In the night, Zhao Shengli and Wei Ran ran silently in the coniferous forest. At this time, more than two hours had passed since they let go of the American soldiers. Not only were there no pursuers behind them, but even during the
Not only had they climbed over the stone mountain next to the road, but they had almost climbed to the top of the second mountain.
Before this, Wei Ran had always felt that his physical strength was pretty good. After all, the silicone dummy at Hongqi Forest Farm was not for nothing, and neither was the silly dog with a brain problem.
But now, Zhao Shengli, who was leading the way, was still walking as fast as he could while carrying a backpack that was heavier than himself, but he was already panting and sweating profusely.
"Victory...victory, how long will it take?"
Wei Ran asked while holding on to a crooked oak tree, breathing heavily. They had not stopped for a minute in the past two hours, and apart from going down the mountain at the beginning, the rest of the time they were on the way up the mountain in darkness.
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"I estimate that we can reach the top of the mountain in half an hour at most."
Zhao Shengli took off his backpack and put it aside, took out a water bottle, opened it and took a sip, then handed it to Wei Ran, "When we get over this mountain, we will have a place to rest and have a meal."
"Half an hour...you said so half an hour ago."
Wei Ran took the kettle and drank a sip, "Your physical strength... is so good."
"What am I doing?" Zhao Shengli remained humble as always.
"It doesn't matter to you, and it doesn't matter to me."
Wei Ran wiped the sweat from his forehead. It was not a straight up or down climb. There were no steps or cable cars on the hillside. The steep slope forced them to repeatedly ascend along the zigzag route. Although the slope was steeper
It has indeed been reduced a lot, but the distance has been increased several times.
The most important thing is that Zhao Shengli's speed is too fast. If Wei Ran wants to keep up with the opponent, he has to put in more physical effort. It was only then that he realized that in the tunnel, Wei Ran
Here, Chen Qi said that Zhao Shengli ran so fast that even the American machine guns couldn't catch up with him. What the hell was that?
“When I was seven years old, I started herding cattle for the landlord’s family.”
Zhao Shengli sat down and leaned against the tree trunk and said with a smile, "My family was poor at that time and we couldn't even have enough food all year round, so I went to the mountains to find herbs and catch wild animals while grazing cattle. In order to prevent the landlord's supervisor from discovering,
All I could do was run and run back.
At that time, when the cows were brought to the place in the morning, they had to run up the mountain immediately with the baskets on their backs, and they had to run back before noon, otherwise they would be discovered by the supervisor. When the supervisor returned half an hour later, he had to run up the mountain again.
, and finally run back before the sun goes down."
"It's quite far, right?" Wei Ran asked calmly.
"Can't"
Zhao Shengli fumbled and took out a pack of American cigarettes that had been seized not long ago from his pocket, handed one to Wei Ran, and then lit it on his own, "One trip covers four to five miles, and half of it involves climbing mountains. Two cigarettes a day.
Back and forth, sometimes after work in the evening, I would make a trip to check the condoms I had worn in the morning. At that time, I was still running barefoot, and I couldn’t even bear to wear straw sandals. When my mother was alive, I could even wear a pair of knitted straw sandals.
If you haven't worn it, you've sold it for money."
"What happened next?" Wei Ran asked as he took the match and lit the cigarette in his mouth.
"Later, our regiment leader led his team through our place and killed the landlord. Everyone divided the grain and the fields."
When Zhao Shengli said this, he rubbed the corners of his eyes, and his voice changed slightly, "It's a pity that my mother didn't catch up with the good times. Later, I begged the leader to take me with her. Earlier, I was so thin
I was as skinny as a bone, so the regiment leader assigned me to the cooking class to help Squad Leader Sun. At that time, I gained more than ten kilograms of meat in half a month, and Squad Leader Sun said that I gained weight faster than a piglet."
The little humor in Zhao Shengli's brisk tone did not make Wei Ran laugh, but instead made him feel a lump in his throat.
"At that time I could make three bowls of rice in one meal."
Zhao Shengli chewed his cigarette and continued to recall, "I stayed in the cooking class with Squad Leader Sun for three months, and my head grew as high as a fist. At that time, Squad Leader Sun would find ways to get me meat every now and then. I
I have never eaten so well or been so full during the Chinese New Year since I was a child."
"Then how did you get into the reconnaissance class?" Wei Ran asked, wiping his face.
"I didn't go to the reconnaissance class at first."
Zhao Shengli said with a smile, "Squad leader Sun said that I was doing a waste of time around the stove, so he sent me to the communications class. I worked in the communications class for almost two years. Later, the regiment decided to form a reconnaissance company. Because I can use
The radio station was chosen."
"You can still use the radio?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
"I used to be a signal soldier."
Zhao Shengli said with great pride, "I am young and my memory is not bad. Everyone is willing to teach me. So I can repair radio stations, take telegrams, connect telephone lines, and even be an electrician. It just so happens that the reconnaissance company also needs someone like me.
I was picked off."
"I guess there is no one in the reconnaissance company who can run faster than you," Wei Ran said sincerely.
"There really aren't many people in the company who can run faster than me, but I've seen people who can run faster than me."
Zhao Shengli stomped out his cigarette butts with his rubber shoes and said with some annoyance, "Just a few months ago, before we came to this position, we encountered an unbearable wave of soldiers. Oh! You have never seen that battle.
Number 1000's Nanhan soldiers ran away and threw things all the way.
What a good gun a big eight grains are? Squad leader Sun and the others picked it up in the back. Their cheeks were numb with joy, and our feet running in the back were almost numb. Later, those Nanhan soldiers didn't even need their backpacks and helmets and ran away all the way.
