Eleven
Xiao Gao led a company of bandits to the head of a village and ran into an intersection. I didn't know where to go, and I was greeted by a few people who were carrying burdens and selling pots, and it seemed that they were going to the market. The monkey was quick to ask, "Hey, it's good for Shangxianggong to take this road?" ”
The pot seller said, "The road to the east of the Shangxiang Gongdian should turn south, how did you get here?" The bandit company commander grabbed Xiao Gao and asked, "What's the matter?" Xiao Gao said anxiously: "The east side is a depression, and it is difficult to walk after a night of rain; Take a few steps around here, and the road is easy to walk. I'm a local, and I'm not more familiar than them? The bandit company commander asked the pot seller again: "Is he telling the truth?" When the pot seller saw what he said just now, he almost caused a disaster for this child, and he already regretted talking too much. Lian said: "He is right, there is water stored when it rains." Turning south from here, you can't walk a few more miles! ”
The bandit company commander spread his hand. The collar of the little high seed god said: "It's just a walk down there, you can't trust me, let me go back!" ”
The bandit company commander ignored Xiao Gao and ordered: "The advanced village will have a meal, and the plainclothes will go to the Xianggong store to find out the situation." ”
During the Kogao Anti-Japanese War, she was a trafficker, and she had seen the Japan army and the traitor team have dinner. When the Japanese army arrived at a village, they first burned a fire on the avenue, each put their lunch boxes on the fire and barbecued, and at the same time asked the maintenance association for his magao (eggs) and clothes and hair (sweet potatoes), and the soldiers also caught chickens everywhere, but the half was wild and fun, and was not a serious source of food. The traitor team suffered a lot of losses, and when they entered the village, they first asked the office staff to ask for "food and dry", that is, how much money did it cost in total, which was regarded as the village's food. When the money arrived, he didn't leave, so he had to go door to door to "search the eight roads", and he also had a meal while searching. Not picky eaters, fill everything in your mouth, eat steamed buns and pancakes naturally, and stuff pancakes and vegetable dumplings into your mouth. Because they can't eat enough on weekdays, they have eaten red alum steamed buns for medicinal rats. She hadn't seen how the Kuomintang army ate, so she hid aside and observed carefully.
The company commander said, "Let's shoot two shots first and report a message!" ”
The monkey raised his gun and fired two shots into the air, and the chickens in the whole village flew and the dogs bitten. A few armor guards who had not yet fully dressed held paper flags with the word "welcome" written on them, greeted the road, and bowed to the company commander like chickens pecking rice. While leading the team to the threshing field, the number of supplies was determined on the way: 100 catties of pancakes, 50 catties of pork, 10 catties of sesame oil, 10 cigarettes, 2 catties of soju, and 2 catties of sugar......
When Xiao Gao heard this, he was startled at first. These dog mongrels are all starving ghosts, and they can't eat so much with two bellies! Thinking about it again, in the end, it is better than the traitor team or the more civilized, sitting on the field to eat collectively is better than casually harassing the common people, although it is more, but there is still a certain number.
When they arrived at the field, the team blew a whistle to announce the disbandment, and the company commander and others were accompanied by clerks into a landlord's house. The monkey face and the big man were the heralds of the company, and they followed Xiao Gao with him.
The company commander entered the hall, and the big man, monkey face, and Xiao Gao rested under the tree in the courtyard. In the meantime, the pots and spoons in the landlord's kitchen clanged, the sound of squeaky stir-fry and the smell of meat bubbled out, and several office workers went out and ran in and out. One moment I heard the company commander slapping the table and scolding in the hall, and the next moment the whole house was laughing, and the village was crying and shouting here and there, and there were beatings from time to time. Because they have traveled for a while, those two bandits are not so fierce towards Xiao Gao. Xiao Gao asked, "What are you busy with?" ”
The monkey face said, "Open the rice!" ”
Xiao Gao said: "Didn't we talk about it on the road just now? ”
The big man said: "There is another way to talk about the scene." ”
The monkey said with a reluctant face: "You little old man, what has you seen in the world!" If you really do that, those who are soldiers can't die to die, who else will do it? What does the company commander rely on to pay off his gambling account? The apportionment to the heads of the common people is to apportionment of 100 catties of flatbread according to the saying, 20 catties to the hands of the soldiers, 40 catties of the company commander's pocket, 20 catties to the chief of the armor, and the 20 catties to dot the secretary chief, platoon commander, and sergeant. So do the loaves, and do the same. The company commander slapped the table because the price was discounted! The room full of laughter is that everyone has made peace. ”
Xiao Gao asked, "In this way, don't you brothers starve?" ”
The monkey pointed at the gun and said, "When Qiu Ba's seven and a half catties are vegetarians?" Don't you hear the chickens and dogs in the village, each with its own way. Little brother, I see that you are very clever, don't look at that melon as soon as possible, and wear a gown with us! ”
Only then did Xiao Gao know that their method of cooking was a combination of the methods of devils and traitors.
Seeing that Xiao Gao didn't speak, the monkey asked again: "What's the matter, why don't you do it if you are asked to be a national army?" ”
Xiao Gao said: "Who did this!" ”
The tall man said, "I'm afraid I can't help you, do you know why the company commander didn't let you go back?" ”
Xiao Gao said, "I don't know. ”
The monkey face said: "His orderlies have deserted, and he seems to want to make up for you!" Little brother, your luck is stronger than ours, and I want you to take care of it more in the future! Xiao Gao said, "Don't fart, I won't do that." The monkey face said: "Diligence and service, three major tasks: marching backpacks, garrison drying bedding, and fighting to learn rats. If you have a head, you can do it! ”
As he was talking, the sound of an airplane sounded in the sky, and the bandit company commander ran to the door of the hall to look at the sky, and shouted urgently: "Signal cloth, signal cloth, quickly swing signal cloth!" These donkeys can't see the blue sky and white sun hat flowers in the sky, and the bomb comes down and doesn't recognize relatives, fast, fast! ”
The monkey face hurriedly took out three rolls of cloth from the blue cloth baggage, and shouted that the big man climbed the tree and went up to the house together, and put the two white ones and the red one away. The plane circled at low altitude, and sure enough, it ran away with its tail cocked. Seeing that the big man and the monkey face were all on the room, Xiao Gao took the opportunity to run out of the door. As soon as he arrived at the door, a sentry raised his gun and asked, "Where are you going?" ”
Xiao Gao said: "I, I hide from the plane." ”
"The planes are gone, you still hide from the fart, go back!"
The big man and the monkey face rolled up the signal cloth and carried it on their backs. A little captain brought a plate of pancakes and salted eggs to the monkey face, and said, "This is for you brothers." Xiao Gao said: "I am a common man who was arrested, don't treat me as one of them." The little commander said: "The company commander said that there are three of them, and I don't care who is who." ”
Xiao Gao was hungry early, but he couldn't eat comfortably. She was worried that the company commander would decide to call her an orderly, but she couldn't pretend to be able to do so, and she had to run away immediately.
She hadn't figured out a way to get out yet, and the plainclothes who had gone to scout came back. The report said that Xianggongdian was rushing to the market, and there was no hostile situation. According to the people who rushed to the market, seven or eight miles southeast of Xianggongdian, they arrived at the New Fourth Army last night, and they were still there this morning. The leader was a bearded man, twenty or thirty men, just like the one who came out of the mountain.
The bandit company commander gave the order and immediately opened to the Xianggong store after eating. Xiao Gao thought to himself, don't run away, go with them, this is more certain than finding a team by himself. As long as you get in touch with your own team, are you afraid that you won't find a chance to escape?
