"Don't come here, take the fruit over there and wait for a while." Tang Cheng and his party finally walked out of the grove, and the faint smell of blood wafting in the air made Tang Cheng stop suddenly. Waving his hand to signal the old couple to take the little girl back into the woods, Tang Cheng took out the shell gun and walked forward, and ran quickly behind a dead tree, Tang Cheng, who was standing close to the tree, listened to the surrounding movements, and the more he moved forward, the stronger the smell of blood in the air became, making Tang Cheng's palms sweat and his heart beat faster.

Slowly squatting down against the dead tree, Tang Cheng poked his head out and looked left and right, looking back and forth, he couldn't help but be a little restless when he didn't find anything abnormal. The place where the 12 Japanese soldiers were killed was only separated from here by a small wood, and if those Japanese soldiers were still around, it was only a matter of time before they caught up and found them, so they definitely couldn't afford to delay here for long. Slowly picking up a dead branch on the ground, Tang Cheng forcefully threw the dead branch as thick as an egg to his left side, and the moment the dead branch hit the ground, Tang Cheng, who had already stood up straight behind the dead tree, quickly rushed to the crooked neck tree a few meters away to the right side of the tree.

After continuous exploration, Tang Cheng had already touched the outermost edge of the grove, and further on, there was a field of crops with a wide view. Tang Cheng, who was gasping for breath, paused for a moment and began to sneak to his left, and the smell of blood in the air came from the left. Using a branch to push away a nest of suspicious grass, Tang Cheng saw several corpses, and seeing that they should be dressed by the surrounding people, there are crops and corpses of ordinary people, indicating that there must be a village nearby......

"It's okay, let's get out of here." went back to pick up the old couple, Tang Cheng explained the situation in detail, and after repeatedly telling them not to speak loudly, Tang Cheng, who was carrying a shell gun, still walked in the front. After stumbling across a small river fork, a village appeared not far away, waving his hand to signal the old couple to stay by the river with their children and wait, Tang Cheng himself touched the village.

It was almost noon, and the sun was warm, but Tang Cheng's heart was not warm. The place where the bodies were found was so close to the village that bullet holes in the bodies indicated that they had been shot and killed, and that it would only be the Japanese soldiers who would shoot the people and cover the bodies, and perhaps those possible Japanese soldiers were now in the village ahead. If Tang Cheng was alone, he could have bypassed this village, but he also brought three old and weak women and children, and the old couple had a lot of physical exertion, if they couldn't find the means of transportation, I am afraid it would be difficult for them to reach Nanjing alive.

Lying on a ridge and peeking carefully for a while, Tang Cheng moved forward for a distance, at this time his position was only a hundred meters away from the entrance of the village, and it only took less than a minute to run at a speed to rush into the village, but Tang Cheng didn't dare, because he was the only one by himself. Xie Bo's war notes have a record related to field reconnaissance, and the first sentence at the top is that caution can save life, and frizzy carelessness loses a small life, of course, Xie Bo's consciousness does not mean that scouts are all turtles with shrunken heads, Tang Cheng understands that he can only shoot after determining the situation of the target, otherwise he can only wait.

After waiting quietly for more than ten minutes, Tang Cheng finally found out that something was wrong, this village that didn't look very big was a little too quiet. Tang Cheng has followed Robert to preach from south to north since he was a child, and although he has never lived in the countryside of northern Jiangsu, he also knows the situation in the countryside of Ludao. There are at least more than 50 families living in this small village, and it is so strange that a village of 200 people has no sound in the daytime.

After counting the number of bullets in the two pistols again, Tang Cheng took out a grenade from the hanging bag and pinned it to his waist, once there was a crisis situation, it would definitely be too late to take the grenade from the hanging bag, and he had to prepare for the battle in advance. I found a place with soft soil and rolled a few times, the dirt on my body temporarily covered the blood stains on my clothes, and from a distance, Tang Cheng, who was thin, looked like a standard refugee.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the village, Tang Cheng asked about the smell of blood, but the whole village was quiet, and there was no trace of blood in Tang Cheng's sight, and he really couldn't figure out where the smell of blood in the air came from. Carrying a shell gun hidden behind him, Tang Cheng slowly pushed open the door in front of him, the yard was small, but it was very clean, and it could be seen that the owner of this house was a diligent person who could live, "Is anyone at home?" Trouble begging for saliva to drink. This sentence was learned when Tang Cheng was a child and followed Robert everywhere to preach, and ordinary people would not refuse to come to the door to ask for water.

No one answered, the silence in the courtyard seemed a little weird, and Tang Cheng, who was standing outside the courtyard gate, went into the courtyard to look left and right, but in the end he didn't go in. Enduring the pain on his shoulder, Tang Cheng pushed open the gates of several other courtyards in a row, but no one was at home, and the yard was clean and couldn't tell whether the owner was out or at home, anyway, no one answered Tang Cheng's shout. Tang Cheng, who was already a little hairy in his heart, had to follow the smell of blood in the air all the way to the well under the big tree in the east of the village.

