In the den that was snatched back from the bandits, the big bone meat cakes that the bandits blocked were placed on the two Kang tables. Zhao Jinyu even found a jar of sorghum wine to warm up from the den that was used as a warehouse.
, and poured a small bowl for everyone, including the four Qiu brothers and Unakan.
"Boss Qiu, let me ask again, are you really..."
"Captain Hu, please stop asking."
Boss Qiu had already picked up the wine bowl as he spoke, "Even if you ask me a hundred times, the four of us brothers are determined to join the Anti-League and fight the Japanese with you. We have been waiting for this day for three days.
years."
"That's not good!"
Xiao Si'er also shouted, "Brother Wei has taken pictures of us."
Looking at Wei Ran, Zhao Jinyu and even Unakan, Hu Bazhi finally nodded and picked up the wine bowl, "Then you are welcome to join the Anti-Alliance!"
Before he finished speaking, everyone raised their wine bowls and bumped into the wine bowl held by Hu Bazhi.
After a bowl of wine, everyone who had been busy for almost two days and two nights without a proper rest picked up a big bone and began to chew on it.
"Captain Hu, where should we go next?"
Boss Qiu asked while pouring wine for everyone, "Rush back and continue to fight the Japanese, or should we suppress the people?"
"We have to continue heading north."
Zhao Jinyu answered this question for Hu Bazhi, "We have a mission and are going north. Boss Qiu, if you four brothers plan to join the Anti-Alliance, please come with us."
"Are you looking for Captain Zhao?"
Brothers Yongwen and Yongwu asked in unison. Boss Qiu also shivered subconsciously and accidentally spilled some of the wine that was supposed to be poured into the bowl onto the table.
"yes"
Zhao Jinyu nodded, "Do you want to follow?"
"Follow! We'll follow! As long as we can fight the Japanese, we'll follow wherever we go!" Xiao Si'er rushed to answer this question.
"Xiao Si'er is right this time!" Boss Qiu said seriously.
"Then eat quickly and have a good sleep."
Hu Bazhi grabbed the topic, "Let's set off tomorrow morning!"
"Yes!" The four Qiu brothers responded in unison.
The people at the two tables filled their stomachs like a storm, and after clearing the tables, they lay down on the hot pit and fell asleep.
Perhaps because of the three bowls of wine they had just poured into their stomachs, the four young Qiu brothers started snoring one after another not long after.
Not long after, Hu Bazhi climbed up lightly. Almost on his front and back feet, Unakan also climbed up, followed closely by Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu who also climbed up.
The four people looked at each other, quietly got out of the warm nest, and closed the door softly.
"Are you planning to run away secretly?" Zhao Jinyu thought he had guessed the answer.
"Why run?"
Hu Bazhi shook his head dumbfounded, and said as he walked towards the shack that served as a warehouse, "It's still a long way to go, so we have to prepare in advance. I see that there are a lot of leather materials in that shack. Let's pick out a few and nail them on
On the sledge, let’s see if the sledge you snatched can be used.”
"I see there are still a few bags of fine materials in the shack. Let's pack them in advance for the animals to eat on the road." Unakan continued.
"Get ready."
Wei Ran walked towards the shack where they were previously imprisoned, "I'll kill those piggies and save them for the road."
"Do you think I'm going to run away?" Zhao Jinyu shook his head dumbfounded, "Then I'll go..."
"Go to that nest"
Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking and pointed to the den where many bandits had died before, "Boat the water and prepare to peel off the pig hair. Wait until the piglets are all put up to save fire on the road."
"Alright"
Zhao Jinyu nodded happily and stepped into the den that was still filled with the smell of blood.
During the busy work of these four people, two mule sledges and one reindeer sledge were all covered with thick and warm animal skins. Hu Bazhi even cut an extra warm mink scarf for each of them.
Unakan also packed several bags of concentrated feed and placed them on the three sledges. Wei Yanran and Zhao Jinyu worked together to stew a large pot of deboned pork, put it into a cloth bag and froze it with accumulated water.
