Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Fierce Battle in the Deserted Village
In the night of Liaodong, the dilapidated deserted village was pitch black, and a few crows chirped outside the village, adding a touch of fear to the dark background.
This is a village of less than 100 households, the last time he infiltrated with Gao Hongzhong's people, it was in the direction of the mouth of the Sancha River, the inventory there was not so strict, but he had been to this deserted village with the special service team, and he had an amazing memory of the terrain, which made him better in the intelligence bureau.
Zhou Wu groped in the dark, there was a tingling pain in his left foot, the sole of his shoe was full of blood, and there was a slippery and greasy feeling when he stepped on it. After Zhou Wu escaped from the pursuit, he first walked to the village avenue for a while, and then quickly tied the wound of his left leg with a row to avoid leaving obvious blood stains, and then turned back and walked for a while, turning into a branch road to the west.
At this time, the sky is completely dark, and he can't see his five fingers, Zhou Wu can't leave the village for the time being, the wind is very weak tonight, the four fields are quiet, walking in the wilderness overgrown with grass will make a sound, there are many birds and birds in the wilderness nearby, that will expose his target, Houjin Bing may have left someone outside, with his current injured state, in case he is found in the wilderness, it will be difficult to escape, so he plans to hide in the village first, and then find an opportunity to escape.
Zhou Wu moved slowly, he relied on his hands and feet to recall the situation in the village, his feet touched a stone, Zhou Wu immediately squatted down, and touched the rammed earth wall on the west side along the direction of the stone, he quickly recalled this angle, which was exactly the place he was looking for.
Zhou Wu stood up and moved cautiously, found a courtyard gate with no door leaves along the rammed earth wall, and gently entered. He was afraid to make a little noise, in such a quiet deserted village. The slightest sound would travel far away, and that would allow a few Houjin soldiers to discover his location.
Of course, he would not think that a few Houjin soldiers would give up. According to Zhou Wu's feelings, those Houjin soldiers were all Bayala. Houjin's Bayala has a tough temperament, and they are often the main opponents of the special service team, and the two sides have fought many times over the years, and they are not inferior to the Dengzhou special service team in skirmish operations, so Zhou Wu will never despise these people.
After Zhou Wu entered the village, he had already seen two overlapping stones on the side of the road in the village, which meant that at least there was no special service team here, and he had to escape on his own. At this time, he was injured in his left foot, and he was not sure of escaping, but he couldn't stay until dawn, otherwise the Houjin soldiers would be able to easily find the bloodstains.
Zhou Wu touched a wind lantern wrapped in black cloth under a pile of firewood branches in the northwest corner of the courtyard, and after he lifted the wind lantern, he found a wrapped fire fold below, which was a communication tool left by the special service team, and there were two traps in this village, but Zhou Wu did not dare to lure Houjin soldiers over in the dark, otherwise he might be tricked himself.
After getting the wind lantern. Zhou Wu hesitated, put down the wind lantern again, leaving only the fire fold, and then groped for the location of the main entrance. Quietly entered the main house of this family, and there were some tattered wheat straw farm tools and baskets scattered on the ground, and he moved his steps carefully. The broken wheat stalks on the ground rustled.
After arriving at the west wall, Zhou Wu squatted in the corner. After preparing the fire fold, Zhou Wu touched the cloud ladder knife on his waist. That was his main weapon, and the bow and arrow and waist knife were lost when the horse fell, and if they had a bow and arrow, the Houjin soldiers would not dare to use the torch as a target so blatantly. There are also a few flying knives and some thistles in the blanket, the flying knives are practiced by Zhou Wu himself, and the weapons used by the team members are not restricted in the intelligence bureau, so there are often some very strange things. However, Zhou Wu didn't really plan to use this to deal with the armor soldiers, and this kind of flying knife basically had no effect on chain mail.
At this time, there was a shout outside, Zhou Wu immediately squatted down and hid in the dark, he quickly found the location of a hole in the wall, ready to escape from this courtyard at any time.
The sound came from the east, which was the main road in the village, and if Maki wasn't familiar with it, he would pay the most attention to the sides of that road. Zhou Wu deliberately walked there for a while, temporarily stopped the bleeding and then fell back, if the Houjin soldiers lit torches to find bloodstains, they would be led in the wrong direction.
