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Zeng Heng's long story**"Dadong Road"**
Chapter 022.
Blitz on the Emperor's Ridge
Chen Zhongchao, Huazi, and Xiao Liuzi, each carrying a basket on their backs, dressed as medicine farmers, followed a path and slowly walked into the mountains. The forest is getting denser and denser, and there is almost no place to put your feet. Huazi swung Mao Ling to slash left and right, cutting down the thorns and shrubs that blocked the way, and forcibly carved out a road.
What people! Suddenly there was a loud shout in the woods.
All three were taken aback. Chen Zhongchao calmed down, and hurriedly pretended to be scared: "Fellow, we are collecting medicine, we are taking the wrong road, do you have a road over there?" ”
Damn, I'll you,! ”
It's a dark whistle! Chen Zhongchao gasped, if it weren't for an authentic local accent, the bullets might have flown over.
The road ahead was blocked, and the three of them hurriedly retreated.
Turning around, the three of them came to the bottom of a broken wall. The surface of the wall is covered with a thick layer of vegetation, and there is no soil below and no sky above. The temperature in the forest dropped quickly, the cool breeze blew, and there was a feeling of coldness on the backs of several people, and Xiao Liuzi said uneasily: "It's so cloudy here." ”
What's yin, aren't you very capable, tell you not to come, now you're afraid? Chen Zhongchao scolded him.
I'm not afraid. Xiao Liuzi immediately straightened his waist and replied: "* I'm as tall as you, if you're not afraid, I'm not afraid." ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Tsk, does this have anything to do with height, don't be close, don't call it ** in the future."
Xiao Liuzi: "*Then what will I call in the future?" ”
Chen Zhongchao ignored him, turned around to inspect the surrounding environment, the shrubs were too dense, such a place was easy to be attacked by poisonous snakes and beasts, and he couldn't stay overnight. The three of them continued to walk forward, turning to an open ground, and Chen Zhongchao said, "Let's go here, make a fire." "If you want to spend the night in the mountains, you have to make a fire, which can not only keep warm, but also repel mosquitoes and ants.
Huazi's hands and feet were nimble, and after a while, he gathered a large pile of dry firewood, and the fire was ignited.
Chen Zhongchao sat down against a small tree and explained: "You two pay attention, you are not allowed to leave the campfire at night, you are not allowed to talk loudly, and you are not allowed to lie down and sleep. ”
Xiao Liuzi objected: "What, if you don't lie down when you sleep, is it possible to sleep standing up?" ”
Chen Zhongchao: "You can sit and sleep." Again, this is a deep mountain and old forest, if you lie down and sleep, within five minutes, I dare to guarantee that all kinds of reptiles and ant beasts will come to you. ”
I am not afraid of ...... by deceiving peopleXiao Liuzi muttered. After all, Xiao Liuzi didn't dare to be willful, learned from the Super League, found a tree to sit down, and fell asleep after a while.
I haven't eaten all day, and my stomach is already growling with hunger. Xiao Liuzi found a sweet potato in the field, hurriedly picked up the soil and dug it out, and after a while, he actually took out a sweet potato the size of a python hammer. Xiao Liuzi had never seen such a big sweet potato, and shouted happily: "* Big sweet potato!" With a slam of thought, the sky was already dark, and there was only a pile of smoking firewood in front of him.
Huazi smiled, turned over a simmered little sweet potato from the fire, and handed it to Xiao Liuzi, this is yesterday's dinner, and Xiao Liuzi will sleep before he can eat it.
What a big sweet potato, you kid dreams about it. It's nice to have a small sweet potato, so let's eat it quickly. Chen Zhongchao ridiculed Xiao Liuzi, picked up a big sweet potato from a fire, and patted the ashes: "Fortunately, this sweet potato is just ripe." ”
Hi! Xiao Liuzi shouted: "* I just dreamed that I saw the big sweet potato first." ”
The sweet potatoes that had just come out of the fire were a little hot, Chen Zhongchao threw them around in his hands, peeling them and eating them: "You are here again, are your dreams serious?" I said it, don't call **!
