"Do you want a horse? Mr. Yang. Kobayashi asked.

"Yes, of course, not in vain. This horse is faster than walking. Lu Gang glanced at Xiaolin, and said to the Cao gang leader: "Boss Cao, is Zhaizilun far from here?" ”

"Approach, if it's fast, it'll be there in the morning." Cao said.

Lu Gang wanted to go to see the horses, and the Cao gang leader said that he wanted to take them to the place where the horses were placed. Cao said that this was a cowshed, and the devil came and led the cow to the sand and killed it, and he never raised a cow again, so he left it here to be idle. Then he pointed to the man who was there feeding the horses and said, "His surname is Niu, and we all call him a cow cub, and his personality is like that of a cow, sometimes he is very warm, and he talks to him like squeezing toothpaste, and sometimes he is so strong that he is cow." That time, in order to prevent the devil from taking the cow away, he was almost killed by the devil, was stabbed twice, and still has a scar. Cow cub, you come here. I'm sleeping in your house with them, so look at these horses, don't let them run, do you hear me? ”

"I heard it, Gang Master Cao, don't worry." The cow cub replied.

Gang Master Cao said again: "Tomorrow the fifth watch will depart, you go and gather those people here, do you hear?" Remember to bring the guys. ”

"Okay, Gang Master Cao, I just don't sleep." The cow cub replied.

Gang Master Cao said: "I don't care if you sleep or not, if you make a mistake, I will be unkind to you." ”

Looking at the horses, I was a little reluctant to leave, and I felt more and more that the horses in front of me were too handsome. If Lao Yang hadn't called them back, I don't know when Lu Gang and Xiao Lin would have touched the horse's back and horse's head.

There was nothing to say all night, and when Lao Yang and the others woke up, there were already voices outside, and the sky was still dark. After packing and walking out of the house, the Cao gang leader smiled and said that he was waiting for them, and they were all here.

"Where's my horse?" Lu Gang looked everywhere to see if he saw the three tall horses, and asked the Cao gang leader to go to the cowshed. The Cao gang leader stopped him, pointed with his hand, and when he looked, four black shadows were walking on the snow, and it was the cow cub who led three horses over, and the horses' hooves creaked on the snow.

The cotton cloth from the horses' hooves was taken off for the young cows.

Xiao Lin and Lu Gang ran up as soon as they saw it, took the horse in the hand of the cow cub and stepped up, walked towards the crowd, jumped down, and took Lao Yang's horse and sent it to Teacher Yang.

Lao Yang Qian asked the Cao Gang Master to ride, but the Cao Gang Master refused, saying that he was used to staying on the water, he was not used to sitting on a horse, and if he wanted to sit, he could only sit on your comrades of the New Fourth Army, and he couldn't afford it. After speaking, he shouted loudly with a smile: Go.

Lao Yang had no choice but to jump on his horse and follow Lu Gang out of the village on the riverbank with the team, and disappeared into the distance with the Cao gang leader.

In the early morning of winter in the wilderness, it is quiet like a dream, and the figure of everyone walking in the snow silently moves forward faintly and quickly, and looks like a silhouette full of mystery from a distance.

Snow, figures, footsteps.

The sky is cloudy, the north wind is cold, and the cold is swishing.

I can't stand it, Brother Pole. Kobayashi said right away. Lu Gang said, if you can't stand it, come down and let the Cao gang master sit, and you can walk and warm up. You think I'm going to give you a padded jacket to wear.

Where does that mean, Brother Pole. Kobayashi smiled. Stopped and jumped down to let the Cao gang leader, who was about to shirk, get on the horse, and walked behind the horse's buttocks.

Lao Yang immediately looked at the faintly glowing horizon and said to Gang Leader Cao: "This ghost weather is really cold, Boss Cao, the sky is about to dawn, and we have to find a place for these brothers to eat a bowl of hot soup and noodles." ”

Boss Cao said no problem, walk a little further, there is a village in front, there is food, you see, we have brought enough food on the road, find a family to heat, and we will not be hungry for safekeeping. What the Cao gang leader took out was a sweet potato.

