Lei Jian turned his head on crutches and glanced at the battlefield where the smoke had not yet dissipated, and when he saw the green gauze tents destroyed by enemy planes, one by one they were strafed by bomb explosions and fierce fire, and the crops that fell on the ground were burned into scorched paste by the beacon fire.

He sighed deeply: "War, war destroys a country, destroys the people of this land, and every peace-loving person will hate war, and the great trauma caused by war cannot be forgotten by one generation." ”

At this time, the battlefield was destroyed by the war.

Lei Jian led the nine wounded and sick soldiers to move step by step towards the Peacock Valley in the northeast direction, and with each step, the seriously wounded gritted their teeth and endured the pain of tearing the wound.

This kind of marching speed is the first time that Lei Jian has felt the collision of tears and blood since he crossed into this era, this kind of inhuman torture, without firm belief, will be crushed and fall to the ground and never get up again.

This kind of belief does not have a lofty oath, it is very simple, that is, to live, return to the army alive, heal from the wounds and continue to go to the battlefield to kill devils, this is the most simple and strong belief and mind of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.

Just when Lei Jian and them left the crops destroyed by the war less than half an hour, the villagers who rushed out from the vicinity angrily threw themselves into their fields, looked at the destroyed crops, beat their chests and scolded the little devils, and were encountered by the soldiers of the cavalry battalion of the independent regiment of the fifth detachment of the mountain column of the Eighth Route Army who rushed over.

More than an hour passed, and when these soldiers and villagers gathered together again, shaking their heads at each other, their hearts were heavy and tears flowing, and the pain in their hearts was indescribable.

Wang Xiaoliang led the second cavalry company, when they searched the crop field where Lei Jian and they were killed, and found that the existing mound of soil had been picked up, he ordered the soldiers to dismount and carefully look through the mound to see if they could find recognizable objects.

Everything was disappointing, and from the mound of dirt that had been picked up, only the bloodstained dark brown soil could be carefully discerned, and nothing else.

Wang Xiaoliang decided that it must be the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who crawled out of the mound, which means that there should be a few more living soldiers who have left here.

He returned to the place where the soldiers and civilians were concentrated, and whispered to Li Gang: "I found a clue, there should be a living Eighth Route Army soldier leaving the battlefield, I don't know if it is our regiment commander or not." ”

Li Gang grabbed Wang Xiaoliang in surprise, and said excitedly in a trembling voice: "Deputy Commander Wang, your discovery is very promising, maybe our Captain Lei is among these people, I propose to search in the direction of Peacock Valley immediately, maybe we can find the soldiers who have returned to the army out of danger, if Commander Lei is among these people, then we will ......." ”

Wang Xiaoliang also shouted excitedly: "Battalion Commander Li, your analysis is reasonable, say goodbye to the villagers immediately, return quickly, expand the search area, and be sure to find these soldiers who have returned to the army out of danger." ”

Help the cavalry battalion, looking for the villagers who are still left on the battlefield of the Eighth Route Army soldiers, I heard that the cavalry battalion of the Eighth Route Army was about to leave, the young man who took the lead in speaking, rushed to Wang Xiaoliang's war horse, and said earnestly: "Deputy Commander Wang, I know that you are the biggest official in this cavalry team.

If these people still stay in the village, if they are not killed by the devils who rushed into the village, they will also be starved to death because of the lack of food at home. ”

As soon as the young man said this, the surrounding villagers all surrounded him, shouting one by one: "I can't live this day, let's all participate in the Eighth Route Killing of Little Devils, even if you die, you can leave a good reputation, the head of the Eighth Route Army, you will accept us, right?" ”

Wang Xiaoliang saw that these croppers were so enthusiastic about joining the army, he didn't know how to answer for a while, and when he was hesitating, Li Gang said in a low voice: "Deputy Commander Wang, our most important task now is to find Regiment Commander Lei, there is no time to entangle with these villagers, let's get out of here quickly." ”

Just when Wang Xiaoliang hesitated, the villagers in the field in the distance, without knowing what was going on, saw the villagers of the nearby villages and surrounded a cavalry team.

