In the biting cold wind, two army horses and two sledges dragged by mules and reindeer trampled on the thick snow in the primeval forest, walking leisurely against the snowflakes mixed in the wind and snow.

At this time, it had been a night and half a day since they separated from Tian Xiaohu and others, but according to Wei Ran's estimation, they had only traveled less than 40 kilometers at most.

"Have a rest"

Hu Bazhi said after climbing over a mountain ridge again, "The animals can't move anymore."

"Brother Wei, is Shiyi really in danger?" Zhao Jinyu stopped and asked in a worried voice.

"If we can get there before the traitor's false information is sent, there should be no danger."

Wei Ran replied cautiously, "And I'm just guessing. It remains to be seen whether the traitor will, or whether he dares to betray Shi Yi."

"Then we have to hurry up..." Zhao Jinyu muttered to himself before turning over and dismounting.

After a brief discussion, Zhao Jinyu waved his saber and chopped off the branches at the bottom of a pine tree. Hu Bazhi, with the help of Wei Ran, unfolded a bundle of canvas and built a tent around the pine tree that could at least block the wind.

Snow tent.

At the same time, Unakan also moved a sack of fodder to feed everyone's livestock.

"Brother Wei, Jin Yu, you go and find some firewood around and come back. Find more, you will have to burn it on the way."

Hu Ba pointed out that he had already taken out his bow and arrows, "I'm going to see if there are any wild animals nearby."

"I'll go too," Unakan said, already pulling out his skis.

Hu Bazhi did not refuse. He stepped on his skis, picked a direction at random with a gun and quiver on his back, and ran away with Unakan out of sight.

"Brother Wei"

Zhao Jinyu asked while chopping dead branches with his saber, "Do you think we are deserters again?"

"Again?" Wei Ran, who was holding an ax in his hand, was stunned for a moment.

"Last time we escaped through the white mountains and black waters."

Zhao Jinyu suppressed the pain in his heart and said, "So after I followed my brother-in-law to join the cavalry, I thought I would never be a deserter again.

But I didn’t expect that our cavalry company...that cavalry regiment, we were the only ones to survive, and now we just arrived here..."

"It's totally wrong for you to think that way."

Wei Ran swung his ax vigorously and chopped down the thick, dry tree branches while explaining, "We were all injured at the beginning, and we will be a burden if we stay."

"Squad Leader Xiaohu was also injured," Zhao Jinyu retorted stubbornly, "But he..."

"Yes, he is injured, but if you stay, won't it be a burden? Or, can you fight the Japanese if you stay?"

"I've recovered from my injuries and still..."

"Did your trip to Shanxi delay your fight against the Japanese?" Wei Ran asked again, causing Zhao Jinyu to fall into silence.

"Who told me in the first place that where to fight the Japanese is not to fight?"

Wei Ran dragged the cut tree branch back and said, "Or do you want to be lazy and die in the Shaying River? It's easy to die, but it's hard to survive and continue to fight the Japanese."

Seeing that Zhao Jinyu was still silent while waving his saber vigorously, Wei Ran continued, "And establishing a contact channel is nothing like fighting head-on..."

"Bang!"

Before Wei Ran could finish his words, a gunshot suddenly sounded from the direction where Hu Bazhi and Unakan disappeared.

Almost subconsciously, Wei Ran looked at the sledge left by the two of them, "Did they bring guns just now? Long guns!"

"Brother Hu brought a bow and arrows but not a spear, Unakan did!" Zhao Jinyu had already pulled out the box cannon from his waist as he spoke.

"broken!"

Wei Ran dropped the ax in his hand before he finished speaking. However, before he could run to the biting horse, he pulled out the Japanese carbine. With another gunshot, a bullet fired accurately.

On the trunk of the birch tree where the horse was tied.

"Throw the rattle out of your hands!" a rough voice shouted from far away.

"We've entered a bandit's den." Zhao Jinyu said in a low voice.

"Throw it away first and see where it comes from." Wei Ran responded in a low voice, and at the same time, he happily took out the box of cannon and threw it at his feet.

"It's picked from the top of the sky!" Another shout came from the distance.

"What is Dingtian?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously in a low voice.

"hat"

While Zhao Jinyu was speaking, he had already taken off his hat and hung it directly on the branch of the tree beside him.

"Turn around!" Someone shouted from behind the tree in the distance.

Hearing this, Wei Ran and Zhao Jinyu looked at each other and turned around one after another. A moment later, two men with guns came over from a distance.