Sure enough, not long after walking, the rooster also crowed, the sky began to lighten, and I saw several families in front of me.

An hour later they set off again. I didn't dare to walk along the river, for fear of encountering devils, so I picked up the ridges and walked around the village path.

"Then cross the hill in front, you will probably arrive, there is a village in front, go there first to take a breath, get something to eat, and then cross the mountain after eating, it is estimated that you will walk for another hour." Cao said.

But when they first arrived at the entrance of the village, they suddenly heard a loud shout from the front: "Don't move." What for? ”

They all stopped, and Lao Yang, who was riding on a horse, could clearly see that it was two people who looked like national soldiers shouting at them with guns.

"There are still national troops here?" Lao Yang really didn't know that there was a national army here, wasn't he beaten away by Yokoyama Yong and them in the first two years? Why is it here again? Where did he come from, and what army did he have?

"It's really a national army. Mr. Yang. Lu Gang said.

"Yes, yes, it's the national army, Battalion Commander Geng, that's what they are wearing, that's right, Mr. Yang." Xiao Lin also said.

"Ge Laozi, I know it's the national army, I mean, how can there be a national army here?" Lao Yang said.

Gang Master Cao said, "I don't know. ”

"There are Kuomintang troops here?" Lao Yang had some doubts in his heart, but the scene in front of him had to make him sure that there should indeed be a national army here, and he knew that he was trained by looking at the clothes and gait of the soldier who was walking here.

While he was talking, the two national soldiers ran over, called the people on the horse to come down, and told all the people to put down their guns and raise their hands as if they were facing a great enemy, and at this time, a group of national troops ran out of the village and ran towards them, and without saying a word, escorted them to the village.

The houses in the village are covered in layers of snow and look beautiful.

"Report to the head of the group, we have caught some people of unknown origin." When they arrived at a blue-brick ancestral hall, a guard standing outside the door stopped them, exchanged a few words with the national soldiers who had escorted them over, ran in, and shouted a report to a man who was leisurely humming a minor tune and watching the plum blossoms in the snow in the patio.

"How many?" After listening to the guard's report, the man didn't reply. Judging from his broad back, he was a sturdy and burly man, dressed in military uniform, neat and neat.

"A dozen people, they all have guns, and three Yanmars." The guard replied.

"Bandits?" The head of the regiment turned around, with a square face, thick black eyebrows, and bright eyes.

"I don't know. I didn't ask. The guard replied honestly.

"Go, bring them in for the head." The regimental commander ordered.

The guard was in a quandary, and he didn't know who was the leader. Seeing that he was still stunned, the regiment commander glared at him and urged him: "Are you still staying there?" Ge Laozi, didn't you hear? ”

The guards couldn't say anything, so they had to answer the call and run out.

"Which of you is the head?" He asked some of the people who had been arrested in front of him.

No one paid any attention to him.

"I repeat, whoever of you here is the leader, come out for me." The guard raised his tone.

"Me." Lao Yang and Gang Leader Cao said in unison.

The guard looked at them and asked, "Which one?" ”

"Me." Lao Yang stood up.

"It's me." The Cao gang leader also stood up.

The guard looked at them for a while and said, "It's really interesting, they are all vying for the head, you think there is something good to eat when you go in?" Alright, you all let me in. ”

Lao Yang and Cao Gang Leader went in, and Lu Gang and Xiao Lin also went in, but they were blocked by the guards.

Lao Yang said: "Lu Gong, Xiaolin, don't be impulsive, but you will meet their head when you go in, there is nothing, don't worry, Lao Cao, you also tell your people not to mess around." ”

Lao Cao smiled, turned to the people outside and said that he was waiting for him outside, and then went in with Lao Yang.

Stepping into the patio, the head of the regiment was still looking at the plum blossoms, playing with the snow on a plum blossom with his hand, and Lao Yang looked at his back and felt a little familiar. It seems to have been seen somewhere.

Suddenly he remembered that after Geng Zitang's hometown was slaughtered by devils, because he was sent by the party organization to do underground work, he couldn't take Zitang with him, and he happened to meet a fellow who was a company commander in the national army, so he entrusted him to let Zitang join the troops of the national army first, and let him take Geng Zitang well.