Xiao Liuzi was anxious: "Chen Zhongchao, the big sweet potato is mine!" Jumped up and grabbed it, and the sweet potato was hit by him, and immediately flew out, and fell back into the fire with a "chirp" impartially. Xiao Liuzi looked bad and had nothing to eat. Hurriedly found a reason: "* The big sweet potato is not ripe yet, simmer it again." ”
Dare to grab sweet potatoes in your hands, your kid's wings are hard. Chen Zhongchao pretended to be helpless, but he touched a piece of jerky in the back basket and came out: "Forget it, the sweet potato belongs to you." ”
Xiao Liuzi was dumbfounded: "I won't rob it, **I will correct my mistakes, I want to eat jerky!" ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Count your mouth sweet, spare your kid this time." ”
After chewing the jerky for a while, the three of them went to the edge of the spring and drank the spring water, which was crystal clear and sweet and moistened their throats. After drinking, the three of them continued to turn the mountain, but they turned around and turned to the original place. Huazi's feet were soft, and his heart was also a little drumming: "Super League, we are back to the original place." Chen Zhongchao is also strange, they all grew up in the mountains, and they usually don't get lost when they drill in the mountains with their eyes closed, why can't they figure out the direction like they have entered the ecstasy array today.
There are smokes! Xiao Liuzi suddenly shouted.
Whisper. Chen Zhongchao looked up, and a faint green smoke really came out of the col opposite, and the mountain wind blew and the smoke disappeared. Chen Zhongchao didn't say a word, and rushed to Yanzi with the two of them. The road in the mountains, looking close, walks far. The three of them hurried slowly, and finally arrived closer, only to see three towering trees standing on the mountainside, the big trees were triangular, and a shack was set up a few meters high in the middle, and a bonfire was lit next to the big tree.
Chen Zhongchao ordered Huazi to watch the wind on the spot, and he and Xiao Liuzi leaned up. There was a quiet, deathly silence all around, except for the crackling sound of the burning bonfire. Above the campfire stands a triangular stand with a steaming hanging pot hanging from the stand.
Xiao Liuzi is like an agile bobcat, slipping up the tree trunk, who knows that the shack is empty.
Chen Zhongchao lifted the lid of the hanging pot and couldn't help laughing: "This person is stingy enough to boil a pot of water." ”
As soon as the words fell, a middle-aged man ran out of the forest: "Hey, what are you doing, you want to eat white food?" "The middle-aged man was tall, shirtless, with long unkempt hair draped over his shoulders and a machete in his hand.
Sure enough, there were people, Chen Zhongchao was overjoyed, and said casually: "Brother, what you said, can a pot of water fill your stomach?" ”
Who said it was clear water! The middle-aged man shook his shoulders, made a "snap", and threw a small wild boar to the ground. The baby boar had one leg broken and a clip on the other.
Chen Zhongchao snorted: "Shout, a little wild boar, count me away." I said, brother, you're having a pretty good time. The man rolled his eyelids, turned and poured wood into the fire, as if he did not want to bother him. Seeing this, Chen Zhongchao rolled up his sleeves and took matters into his own hands, killed the little wild boar for the man, and then poured the boiling water in the hanging pot into a small wooden basin to scald his hair.
The man didn't speak, he used a machete to shave and cut meat, and the big machete was like a fruit knife in his hand, and he was very easy to play. After a while, the little wild boar has been dismantled. The man threw a few pieces of washed wild boar meat into the hanging pot, and cut the rest of the wild boar meat into pieces and hung them on another triangular stand. After doing this, the man slowly took out a wooden pipe from his coat pocket, sat on the ground and smoked a dry cigarette.
Looking at his appearance of swallowing clouds and spitting fog, Chen Zhongchao felt that his throat and eyes were itchy, and he couldn't help but go to the man's cigarette pouch and pinch a handful of tobacco, pick up a half-dried leaf and roll a cannon barrel. Chen Zhongchao didn't know how to smoke, so he took a puff of cigarette, but he was choked and coughed up tears.
