It was another heavy rain.

It was as if God was going to make up for the rain that had not fallen for more than a month, and the storm that began in the evening lasted until 8 p.m. The rain that came like a sea hit his face, and even Tang Xiao couldn't convince himself to open his eyes. As a last resort, he ordered to be repaired in situ.

This time I really couldn't camp in the open area. Tang Xiao was worried that the heavy rain would cause a mudslide, so he took the soldiers to the top of the old dragon's head to put down their sleeping bags. They found a jutting rock, with a few scattered spaces underneath. So in the deafening sound of the rain, the soldiers of the larch regiment, soaked through, bent down and hid under the rocks, and took out cold rice balls to eat.

The rainstorm was terrifying. Tang Xiao sat at the very edge of a rock wall, carefully retracting his legs, looking out at the woods that were tightly covered by the rain curtain. He was a little worried about how the other companies would withstand such a heavy rain, thinking that this operation was not a good thing, and with such a heavy rain, people could swim with open arms when standing in the rain.

Finally waiting for the rain to stop, Tang Xiao walked outside the rock wall to take a look, but there were stars all over his head. A half-unfolded crescent moon hung in the eastern sky, shining with the stars on the other side.

"It's supposed to be sunny." Tang smiled. It had rained so hard in the woods tonight, and the ground must have been frighteningly slippery, and he planned to let the soldiers rest here directly, and then go down to ambush tomorrow morning.

Just as he was about to give an order, Jin Huijia, who was following him, pointed to the forest below and said, "Sir, it seems to have a fire." ”

Tang Xiao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then immediately turned his head to look down. Through the leaves swaying slightly in the cool breeze, he could barely see what seemed to be a flickering fire a few kilometers away.

He was shocked, and while waving his hand to let Jin Huijia notify the company immediately, he quickly grabbed the telescope that was in his waist pocket. Through the lenses, Tang Xiao was sure that he had found a team that was slowly moving along the path down the mountain. The team was carrying four or five torches, about a hundred meters from the end to the end, and there were probably fifty people.

"All assembled!" Jin Huijia's voice sounded, and the troops scattered to shelter from the rain slowly touched in the dark, and the platoon commander organized the assembly behind Tang Xiao.

Tang Xiao kept staring at the faint fire at the bottom of the mountain. Beyond such a distance, the two fist-sized heads of fire were only the size of needle's eyes. After the platoon commander's report was completed, Tang Xiao slowly put down the binoculars. The few fires had gone out a moment earlier, probably because the leader remembered to hide his tracks.

Tang Xiao turned around, and even the instructor had already taken the map from Jin Huijia's hand and beckoned Tang Xiao to come over to study it. The three platoon commanders, plus Tang Xiao and the instructor, squatted on the ground and formed a circle. The map unfolded among the five people, Tang Xiao carefully struck a match, and used his body to block the light down the mountain, and then looked at the map with everyone.

"Where is it?"

"It should be here, between Nantai Village and Gongjiatun, more than a kilometer away from us in a straight line."

"Do you want to fight?"

Tang Xiao carefully calculated, looked at the instructor, and saw the same answer in the eyes of the other party: "Fight!" It is estimated that these Jiannu will be stationed in Gongjiatun overnight, and we will touch them along the northeast foothills. Get the brothers ready, there may be a tough fight tonight. ”

The platoon commanders agreed, Tang Xiao handed the map to Jin Huijia, and stood up and looked northeast. At this distance, he couldn't see anything, not even the outline of the woods twenty meters away. His mind went beyond his sight and was focused on the palace on the other side of the mountain.

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Zhou Lao Wu remembered an old saying, called "Wangshan runs a dead horse". He had always felt that this was an exaggeration, but now he had to admit that it didn't make a little bit of sense, it was fucking too reasonable.

He didn't know if he could run a dead horse, and his body bones of more than 100 catties were explained in this nameless mountain wilderness. In order to pursue a team of Jiannu that had been discovered, his company had been walking in the mountains and forests for more than an hour. Oh my God, walking in the woods like this, where it's fucking raining, is a small amount of wrestling every minute.

I don't know how long it took, at the moment before Zhou Lao Wu was about to collapse, the He Bailao finally ordered to rest.

Zhou Lao Wu immediately lay down on the wet grass and let the rain from the blades of grass seep into his coat. He didn't want to move at all, his leg muscles were swollen one after another, and the bruises on his body kept feeling sore.