Wang Xiaoliang hadn't done the work of the two or three hundred people in front of him, and six or seven hundred villagers rushed up from afar, and he shouted loudly: "Villagers, don't be noisy, I want to ask my superiors, if I ......." ”

These people, who had already made up their minds to participate in the Eighth Route Army, heard Wang Xiaoliang shirk it, and shouted anxiously one by one: "In the past, the village mobilized us to join the Eighth Route Army, but at that time we were disobedient, and now the little devils don't let us live, and I have only one way for these people, that is, to participate in the Eighth Route and pick up a gun and go to the battlefield to kill devils, if you don't agree, none of you want to go." ”

The six or seven hundred villagers who rushed over from a distance heard the villagers surrounding the cavalry shouting: 'None of you can leave', and these villagers, who had been ruined by the enemy and could not survive, rushed up with farm tools without knowing it, and shouted angrily: "Yes, you can't let go of these bastards who kill people and set fires, and you can't let them go, kill, kill, kill——。 ”

The villagers who surrounded the cavalry battalion and asked to join the Eighth Route Army saw a group of villagers holding farm tools from all directions, and they scolded while running, which frightened these villagers to the side.

The young man who took the lead in asking to join the Eighth Route Army, fearing that the villagers who rushed over would make a big deal out of it, hurriedly shouted to the villagers surrounding the cavalry camp: "The cavalry team with the back of the Eighth Route Army, pick up farm tools to block the villagers who rushed over, but don't kill the devils, your own people will do it first." ”

He saw that the villagers took the initiative to pick up farm tools, faced the villagers rushing from all directions, made a fierce posture of swearing to protect the Eighth Route Army, and shouted loudly: "Old and young masters who rushed over, you stop quickly, what is surrounded inside is our Eighth Route Army cavalry team, our crops have been plagued by little devils, and we can't live, we are discussing and asking to join the Eighth Route Army, don't delay our good deeds, go back quickly." ”

When the villagers who rushed over heard that it was the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army that was surrounded, they stopped and heard that these people were discussing joining the Eighth Route Army, they looked at each other for a while, and suddenly shouted: "I can't live, we also have to join the Eighth Route Army, and we will die on the battlefield of killing devils." ”

Wang Xiaoliang didn't expect that these crop men who had lost their harvest could no longer suppress their anger at the little devils, and they even shouted that they wanted to join the Eighth Route Army.

Wang Xiaoliang, who was riding on a war horse, said to Li Gang: "Battalion Commander Li, have you seen it all?" This is what our head Lei often says, 'The power of the people is invincible', these crops were destroyed, and the croppers who lost their harvest were really forced to be helpless, and found the root cause of their inability to live, that is, they must defeat the little devils in order to live a good life.

It seems that if we don't agree to them to join the Eighth Route Army today, it's really hard for us to get out of the encirclement of so many people, and we can't slash them out with a saber, right? ”

When Li Gang saw so many villagers asking to join the Eighth Route Army, he had no idea for a while, and muttered in a low voice: "It would be nice if Regiment Commander Lei was here, but it is really difficult for us to deal with this matter at this time." ”

When Wang Xiaoliang saw that the cavalry battalion was surrounded by villagers, he was in a brain teaser, if Commander Lei encountered such a thing, what would he do? He couldn't think of a way to do it, and when he saw hundreds of people rushing from all directions, he was a little panicked.

However, Wang Xiaoliang has an advantage, he can usually lie on others and be carried around, and he is very comfortable if he doesn't want to use his brain, but when it comes to a critical moment, he can come up with new ideas by himself.

He rode on his horse and straightened his waist, so that he could show himself condescendingly, and his words would carry weight.

Wang Xiaoliang's naughty baby whistled, these eight or nine hundred villagers who were noisy and shouting, saw a half-old child riding a war horse and whistling, before they could figure out what was wrong, they only heard Wang Xiaoliang pretend to be old-fashioned, and learned the tone of Lei Jian's usual speech and said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, you all have to join the Eighth Route Army, which is a great thing, but you all listen to me, the Eighth Route Army ......." ”

(End of chapter)