Outside the den, I don’t know when cold snowflakes larger than a fingernail began to float in the sky again.
I don’t know when, but Lao Zhangtou and the soldiers had prepared big mules for them to use on their way.
"A big mule has been prepared for each of you."
Lao Zhangtou tied the goods on these mules and said, "You four little brothers must To ensure the safety of the wounded and the safety of supplies."
"Yes!" Tian Xiaohu, the acting squad leader, stood at attention and responded simply.
"Do you have anything else to explain?" Lao Zhang turned his head and looked at Zhao Jinge.
The latter thought for a moment, took out a ball of red cloth from his arms and handed it to Tian Xiaohu. He told Tian Xiaohu very seriously, "Xiaohu, our flag is here, and the first guerrilla team is here, no matter what. No matter what, if you want to survive, you must also lead them to survive."
Tian Xiaohu was stunned for a moment, then solemnly took the corner of the team flag and put it in his arms, saluting Zhao Jinge again. .
"Let's go"
Lao Zhangtou said, personally handing a kerosene lamp to Tian Xiaohu, and at the same time continued to ask, "Which of you will drive the car? "
"Me! Let me do it!"
Hu Bazhi rushed to say, but he ran to a tree nest not far away and put his hand on the bottom of the pot. He rubbed it hard, and then carefully applied the dark pot ash near the eyes of the big white mule.
"This big white mule is afraid of light during the day."
Hu Bazhi explained in a sophisticated way while he was busy, "Put some black around his eyes and wait until daytime to see "Hearing this, the Zhao brothers looked at each other. It seemed that they also knew this method, but they didn't expect Hu Bazhi to know it as well.
Not long after, the two wounded were carried onto a sledge pulled by a big white mule. At this time, the sledge had been covered with a thick layer of pine needles, and a layer of straw curtain was spread on top of the pine needles. .
After the two wounded men lay down, the soldiers covered them with a tattered quilt covered with patches. Several Japanese kettles filled with hot water were forced into the quilt.
In addition to the two wounded men, half of the frozen mule ribs and two fat mule legs were placed on the sledge, as well as half of the seized cotton clothes and shoes and the Japanese backpack.
Finally, these things were tightly covered and tied up with two pieces of Japanese waterproof tent cloth and a tattered white sheet. Hu Bazhi also stepped on the skis and held the reins of the big white mule. .
Wei Ran, Zhao Jinyu and Tian Xiaohu also stepped on their own skis, each holding a mule.
Their mules all carried wooden shelves on their backs. On the shelves were either bundles of various rifles and only two crooked handles that were not easy to use, or were used by Japanese soldiers. A variety of ammunition in a backpack.
Even, even Zhao Jinge said beforeThe grenades and all the grenades that the Weifang Cult taught them how to use, as well as two large lunch boxes full of mule oil that had been boiled not long ago, were all hanging on the backs of the mules.
Without too much delay or communication, the four of them lined up in a line and left the camp hidden in the dense forest, leading the mules into the wind and snow step by step in the night.
"I don’t know when I will see them again next time"
Old Zhangtou stood in the wind and snow while clicking his dry pipe and said, but his tone was different. There was no feeling of reluctance, but full of relaxation.
"I hope it will be after the Japanese are driven away." Zhao Jinge smiled, and a trace of delusional expectation appeared on his face covered with frostbite.
"Squad leader, how far are we going?"
In the heavy snow, Zhao Jinyu stepped on his skis and let the mule drag him forward with a trace of He asked excitedly, "Can we come back tonight? How many people are there in our army? Ten thousand."
"Shut up!"
The resistance leader walking at the front Tian Xiaohu, a coalition soldier, scolded in a low voice, "If you continue to ask questions, go back!"
"Isn't he just an acting squad leader? Why are you so pretentious?"
Zhao Jinyu whispered dissatisfied and angrily. He muttered that he was indeed dissatisfied. He was several years older than Tian Xiaohu, and his brother was also the biggest captain of "Guan'er".
He originally thought that even if he could not be the acting squad leader, it would be Brother Wei or Brother Hu who would fill this "vacancy", at least he would not let such a "younger brother" weigh on him.
"We have to pass several big mountains along the way. Are you afraid that our guns are not enough to respect them?" Tian Xiaohu asked angrily.
"I"
"Shut up!"