The man knocked the pipe on the ground a few times, cleaned up the remaining cigarette ash and refilled it with tobacco, and then said: "This is raw smoke, it is strong, you can smoke it." After that, he said casually: "What are you looking for in the mountains?" ”
Chen Zhongchao smiled: "Brother, you are sharp-eyed." ”
The man said: "You have been wandering around for two days, can I not know?" If I hadn't lit a firework here, you might still be walking around the mountain. ”
It turned out that this person deliberately made a fireworks to lure them over, Chen Zhongchao was secretly startled, and replied tentatively: "Don't hide it from my brother, we came up the mountain to collect medicine, there is a kind of wound medicine called blood vine, it is difficult to find, I heard that there is one on the top of the mountain over there." ”
Man: "I haven't heard of any blood vines." However, if that thing grows on the top of a mountain, it is the same whether it is there or not. ”
Chen Zhongchao: "How do you say this? ”
Man: "It's too high, you can't pick it." ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Brother, no matter how high the mountain is, we can go up to collect medicine." Actually, I heard that there is a path that leads to the top of the mountain, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”
Man: "Why do you want to take the path?" You can take the big road. ”
Chen Zhongchao: "The road is not good, there are people guarding it." ”
Man: "Come on, don't let me fill **, your own mountain, who dares to let you go." ”
When Chen Zhongchao heard it, this man regarded them as strongmen on the mountain. hurriedly argued: "Brother, I am the one who collects medicine, **dare to climb brothers with the people on the mountain?" To tell you the truth, I am a Tulangzhong, and there is a woman in the village who has a difficult birth and urgently needs blood vine to save her life. ”
Are you, not from the mountain? The man sneered. In fact, he used fireworks to attract people in order to cut them off by surprise, but he found that there was another person in the distance, which made it impossible for him to do it.
Xiao Liuzi squatted aside to add firewood to the fire, and when he heard that the man thought he was a bandit on the mountain, he hurriedly said: "Let me tell you the truth, we are not bandits, we are here to fight bandits." ”
The man was startled, thinking that his thoughts had been recognized, and a pair of eyes stared at the two of them.
Xiao Liuzi's words came so quickly, Chen Zhongchao hurriedly threw away the horn in his hand, and stared at the machete beside the man with sharp eyes. Once the man's hand reached for the machete, Chen Zhongchao would preemptively strike and ** it without hesitation. In fact, the Emperor's Ridge is under the nose of the mountain dog for dozens of miles, and ordinary people dare not talk nonsense. Chen Zhongchao's brain was spinning rapidly, since Xiao Liuzi had already made his words clear, it was better to reveal his identity directly, in case this middle-aged man was an informant of the bandits, killing him was just a matter of effort. Thinking of this, Chen Zhongchao simply opened the skylight and said brightly: "Brother, my brother is right, we are an anti-Japanese team. The bandits on the mountain have been in trouble for a long time, and everyone has been punished, and we are here to destroy this gang of bandits! ”
The man stood up suddenly, his eyes widened wider than the copper bell: "You are here to eliminate the bandits?" ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Yes, we are here to eliminate the bandits!" ”
The man asked again: "Are you really here to destroy the bandits?" "The bandits in the mountains are full of black words, and there are many taboos, they will ask for good luck every word, and they will never open their mouths and close their mouths to say that they want to destroy the bandits.
Chen Zhongchao: "That's right! ”
Man: "Just you?" ”
Chen Zhongchao: "The big army is behind!" ”
Man: "Really? ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Seriously! ”
The man suddenly turned around, picked up the machete with both hands and raised it above his head, and knelt on his knees: "Heaven, earth, God has opened his eyes, my great man's deep hatred can be avenged!" It turned out that this middle-aged man was originally a farmer at the foot of the mountain, with parents and a wife and children, and a family of old and young men and women weaving, living a self-sufficient life. I don't know that the good times don't last long, disasters happen every year, and the wife of the big fierce son has a slight appearance, and she has long been remembered by the mountain dog. Late one night, the Drill Mountain Dog suddenly led people into his house and violently took possession of his wife, and the family fought hard and was wiped out. The big man swung his machete and cut down several bandits, and escaped through the window amid the random guns. From that day on, he lived like a savage in the old woods, and he was reluctant to leave the woods just to wait for the opportunity to take revenge. Chen Zhongchao and the three of them were circling in the mountains, he thought they were bandits who came down to patrol the mountains, so he made a fireworks to lure the three of them over, thinking about splitting the three with a machete.
