Dark clouds have covered the sky, maybe because they are very high, maybe because the air is too cold, looking up is gray and infinite, without any details, only feeling obscure. Supplemented by a harsh snow white, and occasionally a withered yellow exposed by the wind, the lines of the mountains look heavier, as if they had been traced several times by a brush.

A gray procession hurried through the mountains, more than 400 people, in single columns, at intervals, marching into a line that meandered nearly two miles long.

Commander Lu was not in the second company in front of him, nor in the first company in the back, he was always in the center and followed the team of the third company. This is not about courage and face, but because the distance of the central dispatch is the shortest, and when strained, his orders can reach the second company in front and the first company in the back in the shortest time, and the overall response is the fastest.

Hao Ping found that the regiment commander and his guards had left the queue and stopped to the side, so he rushed up and came to the regiment commander: "Regiment commander, what's wrong?"

Captain Lu opened his legs, supported his own waist with both hands, and tried to lean back to stretch: "Back pain, bear is sick and cheap!"

This was a problem that fell after the last injury, caused by the long march and the change in weather, Hao Ping advised: "Let the team slow down." ”

The head of the regiment still looked at the distant mountains in front of him: "How far is it from Sansheng Valley?"

"Not far away, I guess...... Ten miles at most. ”

"Ten miles?" Commander Lu pondered: "Order! He went to inform the Second Company and sent two reconnaissance teams, one to the south, into the Sansheng Valley, to reconnoiter to the southern end and return, and the other to the east, twenty miles out and back again. ”

Sansheng Valley, is the intersection of two adjacent mountain ranges, this valley is not long, but it is the only passage between the north and south of this place, and the detour route is not impossible, it is too far. Captain Lu was waiting for the opportunity to respond in Sansheng Valley, but Sansheng Valley itself was a dangerous place, he felt ...... If the devil wants to prevent the rout army from fleeing north, it is possible to fortify it in Sansheng Valley, which is equivalent to closing the door and insuring it. Although it is unlikely, it is not impossible, and in order to prevent the team from encountering the devil in a panic, any possibility must be considered.

However, at this time, on the top of a certain mountain in the line of sight, behind a certain piece of dry grass on the top of the mountain, there were several devils lying in the snow who were about to freeze, one of them just put down the Cao Changjing in his hand, waved his hand nearby, and one of the devils went down the back slope and began to run eastward.

......

Based on the north entrance of Sansheng Valley, diagonally to the northeast, fifteen miles away, behind a leeward mountain, two squadrons of devils and four companies of Li Youde's department of nearly 1,000 people, all temporarily stationed here!

It is almost impossible to fight an ambush in the vast mountains, but now the devil is betting that the Eighth Road will take the camera to meet the unlucky rout army, and there is a context to follow! Sansheng Valley is the only north-south passage within a radius of 100 miles, if the Eighth Road goes south, it will pass here, or they are cautious and cunning, afraid of being closed and become a turtle in the urn, and they should also be stuck in Sansheng Valley to defend this way of life for the defeated army.

The two squadrons are quietly placed here, not because of the problem of combat effectiveness, but because the Eighth Road is not easy to grasp, and the terrain of the mountains and mountains is complicated, once there is a wind and grass to let the Eighth Road run, what a pity? As long as the Eighth Road shows its tail, even if they are only Sansheng Valley, with a large number of people, they can be blocked!

A devil scout exhaustedly rushed into the cold camp, which did not dare to start a fire, and went straight to the command post.

The two devil squadron leaders are both captains, one of them was temporarily appointed as the commander-in-chief by Shao Zuo, and the eighth road came, this news made him so excited that he forgot the cold of the night, and couldn't help grinning, but the smile didn't last for three seconds, and his expression suddenly turned to melancholy.

"That's good news, but it's also bad news!"

Another lieutenant was surprised: "Why?"

"The Eighth Road is coming, but they didn't go straight south to Sansheng Valley, but stopped more than ten miles west of us, and also sent a reconnaissance detachment here, maybe ...... Our deeds cannot be hidden. Cunning! too cunning!"

"We can send people to ambush their reconnaissance team and try not to fire the gun!"

The devil commander raised an eyebrow at the captain: "What do you think...... A reconnaissance that does not return is not a reconnaissance?"

"What then?"

"If they get away with it like this...... You, me, two squadrons, how do you explain to Shao Zuo? Now it seems that ...... You have to improvise, modify your plan, and change the battlefield. In this way, you take your squadron, plus two companies, and immediately set out to the northwest, detouring to the west of the Eighth Road, and must be fast. I take the rest, to the north. Before the Eighth Road discovers our whereabouts, you and I must form a quarter-arc blockade to block the northwest two directions, the Eighth Road will not go to Sansheng Valley again, they can only run eastward, but the range between here and the blockade line in the east is narrow, not enough for them to get rid of, as long as you and I quickly advance on both sides to suppress him, they will only have two choices, either choose one direction between you and me to break through, or go east to hit the artillery tower of the blockade line. It's a pity that both of these are death choices!"