The large lump of meat was enough for them to eat for several days, not to mention a bag of cornmeal pancakes.
After working for most of the night, the four of them returned to the warm shack and fell asleep.
When they woke up again, it was already bright outside the shack, but it started to snow heavily again.
After each drinking two large bowls of hot stick noodle porridge, everyone did not delay any further, either mounted their horses or sat on their sledges, and left this bandit's den with plenty of supplies without any regrets.
"If we can come back alive, we have to find a way to bring back the things in those shacks."
Hu Bazhi said with some reluctance, "With so much food and drink, and so many skins, our soldiers will be able to hold on comfortably until spring gets warm."
"That place was originally prepared for the Anti-Union fighters," Zhao Jinyu, who was riding a horse, couldn't help but sigh.
"Let's go quickly"
Unakan urged, urging the two well-fed reindeer to run faster.
Braving the flying snowflakes and the cold wind blowing in their faces, the group of people ran fast and slow for another whole day.
This was because he had been wandering into the ravines all day long, and because Hu Bazhi was proficient in slang, and the "Xiangzi" on everyone's face was enough to scare people.
Therefore, although there were many people blocking the road along the way, they were all fooled smoothly by Hu Bazhi, who held the banner of "Leading Langcaozigou Sun Da Zhangpan's orders to fly leaves".
When it got dark again, Unakan, who was leading the way, finally stopped after calling the reindeer to climb a ridge.
"Have a rest first"
Unakan raised his finger and pointed straight ahead and said, "Further ahead is the Tangwang River. The Japs have brought thousands of strong men to cut down trees nearby. There are also Japs and puppet troops patrolling the river with sledges. There are five big trees around.
The camp has also installed searchlights, so we can only wait until nightfall to go around quietly."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "This road is really difficult to navigate," Zhao Jinyu cursed in a low voice.
“If you don’t want to leave, you have to leave.”
After Hu Bazhi said this, he couldn't help but look at Unakan, "Is this how you came all the way?"
"Can't"
Unakan responded nonchalantly, "Everyone, please take a rest and don't light the fire."
After saying that, she dug out a small mouthful of goblin material from the sledge, sprinkled a handful of large salt grains and placed it in front of the two reindeer. Then she returned to the sledge and surrounded the beasts that she had found from the bandits' den.
She hugged her horse with a leather blanket and closed her eyes.
"You guys just have a rest"
Boss Qiu took the initiative and said, "My three brothers have all fallen asleep all the way, so we are on guard duty."
"Alright"
Hu Bazhi did not refuse. He also picked up a bag of fine material from the sledge, sprinkled it with large grains of salt, poured it on the ground and distributed it to the two mules pulling the cart and the war horses ridden by Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu.
At the same time, Boss Qiu, Yongwen and Xiaosi'er, who had been guarding the brazier on the sledge truck during the day, also got off the car one after another and gave up their positions to Wei Ran, Zhao Jinyu, Hu Bazhi, and even Yongwu who was also responsible for driving the truck.
.
The three of them each spread a wolf skin on the snow next to the sledge, and wrapped themselves in a warm and thick deerskin blanket. They sat together holding guns and stared at the surrounding woods warily.
After tying up their horses, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu stretched their legs and legs some more, then sat on the sledge. They also wrapped themselves tightly in animal skin blankets, sat down around the fire pot, leaned on each other and closed their eyes to sleep.
After an unknown amount of time, Wei Ran was awakened by a tap on his shoulder, and a box cannon appeared in his hand hidden under the animal skin blanket.
"Wake up, it's time to go." Unakan reminded in a low voice in the night.
I looked around and saw that the snow had stopped, but the wind was still raging, and there was a bright full moon hanging in the night sky above my head.
Looking at his shoulders and the blanket covering his body, there was already a thick layer of snow accumulated.
