In the early morning, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, the biting cold wind poured into the house from the opened door.
A dark figure gently knocked on the door. There was only a slight snore in the room. The dark figure pushed the door open and entered. He walked to the kang and pushed the dark figure on the kang.
As the people in the room came out, someone struck a match in the dark night. In the dim light, the face of Captain Ou appeared behind a middle-aged man. A team stood in the dark in the open space. Seeing the people in the room coming out, The torch was immediately lit, and as the oiled torch shook and crackled, the area illuminated by the light became wider and wider.
With the sound of equipment clinking, people sleeping in other rooms were very alert, and some did not light up lights. Some people who were not aware of the situation put their heads out with their clothes on and looked around.
He was immediately persuaded to go back by the soldier standing at the door.
After walking half the alley, young staff officer Liu Manhe returned to the front of the team in the open space and began to count the number of people. After reporting the count in a low voice, he turned and went directly to Captain Ou who was standing by the torch: "Report to the captain, it should be thirty-four There are actually thirty-four people. The team has been assembled. Please give instructions!"
"Take a break."
As a few middle-aged people came out of the darkness, they whispered to each other, occasionally laughing.
Captain Ou turned to the men wearing patched Eighth Route Army uniforms to salute, then turned around and looked at young Staff Officer Liu: "Be careful along the way to ensure the safety of the leaders!"
"Promise to complete the mission!" Liu Manhe couldn't restrain his excitement and saluted: "Hey, don't worry, we studied it most of the night yesterday!"
A sturdy middle-aged man in his forties smiled: "Liu Manhe, the seventeen-year-old staff officer in our team, you are a good boy. Come on, I will take you to enjoy the autumn breeze and have a good meal at the same time."
"yes!"
There was no march, no slogans, and the team set off quietly. Captain Ou followed behind and sent them to the outside of the village. After explaining many things to pay attention to on the way to Staff Liu again, he watched the team slowly go away.
One squad took the lead to head south. The two soldiers at the front held torches and walked in front to act as vanguards. From time to time, they exchanged commands with secret sentries on the roadside. The headquarters security squad followed closely behind, and the soldiers from the two squads behind the spy platoon pulled together. At the end of the long line, there were still two soldiers who were guarding against tracking.
It was still more than an hour before dawn, and we had to walk more than 60 miles over mountains and ridges.
The mountain road is not easy to walk ten miles in an hour. In the mountains, it is impossible to maintain this speed even if your physical strength is weak.
The dark broken house was densely packed with people, and raincoats were spread on the ground. The soldiers all slept in their clothes, almost in groups of two, with one person’s quilt used to spread the floor and one person’s bed used to cover it. This was at least better than one person sleeping. A person is much warmer when wrapped in a quilt.
As for the sleeping position, I dare not be respectful.
The roosters at the bottom of the mountain stretched their necks and began to compete with each other to see who could make louder sounds. Their sounds were scurrying around in the darkness.
A certain person really couldn't sleep with his ugly eyes open, listening to the sound of a cock crow coming from the gap in the wall: "Your grandma's crow is really inappropriate!"
"Squad leader, you can't mess around here!" Xu Xiao, who was half asleep next to him, muttered and turned over.
"Little one, the monitor can't sleep now."
"What's wrong?" he replied confusedly.
"Listen to the sounds at the foot of the mountain, how many chickens must there be!" Luo Fugui was so angry that he had two night owl eyes, so that he could see clearly where those sounds were coming from.
Didn't hear Xu Xiao's answer.
"Can you two be quiet for a while?" A voice next to him was filled with anger.
Luo Fugui saw Xu Xiao asleep and was too lazy to pay attention to Tang Dagou next to him.
The sky in the east finally turned white.
On a gentle slope halfway up the mountain, the wind was very cold. Hu Yi opened his eyes in the darkness.
My whole body was a little sore, maybe from the sweat from climbing, and my clothes were a little sticky. After sitting up, I put on my cotton-padded clothes and held the rifle with one hand to untie the tent.
The air in the mountains is a bit dry, and there are many people sleeping beside the fire in the mountain col.
Two figures are busy.
With the faint light of dawn in the east, we roughly figured out our direction in the darkness.
With a clear metallic click, the shiny silver watch case popped open, and the shiny silver dial came close to my eyes, but I couldn't see the position of the hands clearly. A slight vibration was transmitted to my hands. I walked a few steps next to the fire, and by the light of the fire I could barely see the angle between the beautiful hands.
