Chapter 70: Cold Shot
Wang Ye returned to the dormitory, sewed his military uniform, and had a good sleep.
At six o'clock in the evening, Wang Ye was awakened by the tempting smell of meat. When he got up and went to the kitchen of the regiment, he saw the head of the cooking squad, Lao Wang, busy cooking dinner.
"Old Wang, what are we having for dinner tonight?" Wang Ye asked as soon as he entered the door.
"Xiao Wang, are you awake?" Lao Wang responded while busy adding fuel to the stove. "Stewed horse meat, smoked horse intestines, and cornmeal steamed bread. Plenty of it."
Wang Ye turned his head and saw dishes spread out on the table.
There are still a few pairs of chopsticks that have not been put away yet.
Then he asked, "Have the regiment commander and political commissar eaten?"
"They've already eaten." Lao Wang said with a smile, "You're the only one left."
"Hey, Old Wang, why didn't you wake me up?" Wang Ye said.
"The captain didn't allow me to wake you up." Lao Wang said, "He told you to sleep a little longer."
Wang Ye said a little embarrassedly: "It's just that I made you cook two dinners. It's tiring."
"Nothing." Lao Wang waved his hand and said, "This isn't a big pot meal or a big pot dish, it's not a big deal."
Lao Wang is really very relaxed now. Since the guard company was incorporated into the cavalry company, there are only a few regimental leaders, secretaries of various departments and the Wolf Warrior Squad in the entire regiment, which together make up no more than thirty people.
Now that the Wolf Warrior Squad is also training with the Cavalry Company, he feels even more relaxed.
As he was talking, Lao Wang brought out the stewed horse meat, smoked horse intestines and freshly steamed cornmeal steamed bread.
Wiping the soup off his hands with his apron, Lao Wang smiled and said, "Wait a minute, I'll make you another soup."
"No, no, there's really no need to cook any more soup." Wang Ye hurriedly stopped her and said, "Old Wang, you haven't had dinner yet, right? Sit down and eat with me."
"I have already eaten."
Lao Wang waved his hand.
He didn't actually eat it.
As a cook, he had to wait until everyone in the regiment had eaten before he could eat.
Wang Ye did not expose it. He just ate his meal in a flash and left.
Wang Ye ate most of the cornmeal steamed bread, but there was a lot of stewed horse meat and smoked horse intestines left, which Wang Ye deliberately left for Lao Wang and the cooks in the kitchen.
The cook actually has the hardest job.
…
When I came to the stable in the backyard, I unexpectedly met Sun Desheng again.
Sun Desheng was seen standing in front of the wolf king, gently stroking his mane. His movements were so gentle, as if he was stroking his own precious daughter.
He was muttering to himself at the same time.
"Good horse, what a good horse."
"It's such a shame to be ruined by that bastard Wang Ye."
Wang Ye coughed lightly and said, "Old Sun, it's not nice to curse people behind their backs. "
"You should be scolded." Sun Desheng was not embarrassed at all. Instead, he said confidently, "Look at what you have done to the Wolf King."
"How did I ruin it?"
Wang Ye said: "Explain it to me clearly."
"How can you destroy it? Don't you have any idea?"
As Sun Desheng spoke, he scooped up a handful of hay from the trough.
"Look at this grass. Some are long, some are short, some are thick, some are thin. There are even fucking branches."
"And the beans were not fried dry to save trouble, and they were not mixed well with the fodder."
"For a warhorse, this fodder is just like your meal. It's half-cooked coarse rice mixed with sand. How can you have the physical strength to keep up?"
"Don't you have diarrhea?"
"That's not what makes me angry the most."
"Look at how dirty the wolf king is. How many days has it been since he last washed his face?"
"And these leggings, if they are tied so tightly they will cause poor , and your legs will become useless after a while."
Wang Ye felt hot all over after hearing what he said. He really didn't pay attention to these things because he had never worked as a cavalryman for a single day in his two lifetimes. The system only taught him legendary horsemanship, but he had no experience in taking care of a warhorse.
Before, he just followed the regiment's groom and did things randomly, and he didn't think there was anything wrong.
But now after listening to Sun Desheng 's explanation, I realized that taking care of a war horse is completely different from taking care of mules and horses.
Sun Desheng added, "If I hadn't seen the monks' horses being ruined like that, I would have come to the regiment to see the wolf king. You would have ridden them to pieces in three days at most."
“Is it that serious?” Wang Ye’s expression turned serious.