Putting away the gun and standing up to shake off the snowflakes from his body, Wei Ran put on his bearskin mittens again, and then heard Unakan whisper, "Wait a minute and follow Martian behind me. You must be fast and don't make any sound."
There's a lot of movement, there are a lot of Japanese around here."
"Wrap your hooves," Zhao Jinyu reminded.
"Take bullets," Hu Bazhi also gave his reminder.
After some preparations, Wei Ran and others wrapped the horseshoes and mule hooves with the rabbit skins prepared in advance, and loaded the weapons in their hands with bullets. Boss Qiu and others, who had been on duty before, returned to the sledge.
Also loaded their weapons with bullets.
Unakan filled a lunch box with holes punched in advance with still-burning charcoal and hung it on the handle behind the sledge. Although the charcoal fire lit up in the holes was weak, it was enough to point the way for those behind.
"Walk!"
Unakan shook the reins vigorously and rushed towards the Tangwang River under the cold moonlight.
Following the weak sparks behind her sledge as she ran down the ridge, everyone gradually increased their speed.
After running like this for about 20 minutes, a frozen river full of sledge marks suddenly appeared in front of me.
Seeing this, everyone speeded up and rushed into the river one after another, and then rushed to the other bank as fast as possible.
They crossed the Tangwang River without any danger, but everyone did not dare to relax at all. Instead, they urged their animals to run faster.
They ran non-stop for more than half an hour, during which they not only climbed over two mountain ridges, but also passed through a wasteland with all the trees cut down and a logging road.
Fortunately, until they ran into the woods again, they did not alert the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in the wooden camp.
After passing this difficulty without any danger, Unakan did not stop. Instead, he led them to stop and go, fast and slow, until the sky was getting brighter, until all the animals were exhausted.
Breathing heavily, he stopped on the top of a mountain ridge.
"Just rest here"
Unakan breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It should be safe this far away. There are more and more Japanese behind us. We can only travel at night."
"What is this place?"
Wei Ran dismounted and asked in a low voice, "How far are we still?"
"This place is called Lujiaogou. To the east is the Hegang Coal Mine occupied by the Japanese."
Unakan explained in a low voice, "This place is still two hundred miles away from Heilongjiang. It will take at least three days to walk to get there."
"If we travel at night, we won't be able to walk this far in three days." Zhao Jinyu said worriedly.
"Even if the whip is broken, you still have to rush there early."
Hu Ba pointed out that Yong Wen and Yong Wu had given everyone a lunch box containing stewed pork and steamed pancakes. These lunch boxes had been roasting beside the brazier along the way.
After filling their stomachs in silence, everyone was still resting around the brazier. While Boss Qiu and others were keeping watch, they also took over the work of serving the animals, but they didn't even notice Wei, who was almost wrapped in a blanket.
Ranzheng endured his exhaustion and pressed the shutter towards them.
After taking the photo, Wei Ran put away the camera and rubbed his sore thighs. He leaned against Zhao Jinyu and closed his eyes. Soon he began to snore.
When I woke up again, the sky was already bright, and the setting sun could be seen in the distance that had not been completely blocked by the rolling mountains.
After a few bites of food, everyone rode horses and sledges and started running again.
"We have to run along the road for more than ten miles ahead, so be alert." Unakan whispered, then shouted to the reindeer and started running.
With Unakan's reminder, everyone who set off again became more vigilant.
After running forward with the reindeer sleigh for less than ten minutes, a valley that was flat and spacious enough and extended all the way to the northeast appeared at the foot of the mountain.
"There are a few empty villages ahead."
Unakan explained while controlling the sledge, "You can run along this valley for twenty miles, which is much faster than climbing over the mountain."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You won't meet the Japanese, will you?" Zhao Jinyu asked while lying on the horse.
"Probably not"
Unakan thought for a while and then added, "I didn't encounter it when I walked here last time. There are no sledge marks on the snow, so I shouldn't encounter it."