The other lieutenant understood everything, and could not help but shout: "Time, we need time! I have to go now!" Without waiting for the commander to give the order, he rushed out of the tent and urged his troops loudly in the cold wind to prepare for a rapid march.

......

Under the hazy sky, on the icy wasteland, two figures walked side by side against the wind, one was the eighth and the other was a deserter.

The deserter looked back a few times from time to time, then covered his dirty face stiffened by the cold wind with his frozen hands, and asked boredly, "Is your home far away?"

Balu replied boringly: "It's not far away, it's not close." ”

"Is that a secret?"

"I don't know you and am not obligated to answer your questions. ”

"Tsk...... What's the matter, I'm afraid that I, a deserter, will rob your house?"

"Do you regret it?"

"I'm ...... Can you talk to people? Why don't I regret being idle and having nothing to do?"

"You'll regret it. ”

......The deserter was really speechless, these eight roads were talking nonsense in broad daylight, what were they talking about? Why were you so panicked chatting with him?

Balu was still walking, his hands were copied into each other's cuffs, and bursts of water vapor were carried over his shoulders by the cold wind, staring indifferently at the north, walking firmly, and saying, "I am also a deserter." ”

"Isn't this nonsense! I know you're going home, and you're going to show me a fart over and over again!"

"Before I was a deserter...... I regret it. But after becoming a deserter...... I still regret it. I think...... Maybe you are the same, you will still regret it, regret it for the rest of your life. ”

The deserter stared at the eight roads beside him with black lines, and he even began to think about whether to give this neurotic a shot, and if this person didn't kill him, it would not be enough for the people to be angry!

"It's ahead!" Hachiro looked forward intently, unable to stand the big dog tricking the corpse by his side.

"Ahead, oh I ......" shook his shoulder, Ma Sihuan's rifle slipped directly into his hand, with a sharp bolt pull, the front sight was already straightened, the butt of the gun was cold against his face, he ignored numbly, and the trigger under his finger had begun to slowly reduce the stroke.

A figure, slowly getting bigger, is coming.

Soon after, the big dog put down the gun in his hand and put it on his shoulders again, and both hands were numb from the cold, so much so that he opened his mouth and scolded the people who came to him: "Nonsense! Are you sick? Are you walking south?"

The man who came was dressed in a tattered and dirty military uniform, with an emaciated young face, looking gloomy and gloomy, wearing a red cross on his left arm and carrying a wooden medicine box behind his back.

"Didn't you follow the brigade headquarters? What's the matter, you figured it out? You also planned to escape? Waste, you ran in the wrong direction. Hey, you're looking for a devil to surrender, right?"

The health soldier didn't dare to look directly at the big dog's aggressive gaze, and replied in a dumb voice: "I'm going to find Staff Officer Liang." ”

"Looking for Staff Officer Liang? What can he do if he invites you to eat dumplings?

"I'm a meditator, and I should stay where there are wounded. ”

I don't know if it was because of the natural hatred or what the reason was, the big dog raised his foot and kicked the health soldier down, pounced on him again, trampled the other party in the snow, and scolded again: "Do you want to reflect Lao Tzu? Ah? Are you trying to scold me? Waste! You are not as useful as a corpse collector! Can you collect their corpses? Do you dare? You actually have the face to despise Lao Tzu? Do you dare to fight back? Why do I trample you to death ......right now?"

Watching the big dog kick and beat the unlucky health soldier on the snow, Hu Yi didn't care about it, under this dark sky, everything was cold, no matter the snow, or the big dog that was mad, no matter the wind, or the health soldier who was suffering in the snow. The only thing Hu Yi misses now is the broken stove in Lao Qin's house, the stove is very small and broken, and the diligent Lao Qin can make it not extinguish day and night, no matter how late the night is, he climbs out of the bed to add firewood to the stove again and again. Just thinking about it, I feel like it's time to hurry.

Balu continued to walk the road he didn't look back, and the big dog gasped for breath, was dazed for a while, and went forward to chase Balu again.

The health soldier curled up in the snow for a long time before he opened his godless eyes and struggled to get up from the snow, the snow that covered his face and hands had not yet melted, and he stood in the cold wasteland, cut by the wind, he did not seem to feel the pain of being kicked and beaten, and the coldness that was flowing into his collar.

The figure of Balu was already far away, and the back of the deserter was also small, and the health soldier gloomily picked up the wooden medicine box that had fallen in the cold, opened it carefully, checked whether the medicine box was damaged, and then picked it up again and continued to walk towards the gunshot. It's just that...... His back is now a little staggering, I don't know if it's because it's freezing, or because it's because of pain.

A cold wind swept mercilessly across the wasteland with only three small backs, rolling up the snow mist and drifting low, whining low under the dark sky, the sound of someone crying in the wind......