The careful and intelligent officer may ask, why didn't the fat man and the short man who sent the pilot come back with Lao Yang and Wheat? Why did this person suddenly appear in the crowd of people chopping bamboo? Don't worry, please listen to me slowly.

That night, they were coaxed by the old man to join the Wheat escort pilots.

Along the way, he was worried about his father's horse gang leader, and always asked Wheat, if Lu Gang would kill his father, and Wheat's impatience listened. Seeing that the wheat was ignored, the fat man knew whether it was interesting or not, rowing the boat, and the mood was not too good. As soon as the fat man stopped talking, the pilot shouted, very vigilant, but he couldn't speak Chinese, and he said that he was from the United States, that he was here to help China fight Japan, and that he wanted to go back, and asked them where they were going to send him? Who can understand? Even if you are gesturing in front of them, it is like playing the harp to a cow. In a hurry, he simply took out the strip of cloth and showed it to them, it was night, and who could see the words on it clearly, not to mention that all the people on this ship were illiterate, including the soldiers of the New Fourth Army.

The fat man was impatient to hear this, and snatched the strip of cloth from the pilot's hand and was about to throw it into the river, but Wheat stopped him and said, "Keep it, maybe someone in the army will recognize these words." He took the strip of cloth from the fat man's hand and put it in his pocket.

The pilot wanted to get it back, but the wheat refused, saying, "What are you doing with it?" When the meeting arrives at our troops, I will show it to Lao Yang. The pilot did not understand him, and saw him retract into his pocket, shrug his shoulders and lean in front of the bow compartment, lying there quietly and never speaking again.

The fat man gave him strips of cloth and asked Wheat as he rowed his boat, "Are your troops far away?" ”

"Confidentiality, you just have to draw it." Wheat sold Guan Zi said.

On another boat with them, the dwarf leaned over and asked Wheat, "Wheat, do you have any planes there?" ”

"Confidentiality." The wheat was still selling Guan Zidao, and after speaking, he turned his head and looked at the vast river in front of him.

"How many of you are there? Wheat. The fat man asked again.

"Confidentiality." Wheat is still the same two words.

The dwarf was unwilling to ask another question: "Listen to your monkey brother, there are many, many machine guns like his there, yes?" ”

"Confidentiality." Wheat replied nonchalantly.

"Wheat, you are really a tasteful person, I ask you this and that one are all secrets, what secrets do you want to protect? If you don't tell us, don't tell us, we're too lazy to help you row. After the fat man finished speaking, he shouted angrily to the dwarf on the other boat: "Dwarf, don't row, I don't know, there are people like the New Fourth Army, and let him be the New Fourth Army?" I'm really blind. ”

"Who are you scolding?" Wheat stood up, and the boat shook, which frightened the American pilot to scream, and Wheat had to squat down again and said: "Fatty, if you scold again, you are welcome." ”

When the dwarf heard this, he leaned over the boat, glared at the wheat, and said, "What do you want to do with the wheat?" Fight? ”

The fat man also put away the penny like the short man, and said, "Yes, what do you want?" How can you take the two of us with a little New Fourth Army? I tell you, my father is still tied up by you, and if I go back, my father will still be tied up like that, and I will not be finished with you. ”

"Yes, it's not over with you, how old are you? What to drag in front of us? The dwarf stood on the side of the fat man and shouted for help.

The boat stopped in the middle of the river, and the fat men quarreled on the boat, and their bodies made various movements on the boat and argued with the wheat theory, which made the boat sway very unsteadily, and the pilot shouted in a hurry: "Dangerous." "They didn't care about the pilot's shouting, and they were still fighting around the ship.

"I didn't drag it, I'm just not abiding by the discipline of the New Fourth Army, I can't talk nonsense if I shouldn't say it, you know a fart." Seeing that the two of them were barking at him, Wheat was not afraid.

"What the hell discipline, you don't know anything at all." The elf said.

The fat man took over: "Forget it, dwarf, let's not row, go back." ”

"Yes, go back." The dwarf agreed, got up, turned around, and was about to row back.

Now the wheat began to get anxious, stopping them, to no avail, and even he wanted to pull out his gun to threaten them, if they couldn't do this, let them go back to the reeds halfway, Lu Gang and Geng Zitang would definitely scold themselves to the blood, can't do such a thing, worthy of being a soldier of the New Fourth Army? But just as he was about to draw his gun, he retracted his hand, and in his desperation, he suddenly remembered the old man's words.

