After another half an hour, they came to a ruined village, outside which the empty trenches indicated that the defenders had withdrawn on their own initiative, and that the snow around the village was littered with tracks. Two soldiers of the 30th Army ran over to inspect it, and then came back to report that a tank had passed by before, and from the direction of the track tracks, the tank had gone due north from here, and the path to the west had only ordinary wheel prints. So, the officers of the 30th Army asked the team to stop in this village for a while, while sending a few soldiers to run in several directions to reconnoitre, while gathering to discuss the next combat operation.

After walking for more than an hour, as soon as the soldiers heard the order to rest, they found a slightly drier place nearby, sat down, drank cold water and nibbled on flatbread. Niu Laogui took the initiative to sit next to Tang Cheng, the wound on Tang Cheng's cheek had naturally stopped bleeding, and the blood stains that had not been wiped off had turned black, and half of his face looked very hideous. Maybe it was because he felt Niu Laogui's gaze, or maybe it was some other reason, Tang Cheng turned his head to look at Niu Laogui.

Seeing that Tang Cheng still didn't want to speak, Niu Laogui had no choice but to say no more, just took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, who knew that there was only the last cigarette left in the cigarette box, but he did not hesitate to hand the last cigarette to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng glanced at Niu Laogui but didn't speak, just took the crumpled cigarette and lit it with the match that Niu Laogui had drawn. Since Robert's death, Tang Cheng has been around the Ghost Gate several times, Tang Cheng is not good at drinking, but cigarettes are an excellent thing to relieve boredom, take a deep breath, Tang Cheng handed most of the cigarettes in his hand to Niu Laogui.

Slowly exhaling the smoke in his mouth, swallowing the clouds and spitting out the fog, Tang Cheng suddenly came up with the sentence "The eldest husband should die on the battlefield in battle, and the horse leather will be wrapped in corpse and returned". This sentence was originally full of heroic generosity, but at this time, it was inevitable that it was a little sad to think about it, if it wasn't for the damn little devil, he would still be living with Robert in Shanghai. Horse leather shroud, Tang Cheng trembled in his heart when he thought of this word, the air raid just now left Tang Cheng with a lifelong memory.

Niu Laogui took the cigarette handed by Tang Cheng and wanted to take a puff, and handed back the cigarette that was only half left. Tang Cheng, who was burned, wiped his mouth a little embarrassed, this action caused several people around him to laugh, and even Kuroko, who was lying on the stretcher with a consistently indifferent expression, moved the corners of his mouth to show a smile. Tang Cheng, who was laughed at by everyone, was embarrassed to pretend to be calm, but the old Northeast caused them to laugh again, and Tang Cheng, who was blistered with blood on his lips, had to endure the pain in his mouth and laugh dryly.

After experiencing the test of war together, Tang Cheng and Lao Northeast have also lived and died together, Lao Northeast's laughter has no other meaning, this kind of kind laughter will not only not make Tang Cheng angry, but will make their relationship closer.

On the battlefield, the flow of time sometimes seems slow and sometimes fast, as soon as they sit down to rest, half an hour will soon pass, and the soldiers who went out to reconnoiter the situation have not returned, and the temporarily assembled team can only continue to rest.

Leaning against a broken wall, Tang Cheng felt that a long, long time had passed, and it was not until the suppressed cry faintly came that he turned his head again. In the distance, the soldiers of the 30th Army were gathered together, Tang Cheng vaguely saw a stretcher emerging from the crowd, Tang Cheng, who was curious in his heart, got up and walked over, and when he walked in, he realized that it was the seriously wounded colonel of the 30th Army's baggage unit who could not survive it, and swallowed his breath directly on the stretcher.

Looking at the body on the stretcher with closed eyes and no more undulating chests through the human wall, Tang Cheng's heart suddenly became infinitely sad. The colonel's officer on the stretcher was lying flat with his head to Tang Cheng's side, his whole face was covered with blood and mud, and his uniform was already dirty and wet, but it was obvious that it was caused by heavy bleeding. Damn little devil, Tang Cheng, who couldn't help but curse in his heart, had red eyes, Tang Cheng, who had seen too much death, couldn't help but feel sad at this moment.

With a bang, Tang Cheng, who had fallen out of the air with his breath, finally regained consciousness, the suffocating smoke made Tang Cheng cough uncontrollably, and then looked at the wall of people gathered just now, at this time there was only a crater full of blood and stumps. "The little devil is coming, the little devil is coming." With the heart-rending shouts, the crowd of people sitting or lying down began to scatter and flee, "boom", "boom", "boom" and "boom" were several more explosions, and the team that had finally gathered together finally collapsed.

