Chapter 30: The Calamity
Song Tieshan had the intention to keep Tang Cheng and the three of them, but seeing that Tang Cheng had made up his mind, he couldn't say anything about keeping them, so he had to divide another 200 bullets from the loot and give them to Tang Cheng, which could be regarded as a good fate. The bodies of Uncle Han and the woman have been cleaned up from the collapsed yard, and Han Shanhu, who was also injured, had to kneel in vain in front of the corpse and cry bitterly.
"Brother Han, since it is the will of heaven for Uncle Han and his sister-in-law to stay in this Li family shop, let's bury them here, if you plan to stay here with the children, then the three of us will help you bury the corpses. If you still want to take the children to Xiushui to join your family, then I will go to Captain Song and ask him to help bury Uncle Han and his sister-in-law, it is not safe here, so it is better for us to leave early. Tang Cheng is not very good at persuading, so he can only tell Han Shanhu carefully about the current situation, as for what kind of choice Han Shanhu will make, it depends on his own meaning.
On one side is the corpse of the old father and wife, and on the other side is his two children, I don't know if it was before Han Shanhu left the grain field, Song Tieshan's words played a role, and Han Shanhu finally decided to stay in Li's shop. Since Han Shanhu decided to stay in Lijiapu, Tang Cheng couldn't say anything, so he could only say goodbye to Lao Dongbei and leave, and go to the village entrance to meet Liu Shishi to prepare to leave here. "This is his own choice, we can't force it, and besides, the two children are not suitable to continue to go south to repair the water, so it may be a good choice to stay here." Seeing that Lao Dongbei was a little angry, Tang Cheng explained to Han Shanhu.
When he came, there were two carriages and 8 people, and when Tang Cheng left here, there were only three people left in one carriage, and Xiaolian, who kept waving her arms behind her, was getting farther and farther away, and the poor child didn't know that he had lost his grandfather and mother. Probably in a hurry to leave the village, which was full of weeping and tears, Lao Dongbei kept waving his horsewhip with a calm face, driving the carriage out of the speed of the sedan on the dirt road.
"Boom" An explosion from behind him made Lao Dongbei pull the reins, and the three people in the carriage all looked up, the explosion a mile away sounded very vague, but the smoke rising from the sky above Li's shop was extremely eye-catching. Oops, Tang Cheng's heart chuckled, he had been wondering why the Japanese soldiers who attacked the village had to disguise themselves as bandits, and the Japanese soldiers who were captured alive by them clearly said that they were a small team, but they saw at most more than 20 Japanese soldiers in the village, so where did the rest of the Japanese soldiers go?
The explosion that sounded again in Li's shop found the key to unravel the mystery for Tang Cheng, "Turn around, let's go back." Tang Cheng, whose face changed greatly, urged Lao Dongbei to turn the carriage around. The closer the carriage got to Lijiapu, the more dense the gunfire in the village became, and when it was only three or four hundred meters away from Lijiapu, Tang Cheng asked Lao Dongbei to stop the carriage, "Stone, the carriage will be handed over to you to watch, if the momentum is not right, you will drive the carriage away, and we will meet in the forest in front." Regardless of whether Liu Shishi was happy or not, Tang Cheng took care of himself and took Lao Northeast and rushed towards the village.
Along the fields outside the village all the way to the north, Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei went around to the back of the haystack outside the village, and looked from behind the haystack, there were two corpses lying more than ten meters away from Tang Cheng, the faces of the corpses rushed down, just looking at their outfits, Tang Cheng had no way to confirm whether they were from the village or guerrillas. "What are you still wondering about, can't you just hit it directly?" Seeing that Tang Cheng was silent in thought, Lao Dongbei, who was holding a light machine gun, was a little anxious, and was busy urging Tang Cheng to make a quick decision on what to do.
Tang Cheng was not thinking about whether to fight or not at this time, he was wondering whether the rekindling of the war in Li Jiapu was related to those Japanese soldiers disguised as bandits, and the intelligence he asked showed that this group of Japanese soldiers was also a squad. But Song Tieshan's Japanese soldiers in the village were only more than 20 people, and there were dozens of Japanese soldiers who seemed to have completely disappeared.
"Boom" "Boom" A few clouds of smoke rose again in the village, and Tang Cheng, who was hiding behind the haystack, could only grit his teeth and plan to rush into the village. "Fight!" Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei glanced at each other, and then rushed out from behind the haystack with his shell gun, and Lao Dongbei, who was a step slower, could only curse secretly in his heart, and then chased after him from the other side of the haystack with a light machine gun. The Japanese soldiers who entered the village did not wear their uniforms, and their dress was almost indistinguishable from that of the people in Lijiapu, which made it difficult for Tangcheng and Lao Dongbei to judge whether the target was friend or foe.
The old northeast is in front of Tang City and behind the corner of the wall, which can reduce the enemy surface by half, but it is easy to be hit by ricochets hitting the wall. There were constantly bullets flying past Tang Cheng and them, and at first they would be scared when they heard the sound of bullets breaking through the air, but then they didn't even instinctively shrink their necks when they heard too much. Lao Dongbei was about to kick the wooden door in front of him, when he heard a "boom" sound, Tang Cheng only felt that his side and back seemed to be dragged by someone, and he was directly brought to the ground by a huge force.
