The spy career of a surgeon

Chapter 187

The whole journey is less than 50 kilometers, and the car is not that far away when it starts, but it is already evening when we arrive.

The guide's name was Old Man Liu. He looked almost 60 years old. He was considered a long-lived man and his vitality seemed to be pretty good.

After getting on the bus, Old Liu took a look at Zhou Qinghe and Boss Dai, "The father of Erwa at the entrance of the village told me that you are the boss, so you should give me ten yuan, right?"

"Yes." Zhou Qinghe nodded and simply took out ten dollars: "I am friends with Erwa. He said that you are the best guide in the area. You used to be a hunter, right?"

Jiang Wen's people said that this man started hunting since he was a child, and he stopped hunting after hunting in the Qing Dynasty until a few years ago. His bones got old.

Old man Liu saw the note and touched it happily, and then said happily: "Yes, since you are Erwa's friend, just tell me where you want to go. There is no place nearby that I don't know about."

"You should be familiar with Tianma Mountain, right?" Zhou Qinghe asked.

"Tianma Mountain?" Old Man Liu smiled slightly: "Do the bosses want to eat some game?"

Zhou Qinghe and Boss Dai looked at each other and smiled: "It's not wrong to say it's game."

"That's not a coincidence." Old Man Liu shook his head slightly, with some regret: "There is not much game in it now. In the early years, there were a lot of things in it. However, in the past two or three decades, wars have been fought every day and warlords from all walks of life have fought. The soldiers can't afford to eat, and almost all the edible game has been eaten. It may have slowed down a bit in the past two years, but it's not much. It takes a long time to find one or two."

"Tell the truth, Dad Liu, we are from the government." Zhou Qinghe flashed his gun: "There may be many Japanese hiding in the mountains now, and they are the ones we want to fight."

"Japanese?" When Old Man Liu heard this, his eyes widened, and his temper suddenly rose and he cursed: "Are these beasts hiding in the mountains?"

"Yes." Zhou Qinghe nodded. He was happy to see this attitude. Hunters still have a good temper and are definitely murderous.

"You want to find Japanese people, right? Then I can't take the money.

Old man Liu returned the ten yuan and said, "I'll help you find them. I'll definitely find them for you. I've wanted to beat up these little devils for a long time. I killed two of them in the woods in the early years." "

"Huo, is there such a thing?" Zhou Qinghe smiled.

Old man Liu immediately talked about his courage back then, saying that during the first Songhu War, three Japanese sneaked into the mountain, holding an instrument and not knowing what they were measuring. He heard That bird's song and a spear in hand buried the three of them.

It was also at that time that my hand was injured and hunting was no longer possible. I could only go home and think about my bravery.

"Dad Liu, take it. The government asks you to help, but it can't be in vain, and you will have to ask for some help afterwards."

Zhou Qinghe pushed the money back again. Seeing that Father Liu still refused, he continued: "Don't refuse. Let's hurry up. We have other things to do later."

Old man Liu stopped refusing and said seriously: "How many people are there specifically? Are there ten?"

Zhou Qinghe laughed: "There are a lot of people, maybe thousands."

"Thousands?" Old Man Liu exclaimed, then shook his head suddenly: "Impossible, how could there be thousands of people hiding in the mountains?"

"The news we got is this, do you think you can't hide it?"

"It's not that it can't be hidden. If you really want to put it inside, it will definitely fit inside. You can fit tens of thousands of people inside, but with so many people, how could the people nearby not notice it? Although I don't go hunting anymore, this mountain usually There must be someone cutting firewood or something, and thousands of people will probably find it.”

Old Liu looked at Zhou Qinghe suspiciously: "Baby, have you been cheated?"

"I also hope I was deceived." Zhou Qinghe sighed helplessly: "The news should be true. We asked it from the Japanese. They said they massacred a nearby village."

Zhou Qinghe told him the information.

"What you said reminds me of one thing." Old Man Liu said with a serious look: "A few years ago, there was a village at the foot of the south side of Tianma Mountain that was haunted. More than a dozen bizarre murders occurred one after another. No matter how you investigate, there is no trace of it. If we can't find out, people are dying every day, and the villagers can no longer stay there. If they can run away and move around, the village will be empty.

Later, a group of people who were said to be refugees from other places took over the village. The village you mentioned was probably that village. It must be this bunch of naughty little devils. It turned out that they were pretending to be gods. "

"It's south of Tianma Mountain, right? Can you take us to have a look?"

The current map is scrawled, and the route map given to Zhou Qinghe by the military doctor only has a general range. The direction to the south is correct.

"Of course you can, but you guys can't get into this village. Wouldn't you be discovered if you go in?" Old Man Liu was quite cautious.

"Then do you have any ideas?" Zhou Qinghe asked.

Old Man Liu thought for a while and said: "Although Zhuangzi was occupied by them, I know that place cannot hide thousands of people. Hundreds of people can hold up to the sky. I think that if you say there are thousands of people, that person is still Hidden in the mountains, we can start from the mountains. I am familiar with this mountain, and I know where the trees in Tianma Mountain grow with my eyes closed."

"It's also a way." Zhou Qinghe looked at Boss Dai with questioning eyes.

Boss Dai nodded: "Zhuangzi is not easy to enter. It's dark at the bottom of the mountain and it might be easier to go up there and see if anyone is there. Old man Liu, are you sure you won't be discovered?"

Old man Liu is old, so Boss Dai is a little worried about his skills.

"If the Japanese are on the mountain, there will definitely be many open and hidden sentries." Boss Dai's reminder was also a warning.

"Don't worry, if I don't want to be discovered, these little devils will definitely not be able to."

