As it got dark, Hu Yi tore off the broken door frame beside him and threw it into the fire beside the ruins, letting the fire continue to burn.
The firelight made her fair and cold face look red. She stared at Hu Yi and asked angrily, "Did you hear me?"
Hu Yipao patted the ashes on his palms, looked at the fire and said, "The Ninth Platoon has two tasks: one, to assist the people of Qingshan Village in evacuating; two, to accept Shi Cheng's guerrillas into the army. Now the task of evacuating the people has become collecting corpses. Shi Cheng and his people have become the first squad of the Ninth Platoon. The mission is basically completed. After they finish burying the bodies, we can go back."
"Did I hear you wrong? Now you have become a good soldier who strictly follows orders?"
"I always follow orders strictly."
"Then I now command..."
"I am the platoon leader of the ninth platoon. Your order is invalid." Hu Yi finally turned to look at Su Qing and interrupted her directly.
"Don't forget, I have the right to temporarily relieve you of your command." Su Qing deliberately raised his tone.
"Su Yushi, I am carrying out the mission order from the regiment. On what grounds do you remove my command? That's too domineering." Hu Yi looked at the cold face and suddenly smiled faintly, a smile that seemed to contain countless meanings.
Su Qing stared at those narrow eyes for a long time and said, "Okay, I'll go by myself." Then she shook her hair and stopped looking at him. She stared at the fire quietly, and the frequency of her chest rising and falling became a little faster, showing the degree of her anger.
"Unfortunately, you can't go either. The third mission of the Ninth Platoon is to bring you, Dashi, back safely. I don't mind using coercive means to achieve this."
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. The word "forced means" touched Su Qing's sore spot. She stood up suddenly, her eyebrows raised, her eyes blazing with anger, her hands shaking with anger: "How dare you..."
"I dare." The tone of the answer was still indifferent, and Hu Yi had not yet realized that he had made a slip of the tongue.
The volcano finally erupted, and new and old grudges rushed into his heart. He instantly forgot his identity as a party member and his political work position, and let his emotions take over. He grabbed the stones around him and threw them at him, but he dodged them with a few shoves. So he became more and more angry, pulled out a wooden stick from the ruins at his feet, and rushed over to swing it at him.
Seeing Su Qing suddenly become so crazy, Hu Yi was a little confused for a moment, barely dodging a few stones that were thrown at him. When he looked up again, she was actually rushing towards him with a stick in her hand, her eyebrows raised and her teeth clenched, not at all dignified. Is this stupid woman going crazy again
The wooden stick came swinging over with a whoosh, and she raised her arm to block it, and it broke with a snap. The wooden stick in her hand had been burned by fire, and it was no longer hard enough, so she broke it directly, but even so, Hu Yi's arm felt numb and painful. Su Qing didn't care, and raised the half-broken wooden stick in her hand and swung it again.
This scene suddenly reminded Hu Yi of the pain he felt at the side of the Shanghai-Nanjing railway. The gun handle was hitting him, and his teeth were gnashing him. The ferocity was no joke. The pain penetrated his heart. This woman was so mad that she didn't care about her life. Thinking of this, how could he dare to block her? He turned around and was about to run away. However, the second stick had already hit him hard on the back, and Hu Yi staggered on the spot.
One was hiding around the fire in a panic, while the other was chasing and beating him angrily. The so-called evil star was beaten so hard that his helmet and armor were crooked and he dared not even fart; the so-called politician was even uglier than a shrew.
One was hiding in a panic, while the other was sweating profusely. After an unknown amount of time, they accidentally saw a dozen people standing not far from the fire, all staring at the scene beside the fire. Hu Yi and Su Qing stopped awkwardly. Hu Yi quickly straightened up, adjusted his hat, and casually patted the black ash on his back from being beaten by the stick; Su Qing looked at the audience with a cold face, then looked at Hu Yi fiercely, and threw the half stick into the fire.
Ma Liang cleared his throat and broke the silence: "Uh... well... the bodies of the villagers have been buried. We... just finished our work and came here.
"Yes, yes, I just came back." Luo Fugui quickly agreed.
Xiao Hongying grumbled to Hu Yi with a dark face: "Why don't you fight back? It's so annoying."
“…”Everyone was speechless.
Hu Yi took a deep breath and said, "Okay, pack up and get ready to go."
The Ninth Platoon did not return directly to the Independent Regiment, but set out towards Meixian County at night, fulfilling Su Qing's wish.
Su Qing had a hunch that something must have gone wrong with the intelligence network in Meixian County, but she had no evidence, so she had to go and confirm it. The intelligence agent who died in Qingshan Village was responsible for collecting information at a land temple not far from the county town. Every time, the intelligence was sent out by a fixed courier in the county town, hidden in the land temple, and a mark of information was made on the small temple. The deceased intelligence agent was responsible for regularly checking the small temple and taking out the intelligence and sending it back to the independent regiment.
Su Qing knew the framework, system, contact methods and emergency response plans of the intelligence system, because she was a political worker and also managed the intelligence department of the independent regiment. Now, she had to go to the small land temple to see if the person who sent the letter out of the city had left a special mark in the temple.
Hu Yi was unwilling to agree to Su Qing's request out of concern for her safety, but judging from her performance, he couldn't stop her. The pile of rotten paper dug out from the intelligence agent's stomach made her obsessed, and she would never stop until she understood the situation, so she had no choice but to take on this additional task.