I found the location where I discovered the situation yesterday, estimated the distance, closed my pocket watch and put it back in my pocket, raised the telescope and began to slowly turn left and right from the target position to the target position to observe slowly.
"Everyone. Assemble!"
Ten minutes later, the soldiers on guard duty from the secret service battalion also came to the student dormitory again.
The team ate boiling porridge and had a rough meal of dry food.
When I came out, I didn't bring a military pot with me, and the kettle was burned black.
"Captain Hu, go around the cliff in front. There is a four-way intersection. The south road can go directly to the division headquarters. Now the division has been blocked. You can't get through. You can go down the mountain and cross the river. You can go around it. Go up and continue north. The road is not easy to walk, so if we set off now, it will take about three hours to reach the location you mentioned."
"Can you lead the way?"
"We set up a double sentry. There are not many people here. The squad leader asked me to take you there."
"Then let's go."
The team began to go down at a very fast speed. The sky was not fully bright, and the path could only be vaguely seen. There was a sound underfoot, and the loosened soil and stones rushed down the mountain.
After reaching the fork in the road, the team climbed up quickly, panting.
This is north of the division headquarters. The team is traveling in a northerly direction. The mountain road is not easy to walk. If there are people on the mountain, the team cannot cover their tracks at all.
If there were really many people on the mountain, the team would not be able to take advantage at all. Therefore, Hu Yi did not advance directly to the target, but went up to the ridge west of the target, and then eastward along the ridge.
To the east of the destination, a steep mountain range forms a valley chasm from south to north. A large river runs from north to south at the foot of the mountain, making it impossible to move eastward.
If there are really enemies at the destination, then the enemies have no other choice but to run north.
When daylight dawned, the team finally reached the top of the mountain again. The soldier from the secret service battalion exchanged commands with the sentry on the top of the mountain.
We all knew each other, so there was nothing to say.
Hu Yi stood at the highest point, holding a telescope and looking around. There should still be snow in the ditch that had not melted away, but it was so dark that he could not see it at all.
In the mist, the surroundings were desolate, and the county seat could be faintly seen in the southeast, with the mountain wind howling.
The team all went up the mountain ridge. When they saw Hu Yi observing, the soldiers immediately collapsed or sat down, talking nonsense in the northwest wind.
The team almost made a small circle around the mountain to the west of the division headquarters from the south. Unfortunately, the division headquarters below the mountain was shrouded in mist and dense forest, and nothing could be seen.
"What a mule, Erniu is behind you, why don't you go and help?"
The wind on the top of the mountain became stronger, the bushes were swaying, and the weeds were all tilted to one side. Luo Fugui spit out a mouthful of licorice residue and immediately became furious: "Isn't your grandma feeling uncomfortable?"
"You are our platoon leader, can't I care about you?"
"Go away, or I will kill you."
"Captain Hu, we can reach that place by walking east for another hour." The soldier from the secret service battalion turned back to Hu Yishen from his sentry position on the top of the mountain.
"Then let's leave quickly."
"Hey, I think it's too much to make a fuss about? Maybe our soldiers also carry mirrors or something like that?"
"If it were a mirror, it could just shine into my eyes from dozens of miles away. Do you think that's possible?"
"Huh? I don't seem to understand what you're talking about."
"Only reflections from telescopes can be large-scale, and he should be observing the mountain ridge on our side of the division headquarters, otherwise we wouldn't be able to detect it at all. If your brother on guard didn't bring a telescope, he would never have appeared. That kind of reflection." Hu Yi replied calmly.
"Telescopes? Our sentries definitely don't have them. This is really weird." The secret agent battalion soldier scratched his head: "What if there is really an enemy?"
"If there is a small group of enemies, eat them. If there is a large group of enemies, then entangle them and shoot as a warning to prevent the division from being caught off guard."
"They were able to reach the vicinity of our division headquarters. Are the Japs really that powerful?" The soldier from the secret service battalion couldn't believe it.
"Who knows?"
The telescope observing the due north direction was lifted from the eye frame, and after being lowered, a pair of cold, narrow eyes were revealed.
In the northwest sky, a large white cloud slowly came towards the south.
The first chapter will be updated continuously and will be updated later.
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