Chapter 7: Heading South
The sound of the explosion on the highway made Zhang Zhan, who had retreated a hundred meters, stop, and found a slightly higher place, Zhang Zhan looked at the side of the road with a telescope, but was stunned by what he saw. originally thought that Tang Cheng was going to be imprisoned this time, but he didn't expect Zhang Zhan to see Liu Shi who had already rushed down the road with a gun, Liu Shi dared to rush down the hill like this, there was only one explanation, that is, Tang Cheng had already killed the 24 Japanese soldiers on the road, but how could this be possible?
Not only did Zhang Zhan not understand, but even the sunspot who was forced to stay on the slope by Liu Shi with a grenade couldn't figure it out, but this was indeed the result he saw with his own eyes. "Now I know Company Commander Tang's ability, when the regiment commander was still alive, but he personally said that Company Commander Tang was his successor. Last year, when he was fighting with the devil soldiers in the city of Nanjing, the company commander of Tang alone killed dozens of devil soldiers and blew up two tanks of the devil soldiers. Tang Cheng on the highway had already sent a signal, Liu Shishi said a few words to Heizi, and then ran down the slope with his rifle.
The gunfire on the highway had long since stopped, only the burning truck was still crackling with flames and smoke, and he ordered Jiujin, who was injured in the arm by a stray bullet, to be on guard, Tang Cheng opened the door of the cab of the truck and sat in. Twisting the key and lighting the fire, Tang Cheng carefully geared the truck back away from the burning truck, and the truck with black smoke roared at the tail and slowly retreated, perhaps because he hadn't driven for a long time, Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the cab, was actually nervous and sweated.
"Huh" finally moved the truck back more than 20 meters away, Tang Cheng, who braked the car, breathed a long sigh of relief, sitting in the cab that had turned off the ignition, Tang Cheng pulled the steering wheel and hand gear handle to familiarize himself again, and then jumped out of the cab a little reluctantly. Compared with fighting with a gun, Tang Cheng seemed to prefer the feeling of driving a car in the suburbs, Tang Cheng stopped the car, and Liu Shishi also happened to run down from the top of the slope, with Tang Cheng's gesture, Liu Shishi stared at the back of the truck with a rifle in his round eyes.
When starting the truck just now, Tang Cheng, who was sitting in the cab, faintly heard the sound from the truck compartment, but he had to worry that the intact truck would not spread the flames, so he could only start the truck and retreat first. Flattening the shell gun in his hand, Tang Cheng motioned for Liu Shishi to use his rifle to pick up the tarpaulin covering the carriage, Liu Shishi didn't know Tang Cheng's intentions, but just stretched out his rifle to pick up the tarpaulin according to Tang Cheng's instructions.
"Get out of the way" Liu Shishi picked up the tarpaulin on one side with his rifle, and Tang Cheng, who flattened the shell gun, saw a man and a woman tied like zongzi in the carriage at a glance. Since they were tied up in the carriage by the Japanese soldiers with ropes, then they would not be their enemies, pushed away Liu Shishi, who was blocking in front of him, and Tang Cheng, who took the shell gun back into the holster, grabbed the tailgate of the truck and turned into the carriage.
The action of climbing up made Tang Cheng grin, the gunshot wound last time had not fully recovered, when he ran fast just now, it had already made Tang Cheng's gunshot wound bleed again, plus the current climbing action, the sharp pain made countless gold stars appear in front of Tang Cheng's eyes. Leaning against the wall of the carriage for a while, Tang Cheng, who reopened his eyes, moved his gaze to the man and woman sitting next to each other, seeing that the clothes they were wearing should not be ordinary people, the man in his thirties was wearing a dark long shirt, and the woman was wearing the cheongsam and cashmere shawl that Shanghai celebrities loved the most.
Reaching out to take off the cloth ball from their mouths, Tang Cheng did it opposite the two, "Who are you?" Why was he tied up and locked in a carriage by the Japanese army? Losing the cloth ball in his mouth, the man and the woman did not answer Tang Cheng's question for the first time, but gasped and looked at each other, the deep concern in their eyes reminded Tang Cheng of Robert and Liu Goat who had passed away again.
From the affection revealed in the eyes of the two, Tang Cheng could already judge that the relationship between the two was very expensive, and it was likely to be a husband and wife or a relative. "I don't have much time, the movement just now is so big, and it is likely that other Japanese soldiers will come over, so then you better tell me your identity and the truth of the matter, otherwise I don't mind leaving you here." Although he was envious of the friendship between this man and woman, Tang Cheng had to interrupt their eyes with evil words.
