march to victory

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

"Bam! Boom! Bam..."

Niulan Cave is located on a mountainside 40 meters west of Xiangjia Village. There are several tens of feet of cliffs up and down. A half-meter-wide path is artificially cut out in the middle. Walk along the path in the concave mountainside for [-] meters. After many meters, there is an oblate hole.Just use a few guns to guard the entrance of the hole, and the attacker wants to attack the hole in a short time, which is tantamount to nonsense.And here is also the last barrier for the villagers of Xiangjia Village except to run into the mountains.

When Lao San led twenty or thirty old people slowly into the Niupan Cave, and was about to build a position with stones, he suddenly heard the messy sound of rifles and muskets from the mountain, as well as the insults and screams of each other, If you think about it with your butt, you can know: the young people who wanted to escape from the back mountain to the forest were stopped by bandits.

Hearing the gunshots, Xiang Lao San, who had been on tenterhooks, felt as if his heart was being crushed by a stone. He sat down on the ground with a pale face, sweating, and pointed at the top of the mountain and yelled: "The bandits in Gou Ri want to kill me in Xiangjia Village!" , I will never stop dying with you.”

Other old people also pointed to the slope on the mountain and cursed, but they could only curse: not to mention the poor health of the old people in the cave, even some old women had bound feet, which made people feel helpless.

"Okay, stop scolding." After all, it was the village chief, and everyone shut up after saying a word: "Women load ammunition, collect food, and go to the cave to get water. We men carry stones and gather in the At the entrance of the cave, I’m going to fight these god-killing bandits...the bandits in Gou Ri blocked the young people’s way, so the young people can only come to Niulan Cave.”

The last words made everyone feel like a lightning strike, their faces turned pale, and some women even began to cry: the reason why they came to Niulan Cave voluntarily was that they did not want to drag their families down, and at the same time helped them buy time to escape.Now, instead of running out, the family members want to come to Niulan Cave together, isn't it unprecedented?Thinking of this, who is not sad?

"Why are you whining? Shut up for me!" Xiang Lao San yelled angrily, and everyone looked at him together.

"To tell you the truth, I have sent Dayou to the town to invite the Red Army. I believe the Red Army will come to rescue us within a few hours."

This gives everyone hope!There is hope, everyone's spirits are raised, not only their faces are much better, but they also have strength to work.

"But, third child, how much money do you give to rescue the soldiers?" The elder with the highest seniority in the village asked very authentically: In the past, it would cost a lot of money to invite soldiers and horses from the Kuomintang to fight bandits, otherwise Let alone whether the Kuomintang soldiers can shoot the bandits, even if they beat the bandits away, they will cause disasters to the village, so it is better not to invite them.

"Second Uncle, I didn't give Da Yi a penny."

As soon as the words fell, everyone started discussing again with a bang.

"What are you shouting about? Let me tell you, I believe that the Red Army will help us for free, because the leader of the Red Army swore a poisonous oath in front of me and many people. If he doesn't come to help us, his whole family will die. Besides. At that time, there were so many people watching, if he didn’t fulfill his oath, hmph! They, outsiders, would never have a foothold in our Guitang Town. They know better than us what is important.” Thankfully, the oath of this era is still very important. reliable.Don't look at the categorical words that Xiang Lao San said now, but think about the scene when he forced Zhang Guozhi to swear at that time. He felt a little guilty, but also a little lucky: fortunately, he forced that Red Army official back then.

"The old man is right. The last time the Red Army came to our village, they not only didn't ask us for a penny, but they didn't harm our family. Not only did they bring food and drink with them...not only did they help us Work, and when we leave, we will share rations. I have lived for such a long time, and I have never heard of such a caring team. I believe they will keep their word. Okay, everyone, don’t be stunned, what to do what to do."

Everyone was busy with their own activities, but they didn't realize that the gunshots from the mountain were very sparse.

Not long after, Xiang Lao San was carrying a big rock to the entrance of the cave, and suddenly heard a person beside him shout: "Look, someone is coming over there... Hey~! This is not the guest of Goudan's house and him. Those two sons?"

"Look, the person walking behind them seems to belong to Guifang's family..."

Listening to everyone's discussion, I looked at the third child calmly, and sure enough, they were all young people and children in the village.

"Why are you shouting? Didn't I just say that the bandits surrounded the village, and if they couldn't get out, they could only come to the Niu Lan Cave. Well, don't look at it, move the stones quickly, and get your guns ready, lest the bandits Follow them and rush us, and catch us off guard... It takes the Red Army an hour to get here from the town. Damn, I still can't believe that there are so many of us, so many guns, and there is no shortage of food and water. Let alone an hour, even a month, I can keep it."

The morale is high!

In everyone's imagination, it was taken for granted that the bandits were not fools. Since they were able to surround the whole village, how could they miss the chance of panic when the young people ran over, followed them and attacked.

However, amidst everyone's trepidation and worry, the young people and children in the whole village entered the Niulan Cave safely, even the three wounded who were wounded entered the cave smoothly.Not to mention the bandits, there was not even a gunshot.

Without thinking too much, Xiang Laosan hurriedly asked the young man to help block the road with stones, and more than a dozen muzzles protruded from the cracks between the stones, ready and waiting.

After all this work was over, Xiang Laosan breathed a sigh of relief, sat on a rock, pulled out a cigarette pouch from his back waist, filled the pot with cigarettes, lit it, and just after taking a puff, he saw the stone holding a cigarette. Gun came over, sat down on the stone beside him, rubbed the blood on his hands against the sand on the ground twice, pulled out his own pipe, filled it, lit it, took a breath, and said: "The three wounded The ones are not heavy, and there is no great danger. But there are not many herbs, if there are more casualties, it will be troublesome."

Nodding to the third child, he didn't speak.

In silence, the two smoked a bag of cigarettes in silence.Xiang Lao San knocked the cigarette pot on the ground, then put the cigarette pot into the cigarette pouch and asked lightly, "Stone, don't you think it's strange?"

"En! This time the bandits came to rob, not to mention that it was very different from before. It was a bit inexplicable. After stopping us from fleeing into the mountains, although they chased us all the way, they only stopped at the entrance of the trail, and even fired shots to scare us. We are too lazy to do it, we don’t run elsewhere, they don’t shoot, they don’t even enter the house to loot. It gives me the feeling that this is not to rob, but just to drive us to a place for convenience They just occupied our village...Don't they know that with this terrain, we will definitely be able to defend until the Red Army comes to rescue us..."

Shitou was talking a bit, but Xiang Laosan stood up abruptly when he heard it, and yelled softly: "No! This is making fun of us."

Seeing Shitou looking puzzled, Xiang Lao San shook his head and sat down, patted his thigh lightly, and smiled wryly at Shitou: "Alas~! Even if we figured it out, what can we do if we are trapped here?"