In addition to the old injuries on his body, Tang Cheng, who was knocked to the ground by Qi Lang, felt that his limbs, body and head were not injured again, and he also regained some strength while lying down. Tang Cheng, who got up from the ground, staggered towards Niu Laogui's side, although he ran crookedly and couldn't get out of a straight line, he still successfully merged with Niu Laogui and his gang. "The people of the 30th Army on the dog day are all idle meals, and they sent so many people out of the city, and they were actually beaten by the little devils and our sneak attack." When Tang Cheng came back, he was just in time for Lao Northeast to lose his temper, and scolded the people of the 30th Army a lot.

"Go into the village, take our people into the village." Tang Cheng, who ran back with a disgraced face, didn't care about Dali Lao Northeast, but just urged Niu Lao Gui to call the people of the second company to retreat to the village. The Japanese artillery attack has made the people of the 30th Army panic, several officers with their respective men scattered and fled like headless flies, the second company is now less than 60 people, plus there are still wounded, Tang Cheng does not want to be mixed with the people of the 30th Army anymore, it should be very good to hide in this deserted village first.

"Tank, it's a little devil's tank." The familiar roar of the engine came from far and near, Niu Laogui's face began to become difficult to look at, the people of the second company, Fairy A, were not unfamiliar with this kind of roar, when they were hiding from the Japanese army in the woodland, they watched the Japanese armored troops pass by. "Let's go, let's talk about it in the village." Tang Cheng kicked Lao Dongbei with his feet, and then picked up a light machine gun and ran towards the village.

Seeing that Tang Cheng had already run, the people of the second company came back to their senses and ran towards the village with the wounded with their hands and feet. The rumbling explosion continued, and in addition to Tang Cheng and the people of the second company, there were only a few people from the 30th Army who ran into the village, and most of the people from the 30th Army followed the officer who commanded them and ran towards the surrounding woodland. In the desolation, Su Datong and his soldiers had long since run away, and the people who had been protected by them all the way had also run away, and the team that had been gathered together just now was gone.

Tang Cheng, who rushed into the village, looked at him with a telescope and looked at him in front of him, there were a lot of Japanese tanks in his sight, Tang Cheng counted them carefully, there were a total of 8 tanks, and the volume of this tank was more than double the size of the previous bean tank. In the interval between the firing of the Japanese tanks, Tang Cheng, who retracted his head and squatted down, shouted to Niu Laogui behind him, "Move the wounded brothers to the village, hide them all and don't take the lead, the tanks that the Japanese army came this time are too powerful, and the grenades may not be able to blow them up." ”

Seeing that Niu Laogui didn't reply for a long time, Tang Cheng, who was squatting down, turned around with difficulty and crawled closer, and then Tang Cheng was surprised to find that three fingers of Niu Laogui's left hand were missing, and blood was still gurgling out from the severed finger, and the entire left hand and cuffs were covered with blood stains. Tang Cheng rummaged through the first-aid kit on his body, but remembered that his first-aid kit had been given to the wounded in the company, so he had to tear a piece from his shirt in the end.

When Tang Cheng used a strip of cloth to bandage Niu Laogui's left hand, the pale-faced Niu Laogui gritted his teeth and said nothing, his eyes staring at those Japanese tanks. Closer to the village, the Japanese tanks slowed down significantly, and the Japanese tanks slowed down not to abandon the attack, but to allow the covering infantry that followed them to follow. Niu Laogui was looking for flaws in the Japanese tanks, but the Japanese infantry who were following the tanks were constantly shooting at the remains of the national soldiers lying on the ground along the way.

Barely bandaging the wound, Tang Cheng saw Niu Laogui's frowning, resentful but helpless expression, and was about to turn back, but unexpectedly caught a glimpse of several moving figures outside the village. He hurriedly pointed to Niu Laogui's back. Niu Laogui looked back, and immediately grabbed the rifle beside him with his right hand.

It was the infantry of the Japanese army that came up, Tang Cheng guessed well before, when the Japanese tanks opened fire, the soldiers of the 30th Army who fled in all directions really attracted almost all the attention of the Japanese army, and took advantage of the chaos to escape into the second company of the village and was discovered by the Japanese army, these Japanese soldiers wandering at the entrance of the village should be their search pioneers, as long as they can avoid their search, the second company hiding in the village will be safe.

Tang Cheng stopped Lao Dongbei, who was about to arrange machine gun firepower, and called the injured Niu Lao Gui to his side, and then whispered, "Our current manpower can't confront the Japanese army head-on, I guess these Japanese soldiers just entered the village to search, as long as they can avoid their search, maybe the Japanese tanks outside will not take the village as a target, rather than fighting to destroy the whole army, it is better to gamble with them." ”

Lao Dongbei was a person who had no idea, Niu Laogui had already lost blood and was a little groggy, and now he could only say whatever Tang Cheng said. According to Tang Cheng's idea, Niu Laogui took Liu Shishi and a few of them lightly wounded, escorting the seriously injured soldiers to the back of the village, while Tang Cheng took Lao Dongbei and a few soldiers who still had some physical strength to move at the entrance of the village, while avoiding the search of those Japanese soldiers, while paying attention to the movement of Japanese tanks outside the village.