Chapter 19: The Road Encounters an Air Raid

"The road ahead is blocked, we may have to stay here for a while, you guys be careful, I always feel that something is not quite right." Tang Cheng, who returned to the back of the car, looked a little cold and hard, and whispered a few words to Hou San and them, and then turned around and went to the corner in front. Tang Cheng didn't squeeze into the noisy crowd, just stood on the periphery and carefully observed the situation around the corner, the two cars that collided together didn't seem to be very strict, and the truck driver and the overseas Chinese shouldn't have argued about it, Tang Cheng always felt that this matter was a little weird.

There were also people who persuaded the two people who were arguing together to move the truck and the car first, but the Burmese overseas Chinese muttered a lot of things, and the truck driver had to apologize to himself and compensate for the loss before moving the car. And the truck driver bit to death because the two cars collided because of this overseas Chinese's sudden rush to the road, since it was not his fault, why should he apologize to the other party.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way." Tang Cheng was opening his mouth, but saw several soldiers with guns walking from the back of the truck, Tang Cheng guessed that these should be the escort soldiers guarding the material truck. A soldier in military uniform appeared, the crowd gathered scattered around, the two drivers who were arguing without stopping stopped talking, the leading soldier looked at the two cars that collided together, and then coughed lightly a few times and said, "I've seen it, since the car hit it very strictly, do you move the car first or continue to drive forward, get out of the way first." ”

"This sir, what you said is not right, I know that you are all escorting trucks, and these trucks are naturally in the same group, but there are so many people here, I don't believe you can still say that black is white." Tang Cheng stood outside the circle of people, but the words of this Burmese overseas Chinese were also clearly understood by him. Tang Cheng couldn't help frowning, these local overseas Chinese should be fleeing to China, one should not conflict with the word soldier, and the other should cherish time, but how can he look at this product is deliberately messing around.

"Quick, turn off the lights, put out the campfire, there's a plane coming." The shouts that sounded from the slope next to the road shook Tang Cheng's heart. The trucks blocking the highway turned off their lights one after another, and the Burmese overseas Chinese who was arguing with the truck driver also turned off the lights of his car under the eyes of the soldiers, and Tang Cheng ran to his Ford truck without hesitation, while at the same time, there were already people extinguishing the bonfires on the side of the road.

"Get out of the car and bring all your stuff down." Tang Cheng, who was in a hurry, rushed to the back of the Ford truck, lifted the tarpaulin and shouted to the people who had not yet come down inside, Hou San had already pulled the two main and co-pilots to his side. When Tang Cheng and his gang slipped down the roadbed, the whimpering sound of a hand-cranked air defense siren sounded at the corner of the road in front of them, and the ears were filled with people's panicked shouts and footsteps.

Tang Cheng is no stranger to air raids, as early as when Shanghai was defending the block position, Tang Cheng was bombarded by Japanese naval guns and aircraft, and then when he left Shanghai and moved towards Nanjing, Tang Cheng was also bombarded by Japanese fighters, so he knew that if he ran away in a panic, he might only die faster. "Get down, find a shelter to get down, don't look up, don't get up casually." Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and pulled Huang Hanju to his side, and vigorously pushed Huang Hanju, who was already a little pale, into the first shallow pit under the roadbed.

Tang Cheng's hiding place was almost 50 meters away from the road, and after they had already crouched down on the spot, the crowd scattered on the road was still in a panic, and after about a minute or two, Tang Cheng could already roughly hear the dull roar of fighter planes in the air. This voice became louder and louder, and it quickly overwhelmed the air raid sirens on the ground and the shouts of the crowd, until this moment, Tang Cheng was shocked and secretly exclaimed, this time it was definitely not a small fish and shrimp, the last time he encountered those Japanese fighters, it was not this movement.

Two lights suddenly appeared on the panicked road, followed by screams and continuous gunshots, and Tang Cheng looked up from his hiding place. At this time, it was already dark, and it was a little far away, and Tang Cheng, who was trying to look forward, saw nothing, only a dozen guns lit up on the highway and some black shadows running and screaming.

Following past experience, Tang Cheng, who was lying on the ground, was very annoyed, he thought that the overseas Chinese was strange just now, and only then did he understand that the overseas Chinese was a spy of the Japanese army. Collision with a truck hauling supplies may have been part of his plan, blocking the convoy and then turning on the headlights to direct the bombarded warplanes. Tang Cheng immediately complained to himself in his heart, he should have controlled that overseas Chinese in advance just now, how could he be so taken lightly during the war?