Wheat said, "Okay, go back, go back, I see how you two can become the old man's apprentices?" ”

Seeing that the fat man and the short man were stunned when they heard his words, he was about to take the penny in the fat man's hand, but the fat man avoided it.

This sentence shocked the fat man. I didn't expect Wheat to talk about it, and pierced the tip of their hearts, only to see their bodies weak, pulling the penny towards the river, and the boat turned around again, Wheat looked at their deflated energy and secretly blossomed in his heart, thinking: There must be a killer weapon at the critical moment.

The three teenagers stopped arguing, and at first they had inexplicable big noses watching them fight back and forth, and now they were quiet again, rowing the boat, looking at this and that, he also smiled, showing his white teeth in the second row.

A teenager is a teenager, there is no city, he says in laughter, makes trouble in talking, quarrels in noise, fights in noise, fights after fighting, hugs him, and says that if he doesn't fight, he doesn't know each other.

In this way, they don't know how far they have rowed in their jokes.

"Wait." Wheat screamed, and he saw a large dark shadow not far ahead, which was all too familiar to him, and in front of him was the place where he had come ashore. He shouted to the fat and the short, "It's almost there, it's by the woods ahead." ”

As soon as the fat man and the short man heard that it was coming, the frequency of their hand strokes also increased.

At this moment, Wheat seemed to hear the sound of an engine coming from the river, and he vigilantly pricked up his ears and listened for a while, and was shocked in his heart, no, the devil motorboat is coming.

He hurriedly told the fat man that they would row quickly to the shore. Approaching the shore, everyone hurriedly lifted the pilot off the ship, and the boat was left alone, and ran straight into the forest in the dark night.

Just now, the devil's motorboat had already flown over, and by the light of the boat, they saw the wooden boat docked on the shore, which was empty, quietly swaying with the river waves in the water. The Devil Motorboat turned and headed there.

Shining the lights on the empty wooden boats, and then towards the dark shore and in the distance and around, and without any situation, they swept their machine guns around the shore indiscriminately, and did not spare even the wooden boats, and smashed the two boats to pieces, and then turned back in frustration.

"It's dangerous." When he reached the woods, he said angrily, "If we continue to quarrel on the river, fat and short, your lives will be gone, and there will be no lives for others." ”

"And what about your life?" The fat man asked.

Wheat was stunned for a moment and said, "Of course my life is gone, and this big nose has no orders, do you know?" If you don't listen to my orders in the future, I will tell the old gentleman to go, so that you can't be his apprentice, understand? ”

The dwarf hurriedly said: "Don't worry, just listen to you, but you still have to tell me if you have any planes there?" ”

"Nope." Mai said angrily, he has not recovered from this thrill, if something really goes wrong, how should he explain to Lao Yang, how to explain to Lu Gang and Camp Commander Geng.

However, he finally escaped the danger, and there was no story about Lao Yang's station along the way. Near noon, they finally came to the Lao Yang camp of the New Fourth Army.

Seeing Lao Yang, Lao Yang watched an American GI being carried over by them, and understood what was going on, he had received an order to find the downed American pilot at all costs. He was surprised that he had brought wheat over, and after beckoning the soldiers to take the American pilot to settle down, he called wheat into his house.

As soon as he entered the house, Mai intermittently sobbed in a sobbing tone, and reported Lu Gang's situation over there to Lao Yang, saying that Zhang Shun, Ruan Xiong, Xiao Liuzi, and Yu Jiang were dead, and that Shunzi was the political commissar of Shunzi, and that he was ambushed by devils on the way to reinforce Lu Gang. Wheat said very sadly, Lao Yang listened even more sadly, and didn't say a word for a long time.

After listening to Mai, Lao Yang wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, sighed, and said to Mai, "You go out, let me be quiet for a while." If the sacrifice of those young heroes was a blow to him, then the sacrifice of Junko was a sad stimulus to him.

He remembered many times with Junko in the house, and he couldn't help but cry.

Wheat saw Lao Yang in grief in the crack of the door outside the house, he hesitated for a moment but turned to leave, just happened to meet the fat man and the short man and a few villagers who came with them, and they came to find Mai after eating.

"Wheat, it's okay, we're going back." The fat man said.

