The evening breeze blew slowly, bringing a long-lost refreshment, and easily erased the irritability and floating heat in everyone's body. And the small insects in the field that are constantly whispering, the ones that hover and fly above the grass, as long as you take a stone and throw it into it, it is like a stone that stirs up a thousand waves and splashes more stars and lights up the fireflies. Looking up at the starry sky in the night sky, Tang Cheng's eyebrows, which had been tightly locked, finally stretched slightly.

"Company commander, dinner is ready." A head poked out from the eaves, and the honest Iron Bull brought dinner to Tang Cheng, although many people died in the village, but the food still had to be eaten. The bodies of relatives and invaders were buried, the surviving villagers hastily cooked dinner, and Tang Cheng, who was preparing to defend Lijiapu, and a group of guerrillas were the first to eat.

"Thank you." Taking the blue and white bowl handed over by Tie Niu, Tang Cheng's face couldn't help but show a look of surprise, there was not only rice and vegetables in the bowl, but also a buttery fried egg on top of the rice. Tang Cheng casually used his chopsticks to flick the vegetable leaves attached to the rice, and an attractive aroma came to his nose, even the well-educated Tang Cheng screamed in his stomach at this time.

"The village chief's grandfather originally wanted to kill chickens, but our captain disagreed, those are all hens, and they should be kept to lay eggs, so it's a pity to kill them." Xu misunderstood Tang Cheng's doubts, and Tie Niu explained a lot of things with some stumbling points. I have always heard that the soldiers of the national army are like bandits, and it has become a habit to rob the things of the common people's homes, Tang Cheng was surprised that there was an omelette in his bowl, and Tie Niu thought that Tang Cheng thought that the food was not good.

Knowing that his doubts were misunderstood by Tie Niu, Tang Cheng did not explain, too much explanation would make this honest guy more and more uneasy. Under the slightly nervous gaze of Tie Niu, Tang Cheng used bamboo chopsticks to send the food into his mouth, and the vegetable leaves were a little tough and slightly bitter, Tang Cheng ate this as a wild vegetable. But Tang Cheng must admit that such a bowl of rice should be the best food he has eaten since leaving Wuhan.

Sending all the steaming food in the big bowl into his stomach, feeling the food slowly transform into his own body, Tang Cheng lay on his back on the roof and looked up at the starry sky, looking around at the big children who were supposed to live a pampered life in Shanghai. In the closest place to Tang City, Lao Dongbei was wiping his light machine gun, and as his fingers kept turning, occasionally a ray of moonlight would be projected on the machine gun, the kind of reflection with the cold and sharp texture of metal. In an instant, Tang Cheng's eyes stinged.

Sitting next to Lao Northeast was Liu Shishi, looking at his appearance, it seemed that he had entered a deep sleep. Liu Shishi has the same stubbornness and enthusiasm as Liu Goat, but after all, he is only a 15-year-old child, and his body is far from being compared with the battle-hardened Tang Cheng.

Looking at the half of the dry cake that Liu Shishi was still holding in his hand, Tang Cheng could only curse in his heart, "This damn world, damn the Japanese." "If it weren't for the Japanese invasion, people the size of myself and Liu Shishi would still be in school or living freely, if not, I wouldn't have had to go all the way from Shanghai to this unfamiliar place. Xu was aware of Tang Cheng's restlessness, and Lao Dongbei, who was wiping the machine gun, raised his head and smiled, "We are eating this bowl of rice, life and death have long been taken seriously, since Shi has also taken this road, his life will not be his for a long time, what is there to worry about." ”

Tang Cheng, who had been seen through by Lao Dongbei, turned his head to look around pretendedly, and no one else could be seen in the dark, but Tang Cheng knew that according to his own arrangement, there were two guerrillas who were serving as outposts about 100 meters away from the village entrance in front. Not only at the entrance of the village, but also in the four directions of Lijiapu were sentry posts arranged by Tang Cheng, and the guerrillas' familiarity with the terrain here was completely used by Tang Cheng.

As in the past, after Tang Cheng returned to the village, he concentrated all the grenades in the hands of the guerrillas, and also got the mortars and shells that the guerrillas could not use. The guerrillas won't use those two mortars, and Tang Cheng won't use them, but Tang Cheng doesn't plan to just let those mortar shells sit idle. Just because they can't use mortars doesn't mean that Tang Cheng doesn't have other ways to make these shells exert their power.

If the mortar shell and the grenade with the safety bolt removed are tied together and buried deep in the ground, and the burial point is covered with gravel, as long as the grenade is pulled, the mortar shell tied to the grenade will become a landmine, although the power is smaller than that of using the barrel projectile, but it is much greater than the grenade. In order to prevent them from taking the old road, Tang Cheng also arranged 5 guerrillas on the north side of the village.

