Chapter Twenty-Five: Rendezvous, Go to Blow Up the Bridge
It was the waning moon again, the night was dim and dark, and the stars of the sky seemed to want to penetrate the darkness with an unblinking vigilant gaze to peek into the secrets of the earth. In the woods, Lao Zhou and four people waited quietly.
If you can borrow a spear, or an extra pistol, you'll be armed. Lao Zhou thought like this, and looked into the distance a little anxiously from time to time.
"Uncle Zhou." Erhuzi shrunk his neck, tightened his clothes, and asked in a low voice with some doubts: "You just said that you want a girl, and you won't be scared to cry when you shoot a shot?" ”
"You didn't listen to me!" Lao Zhou glanced at Erhuzi and said, "Will it be an ordinary girl who can come?" People have killed a lot of devils and puppet soldiers, and they are better than us, do you dare to underestimate others? ”
"Really?" Erhuzi didn't believe it, snorted his nose, and said with a smile: "Funny, right?" ”
"When has this been, and I still have the heart to tease you?" Lao Zhou snorted and said, "When people come, you are not allowed to talk nonsense, and you are not allowed to look down on others." ”
Oh, Erhuzi responded, but he was a little disapproving.
After staying for a while, Erhuzi couldn't help it again, and asked, "Uncle Zhou, you said that you want to set up a miner guerrilla team, and I will count it as one, right?" So when are we going to shoot our guns? ”
Lao Zhou looked at Erhuzi's stunned appearance, felt a little helpless, coughed, and just wanted to speak, but the pillar was already rolling his eyes and speaking in a rough voice next to him, "You want a gun when you come?" It's not that our team doesn't send it, but it's lacking right now, you can wait for others to grab it for you, and if you have a kind, you can grab it yourself from the devil and traitor. ”
Stinky boy, I told me about that set, and the old man turned his head, and he didn't even look at the pillar that was serious.
Erhuzi was stunned, and when he heard this, his face was a little feverish, thinking: It's a shame now, if they want a gun, do you want to make them laugh? Mother's*! I'll grab it yourself, and see what you say.
Lao Zhou suddenly raised his hand and shook it, and said in a low voice: "Don't speak, someone is coming." ”
In the distance, a figure appeared, carrying two spears on his back and stepping on the snow, and walked over.
Lao Zhou was stunned at the beginning, how can he be a person, looking at his body size and gait, it should be Zhao Tie, but what about Damei?
After a while, he found that there was another person more than twenty meters behind Zhao Tie, but his whole body was white, and it was difficult to identify him in the snow.
This girl is quite alert. Lao Zhou raised the corners of his mouth slightly, feeling that this big plum was really not simple, this white camouflage was really suitable for hiding in the mountains and forests of ice and snow.
There was still some distance away, Zhao Tie slapped his face, Lao Zhou replied to the code, walked out of the woods quickly, and greeted him.
The two got closer and couldn't help but smile at each other. Zhao Tie threw the spear on his body, Lao Zhou took it, stroked it twice, clicked and pulled the bolt, checked, and praised: "Thirty-eight big cover, good gun." ”
Zhao Tie raised his chin behind him and said, "The girl is behind, how many words can you say to her?" ”
Lao Zhou nodded, took the bullet handed over by Zhao Tie, put it in his pocket, and stepped forward to meet Shen Chen.
"Uncle Zhou." Shen Chen walked over unhurriedly and said hello first.
The white velvet hat, hood, and mask made of white cloth only show two big eyes, and there is white frost on the long eyelashes.
Lao Zhou smiled and said, "You girl is a real person who doesn't show up, but I don't recognize you at all when you meet this time." ”
Shen Chen smiled and said, "Uncle Zhou praised it, so that my family would not be implicated, I had no choice but to do this." ”
"yes, you've got it all figured out." Lao Zhou nodded and said, "Big-hero, right?" As he spoke, he couldn't help but laugh.
Hehe, Shen Chen laughed twice and said, "Let Uncle Zhou see it, the name you want is quite smooth, right?" ”
"Smooth, smooth." Lao Zhou stretched out his finger and said, "I won't introduce them one by one, time is tight, let's go!" ”
"Okay!" Shen Chen paused and said, "Brother Tie told me all the plans, I will serve as the outer cover, as long as there is no accident, I will not shoot." Because, blowing up the bridge is the main thing! ”
"Yes, the main task tonight is to blow up the bridge." Lao Zhou agreed, and said with a smile: "Fight devils and kill traitors, there will be many opportunities in the future, it doesn't have to be tonight." ”
"Uncle Zhou and Brother Tie don't know me, this characteristic." Shen Chen continued: "So, when I get to the place, choose a position and hide the ambush, I will do my own thing and not be with you." ”
Lao Zhou was stunned for a moment, looked at Zhao Tie next to him, and saw Zhao Tie nodding slightly, he understood that this matter must have been said by Da Mei and Zhao Tie in advance, so he couldn't object.
