Beishan was victorious, the 1st Company of the garrison regiment and the Japanese army fought fiercely at the Beishan checkpoint, completely annihilating 192 Japanese squadrons, and the captured spoils were not counted. As the unconscious Tang Cheng was sent back to the county seat by Liu Shanyang, the news of the garrison regiment's defeat of the Japanese army in Beishan began to circulate in the county town, and there was a point where it became more and more evil, and when Li Linge learned the news, the 1st Company of Tang Cheng was no longer a Japanese squadron, but a Japanese brigade of more than 1,000 people.

"Are you sure the news is coming from the garrison?" Li Linge was stunned with a teacup, before the Japanese army attacked, the county magistrate Ge Kunshan happened to go to the provincial capital, this was already the second day of the Japanese attack, but Ge Kunshan didn't even see a shadow, Li Linge knew that this guy who was afraid of death must be hiding. Yesterday, the guns outside the city rang out all day, and the people in the city were panicked, and Li Linge was also worried, but the housekeeper Li Shun brought him good news, the kid under Liu Goat came back from a victory.

"The news came back from our people, and there can be no mistake in it, but Tang Cheng is the only one who has returned to the city, and it seems that he was injured." Li Shun's answer made Li Linge even more puzzled. He is not looking into military affairs, Li Linge, who has a big family business, just wants to take precautions and plan for his family business as early as possible. Li Shun said that the 1st Company of Tangcheng did kill a squadron of the Japanese army in Beishan, but why was he the only one who returned to the city?

"Our family will send two truckloads of grain, you ask the people in the family to help make pancakes, and send one copy to the 173rd Division and the garrison regiment, and send it with great fanfare, so that the people in the county town can see the atmosphere of our Li family." Li Linge pondered for a long time and couldn't figure out why Tang Cheng was the only one to return to the city, but Ge Kunshan's absence from the county seat was a good thing for Li Linge, taking advantage of the garrison's victory in Beishan, Li Linge planned to create some momentum for the Li family, and wartime condolences were the most appropriate excuses.

Li Linge just needed a chance to befriend Zhou Yuan and Liu Goat, and he didn't care if the Japanese soldiers killed by Tang Cheng in Beishan were one or two alive. Li Linge sent food outside the city with great fanfare, and there was a lot of uproar in the county town, and the fact that Beishan won the battle was exaggerated again, and there were even rumors that the Japanese army killed in Beishan was not 1,000 but at least 3,000 people.

The only one who knows the truth in the entire county is Lao Xu, Tang Cheng was sent back to the county by Liu Goat and woke up again not long after, after Tian Kui's diagnosis and treatment, Tang Cheng's injuries have been controlled, if Liu Goat's standard is used to calculate, the current Tang Cheng can not be regarded as a wounded person recuperating in Western medicine at all. The battle outside the city has been very hot, Tang Cheng, who was forcibly left in the city by Liu Goat, has climbed the tower to watch the battlefield more than once, he wants to go out of the city, but Lao Xu does not agree.

After a whole day of fighting yesterday and this morning, the two companies that were taken out of the city by Liu Shanyang had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the 4th Company under Liu Shanyang's personal command and Liang Dahu's 5th Company had been transferred out of the city at this time, and only Lao Xu and his gang of men were left in the barracks of the garrison regiment. Tang Cheng, who had barely eaten something, had been sullen, and after sobering up, he suddenly remembered Sun He and the soldiers of the 1st Company who followed him back to the city, if he hadn't insisted on doing so, maybe they wouldn't have died at all.

The wounds on Tang Cheng's body had been cleaned and bandaged, and the pain at the wound was still unbearable for Tang Cheng, who had just regained consciousness, especially the shot on his left arm, which made Tang Cheng feel that his left arm could barely be lifted. But he didn't want to stay in the city to watch the battle, he didn't want to be seen as a deserter and a coward by the soldiers of the garrison, "Lao Xu, get me some bullets and grenades, I want to go out of the city." "It's the fifth time that Tang Cheng has proposed to leave the city, and he is very resolute this time, and he has already straddled the shell gun that he wanted back from Jin Dapeng diagonally.

"My master, there is a war going on outside, you are a wounded man now, you need to rest well, this is the order of our regiment commander, I dare not let you out of the city." Tang Cheng grabbed the flower mechanism in his hand one step ahead, and Lao Xu opened his arms to stop Tang Cheng from leaving, this was not only Liu Goat's order, but also Lao Xu's own selfishness. Lao Xu was forcibly pulled into the gang after Tang Cheng and they evacuated Nanjing and crossed the river, Lao Xu and Liu Goat, who were born as a traveling doctor, have been messing around for half a year, and he already has family-like feelings for Liu Goat and the three of them, and he can't let Tang Cheng, who is injured, go out of the city.

Tang Cheng pretended to twist his neck and arms easily, "Look at it, look at it, I look like I can run and jump like this, where do I look like a wounded soldier who needs to recuperate?" "Lao Xu was a little suspicious and made way for Tang Cheng, but the flower mechanism he grabbed in his hand was not returned to Tang Cheng." Hurry up and get me the bullets ready, I'll go to the backyard and I'll be out of town in a moment. Tang Cheng didn't want to entangle with Lao Xu on the issue of whether to go out of the city, so he cleverly changed the topic, he wanted to go to the backyard to meet the strange old man.

