Wei Ran, who was holding two box cannons in both hands, said with a smile. He also glanced at the gun that the other party had thrown into the snow.
Among the five guns in total, there were two Golden Hook rifles and two Ma Sihuan rifles, plus an old Liao 13 rifle. Obviously, most of these weapons were scraps that others had discarded.
Hearing this, the people on the sledge truck jumped off without hesitation at all, and even subconsciously stood in a row.
"Look at me sideways, take off your hat, untie your cotton-padded coat and shake it out." Wei Ran said with a smile, "Also, take off your cotton-padded shoes and stand on them."
The five of them were very straightforward. They turned 90 degrees in unison, took off their hats and threw them on the sledge. Then they untied their cotton-padded clothes, took them off and shook them. Then they took off their cotton-padded shoes and stepped on them with both feet.
He looked at Wei Ran pitifully.
"Wear cotton clothes and hats."
Wei Ran waved the box cannon in his hand again, and the five quickly buttoned up their clothes and put on their cotton hats.
"Turn around and put your hands behind your back."
Wei Ran gave a new order. The five of them looked at each other, and one of them nodded and bowed and asked, "Master, you don't know how to kill..."
"No," Wei Ran replied without waiting for the other party to finish, "I don't ask for money or life, I just want to inquire about some things."
Hearing this, the five of them breathed a sigh of relief, turned their backs to Wei Ran and put their hands behind their backs.
"Where are you coming from?"
As Wei Ran asked, he used a stick to stop the sledge truck and casually checked the things on the truck.
There was a lot of stuff on this sledge truck. A few sacks contained only feed for the livestock, and only one small cloth bag contained sweet potatoes and potato seeds.
In addition to these things, there was actually a bag of vermicelli, half a fan of pork, two large jars of wine, a basket of things such as dried beans and eggplants, and even a few cabbage and a bag of white noodles on the sledge cart.
As well as a jar of doenjang frozen into ice lumps, a jar of pickled vegetable lumps and a jar of salted duck eggs.
Not finished yet, there are five aluminum lunch boxes and five aluminum kettles, all of different styles, leaning against the side of the brazier.
The lunch boxes include Japanese ones, and some are made in China and imitate the German style. The same goes for the kettles, some are imitation German style, some are Japanese kettles with wooden stoppers, and two even use Maozi's 1937 improved kettles.
Without exception, these lunch boxes were all filled with large bones stewed in bean paste that were still warm and pancakes stacked on top. The kettle was filled with wine.
Why do you think you have to bring your own food when you're a bandit?
While Wei Ran muttered secretly, he finally understood why the living ancestor was so open this time. Could he have captured it even if he didn't give it to him?
While he was secretly distracted, the puppet soldier who had been driving the car saw that the others were silent, so he opened his mouth and replied, "Mu... Mulanda".
"Why go?"
Wei Ran asked casually, and he picked up a roasted sweet potato and broke it open and took a big bite. It was said to be a sweet potato, but it was actually a white potato with white flesh. It was not as sweet as a sweet potato, but it was extraordinarily fragrant.
However, after this question was asked, these puppet soldiers fell silent.
"If you don't say yes, then I can only kill them one by one."
"Say, let's talk!"
Another puppet soldier said quickly, "Master Sun has released the news, and it turns out that there is a person from Juyi Hall outside Langcaozi Valley, and we are going to the kiln."
Wei Ran pretended to be curious and asked, "Sun Da's shop in Langcaozigou? I haven't been back for a while. What is the number of Sun Da's shop? Isn't that place owned by Cao Da?"
"Sun Da Zhangpan used to be the cannon head of Cao Da Zhangpan. A few years ago, after Cao Da Zhangpan was beaten by the Anti-Japanese Federation, Sun Da Zhangpan occupied the Juyi Hall outside Langcaozigou. After that,
, I have been working for the emperor... and for the Japanese."
"So that's what happened..."
Wei Ran muttered in a moderate voice, and then continued to ask, "Don't talk nonsense to me. Are you, a good puppet soldier, going to be a bandit?"
"We were originally the brats of Mr. Cao, the master of the plate. Mao Dong had to find a way to survive this winter, so we went to work as puppet soldiers for a few days to make ends meet.
Now that Sun Da is in charge of the code, we must go back. It is much better to be a gangster eating meat and drinking alcohol than to be a puppet soldier and suffer the wrath of that bird."
"What year is this year? What month is it?" Wei Ran continued to ask.
