"If you want me to say, it's better to be a bandit." Liu Shishi's words made everyone sitting on the ground look up at him in unison, and seeing Tang Cheng staring at him with some ferocity, Liu Shishi hurriedly shook the big bone stick in his hand and smiled, "When bandits have meat to eat and bones to gnaw, isn't that good." Looking at Liu Shishi's face full of oil flowers, Tang Cheng was not angry, but the old Northeast laughed and said that Liu Shishi was a bandit at all.

The two beef legs were eaten by Tang Cheng and his gang, there was meat to eat, who else would want to drink the wild vegetable soup, but Tang Cheng himself drank the wild vegetable soup with broth in a bowl. Robert said that people can't lack vitamins, so it's not enough to just eat meat, Tang Cheng, who put down the bowl, forced Liu Shishi to also pour a bowl of wild vegetable soup, which let go of Liu Shishi, who was burping again and again. Song Tieshan didn't change places in the end, and directly occupied the shacks built by the bandits, and their shacks in Tang City were on the outermost side, not far from the place where Yang Xiaotian hid those boxes.

"Company Commander Tang, what are your plans next?" Although Tang Cheng was too murderous, Song Tieshan still wanted to pull Tang Cheng into his guerrilla team, even if he gave up his position as the captain to Tang Cheng. "Judging from the situation explained by the bandits, the Japanese army has occupied Huangshi and has sent troops to the west, Tieshan is not too far from here, if you want to continue to go south, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble, I think it's better for you to stay in this Zouma Mountain, although the conditions here are worse, but Zouma Mountain can be attacked and defended, and it will not be taken advantage of by the little devils."

Tang Cheng did not directly answer Song Tieshan's inquiry, whenever he took out a cigarette and handed it to Song Tieshan, the cigarettes smoked by the bandits were all bargains, Tang Cheng was used to smoking good cigarettes, if he wasn't in this Wandering Mountains now, Tang Cheng would never smoke this kind of bargain. Lighting a cigarette and taking a puff, Tang Cheng said slowly, "Captain Song, I understand what you mean, we are just separated from the troops now, the troops in Wuhan have shrunk to Sichuan, and when our second company was transferred to Xiaojieling, I still had dozens of brothers in Wuhan to recuperate, and I couldn't ignore them." ”

"I estimate that my brothers who stayed in Wuhan to recuperate should also retreat to Sichuan, they are all brothers in life and death who have abandoned their homes and careers, and I must find them." Tang Cheng did not directly reject Song Tieshan's suggestion, but the meaning of his words was already very obvious, this was a rejection of Song Tieshan's solicitation. Seeing that Song Tieshan's expression was a little gloomy, Tang Cheng said with a smile, "Captain Song, it doesn't matter if it's just Tang Cheng alone, as long as he can fight the little devil, it doesn't matter where he is." But you also know the temperament of Lao Dongbei and Shishi, they are both unrestrained people, and the rules of your guerrillas cannot tolerate them. ”

Looking at Lao Dongbei and Liu Shi along Tang Cheng's line of sight, Song Tieshan had to admit that Tang Cheng's words made sense, Lao Northeast had many ideas for fighting bravely and bravely, and Liu Shishi was also a person who dared to fight for his life. But one of these two people is full of gangsterism, and the other is a person who takes advantage of it, and it is really difficult for such a person to be put into the guerrillas. Although he understood what Tang Cheng meant, Song Tieshan, who was not giving up, still wanted to leave Tang Cheng behind, "Company Commander Tang, our Eighth Route Army is not intolerant, we can even contain the puppet army and Japanese soldiers who surrendered anyway, and your two subordinates are naturally no problem." ”

I didn't expect Song Tieshan to be so pestering, Tang Cheng couldn't help but have a headache, he used Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi as an excuse, he had already shown his attitude, did he have to refuse Song Tieshan in person? "Captain Song, I don't think you understand what I mean, the second company has never deserted since the Shanghai battlefield, and the brothers are all living today and dying tomorrow with their heads on their heads, and no one knows when they will die on the battlefield. Since they are all men who don't care about life and death, I can't let my brothers live patiently, not to mention a happy life, at least let them live a more happy life. ”

"There are so many rules and regulations of your guerrillas, not to mention the stones, even I can't follow them. Old Northeast is a fair and upright man, I can't let him suffocate his temperament and fight for his life with the Japanese soldiers. Song Tieshan really wanted to speak, but was stopped by Tang Cheng stretching out his hand, "Captain Song, we have agreed before, if we can go together, we will go together, if not, we will go separately." We'll leave after two days' rest, and the spoils will be yours, and we'll just have a wagon and a few bandits to pick out. ”

Tang Cheng had already said this, and Song Tieshan knew that it would be useless for him to say anything, so he had no choice but to sigh secretly, secretly sighing that he had missed someone like Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng planned to stay in Zouma Mountain for two days for the bandits picked out by Zhao Baokun, the old northeast has good eyesight, and picked out more than a dozen of the bandits who had been soldiers from the surrendered bandits, Zhao Baokun picked it again, and picked out a few guys with a conscience from these dozen people, Tang Cheng asked the old northeast to train these bandits a little, and temporarily stopped in Zouma Mountain just to make time for the old northeast.

