The mountain road under his feet seemed to have no end, surrounded by weeds that had withered and yellowed, and the dense shrubs sometimes even raised above people's heads, so that Wu Chuang could barely see the situation within ten meters in front of him. Wu Chuang was as inconspicuous as a drop of water falling into the sea at this time, and the silent forest not far away was like a silent beast, and the timid people couldn't help but tremble in the face of such silence.

Carefully identifying the direction, the hungry Wu Chuang swallowed the foam in his mouth and continued to walk towards the silent woodland in front of him. This is the third day, there has been no food for a long time, the platoon leader Qian Erxi's old injury has recurred, and he is unconscious, and the second baby, who knows a little about traditional Chinese medicine, dug up herbs to make the platoon commander's situation look better, but dozens of brothers are hungry, and Wu Chuang has to go into the woodland alone to see if he can find anything to eat.

The slightest wind and grass will startle the birds and magpies in the forest, and the empty echo makes this forest seem even more mysterious and evil. Wu Chuang stood on the edge of the woodland and did not move, poisonous snakes and wild beasts may appear in such a place, Wu Chuang from Qinchuan may be regarded as a brave and good warrior, but he has an inexplicable fear of such a forest.

Biting his back molars fiercely, Wu Chuang took out the bayonet on his waist and entered the forest, the forest was covered with thick fallen leaves, layer after layer, and it was very comfortable to step on it. Wu Chuang was very nervous and cautious, the thick fallen leaves were not only buried for a long time, but also buried the corpses of many reckless intruders: people or animals, even those who lived in the forest all year round, did not dare to walk into the high mountains and dense forests.

There was a rustling sound in the forest behind him, as if something was passing by, and Wu Chuang, who was holding a bayonet in his hand, ran to a big tree in front of him in a hurry, stepping on the thick and soft layer of fallen leaves that barely covered his shoes, leaving rows of orderly footprints. Wu Chuang, who was hidden behind the tree, looked in the direction where the voice came from, and there was a group of soldiers who came, their faces had the same horror and persistence as Wu Chuang, and their bodies were the same tattered military uniforms as Wu Chuang, which was the robe of the same army as Wu Chuang.

A tall and strong man walked in front, and by the dappled light in the forest, Wu Chuang could see that what he was waving in his hand was a shiny blade. This is a thick-backed big knife, the sharp edge of the blow can be broken, I saw that the man gently pulled, cut off the vines in front of him, pushed away the vines, his tall body squeezed through, and forcibly carved a path in the forest. "Why are you here, didn't I say you should wait where you are?" Seeing his own people, Wu Chuang, who was hiding behind the big tree, dodged to meet him.

The tall man was stupid, and he just scratched his head in the face of Wu Chuang's inquiry, and let out a young man with glasses who was walking behind him. "What you say is nonsense, we have more than 30 brothers, it depends on how much food you can find alone, or how many people are easy to do, this forest is a bit weird, we have to find enough food once we enter." While talking to Wu Chuang, the young man with glasses fiddled with the compass in his hand and trimmed the direction of the compass from time to time.

Wu Chuang glared at the young man with fierce eyes, but he didn't say anything, just motioned for these robes who chased into the forest to follow behind him. Almost stepping on the footprints left by the people in front of them, Wu Chuang and his party walked farther and farther, and after a while, they walked hundreds of meters away into the forest. All the people, including the young man with glasses, were walking and looking around, looking for something to eat as much as possible, but they didn't get much.

Suddenly, there were a few pops in front, and the clumsy man who swung his knife to open the way seemed to have discovered something, and the big knife in his hand waved, and the white blade rose and fell a few times, as if something had been cut off, and fell to the ground. There were a few more drops of bright red on the blade, and a faint smell of blood permeated the forest. "Monk, what's the matter!" Wu Chuang, who was walking in the second place, stepped forward and asked. The monk, who was wiping the blade with the sole of his shoe, smiled back, opened his mouth, and a flash of white flashed on his swarthy face, which were his teeth.

"But I've found something delicious, and I can add food at noon, hehe." The monk held up the snake that he had cut in two pieces and smiled. The twisted snake in the monk's hand was two meters long, almost as thick as two thumbs, and the bright red snake blood was seeping out along the fracture and falling low on the mottled leaves. Seeing that the snake body that had been cut into two ends by the monk could still move, Wu Chuang subconsciously took a step back, especially when the snake's head twisted towards him, Wu Chuang's scalp was numb for a while.

"Not bad! Good job! I've been eating those wild vegetables for a long time, and I've long been tired of it! The young man with glasses who followed behind Wu Chuang nodded with a smile, stepped forward to take a piece of the snake body from the monk's hand, and squeezed it lightly on the snake skin with a short knife, and a green snake gall fell out. The young man with glasses swallowed the snake gall bladder in one bite, and sucked a mouthful of delicious snake blood, looking indescribably enjoyable. Chop off the snake's head. Peeling off the snake's skin, the monk threw two pieces of white snake meat into the back basket behind his back, of course, the snake blood was not wasted, all of it went into his and the glasses of the young man's stomach.

