Biaozi woke up early in the morning, his eyebrows were wet with dew, and the weather began to get colder. Biaozi took out a towel, took off his helmet, poured some water from the kettle, wiped his face, wiped his hair, and then
Ate some solid food.
"Feiteng, come here." Biaozi said.
"Captain Hu." Feiteng ran over.
"How's the injury?" Biaozi asked with concern.
"It's nothing serious."
"Can we act together?" Biaozi asked.
"no problem."
"Okay, let's talk to Ren first. He should take the lead. Shaoqiu will follow him and take a detour over the mountains from the west. We must go over and see what happens. You and your brother will protect the flanks."
"Yes." Feiteng stood up and walked over.
Biaozi watched Ren take action first, waved to the distance, and then said to Minghe: "Minghe, you take the lead."
"Don't worry, I'm behind you. When the rooster and the snake come, I'll take its head and make the soup."
The target was originally only three or four miles away. In order to get as close to the Japs' secret base as secretly as possible, Renxian led his brothers to go around seven or eight miles before reaching the top of the mountain closest to the explosion.
Renxian slowly lay down on the bare hilltop, exposed a little of his head, and looked around. He saw a group of Japs patrolling from a distance. The patrol team disappeared and appeared in the woods halfway up the mountain. This was the bright side.
Ren Xian knew that there must be more than one Japs behind him, so he quickly retracted his head.
"How's it going?" Biaozi asked.
"I saw a group of Japs patrolling halfway up the mountain. I didn't see the sentries, nor did the laborers. They didn't dare to show their heads for too long. The top of the mountain is like a monk's head, with no hair. It's too easy to be exposed." Ren Xian said.
"The farther away the enemy is, the safer it will be." Biaozi said, "You stay here for a while and I'll take a look."
After Biaozi finished speaking, he took out his binoculars, pulled two handfuls of grass, inserted some into his helmet, and wrapped some around the binoculars. Only then did he pop out his head and use the binoculars to observe the mountains, hillsides and valleys.
The patrol has already walked into the valley. There are dense woods on the mountainside and on the top of the mountain. Although the leaves have begun to fall, you can still see nothing from a distance. Biaozi heard from Brother Chao and Yuesong.
, the Japanese like to place hidden sentry in trees, so they searched for several possible big trees, from the roots to the treetops, but no hidden sentry of the Japanese was found.
Biaozi shrank back, with a sad look on his face.
"What did you find?" Ren asked first.
"The secret sentry can't be found. The patrol is going up another hill. This is probably the closest place we can get, but we can't go down from here. I estimated that from the top of the hill to the foot of the hill, it's at least five hundred meters.
The distance is exposed and there is no cover. It is difficult to get up to the sky without being discovered by the Japanese patrol, let alone making a secret whistle." Biaozi said anxiously.
"Listen, what's the sound?" Feiyue said suddenly.
The brothers stopped talking, their ears almost stood up, and they listened carefully. Indeed, there was a "ding-ding-ding" sound coming from the forest further away.
"It's the sound of using a steel drill to cut into stone," Fei Teng said.
"Are you sure?" Biaozi asked.
"I'm sure, my father took me and Fei Yue to chisel rocks on the mountain. This is the sound." Fei Teng said.
"That means the secret base is under construction. There should be another hilltop, which is the hilltop where the Japanese patrol is going." Renxian said.
"Damn it, Yuesong said that the sons born from mice can dig holes. Grandma, the holes have been drilled all the way to China, and sentries are posted so far away. It's difficult now." Biaozi complained.
Shaoqiu slowly climbed up and looked down.
"Shaoqiu, come down and don't be discovered by the Japanese. Not everyone is as lucky as Feiteng." Biaozi said quickly.
"Captain Hu, it's not impossible to get a closer look." Shaoqiu said timidly.
"How to get close? It's easy for you to think about." Ren said first.
"You have to take risks." Shaoqiu said.
Biaozi became a little interested and immediately asked: "Tell me, how can you take risks?"
"Bring less equipment, tie your body with dry grass, and then slowly climb down the mountain. You have to climb very slowly, and you can only judge whether there are enemies around you by listening to the sounds. Try not to raise your head. My father taught me how to hunt earlier.
This is the method for grass-fed red deer. Only when they are within range of the shotgun can they raise their heads and shoot." Shaoqiu said.
"What if the Japanese find out?" Ren Xian said.
"Either you are captured or you commit suicide. It is impossible to escape," Shaoqiu said.
"This won't work, it's too risky." Renxian immediately rejected it.
Biaozi lowered his head, not knowing whether he should take the risk. If so, who should take the risk?