At that time, I watched with my own eyes the American soldiers who were running with them kicked him out of the truck. They were still unwilling to surrender and ran after the American truck, like fools."
"What happened next?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.
"Later, I still let them run away a lot."
Zhao Shengli said with a grimace, "At that time, our battalion was chasing behind us for a whole day and night. My thighs were cramped from running, but there were still many who failed to stop and let them get into the forest. Those Nanhan soldiers were not tall, and some
He's shorter than me, but his feet are really fast, and his head is tougher than a donkey pulling grain in the kitchen."
"Forehead..."
The corners of Wei Ran's mouth twitched, but this time he really couldn't help but laugh, because he had almost guessed which of the ruthless troops was the one that was so fast.
After Wei Ran finished smoking the cigarette on his finger, Zhao Shengli stood up and picked up his heavy backpack, "Have you rested enough? Let's walk slower and find a place to rest after we climb over the mountain."
"Let's go!" Wei Ran also stood up, stamped out the cigarette butt, buried it with soil, and stood up with his bag.
Under the leadership of Zhao Shengli, it took them nearly an hour to finally climb over the mountain.
Under the leadership of Zhao Shengli, the two walked halfway up the mountain for more than 10 minutes, and finally stopped on a small platform halfway up the mountain.
To Wei Ran's great surprise, after Zhao Shengli pulled away the fallen leaves on the ground, he actually revealed a trench that was nearly two meters long, one and a half meters wide, and about one meter deep.
"Comrade Wei Ran, please clear out this trench, and then find some branches from around to cover it." Zhao Shengli had already taken off the engineer shovel tied to his backpack as he spoke, "I'll dig a stove out, and we'll have some food later.
Take a good rest while you’re warm.”
"This is..."
“I left it behind when I came back last time.”
Zhao Shengli pointed down the mountain, "That's the road leading to the Americans' rear. We have scouted here several times."
It is estimated that the US military position behind him will be eaten soon...
Wei Ran muttered to himself, quickly put down his backpack, pulled out the engineer shovel he brought with him, and began to clean the trench.
This work is not difficult. First clean the fallen leaves accumulated inside, then shovel the surrounding areas and compact the soil in the trench. This is the main work completed.
All that's left is to make two bunks inside with dry fallen leaves, and finally pick up some branches to add a roof, and cover them with the dead branches and leaves that were cleaned up before to camouflage them.
While he was busy here, Zhao Shengli had already dug out a large basketball hole in the wall on one side of the trench, and then dug three long radiating trenches outside, and used wooden sticks and excavated soil to fill the hole.
Three long ditches were roofed and surrounded by fallen leaves.
In short, this is a smokeless stove specially designed to prevent high-altitude reconnaissance by aircraft.
The construction work was completed quickly. The two of them got some dead branches and lit them in the excavated stove. Then they opened the seized cans and put them next to them.
Taking this opportunity, Zhao Shengli diligently carried an empty kettle and fetched clean water from a mountain spring pool not far away. By the way, he unexpectedly picked up a hood full of red hawthorn fruits from nowhere.
“Picked from the side”
Zhao Shengli handed the hat with hawthorn to Wei Ran, took off a handful of hawthorn leaves and a few hawthorn fruits and stuffed them into several kettles that were being heated, while explaining, "The reason why I chose this location is
It’s convenient to drink water, and there are two hawthorn trees as big as buckets over there. These hawthorn trees are a good thing. Not only do their fruits taste delicious, their leaves can also be used to make tea.”
"Can this also make tea?" Wei Ran threw a hawthorn fruit into his mouth as he spoke, and the sour taste immediately made him grin and frown.
"I didn't know that before"
Zhao Shengli also threw a piece of fruit into his mouth, "There is a comrade in our company from Guizhou Province. They use hawthorn leaves to make tea. And if you eat too much fried noodles, it is easy to lose weight, so this is just right.
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While talking, Zhao Shengli had already opened the backpacks of the two of them and took out all the things one by one. He sorted and calculated by the firelight in the stove, "Now we have a big eight-pellet, and the matching bullets must be hundreds."
Ten rounds, and nearly two hundred rounds of carbine ammunition. There are also a dozen grenades and two pistols."
Having said this, Zhao Shengli counted by the light of the fire and continued, "There are a hundred or ten bullets in the pistol, which should be enough for us."
“There’s a lot to eat”
Wei Ran pointed to the things placed in front of him and said, "In addition to the opened ones, we also have six cans, a dozen biscuits, a few pieces of chocolate, and four kettles. These things are really heavy."
"They are all useful and good things. They are enough for us to last for four or five days without any problem."
Zhao Shengli smiled honestly, picked up a flashlight, opened it with his hand and tried it, then closed it and pinned it to his belt, then picked up the American telescope he had seized not long ago, playing with it while smiling happily
He said, "I have long wanted to change my telescope. The lenses I used before are all worn."
"Sheng Sheng, why are you still carrying a slingshot?" Wei Ran picked up a seized 1911 pistol and asked the doubts he had long had while inspecting it.
Unexpectedly, after this question was asked, Zhao Shengli fell silent.
"I... pretended I didn't ask." Wei Ran knew he had said something wrong and quickly said, "Why don't we explain tomorrow..."
"This slingshot was made for me when my father was still alive."
Zhao Shengli smiled, picked up the heated can and handed it to Wei Ran, then stretched out his hand and pulled down two branches from his head and handed them to Wei Ran, "Eat it while it's hot. Go to sleep when you're full. You have to get up early tomorrow."
