Liu Yun, the leader of the first squad, rushed out of the fierce turret with a Japanese baby less than eight months in his arms, and just happened to run to Lei Jian with a reconnaissance platoon and a guard squad, and quickly ran to him.

Liu Yun, the leader of the first squad, lifted off the wet clothes on his body, revealed the child in his arms, and shouted to Lei Jian anxiously: "Report to Captain Lei, a Japanese six-year-old girl was rescued from the turret, I am holding a Japanese baby in my arms, I don't know how to deal with it, please instruct." ”

Lei Jian looked at the Japanese baby in Liu Yun's arms, and the six-year-old Japanese girl who was squatting on the ground at this time, trembling with fright, and he didn't know what to do for a while, he knew very well in his heart that the final fate of these two girls. But he looked at the unconscious baby in silence, and his words were there.

Liu Yun's squad leader was very embarrassed to see Lei Jian, and he took the initiative to propose: "Captain Lei, although these two children are Japanese, they are still children, my home is four or five miles away from here, this baby is in a coma at this time, I think I will send it to my house first and hand it over to my mother-in-law to take care of, do you think it's okay Captain Lei?" ”

Lei Jian immediately nodded and said: "Squad Leader Liu, you take a few soldiers, send these two children back to the village, and hand them over to your sister-in-law to take care of, I will report to Commander Nie of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region immediately, and see how Commander Nie replies." ”

After sending the two children away, Lei Jian felt a little better, he didn't have time to continue to dwell on this issue, and immediately convened a military meeting of the commanders of each battalion, at which the results of the battle were gathered again.

Zhang Ting, commander of the first battalion, said: "Commander Lei, some local soldiers, and some cadres do not understand the ignition of the coal dug up by the laborers, especially the destruction of the coal shaft, and they have great opinions. ”

Huang Yong, the commander of the third battalion, said: "Some cadres and soldiers, when they heard that the troops were about to withdraw from the Jingcheng Coal Mine, were puzzled in their hearts, and they had everything to say, and the most concentrated point was that the Jingcheng Coal Mine that the soldiers had laid down with their blood and lives was given to the little devils, wasn't this a sacrifice made in vain?" ”

Lei Jian immediately reported the opinions gathered at the meeting and the results of this battle to Commander Jinchaji Nie.

Commander Nie made timely instructions: first, the annihilation battle of Jingcheng Coal Mine is of great significance to the start of the Zhengtai Road attack battle; The second is to tell the comrades that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army used their lives and blood to lay down the Jingcheng Coal Mine, and temporarily giving up is a strategic need, and we will take it back from the hands of the little devils, but not now; Third, the Japanese mining engineers captured in the Jingcheng Coal Mine Campaign and the captured coal mine materials should be immediately released to Honghecao and handed over to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region for ******; The fourth is to rescue the two Japanese girls in the battle, and when the time is ripe, they will be sent to the military district headquarters in time.

Lei Jian received the instructions from Commander Nie and immediately ordered the cadres at the regimental and battalion level of the troops to do a good job of some cadres and soldiers in a timely manner, to carry out ideological work with ideological baggage, to go into battle lightly, and to be ready to accept new orders at any time.

The cadres and soldiers of the unit took advantage of this time to replenish food, do a good job in the ideological education and military training of the miners who had newly joined the Eighth Route Army, and master the ability to kill the enemy as soon as possible.

In addition, Liu Yun, the leader of the first squad, led several soldiers to quickly send the rescued two Japanese girls to their home four miles away, and his mother-in-law did not expect Liu Yun to suddenly come back from the army, and was so excited that before she could ask, she saw two soldiers walking into the yard with two children.

Liu Yun pointed to the two children and said to the mother-in-law: "Tiesuo Mom, these two children were rescued from the Jingcheng Coal Mine, this older girl is okay, but when the baby was rescued from the turret, he has been in a coma, and now he is awake all the way, the children are hungry, you hurry up and get some food for the children." ”

Tiesuo's mother frowned, pulled Liu Yun aside and asked in a low voice: "Tiesuo's father, you said that these two girls were rescued from the turret, then they should be Japanese children, right?" This can't be done, the little devil enters the village regardless of men, women and children, and kills when he catches it, why did you save two Japanese girls and send them to the village? I don't dare take it in. ”

"Your mother-in-law is a lot of things, this is the chief's order, and you must take care of it, I don't have time to talk to you, the child has been handed over to you, we can't explain it to the chief."