Leaving again in the afternoon, they also let Xiao Gao walk in the front. The company commander really said to Xiao Gao: "Kid, do you think it's good to be a soldier?" Eat fragrant, drink spicy, and wear ready-made military uniforms, is it stronger than you see melons? ”
Xiao Gao said: "It's not strong, no one scolds you when you look at the melon, everyone scolds you when you are in the national army!" ”
"If you don't get scolded, you won't grow up!" The bandit company commander said with a smile, "Anyway, they don't dare to scold in person, and they can't hear what they scold behind their backs!" ”
"That's not going to do it. You know the road ahead, let me go back! ”
"If you don't do it, you have to do it, give me a duty!"
"I still have my mother!"
"There are a lot of mothers who are soldiers!"
"Anti-righteous!"
"I shot you!" The bandit commander took out his pistol and gestured, and then said to the monkey's face: "Tie me up and take it with you!" ”
The monkey face found a rope, tied Xiao Gao to a hemp shoulder, and held the rope in his hand. He knew that the boy was destined to be a soldier, and he could not offend him, and the rope was tied loosely.
When the group arrived at the Xianggong store, they stopped again. The mayor of the town said that he handed over 200,000 gold yuan coupons, two steamed buns and a piece of cooked meat for each soldier, and the exchange condition was not to enter the shop and private house. Xiao Gao was afraid that she would be called a bandit, so he would rather be hungry than eat the steamed bun. The bandits collected the money, ate steamed buns but did not leave, sat in the willow row at the head of the village, smoked and napped, and stayed for more than a day. The plainclothes sent back to report that the New Fourth Army had indeed left the Southeast Township and drove away on the Jinpu Road, and the company commander ordered the company commander to advance to the Southeast Township. When Xiao Gao heard this, his heart was on fire. I was looking forward to catching fire with my team so that I could find an opportunity to escape back. However, it turned out that this group of bandits was hiding and leaving, and they would never go in that direction unless they waited for the New Fourth Army to leave.
After walking southeast for an hour, I passed a small village, and it was overcast and it was about to rain. The company commander called several platoon commanders to him and explained it like this. The platoon commanders continued to move forward with their teams, but the company commander took the company headquarters and a guard platoon and went into the village house to sleep. They opened the gate of a courtyard with a tiled roof, and drove away all the people who were sleeping, and they took up the whole courtyard. The company commander lived in the east room, the others occupied the middle and west rooms, and the big man and the monkey face squeezed into the stove house with Xiao Gao in their faces. How could the common people leave the house and leave a man to take care of the house, and this man became a temporary messenger and cook. They turned out the eggs, the meat, and the powder, and told the man to make a fire and boil vegetables, and serve wine to the company commander.
Before the food was cooked, the south side was lively, people shouted and barked, and the fire soared to the sky; When the food was fried and the wine was hot, a few rich men in robes and gowns led them into the courtyard by a platoon leader. The rich men shouted: "The company commander is merciful, the company commander is merciful." By the time the company commander came out of the house, the men had all knelt down.
"Fathers, if you have something to say, please get up!"
"The company commander didn't save the lives of our whole village, and he didn't dare to get up if he knelt to death."
"Where does this start! Our army has an order, and there is no offense in autumn, and violators will be killed! Has my brother harassed the people? Say it, say it, and I'll shoot it right away! ”
"No, no! The CEOs are very well-behaved. ”
"And what are you asking for?"
"I beg that the cypress trees of my father's grave shall not be cut down."
The platoon commander said, "Report to the company commander, where the woods are digging trenches. ”
The company commander said: "That's to clear the shooting line, no way!" ”
"The bosses are demolishing my house, and even the roof has been lifted."
The platoon commander said, "Open the wall for street fighting!" ”
The company commander said: "This is necessary for the war, and there is nothing I can do to help!" ”
"The bosses are destroying my crops!"
The platoon commander said, "That's within the range of the blocking position." ”
The company commander said, "Fathers and elders, you can't tell my brothers to lie on the ground and be shot, and there is not even a hidden trench!" ”
"Company commander, a total of more than 20 communist soldiers came yesterday, and they made a meal at the head of the village and left. There's no need to prepare for such a big event! ”
"What do you know about military aircraft? It was their top platoon, with a large communist army in the rear. Brother has been ordered to stop in your village, and there is a big battle! ”
"Company Commander Kaien, move the battle line a few miles to the west, as soon as the fight starts, won't the whole village be flat?" Several people kowtowed.
"The military order is like a mountain, how can this be my brother's master! Everyone, hurry up and don't be embarrassed. ”
There was a lot of noise, and everyone came into the house. Half an hour later, the company commander shouted at the door: "Herald, go and send the order immediately, stop repairing the fortifications, the defense line has moved." ”
The monkey face promised, "Yes!" And he ran out. I went out and turned back, untied the burden on my body, took out the signal cloth inside, shook the empty baggage, tied it around my waist, and said to the big man: "Look at the point, you have a share of the lottery!" "That's how he ran out.
The big man grunted, "Mom, you're going to be fast!" ”
Xiao Gao asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”
The big man said: "Slap the table to scare the rats, squeeze the rich man to order oil." This is the price negotiated. His kid rushed to pick up foreign fish! ”
Xiao Gao asked, "Why don't those rich men leave quickly!" ”
"Don't you leave a letter of thanks?"
"What is a certificate of appreciation?"
"Find a piece of red cloth and write that a certain company of the national army in a certain year and a certain month bravely killed the enemy in this village and saved the people from fire and water; Autumn did not commit any crimes, respected his father and elders as if he were a relative, and so on. Then draw a knot of the bond, and the company commander will take it back to report the merits! ”
Xiao Gao said: "It's late at night here, where can I find red cloth pen and ink?" ”
The big man said, "Yes, the company commander has it in his bookcase, how can he not prepare the usual things?" ”
Since the beginning of the day, Xiao Gao saw that the tall man did bad things and did not rush forward, and his speech was gentler than that of a monkey, so he said to him: "I said boss, I think you are a kind person, how did you do this?" ”
"Am I willing to do it?" The big man snorted, "Our family can't pay off the landlord's debt, I sold it out!" ”
"Do you feel the sweetness when you dry up?"
"Bitterness! We can't do things that are too unconscionable, and we can't do it, and we can't just be the horns of suffering losses. ”
"That leg is on you, you can't run?"
"I've seen deserters come back and shoot them on the spot! Where's the run? My house is not far from here, and I will sell me when I go back to the armor chief. ”
"You don't have to be here to be a soldier! I have seen a good team, the officials and the soldiers are on an equal footing, do not harm the common people, and only fight the landlords and old wealth......"
"I've heard of it too. They've passed by here several times! ”
"Then why don't you go there?"
"Didn't you see our company commander? When you hear a little wind, you hide and walk, and you can't meet it if you want to! ”
"You haven't been to the front line, have you?"
"This is the team of the division management area, which is specially used to charge and catch strong men in the rear. The day before yesterday, the New Fourth Army ran out of a group of people from the Yi River, and the team on the eastern side hurriedly turned around, so we were called out. ”
"Boss, we are all poor people, where is it good, you can let me go."
"No, I can't get your head moving, and my ass will be broken. Sleep honestly, the rope is in the way, I can loosen it for you. ”
The big man loosened the rope for Kodaka in the dark. Xiao Gao stretched out his legs and lay down, and suddenly touched a soft roll. She remembered that it was the signal cloth thrown by the monkey's face. She gently hooked it with her foot, reached out and shoved it into the stove beside her, and she secretly laughed at the thought of the embarrassment of the bandits when she encountered the plane again.