This fellow also took good care of Zitang and spoke for him everywhere, until Geng Zitang became the battalion commander, they went their separate ways, and these were all heard from Geng Zitang's mouth.

Could it really be him?

Plate Braincase!? Lao Yang couldn't help but scream.

The head of the regiment heard someone calling at the braincase, he turned around nervously and looked back, looking at the two people in front of him with a suspicious face.

Lao Yang was really not wrong when he saw it, he was really a braincase.

"It's really you, Plate Braincase." Lao Yang shouted the nickname of the head of the regiment and walked up.

The head of the regiment was also overjoyed when he saw it, and opened his arms to meet him. Seeing this, the Cao gang leader understood and slipped out of the door quietly with a smile.

Lao Yang and the head of the regiment met very cordially. The regiment commander took Lao Yang to the regimental headquarters office in the middle. As soon as he sat down, he said: "You are really, in front of the three of you, you still call me by my nickname, Ge Laozi, think of my ugliness." ”

Lao Yang said with a haha: "It's okay, it's all my own people, Boss Cao, the leader of the Cao Gang." ”

"What are you doing here?" The head of the regiment asked.

After Lao Yang briefly explained the situation, the head of the regiment said: "You are really a talent, from the Yangtze River to the Zijiang River, you are addicted to fighting devils?" Hahaha. Good. ”

"I said that you are really still a braincase, fighting devils can't be said to be addictive, it is called revenge, and revenge is revenge." Lao Yang said solemnly.

"Okay, okay, I won't talk about it, count me wrong, okay?" The head of the regiment apologized and then asked Lao Yang: "Why didn't you see Geng Zitang, this kid coming together?" ”

Lao Yang was silent and stopped talking.

The head of the regiment understood, and he didn't ask anymore. He just sighed softly and got up from his chair and called to the guards: "Take care of all the brothers outside for me, and prepare some food and drink." ”

Lao Yang hurriedly said that the wine would be free. When the head of the regiment heard this, he said, "How can this work?" Ge Laozi, seeing each other today is fate, and if you don't drink a good drink, you will never lose the bowl.

Lao Yang smiled and did not object. He said: "Plate Braincase, I said why are you still a little regimental leader now?" In these years, the promotion is fast, and the least of the soldiers should be the division commander. ”

"Don't say it, Ge Laozi, if I didn't like to drink some wine and make some trouble, beat some people and scold some mothers, it really seems that you are right, I would have been the teacher a long time ago. The rain of bullets followed my division commander Qin to kill the devil, which time didn't he kill the red eye and get shot by the knife? It's okay if you don't promote it, and you put Lao Tzu here to guard these broken places. The regimental commander whined and spat out resentment.

Lao Yang didn't care about his grievances, although he was a fellow countryman, although he was a friendly army, he was not a person on the ideological front with him at all, and he was not interested in the Communist Party at all. Commander of the 19th Division of the 18th Army? ”

The regimental commander asked him how he knew?

Lao Yang said that he had meritorious service in killing Japanese criminals, was famous, a native of Shimen, Hunan, graduated from the fourth phase of Huangpu, and the tenth phase of the party and government class of the Central Training Corps. He successively participated in the Battle of Wuhan and the first, second and third battles of Changsha. The Communist Party remembers.

The head of the regiment really admires Lao Yang. asked Lao Yang: "I said Lao Yang, since there are so many heroes in our national army, I don't think you should go to any village to find any guerrillas, a group of rabble, how can they withstand the machine guns and cannons of devils?" Don't go, just do it with me, give you a deputy head of the regiment, give me ideas, drink wine when it's okay, talk, I haven't seen you for a long time, I see you today, I really can't bear you to go, how about it? Do you want to get it? ”

"There are still two of my students outside, what are they going to do? Do you want to give them an official position too? Lao Yang said with a smile.

"No problem, absolutely no problem, as long as you Lao Yang likes it, whatever."

Lao Yang called Lu Gang and Xiao Lin in.