Like a dream, like a real life（如梦如真的两段人生）

Chapter 24 comes together.

After wading through the snow, Tang Wen and his party finally arrived at Heifengkou.

Arriving at the mouth of the valley, Shunzi and Niuzi put down Shanzi and Goudan, drew out their thick-backed sharp knives, and ran straight to the bushes beside them.

Huzi gathered the guns that the two men had put down together and followed them. After a moment, he brought back a bunch of smooth tree branches and threw them in front of Shanzi and Goudan who were sitting there, then turned around and ran towards Shunzi and the others.

Tang Wen didn't understand what was happening. Shunzi had just stopped and asked if it was okay to rest here, and he didn't care too much. After all, they had already arrived at Heifengkou, so it was okay to rest, so he agreed casually. Now it seems that they seemed to have stopped on purpose.

Looking away from Huzi's back as he disappeared into the bushes, Tang Wen saw that Goudan and Shanzi had taken off their cotton gloves and were knitting something there.

After watching for a while, Tang Wen suddenly understood that the oval shape and the bottom of the basket made them weave snowshoes, which are used to walk on the snow, increase the contact area, and avoid stepping on the snow. They are a kind of striped shoes about one foot wide and two feet long. Looking at the tree strips, Tang Wen remembered a basket called earth basket sold in the Northeast market when he was a child. Aren’t they made of shrubs called broom strips and locust flower strips?

Thinking of the snowshoes he wore when he was a child, Tang Wen remembered something Liu Zhong said on the road at that time. The wind was strong at Heifengkou, and the snow was four or five meters deep. So they were weaving this to cross the snow cave? Just

as he was thinking about it, Shunzi and his family came back from the woods wading through the snow with a bunch of broom strips and locust flower strips.

"Brother Tang, we will be done in a while. Once we finish weaving, we will send Shanzi and Goudan through the Black Wind Pass first, and then come back to wait for Brother Zhong and the others."

Shunzi twisted the strips skillfully to soften them so that they would not break, and said to Tang Wen,

"Is there a snow pit in the Black Wind Pass?"

Tang Wen did not respond, but asked directly.

"Snow pit?"

Shunzi was surprised, thought about it and said, "I don't know what a snow pit is. We call it a snow cap here. I wonder if it is the same as what Brother Tang said."

"Snow cap?"

Tang Wen's eyes lit up. In the Wandashan mountain range, snow cap, snow pit and snow shell are the same, that is, the snow is blown very thick by the wind, and there is a layer of shell on it, so people can walk on it.

After understanding what was inside, Tang Wen hurriedly took off the 38-meter-high cover on his bag, handed it to Hu Zi, who was also making snowshoes, and said, "Hu Zi, pay more attention to the back, I'll go in and take a look."

As he said that, without waiting for Hu Zi and Shun Zi to speak, Tang Wen quickly ran into the mountain pass that was more than 2,000 meters wide.

Heifengkou is the place where the foot of two peaks connect. The location of the mountain pass is facing north, and the terrain is high, so it is not a watershed and there is no river. In Heifengkou, the wind blew the snow grains rolling on the exposed rocky ground and blew all the way inside.

Entering Heifengkou, Tang Wen walked quickly on the ground where the snow grains were rolling. After two or three minutes, he saw snow.

The snow began to accumulate from 700 to 800 meters inside the vent, and gradually increased all the way until it could not be seen; the gradually increasing snow ridges were as flat as the surface of a lake, with no trees or shrubs, only snow grains that kept rolling, rolling on the snow shell that could already support people, all the way up. Judging from the visual, if the ground below is flat, the thickness of the snow must be more than five meters, and even ten meters is normal.

"That's it!"

After looking at the surrounding environment, the flat valley confirmed Tang Wen's previous thoughts. He turned around and ran back...

Liu Zhong and the other four were in a very bad state at this time. After four hours of running in the snow, they no longer had the strength to run fast before; each of the four people only carried a gun and held a gun in their hands. They threw away all the others, and even threw grenades into the snow to reduce the weight. Even so, they couldn't pull away from the Japanese behind them. They could still vaguely see the figures chasing them.

"Chase! The Chinese pigs are running out of energy!"

Yamada Yokoji was ruthless, and he exhaled more than a foot long, desperately urging the soldiers to keep up.