In the sunset, Shi Cheng used a bayonet under his gun to remove a piece of dead grass in the woods, and saw two corpses of puppet soldiers side by side, the equipment was unloaded by the fleeing puppet army, leaving only a suit and dried blood.

The soldier behind him came to Shi Cheng's side and muttered, "Run so cleanly, even the work of burying the corpse will be left to us!"

Li Xiang came from the open field: "There are five dead outside, not six." One of them pretended to be dead, and his pants were all peeing. ”

Seeing that Shi Cheng crossed his waist and kept looking around without looking back, Li Xiang, who was approaching, asked again, "What do you think?"

"The open space is still not open enough!"

“......”

"I have to tell the company commander when I go back, don't you want to cut down trees, you must cut down this forest first, which will seriously affect the machine gun performance!"

"By the way, you said that the tripod I repaired was loose, why didn't I check it out just now?"

"......" Shi Cheng turned around, he didn't expect Li Xiang, the ugly ghost, to remember this stubble, and he actually tested it afterwards?

"You have to give me an explanation, or let's go and test it again now!" Li Xiang's expression was very serious, he was a perfectionist with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.

"Uh...... Did I say that?"

Li Xiang stared at Shi Cheng's desire to cover up and did not speak.

"Okay...... I said it wrong, I think...... I guess I didn't hold the machine gun steady at the time, and it had absolutely nothing to do with the tripod. ”

"Even though it's not true, I thank you for liberating me. Li Xiang turned around and went back, his pace returning to ease. Behind him, Shi Cheng was left staring at the warriors beside him with black lines all over his head.

......

In the sunset, the soldier standing guard with a gun opened the door of a room, and the bearded Qin You walked in with his waist bent: "What are you looking for me?"

The five puppet soldiers who were locked in the house looked at this farmer in surprise, but they really didn't expect that this person who had made them talk about surrender was actually the leader of the place, and one of the puppet soldiers glared and asked, "You...... Is this the supreme commander?"

"Uh...... At the moment, it is. Qin You was really dazed.

The one who was lying in the withered grass and peeing his pants and pretending to be dead suddenly knelt down in front of Qin You with a pop: "Sir, I swear that I will never wear this traitor skin again......! Woo...... Please be merciful, adults don't remember villains, let me go...... Woo......"

Without waiting for Qin You to come to his senses, the other four puppet soldiers were angry, and one of them said: "A coward, where are you from here? At the beginning, you said that we rushed together, but it turned out that a few of us ran away with machine gun bullets, and you still have the face to cry? Sir, I ask that the first one kill him first!"

Looking at the half-faceted snot and half-tears kneeling in front of him, Qin You didn't stretch out his hand to help, but took a step sideways, got out of the way, and patiently explained: "You all misunderstood, according to the situation of each of you, the sin is not to death." I have temporarily locked you up here because the situation is still complicated, and you can't just let it go. Belch...... Two or three days at most, and as soon as the battle in the mountains is over, you can all go. I don't need to lie to you about this, what's the use of fooling you, is it?"

No line, no shelf, no style, it looks like an ordinary mud-legged old man, Qin You speaks, people believe it!

The five puppet soldiers were quiet, and now they believe that they really won't die.

Before Qin You turned around and was about to leave, one of them suddenly said, "Sir, I want to be the Eighth Road, okay?"

Stopped and turned around, looked the speaker up and down, Qin You smiled: "Enough!"

The puppet army stood up on the spot: "Why?"

"If you don't have enough to eat, you can't dress warmly, and you don't have to pay your salary, who can stand it? I'm still a chief, do you see that my virtue is comparable to your superior? Alas, listen to my advice, you better stop a little, and when you go back and let you go, if you are willing to read us a favor, the next time we meet, we will not be in vain. ”

After speaking, Qin You left, and the door of the house was closed by the soldiers standing guard at the door, leaving a room dumb.

......

Sun Cui led the old and young people of Jiuzhan Village back to the village, and then crossed the river to report the situation to Qin You. This was the first time that the militia had participated in the battle, because of the sound of crooked machine guns downstream, and after they withdrew from the upstream, they abandoned the idea of fighting a defensive battle in the village and instead supported downstream.

After arriving at the position of the enemy's crossing of the river, nothing was seen on the water, only some puppet troops were found on the north bank. Without saying a word, they shot indiscriminately across the river, killing two enemies on the spot, and the rest of the enemy fled north. Strictly speaking, in fact, the militiamen killed only one enemy, because they did not know that one of them had drowned due to vomiting blood and fainting, and that it was an enemy company commander.

Qin You also heard the gunfire at that time, it should have been the group of mules and girls, but it was not clear how the battle was going, and it was already the end after the militia arrived, and they couldn't provide more details.

Qin You is worried about what the girl is now, since the first day he came to the Ninth Company, he felt that he should not let such a small girl stay in the combat unit, it was not a matter of coordination or incoordination, but he couldn't bear it. Unexpectedly, Hu Yi, the company commander, did not arrange for her to go to the militia, but instead let her go out to the periphery to suffer hardships, which is really heartless!

While he was talking to Sun Cui, there was a whistle from the bunker, followed by a noise of soldiers, and after a while, a pair of pigtails appeared in Qin You's sight. She was followed by Wu Shishi, Xu Xiaohe, and Tian Sanqi.

"Girl, how is the situation?" Qin You strode closer to Xiao Hongying, and Sun Cui also came over to greet her.

