Zhao Jun was really tired, and walking with these guerrillas, she really understood what a rapid march was! When she was in school, she was also the champion of the women's long-distance running competition, but compared with these guerrillas who carried rifles, grenades, bags of dry food and other equipment, walked forward quietly and quickly, and traveled dozens of kilometers on the mountain road in only ** hours, but still did not change their faces, she really wanted to be unconvinced.

Although Zhao Jun was a member of the [***], she grew up in the city and joined the Comintern because of her faith, and it was the first time she came into contact with the guerrillas. What surprised her the most was that as soon as these guerrillas stepped out of the main road, they invariably took off the brand-new cloth shoes on their feet and dug out the tattered straw sandals from their backpacks.

"Comrade Zhao, don't laugh at us."

Talking to Zhao Jun was Sun Xilai, the captain of this guerrilla team, who was a man in his thirties with a simple atmosphere all over his body. Sun Xilai looks so ordinary, so ordinary that if he put down the gun in his hand and grabbed a hoe, no one would believe that such an honest man turned out to be a combat hero who killed more than 30 devils with his own hands, led the guerrillas to blow up railways, cut wires, attack artillery towers, and achieved a lot of results!

Facing Zhao Jun's beautiful big eyes, at such a close distance, he could clearly smell the fragrant fragrance on the other party's body, and Sun Xilai's face turned red. He stretched out his big calloused hands, scratched his scalp, and said: "We are all countrymen, we are usually used to wearing straw sandals, this time on the mission, we can change into new clothes and cloth shoes, everyone is very precious, for fear of staining and damaging the clothes and shoes." Comrade Zhao, don't look at us wearing tattered straw sandals, but even the four wheels of the devil's car can't outrun our two legs! ”

The four wheels of the car could not outrun their two legs...... That's too idealistic, isn't it?!

But looking at Sun Xilai, a straightforward and honest man in front of him, Zhao Jun still nodded. At this time, Zhao Jun's right leg stepped on a small protruding stone on the side of the road, and with a sour pain rushing straight up from the sole of his foot, Zhao Jun let out a suppressed low scream, if Sun Xilai hadn't stretched out his big fan-like hand in time to pull her, I was afraid that Zhao Jun would have pounced on the ground.

Looking at the beautiful girl in front of her who clenched her teeth in pain, and the crystal tears were already swirling in her eyes, but she was too stubborn to let them flow out, and then looked at the pair of leather boots on her feet with exquisite metal ornaments, which were expensive at a glance, Sun Xilai helped Zhao Jun to sit on a stump, and took off the leather boots on her feet in Zhao Jun's "sizzling" gasp.

Seeing that a trace of blood was oozing from the worn blisters on Zhao Jun's feet, Sun Xilai became angry for the first time: "Comrade Zhao, you're not brave, you're messing around!" You are our mission, and the chief has given us a death order, if we can't take you back, we won't go back to any of us! If your feet are rotten and you can't walk, what's the use of us people walking fast? ”

After helping Zhao Jun take care of the wounds on his feet and wrapping Zhao Jun's feet tightly with a roll of clean white cloth, Sun Xilai glanced at Zhao Jun's beautiful leather boots and said sullenly: "These shoes look beautiful, but they are not practical, and they are not as good as our straw sandals." Don't wear it yet! ”

"How can I walk without shoes?"

Before Zhao Jun could ask this question, he felt that his body suddenly became lighter, and he was involuntarily thrown on his back by Sun Xilai.

"Don't move!"

Sun Xilai said: "Comrade Zhao, don't worry, I am a mountain man, I have practiced a good set of legs and feet in the mountains since I was a child, don't look at me not tall, but carrying a pig weighing two or three hundred pounds, I can walk forty miles of mountain roads to catch the market in one breath!" What's more, you're much lighter than a pig! ”

Zhao Jun, who was lying on his back like a duck driven by Sun Xilai, listened to Sun Xilai's words so straightforward and unabashed, she couldn't help but roll her eyes, she lived so big, after becoming Chen Gongbo's secretary, she became the object of everyone's flattery, and she never compared her with a pig. But looking at Sun Xilai's face, which was already red to the base of his neck, and feeling Sun Xilai's shoulders that were crumbling harder than stones, Zhao Jun couldn't help but laugh "poof".

"Captain Sun, have you married a daughter-in-law?"

Sun Xilai replied angrily: "No! ”

Zhao Jun said secretly in his heart: "Of course you haven't married a daughter-in-law, if you want to marry a daughter-in-law, how can you become like this?" ”

"Do you have a girlfriend?" Seeing Sun Xilai's blank face, Zhao Jun forcibly held back the smile that had already come out of his mouth and reminded: "It's good." ”

"Neither!"