The group climbed up the cliff, bypassed the outer village, and followed a small river ditch to the vicinity of the ash bridge of the Hongshui River.
Along the way, several people secretly looked at Shen Chen from time to time, not knowing where this strange girl was.
Dressed very differently, he was carrying a spear, a strap on his thigh, and a pistol pinned to his side, so he could see that the eyes of the two tigers were about to fall out.
Just because he saw too much, he was glared twice by Shen Chen, but he didn't notice it, just looked at the long and short guys on this girl's body and almost drooled.
The so-called Hongshui River was later renamed because the mine discharged alum-containing water into the river, and the water turned red.
The ash bridge is four or five miles away from the kiln house, there are tall turrets on both sides of the bridge, the searchlight sweeps around like a ghost's eye, and the devil's guard is quite tight.
Shen Chen took out the binoculars, observed them carefully, measured the distance again, and found that it was a little difficult to take care of the two turrets, but it was not absolutely impossible.
This girl, she has everything, looking at this action, it really seems to be going on.
Lao Zhou thought in his heart, and also felt that Zhao Tie's concession was very reasonable. If there is really Da Mei helping out in the guerrillas, just the guns and ammunition, and the telescope or something, even the main force will be envious, right?
You must know that the telescope is a scarce item in the Eighth Route Army, and it is very good to have it at the regiment commander level.
"I'll monitor this turret, Uncle Zhou and Brother Tie will monitor that, do you think it's okay?" Shen Chen made a relatively cautious decision and turned to ask for advice.
"Are you doing it alone?" Zhao Tie asked with concern, and after receiving a positive answer, he asked Lao Zhou again, and the matter was settled.
"Then I'll go first." Shen Chen already knew the general plan from Zhao Tie, and he didn't need to ask too much.
"Be careful!" Lao Zhou admonished.
When Shen Chen walked away, Lao Zhou didn't seem to be too relieved, and he gave a special explanation to the pillar and the second tiger who carried out the task of blowing up the bridge: "In case you are discovered by the devil, you try to run this way as much as possible, and Lao Zhao and I will cover you." ”
After a pause, he felt that there was something wrong with the order of death, so he added: "Of course, you should be clever, and if it is more advantageous over there, don't die and come to our side." ”
"Zhuzi, you have more experience, you have to be improvised, and take care of Erhuzi." Zhao Tie's confidence in Da Mei is stronger than that of Lao Zhou, and there are some hints in his speech, "Which side is more conducive to escape, you judge on the spot and be responsible for commanding." ”
"I see." Zhuzi waved Zhao Tie's box gun and said to Erhuzi: "Listen to me when the time comes, don't do nonsense." ”
Erhuzi nodded, took the Wang Ba box handed by Lao Zhou, touched it again and again, and carefully pinned it to his waist.
In fact, it didn't take long for him to learn to make a gun, and he didn't even shoot with live ammunition, if there was an accident, how much effect a pistol could play, Lao Zhou and Zhao Tie didn't have much hope.
But for such a dangerous mission, it would be too much to say if you didn't give him a self-defense weapon.
Zhao Tie looked at his watch, there was still plenty of time, so he commanded the personnel to act separately, and several people disappeared into the night.
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Zhu Zi and Erhuzi took the explosives bag around the turret north of the bridge, walked out for two or three miles, touched the place where the railway was transformed, and squatted down in a small ditch next to it.
"You'll have to calm down for a while!" The pillar admonished with some unease.
"Don't worry, if you really want to be discovered, you have to kill a few of him." Erhuzi fiddled with the pistol with a stupid and bold tone.
"Don't keep thinking about shooting people, our mission is to blow up the bridge." The pillar rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "You have to listen to my orders, you know?" Either you'll go, and I'll be alone. ”
"Don't!" Erhuzi hurriedly laughed and said, "Brother Zhuzi, can't I listen to you?" ”
Alas, the pillar sighed, with this stunned blue, he was really a little unsure.
"Brother Zhuzi, that girl is very good, long and short, and the cylindrical mirror." Erhuzi thought of Shen Chen again, and asked, "Do you know her?" ”
"I don't know." The pillar shook his head, paused and said, "It's really good, it's in the main force, and it's not as neatly equipped as hers." Look at the bullet boxes in front of her and behind her, if they are all full, there must not be one hundred and eighty bullets? ”
"When are we so majestic, let me shoot ten bullets!" Erhuzi swallowed.
