A dark night, no moon, no wind; but there are clouds and stars.
In the darkness, Hu Yi slowly opened his eyelids.
A few tiny lights gradually blurred into a piece. They were clearly shining, but could not illuminate anything. They only proved to the eyes that she was in the darkness. She was a dot, she was a piece, she was endless; she was both endless light and endless darkness; or perhaps, she was neither light nor darkness, she was just her.
As all this gradually became clear, Hu Yi finally realized that he was facing a huge, endless dark sky. This was the night sky. Behind the dark sky, a little bit of deep and quiet blue was slightly revealed, forming a faint line at the bottom, which could distinguish the human world.
The sky is filled with stars, inlaid with clouds, inlaid with pieces of freehand broken darkness, shining on the dome, noisy with a galaxy, a clear river, a pure river, magnificent and boundless...
"Hey! Fox, you're awake? Huh?"
"Where is this?"
"Are you thirsty? Huh?" Xiao Hongying lowered her head and hurriedly unscrewed the lid of her water bottle.
In the darkness, a petite figure sat beside him, struggling with the kettle in her hand that couldn't be turned on. Hu Yi turned his head to the side, and the sudden pull of his muscles caused a sharp pain in his left shoulder. Based on his experience, he felt that it should be a gunshot wound, but he couldn't remember how the wound came about. The position seemed to be very high. Hu Yi finally found that he was lying on his back on a grain cart, lying on a high grain stack. The grain cart was moving slowly and steadily on the night road.
Xiao Hongying's water bottle was finally handed to Hu Yi's mouth. Hu Yi tried to take it himself, not wanting the maid to feed him. He then found that his left arm also hurt. He felt it carefully and found that his forehead and cheekbones also hurt. No wonder his head and face were wrapped in gauze.
He took the kettle with his right hand and gulped down a few mouthfuls. The little girl beside him asked, "Are you hungry? I saved some dinner for you."
As the little girl spoke, she unbuttoned the two buttons on her collar and carefully took out her lunch box from her bosom. There was rice porridge in it, and she was afraid that it would get cold, so she kept it in her little bosom to warm it, waiting for Hu Yi to wake up.
A figure suddenly climbed up from the side of the car: "Brother! You're awake! The squad leader is awake!"
When Ma Liang shouted, a big guy immediately climbed up from the other side. It was Luo Fugui.
As soon as Luo Fugui came up, he put a bear paw on Hu Yi's forehead without saying anything, and began to chant: "Heaven and earth, please help me, Taishang Laojun, please show your power and wipe out all the white bones, fox spirits, demons and monsters. Hurry and obey the order..."
Xiao Hongying stared with wide eyes in surprise, not understanding what was going on.
Ma Liang asked angrily: "Mule, what are you doing?"
Luo Fugui was calm and composed. He finished talking to himself and then said, "Damn it, I'm possessed by evil spirits. Of course I need to exorcise them. You know nothing!" Then he lowered his head and asked Hu Yi who was lying in the dark, "Boss Hu, do you recognize me? What's my name?"
"… "
The light was too dim to see Hu Yi's expression, nor did he get any response. Luo Fugui couldn't help but raise his big hand and scratch the back of his head: "This won't work? It looks like it's still a powerful demon. I have to get some paper money to burn. Maybe it will work if I pay homage to it!"
Ma Liang and Xiao Hongying were stunned by Luo Fugui's words. During the day, Hu Yi did seem to be possessed by an evil spirit. Something was wrong before he went up to shoot the five magazines. Later, he was pulled down from the slope by Ma Liang. He did not react at all. He just looked at the sky and panted. He let the little girl cry in his arms and finally fell asleep. Ma Liang carefully checked the injuries. They were not fatal and there were no injuries to any vital parts. This situation could not be explained. It was indeed like being possessed by an evil spirit. Now that Luo Fugui had done this to them, the two were speechless and stood there dumbfounded for a while.
Hu Yi, with a frown on his face, finally spoke up: "I'm not dead yet, why are you burning paper?"