Although these puppet soldiers didn't know why they asked such a basic question, they still answered in unison, "In the 29th year of the Republic of China, the 19th day of the first lunar month."
"Why did you open so early?" Wei Ran asked a new question.
"Sun Da is in charge of catching the Anti-Japanese Alliance in exchange for rewards."
Another puppet soldier replied, "It's too late and I can't even drink the soup. If I can catch the guy named Zhao, hey! I'll be a popular drinker from now on."
"So that's what happened. Okay, let's turn around. How to get to Langcaozigou? I just happened to be looking for Sun Da Zhang to do a business."
"Go straight along the river, and you'll see the fork of the river on the right, and you'll be there less than five miles in." One of the puppet soldiers turned around and gave the first answer.
"How far is it?"
"It's still far away from Langcaozi ditch. I guess we'll have to wait until noon tomorrow to get there." Another puppet soldier took the initiative to answer, "Sir, I've given you the mule sledge and the door-to-door ceremony. If you're in a hurry, just go first.
Hurry over there!"
"What about you?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"We are not in a hurry!"
The puppet soldier nodded and bowed and said, "We will go back now. It won't be too late to wait until it snows again in two days."
Wei Ran weighed the box in his hand and said, "No, since we are destined to meet each other, please do me a favor if you guys are troubled."
"What...what are you busy with?" one of the puppet soldiers asked warily.
"It's not a big deal, just pick up the gun and practice with me..."
"Bang!"
Before Wei Ran could finish his words, there was a gunshot from the opposite direction of the river!
Before the sound of the gunshot reached his ears, a bullet had already grazed the gap between Wei Ran's shoulder and the dog-skin hat, and hit a puppet soldier in the face!
grass!
After Wei Ran reacted, he immediately used the sledge to jump to the opposite side. Like a frightened rabbit, he reacted very quickly and hid behind a pine tree on the side of the road.
It wasn't until he hid that the four remaining puppet soldiers all reacted.
As the saying goes, there are different kinds of people. One of them jumped on the sledge, took away the wooden stick attached to it, slapped the mule's butt hard, and ran away. The other reacted very quickly and picked up a horse ring and pushed it.
Load the gun.
Of the other two puppet soldiers, one knelt down directly on the ground, kowtowed in the direction of the gunfire and shouted for mercy.
The last puppet soldier picked up a golden hook rifle and ran anxiously to another pine tree on the side of the road to hide.
Wei Ran, who was hiding behind the tree, knew that the shot fired by the opponent just now was definitely aimed at him, and it was very likely that he planned to kill both of them with one shot!
Without enough time to think about who the other party was, Wei Ran raised the box cannon and pulled the trigger towards the puppet soldier driving the sledge truck!
"Bang!"
On both sides of the river, after two almost overlapping gunshots, the puppet soldier who was driving the car was shot in the back, and the puppet soldier who picked up the gun and was loading it was shot in the chest one after another. One fell directly from the sledge, and the other lay on his back.
He fell to the ground. But the mule pulling the sledge was still walking forward leisurely.
After the two gunshots were fired, apart from Wei Ran, only the last two puppet soldiers were left alive on this mountain road.
“What a pity”
Wei Ran muttered with great regret, turned the muzzle of his gun and pointed it behind the pine tree not far away. The puppet soldier who had already loaded the golden hook rifle in his hand decisively pulled the trigger again.
"Bang!"
There were two more gunshots that almost overlapped completely. Wei Ran killed the puppet soldier who loaded the gun in his hand, and the people on the other side of the river killed the man who was kowtowing just now. The situation was not good at this time.
Puppet soldiers preparing to run away.
The reason why Wei Ran felt sorry was naturally because he originally planned to use these five brothers to complete the skill mission.
And the reason why he killed the puppet soldier hiding behind the tree next to him was because he had to take a gun because he shouldn't have done it. He didn't want to bet on what the other party would do after loading the bullets.
Should I shoot at the person on the other side of the river first, or should I shoot myself first?
After such a brief exchange of fire, Wei Ran and the people on the other side had nothing to do with each other, but these five puppet soldiers were unjustly killed.
"Ancestor Bodhidharma is mighty!"
Wei Ran, who was hiding behind the tree, imitated Hu Bazhi's behavior and spoke first.
"Stop talking nonsense! Go chase the sledge!"
To Wei Ran's expectation, the person who responded to him on the other side of the river was actually a young woman! A young woman who didn't speak Chinese well and didn't seem to have a very good temper either!
Who the hell is this...
Wei Ran grinned, but without delay, he took off his dog-skin coat and threw it out.