A trace of fire appeared in the darkness, Zhou Wu looked out from the door, there were two bright lights in the east, it should be two torches, and there was a voice in Yi language in the distance, Zhou Wu had also learned some Yi language, although he was not proficient, but he still heard the words "don't set fire".
It seems that these Houjin soldiers are also worried about alarming the Dengzhou special service team that may be around them, if there is no activity of the special service team, maybe these Houjin soldiers would have lit fires everywhere in the village, first, so that Zhou Wu could not hide, and secondly, it also provided light for them to search easier. Now they can only use torches that are poorly lit.
Since the Houjin soldiers were afraid of arson, Zhou Wu planned to let it go, if there were special service teams around them, then according to the combat habits of the special service team, there must be people on duty at night, as long as the special service team came to support, the certainty of getting out was much greater, Zhou Wu decided to take a risk. He picked up the fire fold and quietly listened to the movement outside, the crows outside the village still croaked from time to time, usually two or three times at a time, Zhou Wumo remembered the interval of the call, waiting for the next call.
"......Quack" A crow sounded, Zhou Wu calculated the interval, and knocked the fire fold in his hand hard, the beating sound was just synchronized with the second crow, the hoarse crow crow covered up the beating sound, the first falling spark failed to ignite the velvet, and the sound of Jin Bing's speech came from afar outside, as if to disperse the search, Zhou Wu turned a deaf ear to their words, and kept his posture in the dark, waiting for the next crow to sound.
After sounding again, Zhou Wu finally lit the fire velvet, the wheat straw and dry grass on the ground are the best ignition materials, and there is a half-collapsed grass roof on the top, Zhou Wu lit a small pile of wheat straw on the ground, and then grabbed a few handfuls of wheat straw, and led the fire to the grass shed, after seeing the fire ignited, Zhou Wu left the courtyard from the hole in the wall, and disappeared into the darkness of the deserted village......
"Team leader, there is a fire in the direction of Village A."
Li Tao was woken up from his dream by the sentry, he immediately took out the telescope and looked in the direction of the bright light, and the bucktooth face soon appeared beside Li Tao.
As the most prominent member of the special service team during the night attack on Zijin Liang, Bucktooth left a deep impression on Chen Xin, and when he was transferred back to Wang Mafu, he specially asked him to bring back the elite of the special service team of the Wuchang branch. Bucktooth was transferred back to southern Liaoning with Wang Mafu.
Based on Lianyun Island, the Special Service has recently increased the number of sorties in the coastal strip north of Gaizhou. Li Tao, as the captain, did not have to participate in the war, but he still went ashore. Yesterday they attacked a convoy carrying grain, and the team was quite successful.
The Houjin soldiers have recently increased the number of patrol sentry horses, which makes it difficult for the special service team to confront the Houjin sentry cavalry during the day, this is in the rear of the Houjin battle line, and the strength of Jiannu is far superior, so Li Tao and others have been cautious recently, Li Tao deliberately reduced the intensity of the attack, the time to approach the official road was reduced, and he did not stay in the village when he rested at night. Instead, they sleep in the wilderness. He deliberately weakened his efforts to plan a major attack, and this time he went ashore for on-the-spot reconnaissance.
Li Tao saw a bright fire ball in the village in his telescope, and he muttered, "There must be Jiannu." ”
Bucktooth whispered, "Maybe it's a trap." ”
"Just look at it, don't be busy entering the village when you arrive." Li Tao handed the telescope to Luo Ya, and then let out a squeaky mouse-like sound, and there were some sounds of Xixi Suo from about ten steps on both sides, and two black shadows emerged from the grass, and Li Tao whispered a few words. One of the five men walked in front, and the other four dispersed in formation and walked in the direction of the firelight......
On the boundary of the deserted village's firelight range, the faces of the three white-armored soldiers were reflected in the flames, even though the three of them had experienced a hundred battles. was also made very troubled by this spy, although the Jin soldiers in the north of Gaizhou were superior in the future, there were not many troops in this wilderness at night. Looking at this spy who set fire without scruples, it shows that there are likely to be Dengzhou soldiers nearby. Several of them have played against the Dengzhou Special Service. Compared to the huge mechanical formations on the battlefield, they were less afraid of the secret service team. But I also know that it is not easy to deal with.
