In late autumn, deep in the primeval forest of Xing'an Mountains, the Qiu brothers rode two black horses, one behind the other, a distance of forty to fifty meters, and ran at the front to explore the road.

About thirty or forty meters apart, Zhao Jinyu drove the big white mule to pull the wounded man on the sledge in an extremely anxious manner.

At the end of the team, Wei Ran, who was riding a biting horse, would stop from time to time, place a grenade and hide it among the fallen leaves on the ground, and then quickly mount his horse to catch up with the three people in front of him.

Not long after, there was an explosion from the camp behind them, and everyone tensed up. They all knew that the Japanese had found them.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to get rid of you if I run like this."

When Wei Ran caught up with the mule sledge again, he said, "Jin Yu, let the wounded come to my horse. We have to run quickly, otherwise we may be surrounded."

"Can this wounded man ride a horse?" Zhao Jinyu asked subconsciously.

"It should be fine for a short period of time," Wei Ran said as he got off his horse again.

Seeing this, Zhao Jinyu immediately reined in the reins and asked the big white mule to stop, and then helped Wei Ran help the unconscious wounded man onto the back of the biting horse.

After Wei Ran mounted the horse and stabilized the wounded, Zhao Jinyu immediately took out a carriage knife and cut the rope between the big white mule and the sledge. Then he took out a grenade from the bag, pulled out the safety pin and put it

It was pressed under the sliding rod of the sledge, and then he quickly mounted the mule and started running.

After throwing away the sledge, everyone speeded up a lot, but the explosions coming from behind from time to time also reminded them that the Japanese were getting closer and closer!

"Bang!"

"Da da da!"

At just this moment, a sudden exchange of fire came from more than a hundred meters ahead!

"Go left!"

Zhao Jinyu reacted very quickly and shouted. Upon seeing this, Xiao Si'er, who was running in second place, immediately changed his direction and started running to the left with Zhao Jinyu and Wei Ran behind him.

Not long after, Qiu Yongwu also followed up on horseback, carrying a flower trap with one hand.

"Are you injured?" Wei Ran asked loudly.

"No!"

Qiu Yongwu responded loudly, "We bumped into the Japs searching the mountain, we have to run quickly!"

Before he could finish his words, with the sound of "Boom-Boom-Boom", the Japanese's grenades also began to exert their power. The grenades hit the place where they had just stayed behind Wei Ran and others and exploded. Followed closely,

It’s the intensive sound of machine gun fire!

"Run forward! Climb up the beam in front!"

Zhao Jinyu asked, "Yongwu, how did the Japanese from the opposite side come here?!"

"There are horses, dogs, and sledges! There are many young and old!" Yongwu immediately replied, "There are puppet troops behind us!"

"Go to the beam!" Zhao Jinyu urged, "Spread the ingredients! Hurry and spread the ingredients!"

Before he finished speaking, Xiaosi'er and Yongwu put their hands into their horse sacks, each took out a handful of Wei Ran's familiar meatballs and threw them behind them.

Not only that, even the forest frogs and fish meat that had not been cooked when they just set up camp were poured out by Zhao Jinyu directly from the enamel pot hanging on the mule.

"After climbing the beam, stick to the other side and run north!"

Zhao Jinyu hung the pot on the mule again and said, "Let's walk those idiots!"

After he said this, there was another explosion from the position where the Weiran mines were laid, and soon after, the enemies blocking them in front also opened fire. Obviously, they were about to complete the encirclement.

"There won't be any Japanese on the beam ahead, right?" Wei Ran asked warily.

"Won't!"

Zhao Jinyu was already riding his mule at the front as he spoke, "If the Japanese could have hid in the deep mountains and forests in advance, we wouldn't have been able to get through at all, and we would have been caught on the way here."

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't ask any more questions and just urged the biting horse to run faster.

Gradually, the Japanese behind them fired bullets and grenades in the direction they were running.

Fortunately, amidst the terrifying sounds of explosions and bullets hitting tree trunks, everyone was able to ride horses and run up the ridge without any danger. They hid in the blind spot on the other side of the ridge and sped up to the right direction.

Heading north, trying to escape from the encirclement of the Japanese mountain-searching team.

While the Japanese were busy rushing up the mountain ridge, Wei Ran and others urged the mules and horses to run faster, trying to put as much distance between the two sides as possible.

Guessing that the Japs behind him had climbed up the mountain ridge, Zhao Jinyu took out a small lemon grenade, tied it with a legging strap, pulled off the safety pin, and swung it round in an extremely dangerous way.

With a grenade strap tied in his hand, he also shouted to the mules to climb to the top of the mountain ridge.

After wandering like this for several times, the grenade flew out of Zhao Jinyu's hand in a parabola and flew to the east side of the mountain ridge at an extremely fast speed.

"boom!"

A few seconds later, the grenade exploded in the dense forest on the east side of the mountain ridge. The Japanese who had just rode up the mountain ridge were immediately attracted by the explosion of the grenade. They separated at least half of them, and then rode down again.

Up the mountain ridge.

However, at this moment, Zhao Jinyu had already led everyone to rush down the mountain ridge from the other side, ran quickly to the west, and started rushing up the second mountain ridge more than a hundred meters away.

"Once we cross this mountain ridge, we will probably be able to escape from the Japanese encirclement."

Zhao Jinyu, who was riding a big white mule, shouted loudly as he climbed up the mountain ridge, "When the time comes, run north. As long as we hurry up, we will definitely be able to..."

"Bang!"

Zhao Jinyu, who was about to climb to the top of the mountain ridge, was halfway through his words when a sharp gunshot suddenly came from the direction of another mountain ridge behind him.

