The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1811 The Strange Crossroads (Part )

In the darkness, the middle-aged man held the boy's hand and stumbled along the field.

It is said that the brighter the stars in the sky, the darker the ground. Today, it is a bit cloudy. Apart from a few stars in the sky, where else can there be any starlight? Therefore, the night in the countryside without stars is not the darkest, but only darker.

As they were walking, the boy suddenly cried out "Ouch!", and the middle-aged man felt the hand he was holding his son suddenly drop.

He instinctively held his son's hand tightly to prevent him from falling, and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, I just tripped." The boy replied.

"You have to be careful." The middle-aged man said with a mixture of anger and concern, "I told you to find a tree branch somewhere to explore the way."

"Where can I find a branch in the dark?" the boy replied.

"Walk slowly, or there will be a pit ahead or we will fall in again." The middle-aged man kept muttering, always worried, and couldn't help but slow down his pace.

Just now, the situation where the young boy tripped and cried "Ouch!" was of course a very simple scene for people walking at night.

  However, neither of them noticed that the boy’s “Ouch” just now made quite a loud noise!

In addition, the boy was still young after all, and his voice was rather shrill, not as broad and deep as that of an adult man, so the sound could be heard farther in the wilderness.

It just so happened that the wilderness where the father and son were traveling was close to the three-way intersection where they placed the lantern.

So the boy's "Ouch" sound was transmitted over a distance and reached the ears of different groups of people, and the sound made them even more suspicious.

From the perspective of seizing food, our group is our group and we are definitely not in the same group as others. From this perspective, other groups are our competitors.

Each party was suspecting that different armed forces were entering Shuiquan Town at this time, and now the boy's "oops" in the dark night became evidence that other armed forces were spying in secret.

So they all looked towards the place where the "Oops" was emitted, and after seeing only the dark night, they all turned their gazes towards the yellow light at the fork in the road.

In this way, no party would dare to step forward rashly.

Knowing that there was an enemy hiding in the darkness, why did he go in front of the fire? To be a living target for the enemy?

Then the dance in the night became silent again, with only the fire in the lantern burning half-deadly and emitting yellow light.

In the silence, there was a fluttering sound in the sky, and then the night owls suddenly made their unique call "ó——gògògò."

Soldiers who have fought in wars have seen blood and killed enemies, so they are naturally not afraid of night owls. However, they also seemed to hear a mockery of them in the cries of the night owls - they are all cowards!

  But there is no way. Who can tell the essential difference between being timid and being cautious?

This can't actually be seen during the process. It probably depends more on the results. If things succeed, it's called being cautious, and if things fail, it's called being timid!

The weirdness continued, the different armed forces were all groping for their guns in the dark, looking at the dim light. They just looked at it, watching the light slowly fade until it went out, and darkness returned between heaven and earth.

The fire source in the lantern is just a kerosene lamp. The kerosene does not need to be burned out. Once the wick burns out, the kerosene lamp will naturally go out.

"Everyone, pay attention." Someone whispered in the darkness the moment the light went out. It was Hou Kanshan.

To be honest, the soldiers led by Hou Kanshan had become a little slack. Although they would not fall asleep, who would be so bored as to stare at the lantern in the dark with their eyes wide open?

But Hou Kanshan did it anyway.

"Keep our distance, each person a few steps apart, and move forward. We will continue to go to Shuiquan Town. Don't make any noise and no one is allowed to speak." Hou Kanshan continued to order.

"What if we hear other people's movements?" a soldier asked.

"Just pretend you didn't hear it. No one is allowed to shoot unless the other party makes a move, except when you hear someone speaking Japanese!" Hou Kanshan ordered again.

There was nothing Hou Kanshan could do.

It was too dark at night to distinguish the identities of the enemy and ourselves. Unless the other party spoke Japanese, he could not order to shoot at the place where the sound came from.

  After Hou Kanshan finished speaking, no one raised any objections, so Hou Kanshan said "Let's go", and the team of dozens of people carefully walked along the road with guns in hand. Hou Kanshan and his group went to Shuiqian Town, but they were not the only ones who found that the lantern was extinguished.

