Chapter Twenty-Eight: Return to the Village

Tang Cheng and those guerrillas looked at each other unpleasantly, and when they were cleaning the battlefield, they naturally didn't talk, but they bitterly became a punching bag for the two times. "We only take some medicine for the things on this hill, we want a first-aid kit, we want a grenadier, we want 400 bullets, all the grenades belong to us, and the rest is yours." Lao Dongbei killed the prisoners in front of the guerrillas without blinking, and he was not ambiguous when he divided the spoils, and found a total of more than 600 bullets, and he directly pulled most of them.

"2 grenadiers, 2 mortars, we only need one grenadier, and the rest three will be given to you. It's just that I took some more bullets, don't fucking glare at Lao Tzu, and provoke Lao Tzu, I won't give you any of these things. "The guerrillas' ignorance of etiquette annoyed Lao Northeast a little, those two mortars still carry three shells, that thing is much more valuable than a grenadier.

"Let's go, let's go to Li's shop to have a look, the stone hasn't come back for so long, I feel a little bad." Tang Cheng was not used to talking nonsense, so he just threw an empty backpack to Lao Dongbei and asked him to put all the bullets into the backpack, but he carried a backpack with grenades and a medicine box to the bottom of the earthen hill. Lao Dongbei quickly swept the bullets scattered on the ground into his backpack, and then picked up his light machine gun, and chased Tang Cheng away at the short-shirted man.

"It's too unreasonable, and they're too unreasonable, this is the person you Captain Song recruited." The short-shirted man who was ignored by Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei jumped to his feet angrily, and his two people had no choice but to pull the iron bull and shout. Tie Niu, who was pulled by him and couldn't walk, was also very helpless, he wanted to say that these two people were not from their Li Jiapu guerrillas, but the man in the short shirt didn't give himself a chance to speak, so Tie Niu could only stand there honestly with his head down.

The stream they ran to when they went to Lijiapu and Tang Cheng was not in the same direction, and the Mauser rifle that ran out of bullets was carried on his back by the reluctant old Northeast to go back, and Tang Cheng was now holding a Japanese 38 rifle in his hand. Tang Cheng had no experience in hand-to-hand stabbing, so he took off the bayonet on the rifle early, although Tang Cheng was not interested in the 38 rifle, but the range was much stronger than that of the barge gun, and besides, they only had the Han rifle bullet now.

After crossing the stream, Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei could already vaguely hear the gunfire coming from the direction of Lijiapu, but the gunfire sounded sparse, and it seemed that the situation of Lijiapu should not be very bad. The fierce battle at Tugang and Xishui just now consumed too much of Tang Cheng's body, so this would only be able to move forward quickly, and then run for his life like in Xiaojieling, Tang Cheng would not be able to bear it. "You go first, machine gun helper, it'll be better, I'll be there later." Seeing that Lao Northeast's body was more cost-effective, Tang Cheng asked him to rush to Li's shop to help first, and as for himself, he still fell behind and worked hard to follow up.

Lao Dongbei was overjoyed when he heard this, and then strode forward with his light machine gun, but before he could run far, he suddenly lay down, and Tang Cheng, who was following behind, chased after him with a broken step. "There is someone in front" Lao Dongbei lowered his voice, Tang Cheng, who was also lying down, picked up the telescope hanging on his chest and looked forward, there were only three people running towards him, and they were all familiar faces of Tang Cheng, half of his face was covered with blood, and Liu Shishi, who was pulling Xiaolian and Han Zhuo one by one, ran towards him.

"It's the two men of the Stone and Han families who came, it seems that the situation of the Li family shop is very bad, otherwise the stone wouldn't have run out with the two children." When Tang Cheng spoke, he had already gotten up to greet him, and Lao Dongbei just shook his head and got up and followed. Liu Shishi's Mauser rifle was long gone, and there was only one short gun left on his body, and when he saw two figures suddenly appearing in front of him, Liu Shishi hurriedly pressed the two men of the Han family to the ground, reached out and pulled out the short gun on his waist and planned to fight to the death.

"Stone, don't shoot, it's us." When he was far away, Tang Cheng shouted, according to Liu Shishi's character, he might have pushed the bomb and was ready to fire. Tang Cheng's shout made Liu Shi relax, and Liu Shishi, who had softened in an instant, sat on the ground like a grass snake without muscles and bones, and waited until Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei arrived at him, and Liu Shishi had not recovered yet.

"Stone, you kid is talking, what's wrong with the Li family's shop? And what happened to the guerrillas? Why is it just the three of you? Tang Cheng half-knelt beside Liu Shishi and looked in the direction of Li's shop with a telescope, while Lao Dongbei asked Liu Shishi with a pair of bull's eyes, but the latter was only at a loss when he asked him. Drink saliva, just drink saliva, this is tired, just slow down. Seeing that Liu Shishi was in a daze, Lao Dongbei flattened Liu Shishi, pillowed his head on his lap, took out a kettle to feed Liu Shishi, and tried to get Liu Shishi to come over.

