Amidst the flying snowflakes, accompanied by the sound of a gunshot, a kid riding a mule ventured out of the bandit's den before he understood what was going on. He was so angry that he fell off the back of the mule.
Almost immediately, a loud whistle and a vivid sound of horse braying and donkey braying came from the forest not far away.
The mule that was originally carrying people and galloping over the frozen stream didn't even understand what was going on, so it snorted happily and ran over!
At the foot of the mountain ridge, at the junction of the woodland and the frozen stream, Zhao Jinyu, who had just been imitating the braying of a horse and a donkey, easily grabbed the reins of the mule and tied it to a branch of a birch tree.
I checked the robes on my body.
"Bah! Special-coded poor beard!"
Zhao Jinyu cursed and spit out thick phlegm. There were only two small bags of concentrated feed for the mules and a bag of coarse salt in the bag.
The only thing that was of some use was the ragged mattress of wolf or dog skin spread under the saddle.
Such a gain was really dispensable for him, a new soldier who had just joined the Anti-Alliance.
But he didn't know that, let alone the saddle and the mules he had just seduced, even if it was just this canvas bag and the few bags of concentrated feed prepared for the animals inside, what would it mean to the resisters headed by his eldest brother Zhao Jinge?
For allied soldiers, these are urgently needed supplies this winter.
On the mountain ridge behind him, Tian Xiaohu, who was riding on the branch of a pine tree, put down the telescope he had been holding, "It seemed to be directly on his back."
"Accidentally hit it crookedly"
Under the tree, Wei Ran loaded a new bullet into the Japs cavalry rifle in his hand and said unapologetically, "Just wait, there will definitely be bandits coming over to report the news. I won't kill the animals when the time comes."
people."
"What a great animal. It would be a waste to kill it." Tian Xiaohu muttered regretfully.
This place is only two to three hundred meters away from the mountain ridge where they used grenades to say "hello" to the bandits. However, because of the obstruction of the previous mountain ridge, the bandits on the top of the mountain had no chance of fighting without going down the mountain.
to them.
As for going down the mountain, only fools go down in a swarm, aren't they just waiting to be made dumplings by the "anti-alliance army"!
Unfortunately, the pass not far from the mountain ridge was the only way for them to go down the mountain to find shopkeeper Cao and the Japanese for help.
In other words, no matter which secret door the bandits used to leave their rat's nest, they would always pass through this Y-shaped frozen stream.
Although this stream is four to five meters wide, the water depth is only less than one meter even in summer.
Speaking of which, this stream was specially dug in the forest by Xu Laocai for gold mining.
Nowadays, the weather is getting colder, and the water surface is frozen and covered with a thick layer of snow, which has become a natural highway in the forest.
As long as you walk upstream along this stream, you can not only leave the forest and reach the main road via the Temple of Wealth, but you can also go around the other side to the secret camp of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Because of this, whether they are Japanese soldiers or bandits who want to cause trouble in the Anti-Union camp, they will choose to go here.
As for Langcaozigou, it is not impossible to walk, but it is a long way to go in a circle. In other words, the Anti-Japanese League took the risk to go there in order to avoid trouble and eyes and ears.
And this was the main reason why the young master of the Cao family was sure that Hu Bazhi would not be able to report the news to the Anti-Japanese Alliance before the Japanese arrived.
Fortunately, at least at this moment, it seems that even God is on the side of Wei Ran and the three of them.
Although the snow has not stopped now, it is much lighter, and even the wind has dispersed. With this, the visibility has naturally improved a lot.
On the treetops, Tian Xiaohu once again raised his telescope and pointed it at the bandit's den in the distance. Although he could not see the bandit's den because of the obstruction of the mountain ridge, he could still see a small section of the road that must be passed down the mountain.
road.
Under the mountain ridge, on the frozen stream, Zhao Jinyu turned over and rode on the big mule he had just seduced. He shouted at it and ran to the body that was not yet cool and leaned over to take a look.
“It’s pretty good”
Zhao Jinyu nodded with satisfaction, turned over, and took off the bandit's cotton robe and dog-skin hat, as well as the jingtan shoes on his feet and the cotton stuffing on his hands, and then took them out from his waist.
A worthless seven-nail box.
Rolling up these things randomly and stuffing them into the horse sack, Zhao Jinyu followed Wei Ran's previous request and put the corpse in a kneeling position. Then he rolled three snowballs and placed them on the top of the corpse's head and left and right shoulders.
Go up - this is just to satisfy Wei Ran's bad taste.
