Halfway through, Zhou Wu's communication soldiers couldn't contact Ding Ning and them in Shacun, Zhou Wu was anxious, worried that Ding Ning and they might have been caught up by the little devil in Shacun, maybe they were fighting hard with the little devil there.
"Lao Xu, I think so, you take all the brothers who can run quickly to the direction of Shacun, Shuihong Village doesn't have to stay any longer, pass by the fat man of Shuihong Village, tell him that it is best to send a team of more than 100 people to rescue Lao Ding and them, the sooner the better, I see that Lao Ding and them are still unable to contact now, it is estimated that something has happened" Zhou Wu ordered Lao Xu worriedly.
Ding Ning contacted Zhou Wu by radio in the south of Huai'an City, and after reporting the situation of the devil puppet army, he immediately turned off the radio station, and ordered the signal soldiers not to turn on the radio station without his order, keep the radio silent, and strictly prevent the surrounding little devils from hearing the situation here.
Ding Ning took his brothers to walk through the barren grass that was almost as tall as a person, under the guidance of the military commander brother Liu Section Chief, who was familiar with the road conditions.
When the military commander brother Chang saw that Ding Ning was about to fall behind, he quickly stretched out a strong and powerful hand, grabbed Ding Ning's arm, and dragged him forward desperately.
The shortcut is good, although the weeds are not easy to walk, but after all, the distance is much closer, and soon Ding Ning and the others came to the edge of the swamp near Shuihong Village.
At this time, it was already past two o'clock in the morning, and the moon, which had no light in the sky, had also hid in the thick clouds, and the surrounding darkness was dark, and the fierce northwest wind had been blowing.
Ding Ning said to Section Chief Liu, who led the way: "Lao Liu, it's so dark, can we live in this swamp" Ding Ning was worried that it would be dark and windy, and the swamp was so big, the situation was unknown, and if half of the brothers fell into it on the way, it would be troublesome.
Section Chief Liu nodded: "Chief of Staff, what you said makes sense, I have walked through this swamp twice, and I passed through it in broad daylight with a good line of sight, and now it is dark in the middle of the night, but we have arrived here, and if we want to get around this swamp, we need to walk an extra twenty miles to the northeast." ” As soon as Ding Ning heard that he had to walk another twenty miles, he immediately made up his mind to order his brothers to quickly pass through the swamp, Section Chief Liu and Lao Chang broke a branch in the woods next to them to explore the way in front, and the brothers in the back followed Lao Chang and they slowly walked towards the swamp.
There was a dead silence in the swamp, except for the northwest wind that was still blowing, there was hardly any breathing sound around, the brothers slowly marched in the swamp with one foot deep and one foot shallow, everyone walked towards the front without saying a word, Ding Ning and Lao Li Xiaowang walked at the end.
Just when the brothers didn't know how much they rolled on this swamp, how many times they fell, and when they were almost halfway there, suddenly a brother who was walking in front screamed, and his whole body quickly sank down, but fortunately, the tall military commander brother in front of him turned around and grabbed the brother who had fallen into the swamp: "Don't move, don't shout, don't struggle, the faster you move."
The brother who fell into it was surnamed Cheng, a platoon commander under the fat man's group, good at using two guns, and hitting every shot, this time he followed Lao Chang behind them, and suddenly stepped on the air, fell into the mud, and his heart was also flustered, watching the black mud and stinky water quickly flooded to his chest, he felt that he was out of breath, and wanted to call desperately, but as soon as he heard the warning of Lao Chang, who was holding his hand, he immediately shut up and fell there quietly.
Soon he immediately stopped the downward fall of his body, but the intensible stench in the swamp quickly came to his nose, almost suffocating the Xiao Cheng brother who had fallen into it.
Hearing the exclamation of the Xiao Cheng brothers in front, Ding Ning and Lao Li crawled to the front, Lao Li was big and experienced, and said to the brothers in a low voice: "Don't come over, everyone come back, it is enough for me and Lao Chang, you use two people in the back to hold me and Lao Chang's bodies respectively, Xiao Cheng, don't panic, it's okay, our brothers are here, we will definitely pull you out, now listen to my orders, and slowly stretch out the other hand."
At this time, Ding Ning suddenly remembered that Lao Li, a subordinate of Lao Ke of the Political Department of the Army, turned out to be an old revolutionary who had walked the 25,000-mile Long March, and that many grasslands they had walked through were more sinister than the environment here, and many outstanding Red Army brothers were watching them sink into the quagmire under Lao Li's noses.
Seeing this, Ding Ning not only had some new views on the comrades of the Political Department of these armies: It turns out that these comrades of the Political Department who are usually old-fashioned and serious also have a chivalrous heart, it seems that I have mistaken them.
