Tian Sanqi, who was sleeping on his stomach, opened his eyes and wanted to move his body, only to find a heartbreaking pain coming from his back.
After being dazed for a while, he remembered the scene before he fainted, and his eyes slowly opened wide.
Thinking slowly returned to normal.
It was dark everywhere, and there was a faint sound of people shouting and horses neighing.
I endured the pain and got ready. As soon as I moved, I felt pain in my back that was so painful that my heart and lungs hurt. I bared my teeth and said, "Ah..."
However, when he touched the familiar loose turning block beside the kang, he finally knew that he was back at his station.
In the darkness, there was a creaking sound, and someone pushed the door open and came in.
Chi... the person lit a match in the darkness, and a dim light flashed out.
An oil lamp was lit.
"Platoon leader, are you awake?" A barefoot and shirtless young man came to the bedside and looked at Tian Sanqi who was turning his head with excitement. Without waiting for Tian Sanqi to answer, he continued: "I I’m going to get you something to eat, Wang Xiaosan even left stewed pork specially for you, platoon leader…”
"Hey...Zhu Er? Come back here..."
"What's the matter? Platoon leader..." Zhu Er stopped and turned around.
"How about we platoon the casualties in the evening? Uh...where's the stewed pork?"
"We have killed twelve players and injured more than thirty... There are also two brothers who were seriously injured. I don't know if they can survive..." Zhu Er's tone became deeper.
In the dim light, the two of them suddenly fell silent.
He took seventy or eighty people to pretend to be security forces, and even sneaked into the enemy's den. He suddenly stabbed the enemy in the back, two against one, and the casualties still exceeded the enemy!
Only then did Zhu Er remember that the platoon leader had asked about the pork, and quickly added, "Well, about the pork stew, after Lao Qin received the news today that Lao Meng sent people to bring back the Ninth Company, he specially sent someone to ask the security forces in the artillery tower to find a way to do it. A few kilograms of pork. Unexpectedly, the security forces brought back half a piece of pork directly from the enemy war zone! "
"Are all the soldiers seriously injured?"
"Hey, platoon leader, please don't feel bad about this. Most of our injured brothers were injured while fighting with the Japanese with bayonets. They seem to be severely injured, but no muscles or bones are broken. They will be injured in ten days at most." Man!"
"Lao Meng and the others were attacked by the Japanese. What were the casualties?"
Captain Meng and his group of more than 200 people had more than 120 dead and more than 50 injured... If the company commander hadn't come up with reinforcements later, they would have been almost wiped out! If they hadn’t brought ordinary people over to dig trenches, I don’t think there would even be enough people to carry stretchers..."
Company Commander, they didn't suffer much loss, right? Tian Sanqi deliberately asked the company commander last because he believed that the company commander was invincible!
"The secret agent platoon lost two soldiers and several were injured. The Tang dog squad suffered more than half of its casualties! The mule squad suffered five injuries and one did not die!"
"Why is it so noisy outside?"
"The company commander and the others have just returned from burying their fallen comrades and are eating. They heard from the instructor that they have to go to Gaoping overnight..."
"Back to Gaoping overnight? Back to the security team? What happened?" Tian Sanqi held back the pain and struggled to stand up, but his vision went dark and he almost fainted again.
"Platoon commander, please don't move. You're seriously injured... I heard that a large number of bandits are attacking Commander Sun in the north and want to seize territory..."
"Hurry up and help me up!" Tian Sanqi was anxious.
"No, Comrade Liu said, your injury is not serious, you cannot get up and move, you need to rest!"
"Damn it, what I said doesn't work anymore?"
"How about I call the instructor?"
"Old Qin? Let's forget it!" Tian Sanqi was shocked. If Old Qin arrived, he would have to chat with him in the middle of the night until dawn: "Have all the Japanese been killed?"
"Hey, we captured a prisoner! When the company commander and the others rushed to Lao Meng's hillside, the Japanese took advantage of the darkness and escaped for most of the time...Listen to me..."
Lao Qin sat across from Hu Yi at the table: "Everything is ready. Do you really want to rest for a while before leaving?"
"You can also take turns sleeping in the carriage. With so many wounded people, it will be hard on you!" Hu Yi did not raise his head and gestured on the map under the oil lamp.
"The station is not at peace these days. I will leave overnight after you leave. I have to find a way to send the wounded back to the wine station!" Old Qin exhaled a puff of smoke that filled the light.
When we went out, there were more than 100 people in the secret service platoon, and we unexpectedly encountered a security team of more than 100 people led by Lao Zhou and Yatou. More than 30 people were killed and more than 50 people were injured. The Ninth Company still suffered nearly 100 casualties when they went out this time. Half!
Lao Qin was smoking the cigarette that the girl had brought to him on a special trip. The flame on the cigarette end flickered and flickered.
After a while, Hu Yi continued to ask without raising his head: "Are you sure there is nothing wrong with these new recruits?"
"They are all ordinary people who cannot survive in enemy-occupied areas. Their backgrounds have been investigated and they are clean. Many of them have relatives who died at the hands of the Japanese and hate the Japanese."
"Have you ever shot a gun?"
"Everyone shot three times!"
Hu Yi was silent. He was a new soldier. Every time he fought, it was the new soldiers who sacrificed the most.