What’s the use of this?
Zhao Jinyu muttered to himself, got on his horse, yelled at the big mule and ran back to the forest at the foot of the mountain ridge.
As the three of them waited patiently, about ten minutes passed. Now, two bandits riding mules ran down the mountain and ran in this direction risking their lives.
"Here it comes, double yolk egg!"
While Tian Xiaohu in the treetops was talking, he had already picked up the Sanba Gai he was carrying on his shoulders and was ready. At the same time, he told him, "Just leave one person behind. You fight first."
"Can"
Wei Ran responded indifferently and waited patiently for a moment. When the two figures riding mules appeared in his field of vision, he immediately pulled the trigger!
"Bang!"
After the gunfire, a cloud of blood mist erupted from the neck of the big mule that the bandit in front was riding. He followed a large dog and chewed shit, rolled and fell into the snow.
Behind him, another bandit saw that the situation was not good, and immediately lowered his figure, almost clinging to the mule's body and cracking his whip desperately, urging the big animal under him to run as fast as he could!
"Bang!"
Wei Ran raised the muzzle of his gun and fired the second shot casually, urging the other bandit to whip the whip harder.
"Bang!"
Before the bandit who had fallen off his mule could get up, another bullet accurately knocked off the dog-skin hat on his head. This shot came from Tian Xiaohu.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Grandpa, spare my life!" The bandit who reported the news went out of his way to kneel on the snow with his hands raised in the air.
"Put your head up" came a shout from behind him.
Not daring to hesitate at all, the bandit immediately straightened his waist and raised his hands higher.
It was through this action that he could clearly see that in the snow not far away, there was a "Bai Jian Man" with a gun in his back and snowballs piled on his head and shoulders. He clearly remembered it.
, the other party went to report the news to the big shopkeeper before him.
Before he could figure it out, the weapons on his body were taken off by the person standing behind him. Immediately afterwards, he saw their eldest young master walking up to him, bending down and picking up his dog-skin hat.
However, when the eldest young master turned around, he realized that it was not their eldest young master at all. He had never seen him before!
"You know me?" Tian Xiaohu said, patting the dog skin hat in his hand clean and putting it on the bandit's head again.
"I know... I know you," the bandit nodded and said, "I know the set of leaves on Shangpai Qin's body."
"It's with your eldest young master, or it belongs to your second young master."
Zhao Jinyu said, showing the box gun he was carrying to the other party, "Do you know this Xiangzi?"
"I know you," the bandit said immediately, "from our young master's family."
"Just knowing each other"
Zhao Jinyu said, throwing the reins of the mule he had just captured to the other party, "Go and deliver a message from your shopkeeper Cao. He wants his son to live. Take five hundred catties of white-faced sorghum, two hundred catties of vermicelli, and fifty catties of tobacco leaves."
, one hundred sets of cotton-padded clothes. If you still can’t see anything or anyone by noon, have you seen that?”
Looking in the direction of Zhao Jinyu's finger, the bandit once again saw his companion who was kneeling in worship.
"The ones kneeling here then will be the two young masters and more than a hundred bandits from your kiln."
"Yes, yes, yes! We must bring the words here!" the bandit said, and he was about to climb onto the mule without its belt.
"Wait a minute, who gave you the special code to let you go?"
Zhao Jinyu cleared his throat and asked, "How many Japs were there in your village just now?"
"There are...more than 200 people." The bandit quickly replied, "There are also more than 100 Imperial Army troops."
"That's all?"
Zhao Jinyu suppressed the panic in his heart and muttered according to the script Wei Ran gave him in advance, and then said, "I'll tell you in black terms, Shopkeeper Cao, our Commander Zhao said that if he is willing to help eat these Japanese and puppet troops,
, the two young masters can go back alive, and all the things and property captured in the end will belong to you, and Xiangzi will also share half of it with you."
After a short pause, Zhao Jinyu continued, "If Shopkeeper Cao agrees, use the sound of the cannons from our side as a signal. When the cannons go off, you will take action. If you don't agree, just wait and feed the wolves with the Japanese!"
Get lost!"
"We must bring the words to you!"
Before the bandit could finish his words, he had already quickly mounted his mule and disappeared without a trace.
How the hell can you deceive shopkeeper Cao Da?
Zhao Jinyu couldn't help muttering again, and when the bandit completely disappeared from sight, he immediately ran back to the mountain ridge and informed Wei Ran and Tian Xiaohu of the information he asked about.