Chen Zhongchao: "Your name is Da Mengzi?" ”
Yes, my name is Da Mengzi. Let me tell you, there is a secret passage under the cliff of the back mountain, this secret passage can go straight to the top of the mountain, and I will show you the way! Da Mengzi was full of hatred: "However, I have one condition, after catching the drill dog, this person must be handed over to me for disposal, and I will chop him with my own hands!" ”
Okay, no problem! Chen Zhongchao's answer was very simple: "In a word, your revenge, we will avenge you!" I think you are also a bloody man, and when you take revenge, you can do it with us. ”
Da Mengzi: "As long as I can kill the drill mountain dog, I will follow you up the knife mountain and down the sea of fire!" At this time, the wild boar meat was tumbling in the water, and a strong smell of meat wafted from the hanging pot.
Chen Tianpeng broke a branch, first drew a simple offensive route map on the ground, and then began to dispatch troops: "Chen Zhongchao, I will transfer all the fast guns to you, and you organize the assault team to go up the mountain through the dark road." Note that you have to be energetic, and you must be unaware. ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Yes! ”
Chen Tianpeng: "After reaching the top of the mountain, you must launch an attack at dawn, which is the time when the bandits sleep most soundly. The assault team must strike and rush with a thunderous force, drive all the bandits down the mountain, and do not leave any respite for the Drill Mountain Dogs. ”
Chen Zhongchao: "Yes! ”
Chen Tianpeng: "Chen Ziqing and Chen Shangde each led a team of men and horses to guard the fork of the mountain, and if they want to put the bandits close to fight, they must give full play to the power of shotguns and guns, and they must not let go of the drill dogs!" ”
Chen Ziqing, Chen Shangde: "Yes! ”
The bushes are interspersed with countless ancient sheep thorns, and this plant rolls out in patches of spikes, like bayonets, so sharp that it will plunge into your flesh if you are not careful. The warriors marched forward in the dark, and when they reached the bottom of the cliff, their arms and thighs were bloodied with the ancient thorns of the sheep, and their skin was open and fleshy.
The big man stopped and pointed to a pile of rocks under the cliff. The commandos held their breath and moved the rocks away one by one, and a dark hole appeared under the cliff, which was the secret passage of the back mountain.
The dark passage is a natural karst cave that is vertically upward, the big fierce man ignites the pine light, clasps the gap around the cave wall with both hands and climbs up, the warriors chase the light on their heads, and then the whole team is like a long gecko, head to tail.
Out of the dark passage, the moonlight is sparse. The shrubs and vines were intertwined, slowing down the speed of the commandos and becoming the best cover for the commandos. There were many shadows on the cliff, and suddenly there was a sound of scolding, mixed with a few words of complaint, which turned out to be the sentry set up by the bandits on the top of the mountain.
As the minutes ticked by, the second horn clinged to the rock wall, not daring to make the slightest sound. The purpose of the sneak attack war is to surprise it, attack its unpreparedness, exchange the minimum price for the maximum result, once the sneak attack is successful, it will avoid the huge ** brought by the strong attack. However, the risk of a sneak attack is extremely high, and once discovered by the enemy, the entire assault operation will face a catastrophe.
The sky was overcast, and the assault team slowly approached the top of the cliff. There was a small room at the top of the cliff, and a sentry held a spear and threw a bottle of wine at his feet, and the sentry slept soundly, leaning against the low wall in front of the house and napping, snoring intermittently, and occasionally making a dream or two. Chen Zhongchao quietly stuck to it, jumped up suddenly, grabbed the sentry's neck and twisted it, and with a click, the guy saw the king of Hades without a sound.
