Chapter XI
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Li Chaoyang is a person in my heart who is impossible to forget. He has thick eyebrows and big eyes, a proud face, and enthusiasm, the only drawback is that he is a little small-bellied, and he can't listen to others say that he is not good, but this little shortcoming does not affect us to be brothers. When I think of the days when I was with Li Chaoyang, I would feel that my body was flying, and Li Chaoyang and I were flying around in the enemy war zone, which really made the devil talk about the tiger. Li Chaoyang said to me on the night of our marksmanship competition: "Mazi, do you dare to compete with me to kill devils?" I smiled: "What don't I dare, you say, what a comparison, you say!" Li Chaoyang put his mouth close to my ear and muttered. When he finished speaking, I was a little surprised: "Is this okay?" Li Chaoyang's gaze forced at me: "Are you scared?" I sneered, "What do I have to be afraid of!" When did you say it would start? Li Chaoyang's eyes jumped with a vivid flame: "Tonight!" ”
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That night, the two of us quietly descended the mountain. Li Chaoyang was familiar with the road, and he walked very fast along the way, and I followed closely behind him. From time to time, he turned back and said, "Mazi, follow up, don't run away!" I said, "Don't worry, I'll follow you." He also said: "Mazi, when it comes to running away, you must not be as fast as me!" I thought to myself, you just blow, talk to me about running away, you are far behind, I don't know the way to follow you, but I am afraid that he will race with me to run, so I said, "Yes, you run faster than me!" "When I say that, he's very energetic, he's running faster, and I feel like we're all flying.
At that time, the devils built strongholds in many places, repaired turrets, and expanded their control.
Li Chaoyang took me to a stronghold at the bottom of the mountain and lay in ambush in the grass. The searchlights in the turret flickered and flickered again. When the searchlight flickered, we buried our heads in the grass, and when the searchlight passed, we raised our heads again. Li Chaoyang said: "Do you shoot first or do I shoot first?" I said, "I can't see the devil, what are you shooting?" Li Chaoyang said: "Hit the searchlight in the devil's turret." I said, "What's the use of a searchlight?" Li Chaoyang said: "You'll know if you hit it." I said, "All right, I'll do it." "That night, I brought two guns, one long and one short, plus a ghost head knife, Li Chaoyang still thought I was cumbersome to bring so many guys, he didn't know, in fact, I still like to use a long gun, I aimed the gun in the direction of the searchlight. Li Chaoyang said: "Come here after you finish shooting!" With that, he climbed behind a ridge beside him. I said yes, and the searchlight shone through, and I extinguished the searchlight with one shot, and then rolled to Li Chaoyang's side as fast as I could. A series of tongues of fire erupted from a gun hole in the turret, and the bullets screamed and shot into the bushes where we had just been hiding.
Li Chaoyang said: "Mazi, it's time for me to show my hand!" ”
As he spoke, he fired a shot into the hole of the gun, which was suddenly silent.
I said, "Good marksmanship!" ”
Li Chaoyang suddenly stretched out a hand and pressed my head behind the ridge, and another bullet was fired from another gun hole in the turret. A barrage of machine-gun bullets swept towards the ridge, and the bullets whirled through the dirt so hard that we couldn't lift our heads. We changed places again. I said, "I'll leave this devil to me!" Li Chaoyang said: "Mazi, are you okay?" I said, "Nonsense, why can't I do it!" "I aimed the rifle in my hand at the hole, hooked the trigger, and the bullet flew out. This shot didn't hit the devil inside, I felt like I was really fucking faceless, and I was panicked with heat! Li Chaoyang smiled: "Mazi, I said you can't do it, come, look at me!" Li Chaoyang did not hesitate to shoot a bullet, and the machine gun in that hole was dumb again. Before I could say anything, Li Chaoyang pulled me to change places. This time, there was no more sound of machine guns in the devil's turret.
I thought, why didn't I hit that shot? Where did that bullet go, what a waste of that bullet! I felt a little uncomfortable. I know that Li Chaoyang must be very proud in his heart, he should be proud, I didn't say anything, just let me seize the opportunity, I will let him see my awesomeness, let's ride a donkey and read the record book and see!
