After being silent for a long time, Wang Ergou said with some difficulty: "Squad leader, is there nothing you can do?" ”

Li Qinghe shook his head, "There is only one possibility to solve it, our army can open up a large enough base area in the eastern Hebei region and complete the reorganization of the troops, so that it is possible to save most of the troops." ”

"We can only wait for September, and if we succeed in opening up the base area in September, everything will be easy to say, and everything will be relieved. However, in September, if the troops did not achieve any results, and only blindly engaged the Japanese puppet army and did not open up a base area, then everything would be closed. We're creeps, and we're not qualified to point fingers at this. ”

With a sigh, he exhausted the hardship and bitterness between the three of them. Zhang Niu and Wang Ergou didn't ask any question about whether the squad leader was lying to themselves, they knew very well in their hearts that what Li Qinghe was saying now was not a lie at all, but an undercurrent under the false prosperity.

"Squad leader, then we'll go east?"

Li Qinghe nodded, "The west has been heavily blocked, and there is no time for the return of the team, so we will simply march east and pull up another team for the troops." ”

The two nodded vigorously and said very resolutely: "Let's go east and go to Funing." ”

Li Qinghe didn't say anything, just looked at the map and lightly tapped an address: "Look, I choose here." The two looked at it, and the address was named "Lijiagou". "Behind this is the mountains, and this kind of terrain is very suitable for our development, and it is more suitable for our confrontation with the Japanese army."

"Of course, before we went to Lijiagou, the first thing we did was to try to stab him with the Japanese stronghold here." As he spoke, Li Qinghe showed a cold smile.

"Squad leader, really?" Wang Ergou said a little incredulously, there are no heavy weapons, no artillery, just the three of them, what are they going to do to kill the Japanese army?

"Why, don't you believe me? Look, see how I'm going to kill these dogs tomorrow! Li Qinghe glanced at him and said with disdain. Tomorrow, Zhang Niu, you go to monitor the watchtowers of the Japanese army. Wang Ergou, you go to the Chinese medicine shop to buy these things for me, and then come back as soon as possible. As he spoke, Li Qinghe threw a piece of paper to Wang Ergou.

At noon the next day, Wang Ergou came back with a big bag of medicinal herbs. Li Qinghe didn't say a word, took the medicinal herbs and went into the house to start working. A strong smell of medicine came from the room, and although Wang Ergou was full of doubts, he didn't ask questions.

In the evening, Zhang Niu rushed back in a hurry, and as soon as he entered the yard, he shouted: "Squad leader, good news!" Good news! ”

"Noisy, noisy, noisy!" An angry voice sounded from the room, Li Qinghe pushed the door out, with an angry face, "Put away your loud voice, how many times have you said that this is not a military camp, this is a people's house, why are you shouting so loudly?" ”

After a reprimand, Zhang Niu closed his mouth, looked around, and then said: "Squad leader, I just found out that the Japanese puppet army was drinking in the turret to celebrate. There were a lot of wagons outside, full of vegetables, meat, and alcohol. There are several jars of wine, and I asked about the fragrance for hundreds of meters. ”

Li Qinghe's eyes lit up, "Yes, I have a pillow when I am sleepy." The two of you, one will prepare a few handkerchiefs wet with water, and the other will be used for sneak attacks. Also, when we leave later, leave the rest of the money for the old lady who sheltered us, we have been living here for a week, and we will give some money to the family as a thank you. ”

Late at night, Li Qinghe and Zhang Niuwang and Ergou secretly left the family with guns. Before leaving, Li Qinghe and others left the last 3 pieces of ocean on their bodies as a thank you. The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army will be rewarded if they have kindness, and they will be avenged if they have revenge, and their grievances are clear.

The three of them walked through the darkness, the thick darkness around them provided the best cover for the three of them, all three of them were veterans, and the movements on their bodies were silent, and the fly in the ointment was that each of them carried two guns, and the guns collided and made a sound.