Wheat said, "What's the hurry? Lao Yang hasn't given instructions yet? ”

"What does it have to do with us when he gives instructions, I'm not the New Fourth Army, we have to go back and kowtow to the old gentleman." The fat man said.

"Kowtow?" The dwarf didn't come back for a while, and was scolded by the fat man: "You really don't have a long memory, hurry up and go back to apprenticeship." ”

The dwarf smiled: "Yes, yes, let's go, let's go now." After saying that, he was about to leave with the fat man, when Lao Yang came out and stopped them, and Mai looked at him as if he had not yet come out of his grief, and his face was gloomy. After Lao Yang thanked them, he said, "You can't leave yet, you have to ask the two of you." ”

After a period of sadness, he calmed down and thought about it in the house, most of his men were transferred by their superiors and were ready to be incorporated into the mobile unit of the 13th Brigade of Zhou Zhijian, the Fifth Division of the New Fourth Army, so that there were only a dozen or so people around, no one, so they could only let the fat man continue to work hard, and send a soldier to escort the pilot to the rear hospital of the column with them.

"Why?" When the fat man and the short man heard that Lao Yang asked them to stay and continue to send the pilot, they asked in unison in surprise.

"My medical conditions here are poor, and the pilot's injuries are serious, I can't keep him here, I have to send him to the rear medical team of the column as soon as possible, and I have to work for you." After speaking, he smiled at the fat man, because he had just heard the sacrifice of his comrades and Junko, he was still sad, and he was reluctant to laugh.

"Aren't you any?" The fat man didn't want this, he just wanted to go back to the old man to apprentice.

"Fatty, listen to me, I only have these soldiers here, there are not enough manpower, and I have to work hard for you to escort you for another ride, it is not very far, if it goes well, you can catch their meals at night, and the road is safe, rest assured that I will send a soldier to escort you." When you're done, the warrior will send you back. Lao Yang said: "However, I will not force you." ”

"No, no." The fat man pouted.

The dwarf looked at the fat man and said, "I'm not going either." ”

Mai saw them like this, and said: "I said that you too, good things are done in the end, Captain Yang has said so, do you still have to talk about the conditions, okay, then I will talk to you about the conditions first, if you don't go, I will tell the old gentleman when I go back, you are disobedient, lazy and delicious, I think he will still accept you as an apprentice?" ”

The fat man and the short man looked at the wheat, and the wheat ignored them and walked away. At this time, the dwarf spoke: "Wheat is right, if he really goes to sue, the old gentleman will definitely not accept us as apprentices, that's not a kung fu in vain, fat man, just listen to this time, a good person will do it to the end." ”

"Wheat, are you really going to say that?" The fat man asked Wheat.

Wheat said irrationally: "If you don't go, I'll go back and say, if you go, I won't say, it's a very simple thing." He laughed.

The dwarf was anxious, and said to the fat man, "What are you hesitating about, fat man, let's go." The fat man was dragged away by the short man, and as he was leaving, he shouted to the wheat, "You can't talk nonsense when you go back." ”

Lao Yang watched the soldiers take them to the pilot's place. The reason why he asked them to send the pilot again was that there were no obstacles along the way, and he was relieved. He said to Wheat, "Go, gather all the teams, go to the woods, put the boat in the river, and cross the river to Lu Gang." ”

After separating from Lao Yang and Wheat, the fat man and the short man didn't talk much along the way, and it was really as Lao Yang said that it was time for dinner in the evening. After eating, the fat man really couldn't sit still, and walked here and there in the medical team, it was dark, and the fat man couldn't hold his breath a little, and he said to the dwarf that the smell here was too bad. The short man asks the fat man if he doesn't want to stay here anymore? The fat man saw left and right that no one was paying attention to them, so he said to the short man: "I won't stay here anymore, I'm not used to it, the smell is bad, I want to go back, if you want to stay, you can stay, if you want to go, follow me, do you dare?" ”

"Dare. As long as you dare, I will dare. And what about them? Call them or not? The dwarf asked the fat man.

The fat man said that it was best for the two of them to go regardless of them.

Unprepared, the two of them really took the opportunity to run out of the medical team's territory, and ran away at night to the old Yang station when they came, and there was no one here for a long time. The late autumn night was pitch black, and they were a little scared. But they couldn't go back, so they ran again to the place where they had parked the boat, but when they got there, they were dumbfounded, and the boat was gone. They didn't know that they were sunk by the devil, thinking it was wheat and they drove the boat away, and the fat man scolded the wheat for not being interesting enough.

