A figure, exhausted, climbed a snowy ridge.

Torn cotton jacket, torn cotton pants, torn cotton hat, with a hunting clip behind his back, and a broken bird gun hanging on his shoulder, a man in his forties and fifties with frost on his face, his eyes were on the village in front of the snow ridge, which was Songjia Village.

After some time, the hunter entered the village, counted the houses, and then stopped at the broken gate of a house and knocked on the door.

Soon the door opened a crack, and the owner poked out half of his face to look at him unceremoniously.

The doorman smiled embarrassedly: "Is Yang Wei staying here? As he spoke, he touched the broken bag behind his waist and took out a sheep's skull: "This is it." ”

"Uh...... "The master immediately opened the door, pulled the outsiders in, looked left and right outside the door, closed the door again, and enthusiastically led the visitors through the courtyard into the house.

As soon as he entered the house, the owner smiled: "Hehe, sit down, sit down, it's warm by the stove...... Look at how far you've traveled, right?

The guest scanned the environment in the house, and it seemed that the owner was also living alone: "Hehe, I am from Dabeizhuang, surnamed Ma." ”

"Oh, then I'll call you Big Ma. The host rubbed his hands together, and his eyes fell back on the sheep's skull in the guest's hand: "This is exactly what I want." ”

"I really don't understand, can't you find this sheep skull nearby?"

"The key is that it doesn't meet the requirements, I won't tell you, this is to find it, but it's not just any one, I'm worried......"

The guest didn't rush to hand over the sheep skull in his hand, but put on a writhing smile: "That...... The person who asked me to bring this one said...... This can be exchanged for forty catties of millet, I don't ...... much"

"Forty catties of millet?" the owner was surprised at first, and then immediately added: "Yes, yes! Look at me...... I'll bring it to you. ”

The guest's expression was also surprised, he didn't expect this to be true, a tattered sheep's skull was really exchanged for forty catties of millet, it was really worth the trip!

The master went into the kitchen and put a sharp dagger into his cuffs before he went to carry the rice bag.

Soon after...... The corpse of the guest was poured by the fire, the skull of the sheep had been crushed, and the host was unfolding a small note, frowning and looking at it.

......

Dabeizhuang. By evening, the Independence Regiment was halfway down, a dozen people had died, and the number of symptomatic people was increasing as time went on.

Only in the Ninth Company, no one has been in trouble so far.

The winter sunset looked cold, the snow was dark and the walls were gray, the yard, the tree, the well, and a sentry on duty shook in the yard, listening to the silence outside the courtyard wall.

There was basically no one in the room talking, and for the Independent Regiment, today was a disaster day, and everyone was waiting quietly, but they didn't know what to wait for.

Hu Yi sat at the table and wiped his gun, worried about Zhou Wanping, wanting to see her, wanting to know what was wrong with her, but unfortunately the health team has now become a heavily guarded forbidden area, and he is thinking about whether to deliberately break in by mistake, and then not have to come out again, so that he no longer has to expect his symptoms. He couldn't make this determination, because he still remembered what Su Qing said, and there was a girl with pigtails sitting opposite him, as long as he got out of this door with his front foot, the girl had to go out to be a thief with his back foot, because she was worried about more people.

Luo Fugui, who has no heart and lungs, is the happiest person, since the beginning of martial law, he fell asleep on the bed, and he didn't wake up after sleeping all afternoon, snoring so much that he called a fragrance.

Ma Liang came back very early, but he didn't say anything, Hu Yi knew that he was helping Su Qing, so he didn't ask anything.

He Gensheng was originally going to return to the health team to help, but the captain Bao Si ordered him to stay in the Ninth Company without giving a reason. Half Immortal is a talkative goods, and he has already heard about Xiao Hongying's undisciplined relationship network, so he believes her foolishness, and feels that he, a newcomer, can only wait for her help to hope to enter the high-end unit of the supply department, so he is also down-to-earth, and first wait for the name in Jiulian, at least now is not the time to ponder the transfer.

The light outside the window became dimmer and dim, the lights had been lit in the room, and in boredom, Wang Xiaosan and the half-immortal muttered and chatted in a low voice from time to time.

"Half Immortal, since you have been a soldier for so long, why do you say that you let the little devil fight so badly?"

"Isn't this worse for you!"

