under fire

Chapter 166 Periphery
In summer, there is strong wind in the deep mountains, and the miasma in the valley is blown away, and the decayed dead branches and leaves still emit a musty smell, which is not pleasant.

By evening, the troops had only advanced thirty miles. As they moved northward, the road became more and more difficult. The narrow trails were occupied by strong plants, and the marching team had to use big swords to open the way.

There were forty or fifty marching teams, pulled into several scattered teams, the distance between the front and rear teams was not too far, and there were no wild animals in the mountain. Occasionally, tigers and wolves could be heard howling, venting their anger at the intruders.

The atmosphere in the team was tense, and the number of people on crutches was increasing. The lonely Ninth Company was struggling to move forward on the rugged mountain road overgrown with thorns. Pan Zhuzi, waving his beloved sword, acted as a vanguard, sweating profusely at the forefront, followed closely behind The special agent team continued to clean up the branches and leaves of the shrubs.

Care should be taken to prevent the sharp branches, which may be poisonous, from scratching the skin after being cut by a sharp blade, and the forward speed is very slow.

The team is halfway up the mountain, the light is getting darker, the sunset glow reveals a trace of warmth, drilled out of the cold and gray clouds, and the dyed clouds are just above the head, the mountain suddenly loses its proper green, like a gray giant beast, chooses people bite.

Integrating into the gray team of the mountain, and slowly climbing up a hill with hands and feet, I feel closer to the sky.

When approaching the top of the mountain.

A soldier of the secret service company ran back from the top, went to the gray curved hat, and reported with an excited salute: "Report, there is a village ahead, there is a fire, there must be someone!"

Hu Yi took off the hat on his head and fanned it a few times. The mountain wind was blowing and it was a bit cold before he climbed up the mountain, but the whole group was sweating.

Hearing the news from the soldier, he immediately climbed up the last section of the mountain with both hands and feet, and found a bush to lie down. The telescope, which was up and down with his panting, looked at the stars visible to the naked eye in the distance. in the telescope.

The semi-arc-shaped mountain ridge surrounds a small flat land on the mountainside. There is a village on the flat land, which is sparsely distributed high and low, and the light comes from the village.

Turning the telescope around habitually, there is a big tree on the highest point of the mountain ridge. Perhaps, this big tree has absorbed most of the nutrients on the hill. Except for this tree, there are no other trees on the mountain ridge, not even a decent one. Shrubs are very sparse.

The camera was about to move away, pulled back under the big tree, under the shadow of the big tree that was about to get dark, there was a shadow lying there, maybe it was getting dark, the shadow just moved its body, observed carefully for a while, there was indeed someone , and, it can be concluded that there are two!
The distance is too far. Based on the feeling, it should be sentry. It must be because it is the highest and has the widest view.

As for who it is, I don't know. Why don't you put the whistle far away, just on the hill, I don't understand.

The binoculars paused for a while, then scanned around again, but found nothing else. Finally, they pointed the lens at the village and carefully observed the place with fire.

A piece of flat land at the entrance of the village is full of dark figures, a fire is burned, some people are walking back and forth, no noise can be heard, the distance is too far, people are like ants, except for the mountain wind, there is silence.

Unknowingly, there were two more lying beside Hu Yi. One of them with a braid tied to the sky pointed forward obliquely, dragging the binoculars to sweep around, and the other was slowly moving the binoculars to observe carefully.

A dozen or so heads emerged from the mountain ridges and bushes, and they couldn't see anything except a few flickering fires in their eyes.

Basically no one spoke. For Jiulian, this situation is life. For Hao Yun and others, this should be regarded as a disaster day. Although they fought and marched before, they did not stay in the mountain fruit nest for a long time Wotou, sleeping in the open air, so embarrassed, has a deeper understanding of the harsh living environment of the Eighth Route Army.

Everyone was waiting quietly, but they didn't know what they were waiting for. They thought it was a narrow escape mission, but nothing seemed to happen. The Eighth Route Army has no military pay!
But in the Jiulian, he can attack the devils at any time. Out of the desire to avenge his dead brother, some people feel that it is not bad.

In the uninhabited mountains, money is useless. A certain guy weighed the ocean in his bag. After the Eighth Route Army's Ninth Company searched, the ocean was not confiscated, and he felt better.

I thought that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was very good, but in the end, the group of special agents who were good at expressing inadvertently revealed the secrets of the division that they knew, and it is said that the headquarters is similar.

For the spy squad, that girl is a regular visitor in the division, so there is no need to keep it a secret.

The special agent team was very unimpressed by the vulgar Tang Dagou who uttered wild words along the way, and couldn't help sighing: Maybe the independent group is really poor, and even recruited such a thing!

However, thinking that the various departments of the Eighth Route Army have also incorporated many bandit and bandit troops, I have seen more outrageous ones than this, so I feel relieved when I think about it.

Hu Yi sat in the darkness on the south side of the hill, the cover of the silver pocket watch opened and closed back and forth, making a crisp sound, his worries eased a little, and he saw through the binoculars that there were children among the running crowd.It is certain that the people in the village should not be devils,
The telescope was rarely borrowed by Tang Dagou, and he led a group of people to play in turns, and there were murmurs from time to time.

The girl next to her was sitting on a rock, and the radio soldier next to her sent out another series of clear codes.

Under the leadership of Squad Leader Liu Jin, the special agent team walked along the hills to the village under the cover of night.

There were people standing guard on the top of the mountain, and the light was getting dimmer. Some rooms in the distance had already been lit. Wang Liujin and the soldiers behind him were talking to each other from time to time in anxiety.

"Squad leader, you said there are people guarding here. Could it be a guerrilla? It doesn't look like a devil."

"I don't know, but it's a bit strange! What the hell are all those people doing in the grain threshing ground! It's not like the devil besieged the village." Liu Jin didn't turn his head.

"That's right, they're all on the grain threshing ground, how could there be so many people? If it was a devil, they would have set fire to the house, but the whole village couldn't have so many people, right?" the soldier agreed in confusion.

"I think there may be devils in the north who escaped." Liu Jin thought for a while.

"Squad leader, your analysis makes sense, but this place is twenty miles away from Nanaipu. If they are ordinary people, why do they stay here instead of hiding!"

"Hey, we have never been to this mountain area, which means that there are few people here, and it is almost impossible to walk, but it is a good place to escape."

"What should we do now? There are guards on the hill, so it can't be devils?"

"It's not like that, but be careful, it's getting dark soon, it's not too late, we'll talk about it later."

Before the sky became dark, the spy squad could not enter the village silently. There were sentinels on the hills.

The person surnamed Hu also said that those people in the village should not be devils, but how can the investigation use "should" to judge?What's more, the mission of this trip is mainly to collect intelligence, once it is exposed, all previous efforts will be wasted.

The gloomy sky is finally dark.

Squad leader Wang raised his hand backwards, indicating that the problem of people under the big tree should be solved first, and there is no way to enter the village. No matter who it is, contact first.

Under the big tree, a young man in old gray clothes looked around carefully. Suddenly, the black figure next to him pricked up his ears!

Young people are immediately nervous, there is a situation!
A black dog's prickly hair muscles tensed in the darkness, grinning and whining.

(End of this chapter)