After a while, Li Chaoyang took my hand and said, "Mazi, withdraw!" ”
I said, "I'm not done yet, what to withdraw!" ”
Li Chaoyang said: "If you don't retreat, you won't be able to run away for a while, and it will be dawn soon!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, we saw the door of the devil's stronghold open, and several three-wheeled motorcycles drove out of it, and many devils poured out. I think now I can give Li Chaoyang a hand. I aimed my rifle at a guy who was driving a three-wheeled motorcycle. Li Chaoyang was obviously very anxious, he held my hand and didn't let go: "Mazi, go quickly, it's really too late if you don't leave!" ”
My bull temper came up, and I said, "Let me go, I'll kill a few devils!" ”
Li Chaoyang said: "Mazi, don't be tough, run!" ”
My gun went off, and the devil who was driving the motorcycle was hit and fell on the front of the car, and the motorcycle lost control and crashed into a tree on the side of the road, and the devil on the motorcycle flew out. Li Chaoyang said: "Now you have a good time, run, some devils are beaten by you, and the future will be long!" The devil is coming at us, run! ”
There was no way, Li Chaoyang and I rushed towards the mountain.
Dense gunfire rang out behind us.
3
Li Chaoyang is simply crazy, and I am as crazy as him. During that time, we often quietly went down the mountain to various devil strongholds to kill devils. We have our own winners and losers, and the more we do, the more we get better. Later, when the brothers found out about our actions, they all felt very excited, and asked to go down the mountain with us to kill the devils, Li Chaoyang did not let them go, and I also felt that it was very dangerous to take them there, and it was easy to be annihilated by the devils, because they did not run as fast as us, and the goal was not very big, even if they died, they would only kill the two of us, not the whole army.
Li Chaoyang's immediate superior, Liu Peilan, the female secretary of the county party committee, held a special meeting and seriously criticized Li Chaoyang, mercilessly pointing out that his personal heroism would bring disaster to the guerrillas! I was not qualified to attend their meeting, and it is said that they argued at the meeting, and in the end, Li Chaoyang took the blame and Liu Peilan had the upper hand.
In the days after the meeting, Li Chaoyang did not pull me down the mountain, and we just hid in Tibet on the Taihang Mountain.
Legend has it that Liu Peilan, secretary of the county party committee, and Li Chaoyang are on good terms, and when I mention Liu Peilan in front of Li Chaoyang, Li Chaoyang's face will show an unnatural smile. He didn't say much, just said that Liu Peilan looked down on him, and I didn't believe his words very much.
Liu Peilan made a report to our guerrillas, and her eloquence really did not speak, and when she said very complicated things, they would become simple and clear, and she spoke very instigatingly, and all our difficulties were as if they did not exist, and the road ahead became bright and full of yearning. Speaking of her eloquence, we can't help but talk about her beauty, she has short ear-length hair, wears a military hat of the Eighth Route Army, wears a patched floral blue cloth coat on her upper body, wears a belt around her waist, carries a box gun, beats leggings, and wears a pair of black cloth shoes on her feet. Her melon seed face has a pair of bright and delicate eyes, in the words of the veteran oil son Song Qigui, he didn't dare to look at Liu Peilan, because she was too beautiful, and there was a kind of heroic spirit. I think that the veteran oil son Song Qigui must have some dirty thoughts about Liu Peilan in his heart, I know him too well. In fact, I don't dare to look at Liu Peilan, or even look at all women, when I see women, I will have an inferiority complex and sad mood in my heart, especially a woman like Liu Peilan, because I am a waste! When they were talking about women, I would hide in a no-man's corner and pull my hair with my hands so hard that I wouldn't let myself howl like a wolf. In the guerrillas, only Song Qigui knows my secret, I don't know what Li Chaoyang's reaction will be if he knows? If Liu Peilan found out, how would she react?
Soon, something happened that none of us had imagined.
Liu Peilan, secretary of the county party committee, actually let the devil arrest him.
When the news came, Li Chaoyang was stupid.
He sat there dumbfounded, his eyes glazed over, and sat there for an afternoon.
In the evening, he said to me, "Mako, come down the mountain with me!" ”
I understand his feelings, but it's not a joke. Li Chaoyang glared at me and said, "Are you afraid? I said, "I'm not afraid!" He said, "If you are not afraid, follow me!" I hesitated for a moment, as if I was thinking about something. Li Chaoyang said angrily: "If you don't go, I'll go by myself!" With that, he walked down the mountain. That night was full of stars, and I watched his back disappear into the hazy night, and I stood up and followed. After a while, we followed a group of people, a group of people led by Song Qigui. We quickly gathered together, in the vast night, over the mountains and mountains, and ran towards the county seat of Hui County.
