The broad Wusuli River is more than a thousand meters wide. On the other side of the river is the Manchu checkpoint. Before the heavy snow closed the mountain last year, Ye Qiu led a group of soldiers across the river from here. They met the veterans on the other side and lived there again. In Xiaotumen Village.
At that time, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed at the checkpoints and the local people were so impressed by the volunteers that they had the heads of Rakshasa ghosts hanging under the horses' necks, strict discipline, and money for food and housing. Everything about them made these people incomparable. of admiration and admiration.
The hearts and minds of the people on both sides of the Ussuri River have been competed for countless times by the Volunteer Army this winter. Men in the White Mountains and Black Waters will not be unconvinced as long as the Far East Volunteer Army is mentioned.
A major counterattack was about to begin in the spring. As soon as I heard that the Volunteer Army was collecting grain and grass, many of the veteran cart drivers wanted to take revenge on Rakshasa ghosts without any money, so they threw themselves into the work of transporting grain without hesitation.
At its busiest time, two thousand carts could pass through the ice at Xiaotumen Village Ferry in a day, and the traffic flowed day and night.
But today, at the most critical moment of the war, the traffic flow on the ice suddenly stopped. There should be a continuous flow of traffic, but in front of Sister Wu, there were only eleven large vehicles traveling on the ice more than a thousand meters across. Countless carriages were blocked on the shore, but the checkpoints refused to let them through.
"Let's go! Let's cross the river and take a look. I want to see what kind of medicine they sell in the gourd!" Kirigakure led two hundred cavalrymen with a gloomy face, rushed onto the ice and headed towards the checkpoint.
The head of the checkpoint at the moment was the veteran who led Ye Qiu years ago. He was sitting on the kang with a sad face, smoking a cigarette. The wrinkles on his face were twisted into flowers. A soldier next to him urged him, "We can Whatever we can do, we can do whatever the superiors tell us to do, and don’t be angry."
"You're so conscience-stricken! What a shameful thing you did!" The old soldier banged his pipe pot on his head and cursed.
"It's better to lose one's conscience than to lose one's head. We can't twist our little arms and legs any better than the general." Just as he was persuading, the wooden door was suddenly knocked open and a sentry rushed in, carrying a cold wind.
"Are you going to die? What if the wolf chases him away?" the veteran opened his mouth and cursed.
"No, brother, please go out and take a look. The female general from the Volunteer Army is here. It is the Japanese female general who rushed over with more than 200 cavalry."
"Oh my God! This is an indictment. Just say I'm not here." Before he could finish, he heard a noise outside. Sister Wu yelled loudly, "Where is the old soldier? Let him come out to see me." Before he could finish his words There was a loud bang as the wooden door was kicked open, and a cold wind blew in.
The old soldier jumped down from the kang with a bang, and said with a smile, "I have seen the general, the war ahead is urgent, why do you have time to come here? Make tea quickly, make good tea!"
"That's enough! I'm not just quarreling with you. I'm asking you, why don't you open it up? So many large vehicles are blocked on the west bank, but there are only a dozen large vehicles crossing the river on the ice. What do you mean? ?”
The old soldier sighed and said with an embarrassed look on his face, "This is not an intentional embarrassment! It's really caused by the cracking of the ice downstream and there have been several accidents. There are orders from above to be careful when crossing the river. You cannot pass ten large vehicles at a time."
"I know it's important for the army to fight, so I secretly increased the number of vehicles crossing the river each time. As you know, I'm a veteran leader, whose orders can't be obeyed?"
"Baga!" Zhu Shanchiu yelled, "Do you think our intelligence agents are all blind? The Heishui Village downstream is just a hole in the fishing ice broken by a few fishermen, and a few people fell in, but no one died. You dare to say that there is something wrong with the ice? You are deliberately deceiving the volunteers!"
After saying that, the sword on his waist was half unsheathed with a clang, and a murderous aura suddenly filled the sentry post. The sentry was suddenly panicked, and the two soldiers turned pale with fright. "Sir, we are just soldiers who listen to orders. We don't know anything. Who gave the order that we must not obey?”
Sister Wu stopped Zhu Shanchi. She walked up to the veteran leader and looked at him calmly. "We volunteers are here to save the lives of the survivors on the other side. You know best what we have done! You really are not prepared to fight with me." Tell the truth?"
The veteran's face turned red and white in turns, and he was extremely conflicted in his heart. He recalled the scenes that the volunteers had done this winter, with mixed feelings in his heart. Finally, he slapped his thigh suddenly and said with a grimace.
"Sir! Let me make it clear. It is an order from above not to allow these military rations and horse supplies to cross the river. I don't know the specific reason. I am not an official."
"But the last time I went to the camp to receive a mission, I secretly drank with my old buddies. At that time, they revealed the news that the supplies left by the volunteers on the east bank of the Ussuri River would sooner or later be made cheaper by outsiders. It seems that the above Something has changed!”
Sister Wu's face changed greatly, "Be specific."
"Please, sir, I am a veteran and only know this little! I really don't know anything else."
The Kirigakure kid threw him away and rushed out of the house. Looking at the countless people around the river embankment, she suddenly got on her horse and shouted, "Fellow folks from the Far East! If you still have a heart, tell us what happened. ! You know very well what kind of army we are and what we are here to do."
"Maeda Yujiro! Lead a group of brothers to spread out and go deep into the border hinterland to find out the enemy's situation for us."
"Yes, General!" Maeda Yujiro was about to rush to the west with a squad of cavalry. At this moment, a figure suddenly emerged from the crowd, and it was the security chief of Xiaotumen Village.
He yelled with tears on his face, "You can't go! Now thirty miles to the west of the border, officers and soldiers from the imperial court have been hoarded. It is said that strict orders have been issued. Any volunteer army who dares to go deep into the border thirty miles will be killed."
"General, leave quickly, we can't stay here anymore!"
The security chief rushed forward, but a roar suddenly rang out from the crowd, "You bastard, how dare you betray the court!" With a whoosh, a sharp arrow shot straight into the back of the security chief's heart.
Just hearing the sound of a gunshot, the sniper behind Sister Wu opened fire quickly. The bullet hit the shoulder of Xiao Zuo in the crowd. At that moment, the bow and arrow missed a little. The arrow did not hit the back of the ship, but hit Xiaotumen on the bow. The shoulder blades of the village chief.
Zhu Shanchi jumped off the horse and hugged the security guard who was about to fall. "Be careful! Quickly remove the first aid kit."
"It's too late, please leave quickly. Although we don't know what happened to the court, I saw the news of the border blockade with my own eyes. General Jilin has already turned his back. Please cross the river quickly."
The scene was in chaos, and the uninformed people looked around and didn't know what to do. But at this moment, two strong horses galloped from the northwest direction of the avenue, and the white mist sprayed from their mouths and noses rushed far away.
On horseback were two local hunters, who were peripheral members of the CIA's new exhibition this winter. When they saw Sister Wu's flag, they roared excitedly.
"Hurry up and leave now! The enemy is ten miles away, and they are all Rakshasa ghosts! The Rakshasa ghost cavalry is coming!"
