Chapter Eighty-Eight: Helping Hands Again

"I don't think there's something quite right," Kuroko lay down by the river for a while, leaving his three men in the grass nest to continue to observe, and returned halfway up the mountain by himself. Heizi's words were a little clueless, which made Tang Cheng a little confused, and looked through the telescope in the direction of Kuroko's finger, Tang Cheng realized that Heizi was talking about the old men sitting under the big tree at the entrance of the village.

"Don't you think it's a little strange?" Tang Cheng didn't see any suspicion, Kuroko took the telescope and looked at the entrance of the village, "A village shouldn't have only old people and no children, I remember that when I was young, I always liked to play at the entrance of the village, I squatted by the river for a while, and I only saw those old men at the entrance of the village, but I saw a child." Don't you think it's strange that such a big village not only has no children, but also can't even look at a woman? ”

Kuroko's words made Tang Cheng frown, indeed, when he used the telescope to observe the entrance of the village just now, it was true that neither a child nor a woman saw it. "Then you mean to say that there is a problem with this Hexi Village?" Tang Cheng had to start facing up to Heizi's question, if there was a problem with this Hexi Village, Erlian would be trapped here if he rashly went down the mountain and entered the village, which was the last thing Tang Cheng wanted to see.

Kuroko didn't nod, but the doubt in his eyes already explained his attitude, there was indeed a problem with this Hexi Village. Suspecting that there is something wrong with Hexi Village, but Tang Cheng can't give the order to leave, their task is to find and clear out the Japanese scout troops in this area, since they already suspect that there is a problem with Hexi Village, the only thing they have to do is to prove this suspicion. "Look, is that guy we just saved over there?" Liu Shishi suddenly pointed in the direction of Hexi Village and shouted in a low voice, Tang Cheng and Heizi subconsciously turned their heads to see that it was Su Datong and them who appeared outside the small river outside Hexi Village.

"Look, the man who helped us find our way is here." Putting down the telescope in his hand, Tang Cheng whispered a few words to Kuroko. Su Datong has already saved them once, Tang Cheng can't help back, this is a battlefield, a battlefield of life and death, everyone can only be responsible for their own lives and have no time to take care of others. And you suspect that there is a problem with this Hexi Village, Tang Cheng also agrees, but he doesn't want to use his soldiers to explore the way, Su Datong and their appearance just solved this problem for Tang Cheng, and Su Datong, who already has two machine guns, is not easy to deal with.

The soldiers of the second company, with blades of grass and bushes stuck in their bodies and steel helmets, quietly hid in the middle of the mountain, and they watched Su Datong and his men step on the stones in the small river and wade into Hexi Village. Su Datong didn't know that Tang Cheng and his gang were on the mountain outside the village, if Su Datong knew that Tang Cheng and they were also here, he wouldn't have ordered his soldiers to enter this village to find food. Su Datong is different from Tang Cheng, Tang Cheng has been fighting in the field since Mengcheng, he knows the importance of food, and the soldiers of the second company will prepare three days' rations for themselves before setting off.

Su Datong belonged to the 30th Army, and the 30th Army fought bravely, but what they were good at was positional warfare and group warfare, and their ability to fight in the field was much inferior to Tangcheng. When Tang Cheng came to the rescue, Su Datong's soldiers were already hungry, and they followed the terrain all the way to Hexi Village, and Wang Xiaoer and the others kept clamoring to go into the village to find food. Su Datong was actually a little hungry, so he simply agreed to the request of his soldiers, and everyone crossed the river into the village to find food.

"These fools, they didn't even leave anyone to look at the back road, it's really damn it." Tang Cheng, who had been watching the entrance of the village with a telescope, couldn't help but scold. Su Datong's people all crossed the river and rushed to the village under the big trees, but there was no one left on this side of the river.

"I'll go down and have a look," Kuroko said as he left the sentence and went down the mountain with his rifle, and the three of his men were still lurking in the grass nest by the river, without them, Kuroko would be alone. Tang Cheng wanted to let all the people of the second company go down, but the movement of one hundred and ten people would definitely attract Su Datong's attention, even if it didn't attract Su Datong's attention, it would be discovered by the villagers who lived here. Tang Cheng still needs Su Datong and them to explore the way for themselves, and now they can't expose the existence of the second company, otherwise the gains outweigh the losses.

"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" The gunshots rang out suddenly, and as Heizi deduced, there was indeed a problem in this Hexi Village. Su Datong, who did not know the truth from the mouths of the old men at the entrance of the village, entered the village with confidence, but it was not a lot of effort, and the village sounded dense gunfire, at first it was only sporadic rifle shooting, but in the back, the sound of machine gun fire had resounded in the sky. "It's a fight" The sunspot lurking by the river had a happy face, and then turned around in the grass nest and looked back at the halfway up the mountain, he couldn't cross the river without Tang Cheng's order.