Before dawn, the bandits all returned, carrying a lot of big baggage and small luggage. Monkey Face carried a burden on his own shoulder, and also carried a share of the company commander: a fox skin robe and a suit of babbling. It was the landlord who opened a business in Shanghai. It turned out that the price asked by the company commander was too big, and he couldn't make up the money for a while, so he estimated that the clothes and fabrics were all discounted. The monkey face was so happy that he forgot about the signal cloth because he accidentally found a piece of tobacco soil when he was flipping through his clothes, and he stuffed his burden without saying a word. The big man didn't go away with this heart at all.
The team assembled, and the class returned to the camp. The bandit company commander asked Xiao Gao: "Have you changed your mind?" When you are an orderly, you will be given a share immediately. Follow me, the day of wealth is yet to come! ”
Xiao Gao said, "You let me go back, I'll ask my mother." ”
"Bastard!" The leader of the bandit company really slapped Xiao Gao and said to the big man: "Untie the rope, and he can choose the two paths!" "It turned out that there were a lot of things that were robbed, and I wanted to go back to honor my superiors, so the bandit army found a flat burden, beat a few pairs of burdens, and arrested a few people to pick up the luck. The commander of the bandit company asked someone to bring his little burden and put it next to the burden, and said to Xiao Gao:
"You choose it yourself, give me a orderly, carry my little baggage, and walk comfortably. If you don't want to, you will carry the burden with the people! ”
Xiao Gao didn't say a word, gritted his teeth and took on a pick.
twelve
Hearing the Kuomintang troops leaving, the tent man recited the Buddha, and was about to put the bed to sleep, when the door was opened outside.
"Chen?"
"I'm the one who invested in the store."
"Still staying at the hotel so late?"
"It's just late to stay in the hotel, and I'm still in a hurry during the day!"
Open the door, not very assured; If you don't open the door, you're afraid of delaying your business. He peeked through the crack in the door to see that it was a porter and a trader, and the porter was pulling a donkey. He opened the door. When the guests came to the hall lamp, he remembered that the two guests and the donkey had stayed here a few days ago, and said that they had gone to Dongxiang to pick up relatives. Since he was an acquaintance, he took the reins with a smile and said, "Live in the same room where you lived last time, and I will bring water immediately." He wondered why he hadn't picked up his relatives and came back with an empty donkey.
The tent man went to fetch water, and the porter mixed the stuff into the trough, when a woman came from the latrine at the back and went straight to the east wing. It was raining, and the wind lanterns were hanging on the cattle trough, and what kind of person could not see clearly. But the shadow was enough, and the porter felt that he had seen this man somewhere. Just go back and muttered to the robe-clad one.
When the man came to set the table with hot noodles, the robed guest said, "This is a mess, but your business is still thriving, and the rooms are full, right?" ”
"Look at what you said, who doesn't look at the yellow calendar, and travels on this day! Except for the two of you, there is only one single cousin. ”
The donkey man asked, "From a foreign country?" ”
"Go to a foreign country!" The man said, "The rich man of Dongxiang has scared the New Fourth Army out." I heard that I went back to my mother's house in Shanghai. ”
Because there were Kuomintang troops stationed in the village, Yu Jie had been on guard against accidents and did not dare to sleep. The Kuomintang army drove away, and she closed her eyes, wanting to get a good night's sleep and accumulate energy for tomorrow's journey. She had just fallen asleep when she was awakened by the sound of a slamming door, and then she heard someone say hello, and the donkey snorted and went all the way into the courtyard. When the visitor entered the guest room and the donkey led the barn, she quietly got up and got off the kang, wanting to take the opportunity to go to the toilet to observe the movement. When she went, she didn't see anyone, only saw two swaying black shadows from the window paper of the east wing, and when she came back, there were people next to the livestock trough, medium and short, and she could see very clearly under the wind lamp, and she immediately recognized it as the porter who drove the donkey for the second sister! When the donkey she rode that day rushed towards Eryan, he ran over and stopped her. You can't be mistaken about that look.
Back in the house, she couldn't lie down anymore.
If two people come together, that one must be a human trafficker. rescued Eryan, who had a grudge against them, and had a lot of luck with them. It's full of enemy troops, and they betray themselves as soon as they collude! Either way, get out of here before they even know it.
At this time, the third watch was just handed over. Leave immediately, arousing the suspicion of the store that it is a small matter, and it is a big matter to attract their attention. She just sat there and waited for dawn, she thought that these two people would not sleep until midnight, and would not wake up too early.
She didn't dare to light the lamp, and she couldn't find anything to do, and for a few days she was so weak and weak that she couldn't sit there without taking a nap, so she took another nap. When she opened her eyes, the light outside the window was bright, and she said to herself: "Oh no, it's all bright, I'm afraid those two guys have also gotten up." "Gently push the door open a narrow slit, but fortunately, the door of the east wing has not yet opened. She slowly opened the door wider, rubbed out the door sideways, and saw that it was a sunny day, revealing half a bright moon. However, there are already roosters crowing far and near, and there are always four more scenes. She crept to the front room, where the guy was already making a fire. Because the store money had been paid last night, he beckoned the man to open the door. The guy said, "It's so early, let's rest again!" Opened the door. Yu Jie quickened her pace and walked out of the west entrance of the village.
Yesterday it was sunny, and the roads that had been dried were drenched in the rain again this night. Yu Jie was anxious, and she also rested for a day and a night to slow down, although she fell and slippery, her speed was still very fast. After passing through a few tall fields, she couldn't look back at the house, and she fell to the ground with a stone. Touching his forehead, his hair was already sticky with sweat.
The water flowing in the small ditch on the side of the road was very clear, and I wanted to wash my face, but I held back. Continuing to rush forward, I walked about the ground, and the road sloped downward, and a large puddle appeared in front of me. I don't know how deep it is, it's half a mile long; I couldn't see how wide the two sides were, but I saw that half of the sorghum and corn were soaked in water, and half of them were exposed and swayed with the water waves. Whether to go down or find another way, the decision has not yet been decided, and the sound of donkey hooves is heard from behind him getting closer and closer. Yu Jie gritted her teeth, took off her shoes, rolled up her trouser legs and went into the water.
At first, the water is not deep, only there are no calves; The ground under the water is not sinking, but hard and slippery. After walking for a while, it went deep all of a sudden, until it reached the root of the leg, and the mud at the bottom of the water was like a sauce jar. Yu Jie had to take one step to stand firm and then take the next step. At this time, I heard the sound of someone wading in the water behind me. Looking back, the two of them and a donkey were coming from behind, and the one in a robe was riding on the donkey, and the one in a short shirt was pulling the reins.
Yu Jie wanted to be fast, and she didn't make any decisions on her feet, so she had to catch up with them, adapt to the situation, and then try to escape.
They rushed to Yu Jie's side and slowed down.
Yu Jie lowered her head and walked without raising her eyes. But his heart beat to his throat, and his face blushed to the base of his ears. She thought to herself, as the saying goes, only when a show meets a soldier, it is unreasonable; Today is good, she is not a soldier who has the strength to catch up with a show; And these two are more ferocious than the enemy soldiers. It is necessary to be extra vigilant, as long as they are not allowed to use force, there is room for manoeuvre.
"Sister-in-law," asked the robed man softly, "Traveling alone?" ”
Yu Jie was silent.
He asked, "Where is this?" ”
Yu Jie thought to herself, "Did he recognize me?" He glanced at the man and replied, "Go to the train station." ”
The robe-wearing looked at Yu Jie, and his eyes showed a smile of satisfaction. Yu Jie knew that he was completely recognized.