"A Japanese squadron, plus a hundred puppet troops?"
Tian Xiaohu was a little confused for a moment, but soon he rubbed his face vigorously, "Then we have to lure them over!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran sighed silently. A few of them might be able to attract these three to four hundred enemies, but they would never be able to survive the pursuit of so many enemies.
Zhao Jinyu had obviously thought of this as well. The young man also rubbed his face and said expectantly, "I don't know how many we can kill."
"Be prepared"
After Tian Xiaohu finished speaking, he climbed up the tall pine tree again, and the mountain ridge returned to calm. Even in the direction of the bandits' den, no one was sent out to die.
Almost an hour passed before and after, Tian Xiaohu in the treetop suddenly said, "Here we come!"
Hearing this, Wei Ran, who was smoking against a tree, immediately put out his cigarette butts. He and Zhao Jinyu picked up the grenade tubes at hand one after another, and then each picked up a grenade and got ready.
“Almost there”
In the treetops, Tian Xiaohu held up his telescope and reminded, "The ones walking in the front seem to be the gangsters. It seems that there are only shopkeeper Cao and his four beams and eight pillars. It's over. They probably don't have the courage to attack the Japanese."
The puppet troops are in the back, and the Japanese are in the back! Good guy! A bunch of mule sledges! There seems to be cannons on them! No, something is wrong!"
"What's wrong?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked.
"I made a rough estimate. There are definitely less than a hundred Japs, but there are about a hundred puppet troops!" Tian Xiaohu exclaimed, "It's bad! Not all the Japs have come! They must have divided their forces! Maybe the captain's side
There is still danger!”
"Then we have to fight. Come down quickly!"
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already stuffed the grenade into the barrel.
After a while, Tian Xiaohu climbed down from the tree, raised his 38 cap as a pusher and loaded the gun, "The Japanese must die, and so does the manager of Cao Da. Let's tie up his son. This time the beam is bigger.
If he survives, he will definitely bring his gang to cause trouble for us."
"Can you hit it accurately?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
"no problem!"
Tian Xiaohu said, already placing the gun in his hand on the branch of a birch tree.
At the same time, Wei Ran finally saw the large army walking back along the frozen stream through the gaps between the trees.
Soon, this large army got closer and closer, and finally stopped in front of the bandit who was kneeling on the ground, his body covered with a layer of snow.
"Let's get started"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he and Zhao Jinyu beside him had already pulled the firing trigger of the grenade.
"Tum! Tum! Bang!"
As soon as the two grenades were fired, Tian Xiaohu opened fire and fired a bullet. Then he threw the rifle in his hand over his shoulder and picked up the two grenades.
"Boom! Boom!"
Almost at the same time that shopkeeper Cao Da was shot in the chest and fell from his horse on the snow, two grenades exploded in the middle and rear of the team. At the same time, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu also each picked up the grenade.
A second grenade was inserted into the barrel.
"Tum! Tum!"
As soon as these two rounds were fired, the shells Tian Xiaohu held in his hand were also inserted into the muzzle.
"Tum! Tum!"
After two more blasts, two grenades produced by themselves exploded in the Japs team again.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Before the fourth round was fired, the Japanese counterattack came first, and the surrounding trees shook off the snow from their bodies under the impact of the bullets.
The three Wei Ran people lying in the snow did not stop or retreat. They fired the fourth and fifth rounds of grenades with bullets flying above their heads.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
At just this moment, grenades from the Japanese on the opposite side also came up, and the closest ones to them were probably less than 20 meters away.
"Last round! Prepare to withdraw!"
Wei Ran said, stuffing the grenade in his hand into the barrel, and he and Zhao Jinyu quickly pressed the trigger one after another.
"Tum! Tum!"
Two more grenades flew out. Without even waiting for them to explode, Wei Ran called on Zhao Jinyu and ran behind him. At the same time, Tian Xiaohu also picked up his schoolbag with not many anti-personnel grenades left.
He turned around and followed the two of them.
"Boom! Boom!"
There were two more explosions coming from the Japs, but Wei Ran didn't know that the shot he fired only killed four or five Japs here and there, but it was actually the last shell fired by Zhao Jinyu in panic.
Although it failed to hit the Japanese, it accidentally hit the sledge on which the only Type 92 mountain gun was "riding"!
Unfortunately, Wei Ran and the other three did not have time to look back and confirm the outcome of the battle, so they risked their lives by jumping off the mountain ridge, each mounted their horses or mules, and while firing randomly, began to retreat in the direction where the guns had been buried.
