The smoke shrouded the face of instructor Qin, who had only received news of the Japanese raids half an hour ago.
Villagers are being organized to move north.
There are too many people in the village! The slow movements made him anxious.
The dry cigarette was bitter in my mouth. I stood at the entrance of the village and roared for a long time. The village finally calmed down. I asked the soldier next to me: "How is the situation over there with Lao Meng?"
"Uh...how do I know this?" The soldier was confused by the question.
Lao Qin realized that the soldiers had been busy arranging the transfer of villagers, so he said again: "Hurry up and call Chen Chong!"
"Yes!" the soldier said and turned around and ran away.
Chen Chong ran out of the village and said in a hoarse voice: "Instructor, are you looking for me?"
"Have all the people in the village been transferred?"
"They should all be gone. Those students are going from house to house. These students are doing a good job. I have to pass this experience back to the mountains."
Lao Qin shook his head: "In the mountains? It's not that easy."
"Why?" Chen Chong asked confused.
"Have you not noticed that the women here run faster than the women in our mountains?
"This is enemy-occupied territory. When they hear that the enemy is coming, of course they run fast."
Lao Qin sighed: "This is not the main reason. Most of the women who were able to escape here did not have their feet bound. Even if they were, the women's association established in the village during this period also asked them to forcibly release their feet, otherwise , How can their little feet run so fast!"
"Well, that's it."
"What do you think about these students?"
"It's not bad. My hometown is nearby. Lao Mengdu sent people to verify it. All the innocent people were left. There were only a few people from Tianjin. Their identities couldn't be checked for the time being. We have arranged for people to be sent to the regiment. ”
"When will the new student soldiers arrive?"
"I don't know. The regimental leader and political commissar didn't say anything when I left."
Qin You hesitated for a moment: "When will Company Commander Hu and the others come back? What mission are they going to perform?"
Chen Chong scratched his head: "We can't say this."
Qin You put the cigarette into his mouth, took a deep puff and threw it away: "Ahem, they have been away for two or three months. Now there are nearly two to three thousand villagers in this place. I can hardly bear it anymore."
“Don’t go to the county government yourself.”
"I got angry when I mentioned this matter. I sent someone to ask about it last year. There were few people at that time, and only a few dozen people reported it. As a result, the county consequences and I sent a commissioner to come over and issued a large number of documents. Dui, if you instruct us this way today and that way tomorrow, I’m almost at a loss here, and they actually have the nerve to ask us to collect military rations!”
Chen Chong knew a lot about the situation here: "Hey, this is still a national army guerrilla zone in name..."
"Lao Meng and his friends were originally operating here. We have been here for almost half a year, and we haven't even seen a shadow of the national army. Their guerrillas are not close."
"I said, let's just get another county government. You have to listen to them."
"Hurry and clear it again. There are too many people transferred this time. Wang Xiaosan can't deal with it alone. We have to catch up quickly."
...
Sitting in a mountain col at the foot of a mountain ridge, a small mountain village is located here.
There are only about ten households in total, and there are no signs of being burned by fire. The mountains are different from the plains. These places are so poor that even bandits are unwilling to visit them. The most important thing is to prevent wild beasts.
The Japanese's footprints did not reach this barren mountain.
The terrain in the mountains is dangerous, and the next step is all downhill. Marching at night is too risky.
We had to find a place to stay in a nearby village. Unfortunately, the people in the mountains did not accept the team arriving in the middle of the night!
Minister Zhang did not personally control the intelligence system, and he did not know whether there were any of his own people in the village. Now in the Kuomintang-controlled area, who knew whether there were informants from the military commander in the village, so he had to give up.
Hu Yi led the team and prepared to go directly to the temple outside the village to deal with it overnight.
More than twenty people crowded into a circle in a temple with ventilation on three sides.
There was a blazing bonfire in the middle, and a military pot hung on it. It was making a roaring noise. Hu Yi was hugging his knees in a daze next to the fire.
If you look carefully, there are about ten fewer people in the crowd compared to the number of people who came!
Four sentries went out.
There are also six missing people. They are all personnel brought by Minister Zhang from the division. They were not seen when they came back after going to the friendly forces together.
As for where they went, there is no need to think about it!
No one asked where those six people had gone. Everyone present knew the identity of Minister Zhang.
At this time, most people in the temple were craning their necks to listen intently: Minister Zhang was telling everyone present the history of the revolution.
Minister Zhang's cadenced voice, wild gestures, and spittle made the audience applaud, get excited, shout slogans, or sob...
outside the village.
There are only two roads going up and down the small mountain village, one east and one west. The east side goes down the mountain and the west side goes up the mountain.
Even in this mountain, the team was on guard duty as usual.
However, at the request of Minister Zhang, all those on guard duty were students who had already undergone ideological study.
The big dog who was guarding the east felt aggrieved. Listening to Minister Zhang talk about the history of the revolution was quite interesting. He felt strange that a person with such a big brain could remember such things.
He was very interested in listening to Minister Zhang talk about the history of revolution, but he was more interested in the fire in the temple.
It was a pity that he had to go out on guard duty and was paired with his old superior Luo Fugui. It was nothing for him to doze off now.
There was no choice but to huddle in a pile of firewood at the entrance of the village, holding a marching blanket and holding a gun, with only two eyes exposed.
Being on duty in the winter is a hard job.
The bear that dug a hole for firewood not far away has entered hibernation. Unless there are chickens, Luo Fugui will never wake up at this time.
A long and short snore came from the firewood pile, and then was blown away by the mountain wind.
In the middle of the night, there were almost no people walking outside the small mountain village.
Lu reminded people traveling in the cold night to be careful. He did not want to be a guest in Jiulian Company. Compared with his biological company commander Wang Peng, he cared more about the attention of Hu Yi, the company commander of Ninth Company. He felt that he had begun to have a relationship at the wine station. The value of existence.
A light spot kept flashing under the mountain in the distance, appearing in the big dog's sight like a cold star in winter.
The big dog squinted for a while and estimated the distance. It was about four or five miles away. Someone should be walking at night in the mountainous area with a torch. It would take at least half an hour to reach the entrance of the village.
Although he didn't know who the person coming was, in Big Dog's eyes, those who were rushing around in the middle of the night were definitely not ordinary people.
Tang Dagou got out of the military blanket that had wrapped him tightly, shivered, and ran to the pile of firewood nearby to wake up the bear who was snoring and hibernating: "Mule, someone is coming down the mountain, hurry back to the temple. Report it."
Xiong opened his sleepy eyes and said, "Where did this short-lived ghost come from? He kept running around in the middle of the night, disturbing my sleep."
"This guy came from the foot of the mountain to the east. It's estimated to be four miles away. He will reach the sentry post in about half an hour at most from now on."
"It's still early then, go and call Boss Hu and the others."
Big Dog thought for a moment: "Hey, those people rushing around in the middle of the night are definitely not ordinary people..."
"You're right... What if this person is a rich man? I don't care where he comes from. Just wait a minute. I'll call two more people over and tie them up first." Xiong Yigulu came out of the den. Got out of it.
"Then you go and come back quickly." After Tang Dagou finished speaking, he handed over his lunch box: "Hey, why don't you bring me a box of hot porridge when you come back later."
(End of chapter)