Tang Cheng only took off the cloth in their mouths, but did not loosen the restraints for them, coupled with the smell of blood all over Tang Cheng's body and the two shell guns that were crossed on his body, this kind of coercion made the man and woman very frightened. "Don't be afraid, I am from the 88th Division of the National Army, and I lost contact with the troops after the city of Nanjing was broken up, and now I am preparing to go to Wuhan and then go south to Chongqing to find my old commander." Hearing Tang Cheng's words, the frightened couple noticed that Tang Cheng's body was already full of holes, and only half of the second lieutenant rank mark was left on the collar.
"You're a national soldier, that's great, let us go, it's uncomfortable for me to die." The woman screamed first, and then turned around and asked Tang Cheng to untie the rope for them. Taking the bayonet handed by Liu Shishi outside the carriage, Tang Cheng loosened the ties for the man and the woman, but the bayonet in his hand was not put down, and Tang Cheng would not relax his vigilance until the man and woman did not identify themselves. "Company Commander Tang, I really want to thank you this time, if you hadn't ambushed the Japanese army here, maybe we would be in trouble this time." The untied man thanked Tang Cheng again and again.
The man named Song Bo himself said that they were caught by the Japanese army on the way back to their hometown and province, and even specifically stated that they had a shop in Wuhan, but Tang Cheng did not believe the words of the man and woman. In the man's words just now, it was obvious that the Japanese soldiers killed by Tang Cheng were called Japanese soldiers, which was different from ordinary Chinese calling Japanese soldiers little devils, and when Tang Cheng loosened the rope for them, he had already felt the power on Song Bo's arm, and this man would definitely not be as cowardly as he revealed.
As for what Song Bo said, Tang Cheng didn't believe it, how could a businessman who could open a shop in Wuhan not understand the current situation, where would someone run to the war zone in vain. Although he thought so, Tang Cheng's face was silent, "Okay, we are just going to Wuhan, it is better for us to go all the way, and you can also show us the route." Although Tang Cheng doubted the identity of the man and woman, he was sure that they would not be pretended to be Japanese.
After a brief chat with Song Bo, Tang Cheng, who was worried about nine pounds, jumped out of the carriage, and the truck that caught fire did not explode again as Tang Cheng feared. Liu Shishi and Jiujin had already gathered the scattered weapons and ammunition together, and with Liu Shishi's search, even the items in the pockets of these Japanese soldiers were found and put in a backpack. "Company commander, what is this? How does it look weird. Liu Shishi was fiddling with a gas mask in his hand, and the long hose was thrown around by him to look very funny.
"Go up to the top of the slope to see if the sunspots are still there, if they are still on the top of the slope, tell them to come down and help, and tell them not to do it in vain." When he jumped out of the carriage just now, Tang Cheng had already seen the figure on the top of the slope, and he knew that Heizi was embarrassed to come down to join in the fun, so he simply sent the reluctant Liu Shishi to call someone down. In Tang Cheng's opinion, Heizi is different from Zhang Zhan, although Heizi is full of gangsterism, this person is clearly a straight person. Zhang Zhan looks upright, but he is a mercenary person in his bones, and it is best not to deal with such a person, otherwise it will be very troublesome.
"Help, help me load the corpses of these devil soldiers into the car, if you want, I can take you in a truck, if you don't want to go all the way with us, these weapons and ammunition can be divided between you and half." Tang Cheng said these words on purpose, knowing that Kuroko couldn't pull his face, but he just said that he wanted Kuroko to make his own choice, just to see what kind of person Kuroko was.
Glancing at the three people under him, Kuroko nodded and agreed to go with Tang Cheng and them, although Kuroko's expression was a little embarrassed, Tang Cheng could see that it was not very difficult for him to make this choice. With the help of Kuroko and them, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers scattered on the road were quickly moved into the carriage, and when Zhang Zhan, who had been watching from a distance, rushed down the road with his subordinates, Tangcheng and they had already left, and Zhang Zhan could only look at the yellow dust dragged out of the back of the truck and scolded.
"Why do you have to take them? Didn't you already take our gold bars and go separately from us? Jiujin, who was sitting in the co-pilot's seat, looked at Tang Cheng very puzzled, all the money was brought by Tang Cheng to suppress the bandits, and it was also accumulated by Lao Xu little by little, and the nine catties who admitted death didn't think that the money had anything to do with those bandits.
"You're just a small-eyed person, and when we first arrived in Nanjing, we only had a few oceans in our pockets. This money was originally stolen from the bandits, even if it was all given to people, as long as we are alive, there will be more opportunities to get money in the future. Tang Cheng laughed and scolded Jiujin, but he didn't tell Jiujin what he was thinking.
It is Tang Cheng's choice to go to Wuhan, the road to Wuhan from here is not close, and there may be a lot of troubles along the way, it is difficult to solve these troubles with only the three of them and the pair of men and women in the carriage, plus the four of them are different, at least they can have a few more helpers when there is danger.