Just looking at the clothes of the two people, Wei Ran couldn't help but be stunned. In the snowy field of these nine cold days, the two people were wearing tattered clothes with cotton exposed everywhere.

When he got closer, he even saw that the hands and faces of these two people were covered in large and small patches of frostbite. Even the jingle shoes and skis on their feet were in tatters.

The three-eight caps they held in their hands were also in tatters, and one of them even had half of the gun stock missing. What's even more worrying is that these two people looked like they were only seventeen or eighteen years old!

"Which hilltop guy?"

One of them asked, but the other picked up the box of cannons dropped by Wei Ran and the other two, and eagerly started rummaging around on Hu Bazhi's sledge.

Before Wei Ran or Zhao Jinyu could answer the question, the young man turning the sledge exclaimed, "Guitiaozi's leaves!"

"We are not bandits, let alone devils." Zhao Jinyu said.

"If you're not a bandit or a devil, how could you still be a member of the Anti-Union Alliance?" The young man holding the gun said with a sneer as he took the box of cannon handed to him by his companion.

"Why can't we be anti-Union people?" Zhao Jinyu couldn't help but say.

After a while, Wei Ran also noticed that two more young men who looked about the same age were walking over with the same tattered rifles, holding Hu Bazhi and Unakan with helpless expressions.

"I told them that we were members of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but they didn't believe me." Hu Bazhi said with a smile on his face, pointing far away.

"I just said it, but they don't believe it either." Zhao Jinyu spread his hands helplessly, and then asked, "Are you the Anti-Union?"

"Of course we are members of the Resistance Alliance!" the young man holding the gun responded without thinking.

"Whose soldiers are you?" Wei Ran also asked, and at the same time he couldn't help but look at the two young men who were pointing guns at Hu Balizhi and the two.

Their condition was not much better. They had tattered coats and hairless fur hats, and one of them had lost his ears, replaced by a large patch of frostbite.

"we are..."

"Xiao Si, shut up!"

The young man who pointed the gun at Wei Ran scolded his companions, "You said you are also members of the Resistance Alliance, but whose soldiers are you?"

"Zhao Jinge's first guerrilla team," Zhao Jinyu said.

"Fuck your mother's bitch!" shouted the young man who pointed the gun at Unakan, "stop lying to us!"

"Do you know Tian Xiaohu?" Hu Bazhi asked.

"Brother, who is Tian Xiaohu?" the man who was busy picking up the gun and turning over the sledge asked in a low voice.

"Never heard of it," the young man who pointed the gun at Wei Ran and Wei Ran responded in a low voice. At the same time, he couldn't help but shiver in the cold wind blowing in his face.

"Have you seen Zhao Jinge?" Zhao Jinyu asked patiently.

"Why... why haven't I seen it before?" The young man called Xiao Si'er said loudly, "We also fought ghosts with them..."

"Xiao Si, shut up!"

The leader scolded again, "Search!"

Hearing this, Xiao Si'er immediately stepped forward, first searched Zhao Jinyu's body and took away his Nine Dragon Belt and the box cannon from the Li brothers hidden in his arms. Then he walked up to Wei Ran.

, while taking off his Jiulong belt, he said doubtfully, "Brother, I think this person must be one of Te Niang's devils. Why aren't his leaves fastened to the crotch?"

"Little brother, you can't be so dirty when you curse."

Wei Ran said helplessly, "You can say I'm a shit-eating dog, but how can you say I'm a Japanese?"

After saying this, not only Unakan, who was pointed at the gun, couldn't help laughing, but even the two young men pointing at her and Hu Bazhi couldn't help laughing.

"Stop smiling so playfully!"

The leader pointed his gun directly at Wei Ran, "Tear off the leaves on your body!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran slowly opened the zipper of his one-piece flight suit and let the young man named Xiao Si'er inspect it.

"No sound"

After the boy finished speaking, he had already walked to Hu Bazhi's side, and also took off his Kowloon belt, and also took off his dog-skin coat for inspection.

"Brother, what should we do with that girl?" Xiao Si'er said in embarrassment.

"I'll do it myself"

Unakan shook his head helplessly, and regardless of whether these young men agreed or not, he unbuttoned the skirt of the leather robe and showed off the leather waistcoat underneath.

"Tell me, are you bandits or traitors? Where did you come from?" the young man at the head asked.

"What if we really are resisting the alliance?" Zhao Jinyu asked patiently.
To be continued...