"We also go up to the station," said the robe, "and since we are on the same road, let this donkey be ridden by you." ”
"I can go, don't bother you."
"If you meet, you have a fate!" The robe smiled: "Who doesn't have a place for whom!" Looking at my sister-in-law like this, eighty percent of them are going back to their parents' home, right? ”
"Almost."
"It's not easy to walk on the road! The national army searched everywhere, looking for the Communist Party with makeup; The New Fourth Army is also looking for deserters who have fallen behind; Both sides said that they would pay the whistleblower a reward. ”
"Hey, hey!" Yu Jie sneered, "You inquired very clearly, didn't you inquire, did you report the wrong reward?" ”
The robe choked suddenly, the Kuomintang sent female spies, and the Communist Party also had female scouts. Not figuring out who she really is doesn't scare her.
"I mean, it's easier for us to go together." The robe smiled and said: "This area is the world of the national army, I have a pass in my hand, and it happens to be two men and one woman." ”
Yu Jie saw that it was not easy to break free from these two people. You need to do what you want, look for opportunities, and try your best to keep them steady.
"Let's talk about being a companion, why do you put so much effort into it?" Yu Jie smiled: "They are all people on the scene!" ”
At this time, the puddle was already out, Yu Jie stopped and twisted the water on her pants and put on her shoes. The robe got off the donkey and insisted that Yu Jie ride it. Yu Jie was no longer polite, asked the porter to help her ride up, and deliberately said: "Offended, today's foot money is mine." ”
The robe and the short fight looked at each other, and both of them were a little dazed. It was clearly this woman, wearing the uniform of the New Fourth Army and riding a donkey, crashing past them, and losing the second sister, why did she change a person every other day? That tone of speech is like an old man who is familiar with the dock.
Yu Jie just played a woman in the rivers and lakes in a play, and she borrowed that line and figure here with affection, and achieved unexpected results. It seems that the desperate road is not impossible, she is preemptive, waiting for the robe to be revealed.
"Hear you have a Southern accent?" The robe said.
"Small place Shanghai."
"You want to go home?"
"Look at the wind and see if it's good."
"If we want to be able to complete our business, we will always hold the pole when we fall down."
"I know your business, and you want to sell me for a living."
"Don't you dare, they're all friends!"
"I'll listen to you."
"Our brothers are working hard for nothing more than money. That day we lost a living, losing 500 dollars. Today, God opened his eyes for us to meet you, and you had to pay this account. Which party or faction does not do our business, you can pay for it, and we will let you go, whether it is Shanghai or a ravine, you can go by yourself. ”
"What if I can't get it?"
"Then don't blame us for talking about business. But the driver is not an old fighter, so he doesn't have to ask his brother to bother! ”
"I don't have any money on me, but I have money to pick me up!"
"Well, let's find a place for you to make offerings, and you can send a letter and call someone to pick it up. We will seek profit, and not destroy the God of Wealth! ”
A thought flashed in Yu Jie's heart, in case she couldn't get out, she would rather ask her father to get money to ransom her, than be a prisoner of the Kuomintang, right?
Seeing that she was silent, the robe said further: "But to be clear, what if you are from the national army?" Bright sign, let's be a misunderstanding; What if it's on that side? I also sell a friendship, as long as you are willing to cooperate, I will never penetrate the bottom when I meet the national army! ”
Yu Qing said: "Whatever you want, you and I both have long mouths." ”
After saying this, they were thinking about their hearts, and the atmosphere was dull and tense. Yu Jie calculated, of course she had to run if she could run, but if she really couldn't get out, she had to try to call her family to ransom her. It is a matter of life and death, and it is better to make your family laugh than to be a prisoner of the enemy. The porter whispered to the robe: "Do you really take her as a mortgage and wait for her house to ransom her?" The robe made a look, meaning: "This is a plan to stabilize the army, get her to Jinan and sell it, and ask the human flesh workshop to fish it out if there is oil and water." ”
At this time, the sun was shining, and both the traffickers and the donkeys were sweating. Seeing that the railroad was not far ahead, the porter struck two lashes to get to the shade of the roadside tree to rest. The donkey spread its hooves and walked merrily, followed by two men and hurried through an intersection. From the south, a company of fully loaded Kuomintang troops was coming. As soon as the bandit company commander saw these people, he shouted: "What are you doing? Come here! The two traffickers stood still, it was too late to retreat.
The bandit army, who walked with a lot of urine and blood, sat on the mud floor and gasped for breath without waiting for the order, and the people who carried the burden also put down their burdens to wipe their sweat. The monkey face and the big man snatched the trafficker and the donkey over, and Yu Jie took advantage of the situation to jump off the donkey.
The bandit company commander turned his pistol in his hand and asked, "What are you doing?" ”
"Ordinary people, the family members are sick and sent to Jinan for medical treatment." As he spoke, the trafficker took out the pass with the big seal from his waist.
"I don't look at that bird!" The bandit company commander took the barrel of the gun and flicked the piece of paper, "During the military period, let Lao Tzu ride the donkey first!" ”
"Hey, boss! We've got to catch a train! The trafficker pulled out his wallet again. The company commander was already fat yesterday, so he couldn't afford this money, so he waved his gun and said: "You two old men go and pick up the burden, and replace the two pairs that the kid and the soldier picked!" ”
It turned out that there was an old man who was caught suffering from tuberculosis, coughing up blood all the way, and fell halfway, and the burden fell on the shoulders of a bandit. Xiao Gao is small and weak, gritting his teeth and being strong, the bandits are lazy and lazy, and they have never done heavy work, so despite the company commander's scolding and the platoon commander's beating, they can't go fast. The company commander saw that the two traffickers were very strong, so he cheapened the errand for them.
The company commander got on the donkey, and the bandits led the traffickers and porters to pick up the burden, and Yu Jie turned around and left. When the porter saw this, he said to the robe, "She is going to run!" The robes broke free from the bandit army and went to arrest Yu Jie, and the bandit company commander asked sharply: "What are you going to do?" The robe said, "I, the woman, will run." He shouted at Yu Jie again: "You still want to die, if you want to die, stand still if you want to die!" The porter said, "She's a madman, and we won't be able to find her as soon as she runs away!" The robe said, "It's okay for me to carry your burdens, but you can't let my madwoman go!" When Yu Jie heard this, she scolded angrily: "Bastard! Who is you woman, you are a human trafficker! ”
As soon as the robe heard this, he leaked his bottom and shouted: "Catch this female Communist Party quickly!" ”
When the bandits heard this, they all laughed, saying that the family's scolding was all new words. The bandit company commander rode on a donkey and shouted: "Bastard, I'm your house here, it's so noisy!" Shut up, the man will carry the burden, and show me the woman too. When you get to the station, I'll send you out, and you will go up to the side and make noise about you. ”
Xiao Gao recognized the two traffickers first, and beat the drum in his heart, wondering what to do if they recognized him! When he recognized that the donkey rider was Yu Jie, his head buzzed, and he immediately swelled to the size of a bag. Listening to their quarrel, and after the bandit company commander pressed down, the traffickers did not further expose it, and Yu Jie did not insist on leaving, so he couldn't figure out what medicine was in this gourd.
"Leave the picks behind!" The big man said to Xiao Gao, and pushed the robe-wearing one again, "You pick it up." ”
The robed man took the flat shoulder from the little master, put it on his shoulders, gritted his teeth and stood up, looked up sharply and saw Xiao Gao, "Ah", and opened his mouth like a dead catfish.
