In the night, Zhao Shengli and Wei Ran ran silently in the coniferous forest. At this time, more than two hours had passed since they let go of the American soldiers. Not only were there no pursuing soldiers behind them, , and even during this period, they not only climbed over the stone mountain next to the road, but also almost climbed to the top of the second mountain.
Before this, Wei Ran had always felt that his physical strength was pretty good. After all, the silicone dummy at Hongqi Forest Farm was not carried for nothing, and neither was the stupid dog with a brain problem.
But now, Zhao Shengli, who was leading the way, was still walking quickly with a backpack heavier than himself, but he was already panting and sweating profusely.
"Victory, victory, how long will it take?"
Wei Ran asked while holding on to a crooked oak tree and gasping for breath. In the past two hours, they had not lost a minute. We stopped, and except for the first time when we were going down the mountain, the rest of the time we were on the way up the mountain in darkness.
"I guess we can reach the top of the mountain in half an hour at most."
Zhao Shengli took off his backpack and put it aside, took out a water bottle, unscrewed it and took a sip, and then He handed it to Wei Ran, "When we cross this mountain, there will be a place to rest and eat."
"You said the same half an hour ago"
Wei Ran took the kettle and drank a sip, "You have great physical strength."
"What am I doing?" Zhao Shengli remained humble as always.
"You are nothing, so I am nothing."
Wei Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead. This mountain is not a straight up and down climb. , there are no steps or cable cars on the hillside. The too steep slope forced them to repeatedly ascend along the zigzag route. Although the slope was indeed reduced a lot, the distance was increased several times.
The most important thing is that Zhao Shengli's speed is too fast. If Wei Ran wants to keep up with his opponent, he will have to put in more physical effort. It was only then that he realized what he meant when Chen Qi said in the tunnel that Zhao Shengli ran so fast that even the American machine guns couldn't catch up with him.
“When I was seven years old, I was herding cattle for the landlord’s family.”
Zhao Shengli sat down against the tree trunk and said with a smile, “My family was poor at that time, and we had nothing to eat all year round. I was not full, so I went to the mountains to find herbs and catch wild animals while the cattle were grazing. In order not to be discovered by the landlord’s supervisor, I had to run back.
At that time, it was morning. After taking the cow to the place, you have to run up the mountain with the basket on your back immediately, and you have to run back before noon, otherwise you will be discovered by the supervisor. When the supervisor returns a while later, you have to run up the mountain again, and finally catch up. "Run back before the sun goes down."
"It's quite far, right?" Wei Ran asked quietly.
"No"
Zhao Shengli fumbled and took out a pack of American cigarettes that had been seized not long ago from his pocket, handed one to Wei Ran and then lit it on his own, " One trip covers four or five miles, half of which isI have to climb a mountain, making two trips a day. Sometimes I have to make a trip after work in the evening to check the condom I put on in the morning. At that time, I was still running barefoot, and I couldn't even bear to wear straw sandals. When my mother was alive, I never wore a pair of knitted straw sandals, and she sold them all for money. "
"What happened next?" Wei Ran asked, taking the match and lighting the cigarette in his mouth.
"Later, our group leader led the team as they passed by our place and asked the landlord. They were killed, and everyone divided the grain and the fields. "
When Zhao Shengli said this, he rubbed the corners of his eyes and his voice changed slightly, "Unfortunately, my mother did not catch up with the good times. Later, I begged the group leader to take me with him. Earlier, when I was as skinny as a bone, the group leader arranged for me to be assigned to the cooking class to help Squad Leader Sun. At that time, I had grown ten pounds in half a month. I have several kilograms of meat, and squad leader Sun said that I gain weight faster than a piglet. "
The little humor in Zhao Shengli's brisk tone did not make Wei Ran laugh. On the contrary, he felt uncomfortable with a lump in his throat.
"At that time, I could make three meals in one meal. "A bowl of rice"
Zhao Shengli chewed his cigarette and continued to recall, "I stayed in the cooking class with Squad Leader Sun for three months, and even my head grew as high as a fist. At that time, Squad Leader Sun would also He would think of ways to get me meat to eat. I have never eaten so well or been so full during the Chinese New Year since I was a child. "
"Then how did you get into the reconnaissance class?" Wei Ran asked, wiping his face.
"I didn't go to the reconnaissance class at first"
< p>Zhao Shengli said with a smile, "Squad leader Sun said that I was ruining my life by hanging around the stove every day, so he sent me to the communications class. I worked in the communications class for almost two years. Later, the regiment decided to form a reconnaissance company. Because I He was picked because he knew how to use a radio. ""You can also use the radio?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
"I used to be a communications soldier"
Zhao Shengli said with great pride, “I am young and my memory is not bad, and everyone is willing to teach me. So I can fix radio stations, send telegrams, connect telephone lines, and even be an electrician. It happened that the reconnaissance company also needed someone like me, so I was picked. "
"I guess there is no one in the reconnaissance company who can run faster than you," Wei Ran said sincerely.
"There really aren't many people in the company who can run faster than me. , but I have seen people running faster than me."
Zhao Shengli stamped out the cigarette butts with his rubber shoes and said with some annoyance, "Just a few months ago, we encountered someone before we came to this position. The last wave of soldiers was hard to contain. You've never seen that battle before. Thousands of Nanhan soldiers were running away and throwing things all the way.
