Chapter 158: The Road Encounters Wonders
Tang Cheng took the telescope and carefully observed Zhangjiadian, as Hou San said, the Zhangjiadian that Tang Cheng saw in the telescope was quiet, not at all like a village with dozens of families. Not only can you not see anyone coming out, but even the livestock that ordinary farmers are used to raising at home can't be seen, and they can't hear the sound, and the whole Zhangjiadian is full of weirdness. For ten minutes, Tang Cheng leaned motionless behind the broken tree, but Zhangjiadian in the telescope was still dead silent.
"It's really weird, there's really no one." Tang Cheng, who returned the same way, said the same thing in front of them in the old northeast, of course he knew that the word strange was not enough to describe the weirdness of Zhangjiadian, but he could only say this now, otherwise these routs who endured hard work might blow up their nests. When waiting for Hou San and them to return, Tang Cheng thought about it alone for a while, but before Hou San and them returned, Tang Cheng had already ordered Lao Dongbei to take a team of people down the mountain to enter Zhangjiadian to do a field search.
Lao Northeast was an idle man, and since Tang Cheng had given the order, he took a light machine gun and took 20 people down the mountain and went straight to Zhangjiadian, which was silent. Lao Northeast led people to conduct a field search for Zhangjiadian, of course Tang Cheng could not be idle, Lao Northeast they left only about five minutes, Tang Cheng took the remaining gunmen down the mountain and fell far behind Lao Dongbei them.
Lao Dongbei and the others slowly approached Zhangjiadian on the still slippery dirt road, but whether they cautiously entered the village or searched the houses in the village, they found nothing, except for these houses, there was no trace of people and livestock in the entire Zhangjiadian. "Damn, isn't it true that the villagers here have all been captured by the little devils of Dog Day? Just like the villages we saw before we crossed the river. Tang Cheng knew what Old Northeast meant, but Old Northeast's words also reminded Tang Cheng.
"Let all the brethren on the mountain come down, and since there is no one left in the village, let us stay here for the time being." Tang Cheng didn't say his guess, although it was only a rough guess, Tang Cheng already almost knew where the villagers of Zhangjiadian had gone. Although many of the houses in Zhangjiadian are old, the houses of these dozens of families are enough to live in Tangcheng, and with shelter from the wind and rain, the soldiers can light a fire to bake their clothes, and they can also eat hot rice and drink ginger tea made with ginger slices.
"If you don't find it, it's good news, tell the brothers to bake and dry their clothes, they will get sick easily when they wear wet clothes, and don't forget to drink a bowl of ginger tea when the fat man cooks it." Waiting for Hou San, who was covered in mud and water, and they returned, Tang Cheng sat in the fire pit and baked his clothes, shoes and socks. The fire pond was full of shoes and socks, and the house was also full of the smell of stinky feet, Tan Fei, who couldn't stand it, ran to sit at the door of the house, but Tang Cheng, who was sitting by the fire pit, did not change his face, the smell of feet was a unique smell of the military camp, and Tang Cheng had long been accustomed to this smell.
Just barely nibbled a few bites of the light cake with the ginger tea boiled by the fat man, and then looked outside, the rain had already stopped, spread out the map and looked at it for a while, Tang Cheng ordered all the gunmen to be gathered. "Your injuries are not completely healed, I will only take 30 people and all the machine guns, and leave the remaining 30 people for you. If we encounter the Japanese army, I will have the scouts come back and inform you to meet us, and the safety of the remaining brothers will be given to you, so be careful. Tang Cheng decided to leave with Lao Dongbei with half of the gunmen, and the safety of the village could only be handed over to Huang Chengzhong to greet him.
"There's no way to do it, the only thing I can believe is a few of you, it's obviously not okay to leave you behind, Hou San, they can't convince the public. Huang Chengzhong is a member of the Dian army, and his own ability to deal with the world is not bad, do you want me to hand over the command of the remaining people to one of those defeated soldiers? In the face of Lao Northeast's incomprehension and complaints, Tang Cheng could only explain with good words, if it weren't for the fact that there was no one to use, Tang Cheng would not have to hand over the heavy responsibility to Huang Chengzhong.
With Tang Cheng's explanation, Old Northeast no longer bothered about the matter, but just buried his head in the dice and the marks left by their scouts. This is the advantage of having locals as guides, and under the leadership of those guides, dozens of people in Tang Cheng quickly detoured the path to see the Xiu River. "Official, there is a road after the Xiuhe River, and this avenue can reach Baicha Town to the east, and Sanxi Bridge to the north." The guide who led the way for them in Tang City quickly lifted two small boats out of a pit by the river.
Tang Cheng carefully looked at the small boats that were found by the guides, and asked with a puzzled face, "Uncle Luo, there are dozens of us, can only two small boats work?" I don't worry about the past, but I'm afraid we'll be in danger when we come back, and if we can find a larger boat, preferably one that can transport us across the river in one trip. "Tang Cheng only brought out more than 30 people on this trip, so naturally he didn't want to cross the river in batches.
