Leitao felt a tight knot in his chest. He immediately raised his hand to signal his team to stop and quickly find cover. Reacting swiftly, the team members scrambled to take cover behind nearby sandbags, crates, and corners of walls. Leitao pressed his side tightly against the wall, poked his head out slightly, and observed the movement on the pillbox. The Japanese Army soldiers on the pillbox were all hunkered down behind their cover, sticking the barrels of their guns out at the group. A Japanese Army company commander, holding a megaphone, shouted in clumsy, broken Chinese, "Listen up over there! You've been discovered long ago! You are completely surrounded, so lay down your weapons and come out to surrender!"
At that moment, the Japanese Army began firing tentative shots toward their hiding spot. Bullets slammed into the sandbags and walls, kicking up bursts of dust.
Knowing that panic would only spell doom, Leitao used hand signals to quickly relay his orders to the team: concentrate fire on the searchlights and the firing slits of the pillbox to create an opportunity for retreat. Receiving the orders, the team members immediately raised their weapons. The Li Brothers aimed their repeating crossbows at the searchlights. At Leitao's low grunt, the crossbow bolts cut through the air with a fierce whistling sound. With two dull thuds, one of the searchlights instantly went dark. At the same time, the other team members used their Scorpion Submachine Guns to lay down supp…
Chapter 191