What to do? There was no choice but to continue walking eastward. The night was cold, and they had to spend the night among a pile of reed leaves by the river.

As soon as the morning dawned, he began to hurry again, and when he was hungry, he ate the fruit in the forest, and the fruit in autumn was quite abundant, but when he arrived in a place where there was no forest, he could only suffer from hunger. It went on and on for a few days.

"Shorty, why didn't they come after us?" The fat man regretted it a little, he really couldn't walk anymore, and suddenly asked the short man. The dwarf shook his head, and the two of them had dirty faces, like beggars, and their bodies were sloppy.

Actually, it wasn't that no one was looking, and when he got up the next morning, the soldier found them missing and asked the villagers who came with him, and they all said that they had not seen them. He asked the villagers to help him find it, but to no avail, and he regretted it to death, but there was no way, thinking that they might have gone home. There should be no danger along the way, so I didn't think about it so much, three days later, he followed the medical team to the 13th Brigade, and the few fellows who carried the pilot were also left behind by the hospital leaders to follow there, this is a digression, not a statement.

Let's say that the fat man and the short man stumbled all the way, and unconsciously came to the lower village, where they finally had a hot meal, and the villagers did not leave them to give some food, so that they insisted on leaving, and in the evening they came to the outer village, which was long gone, and it was eerie and terrible. But what can I do, there is nowhere to go, there is no boat by the river, and no one responds when shouting at the opposite bank, where can I hear it so far away? The fat man cried, and when he saw the fat man cry, the short man also cried.

How did they know that in the first few days, the fat man's father was also the leader of the horse gang, and their partner Thin Man had already been eliminated by Lu Gang.

Crying and crying, you have to sleep, the two of them squeezed into a bed and fell asleep, the young man didn't know what it was like, and after a while, the snoring sounded.

It's really hard for these two teenagers.

The next day, just after dawn, they didn't want to stay here, it was too boring, the dwarf said, not far from here is the county seat, do you want to go? When the fat man heard this, he crooked his head and said that he wanted it.

Unexpectedly, when I first arrived at the edge of the city, I was seen by Watanabe. Watanabe was grabbing some laborers to go to Zhushan to cut bamboo and make rafts, but he couldn't find more people, and when he saw the fat man and the short man, he forced them to join the crowd of people cutting bamboo in the bamboo forest with a gun.

It was really a mistake, if they could stay in the outer village, there would not be such a situation, and their fate changed with it, and they went back for a few days, if they didn't escape, maybe fate would be the same thing again.

There is nothing to eat, because all the bamboo cutters are sent by their families, and they have no one to deliver, so they watch others eat, if it weren't for those kind people who give them some food from their own bowls, how can they have the strength to work? And so the day passed. At night, the devil escorted these people into the city, and naturally, the fat man and the short man could not escape and followed them into the city, and there was no place to sleep, and the poor fat man and the two of them could only sleep together on the cold stone steps of someone else's house.

The next day, they were called up the mountain by the devil, and shortly after the beginning, they heard the sound of gunshots, and then saw Watanabe running towards the mountain with the devil. Later, when the gunfire stopped, when I saw Watanabe calling for someone to carry the body, the fat man and the short man and a few people walked up, and when they arrived at Tianhao's body, the fat man screamed, and the short man also shouted.

Their cries stunned Watanabe, I don't know what they were screaming? A fat man is a fat man, when he saw Tianhao lying on the ground at this time, the blood veins on his body were spreading, his face suddenly distorted, and he shouted: "Shorty, Brother Tianhao is dead, quickly, kill the devil." With that, he threw himself at Watanabe.

The short man heard the fat man's shout and pounced on the other devil, but he pounced in the air, and was pierced through the back of the chest with a bayonet by the devil, and died of blood spitting from his mouth.

Watanabe was pressed to the ground by the fat man who pounced on him, and his head was hit hard by the fat man's fists, and while he was struggling, the devil next to him stabbed the bayonet into the fat man's body, and the fat man fell to the side weakly, his body was bubbling with blood, and he stared motionless and died.

The death of the two reckless teenagers provoked a commotion among the crowd in the bamboo forest, and some wanted to run, but Watanabe picked up a gun and fired a shot.