The young Tian Xiaohu scolded again, and then shook the reins, urging the big mule to speed up. steps.
"Hold it no more!"
Hu Bazhi leaned behind Zhao Jinyu and whispered, "This is the territory of shopkeeper Cao Da. If he catches us, we No one can live, otherwise your brother and the others will be hurt."
Hearing this, Zhao Jinyu opened his mouth, then subconsciously touched the wooden gun box on his waist, and finally nodded honestly. down.
In the growing snowflakes, everything behind the group was finally swallowed up by darkness. Looking back, all that could be seen was the silvery snow and the howling cold. Snowflakes in the wind.
"Stop for a moment"
I don't know how long it took, but Tian Xiaohu, who was walking at the front, suddenly shouted to stop the team, turned around nimbly on his skis and slid to Wei Ran's side. In front of them, he said very politely, "Brother Wei, please help check on Brother Shen and the others. In front of us is Langcaozi Ditch. We can't stop once we enter Langcaozi Ditch. We have to run for most of the night before we can get out."
"Why can't it stop?" Zhao Jinyu couldn't help but ask.
"The name Langcaozigou is not called for nothing"
The person who answered this question was Hu Bazhi, "This place has been covered with big blisters since the beginning of summer, and when winter comes When it starts to freeze, starting from the first snowfall, the wolves will drive their prey into this valley, surround them, and let the prey freeze to death in it.
They cannot find it until the coldest month of winter. When it's time to eat, this wolf will come with the pack and eat the frozen prey until the next spring, just like the wolf pack's trough.
If anyone dares to take advantage of this place at this time, the wolves around here will have to fight for their lives."
"We have guns, are we afraid of this?" Zhao Jinyu patted him. Said Ran with the box on his waist.
"There are two mountain ridges between Cao Da Zhangpan Bureau and Langcaozigou"
Tian Xiaohu glanced at Wei Ran who was busy checking the condition of the wounded on the sledge. He lowered his voice and said, "I don't know if the wolves will be scared away if we shoot here. Cao Da, in charge of the plate, will definitely lead his people over and leave us here to feed the wolves."
"It turns out that Hiding here," Hu Bazhi couldn't help but muttered.
Before Zhao Jinyu could continue to ask, Tian Xiaohu asked someone else, "Brother Wei, how are they doing?"
"It's not a big problem"
Wei Ran paused and added, "I mean, the situation hasn't gotten worse, but it hasn't gotten better either."
"Then let's run faster and wait until we pass through this wolf trough. Find a place to rest in the ditch." Tian Xiaohu breathed a sigh of relief and made arrangements.
"How long do we have to go to get there?" Wei Ran asked while covering the two wounded people tightly again, "I mean to get to the destination."
"If the snow keeps falling this hard, I guess I can arrive there in the middle of the night tomorrow."
"Then let's go quickly"
As Wei Ran spoke, he had already pulled out a Japs Sanba Gai from his horseback, and then pulled out a Japs bayonet from the sack bag and put it on the muzzle of the gun.
Seeing this, Tian Xiaohu followed suit and replaced the horse four-ring on his back with a three-eight cover that was more suitable for stabbing, and also installed a bayonet.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Jinyu asked confused.
"If you are targeted by a wolf, you can't shoot and you have to rely on stabbing." Tian Xiaohu explained matter-of-factly.
"If I had known about this, I would have brought my bow and arrows with me."
Hu Bazhi couldn't help smacking his lips, and together with Zhao Jinyu, they each Bayonets were attached to the 38 caps they carried on their shoulders.
When everything was ready, Tian Xiaohu lit the kerosene lamp that the old squad leader had given him before departure, adjusted the brightness to the maximum, and hung it around the neck of his mule.
This is said to be entering Langcaozi Valley, but in fact it does not enter the valley bottom. Instead, it is along a winding path buried in snow halfway up the mountain, which is quiet and peaceful.But he walked quickly.
No matter how prepared they were, soon after, along with a deep and unpleasant howl of wolves, there were more shadows that flashed by in the surrounding dense forest. Almost subconsciously, all four people increased their vigilance.
“Dang!”
At this moment, Tian Xiaohu took out half a broken gong fragment from the edge of the shelf of the mule, which was about the size of a dime of pizza, and carried it with one hand. The broken gong's lanyard collided with the rifle bayonet held in the other hand, making a hoarse knocking sound.