Zhao Jun leaned into Sun Xilai's ear and whispered, "Then, will I be your girlfriend?" ”

"Uh......h cough cough cough ...... Woo...... cough cough cough ......"

Sun Xilai suddenly let out a dry cough that was choked by something, he was not pretending, but really choked. After a long time, Sun Xilai finally came to his senses, and he stammered: "Zhao, Zhao, Zhao, comrade, we are comrades and relationships...... This one...... cough cough cough ......"

"Hahaha......"

Looking at Sun Xilai, who was so embarrassed and embarrassed, watching him move forward with robot-like movements, it seemed that he couldn't even walk, Zhao Jun could no longer bear the smile that rushed to his throat, and the whole mountain field was followed by a silver bell-like laughter, and those leaves waving in the wind seemed to be cheering for the excellent performance of this elf-quirky girl.

It wasn't until he had laughed enough that his stomach hurt from laughter, and Zhao Jun shouted with a smile: "I'm joking with you, don't take it seriously, don't take it seriously!" Hey, your ears are red, they really look like rabbit ears, hahaha...... It's so cute, can I touch it? Just quietly, just touch it a little, okay? ”

Sun Xilai really wanted to cry without tears at this time, and he wanted to talk about it, why is this Comrade Zhao Jun so eccentric, why does he like to spoof so much, and he likes to see him out of trouble so much? ! And he, a big idiot, didn't even see the essence of this Comrade Zhao, and he was stupid, in line with the principle of mutual love between comrades, he carried her on his back, which is good, he can't even get rid of it!

There was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps behind him, and everyone subconsciously held the guns on their bodies, and under their vigilant gaze, a guerrilla in charge of the guard and guard ran over at a trot, and he quickly reported to the captain Sun Xilai: "The enemy is chasing over!" ”

Sun Xilai shook his head fiercely, throwing aside all the embarrassment and discomfort, and he asked in a deep voice: "How many people are there, and how far are they from us?" ”

Looking at the fierceness and calmness on Sun Xilai's face in an instant, Zhao Jun nodded secretly, which was in line with the image of a combat hero in her mind.

"It's estimated that it's still three miles away from us, so I can't see it clearly, but there are also forty or fifty people in it, and we shouldn't have been discovered yet."

After listening to the guerrilla's report, Sun Xilai couldn't help frowning.

"How can it be so fast? We used those people to lead the Shanghai security forces in the wrong direction, and they shouldn't have chased us so quickly, anyway? Unless...... They didn't go that way at all! ”

Sun Xilai's brain was thinking quickly, to be honest, although he was ready to be caught up by the enemy and forced to hand over in a short hand, the enemy's reaction was far beyond his expectations. The most important thing is that, in terms of time, the enemy's march speed is even faster than theirs, the guerrillas who are the best at fighting guerrilla warfare!

Sun Xilai, who has been dealing with himself for several years and doesn't know how many times he has been born and died on the battlefield, intuitively found that the troops who followed them and pursued them and had approached within three miles were definitely not ordinary miscellaneous fish!

Sun Xilai stretched out his hand and lifted Zhao Jun who was lying on his back again, he looked around the audience and said with a smile: "Chen Gongbo's dog has a very smart nose!" ”

The guerrilla team that protected Zhao Jun, including the company leader Sun Xilai, had only fourteen members, and after knowing that there were several times the enemy behind them to pursue, everyone's expressions were very flat, and in their eyes, non-stop fighting was already a part of their lives, and being chased by the enemy behind them was even more commonplace.

Looking at the people around her, Zhao Jun's eyes lit up, and on her face, a proud smile rose. Because she clearly felt that in this guerrilla army, which was reluctant to wear even cloth shoes, there was a calmness that bloomed in the face of battle and death!

This is an army that belongs to the [***] leader, and has become brave and warlike because it has faith and armed its mind!

"Check your gear and march at full speed!"

With the order of the captain Sun Xilai, the guerrillas began to march again a minute later. This small force, silently marching forward, quickly left the road behind in the rustling of footsteps.

