Under the cover of the morning fog, Wei Ran and Squad Leader Dao struggled to climb the steep hillside. From time to time, Wei Ran, who was walking behind, would pull a few real or fake trip wires.

"Can your legs still hold up?"

As Wei Ran spoke, he used his bayonet to dig up the soil at the edge of the bamboo forest, gently buried a Type 58 anti-infantry mine in it, then pressed it with soil, and broke off the tip of a spring bamboo shoot he found halfway and stuffed it.

It entered the gap in the mud deliberately left on the edge of the mine.

"no problem"

As the knife squad leader spoke, he used nylon thread to arrange several harmless tripping wires. At the same time, he dug up a spring bamboo shoot and threw it into Wei Ran's backpack.

“If you can’t hold on any longer, tell me in advance.”

Wei Ran gave an uneasy instruction, wielded a hatchet and chopped down a bamboo as thick as an arm, cut off two bamboo sections and punched them in the eyes, blocked the eyes with thin bamboo sticks and threw them into the basket on his back to use as a kettle.

This wasn't over yet. After cutting out two trekking poles, he then took out an anti-infantry mine, placed it under the chopped bamboo, and used the remaining bamboo poles to make a

Lever device for detonating mines.

Without further wasting time, the two of them continued to climb hard towards the top of the mountain with bamboo poles.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Near noon, just when they were halfway up the mountain and ready to stop at the eye of a mountain spring, three dull but powerful explosions suddenly came from the foot of the mountain.

Although the fog in the mountains had long since dissipated, they could not see anything because of the vegetation.

But even so, the two of them knew clearly that what had just exploded were the powerful landmines that Weiran had planted on the way to the hospital in the morning.

“It’s probably going to get lively later.”

As the squad leader Dao spoke, he brought the bamboo tube filled with water to his mouth and took a sip, then brought it to the spring and filled it again.

"The hospital at the foot of the mountain is probably going to be busy too."

As Wei Ran spoke, he blocked the bamboo tube filled with water with a bamboo stick and put it into the backpack. He also used the cover of the backpack to take out the water bottle that had been drunk long ago. He also went to the spring to fill up the cold and clear mountain water.

spring.

"How many more are there?" the knife squad leader asked while stuffing the bamboo tube.

"That's the last four." Wei Ran glanced at the inventory in the basket on his back, "Will you bury another one later?"

"Bury one." Squad Leader Dao tapped the damp soil beside the spring with his toe, "It's right here."

"give it to me"

As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a piece of compressed biscuit from his backpack, broke it open and gave one to the other party. At the same time, he seemingly casually threw the wrapping paper onto the mossy stone beside the spring.

After finishing a simple lunch with two mouthfuls of spring water, the two of them each smoked a heavy nine, which is a tribute to the enemy. Then the sword squad leader took the SKS and set off first.

When he was far away, Wei Ran turned his back to him and took out the engineer shovel, dug up the damp soil full of footprints, buried a landmine in it, carefully closed the gap in the soil, and pressed it gently

He made a few footprints and pressed the cigarette butts left by the two of them on a stone that was only 20 centimeters away from the mine.

Putting away the engineering shovel, Wei Ran drew out his submachine gun, walked a few steps quickly to catch up with the squad leader, and walked less than 10 meters behind him in tacit understanding.

At the same time, at the foot of the mountain behind them, two trucks carrying medicines for field hospitals had been blown into flaming scrap metal by three consecutive landmines, blocking the only road sandwiched by paddy fields.

Dirt road.

Surrounding the two scrap iron trucks, the soldier who had burned cigarettes to the guards looked gloomily at the road he had just walked in the morning, waving his hand and directing the soldiers who brought them to push the two scrap iron trucks into the paddy field.

However, just as the two scrap metal trucks were finally pushed into the paddy field amidst the relatively neat chants, the tire of one of the trucks happened to press against an ordinary-looking wooden stick beside the paddy field.

.

"boom!"

In the second explosion that followed, the fourth Type 58 anti-infantry mine deployed by the guards on the roadside detonated as expected. The huge shock wave generated by the explosion of two hundred grams of TNT easily overturned the surrounding soldiers.

On the ground, by the way, a fragment of the mine shell was also sent into the eye socket of the smoke-dispelling officer, easily scattering his brain.

"The fourth mine exploded"

Wei Ran listened for a moment and then whispered, "It looks like someone will be going up the mountain soon."

"Command machine," Squad Leader Dao said in a low voice.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took off his backpack, opened the raincoat at the bottom, took out the command machine inside and handed it to Squad Leader Dao.

After taking over the command plane, Squad Leader Dao turned it on and put on the headphones, then signaled Wei Ran to go ahead.

The two exchanged positions with each other, and Wei Ran also speeded up his pace slightly.

Fortunately, although the road up the mountain was difficult, they did not encounter any mountain people or enemies along the way.

In a blink of an eye, it was past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the two of them stopped right below a cliff.