Looking at Lao Li and Lao Chang, one is a comrade in the Political Department of the New Fourth Army who is also a special agent, and the other is a spy in the Kuomintang military organization, the two are now working together like brothers, tacitly cooperating, holding Xiao Cheng who was trapped in the quagmire with one hand, and slowly pulling out Xiao Cheng who had fallen into the swamp little by little in the sound of a "one, two, three" trumpet.
Ding Ning looked at Lao Li and Lao Chang, the two big men, whose faces were flushed, and wanted to step forward to help them, but Lao Li interrupted: "Lao Ding, don't come here, you cheer up Comrade Xiao Cheng, at this time, it mainly depends on his own will" As soon as Ding Ning heard Lao Li's words, he hurriedly said to Xiao Cheng who was trapped inside: "Xiao Cheng, don't panic, we have a lot of powerful tall people here, and we promise to pull you out little by little, don't worry, we won't leave you alone until we save you." ” Xiao Cheng in the quagmire listened to the words of Chief of Staff Ding Ning, and his mood immediately calmed down a lot, Ding Ning kept cheering for Xiao Cheng, Lao Li and Lao Chang The two brothers saw that the time was coming, they nodded to each other and shouted: "Get up", the two of them suddenly exerted their strength, only to hear the sound of "pop", and pulled Xiao Cheng's whole body out of the swamp, and the surrounding brothers rushed up and dragged Xiao Cheng to the hard ground next to him.
The sharpshooter Xiao Cheng escaped death in the swamp, and there were almost no injuries on his body, but just now they often pulled onions on the dry land and left Xiao Cheng's shoes in the swamp, and the two twenty-shot box cannons were gone, but as long as people were rescued, it was better than anything.
Ding Ning hurriedly stepped forward and held the hands of Lao Chang and Lao Li, who were panting on the hard ground next to him: "Brother Lao Chang, Comrade Lao Li, you are really good, thank you so much" Lao Chang said: "Chief of Staff, you are out again, now we are friendly brothers fighting side by side, don't be polite, if I fall in, your brothers of the New Fourth Army will also rush over to save me." ” Ding Ning nodded hurriedly, and soon the brothers picked up Xiao Cheng, who had just been pulled out of the swamp, and quickly walked towards Shacun again under the guidance of Section Chief Liu, and the brothers in the swamp in the second half of the way all passed without danger, and suddenly there was a piece of reeds in front of the boss, Ding Ning and their sixteen heroes arrived, waking up the wild ducks that were roosting in the reeds, fluttering everywhere, "quack" and chirping loudly, as if protesting against Ding Ning that they had occupied this territory that belonged to them.
Ding Ning carefully walked around this reed swing, and when he came back, he said to Lao Li and them: "Brothers, I think this place is very suitable for ambush, you see, the only road to Shuihong Village in the east is next to this reed, there is a river in the north, although the river is not wide, but the water flow is very fast, I think we can set up an ambush position by this river, and lead those little devils and puppet soldiers from Huai'an City to that reed dang, now the northwest wind is strong, I don't think it's possible to consider using fire to wipe out these imported devil puppet army in this reed."
Lao Li agreed: "The chief of staff's method is good, we have few people, there are only seventeen people in total, and we can't stop the devils and puppet army who have attacked, so I agree with Lao Ding's suggestion of fire attack, lure the devils and puppet army into this reed, and then use fire to burn the reeds to drive these devils to Shuihong Village in the southeast." ” Ding Ning then asked the brothers to quickly build a simple fortification on the river near the reeds, waiting for the arrival of the little devils and puppet soldiers who came out of Huai'an City behind, in order to be able to kill the traitor Xia Hanxi at the first time, Ding Ning, you ordered the brothers to let go of the puppet army that was walking in the front first, and no one was allowed to fire without his order, and he handed over the task of killing the traitor to Xiao Cheng, a sharpshooter who was almost trapped in the swamp.
"Xiao Cheng, it's up to you this time, you only have a chance to shoot, there are many devils and puppet soldiers, once the gun goes off, they will definitely scatter to avoid fighting back, are you confident that you can kill that traitor Xia Hanxi with one shot?"
Xiao Cheng replied confidently: "Chief of Staff, don't worry, look at me, I promise to kill the traitor surnamed Xia with one shot, if you can't kill him, you can kill me first."
Ding Ning said to Xiao Cheng seriously: "Comrade Xiao Cheng, this is not the time to joke, you must give me twelve points of spirit, shoot that dog traitor Xia Hanxi with one shot, you know that now we are small in number, we must not make a little mistake, don't be careless, that will cause problems" Xiao Cheng immediately nodded seriously and said yes, Ding Ning brought a medium formal rifle from another brother to him, and it was not very reliable to shoot a long-distance target with twenty box guns, so it was safe to use a rifle made in his own country. t1706231537: