Episode 20 Snow Mountain Death

It was already the second half of the night, and it wasn't long before dawn. In the distance, there was a terrible sound of wind and a howl of wolves. But up close, on the shore of this lake, surrounded by mountains, is a good place to shelter from the wind. The snow was still falling silently, and the snow on the ground was up to your ankles.

On the pebble beach by the lake, a bonfire is blazing, flames more than a meter high jump, pine trees crackling, and countless sparks are constantly soaring into the sky. There are two tents, one large and one small, around the campfire. Several people in the big tent were snoring like thunder, and the small tent was far away from the big tent, so there was no sound here.

A guard sat by the campfire with a gun in his arms, his head dozing little by little. Suddenly, the pine wood exploded in the campfire, which startled him, and he grabbed the gun and looked around, and he was a little sober. He looked at his pocket watch in the firelight, and it was past three o'clock in the night. In half an hour, the shift will be changed.

He lost his sleepiness and looked up at the stars to pass the time. Overhead, the sky is full of stars. The starry sky here is as clear as a picture in a textbook, and almost every one of them can be seen clearly. The famous constellations in the northern hemisphere can almost be found one by one. He found the constellation Ursa Major and the Big Dipper very smoothly.

The constant howls of wolves from all sides, as well as the lower and lower temperatures, made him shiver a little. The guard picked up the stick and flipped the fire a few times, allowing the flames below to rise. Then, he picked up the pine branch next to him and threw a few into it. There was a crackling sound, and the flames were much brighter. He leaned close to the campfire, rubbing his hands together to keep warm.

At this time, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen a dog for a long time. Not only for a long time, but from an hour and a half ago, when I was called up to change shifts, I didn't see the dog again. Where did it go? The wolves howled all around, and sometimes there were no animals in the forest that passed by, which was very creepy. There are not only wolves but also bears. If the bear is going to attack him, he can at least have a dog by his side to sound the alarm in advance!

The guard could not sit still, and stood up with his submachine gun in his hand, intending to circle around the neighborhood and look for the dog. In the middle of the night, the wolfdog ran around the woods, trying to get some snacks for himself.

"Chirp...... Wangcai ......" The guards tiptoed around the camp with their guns in hand, and whispered, "Chirp...... Wangcai, Wangcai...... Tweet ......"

He didn't dare to go too far from the camp, the black hole and the gloomy woods were really scary. But he didn't dare to get too close to the camp for fear of waking others up. Suddenly, he stepped on something soft under his feet, startling him. He hurriedly took a step back and looked down, but he couldn't see anything, it was too dark in the forest for the starlight to enter, and the distant firelight could only come in a little. He slowly crouched down, took off his gloves, and touched it with his hand, revealing that it was a fluffy mass.

The guard felt a pang of fear in his heart - he basically understood what it was. He immediately looked around nervously, holding the trigger of the submachine gun in one hand, and slowly continued to touch it with the other, and soon touched the dog's legs, dog's tail, dog's head, and two pointed ears. Isn't this their wolfdog?

The dog is completely devoid of body temperature and has become stiff. On the wolfdog's neck, he felt a wound, very deep, and the blood had completely coagulated.

The wound is long, neat, not an animal bite, this is a knife wound!

The guard's heart was beating wildly, and with both hands clenched on the submachine guns, he held his breath and slowly moved in the direction of the camp. It was at this time that-

Suddenly, with a gust of wind, two big hands twisted around his head, and he only heard a "click" on his neck, followed by a cold chest and a dagger stuck in his chest.

The man held him on his back and slowly lowered him to the ground without making a sound. Then, reach for the submachine gun in his hand.

But, perhaps because the technique of twisting his neck was not in place, the guard still had a little bit of consciousness. With the last bit of strength in his body, he pulled the trigger in his hand.

"Dada......"

Orange flashes flashed in the night, and a crisp explosion resounded throughout the lakeside, echoing among the mountains for a long time.

……

The campfire blew up the camp. Several people shouted and got out of the tent, and there was a loud "bang, bang, bang" of gunbolts. But immediately two tracer bullets flew out of the woods and hit the tent with a "da-da-da". The few guards who had just come out immediately flew flesh and blood, screaming and falling to the ground. At the same time, there was a burst of Russian shouts around the woods:

"Ceasefire! Cease fire! Capture the bandit leader alive! ”

"Comrades, rush!"

"Ula ——!!!"

The two or three surviving men in the big tent crawled out of the ground and crawled a few meters away, climbed behind a large tree, and then immediately got up and rushed towards the small tent.

In the small tent, Xiang Xiaoqiang was sleeping in a sleeping bag with fourteen grids in his arms, when he suddenly heard the sound of gunshots, both of them reacted surprisingly quickly, they didn't say a word of nonsense, quickly got out of the sleeping bag, grabbed their respective clothes and shoes, got out of the tent with the cat's waist, and ran towards the depths of the jungle hand in hand.

See a small tent rushing out one-on-one? Silk? No? The men and women who hung it, and the Russian behind shouted one after another:

"Catch it alive!"

"The Ming bandits have run away, catch them!"

"Catch it alive!"

Behind him, footsteps, shouts, rifles, machine guns, and the sound of resistance from the Ming army's submachine guns were intertwined into a terrifying chorus.

The two of them supported each other, panting, and drilled in the dense pine forest without direction, their bare feet already pierced by the pine needles and branches in the forest. But they did not dare to stop, and the Soviet turntable machine gun in the back of their heads "empty, empty!" The sound of "empty air" and the shouts of Soviet GIs reached their ears without a word. Bullets burrowed through the woods, "whizzing" through the air, "poofing" into the trees......

Fear added infinite energy to the two of them, and the tingling pain under their feet and the cold all over their bodies were completely unfelt.

"Stop!"

Fourteen Gege suddenly pulled towards Xiao Qiang, dragged him to stop, and the two of them squatted down, panting.

There was also a faint sound of Russian ahead.

Xiang Xiaoqiang gasped and yelled in his throat:

"It's over...... I said the Soviets were going to do it, don't you believe it...... Now what? Damn, we're dead......"

Fourteen Gege ignored him, just looked around alertly. On the right is a steep hill that leads up to the main peak of Bogda, a few kilometres away. On the left is the long and narrow Heavenly Pond. The water surface was pitch black in the night, only slightly reflecting the starlight in the sky, which seemed unfathomable. The "Swan Lake" during the day now looks like a large asphalt lake.

Fourteen Gege stood up and looked hard at the other side of the lake. Then, he squatted down and said to Xiaoqiang:

"You're right, the Soviets attacked us...... You see, the lake here is only a few hundred meters wide at most, and we swim over it...... I'm okay, you're okay, right? I remember that you were very good at swimming in the Yangtze River in winter......"

"What!" Xiang Xiaoqiang was taken aback, "Are you crazy?" ”

Fourteen Gege frowned, pointed to the front and back and whispered:

"You see there are Russians in front and behind, and we can only climb to the top of the snowy mountain on the right...... There is no way out. Only cross the lake to the left. They have to go around such a long lake, not an hour is simply not possible. That's when we went down......"