At eight o'clock in the morning, the road is still the road, the woods are still the woods, the silence is still quiet, and the waiting is still waiting.

At ten o'clock in the morning, there were birds flying by chance, grasshoppers occasionally flapping their wings, and at this time there was not even a passer-by.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the energy of the ninth platoon seemed to be almost exhausted, and they did not eat breakfast, and they had not closed their eyes until last night, and the eyelids of many fighters began to fight, barely concentrating, and the effect of sleepiness was more obvious than hunger. Xiao Hongying was even a slight sound not far behind Hu Yi, and she fell asleep with Wu Shishi lying in the grass.

From dawn to now, the puppet army has not returned, Hu Yi looked back at the little face that had begun to dream, and decided not to wait any longer, so far, he needs to rest.

Just as he was about to give the order to rest, he suddenly heard faint footsteps, and he couldn't help but feel excited, and he was sleepy on the spot, so he grabbed a handful of soil and threw it backwards at Xiao Hongying.

The soldiers of the ninth platoon were in full spirit, grabbed their guns one by one, and carefully hid them.

But this faint footsteps did not come from the west, but from the east, and only a secret sentry of Maleonn was placed on the west, so the people from the east were not warned. As the distance got closer, the sound became clearer and clearer, it was a team jogging.

After a while, more than a dozen devils appeared in his sight, running west along the path and running through the path in front of him in nine rows; after a while, more devils appeared in his sight, one after the other, at least forty or so, running along the path through the muzzles of nine rows of guns; after a while, a puppet army appeared in his sight, lined up in a long line, with more than 100 people.

The devil is a squad, and the puppet army is a company, obviously this is from the county seat, calculate the time, it should be the enemy who sent the news last night to the Hekou camp and then go to the county seat to report the situation, because even if the puppet army prisoners in the Hekou camp return to the county seat, the news should be delivered now, and the enemy should be out of the city until this evening.

Even so, the devils must have known about the destruction of the estuary camp, because even if they hadn't encountered those puppet prisoners, they would have passed through the burned ruins of the estuary camp.

This time, there was no need to worry about anything, and when those enemies disappeared far away, Hu Yi gave the order, leaving the sentries to continue to monitor the path here, and the nine platoons retreated into the depths of the woods, ate and slept, and Ma Liang was also called.

......

"Platoon commander, platoon commander. A warrior called softly.

Hu Yi sat up suddenly, habitually pumping the shell gun in his hand, his eyes were full of green, this was still a forest, and the soldier in front of him took a step back in surprise. Putting down the gun, he lowered his head and pinched his eyebrows, then raised his head again: "What's the matter?" ”

"Those enemies who passed past at noon have just run east again. "It's the sentry who watched the trail coming back to report the situation.

"Do you see if there are more or fewer enemies?" asked Hu Yi as he took out his pocket watch to see the time, a quarter past five in the afternoon.

"It should still be those, a small team of devils, a company of the puppet army, although I can't count them, but it should be those. ”

"Is that company still the same company when the puppet army came?"

"It's them, I remembered that company commander when it was past noon. ”

Hu Yi thought about it, it seems that the company of the Hekou Battalion was completely left in the mountain pass of Luoye Village for defense, and they have nowhere to go now anyway. The next step for this small group of devils and the puppet army is either to return to the county seat, or to randomly swim to find the traces of the ninth platoon, if their purpose is the latter, then there should be an enemy of similar size in the east.

"Alright, I know, let's get busy. ”

The warrior turned around and disappeared into the green.

A pair of pigtails swayed and twisted over, and when he reached Hu Yi's side, he stretched out his hand and handed over a box of canned food: "Wake up." ”

took the can and shook it in his hand, and asked the little girl, "Have you eaten it?"

"The bread I ate. ”

looked at the soldiers resting around, put the can back into the girl's hand and said, "In this way, give Shi Cheng one, runny nose one, Ma Liang one, and I will belong to you." ”

The little girl tilted her head to look at Hu Yi, reflexively walked to the bag containing canned food, and divided it according to what Hu Yi said.

Shi Cheng took the box of canned food given by the girl, licked his lips, pulled out his bayonet, and glanced at the group of soldiers gathered around: "Brothers, come on, let's taste what kind of new thing this is." Uh, that's right, Xiaoliu is on guard, let's pay attention, don't forget to leave him a mouthful. ”

The eight people in the first class were originally guerrillas together, basically all of them were in the same township and village, and they were a special small circle, they were not only comrades-in-arms together, but also bare-chested dolls who grew up together, so everything was evenly distributed in the first class, and there was no high or low, no restraint and estrangement.

Liu Jianqiang took the box of cans assigned by the little girl, raised his head and looked at it, the five soldiers under his command were biting their lipes and staring at the cans in their hands, so Zhengse said: "This should be given to the first merit." Whoever kills the devil will be the first to act. Then he handed the can to the three soldiers who had stabbed the devil to death with a shuttle dart in the estuary camp: "Divide the three of you." ”

The other two recruits of the second class had nothing to say, so they had to look enviously at the three people who had been assigned to the cans.