Although he already understood what Tang Cheng meant, Song Tieshan did not leave with his sleeves, although he had no chance to continue to fight side by side with Tang Cheng, but this would be idle and idle, but it was better to have a relationship with Tang Cheng, and when they met again in the future, they could be regarded as having friendships. "Company Commander Tang, I don't think you're big this year, why do you want to be a soldier and fight? When I was your age, I was still working for the landlord's family. ”

"It's nothing, I'm an orphan, I was raised by an American missionary since I was a child, during the Battle of Songhu, my adoptive father died at the hands of the Japanese, and it happened that I knew the commander of the second company at that time, so I entered the second company as a soldier to fight, and after a few battles, I became the company commander of the second company." Tang Cheng said it simply, but Song Tieshan knew that the hardships were not as simple as Tang Cheng said. The Battle of Songhu was only last year, and a man who only joined the army last year became a captain and company commander of a subordinate unit of the national army in just one year, which is not something that ordinary people can do.

Song Tieshan only knew that the 88th Division was a descendant of the national army, but he didn't know that the 88th Division had experienced the Battle of Nanjing after it was evacuated from the Songhu battlefield. The 88th Division suffered heavy casualties after the Battle of Nanjing, and after replenishing a large number of new soldiers, those surviving veterans were generally promoted, although Tang Cheng's officer status was Liu Shanyang from the Fifth War Zone for him, but the 88th Division also recognized it.

Lying on his back by the fire, Tang Cheng looked up at the starry sky, and he vaguely remembered that when he was very young, Robert always liked to hold himself at night to look at the stars and tell himself many mythological stories about the constellations. He grew up slowly, but Robert was getting older day by day, and he was the only one left to look at the stars tonight, but Robert had already entered the kingdom of heaven. Although he grew up in a church, Tang Cheng knew that there was no heaven in this world. Tang Cheng's eyes gradually became steamy, if it weren't for the damn Japanese, he might still be looking at the stars with Robert.

Song Tieshan, who was sitting next to him, didn't see the moisture in Tang Cheng's eyes, but he could feel Tang Cheng's sadness at this time, and knew that Tang Cheng might have thought of something sad, Song Tieshan couldn't say anything, so he could only sit silently. After a long while, Tang Cheng, who had gradually calmed down, sat up, "Let Captain Song make you laugh, I just remembered my adoptive father, if it weren't for my adoptive father, there would be no Tang Cheng today." ”

Song Tieshan didn't know who Tang Cheng's adoptive father was, so he couldn't talk about it, so he had to softly comfort Tang Cheng for a few words and never mention it again. Perhaps because of Robert, Tang Cheng slept well all night, and even dreamed of Robert and Liu Goat. Tang Cheng doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and after getting up early, he mentioned that the matter was said by the old Northeast to be a dream of his relatives, although he didn't believe in the words of the old Northeast very much, but Tang Cheng told the old Northeast to do his best to train those bandits, and Zouma Mountain is definitely not a place to stay for a long time.

Most of these bandits picked out by the old northeast have had the experience of being soldiers and eating food, and the training is much more convenient than ordinary people, and the methods of the old northeast are nothing more than the set in the national army, and in just one morning, Tang Cheng saw that those bandits have been punished a lot for violating the command of the old northeast. "Company Commander Tang, I'm going to go to Zhoujiaao today, maybe I'll come back today, maybe I'll come back tomorrow, and I'll hand over these wounded to you to take care of." Tang Cheng took Liu Shizheng to the side to watch the old northeast train those bandits, and Song Tieshan, who was in a hurry, came to him.

Zhoujiaao was on the north side of Zouma Mountain, and Tang Cheng guessed that Song Tieshan was in such a hurry to go out with an injury that it would never be as simple as looking for food, so he nodded and agreed to Song Tieshan's request. When Song Tieshan took a few guerrillas down to Zouma Mountain, Tang Cheng asked Zhao Baokun to train those bandits, and called Lao Dongbei and Liu Shishi into his shack, "Song Tieshan took people to Zhoujiaao, I guess he went to contact their people, once there are more people in Zouma Mountain, it will be very troublesome for us to take those boxes away when we leave." ”

Leaving Zouma Mountain but not being able to take away this batch of money, whether it is Lao Dongbei or Liu Shishi will not be happy, Lao Dongbei, who was smoking, rolled up his sleeves and glared, "It doesn't matter what they do, anyway, the one surnamed Song is not here today, let's just change the terrain and hide those things, those are Jinjo and the ocean, you can't just watch them thrown on this barren mountain." ”

Tang Cheng pondered that there was really no other way, and then agreed to the old northeast's suggestion, and took Zhao Baokun to train those bandits, and asked the old northeast to take Liu Shishi to transfer those things buried deep in the ground, as long as the box was not discovered by Song Tieshan and them when they took the box, other things would be simple.