Zhao Jun didn't know until this time that it wasn't the fastest marching speed of this guerrilla force just now! In order to take care of her, they have deliberately slowed down their movements. Lying on the back of the captain Sun Xilai, quietly listening to the powerful heart in Sun Xilai's chest, constantly jumping and transporting the hot blood to every cell in the body, looking down at the road behind Sun Xilai with every step he took out, Zhao Jun's heart suddenly inexplicably surged with a word that she had always thought should only be used to describe the overlord and the king: "Dragon and tiger step!" ”

I don't know how long this rapid march lasted, but Sun Xilai's footsteps suddenly stopped, and in front of them, a branch of the road appeared.

In order to meet Zhao Jun, Sun Xilai, who had already conducted a field investigation of the retreat route, of course knew which path they should choose. Standing on the branch point, looking at the two roads leading to different directions, Sun Xilai's face slowly raised a smile, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the road on the left, and said in a loud voice: "Li Hu, Heitou, Erdan, you go along this road and try to leave as many footprints as possible." After walking two miles, leave them an iron watermelon and two yam eggs, and then find a way to take a shortcut and meet us! ”

"That's right!" After the three guerrillas nodded and accepted the order, Sun Xilai seemed to remember something, he grabbed the pair of leather boots hanging from his waist, turned his head to Zhao Jun and said, "Anyway, you won't be able to wear it again for a while, can you borrow it from me first?" ”

As soon as Zhao Jun nodded, his eyes suddenly widened, because Sun Xilai, a damn guy, as soon as he got her permission, he stretched out his big fan-like hand, and used rude and indecent movements to decorate her pair of expensive leather boots to decorate the metal buckle, and then handed the metal button and the injured little leather boots into the hands of the deputy captain Li Hu.

"On the way, use these rich man's boots to knock a few more shoe prints, walk half a mile, and then throw this button on the side of the road."

After making such an admonition, seeing the deputy captain Li Hu, take the two guerrillas Erdan and the black head to make shoe prints all the way, and walk along the trail on the left, Sun Xilai turned his head and ordered the guerrilla who was in charge of the guard just now: "Ma Fugui, you are responsible for cleaning up the feet we left behind, and don't leave any traces on those dogs!" ”

Ma Fugui nodded, he casually picked up a few branches with leaves from the side of the road, and then bent down, walking backwards, while using the tools in his hand, swept away the footprints left by everyone on the right path.

Watching these guerrillas, under the command of the captain Sun Xilai, set a near-perfect trap, guiding the pursuers behind them to embark on a wrong path, Zhao Jun found that he had a little admiration for this old man who didn't understand women at all, and actually compared a beautiful woman to a pig. She asked, "What did you just say about the iron watermelon and the yam egg?" ”

"The iron watermelon is a mine made by our own arsenal, and the yam egg is a melon-type grenade that we have captured from our own hands. The mines produced in our own arsenal are not easy to use, many of them are simply iron lumps, and even if we step on them, they will not explode, so we often tie tripwires directly to the grenades and use our own grenades to detonate our mines. Tie two at a time, so that it will definitely explode, and the power is also great, enough for those vicious dogs under Chen Gongbo to drink a pot. ”

Sun Xilai strode forward along the road on the right with Zhao Jun on his back, and said: "Li Hu, they have to knock out the footprints of more than a dozen people along the way, and they can't go fast, and they are easy to be caught up by the enemy, so I ordered them to find a way to meet us after they walked out of two miles." But you think, if the enemy finds out that the footprints on the road are suddenly gone, they will find out that they have been fooled, and they will turn back and chase us again. In that case, if you think about it, even if you let them run two extra miles, it won't be much fun! ”

Zhao Jun nodded again and again, as long as she looked at this high-speed advancing guerrilla force, she understood that for a well-trained army, running a few miles longer, in the state of rapid marching, the time that could be delayed was quite limited.

"So, Sun Hu, they will find a more suitable place, bury a mine made by our arsenal itself, and hit the heads of those vicious dogs who are eager to catch you and go back to receive the reward. In this case, no one knows how many mines are waiting for them in front of us, and when they feel forward for a while and find that there are no mines and no footprints, we will run away. ”

"Captain Sun, you are so wise!"

Listening to Zhao Jun's heartfelt appreciation, Sun Xilai's ears, which had finally recovered from their original state, turned red again, and he replied after a long time: "Our guerrillas deal with Yue himself, relying on this method to save his life, if he didn't have the ability to escape, he would have let the enemy serve the pot a long time ago!" You see that everyone is carrying about 30 pounds of weapons and equipment, and they can still walk so fast, this is all forced by the enemy. It is said that there are a lot of sharpshooters in this army, and there are cannons and armored vehicles, even if they run a little slower, and before they have time to escape into the mountains and forests, they will be put down by them from a distance of several hundred meters. ”

Sun Xi said it lightly, but from his words, Zhao Jun can read the enemy is strong and I am weak, but I must fight to the death, looking at Sun Xilai's face that suddenly raised a deep sadness, even if Zhao Jun usually likes to play tricks on people, and has a strong curiosity, she can't bear to ask again, Sun Xilai has seen how many comrades and comrades-in-arms fell under the enemy's guns in his several years of guerrilla career.

