Li Mu didn't know that their every move was under the surveillance of others.

Kono Jun locked on to Li Mu through the scope, and his right index finger was also on the trigger of the rifle, at this time, he only needed to press the trigger slightly, and Li Mu would be killed on the spot six or seven times out of ten, although Kono Jun was born in cavalry, and his marksmanship was far from enough to be compared with a soldier king like Takayuki Noguchi, but it was still possible to hit the target at a distance of three hundred meters.

A big hand silently caught Kono's rifle.

Jun Kono didn't let go of his index finger pressed on the trigger, and when he turned around, he saw Takayuki Noguchi squatting beside him.

Takayuki Noguchi was wearing a white cloak and a white towel over his face, if you hadn't approached and looked carefully, you wouldn't have found him out of the snow, and a white mist escaped through the white towel covering his face, showing that at this moment, Takayuki Noguchi was gasping violently.

In fact, Takayuki Noguchi did run quite a short distance just now.

Facing Kono's gaze, Takayuki Noguchi raised his right index finger and shook it gently.

Kono finally let go of his index finger pressed against the trigger of his rifle, and the muzzle of the gun drooped.

Takayuki Noguchi gestured again, and Jun Kono quietly got up, and in a few moments, the figures of the two disappeared into the vast snowfield.

Last autumn, Takayuki Noguchi was deeply stimulated by the conscription of his fiancée Chiba Hanako as a comfort woman, and he went on a killing spree at Kondo Salon, and even killed Fuji Kuro, the nephew of Fujido Takahide, the commander of the 14th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade.

Unfortunately, because of the defeat in the first Battle of Changsha, Fujido Gaoying's attempt failed to succeed.

Shigeru Ito, the captain of the L Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade stationed in Longkou County, knew that the guilt could not be escaped, and at the same time, in order to preserve his family glory, he chose to commit suicide by caesarean section on the eve of the arrival of the military court law enforcement team.

As one of the only three survivors of the Battle of Erryōsan, Jun Kono also knew that he could not escape the blame, but his family had already declined, so there was no heavy burden of family glory, and the fact that Hanako Chiba was recruited as a comfort woman also made him feel a lot of stimulation, and finally Kono Jun broke into the gendarmerie at night and secretly released Takayuki Noguchi.

After that, Takayuki Noguchi and Jun Kono escaped into the tip of the toad and became bandits.

Originally, dozens of bandits, large and small, were entrenched in the area of Toad Jian, but since the 19th detachment occupied Longkou County, these dozens of bandits were either incorporated or suppressed by the 19th detachment by taking the opportunity of military training.

In this way, Takayuki Noguchi and Jun Kono became the only bandits in Longkou Prefecture who were openly active.

With excellent military skills and abundant wilderness survival skills, several encirclements and suppressions by the anti-Japanese democratic government of Longkou County were easily resolved by Takayuki Noguchi and Jun Kono, and the militia and district teams couldn't even find Takayuki Noguchi's shadow, so what else to talk about? Yin Shangwen led the county brigade to mobilize the people to come to the toad tip to seal the mountain and encircle and suppress, but in the end there was no gain.

However, after the winter, these heavy snowfalls, especially after the turn of the year, there were two blizzards in a row, and the snow in the entire Toad Jian Mountain was knee-deep, which brought a lot of difficulties to the activities of Noguchi Takayuki and Kono Jun, mainly because they couldn't easily go out of the mountains to find food, because they would leave footprints and were tracked to their hiding place by the nineteen detachments.

Fortunately, there are still many birds and animals in the mountains, and Takayuki Noguchi and Jun Kono can barely make a living by hunting

But now, with the arrival of the 5th Brigade of the Nineteenth Detachment, you can't hunt casually, for this unit that has fought with him in Qingyang County, Noguchi Takayuki has a deep memory, if you have a choice, Noguchi Takayuki is not willing to fight with this force, unfortunately, now he has no right to choose.

"Noguchi-san, weishenme didn't let me shoot just now?" Walking far, Jun Kono finally couldn't help but ask

Noguchi Takayuki has always opposed the slaughter of innocent Chinese civilians, so he did not move at all for more than a dozen people from three families in Lao Yakou, at most he only pretended to be a ghost and scared away, but for Chinese soldiers, he did not mind killing killers, and in several encirclement and suppression by the anti-Japanese democratic government, although Noguchi Takayuki did not kill, he also killed several militiamen.

