Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 319 Going South from Tegeda Five

"What if we didn't see it at night, and the Kalmyks passed through here?" Chidabei asked.

"The Kalmyks may be dead now, or the whole thing may be a trap. Didn't Lieutenant Yamazaki say that they would evacuate after six days even if no one could be found?" Qian Xiaobao asked rhetorically.

Qian Xiaobao wanted to say that nuns should not be allowed to have children, right?But thinking of knowing from Yamamoto Heisaku that Japanese monks are married, he swallowed the words that were on his lips.

Qian Xiaobao took another branch down the hill and walked to another hill six kilometers away.

An hour later, he climbed up the hill and looked through the binoculars to the hill where Chidabei was located very clearly.

He looked to the other side with the binoculars again, and the sky was high and the earth was wide, and the whiteness between the sky and the earth could be seen far away.

A one-meter-high snow wall was built with snow to block the mountain wind. Qian Xiaobao spread it with dead branches and leaves, and then put a sheepskin tube on it and drilled in.

Even so, these few days are enough for him.

Some people in the Kwantung Army and the Japanese Army always dreamed of attacking north to defeat the northern powers and occupy the entire Siberia and Far East.But the special geographical environment and climate created great difficulties for them.

When the Red Revolution happened in the big northern country, Japan also sent troops to get a share in the Far East, but in the end they returned without success.More soldiers froze to death throughout the operation than died in battle.

Even if Qian Xiaobao, the intelligence officer code-named Kalmyk, could not be found, he would have to be taken in the freezing environment for five or six days before he could go back.

Barshinsky dropped his skis and poles after sliding thirty or forty kilometers along the course of the Zeya River.

The upper channel of the river channel is narrow and steep, and there are constant stones emerging from the ice surface, which is not suitable for sliding at all.

Barshinsky walked along the river all day long, not daring to stop, much less sleep.If he lay down he could never get up again.

If the people from the State Security Bureau can find it, what he saw is also a frozen corpse.

There are also several tributaries in the upper reaches of the Zeya River, and the southernmost tributary is the Tegda River.And the small town of Tegda is right next to the river, so Barshinski simply walked along the river without positioning himself.

When you reach the small town of Tegeda, turn around and walk another [-] kilometers to the south to reach the HLJ River.

Barshinsky prayed inwardly that he would survive another day or two in minus thirty or forty degrees.

The bread that was as hard as a rock on his back had already been eaten by more than half by Barshinski. He held the remaining half in his gloved hands and sat on a dead log by the river, looking at the lights on the north side of the river. chewing.

The place where the lights shine is the small town of Tegda, a place with only a few hundred residents.

There are many such sparsely populated towns scattered in Siberia, the big northern country, and the Far East, and there are only a handful of cities with a population of more than [-].

With the last sixty kilometers to go, Barshinski was going to eat his bread and head south.

Although [-] kilometers is not considered long, it will take him at least another day to walk across the mountains and on the snow.

Looking at the dim light, I feel warm, and Barshinski has an impulse to go into the town and knock on the door of a house, and go into a warm room, lie on the bed and have a good sleep.

But he didn't dare, the protection of the big northern country was airtight, as long as he dared to enter the small town, he would be reported immediately.

Barshinski stuffed the last piece of bread into his mouth and stood up unsteadily, turned and walked south.

Qian Xiaobao opened his eyes and stuck his head out of the sheepskin.It was so cold that he was bent like a prawn inside the sheepskin tube.

He raised the binoculars and looked at the left and right sides for a while. There was nothing on the snow within a range of more than ten kilometers.

At this time, even the bears hid in the cave and slept soundly, the birds in the sky did not fly, and the animals on the ground also lost their tracks.

Qian Xiaobao deliberately looked at the mountain where Chidabingwei was located for a while, and if there were no branches, it meant that Chidabingwei hadn't found the target either.

Chidabei should be more competent than Qian Xiaobao, and Qian Xiaobao spent more than half of his time curled up in a sheepskin tube to sleep.

Qian Xiaobao came out of the sheepskin tube and jumped out of the snow wall. On the hillside, he picked up a bunch of shrub branches and threw them into the snow wall.

Rolling up the sheepskin tube and putting it aside, Qian Xiaobao smashed the shrub branches into a small pile, then took the military kettle, opened it, and carefully poured the kerosene inside onto the shrub branches.

The weather was so cold that the kerosene seemed to be solidifying, slowly flowing out like honey.

Qian Xiaobao screwed on the lid and put the military kettle aside, then took out the lighter and lit the bushes with a ding sound.

The flames shot up more than a foot high.

Qian Xiaobao sat on the sheepskin tube, took off his cotton leather boots, and put his feet on the fire to roast.

Qian Xiaobao snorted comfortably as he smelled the stench of his feet roasted by the fire.

The most important thing at this time is the feet, which must be well protected.

Qian Xiaobao unwrapped the foot wrap, grabbed a handful of snow from the snow wall, sprinkled it on his feet, and rubbed it slowly.

Chida Bingwei, who is so stubborn that he is afraid of exposing his target, must not dare to warm up like Qian Xiaobao.

Light gray smoke emerged from the snow wall and was blown away by the mountain wind.It cannot be seen with the naked eye within a kilometer or two.

After washing the feet with snow and then drying them on the fire, and then drying the foot wraps, Qian Xiaobao spread the fire.

Qian Xiaobao planned to spread the sheepskin tube on it after the fire was completely extinguished, and then have a good sleep.

He stood up on the sheepskin tube and stretched comfortably, but suddenly froze.

Qian Xiaobao hurriedly squatted down and took the binoculars to look at the top of the mountain where Qian Tianbingwei was located. A tree branch nearly two meters long stood on the top of the mountain impressively!

Qian Xiaobao hurriedly sat down, wrapped the foot wraps in a hurry, put on cotton leather boots, picked up his rifle, jumped out of the snow wall and ran towards the hill where Chidabei was.

Chida Bingwei should have spotted the target on his side, and Qian Xiaobao must rush over immediately.

More than half an hour later, Qian Xiaobao ran up the hill out of breath, but there was no figure of Chidabei in the snow wall.

Qian Xiaobao looked to the other side of the mountain, and there were two small black spots on the snow four kilometers away.

Qian Xiaobao raised his binoculars and looked towards the black spot. In the lens of the binoculars, Chida Hei was pointing a rifle at a person lying on the snow.

Qian Xiaobao nervously searched around with the binoculars, and found no signs of other people's activities within a range of more than ten kilometers.

Only then did he feel relieved, picked up his rifle and ran towards the direction where Chidabei Yamashita was.

In the distance, Chidahei pointed his rifle at Barshinsky and asked in Russian, "Are you a Kalmyk?"

"It's me!" answered Barshinsky.

Chidahei asked again in Japanese: "Are you from Kalmyk?"

"It's me!" Barshinsky replied in Japanese.

(End of this chapter)