Deep in the forest, Wei Ran and others were lying on their horses, minimizing their body area as much as possible, trying to avoid the bullets coming from behind.

At this time, they didn't dare to fight back at all. They just hoped to run as fast as possible, and even faster, hoping to put a far enough distance away from the pursuers behind them. They also hoped that the wind would blow quickly for this thief.

Come on it snows!

But as he ran, although the distance between the pursuers behind him became somewhat wider, Qiu Yongwen fell off his horse without any warning!

"Yongwen!"

"elder brother!"

Wei Ran, who was riding at the end, and Yong Wu, who was running at the same pace as Yong Wen, were the first to notice something was wrong and shouted out.

"Quick...run!"

Yongwen fell to the ground and yelled with all his strength, "I can't do it anymore, the bullet... pierced... the stomach... run... run..."

With that said, Yongwen turned over with difficulty and lay on the thick snow, tremblingly took out the two box cannons that had been fastened to his waist, and learned the usage he learned from Hu Bazhi before setting off.

He turned the nose of the plane and aimed it in the direction they came from.

"Father...mother...Yongwen has avenged you!"

Qiu Yongwen roared with difficulty, "Run! Run! Run! Yongwu... take them to run!"

"Yongwen!"

"Second brother!"

Boss Qiu and Xiao Si'er shouted in panic while struggling to get off Zhao Jinyu and Wei Ran's horses.

"run!"

Yongwu, who was already crying, shouted at the top of his lungs, "Everyone, run! Don't let my brother die in vain! Run! Run! You should run!"

"drive!"

Zhao Jinyu, whose eyes were already red, shook the reins vigorously, and started running with Boss Qiu, who was riding in front of him and trying his best to cover his mouth to prevent himself from making any sound.

"drive!"

Wei Ran also shook the reins vigorously, and at the same time held down Xiao Si'er who was lying on the horse's back.

"drive!"

Hu Bazhi and Unakan shouted at the same time to the Japanese army horses that had just stopped and started running again. Amidst the sound of horse hooves trampling on the snow, they got farther and farther away from the lonely figure behind them, and eventually both sides were swallowed by darkness.

“Da da da da——”

In the cold moonlit night, the dense gunfire when the box cannon was fired made all the people still alive tremble involuntarily.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Accompanied by the chaotic but extremely dense counterattack, the dense gunfire unique to the box cannon suddenly stopped.

The oil lamps that the pursuers had hastily extinguished were lit again one after another, and they continued to chase along the horse hoof prints on the snow like maggots attached to bones.

A ravine and a mountain ridge, the remaining people rode horses and ran wildly in the darkness. From time to time, they would look up at the Big Dipper hanging in the sky, and the rest were left to the horses whose eyesight was far better than humans.

After running like this risking their lives for more than half an hour, the horses everyone was riding were tired and panting, and their speed was getting slower and slower.

If this continues, I'm afraid they will be caught up before long!

At this moment of real desperation, on the hilltop far ahead, a bunch of red flying monkeys suddenly rose up with an explosion of "Boom!"!

"Run that way!"

Hu Bazhi didn't know what he thought of, so he shouted at the top of his lungs and slapped the horse hard on the butt.

Everyone didn't have time to ask any more questions, so they all grabbed the reins and ran in the same direction.

The distance between this and the front was only two to three hundred meters. As soon as the people on horseback reached the foot of the mountain ridge where the Sky Monkey rose, they heard shouts from the surrounding woods!

"Ancestor Bodhidharma is so mighty that the heavens are shaken! Ancestor Bodhidharma is so mighty that the heavens are shaken! Ancestor Bodhidharma is so mighty that the heavens are shaken!"

Amidst the increasing roars, people riding horses or mules, or even people driving reindeer sledges, mules sledges, and even people driving donkeys and snowboards rushed out.

Come up together.

These people, who were clearly dressed as bandits, clasped their fists from a distance, raised their left shoulders, and shouted loudly, "Ancestor Bodhidharma is mighty and mighty!"

Seeing these people slowing down a little and following them, a few more people on horseback came over and ripped off the black cloth cover on the oil lamp they were carrying, revealing the red cloth cover.

The glass-shaded oil lamps shouted in unison, "Follow the red light! The shallows cannot trap the swimming dragon!"

"Follow the red light! The shallows cannot trap the swimming dragon! Follow the red light! The shallows cannot trap the swimming dragon!"

Amid the chorus of cheers from all over the forest, a dozen or so red lights suddenly dispersed and rushed in different directions.

At the same time, another person rode a horse and came up, hugged his fists, and said amidst the noisy shouts around him, "Follow me, everyone! I guarantee that Tiaozi, the king of hell, will never find a home!"

Hearing this, everyone immediately urged their horses to follow this unknown person, allowing him to run out along a ravine away from the direction where the red lights disappeared.

Behind them, the bandits who were riding horses and shouting for sledges also dispersed in an instant, or climbed up the mountain ridge, or got into the mountain col, or disappeared in the woods.

