Successfully matched the code with the receiving troops, and Captain Zhao, who had been worried all the way, was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and the haze on his face finally dissipated, and then he got up and strode up to meet him, and asked in a low voice to the sturdy man led by the comer: "Is it squad leader Li?" ”

The sturdy man who started responded with a smile: "I'm Li Qiang, Lao Zhao, let's finally meet." After the two shook hands tightly, Li Qiang immediately looked around at Zhuo Fei and his party behind Captain Zhao, and asked Captain Zhao in a low voice, "Are all the people together?" ”

Captain Zhao nodded and replied, "It's all right, there are twenty-seven people in total." ”

Li Qiang listened to Captain Zhao's answer, and couldn't help but be stunned and said, "Didn't you say sixteen people?" ”

Captain Zhao glanced at Zhuo Fei and them with his eyes, and continued to lower his voice and said: "When we left Beiping, we met a group of ordinary people who ran back, so we walked with them all the way, but we were intercepted by Japanese soldiers halfway, and some ordinary people followed us. We have all secretly observed these people, but we have not found anything suspicious, and besides, the base area also needs labor. Li Qiang didn't care about it when he said "oh", anyway, escorting sixteen people and escorting twenty-seven people are the same for him, and the more people who go to the base area, the more anti-Japanese forces will increase!

After a few whispers with Captain Zhao, Li Qiang whispered to the students: "I welcome everyone on behalf of the base area, now everyone follows our soldiers in the direction we came from, we have laid wooden planks at the bottom of the ditch in front, everyone should be careful not to make any movement when climbing, this is not the territory of the base area, and the troops of the little devils and traitors are not far away." ”

The students immediately followed Li Qiang's instructions and crawled towards the ditch in front, although they were a little scrambling, but everyone finally climbed through the ditch safely. Zhuo Fei was still mixed at the end of the team as usual, deliberately not using regular prostrate movements, but even so, his movements were still much faster and lighter than others, which made Li Qiang can't help but look at him a few more times, and he somewhat appreciated this "student" who moved quickly and in place.

According to Li Qiang's plan that they had already made, they did not stop much here in Xiaowangzhuang, but after crossing the earthen ditch, they directly turned to the northwest and traveled all the way. Mo Yo walked for more than 20 miles, and several students in the team finally couldn't walk, so Li Qiang had no choice but to agree to stop and rest for a while. After last night's tension and a morning's march, the students were tired, and after Li Qiang announced the break, everyone almost fell to the ground, and several boys immediately lay down, and after a while, there was a low snoring sound.

Seeing this, Li Qiang had no choice but to send lurking posts to both sides first, and then also took the opportunity to arrange for his soldiers to rest for a while. Zhuo Fei, who was inconspicuous, also sat down to rest, looked left and right at the surrounding terrain, and couldn't help but praise Li Qiang for choosing to rest here. It is a slope in the middle of the mountain, with a continuous mountain range in the background, and the woods become denser the higher you go. The mountain is just in a semi-circular shape, and as long as you are alerted at both ends of the ring, you can see all the directions you come and go.

If there are pursuers, they have enough time to react, and the mountains behind them are not surrounded by small groups of pursuers. In fact, Zhuo Fei didn't feel tired at all, this kind of march was really insignificant compared to the training he had received before. But he still showed fatigue appropriately, otherwise it would be doubtful that a "student" has such good physical fitness.

To Zhuo Fei's surprise, the middle-aged woman who had fed herself last night actually walked over to him with a bag of dry food. "Hungry, huh? Eat more, I heard Captain Zhao say that we still have to travel for two days to reach a safe place, and it is not possible to be hungry. The middle-aged woman smiled and handed Zhuo Fei a piece of cake, but she didn't know if it was her carelessness, she just gave Zhuo Fei a flatbread, but she didn't give water. Holding the hard cake stuffed into the other party's hand, Zhuo Fei didn't know how to deal with this piece of food that was afraid of being the same hardness as the stone, and he didn't dare to pack a ticket to ensure that his teeth were so good.

But after all, this is the other party's kindness, after Zhuo Fei pretended to thank the other party, he opened his mouth and carefully gnawed the hard cake in his hand, fortunately, after this hard dough cake was soaked in saliva, it would become soft. Maybe she thought that Zhuo Fei was a boy and needed to eat more, so the middle-aged woman gave Zhuo Fei an extra piece of dough, and Zhuo Fei, who couldn't cry or laugh, had to put up the extra dough first.

