In the west wing, Zhao Jinyu and Li Sui'an, who had gotten up early to kill the Japanese, after eating and drinking, each covered his head with wine and went to sleep. Not long after, they were snoring loudly, and they were lost in their dreams. The one who drove away
Devils, and a world where no one is so hungry that he can’t even eat tree bark.
However, Wei Ran did not sleep. He was still sitting at the table by the window, carefully wiping the two box cannons, both light and dark, and the cavalry gun that had only fired two shots.
Today, there are only three bullets left in this cavalry rifle, but in the two box cannons, not only are all the magazines full of bullets, but there are also fifty or sixty rounds of surplus ammunition in the Kowloon belt worn on the body.
Just considering the "death battle" that followed, these bullets were inevitably a bit scarce. But obviously, the 400 bullets that Captain Ma and Company Commander Ma Jintao could give him were probably the limit.
Still have to rely on the saber...
Wei Ran sighed helplessly, put away his weapon and lay down on the kang, falling asleep soon after.
When he woke up, the sun was already rising outside the window, and faintly, uniform shouts of death could be heard.
Wei Ran subconsciously turned over, and after seeing Zhao Jinyu and Li Sui'an, who were still sleeping very soundly, Wei Ran, who woke up instantly, relaxed his tense subconscious nerves to some extent.
Even so, he carefully put on the Kowloon belt and fastened the cannon box, then pushed the door open and left the room, following the neat shouts of killing and looking for it.
Following the sound, he came to the threshing floor again. He soon saw that on this large threshing floor, there were warriors lined up in a square formation, wielding sabers and practicing hand-to-hand combat.
.
Farther away in the wild land, there were cavalrymen galloping on their horses. They would hide on the side of the horse, hold the saddle, dismount, gallop for a few steps and then get back on the horse, or wave their swords, tease or lead them at high speed.
Deliver a fatal blow to imaginary enemies who have been replaced by bundles of corn stalks.
Almost subconsciously, he took out his camera and clicked the shutter at the two training grounds.
He didn't have much film left on him at this time, and he knew better that the position of this cavalry unit in the War of Liberation was different from that of the martyrs on the Songpan Grassland. It could even be said to be opposite.
But even so, at least at this moment they are training hard, using firepower weapons that are definitely not superior, and even fighting the enemy with sincerity.
In this case, since they have the opportunity, they should also give them the opportunity to be remembered by future generations.
It's just... I just hope that after the next white light, I don't have to stand on the opposite side of them and raise my saber...
"Brother Wei, I have found you."
Just when he was thinking wildly, the groom Bai Yuguang ran over from a distance.
"What's wrong?" Wei Ran quickly put away the camera and asked.
"The messenger sent by Madam has arrived, and he also brought a letter from Miss Yang. Brother Jinyu asked you to come over quickly." Bai Yuguang said.
"I'll go back right now," Wei Ran said quickly.
"Brother Wei, can you help me take a photo with my dad later?"
Bai Yuguang nodded and bowed to please, "Just one will do. I'll give you a bullet tube to replace it with. I have a lot of bullets, but... they're all Japanese rifle bullets."
"Your dad?"
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, but then he became less anxious and nodded happily, "Okay, I'll help you take pictures first, but I just loaded this tube of film, so I probably won't be able to carry it with the others."
Went back."
"It's okay! It's okay!"
Bai Yuguang immediately had a smile on his face, "Then the letter carrier comes once a month. You can also send it back next month."
"Okay, where should we go to shoot?"
"Not first..."
"Don't worry, can you leave now after you've just arrived?" Wei Ran said with a smile.
"Then you come with me!"
As Bai Yuguang spoke, he had already led Wei Ran to the side yard next to the threshing floor. At the same time, he took out a small blue cloth bundle from his arms and handed it to Wei Ran, "Brother Wei,
I have saved so many rifle bullets, I estimate there are fifty or sixty rounds, do you think it is enough..."
"Where did you get these bullets?" Wei Ran waved his hand and did not catch the bullets. He just followed the other person and asked curiously.