Seeing that Hu Yi didn't say anything, Lao Qin continued: "There is a pair of cloth shoes for everyone in those bags. Whether they fit or not... I don't know. Anyway, just make do with it. They are all those who have escaped from trouble." What the women drove out, although it is a bit rough, is actually thick..."
Hu Yi interrupted Lao Qin's nagging: "I saw a lot of villagers from Jiuzhan Village stationed there. Why have they all come from outside the mountains?"
"Zaijiu sent a batch of supplies some time ago. They are here to help transport them back to the mountains this time."
"Transport it into the mountain? Didn't you cut nine and send them directly to the turret at the foot of the mountain?" Hu Yi took his eyes away from the map on the table, looked at the oil lamp and fell into deep thought.
"is there a problem?"
Hu Yi always felt that something was wrong, and after thinking for a long time, he could not figure it out: "During the military division, the Japanese approached a cavalry brigade, but gave up the pursuit of the military division, and only sent the security forces to carry out an encirclement and suppression! The division leader analyzed that the Japanese must be carrying out some conspiracy..."
Lao Qin was surprised: "The military division is so far away from us, can it have anything to do with us?"
"After the military division withdrew from this area, the Japs seemed to have forgotten this place. Do you think this is possible with the Japs' temper?" Hu Yi finally grasped something unusual.
"What you're saying... I don't seem to feel at ease... By the way, the militiamen discovered many strangers in this area a few days ago. They pretended to seek refuge with relatives. Could it be that... we are being targeted by the devils? Are you on?" Lao Qin suddenly remembered something.
Hu Yi's eyes fell on the map again: "The blockade line is in the east, and a blockade ditch has been dug in the south. In the hills to the west, the enemy could not dig a blockade trench, but they built a blockhouse at the foot of the mountain. To the north is the defense area of the county government and the district team, and the county government also Over there...there’s something wrong with this!”
Lao Qin pointed to the map with red circles and blue lines: "With our station as the center, the people reclaimed a lot of wasteland, and Zeng Nansheng sent a lot of seeds, and finally the crops were planted, but I didn't know these Can the crops survive the cold winter?"
"Have you solved the water problem?" Hu Yi looked at Lao Qin, a little surprised.
"How else can we solve the problem? That is, on the side near the blockade, we arranged for people to dig a few deep wells, and carried people on their shoulders to carry the water back to the base area. However, there was too much land being reclaimed, and a few buckets of water were poured into the ground in the morning. It’ll be gone again before it gets dark!”
"Can't we dig a ditch?"
"There is no way, the terrain where a well can be drilled is too low, and the water cannot flow to higher places..."
“Then wouldn’t it be enough to open up areas with poor terrain and low ability to drill wells?”
"That's not possible. The places with water are less than ten miles away from the gun towers built by the Japanese. We can only carry water to irrigate the fields in the middle of the night."
"The price is too high. Since there are so many people, you never thought of moving all these people to the mountains!"
"Go to the mountains? Why? We finally developed a base in the plains. We can't go back to the mountains!"
There was another moment of silence.
Hu Yi suddenly spoke again: "I feel... the situation is not good. The Japanese are definitely not so kind and deliberately let the people come to our base area surrounded by dangers. They probably want us to think that there is not much danger on the plains and relax our vigilance." Take the initiative to go out, and then catch them all."
"What you said doesn't seem to be unreasonable...According to what you said, it is really possible..."
"Without further delay, in the next few days, starting with the villages in the west, we will send militiamen to surround the villages, and transfer the villagers away one by one. If they stay here, there will be no output from farming, leaving some trustworthy ones in Just stay there!
"But now there are too many old, weak, women and children in the village. Many of their husbands, brothers and fathers have been captured by the Japanese, so they are not willing to leave at all!"
"Don't those people believe that the Japanese will come here sooner or later?"
"But the Japanese didn't come! It's just that they all live in the west! It's hard to persuade them to leave..."
"Confused! We only have such a big place here. Even if it's on the periphery, can't they pass on information through these villagers? I understand. The devils just know that there aren't many people here, so they didn't take action. Cutting nine can be sent back smoothly. This batch of food is probably a trap set by the Japanese, who want to catch all the troops coming out of the mountains!"
"Huh? Is the situation that serious?"
"I'm just making a guess. I have to ask insiders to find out the specific situation!"
Hu Yi suddenly thought of another thing: "If you send the wounded into the mountain, there should be no problem. When you get back, tell the regiment leader and political commissar not to send troops out of the mountain easily!
"All right."
Hu Yi was silent again, looking at the map in trance, constantly connecting the only clues he had, but still couldn't find a breakthrough.
The Ninth Company learned the methods of the task force. After dispersing, they put on the black uniforms of the reconnaissance team. They could fight guerrillas in enemy-occupied areas without any problem.
But those ordinary people who came here are just a burden if they come now...
During his absence, Lao Qin was like an old hen, having to find food and protect his young. During the day, the injured veterans of the Ninth Company led the new recruits for training, and at night, he held ideological meetings and took care of the soldiers. In daily life, they inquired about the enemy and solved trivial household matters among the villagers. Fortunately, these recruits also regarded water fetching as part of their training, so these women, children, old and weak people saw hope.
Hu Yi'er listened to Lao Qin's ramblings, and his mind wandered.