Li Qiang originally thought that he would just stay here for a moment, but he didn't expect these students to sit down and didn't want to get up again, when Li Qiang was in a dilemma, suddenly, from the left side of the slope came a few rapid birdsong. Li Qiang's face immediately changed, and he immediately whispered to Captain Zhao beside him: "Old Zhao, take your people and students to the mountain for a while, if you hear the gunshots of the firefight, go to the mountain, quickly!" ”

Li Qiang's low voice was not loud, but Zhuo Fei listened to it, so Zhuo Fei was the first to react, even faster than Captain Zhao. By the time Captain Zhao's face changed drastically and he pulled out the shell gun from his waist, Zhuo Fei had already packed up and was waiting to follow the team to the forest above the slope. Captain Zhao didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately commanded his team members to act immediately, waking up the sleeping students. Although the students were sleepy-eyed, they quickly got up as soon as they heard that there was an enemy, and everyone walked a little more into the dense forest on the mountain under the leadership of Captain Zhao and them, and then stopped, nervously waiting for news.

Zhuo Fei's heart moved, he got up quietly, sneaked past the vigilance of Captain Zhao's subordinates in the dense forest, climbed to the edge of the mountain on the left, and looked down the mountain. From a distance, there seemed to be a dozen or so people walking towards the road below, mixed with the sound of crying, and in the sunlight, the occasional reflection of steel helmets and bayonets could be seen. When the group of people approached, Zhuo Fei, who was hiding in the forest, finally saw that it was a few soldiers in khaki military uniforms escorting more than a dozen ordinary people.

Zhuo Fei knew that the uniforms of the Japanese soldiers were earthy yellow, but the soldiers who caught his eye did not look like Japanese soldiers, especially Zhuo Fei did not find that the three farts curtains that were the same as the Japanese soldiers were exposed under the steel helmets of these guys. Zhuo Fei didn't have a telescope in his hand, he couldn't see it very clearly, just waiting for these people to get closer, Zhuo Fei knew that he had looked away, and dared to love that these guys who escorted the people were not Japanese soldiers at all, but the Imperial Cooperative Army, commonly known as Ergouzi, that is, the famous puppet army during the Anti-Japanese War.

Zhuo Fei's blood surged in an instant, in his opinion, although the Japanese were cruel, they were beasts, and it would not be strange to do any atrocities. And these so-called Chinese, who have defected to the Japanese and are willing to be lackeys of the Japanese, are not even as good as animals, and now they are even more outrageous to seize their compatriots and ask the Japanese for credit. At this time, Li Qiang, who was not far from the forest, also clenched his fists tightly. The muscles on Li Qiang's originally calm face began to beat, and murderous intent began to flash in his eyes, as the Eighth Route Army, he absolutely could not tolerate watching the puppet army take his compatriots to ask for credit from the Japanese army.

After carefully counting from the binoculars that there were only 5 puppet soldiers, Li Qiang ordered in a low voice to the six soldiers who had gathered over: "We will follow in a while, and deal with them with bayonets at the foot of the mountain, remember, move quickly!" Don't shoot! After speaking, Li Qiang took the lead and dived down the mountain. Zhuo Fei in the forest saw these soldiers of the Eighth Route Army touching down the mountain, and immediately understood their intentions, so he quietly returned to the forest and waited patiently.

The 5 puppet soldiers didn't know that the death was near, and they still pressed the dozen or so people to fight and move forward. Finally, the team turned to the foot of the mountain, and when they passed through a bush, several figures suddenly appeared from the grass, and almost in the blink of an eye, five puppet soldiers were splashed with blood on the spot, and they were killed instantly. The dozen or so civilians were first stunned by the sudden change, and then they began to scream when they saw several heavily armed men standing in front of them. Li Qiang and the others had never experienced such a thing, they were all stunned for a while, not knowing what to do, wanting to comfort these people, but they didn't know what to say for a while. However, the people quickly quieted down, although they didn't know the identities of the big men in front of them, but they didn't look like bad people.

The two women among the people had already "pounced" and knelt down in front of Li Qiang and them, saying: "Thank you for the life-saving grace of the heroes, but our village has been burned by these killers, and we have nowhere to go, why don't the heroes take us with us?" This time, Li Qiang was completely dumbfounded, this was treating himself and others as mountain bandits and robbers.

If this was near the base area, then he would not hesitate to take these poor people with him, but now he is carrying a squad away from the base area to carry out the mission, and his first task is to escort the dozen or so students to the base area. If you take these people with you, I don't know what trouble there will be along the way, and he doesn't know the origin of these people, if they cause problems in his mission this time and cause these students to have any losses, then it will be useless to die a hundred times, the base area is too short of talents!

"Squad leader, why don't you take them with you?" Just as Li Qiang was uncertain, one of his soldiers leaned over and whispered. "Let's go one more day, as long as we pass Wanjia Town, we won't meet little devils again. It's a big deal, let's take a little more detours, the villagers' villages have been destroyed by these two devils, if we don't care about them, then they will really be in decline. Anyway, Captain Zhao also brought a few ordinary people, a few more is more, and the same is true of more than a dozen. ”