Of course, neither the three Wei Ran nor the Japanese or puppet soldiers who were chasing behind them noticed that with the death of shopkeeper Cao Da, the four beams and eight pillars around him also took advantage of the chaos to leave the frozen stream.
He burrowed into the surrounding woods and completely lost his shadow.
Not to mention the little calculations of the bandits, although the three of Wei Ran ran away, the Japanese who were seduced were extremely cautious. Under the cover of the grenade, they drove the puppet troops they brought to attack from the front.
On the deserted mountain ridge, a team of Japanese soldiers was also dispatched to make a detour from the side.
As expected by Wei Ran, after the Japs finished their trick and successfully occupied the uninhabited mountain ridge, they immediately sent a team to chase them along the horse hoof prints left by them, and successfully detonated the guns.
For a moment, after a series of muffled sounds and sporadic gunshots, a series of screams rang out in the forest.
During this series of tricks, the three of Wei Ran stopped again, dismounted as quickly as possible, set up the grenades, and fired three rounds of grenades at the maximum range behind them.
After a series of explosions or no explosions but smoke and fire, the three Weiran men mounted their horses again and ran in an unknown direction under the leadership of Tian Xiaohu.
Sure enough, after this provocation, the Japanese behind them actually chased them with the puppet troops.
At the same time, some Japanese soldiers and puppet troops rushed towards the bandits' den with the wounded from before.
"One more round!"
Seeing that the pursuers behind him were once again pulled away from each other and even blocked by the trees and could no longer be seen, Wei Ran dismounted again, raised the grenade and fired another smoke grenade purely to scare ghosts.
Almost at the front and back, Zhao Jinyu and Tian Xiaohu each used their guns to fire randomly at the invisible enemies behind them, just to make them continue to follow.
"How many shells are left?" Wei Ran asked as he got on his horse again.
"There are five more bombs that can explode, and three more flares."
Tian Xiaohu, who was responsible for carrying the artillery shells, immediately replied that before this, Wei Ran had taught them how to distinguish different grenades.
“It should work”
Wei Ran gained some confidence. Although the snow was much lighter, as long as the distance was 300 meters away, even if there were no trees blocking it, there was no way he could see clearly.
This undoubtedly gave them considerable confidence. As long as they kept such a distance and firepower, the Japanese behind them would most likely be chasing them, and they would also have a great chance of getting out alive.
"How about we get close and give them a good beating?" Zhao Jinyu came up with a bold idea impulsively.
"Come as close as you can!"
Tian Xiaohu hurriedly expressed the latter's worries before Wei Ran could speak, "The Japs like to contain the enemy from the front and outflank them in a roundabout way. At this time, a group of them may have already come around from the side. Run quickly and climb over this beam before talking!"
"Go quickly"
Seeing what Zhao Jinyu wanted to say, Wei Ran reached out and slapped the other horse's butt, urging the black horse to run again.
However, as the saying goes, what you are afraid of will come true. When the three of them finally climbed up the mountain ridge on horseback, they unexpectedly saw a large group of Japanese soldiers and a small number of puppet troops on the opposite hillside, pulling skirmishers upward.
climb!
"It's over there!"
Just at this moment, a puppet soldier who was walking at the front spotted them first. He shouted and raised the rifle in his hand!
"Bang! Bang!"
Wei Ran and Tian Xiaohu, who was less than a second behind him, each shot, hitting the puppet soldier's chest one after another!
"Run!"
Wei Ran didn't have time to cover up, so he directly put away the box cannon in his hand, and slapped the black horse riding in a daze, Zhao Jinyu, on the butt again!
"Crack!"
This crisp slap immediately made the black horse run! Zhao Jinyu almost subconsciously lowered his body and lay on the horse's back, and at the same time pulled the reins, letting the horse run back to the bottom of the mountain ridge.
Almost at the same time, the Japanese and puppet troops on the other side of the ridge also opened fire one after another, hitting the trees on the top of the ridge and shaking off large swaths of snow, which was considered a curtain of snow for the three of them.
"Where to run!" Wei Ran, who was also galloping on horseback, shouted and asked.
"Move forward!" Tian Xiaohu responded loudly, "First keep the distance!"
"Do you think there will be a bunch of people waiting for us ahead?!"
Zhao Jinyu's flash of inspiration had already made Wei Ran and Tian Xiaohu's hearts sink to the bottom - they were very likely, no, almost certain, that they had been surrounded by enemies with an absolute numerical advantage!
