Zhou Yiyan and the two fighters split into three roads and set off in the direction of the railway. Remember Yan in the center and take the avenue; The squad leader's left flank and Wang Jinbao's right flank were separated by 200 meters each. The contact signal is Yiyan playing the flute, the second squad leader learning the bird whistle, and Wang Jinbao making a frog chirping. Approaching the railway, there was still no sign of the female soldiers. The second squad leader reminded her that she must rush back to the river bank immediately, and that the company commander's advice must be heeded and that she must cross the river at twelve o'clock.

Yiyan was in a dilemma, and the sound of aircraft strafing and bombing was heard not far from the south. Yi Yan said: "The enemy planes are bombing, presumably there must be our troops, why don't we look for it a little further south?" ”

So turn to the right, the horizontal column becomes a vertical column, the warrior Wang Jinbao takes the lead, and the three of them walk far along the railway line to the south.

After walking more than a mile, there was a frog chirping. Yi Yan and the second squad leader immediately strengthened their attention. After a while, three people, two women and one man, ran along the north-south path, all ordinary people. The three of them fought and twisted together as they walked. The man knocked down the woman who cut his hair, and the woman who was covered with a handkerchief punched the man in the head from behind; The man turned back to chase the woman with the handkerchief, and the one who cut his hair got up from the ground and choked the man's neck. The second squad leader and Wang Jinbao were dumbfounded, not knowing whether to expose the target for persuasion, Yiyan looked at it for a while, and shouted: "Go up quickly!" The woman is our comrade, and the man is a trafficker. ”

The second squad leader and the fighters immediately rushed out. As soon as the robe saw that the New Fourth Army suddenly came out, he threw away the woman and ran to the railway, shouting: "The communist army is coming!" There's a communist army here! Wang Jinbao was quick, raised his gun and fired two shots, and the traffickers fell. Two gunshots rang out, and the enemy on the pillbox was alerted, and machine guns and rifles immediately fired at them. "Yu Jie, come on!" Yi Yan beckoned, and a few people got into the green gauze tent and hurriedly retreated to the river.

After walking out of the road for a while, he heard shouting eldest sister, and Yiyan realized that it was Eryan who was with Yu Jie, not Xiao Gao.

Yi Yan said, "Hey, why did you two get together?" ”

Yu Jie said: "I don't know either. Just now the traffickers beat me to the ground and was about to tie me up, but she suddenly punched the kid from behind and saved me from behind. ”

Eryan said that his father-in-law sent her out last night and made a detour to Chenghe Station. When I got to the railway, my father-in-law told me a few words and went back. Eryan was walking here alone, and when she saw a man and a woman chasing and beating, she recognized the trafficker first. I thought that no matter who the woman was, I had to save her. After beating the traffickers, the woman got up and saw that it was Yu Jie.

As soon as the shooting of the pillbox stopped, a few more shots came from the left rear, and the second squad leader said: "This is not like a pillbox, the trajectory is much lower, I am afraid that there is a situation." ”

Yi Yan said: "Quick, quickly retreat to the river." ”

The second squad leader held Yiyan, Wang Jinbao pulled Yu Jie, and the five of them neither returned their guns nor turned back, and ran to the riverbank in one go. Yi Yan asked Eryan and Yu Jie who would be able to drink water, and both shook their heads. Yi Yan said: "Second squad leader, you leave the weapon to me, each of you takes one, go down to the river quickly!" ”

Everyone asked, "What about you?" ”

Yi Yan said: "I have my own way, you go quickly." ”

The gunfire grew louder and closer, and finally the shouts were heard. It turned out that after the bandit company commander was bombed, he was about to leave when he reorganized his team and found communist troops on the pillbox. The bandit company commander hurriedly asked, "How many people are there?" The bunker said, "I can't see clearly, there are about a dozen!" "The bandit company commander came out this time and made a lot of money, but he didn't dare to fight a battle, and he went back to pay the errand, which was a little weak-hearted. Hearing that there were only a dozen or so people, he felt that this opportunity could not be missed, so he immediately gave the order and pursued him towards the river.

A few people here are still pushing, Yu Jie and Eryan both called Yiyan to go down to the river. Yi Yan said solemnly: "The first of the three disciplines is to obey orders and listen to commands. The second squad leader, Yu Jie, the two of you are cadres, taking the lead in executing orders. ”

The second squad leader was helpless, put down the gun, untied the bullet belt, and muttered: "Squad leader, your order is incorrect, I am a gay man......"

"I'm telling you to take the lesbians across the river! This task can only be completed by you and Wang Jinbao, don't you understand? ”

Yi Yan took off the violin from his back, handed it to Yu Jie and said, "You can take it and use it, see the head of the regiment, and report for me." I haven't had time to ask, what happened to Xiao Gao? ”

Yu Jie said: "In order to cover me, she took a step late, and I don't know if she escaped." ”

Yi Yan said: "You report to the head of the regiment, my task has not been completed well, please organize criticism!" ”

Yu Jie and Er Yan choked back tears of excitement and left Yiyan. Yiyan uncovered the grenade cover, set up the ***, and kept his eyes firmly on the approaching enemy group.

