Moon, night.

Towering on the east side of Oahu, the Kolau Mountains stretch from north to south, corresponding to the Whitenay Mountains to the west of the island, with a valley running through the island, forming the unique landscape of Hawaii's third-largest island.

The abundant precipitation paved the mountains with green, but this is only the scenery during the day.

The moonlight passed through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and sprinkled on Qi Bing's face little by little, making the sugarcane cutting agent on the side, Lieutenant Zheng An of the Intelligence Department, look at him in a daze.

"Qi Bing, I saw a wolf." Cai Guolan, who was reclining under a palm tree, pursed her lips and smiled.

Qi Bing opened his eyes nervously and looked left and right: "Wolf? Where? Where? ”

"Fool, where did the wolf come from in Hawaii?" Zheng An took the opportunity to press Qi Bing's head.

Cai Guolan revealed on the spot: "Look, the wolf's claws are stretched out." ”

Qi Bing was still confused, and Xiao Lu, who was in charge of letting go of the wind, ran over.

"Somebody is coming over from the other side of the river."

Zheng An pulled out his pistol: "I'll go over and take a look, Xiao Lu, you stay and protect the young ladies." ”

"I'll go too." Qi Bing blinked.

Zheng An looked at her, then at Cai Guolan, didn't speak, and went straight to the river.

Cai Guolan pushed Qi Bing's back: "Don't go quickly, look at your confused appearance." ”

"Confused? No......"

A quarter of an hour later, Zheng An and Qi Bing led a group of people back.

"Let me introduce, this is Major Fan Wenrui of the Reference Office...... This is Lieutenant Cai Guolan of the Naval Air Corps. ”

Cai Guolan was about to get up and salute, but Fan Wenrui, a sturdy northern man, hurriedly raised his hand to persuade: "No need to be polite, I heard that you were injured, what happened to the wound?" ”

"Thanks to Lieutenant Zheng's timely handling, it's no big deal now." Cai Guolan said.

Fan Wenrui turned around and patted Zheng An on the shoulder: "Tell me honestly, did you take the opportunity to do anything bad." ”

Zheng An made a gesture of ignorance: "Bad things? What's the bad thing? ”

Fan Wenrui smiled: "Don't pretend to be garlic, your kid's nature, others don't know the way, but they can't escape from my eyes," and turned to Qi Bing again, "Miss Qi, have you encountered a wolf along the way?" ”

Qi Bing blinked: "Wolf? Lieutenant Zheng said that there are no wolves in Hawaii. ”

Here, Cai Guolan smiled and said: "Major Fan, don't tease them, if it weren't for Lieutenant Zheng along the way, I'm afraid we would have fallen into the hands of American devils." ”

Fan Wenrui nodded understandingly, turned around and introduced: "They are all Chinese who have lived here for a long time, they are in a different place, their hearts are in China, and they are all willing to serve the empire to the death. As he spoke, he patted the revolver on his waist. Two days ago, after seeing Zheng Anliu's code at the foot of the mountain, he followed him all the way. ”

Qi Bing glanced at Zheng An: "When did you leave a password?" How do I not know the way? ”

"I've told you what kind of intelligence officer I'm ...... Lao Fan, do you have anything to eat? I was going down the hill to grab a handful. Zheng Anu said.

Fan Wenrui said with a smile: "I know that your kid is about to starve to death, so I hurried to send charcoal in the snow, and it just so happens that we haven't had dinner yet, let's go together." ”

"It doesn't matter if I'm starving to death, I can't let our two navy flowers suffer any more."

"Dead boy, oily and smooth, not serious - come and help."

Under the shadow of the trees over there, Xiao Lu squinted his eyes and muttered, "If you dare to love me, you won't be guilty?" ”

After a while, the group built a bonfire, set up a stove, and began to cook.

With rice boiling in a pot, sausages roasted on a campfire, and fresh coconuts and pineapples on the floor, Zheng An is teaching Qi Bing how to easily break through these seemingly unmanageable fruits.

When everyone was busy, Fan Wenrui took out a small iron box from his backpack and handed it to Cai Guolan.