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The county seat of Huixian County is located in a small basin in the Dabie Mountains, which is a mountain city surrounded by mountains.
According to reliable information, Liu Peilan was detained in the garrison headquarters in the county town. We came to the hill outside the east gate of the county seat before dawn. The county is heavily guarded inside and out, so how can we get into the city? If it were one or two people, it might be easy to mix, but there were dozens of us, the target was inevitably too big, and with weapons, it was too difficult to enter the city. We can't force our way in, that would undoubtedly be tantamount to death. The hot-headed Li Chaoyang said: "If you really can't do it, you will attack!" In any case, we must rescue Secretary Liu! "His proposal was unanimously rejected by us!
We hid in a ravine to the east of the city, racking our brains for a solution.
By noon, we hadn't come up with anything good to do. Li Chaoyang is as anxious as a trapped beast, in his heart, if he delays for one more second, Liu Peilan will be in danger for one more second, can he not be anxious? I comforted him and said: "Chaoyang, it's useless to be anxious, you better calm down, otherwise not only will you not be able to save Secretary Liu, we will also be in danger, you can't watch your brothers die for her alone!" Li Chaoyang gritted his teeth and said, "But I can die for her!" "I am speechless, in Li Chaoyang's heart, everything in this world is not as important as a Liu Peilan, what a happy person Liu Peilan is, there is such a man who can die for her! And me? For which woman can I die? No, no! Therefore, Li Chaoyang is happy in my heart, he has at least one woman for whom he can dedicate himself, and I don't, no! Li Chaoyang made me feel inferior, and he also moved me, so when he stared at me with blood-red eyes, he said to me: "Mazi, let's go into the city first to save Peilan, and let the brothers pick us up outside, what do you think?" I said yes right away.
Just as we were about to descend the mountain and blend into the county seat, we heard gunfire in the distance.
The sound of gunfire excites me.
Li Chaoyang was also shocked by the sound of gunfire.
How long has it been since I've heard such heavy gunfire? Based on my experience, I judge that this battle was fought fiercely. Hot blood is boiling inside my body! I really want to throw myself into the battlefield right away, these days of small fights have suffocated me, and there is another important reason, I seem to smell the smell of the Eighth Route Army, it is very close to me, Shangguan Xiong may also be close to me!
At this time, Song Qigui walked up to me and Li Chaoyang and said, "Look, the devil is out of the city!" ”
We walked up a hill, lay on the ground, and looked in the direction of the county seat. Sure enough, the city gate was wide open, and the devil's military vehicles drove out of the city, and the cars were full of heavily armed devil soldiers and puppet soldiers. Song Qigui said: "Did they find us and go out of the city to encircle and suppress us?" I said, "Old soldier oil, you pig's head!" Do we need to send so many troops to encircle and suppress? I think it's related to the sound of guns and cannons coming from afar, and the devils are rushing to reinforce them! ”
I was right, the devil didn't come at us at all, but in the direction where the gunfire came from.
After the devil's troops drove over, Li Chaoyang asked me with a glare: "Mazi, did you find Peilan on the devil's military vehicle?" ”
I shook my head.
Li Chaoyang said: "That's good, let's take advantage of the emptiness of the county town and serve the devil's nest!" ”
I said, "Let's go!" ”
Li Chaoyang seemed to be more sober at this time, because he had entered this county several times and knew everything in it well, he and we analyzed the situation of the remaining Japanese troops in the city, simply formulated a battle plan, and began to act. We must end the battle and rescue Liu Peilan before the big army of devils returns to the county seat, but we don't know when the big army of devils will return, so we can only fight quickly, if the devils suddenly kill back with a horse gun, they will attack inside and outside, and it will be easy to eat us.
There is no turning back when the bow is opened, the fear of the wolf and the tiger will not succeed, and the war still depends on courage, this point, Li Chaoyang and I and the brothers are not lacking, besides, Li Chaoyang saved his sweetheart, and it is different from the usual competition to kill devils! We walked in twos and threes towards the gate of the city. When we reached the city gates, we found that the drawbridge of the moat had been hoisted high and the gates were tightly closed. There were two devils standing guard on the castle tower.
Those two devils were screaming something, and without saying a word, I solved them with two shots.
