Chapter 69: Encountering an Air Raid

"Tang Cheng, what's wrong with you? Company commander, what's wrong with them? "Carried in several times, now only Tang Cheng himself came out of the hospital in a trance, and he had been staying outside to guard the fat man and his two grinders, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious. Grinder is not a talker, but it doesn't mean that Grinder is a person who doesn't understand things, although Tang Cheng said that Xie Bo was forced to stay in the second company, but Tang Cheng is much stronger than Niu Wazi and their recruits, so Grinder has always spoken very kindly to Tang Cheng.

"It's okay, Brother Ranzi, get me some bullets, I don't have many bullets on me." Tang Cheng, who had climbed into the carriage, stripped Watanabe's clothes and shoes into a bag and carried it in his hand, and stuffed the dozens of bullets given by the mill into the baggage. "Company Commander Xie will still be rescued in the operating room, the doctor said that it should be able to save life, I still have something to go out of, you are optimistic about these two guys, it is still useful for Company Commander Xie to keep them."

After a few words of kind advice, ignoring the surprised expression of the miller, Tang Cheng jumped off the truck with a small burden and left without looking back. There is no feast in the world that will not be dispersed, when he left Shanghai, Tang Cheng did not think about staying in the second company forever, and brought Ma Fatzi and Watanabe back to the second company, it was only because Tang Cheng did not want to owe Xie Bo a favor to them. Now, Tang Cheng is back to a person, free and free without worry.

Stripping Watanabe's clothes was Tang Cheng's temporary idea, he couldn't wear a bloody military uniform to eat at the hotel, this military uniform on his body was useful except for going to the clinic to see injuries, Tang Cheng couldn't think of anything else to do with it. While pondering how to get to Sichuan, Tang Cheng walked slowly out of the large courtyard of the hospital, the gate of the hospital was on the main street, and the scene in front of him made Tang Cheng, who was full of confidence, stunned. As far as the eye could see, there were all routs and refugees, and the direction behind them was Shanghai.

Annoyed, unwilling, confused, dodging, Tang Cheng saw a different look on every face, but Tang Cheng saw more numbness, yes, numbness, even those children who were held in the arms of adults were numb. They didn't know why they were leaving the house, and they didn't even know what it meant for them to leave the house, but they were just as numb as the adults.

"Ahem, what else to say, I was defeated in front, if you don't run, will you wait for death in vain?" The rout who was pulled by Tang Cheng rolled his eyes, if it weren't for Tang Cheng's sake, he might not have paid attention to this guy who was covered in the smell of blood. After asking several defeated troops in a row, Tang Cheng figured out the general situation, it turned out that the 18th Division was stationed in the big field lost, the big field was lost, the Seckert defense line had actually been broken through, and the third theater had to make a decision to abandon the North Station-Jiangwan position, and these defeated troops were the 18th and 26th Divisions stationed in the big field that day.

The troops of the Central Army retreated to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek, and the troops on the left flank were also ordered to transfer, and the troops of the Nationalist Army planned to retreat to the line of Liuhe, Shenjiaqiao, Chaowangmiao, Xujiahang, Guangfu, Chenjiahang, Jiangqiao, and Beixinjing to Fanwangdu, and build a new defense line of 35 kilometers. The 18th Division was almost wiped out in a big battle, and the division commander Zhu Yaohua committed suicide with a gun but was not rescued, and some of the defeated soldiers who were scattered were unwilling to go back to Shanghai to continue the war, so they followed the refugees all the way to Suzhou.

Looking at the long endless refugees and routs, Tang Cheng wanted to jump on the steps beside him and shout loudly, using his shouts to awaken the blood in the bones of these people and wake them up to go back to Shanghai to fight the Japanese army. But he couldn't, he even remembered what Xiao Yalan said when they were collecting donations on the street, but he couldn't do it, because he was also a person who was eager to flee the battlefield now, and since he couldn't do it himself, what reason was there to encourage others to stay.

After finding a small clinic to redress the wound on his right arm, Tang Cheng, who had changed his clothes, carried a large stack of baked cakes on his back and blended in among the refugees, moving forward step by step. Tang Cheng thought about hiring a horse to evacuate to Nanjing as soon as possible, and then go south to Wuhan after going west to Hefei, but it is an old saying that wealth is not exposed, Tang Cheng is still wounded now, if these routs are provoked, pay attention to themselves, even if Tang Cheng carries two pistols, I am afraid that he is not the opponent of so many people. When the time comes, if there is no money, not to mention, if it is not good, it will take a small life, such a thing, Tang Cheng will not do it.

The eye-catching injury on Tang Cheng's arm was just an ordinary penetrating injury, which did not hurt the bones and vital points, and only needed half a month of recuperation without water to recover. Although the Japanese army in Shanghai had broken through the Dachang defense line, Tang Cheng heard from those routs that there were still hundreds of thousands of national troops fighting the Japanese army on the battlefield in Shanghai, which meant that the Japanese army would not chase after them in a short time, so Tang Cheng would rather spend more time mixing with the refugees to hide his figure.

