Time seems to stand still, and a few men in the dark are like weathered sculptures. Glaring, furrowing eyebrows, no words, no superfluous body movements.

Suddenly, the two sides seemed to be competing for momentum, as if they wanted to see who lost their square inches under the pressure first.

The bursts of gunfire and the increasing number of torches brought by the wind indicate that the Japanese puppet army is expanding the search area from the beginning.

With a frown, Cho Se-hoon's footsteps began to move slowly. Although he didn't know the identity of the other party, Zhao Shixun didn't have time to rub shoulders with the other party anymore.

"Don't move! If you move again, I'll kill them!" ”

Seeing Zhao Shixun approaching forward, a voice immediately came from behind Qi Baoshan.

The obviously trembling voice exposed the mentality of the other party, and obviously, he didn't have much chance of winning here.

Faced with a warning again, Zhao Shixun had to stop.

Obviously, the other party's current mood is very unstable. If he is stimulated again, Zhao Shixun is worried that he will do something extreme.

"What are you doing here,? If you have the ability to shoot, you think the grandfathers are scared? ”

Seeing that the other party's words were fierce and there was no intention of compromise, Dapeng took the machine gun from Heiwa's hand, and planned to come hard as soon as he pulled the gun.

"Dog traitor, you think I'm scared of you too many, phew! Dream on, Lao Tzu is dying today and pulling a few pads! ”

The man hiding in the shadows saw Dapeng aiming his machine gun at him, and immediately put the muzzle of the gun on the back of Qi Baoshan's head, with an attitude of preferring jade to be broken rather than complete.

……

"Phew! Is your grandmother a traitor? Your whole family is traitors!"

was scolded as a traitor, Dapeng immediately became angry, and immediately scolded back.

"Dog traitor, phew~!"

"Deflated calf thing, you try scolding again!"

……

"Shut up!"

With a broken drink, Zhao Shixun interrupted the scolding battle between the two.

Raising the rifle with one hand to show that he had no malicious intent, Zhao Shixun squinted and looked behind Qi Baoshan.

"Who are you? Why are you holding my men hostage? ”

……

Hearing this, he snorted coldly, and the other party glanced at Zhao Shixun slightly sideways.

"Lao Tzu is a Chinese, a Chinese who specializes in killing devils and traitors!"

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun was stunned, and then pointed to a few people beside him.

"Hero, I think you misunderstood us, we are really not traitors."

"Not a traitor? So what are you doing in the village at night? That person was firing a cannon in the village just now, I can see it clearly, don't try to fool me! ”

Hearing this, Qi Baoshan, who had been holding his hands up, suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and then put down his hands that were already sore to numbness.

"Oh my mother...... I was scared to death, I thought I was caught by the detective team.

I said brother, you did misunderstand us. Not only are we not traitors, but we also fight the Eighth Route Army. ”

"Don't move! Who told you to put your hands down? Hands up. ”

At this moment, with a weak voice, Yang Chenghu walked by Zhao Shixun's side with the support of Tianbao and broke into the field of vision of several people.

"This brother, we are really eight roads, I believe you should be able to recognize my clothes."

The appearance of Yang Chenghu finally loosened the originally vigilant eyes of the gun-wielding man.

Staring at Yang Chenghu and looking at it, the man with the gun finally slowly put down the weapon in his hand.

As the other party walked out from behind Qi Baoshan, Zhao Shixun and the other party spoke almost at the same time.

"Lao He?!"

"Company Commander Zhao?!"

The confrontation in the darkness just now, due to the sky, the two couldn't even recognize each other.

"Are you Brother Heiwa? You are...... The brother who sharpens the scissors and the kitchen knife? ”

It didn't take long for Lao He to recognize the other two acquaintances in the team.

"Oops! Look at my eyes, isn't this a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't recognize the family! ”

In the words, Lao He stepped forward excitedly and shook hands with Zhao Shixun tightly.

"Lao He, why did you suddenly come here?"

After a false alarm, Zhao Shixun immediately thought of another question, how did Lao He appear here?

Looking at Zhao Shixun with a puzzled face, Lao He did not explain immediately, but glanced at Xiao Wangzhuang, who was in flames not far away.

"This is not the place to talk, you fought so fiercely just now, I estimate that the Japanese puppet army in the surrounding strongholds must have been alarmed, we have to get out of here quickly."

……

Poof......!

"Battalion commander, what's wrong with you? Battalion commander, wake up ......, battalion commander! ”

At this moment, Yang Chenghu, who had been stiffening, suddenly fainted and fell to the ground.

When they found out that something was wrong, everyone immediately gathered around.

"Silly boy, pinch people, pinch people!"

Looking at Tianbao with a crying voice, Dapeng hurriedly leaned down and pinched the other party's middle among the people.

However, no matter how hard Dapeng tried, Yang Chenghu, whose face was pale, always closed his eyes.

"Don't toss, he's fainted from blood loss."

Looking at the other party's injured leg that had been soaked in blood, Zhao Shixun quickly took off his coat, and then untied Yang Chenghu's armed belt and tied his coat to the wound.

"We have to find a place to stitch up his wound, or this kid won't survive tomorrow morning."