"Whether it's guns, bullets or other weapons, for soldiers, they are just tools to kill the enemy, just consumables. Directly using it to kill people on the battlefield is a way to use it, and using it to do what we want to do so that we can kill the enemy better, is also a way to use it. None of us will use these two mortars, but we can't let them sit idle, and it's only fitting to use mortar shells to make thunder. This is the original words that Tang Cheng told Song Tieshan, and it is also the original words that Professor Xie Bo and Professor Liu Goat told Tang Cheng.

The night was getting darker and darker, and Tang Cheng who came down from the roof was wandering in the village, and Tang Cheng slowly inspected his own arrangement. Almost at the same time, a tragic offensive and defensive battle that others saw was constantly clashing and deducing in his brain. During the day, when Tang Cheng used grenades and mortar shells to create tricks, Song Tieshan was very interested in Tang Cheng's methods, and after experiencing the daytime battle, Song Tieshan knew the ability of these three national armies, and it was definitely not easy to attack and kill dozens of Japanese soldiers with only a few people.

Knowing the terrible potential of Tang City, Song Tieshan tried his best to pull Tang Cheng into his camp, if there was such a person in the guerrillas who could fight, the name of the Li Jiapu guerrillas would rarely resound in the land of Jingchu. Regarding Song Tieshan's invitation before the war, Tang Cheng knew what the other party was for, Song Tieshan wanted to keep himself here to help the guerrillas, it was impossible, this was completely contrary to his own ideas.

Song Tieshan suddenly hummed a song, which was written in 1937 by the famous lyricist He Luting and dedicated to all the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army. Tang Cheng had never heard this song, and Song Tieshan also lowered his voice, so Tang Cheng only heard a sentence clearly, and every bullet eliminated an enemy. Frankly speaking, Song Tieshan really has no talent for singing, not only is he not full of five tones out of tune everywhere, but he also can't pronounce words clearly, but Song Tieshan's focused expression makes Tang Cheng can't help but look sideways.

Tang Cheng didn't say anything to the lyrics he heard, but the old Northeast who came over at some point laughed at Song Tieshan's lyrics. "Captain Song, I don't know how your guerrillas train recruits, but it's impossible for a knowledgeable little devil on the battlefield to stand there waiting for you to shoot, so there is no way to have a story of one shot at all, if you can really do that, just send a few carts of bullets to your guerrillas, and you alone can kill all the little devils."

Listening to Lao Dongbei's almost provocative words, Tang Cheng didn't speak, Lao Dongbei was his person, and Tang Cheng was also amused by the lyrics that Song Tieshan sang, he asked to see how Song Tieshan answered. Song Tieshan replied very simply, "It's funny to say, when I first joined the team, the company commander only issued me a grenade, and a year later I had my own gun." Unfortunately, there was a gun, but there were only 3 bullets, and I fought three times with that gun, and by the time I was ordered to form a guerrilla detachment, there were still 3 bullets in the rifle. ”

Song Tieshan avoided Liu Goat's provocation with a self-deprecating or ridiculous answer, and Ling Tang Cheng put the old fox logo on him in his heart. Probably didn't want to be provoked by Liu Goat all the time, Song Tieshan immediately chatted with Tang Cheng, putting aside Song Tieshan's identity as a guerrilla leader, Tang Cheng had a good impression of this man in his thirties who had a simple atmosphere all over his body. Like everyone else in the guerrillas, Song Tieshan looked so ordinary that if he put down the gun in his hand and grabbed a hoe, no one would believe that such an honest man had killed 6 Japanese devils with his own hands.

"Our Eighth Route Army is not as rich as your national army, I heard that your recruits can have a chance to shoot 20 bullets, and they have military uniforms, military salaries, and food. When I first joined the army, I used a red tassel gun, and the rifle I was later issued with was also taken from the enemy by myself, but there were fewer bullets, only three rounds, but I was never willing to use it, and every time I killed the enemy with a bayonet. When he always heard Song Tieshan talk about his gun and three bullets, Lao Dongbei had no interest in listening, but Liu Goat, who got up and left, didn't know that this was Song Tieshan's intention, he wanted to find a chance to talk to Tang Cheng alone.

"Wait a minute, I'll go to the entrance of the village with you." Seeing that Liu Goat got up to leave, Tang Cheng, who had been acting as an audience, also got up and stood up, and without waiting for Song Tieshan to say anything, Tang Cheng had already left the courtyard with Lao Dongbei and walked to the entrance of the village. The Kuomintang and the CCP are mortal enemies, this is what Liu Shanyang told Tang Cheng, although he does not know the CCP very well, but Tang Cheng also knows that the Eighth Route Army is a unit of the CCP, and he is an officer of the National Army, so he is destined not to get involved with the CCP's people.