"Ten rounds, one or three live shots, it can kill you." Zhu Zi smiled, stretched out his hand to turn off the safety on the gun in Erhuzi's hand, and said: "This way you won't go off, and when you really want to shoot, remember to pull it off!" ”
"Okay, okay, I got it." Erhuzi nodded, raised his gun from time to time, and aimed in all directions.
I don't know how much time has passed, the ground trembled slightly, and the two of them hurriedly prepared.
After a while, there was a roar, and the little train crawled out of the tunnel in the distance like a centipede.
When turning a steep bend, the little train slowed down, and the two men slowly climbed to the roadbed, gave way to the front of the car, jumped up suddenly, ran forward with the little train, grabbed the handle of a carriage, ran a few steps, and got on the train.
Most of the children in the mining area will climb the car, and choose the pillar and the second tiger to perform the task, which is to take a fancy to their specialty. The two men climbed into the carriage, hidden, and glanced at each other.
With a whistle, the train was about to reach the ash bridge, and the two of them came to both sides of the carriage separately, ready to jump out of the car.
It was time to cross the bridge, but the little train slowed down slightly, and the searchlight on the turret swept over. The two of them hurriedly turned over the carriage, clutching the handle outside the carriage tightly, and their bodies were close to the carriage. Seeing the bridge pier, Erhuzi let go and jumped down, rolled on the ground, and lay on the bridge deck under the roadbed.
The searchlight swept over, and Erhuzi shrank down and lay even lower. Across the railroad and the roadbed, he couldn't see the opposite pillar, and he could only continue to follow the plan.
Little by little, climb to the edge of the bridge, tie the rope wrapped around your body to the railing, and go down the bridge. Erhuzi's heart beat as the searchlight swept back and forth.
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This may be the only way to get close to the Ash Bridge, the plan is very ingenious, and Zhao Tie and the others must have been reconnoitred for a long time.
But the more careful and meticulous the plan, the more likely it is to fail because of a small accident.
Shen Chen had already lurked, although it was a little difficult to take care of the two turrets, he still chose such a position as much as possible, and repeatedly estimated the distance, wind speed, wind direction and other data to adjust the gun to the best state.
At the bend of the Hongshui River, he was hidden in a small dry ditch, not directly facing the ash bridge, but the two turrets, one on the left and one on the right, were still within his firing range.
It's just that the turret he wants to monitor is closer and he is more sure.
Fall down the rope from the bridge deck, drill into the hole under the bridge deck, place explosives, and draw the fuse out, and when the little train is loaded with coal from the mine, it lights the fire, and then picks up the car to get out of the ash bridge......
When Shen Chen was waiting in the lurk, he could think carefully about the whole plan, and he could also find that the thoroughness of the plan was directly proportional to the occurrence of small accidents.
It's not easy, it's not easy! With such a close connection, there is no room for error, and I'm afraid it will take luck to complete this task, right?
Through the binoculars, Shen Chen watched the figure drill out of the railing, from the bridge deck, into the small hole under the bridge, and let out a sigh of relief, wishing them all the best.
You can do everything before the train comes back from loading coal, and you won't be discovered by the devils guarding the bridge in this more than an hour!
What if it is discovered? Shen Chen couldn't help but imagine this possibility, and considered his own way of coping with it.
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So far, it's been smooth.
Erhuzi and the pillar met in the hole under the bridge, the explosives package was placed, the fuse was inserted, and the pillar was responsible for detonating it.
Under the bridge is the sound of rushing water, which is not too deep, and jumping into it is chest to chest at most.
But both of them knew that it was the last resort. Under the illumination of the searchlight of the turret, under the chase and blockade of the devil's firepower, if you want to run to a safe distance on the bare riverbank, you can only describe it as nine deaths.
"Click, click, click......" The footsteps sounded from far and near, just overhead, but it seemed to step on the hearts of the two, it was the patrol of devils walking across the bridge.
Walked over! The pillar could hear the sound of Erhuzi exhaling as he relaxed.
He thought for a while, and said next to Erhuzi's ear: "If it is discovered, we will lead the explosives." Then go down the rope and run as hard as you can along the river, and no matter what happens, you don't look back. Do you understand? ”
"Understood." Erhuzi chuckled lightly and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, Brother Zhuzi, I'm not afraid of death." ”
"That's good." The pillar pinched Erhuzi's shoulder hard and praised it sincerely.
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