"Is the little brother a person? Why didn't the adults in the family go along? Seeing that there was only one person in Tang Cheng, the man holding the child's glasses asked in a low voice, and when he learned that Tang Cheng was an orphan, the man's daughter-in-law glared at him complainingly. Tang Cheng followed this wave of refugees all the way from Shanghai, the man holding the child and his daughter-in-law were teaching, the Japanese soldiers called, the school had already been suspended, seeing that the situation was not very good, the family of three had to leave Shanghai to Nanjing to seek refuge with relatives and friends.

"Nanjing is the capital of our country, and so many high-ranking officials of the Nationalist Government are in Nanjing, so it will not be occupied by the Japanese, and besides, Shanghai is not still at war, and maybe the troops of the Nationalist Army can take the Japanese out of Shanghai." When he stopped to rest halfway, the man with the glasses of the child chatted with Tang Cheng's ancestors, and learned that Tang Cheng wanted to go to Sichuan, so the man began to persuade Tang Cheng to follow their passers-by to Nanjing.

"Although Sichuan is a good place, but the distance is too far, it may not be safe for you to go on the road alone as a child, it is better to go to Nanjing with us, my friend in Nanjing still has some skills, it should not be difficult for him to help you find a job, even if it is in the telegraph office to send telegrams, at least you can support yourself, it is better than being displaced everywhere." The woman who was sitting next to her and feeding the child also nodded yes, saying that it was a time of war and chaos, and it was too dangerous for Tang Cheng to go to Sichuan alone.

When I met such a warm-hearted family, I don't know if it was Tang Cheng's luck or frustration, fortunately I met a warm-hearted good person, and the frustrated thing was that the man with glasses was too good to speak, and in the half hour that he sat on the side of the road to rest, Tang Cheng listened to him talking alone. "Behold, what is that?" A few small black dots appeared in mid-air, and the refugees resting on the side of the road looked up one after another, and Tang Cheng, who didn't know what to do, and a newly acquainted family of three also looked up at the air, just when the children clapped and laughed, Tang Cheng's face changed.

It was an airplane, and the black dot that appeared in mid-air was an airplane, but it was too far away, and Tang Cheng couldn't tell whether those planes belonged to the Japanese army or the national army. After Shanghai had no intention of rescuing Emma and the others, Tang Cheng lying on a stretcher was bombed by Japanese planes, and the feeling of being submerged by the explosion made Tang Cheng unforgettable. "Hurry up, get off the road and into the woods, go quickly." Tang Cheng urged the family of three to follow him to the dwarf forest a hundred meters away, although the trees were short and sparse, but at least the forest was a hundred meters away from the road.

"Let's go, it's a plane, and when they drop the bomb, none of us will survive." Seeing that the family of three was still looking at themselves stupidly but did not move the nest, Tang Cheng, who was anxious, reached out and snatched the child in the woman's arms, and ran towards the forest. The child was snatched away by Tang Cheng, and the woman who reacted cried and chased after him, and the most unfortunate one was the man with glasses carrying a suitcase and a baggage, whether it was a plane that could drop bombs or not, it was urgent to snatch his child back first.

"Let's go, the plane is coming down." Tang Cheng shouted a few times, but the refugees who looked up looked up looked at Tang Cheng like fools, and in desperation, Tang Cheng could only turn around and drag the woman's arm while running towards the woods, while urging the man with glasses carrying the suitcase to speed up. Someone among the refugees behind him suddenly cheered loudly, Tang Cheng subconsciously turned his head, only to see four sturdy planes passing quickly over the road, and the sun flag logo under the wings caught Tang Cheng's eyes.

"Let's go, it's a Japanese plane." Tang Cheng didn't know why the four planes with the Japanese military flag didn't drop the bombs directly, but he knew that the refugees on the road were probably already targeted by the Japanese planes in the sky, but he knew that only by staying away from those refugees could he save his life.

As soon as the thought hidden in my heart appeared in my mind, a series of gunshots suddenly rang out, and the plane that swooped down again opened fire, and the sound of machine gun fire like fried beans was coherent and clear. Rushing into the low forest with a family of three, Tang Cheng heard an explosion coming from behind him, and the Japanese plane finally dropped the bomb. Curled up, eyes closed, and head in his hands, Tang Cheng led the family of three to lie on their stomachs in the woodland, letting the sound of gunshots and explosions pour into their ears, they could only hand over their fate to the ruler of this world.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! The explosions like landslides and earth cracks continued to shake the earth, and Tang Cheng, who was lying in the forest with his head in his hands, was almost shaken off the ground! The continuous and fierce impact made Tang Cheng feel as if his internal organs were about to burst, and his hands were tightly covering his ears, but his eardrums were still painful. Time was flowing slowly in torment, and the sound of gunfire and explosions was still roaring, but it sounded a little sparse. The rumbling explosions once sounded in a row, and by the time the tremor on the ground gradually subsided, Tang Cheng and the others were already deaf in their ears, and they could no longer hear anything other than the continuous buzzing.