But the echo of the gunfire had not yet dissipated. Wei Ran, who was walking at the end with the wounded in his arms, saw a ball of blood mist exploding on Zhao Jinyu's chest!

"Jinyu!"

Wei Ran's heart trembled, and he subconsciously urged the biting horse to run over, grabbing Zhao Jinyu's collar with one hand, and at the same time kicked the white mule in the ribs, urging it to go faster.

"Run! You two, run!"

Holding the wounded man with one hand and dragging Zhao Jinyu with the other, Wei Ran roared at the top of his voice for the second time. He controlled the biting horse with his legs and ran up the mountain ridge with the big white mule and hid under a tree as quickly as possible.

Behind the tall and lush pine trees.

"Bang!"

After the second gunshot that followed, the biting horse Wei Ran was riding didn't even have time to let out a mournful scream before he was hit in the neck by a bullet. He only had time to struggle twice before leading Wei Ran and hugging him.

The injured were injured, and even Zhao Jinyu on the big white mule fell into a ball.

"I fuck your grandma!"

Xiaosier let out an angry roar, pulled out the four-ring weapon on his mount, jumped off, ducked and ran to a distant birch tree that had not yet shed all its leaves, took a brief aim and pulled the trigger!

At the same time, Qiu Yongwu jumped off his horse very quickly, took out the tin box containing the life-saving medicine from his arms, and ran towards Wei Ran and the other three.

"Ahem..."

Amidst the banging gunfire, Zhao Jinyu glanced at Wei Ran, who suddenly had a metal medicine box in his hand, and then with difficulty pulled out the box gun that belonged to the Li brothers from his waist, using all his strength

He threw it to Wei Ran, whose leg was still pressed under the corpse of the biting horse.

"Click"

Following a soft sound, Wei Ran also trembled and looked at Zhao Jinyu in panic.

"Ahem..."

Zhao Jinyu, who had his lungs pierced by a bullet, showed a hard smile stained red by blood, pointed with difficulty at the big white mule not far away, and then said silently "Saber..."

"Saber! Brave! Saber! Bring the saber quickly!"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already taken out a bottle of epinephrine and a bottle of morphine from the medicine box and injected them into Zhao Jinyu's body in an absolutely brutal way.

He knew clearly that he could not save Zhao Jinyu. That shot had already smashed at least half of his lungs...

"The saber is here!" Before Yongwu finished speaking, he had already pulled Zhao Jinyu's saber out of the mule's saddle belt and stuffed it into Zhao Jinyu's hand.

Looking at the saber in his hand with regret, Zhao Jinyu handed it to Wei Ran with difficulty, and then looked at the box cannon.

"I understand, send it to Sui...to Wangchuan, right?" Wei Ran tightened his grip on Zhao Jinyu's hand and asked very quickly.

Zhao Jinyu nodded with difficulty and pointed to his arms with his last strength.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately put his hand into Zhao Jinyu's arms. After groping for a while, he took out an envelope that was mostly stained red with blood, with three colorful feathers attached to it, and half a piece of red cloth.

Rhino horn paperweight wrapped in layers.

At Zhao Jinyu's signal, Wei Ran turned over the half piece of paperweight with lots of scratch marks, only to find that two names he had never heard of were engraved on it: Zhao Guangfu and Zhao Youhua.

Seeing the tenderness and relief in Zhao Jinyu's eyes, Wei Ran resisted the trembling of his body and put his ear to the other person's mouth. He listened for a moment amid the intertwined gunshots, and then asked tentatively, "This is what you gave to the unborn child."

What is the name of the child? You want me to give this paperweight to Shiyi?"

Zhao Jinyu, whose face was already red from suffocation, nodded in relief, and then looked at Qiu Yongwu and the injured person next to them, who had a panic-stricken look on their faces.

"I see"

Wei Ran sighed, picked up the saber, the box cannon, the rhinoceros horn paperweight, and the feather letter and handed them to Qiu Yongwu, and then with difficulty he pulled out the leg that was being pressed, and with a "click" sound, he handed it to Qiu Yongwu.

The dislocated knee joint was reset, and then he endured the pain and said, "Qiu Yongwu, you and Xiao Sier immediately retreat with Zhao Jinyu's belongings and the wounded, and I will cover you."

"I don't! We stay! You..."

"Go! This is an order!"

As Wei Ran spoke, he handed the medical kit he had just taken out to the other party, "Go and complete your mission. Go quickly. Time is running out."

"boom!"

Almost as soon as he finished saying this, a grenade fired by the Japanese on the ridge opposite hit the ravine behind them.

"Let's go!"

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already with difficulty pulled out the grenade containing the grenade and the Japanese cavalry rifle from the body of the biting horse, and shouted again, "Quickly leave!"

Gritting his teeth, Qiu Yongwu called Xiao Si'er to run over. The two of them worked together to help the wounded man onto the back of the big white mule. After tying him with leggings, they took one last look at Zhao Jinyu, who was throwing a grenade at him.

With the fire stuffed under the corpse, amid the increasingly dense grenade explosions, he mounted the two black horses and ran down the ridge dragging the big white mule carrying the wounded.

Behind them, Wei Ran took out his camera and pressed the shutter on the two brothers' backs first, and then on Zhao Jinyu's body.

Satisfied, Wei Ran put away the camera. He leaned against the trunk of the pine tree where he was hiding and loaded the cavalry gun with a click. After waiting patiently for a moment, he leaned forward and fired the gun at the Japanese search team that was getting closer and closer.
To be continued...