"Why, don't you know?" Xiao Gao took the first step and asked, "The day before yesterday, you two also ate my melon!" ”
The robe snorted, not knowing how to answer.
Xiao Gao took advantage of the time when the big man went to command the porter to take the burden, and whispered to the robe: "If you dare to prick the hair, I will insist that you are a communist, and you will eat melons in my melon shed with the New Fourth Army." ”
The bandit company commander also handed Yu Jie over to the big man and the monkey face to take care of. Yu Jie was very annoyed by the thief eyebrows of the bandits, and lowered her head and didn't look at anyone. Seeing that the big man and the monkey's face were three or five steps apart, Xiao Gao touched Yu Jie's hand with his hand, Yu Jie shook his arm vigorously, spat and twisted his face to the other side.
"Yu Jie!"
This softly, like thunder on a sunny day, Yu Jie shook all over her body, and hurriedly turned around. When I saw that it was Xiao Gao, I was so surprised that I didn't catch my breath for a long time. Xiao Gao gave a look and whispered, "Don't look at me, you and I pretend not to know each other." ”
"Hmm."
"How did you get mixed up with them!"
"They're following me!"
"Why don't you run?"
"Can't run. They will detain me and make my house ransom for it. ”
"It's a lie, and you really can't do it. Revolutionary fighters can't do that, they have to be ambitious! ”
"I'll be fine with you, I'll listen to you!"
"Without me, you have to fight resolutely, and you would rather die than be sold by human traffickers."
There was the sound of planes in the southwest, and machine gun fire and bomb explosions could be heard not far away.
"Go northwest, go to the railroad!" When the bandit company commander heard this, he said, "There is probably an enemy in the southwest, and we will get in touch with the traffic police team when we are close to the railway." If the enemy really comes, we will not be surrounded. ”
The procession passed through the fields of crops and came to the edge of the railway. The enemy on the pillbox asked for the password. number, wave your hand to let them pass. Just then, several planes flew at low altitude along the railway line.
"Swing signal!" The sentry at the mouth of the bunker shouted, "Signal quickly." ”
The bandit company commander hurriedly shouted at the monkey's face: "Quick, quick!" The monkey face quickly unburdened himself from his back, unbuttoned it, and with a loud bang fell out some colorful women's clothes and a large piece of smoke. The bandit company commander couldn't help but say, and kicked him twice while sitting on the donkey, "I told you to make a signal!" You dry the rags for me! Good boy, you still have a piece of smoke! ”
"Swing signal, swing ......" The monkey's face also changed color in a hurry, and asked the big man, "Where is the signal cloth?" ”
The big man said, "The company commander told you to carry it, how do I know!" ”
"I'll shoot you......" Before the bandit company commander finished speaking, several planes turned around and flew back. The donkey stumbled and fell. The company commander rolled off the donkey's neck and threw it a foot away.
"I'll fuck you!" The bandit company commander took out his pistol and fired two shots into the air. But the plane didn't listen to that, and another dive bombing followed. The bandits did not have the experience and preparation to be bombed by their own planes, and those who cried for their fathers, scolded their mothers, and took the opportunity to shoot the enemy's black guns, and the chaos became a mess, and more than a dozen people were killed and injured in the blink of an eye. Xiao Gao took the opportunity to take Yu Jie's hand and said, "Run!"
Xiao Gao pulled Yu Jie across the railroad and jumped into the ditch on the side of the road.b Before they could climb the edge of the ditch, the big bandit army chased after them with guns. Xiao Gao saw that he couldn't hide, so he pushed Yu Jie up the edge of the ditch and said, "Enter the crops, run yours!" I'll deal with it. Yu Jie took a few steps into the cornfield.
The pursuing bandits came to the edge of the ditch, and Xiao Gao slammed out from below, pulled his legs with both hands, and the big man fell on his back. Xiao Gao grabbed him by the neck and said, "I treat you as a good person, and you chase after me!" ”
The big man pulled away Xiao Gao's hand around his neck with both hands, and squeezed out a few words from the gap in his throat: "I have words, I have words!" What are you anxious about? ”
"I'm not in a hurry if you arrest me?"
"You run yours, I'll chase me, I'm going to shoot or not?"
"And what are you doing here?"
"Silly ancestor, I also ran, the signal cloth was lost, several people died, didn't the company commander want my life!" As he spoke, he unloaded the bolt and put it in Xiao Gao's hand and said, "You can rest assured, why don't you run?" ”
Xiao Gao took the bolt of the gun and also drilled into the crop field, and the big man chased after the gun without the bolt. Because the planes were still bombarding and sweeping overhead, the enemy on the pillboxes also got into the shells of the turtles, and no one paid attention to their movements. In fact, the big man didn't have to play such a small trick.
When they entered the sorghum field, Xiao Gao and the big man were together, and the two called Yu Jie while running, but no one answered. As he was running, two men in civilian clothes and guns jumped out from both sides, shouting: "Surrender the gun and don't kill!" ”
The big man quickly raised his gun over his head. One person took it and looked at it: "Where's the bolt?" ”
"Here!" Xiao Gao handed it over.
"Come with us!"
Two plainclothes men followed one after the other, escorting them to the southwest. As you walk, you ask them, "Which part of it?" ”
The big man said, "The division is under the jurisdiction of the district garrison company." ”
"Where are you two going?"
The big man said, "I don't know, I'm following him." ”
"Where's you, kid?"
"I don't know."
"I don't know if you're running?"
"They took me as a guide and didn't let me go home for two days."
The two escorts laughed. One of them looked at Xiao Gao for a moment and said, "Where is your home?" ”
Xiao Gao said: "You can't control it. ”
"Can't care? If you don't tell me, I'm afraid you won't find it! The man smiled and said, "The last time you couldn't find your home, you just asked me." ”
Saying this, Xiao Gao felt that the accent was very familiar, but after looking at it, he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
The soldier said: "One night, three members of the art troupe found our company station, you asked the sentry for directions, it was not me who put the sentry!" ”
Xiao Gao looked at it again, jumped up and hugged the soldier, jumped on Gao'er, and patted and said, "You changed into civilian clothes, I don't recognize it." ”
"You've changed into plain clothes, and I'll recognize you."
Xiao Gao asked the war soil, how did he get here. The soldier told Xiao Gao to stand still and waited for another man to escort the big man farther away, and then told him that they had been fighting all day on the banks of the Yi River, and that the enemy had found that our great force had gone away, and that there was only one regiment, and he was angry and pounced on him with ninety times the force. The higher authorities ordered the battalions to break through the encirclement separately, and after breaking through the encirclement, they made a detour back to the Yimeng Mountains. However, this company had drilled out from the southwest, and after getting rid of the enemy, it was no longer possible to move east and north. And even the casualties were scattered, and there were only about 30 people left. The company commander decided to follow the footsteps of the army to the west, and also arranged to pay attention to the search for the three female soldiers along the way.
The warrior asked Xiao Gao where the two female comrades were? Xiao Gao told the general situation. The soldier said, "Just now we heard enemy planes strafing here, and we thought that our troops had arrived here, and the company commander sent us to reconnoitre. As soon as we arrived, a woman stood in the crop, glanced at us, turned around, and ran north. It is common for the common people in the enemy-occupied area to turn around and run away when they see people with guns, and we didn't go up to interrogate them, so it must be a comrade surnamed Yu. ”
Indeed, it was Yu Jie.
Xiao Gao told her to enter the crop field, first to the south and then to the west. As soon as she turned her face to the south, she saw two men with guns, bending over and walking towards her. She didn't even think about it, she turned around and ran as fast as she could. She didn't know the direction either, she just wanted to run away from the plane. Ran through the sorghum field, and then into the grove, did not notice that there was a man sitting in the woods, and almost tripped over the man, and quickly restrained his feet. The man was so frightened that he quickly got up. Yu Jie looked at it and cried bitterly.