"Bang!"
Sure enough, almost as soon as the dog-skin coat flew out, a bullet came from the opposite side!
"Girl! This is your fault!" Wei Ran shouted, leaning against the tree.
"It accidentally went off!"
The woman opposite shouted loudly without any psychological burden, "Hurry up and chase the mule!"
"If you fire one more shot, I'll go!" Wei Ran demanded loudly while putting on his skis.
He estimated that the opponent's bullets must not be many, otherwise, there would be no need to take the risk of trying a double-piercing play.
And the most important thing is that he has just been counting the gunshots for the opponent. According to common sense, as long as one more shot is fired, the opponent will probably be loaded.
"Bang!" The woman opposite fired a bullet very crisply.
Take a gamble...
In a flash of thought, Wei Ran had already dodged away from the pine tree where he was hiding, and after picking up the dog-skin jacket, he pedaled hard on his skis and accelerated, constantly changing positions while rushing towards the sledge truck that was still moving forward.
Fortunately, the woman on the other side of the river did not continue shooting, maybe because she felt that she was not sure of hitting her.
After ten minutes of hard pursuit on skis, Wei Ran finally caught up with the stopped mule sledge.
After putting away his skis and poles and looking behind him, Wei Ran had no intention of going back and taking risks. He sat directly on the sledge and shouted to the mule to continue on his way.
As for who the woman behind him was, whether she was an enemy or a friend, he didn't want to explore it at all at this time.
Compared with these, the most important thing is to rush to Langcaozigou as soon as possible and find Hu Bazhi and others as soon as possible.
By then, it would be best if Hu Bazhi and others got to know the woman behind. If they weren't along the way, they wouldn't have any burden to do anything when they meet again.
Thinking of this, he shook the reins vigorously again, urging the mule to run faster.
Little did he know that almost at the same time he caught up with the mule sledge, two reindeer dragged a not-so-large sledge across the river and finally stopped next to the corpses of the puppet soldiers.
Immediately afterwards, a young girl wearing a white right-fronted animal skin robe, a roe deer horn hat, and a horse with four rings on her shoulders came down from the sledge truck.
She looked around, and then specifically looked at the place where Wei Ran was hiding. The girl bent down and picked up two Mauser pistol bullet shells, looked at them, then put them in her arms, turned around and walked towards the fake
Jun's corpse, he searched these five corpses with great skill.
Soon, she found a few bullets that Ma Sihuan could use from the bodies of two of the puppet soldiers.
First, she pressed a bullet into the four rings of the horse wrapped with white cloth strips in her hand. The girl then removed the bolts of several other guns and threw them vigorously into the frozen river. Then...
Stepping on the sledge, I shouted to the two reindeer and started running slowly, chasing the mark of the mule sledge in front.
However, judging from the way she was walking and stopping, she didn't seem to be in a hurry to catch up with Wei Ran in front of her.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, Wei Ran shouted at the mule sledge to run faster. Out of caution, he decided to widen the distance between him and the woman behind him as much as possible.
He ran like this for more than an hour. The sky was getting dark, but he had no intention of stopping.
He ran like this in the dark for an hour. Seeing more and more snowflakes mixed with the cold wind, he finally shouted to the mules, who were already tired from running, to leave the mountain road and go into the woods.
Estimating that he had walked four to five hundred meters deeper into the forest, Wei Ran stopped when he found a leeward mountain pass.
First, he tied up the mule and fed it, then he collected some dry branches and firewood, broke them into small pieces and pressed them on the brazier. He also picked a lunch box and put it on the brazier, and used the lid of the lunch box to put some snow in it.
Place it on top and slowly dissolve.
After walking a hundred meters back along the sledge mark and observing for a moment that no one was following, Wei Ran returned to the sledge with relief, took out the sleigh from the metal book, found a tent and set up it.
However, before he could take out the cast-iron stove and light it, a woman coughed deliberately and forcefully from outside.
Sure enough, I can't escape...
Wei Ran, who had just lit the kerosene lamp, muttered secretly and put away the sledge truck and the airdrop box containing the cast iron stove.
"Come out with your hands up"
The woman hiding somewhere outside said in slightly stiff Chinese, "If I don't come out, I'll shoot you to death!"
After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran finally got out of the tent obediently and raised his hands. Now that he couldn't hide, he wanted to see who the other party was.
"Are you a bandit?"
asked the woman hiding behind the tree. She only showed a small half of her head and the hand holding a box cannon. Even the box cannon only had half of the barrel exposed, and the rest was hidden.
