Chapter 748: A flock of pigeons came
Sunset.
This is a deserted house on the northern outskirts of Changsha, the courtyard wall has collapsed in half, and the artemisia grass is already knee-long.
There were seven or eight houses in the courtyard, but the roof had collapsed, and even the wooden doors and windows had been stripped away.
On weekdays, only the birds will come to stop, but with the war in Changsha City again, the birds don't know where to fly.
There was a faint black smoke in the southern sky, and that was because the Japanese army had occupied Changsha City, and the black smoke was naturally the fire of war that ignited the house.
To the north, 1,800 meters further away is the Laodao River, and the main force of the Japanese army has already crossed the river, so the pontoon bridges are much quieter.
In the past, when the Japanese combat troops marched, they were inevitably followed by very few heavy troops like long snakes, only sparse horse-drawn carts staggering on the difficult road or even in the field where there was no road at all.
The day before yesterday, the Sichuan army based on Dayun Mountain fought another good battle, although the Japanese army did not kill much, but killed hundreds of war horses pulling supplies, which was definitely not good news for the Japanese army that most of the time did not protect the horses.
In order to ensure the needs of the front combat troops for ammunition and food, when attacked by the Sichuan army, the Japanese army would rather save the horses first and then save the people.
But this is a must for the aggressor, because you have trespassed into someone else's home.
A breeze blew, the leaves and grass were swaying in the wind, it was the season of lush vegetation, but the wilderness gave people a bleak feeling, so the deserted house seemed more and more dead.
But at this moment, there was a soft noise from the roof of the house, could it be that a wild cat from nowhere had kicked off the roof tiles?
Apparently not, I saw that a tile on the roof began to move, and then a hand reached out and pinched it, and disappeared along the hole in the tiles that had just been dug out.
The hand continued to stretch out the tova, uncover the tile, and hand the tile, and after a while, a hole was dug out of the roof.
A person's head poked out of it, it was Huo Xiaoshan.
Huo Xiaoshan turned his head and looked around, and when he saw that there was nothing wrong, he shrank back again, and after a while, the thin man's head poked out again, but he didn't go back, just vigilantly observed the surroundings of this dilapidated mansion.
"How?" Shen Chong asked.
"It's okay, this is not the only way for devils." Huo Xiaoshan replied, and then he also sat in the corner like Shen Chong.
Their conversation caused everyone in the house to breathe a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere became lighter.
This room is supposed to be the living room of the original occupant, but it is a little crowded at this time, because there are sixteen or seventeen people sitting in this room!
Huo Xiaoshan and the four of them were still wearing Japanese military uniforms, but they were all bareheaded.
And the other eleven people are all in ** costumes, all of them are full of war, they are the soldiers of the 152nd Regiment of the 58th Division of the 74th Army who were chased by the Japanese army.
Huo Xiaoshan: After they ran out of the Japanese army and killed the Japanese soldiers who were "racing" with them, they naturally went to meet the people of the 152nd Regiment in front.
Huo Xiaoshan successfully transmitted the information through marksmanship when he was pretending to be a devil to pursue, so Na Li Liang naturally paid attention to Huo Xiaoshan.
Why don't you Dao Huo Xiaoshan's hat go, but he deliberately threw it on the ground while the Japanese army was not paying attention, so he gave Li Liang and them a significant signal through the hat: The one who doesn't wear a hat is our ** people!
So the people in front of him wouldn't shoot him anyway, otherwise he would have run to the front and be a nine-life monster cat, and he would have died a long time ago.
Because of this, Huo Xiaoshan naturally put up his hat when he took Shen Chong and the four of them to find Li Liang, which was undoubtedly telling the friendly army that all of them were bald and all of them were their own people!
After the two groups of people met, seeing that Changsha City was in sight, how could they be willing to entangle with the Japanese army again, and seeing that Changsha City had been occupied by the Japanese army, Huo Xiaoshan took them to the north of the city.
Why?
Because Huo Xiaoshan is familiar with the area north of the city, the garrison of the directly subordinate battalion Sha Huo Xiaoshan took the soldiers to the field in this area to practice, but he knew that there was a deserted house here, and the location was extremely remote, but it could be used to hide temporarily.
has been chased by the Japanese army for almost a day, and he has run out for dozens of miles, so Huo Xiaoshan doesn't want to take the tired division to play the tiger mountain that knows that there are tigers in the mountains.
Huo Xiaoshan naturally knew that this time he had brought people into the ranks of the Japanese army, so it was naturally "causing trouble" again, not to mention that the Japanese army guessed that they would return south and lay a net, even if all the troops paid attention to searching, it would definitely be enough for them to drink a pot.
At this time, Huo Xiaoshan and Li Liang had already known each other, and Huo Xiaoshan knew that Hao Lingqi himself did not run to Changsha City, but the soldiers used a strategy of "repairing the plank road and secretly crossing Chencang", pretending to be Hao Lingqi to lead the Japanese army to the west, and the real Hao Lingqi had already returned to the south.