"Turned out of the devil's body"
Bai Yuguang explained honestly, "When I followed the company commander out to fight the Japanese, the company commander promised me that every time I turned over the corpse of a Japanese soldier, I would leave a bullet to count. These are all the bullets I have saved over the years.
There are quite a few.”
"Give me 10 rounds," Wei Ran said after a brief silence, "10 rounds is enough."
"Give it all to you, I have no use keeping it."
Bai Yuguang patted the Kowloon belt and box cannon on his chest, "I don't even have a carbine."
After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran nodded and finally took the heavy pack of bullets. Bai Yuguang's too-young face finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.
Without Wei Ran asking, he took the initiative to introduce himself, "My father is the master of the Ma family who specializes in horsemanship. The old man of the Ma family even allowed me to study in the Ma family's private school for a few years, but we really are not
That material.
Later, I simply followed the company commander out to fight the Japanese. My father didn't trust me, so he followed me. I asked Brother Wei to take a picture of us because I wanted to show my mother. She hadn't seen him for almost a year.
Got past us."
After chatting here, Bai Yuguang also took Wei Ran into a side courtyard.
The courtyard was filled with the strong smell of horse manure, and it was also extremely lively. The stables on both sides of the wall were filled with Japanese war horses standing next to each other. But in the middle of the courtyard, there was a thin ugly horse with mottled hair.
The horse roamed freely all over the ground, touching this with its face from time to time, and touching that again from time to time.
The sight of this ugly horse roaming freely reminded Wei Ran subconsciously of the saying, "Walking through thousands of flowers, not a single leaf touches him."
In addition to the horses, there is also an old man in the yard who is over fifty years old, smoking a dry pipe, and directing several shirtless men to be busy making horseshoes.
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Bai Yuguang shouted, and the old man turned his head, glanced at it, and immediately said with a smile, "Isn't this Brother Wei!"
"Uncle Bai knows me too?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"Ah! How come I don't know you!"
Uncle Bai slapped his thigh and said, "I was watching from the side when you lowered that big black horse! What a great young man you are! That horse is really special..."
"Dad, now is not the time for small talk."
Bai Yuguang quickly reminded, "When Brother Wei has something else to do, I beg him to take a photo of us and let the messenger bring it to my mother for a look."
"You idiot, why are you causing trouble to others!" Bai Lao immediately complained with his eyes widened.
“No trouble”
Wei Ran quickly said, "Uncle Bai, do you want to change your clothes? Where do you want to shoot?"
"This... Then I'll trouble Brother Wei."
Father Bai said, taking a picture of the sweaty clothes on his body, "Just take the picture here! You guys, hurry up and put on a coat and take a picture together!"
Before he finished speaking, the shirtless young men immediately put down their work, took shirts from various places and put them on. At the same time, Father Bai also called over the wandering horse.
.
Glancing at Bai Yuguang, who seemed to be looking regretful, Wei Ran said with a smile while adjusting the camera, "I'll take a group photo of you first, and I'll take a photo of you two alone later."
Hearing this, Bai Yuguang immediately smiled on his face and said excitedly, "That's..."
“I’ll take a photo of you alone when the time comes.”
Wei Ran smiled and said, "When you send it back, I'll ask my aunt to help you find a matchmaker to find a wife!"
As soon as these words came out, young Bai Yuguang immediately blushed, and the guys around him immediately started laughing and teasing him. But Father Bai's eyes lit up, and he obviously thought Wei Ran's suggestion was a good idea.
Without too much delay, Wei Ran first took a group photo of these people, then a group photo of the Bai family and his son, and finally took a photo of Bai Yuguang alone.
Without exception, these people seemed to have subconsciously chosen the ugly and unattractive horse as the background for taking pictures.
"Uncle Bai, let me take a photo of you alone!" Wei Ran finally said.
"Hi! I don't have to look for my mother-in-law, so I won't take pictures!" Uncle Bai waved his hands repeatedly, "Go and do your work. When you have time, bring your biting animal over and I will trim its hooves.
, and get a new pair of horseshoes.”
"Then you're welcome. Come over when you have time." Wei Ran happily accepted the other party's kindness.
"Why are you so polite!"