Immediately afterwards, the machine guns of the devils on the castle tower rang out. We quickly fell to the ground. It was not as simple as we imagined to attack the city, so I said to Li Chaoyang: "You attract the attention of the devils here, I will swim over there, find a way to climb the city wall, and then lower the drawbridge, open the city gate, and you will rush in!" ”
Li Chaoyang said: "Are you alone? ”
I said, "If you don't succeed, you guys are all fucking landlubbers, and you can't be relied on!" ”
Under the cover of Li Chaoyang's firepower, I went around to the other side, and there were no devils found on the city wall here. I jumped off the moat, the water was cold, it was already autumn, I gritted my teeth, swam over the moat a few feet wide, climbed up the opposite bank like a chicken, and came under the city wall! I looked at the high walls, and then with my skills, slowly climbed the walls. Fortunately, there were few guards in the city at that time, and they didn't care about this place at all, and they would not have thought that someone could climb the city wall. After I climbed the city wall, I touched the city tower above the city gate along the city wall, and found that there were only a few devils in the city tower. At this time, I saw a group of devils left behind in the city rushing from the street, I quickly lowered the drawbridge, went down the city tower, and went to open the city gate while resisting the devils who rushed over. The moment I opened the gates, I felt a heat in my right ear and blood running down my right cheek. Li Chaoyang came in with the brothers. I didn't care about the blood flowing down my right cheek, I pulled out the ghost head knife from my back, turned around and rushed towards the oncoming devil, that slash, it was really fucking enjoyable, I haven't killed so much for a long time. We fought all the way to the door of the Devil's Headquarters, where we were met with resistance, and they opened heavy fire on us with the fortifications that had already been erected outside the headquarters, in fact, they were at most a platoon of troops. We found some places where we could take cover and engaged them in a fierce fight.
Song Qigui lay beside me and said to me: "Mazi, your ears are gone!" ”
I touched my bloody ears, and sure enough, half of them were broken, damn it, I was furious! Song Qigui tore off a strip of cloth from his clothes and made a simple bandage for me. When I had finished bandaging, I said to him, "Hurry up and bring some of your brothers to close the gates, for if the devil kills us, we will be finished!" Song Qigui said: "Okay, pockmarks, you have to be careful!" ”
I said, "Be careful! ”
With that, I picked up my rifle and started shooting at the devil.
To tell the truth, the devil is not a vegetarian either, and many brothers have been shot and fallen. If the fighting is not resolved quickly, casualties will continue. Li Chaoyang was already red-eyed, he tied a few hands into a bundle, and after I knocked the devil's machine gunner dumb, he hugged the bundle of hands and rushed over with a roar. I shot him one after the other. Li Chaoyang threw the bundle of hands ** towards the devil's fortifications, and the bundle of hands ** tore a hole in the devil's fortifications, and I took the devil's head knife and led the brothers to rush over......
We fought until the afternoon when the sun was setting west.
The gunfire in the city fell silent, and the gunfire in the distance seemed to be silent.
I said to Li Chaoyang: "Hurry up and rescue Secretary Liu, and then withdraw quickly, if the devil comes back, it will be trouble!" ”
I went back to the castle tower and observed the movement outside the city. When I went up to the castle tower and found that Song Qigui was missing, I asked the other brothers, "Where is Song Qigui?" ”
One brother said, "He said he's going to!" ”
I scolded: "Damn, when is this going on, and shit!" ”
The brethren laughed.
Just then, I saw dust billowing from the mountain road not far away. I said to myself, "Oh no, the devil is back!" "Sure enough, after a while, I saw the devil's military vehicles driving towards here one by one. I instructed a brother: "Hurry up and see if Captain Li has found Secretary Liu, and tell them to withdraw quickly, the devil has come back." ”
I told the other brothers: "Pull up the drawbridge quickly!" ”
When the devils in the city found out that someone was attacking the city, they contacted the devil's army, and they killed them back. What the devils never expected was that when they came back, the nest had already been taken over by our group of dirt and eight roads.
Li Chaoyang led a few brothers to look for Liu Peilan in the headquarters of the devil.
They found Liu Peilan in the interrogation room of the Devil's Command. Liu Peilan was hung there, covered in bruises, dying, unconscious. Li Chaoyang's heart was like a knife, and when the brothers untied Liu Peilan, he rushed out with Liu Peilan on his back.
Li Chaoyang and the others had not yet come to the gate of the city, and the large army of devils came to the city.