Ma Liang took the can from the little girl's hand, flipped it in his hand, looked at the can carefully, and then put it among the five drooling subordinates: "You guys take turns to eat one bite at a time." ”

"Squad leader, what about you?" asked a soldier from the third squad with a raised face.

"I've eaten this thing, and I don't think it's much more fragrant than a bun!" Ma Liang replied.

This qiē is all in Hu Yi's eyes, the three squad leaders under him already have the appearance of veterans, the snotty tears, Ma Liang's stinky beauty, and Shi Cheng's inferiority complex are all things in the spring, not far away, but at this moment, it seems that after years, war, it seems that people can grow up quickly.

"Hey, the first, second, and third classes are all divided, do we have to have one for the ninth class? A bowl of water should be leveled, right?" Luo Fugui shouted.

"One, of course. Fool, Li Xiang, Xu Xiao, come here, you can eat this canned food. The little girl stuffed the canned food to Wu Shi as she spoke.

"Hey, hey, stinky girl, where did you give Lao Tzu this class deputy?"

"Stinky shameless, if you can spit out the box of stolen food, I can count you!" The little girl answered Luo Fugui's question.

Hu Yi looked at the bear not far away in silence, and finally decided to overturn his idea just now, war may not make people grow up quickly, it depends on who it is!

In the end, the little girl carried a box of cans to Hu Yi and sat down beside Hu Yi with a big grin: "Fox, let's have a box." ”

Hu Yi smiled.

......

Night is coming again.

Hu Yi reappeared on the bank of the river south of Lushuipu.

Li Youcai went to the appointment again.

Two figures stood in the darkness by the river, one upright and the other casual.

"Chief Hu, do you really look down on me, and you are still here? According to the storyteller, this must be regarded as 'Longzhong right', but ...... I can't get anything out of this straw bale. ”

"If you were asked to take someone across the mountain pass, you would always be able to do that, right?" Hu Yi wanted to send someone into the mountain to contact the independent group and redraw a plan for materials to enter the mountain.

"Yesterday was good, today is for nothing. Do you know how much trouble you've made? Now don't talk about bringing people, even I can't get over myself. In the afternoon, the imperial army came, and the task assigned to me was to find your clues, and you are inside, what is the matter with me sending people into the mountains to investigate?"

"Are you sure you don't have a chance?"

"I don't really have a chance. Unless you get caught, or make sure you're all gone. ”

Hu Yi sighed, was silent for a while, and then asked, "What do you think about a devil?"

"I don't know, but I know a rough idea. Two squads came out of the county town with two companies, divided into two roads, all the way to the east along the Hekou Camp and all the way to the west. I don't know what happened to the east side, but the west side ...... It is estimated that it will be stationed in the middle of these villages in the north in the end, and once it gets a clue, it will attack at any time, and the specific location will ...... You draw a circle between the Fallen Leaf Village, the Green Water Shop, the Hekou Camp and the two villages to the east, and the dots in the middle should be eight or nine or ten. ”

I was a little disappointed that I couldn't send someone into the mountain to contact, but the information that Li Youcai provided in the end was very valuable, and it was not in vain to find him.

Not long after, the two turned around and were about to break up, when Hu Yi, who had already taken a few steps, suddenly stopped: "Wait." ”

Li Youcai stopped and turned back.

"Why did Li Youde fight the estuary camp?"

"What?" Li Youcai was surprised, and didn't understand for a while.

"The destruction of the estuary camp was a deal I made with your brother. Do you know why he did that?"

Li Youde is a very deep person, and the purpose of the transaction is difficult to understand, the political commissar can't guess it, and Hu Yi can't guess it. I don't know if his strange brother Li Youcai can have an answer, and at the last moment of leaving, Hu Yi asked a question with a try-and-see attitude.

Li Youcai stopped talking, he was thinking.

There was silence for a few minutes before he began to take a few steps closer to Hu Yi again: "He really found a good thug." ”

Hu Yi felt that Li Youcai should have an answer, so he didn't say anything, just stood in the dark and waited for an answer.

"After the blockade of the mountain pass is completed, the Li family militia has no meaning to save zài, if they continue to hold guns, the imperial army will be unhappy, but my own brother is reluctant to let go. After destroying the Hekou camp, the Fallen Leaves Village and the Lushuipu direction will lose their support, the imperial army will definitely have to be rebuilt, and the reinforcements will also be reorganized, so isn't the Li family militia a ready-made force? I guess...... A new military station is about to be built near the village of Fallen Leaves! He, the maintenance chairman, may become a company commander and battalion commander at the same time. ”

I finally understood, what a deep handwriting, and trees can be planted in the cracks of the stones. Hu Yi is very uninterested in this kind of calculating things, Li Youde is gradually getting bigger, and it is impossible to see whether it is a good thing for the independent regiment, let the political commissar judge it in the future.

Li Youcai suddenly sighed: "I will always be a waste who can't be a weapon, he is the one who does great things, and he is the big tree of the Li family." Hehe......"

I couldn't see Li Youcai's face clearly, and I could only hear his wry smile.

"But I'm more optimistic about you!" Hu Yi said these last words, turned around and disappeared into the night.

......