Although the sound was small, it was still possible for this sound to be heard by the person in charge of the sentry, and the three of them had to slow down and stare at the two puppet soldiers on the machine gun position outside the watchtower opposite. There was a warm voice in the bunker, and it was supposed that the Japanese soldiers were celebrating and drinking there. The three of them soon came to the back of a small dirt slope not far from the watchtower.

By the faint light in front of him, Li Qinghe glanced at the watch he was wearing on his wrist (which was also found by a veteran of the Japanese army before, and later found in the resources seized at that time when he set off at night), "It's 11 at night; At 48 minutes, at 3:30, we marched on time. Zhang Niu, you and I will come first, kill the two people in charge of guarding in front, and then, Wang Ergou, you light this smoke and blow it into the bunker, and we can go in in 5 minutes. ”

"Good!"

Time passed minute by minute, and soon it was half past 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, the watchtower on the opposite side had already had no movement, it should be drunk and drunk and fell asleep, the puppet army outside the sentry had already begun to fight with eyelids, and the body was constantly shaking, it seemed that it was not down, this is the puppet army has begun to stay sleepy, in the performance of stiffness, the security level of the puppet army at this time has been reduced to the minimum.

Seeing this, Li Qinghe made a gesture, Zhang Niu immediately understood what Li Qinghe meant, and immediately bent down and moved forward in the dark, and Li Qinghe was the same. The two soon came to the side of the watchtower, leaned against the wall, sneaked behind the two puppet soldiers, gently stretched out their hands, grabbed the head of the puppet army, and twisted it hard. There were two crisp sounds of "click", and the heads of the two puppet soldiers were tilted and died. Gently placed the two bodies on the sandbags. , do not let the corpse make a falling movement, and alarm the puppet army and Japanese soldiers in the house.

The three of them brought soaked handkerchiefs, and Li Qinghe took out a pitch-black strip-shaped object from his arms, lit it and secretly put it into the shooting hole. At the same time, Li Qinghe began to pinch the time.

After determining that the time was almost there, he took the lead and gently opened the door of the bunker.

The door creaked open, and everyone's nerves instantly tensed, guarding against the Japanese soldiers who were awakened. However, there was no movement inside the bunker. The three of them tiptoed in, only to see a large group of devils lying on the big table in front of them, a lot of food was placed on the table, and the entire bunker was full of alcohol, which made the three of them frown.

Gently pushed the drunk Japanese soldier, there was no reaction, as if he was dead, but seeing that the whole person was breathing, he should be asleep. "It works very well." Li Qinghe said softly, and the surrounding puppet soldiers also leaned against the wall of the bunker and fell asleep. "Zhang Niu, you go upstairs and see if the puppet army upstairs still has awakened?"

Zhang Niu nodded, quietly walked upstairs, looked at the environment, tried it, and then said: "I'm all asleep, I sleep like a dead pig, I can't wake up." "Okay, that's the end of this bunch of dog stuff." Saying that, Li Qinghe and Wang Ergou downstairs used their knives, one by one, and directly wiped the necks of all the little devils and puppet soldiers in front of them. A bloody breath spread through the bunker.

Soon, Zhang Niu walked down from the upper floor, the knife in his hand dripping with blood. "The four puppet soldiers upstairs are all dead."

"What about the third floor?"

"The third floor is where the Japanese army lived, and I looked around, but I didn't see anyone."

Li Qinghe nodded, "I'm 6 Japanese soldiers and 4 puppet soldiers, all of them have been killed." There should be no Japanese puppet army in the stronghold, we don't have much time, hurry up and move things. ”

When the two were about to move things, Li Qinghe suddenly remembered something and asked, "Where is the carriage?" Is the carriage there? ”

"In. It's just in the back, I just saw it. "Then you will move your things to the wagon and speed up. I'll look and see if there's anything else I can harvest. ”

"Yes."