As soon as he left the 1st Regiment Headquarters, he met Gao Shenxing. Xu Shijiu asked, "Old Gao, have you gone to the 5th Team of the Assessment? Why are you here too?"

Gao Shenxing said: "I was about to tell you about this. Do you know what the assessment subject I chose for the 5th Battalion this time?"

Xu Shijiu said: "How can I know about this? I am not the roundworm in your belly."

Gao Shenxing said: "I still remember that more than two months ago, the township party in the Toadjian area reported to the local township government that they had lost their livestock for no reason, and one of them even lost a cow. Do you still remember?"

Xu Shijiu said: "Why don't you remember that the county magistrate Shang Wen went to check it in person, but the reason was not found out."

Gao Shenxing said: "Of course Yin Shangwen can't find it out. It's a big deal if he can find it out. Do you know who did these dozens of theft cases? You can't even think of it."

Xu Shijiu said: "So, did the 5th Brigade catch the murderer?"

Gao Shenxing said: "Not yet, I just found some clues."

Xu Shijiu said: "I haven't caught this person, how can you know who made it?"

Gao Shenxing said: "Although I didn't catch the person, I still know who did it. This person and us are old friends. Last time I went to Qingyang County to save people, I almost fell under him."

"You mean, Noguchi Takayuki?" Xu Shijiu obviously disbelief.

Noguchi Takayuki put a good military police captain in Longkou County, so why did he run to the toads as a bandit? He was sick in his mind, or was it that the little Japanese was playing a conspiracy? But Xu Shijiu couldn't imagine that Noguchi Takayuki could run to the toads and hide as a bandit, and he could do anything. Now the bandits in the toads have disappeared.

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Although the area of ​​Toad Sword is not as steep as Erlong Mountain, it has lush forests and complex terrain.

Lao Yakou is a small village in the mountainous area of ​​Toadjian. There were three families living in them, and they usually make a living by hunting and collecting herbs. However, last autumn, a mysterious bandit suddenly appeared near Toadjian. After that, the livestock of the three families would disappear inexplicably, and even the sweet potatoes, potatoes and other things in the fields would be stolen inexplicably.

One night, a woman in one of them had diarrhea and even saw mysterious black shadows.

The township government and the district militia team sent people to investigate, but they didn't find out the reason. Yin Shangwen personally led the county brigade to suppress the bandits, but there was no gain. Moreover, during the investigation, several militia died, and all of them were very bizarre. There were rumors in the Hewan Town area that it was the mountain spirit who was the cause of the trouble.

The three families were frightened and moved out of the mountains and lived outside the mountains.

After the three families moved away, the six or seven thatched huts at Lao Yakou were abandoned.

But now, this place has become a temporary garrison for the 5th Brigade.

In thatched huts, the firewood in the fire pit is burning vigorously. Every household in the northern rural areas builds pits. In winter, the family is in the pits for all activities, but in the south, no one builds pits. Most people in the south will dig a pit in the house and build stones or bricks around it to make fires. In winter, they will make fires in the fire pits, and the whole family sits by the fire pit to keep warm.

Xiao Danzi added two Yu Chai to the fire pit, turned his head and asked Li Mu: "Deputy Brigade, do you think that group of bandits will come?"

Li Mu ignored Xiaodanzi. His attention was all focused on the large clay pot on the fire pit. There was a hare stewed in the clay pot. He just caught it half an hour ago. Every time it was snowy, animals in the mountains would leave clear footprints on the snow when they went out to do activities. They would follow the footprints and easily catch prey.

So for hunters, heavy snow is actually a good time.

The empty wooden door was suddenly opened, and the biting cold wind and snowflakes poured in. Xiaodanzi and Li Mu turned around and saw the calf walking in with his hands in his arms. While stomping off the snow on his leather boots, he cursed the ghost weather. In this cold weather, the heavy snow was knee-deep, and it was really difficult to move in the mountains.

"Gao Battalion is really like this. A few bandits? Is it possible for our 5th team to take action? Isn't this killing chickens and using a cannon to kill mosquitoes?" Duzi scolded God and complained to Gao Shenxing again.