In the library in the backyard, the strange old man familiar to Tang Cheng still looked leisurely, still lying in a rocking chair looking at books and drinking tea, and he was also unfazed by Tang Cheng's arrival. "Old man, didn't I tell you that there was going to be a war here, why didn't you leave Mengcheng?" Grabbing the teapot on the table and pouring himself a cup of tea, Tang Cheng gulped it to himself.

"When people are old, they want to stay in their homeland, I have seen the Northern Expeditionary Army, I have also seen bandits, I have also seen your national army, but I have never seen this Japanese soldier, my old man wants to see how powerful this Japanese soldier is." When the old man said this, he leaned over and took out a long sword from under the rocking chair and showed it to Tang Cheng. "When I was young, I always wanted to learn from those big heroes in the book to fight the sword and go to the rivers and lakes, and I also worshipped a few masters to learn some styles, but the old man's sword has not been stained with blood, and it may be an opportunity to stay in Mengcheng, hehe."

Tang Cheng couldn't understand what the strange old man was thinking all day long, you are seventy or eighty people, and you are still thinking about going to close combat with the Japanese soldiers, people are using guns now, and if you don't wait for the old man to get closer, just one bullet can solve you as a swordsman. "Sir, I'm here to say sorry to you, the book I borrowed from you was left behind by me in Beishan, but I promise that the book is still intact, and I'll return it to you when I beat the little devil."

Tang Cheng said sorry words in his mouth, but he kept paying attention to the old man's reaction with the corner of his eye, in fact, even he didn't believe that he could repel the besieging Japanese army this time, the reason why he said this was just to reassure the old man. "Young man, don't tell me those lies to my old man, all the people in your barracks have been transferred out of the city this morning, and there are still some cooks. Although I have never fought before, old man, I have never seen the Northern Expeditionary Army fight back then, and Mengcheng must not be able to defend it this time. ”

Tang Cheng was surprised by the strange old man's words, he didn't expect that such an old man who spent all day in the house reading books and drinking tea would have such insight and judgment. "Old man, since you already know that Mengcheng may not be able to hold it, then why do you still want to stay in Mengcheng and not leave? Isn't it good to go somewhere else to avoid the little devils? Tang Cheng is not in a hurry to get out of the city, he needs to know the answers and thoughts of this strange old man.

"You don't understand, this is my hometown, my Lu family has lived here for thirteen generations, and the blessed land of my ancestors is also here, my old man is not going anywhere, this is my home." The old man's words caused Tang Cheng to be in a trance, and when he was in Shanghai, he didn't regard that church as his home. But when the Japanese soldiers came, all this qiē changed, Robert, who raised him, died, and the Japanese soldiers also entered Shanghai, and he had to leave his hometown and flee all the way to Nanjing, where he was fleeing to Mengcheng.

Tang Cheng left the old man's library in a little confusion, and the last words the old man said before leaving were the reason for Tang Cheng's confusion. "Young people, don't blame yourself too much, just do what you have to do." The old man's deep eyes made Tang Cheng feel like he was being seen through, since Robert's death, Tang Cheng has been blaming himself, if Robert didn't get a passport for himself, he wouldn't have died in the hands of those Japanese.

Walking out of the old man's library, the sound of artillery outside the city seemed to become more dense, and the people in the city did not have the courage to run to the city tower to watch the battle, so they had to gather in front of their homes to discuss the battle situation with their neighbors. Lao Xu drove the carriage to personally send Tang Cheng out of the city, at Tang Cheng's insistence, Lao Xu prepared ammunition and a new military uniform for Tang Cheng, looking at the people standing at the door of the house and discussing, Tang Cheng's face was a little gloomy. If the city of Mongolia is broken by the Japanese army, I don't know how many people in the city will die, and I don't know how many people who are guarding the door will survive.

The battle outside the city seemed to be more fierce than Tang Cheng had imagined, and the moment the carriage drilled out of the city gate, Tang Cheng couldn't even believe his eyes. Many of the trenches and fortifications outside the city were dug by Tang Cheng with people, and Tang Cheng was as familiar with those trenches and fortifications as he was with himself, but now he couldn't believe his eyes, because he could hardly recognize those trenches and fortifications, and the Japanese artillery fire had almost bulldozed the fortifications outside the city.

According to the direction in his memory, Tang Cheng, who was alone, quickly found the position of the garrison regiment, and when Tang Cheng entered the position, it happened to be the time when the Japanese attacking troops and the garrison were fighting. As the explosion sounded, a large group of fireballs rose over the position of the garrison, and from time to time there were screaming soldiers of the garrison regiment who were knocked over by the air or fell into the trench with bloody arrows.

Liu Goat, who was not wearing a steel helmet, was gritting his teeth and firing a machine gun, all the garrison regiments that were transferred to the position had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and even Liang Dahu, who was most familiar to Tang Cheng, was gone, and all Tang Cheng could do was to pick up a bloodstained rifle and join the battle.