"General!" "The little red tassel was dirty and covered in mud, the goggles hung around her neck, and her little face was serious.

That's a really ...... answer. I don't understand!" "You have beaten back the enemy who crossed the river?"

"Didn't call back. ”

"Huh?"

"Just eat up a platoon, and we'll run away!"

"Ahem...... Ahem......"

"Aunt Sun, tomorrow you send some people downstream, fish out the bottom of the river, and let Tian Sanqi tell you the location, it is estimated that the things that can't float away are still there. The little girl said lightly, but the little breasts deliberately stood tall, and the pigtails were deliberately warped like a weather vane, holding the wind and the little fan.

Qin Youxin said Grandma, you are really ...... Noticing that there were only three warriors behind her, she asked, "Hey, where's the mule?"

"Sacrificed!" replied simply.

“......”

"Old Qin, I still have to discuss something with you. ”

“......”

"Hey, what's the fuss?

"Huh?"

"I'll have to lead the team out again in a while, Li Xiang, you have to dial me. ”

"Uh......"

"Do you agree?" The little girl immediately turned back: "You guys hurry up and eat and rest, I'll go find Li Xiang." "Squirm and go.

Qin You picked up the dropped chin, and asked Sun Cui with black lines on his head, "I didn't listen, did I?"

Sun Cui didn't come back to her senses, and replied in a daze: "What did you ask...... What is it?"

......

It's a windless autumn night.

Without the wind, the night would not be so cold, and those who were tired and running away were already sweating.

Kamikawa Chiba, a former captain of the Kwantung Army, was seconded to the North China Battlefield to engage in special mode intelligence combat attempts because he had fought in China for many years, had rich experience, and was proficient in Chinese.

For three days, he had been on the run with his team, and he was being swept and pursued by the Eighth Route Army in the area controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

He wasn't depressed, this was the third time he had entered the mountain, and it couldn't be effective forever to disguise himself as Balu, he just wondered, this time he was already quite low-key, he didn't enter the village at all, and the passers-by who took care of him didn't leave a living mouth, how was Balu sure he was coming again?

The most important thing is that they are not the units that should fight, and they do not come out to fight; the calm Captain Kamikawa Chiba has been trying to lead the team to escape, and has been 'solving' the wounded again and again, reducing the burden on the team, and there are still 17 or 8 people left, and this result is good, the backbone is still there, as long as they can breathe, the team will easily recover in the future.

This night gave him another chance to get rid of the pursuit, first pretending to break through to the east, then turning south to widen the distance, and as soon as it was dark, he immediately headed west, straight to Kushui Creek.

At this moment, they are running in the dark from east to west, exhausted on the edge of the limit, and the power they insist on is water, which is a possible response.

......

In the middle of the night, everything was silent, and the crescent moon high and far away could not provide more light, and it was pitch black everywhere, and the outline of the mountain was completely missing.

A team loomed forward, gasping, slipping, branches breaking.

"Company commander, you should be there when you get out of this long valley!" you say...... Are those little devils coming?"

Wang Peng ran in the shadows: "I don't know! ”

"But...... Seven miles long, where should we wait?"

"The upper reaches are rugged, and it is difficult to walk during the day, and the middle reaches are full of thorns, and if we look for water in the stream against those thorns, even if we reach the stream, I am afraid that the blood will run out; they must come from the east, and we will wait at the bitter pool downstream, and make other arrangements after dawn." ”

......

In the early hours of the morning, there was a rumbling noise in a dark valley, which was the noise of many footsteps.

Li Youde was sweating profusely and faltering, and he felt that he had suffered a lifetime of sins on this day, no wonder the soldiers were rough people, and this kind of work was not at all capable of people who ate fine grains. Along the way, he had asked his men a dozen times how far he was, and although he was a rich gentleman with a different kind of experience, he knew that he should be stoic on the march, and his brilliant mind knew this, but his legs, which could not bear the pain, did not want to be lifted again.

Again, he asked, "How far is it?"

"A dozen miles further north, it should be Kushui Creek. ”

This distance is actually not far away, but for Li Youde at the moment, it seems to be thousands of miles, he looked up at the moon, and it didn't make sense for the black light to go to Kushui Creek: "Order, rest in place, don't make a fire, and leave again at dawn." Also, send a platoon over and bring back some water. Also, let's see if I can make a secondary stretcher, I can't heel on this leg!"

Three companies of puppet soldiers fell into the darkness in an uproar, relieved.

......

"Rest for ten minutes!" Hu Yi gave the order in the dark, then sat down tiredly against a rock, and took out a compass and pocket watch from his pocket: "Ma Liang, fire!"

The light of a little match ignited in the palm of the clasped hand, illuminating the compass and the pocket watch, as well as the two faces that were coming together.

The direction of travel is due east, and the time is 3 o'clock in the morning.

"Chen Chong, the direction is right?"

"That's right, two more mountains are the springs upstream of Kushui Creek. ”

Ma Liang estimated: "So we can just arrive at dawn." ”

"Hmm...... Rest for twenty minutes and eat!" Hu Yi corrected the rest order he had just given.

The match was extinguished, the compass and the pocket watch were put away, and I subconsciously looked up at the moon, but the moon was only a little light, so far away that it was almost impossible to see, like a vague lantern covered with three layers of paper.

The windless autumn night has created a long-lost fog......