The fog of dawn was particularly thick, and the houses on the Emperor's Ridge appeared and disappeared from time to time. At this time, this smelling bandit's lair was still asleep.
On Dadong Road, the fame of Emperor Ridge is so great that it can be described as thunderous. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the bandits rose up in all directions, and the local people fled to the Emperor's Ridge in groups to avoid the war, and built walls and fortifications on the mountain, and some wealthy families built houses on the mountain to live for a long time. After a long time, the Emperor's Ridge has become a place where the sky and the earth do not care. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a group of bandits suddenly came from outside the country, and they robbed the Emperor Ridge to occupy the mountain as the king, and since then, the Emperor Ridge has become a famous bandit nest. Over the years, the bandits have attacked and killed each other, become kings and defeated cowards, and the big bosses have changed one after another, and finally they were picked up by the drill mountain dogs and sat on the first place in the Emperor's Ridge.
After the mountain dog ascended to the throne, the emperor's mountain ridge became his sphere of influence for dozens of miles, and the mountain dog was lustful, and the women under the mountain could not escape his clutches as long as he looked at them. After eating and drinking, the drill dog went down the mountain to visit the kiln. A few days ago, I didn't know that a prostitute was taken from **, and after returning to the mountain, the mountain dog was so happy that he couldn't do it. The prostitute was originally also a master on the Fengyue field, and she would play all kinds of tricks, and when she met the diamond dog, she could be regarded as meeting a bosom friend. That night, the two played until the second half of the night, until they were exhausted, and then fell asleep.
Suddenly, there were a few gunshots, and the drill dog thought that the bastard's gun had gone off, and scolded with his eyes closed: "Mother sells hemp skins, wait for me to clean you up tomorrow!" As soon as the words fell, the gunshots outside had already sounded like fried beans, and there were continuous ** sounds. The drill dog pushed away the frightened **, rushed out of the door to see, the mountain was already in chaos, and the bandits rushed down the mountain, some shirtless, some didn't even wear pants, and they panicked one by one. “！The drill mountain dog was so angry that the box gun fired several shots in the sky: "Fucking stop for me, don't run, whoever runs I'll fucking kill whom!" "There is a way that the defeat is like a mountain, and the bandits are eager for their father and mother to have two more legs, and some people listen to him drill mountain dogs.
The drill dog looked up at the top of the mountain, and saw a group of big men, and they swooped down like a flash flood. The two big men at the head, one with a white face and the other with a black face, the white-faced man suddenly held a machine gun in his hand, and the bullets were like long eyes, pointing where to hit; The black-faced man roared like thunder, and the grenades flew all over the sky one after another, landing far and accurately. The stubborn bandits were either knocked to the ground by bullets or blown to all fours by grenades. The drill dog fired a few shots indiscriminately, and immediately attracted locust-like bullets and grenades, seeing that it was not the number of roads, the drill dog pulled out his legs and ran down the mountain, and was chased by bullets all the way, and there was no room to fight back.
These bandits usually live by bullying the common people, and they can fight with the wind, but when they encounter hard stubble, they will only pull up their legs and run away. The bandits who fled to the foot of the mountain didn't have time to catch their breath, Chen Ziqing and Chen Shangde were together, shotguns, and guns were flanked left and right, and countless iron sand gunpowder flew over.
Chen Tianpeng held an earthen iron horn and stood on an earthen platform and shouted to the bandits: "Listen to the bandits below, we are the Dongxiang anti-Japanese column, and you are surrounded." Put down**, those who disarm and surrender will not die, if they resist stubbornly, they will be killed! "The bandits have been beaten into a swarm of headless flies, there is no way to go to the sky, there is no way to enter the ground, ** dare to resist stubbornly, crawl out one by one and raise their hands to surrender.