In the cuffs.
"no"
While Wei Ran answered, he did not look at the other person. Instead, he looked around to see if there was anyone else nearby.
"How to get to Langcaozigou?" the woman asked after a moment of silence, "How dare you lie to me and I'll beat you to death!"
"You also went to Langcaozigou? Who were you looking for?" Wei Ran immediately asked, "You were looking for Hu..."
"Cut the nonsense!"
The young woman hiding behind the tree yelled, "Say quickly! How to go!"
"Go straight along the river, and you'll see the fork of the river on the right, and you'll be there less than five miles further in." Wei Ran answered truthfully.
"Gululu"
After he finished speaking, the girl hiding behind the tree responded with a growl in her stomach.
"Would you like to come over and have something to eat together?"
Wei Ran asked tentatively, while slowly changing the direction of one hand, pointing to the sledge not far away and saying, "There is a lunch box next to the brazier up there, with food in it, and there is wine in the kettle, too.
It was taken from the puppet army. If you are hungry, you might as well eat some."
"Lie down on the ground and don't move," the woman hiding behind the tree said warily.
"without..."
"Shut up!" the woman scolded, and then walked out from behind the tree cautiously, "If you say anything again, I will kill you!"
This dog's temper...
Wei Ran snorted helplessly, was he sure he could fight back? Of course he was sure, and it was not difficult for him, but what if the other party was one of his own?
In any case, this girl who sounded not too old had just killed a few puppet soldiers not long ago.
For him, killing someone is easy, but if he kills the wrong person, it would be a bit difficult to revive the dead person.
"Bury your head in the snow! Raise your head and I'll kill you!" The girl issued a new order.
Unlucky for me!
Wei Ran muttered, and buried his head in the cold snow, listening quietly with his ears as the other party seemed to have walked to the sledge and seemed to be carrying a lunch box.
"If I don't kill you, don't chase me, otherwise..."
"I'll kill you" Wei Ran said the same threat in his mind at the same time as the other party.
"There is a group of bandits around Langcaozigou. Be careful. They are following the Japanese and are hunting for resistance fighters everywhere." Wei Ran turned over and warned loudly.
However, the girl had no shadow and disappeared into the night, leaving only a faint deer roar in the distance.
Sitting up and patting the snow off his body, Wei Ran walked to the sledge and took a quick look, then shook his head in confusion, feeling that he was almost sure that the girl was probably not a bad person.
There was no other reason. At this time, there were two fragrant lunch boxes and five wine bottles left beside the brazier. Apart from that, there was only one sack of feed missing. Obviously, the other party did not intend to starve himself and the stolen mules.
.
Wei Ran smiled nonchalantly, got back into the tent, and once again took out the sledge truck and the airdrop box with the cast iron stove fixed on it.
Finally, he brought the brazier in and poured the charcoal inside into the cast iron stove. Wei Yan took the saw and got enough firewood. Then he returned to the tent that had become extremely warm and sat on the sled.
He stood on the cast iron stove and opened a lunch box that was already heated and steaming out constantly.
While he was enjoying a bite of big-bone meat and a bite of pancake, across the frozen river, the girl driving the reindeer sledge also found a leeward mountain col and stopped.
After feeding the stolen feed to the two reindeer, the girl returned to the sledge truck and unfolded a deerskin blanket, wrapping it tightly around herself. She immediately opened a lunch box and started gobbling it down.
In the warm tent, Wei Ran took a sip of the warmed white wine, inevitably thinking about the origin of the woman just now.
He could be sure that he had not seen the other party in the first two scenes, and he could also confirm that the young girl was most likely an Oroqen ethnic group through the cute roe deer horn hat he just vaguely saw on the other party's head.
I also asked those puppet soldiers when they were still alive. They came from Mulanda. This moment is the 19th day of the first lunar month in the 29th year of the Republic of China. In other words, it is 1940. It is estimated that it will be around the end of February.
appearance.
This so-called Mulanda is actually Mulan County on the banks of the Songhua River. The straight-line distance from Bingcheng is only a hundred kilometers at most.
These were all mentioned by Xia Soseki when he helped him collect information, but...are there Oroqen people here?
Or to be more precise, were there Oroqen activities in and around Mulan County in 1940?
The answer is actually obvious. Wei Ran can at least be sure that the young girl is definitely not a local. Otherwise, there is probably no need to ask himself how to get to Langcaozigou.
That being the case, why did she go to Langcaozigou? Perhaps, this is the key to the problem.
