."
Saying this, they began to retreat into the Sewer one by one, while the others were holding off the pursuing enemies.
Rainwater from the ground continuously entered the Sewer through the entrance.
Everyone was soaked through by this dirty water.
Just as Li Cheng reached the Sewer, the gunfire above became intense.
Li Cheng and his men waited below, but the people above didn't come down.
Immediately after, he smelled the scent of blood.
It seemed to be flowing down from above along with the rainwater.
He lit the oil lamp he was carrying.
The rainwater at his feet was bright red with blood.
"Retreat!"
Li Cheng immediately led his men away from the Sewer entrance to prevent the Japanese soldiers above from throwing grenades down.
Above, the Japanese soldiers moved the bodies of the Suicide Squad members who had stayed behind to cover the rear, and then looked at the Sewer entrance.
A Japanese Officer walked out.
"Baka! Why is there no one guarding this Sewer entrance? Do you want to commit seppuku?"
The Japanese Officer yelled at the Japanese soldiers behind him.
Subsequently, the Japanese Officer looked at the entrance and ordered someone to go down.
But the Japanese soldiers weren't stupid; no one dared to go down first.
So they threw a few grenades down, wanting to see if they could kill Li Cheng and the others below.
But Li Cheng and his men were prepared and had hidden around a corner of the Sewer.
Hearing the sound of the grenade explosions, Li Cheng secretly rejoiced.
It was a good thing they hadn't stayed there just now, otherwise they would have been goners.
Both sides waited for two or three minutes, and the Japanese Officer saw that there was no movement below.
He then sent someone down to take a look.
At this moment, a Japanese soldier came down from the Sewer shaft.
Seeing this, Li Cheng hurriedly waved his hand, signaling them to stay calm.
After this Japanese soldier came down, because it was pitch black inside the Sewer, it turned on the headlamp on its helmet.
As a result, it didn't find anyone.
It didn't dare to continue walking forward either, and immediately looked up and shouted twice in gibberish to the people above.
Li Cheng couldn't understand it, but he could guess that it was calling for the people above to come down.
At this moment, several more Japanese soldiers came down from above.
Seeing these seven or eight Japanese soldiers, Li Cheng didn't hesitate anymore and immediately shouted loudly.
"Fire!"
Grenades were thrown over, and the sound of light machine guns rang out continuously.
Before those seven or eight Japanese soldiers could react, they were all wiped out.
The Japanese soldiers above who were just preparing to climb down scrambled back up, but were still shot down by the quick-witted Li Cheng.
In Li Cheng's livestream room, the audience was frantically spamming "Well shot!"
They loved watching Li Cheng kill Japanese soldiers, and some of them had come from other livestream rooms.
Now that they had heard Li Cheng's side was a Suicide Squad conducting an underground raid, they had all come over to see how their operation was going.
Because the casualties from the frontal operation were just too heavy.
Watching them made people feel angry and helpless.
At this moment, although several people had died on Li Cheng's side, their results were also quite good.
Just in that last wave, they killed nearly ten Japanese soldiers without suffering any casualties.
The Japanese soldiers above were furious and threw grenades into the Sewer again.
But Li Cheng and his men were hiding around the corner, so they couldn't be hit at all.
After several back-and-forth exchanges like this, the Japanese soldiers left behind more than thirty corpses.
The corpses below were almost filling up the Sewer.
Looking at those corpses, Li Cheng felt very proud.
He could imagine the Japanese soldiers looking furious but helpless against him.
However, just at this moment, Li Cheng suddenly smelled a strange odor.
"Do you guys smell something?" Li Cheng frowned, turned his head, and asked the team member beside him.
"I smell it, it seems like..."
"The smell of gasoline."
As soon as the team member's voice fell, Li Cheng's expression changed.
"Not good, run! They want to burn us to death."
Li Cheng shouted, then ran towards the back of the Sewer.
But at this moment, with a loud boom, the sparks from a grenade explosion ignited the gasoline in the Sewer.
Because it was pouring rain outside, the gasoline had long been washed in front of them by the rainwater.
The raging flames surged toward them quickly, following the rainwater in the Sewer.
At this moment, Li Cheng only had one thought in his heart: Run!