Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 318 Going South from Tegeda Part [-]

The two of them led the ox and carefully walked slowly to the dark opposite bank, as if they were walking towards hell.

"Pay attention to the ice crevices under your feet, and don't let the hooves step on them!" Qian Xiaobao instructed Chida Bingwei.

The ice surface of HLJ is far from being as smooth as a mirror, and there are continuous ice crevasses on the ice surface.

Some cracks can fit a person in completely.

If the cow's hoof stepped in and made a sound, the two people were probably exposed.

The bitter cold wind was blowing on the ice, and the whining sound could just cover the sound of people and cattle walking on the ice.

The two people cling to the back of the bull, and the white cloth melts the man and the cow into a whole piece of white ice.

The 1000-meter-wide ice surface quickly covered more than half of it, getting closer and closer to the opposite shore.

Qian Xiaobao's heartbeat was extraordinarily violent.If the Soviet army found out, machine gun bullets would scrape over the ice like a sickle, and they would be unable to escape even if they wanted to.

"Ride on the cow!" Qian Xiaobao said to Chida Bingwei.

Chidahei had been waiting for this moment for a long time. He put his hand on the back of the bull and jumped onto the bull's back.

Seeing him riding a bull, Qian Xiaobao knew that he had never ridden a bull before.

He patted the cow's rear with his hand and said in a low voice, "You sit back here and put your body on the cow's back."

Chidahei moved his body back on the back of the bull and sat on the hip, feeling much more comfortable immediately.Then he lay on the back of the bull as Qian Xiaobao said.

Qian Xiaobao walked up to his own cow, put his hands on the back of the cow, jumped face backward and rode on the back of the cow.

This is why cattle were chosen over horses.If it is a horse tossing like two people, it is likely to have already started kicking and barking.

Qian Xiaobao lay down, put his face against the cow's rear, patted the cow's buttocks with his hand and whispered, "Drive!"

The old cow continued to walk towards the opposite bank meekly, followed by the cow ridden by Chida Bingwei.

If the Soviet observers raised their binoculars at this time, they would find two big white cattle with bulging backs walking towards the shore.

Animals know no borders, and tigers, black bears, wolves, and roe deer often cross borders.

But it must be the first time that Soviet soldiers saw two strangely shaped big white cows like this.

The reason for riding a bull is to not leave footprints in the snow on the shore.

Every day, the Soviet garrison patrol along the border mainly observes whether there are footprints on the shore of HLJ.

The closer they got to the shore, the more nervous the two became. Qian Xiaobao couldn't help but clenched the rifle in his hand.

Although he knew in his heart that if the Soviet army found out, it would be useless to rely on the rifle in his hand.

The two cows walked from the ice to the snow on the shore, and Qian Xiaobao slapped the cow's buttocks under the white cloth with the butt of his gun.

The two cows walked forward slowly as if walking on the snow.

Qian Xiaobao looked up at the shore and estimated the distance in his heart.

After walking another two or 300 meters, Qian Xiaobao rolled off the back of the bull.

He tore off the white cloth from the cow and held it in his arms, then waved to Chidabei who was still riding on the cow more than ten meters away.

Chida Bingwei, who had been pardoned, got off the back of the bull and ran towards Qian Xiaobao with the white cloth in his arms.

"Let's go! Let's talk in the woods." Qian Xiaobao said.

After saying this, the two ran into the woods, leaving the two cows who were at a loss where they were.

"Won't the cow expose the target?" Chida Bingwei asked after running into the woods.

"No, they won't stay here all the time. Besides, cows can't talk, so it's useless to interrogate them!" Qian Xiaobao replied.

"Go forward for a few kilometers and then rest and sleep. After dawn tomorrow, we will continue to walk north in the woods." Qian Xiaobao continued.

An hour later, the two of them leveled out a place in the woods, used snow and branches to create a wind wall more than one meter high, and then got into the sheepskin box and began to sleep.

Chidahei felt as if he was in a dream. He was still sleeping on the bed in Harbin before he was woken up last night. This night he was already sleeping in the forest in Waixing'an Mountains.

He vaguely heard the sound of Qian Xiaobao pulling the trigger in the sheepskin barrel.

"Be careful, there may be wolves!" Qian Xiaobao said.Then there was the sound of Qian Xiaobao chewing soybeans.

The forests of Siberia are endless, as if you can go north to the Arctic Ocean and west to Moscow.

Qian Xiaobao and Chida Bingwei walked through the forest with luggage on their backs and rifles in their hands.

The two of them got out of the sheepskin tube to eat something and continued on the road at around seven o'clock the next day.

Chidahei took out a map and spread it on the ground, and took out a compass to look at the direction.

The map is a general administrative division map obtained by intelligence personnel from a big northern country, and it is not accurate.

Chidabei could only roughly determine the current positions of the two on the map.

"It's [-] kilometers away from Tegoda. Could it be that the person we're going to pick up has already passed by us? After all, it's been nearly two days." Chidabei asked.

"No! Only a fool will walk in a straight line when he is running away. He must have circled around to Tegda and then headed south." Qian Xiaobao replied.

Now the Soviet army must have started a large-scale search, but limited to manpower, it is likely to be limited to a search within a range of several hundred square kilometers.

Unless the Far East Military Region dispatched tens of thousands of people to conduct a large-scale search within a range of thousands of square kilometers.

But even with such determination, it is unrealistic. By the time the tens of thousands of people are assembled, they will have already left.

Therefore, the Kalmyks will definitely go out of the search range of the Soviet army before fleeing south.

"But how can we find that person just the two of us?" Chida Bingwei said in a dilemma.

I only know the general route of the Kalmyk people going south. Finding one person in such a large area is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

"There is a road on the map, but if he hadn't been short-sighted, he wouldn't have taken the road. Let's go north and find an open land." Qian Xiaobao said.

At noon, the two of them headed north and finally reached the edge of the forest.

Further ahead is a rolling snow field, with only one-meter-high bushes on the snow.

Both raised their binoculars and watched.

Qian Xiaobao turned around and pushed down two branches that were more than one meter long.

Putting the branch on the ground, Qian Xiaobao took out a piece of black gauze and tied it tightly over his eyes.

"Take one branch, I'll take one to that hill!" Qian Xiaobao said, pointing to the front left.

Although he didn't know Qian Xiaobao's intention, Chida Bingwei still took the branch and followed Qian Xiaobao towards the hill.

The two climbed up the hill, Qian Xiaobao looked around and felt very satisfied.

He laid the branch in his hand flat on the ground and slowly inserted it into the snow.

"Shoot around the snow wall and hide inside. You can observe it within a few kilometers to the left and right. If you find the target, you can put the branch in the snow on the top of the mountain." Qian Xiaobao said.

Then he pointed to a hill five or six kilometers away on the right and said, "I'll just observe on that hill, and if I find that the target is also planting branches in the snow. The two of us lined up about a dozen or so Targets within kilometers can be seen!"

Chidabei finally understood Qian Xiaobao's meaning and nodded slowly.

(End of this chapter)