"If we really meet, we'll go into the forest," Hu Bazhi also said.
"There are a lot of Japanese around here, so don't wait until they block you." Unakan warned uneasily.
"Brother Wei, let's run quickly to explore the road?" Zhao Jinyu suggested.
"Let's go" Wei Ran responded, urging the biting horse under his butt to run faster.
With the last hint of skylight, Wei Ran, Zhao Jinyu and the three sledges behind them opened a distance of almost four to five hundred meters.
They ran along this valley for more than an hour without incident. However, as the sky became darker and darker and the setting sun was completely blocked by the mountain ridges, something suddenly appeared directly in front of them.
A fleet of sledges!
"Uu——!"
Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu reined in their horses and stopped almost at the same time, looking warily at the sledge convoy.
"Is there a mirror?" Wei Ran had already pulled out the carbine from his gun bag as he spoke.
"No"
Zhao Jinyu shook his head, also pulled out a carbine found in the bandit's den, and looked at the slowly approaching sledge convoy with lanterns hanging from a distance.
"No, it seems they are really Japanese!" Wei Ran was the first to notice the abnormality, "Quickly leave!"
Before they finished speaking, the two of them had already turned their horses and ran towards the direction they came from. At this time, they could only hope that the other side did not notice them.
After riding back to the sledge, Wei Ran briefly described the situation, Unakan immediately led them into another adjacent valley, and ran along this valley for less than ten minutes.
Within minutes, he immediately got into the forest, climbed up a ridge and looked nervously at the valley in the distance.
Unfortunately, they soon noticed that the oncoming sledge convoy stopped in the direction they turned, followed closely by one after another with kerosene lamps hanging on their sledges.
The imprint caught up!
"Run away," Hu Bazhi said with a helpless sigh, "It seems like some of the people who won't be windy or snowy tonight will run away."
"Follow closely"
Before Unakan finished speaking, he had already shaken the reins, shouted at the reindeer and started running in the dark again.
Following closely behind, Hu Bazhi also shouted to the mule, pulling him, Yongwu and Xiaosi'er on the sledge to follow.
"Let's explore the way ahead," Zhao Jinyu whispered uneasily.
"Walk"
Wei Ran once again responded to the other party's suggestion and urged his horse to run ahead of the most dangerous situation again.
However, when they climbed up a mountain ridge again, they found in despair that more and more sledges were chasing their sledges behind them. Those sledges with lanterns hanging on them were extremely conspicuous in the night.
The arrogance!
They didn't dare to fight back, let alone stay. Everyone risked their lives to urge the animals to continue running. But this time, there were actually people riding horses among the pursuers. Although they might not be able to catch up with Wei Ran and others who were also riding horses.
Zhao Jinyu can easily catch up with those two mule sledges!
"Xiao Si'er! Kill him!"
Boss Qiu, who was driving the sledge truck running behind, made his own arrangements without waiting for Hu Ba's instructions.
Before Wei Ran and others could even say whether to agree or refuse, Xiao Si'er, who was sitting on the sledge, had already neatly picked up the Sanba Gai he had been holding, and without any hesitation, he raised his gun and started shooting!
"Bang!"
Accompanied by a clear gunshot that cut through the silence, the approaching horse lantern behind him shattered. The Japanese horse with the lantern hanging on it also fell to the ground because the bullet had penetrated into its body. By the way,
The man on horseback was crushed to death.
But at this time, no one had time to marvel at Xiao Si'er's amazing accuracy, and no one blamed him for shooting impulsively.
Everyone knew that without the shot just now, it would be a matter of time before the Japs caught up with them. But at the same time, they also knew better that because of the shot just now, the Japs who were originally just suspicious behind them would definitely stick to them like dog-skin plaster!
What's even worse is that the beam in front is so close that they have just climbed up, and the remaining horseback riders among the Japanese pursuers behind them have already started to climb up!
Obviously, maybe when they rush down from this mountain ridge, they will be overtaken by the Japanese behind them!