But it was useless to regret at the end, fate had been handed back to God from his hands, Tang Cheng, who was lying on the ground, could only silently draw a cross on his forehead and chest, and then calmly closed his eyes and said softly: "May God bless us!" In the dark night, the dive of the fighter planes became louder and louder, and the whistle of the bomb when it fell became more and more sharp, and the explosion that shook the earth began to sound a moment later, and even the ground under Tang Cheng trembled.

With the sound of a loud explosion, the ground beneath him shook violently, which reminded Tang Cheng of the first time he was shelled by Japanese guns in Shanghai. At that time, he thought that the shell was close to him, but in fact, it was still quite far away, otherwise, ordinary people's internal organs would not be able to withstand the powerful impact of the explosion of the shell of the naval gun. The sound of the explosion is getting closer and denser, and in the face of this irresistible impact, people are like dead leaves in the wind, and they can only wait for the fate in trembling.

"Don't put your body completely on the ground, but use your elbows to support your body slightly, or your internal organs will be bruised." Tang Cheng propped himself on the ground with his elbows, and shouted loudly as the people lying on his side took advantage of the explosion. The loud sound of "boom" thunder overshadowed Tang Cheng's voice, and the strong gale formed by the explosion of the bomb that fell on Tang Cheng's side more than ten meters away collided unscrupulously, pushing everything that could move away like a drunkard with a temper, and Tang Cheng's steel helmet was also vigorously lifted, and the others could barely maintain their current posture.

"Boom", "boom", "boom" Another deafening explosion sounded not far away, and the debris debris was swept down from above by the air waves, hitting people with a strong stinging sensation. The pungent smoke and dust filled the air, choking everyone unbearably coughing, and the people who rushed down the roadbed to try to avoid the air raid were obviously not only Tang Cheng and their gang, not far from their right side in Tang Cheng, and there were also irrepressible coughing sounds one after another.

The sound of bomb explosions, the roar of planes as they dive, and the strafing of fighter guns, seem to be the fiercest storm in the middle of summer. Even Tang Cheng, who had experienced more than one bombardment by fighter planes, trembled uncontrollably in such an environment, feeling that the bombardment of Japanese fighters had deviated from the highway and moved under the roadbed, Tang Cheng got up decisively, pulled Huang Hanju with one hand, and Yanlong, who had already been dizzy with the other, and hurried to run further away from the highway, "Get up and follow me, you can't stay here, maybe the bomb will come and blow up here in a while." ”

Tang Cheng, who couldn't tell the direction anymore, pulled Huang Hanju and Yanlong to run as hard as he could, and with his already chaotic memory, he ran dozens of meters away in one breath, and then he stopped. Then turned around and looked at the road, because the firelight from the explosion had already lit up the night sky, and countless screaming and running figures were very conspicuous by those fires, Tang Cheng and the others, who were already far away from the road, could only watch blankly, but could not do anything.

After a long wait, the frozen time began to flow again, the roar in the ears gradually decreased, and the shock caused by the air raid also weakened. Tang Cheng opened his eyes and looked at Hou San and them left and right, and many of them were here, except that they were covered with a layer of ash all over their bodies, but fortunately, there was nothing unusual other than that.

The Japanese bombing was like a huge steamroller, crushing through it with majestic momentum, only to fly away. Tang Cheng didn't know why the Japanese army chose to launch such a large-scale air raid at this time, but he could survive such a fierce bombardment, except for "God forbid", he really couldn't think of a better word. During this period, how many people on the road would die from this sudden air raid, Tang Cheng did not know and had no time to care, he only hoped that his good luck could become a life-saving talisman for Huang Hanju and these brothers around him, because in this cruel world, he had seen too many lives fall.

"Are you alright?" Tang Cheng stretched out his hand to pull Huang Hanju, who was pressed to the ground, up, and then asked with concern while patting the dust of his hand for Huang Hanju. From the moment the air raid siren sounded, Huang Hanju's face turned white, and when Tang Cheng took everyone to move farther away, Huang Hanju, who had never experienced such a close air raid and bombing, was almost frightened and fainted, if Tang Cheng hadn't stopped exercising in the past six months, I am afraid that Huang Hanju would not have been able to pull Huang Hanju at all.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Dragged up from the ground by Tang Cheng, Huang Hanju disguised his way out of a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but his hands kept shaking, and he couldn't even light the cigarette in his mouth with a lighter, and in the end Tang Cheng helped him hold the lighter, and Huang Hanju was able to light the cigarette in his mouth.