Chapter 8 Military Action (Three Trips)

"What the hell is going on?" Seeing Zhang Songling's anxious face turned black, Zhao Tianlong finally realized that the guerrillas might be facing a catastrophe. He quickly caught up with him and pulled the latter's arm and asked loudly.

"Captain Wang may not have expected the Japanese to bring an infantry cannon." Looking back, he glanced at the young guerrillas who were also panicked. Zhang Songling forced himself to remain calm on the surface. Captain Wang asked Zhao Tianlong to bring these half-grown children to him, in order to keep the children away from the battlefield, rather than to sacrifice unnecessary. He could not bring the children back no matter what.

"Isn't it just a cannon? You scared me." Zhao Tianlong guessed from Zhang Songling's actions that he wanted to hide from the children behind him. He smiled and waved his hand easily, "It's no big deal. Let's retreat into the mountains and put a heavy machine gun on the key points, so that he cannons can't play a role."

"However, I was too anxious just now." Zhang Songling "suddenly realized", and smiled and released the reins of the war horse, "Who can you recognize the way to the palace of the Yete Right Banner of Wuqi?"

The second half of the sentence was asked to the young guerrillas. The older ones were stunned and responded in a silence, "I." "I know you too." "I went there with Captain Zhao last month." "I..."

"Okay, okay." Zhang Songling smiled and waved his hand, sweat was everywhere in his palm, "Just you, Zheng Xiaobao, you ride my big white horse, take them with you and go to find Siqin together, and inform her that the plan I made with her before will be carried out soon. You all follow Siqin's command. She will tell you what you should do."

Of course, the so-called plan never existed. The reason why Zhang Songling said this was because he believed that after Siqin saw the white horse, he could understand that the children were coming by his own orders. At that time, no matter whether she had the cleverness or not, the battle between the Japanese and the guerrillas had already broken out. Including the time of going back and forth, the children could just miss this destined fierce battle.

"I, ride this Eastern horse," Zheng Xiaobao was stunned for a moment, and hesitated to ask. The big white horse was much more beautiful than an ordinary Mongolian horse. He wanted to have the chance to ride on and run a few laps, but tonight Fatty Zhang's performance was strange and mysterious from head to toe, which made him dare not agree to anything about the other party.

"What are you talking about? Just go." Zhao Tianlong looked stern and roared in a silence, "There are you guys, why are you standing there? Get out of here. This is an order. If anyone dares to push the situation, I will report it to Captain Wang and call him at the general meeting."

"Yes." Zheng Xiaobao and others were always convinced by Zhao Tianlong, and immediately stood attentively saluting, indicating that they accepted the task. Before stepping onto the war horse, they gathered together and muttered a few times, turned their heads and asked again: "What about you and Mr. Zhang, don't you two go to the right flag?"

"Yes." Zhao Tianlong raised his chest and pulled his stomach out, and the commander became more and more arrogant. "We two, of course, went back to the guerrillas directly. You asked so much, did you have to report to you Zheng Xiaobao, whatever the captain did," he said.

"I, I don't mean that." Zheng Xiaobao was scolded and explained with tears in his eyes. In his memory, his master was very kind to everyone and had never been as unreasonable as today. This must have been influenced by Fatty Zhang. This fat man from the Kuomintang had never done anything good. He glanced at Zhang Songling secretly. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the problem was the fat man. He clenched his fingers quietly into fists and vowed that he would have the chance to retaliate against the fat man who was wronged today.

"Can you swear to keep it a secret? If so, I will tell you why you were asked to find Siqin." If you knew that you didn't show some real things, the little guys would definitely not be able to leave peacefully. Zhang Songling thought about it and began to deliberately provoke it. Next, he and Zhao Tianlong would continue to entangle with the Japanese troops. If any young man followed up restlessly, he would probably not only drag him and Zhao Tianlong back, but even if he couldn't do his own life, he would have to get in.

"Of course, I swear as a guerrilla." The simple-minded teenagers could not bear the contempt of a Kuomintang soldier, and responded loudly with straight backs.

"I swear."

"If anyone is not strict with his mouth, let Captain Wang lock his little black room."