"Master Jun, the Xiu River is not deep, the river is not very wide, and the larger boats are indeed loaded, but in a river like the Xiu River, the most suitable boat is such a small boat, and the big ship can't dock, and when the time comes, you will have to drip water whether you get on or off the boat." Xu saw that Tang Cheng still had doubts, and the guide, who had already put the boat down on the riverbank, laughed, and plunged the artemisia pole in his hand straight into the water, and sure enough, the bamboo artemisia pole only stuck into the water surface for only 2 meters before stopping. "The repair river is not deep, and the big boat can't go at all, so such a small boat is the most suitable."
After personally grabbing the artemisia pole and trying, Tang Cheng put his mind at ease, it is not that there is no bridge on the river, but Tang Cheng does not dare to take the bridge, if he wants to be surprised, he must cross the river. As the guide said, although the boat carried few people, the speed was very fast, and it took only a quarter of an hour to transport all the 30 or so people from Tangcheng across the Xiuhe River in two round-trips. Leaving two people and two guides who were holding the boat, they rowed the boat back to the opposite bank, and Tang Cheng and the others followed the guide to the river bank and went straight to the avenue they said.
After the rain stopped, the wind started, and the ground became less muddy after being blown by the wind, and Tang Cheng and the others were much faster, and it didn't take long for them to get on the avenue that the guides said. "That's the road, to the north is the Sanxi Bridge, to the east you can reach Baicha Town, after Baicha Town is Qiujin Town, Baicha Town and Qiujin Town are next to the river." Tang Cheng took out the map to correspond to the guide's guidance, and used the scale on the map to calculate the distance between De'an and this place.
The intelligence given by the 20th Army showed that two divisions of the Japanese army were assembled in the vicinity of De'an, and De'an was too close to the Sanxi Bridge. "I'll take Hou San and Shi to Baicha Town, you and the rest of the people will guard this avenue, if there is a chance, we will guard the road to intercept the Japanese troops passing by." There is a Huanggu Mountain a few miles away from Baicha Town, and it stands to reason that it will be the most suitable place for ambushes, but Tang Cheng does not dare to rely on this Baicha Town too close, and guarding this road close to Xiuhe will not worry about finding Japanese troops.
Lao Northeast knew what Tang Cheng meant by going to Baicha Town, and when Hou San and Liu Shi put Japanese military uniforms in their backpacks, they were still helped by Lao Northeast. Lao Dongbei had the heart to stop it, but he also knew that it was generally difficult to change what Tang Cheng decided, so he had to tell Hou San and Liu Shi to protect Tang Cheng. The defeated soldiers who were led by Tang Cheng on a rapid march for three days did not know where Tang Cheng came from, until they saw Tang Cheng and several people change into the uniforms of the Japanese army, and listened to Tang Cheng shout a few words of Japanese.
"Otherwise, let's still be the same as last time, you are walking on the avenue in the uniform of the little devil, and the rest of us are hiding, and if you encounter a little devil on the road, you will kill it directly." Lao Dongbei was still a little worried about asking Tang Cheng to personally go to Baicha Town to find out the enemy's movements, according to his thoughts, anyway, he came to find the little devils to grab things, and guarding the avenue to kill them was no different from finding an ambush point.
"It's a good thing if you think about it, if you don't even know the general movement of the enemy and make a rash move, we may not be able to go back this time, but there are two divisions of the Japanese army in the direction of De'an. I know how many people there are in the two divisions, at least more than 10,000 people, just a few cloves of garlic, we don't need to be overwhelmed by other people's armies, as long as we bombard us twice with large-caliber artillery, this is where we bury our bones. Tang Cheng glanced at Lao Northeast, but there was no blame in his eyes, but he felt that Old Northeast was a little whimsical.
The white-eyed old Northeast stopped talking, and when Tang Cheng and the others sorted out the Japanese military uniforms on their bodies, the unwilling old Northeast could only watch Tang Cheng and the others leave. Baicha Town and Sanxi Bridge, naturally Baicha Town is close to De'an, so Tangcheng moving in the direction of Baicha Town does not have to worry about the danger of the old northeast, but any Japanese troops who appear on this road will inevitably pass through Baicha Town first, and then the road connected to Sanxi Bridge.
Follow the highway to the direction of Baicha Town, you will pass by many villages along the way, those guides have already told Tang Cheng, Tang Cheng they pretend to be Japanese soldiers for the purpose of going to Baicha Town to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, it doesn't matter whether they enter the village or not, of course, if someone pulls Tang Cheng and they enter the village to rest, it is another matter. Quietly looking at the fat man in the black jacket who nodded in front of him, Tang Cheng held back a smile in his heart, a few of them just stood at the head of the village and looked at it a few times, but they didn't expect that a traitor would come out to invite them into the village to rest.
"Taijun, my son is Bai Shouyi of the Baicha Town Detective Team, and our family is a good citizen of the imperial army. Several Taijun have already arrived at the door of the house, and they can't let the Taijun go hungry, the family has already slaughtered chickens and geese, and invited a few Taijun to go to my house to eat a few bites of hot rice. The black jacket fat man spoke to Tan Fei, the only one wearing civilian clothes, and Tan Fei was still wearing glasses, so the black jacket fat man thought that Tan Fei was a translator, but he didn't know that Tan Fei only wanted to stab this traitor fat man to death with a bayonet.