This cliff that goes straight up and down is only fifteen or six meters high. There are a lot of tree roots and vines hanging down from it, which is actually a natural ladder.

Squad leader Jian Dao was still operating the command plane and seemed to be searching for signals. Wei Ran looked around and then climbed up alone on the vines.

Above this cliff was the top of the mountain. Halfway up the mountain, he could even clearly see the field hospital hidden in the deserted village at the foot of the mountain behind him, as well as the two hospitals outside the village that had been blown up by his mines.

truck.

"boom!"

At this moment, another distinctive explosion of the Type 58 anti-infantry mine came from the edge of the bamboo forest halfway up the mountain. After the explosion, he clearly saw two towering bamboos falling to the ground.

Obviously, someone has already chased me.

Not daring to delay any further, Wei Ran quickened his pace and climbed to the top of the mountain. After careful observation, he dropped the rope and pulled up the squad leader.

"Is there a signal?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

"Not yet," the knife squad leader took off the rope and asked in a low voice, "are you catching up?"

“Almost halfway up the mountain”

As Wei Ran spoke, he pulled out the hatchet that belonged to Nahan and cut off all the tree roots and vines attached to the edge of the rock wall. Then he took off the glory bomb tied with a red cloth around his neck and stuck it.

At the broken part of the vine, I tied the rope that the squad leader had just pulled up with a slip knot on a shrub root next to the rock wall, and tied the grenade's firing wire to the head of the rope.

It wasn't over yet. He took out another anti-infantry mine and held it in his hand. After walking more than ten meters with the sword squad leader, he buried it under the moss and deliberately left a few mines around.

footprint.

After only a moment, Squad Leader Dao waved excitedly to Wei Ran, then held down the earphones with one hand and the vibrating microphone on his throat with the other.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately picked up the submachine gun in his backpack and vigilantly monitored the surrounding situation.

Soon, the squad leader rolled up his sleeves and glanced at the time on the dial, communicated a few words with the radio station using code words that Wei Ran could not hear or understand, and then decisively turned off the power.

“Going down the mountain all night”

Squad Leader Dao put the radio into Wei Ran's backpack and whispered happily, "Hai Dongqing and the others have joined Platoon Leader Luo. Lu Yao and Zhang Hongliang have also been sent back for treatment. Now Luo Pai

Chang Zheng is taking Hai Dongqing, Li Dazhai and Wang Beizhan, and Zhao Yuejin is waiting to meet us."

After saying that, he raised his finger and pointed to another mountain, "They are across that mountain from us, on the top of another mountain on the other side. We will go down the mountain immediately and meet them early tomorrow morning."

"Let me re-bandage your wound first."

Wei Ran held down Squad Leader Dao who was about to stand up, reached into his backpack and took out another first aid kit he brought from the coffin hole.

After a whole day of climbing the mountain, soaked in sweat, the wound on the knife squad leader's leg was already red, swollen and pus-producing. If you get closer, you can still smell a faint stench.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart and the urge to go down the mountain to steal some medicines from the field hospital, Wei Ran used the existing conditions at hand to re-bandage him, and the two of them set off immediately, before the sunset was completely blocked by the mountains in the distance.

, moving down the mountain amidst the occasional explosions behind him.

At 7:30 in the evening, Wei Ran once again planted an anti-infantry mine directly under a cliff that he had to pass when going down the mountain. He turned around and carefully walked down the mountain with the faint light emitted by the flashlight covered with red cloth in the hand of Squad Leader Dao.

, and then passed through the valley full of gravel, supporting our exhausted body to the foot of the mountain on the opposite side.

At this time, the sky had completely darkened, and the night sky above was covered by clouds. It was obvious that it would rain soon.

To be on the safe side, the two of them climbed another hundred or ten meters toward the top of the mountain before the rain fell, and finally found a rock wall where they could hide from the rain and stopped.

"boom!"

Almost at this moment, there was a faint explosion from the direction of the top of the mountain opposite.

“The legs and feet are very fast”

The squad leader Dao just raised his head and glanced at the direction where the explosion came from, then took out his cigarette case and lit a heavy nine.

At the same time, Wei Ran also glanced at the time on the flyback watch, quickly took out a biscuit barrel from his backpack, and lit a few candles inside.

Relying on this weak heat to slowly heat the rainwater in the cup, Wei Yan peeled off a few more spring bamboo shoots he found along the way and threw them in.

While the spring bamboo shoots were cooking, he laid out a set of accompanying hair wires almost close to the ground, and hung a stone found from the valley on one end of the trip wire.

And directly under the stone was the last Type 58 anti-infantry mine carried by the two of them.

By the time he was done with this, less than fifteen minutes had passed on the flight back watch, and on the top of the mountain opposite where they came from, the deafening explosion of the Type 58 anti-infantry mine came again.

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Even Captain Dao, who had been holding a telescope for observation, saw the flash of fire in the rain curtain on the top of the mountain.

"They are expected to come down the mountain overnight." Squad Leader Dao threw the cigarette to Wei Ran, but there was no worry in his tone.
To be continued...