"What is it?"

"Chocolate."

Cai Guolan opened the small iron box, and there was a whole square piece of dark chocolate inside, the color was very different from the disc-shaped military chocolate issued before the attack.

"Xie Lu Xie, it tastes very good-Qi Bing, you can also taste it, it's different from what we sent."

Qi Bing, who was full of pineapple juice over there, had his eyes lit up when he saw the chocolate, and he came over like a kitten.

Cai Guolan broke a small piece and fed it into the kitten's mouth, turned her head and asked Fan Wenrui: "Major, the army is about to land, right?" ”

"Soon, it should be these two days, we will go to meet the vanguard tomorrow night."

"Is there anything I can do to help?"

"That's why I'm here, you guys are going to signal the lights, right?"

"This is the basic knowledge of naval officers." After feeding Qi Bing, Cai Guolan handed the iron box containing chocolate to Xiao Lu again.

Fan Wenrui took off the wide-brimmed soft hat on his head, and said with a face, "It's really worth the trip": "The two intelligence officers who know how to play the light signal failed to escape from Chinatown in time, and now there is a shortage of manpower, so I immediately followed after seeing the code left by Zheng An." ”

"Tomorrow night, will you be in time? The nearest beach is also about 10 kilometers away. ”

"We don't go to the beach." Fan Wenrui unscrewed the lid of the kettle.

"Aren't you going to pick up the landing advance party?"

"That's right, but not to the beach."

A string of question marks flashed in Cai Guolan's eyes, but Fan Wenrui handed her the kettle first.

"Coconut wine, taste?"

"If you don't go to the beach, will the advance team come down from the sky?" Cai Guolan took the kettle and looked up at the sky, the moonlight was cold, the night was quiet, and between the leaf shadows and firelight, ignorant and fearless insects were flying.

"That's right, it's really going to come down from heaven."

"Huh? From the plane? There shouldn't be any land-based aircraft that can fly that far with soldiers, right? It is even more incredible to use carrier-based aircraft to transport troops. ”

Fan Wenrui smiled slightly: "How is it?" See for yourself and you'll know the way. However, your injuries ......"

"It doesn't matter, the medicine brought by Lieutenant Zheng is very useful."

"It's time to eat, it's time to eat."

Zheng An knocked on the pot there, and a guerrilla who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old immediately handed over a few skewers of grilled sausages.

"Xie Lu Xie, what's your name?" Cai Guolan was quite interested in this little guerrilla.

"Sun Longxiang."

"Wow, such a domineering name." Xiao Lu interjected.

Cai Guolan turned her hand and blocked Xiao Lu's mouth with a grilled sausage, and continued to ask, "How old is it?" ”

"Fifteen."

"Aren't you afraid to join the guerrillas for what?"

"If you follow everyone, you won't be afraid, and when the army comes, I'll go with them to save my parents and sister." Sun Longxiang also responded a little timidly.

"This little guy is a guy in my shop, don't look at his timid appearance, fight one by one, and those white gangsters don't dare to mess with him." Fan Wenrui touched Xiao Sun's head and said.

Sun Longxiang paused, plucked up the courage to ask, "Is my sister a pilot?" ”

Cai Guolan nodded: "Yes, I, as well as the young lady and little brother over there, are all pilots of the Imperial Navy." ”

"So, you were the ones who brought down the Yankees' fleet, right?" Sun Longxiang's eyes were suddenly filled with reverence.

"That's everyone's work, we just did our part, not to mention that we dropped the plane......"

"I want to be a pilot too, how can I join you?"

"Well, when our army settles down here—do you want to join us then?"

Sun Longxiang clenched his fists: "Of course, I also want to participate in the battle and knock all those white warships into the bottom of the sea, who calls them to bully us Chinese." ”

Cai Guolan thought for a while, smiled as gently as possible, and said, "You are still young, study hard, you will have a chance." ”

"Sister, you are perfunctory to me." Sun Longxiang was unrelenting.

"Ah Xiang, let's eat, we adults still have business to discuss." Fan Wenrui on the side issued an expulsion order.