When talking about his decades of livelihood skills, Old Man Liu was very arrogant: "Well, if you are afraid of death, why don't I just go and find out by myself and come back to tell you the situation? Is that okay?"

That's not necessary, Zhou Qinghe has no habit of pushing people to death. As long as he is here, Old Man Liu will not die even if he is discovered.

After dinner, when it got dark, the team drove from Songjiang Prefecture to the foot of Tianma Mountain.

After some discussion, they asked Boss Dai to stay in the car at the foot of the mountain and listen to the noise to prevent any unexpected events.

Zhou Qinghe, Old Man Liu, and Liu Kai walked towards the mountain from the trail.

"There used to be a small road on the south side, the kind that flows out, but isn't that village haunted, so later the locals were unwilling to go that way, so they all went to the main road, where there are steps.      This There used to be a temple on Tianma Mountain, and the incense was quite prosperous. There were not many mountains nearby. People who burned incense, chanted Buddha and worshiped Bodhisattva came here. However, when the war broke out, the monks in the temple ran away, leaving no one to eat, and even the Bodhisattvas could not eat. , I was wondering which way the Japanese would follow if they wanted to follow me. There is a trail here that our hunters take and they don’t know.”

Old man Liu was searching for traces in the mountains, observing whether there were any traces of anyone walking by.

If there are really thousands of people here, some things are easy to see, such as accidentally broken branches, footprints left by trampling, crushed grass, and even some modern wrapping paper and cigarette butts. These can all be evaluated. thing.

For an experienced hunter, this is just a basic skill.

Not long after going up the mountain, Old Man Liu soon made a discovery. He narrowed his eyes as he stared forward, lowered his body, and whispered quickly: "There is someone."

Zhou Qinghe's eyes were not bad, he had already noticed it, and he even gave Liu Kai a hand.

The two of them were short, and Old Man Liu, who turned around to observe the movement, cast a surprised look. This kid reacted quite quickly and was a good hunter.

The three people observed the movement, and at early seven o'clock in the evening, two rough men appeared in the woods smoking and chatting.

Considering the reason for coming here, there is no doubt that they are Japanese.

"I didn't expect that there are really Japanese people. This road has been discovered. There may be quite a lot of Japanese people." Old man Liu sighed in a low voice: "Few people know about this road. People with weak foot strength don't know it at all." Will come here.”

It is indeed a difficult road to walk, but with so many Japanese people on the mountain, it is normal for the road to be discovered.

"Can you get around it?"

These two people were probably just following them, and if someone who didn't know anything about them bumped into them, they might have thought they were nearby mountain people and went to say hello.

"Have."

The three people retreated, and Old Liu took Zhou Qing and the two of them around to the right. Along the way, Old Liu could find some unusual traces from time to time. This was because a large number of people often walked by.

But they didn't meet many people. They only met three sentry posts along the way, just six people.

Three sentry posts is a lot, but compared to thousands of people, this number is very small.

"Baby, you said there were thousands of people, that's not right."

Old man Liu observed along the way and found it very strange. They had never seen dozens of people, let alone thousands of people.

If there were really thousands of people, they would have to stay and eat. It would be cold in the mountains and they would have to make fires. No trace of these large-scale lives could be seen at all.

"Boss, could it be in the north?" Liu Kai suggested: "The village is in the south, but in fact the Japanese soldiers are ambushing in the north, and the north and the south echo each other?"

Zhou Qinghe didn't speak for a while. Judging from the structure, it was possible. After all, they wandered around for a short time in the south. If there were thousands of people hiding here, they shouldn't have been discovered.

But if it was in the north, the general route Haruno Daisy gave him should not be in this direction. After all, the task he gave Haruno Daisy at that time was to draw a possible route for transporting medicines during wartime. The roads in the north and south are definitely different, and the transportation time will be different. animal.

Zhou Qinghe still believed that Haruno Daiju had no reason to deceive him.

"It's still south. Look for it again. If you really can't find it, look for the north."

This mountain is not big, but it covers nearly 2000 acres, which is almost the size of more than 180 football fields.

There must be something missing.

Old Man Liu also nodded. He didn't believe Zhou Qinghe, but there were indeed traces of many people's activities on the ground.

He now believes that there are thousands of Japanese in the mountain, which is much stronger than when he first went up the mountain.

Now he felt like he was chasing prey, and he was a little excited for a moment. He must find these people.

"In this way, we chase according to the footprints. The speed will be slower, but we may find a bigger one." Old Man Liu suggested.

Since there are thousands of people, the whereabouts are very easy to trace, but there are too many whereabouts of thousands of people, and there is a lot of interference.

But as long as there are traces of it, if you keep looking, you will definitely be able to get close to that stronghold.

"Okay, let's do it."

It was very dark, it was already half past eight, and the lights could not be turned on. There was only a little bit of moonlight, which leaked from between the trees. It was not easy to track it, and there was a lot of interference.

There is not only one path, but you have to go back every now and then, which is very laborious and hard-sighted.

But what hunters have is patience.

Old Man Liu searched slowly, while Zhou Qinghe was responsible for observing the hidden sentries that might exist nearby. After bypassing five more sentry points, he detoured back to the road with the densest traces.

Finally, at 11 o'clock in the evening, the three people squatted down in unison.

"Baby, do you see that there is light in the hole in front of you?"

"I saw it, Father Liu, you have such a good eye."

Zhou Qinghe squatted down and did not forget to praise Old Man Liu. Of course he saw it and finally understood how the Japanese were hiding in the mountains without being discovered by nearby villagers.

They actually dug a tunnel in the mountain!

The military fortifications with light in front of them must be the authentic entrances and exits!

(End of this chapter)