Lao Dongbei first threw his light machine gun into the yard like crazy, and then reached out and grabbed Tang Cheng's legs, dragging Tang Cheng, who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, into the yard like a sack. At this time, Tang Cheng felt that he was breathing, and his heart was beating like a drum, "Bang!" Boom! Boom! After panting and looking around to make sure that there was no threat, Tang Cheng, who had escaped death, suddenly collapsed to the ground, and the sweat of his late arrival instantly soaked Tang Cheng's clothes.
There were not only Tang Cheng and Lao Dongbei in the courtyard, but there was also a woman lying in the corner of the courtyard, the woman with a wooden stick in her hand was shot through the chest and lying on the ground, and there was a one- or two-year-old thin child waiting to be fed like a matchstick on the corpse. Tang Cheng looked at the mother and son with wide eyes, this is a mother who protects her child, Tang Cheng's brain stopped all functions and only this sentence emerged. The child, who knew nothing, was biting his mother's shriveled breast, but he had no idea that it was not milk that was sucking into his mouth, but his mother's blood.
The loud noise of the open space in front of the door woke Tang Cheng from his trance, and Lao Dongbei, who also couldn't bear to look at it, shuddered and said to himself, "The little devil of the dog day is evil, evil." Tang Cheng got up and glanced at the mother and son again in a panic, and then rushed out of the courtyard gate with a shell gun, and the aching back that had been hit by the grenadier seemed to have lost consciousness. The tragedy just now made Tang Cheng regain his composure, and once again he could discern the direction by the sound of gunfire, and Tang Cheng ran forward with a grenadier on his back.
Bypassing a few corpses, Tang Cheng finally found a Japanese machine gun position, two Japanese light machine guns on the left and right blocked an intersection, and it should be Song Tieshan and their guerrillas who were shooting at them on both sides of the intersection. Tang Cheng knocked down one of them with his shell gun, but before he could fire again, the Japanese machine gunner had already turned his gun and fired a burst of fire at Tang Cheng. The powerful gunfire smashed a string of bullet holes along the stone wall, turning into powdery stone chips that pasted Tang Cheng's head, if Tang Cheng's reaction was not about to lie on the ground, this might have been beaten into honeycomb coal by the gunfire.
"Lao Tzu blew you bastards" Relying on the strength of his elbow, Tang Cheng slowly retreated to the corner, and before Lao Dongbei tried to attract the opponent's fire with his machine gun, Tang Cheng had already taken off the grenadier on his back. The grenade that was ejected from the grenadier exploded in the open space, and the angle of the grenadier was readjusted, Tang Cheng once again looked at the grenade and stuffed a grenade into it, and the "boom" flames and smoke rose from the intersection, and this time the grenade ejected from the grenadier was smashed squarely into the Japanese machine-gun position.
Without waiting for the old Northeast to applaud, Tang Cheng fired another grenade and went out, and the two accurate bombardments caused casualties to several Japanese soldiers guarding the intersection, and even if there were still those who were not dead, they were all shocked by the explosion and temporarily lost their combat capability. The machine guns at the intersection stopped, and the guerrillas who were blocked by the Japanese machine guns on both sides shouted and rushed out, Tang Cheng did not see Song Tieshan or Miao Changsheng among these people, but he had stayed too long, but followed those guerrillas with his own weapons.
The guerrillas had captured mortars and shells, but they didn't have anyone who could fiddle with mortars, and Tang Cheng's appearance and the grenadiers in his hands helped a lot. After several rounds of grenades were smashed with grenades, the guerrillas, who had been pressed and beaten, turned defeat into victory, and when the Japanese officer in Tang Cheng's sight was swallowed up by the smoke of the explosion, the remnants of the Japanese army, who had lost their commander and machine-gun firepower, finally withdrew from the village.
The entire Li family shop had become a bloody hell, and it wasn't until Tang Cheng found Tie Niu that he figured out what was going on. Tang Cheng was told that Song Tieshan had been killed, not only Song Tieshan was killed in battle, but even the hot-tempered Miao Changsheng also died under the machine guns of the Japanese army. The two guerrillas who joined together now only had 6 alive and a dozen wounded, and the rest were all dead bodies, and Lao Dongbei brought bad news to Tang Cheng, Han Shanhu and his own two sons and daughters also died.
Fighting will kill people, and the casualties of the guerrillas can not make Tang Cheng feel sad, and the heart-rending pain in his heart comes from the death of the five members of the Han family. Tang Cheng, who lost his soul and was depressed, kept blaming himself in his heart, if he hadn't bewitched the people of the Han family to cross the river and run back, maybe they would not have died in this Li family shop, if they hadn't crossed the river, maybe the people of the Han family could continue to live in Yongxing Village, maybe they would have lived a little harder, but at least they could live, not die here like now.