Although no one pointed this out, all the people driving and riding subconsciously began to beat the animals hard.
"Captain Hu!"
At this moment, Boss Qiu suddenly shouted, "Can I ask you a favor?!"
"If you have anything to say, escape first!" Hu Bazhi responded loudly while swinging his whip.
"When I see Captain Zhao, I'll give you a message for the four of us, saying that we're sorry for him and for not taking good care of the wounded!" Boss Qiu shouted to himself.
"What are you going to do, you little brat!" Hu Bazhi asked in fear. He had already realized that something was wrong.
Not only him, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu, who also realized that something was wrong, also subconsciously reined in the reins and prepared to stop the horse.
But at this moment, the four Qiu brothers each jumped down from the sledge they were riding on, holding their weapons!
"Help!"
Wei Ran, who was already preparing to ride down, had already controlled the biting horse before he finished speaking, and rushed back with Zhao Jinyu in no particular order.
"Run!" Mr. Qiu yelled at the top of his lungs, "Run!"
"Run away!"
Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu cursed in unison and rode back to the top of the mountain ridge.
"Brother Wei! We didn't make a good cut at the Shaying River back then. Let's make up for it today!" Zhao Jinyu said, having already pulled out a 38-inch cavalry rifle from the gun bag of his horse.
"Two of us!"
Wei Ran responded loudly, not answering the question.
"become!"
Zhao Jinyu seemed to understand Wei Ran's hint, quickly ran behind a pine tree, raised his gun and pulled the trigger!
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Bang!"
After the clear gunshots, a Japanese soldier who had climbed halfway up the hillside on horseback was shot in the chest and fell down.
"Bang!"
Wei Ran and Xiao Si'er opened fire almost at the same time, and two more Japs on horseback tilted and fell off their horses.
"Good accuracy! Where did you learn this?" Wei Ran asked loudly while not forgetting to load a bullet into the gun in his hand.
"My dad!"
Xiao Si'er, who also had a bullet in his head, responded loudly, "My father is the best hunter in this country!"
"Bang!"
Before he could finish his words, there was a gunshot, and another Japanese soldier on horseback was shot in the nose. He suddenly threw his head back and fell off his horse.
"You fart! My father is the best hunter in these ten miles and eight towns!" It was only at this moment that Boss Qiu, who was busy pushing bullets into the gun chamber, cursed.
"Fuck your grandma! My dad is the one!"
Before Xiaosi finished speaking, he raised his hand and fired again. Before the mule sledge that had just reached the bottom of the mountain had time to stop, the horse lantern hanging on the neck of the mule and the neck behind the horse lantern were hit by the same bullet one after another.
Bullet penetrates!
"Do they often argue like this?"
Zhao Jinyu, who was also following the Japs' lanterns and fired, shouted loudly to the two brothers Yong Wen and Yong Wu who were also hiding behind a tree not far away and asked.
"Noisy every day!"
Yong Wen and Yong Wu responded in unison, but they were not in a hurry to shoot. Their marksmanship was far inferior to that of Boss Qiu and Xiao Si'er, but they were not idle. Each of them held two weapons.
A box cannon seized from the bandit's den was well hidden, waiting to be fired when the Japs climbed up.
Hearing this, Zhao Jinyu couldn't help grinning, but then he put down his gun, put his hands to his mouth, and let out a vivid horse neighing sound!
This voice was so loud that not only the biting horse tied behind the shooting blind spot but also the bay-red horse began to jump up and down. The few Japanese Japanese horses without owners at the foot of the mountain ridge subconsciously began to walk to the top of the mountain ridge.
Got it!
"Let those horses come up!" Zhao Jinyu reminded in a low voice.
But at this moment, how could Wei Ran and others, who were the main force from a distance, have the intention to fire at those horses? No matter how powerful they were, there were only six people in total, but at this time, the sledges that had arrived at the foot of the mountain were far more than
Six cars already!