Uncle Bai laughed loudly and said, "If this guy Yuguang really finds a wife in the future, you will still be considered half a matchmaker. You will have to come over for a wedding drink then!"
“Definitely go!”
Wei Ran immediately said, "It's best to find more wives, so that I can have more wedding banquets!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the waiters around him burst into laughter, and Bai Yuguang's face turned red again. He quickly interrupted, saying that he couldn't keep the messenger waiting in a hurry, and pulled Wei Ran back.
After walking all the way through the courtyard and returning to the courtyard where Company Commander Ma lives, Wei Ran followed Bai Yuguang into the west room of the main room where Company Commander Ma lived.
"You kid, why are your faces so red? Whose girl do you have a crush on?" Captain Ma Jintao noticed something strange about Bai Yuguang before Wei Ran could sit down.
"He..."
"It's from the sun! It's from the sun!"
Bai Yuguang made a good excuse without waiting for Wei Ran to finish. Then he gave Wei Ran a pleading look and stammered, "I, I, I, I'll bring you a pot of hot water!"
"What's wrong with this kid?" Zhao Jinyu, who was reading the letter, asked curiously.
"His father wanted to tell him about his wife, so he blushed." Wei Ran said with a smile, but he had no intention of keeping the other person's secret secret at all.
"It's time for this kid to talk about his wife." Captain Ma nodded extremely seriously, "It's just right that Jin Lan and I will talk about this matter."
As he spoke, he had already opened an unsealed envelope on the table, took out the letter paper, picked up the pen and started to add.
"Brother Wei, please also read the letter from sister Shi Yi." Zhao Jinyu said, handing over the two pages of ink-scented letter paper in his hand.
"Seeing words is like meeting each other. How is my brother?"
Just looking at the beautiful pen calligraphy at the opening, Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh. After all, Yang Shiyi was a lady from a landlord's family. If nothing else, the pen calligraphy alone was enough.
Keep reading, but after the caring greetings that take up about a third of the page, the letter finally begins to explain the current situation.
The further he looked down, the more serious Wei Ran's frown became. At this time, the situation outside the customs was not optimistic. This letter was sent and it was already in early April.
But in this letter, no matter whether it was Zhao Jinge, Zhao Jinshan, Hu Bazhi, Tian Xiaohu, Hongxia girl, or even Cui Bearded who took away the weapons and equipment, they still couldn't contact them all.
What is even more disturbing is that the Sun sisters who helped to find out the information were also exposed. In order to keep the secret, these two girls actually chose to detonate grenades and die together with the traitor responsible for capturing them.
The bad news doesn't stop there. Yang Shiyi also mentioned in the letter that because the situation is getting worse and worse, and in order to avoid being implicated due to the exposure of the Sun sisters, she has completely cut off the last line of external contact of the Anti-League. In this letter,
By that time, she and her uncle's family had already set off for Mao Zi's territory to temporarily avoid the flames of war and attract the attention of the Japanese.
At the same time, she also promised in the letter that no matter whether her family survived or not, she and her uncle would continue to arrange for people to help find out everyone's whereabouts, and would leave people in Bingcheng to continue to maintain correspondence with Zhao Jinyu.
"Is it possible for the Japanese to trace the Ma family through letters?"
Wei Ran asked almost subconsciously after reading the letter. But his eyes could not help but notice the wrinkles on the last letter paper, which may have been left after the tears dried up. Those wrinkles were also filled with
despair.
"No way"
It was Captain Ma who answered this question, "The caravans of the Ma family and the Yang family came into contact in Mongolia. The two parties had no contact at all, and there was no living person within dozens of miles of the place where they exchanged letters."
Seeing the surprise on Wei Ran's face, Captain Ma smiled but did not continue to explain. He just sealed the envelope with a note, signed it himself, took out a seal and fastened it.
Zhao Jinyu also treated the letters he had written in a similar manner, and then together with the film seal tubes, the Anti-Union letters and even photos that had been kept by Weiran, Company Commander Ma's letter and even the letter home that Bai Yuguang had just asked Li Sui'an to write.