"I didn't mean that, I mean, you have a lot of troops and ammunition. ”

The half-immortal sighed: "Don't look at the little devil who is not tall, he can continue to march and fight for a hundred miles in a day and night! ”

Flutter - Wang Xiaosan couldn't help laughing: "Seventy miles...... It's also too ......."

"Laugh, seventy miles is a lot, should you be joking!

Wang Xiaosan thought about it seriously: "We ...... If you march with battle...... One hundred and thirty or forty miles a day and night is no problem. It's hard to say anything about a quick march, it depends on how big the temper of the regiment commander is!"

The half-immortal glared when he heard this: "Blow!"

"I didn't blow it. Wang Xiaosan pointed at Xiao Hongying: "See, it's with the Red Army, she has seen it for 200 miles a day and night, do you believe it!"

"How could she? two hundred miles?"

"That's right, it's two hundred miles, and you have to carry her as a burden. ”

The half-immortal's eyes and jaws immediately fell to the ground, and before he could pick it up, the soldiers in the courtyard opened the door and said, "The regiment commander is here!"

......

It was still dark, and the regiment commander did not enter the courtyard of the Ninth Company, he stood outside the gate, and he didn't even bring a guard.

Hu Yi walked out of the gate quickly, but the regiment commander raised his hand at him a few meters away, signaling that there was no need to come close to stand upright, and asked straight to the point: "So far, have you been in any trouble with the Ninth Company?"

"Nope. Although the light was not bright, Hu Yi still saw the haggard face of the regiment commander clearly, and one afternoon he had a scruffy beard, as if he was old, and he didn't even wear a hat when he went out.

"The one, two, and third companies are still attributing, and they can't pull them out!"

The head of the regiment tried to maintain a flat tone, but Hu Yi heard the greatest helplessness and sadness in this sentence, so heavy that he couldn't breathe evenly.

At this time, a group of soldiers trotted towards here, and as the distance got closer and closer, Hu Yi finally saw that it was a few soldiers from the supply office and a few soldiers of the first company, carrying the ammunition box, trotting all the way to the gate of the ninth company, unloading the ammunition box behind the regiment commander, and then leaving in silence and hurrying.

The regiment commander just stood, that is, he did not hold his hands behind his back, nor did he hold his arms, hanging his sleeves and clenching his fists all the time, as if he did not know where to put his two hands, and said: "The sky is blind!

Just one sentence, and then stopped, he raised his face in the cold wind, suppressed his emotions for a while, looked at Hu Yi again, and said: "But it missed you bastard! It leaked! I still have combat troops, and I didn't lose!"

The voice is getting louder and louder, the tone is getting higher and higher, and it appears more hoarse, revealing infinite unwillingness. The cold sunset was the background of the lonely leader, and Hu Yi began to see him clearly. The two servicemen, who were a few meters away, looked faint, in the cold-blooded twilight.

There was another long silence, and the regiment commander pointed to the ammunition boxes behind him: "This is your ninth company, double copy." Plus six boxes of grenades, which should have been the prize for the whole group, and what I owe the girl, together. Right now...... Command!"

With a snap, it was the impact of Hu Yi's military shoes in an instant, and he instinctively puffed up his chest and stood solemnly waiting!

"Jiulian immediately left Dabeizhuang. If the enemy comes from the east, first, send people to report it, second, delay the enemy, third, wipe the fallen leaf village off the map, and fourth, attack all the devils you can attack! Do everything you can do in the Ninth Company!"

The order sounded completely irrelevant, but Hu Yi understood, because the regiment commander was in order, and the intensity increased, this was not a blocking battle, and it could not be stopped, and now half of the regiment had become a sick number, and he couldn't run far if he wanted to; even if he did, the patient would not be able to survive the severe cold. The regiment commander no longer considered the Ninth Company to make a peripheral defense for the whole regiment, but due to the deterioration of the situation, he was automatically upgraded to carry out the next mission, and finally turned into revenge.

Hu Yi saluted the regiment commander, which was the most solemn military salute he had ever given to the regiment commander, not only to accept orders, but also to make promises.

"Let's go. The regiment commander finally said that just these two words were spoken, and his voice was very small and weak.

Hu Yi still stood straight in the cold wind, motionless, he felt that his legs weighed more than a thousand catties, and he didn't turn around in the face of the regiment commander.

I don't know when, all the people of the Ninth Company were already standing in the courtyard, the people by the door were quietly looking out, and the people inside the door were quietly listening outside the wall.

The evening breeze of winter, bitterly cold......