Du Yidao rode his horse in front of Fu Deyou, and asked with a gloomy face, "What were you muttering just now?" ”

"Report the battalion commander. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Fu Deyou said proudly, "I am telling my new comrades-in-arms about your glorious deeds. ”

"Tell me about my glorious deeds?" Du Yidao's horse face immediately darkened, so that the scar from the left side of the face to the right side of the face looked even more hideous and terrifying, Rao is Fu Deyou and Du Yidao have been comrades-in-arms for many years, being stared at by Du Yidao like this, and he also felt like a stab in the back, as uncomfortable as he wanted.

"Just you talk a lot." Du Yidao stared at Fu Deyou for a full two minutes before he said viciously, "If you talk nonsense during the training time, according to the regulations, you will be punished for 5,000 times of slashing training!" ”

"Huh?" Fu Deyou's face immediately fell, five thousand times? His arms were all gone.

Du Yidao snorted, stared at Fu Deyou and said coldly: "Six thousand times!" ”

Fu Deyou shuddered, and immediately didn't dare to say anything, and then obediently rode his horse to do splitting training, besides, 6,000 times will become 7,000 times or even 10,000 times!

Seeing Fu Deyou being punished, the recruits who had just enlisted in the army were suddenly silent.

Du Yidao snorted coldly and said, "Are you scolding me in your hearts, scolding me for being cold-blooded and unkind?" Blame me for torturing you on the training ground? ”

More than 200 officers and soldiers were silent, but they thought it was true in their hearts.

Du Yidao continued: "But what I want to tell you is that it is better to be tortured on the training ground than to be killed by the Ma family army and the devil cavalry one day!" There is only one life, if you feel that you have lived too long, you can leave, and I will definitely not leave someone in trouble! ”

Naturally, no one left, and those who remained here were determined warriors.

"Since there is nothing to say, then stop talking nonsense and obediently accept training!" Du Yidao snorted again and said, "All of them have it, and they have been trained five thousand times!" The count begins! ”

With a metallic voice, Du Yidao's saber slashed down.

In the next moment, the more than 200 cavalry officers and soldiers in the line were like the tide that broke the embankment, surging forward, and for a moment they saw the flashing of swords and the neighing of horses.

Du Yidao put the knife back into its sheath, and was about to find a place to rest, when a rapid sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded behind him.

Looking back, it was Lao Yang from the Eighth Route Army's office in Dihua, and it seemed that there was something urgent.

"Lao Yang, why are you here?" Du Yidao stepped forward and asked casually, "The inspection work is here again?" But didn't you just check your work two days ago? ”

"Lao Du, there is an urgent mission." Lao Yang didn't have time to joke with Du Yidao.

"Urgent mission?" Du Yidao's expression immediately became serious, and he asked, "What task?" ”

"That's right." Lao Yang took a breath and said, "The Party Central Committee has obtained a batch of materials from the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union is only responsible for escorting them to Dihua, and then from Dihua to Yan'an, our own troops will be responsible for escorting them, because the road is long and the time is urgent, it will definitely be too late to transfer troops from Yan'an, so the Party Central Committee has decided that your independent cavalry battalion will be responsible for escorting these materials. ”

"No problem!" Du Yidao saluted, "As long as there is one person in our cavalry battalion, there will definitely be no accidents with this batch of supplies!" ”

Lao Yang asked again, "Then when can you leave?" ”

Du Yidao replied: "Our independent cavalry battalion can set off at any time. ”

"Good!" Lao Yang nodded and said, "Then you can assemble the team now, and then follow me to Dihua Station to receive supplies!" ”

Du Yidao immediately ordered the messenger behind him to blow the assembly call, gather more than 200 officers and soldiers of the independent cavalry battalion, and then take their luggage and start marching towards Dihua Station.

Before the cavalry battalion arrived at the station, the staff of the Eighth Route Army's office in Dihua had already gone through the handover procedures with the Soviet personnel, and the Sheng Shicai authorities in Dihua also issued a road note, so after the cavalry battalion arrived, the convoy went on the road and marched along the northwest highway towards Lanzhou.

Originally, if there was only a convoy, it could walk at least 30 kilometers per hour, nearly 1,500 kilometers from Dihua to Lanzhou, and it would be almost there in five days, but now because he joined the ranks of the cavalry battalion, the marching speed has slowed down, and he can only walk more than 100 miles a day at most.

It took ten days for the convoy to arrive near Yumen Pass.

Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei once wrote the poem "Sending Yuan Er Envoy Anxi", which has a sentence: persuade the monarch to drink a glass of wine, there is no reason to go out of Yangguan in the west, from ancient times to the present, Yumen Pass has always been the geographical dividing line between the Central Plains and the Western Regions, only by entering Yumen Pass, can it be regarded as truly entering the Central Plains world.

On the way, it was relatively calm, and there was no attack by horse bandits.

You must know that all ethnic groups in the northwest area live together, and the law and order have always been very chaotic, and it is not uncommon for tribal vendettas and herdsmen to rob and kill horse bandits in the past.

But Du Yidao did not let his guard down, but became more and more cautious.