Sun Longxiang lowered his head and was about to turn around, but was pulled by Cai Guolan: "I'll give you an address, you can write to me in the future, maybe I can help you." ”

"Lieutenant Cai is such a good person." Zheng An on the other end of the bonfire sighed in Qi Bing's ear.

Qi Bing's little nose curled: "Hmph, then it doesn't need to be said, my sister Cai is a bodhisattva who wants to praise her for mercy when she sees it." ”

"The so-called close to Zhu Zhechi, Second Lieutenant Qi is probably the same."

"No, I'm too much worse than Sister Cai......" The kitten turned her face a little shyly, but scratched the tip of her nose proudly.

After eating, the group descended the mountain at night, and at about three or four o'clock in the morning, camped under a small hill full of bushes.

After dawn, Fan Wenrui wanted to take a few people to the top of the mountain to reconnoitre, and Cai Guolan also wanted to see what was going on, so he followed.

The hill is not high, but it takes a few minutes to reach the top, and looking down to the west, there are large areas of sugar cane fields and orchards, and a clear blue river and a gray road can be seen in the distance. To the south, the outline of the coastline looms – Pearl Harbor is probably there. The highway runs north-south and crosses the east-west creek, which, after intersecting with the highway, abruptly bends and flows southward, presumably to be infused into Pearl Harbor.

Fan Wenrui took out a map, asked Sun Longxiang to spread it between his arms, and raised the telescope himself to check what he was looking at against the map.

"Excuse me, may I ask, is the plane transporting the advance team going to land here?" Cai Guolan was a little puzzled, she didn't think that those pieces of wood could easily land safely in the dense sugar cane and fruit trees.

"It's not an airplane, it's an airship."

"Airship?"

"I don't know the specifics, but in short, our task is to guide the airship with fire and light signals tonight, and pick up the advance troops coming down from above."

"Airship...... It's really ......."

"The goal of the advance team is the road bridge over the river." Fan Wenruibi gestured to the past, and at the same time handed the telescope to Cai Guolan.

It was a small, unremarkable arched bridge, with sandbags and sentry posts at both ends, and cars with cannons or horse-drawn wagons piled with miscellaneous items passing through the bridge, and the bridge was surrounded by endless sugar cane and fruit trees.

Cai Guolan was still puzzled: "Do you want to capture this bridge?" However, there are no suitable beaches in the area. ”

"Take a long-term view of everything...... Okay, Xiao Sun, Xiao Wu, you two are watching here, pay attention to concealment, and come down and report immediately if you find any movement. Lieutenant Cai, let's go down first. ”

"What's next?"

Fan Wenrui rolled up the map: "Do nothing, sleep, wait for dark." ”

It is probably because of this sentence that when going down the mountain, everyone is not in such a hurry, and when they walk a few steps and stop, pick flowers and fruits, it seems to be an outing in peacetime.

Fan Wenrui cut a bunch of bananas on the side of the road, peeled them and tasted them, probably tasted good, so he broke two and handed them to Cai Guolan: "Listen to your accent, is it from Jiangsu and Zhejiang?" ”

"Home in Shanghai."

"Shanghai is good, the largest metropolis in Asia, it looks more prosperous than Beijing......"

"That's a noisy and noisy place, what's so good." Cai Guolan peeled bananas, thinking of the bankruptcy of her family, and her mood suddenly became depressed.

"I'm from Xiamen, Fujian, my father is a Congregational priest, and I'm naturally a Catholic, so maybe it's because of this relationship that I'm assigned to carry out a mission here—hehe, who knows."

"My family is Catholic, and when I was a child, I made a vow to be a nun, but then I suddenly realized that whether I was a nun or sitting at home waiting to get married, it was actually just a waste of life, and it was no different from waiting for death."

