When I opened my eyes, it was the third day, and the sky in the morning light was pink and blue.

It's a little cold, and I can't help but tilt my head to look at the little girl curled up nearby, whether the marching blanket is tightly wrapped. She was still asleep, and the sound of her breathing sounding especially pleasant in the background of the flowing stream.

Sitting up quietly, I saw the sentry standing on the high ground with rifles on his back, half of his body reflected in the glow.

Taking a deep breath, the muscle pain that had been felt for days subsided, leaving only a faint soreness.

Leaning over by the stream, his tentacles were cold, his face was bone-chilling, and his whole body was awake.

Shaking his hand, Ren Xishui slid his cheeks wet his chest, got up to look east, and a glimmer of dazzling light had already appeared in the clouds, and he couldn't help but squint, and his whole face felt a little warm.

It was the most exhausting of the run, coupled with thirst, reaching the limit. It can also be called marching, transferring, retreating, it sounds better than running away, in the final analysis, it is still running.

If you think about it, you have run through most of the mountains and rivers, run through the ruins of the Great Wall, run through the crying Central Plains, run through the blood-colored Yangtze River, and run into the smoke-filled mountains. I still ran in the mountains, and I have been running until now.

I rested for three days, thought about it for three days, tried to find the answer about the end, but there was no end.

I had a dream last night, still running, being chased by bullets, stepping on blood, passing through the smoke of gunpowder, but I always couldn't wait for the moment of being shot, I couldn't always fall, I was tormented in the inability to run, I couldn't breathe, there was no end. Later, it turned out that it had been run into laps, lap after lap.

In the past, the more I ran, the colder it became, and finally I ran numb and unconscious. Right now...... I'm already exhausted, but I want to drink water, but it's hot, but I feel that my feet hurt, why is this?

Because the mountains are still the mountains, and the water is still the water. The ruins of Qingshan Village, the ashes of the wine station, and the waves of the Muddy River are still around, in front of me, after running for so long and running so far, they have never been separated from them, they are all there, but they are very quiet.

They must still be there! Obviously they have woken up, I am afraid that it is also a dream, and when I open my eyes again in the morning glow, the light is bigger again, and I feel a stinging pain in my eyes. I actually had the urge to run back to that ruin, to prove that it is really not the end of the world under my feet, so that I am no longer afraid and lonely.

The reason why I am not afraid of death is not because I am brave, but because I am afraid.

Immersed in the morning glow, I didn't hear the sentry shouting the order, I didn't hear the footsteps hurrying closer.

“...... Platoon Commander Hu, Platoon Commander Hu?"

"What's the matter?" the soldier sent by Company Commander Wang stood in front of him, and Hu Yi spoke up.

The soldier was surprised, hadn't he listened to what he had just said to the side? and repeated: "Our company commander asked you to hurry over, and I will discuss with you if there is an urgent matter." ”

Under the thick eyebrows, he took out the military hat in his pocket, put it on, and shouted to Ma Liang, who was washing his face in a daze by the stream: "Notify the whole platoon to be on standby." ”

......

Walking upstream along the creek for nearly ten miles, a large number of resting people appeared in the field of vision, hundreds of people gathered by the stream in this section, noisy whispers, coughing one after another, and the crying of children, completely devoid of the feeling of morning.

Some fighters mingled with the people, loudly persuading, supporting, and mobilizing.

The red-faced man in the Eighth Route military uniform hurriedly met him, Hu Yi turned his gaze back, and spoke before the other party approached: "What's wrong?"

"Some people said that there was one less person this morning, and it is estimated that he ran away last night. Wang Peng's face was very bad.

"Investigated?"

"I checked it all morning, and I must have run away. Hey-I can only transfer, I guess he must have run back the way he came, and now he should be about to see the devil at this time, if the devil wants to come, he will be there before evening. ”

"What are your plans?"

"So many people...... I can't count on the speed of the transfer, I'm going to stay here, if it's really a traitor, the enemy will be here first, I'll try to hit him in an ambush, and then pull them down. After saying his thoughts, Wang Peng looked at Hu Yi, he hoped to get the support of the ninth row.

Hit the enemy head-on, and then pull the enemy to run, three days ago, the ninth platoon helped Secretary Qin do this job, and it is not a big deal to come back with Wang Peng, the problem is that this place is not the other place, the environment is different, the space is not as big as that side, and it is close to the enemy's sweeping advance line, if you don't do it, you will be really bitten by the enemy, then it will be dangerous.

Hu Yi seemed to have figured out something this morning, he couldn't tell what it was, he just felt that today's morning glow was very beautiful, and now he couldn't help but turn his head to look, the sun had already jumped out of the mountain, and the red color was gone.

This appearance made Wang Peng incomprehensible: "You ......"

"I'll take nine rows out to welcome you. ”

"Do you want to find it?"

"Hmm. Anyway, it's all quoted, isn't it safer to lead twice? ”

Wang Peng thought about it for a while: "Then you take nine platoons to guard here, and I'll lead the team over." ”

Hu Yi sighed lightly: "There are few people in the ninth row, the scale is small, and in the event of an accident, there are more opportunities than your big team." Besides, if the enemy is large, your team will be more attractive when you get here, so you should wait for your work, if so, you may have a harder time than me. ”

Counting the two militia squads just filled, Wang Peng has nearly 200 people in his hands, plus the ninth platoon is more than 200, and in the eyes of the devil, it can't add too much weight, the attraction is the same, it's really better to let the ninth platoon pull away part of it first.

Wang Peng accepted Hu Yi's mention, and he stretched out his hand sternly and shook hands with Hu Yi: "Take care!"

"Take care!"

When the two say goodbye like this, it is more like blessing each other.

......

I'm still running, but it's not the same as it used to be, because I'm running, but I'm not leaving, I'm still there, I'm still in ruins.

Turning the bushes, stepping over the fallen leaves, the nine rows by the stream were already ready, every face in the sun seemed to be new, although the snot still did not wash the face, although the mule was still stunned by the dissatisfied toad eyes, and did not erase the scenery in the narrow and narrow.

Stepping on the stones, he tightened his shoelaces and waved his hand, but a bunch of fools didn't react at all.

deliberately blackened his face: "Why don't you leave?"

"Brother, you haven't said where to go?"

“......”

"Boss Hu, you really didn't say it, don't scare people like this!"

"To the north, Niujia Village. ”

"Squad leader, the second squad asks to lead the team!" The runny nose even has the compass in his hand, and he is eager to carry it forward.

"Chen Chong. ”

"Yes. ”

"You're in front. ”

"Yes. ”

Under the leadership of Chen Chong, the fourth class slipped out and trotted out to the north, and then continued to get up, turning into a swaying young back, running towards the distant mountains.

Pulling the strap and throwing the rifle on his shoulder, he couldn't help but look to the east again, the bright blue, and then followed the team, gradually turning into the fifty-first back......