And Li Liang is Hao Lingqi's guard and orderly, he naturally knows better than anyone else, with his stubborn temper, he will not pretend to be a soldier to escape anyway.
So he saw that the situation was critical, but he discussed with the guard platoon commander, asked the guard platoon commander to put on the clothes of the division commander, and ran west with some people to deliberately let the Japanese army see it.
It would definitely not work to let Hao Lingqi take off the division commander's officer uniform, but Li Liang was his orderly, so he naturally had Hao Lingqi's spare military uniform in his hand.
Not only the military uniform, but also Hao Lingqi's telescope was also kept by him, so when the guard platoon commander put on the clothes of the division commander and hung the binoculars, it was a big official for the Japanese army, which naturally attracted the Japanese army to chase after him.
At this point, whether Huo Xiaoshan or Li Liang, their rescue of Hao Lingqi, the commander of the 58th Division, has come to an end.
As for whether Hao Lingqi can return to the army safely, it is beyond their reach now.
But there was silence in the room at this time, because they were facing a very real and serious problem, all of them were hungry and had nothing to eat.
Huo Xiaoshan, although they still have a little bit of horse jerky in their hands, it only plays the role of eating a bite of starvation at a critical time, if you want to feed these nearly twenty people at once, let alone eat five points full, that is, you can't eat a point.
This is like people who will involuntarily grope for their pockets when they are hungry, but after touching for a long time, they will find a melon seed that I don't know when it hasn't been cleaned, yes, Huo Xiaoshan, the little horse jerky they have left is that melon seed!
At this time, Huo Xiaoshan saw that the room was dull, so he grabbed his gun and got up and walked out, and the artemisia grass in the courtyard lay down from it.
There is no need to worry about safety, this place is extremely remote, and the devils will not come here for ten days or eight days when they have just occupied Changsha, and grabbing a gun when they leave is the subconscious action of everyone who has been through war.
When the sun was setting, I don't know why there were burning clouds in the sky, and the red clouds covered most of the sky, but at this time, in Huo Xiaoshan's opinion, the red clouds looked like a village that was ignited by that little devil.
At this time, the footsteps sounded, and Huo Xiaoshan saw that it was Li Liang who walked out, so he lay back again.
Although it is not from the same army, the two of them still have a tacit understanding in the process of killing the devil together, and at this time they are no different from the brothers who lived and died together.
Li Liang also lay down next to Huo Xiaoshan, and the two of them watched the burning clouds in the sky together.
After looking at it for a while, the red clouds faded, and Li Liang opened his mouth to ask, "Huo Xiaoshan, what do you want?" β
Huo Xiaoshan was wearing a Japanese military uniform, and he was on par with Li Liang, and Huo Xiaoshan didn't say that he was the battalion commander Li Liang didn't know, but he was a soldier of the so-called directly subordinate battalion.
"I'm thinking, the first time I met a devil when I was a child, when I was chased by the devil and had no food to eat when I was chased by the devil." After another day of fighting, Huo Xiaoshan's face showed a rare sense of relief at this time, and the faint smile on his face was still vaguely the same as it was back then.
"Is there anything to eat in the mountains?" Li Liang asked curiously, he was also a child who grew up in the mountains, but he lived in the mountains in the south when he was a child, and he practiced this good marksmanship with his father's hunting.
"In winter, the snow is more than a meter thick, and you can find it if you want to look for it, but it's not like there are devils chasing after you." Huo Xiaoshan replied.
"You were hungry and you still mentioned food, so did you find it later?" Li Liang said funny.
"Of course I found it, I used a slingshot to knock down two wyverns." Huo Xiaoshan still had a smile on his face, he thought of Hao Cunyi again, but at this time, there was no such grief, there were only good memories of the past.
"What is a Wyvern?" Li Liang asked curiously.
"Do you know the dragon meat in the sky and the donkey meat in the ground?" It was Shen Chong who answered, and he also walked out of the house.
"I don't know." Li Liang really hadn't heard of this kind of statement.
"The dragon meat in the sky is not the dragon meat of the real dragon with horns, it refers to the meat of the flying dragon that I beat down, it is a kind of bird, and the soup is the most delicious." Huo Xiaoshan explained.
"I haven't even drunk dragon soup, why don't you have a group of dragons flying in the sky now? Waiting for the battle to be overβ" Shen Chong sighed, but he also sat on the ground, he also wanted to lie down, he was also hungry.
"Boss, boss!" At this time, the little man who was working as a lookout post on the roof suddenly screamed.
The people inside and outside the house were shocked when they heard this, and those lying down and sitting all jumped up at once, and at the same time they were already grasping their rifles in their hands.
Huo Xiaoshan was about to ask what the situation was, when he heard the fine girl shout again: "Boss, six or seven pigeons flew from the south!" β