"Vomit" When Tang Cheng looked down and saw the contents of the well clearly, the flatbread he had eaten in the grove in the morning spit out, and there was a corpse soaked in the well that had turned red, his face exposed to the water was soaked and white, and a pair of lifeless eyes looked at the well. After spitting up the contents of his stomach, Tang Cheng, who was weak, staggered back to the big tree and sat on the ground with his trunk slippery.

Tang Cheng didn't know what he had come back to, anyway, he didn't dare to look at the well again, or even dare to close his eyes, as soon as he closed his eyes, Tang Cheng would think of the pair of eyes in the well. Thinking of the family of three who were left in Hexia, Tang Cheng, whose legs were weak, tried to stand up, he still had to find a means of transportation, there was no carriage and donkey cart, and it was okay to find a trolley.

Since he was a child, he followed Robert to the north and south, and the big cattle in Tangcheng Zhilu Road were not raised by ordinary farmers, but if the farmers who could afford to buy livestock, once they would take them as treasures, they would rather live with their own families and squeeze a little, and the family must build a livestock shed, so Tang Cheng, who entered the village again, went directly to the yards where there were livestock sheds at home. I found the yards of several families in a row, not to mention the big cattle that pulled the cart, Tang Cheng didn't even find a cart, but these yards were all empty without exception.

Tang Cheng, who knew that there was an accident, did not turn around and leave at the first time, and could not find food and transportation, so the old couple and children on the edge of the river could not reach Nanjing, perhaps for the sake of that cute little girl, Tang Cheng dragged his already tired footsteps and kept pushing open one door after another, hoping to find what he wanted. It had been more than half an hour since Tang Cheng entered the village, and Tang Cheng, who was exhausted, still found nothing, not only did he not find a means of transportation, but he also did not find much food.

Two eggs found in the grass nest, a nest head that was almost hairy, and a handful of shallots, this is the harvest of Tang Cheng in more than half an hour. Except for the more than 100 corpses that Tang Cheng later found in the ancestral hall of the village and the corpses soaked in the well, the whole village could not find a living creature, nor could it find a grain or other food, and the whole village was as clean as if it had been ransacked.

Tang Cheng, who had chapped lips, finally gave up and continued to search, but for this empty village, Tang Cheng did have some answers, there must have been Japanese soldiers here, and they also killed everyone in this village, and they took away all the big animals and food in the village. Bandits generally do not kill people when they plunder money, and even if they want to kill people, they will not kill all the people in the village, not to mention that bandits eat knife rice, and they will not kill people in people's ancestral halls.

Carefully put the eggs and nest head into his pocket, Tang Cheng carried the shell gun in one hand and the handful of shallots in the other hand and walked out of the village, no matter what, this egg and nest head can be regarded as food, adults can't eat enough, at least children can deal with a meal. Tang Cheng, who was hungry and growling, couldn't help but fill a shallot into his mouth, and Tang Cheng, who was chewing shallots in his mouth, suddenly flashed and stuck to the courtyard wall of a house, and the shell gun that he had been carrying in his hand was immediately raised, and the muzzle of the gun pointed directly at the courtyard not far in front of him.

Tang Cheng clearly remembered that he had pushed open the gate of their yard, and did not close the gate for them, but the door of the yard in front of him was now closed, if it was not for his mistake, it meant that someone had entered this yard or there were still living people in this village. Tang Cheng's body rubbed against the wall and began to retreat slowly, and the hand holding the barge gun began to sweat, Tang Cheng, who grew up with Robert since childhood, did not believe in ghosts and gods, he was not worried about what kind of ghost or anything like this, he was afraid that there were still living people in this dead and silent village.

If Tang Cheng hadn't been injured, with the two pistols and three grenades on his body, he would still have the ability to fight, but now Tang Cheng is not only injured, but he is now dizzy and dizzy from hunger, if a Japanese soldier or bandit pops out of that courtyard or something, Tang Cheng will become the next floating corpse soaked in a well. Slowly retreating along the wall to the corner of the courtyard wall, Tang Cheng, who was staring at a pair of eyes, turned his head and ran, Tang Cheng, who did not dare to stay, used all his strength to run desperately, as long as he ran out of this village, the possibility of danger would be minimal.

"Brush" a white sword-like sword light slashed down violently, and Tang Cheng, who was about to rush through the corner of the next courtyard, could no longer stop his foot, and ran straight towards the knife light. "Ah" Tang Cheng, who was extremely frightened, subconsciously closed his eyes, maybe Mao Wu was right, it was best not to close his eyes when he was using a knife to cut people, otherwise he would be even more afraid, just like Tang Cheng now.