A long log together, both ends with branches up and down to tie, it forms a wooden row, push into the water, and then use a rope to tie the end of a wooden row, it becomes a long snake of a wooden row, winding steadily on the river bank, when floating, as long as the first wooden row in front of the control, the whole long snake can be safe, no matter how turbulent the water flow is, it is too long, it will still be stable. Maleonn brought a few wooden rafts with excellent water quality, not only brought a few long wooden poles for support, but also temporarily paid a few wooden paddles to ensure that the snake of the entire raft would always remain in the middle of the river when drifting.

It was already dark, and the torches on the riverbank of the wine station were bright, and Shi Cheng ordered loudly, one class at a time. On the other side, the old and the young are standing in the dark and watching quietly, every time the Ninth Company is about to set off, they have to come out to watch, although they don't know where the Ninth Company is going this time, what to do, but they can have a hunch that this time is not optimistic, like last time, because the soldiers who are boarding the line on the shore are too quiet, this has not yet started, it is so quiet that no one speaks, and every face that passes by the torch is serious. Only the children's gaze was envious, envied by the warriors who were about to raft, envied that they could ride the long and spectacular wooden rafts, drift out of the desolate mountains in the dark, drift to the legendary plains, the adults said that the Ninth Company was going far, far away.

Qin You wiped the match fiercely beside him, and approached the light in his palm with a cigarette in his mouth, and his deeply locked brows instantly became clear in the short light. Hu Yi felt as if he was looking at him, so he instinctively looked at the other side of the poor light, Su Qing was standing on the edge of the torch light on the shore, and was raising a hand to smooth the hair around her ear, as if he was telling Shi Cheng something, the vague corners of his eyes, the faint tips of his eyebrows, vaguely very soft.

Looking at the soldiers in an orderly manner, Hu Yi couldn't help but laugh at himself in his heart: How could it be a sense of softness? Probably because of the light of the torches, an illusion. It's like she thought she'd look here.

Qin You, who took a deep breath of cigarette, saw that it was almost over, and said to Hu Yi beside him: "Needless to say, I'm at the end again, right? ”

"Since ancient times, the queen of the Great General's Palace, such as Zhao Yun. ”

Qin You, who had already begun to walk backwards along the shore, did not look back and smiled: "Don't take it so damaging me!" His brows stretched a lot.

Pulling the rifle strap on his shoulder and taking a deep breath, Hu Yi turned around and said to the little figure who was carrying the four-four carbine that had been modified by Li Xiang, and said, "Let's set off, let's take care of our home." ”

Xiao Hongying, who couldn't take advantage of the black belt Wu Shi mixed with the wooden row, had a black face: "This is not fair!"

"No way, this time the road is too far, who will let your physical fitness not be up to the mark!" Hu Yi smiled at her under the torch, waved his hand decisively, and turned to disappear into the darkness below. Of course she knew it wasn't the real reason, and he knew how bad the excuse was.

The long wooden snake slowly drifted off the shore, as if the train was slowly leaving the platform, carrying young and serious hearts, carrying a forest of muzzles, slowly drifting into the darkness and disappearing.

Wu Shi began to extinguish the torches on the shore, the shadow of the little red tassel was still dangling under the last torch on the shore, Su Qing was still standing in the dark and watching, and the muddy water river was flowing quietly in the dark.

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The weather made it muddy, but it also made a dark night, and they drifted out of the mountain, over the green water shop, and even they didn't know how far they had drifted and where they had drifted.

Later, they saw the light in front of them, revealing the light of the shooting hole, and the soldiers held their guns nervously in the dark, watching the pillboxes on the bank of the river slowly pass by, on which the red flag of the Ninth Company of Qingshan Village once fluttered, slowly passing through the dark outline of the stone bridge, which once flowed with the blood of devils.

This is the first reference point, after passing the stone bridge and then opening a distance, Hu Yi on the wooden row covered a space with a Japanese raincoat, Ma Liang got into half of his body to give him a flashlight, the dial of the pocket watch was shining abnormally under the flashlight, through the departure time, and then compared to the time of arrival at the stone bridge now, you can get the approximate flow speed of the river, and then judge how far it can float before dawn.

Seeing Hu Yi's fingers slowly sliding along the map under the light of the flashlight, Ma Liang said in a low voice: "Brother, the river should flow more slowly after leaving the mountain, don't forget to count this." ”

"Good reminder!" Hu Yi continued to slide his finger across the map, all the way to the east of the county seat.

Seeing that Hu Yi's finger stopped there, Ma Liang added: "The regiment commander set the position thirty miles east of Meixian, I guess it is because the bunker guarding the road has been built thirty miles. We don't have to drift until dawn, if we go ashore an hour later, we can rush more than 40 miles of wild roads, for the sake of insurance, there is no need to drift down again. ”

"Before dawn, we just had enough time to float around here. Hu Yi's fingertips are still on the east of Meixian, at the intersection of the highway and the Hunshui River.

Ma Liang stared, and after a few seconds, he suddenly reacted: "Brother, aren't you ...... You want to block there, right?"

"If the one, two, and third companies can't arrive on time, how long do you think we can resist? If the bridge is stuck to block, we can delay even longer. ”

"But...... It's too close to the county seat, and it's a highway bridge, so the garrison won't be weak, right?"

"To see, to know. We still have a day to go, and we should check it out first. "Push your fingertips hard at the intersection of the highway and the river, and start stacking the map. Ma Liang turned off the flashlight, and the world was dark again.

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The sky was full of dark clouds, so that the sky was very late, and the surroundings were vaguely cloudy, damp, and cold.

On the muddy banks of the river, the soldiers were wielding bayonets, cutting the ropes on the wooden rafts that were on the bank, and the long logs were scattered into the water, and continued south with the current, hiding into the surface of the masked river.

Looking around, the spring morning after the rain reminded Hu Yi of Jiangnan after autumn, which was also so cold, so wet, and so muddy.

A short distance downstream from the shore should be the road, perhaps only a few miles away. The company was temporarily handed over to Shi Cheng to find a nearby place to hide and rest, Hu Yi only took Ma Liang and continued to approach downstream under the mud.

As a last resort, Hu Yi is unwilling to put the Ninth Company in a place where there is no danger to defend to block the attack, the blocking he has fought too much, the biggest pain is nothing more than this, he wants to fight for everything that can be fought for, hoping that this river can stop the bleeding for the Ninth Company, others see this river as just a river, he sees this river as a bandage, which bandage can be longer than it.

After lying on his stomach and muddy grass, the smell of the earth was pungent, and the two telescopes looked at the downstream riverbank in the grass at the same time, and the Cao Changjing obtained by Qingshan Village was now Ma Liang's.

After adjusting the focus, the scene in the lens is clearer, but the complexion of the two hand-held binoculars is even worse.

It was a road bridge, wide and long, with a bridgehead on the west bank and a bridgehead on the east bank, both of which were surrounded by barbed wire, guarding each other, and it was truly impregnable.

"Withdraw. Hu Yi only said these two words, it is impossible for the Ninth Company to add another battle before tomorrow's blocking battle, this bridge cannot be beaten!

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