The four of them walked to the water's edge, Yu Jie hesitated, hung the violin on Eryan's neck, and shouted, "You guys go quickly!" Without waiting for an answer, he turned his head and ran towards Yiyan. Wang Jinbao didn't understand what was going on for a while, and the second squad leader grabbed his gun and said, "Wang Jinbao, give me the gun." I order you to send this female comrade across the river immediately, and ask for punishment on my behalf......" Wang Jinbao was about to argue, but the second squad leader pushed him hard and pushed him to Eryan's side, and Wang Jinbao had no choice but to pull Eryan towards the center of the river.

The enemy shouted and charged. Yiyan fired a volley of guns, knocked down two enemies, and did not stop the attack. The enemy cried out: "Catch him alive!" "I can't run!" Straight towards Yiyan. Seeing that it was less than ten meters away, Yiyan threw a grenade, and at the same time, a grenade was thrown from her left and right, and it exploded three times, and the enemy retreated. The sound of da-da

One of the enemy's charges was pressed down. Yi Yan called the second squad leader to him and said, "Do you think the three of us can destroy these enemies?" ”

The second squad leader did not answer.

"If you take her away, you will keep two more fighters for the revolution; You stay, and all three of them die. It is a sin to have two more people with you when you can sacrifice only one person. Let's go! ”

The second squad leader said: "How can I leave you, a gay man......"

"You're a warrior first and foremost! The company commander orders you to obey my command! Yiyan said urgently, "I told you to take her away!" ”

The second squad leader gritted his teeth, and helplessly beckoned Yu Jie and said, "Obey the order and listen to the command, let's go." ”

Yu Jie put her face on Yiyan's hot face, and said with tears in her eyes: "I have something to say to you, it's too late......"

"Let's go, you should be much more mature after this exercise."

After the second squad leader and Yu Jie left, Yi Yan straightened out his clothes and accidentally ran into the letter from the bearded man. She remembered that she hadn't had time to take it apart and take a look at it since she got it! While the enemy was still arranging an attack, she quickly pulled out the letter, bit it with her teeth, tore open the cover, and spread it on the ground. The beard also learned to lie, saying that it was the same as the previous letter. Where have you ever written such a letter before? Just two sentences:

I asked to assign me the task of caring for you for the rest of your life, do you approve it?

She tore the words off, put them in her mouth, chewed on them, and swallowed them.

The enemy attacked again. Yiyan once again knocked them back with a grenade. As she threw her last grenade, she was shot in the chest again. She looked back and saw that the second squad leader had dragged Yu Jie to the center of the river, so she retreated from the embankment and used all her strength to climb into the river.

The enemy organized a third charge, but as soon as the bandit company commander shouted the word "rush", he was knocked down by a bullet fired from behind. A detachment of PLA fighters shouted and rushed up from the enemy's flank in a straggler line with bayonets in hand.

When Sun Dabeard saw Xiao Gao, he asked where Yiyan and Yu Jie are now? Xiao Gao said that Yi Yan had long lost contact, and Yu Jie had just been separated again, probably walking towards the river. Sun Zhen immediately decided that the whole team would chase westward and never lose Yu Jie again.

They were located about four or five miles away from where the bandits had been bombed. As soon as they heard the gunshots, they immediately ran and rushed to the river, where it was already the third charge that Yiyan was fighting back at the enemy.

Sun Zhen recognized from the telescope that it was Yiyan who dropped the bomb, and she was alone, and felt that the situation was critical, and immediately ordered to charge. He told the soldiers that the goal was not to annihilate the enemy in front of them, but to break them up and join forces with their comrades on the river embankment was victory. The warriors rushed with bayonets and slaughtered, like a whirlwind, straight up. The enemy still had the strength to resist it, and as soon as the bandit company commander fell, all the bandit troops fled by their own way, and in the blink of an eye they left the embankment.

Sun Zhen led the people to rush to the riverbank, but Yiyan was gone. was in a hurry, and suddenly heard Xiao Gao shouting at the water's edge: "Company Commander Sun, come quickly" Only then did he see that Yiyan had fallen by the river, half of his body soaked in the water. He ran with the warriors.

Yiyan was sober and calm, but his face was sallow and his breath was weak. Sun Zhen called her, she forced her eyes open, looked at Xiao Gao and Sun Zhen, smiled, raised her finger to the opposite bank, and said to Sun Zhen in a voice that was too low to hear: "Like when I was a child, carry me across the river and chase the team!" ”

Sun Zhen picked up Yiyan, let Xiao Gao support her, carried her on his back, and shouted like thunder: "Cross the river!" ”

Walking to the center of the river, he heard a slight sound in Yiyan's throat, and the hand stretched out on his chest hung down limply. He stopped, swiped Yiyan upward, and shouted, "Xiao Zhou, Xiao Zhou!" ”

All that answered him was the roar of the river, the sigh of the wind.

Large teardrops ran down his cheeks and hung on his shaggy beard. He gritted his teeth, did not look back, and strode on the west bank of the river.

On the west bank of the river appeared cavalry, one, two, a large squad. Yu Jie and Eryan also followed the cavalry to the riverbank, shouting towards Xiao Gao, Sun Zhen and Yiyan on his back:

"Let's go, the chief has sent troops to pick us up—"

"Comrade Zhou Yiyan!" The bearded man shouted with tears in his eyes, "Look, you've caught up with the troops." ”

They finally caught up with the troops.