under fire

Chapter 1008 Silver Branches
The moonlit night is heavy, and the mountains extend to the distant sky like ink.

The mountain wind howled low, and the late spring night was icy cold.

The sky is full of stars embedded in the pure black sky. After a long time, it seems that there is an infinite deep blue reflected in the pure black.

A marching tent was pitched in a dark corner of the mountain face.

In order to prevent the light from being exposed, a thick layer of marching blanket was wrapped outside the tent.

The palm-sized tent was packed with people.

Luo Fugui was holding a flashlight.

Hu Yi was looking at the map: "Divided by region, we are now in the friendly defense zone of Changzhi, Shanxi."

The big dog put his hands in his sleeves: "What a strange thing, there are only two families in that village, but they all died."

Hu Yi frowned: "The devils in the south are aggressively attacking the friendly army. It should be the brothers' troops who transferred the people away. The two households you mentioned probably did not transfer for some reason."

Tian Sanqi answered: "Then they should be fellow villagers who stayed behind to inquire about the news!"

The little girl sat cross-legged in the corner of the nearby tent, with her pigtails crooked, holding a piece of half-dried horse meat in her hand, with some meat scum on the corner of her little mouth, she frowned: "Yes, it should be like this, every time there are devils raiding, The same is true for us, except to keep a few people in the village, we will transfer most of the villagers away, and turn the mountains into no-man's land."

Luo Fugui, who was holding a flashlight, shook his head: "Why don't we split up and run separately?"

Seeing the flashlight swaying on the map, Tian Sanqi gave Luo Fugui a white look: "As long as you leave the team, you will definitely end up like those villagers."

"I don't believe it anymore, the mountain is so big, I just find a hole to squat for a few days, grandma's little devil can only see me if he can find me!"

Tian Sanqi sneered: "How long can you hide? Ten days or half a month?"

"Three to five days is absolutely no problem."

"Then what about your soldiers? What about the wounded? Leave them alone?"

"That's what I said."

Seeing this two-handed man, the big dog turned his head to look at Xiao Hongying in the corner, sighed deeply, and muttered: "Hey, that guy surnamed Yang should be from a certain unit of the Central Army, and he is indeed related to the Eighth Route Army." Resentment, in my opinion, he is definitely not a spy."

"Why do you say that?"

The big dog shook his head: "What the hell is he so powerful, it's a waste of being a spy to deal with the small arms and legs of Jiuying."

Halfway up the mountain.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, more than a dozen figures climbed over the ridge and groped down into the village that Big Dog left before dark.

Immediately spread out in pairs.

Two young women, one tall and one short, pushed open the gate of a small courtyard and rushed into the courtyard without any hesitation.

Walking behind, the short and strong woman held a big knife in her hand, and whispered to the one in front: "The smell of blood is so heavy, it must be the goddamned little devil who did evil again."

The tall, slender woman with short hair and short hair who walked in front did not answer, but walked quickly to the door of the house and directly lit a match.

A pile of corpses came into view, but she did not exclaim.

He was just a little taken aback, as if he wasn't surprised at all.

Not to mention the panic of ordinary girls after seeing the corpse, they squatted on the ground and began to observe the wounds on the corpse.

He didn't drop the match until the match was almost burned, and the room fell into darkness.

Lighted the match again, checked the four corpses in the room one by one, then clapped his hands and stood up, and said to the short and stout woman who had been standing at the door: "From the wounds, they should all have been killed by the national army's [-] bayonets. under!"

The short and stout girl pondered for a while: "Yinzhi, what do you mean, the national army did this?"

The girl named Yinzhi shook her head: "I think it is unlikely that the national army was defeated."

Having said this, he paused for a moment: "If the national army is really routed, they must know that this is the Eighth Route Army defense zone. He killed people here, and he completely killed himself!"

"But now the facts are in front of us."

"Facts are not necessarily the truth!"

"Wang Yinzhi, I warn you, if you continue to insist on speaking for the reactionaries, I can shoot you right now!"

Yinzhi's tone became cold: "Xu Xiaomei, it's up to you? I suggest you speak more politely."

Xu Xiaomei murmured in a low voice: "I really don't know why the captain let you, a reactionary family member, join the guerrillas."

Yinzhi was angry: "What are you talking about? My brother joins the national army and also fights devils. Why do you say he is a reactionary?"

"It was their team that created the friction the year before last. Are you still arguing?"

"Then let me ask you, the commander-in-chief was also a general of the national army before the uprising, why didn't you say that he was also a spy who broke into the Eighth Route Army?"

Xu Xiaomei said contemptuously: "Only you can compare with the commander-in-chief? Who knows if you are a spy who broke into the Eighth Route?"

Wang Yinzhi was so angry that he turned around and left without saying any more.

The conversation between the two ended here.

It seems that the contradiction between the two should not be a day or two.

Not long after, Yinzhi walked into the courtyard with a middle-aged man in tattered clothes who hadn't even been patched, and three young men in the same dress and carrying rifles.

When he came to the door of the house, Yin Zhi lit a match again.

The middle-aged man stood at the door and watched for a while, then turned his head and ordered to the three young men behind: "Hurry up and carry the body to the south of the village and bury it together!"

Yinzhi stood next to the middle-aged man, hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Captain, I think I want to change teams."

The middle-aged man looked puzzled at Wang Yinzhi's beautiful face under the moonlight.

Then he turned his head to look at Xu Xiaomei who was guarding the courtyard gate not far away: "Why?"

"She's looking for trouble again."

The middle-aged man turned his gaze to Wang Yinzhi again, his eyes became cold, and he warned: "Comrades must be united. If you pick and choose, you can choose to leave the guerrillas."

Yinzhi was a little confused, and his voice became louder: "You didn't say that when you recruited people. I asked to join the combat army to fight devils and let me be a guerrilla. I didn't say anything. I just thought that being with her...she Xu Xiaomei is always finding fault on purpose."

Xu Xiaomei at the door pricked up her ears to listen to the conversation between the two, and saw herself being mentioned.

Immediately, he intentionally showed a condescending expression: "Yo, I really didn't see it, we are engaged in revolutionary work, and you can choose who you want!"

Yinzhi met the captain's gaze under the moonlight, expressionless: "I apply for one person to form a group!"

Xu Xiaomei sneered: "Hehe, alone? No one is watching, so you can send news to your reactionaries?"

"Fart your mother, the superior arranges a pair of people, that's to help the underachievers learn!"

Seeing the big girl swearing, the middle-aged man frowned fiercely, feeling a little helpless: "Yinzhi, from now on, you and the second idiot will be in the same group."

Yinzhi tried hard to suppress his anger: "Okay, from today onwards, I will be in the same group as the second idiot."

The second idiot was moving the corpse, when he saw someone calling his name, he immediately grinned: "Captain?"

The captain had a pleasant face: "It's okay, you continue to work."

The second fool immediately ignored the conversation between the three.

After a while, the three of them followed to the south of the village.

There was not much land in the mountain, and in the shallow pit among the rocks, more than a dozen corpses of men, women and children were arranged in a row.

Xu Xiaomei looked up at the sky, a little afraid to watch the scene of burying the villagers.

Yinzhi picked up the shovel and covered the corpse with the soil that contained stones.

Not long after, the middle-aged man who was squatting on the roadside at the entrance of the village and striking a match to see his footprints stood up.

Looking down at the path leading down to the mountain stream.

Suddenly, a guerrilla next to him pointed to the distant mountain: "Captain, look, there seems to be a fire over there."

(End of this chapter)