Liu Yun said as he took the Japanese baby in the soldier's arms, handed it to his mother-in-law, turned to the soldier who came with him and said, "We will return to the army immediately, if it is too late, once the army is deployed, we will be left behind." ”

Tie Suo looked at Liu Yun and several soldiers who rushed out of the yard, shook his head and sighed: "Hey, it's all called the little devil to make trouble, the country is not the country, the home is not the home, and the two Japanese babies are brought back, but how can I tell the people in the village." ”

She carried the six-year-old Chieko into the house with the baby, and the five-year-old son who was playing on the kang was playing with the iron rope, watching her mother lead a little girl into her arms, and she was still holding one in her arms, he innocently asked: "Mom, who are they?" ”

The iron lock mother deceived the child and said: "It's a child from a distant neighbor's family, temporarily in our house, and will leave soon." ”

The ignorant little iron lock said to the six-year-old girl: "Come, you go to the kang, can I play with you?" ”

Six-year-old Chieko couldn't understand what Xiao Tiesuo said, but she saw that it was a partner about the same size as herself, and Chieko, who had been in panic since she was rescued from the turret, smiled at this time and asked with a smile, "What's your name?" ”

Xiao Tiesuo didn't understand what Chieko said, so he looked up and asked his mother: "Mom, I don't understand what this young lady is saying, what is he talking about?" ”

Just when Tie Suo's mother was frightened by the two Japanese girls who suddenly stayed at home, she suddenly exclaimed from outside: "The little devil has entered the village, run away." ”

When the iron lock mother heard that the little devil broke into the village, she frowned in fright and looked at the two extra Japanese girls around her, once the little devil knew, I don't know what bad luck it would bring to her mother, if the villagers knew, how would they treat her mother and these two Japanese girls?

She shouted to the iron rope lying on the kang without fear: "Little iron lock, get off the kang quickly, the little devil has entered the village, you help your mother quickly lead this young lady, and follow your mother out of the village, you must not run away, you must follow your mother." ”

Tie Suo's mother led the three children, with them in their arms and tows, and fled with the people in the village into a nearby crop field to hide.

The devils entered the village to burn, kill and loot, and some of the villagers who did not come and evacuated were slaughtered by the murderous devils, and the whole village was in flames, chickens and dogs jumped, people and animals could not be safe, and the screams continued.

When the village was quiet, Tiesuo's mother took the baby out of the crop field with a small hand in her arms, and when she returned home, she saw that there was a mess outside the house, and even the small half-bag of cereals that was hidden was hidden by the little devil and snatched it away.

With tears in her eyes, she said, "My little iron lock, how can we live in the future, woo woo." ”

Tiesuo's mother cried and put the baby on the kang, she has been in a coma since she took over the baby, the Japanese baby has been in a coma, he touched the baby's head, felt a little hot, she dragged a piece of cloth from the kang and shouted: "Tiesuo, quickly wet this cloth strip for Mom." ”

shouted two or three times in a row, but there was no echo of the iron lock, and the iron lock mother scolded angrily: "This little iron lock knows that the leather is solid, the iron lock, the iron lock, the iron ......." ”

Iron lock mother shouted a few times and didn't hear the iron lock respond, she nervously turned around and looked in the house, where is there still the shadow of the iron rope? She rushed out of the house and shouted, "Iron lock, iron lock, where are you?" Come out of my mother's house, the locks are ——。 ”

Continuous crying, how can there be the shadow of iron ropes at home and outside the house? The iron lock mother rushed to the street crying, and when she saw the neighbor, she asked, "Do you see my iron lock?" "Who saw the iron lock of my house? "Woo woo, where are you with the iron lock, my iron lock." ”

The neighbors of the village saw the iron lock mother crying all the way 'iron lock', almost frantically shouting her son the name of the iron lock in the village, and a little girl in a strange costume behind her cried behind the iron lock mother.

At this time, the uncle and uncle of the iron lock, the mother of the iron lock who was running and crying all the way, asked, "the iron lock, the iron lock is gone?" What's the matter with this girl crying behind you, she doesn't look like a child in our village, and she doesn't look like a ....... ”

Tie Suo's mother lost her son's grief in her heart, and pulled Chieko, who was crying behind her, to her side, and was just about to scold this Japanese child who brought bad luck to her family, when she suddenly remembered Liu Yunlin's words and stern eyes when she left home, she controlled the resentment that was about to erupt, and tears flowed down, and she cried out loud.

(End of chapter)