And put it in a wooden box the size of a shoe box and locked it.
Once again, a seal with a signature and a seal was affixed to each corner of the box. A man who looked to be in his forties wearing a mandarin jacket and a melon skin hat immediately stuffed it into a sheepskin tube.
The rope was tied and slung over the shoulder.
"Master, I'm going back right now." The old man stood up and hugged his fists towards Captain Ma.
"Thank you for your hard work, Han Guo Yuan." Captain Ma also stood up and clasped his fists, "Have a good trip."
"Everyone, please stay."
After the elegant Han Huyuan finished speaking, he turned around and left the place with Bai Yuguang seeing him off.
"Brother-in-law, I want to go back..."
"Is it useful for you to go back?"
Company Commander Ma lit a cigarette, threw the cigarette case on the table and signaled Wei Ran and the other three to help themselves, "With our cavalry, it will not be difficult for you to return to the Northeast, but what can you do when you go back? You can find
With your eldest brother, can you still find your squad leader Xiaohu and brother Hu?"
"I..."
"Or if you rush back and meet the Japanese on the way, go up and exchange your life for one?" Captain Ma continued to ask.
Hearing this, Zhao Jinyu opened his mouth and fell into confusion.
"Everywhere is fighting devils"
Ma Jintao said in a puff of smoke, "My cavalry company is no worse than that of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the number of Japanese we killed is no less than that of the other side. Why are you fooling around?"
"I..."
"What are you?"
Ma Jintao snorted, "When will your sister from the Yang family write a letter saying that she has found your eldest brother and your second brother? Then get out."
At that time, as long as you are willing, you can take away all the soldiers and horses in my cavalry company that you like, and I have no objection."
Having said this, Zhao Jinyu shut his mouth feebly. He could naturally tell that his brother-in-law was not joking, but the more this happened, the less he knew how to make a choice.
"Okay, let's go back and get ready to rest."
Ma Jintao sighed and said, "Wangchuan, with the pistol team tonight, we have to cross the river to see what the Japanese are doing."
"Yes!" Li Sui'an responded crisply, dragging one by one with one hand, and led Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu out of Captain Ma's room.
"Brother Wei, Brother Li, you think I should..."
"Shouldn't"
Before Zhao Jinyu could finish speaking, Li Sui'an answered firmly, "What's the use of going back? I don't ask that, Jinyu, just say, did you kill more Japanese here, or did you go back to the Northeast to kill Japanese?"
Kill a lot?"
"Can..."
"Are you doing it to join the Anti-Japanese Alliance or to kill the Japanese?" Li Sui'an asked again.
"Of course it's to kill the Japanese," Zhao Jinyu immediately replied.
"Then why are you wasting that time on the road?"
Li Sui'an was obviously much more mature than when he was in Teng County. He said very clearly, "If we kill one more Japanese here, the anti-Japanese patriots in the Northeast will kill one less Japanese. Anyway, there are only so many Japanese. You can run here and there."
What's the point of going through all the trouble?"
Seeing Zhao Jinyu looking at him, Wei Ran sighed. Instead of stopping, he quickened his pace and said, "Don't you already have the answer?"
After saying that, he had left the yard, ran to the backyard to find the biting horse, and led it back to the yard where Father Bai was.
Fortunately, the biting horse gave Wei Ran some face. Although he kept snoring and cursing under his comfort, he finally did not make any mistakes and allowed Father Bai to help it carefully trim its hooves.
He replaced two pairs of horseshoes that had just been made. By the way, he also helped Wei Ran cut his saber again and dip it in the fire.
After bidding farewell to Father Bai and the ugly horse that had been spinning around, Wei Ran returned to the backyard with the biting horse amidst the crisp clatter of hoofbeats.
By the time he returned to the west wing, Zhao Jinyu had already made a decision.
"Brother Wei, I have decided. I am going to stay until I find my brother or Squad Leader Xiaohu."
When Wei Ran came in, Zhao Jinyu said as if he was eager to prove something, "I am still a soldier of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, I..."
"No need to explain"
Wei Ran patted the other party's shoulder, "We all understand, let's concentrate on fighting the Japanese."
