Time: Near noon.
Weather: Sunny with occasional clouds, light wind, temperature around 30 degrees Celsius.
Location: A long valley between Baishitan and Qingshan Village, running east-west, with average vegetation density.
On the southern ridge of the valley, there is a line of skirmishers hidden vertically along the top of the ridge.
Ma Liang, with a camouflage straw hat wrapped around his military cap, crouched behind the bushes, holding up his sergeant's telescope, concentrating on the telescope lens, and whispered: "Seven stretchers... About thirty combatants... One light machine gun, located behind the last stretcher... Tell everyone to prevent accidental discharge!"
A nearby soldier quietly retreated a distance and went to relay the platoon leader's instructions.
From this position, more than a dozen figures were hiding in the east along the mountain ridge for more than a hundred meters. Hu Yi, holding a sergeant's telescope with a small red tassel, also focused on the lens: "They are passing Lao Qin's hiding place... They are too slow... Mule, put the machine gun over to me."
A few meters to the left, there was a braid and a 44 carbine placed among the grass, and she was about to take aim: "I regret it!"
"What are you regretting?" Hu Yi did not put down his telescope and continued to observe the approaching puppet army targets in the valley.
"What do you think? Lao Qin is too sinister! If I had known this would happen, I would have stood up at that time!"
"You... want to count on this too?"
"If I don't expect this, what else can I expect?"
Hu Yi is not a party member, but he knows some of the requirements for joining the party. Not to mention whether Xiao Hongying is old enough, if she relies on her reputation... she seems to have no future. Thinking of this, I feel very fortunate, but of course I am also speechless.
…
Qin You hid in the dense bushes near the path. He decided to take on the mission of delivering the letter. Hu Yi was the only one in the entire 9th Company who could stop him, so he was ready to exercise his privileges as an instructor. Hu Yi seemed to have read his mind, but he said nothing and let Qin You be a hero.
The puppet troops passing by were the remnants of the puppet army after the Baishitan battle. They were heading from west to east towards Qingshan Village. Qin You had to pretend to be from a friendly army and also go from west to east, so he hid on the side of the road in advance, trying to create a failed hiding situation after an encounter.
Listening to the enemy's footsteps on the path, Qin You's heartbeat quickened. The hardest part of everything is before it begins. The last enemy has passed by. Qin You reached into his pocket to confirm that the letter was there. Then he made up his mind, took a deep breath for the last time, and decisively climbed out of his hiding place and stood up. He looked to the east and saw the puppet soldiers walking tiredly on the path. The last figure was 20 to 30 meters away. So he raised his foot and deliberately stepped on a dead branch to break it.
After this sound, Qin You's heartbeat speed reached its limit. He stared blankly at the puppet soldiers at the rear of the team and turned back subconsciously. Then time seemed to stand still. He waited for the gun to be pointed at him and waited to be captured.
However, the few puppet soldiers at the end of the team who turned around following the sound also became standing sculptures and no longer responded.
For a full ten seconds, Qin You and the puppet soldiers who stopped to look back felt that everything had changed. Then a loud shout that tore through the sky was heard. It was not "Stop", nor "Don't move", nor "Raise your hands", but "There is an ambush!"
With a loud shout, the entire long team fell down, becoming a mess on the spot. Then they abandoned the stretchers and the wounded soldiers and ran away in panic.
The word "unbelievable" was not invented out of thin air. The current scene was destroying Qin You's worldview. He stood in the sunshine by the roadside, feeling stupidly lonely.
Although Darwin's "Theory of Evolution" failed to prove the true origin of mankind, it can occasionally be used to prove some unrelated events, such as the survival of the fittest. Yesterday, the remnants of the puppet army were forced to wade into Baishitan with machine guns pointed at them from behind by the Imperial Army. Those who were brave enough to seek death were fed with grenades and bayonets. As a result, the elites survived, carrying the wounded and wrapping them with bandages. Their morale dropped as they walked. The more they walked, the more they felt that there would be blessings in the future if they survived a disaster. How could they enjoy happiness if they were dead
At the same time, the Ninth Company hidden on the Nanshan Ridge was dumbfounded.