The pillar of smoke rising from Li's shop was already much smaller, and Han Zhuo couldn't tell what happened to Li's shop, only that there was a war inside, and many people had died, but he couldn't tell why. According to Tang Cheng's usual practice, it would be right to turn around and leave, but the Han family still has three people in the village, and their carriage, without the carriage and those who have food and two children, Tang Cheng doesn't know what to do next.

Liu Shi couldn't recover for a while, Tang Cheng couldn't make a judgment, more than a dozen figures appeared in the distance, and Lao Dongbei, who was sitting on the ground, stretched out his hand and dragged the light machine gun to his side, and whispered to remind Tang Cheng that the guerrillas were coming. Tang Cheng turned around and saw that the short-shirted man who pointed a gun at the old northeast on the mound was also among them, but the people who walked in the front were Tie Niu and Gouzi, who were members of the Lijiapu guerrillas.

"Company Commander Tang, are you also going to Li's shop? Then we are really a pathway, it is better to be together. Apparently they asked Tang Cheng about their origin from the mouths of Tie Niu and Gouzi, and the man in the short shirt seemed to have forgotten what had just happened on the earthen hill, and he was very enthusiastic when he talked to Tang Cheng. Squinted at Tie Niu and Gouzi, one of them bowed his head and said nothing, and the other moved his gaze to the side, both with expressions of self-reproach, which made Tang Cheng feel amused by the simplicity of the two.

"You go first, my brother has some strength and hasn't recovered yet, I can't enter the village until he recovers." Tang Cheng didn't directly refuse the kindness released by the other party, so he could only use Liu Shishi as an excuse, Liu Shishi, who had just recovered some strength, just wanted to sit up, but was pressed on his leg by Lao Dongbei's outstretched hand. Tang Cheng refused ingeniously, and the man in the short shirt couldn't say anything, so he could only rush to Li Jiapu with a dozen guerrillas under his command.

Looking at the back in the distance, Lao Dongbei smiled and said, "Let these guys who don't know whether they are alive or dead go to the road first, let's just watch from behind, if the situation is not right, we will have time to withdraw." Tang Cheng nodded in agreement. There were also wounded in the guerrillas, just a hundred meters behind the short-shirted man, and when the wounded guerrillas who were supporting each other came over, Tang Cheng entrusted the two children of the Han family to their care, and he took Liu Shishi and Lao Dongbei to the Li family shop.

As he walked, he asked, and after walking a short distance, Tang Cheng had already learned about the current situation of Li Jiapu from Liu Shishi's narration. It was not the Japanese army that caused chaos in Lijiapu, but a group of bandits who were entrenched in the vicinity of Huahu Town all the year round. A few of the guerrillas who stayed in the village and shot directly at this group of bandits, who would have thought that the bandits directly set fire to the village, and Song Tieshan was leading his men and bandits to fight in the village.

"Uncle Han and sister-in-law are dead, Brother Han and we are separated, I can only take the two younger brothers to find you." Liu Shishi didn't dare to look at Tang Cheng, so he could only bow his head and whisper. In fact, he didn't know that Tang Cheng didn't blame him, Tang Cheng just felt strange, he was wondering about the behavior of this gang of bandits. The bandits have seen a lot, but Tang Cheng has never seen bandits who dare to fight with the guerrillas, especially the appearance of this group of bandits is too coincidental, it is just when the guerrillas go out to meet the Japanese army.

Five or six hundred meters away from the village, the gunfire in the village began to thicken, and Tang Cheng knew that it was those guerrillas who had just joined the battle. "Something is wrong" Lao Dongbei suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed Tang Cheng, with a gloomy face, closing his eyes and listening to something. After half a ring, Lao Dongbei opened his eyes and said with great certainty, "The people in the village are not bandits, they are little devils, and the gunfire just now is mixed with the sound of light machine guns, which is the same as the light machine gun in my hand." ”

Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi both knew what Lao Northeast meant, the machine gun in Lao Northeast's hand was captured by the Japanese army, this is Li Jiapu, the bandits could not have the Japanese machine gun, the only explanation is as Lao Northeast affirmed, the village and the guerrillas are not bandits but Japanese soldiers, a group of Japanese soldiers disguised as bandits. Tang Cheng and the three couldn't help but speed up their pace, Tang Cheng stuffed the 38 rifle and cartridge box in his hand to Liu Shishi, and he still carried the two shell guns to fight in the village in the street, short guns are better than rifles.

The situation in the village was not as pessimistic as Tang Cheng imagined, there were dozens of families in the entire Li family, and there were only a few dozen Japanese soldiers disguised as bandits, and they only occupied the north side of the village. Song Tieshan, who was struggling to support himself, took his only four remaining team members to occupy a courtyard in the middle of the village, and the guerrilla team that followed into the village was trying to drive the bandits scattered in the village to the northeast of the village.