"What do you think?" Sun Desheng said, "You bastard, you didn't even consider the Wolf King as your comrade-in-arms. You just treated it as a mount and rode it to death."
Wang Ye's face felt hot again.
Because what Sun Desheng said was the truth.
He really didn't regard the Wolf King as a comrade-in-arms.
I have been riding like crazy these days.
However, the wolf king treated Wang Ye very kindly.
He kept rubbing his head against Wang Ye's body.
When Sun Desheng saw this, he became extremely jealous.
That look is like the goddess of your dreams is with another stinky man.
Sun Desheng then said, "If you keep the Wolf King at the regiment headquarters to take care of him, it will be useless. It is better to put him in the cavalry company and let us take care of him. You can come to the cavalry company to get him when you need him."
"Okay." Wang Ye said, "But what if I need a horse tonight?"
"We definitely can't use the Wolf King tonight." Sun Desheng said, "Why don't you change your warhorse? You can choose from over 120 warhorses in our cavalry company."
"Fine."
…
He picked out a war horse from the cavalry company's stable, tied his equipment to the horse's back, then mounted the horse and headed straight for the Huting stronghold.
It's time to start a side job again.
But before, the Wolf Warrior team worked together on the side business.
Tonight, it was Wang Ye who acted alone.
The mountain road is particularly quiet at night, and night birds are occasionally startled from the grass by the roadside.
However, the new warhorse had been trained very well by the veterans of the cavalry company and was not frightened at all. It walked very steadily on the rugged mountain road without even stumbling.
It is nearly 40 kilometers from Yangcun to the Huting stronghold, and it only takes two hours to get there.
The war horses were tied in a hidden grove and muzzled, so that they would remain quiet and not be discovered.
He took the rifle from the horse again.
Then he picked up his rifle and headed towards the Huting stronghold.
When there was about two hundred meters away from the Huting stronghold, Wang Ye stopped moving forward and hid in a ditch.
Because the three artillery towers in the middle of the Huting stronghold had been renovated, the Japanese even set up searchlights on the top of the artillery towers, and the three searchlights kept shining back and forth in three directions.
If we go any further, we will easily be spotted .
So we have to destroy the Japanese searchlights first.
The distance of two hundred meters was not a difficult task for Wang Ye.
It is difficult to attack the dark with light at night, but it is always accurate to attack the light with darkness.
Wang Ye raised his hand and fired a shot, and one of the searchlights went out.
This was like stirring up a hornet's nest. The Japanese sentries on duty in the artillery tower and various fortifications opened fire one after another. Dazzling rays of light scattered into the surrounding night sky like flowers from heaven.
The other two searchlights were also shining around like headless flies.
Wang Ye turned over, leaned against the ditch, closed his eyes and began to doze off.
It was pitch dark, and he was sure that the Japanese would not come out of the stronghold to search immediately, so he just rested.
As Wang Ye expected, the Japanese made a fuss for nearly a quarter of an hour and fired a lot of bullets, but they never came out to check because they were worried that there was an ambush of the Eighth Route Army outside the stronghold.
If we are ambushed, the losses will be even greater.
Wang Ye stood up again only when the Japanese gunfire became sparse.
He raised his hand and fired another shot, and the second searchlight went out.
But this time, the Japs were obviously much more vigilant.
As soon as the gunshot rang out, the Japanese locked onto the exact location where Wang Ye was hiding through the muzzle flash.
The next moment, dense rain of bullets poured down violently from the dozen firing holes in the three artillery towers and the more than twenty circular barricades or foxholes outside the stronghold.
This picture is wonderful, brilliant and gorgeous to the extreme!
But Wang Ye had no time to appreciate it and quickly slid into the ditch and moved to another place.
This time the Japanese gunfire lasted only about five minutes, but still no Japanese came out to check.
Taking advantage of the cover of darkness and the ditch, Wang Ye moved to the second shooting position, but he was not in a hurry to shoot.
Instead, he waited for nearly half an hour, and estimated that the Japs in the stronghold had relaxed their vigilance, then he sat up and fired the third shot, and the third searchlight on the top of the artillery tower went out again.
Now, the entire Huting stronghold was plunged into darkness.
This time, some Japanese finally came out to check. Under the guidance of intensive retaliatory fire, about a squad of cavalry rushed out of the gate of the stronghold and pounced towards the direction where Wang Ye was hiding.
Wang Ye moved quickly using the earthen ditch as cover.