Zhao Jun reached out and gently patted Sun Xilai's shoulder, and she said softly: "Anyway, you are also the best captain." Sooner or later, we will drive the enemy out of our land, return our rivers and mountains, and restore the prestige of our country. At that time, I believe that the heroic spirits who sleep under the Nine Springs will also smile and stare at them. ”

"Yes, when that day comes, I can put down my gun, go home and marry a mother-in-law, have seven or eight more children with him, and farm the land well."

After making such an exclamation, Sun Xilai couldn't help but look back and glance at the road they had walked, where Ma Fugui was bending over, carefully cleaning the footprints they had left on this road with a branch. It turned out that he applied such tactics, and he did not know how many times he led the army and the puppet army astray, and took the opportunity to escape with his guerrillas. But this time, I don't know why, Sun Xilai has an indescribable worry in his heart.

Sun Xilai didn't tell Zhao Jun that the group of enemies chasing after them must also have an excellent captain.

Half an hour later, Fujiwara Kaede led his fully armed Special Operations Force at the same road branch. For the sake of the resource-scarcity, especially the strategic resources such as brass and steel, the submachine gun, a weapon that consumes too much ammunition and has an ultra-low hit rate, absolutely cannot equip the army in large quantities. In the eyes of those military high-brass, instead of equipping such a submachine gun, which is expensive to manufacture, expensive to maintain, and consumes an alarming amount of ammunition, it is better to train soldiers, turn them all into sharpshooters, and then equip them with rifles with small caliber and stable shooting!

However, the special operations force led by Fujiwara Kaede was all equipped with the "100-style" submachine gun that had just been put into production in February 41 and was still in the trial stage.

However, this "hundred-style" submachine gun seems to be a freak. The idea of designing submachine guns in the world is to suppress the enemy through intensive firepower, but the army has an almost pathological obsession with fighting bayonets, and this "100-style" submachine gun developed by their arsenal with reference to the German M34 submachine gun can still be ...... Install the bayonet!

It is precisely because of this that the members of the special operations team selected by Fujiwara Kaede are not only sharpshooters, but also masters of karate and kendo who believe in the spirit of bushido, and can use the bayonets on submachine guns to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy when necessary.

Looking at the two paths leading in different directions, Fujiwara Kaede stretched out his right hand, clenched it into a fist, and made a pause gesture towards everyone.

Carefully observing the details on the two roads, looking at the dozen or so footprints on the road on the left that kept stretching into the distance, Fujiwara Kaede raised a faint, mocking smile on his face.

"Xiao Mu-kun!"

With Fujiwara Kaede's low call, a captain who was also fully armed quickly stepped forward and said loudly, "Here!" ”

Fujiwara Kaede pointed to the road on the left and said, "You lead a squad to chase down this road, and if you find that you are chasing in the wrong direction, immediately take a shortcut and move closer to us!" ”

"Yes!"

"And ......" Fujiwara Kaede thought for a moment and continued to order: "You fire a gun at the sky every five minutes, and when we hear the gunshot, we will fire the same gun in response, so as to keep in touch." If you notice that the target on the left road is missing, fire three shots in a row at once, notify me, and quickly move closer to the main group. If you can always find the footprints, keep chasing, I can't hear your gunshots, it proves that our two troops have opened a considerable distance, such a distance is enough to show that you are chasing in the right direction, I will immediately lead everyone to abandon the right road and move closer to your direction! ”

"Yes!"

When Captain Kogi received the order again, the hesitant look on his face flashed slightly, but all this still did not escape Fujiwara Kaede's sharp eyes. Fujiwara Kaede stretched out his hand to pick up a weed that had been trampled on the side of the road, and said, "Judging from the degree to which the rhizome of this weed is broken, they haven't been through here for long, and we must probe the marks they left all the way, if I'm not mistaken, they should have discovered our whereabouts." Now that we're so close to our goal, it's almost time to close the net. What we have to do is to use all means to reduce the time we spend facing the enemy's traps and act immediately! ”

Captain Kogi looked at his boss with respectful eyes, and his right hand slashed the brim of his hat again, and shouted, "Yes! ”

(To be continued)