Because Du Yidao knew better than anyone else that there was a vicious enemy lurking in the pass, and those small groups of horse bandits made up by herdsmen Qiao did not dare to attack them, but that vicious enemy had no scruples, and even their Western Route Army was torn apart by this vicious enemy, not to mention that they were only a battalion?

That's right, this vicious enemy is Ma Jiajun!

Therefore, Du Yidao even became more cautious.

Although it is a cold and steep time in spring, it is still extremely hot in the desert at noon.

Because of the scorching sun for a long time, the sweat flowed and dried, dried and flowed, and it all condensed into salt flowers on the cheeks, which made people extremely uncomfortable, and I really felt thirsty, Du Yidao took off the sheepskin bladder from the side of the saddle, opened the cork and took a small sip, but just as he was drinking water, the corner of his eye suddenly faintly saw that there seemed to be someone on the sand dune on the right.

However, when Du Yidao turned his face, he found that there was not even a ghost shadow on the sand dunes in the distance on the right. Du Yidao's brows furrowed, because experience told him that there must be someone in the sand dunes on the right just now, and most of them were being targeted, thinking of this, Du Yidao's mood immediately became solemn.

At that moment, Du Yidao turned his head and shouted: "Fu Deyou! ”

Fu Deyou rode his horse to Du Yidao and asked, "Battalion commander? ”

Du Yidao said: "If you don't leave today, notify the convoy to stop moving forward and camp on the spot!" ”

"Camp on the spot?" Fu Deyou was stunned when he heard this, and then whispered, "Battalion commander, if we go more than a hundred miles, we should arrive at Yumen Pass." ”

Du Yidao snorted and said in a deep voice: "But if we go more than twenty miles further, we should arrive at Death Canyon, and when we arrived at Death Canyon, it was just dark. ”

Fu Deyou's face immediately sank.

Death Canyon is a weathered canyon outside the Yumen Pass, fifty miles long, the strange rocks on both sides of the canyon are craggy, the ambush of thousands of troops and horses is not easy to be found, it is especially easy to be ambushed by people at night, in the canyon, it can be said that it is covered with the bones of the business travelers who travel to and from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, and the business travelers all talk about the color change.

But this is the inevitable way to go.

Therefore, when caravans pass through Death Canyon, they generally choose to pass by in groups during the day.

Du Yidao is not afraid of the attack of a small group of horse bandits, but if the Ma family army comes to attack, Death Canyon is very likely to become their burial place! Therefore, Du Yidao decided to find a place nearby that is easy to defend and difficult to attack to rest for one night, and wait for tomorrow to move forward after dawn, after all, it is a period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and Ma Jiajun must have scruples in broad daylight.

Du Yidao's order was quickly conveyed, and although the people of the convoy were unhappy, they could only obey, and soon the convoy drove to a high ground on the side of the road and anchored at the lower wall.

The cavalry battalion camped on the high ground and built improvised fortifications, which were more than enough to stop ordinary horse bandits, but if they encountered the Ma army, it would be of little use, but even so, the officers and men of the cavalry battalion were still meticulous in building improvised fortifications there.

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Du Yidao didn't look dazzled just now, they were indeed targeted.

Moreover, it is none other than Du Yidao who is eyeing them, it is Qingma!

The so-called Qingma refers to the Ma Jiajun in Qinghai Province, and the corresponding is Ningma, compared to Ningma, Qingma's style is more ferocious and barbaric, and its combat effectiveness is stronger!

At this moment, a cavalry regiment led by Ma Jiyuan was ambushed in the Death Canyon.

Ma Jiyuan left Xining half a month ago, first led his troops to Wuwei, and then went all the way west in the name of eliminating bandits and protecting passing business travelers.

All the way to the west, but never encountered a convoy transporting CCP supplies.

Even so, Ma Jiyuan is not worried at all, because the Hexi Corridor is very narrow, which can be said to be the only way from Xinjiang to Yan'an, and the convoy transporting CCP materials must pass through the Hexi Corridor if they want to go to Yan'an, so Ma Jiyuan is not worried that the CCP's materials will quietly slip away from other roads.

However, to Ma Jiyuan's surprise, he had been walking west for eight or nine days, and had arrived at Yumen Pass, and still did not find the convoy transporting materials, Ma Jiyuan began to be a little worried, but what he was worried about was not that the convoy would detour, but that the convoy was robbed by a small group of horse bandits on the way.

After crossing the Yumen Pass, Ma Jiyuan ordered the main force of the cavalry regiment to be stationed in the Death Canyon, and then sent reconnaissance cavalry to search for the whereabouts of the convoy all the way.

This will, Ma Jiyuan is angry in the Death Canyon.

Ma Jishu whipped the guard with a horsewhip and his face was covered in blood, the reason was just that the guard's roasted leg of lamb was slightly burnt, which made Ma Dashao angry and whipped him half to death!

"Dog, do you want to choke Young Master Ben to death or what?" Ma Jiyuan smoked and scolded, "You actually gave the half-baked leg of lamb to Young Master Ben to eat?" Look for death! ”