After drinking the snake's blood, the monk seemed to have luck, kept swinging his knife and collecting it, and soon slashed and killed more than a dozen snakes in the forest. The snakes in this forest seemed to be endless, and they were cut in two by the monk one after another, and when the basket behind the monk was almost full, Wu Chuang ordered to retreat. Wu Chuang is just a squad leader, but he is the highest position in this group of people under the platoon leader Qian Erxi, the platoon commander is unconscious, and Wu Chuang, who is the squad leader, has become his own commander.

With most of the snake meat in the back basket, thinking that they would not be hungry again tonight, Wu Chuang and his party cautiously retreated from the forest according to the original path, and dug up some grass roots and wild vegetables to eat along the way. "I've heard for a long time that there are many snakes and insects in the Jingchu realm, but I didn't believe it at first, but now it seems that I want to be bad." Looking at the snake meat in the basket behind the monk, Wu Chuang only had endless chagrin, if he had known that there were many snakes and insects in the forest, maybe there would not have been a poisoning of people eating wild vegetables last night.

After harvesting enough food, Wu Chuang and the others all had smiles on their faces, at least they knew that they could find food to live in the forest, and as long as there was food, they could continue to stay here. Back at the mountain col where they lived, the soldiers who stayed behind had already boiled the water, cut the snake meat into pieces and threw it into a pot made of steel helmets, and the hungry Wu Chuang and the others gathered around the three most rudimentary "iron pots".

There was no oil, salt, or any condiments, at most they threw a handful of wild vegetables into the snake soup to increase the amount of weight, but even so, Wu Chuang and the others still surrounded the steel helmet and greedily smelled the fishy hot air. "Yo, that's all you guys eat, can you eat this?" An unfamiliar voice appeared above Wu Chuang's head, and when he turned his head to look, three guys dressed as ordinary people were standing behind them, and when Wu Chuang and the others were all focused on these three steel helmets, these three guys dressed as ordinary people actually touched behind them.

Wu Chuang wanted to grab the rifle, but was trampled on the body of the rifle by a big foot, and when he looked up again, he had already set a muzzle on his head. "My name is Lin Jiadong, our company commander sent the three of us into the volcano to find you, but we were lucky, after entering the mountain, we found that there were fireworks on your side, otherwise the three of us would have broken our legs in this volcano." Lin Jiadong, who was hiding behind the dice, saw that Hou San had taken the weapons of these national troops, so he had the courage to stand up and show his identity.

Wu Chuang was very unhappy that the dice pointed a gun at his head, but no matter how he dodged, the short gun in the dice's hand would always point at him. The monk who didn't like to talk very much reached out to grab his big knife, but was stopped by the young man with glasses sitting next to him, since Lin Jiadong had already identified himself, he would not be a person who was unfavorable to them, or he would have shot them directly before he spoke just now.

"Which of you has the final say? Our company commander said that he would return Diqiao Town, let me ask if you are interested in adding a kick? Lin Jiadong didn't want to waste more time, so he directly stated his intention to come straight to the point, although he didn't know why Tang Cheng told him to say this, but Lin Jiadong still repeated it according to Tang Cheng's original words. I heard that you have wounded, and there are medicine stores and doctors in Diqiao Town, as long as you defeat the Japanese puppet army in the town, your wounded can be treated. ”

Wu Chuang looked left and right at these robes of his own, everyone's eyes were full of emotion, and the defeat of the Japanese puppet army in the town did not only mean medicine and doctors, but also hot meals, clean clothes and beds. "But we only have five rifles, and we only have about 30 rounds of ammunition, so we can't fight this battle." Wu Chuang didn't speak, but the glasses young man sitting next to the monk opened his mouth, but Lin Jiadong shook his head and laughed at his words.

"We don't have many other things, but we have enough weapons and ammunition, we killed more than a dozen devil soldiers in Xiajiawa, and we also killed a platoon of the Imperial Association Army in Tangqiao Village and Luojiazhuang. There are more weapons and ammunition seized from the devil soldiers and the Imperial Allied Army, machine guns and small cannons, and our company commander will be there in a while, if there is any problem, when our company commander comes, you ask him. Glancing at the rifles that had been controlled by Hou San, Lin Jiadong finally found his tsundere, "Are you a guerrilla or a Eighth Route Army?" The young man with glasses asked a little hesitantly, but Lin Jiadong didn't see the fleeting joy in his eyes.

"No," Lin Jiadong replied with a smile, "We are the national army, the 1st Battalion and 2nd Company of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the National Army, and we are the descendants of the 800 National Army." ”