There was a sparse sound of grass pulling in front of him, and He Bailao's big face appeared in Zhou Laowu's eyes: "Get up and massage your legs and tie the leggings again." ”

Zhou Lao Wu looked up at He Bailao, and said weakly: "Row seats, old... I'm just out of power. ”

He Bailao frowned - the action of "frowning" was imagined by Zhou Lao Wu, and the light really couldn't see other people's expressions clearly - squatted down and stretched out his hand to untie Zhou Lao Wu's leggings in person.

Hearing the voice, the squad leader hurriedly stopped He Bailao, and said in a low voice: "I can't help it, you don't know the platoon leader, Zhou Lao Wu has always been a cheater, you are busy first, see how I clean him up." ”

Zhou Lao Wu stared at the dead fish and watched the squad leader persuade He Bailao to leave. When the squad leader squatted down with a calm face, Zhou Lao Wu immediately sat up on the ground, and said with a smile: "Squad leader, squad leader, I'm resting, I'll come by myself, come by myself." ”

The squad leader snorted coldly, lowered his voice and said, "You make trouble for Lao Tzu again, you see how Naigong cleans you up." ”

Zhou Lao Wu had to sigh and pinch his calf. Ten minutes later, He Bailao came to tell him to continue advancing, and Zhou Lao Wu stood up with the branch of the tree and followed the troops with a bitter face again.

After walking for a while, Zhou Lao Wu really walked in pain, so he turned his head to Li Anjian, a North Korean young man behind him, and said, "Xiao Li, how about I tell you a story?" ”

"Ah, what's the story?" Li Anjian raised his head blankly, but he didn't react yet.

Zhou Lao Wu smiled and burst out with yellow teeth: "Once upon a time, there were two death row prisoners on the execution ground, and they were about to be killed. One of the death row inmates kept crying, and the other couldn't stand it anymore, so he said to him, I'll tell you a story. ”

"And then?" Li Anjian was interested. Twenty-year-olds are the age of curiosity. He cautiously glanced at the squad leader who was walking in front, quietly approached Zhou Lao Wu, and turned his ear to him.

"The crying condemned prisoner said yes, yes, yes." Zhou Lao Wu slowly slowed down and whispered to Li Anjian, "I'm starting to talk." Once upon a time there was a little white rabbit, and one day it dug up carrots that were always big. When he happily carried the carrot home, he killed a pangolin on the way, and the pangolin snatched the carrot of the little white rabbit. The little white rabbit was angry and said to the pangolin, 'What are you doing?' The pangolin said a word to the little white rabbit, and after listening to it, the little white rabbit immediately committed suicide. Guess what the pangolin said? ”

"What did the pangolin say?"

"The pangolin said it..."Zhou Lao Wu smiled like a chrysanthemum, "As soon as he said this, the death row prisoner who told the story was killed." ”

Li Anjian let out an "ah", lowered his head and thought for a while, and suddenly reacted: "You are playing with me, this story is made up by you at all." ”

Zhou Lao Wu grinned non-stop, and suddenly found that the squad leader was standing beside him, looking at him with a smile: "Say, what did the pangolin say?" I'd love to know, too. ”

Zhou Lao Wu kept smiling stiffly, and slowly turned into a crying face...

A few minutes later, Zhou Lao Wu, who was stared at by the squad leader, was finally rescued - the company had approached Gongjiatun, and everyone hid by the path, slowly approaching with the help of half-human-tall shrubs and weeds.

After lurking for a while, the squad leader suddenly patted Zhou Lao Wu on the shoulder, and he accelerated and bent over and ran towards He Bailao. Zhou Lao Wu looked up, waved his hand to Li Anjian, and left with the squad leader.

The squad leader followed the weeds on the side of the road to He Bailao, and He Bailao lowered his voice and said to him: "You have the best eyesight, see if it is our person over there?" ”

The squad leader held his breath and widened his eyes, stared at the forest on the other side of the road for a while, and replied in a low voice: "I can't see clearly, but there must be someone." ”

He Bailao nodded, and whispered a few crickets. Soon, the cries of sparrows came back from the mountains and forests opposite.

He Bailao and Instructor Lian glanced at each other, took out a box of matches, took out one and struck it, and flashed it a few times with his hand.

"Alright." After seeing the same fire on the opposite side, He Bailao said to the squad leader, "It's your own person, you go over and get in touch." ”

The squad leader nodded, and when he turned around, he saw Zhou Lao Wu staying behind him. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Why did you come with me?" ”

"I thought you were filming me to make me follow..."

"Cheng Cheng Cheng, you go with me." The squad leader said with a frown. With that, he took advantage of the night to jump out of the mountain forest and quickly cross the path several meters wide.