Brother Chao and Douzi were lying in ambush in the mountain forest outside Songshan Fortress. From the sniper scope, they clearly saw the process of Yuesong and the others being "captured" by the Japanese army. The first step of the plan should have been successfully completed. But as Yuesong and the others were captured
After taking them to the top of the mountain, Brother Chao and Douzi could no longer see Yuesong and the others.
Brother Chao and Douzi changed positions several times. If they got too close, they would definitely be discovered by the Japanese. If they were too far away from Taiyuan, they could not find Yuesong and the others again. If they didn’t even know where Yuesong and the others were taken, then talk about it.
What kind of external support is there?
"Brother Chao, there are Japanese fortresses on the 27 peaks of Songshan Fortress. How can we find the captain and the others?" Douzi was a little worried.
"Go around the fortress and listen to the sounds. Wherever there is an explosion, it may be the construction site where the Japanese are building fortifications." Brother Chao already had an idea in his mind.
"But we have changed four peripheral reconnaissance points, and we haven't heard even a single explosion?"
"In order to reduce the possibility of being detected, the Japs will be very cautious in their blasting. In addition to blasting, there will also be the sound of digging rocks when digging trenches and building fortresses, but the sound of smashing rocks does not travel that far.
, you have to be patient, let’s go, let’s find another place.”
"Oh." Douzi knew that what Brother Chao said made sense, but it was difficult to find the right place, at the right time, and at the right distance to detect the approximate location of the captain and the others.
It's conceivable.
Biaozi and Yingzi, who stayed behind in Longwangmiao Village, should not lead a team to the fortress to meet Yuesong before they received the news that Douzi had brought back. The longer they stayed outside the fortress, the greater the possibility of being discovered. This
The safety of Yuesong and the others will also increase the risk. So there is no other way but to wait patiently.
The sergeant led Yuesong and the others for another half an hour, and finally arrived at one of the construction sites.
The sergeant met Second Lieutenant Gu Shanxin, who was in charge of the construction. Gu Shanxin looked at the six Chinese soldiers in front of him, their faces were sallow, weak, and listless. Gu Shanxin did not like these workers, but since Major Jin Guang asked them to come to the construction site
, Gushan Xin couldn’t help but accept it. Besides, it’s better to have more workers than fewer workers.
Gu Shanxin walked a few steps in front of Yuesong and the others when he heard a gurgling sound coming from the whooping crane's belly.
"Are you hungry?" Gu Shanxin asked in blunt Chinese.
"Taijun, I haven't eaten a grain of rice for almost two days." Ming He said in a flattering manner.
Gushan spoke a few words in Japanese to a soldier beside him, and then, under the escort of several soldiers, Yuesong and the others were taken to a temporary work shed made of branches and leaves.
Three soldiers watched outside the work shed as a Chinese worker opened the lid of a large wooden barrel. There was still some cold porridge at the bottom of the barrel.
"Do it yourself, this is all that's left." The Chinese worker looked at these Chinese soldiers with tattered military uniforms and didn't want to pay any attention to them.
"Thank you, thank you." After Ren thanked him in advance, several people began to scrape the porridge from the wooden bucket with wooden spoons. They were indeed hungry. All six of them were dizzy with hunger, and each of them had half a bowl of porridge.
, and swallowed it in just two or three mouthfuls.
"Wai, what?" Renxian and the others didn't know what the Japs were saying, only Yuesong could understand.
"I'm sorry, what did Taijun say?" Renxian asked Yuesong in a low voice.
"Let's get to work, let's go."
"Hey, okay, okay." Ren Xian and the others dropped their bowls and hurriedly followed the Japanese toward the construction site.
Following the trench to the construction site, a Chinese foreman pointed to the pickaxe, hoe and shovel on the ground with a look of disdain, and said in a very contemptuous tone: "Do it yourself, just like this
, dig trenches.”
"Hey, okay, okay." Ren nodded and agreed, then turned to the brothers behind him and said, "Let's do it."
So, under the leadership of Renxian, under the contempt of the foreman, and under the supervision of the Japanese soldiers armed with live ammunition, the brothers began to dig trenches sweating like rain.