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While everyone was busy expressing their opinions, Zhang Songling quietly gave Zhao Tianlong a wink, signaling that the other party must cooperate with him, then pulled out a dagger from his waist, drew a map on the ground, pointed at one of the points with the tip of the dagger, and introduced loudly, "You guys can see clearly, this is the map near Heishi Village, this is Lamagou, this is the Right Banner, this is Mingsha Mountain, the Xilamulun River turn, and this is the old nest of the Japanese and the puppet soldiers. The county town of Heishi Village is not very similar, so everyone can do whatever they want to see!"

The teenagers had seen others conduct battle analysis on the spot, and they all squatted down curiously, stared at the eyes and watched carefully. While enriching the hills and rivers on the map, Zhang Songling continued to weave lies, "Before I came to Lamagou, I had an agreement with Princess Siqin to wait for my news. When the time was right, I would bring the Mongolian soldiers of this banner and attack the Japanese's nest. I took advantage of the situation and took down the Heishi Village in one fell swoop, and gave the Japanese a siege to surround Wei and save Zhao."

The more he made up the lies, the more outrageous it became. Not only was Zhao Tianlong shocked, the young men stood up one after another, widened their eyes and looked at each other, "Warning the Hei Shi Village, are the old guys around Princess Siqin agreeing? Even if the old guys around her agree, the city walls of the Hei Shi Village are so high, and there are puppet troops guarding it. How could the dozens of Mongolian soldiers with the right flag be able to fight? "

"Haha, I didn't expect you guys to be quite clever," Zhang Songling smiled and praised, and made up the lie without blushing. "The Mongolian brothers from the Right Banner alone will definitely not be able to defeat Heishi Village, but we still have Zhou Heizi. I asked Siqin to send someone to him for help. Calculate the time. His people should be almost here. It was said that he would take people to Youqin to meet with Siqin, but the time was delayed on the road was a bit long, so, it would be better to let Siqin lead people to set off in advance, so that Zhou Heizi could just meet Zhou Heizi on the road. Look, Zhou Heizi is now hidden in the corner of the Xilamulun River. Siqin's right banner is here, and Heishi Village happens to be in the middle of the two of them."

"Yes, this will make Zhou Heizi less unruly. You also know that the horse thieves under him are not as good as our guerrillas. If they suffer a small loss, they will have to yell for a long time. If they are allowed to go to the Right Banner and then turn back to Heishi Village, they will definitely force Siqin to give them dry food and horse materials. Instead of doing that, it is better to intercept them halfway, which can save a lot of time and let the old guys in the Right Banner whisper a few words behind our guerrillas." Zhao Tianlong smiled and helped a few words, which happened to solve the confusion of the young men.

"Attacking the county town, we must not be without the participation of our guerrillas. I originally wanted to send a group of capable people to Siqin after seeing Captain Wang. Isn't this a few of you? I will save you from running to Captain Wang. If you can copy the Japanese's retreat in advance, the pressure on Captain Wang will be easier." Zhang Songling thought for a while and added loudly.

"Yes, after you go to Siqin, you must pay attention to maintaining the image of our guerrillas. You can do whatever you want Siqin to do and follow the command of all actions. We are Communist guerrillas, not free and casual herders, nor horse thieves." Zhao Tianlong smiled and exaggerated, using honor to block the possibility of children taking action without authorization.

The two adults fooled a group of half-aged children. Although they took some effort, they would not be exposed on the spot. Soon, Zheng Xiaobao and others were told that their eyes flashed and they devoted themselves to the upcoming siege battle. Zhang Songling was striking while the iron was hot, and said in a foggy way about some of the possible situations when he and Siqin formulated this plan, considering the various possible situations and the specific tactics of the puppet army's resistance. In the end, Zheng Xiaobao and others no longer doubted the authenticity and feasibility of the plan. They were eager to rush to the right flag immediately to complete the arduous task that other guerrillas had no chance to participate in.

"I heard it clearly." Seeing that the little guerrillas were all fooled with flushing faces, Zhao Tianlong stood up and asked loudly.

"I heard it clearly." Zheng Xiaobao and others stood up straight, desperately pulling their voices to the highest point.

"If you hear it clearly, set off quickly. You will arrive at the right flag one day earlier, and we will be safer one day later." Zhao Tianlong slashed his arm down the air with force and ordered loudly.

"Yes, I guarantee to complete the task." The half-aged children saluted and turned around and rushed towards the war horse.

Watching the little guys go away like lightning, Zhao Tianlong slowly put away his smile and whispered: "Okay, the little guys have been fooled by you. What's going on? You should tell me a real truth."

