Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 506 The Coldest Winter Part Four
Qian Xiaobao returned to the Japanese embassy with Okuno dejectedly.

After he reported the situation to Yamaoka Dotake, Yamaoka said: "The German army has broken through the Viazma line of defense and encircled 60 to [-] troops from the northern powers. Now it is closer to Moscow. It seems that we have to wait until things come to fruition." You can go back."

Qian Xiaobao knew what Michitake Yamaoka meant, and it was nothing more than the two results of the German army occupying Moscow or the army of the northern powers repelling the German army's attack.

From then on, Qian Xiaobao started dawdling in the Japanese embassy.Now the only job in the embassy is to listen to the radio for analysis, but Qian Xiaobao's Russian and German are not good enough, so his daily life is eating and sleeping.

Such a beautiful day makes Qian Xiaobao's life worse than death. He eats potatoes dipped in salt every day and then lies in a room with a temperature of more than minus 20 degrees to save energy.

The northern powers deployed intensive anti-aircraft firepower near Moscow, so German planes bombed infrequently, only the sound of explosions was heard intermittently.

The power supply in Moscow is also not normal, so the work of listening to the broadcast is also intermittent.

A few days later, Michitake Yamaoka finally gave Qian Xiaobao a difficult task.

He took Qian Xiaobao to the courtyard of the embassy and pointed to a tall larch tree and said: "Now there is no coal for heating in the embassy, ​​and the dozens of people in the embassy will not be able to last for a few days if this continues." . cut down the big tree for cooking and heating.”

So Qian Xiaobao took an ax that was only more than one foot long and started to cut trees in the spirit of Yugong Yishan.

After not working for a long time, Qian Xiaobao started to break out in a cold sweat.Now it's finally not cold, but I'm so hungry.

He turned to the back of the big tree and squatted down with his back facing the embassy, ​​then reached out to his waist and took out a handful of soybeans, chewing slowly.

Eating such a precious good thing must not be discovered by others.

Qian Xiaobao cut down from morning to afternoon, and the two-foot-diameter tree was finally crumbling.

Dozens of sparrows on the tree sensed the danger and flew into the sky ahead of time.

Qian Xiaobao also ran far away with the ax in hand.

In the cold wind, the top-heavy pine tree kept shaking, and the more it shook, the bigger it finally fell on the snow.

The seven or eight-meter-long canopy hit the snow and stirred up a snow fog.

At this time, Qian Xiaobao didn't look at the pine tree lying on the ground, but looked up at the sparrows in the sky.

He put down his ax and went to Michimu Yamaoka for instruction.

"Sir, everyone has been eating potatoes these days. I really can't stand it any longer. I want to catch some sparrows to improve my life." Qian Xiaobao reported.

"Okay, anyway, most people don't have much to do in the embassy. If you need someone, I'll send them to you right away." Michitake Yamaoka nodded.

"What I need is not people but food, such as rice grains or bread crumbs." Qian Xiaobao said.

The Japanese are highly hierarchical, and now Qian Xiaobao and some other low-ranking people eat potatoes every day. Ambassador Tsugawa Miji and Yamaoka Michibu in the embassy can still eat a little rice and bread every day.

Michitake Yamaoka, who was happy to send people just now, became serious when he heard that what Qian Xiaobao needed was food.

"How likely is it to succeed? How much food do you need? How many sparrows can you catch?" Yamaoka Michitake asked Qian Xiaobao a series of questions.

"If there is rice or bread crumbs, it will definitely succeed! There should be no problem in catching dozens of them!" Qian Xiaobao replied standing at attention.

Michitake Yamaoka touched his chin with his hands and remained silent, as if he was seriously thinking about an important intelligence mission.

Finally Yamaoka Dotake finally made up his mind.

"Tell me to prepare two slices of black bread for Qian Xiaobao!" Yamaoka Michitake ordered Okuno.

After Qian Xiaobao received two pieces of dry and hard black bread, he wrapped the bread in a cloth and smashed it with an ax non-stop for a long time. When he opened the cloth bag, the two pieces of bread were broken into slag.

Qian Xiaobao carefully spread a square meter of bread crumbs on the embassy's snow, and then propped up a large pot with tree branches.

Tie it to a branch with a string, and Qian Xiaobao held the other end of the string and lay down on the snow ten meters away.

People in the embassy who heard the news all lay helplessly on the window and looked at Qian Xiaobao who was carrying out an important task.

Qian Xiaobao lay motionless on the snow with a focused and stern expression, which was never so serious when he was actually carrying out the mission.

A few sparrows landed on the snow, jumping non-stop on the snow like beating notes.

Finally, a sparrow jumped under the big iron pot, and its beak kept pecking at the snow.

The hearts of the people in each office were raised.

Slowly, the number of sparrows pecking bread crumbs under the big iron pan changed from one to a dozen.

"Pull!" Okuno, who was observing in the office, couldn't help but say.

Michibu Yamaoka is worthy of being a graduate of the mainland university, and he is much better than Okuno in commanding operations.

"Now is not the time, we should lure the enemy to go deep, and wait for more enemies to enter the encirclement before pulling!" Yamaoka Michitake said.

There are more and more sparrows gathering under the big iron pot to peck at the bread crumbs, like a small black-gray ball constantly wriggling.

"Pull!" Yamaoka Michitake said from the window.

As if telepathic, Qian Xiaobao pulled the string in his hand to pull the branch back.The big iron pot that lost its support hit the snow with a bang.

Except for a few sparrows that were on the edge and flew into the sky, dozens of sparrows were all detained below.

Qian Xiaobao jumped up and ran to the side of the big iron pot.

"Get the bag!" Qian Xiaobao shouted.

Two cooks who were in charge of cooking in the embassy ran out with empty rice bags.

Qian Xiaobao took his hands out of the snow and put them under the iron pot to catch the flopping sparrows.

Every time he caught it, he put the sparrow he caught in his hand into the bag, and the chef put it into the pocket and let Qian Xiaobao's hand slowly pull it out.

After more than ten times, Qian Xiaobao finally caught all the sparrows under the big iron pot.

Qian Xiaobao repeated it twice, but each time he caught fewer sparrows.

However, more than 100 sparrows were caught three times together.

When it was almost time for dinner, all the people in the embassy were out of their minds. Never had a meal been so exciting as this evening.

In the evening, each person in the embassy will have a big bowl of sparrow stewed potato soup.Ambassador Tsugawa Miji and military attache Michitake Yamaoka had two slices of black bread and a roasted sparrow in addition to the thick soup.

Yamaoka Dotake slowly savored the delicacy of roasted sparrows and felt that Qian Xiaobao's victory under his command was brilliant.

"Steel German troops have taken Khimki! Our warriors will soon see Moscow's Red Square!  …"

The excited voice of the German announcer came from the radio.

Ambassador Tsugawa Miji and Yamaoka Michitake looked at each other without speaking.They all knew where Khimki was without looking at a map.

It was a place only twenty kilometers away from Moscow.

(End of this chapter)