What made him even more frightened was that these sledges were ordered to extinguish the lanterns, and before the lanterns were extinguished, he vaguely saw the Japanese machine guns and grenade launchers removed from the sledges!
"Run!"
Wei Ran shouted at the top of his lungs, "The Japanese are going to shoot grenades!"
Before he finished speaking, he had already grabbed one by one and forced Boss Qiu and Xiao Si'er to run back!
Zhao Jinyu, who was still learning how to bark horses while not doing his job, also pulled Yong Wen and Yong Wu brothers and ran to the place where the horses were tied, risking their lives!
"Boom!"
With a heartbreaking sound, a patch of snow exploded on the hillside less than five meters away from where they had just opened fire.
"Run, run, run! Run!"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already pushed Boss Qiu and Xiao Si'er to run towards the other side of the hillside. Immediately afterwards, he and Zhao Jinyu pulled away the reins and started running wildly!
After a while, the Japanese machine guns began to fire, and more and more grenades hit the highest point of the ridge!
"It would be great if there was a gas bomb in this special code!"
After Zhao Jinyu shouted, he made a louder neighing sound!
What Wei Ran never expected was that this voice would be responded to by behind him. Before they could even run to the edge of the hillside on the other side, three or four Japanese Japanese horses of the Japs came running behind them!
"Can you guys know how to ride a horse?" Zhao Jinyu asked loudly.
"Yes!" Yongwen Yongwu responded loudly almost at the same time.
"I don't know how!" Boss Qiu and Xiao Si'er gave different answers one after another!
"Yongwen Yongwu mounts up! Ride ours!" Wei Ran shouted in greeting, and at the same time pulled Yongwu over.
Brothers Yongwen and Yongwu were not polite. Under the threat of increasingly dense grenade explosions behind them, they all mounted their horses with the support of Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu.
"Come here!"
Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu greeted each other in unison, and after each turned over and mounted a Japanese war horse that had been tricked, the former leaned over and grabbed Xiao Si'er, while the latter grabbed Boss Qiu.
Driven by the roll of their bodies, the two men easily pulled the young man they had caught onto the horse! Not only that, the two men also tacitly understood the reins of another Japanese Japanese horse!
"Don't move!"
Wei Ran called out to Xiao Si'er who was lying on the horse's back, and then slapped the horse's butt gently but not hard.
Before the grenade hit their heads, everyone rushed down the hillside on horseback, running desperately following the guidance of the oil lamp pointed by Hu Ba in front.
Although it seemed that they had gained a slight advantage by grabbing two horses, in fact they still had not escaped the danger at this time, because behind them, more and more Japanese soldiers had rushed up the mountain ridge and followed them along the mountain ridge.
The hillside rushed down at a faster speed!
What's even worse is that it's easier to aim when they fire from behind than from front to back! As for Wei Ran and others running in front, the only thing they can rely on at this time is the cover of the surrounding trees and the cold moonlight night.
cover!
Amidst the banging gunfire, Wei Ran and others gradually caught up with Hu Bazhi and Unakan.
"Ride away! Get on the horse quickly!"
While Wei Ran shouted, he and Zhao Jinyu handed the reins of the ownerless Japanese horse they were holding to Hu Bazhi and Unakan who were sitting on the sledge in no particular order.
After Hu Bazhi took the reins, he took out a carriage knife with an antler handle from his arms and cut the rope of the big white mule, and then he quickly turned over and mounted the Japanese war horse.
In contrast, Unakan didn't feel sorry for her reindeer sledge. She even deliberately knocked over the brazier on the sledge before flipping onto the horse's back!
Abandoning the slow sledge, everyone rode their horses faster and faster, but no one noticed that Yongwen, who was riding Zhao Jinyu's horse, seemed to be in bad condition.
Warm blood was flowing out from his abdomen, which he was desperately covering with his hands, soaking the animal skin jacket he had snatched from the bandit's den and the stuffing he had sewn for him with his own hands.