"This is truly the path of no one else!" The trafficker in the robe said, "The foot is dead, the donkey's leg is broken, I thought it was really a chicken and egg to beat, and you sent it again." No need to talk nonsense, come with me. ”
Yu Jie listened to Xiao Gao's criticism, and decided not to engage in expedient measures with him anymore, so she turned around and ran to the left again. And the robe was tucked up and chased after him. Seeing that he was about to catch up, Yu Jie was in a hurry, bent down and grabbed two handfuls of mud, turned around and stopped. The robe chased after him and was about to say something, when Yu Jie smashed the mud in his hand into the eyes of the robe. The robe groaned and raised his hand to wipe the mud. Rubbing her eyes, Yu Jie turned a corner and ran to the right.
A baker's dozen
Yiyan followed the road pointed out by Eryan, and soon arrived at the edge of the railway. At this time, there was an ironclad car patrolling the road, driving from north to south, panting suddenly, with a one-eyed headlight above his head, and the thief was bright and bright. Yiyan hid behind a mound of red willows, using the light to observe the terrain. On both sides of the railway, open land four or five hundred meters wide; Along the railway line, there was a bunker about half a mile, and the sentries on the bunker kept shouting orders. The first bunker shouted: "Watch out!" The second bunker shouted: "Watch the enemy!" And so they passed down one by one, until they reached the far south, and after a while they shouted back from the south to the north.
Soon after the patrol car drove by, a large, high, flame-smoking locomotive pulled a long black car and drove over. The train also passed with red sparks, leaving silence and darkness behind it.
Yi Yan persuaded himself that it would not be too late to wait a little longer, observe and observe, and figure out the situation of the enemy on the bunker.
From the northwest, like the tide rushing, there was a loud noise. Yi Yan thought that the wind was blowing, and looked at the red willow branches above his head, but he didn't move. She was wondering when a cold air approached her body, and then a raindrop of copper coins fell. Only then did the wind swoop in on the face, and a mound of red willows, whistled, bent the branches down and up, and bent up and down to fight against the wind. In the blink of an eye, the hidden place has become a pond.
"Throw a raincoat, throw a raincoat!" The wind blew the shouts of the sentries on the bunker, "Patronizing the pai gow, donkey hair is stuffed in the ears." ”
This is the chance! Yi Yanteng got up and ran quickly across the open field, climbed the roadbed, and crossed the railroad tracks. The wind was strong, the rain was strong, and the enemy sentry was putting raincoats on her, and no one noticed her. She jumped to the edge of Luci's open field and thought, "It's over." At this moment, a long, close lightning bolt suddenly lit up, and for a moment the whole earth seemed to be burning with blue flames. With the thunder, the enemy on the pillbox shouted: "What man? Password? On a pillbox to the south, the enemy also shouted: "Don't talk and shoot!" At this time, it was the darkest moment after the lightning, and Yiyan ran away in the dark desperately. Then there was another lightning, this lightning was not as bright as the one just now, but it was like a pillar of light dangling in the place where Yiyan was, and it no longer stopped. When I turned my head, it turned out that the searchlight was lit on the top of the bunker. A volley of bullets swept over. On the bare and vast open ground, Yi Yan felt that her target was prominent and tall, and she was trying to find a terrain to hide, when her left arm seemed to be pushed by someone, and she fell into a puddle.
The pillboxes to the south also took part in the shooting, and the bullets were splashing everywhere. Twenty paces away is a field of grain, and if you can get there, you can get out safely. She tried to get up with her hands on the ground, but her left arm was very heavy, and the rain under her arm was red silk, and then she knew that her left arm was injured. She gritted her teeth: "You must get up, you must go into that valley." ”
The enemy on the pillbox shouted again: "Surrender, what are you still doing there?" I see you! ”
Remembering that she was silent, pulling a grenade from her belt with her right hand, she waited for the enemy in the bunker to arrive.
The bunker shouted: "I can't come here, but I'll give you another shuttle." ”
Another submachine gun was fired at the bunker, but all the bullets were fired 100 meters to her right. Yi Yan understood that the enemy didn't see her lying here, and those words were a lie to her. So she fell to the ground tighter.
The enemy on the bunker cursed and said, "Damn, it's dead!" With that, he turned off his searchlight. Yi Yan was so happy that he ignored the pain in his shoulder, and was about to get up with his right hand on the ground. As soon as he curled his legs, a thought flashed into his mind: "Wait, maybe the enemy is playing tricks!" She flattened her legs and hands again.
It was pitch black all around, and apart from the sound of wind and rain, even the sound of insects could not be heard. Twenty paces away, the valley of safety and victory, grabbed her heart like a magnet with a small iron needle. Less than half a minute after the lights went out, she felt that a long time had passed, and several times she felt that she could not wait any longer, and that she was going to miss the opportunity. Perhaps the enemy was creeping up on her from behind, and even if he died, he would jump into the valley. But she was able to suppress this irritating urge several times. In the end, she couldn't bear it anymore, and she decided to count them, from one to twenty, and if the enemy didn't move again, she would resolutely get up and advance. She had just figured out the decision. The searchlights came on again, and even the lights of the bunkers in the south and north were on. The huge lampposts were like strips of scissors, cutting around the open area for miles long, stopping and shining still for a while, and then turning them all off at once. Yi Yan seized the opportunity, jumped up and jumped into the crop field, and walked along the ditch for a long, long time, and the enemy on the pillbox never turned on the lights again.
She felt a hot pain in her left arm, dizziness and coldness, so she took off one of her legs, gritted her teeth, and tied her right hand tightly to the wound. Pick up a sorghum that has been broken by the wind and rain, break off the head, use it as a crutch, and move forward step by step. Through the intermittent lightning, I finally found the road to the west. She took out the timpani, which was a communication signal, and blew it as she went. When the sky was about to dawn, it cleared, revealing half a moon. The moonlight and the sound of the flute woke up the forest birds, and they all shook their wings and cried, thrushes, heavens, and beaks. There are all cranes and pigeons, but there is no turtledove sound that Zhou Yiyan is looking forward to.
The sun is getting high. The road stretches forward, endlessly. The violent storms in the middle of the night turned every field into a murky stream. Sorghum and corn, the branches and leaves are broken, like a rag hanging strips. Zhou Yiyan's eyes were deeply sunken, his eyes were blue, his lips were chapped, and his eyes were full of red silk. The shoes on both feet have long been pulled out of the mud at some point. She staggered, walked with uneven steps, mechanically played the flute, occasionally paused to pull a sorghum leaf with her hand, licked the dew on it, and walked down with the flute in spirit.
A few times, she fell asleep as she walked, and was awakened by her own deep and shallow steps. Every bone joint in her body ached. It takes extra effort to do any of these movements. But she did not dare to sit down or stop, for fear that once she sat down, she would not have the strength to stand up again. She thought that Xiao Gao and Yu Jie were ahead of her, and they were waiting for her.
More than a mile from the road in front of the right, there is a dense wood. She told Kodaka not to walk on the road during the day, and to make use of hidden terrain features as much as possible. Maybe they'll hide in the woods and rest? In that case, you may not be able to hear the flute on the road, and you should get closer to the woods.
She descended the road and plunged into the drenched fields. The sun was hot and bright, and the droplets of water on the leaves of all crops emitted white moisture. It's the same green all around, the same glitter. Where are the roads and where are the woods? Why are they circling around themselves? Feeling a little disgusted, she reached out and stood down holding a tree beside her, closing her eyes slightly. A warm and sluggish feeling flowed through her body......