"So to join the army? But isn't participating in the war itself equivalent to taking the initiative to die? ”

Cai Guolan threw away the banana peel and picked up a rhododendron on the side of the road: "Instead of waiting for death, it is better to die, going to death may not be dead, waiting for death is like death." ”

Fan Wenrui pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "People have their own aspirations, and it is of course best to be able to realize their wishes, but there is no need to be too stubborn, black and white, either/or." For example, if you get married, there is no conflict with joining the army. ”

"Until men and women are truly equal, a good wife and a soldier cannot be both." After Cai Guolan said this, she quickened her pace and ran down.

"This is the so-called new new humanity mentioned in the newspapers? Feminist warriors? Fan Wenrui twisted his brows and muttered leisurely.

At the bottom of the mountain, Zheng An was wiping his gun, and Qi Bing was staring at him.

"What are you looking at?"

"This is my gun."

"I know it."

"Give it back to me when you're done."

Zheng An glanced at the barrel of the gun: "Why did you join the army?" ”

"About ten years ago, I told a general who was passing by in our village that he wanted to be a marshal when he grew up, and the general laughed at me and persuaded me to die, and I decided at that time that I must become a marshal, and then I went to the general and surprised him. At that time, there was only one marshal in the whole country, and that was the later Kaihong Emperor. I don't want to be an emperor, the marshal is satisfied. ”

"It's as simple as that?"

"Can't you?"

"It's not a small ambition......"

Qi Bing pouted: "What about you?" Why did you come here to cut sugar cane? I think it's boring for an intelligence officer like you to chop sugar cane all day. ”

"You think I'm chopping sugar cane all day? Over the years, I have traveled all over the island, surveying every road, every bridge, where there are hidden and convenient paths, where the bridges can bear weight, I know everything well, and I have to sort out and report regularly. As for the measurement of weather conditions, the state of local agriculture, changes in public opinion, such and such trivial matters, they are all busy to death, where is it interesting and boring. I'm an intelligence officer, I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, that's all. ”

With a "click", the pistol had been assembled and the bullet was loaded, Zheng An closed the safety and handed the gun to Qi Bing: "Give it back to you, I'll ask Major Fan for another one." ”

Qi Bing looked at the pistol, then at Zheng An, and grabbed it.

"Pretending to be so pitiful, I won't be fooled, go and ask the major for a gun, do you want me to help talk?"

"No need, but you'd better find an opportunity to practice martial arts and shoot, and don't be disarmed casually in the future." Zheng An shrugged his shoulders and got up to leave.

Qi Bing fiddled with the pistol twice, picked up a withered yellow orange leaf on the ground, pinched the leaf stalk and spun it.

"Actually, I didn't join the army because I wanted to be a marshal."

was talking to himself, and he had been hit by a finger flick on his forehead.

"Little fool, are you confused again?"

"Sister Cai......"

"What, what's on your mind?"

"It's fine."

"It's strange if there's nothing to do, be honest, otherwise, you'll be punished." As he spoke, the magic hand of Vice-Captain Cai had moved under the arm socket of the confused kitten.

"I'm thinking, if you keep fighting like this, killing people, and becoming more and more vicious, will you not be able to marry Lu in the future?"

"Fool, things have to be thought in the direction of light, empire, honor, merit, promotion, you have to think more about these things, so that you can move forward without burden. As for marrying, if the other party can't accept the fact that you are a soldier and must perform your duties as a soldier, then you don't need to accommodate him. Why should a woman be accommodating to a man? ”

"But ......"

"It's nothing, come, there's still half a piece of chocolate left here," Cai Guolan felt out the iron box from last night, opened the lid, and broke off a small piece, "Open your mouth, my Xiaoice cat." ”

What a docile little cat......

After dark, Fan Wenrui began to look at his watch incessantly.

Tonight the moon is a little dark, the wind is weak and the clouds are low, because Hawaii is in the tropics, although it is January, but it is not cold, but at this time, because there is no wind, the valley feels a little damp.

Cai Guolan looked up at the moonlit sky for a long time, and saw nothing unusual, so she asked Fan Wenrui: "What time does the airship arrive?" ”

"The agreement is between ten and twelve o'clock, and the orders to be answered are handed down uniformly, and in fact there may be several airships lowering the advance troops at different locations and controlling several points at the same time, and that bridge should be just one of them."

