In the dark night of wind and snow, even if you are crawling on the snow in ordinary clothes, you can't find it if you don't pay attention to it. Zhong Youtian and Meng Mancang, who were wearing two white cloth cloaks, did not get close to a few dozen meters behind the first trench occupied by the Japanese army that they vaguely saw some fires faintly flashing in the wind and snow, and they looked like someone was lighting a fire to keep warm?

Tilting his eyes sideways to look at the outline of the trench reflected by the faint firelight, Zhong Youtian leaned beside Meng Mancang and whispered, "Look at the devil who occupies the trench, is he so frozen?" The fire was lit on this big night...... A grenade passed, and there was no one left in a circle crowded with a roasting fire? ”

He also obliquely observed the situation on the left side of the trench, but Meng Mancang waved his hand slightly at Zhong Youtian: "Something is wrong!" This place where the fire is baked is a corner of a trench, and there are not enough people to squeeze in at all! If someone really wants to get through and throw a grenade in a place like this, it would be ........"

Looking at the trenches in the shape of 'eight', and then at the few snowdrifts that were not too big on the horizon behind the trenches, Zhong Youtian nodded understandingly: "The devil has set us up!" See those snowdrifts? I remember the terrain of this place, when we were building trenches, the soil behind the trenches was bulldozed, and there were no mounds at all, but now there are three or four more guys, just enough to seal the corner where the fire is lit! What's wrong? Split up? ”

Looking at the crossbow on Zhong Youtian's back, Meng Mancang moved his frozen fingers, and whispered to Zhong Youtian: "Can you still call that guy?" ”

Carefully removed the crossbow he was carrying from his back, Zhong Youtian took out the bowstring that had been held in his arms and was twisted with animal tendons and human hair, and carefully hung it on the brittle crossbow arm that was frozen: "I guess it's a little mysterious?" The weather is so cold that the bow arms are a little brittle, and I don't dare to use ten points of strength, at most seven points of strength! ”

"Can that be done?"

"If you get closer, you should be able to do it! But I just don't know whether these goals are true or false? Since you can think of using the fire to ambush us, then you can guess how to get two fake targets......."

"This is easy to do, look at me - you first go back and tell Gou Da Dan and them in case it rings, tell them not to get too close, and wipe the footprints left by the two of us with their hands, and I'll go back to you later!"

Nodding in agreement, Zhong Youtian turned around and took off the white cloth cloak draped behind him, took a few handfuls of snow and threw them into the cloak, and made the cloak into a large dun cloth with counterweights, and then dragged the white cloak all the way to the rear, just right to wipe the footprints left on the snow.

Seeing the snowflakes falling in the sky quickly covering up the man-made traces left by the cloak blowing through the snow, and his body was already covered with a thin layer of snowflakes, Meng Mancang opened his mouth wide and let out a terrible wolf howl from his throat. Let the cold wind blow, and the wolf howl has just been blown out by the cold wind, so that people can listen to the sound like it is coming from a distance, and they can't even hear the direction of the wolf howl at all?

As soon as the wolf howled, Meng Mancang, who hurriedly lowered his body and only showed one eye on the snow, had already seen that among the several suspicious snowdrifts, two of them swayed slightly, while the other two snowdrifts did not move at all.

Slowly stretched out his hand to remove a small hole in the snow in front of his mouth, Meng Mancang opened his mouth wide, and another vivid wolf howl called out, and immediately saw that the two snowdrifts that had moved shook again, and in the trench that was almost completely covered by snow, there was also a low voice of talking.

Although I couldn't understand or hear what the voice was saying, after the words were heard in a messy voice blown by the cold wind, the two mounds of earth that were shaking no longer moved, but the bonfire that was lit at the corner of the trench became larger, and even if it was farther away, it could be seen at a glance.

Slowly crawling backwards for more than ten meters, Meng Mancang gently curled up and squatted, turning his head and touching the direction where Fang Cai came. After walking less than twenty or thirty meters, Meng Mancang had already seen Zhong Youtian and others who were squatting in the snow and looked almost like a few snowmen.

Panting heavily, Meng Mancang waved his hand at Zhong Youtian again and again: "This road can't be done!" The devil was on guard, not only did he put at least two lurking posts outside the trenches, but there were also people watching inside the trenches. Even if we can quietly do the lurking post, the devils in the trenches can also see our movements, and when the devils wake up and nap, our sneak attack will have to be a tough battle! ”

Holding a crooked machine gun, also wearing a white cloth cloak, Wan Xiang replied in a puzzled whisper: "What's the matter?" How did the devil become so fine all of a sudden? Two layers of whistles inside and outside? Or...... Shall we take a detour? ”

Looking left and right at the snow-covered ground, Gou Da said in a deep voice: "I can't get around!" The path I saw in broad daylight is a little unsteady now. Especially when it snows heavily, the surrounding area is exactly the same terrain and shape. If we're not careful, maybe we'll fall into the arms of the devil! ”

As if he suddenly remembered something, Zhong Youtian's eyes widened suddenly: "It's broken!" It's not just us who touch it back at night! Let's see that the devil has ambushed the secret sentinel, and the other roads ......"

