Under several big trees beside the road, more than a dozen horses were munching on the grass on the ground. More than a dozen brothers who had fallen behind to investigate the enemy's situation were scattered, leaning against the trees to drink water and rest.
Yang Ling led the troops in circles, and there were mounted scouts in front and behind to detect the enemy's situation. This was also to provide timely warning when there was enemy situation and prevent the troops from being surrounded by Japanese soldiers.
"Tiedan, give me one of your cigarettes to satisfy my craving."
A brother was addicted to cigarettes. He approached a brother who was leaning back to drink water and asked for a cigarette.
The brother who was drinking water screwed on the lid of the kettle and shook his head like a rattle: "I don't have cigarettes, you ask others to go."
"I'm talking about Tiedan, are you kidding me? I saw you when you ambush the Japs just now. You took several packs of cigarettes from the Japs' corpses." The brother who wanted to smoke was reluctant.
"That's what I got from killing the Japanese. It's my trophy. Why do you want it?"
In this era of scarcity, cigarettes are a luxury item in the army. After all, in battles where nerves are highly tense, many people smoke and drink to relieve stress. No one knows when they will die. Tiedan is still
Don't want to give it.
"In this case, you can pick any of the things I seized, and we can exchange them." The brother who asked for cigarettes had to soften his tone as he looked at the iron egg that he was holding tightly and refused to give.
"Okay, give me the watch you captured."
As if he was prepared, Tiedan stared at this brother's wrists covered by tattered sleeves, raised his eyes and said.
"I'm afraid your kid has already paid attention to his watch."
Seeing Tiedan slap his watch, the brother who wanted a cigarette immediately reacted and said angrily.
"Would you like to change it?" Tiedan said, grabbing the kettle and trying to move it aside.
"Okay, okay, I can give you a watch in exchange, but you have to give me a pack of cigarettes, not one."
"make a deal!"
As Tiedan spoke, he took out a pack of captured Japanese cigarettes from his arms and threw it into this brother's hand.
Although this brother was extremely reluctant, he still took off his watch and threw it to Tiedan.
This brother had just pulled this watch from the hands of a Japanese officer when he was cleaning the battlefield. He didn't even warm it up yet, so he bought it cheaply.
The iron egg covered the shiny dial, turned upside down and then back again under the faint moonlight: "What time is this now?"
Although they saw that the officer sometimes wore a watch, but now that he had it in his hands, he found that he didn't know the time at all.
"Hey, do you want me to teach you and give me a pack of cigarettes?"
Watching Tiedan playing with his watch and lighting a cigarette, his brother squatted there and watched the joke.
"You are so stupid, you are taking advantage of the situation." Tiedan looked at this brother and cursed angrily.
"I can't let you take advantage of me, can I?" The brother with a cigarette in his mouth finally came back, feeling very happy.
Tiedan fiddled with it for a long time and still didn't know how to tell the time. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms and threw it to this brother and said, "Tell me, how to tell the time."
This brother put the cigarette that Tiedan threw at him into his pocket, and said with a smile: "Give it to me, I'll ask the squad leader."
"You are fooling me, give me back the cigarette."
When Tiedan saw that this brother couldn't tell the time, he immediately became unwilling and tried to snatch the cigarette back.
"There is no reason to return the things you gave away and the water you poured out."
The brother holding the cigarette ran away in a hurry, and Tiedan chased after him.
"Can you two calm down for a while? What would you do if you attracted the Japanese?" The squad leader, who was resting against a tree trunk as he watched the two chasing each other, said angrily.
"Squad leader, he cheated me of my cigarettes." Tiedan panted and pointed at the brother to complain.
"Squad leader, don't listen to his nonsense, we are dealing fairly..."
"boom!"
Before the brother with a cigarette in his mouth finished speaking, he was suddenly interrupted by a dull gunshot. With a pop, the brother's head exploded like a watermelon, and the blood sprayed on the dog.
Eggs all over.
"There are enemies!"
The sudden sound of gunfire startled the brothers who were resting here. They hurriedly grabbed their guns and rolled them into the grass and shallow pits. Then they raised their guns and warned around them.
Tiedan also hurriedly lay down. Looking at the brother who fell next to him with his head blown off, his eyes suddenly turned red.
The brothers all fell to the ground together, but except for the gunshot just now, the other party did not fire a second shot.
Just as the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad was about to order everyone to move around the horses and evacuate, suddenly a harsh Chinese voice sounded not far away.
"You have been surrounded. Put down your weapons and surrender, and we can let you live!"
The Japs from the Skeleton Special Forces, led by Commander Makino Kanan, chased Yang Ling and the others, and finally caught up with the reconnaissance cavalry squad at the rear.
Commander Makino Kanan did not want to eliminate them all, but wanted to capture the prisoners for interrogation to determine the situation at the headquarters of the Northern Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps.
"What a fool. After catching eagles all day long, an eagle pecked out my eyes."
Hearing the Japanese's shouting, the squad leader of the reconnaissance cavalry couldn't help but cursed secretly, and then put his gun on fire.
They had just laid off an ambush by the Japanese cavalry and eliminated dozens of them. They thought that the Japanese would not catch up so quickly, so they did not set up a warning post.
But who knew that the Japanese would catch up so quickly and quietly, leaving them surrounded.
"Tiedan, Mazi, you will ride on horseback later to report to the commander that the Japanese are catching up. We will cover you!" The squad leader of the reconnaissance squad was also very decisive and prepared to withdraw immediately.
"beat!"
Following the order from the reconnaissance squad leader, the brothers lying on the ground opened fire one after another in the direction where the Japanese voices came from.
"Puff puff!"
The bullets whizzed past, splashing the turf and soil on the ground. The Japanese commander Makino Kanan, who was about to continue shouting, had to lower his head to hide.
When the brothers opened fire, Tiedan and another brother quickly jumped up from the ground, and the two of them galloped towards the horses.
"Bastards! Kill them!"
Facing these guerrilla officers and soldiers who suddenly opened fire, the Japanese commander Makino Kanan suddenly lost his desire to capture prisoners and gave the order to open fire.
"Da da da - da da da -"
The Japanese's submachine guns fired one after another at the brothers lying on the ground, and the scarlet bullets intertwined into a hail of death bullets and swept towards the brothers' direction.
Facing such strong firepower from the Japanese, the brothers had to hurriedly roll on the ground to avoid the bullets. They were holding 38 rifles in their hands as their opponents with submachine guns, and were suppressed without the ability to fight back.
During the exchange of fire between the two sides, Tiedan and another brother who rushed to the horse quickly got on the horse, kicked the horse's belly violently, and galloped in the direction of Yang Ling's retreat.
"Kill them!"
Seeing the guerrilla officers and soldiers galloping towards the distance, the Japanese commander Makino Kanan roared.
"boom!"
The three Japanese sniper teams all opened fire one after another, but the sight was too dark and the horses were moving too fast, so the three bullets only hit one target.
"ah!"
With a scream, a brother who was galloping on horseback was shot and fell off the horse. Tiedan hurriedly reined in the horse and tried to go back to save him.
"Come on, leave me alone!"
The brother who fell off the horse seemed to be falling apart, and blood was pouring out of his chest. He looked at Tiedan and summoned up all his strength to shout.
At this moment, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers armed with submachine guns were chasing after them. Tiedan looked at the surrounded reconnaissance squad leader and his fallen brothers, gritted his teeth, turned around, and rode his horse into the darkness.