With the guidance of my own comrades, the road ahead is much easier.

Elder Wei showed his passport to these interrogating enemies, and explained unhurriedly: "I am of mixed Chinese and German blood, and God sent me to your country to save you from your sins!" ”

The soldier returned his passport to him and pouted, "You'd better save yourself first!" ”

After the child who passed out on the ground ate a piece of lotus leaf cake, drank some water, and gradually came to his senses, the elder Wei said: "Child, if you want to live, come with us!" ”

The boy was about fifteen or sixteen years old, with tattered clothes and a dirty face, but a pair of eyes that were very bright. The child nodded in agreement, followed them through the checkpoint, and on the way to the base area, Xiao Xu asked him: "Little brother, where is your hometown, why did you faint on the road?" ”

Elder Wei walked behind the child, stared at him, and then said slowly: "Although you are still young, I am sure that you have taken a gun and killed people!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the young man's face changed, and he quickly pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and put it in front of him, and asked vigilantly, "Who are you?" ”

Elder Wei signaled that he didn't need to be nervous, and said, "Those who kill people with guns in these years are not necessarily bad people!" ”

At this time, the baby in the basket behind Gong Qingzhen began to cry, Xiao Xu hurriedly helped her carry the baby out, and the young man asked again: "You still have the child?" ”

They found a sheltered place under the ridges, and Gong Qingzhen began to breastfeed the baby.

The eldest elder Wei said to the child: "You can guess that you escaped from the base area!" ”

The child held the dagger on guard again, and Xiao Xu explained to him: "Don't panic, we are also Red Army soldiers, and we are from Jiangxi!" ”

Elder Wei motioned for him to take back the dagger and asked, "What's your name, and what's the current situation in the base area?" ”

The child was surprised when he heard this, but he still withdrew the dagger, and cried out loud, Gong Qingzhen hurriedly comforted him: "Little comrade, you don't have to be sad, although the current situation is not good for us, we will definitely become stronger!" ”

Xiao Xu anxiously asked: "Say it quickly, do we still have comrades in our base area?" ”

The child wiped his tears with his torn sleeves, and said slowly: "My name is An Zhenguo, I am a scout of the Langya Creek guerrillas, the captain sent me down the mountain to investigate the enemy's situation, and I happened to encounter the Kuomintang large army encircling and suppressing the base area, I wanted to go back to report the news, but I couldn't go back, our comrades were besieged by the enemy, I was afraid of more than lucky, I was tired and hungry and fainted in front of the sentry post, fortunately I met you!" ”

Xiao Xu hurriedly grabbed his hand and said excitedly: "Comrade An Zhenguo, we have finally found our comrades-in-arms!" ”

She saluted An Zhenguo, and then introduced: "I am Xu Huiman, a health officer of the Third Division and the Sixth Regiment of the Second Army, and this is our political commissar Gong Qingzhen's eldest sister!" Then he pointed to the elder Wei who was in charge of the vigilance and introduced: "This is the comrade of the Central Committee, the elder Wei!" ”

An Zhenguo burst into tears of excitement after hearing this, and grabbed Xiao Xu's hand tightly and said, "I finally saw my comrades, are you here to support the base area?" ”

Elder Wei coughed lightly, and An Zhenguo hurriedly let go of Xiao Xu's hand.

"I was ordered by my superiors to escort Comrade Gong Qingzhen and her children to our base area, can you tell me about the situation in the base area now?"

An Zhenguo nodded in agreement, and then introduced: "Our base area has just been established, and there are few people and guns, but we held an uprising this autumn, and then retreated to Lang'er Mountain to defend it, and the enemy immediately launched an encirclement and suppression of our base area!" ”

Elder Wei said: "I have been to Wolf Ear Mountain, where you can advance or retreat, our comrades will be fine!" ”

After they finished talking, they continued on their way.

With An Zhenguo leading the way, their speed is much faster.

Along the way, the Kuomintang blockade was numerous, but the elder Wei had a foreign passport, and these reactionaries did not dare to do anything to them.

They traveled almost day and night, and finally came to Wolf's Tooth Creek.

An Zhenguo said excitedly: "Comrades, this is Langya Creek, and our guerrillas are operating in this area!" He bent down by the stream and began to wash his face.

Elder Wei threw the bamboo tube to Xiao Xu, and then looked around.

Wolf's Tooth Creek is a half-zhang wide stream, the end of the stream is the Wolf Ear Mountain, standing at the end of the Wolf Tooth Creek and looking at the end, you will see a towering mountain, which is the Wolf Ear Mountain.

Elder Wei closed his right eye and looked ahead, and saw that a group of Kuomintang soldiers had set up a blockade at the bottom of the mountain and set up machine guns.

An Zhenguo washed his face and revealed a face full of vitality, which was a little immature.

Xiao Xu returned the bamboo tube filled with water to the elder Wei, and asked An Zhenguo: "Comrade Xiao An, how old are you this year, and who else is there in the family?" ”

An Zhenguo replied: "I still have parents and brothers at home, and I don't want to fight for the landlord, so I secretly climbed out of my house and joined the guerrillas. ”

Da Lao Wei introduced: "At the foot of the mountain in front, the enemy has set up a checkpoint, we can't break through, I think the comrades in the base area are no longer on the Wolf Ear Mountain, we have to bypass this mountain and go to the back of the mountain to meet them!" ”

An Zhenguo immediately said: "Comrade Elder Wei, do you know that if we bypass Wolf Ear Mountain, we will have to walk more than 200 miles, and we will also encounter enemies on the way!" ”

"Those enemies are not worth mentioning compared to the enemies in the encirclement and suppression base areas!" Elder Wei looked resolute.

An Zhenguo asked: "Then don't we go to save the comrades in the base area?" ”

Elder Wei said with a serious face: "Everyone listen to my arrangement, the comrades in the base area must be saved, but they must be skillful, if we go to the rescue head-on, we will run into the enemy's gun!" ”

There is a village next to Langya Creek, but it has been requisitioned by the enemy and used as a command post for the suppression of bandits, and the entrance of the village is guarded by soldiers with loaded guns.

An Zhenguo introduced: "This is our village, it seems that we can't go back to the village!" ”

"Is there any other place near the palace where we can live?" Elder Wei asked him.

An Zhenguo quickly thought and said: "I know that there is a melon shed, although it is dilapidated, but it is very hidden, and I used to hide in it. ”

As he led the way, he saw a shack built with grass and trees beside a ridge, and the shack was covered with straw, and the space was so small that it could just fit four people.

Gong Qingzhen took out dry food and water for everyone to eat, and Xiao Xu said: "I am worried that the comrades in the base area are short of salt and medicine, so I specially brought Western medicine and salt from Liuyang and Dingzhou. ”

An Zhenguo said while nibbling on bacon: "What our base area lacks the most is these two things, the enemy first besieged our base area, and trapped us for more than two months before starting to attack!" ”

After they had eaten and drunk enough, the elder Wei said to An Zhenguo: "Xiao An, let's go out for a walk and investigate the situation in the village by the way!" ”

An Zhenguo nodded in response, and after it got dark, the two quietly touched the entrance of the village, and at night, the soldiers guarding the entrance of the village were replaced by three.

The soldiers lit a bonfire on the side of the road and chatted around it.

"No, we have to go into the village to find out the enemy's intelligence!" Elder Wei on An Zhen National Road.