Before he finished speaking, a violent explosion sounded from the oblique side. Accompanied by the flames that rose into the air during the explosion, Meng Mancang couldn't help but be shocked: "It's a hidden castle we hid!" What's going on? ”

Just after a little pondering, Zhong Youtian reacted: "Let's set the devil, and the devil will also set us up!" The surrounding areas of those dark forts must have been called devils who had planted explosives and mines, or they had ambushed soldiers and horses, just waiting for us to die while it was dark! Let's get out of the way and go back to the captain to think about it......"

Raising his hand to point to the direction where the explosion had just sounded, he stared at the fire that gradually disappeared into the night, and said in a low voice: "Then they ...... What to do? ”

Turning his head to look at the place where the explosion sounded, Meng Mancang closed his eyes in pain: "With such a big explosion, those brothers are beaten with iron, and I am afraid that they will be ....... Remove! ”

Zhong Youtian, who had just followed the road he came from more than ten meters away, stood up suddenly, turned his head and looked suspiciously at Gou Da and Wan Yixiang, who were following behind him: "What about the ammunition hand behind you two?" How far away are you? ”

Slightly stunned, Gou Da suddenly changed his face: "At most, fifty meters away from us, it followed our footsteps!" We stopped for a while, and then turned back and walked these roads, we should have met a long time ago! Hurry up and see, are there any footprints left on the snow? The snow plough they dragged was also ......"

Anxiously waving the long knife in his hand, Meng Mancang responded urgently: "This is still a fart?!" The two of them dragged the snow plow away, and the footprints that had been left on the snow were all lost by the snow plow! It's snowing so much that I'm afraid I'm afraid of the traces left by the snow plow......"

With a sharp shout in his mouth, Meng Mancang was not slow to move, he quickly lay on the snow, put his side face on the snow, and looked carefully at the snow. After watching a pot of smoke, Meng Mancang finally raised his head, and then gently poked the soft snow all over the ground with his fingers, and then said to Gou Da, who was looking at him expectantly: "They have gone wrong!" The ice shells frozen out of the snow on the ground are all evenly proportioned, layer upon layer, and no one has ever stepped on them...... You follow me and walk back, and I slowly look for ......."

Yiyan followed behind Meng Mancang, Gou Da followed suit with the machine gun in case of ringing, while Zhong Youtian was holding a crossbow that had been wounded, vigilantly guarding the surrounding .......

As early as the early days of Meng Mancang's participation in the revolution, his ability to trace and trace has made many veterans of the Eighth Route Army applaud - a glance at the horseshoe prints to know what kind of horse it is, how long it has been walking, and a taste of the heart of the soil can know whether it has passed the car and when, and there is never a mistake. Carefully asked where Meng Mancang learned this skill, but Meng Mancang couldn't say why, only said that there were adults in the family who led the teachings since childhood, and it was natural that it would be. If you really want to explain it clearly, but you can't understand it?

Seeing Meng Mancang half-kneeling in the snow, looking at the faint light reflected on the snow as he walked, and poking a few times on the snow with his fingers stretched out from time to time, Gou Da, who was following behind Meng Mancang, did not dare to come out in case of a sound, and even dared to step on the place where Meng Mancang walked, and was afraid that when Meng Mancang was not stable and wanted to go back and investigate again, he would step on the original slight traces on the snow.

After slowly looking for a pot of tea on the snow, there were bursts of explosions and intermittent gunfire behind him again, Zhong Youtian, who was walking behind this small team and turned back three times, couldn't help but shout at Meng Mancang urgently: "Mancang, have you found it?!" Listening to the movement behind him, I'm afraid that many brothers who took advantage of the darkness to touch the past have been ambushed, so we have to hurry back to find the captain to get an idea......"

As soon as the words fell, Meng Mancang, who was half-kneeling in the snow, had already reached out and pulled up a frozen hard tree root from the snow, and threw the root into the distance: "Found it!" It's the damn thing about this bad root—they must have come here, and the snow plow hung the roots, and the people walking in front of them slanted for a moment, and this was a wrong step, a wrong step, and a wrong step, and a fork and a farther and farther! ”

Walking a few steps to Meng Mancang's side, Zhong Youtian asked urgently: "Then where are they going now, do you know?" ”

Reach out and poke a few times in the snow around you. Meng Mancang pointed in the other direction very confidently: "Go over there!" You lead the big but a sound, hurry back with a machine gun to find the captain, explain the situation to the captain here, let the captain quickly get an idea, I will look for them! ”

With a flick of the crossbow in his hand, Zhong Youtian replied without hesitation: "Let Da Danhe go back with a ring, and I will accompany you to find those two ammunition men!" ”

"I'm a single one, but you're a burden to follow!"

"Fart! On weekdays, you're just alone, on this snowy day, maybe there are devils in ambush in the snow, I don't follow you, what should you do if you ask someone to copy the back road? That's it-let's hurry up, the ammunition carried by those two ammunition men is big enough but they have a tough fight with a sound all night, we can't afford to pay for this! ”