"Captain Wang asked you to bring a group of half-aged children to my command. It's not that I have important tasks, but that I want you to leave the Lama Grotto early." Zhang Songling nodded and responded in a slow tone. "This time the Japanese not only pulled thousands of horse thieves as accomplices, but they also brought a secret weapon called the Decisive Battle Bullet. Once it was fired, they could cover the entire position with poison gas. All those who were stained with poison gas would blind their eyes and ulcerate their whole body. Life was worse than death."

"Hiss." Zhao Tianlong had never heard of such a very poisonous thing in the Japanese hand, and couldn't help but breathe in shock, "Why didn't you tell Captain Wang in the letter? No, it was Lao Wang who deliberately hid me from me. He, he treated me as an outsider."

Thinking that the brothers were all going to die under the poisonous gas of the Japanese, but they were picked out alone to lead a group of children to escape, Zhao Tianlong felt a sudden rumbling of the rivers and seas. This was too bullying and looked down on me, the Yunlong, and he didn't treat me, Yunlong as his brother. Good, you red beard, we must figure out the account sooner or later.

Staring at his eyes that were squirting smoke and fire, he reached out to hold Zhang Songling's collar, "Do you know how to deal with the poisonous gas bomb? You came from the regular army. You must have a way, right, right, no,?"

What disappointed him was that Fatty Zhang, who had always been knowledgeable, was helpless at this moment. "I have never seen what a poisonous gas bomb looks like. I just heard of that thing from the veterans in the army. After hearing the news that there was a poisonous gas bomb in the hands of the Japanese, I quickly returned to report the news, but I didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, Red Beard refused to let the guerrillas leave the people alone. From a military perspective, Red Beard is definitely not a qualified commander, but from a human perspective, Zhang Songling had to give him a thumbs up and say "admiration."

"At present, the common people are busy catching fat for the animals, running all over the mountains and fields. Of course, it is impossible to gather together immediately and transfer with the guerrillas." Zhao Tianlong could not tolerate others saying that the guerrillas were at all wrong, even the good brother Zhang Fatty. "Think about it carefully, what methods do you do when you encounter a Japanese man and use poison gas bombs? You couldn't squat in the trenches and wait to be poisoned by the Japanese man. As long as you can come up with a solution, I can help you find any objects. Even if I want my life, I can give you more than 200 kilograms."

"We were..." Zhang Songling smiled sadly, not knowing whether the fact should be made to let Zhao Tianlong know that the National Revolutionary Army had no effective means to deal with the Japanese poisonous gas bombs. The so-called water on the towel can only play a psychological comfort to a large extent and cannot solve the problem. A large number of National Revolutionary Army soldiers, like Zhao Tianlong just asked, held a gun in one hand and pressed the towel in the other hand, and were poisoned to death in the trenches, and did not turn around and take a step back.

"We..." He shook his head vigorously. He tried his best to avoid those tragic things. "The best way our people have summarized is to let the Japanese devils not have the chance to launch the poisonous gas bomb. There is still a distance from the Lama Grotto. Now we go around in front of the Japanese troops and can drag them for a while."

"Then hurry up, you lead the way, you have met them, and you know where they are now." Even if there is a chance, Zhao Tianlong has to make a hundred efforts. He is a grassland ranger with no home or relatives. Now he has finally had a group of friends who can truly date. No matter what, he cannot watch his friends die under the poisonous gas bomb of the Japanese. (Note 1)

"The Japanese kept walking along the stream during the day. I couldn't name that stream, but it would definitely lead to the Lama Valley." Zhang Songling nodded and slowly walked towards the war horse left by Zheng Xiaobao. The short-distance Mongolian horse was far inferior to the Eastern Yang horse and other famous blood species, but the endurance of Mongolian horses can surpass those famous blood species countless streets. Other famous blood species may die of exhaustion after running for more than two hours. Mongolian horses with ordinary figures can carry people to run for a day and a night without sleeping.

Next, he and Zhao Tianlong were going to ride Mongolian horses to compete with the Japanese to see who was exhausted first, and who was exhausted first, although they only had two brothers.

Note 1: During the Anti-Japanese War, the poisonous gas bombs widely used by the Japanese in China were mustard gas, which could directly hurt people's cornea and penetrate into the body through people's skin. Therefore, they could only use gas masks and chemical protective suits to resist. Wet towels that were stained with water basically could not solve any problem.
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