Now that the lanterns are out, it means that everyone is fair in the darkness.

Although every group knows that they should not be the only group in the darkness.

But since the darkness is impartial to every group of people, and they all have their own goals, they all have to move towards Shuiquan Town.

However, although the order given by the person in charge was different from what Hou Kanshan said, the general content was similar.

That is, you must not make any sound and are not allowed to talk, so as not to be captured by other opponents in the dark.

  This doesn't mean saying the wrong thing, but it means that once the other party recognizes your accent, your identity may be exposed, and you may be shot by the opponent in the dark, which is not worth it!

But Hou Kanshan and his men had only walked for a while when he felt something was wrong. He suddenly gave another order in a low voice: "Pass it down, don't make any noise but speed up!"

Why speed up?

This is because Hou Kanshan suddenly realized that he heard a sound on another fork in the road today.

If our group walks too slowly and meets the other side at that fork in the road, that would be bad.

Who knows who that group of people belonged to? If they were the Japanese army, we could certainly fight them, but what if they were not the Japanese army but the Eighth Route Army? Under the premise of knowing that the other side was the Eighth Route Army, our battalion absolutely could not attack the Eighth Route Army.

  So it’s better not to meet each other!

It was definitely not too late for Hou Kanshan to think of it, and he was also extremely careful. But just when he felt that he and his group were approaching the fork in the road, he suddenly heard a sound from the opposite side!

  God knows how far away the sound was from them, thirty meters? Fifty meters?

Moreover, at this moment, not only Hou Kanshan heard it, but the people behind him also heard it.

According to the current Chinese military's definition of veterans, all of them should be considered veterans. When they heard the sound from the other end, they all lay down involuntarily, and then they heard the sound of pulling the bolt.

  Who the hell is that group of people?

If they dare to shoot at us, we will definitely fight back!

Even people from the Eighth Route Army or our 51st Army are not allowed!

  The people of our Shang Zhen Camp can die in battle but they must never die unjustly!

At this moment Hou Kanshan wanted to ask, which unit are you from?

But could he ask? He couldn't!

What if they were Japanese soldiers? If he spoke Chinese, he would have exposed the identities of his people!

And then something happened that shocked Hou Kanshan even more. He heard movement behind their team!

Although they were in the dark, everyone had stopped. He couldn't tell how far away the movement behind him was, but he knew that it was definitely not his people!

  Oh my! Even Hou Kanshan, a veteran who had fought in countless battles, had never encountered such a strange situation before!

Suddenly, many questions popped up in his mind: What should I do? What should I do? What should I do? What should I do?

When people are in a hurry, they can come up with wisdom.

Hou Kanshan suddenly had an idea.

He quickly reached for his pocket, and a moment later he heard a "bang" sound. He took out a grenade from his pocket and smashed it on his box gun. It was the sound of metal collision.

The sound of his collision was quite loud, and with the sound of "dang", the noise diagonally opposite him suddenly disappeared, and the noise behind him also disappeared!

What does this scene look like?

  It's like when the monks in the temple suddenly ring the bell or strike the chime, and then the monks who are chanting sutras, no matter what sutra they are chanting, be it the Avatamsaka Sutra, the Amitabha Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, or the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch, all the monks shut their mouths!

For a moment, their area seemed to have returned to its previous state. Everything was silent, as if the only thing running between heaven and earth was the summer wind.

However, no one in any group spoke, and no one asked questions. No Chinese asked them what part they were from, no Japanese asked them what part they were from, no Shandong people asked them what part they were from, and no Northeastern people asked them what part they were from.

  As the saying goes, there are no stupid people in this world!

"Pass the message down, stay alert, be ready to fight at any time, and keep moving forward!" A moment later, Hou Kanshan gave the order again.

It is impossible for a team of dozens of people to advance in the dark without making any sound.

But it was strange that in the dark night, the two groups ignored Hou Kanshan and his men, allowing the sound of them moving towards Shuiquan Town to become farther and farther away, until it returned to silence.