I don’t know if it was an agreement made in advance. After this noise, the surrounding shadows seemed to have regained some rare sanity.
Seeing that they still had not dispersed, everyone did not dare to relax their vigilance. They followed Tian Xiaohu and shook the reins to speed up. The latter also tapped the broken gong piece with his bayonet from time to time.
In this increasingly difficult balance to maintain, the black shadows around them were getting closer and closer to them, and the four mules were becoming more and more restless. Tian Xiaohu struck the gong with such frequency that It's getting higher and higher.
At the end of the team, watching the wolves getting closer and closer to Wei Ran, Hu Bazhi suddenly turned on the flashlight that had been seized and given to him.
Suddenly, a bright beam of light was aimed at the wolf that had already bent up behind Wei Ran.
The sudden appearance of the bright light startled the wolf, as well as the surrounding wolves that were about to complete the encirclement, and spontaneously dispersed the encirclement.
"Light a fire"
As Tian Xiaohu spoke, he had already pulled out a torch from the sledge. Seeing this, the others also took out their torches.
This torch is basically a tree branch with pine branches. The burning pine branch is tied with a layer of oil-soaked rags and a circle of pine branches.
Soon, the four people lit torches respectively. As the flames steamed and the cold wind blew, a large number of sparks splashed out from those pine branches and spread to the surroundings.
Spurred by the flames and the smell of charcoal fire, the surrounding wolves became calmer, and the two sides returned to a stalemate in a sense.
But everyone knows that these torches will not last long. It's not that the torch didn't burn long enough, but that the wolves' fear of fire couldn't last long.
Because of this, everyone tightened their reins and urged the four big mules to speed up. Hu Bazhi, on the other hand, sat on the sledge at this moment and pinned his torch to the other side of the sledge.
Immediately afterwards, he dug out another marle seed from his sack.
These so-called Marezi are not children's toys like the Sky Monkey. At least the ones in Hu Bazhi's hands are each about the size of a 40mm grenade.
Wei Ran has almost no doubt that this thing just needs to be thrown into the paste and rolled once, then rolled once in the iron sand and finally wrapped in waste paper and rags, it is almost a simple pill. grenade!
"Mareko's movement might be louder than the sound of shooting," Wei Ran couldn't help but remind him.
"I know"
As Hu Bazhi said, he had already taken out his food knife, carefully dug out the sealing mud at the end of the marlezi, and pulled off a piece of birch. The bark of the tree was balled up randomly, loosely sealing the bottom.
Without any pause, he handed the Mare Seed to Wei Ran.
The latter took Mareko without pause, leaned on the torch, ignited the cannon, twisted it and threw it behind him.
"Boom!"
In the explosion, which was not loud and not even an explosion, the Mare seed turned into a large northeastern flower and sprayed out violently. A large ball of flames and a miniature mushroom cloud.
As expected, this movement frightened the surrounding wolves into wailing, and Sayazi ran away.
"How many more are there?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"Nine" Hu Ba pointed his fingers and patted the sack beside his feet.
"Save your money, we'll come back soon." Wei Ran kindly reminded him.
"The wolves were afraid of the smell of gunpowder and did not dare to come over for a while."
Hu Bazhi explained quite confidently that he was an experienced hunter and knew how to fight with these Dealing with animals.
On the next section of the road, the wolves that were still following behind became much quieter and more cautious. Correspondingly, Wei Ran and others also sped up a lot, and their bodies naturally became stronger. Tired—even if they were on skis and being pulled along by mules.
I don’t know how long it took, when the dog-skin hats of the four of them were covered with frost due to the water vapor brought out by breathing, when Hu Bazhi threw it out about half an hour ago After the last marle seed that could only bloom flowers, the sky finally became bright.
However, the wolves that had been following him all the way finally lost their patience because Hu Bazhi could no longer throw out big flowers for them to appreciate.
"Get ready!"
Wei Ran greeted, holding the 38-meter cap in both hands and pointing it at the wolves that were about to pounce. He has already seen that this wolf pack has actually been waiting. When they reach the end of the wolf trough and need to climb up the slope, this will be their hunting ground.
"Ouch - woo!"
With a low wolf howl coming from the direction behind them, three wolves rushed towards Wei Ran at the same time!