, leaving only intricate sledge marks, a string of unknown horse hoof prints, mule hoof prints and even donkey hoof prints.

"I don't know which red flower pavilion's bureau chief reached out, another day..."

Before Hu Bazhi could finish his words, the man leading the way said, "We are all here at Hezi. Big favors don't count, but small favors don't count. Please slide quickly!"

Before he finished speaking, the man pointed in a random direction with the riding crop in his hand, and then he hit the horse and ran in another direction.

"The green mountains will never change! The green waters will always flow! The one who cooks the dry pot is missing two fingers, and one of them will be returned when we meet in the future!"

Hu Bazhi raised his voice and made a promise to the figure behind him. He also shouted "Ancestor Bodhidharma is mighty and mighty." Then he hit the horse and led everyone to run out in the direction pointed by the man with his riding whip.

They only ran less than a hundred meters in the direction of the opponent's finger, but there were several people on horseback waiting for them.

In addition to the horses they were riding, each of these people also led a mule. On the shelves carried by the mules were several bulging sacks.

Before anyone could get closer, these people clasped their fists in a friendly manner and weighed them over their left shoulders, and then drove their horses into the woods, leaving only a few honest and docile mules and others to be led away.

"Do you know who saved us?" Zhao Jinyu picked up the reins of a mule and asked in a low voice.

"When the Anti-League was here, even the black soil was stained three feet deep by the Anti-League!" Hu Bazhi also picked up the reins of a mule and said gratefully, "Let's go! We will definitely meet again in the future!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran and Unakan, who were also full of doubts, no longer asked any more questions. They each picked up a mule's reins and held them tightly in their hands, urging the horses to run faster.

After running in the forest for more than half an hour, after everyone climbed up a ridge, Wei Ran stopped his horse and said, "Xiao Si'er, you get on Brother Hu's horse."

"What about you?" Hu Bazhi and Zhao Jinyu immediately asked nervously, "What do you want to do?"

"Don't be nervous." Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, "I'll go to the tree to see if the Japanese are chasing me."

As he said that, he had already rode his horse to the side of Hu Ba Zhi, and called to the other party to drag the crying little Si'er over, and then handed the reins of the mule to Hu Ba Zhi to help hold it.

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Then, with everyone watching, he went to the foot of a pine tree, stood up on horseback, and climbed into the crown of the pine tree.

After climbing nearly 20 meters in the dark, Weiran looked down and used the moonlight to find a tree branch thick enough to sit on, and then took out the huge Schneider telescope from the metal book.

He stood on a branch and looked in the direction he came from.

The cold moonlight covered the forest sea covered with snow. In this cold and temperatureless moonlit night, the forest sea was flickering with faint red lights. They were like fireflies, attracting those behind them.

Dots of dim lights ran in all directions of this primeval forest.

From time to time, a red light will go out, and the dim yellow light behind the red light will continue to move forward for a while and then stop blankly, or change the direction and continue chasing, or return the same way, or stop.

I don't know what I'm busy with here.

Just like Wei Ran doesn't know whether those extinguished red lights have successfully escaped or been caught.

But only, he saw very clearly that in this cold moonlit night, there was not a single red light coming in their direction, nor was there any string of dim lights chasing after them.

He didn't even know that whether it was those Japanese soldiers or those puppet soldiers who didn't want to come here, after running after those red lights for a long time, as the red lights in front disappeared, their horses and their sledge pullers

The mule also stepped on animal traps that were enough to break the bones!

This was just the beginning. As more and more animals on the Japanese side had their legs broken by animal traps, the strange screams around them and the cold shots fired from all over became increasingly dense!

Gradually, in the field of view of Wei Ran's telescope, the oil lamps that were like living targets were extinguished one after another, but the cold gunshots in the forest never stopped.

At a certain moment, the Japs who had been hunters began to gather and began to attack the surroundings in an unorganized manner with machine guns, grenade launchers, and even ancient volley formations.

But even so, there are still more and more cold shots coming from around. Even on the way these devils came, traps used to kill bears and tigers have been laid out one by one!

"Brother Wei! What did you see?!" Zhao Jinyu, who was riding on horseback under the tree, shouted.

"The Japanese stopped chasing them, and started to form a group. Even the lanterns were extinguished." Wei Ran said quite unexpectedly, "They seemed to be surrounded, and the fighting was very lively."

"Who is it that saved us?" All the people under the tree couldn't help but murmur.

However, this place is not the area where Hu Bazhi has been active before, nor is it the forest that Unakan is familiar with. Even the four... and three brothers of the Qiu family have never been here, so naturally no one knows about it.

Who is in charge of this forest?

"Stop looking, come down and leave quickly."

Hu Bazhi greeted him and said, "Let's go forward a little more slowly and let the horse rest. We can go as far as we can tonight."

"Come down now." Wei Ran took one last look, put away the telescope and climbed down again in the dark carefully.
To be continued...