Someone's shouting woke her up, and she found herself asleep clutching a tree by the side of the road. A young man in military uniform was shouting and walking towards her. But she didn't understand what he was shouting, and she wanted to open her mouth to answer him, but for some reason she couldn't make a sound. She let go of the hand holding the tree, and wanted to make a gesture, when she suddenly saw the green grass with raindrops at her feet, like a page from the bottom up, close and close to her face......
Soon he woke up again, and he was lying on the back of a warrior. With every step the warrior took on her back, her wound ached sharply, and it was this sharp pain that woke her up. She told the warrior to put her down and let her go on her own. The warrior said, "No, you have a fever." But she didn't want to ask where the warrior came from, where was she? As if everything was like this, it should be like this. For a while, she felt that it was Sun Zhen who was carrying her, and looked at her shyly while carrying her, smiling at her.
When she really came to her senses, she was lying under a willow tree by the wide bank of the river. There was really a company commander squatting in front of her, a young company commander who had not yet grown a beard on his mouth, and a small hygienist. Her arm has been treated and re-bandaged. The little hygienist also gave her an injection to reduce her fever.
The young company commander told her that the large army had crossed the river yesterday, and that he had taken a platoon as a containment team, and that it had reached the allotted time. It was only because of the torrential rain and flash floods that they did not pass. She was spotted by two warriors who had just gone to collect materials for crossing the river. She briefly explained her situation, and hurriedly asked, "Have you contained those two female comrades in civilian clothes?" The company commander said no, he must have told the soldiers to pay attention to observe and tell her not to worry. He said that her first task at the moment is to eat and rest, and to cross the river later, it is necessary to fight for physical strength.
As soon as she finished speaking, it was as if she suddenly came out of the ground, and an old lady with gray hair came out from behind the tree, holding a teapot of steaming millet porridge and poached eggs, squatted beside her, and then rolled a spoonful, blew it with her mouth, and sent it to her mouth.
"Auntie, I can eat it myself!" Yiyan reached out to grab the teapot, and the eldest lady dodged the teapot away.
"I'll feed, you can eat, if only outsiders could still get here."
The hygienist said that the eldest lady was also from Yimeng Mountain. She volunteered to move with her troops to another base away from the enemy.
The company commander blew the whistle, and the communicator ran to inform him that the time had come to cross the river. It just so happened that Yiyan had just swallowed the last bite of the egg.
Dozens of warriors, half-immersed in the water, pulled by their hands two tic-tac-toe-shaped wooden frames tied together with sticks and flat poles, and in the middle of the wooden frames was a large vat with a verbal horn. The company commander said to Yi Yan: "Two cylinders, you and the eldest lady sit on one by one, and the rest of the people are holding on to the wooden frame with all hands." Those who can push it in the water, float it in the water, can walk on the bottom, and swim where they can't step on the bottom. ”
A few fighters put the eldest lady on their backs and put them in the tank, and a few other fighters came to carry Zhou Yiyan. Zhou Yiyan said, "Wait a minute. Company commander, I need a submachine gun now and don't cross the river. ”
"But the river?" The company commander said strangely: "The enemy will arrive at any time, what are you doing in the river?" ”
"I still have two fighters who haven't arrived! The task given to me by the organization is that all three of them return to the team at the same time, and I have no right to go over and throw them away myself! ”
"Where are they?"
"I don't know. I'm going to find it! ”
"Your injuries are serious!"
"I have to get the job done."
"We've exceeded the time limit, I need to carry out the order......"
"Just leave me a gun, I don't ask you to wait for me. I only hope that when you pass, you will report my situation to your superiors! ”
The company commander clenched his fists with both hands and released them, released them and clenched them again. suddenly shouted: "Second squad leader, Wang Jinbao, you two come up!" ”
The second squad leader and the warrior Wang Jinbao climbed up from the water.
The company commander said, "You two stay and listen to the command of Captain Zhou." Comrade Zhou Yiyan, you can only stop on this bank of the river for another two hours, and before 12 noon, you must cross the river to the west, otherwise the pursuing enemy will arrive! ”
Zhou Yiyan replied: "Yes." ”
The company commander said, "I will report to my superiors as soon as I get there, and ask that I be sent back to meet you." ”
The company commander shook hands with Zhou Yiyan, blew a whistle, and jumped into the water. In order to reduce the resistance, the soldiers beside the wooden frame have already stripped off their clothes, shouted and shouted, and swam towards the rapids with the wooden frame.
fourteen
Zhou Yiyan and the two fighters split into three roads and set off in the direction of the railway. Remember Yan in the center and take the avenue; The squad leader left flank, Wang Jinbao right flank, 200 meters apart. The contact signal is Yiyan playing the flute, the second squad leader learning the bird whistle, Wang Jinbao making a frog chirping, approaching the railway, and there is still no trace of any female soldiers. The second squad leader reminded her that she must rush back to the river bank immediately, and that the company commander's advice must be heeded, and that she must cross the river at 12 o'clock.
Yiyan was in a dilemma, and the sound of aircraft strafing and bombing was heard not far from the south. Yi Yan said: "The enemy planes are bombing, presumably there must be our troops, why don't we look for it a little further south?" ”
So turn to the right, the horizontal column becomes a vertical column, the warrior Wang Jinbao takes the lead, and the three of them walk far along the railway line to the south.
After walking more than a mile, there was a frog whining. Yi Yan and the second squad leader immediately strengthened their attention. After a while, three people, two women and one man, ran along the north-south path, all ordinary people. The three of them fought and twisted together as they walked. The man knocked down the woman who cut her hair, and the woman with the handkerchief punched the man in the head from behind; The man turned back to chase the woman with the handkerchief, and the one who cut his hair got up from the ground and choked the man's neck. The second squad leader and Wang Jinbao were dumbfounded, not knowing whether to persuade or not to expose the target, Yiyan looked at it for a while, and shouted: "Go up!" The woman is our comrade, and the man is a trafficker. ”
The second squad leader and the fighters immediately rushed out. As soon as the robe saw that the New Fourth Army suddenly came out, he threw away the woman and ran to the railway, shouting: "The communist army is coming!" There's a communist army here! Wang Jinbao was quick, raised his gun and fired two shots, and the traffickers fell. Two gunshots rang out, and the enemy on the pillbox was alerted, and machine guns and rifles immediately fired at them. "Yu Jie, come on!" Yi Yan beckoned, and a few people got into the green gauze tent and hurriedly retreated to the river.
After walking out of the road for a while, he heard shouting eldest sister, and Yiyan realized that it was Eryan who was with Yu Jie, not Xiao Gao.
Yi Yan said, "Hey, why did you two get together?" ”
Yu Jie said: "I don't know, just now the traffickers beat me to the ground and was about to tie me up, she seemed to fall from the sky, and suddenly punched the kid from behind and saved me." ”
Eryan said that his father-in-law sent her out last night and made a detour to Chenghe Station. When I got to the railway, my father-in-law told me a few words and went back. Eryan was walking here alone, and when she saw a man and a woman chasing and beating, she recognized the trafficker first. I thought that no matter who the woman was, I had to save her. After beating the traffickers, the woman got up and saw that it was Yu Jie.
