Chapter 52: Conflict
The journey from the western suburbs of Shanghai to Suzhou is not too far in the concept of Tang City, and it is difficult for Tang City, who travels all the way to Qiandeng Town by truck, to understand the suffering faced by refugees who travel on only two legs. Go to Suzhou, where there are no Japanese aircraft artillery and no non-stop gunfire. More and more refugees fleeing from Shanghai have stepped on a new road to Suzhou in the wilderness and mountains, and as long as they follow it, they will not go wrong.
After watching the checkpoint for a while, Tang Cheng, who was quite bored, waited for Niu Wazi to come back from the town, and then sat alone on a stake on the side of the road to wipe his shell gun. The gun is the soul of a soldier, and the gun is the guts of a soldier, so Robert and Xie Bo have said it, so Tang Cheng will fiddle with his weapons whenever he is free. Compared with Niu Wazi, who patrolled back and forth with a rifle on the checkpoint, Tang Cheng, who lowered his head with a cold face and wiped his gun, obviously made the refugees outside the checkpoint more obedient.
Hastily gnawed a few mouthfuls of the flatbread sent by the mill, Tang Cheng leaned on the stake and closed his eyes to recuperate, the afternoon sun was warm, Tang Cheng was comfortable, in a trance, Tang Cheng seemed to have returned to the backyard of the church, and Robert would stay in the backyard with Tang Cheng in his spare time to bask in the afternoon sun. A noise came into his ears, and Tang Cheng woke up in a daze, as always, as long as he could see Robert in his dreams, he would refuse to wake up, "Bang! A gunshot made Tang Cheng, who was still lingering on the edge of the dream, suddenly bounce up like a conditioned reflex.
"What's going on?" Tang Cheng tidied up the armed belt on his body and took out the 20-ring fast and slow machine that Xie Bo gave him. Gunfire and commotion came from outside the checkpoint, where soldiers and refugees gathered in a crowd that surrounded the boss, with a scalper lying dead, three crying half-grown children desperately shaking a bloodied woman screaming desperately, and a middle-aged man with the same blood stains lying next to him.
This is not the first time Tang Cheng has seen a dead person, but he Haihuasi couldn't help but gasp, these three children and the men and women on the ground are obviously a family, if both husband and wife die, what will happen to these three children? "Who fired the shot?" Tang Cheng subconsciously turned his head to look at those group members, and the meaning revealed in his eyes was self-evident.
"Squad leader, it's not us, don't care about us." A simple group member smiled embarrassedly, "It's really not us, it's those bosses over there who are hungry and anxious, and they have to slaughter other people's cattle to eat meat, but people don't want to, and there is a quarrel on both sides, when we come, the men of that family have been shot, and the women have also been knocked over by those bosses with gun butts." ”
"That's right, it's Lao Tzu's gun, it's Lao Tzu who wants to rob the cow." The murderer pointed out by Tuan Ding was a guy with a scorched face and a military uniform, and there was no military rank mark on the collar that Xie Bo had told Tang Cheng, so Tang Cheng just dodged the fingers that the guy stretched out, but he couldn't tell whether this person was an officer or a soldier.
Seeing that Tang Cheng was carrying two shell guns, the murderer didn't know what Tang Cheng's identity was, but looking at Tang Cheng's appearance, he didn't think he was an officer, maybe he was just an officer's escort or something. Seeing Tang Cheng dodge his outstretched fingers, the murderer shouted fiercely, "Lao Tzu shot for these brothers behind him, our brothers rushed all the way from the northwest to fight with the little devils, and they didn't even stutter, can you say it?" Lao Tzu has a head under his hand, and the man can't die. ”
Glaring at Tang Cheng viciously again, the man waved his arms and shouted loudly, "Lord Lao Tzu has a lot of them, and I don't care about you little cubs, brothers, take the cattle and kill them and cook them, let's eat enough and hurry." The rout was probably a small leader, and the leader had already made a fuss, and several soldiers behind him also rushed up, but they quickly stopped. Niu Wazi and the regiment had already picked up the rifles equipped with bayonets to protect Tang Cheng, as long as they continued to move forward, they would immediately be held up by at least a dozen rifles, and the bayonets on the guns did not look like fakes.
"Back off, back off." Niu Wazi commanded the trembling regiments to press forward steadily, forcing the routs to retreat. But this gang of routs was withdrawn from the battlefield at first glance, no matter what the results were, they would have rolled over the pile of dead people, and they would be frightened by a dozen regiments who had just learned to shoot. The guy who pointed at Tang Cheng's nose and spoke disrespectfully just now stood still with his arms in his arms, Niu Wazi's bayonet had already broken through his military uniform, but that guy still squinted and sneered, obviously he knew that Niu Wazi didn't dare to really pierce the bayonet.