The gunfire in the village gradually became denser, and it was very rhythmic, Tang Cheng knew that it was the movement of machine gun fire, and listening to the sound of gunfire, there was more than one machine gun firing. "Boom" and "boom" explosions mixed with the sound of gunfire, and the smoke rising in the village appeared in Tangcheng's telescope one after another, but even if the gunfire was like rain and explosion, Tangcheng's telescope never showed any villagers, and there was only the shadow of Su Datong and the Japanese army in his telescope.

This discovery made Tang Cheng more convinced of Kuroko's inference, and at the same time, he was worried about Su Datong and them, who had already entered the village. "Grenadiers are ready, and Lao Dongbei will bring two machine guns down to help." The earthy yellow uniforms of the Japanese army finally appeared in the binoculars, and the Japanese soldiers he saw the first few times were all fleeting, but this time Tang Cheng had firmly locked on the Japanese soldiers who appeared in his sight.

The number of Japanese soldiers who appeared in the Tangcheng telescope far exceeded his estimate, and although Tangcheng did not see all the Japanese soldiers, he locked on the Japanese commander in the village in the telescope, which was a young man. According to Tang Cheng's understanding of the establishment of Japanese troops, the troops commanded by a Japanese soldier Shaozuo are usually at the level of a squad or squadron, and after such a conversion, Tang Cheng came up with an answer, and now the Japanese army in Hexi Village will not be less than a squadron.

If there were no losses from the previous ambush by the Japanese army, maybe Su Datong and they still had the ability to fight to the death with the Japanese army in the village, but after they were ambushed by the Japanese army just now, Su Datong's company only had just over 100 people left to continue fighting, and this number could not defeat a Japanese squad. Although Tang Cheng didn't understand why Su Datong's company didn't return to the defense line of the 30th Army to rest after a quarter of the casualties, he couldn't watch Su Datong from a distance now, and they were all killed here by the Japanese troops in the village.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time" After getting Tang Cheng's order, the impatient Lao Dongbei, who had been waiting for a long time, together with a few machine gunners under his command, touched down the mountain with two light machine guns. Niu Laogui secretly glanced at Tang Cheng with some surprise, since he left Wuhan, this little company commander has behaved strangely, and most of the decisions he made made people feel a little procrastinating, not at all like Tang Cheng in Macheng, who would be happy and make decisions on the spot. Seeing that Tang Cheng had regained the kind of decisiveness he had when he was in Macheng, Niu Laogui was quite pleased, with such a commander, maybe the days ahead would not be too difficult.

"The company commander said that he wanted us to help" took his machine gunners and machine guns to find the hiding place of the sunspots, and Lao Dongbei only said a word, then grabbed an MZ42 machine gun and began to load the chain. When the MZ42 machine gun was test-fired in Sanli Town, the old Northeast was impressed by this powerful machine gun, and now that he has the opportunity to show his skills, how can the old Northeast let go of the opportunity. Hearing Tang Cheng's order, Heizi made eye contact with the three people under him, and the four of them went directly down the river from the grass nest to the other side.

Found a suitable location to hide, Kuroko turned around and gestured at the old northeast, but it didn't take much effort, and the old northeast and the machine gun also crossed the river and lay on the riverbank. The battle in the village continued, but it was obvious that Su Datong was not good at street fighting, and under the gaze of Tang Cheng, the blackened Su Datong withdrew from the village with dozens of soldiers under his command, and the Japanese soldiers who exchanged fire with them were in hot pursuit.

"These things that are not beaten, I don't know how to run to both sides, I have to block Lao Tzu's shooting boundary, and I deserve to be chased around by the little devil." Su Datong, who was in a rout, blocked his shooting range, and Lao Dongbei, who was ready to fire, couldn't help but curse in a low voice. It's a pity that he is by the river, and there is still some distance from Su Datong and them at the entrance of the village, and his words will not be heard by Su Datong and them, so the front of the shooting boundary in the old northeast is still blocked by Su Datong and them.

The old northeast on the bank of the "grenade" river heard Su Datong's loud shouting, and then they saw that the soldiers who had retreated to the entrance of the village threw grenades together. "Boom" "Boom" Su Datong The grenades they threw exploded, and the entire village entrance was shrouded in smoke dispersed after the explosion, and Su Datong, who seized the opportunity, rushed to the river with his soldiers who had survived, and there were only about 70 companies left in the original company of more than 100 people.

"Da Da" shot a few strings of bullets from the smoke-filled village, and the national soldiers behind Su Datong were shot and fell to the ground one after another, which is in line with the consistent style of the Japanese army, they will not watch the national army that has been bitten easily escape. "Spread out, spread out, don't block Lao Tzu's machine gun." Seeing that there were more and more soldiers under Su Datong who were shot, Lao Dongbei, who was lying on the bank of the river, was anxious, and simply straightened up and shouted at Su Datong, who was in a panic.