As soon as the shooting from the pillbox stopped, a few more shots came from the left rear, and the second squad leader said: "This is not like a pillbox, the ballistics are much lower, I am afraid there is a situation." ”
Yi Yan said: "Quick, quickly retreat to the river." ”
The second squad leader held Yiyan, Wang Jinbao pulled Yu Jie, and the five of them neither returned their guns nor turned back, and ran to the riverbank in one go. Yi Yan asked Er Yan and Yu Qing who would be able to drink water, and both of them shook their heads. Yi Yan said: "Second squad leader, you leave the weapon to me, you two take one with you, go down to the river quickly!" ”
People asked, "What about you?" ”
Yi Yan said: "I have my own way, you guys go quickly." ”
The gunfire grew louder and closer, and finally the shouts were heard. It turned out that after the bandit company commander was bombed, he was about to leave when he reorganized his team and found communist troops on the pillbox. The bandit company commander hurriedly asked, "How many people are there?" The bunker said, "I can't see clearly, there are about a dozen!" "The bandit company commander came out this time and made a lot of money, but he didn't dare to fight a battle, and he went back to pay the errand, which was a little weak-hearted. Hearing that there were only a dozen or so people, he felt that this opportunity could not be missed, so he immediately gave the order and pursued him towards the river.
A few people here are still pushing, Yu Jie and Eryan both called Yiyan to go down to the river. Yi Yan said solemnly: "The first of the three disciplines is to obey orders and listen to commands. The second squad leader, Yu Jie, the two of you are cadres, taking the lead in executing orders. ”
The second squad leader was helpless, put down the gun, untied the cartridge belt, and muttered: "Squad leader, your order is incorrect, I am a gay man......"
"I'm telling you to take the lesbians across the river! This task can only be completed by you and Wang Jinbao, don't you understand? ”
Yi Yan took off the violin from his back, handed it to Yu Jie and said, "You can take it and use it, see the head of the regiment, and report for me." I haven't had time to ask, what happened to Xiao Gao? ”
Yu Hao said: "In order to cover me, she took a step late, and I don't know if she escaped." ”
Yi Yan said: "You report to the head of the regiment, my task has not been completed well, please organize criticism!" ”
Yu Jie and Er Yan choked back tears of excitement and left Yiyan. Yi Yan uncovered the grenade cover, set up the submachine gun, and kept his eyes firmly on the approaching enemy group.
The four of them walked to the water's edge, Yu Jie hesitated, hung the violin on Eryan's neck, and shouted, "You guys go quickly!" Without waiting for an answer, he turned his head and ran towards Yiyan. Wang Jinbao didn't understand what was going on for a while, and the second squad leader grabbed his gun and said, "Wang Jinbao, give me the gun." I order you to send this female comrade across the river immediately, and ask for punishment on my behalf......" Wang Jinbao was about to argue, but the second squad leader pushed him hard and pushed him to Eryan's side, and Wang Jinbao had no choice but to pull Eryan towards the center of the river.
The enemy shouted and charged. Yiyan fired a volley of guns, knocked down two enemies, and did not stop the attack. The enemy cried out: "Catch him alive!" "I can't run!" Straight towards Yiyan. Seeing that it was less than ten meters away, Yiyan threw a grenade, and at the same time, a grenade was thrown from her left and right, and it exploded three times, and the enemy retreated. The sound of a submachine gun sounded on Yi Yan's left side, and Yi Yan saw the second squad leader and Yu Jie, lying beside her on the left and right.
One of the enemy's charges was pressed down. Yi Yan called the second squad leader to him and said, "Do you think the three of us can destroy these enemies?" ”
The second squad leader did not answer.
"If you take her away, you will keep two more fighters for the revolution; You stay, and all three of them die. It is a sin to have two more people with you when you can sacrifice only one person. Let's go! ”
The second squad leader said: "How can I leave you, a gay man......"
"You're a warrior first and foremost! The company commander orders you to obey my command! Yiyan said urgently, "I told you to take her away!" ”
The second squad leader gritted his teeth, and helplessly beckoned Yu Jie and said, "Obey the order and listen to the command, let's go." ”
Yu Jie put her face on Yiyan's hot face, and said with tears in her eyes: "I have something to say to you, it's too late......"
"Let's go, you should be much more mature after this exercise."
After the second squad leader and Yu Jie left, Yi Yan straightened out his clothes and accidentally ran into the letter from the bearded man. She remembered that she hadn't had time to take it apart and take a look at it since she got it! While the enemy was still arranging an attack, she quickly pulled out the letter, bit it with her teeth, tore open the cover, and spread it on the ground. The beard also learned to lie, saying that it was the same as the previous letter. Where have you ever written such a letter before? Just two sentences:
I asked to assign me the task of caring for you for the rest of your life, do you approve it?
She tore the words off, put them in her mouth, chewed on them, and swallowed them.
The enemy attacked again. Yiyan once again knocked them back with a grenade. As she threw her last grenade, she was shot in the chest again. She looked back and saw that the second squad leader had dragged Yu Jie to the center of the river, so she retreated from the embankment and used all her strength to climb into the river.
The enemy organized a third charge, but as soon as the bandit company commander shouted the word "rush", he was knocked down by a bullet fired from behind. A detachment of PLA fighters shouted and rushed up from the enemy's flank in a straggler line with bayonets in hand.
When Sun Dabeard saw Xiao Gao, he asked where Yiyan and Yu Jie are now? Xiao Gao said that Yi Yan had long lost contact, and Yu Jie had just been separated again, probably walking towards the river. Sun Zhen immediately decided that the whole team would chase westward and never lose Yu Jie again.
They were located about four or five miles away from where the bandits had been bombed. As soon as they heard the gunshots, they immediately ran and rushed to the river, where it was already the third charge that Yiyan was fighting back at the enemy.
Sun Zhen recognized from the binoculars that it was Yi Yan who dropped the bomb, and she was alone, and felt that the situation was critical, and immediately ordered to charge. He told the soldiers that the goal was not to annihilate the enemy in front of them, but to break them up and join forces with their comrades on the river embankment was victory. The warriors rushed and killed with bayonets, like a whirlwind, and swooped straight up. The enemy still had the strength to resist it, and as soon as the bandit company commander fell, all the bandit troops fled by their own way, and in the blink of an eye they left the embankment.
Sun Zhen led people to rush to the riverbank, but Yi Yan was gone. was in a hurry, and suddenly heard Xiao Gao shouting at the water's edge: "Company Commander Sun, come quickly!" Only then did I see Yi Yanji lying by the river, half of his body soaked in the water. He ran with the warriors.
Yiyan was sober and calm, but his face was sallow and his breath was weak. Sun Zhen called her, she forced her eyes open, looked at Xiao Gao and Sun Zhen, smiled, raised her finger to point to the other side, and said to Sun Zhen in a voice that was too low to hear: "Like when I was a child, carry me across the river and chase the team!"
Sun Zhen picked up Yiyan, let Xiao Gao support her, carried her on his back, and shouted like thunder: "Cross the river!" ”
Walking to the center of the river, he heard a slight sound in Yiyan's throat, and the hand stretched out on his chest hung down limply. He stopped, shook Yiyan upward, and shouted, "Xiao Zhou! Xiao Zhou! ”
All that answered him was the roar of the river, the sigh of the wind.
Large teardrops ran down his cheeks and hung on his shaggy beard. He gritted his teeth, did not look back, and strode on the west bank of the river.
On the west bank of the river appeared cavalry, one, two, a large squad. Yu Jie and Eryan also followed the cavalry to the riverbank, shouting towards Xiao Gao, Sun Zhen and Yiyan on his back:
"Let's go, the chief has sent troops to pick us up—"
"Comrade Zhou Yiyan!" The bearded man shouted with tears in his eyes, "Look, you've caught up with the troops." ”
They finally caught up with the troops.