"Huh?! But where can I go to the hospital at this time? ”

Holding the unconscious battalion commander, Tianbao's face turned dead in an instant.

Looking at Yang Chenghu, who closed his eyes tightly, Zhao Shixun took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.

"Lao He, you are familiar with this generation, can you find us a place to stay within three hours? As long as you can boil water and make a fire. ”

Hearing this, he was stunned, although Lao He didn't know what Zhao Shixun was going to do, he still thought hard for a moment.

"There is a place nearby, which is a fortress household that we have developed, and it is not far from here, and it can be reached in an hour.

It is....... ”

"What's it? Something to say! ”

was choked by Zhao Shixun's straightforwardness, and Lao He sighed helplessly.

"That place is called Zhou Village, and it is one of the largest villages within a radius of more than ten miles, with hundreds of families.

Although there are no strongholds and plainclothes teams near this village, Zhou Hongwen, a big family in the village, is not only the patriarch of Zhou Village, but also the largest maintenance chairman in the vicinity, and he has always been very close to the Japanese, and his attitude towards Japan is ambiguous. ”

"So what, a traitor squire landlord, and that scares you?"

Looking at Lao He with an embarrassed face, Dapeng looked indifferent.

"I'm not afraid of him, but he has seventy or eighty gun-wielding guards under him, and that's the most fatal place.

If we are targeted by him after we enter the village, I am afraid that it will be easy to go and not return. ”

Speaking of this, Lao He suddenly patted his head.

"By the way, this Zhou Hongwen also has a younger brother, we should all know him."

"Brother? Who? ”

"It's Li Hongyi, the current captain of the county anti-smuggling team, he is the half-brother of Zhou Hongwen."

Hearing the name Li Hongyi again, Zhao Shixun's eyes flashed.

"He? He and Zhou Hongwen are brothers, so why don't they have the same surname? ”

Seeing that Zhao Shixun was a little untidy, Lao He pondered for a while, and instantly turned into a gossipy village girl, and told the grievances and grievances between the two in a few words.

Hearing the end, Zhao Shixun only felt that he was listening to Peking Opera, and he couldn't help but feel a little troubled in his heart.

"Stop...... stop, don't talk about it, let's go to Zhou Village!"

……

The night is vast, the black clouds cover the moon, and occasionally a little or two stars are revealed in the clouds, and a little bit of light is stubbornly scattered.

Several people took turns carrying the unconscious Yang Chenghu on their backs, bypassing a brightly lit stronghold, avoiding several small-scale plainclothes teams and puppet troops, stopping and stopping all the way, and heading straight to Zhou Village.

On the way, Lao He also told Zhao Shixun about some recent events.

It turned out that since the Japanese army was stationed in Hengqu County on a large scale, the peripheral contact points of the underground party could no longer continue to work.

In order to preserve the backbone of the organization and avoid greater losses, after discussing with Li Chunfeng, Lao He dismissed most of the underground party members to the periphery, and many people only retained one-line contacts with each other.

As for the contact points in the county, they were all abandoned at the first time, and only one secret contact point was kept outside the county seat.

Just yesterday, Lao He, who had been staying outside the city and watching, suddenly found that a group of detectives in plainclothes seemed to be eyeing a fellow who had entered the city. Knowing the nature of these wolf cubs, Lao He secretly followed them.

Sure enough, shortly after the villagers left the city, he was caught by the detective team that followed him.

Seeing that someone was arrested, Lao He put on makeup and went into the city, and ventured to find an informant who had broken into the puppet army.

It was also from the puppet army informant that Lao He learned that the detective team had caught a villager and actually interrogated Xiao Wangzhuang to hide a few wounded soldiers from the Eighth Road.

Seeing that a large number of Japanese puppet troops and detective teams were hurrying out of the city, Lao He was anxious, but he couldn't contact the rest of the organization members for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and followed the enemy alone to Xiaowangzhuang.

In this way, after Lao He saw the Japanese puppet army entering the village, he kept wandering outside the village, wanting to see if he could meet the Eighth Route Army that broke through.

In this way, he unexpectedly ran into Qi Baoshan and Dazhuang, who were firing at the village.

Seeing that the two of them were dressed as traitors and lackeys, Lao He didn't know whether he was friend or foe for a while, and there was a misunderstanding between the two sides.

……

At more than two o'clock in the morning, under the leadership of Lao He, everyone finally rushed to the largest village within a radius of more than ten miles - Zhou Village.

According to Lao He's introduction, the secret fortress household of Zhou Village is a tenant of the Zhou family, which lives in the southwest corner of the village.

In the sound of the dog barking, Lao He led everyone to turn around, and finally stopped in front of a small courtyard that was upside down at the door of the house.

After slamming the courtyard door a few times regularly, an old voice came out of the courtyard.

"Looking for someone or asking for directions?"

"Old man, I'm here to join my family."

After a brief silence, hurried footsteps were heard, and then the dilapidated courtyard door was pulled open from the inside.

Looking in, opening the courtyard door, an old man in his forties and fifties was holding a sickle and looked at Zhao Shixun and the others outside the door vigilantly.

"Old Liu, I'm Lao He."

(End of chapter)