"So, there are other guerrillas doing the same thing at the same time?"

"That's right, please take this."

Cai Guolan took a small leather cylinder handed by Fan Wenrui, opened it and saw that it was a hand-held signal light commonly used on airplanes, which was to send Morse code for communication by opening and closing the lampshade, although Morse code should be a necessary knowledge for intelligence officers, but if you want to communicate with the airship that sails 7,000 kilometers and uses the standard signal light of the aviation unit, I am afraid that it is more reliable for regular military pilots.

"A few months ago, we completed the survey of the landing area, and the pilot fire point in the area was also secretly marked recently, and combustibles were prepared in advance near the fire point. After ten o'clock, we will light the various guiding fires at the same time, and this series of fires will form a sign that will guide the airship to lower the advance force at the correct location. Fan Wenrui explained.

Cai Guolan is still a little worried: "I understand that the landing of the airship requires a lot of manpower and a tethered tower, otherwise it will be difficult to land safely." Also, there are orchards everywhere, and the ropes that are laid down can easily get tangled in the trees. ”

Fan Wenrui shrugged his shoulders and said: "The order we received was only to guide the airship and lead the way for the advance force, and there was no mention of helping the airship land, so as far as I can speculate, the airship that came this time should be able to lower the troops without landing." ”

At this time, a tall and thin figure suddenly appeared in the darkness, Cai Guolan turned on the signal light and saw that it was Sun Longxiang, who was sent to one of the fire points before nightfall.

"Mr. Fan, Brother Ah Feng called me to report, the fire at A3 is ready."

"Zhilu Dao, you go back and tell him that you must light the fire on time."

"Yes!"

In the blink of an eye, after a few strokes, the little one disappeared without a trace.

"What do you think, clever boy?" Fan Wenrui suddenly asked Cai Guolan.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"If possible, please help him make that wish come true. In fact, as far as I know, his parents had been killed in the massacre of Chinatown by the U.S. military a few days ago, and his sister's whereabouts are unknown...... I didn't dare to tell him yet, for fear that he wouldn't be able to figure it out for a while and do something stupid, hey, let's talk about it after all these days. ”

"That's ......" Cai Guolan was stunned.

The ripples in my heart rippled round and ...... In contrast to the tragedy caused by the demon of war, what is the sorrow in his own family? Isn't it just that there is no money, but at least there is still survival, there is hope, and you can control your own destiny. It is so delicate and vulgar to be depressed about something that smells of copper, and it seems necessary to wash your face with the blood of your enemies and sober up!

After Sun Longxiang, some people from the teams assigned to each guide fire point came back one after another to report, and by ten o'clock, all the guide fire points had been reported that they had been prepared.

"It's ten o'clock." As soon as Fan Wenrui's words fell, a spark flashed near the hill, and then the fire grew larger, illuminating the appearance of the fire below.

Immediately afterward, on the north, west, and south sides, more than a dozen fires were lit in turn, forming several huge arrows, pointing centripetally to the predetermined lowering center.

"Alright, let's go to the center." Fan Wenrui pulled out his pistol.

"What should I do if someone finds out about such a bright fire?" Cai Guolan was a little uneasy.

"There are several kilometers of land from here to the road, and there is only one dirt road in between, and I have sent people to set up an ambush there. It's really not good, you go with your people first, and we'll leave cover. ”

Cai Guolan shook his head again and again: "No, if that's the case, we also have to fight, we are a regular army with weapons, and there is no reason to be protected by civilian arms." ”

"This issue will be discussed later, let's go—Zheng An, Second Lieutenant Qi, Second Lieutenant Lu, you can come with it too."

Half an hour later, the five of them were already in the center of the descent, surrounded by several large arrows formed by the fire, and the light of the fire flickered between the sugar cane and the fruit trees, which made people feel a little unreal.

Qi Bing tilted his head and listened to the sky for a long time, and suddenly shouted excitedly: "There is a voice." ”

"It's gunshots." Zheng An drew his pistol.

"No, it's the sound of the engine."