Luo Fugui didn't react for a moment, still immersed in the role, and couldn't help but blurt out: "Hey? Did you see it? Hey, he said something? Tell me quickly, which evil spirit possessed you!"
Although his shoulder was still hurting and one arm was not very convenient, it did not affect his ability to lift his legs. Hu Yi kicked the stupid bear hard and kicked him off the car. He had had enough of this idiot.
Plop—
"Oh my god..." Luo Fugui fell heavily on the dark road, his legs up in the air and stars in his eyes. When Liu Jianqiang and Wu Shitou passed by him, they both tilted their heads to look at the bear who had fallen off the car: It seems that the squad leader has really woken up. Then they continued to pass by.
After lying on the ground for a while, Luo Fugui suddenly felt that the smell was right! The energy was right too! It was Boss Hu! He got up from the ground and chased the car while saying in surprise: "Thanks to my good spell, it worked! Wait for me..."
In the darkness of night, Hu Yi sat on the grain cart, eating rice porridge, listening to Ma Liang and Xiao Hongying telling stories about things he could not remember and things he had missed.
When the Second Company launched the charge, the enemy's three Type 99 light machine guns were all on the east side of the grain cart, with their backs to the Second Company and firing at the ridge. As a result, they were all hit by volleys and grenades. The Second Company suffered only a dozen casualties in the charge at a distance of 50 meters. After the three rounds of grenades, there were basically no intact people left except those who had originally hidden under the cart, resulting in a large number of wounded soldiers. Seeing the Second Company rushing up, the wounded soldiers who could still breathe naturally crawled under the cart.
As a result, after they rushed forward, there was no hand-to-hand combat at all. The Japanese and puppet troops basically resisted stubbornly under the vehicles and refused to come out. Of course, they had no chance to come out. If they stood on the road, they would be shot. The soldiers of the second company could only temporarily climb onto the grain trucks, and the battle with the remaining enemies turned into a battle on the roof and under the trucks. Both sides were in chaos.
The soldiers of the second company did not dare to get off the grain trucks, as they would be shot if they landed, and the enemies did not dare to come out from under the trucks, as they would be finished if they showed their heads. With only the trucks between them, bayonets were useless, and neither side dared to count on grenades or hand grenades, as they would all be in trouble if they were blown up.
Seeing the remaining enemies crawling under his feet, Gao Yidao was so angry that his head was smoking. He was so angry that he almost fell off the car. Fortunately, he was pulled up again by the soldiers next to him. However, one of his legs slipped off the car body and was shot by the enemy under the car. Although there was no bone injury, he would probably be lame for a few days.
Finally, the fast runners of the second company came up with a quick idea and asked everyone to put the grain bags on the roof of the car as a cover, and then drove the cars to disperse and increase the distance. This made the enemies under the cars unable to hide and finally became targets.
In this battle, more than a dozen soldiers of the Second Company died and more than twenty were injured, most of them with leg injuries, reducing the number of soldiers by half.
Half of the animals pulling the carts were also killed. Fortunately, the place where Li Youde requested to unload the goods was not far away, in a ditch near the roadside more than ten miles away. So the carts without animals were put behind the carts with animals, and all the uninjured people helped push them. When they reached the unloading location, they directly left the carts behind. Now, ten grain carts are returning overnight, and some of them are loaded with the bodies of mules, horses, and cattle, as well as other spoils.
After hearing the whole story, Hu Yi sighed and asked Ma Liang, "How are Shi Cheng and the others?"
"They went back to Qingshan Village. I persuaded him to join the regiment, but he didn't want to. He took the two villagers and left with the three bodies on his back." Ma Liang added, "I gave them three guns and some bullets from the spoils of war, and told them to hide two bags of food for them when they passed by Qingshan Village. They could go and get them themselves later."
Hu Yi nodded and said nothing more.
Under the huge starry sky, ten blurry grain carts slowly moved along the blurry road, slowly disappeared into the dark mountains, and gradually merged into the darkness...