Da Sang'a on the left is the white-armored soldier who was scolded by Zhou Wu on the official road, and he said eagerly: "That spy set fire here, he must have gone to another place, let's look for it separately immediately." ”
Batu on the right side said coldly: "On such a dark day, how can he find a place to hide, if it weren't for his leg and foot injury, he should have run away at this time, and there are two people outside, Ashdar Khan and Huniqi, guarding the west at most, in case the spies go around from the east, how can we find him." ”
"There are many birds and birds in this place, and he will always be alarmed when he goes out of the village." Xingna stared at the fire and said firmly, "He came from the official road in the north, if he made an appointment to answer here, then the Dengzhou soldiers should have appeared early in the morning, and at this time, he lit the fire, but it means that there is no agreed answerer, or even intimidating us...... Since he lit the fire, let's help him, light the fire from east to west, and let Ashdar Khan set fire to the grass and trees in the west and force him out. ”……
Zhou Wu poked out of a bullpen to the south of the fire, and many fires were lit in the village, and the Houjin soldiers burned from east to west, and the grass in the west also burned. A few Houjin soldiers occasionally shouted loudly, and when Zhou Wu looked west from the rammed earth wall that was only half left, he also saw the figure of a Houjin armor soldier, most of the grass and trees at this time had dried up, and the grass and trees near this village were just dense, and they soon spread, and the light around them became brighter and brighter.
Zhou Wu secretly complained in his heart, at this time, the light outside was bright, and it was impossible to escape from the west, and the village would soon burn over, and after the light, his activities in the village would also be easy to be discovered. After thinking for a while, Zhou Wu planned to escape from the north, there should be a Houjin soldier in the northwest corner, but Zhou Wu thought it was worth the risk, there may not be people from the special service team around, if it was delayed until dawn, there might be more Houjin soldiers coming, and it would be impossible to hide at that time.
With some light, Zhou Wu quickly ran north, relying on the cover of the ruins of those houses, and soon reached the north of the village, Zhou Wu stopped and touched his calf, the pain was even worse at this time, his walking was affected, there was a road in front of him that was not covered by ruins, from here to the grass was the most dangerous section, and the shadow cast by the fire in the east kept shaking on the ground.
Zhou Wu carefully observed for a while, gritted his teeth and rushed to the uncovered road, a short time as long as ten thousand years, seeing that he was almost to the edge of the grass, there was a loud sound behind him, and a heavy arrow accurately hit Zhou Wu's shoulder blade, and the fierce force caused Zhou Wu to roll and fall to the ground, Zhou Wu rolled twice on the edge of the grass with a scream, startled several wild sparrows around, and then fell into the grass after a while.
Zhou Wu's back was in severe pain, and he couldn't escape, so he slowly sat up and held the Cloud Ladder Knife tightly in his hand. Face in the direction from which the arrow came.
This was followed by a sharp chirp of an arrow. In the firelight, the figures of four armored soldiers surrounded them from different directions, and the one who came from the front was Xingna. He carried his joint bow, looked around, and walked slowly, but he was not in a hurry to get closer, but was on guard on the periphery.
The other three also stopped more than ten steps away one after another, only Da Sang'a scolded and ran over, he was holding a one-handed axe in his hand, wanting to break the corpse of this spy who humiliated him for the day, Zhou Wu raised the ladder knife to his neck, with a bit of cynical smile on his face. It seems that he is still provoking Nada San'a, he has already prepared for this, and he can't fall into the hands of the Tartars no matter what.
Da Sang'a still has the last few steps left, and when Zhou Wu's hand is about to exert force, there is a continuous bowstring behind him, and several heavy arrows fly out of the darkness in the north, Da Sang'a has two pops on his body, and the momentum of his forward rush stops, and after shaking twice, he falls to the ground with a pop. Another soldier was also shot with an arrow, but was not hit hard by the chain mail.
Under the sudden attack, several Houjin soldiers fell into a brief panic, and the three Houjin soldiers in front quickly took out their bows and arrows. But they could not be seen clearly in the darkness to the north, but their own figures were clearly visible in the background of the firelight.
"There is Nikan in ambush! To the left! Xingna shouted loudly, and several white-armored soldiers moved quickly under his orders. Run to the northwest and ask for the unfavorable situation of the light.