That's why Jun Kono asked this question, because those people just now were obviously soldiers, and they were obviously not good.

"Kono-san, if you shoot just now, can you guarantee that you will hit the target?" Takayuki Noguchi stopped and looked back at Jun Kono.

"At least sixty percent sure, and even if we are only one percent sure, we should shoot, those soldiers are not simple, and they are obviously coming at us." Kono said, "If we don't kill them today, tomorrow they will kill us in turn, and to be merciful to the enemy is to be cruel to ourselves." ”

"Kono-san, you can also see that these soldiers are not simple, so have you thought about it, if you shoot just now, even if you kill one of them, how many people are left? Are you confident that you can kill them all? Takayuki Noguchi said with a solemn expression, "What's more, there is a more powerful person, hidden in the dark, just waiting for us to make a move." ”

Of course, what Takayuki Noguchi said was Gao Shenxing, and he already knew that Gao Shenxing was not dead.

"So what now?" Kono Jun said, "Such a heavy snow, it can't melt away in ten days and half a month, during this time, we can only rely on hunting to maintain, but as long as the gun sounds, we will inevitably expose our traces, and we can't spend more time and energy to erase the traces every time we go out hunting, right?" ”

"In the future, try not to shoot when hunting, use bayonets." Takayuki Noguchi said.

Jun Kono sighed and said, "That's all it can be." ”

(Dividing Line)

At the same time that Li Mu and the others were rounding up Takayuki Noguchi, Shu Tongwen also took a few people into the Toad Mountains.

Seeing that it was less than ten miles away from Lao Yakou, Shu Tongwen decided to rest for a while, and then walked to Lao Yakou to camp in one breath after recovering his strength a little.

"Xiao Li, Xiao Li." Shu Tongwen called the guard to him, instructed him to take two people to a sheltered place to light a fire and boil water, and then turned back to Liu Xin, the minister of the enemy industry who was traveling with him, and said, "Comrade Liu Xin, you tell the two comrades, let's rest here for ten minutes, drink some hot water, eat some food, and then continue to hurry."

Liu Xin turned around and said a few words in Japanese to the two soldiers of the Eighth Route Army behind him.

The two soldiers of the Eighth Route Army bowed their heads again and again, and while their mouths were still in response, they dared to be two Japanese.

In fact, these two Japanese are members of the Eighth Route Army's anti-war alliance, one of them is a military doctor, the other is a senior soldier, in the 27th year of the Republic of China, the two were captured in the North China battlefield, and then rebelled, and now they have joined the Eighth Route Army, this time at the invitation of the New Fourth Army, they came to Longkou County from North China to help plot against the dozen Japanese prisoners of war.

In order to ensure safety, Shu Tongwen specially selected a platoon from the Qingyang County Independent Regiment to accompany him for protection.

Originally, the anti-war alliance task force could have entered Longkou County from Erlong Mountain, which was under the control of the 19 detachments, and the safety was more secure, but unfortunately, since the beginning of winter, heavy snowfall has fallen in the mountainous areas of southern Anhui, and the snow in the Erlong Mountains has reached waist-deep, not to mention people at this time, even wild beasts cannot cross.

I had no choice but to change the route of the toad's tip and carp's mouth.

It's okay, there is no danger along the way, I successfully passed the stronghold of Longxugou last night, and now I have entered the boundary of Longkou County, and I have also entered the Shili range of the nineteenth detachment, and not far in front is Hewan Town, where a regiment of the nineteenth detachment is stationed, even if the small Japanese gendarmerie of Qingyang County catches up, don't worry.

Shu Tongwen let the platoon go back, leaving only the guards and two soldiers.

Shu Tongwen led Liu Xin and the two Japanese to the shelter, and said: "Comrade Liu Xin, I have tired you, I didn't expect the snow to be so heavy here in Longkou County, but don't worry, not far in front of Lao Yakou, where there are people's homes, we will have a hot meal to eat tonight, and we don't have to sleep in the wilderness anymore." ”

Liu Xin smiled and said, "We are not afraid of sacrifice in revolutionary work, but we are still afraid of hardship?" ”

"That's, that's." Shu Tongwen echoed a few words and said, "Then let the comrades drink hot water and eat some dry food, let's continue to hurry, and take advantage of the dark and still have some time to rest at the old crow's mouth." ”