"Brothers, give me their guns, so that these little cubs can see the capabilities of our Northwest Army." The head of the rout reached out and grabbed Niu Wazi's rifle, and when he kicked Niu Wazi, the rifle had already been snatched by him. This group of soldiers are all people who rolled over from the pile of dead people, which can make a few regiments arrogant in front of them, and a swarm of swarms rushed up to unload the rifles of several regiments in the front row, and the regiments who were robbed of their guns were kicked over and made companions with Niu Wazi.
Tang Cheng had two shell guns on his body, and the routs didn't know what Tang Cheng was doing, so they didn't treat him like a cow baby, but just took Tang Cheng's two shell guns away. "Boy, we're just beating you up, not trying to make things difficult for you. The gun, Lao Tzu accepted it, and it should be regarded as making amends for Lao Tzu, as for your chief to deal with you like this, that's your business, Lao Tzu can't control it. The rout soldier who took the lead stuck Tang Cheng's two shell guns in his waist, and still arrogantly squinted at Tang Cheng.
Suddenly, Tang Cheng took a stride and stuck to the leader of the rout, raised his hand and put the M1911A1 pistol drawn from his waist on his head and shouted, "Tell your person to put the gun down, and then retreat, master, I have a bad temper, maybe this finger will pull the trigger, if you don't want to live, we can try." When the three pistols in Tang Cheng came to get the guns, they only took the shell guns from the gun boxes on Tang Cheng's left and right waists, but they did not carefully search Tang Cheng's waist, and the M1911 left by Robert was always inserted in Tang Cheng's waist.
The leader of the rout who was pointed at by Tang Cheng with a gun was also a tough man, not only did he not beg for mercy in the slightest, but he stared at Tang Cheng with slanted eyes like hob meat, and he was still screaming and scolding in his mouth. "Little cub, if you have the ability, you will rob it, if I frown, you will be raised." Seeing that Tang Cheng didn't shoot, the leader of the rout army was even more energetic, and the content of the scolding became more and more unbearable, and Tang Cheng's face became colder and colder, and his forehead was already bruised.
"If you want to die, the master will fulfill you." As soon as the words fell, Tang Cheng pulled the trigger of the pistol, and the "snap" gun rang out, and the bullet fired from the chamber of the M1911 shot diagonally through the man's thigh from top to bottom, and then burrowed into the dirt under his feet with a puddle of blood. Tang Cheng's sudden attack frightened the few routs behind the guy to retreat in a hurry, and two of them directly threw the rifle they had just grabbed on the ground, and then squatted down with their heads in their hands.
"Brother...... Alas, brother, little brother...... I also asked the little brother to raise his noble hand...... "The blood that flowed out of the wound soon soaked one of the guy's trouser legs, and the leader of the rout was stunned, and he couldn't stop pleading with Tang Cheng, completely losing the arrogance just now. "Didn't you see that everyone didn't have enough food, we haven't eaten anything since we took it down, everyone was so hungry that they couldn't walk, and the cow was going to pay for it." Seeing that Tang Cheng's face was getting more and more ugly, and the gun pointing at him had no intention of putting it down, the voice of the leader of the rout became smaller and smaller, and his face began to turn blue slowly.
"Your Northwest Army has no military rules and discipline? What is the fate of snatching weapons, don't you know? You dare to grab the guns of our 88th Division, you are bold enough. Niu Wazi, who was pulled up from the ground, saw that Tang Cheng had already controlled the situation, and immediately came to his senses. Not only did he command his regiment to take back their own weapons, but they also found ropes to tie up the routs solidly.
"Find something to tie his wounds, dying here will cause us trouble." Swinging away the refugees who were watching the excitement around him, Tang Cheng asked the group to escort the people to the field on the side of the road. The person has been injured, but Tang Cheng can't let him die here, although Xie Bo has added his name to the roster of the second company, but after all, he is only a first-class soldier, and it is a big crime to kill friendly soldiers, not to mention that now I don't know what the battle situation in Shanghai is, and Tang Cheng doesn't know whether the other party is a rout or a deserter who was ordered to retreat.
"We have meat to eat" The cow baby with a happy face ran over quickly, and whispered with Tang Cheng, "According to what you said, give that family 20 yuan, and the cow will be considered to be bought by us." The injuries of those two people looked very scary, but in fact, they were not fatal injuries, I sent someone to send the family to the town's hospital, and it was estimated that there would be nothing to do after ten days and a half months. ”
When the Second Company was recruiting troops in the town, the merchants were very enthusiastic in donating money and materials, and in addition to the military salaries paid to those regiments, Xie Bo also asked Liu Goat to pay the military salaries that had been accumulated for three months to the people who had withdrawn from the Second Company. So Erlian is now a rich man, and 20 yuan of ocean is enough for the family to live a comfortable life for a few months, although there is no cattle, but after all, people are still alive, and there is still hope for people to live.
"Then you stay here, and I'll take two people to escort them back to the company commander for disposal." In the morning, Niu Wazi went back, and now it was Tang Cheng's turn, the routs were tied with ropes, and Tang Cheng was not afraid that they would be faster than their pistols, so they called two regiments to lift the leader of the rout who was injured in the thigh.