Tian Sanqi angrily questioned his second-row subordinates: "Who exposed the target?"
A row of soldiers asked Ma Liang blankly: "Do we need to fight now?"
Luo Fugui dropped his jaw: "Could it be... that Lao Qin really surrendered to the enemy?"
Xiao Hongying was anxious: "It will be too late if we don't take action now!"
Hu Yi still held the telescope, his lens fixed on Qin You's figure. Not getting any body language feedback, he had no choice but to keep his composure.
After a long time, the valley was quiet. Several seriously wounded soldiers were still lying on abandoned stretchers basking in the sun. Several wounded soldiers with mobility problems lay on the side of the road and began to greet each other. There were also several puppet soldiers who were not wounded and were hiding near the scene because of their weak legs. Now they were timidly peeking out from the green on the side of the road and suddenly noticed the Eighth Route Army soldier behind them. He was still standing there
Finally, a gun was aimed at him. Qin You let out a long sigh of relief, raised his hands and looked up at the sky. God has eyes! Waiting for this sweat!
"You haven't run away yet? What are you going to do?" A puppet soldier with a gun hunched over and moved towards Qin You trembling with every step.
"I... um... I'm afraid you guys will shoot me!"
"Just you?"
"Ah. Yeah. Just me."
A few puppet soldiers with guns looked around like frightened birds, and finally dared to straighten up and began to curse the missing rats; a few wounded soldiers also began to swear, cursing their comrades who had abandoned them.
The armed puppet soldiers approaching Qin You were getting bolder and bolder. They were in a very good mood but pretended to be angry: "Tell me! Where are you from?"
"I'm from the 9th Company of the Independent Regiment."
He raised his foot and kicked Qin You hard into the grass, then pulled out the gun from Qin You's holster: "Make it up! How dare you! From the Ninth Company? The Ninth Company is staying at home in the east! Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself? An old Eighth Route Army soldier, right? From the North, right? Hey? Why are you covering your pocket? Get your hands out of my way, you hear me? Believe it or not, I... I'm talking about that hand..."
Ten minutes later.
"You mean... there are two letters? Delivered via two different routes?"
"The road is long, and I'm afraid the message won't be delivered, so I sent it via two routes."
The leading puppet soldier raised his hand and pushed the crooked brim of his hat, looked east, and suddenly said, "Untie him!"
Qin You, who was untied, was surprised: "This...you...what are you doing?"
"Help me carry the stretcher! If you dare to run, I'll kill you!"
"… "
These puppet soldiers had no intention of escorting Qin You westward to meet the Japanese invaders. Instead, they were eager to return home, which made Qin You very worried!
"What? You don't want to?" The bayonet suddenly shone brightly.
"It's not that I don't want to, I just think... you should send me to the devil, right?"
"Give it to you? Bah! Aren't these injured burdens busy enough? Are you going to leave them here to feed the wolves?"
"Then you... should at least deliver the letter, right?"
"Who told you to run so fast? I'm not a messenger! That's dozens of miles away!"
"Hey? I think your attitude is wrong. This letter is extremely important! Don't you think about why I ran hundreds of miles over mountains and hills to get here? Look at the gun in your hand, touch the badge on your collar, you are a soldier! A man should not forget his roots! Are you worthy of wearing a military uniform, comrade?"
The puppet soldiers were so shocked that they stared at each other with their eyes wide open and their heads turned black. They felt ashamed of themselves unconsciously, and it took them a long time to recover their composure. "Who the hell is your comrade? You... I really... I'll beat you up!"
An anger that was difficult to express in words turned into fists and feet on the spot, creating a chaotic mess.
In the green of the ridge, every person behind the crosshairs showed deep admiration: it seemed that this was a deliberate torture to force the enemy to confess slowly, the performance was too real. Lao Qin is a real hero!