Shi Cheng's guerrillas originally had thirteen people, but three of them died, so now they have ten. They got nine box guns from Li Youcai, plus the one in Shi Cheng's hand, so everyone has a Mauser pistol, plus six Type 79 rifles, which were distributed after the last battle with the Ninth Squad. Hu Yi pulled them into the Ninth Platoon, saving a lot of trouble. First of all, they are fully staffed with long and short guns, so they don't have to worry about them; secondly, they are much better than the new recruits on the playground. Some of them have fought in battles with the Ninth Squad, and they are usually on the edge of crisis. These experiences are more practical than standing in line.
Shi Cheng was willing to join the 9th platoon because he had been familiar with the 9th squad for a long time. He had participated in two battles with the 9th squad, such as robbing food and stealing bicycles. Shi Cheng found that the 9th squad was very powerful and its fighting power was beyond his imagination. At the same time, the style of the 9th squad was different from other teams. It felt strange to be with the 9th squad. They were casual but rigorous. Hu Yi looked cold all the time, but he did not make Shi Cheng feel restrained. The feeling of restraint is not something that can be solved by a warm smile. Sometimes it depends on fate.
So when Hu Yi proposed this to Shi Cheng, Shi Cheng agreed to join the 9th Platoon and 1st Squad without hesitation. Normally, this was great news for these guerrillas, as they would become official Eighth Route Army soldiers from then on. However, it happened at the critical moment when Qingshan Village was being massacred. Several of them were from Qingshan Village. Although their relatives had moved to Dabei Village in advance, they still felt extremely painful and uncomfortable as they saw their fellow villagers who had lived with them for many years become corpses.
The crescent moon was high in the sky. A group of people from the ninth row walked silently on the mountain road, one holding another, towards Lushuipu in the night. Inadvertently, they reached a high hill. The team suddenly stopped because they saw a faint fire in the distance.
After resting in the dark for a while, a figure hurried back and came to Hu Yi, panting and whispering, "One squad, one company, ten bonfires along the way, and they haven't finished chewing the bones yet. It must be them."
Shi Cheng found that Ma Liang had returned, so he quickly stood up, came to Hu Yi's side, and asked hesitantly in a low voice: "Platoon leader, can we... fight?"
Hu Yi turned his head and looked at Shi Cheng's face under the moonlight. He knew that he was now seeking revenge, and all his subordinates thought the same. This was not a good sign. Anger would blind one's eyes, and a single mistake would lead to an uncontrollable situation.
At this time, Su Qing also spoke up on the other side: "We can't fight. The most important thing now is to get to the land temple. We can't lose the big picture because of the small one. We should go around it.
Hu Yi turned his head and looked at Su Qing on the other side. He knew that she was anxious now, wanting to know if there was a crisis in her intelligence system. She would not be willing to go to the land temple, so how could she be willing to create trouble on the road
He looked up at the crescent moon in the sky and had to do what he should do as a platoon leader. Hu Yi turned around and whispered, "Ma Liang, runny nose, get ready to follow me."
"Yes." Liu Jianqiang took a few steps to Ma Liang's side, stood side by side with Ma Liang, and waited for Hu Yi.
"The rest of you leave the path and go to the woods above to rest. Shi Cheng, send two people to set up sentries at both ends of the woods. If you hear gunshots, you all retreat to the direction of Qingshan Village. Don't wait, don't send in reinforcements."
Shi Cheng didn't understand whether he was going to fight or not: "Platoon leader, I..."
"Follow orders."
Su Qing was puzzled: "What do you want? We can't act rashly. If we alert the enemy, we will have no choice but to turn around and run. How can we get through then?"
Hu Yi waved to Ma Liang and Liu Jianqiang to signal them to set off, and replied to Su Qing: "It's okay, I'm just going to explore the detour first."
Time passed quietly, and the people resting in the darkness of the woods were extremely tormented. Hu Yi and the other three had been gone for a long time, and they had not heard any gunshots, nor had they come back. I kept looking up at the moon, which was rising higher and higher, and gradually reached the middle of the sky. This should be midnight, right
In the darkness of the valley, three figures were walking hurriedly, one of them was carrying another person on his shoulders, who also seemed to be a figure.
"You have a runny nose. Let me take it for a while." The speaker was Hu Yi.
"I'm fine." Liu Jianqiang answered in a low voice, panting.
"Put it on my shoulders, don't waste time." Hu Yi stretched out his hand, transferred the figure Liu Jianqiang was carrying onto his own shoulders, and continued to hurry.
Ma Liang, who was walking at the end, looked back at the darkness behind him from time to time, and whispered to Liu Jianqiang in front of him: "What took you two so long? I was so anxious that I thought you two couldn't get out.
"That Japanese sentry refused to leave the fire area, and there were two puppet soldiers outside. My squad leader and I couldn't do anything. If this guy hadn't come to our door to take a shit, who knows how long we would have had to wait."
"No wonder I always smelled a foul smell along the way." Ma Liang took a few quick steps forward and asked, "Brother, why did you go to such great lengths to catch a Japanese? The last time I caught that one alive, I almost died of humiliation."
"This is not a living person, it is a medicinal material."
"What?"
Hu Yi's answer confused Ma Liang and Liu Jianqiang...