Zhou Wu immediately climbed a few steps into the grass after Da Sang'a was shot. He knew that a special service team was coming, and there was a strong crossbow for the special service team in the sound of the bowstring. The injury to his shoulder blade may prevent him from carrying out his mission in the future, but it will cost him his life.
The Chinese password came from the grass in the north, and Zhou Wu was excited, he escaped death, and he had never felt so kind in his life.
There was a sound of running in the darkness, and the Houjin soldiers reacted quickly and moved to the northwest, and the special service team gave up the long-range attack, taking advantage of the chaos of the Houjin soldiers to launch a rapid impact, and the Houjin soldiers who were scattered in the moving squadron hurriedly responded to the battle.
Soon there was the sound of the intersection of blades, mixed with screams, Zhou Wu couldn't help but look over, only to see a bright light in the darkness in the west, the flying blades reflected the surrounding firelight, and a brutal hand-to-hand combat was underway.
The five special service members were divided into two groups, taking advantage of the scattered concentrated attack formed when the four Houjin soldiers were running, Li Tao took a team member into a group, and the first Houjin soldier who met head-on was ten steps away, then the Houjin soldiers had no time to dodge, and immediately turned around to face the battle, Li Tao and the two threw flying axes at the same time, and then the Jin soldiers also threw a flying sword, and they couldn't see such a small object clearly in the dark, both sides randomly chose a direction to dodge, and then the Jin soldiers and another special service member snorted and were injured at the same time, Hou Jin Bing was smashed by the flying axe on the left chest, half of his body was smashed numb, but he was alone against the enemy, Li Tao did not give him time to breathe at all, and raised the thick back knife in his hand with the momentum to cut head-on, Hou Jin Bing raised the tiger tooth knife and struggled to block, but the injury on the left side made him lack of strength, and was cut back by Li Tao's thick back knife, Li Tao's momentum was not exhausted, the center of gravity of the soldier's body had not been adjusted, Li Tao had already arrived in front of him, the dagger in his left hand stabbed twice on the side of the chest of the soldier, and the dagger in Dengzhou Town showed extremely high lethality, The armor soldiers immediately lost the ability to counterattack, and the attack of the special service team was lightning fast, at this time, the other group also killed one armor soldier, and the last two of the five Houjin soldiers were left in a blink of an eye, and one of them was not able to use a bow and arrow to be besieged by a group of three people with buckteeth.
Li Tao's feet did not stop, the injured teammates also followed, the two quickly rushed to the last remaining Houjin soldier, the Houjin soldier was the back, and the front few armor soldiers had a distance of more than ten steps, Li Tao could see the foot bow in the man's hand by the firelight, he was going to use high-speed impact to make the opponent abandon the bow, but the figure moved extremely skillfully and quickly, just heard a bow, Li Tao's teammates around him screamed and fell to the sky.
Li Tao was shocked, the skill and speed of that man's bow was something he had never seen before, and it was so lethal, but Li Tao was sure that no matter how fast he was, he couldn't shoot such an arrow before he rushed to it, and at this moment he heard the sound of a hammer. Li Tao heard it from the direction of the Jin soldiers, and then saw the action of the Jin soldiers pulling the short guns, Li Tao immediately took the opportunity to throw out the thick back knife in his hand, and the bright blade reflected the fire light to break through the distance of ten steps, and then the Jin soldiers quickly squatted low to dodge, this short delay made Li Tao slow down, and with his free right hand pulled out a short gun on his waist, and pulled away the hammer when he drew the gun.
The two raised their short guns at the same time and aimed at each other, Li Tao knew that no number of teammates could help him at this time, and instantly remembered the voice of the Houjin soldier shouting, very similar to the fierce Bayala he met when he was a sentinel on Dongping Mountain.
Two spear flames lit up the space of ten steps, in the firelight, Li Tao saw the face opposite, it was the Houjin white armor soldier with a scar on the corner of his mouth, the gun flame was extinguished in an instant, and the surroundings returned to darkness, at this time, the fight of the bucktooth group was over, and the surrounding village became quiet again, and the figure of Baya on the opposite side stood for a moment, and fell to the ground with a bang.
After Li Tao took two heavy breaths, he walked to Nabaya, and after hearing the other party's gasp, he took out his dagger and stabbed it twice, and then picked up the short gun that fell on the ground and said, "This is my gun, I took it back." (To be continued......)