The drill dog had no way to escape, so he had to be taken prisoner, and was escorted over by several soldiers: "Report to the commander, the drill dog has arrived." ”
On the high earthen platform stood a soldier with an iron horn, not angry and arrogant, and his old acquaintance Zeng Changsheng stood below. The Drill Mountain Dog shivered, but he was also a big boss anyway, and he was not stage frightened as a prisoner. The Drill Mountain Leopard arched his hands, pulled open the shelf and said, "The commander is above, the Drill Mountain Dog is polite." The younger brother lives in the depths of the mountains, fights the rich and helps the poor, and acts chivalrous and righteous. I don't know what offended the commander, and I sent troops early in the morning to rob my brother's mountain? ”
Chen Tianpeng sneered: "What a good one to fight the rich and help the poor, and to be chivalrous and righteous." Drill mountain dogs, you smash big households, rob people's daughters, kill people and set fires to do a lot of evil, don't you know the crime! ”
The drill mountain dog shouted: "Brother is wronged! The drill mountain dog has always guarded the one-third of an acre of land in front of his house, what is the crime? Could it be that someone provoked it and caused the commander to misunderstand? ”
Misunderstand? Chen Tianpeng shouted: "Drill mountain dog, you raped women and killed a family of seven of Da Mengzi, is this a misunderstanding?" You rob the road, kidnap tickets, beat stuffy sticks, ** seek glory and become a traitor, this is chivalrous righteousness? You dog, you dare to quibble when you are dying! ”
The drill mountain dog's legs trembled, and he sat on the ground and howled: "Commander, misunderstanding, these are all misunderstandings!" ”
Chen Ziqing was furious, grabbed the collar of the drill mountain dog and picked him up: "Open your dog's eyes and see who I am, don't you know?" That year, you took someone to Wuli to smash a big household, and I copied your back road! ”
For many years, the dogs of the mountains have been fighting against the emperor's high roads and dangerous mountains, killing people and goods and doing evil wantonly, and they have not even paid attention to the officials and soldiers. I didn't think that the wicked would eventually have evil retribution, and all the people I met today were life and death opponents. The drill mountain dog hurriedly knelt down, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "The drill mountain dog has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, and he does not do his best to offend the tiger." Please also ask all heroes and heroes to raise their noble hands, and they will never dare to drill the mountain dog in the future. ”
Zeng Changsheng shouted: "Drill mountain dog, do you still want to have a future?" Dream on! ”
The drill dog knew that death was coming, but he couldn't suppress the instinctive desire to survive in his heart, and begged: "Brother Qiao Ting, it's all my fault for being confused for a while, from now on, the drill dog will change his mind and be a new person!" Please also ask Brother Qiao Ting to read for the sake of you and my brother, and say a few kind words in front of the commander, spare me as a villain. ”
If you want to know today, why bother in the first place. Now regret it, it's late! Zeng Changsheng turned his head to the side.
Knowing that the time of death had come, the dogs trembled like chaff. But he still held a glimmer of hope for survival, and climbed forward to kowtow to Chen Tianpeng: "The drill mountain dog is willing to lead the horse and fall into the stirrups for the commander, and be a cow and a horse!" ”
Chen Tianpeng raised his leg and kicked the drill mountain dog: "Heaven is forgivable, but you can't live if you do your own evil!" You have been in trouble for many years in the Emperor's Ridge, and you have lost all your conscience. I can spare you, but the heavens can't spare you! Da Mengzi, this person is handed over to you. ”
The big man grabbed the drill dog by the collar and dragged him to the edge of the creek like a dead dog. With a wave of the machete, the head of the Drill Mountain Dog rolled to the ground with a grunt, and a stream of black blood gushed out.
Back at the camp, Chen Tianpeng called Sun Xiaolan: "You go and take a look and find out the two people who are imprisoned in the stone house." ”
Sun Xiaolan said: "I've seen it all, and there are no two people in the captives." ”
Oh? Chen Tianpeng looked at Sun Xiaolan, and a puzzled expression flashed on his face. (To be continued).
Published by Unity Press in September 2023).
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