"Poof!"
Wei Ran stabbed the bayonet accurately into the chest of the wolf that was lunging at his neck.
Before he even had time to draw out his bayonet, the second wolf had already pounced on him, throwing him to the ground with a near impact, opening its bloody mouth and biting his neck!
Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately took out the anti-Japanese sword and placed it across his neck!
“Cang!”
Amidst the teeth-piercing knocking sound, the wolf bit hard on the knife!
Before it could let go and scream, Wei Ran had alreadyHe pulled the blade sharply and pushed it forward, directly slicing the wolf's jaw open and cutting off its tongue!
Without waiting for the anti-Japanese sword to be completely drawn out, he put it back into the metal book, then gradually grasped the wolf's mouth with his hands, turned over and sat on it, and pointed at it softly But he sat down on his withered belly and put all his weight on it.
However, before he could deal with the wolf that almost bit his neck, the third wolf pounced on the mule next to him!
Perhaps the bigger mules were their goal from beginning to end!
"Poof!"
What Wei Ran didn't expect was that before the wolf could succeed, the big mule suddenly stumbled and kicked hard with a hoof. He kicked the wolf in the belly and pushed it far away. It almost spun around and hit a birch tree hard!
"Boom!"
Amidst the dull crashing sound, the accumulated snow on the birch tree rustled down. Wei Ran finally got out of his position, hugged the wolf's head with both hands and pushed hard. He broke its neck with a pull.
“Bang!”
Before he could let go of the wolf’s neck, a gunshot suddenly sounded from the other side of the ridge!
Following that, whether they were the startled people or the wolves who were also startled and were about to run away subconsciously, they all heard an exclamation from a woman!
"Ouch--woo!"
After a slightly unwilling wolf howl, the wolf pack that had followed them all night suddenly ran away and disappeared into the vast snow. among.
It was only then that Wei Ran realized that his face had just been scratched with three bloody scratches by the wolf's claws.
Looking at the rest of the people, Hu Bazhi was free to take care of himself. He was holding a ski pole in each hand, but lying at his feet was a wolf that was still twitching. The wolf was still poking at the chest. A Japanese bayonet.
Zhao Jinyu and Tian Xiaohu were standing back to back at this time. In their hands, they each held a Sanba Gaigai. However, judging from their appearance and the snow on their bayonets, it seemed that there was no wolf just now. Besiege them.
"Did you hear that just now?" Hu Bazhi asked in a low voice.
"I heard it"
As Tian Xiaohu said this, he blew out the oil lamp hanging on the mule, and then pulled off a piece of white patched cloth from the mule's back. Covering the largest mule.
Seeing this, Wei Ran and the other three immediately followed suit. They each found coarse white sheets on their mules and draped them over them.
"It seems like a girl shouted just now," Zhao Jinyu whispered uncertainly.
"Yes."
As he spoke, Wei Ran had already tied the mule to the branch of a birch tree, and said in unison with Hu Bazhi, "You guys wait, I'll (I) go and take a look."
"No, just wait, I'll take a look." Tian Xiaohu and Zhao Jinyu also said in unison.
"You two, please don't go"
Wei Ran whispered, "Squad leader, you are the only one who knows the way. If something happens to you, we will have no choice but to go back."
Before Tian Xiaohu could speak, let alone Zhao Jinyu, Wei Ran continued, "Brother Zhao, you have to protect the squad leader and the wounded."
After saying that, Wei Ran had put on his clothes again. After recovering from the pain in my hands, I held my ski poles and climbed to the top of the mountain ridge with Hu Bazhi one after another.
"Squad leader, what should we do?" Zhao Jinyu had already pulled out the box cannon from his waist as he spoke.
Looking at Wei Ran's back worriedly, Tian Xiaohu whispered, "Take the fire and hide."
After a pause, Tian Xiaohu added another sentence , "Brother Zhao, if I am honored"
"What are you talking about!" Zhao Jinyu panicked.
"Listen to what I have to say."
Tian Xiaohu said, "If I am honored, I must take away the flag from my arms. Where the flag is, the first guerrilla team is there." , and a letter. I have a letter written by the captain to Commander Zhao in my arms. I must protect it."
"I"
"No one can read that letter except Commander Zhao. Xin, this is an order!" Tian Xiaohu whispered seriously.
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