After a while, the devils surrounded the county seat, and it was impossible for us to evacuate from the West Gate. Just with our people, how long can we hold out in the face of a devil attack with two wings? The devil's artillery used more than a dozen mountain guns to bombard the city gate and tower! I held on with my brothers, and the brothers fought less and less, and I thought that I would die here today. I shouted Song Qigui's name while shooting at the city, but this guy didn't know where to run, and I even suspected that a devil's shell fell in the pit and blew him into a pile of, which would save me from burning his body.
Li Chaoyang sent Liu Peilan to a fellow villager's house, and as soon as he put Liu Peilan on the bed, he found that Liu Peilan opened her eyes, glanced at him, and swallowed her breath after saying something. Tears flowed from his eyes, and the man could not say anything, gritted his teeth and rushed out of the door of the fellow's house, braving the fire of the devils to the city wall. He grabbed a crooked machine gun and fired wildly at the devils outside the city. I lunged at him and threw him to the ground, and a cannonball exploded on the wall behind us, shrapnel whizzing across my scalp. I said to Li Chaoyang: "How is Secretary Liu?" ”
Li Chaoyang roared: "She sacrificed!" ”
Are we trading so many brothers' lives for a corpse? And we are now facing the possibility of total annihilation.
We have nowhere to run but to fight to the death!
5
Everything is subject to change, like fate.
Just as we were about to die in a bloody battle, we found that the devil was attacked in the back. The battle lasted from evening to late at night, and the devils did not capture the county seat, nor did they resist the attack of the two regiments of the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, and finally fled without the intention of fighting the road. Only later did we know that our blind siege had an unexpected effect. A brigade of the Eighth Route Army was ordered to go to Yan'an, and in a small town 30 kilometers away from the county seat, the devils in the county seat of Hui County got the news and tried to eliminate this unit of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop. The Eighth Route Army successfully ate the devils in the town, and learned that the county seat of Huixian County had been broken by unknown friendly forces, and there was a fierce battle with the devils who turned back, so they pursued and reinforced the friendly troops besieged in the city by the devils. After the devils withdrew, they learned that it was their own guerrillas of dozens of people who took out the devils' nest!
After the battle, when the Eighth Route Army and the guerrillas cleaned up the battlefield together, I looked for Song Qigui, and if he died in battle, I would burn his body.
But I couldn't find his body, where the hell is this guy, dead or alive?
Just when I was wondering, someone patted me on the shoulder from behind, and as soon as I turned around, I saw Song Qigui, who was holding a torch with a smug look on his face! I punched him: "Where the fuck did you go?" ”
Song Qigui said: "I've been there! I'm still looking for you everywhere, I think you've died honorably! ”
Seeing that he was still alive, a stone in my heart fell to the ground.
I said to him, "You know what? Secretary Liu sacrificed! ”
Song Qigui's expression was very shocked: "Ah-"
I said to him, "Let's go, let's go see Captain Lee!" ”
I knew that Li Chaoyang was in that fellow's house, so Song Qigui and I walked towards that fellow's house. When we came to the door of the villager's house, we found two guards of the Eighth Route Army standing at the door, and at first glance they were the chief's guards. We wanted to go into the villager's house, but they wouldn't let us in, saying that their regimental commander was inside. I was so angry that I was about to rush in, but the two guards drew their guns. I yelled at them: "In order to save Secretary Liu, Lao Tzu almost lost his life, you can't let me go in and see Secretary Liu!" ”
Suddenly, a familiar voice came from inside: "Who is shouting outside, why does it sound like a brother from my past!" ”
When I heard this voice, my heart almost jumped out, and for a moment, I couldn't say anything, and stood there dumbfounded, motionless. Song Qigui felt very strange, he pushed me and said, "Mazi, what's wrong with you?" Even the two guards thought it was very strange. I remembered who was talking to him, but I couldn't believe my own judgment, which was sometimes so untrue. Until the man came out of the house, I felt like I was in a dream, and I couldn't believe it was in reality!
A man who looked like an official came out of the house, and he said, "Who is yelling? ”
One of the guards said, "This man wants to go in, and he is talking quite aggressively!" ”
The man shouted at the guard: "Put away your gun and point it at your comrades, like something!" ”
The two guards immediately put their guns away.
I looked at him in a daze, and there was a tide in my chest. This person is not what I saw in my dreams, covered in blood, but so magnificent, and his gestures reveal a majesty. I really don't believe it's him.
He saw me too.
He was also stunned.
You can see that his eyes are shining with tears.