under fire

Chapter 806
late at night.

A faint crescent moon has already set in the west, and it can't bring a ray of light to the earth at all.

The continuous drought, the sandy roads on the plains are full of floating dirt where the wheels run over, and the bicycle wheels keep rolling over the dust, and no one can restrain the firm footsteps.

The road slightly above the ground was run over by cars and formed two ruts, but mules, horses and ox carts ran the most on the road.

As for the place where the devils don't even look at the car, except for the routine sweeps every year, where can you see the wheel marks at other times?

The bicycle team hurried forward on the plain against the cold wind in early spring. It had been more than an hour since the start. The riders and the soldiers on the back seat kept exchanging positions in order to achieve the fastest speed, but the speed of the team was still obvious. Slow down.

The procession is wobbling on this road. At least it looks like they are wobbling, the handlebars are wobbling from side to side, and so is the torch that's burning in the back seat.

The dirt road looks flat, but it is actually full of large and small pits. In addition to shaking from side to side, the bicycle also bumps up and down, causing the body in the back seat to keep shaking up and down.

Those in the back seat were about to be dizzy, desperately grasping the springs under the seat cushion with their hands again and again, the wheels rolled up the floating soil on the ground, forming a small cloud of dust, and the continuous dust cloud filled a certain section of the road.

The farther back the team was, the more the bicycle riders could only see the gray road.

The sore thighs were stretched and contracted desperately, and they continued to step on the pedals fiercely, and the rider who rode the bike amidst the creaking sound felt like he was flying in the wind and sand.
There are no road signs, let alone mileage markers, because the eight roads have smashed all the marks on the ground, I hope the devils can't find the north when they get here!
Naturally, most of the people in the team didn't know where they were now, they only knew to follow the light of the torches lit by the soldiers of the armed task force at the front.

Cycling is indeed convenient and fast for short-distance travel. If you take a person on the back seat for a long trip, you will find that it is not much easier than running, but in terms of speed, it is much faster than walking.

"Comrades, work harder. We have already run halfway, and we are less than [-] miles away from the goal!"

Voices were heard one after another in the team, from the front to the end of the team.

After a long time, someone who was not very proficient in riding a bicycle suddenly yelled: "Oh, I got sand in my eyes!"

After finishing speaking, that person subconsciously let go of a hand that was tightly gripping the handlebar, and was about to wipe his eyes. The handlebar immediately shook violently, and under the weight of two people, he withdrew his hand and squeezed the brake. It also failed to stop the wheels. The wheels were creaked by the rubber brakes, but they were still swinging from side to side.

The person in the back seat hurriedly stretched out his legs, hoping to support the bicycle under his crotch, but the reality was completely opposite.

On the contrary, the bicycle became more violently shaken, amidst the exclamation of several voices
With a bang, the two on the bicycle rushed directly into the ditch on the side of the road.

"What are you doing stretching your legs when you have nothing to do?"

"Didn't I see that you are not riding steadily, so I can help you by stretching your legs?"

"It's not going to help. If I don't stretch my legs, I'll come back with a shake."

"Blow it, with your skills, you need to practice more."

While talking, the two had already stood up with their bicycles in hand.

The convoy didn't stop, and the bicycle with the torch on the back seat flashed past: "Haha, another one fell."

One minute later, a single-person bicycle stopped on the side of the road: "How is the situation? Can you still walk?"

The two people in the roadside ditch immediately reported: "Hey, the company commander of the horse. It's okay, let's just change to another person!"

Half a minute later, the bicycle was on the road again. The person in the back seat handed two rifles to the "driver", and then grabbed the handlebar of the bicycle: "You take a rest, I'll ride you and sit on the back!"

After finishing speaking, he got on the bicycle, put his feet on the ground, raised his legs and was about to pedal to run first, and he kicked empty: "No, the chain fell off."

The man with the rifle stepped forward immediately, and with the light of the torches passing by, he stretched out his hand to the chain: "If you hang it up, you're done?"

After all this tossing, the bicycle finally creaked on the road again, and followed the front to the bicycle team.

There is a three-way intersection in the southeast of the road, and a slightly higher gentle slope in the north of the road.

Several black shadows were lying on the side of the road to observe, and one of them was Captain Jia, who was secretly watching the road with his beloved binoculars.