The squad leader and the others were so happy that their cheeks were numb from picking them up, and our feet from running behind were almost numb. Later, those unlucky soldiers didn't even need their backpacks and helmets and just ran away. I saw with my own eyes that the American soldiers who were running with them kicked him out of the truck. They were still unwilling to surrender and chased the Americans. The man's truck was running like a fool. "
"What happened next?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.
“Later, we still let them run a lot,”
Zhao Shengli said with a grimace, “At that time, our battalion chased us for a whole day and night, and my thighs cramped from running. Although many of them were not stopped, they escaped into the forest. Some of them were shorter than me, but their feet were really fast, and their heads were tougher than the donkeys pulling food. "< /p>
"Uh"
Wei Ran twitched the corners of his mouth. This time he really couldn't help but laugh, because he had almost guessed the rout of the troops that ran so fast. It's hard to contain which army.
When Wei Ran finished smoking the cigarette on his finger, Zhao Shengli stood up and picked up his heavy backpack, "Have you rested enough? Let's walk slower and find him after we climb over the mountain." Let’s take a rest.”
“Let’s go.” Wei Ran also stood up, stamped out the cigarette butt, buried it with soil, and stood up with his bag.
Under the leadership of Zhao Shengli, it took the two of them nearly an hour to finally climb over the mountain.
Led by Zhao Shengli, the two walked halfway up the mountain for more than 10 minutes, and finally stopped on a small platform halfway up the mountain.
To Wei Ran's great surprise, after Zhao Shengli pulled away the fallen leaves on the ground, he actually revealed a trench that was nearly two meters long, one and a half meters wide, and about one meter deep.
"Comrade Wei Ran, clear out this trench, and then find some branches from around to cover it." Zhao Shengli had already taken off the engineer shovel tied to his backpack as he spoke, "I'll dig a stove Come out, let's have a warm meal and have a good rest."
"This is"
"I left it when I came back last time."
Zhao Shengli pointed down the mountain, "That's the road leading to the rear of the Americans. We have scouted here several times."
It is estimated that the American position behind him will be eaten soon
Wei Ran muttered to himself, quickly put down his backpack, pulled out the engineer shovel he brought with him, and started cleaning the trench.
This work is not difficult. First clean up the accumulated fallen leaves, then shovel the surrounding areas and compact the soil in the trench, which is the main work completed.
The only thing left is to make two bunks with dry fallen leaves inside, and finally pick up some branches to add a roof, and cover them with the dead branches and leaves that were cleaned up before to camouflage them.
While he was busy here, Zhao Shengli had already dug out a large basketball hole in the wall on one side of the trench, and then dug three long radiating trenches outside, and used wooden sticks to The three long ditches were roofed with excavated soil, and fallen leaves were piled around them.
In short, this is a smokeless stove specially designed to prevent high-altitude reconnaissance by aircraft.
The construction work was completed quickly. The two got some dead branches and lit them in the excavated stove, and then opened the captured cans and put them next to them.
Taking this opportunity, Zhao Shengli diligently carried the empty kettle and walked away from the hotel not far away.I got clear water from a mountain spring pool, and by the way, I picked up a hood full of red hawthorn fruits from nowhere.
"Picked from the side"
Zhao Shengli handed the hat with hawthorn to Wei Ran, and at the same time picked off a handful of hawthorn leaves and stuffed them into the heating table together with a few hawthorn berries. He explained, "I chose this location for the convenience of drinking water, and there are two hawthorn trees as big as buckets. This hawthorn tree is a good thing. Not only does the fruit taste delicious, but the leaves can also be soaked." "It's tea."
"This can also make tea." Wei Ran threw a hawthorn fruit into his mouth as he spoke, and the sour taste immediately made him grin and frown.
“I didn’t know that before.”
Zhao Shengli also threw a piece of fruit into his mouth, “There is a comrade in our company from Guizhou Province. I’m making tea with hawthorn leaves. And if you eat too much fried noodles, it’s easy to get rid of it, so this is just right.”
As he spoke, Zhao Shengli had already opened the backpacks of the two of them and took out everything one by one. He came out, sorted and calculated by the firelight in the stove, "Now we have a large eight-pellet, with a hundred or ten bullets, and nearly two hundred carbine bullets. In addition, there are a dozen grenades and "Two pistols."
At this point, Zhao Shengli counted by the light of the fire and continued, "There are a hundred or ten bullets in the pistol, which should be enough for us."
"There is a lot to eat."
Wei Ran pointed to the things placed in front of him and said, "In addition to the opened ones, we also have six cans, a dozen biscuits and a few pieces of chocolate. In addition, there are There are four kettles, these things are really heavy."
"They are all good things that can be used, and they will last us four or five days without any problem."
Zhao Shengli smiled honestly, picked up a flashlight, opened it with his hand and tried it, then closed it and pinned it to his belt, then picked up the American telescope he had seized not long ago, playing with it while beaming. Said, "I've wanted to change my telescope for a long time. The lens I used before is worn."
"Shengli, why are you still carrying a slingshot?" Wei Ran picked up a seized 1911 pistol , while checking, he asked the doubts he had long had.
Unexpectedly, after this question was asked, Zhao Shengli fell silent.
"I thought I didn't ask." Wei Ran knew he had said something wrong and said quickly, "How about we explain tomorrow?"
"This slingshot was given to me by my father when he was still alive." I made it."
Zhao Shengli smiled, picked up the heated can and handed it to Wei Ran, then stretched out his hand and pulled down two branches from his head and handed them to Wei Ran, "Eat it while it's hot. Eat well and go to bed, you have to get up early tomorrow." Please remember: Free and fastest update No anti-theft No anti-theft