Daozi was full of complaints about this assessment subject determined by Gao Shenxing. It was not more exciting than catching a few bandits in the deep mountains and forests, pulling out Japanese artillery towers, or sneaking into the county town to engage in assassination. The key is that whether it is pulling out the artillery towers, hitting a stronghold or going to the county town to assassinate, there are oil and water, and it can also be delicious and delicious.

It’s not like now, I’m lying in the mountains and drinking the west wind every day.

"Okay, just say less." Li Mu interrupted the calf and lifted the lid of the clay pot. A scent of meat came out of the clay pot with the white heat. Xiaodanzi's eyes immediately stood up and could no longer move his eyes away from the clay pot. However, Li Mu added a few handfuls of washed wild vegetables into the clay pot and covered the cover again.

The calf shook the remaining snow on his body, sat down next to the fire pit, and then asked Li Mu: "Xiao Mu, it's been more than ten days, and I haven't even seen the shadow of that group of bandits. Why not go out and look for it?"

"Look?" Li Mu glanced at the duck and asked, "It's such a big mountain, it's snowing day again, where can I find it? Our 5th Brigade has only a few people, can we find it?"

The calf said, "But it's not a big deal for me to stay here like this."

Li Mu said: "Don't be anxious. If you want to be a good hunter, you have to be patient."

Xiaodanzi suddenly asked, "Deputy Brigade, are those bandits really little Japanese?"

"I don't know." Li Mu said very frivolously, "But this is the judgment of Team Gao, and it's almost the same as the 10th.

"I don't think so. If these bandits are really Japanese, they can still have a living person?" Duzi was quite dissatisfied and said, "Besides, Japanese are not staying in a good county town, so why don't you go to the toads to be a bandit? Are you full of food? Do you also learn from us and do some snow survival training?"

Li Mu fell silent again, but he lifted the cover and added a few green onions to the clay pot. The last seasoning of green onions means that the rabbit meat in the clay pot has been stewed so hard that it is time to start eating. The little dick was already so hungry that his stomach was ginger. He immediately jumped up from the fire pit and rushed out while shouting: "I'll call the fourth brother and the others."

At this moment, a faint gunshot suddenly came from the distant valley.

Li Mu and Duzi, who were sitting by the fire pit, stood up. While Li Mu even stood up, he grabbed the modified rifle at his feet, and rushed into the wind and snow outside the door like Duzifei.

When Li Mu, Duzi and Xiaodanzi walked to the valley ahead with knee-deep snow, Yan Laosi, Wang Yidao and two other team members had already arrived. Yan Laosi was investigating the scene. Wang Yidao and two other team members were on guard. These two team members were recruited just last fall and were both hunters.

The 5th Brigade has been under less than ten people so far. The principle of being cautious is to be weaker than excessive.

"Old Fourth, how about it? Did you find anything?" Li Mu squatted down with a gun in his arms and asked.

Yan Laosi pointed to a few drops of blood on the snow and said, "Someone just hunted a hare here."

"Hunting?" Li Mu looked around and saw shallow hare footprints on the snow, as well as the footprints left by several of their team members. Apart from that, no other traces were found. In other words, the hunters did not leave any footprints, but they could never appear out of thin air, and they could not disappear out of thin air. They just wiped out their footprints.

"Look for me. From the sound of gunfire to the arrival of us, it will only take more than ten minutes at most. In such a short time, the other party cannot run too far, and it is even more impossible to erase all traces. They will definitely leave their traces nearby. Find them for me. If you can't find them nearby, you will expand the search range. I don't believe it. They can still fly to the sky to go.

With Li Mu's order, several team members quickly scattered.

In a moment, a team member found clues dozens of meters away. The snow on the leaves of a bush fell down, and there were traces of repaired snow on the snow surface below. Li Mu carefully opened the snow from the pine. Sure enough, two footprints were found below. Li Mu carefully determined the direction of the footprints and immediately followed several team members.
Chapter completed!