"Where the hell did this bicycle team come from! Seeing that they are heading towards Shawo Village," the subordinate next to him muttered in a low voice.

Captain Jia never took his eyes off the binoculars: "There are more than 60 bicycles, almost a hundred people, and a dismantled mortar is hanging behind some of them!"

The subordinates were shocked: "Mortar? Captain, they are all wearing black clothes, and they are blatantly lighting torches. Could it be that night raiders from other places have also come here?"

Captain Jia felt that something was wrong with this matter: "It's troublesome this time. It seems that the imperial army doesn't trust us, so they sent people from other places to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army!"

"From the direction they came from, it happened to be the side of the battle yesterday. Could it be people from the Eighth Route?"

Captain Jia shook his head: "The absolute plan is not the Eighth Route. If the Eighth Route can have such good equipment, what else can we do on this plain?"

The subordinate asked: "They should have ridden a long distance, and the speed is not fast. Do you want to catch up with them and say hello?"

After pondering for a while: "Just say hello, you don't say anything when you come to our site, and you clearly look down on us. Hehe, my place is poor, but can anyone step on it?"

The subordinates were convinced: "This place is less than [-] miles away from Shawo Village. If brothers, let's run faster. We should be able to get there in an hour. We'll see the situation then."

A few dark shadows descended the gentle slope, with a figure in the darkness, against the crescent moon, along the road where only a silhouette could be seen, and followed the distant bicycle team to the south in a hurry.

The eight roads are all scud. This is true. The speed of walking in the mountains for a long time is not slow. Now that I have returned to the plains, I can run more than 30 miles in just over an hour!
In the dead of night, the moonlight in the sky had no effect at all. The team kept running at a brisk pace, without a single break along the way. Hearing that the bandits surrounded the wounded team, everyone felt a surge of energy, wishing they could Get to the battlefield early.

The speed of moving forward on two legs can't be faster, but it keeps flowing southeast like water.

The two broken carriages in the middle of the line creaked non-stop, as if they might disintegrate at any moment.

The cold wind penetrated into the body along the neck, and someone wiped the sweat from the cheeks from time to time, and the hot body could not feel the cold at all.

Sweating from the body directly soaked through the military uniform, which was close to the skin and felt very uncomfortable. I braced my back and slung the rifle behind me so as not to hit my back with every step I ran.

The leggings were already covered with dust, the military boots and cloth shoes were emitting heat, and from time to time some energetic muttering voices came from the marching team: "Brother, I said this place is really flat, if we can grow crops here. One mu can definitely produce five hundred catties!"

"That's a beautiful idea, what kind of a fart are you without water?"

"Tsk tsk. If the Yellow River hadn't changed its course, the land here would have been fertile land!"

"It's useless even if it's fertile land, the devil can he let you go?"

"Hey, let's get rid of those bandits first this time, and the land will belong to us, and then drive the devils away, so I can bring the folks from the liquor store over to farm the land!"

"Can you be a little promising? You know how to farm all day long. Wouldn't it be good for us brothers to do some business in the city in the future?

"Are you still the Eighth Route Army? Our Eighth Route Army doesn't farm land. Can it still be called the Eighth Route Army?"

"Huh? Who said that the eight roads must be farmed? I am the eight roads to fight devils!"

"Then let's kill all the devils and come back to farm together. How about it?"

"I want to raise chickens!"

"Keeping chickens? Why?"

"Because the company commander likes to eat chicken"

"Then half of them will farm the land and the other half will raise chickens!"

Luo Fugui, who was pulling the carriage with one hand and swaying his legs quickly, smiled. These two of his subordinates are quite conscientious, and it seems that they will have to take good care of them in the future.

A girl's laughter came from the carriage next to her.

"What are you laughing at?" Luo Fugui asked casually.

The girl's voice came from the carriage: "You are not a company commander for nothing."

Luo Fugui said proudly: "Of course, I don't even look at who I am!"

"cut."

"I said, why did Boss Hu agree to lead the team to open Zhaojiacun?"

"Gao Yidao and Wang Peng's two companies, plus a battalion and a half company, Tian Sanqi company and friendly troops, they should have no problem staying to deal with those devils and puppet troops."

(End of this chapter)